Yang Cong has always had a dream, that is, to lead the fleet across the ocean to defeat those so-called European continental powers.

Although he is not very familiar with history, he also knows that in this era, but in the Age of Discovery, if you don't develop your maritime strength, you only know that if you close off the country in order to protect yourself, people will sooner or later be deceived by you.

When it comes to shipbuilding technology, in this era, who can compare with the Ming Dynasty, when Zheng He led a huge fleet to the Western Ocean, the European continental powers would only drive small fishing boats to fish.

It's a pity that in the past hundred years, the Ming Dynasty has wasted time on the sea ban, navigation technology has been stagnant, and shipbuilding technology is even constantly retreating.

Fortunately, it's not too late to catch up at this time.

At this time, the European continental powers should still be in their infancy, and the Battle of Xicaowan in the first year of Jiajing can explain everything.

The current maritime overlord Portugal's strength is only so, the Ming Dynasty only dispatched a guard commander and a few hundred households to beat its ocean-going fleet to the ground, if the Ming Dynasty from this time to catch up, then, in the future on the ocean, there may be nothing "sea coachman" Netherlands and "the sun never sets the empire" Britain or anything.

Yang Cong also doesn't know when the Netherlands and Britain will replace Spain and Portugal and dominate the sea, what he can do now is to develop the maritime strength of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible and lay a solid foundation for future maritime hegemony.

The shipbuilding capacity of Longjiang Shipyard is actually quite good, at least, in terms of substance, it is much stronger than Nantai Shipyard in Fuzhou.

Here is the old capital of Jinling, Hongwu years and Yongle early years, almost all the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty are gathered here, shipbuilding talents, simply not too much, although more than 100 years have passed, the original shipbuilding craftsmen have long since passed away, their descendants have been making a living near Jinling City, their technology has also been passed down from generation to generation through blood relations.

Perhaps, in another hundred years, these shipbuilding technology will dissipate in the long river of history, because these craftsmen learn the craft mainly to make a living, if there is no ship to build for more than a hundred years, they may be able to barely pass on the shipbuilding technology, if the time is a little longer, another hundred years, who will stick to this useless skill hungry.

This point, after Yang Cong said his idea, he noticed it.

Fortunately, he came early, otherwise, in more than a hundred years, the shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty, which was ahead of the times, may be really completely abandoned.

So, what is his vision?

His idea is to rebuild the Longjiang Shipyard, repair the original six super-large dock waterways, first strive to build 12 Fuchuan warships a year, and then find a way to slowly expand production capacity.

As for the format of the Fufune battleship, he had already decided on it.

The whole battleship was divided into five layers, the lowest floor was placed with boilers and steam engines, the second floor was filled with food and ammunition, and the upper three floors were full of gun doors, and each floor was equipped with forty jack cannons, twenty on the left and right, and a total of one hundred and twenty guns on the third floor.

The reason why he set the guns on both sides to be one hundred and twenty is also to make this new warship have a little Ming color, because at this time, many things in the Ming Dynasty are numbered in the same way as the Jiazi era, a Jiazi is sixty years, and there are exactly sixty guns on each side, which is very convenient to number.

As for the bow and stern, he was ready to cast two thousand pounds or even more guns, and as for the number, it was also the most urgent, three in the front row, and three in the back, for a total of six.

In short, he wants to use the existing technology to maximize the firepower of the new Fuchuan battleship.

Such a battleship, even if it encounters the main battleships of the European continental powers, can crush the opponent in firepower!

As soon as he put forward this idea, several foremen were excited.

Six dock waterways were built at the same time, and twelve warships were built in one year, and six warships were built in half a year, which may sound like a small amount, but in fact, the workload was not a lot at all.

You must know that the Fuchuan battleship is a large warship with a length of more than ten zhang, and it is a large ship with a length of more than 40 meters in the measurement method of later generations.

Such a warship, just one floor, that is four or five hundred squares, with the existing technology, it is quite troublesome to build, and the labor consumed, it is not a little.

It can be said that as long as the six dock waterways are really built at the same time, all the craftsmen of the original Longjiang Shipyard will not have to worry about work.

This kind of thing, they didn't dare to hope for it before, you know, Longjiang Shipyard has been abandoned for more than 100 years, they are these craftsmen in order to make a living, they are running around, tired to work, and they have to respond to the call of the imperial court, free labor for the imperial court, back and forth, miserable, no money to make, many craftsmen have given up their original trades, and even their own household registration, fled to other places, and became homeless.

Now it's good, not only do they have a fixed job and income, but they also don't have to go back and forth to serve the labor, because the construction of warships is to do things for the imperial court, and it can be used to offset the labor, and the big deal, deducting one or two months of wages every year, that is much better than going back and forth.

Yang Cong didn't expect that the potential of this Longjiang Shipyard would be so amazing, and there was no need to recruit people everywhere to build six large warships at the same time!

I have to say, it was a bonus.

In addition, with Wang Xuan in charge of the shipyard and the help of the elite disciples of the Shipping Academy, he didn't have to worry about specific things at all, as long as he put forward the idea and then provide enough funds.

Jinling matter, everything was arranged at Longjiang Shipyard, and he went to Fuzhou again.

At this time, the Nantai shipyard in Fuzhou was almost suspended, because the number of sailors and soldiers was limited, no matter how many Cangshan ships were built, no one would control them, and Wang Zhi and Hong Tiezhu's fleet had almost expanded in recent years, at least, before opening up new markets, the merchant ships under their hands were enough.

With such a large shipyard, he naturally can't be idle, Yang Cong's idea is to let a new type of Cangshan ship be built here, and the original sailing oarship will also be changed into a steam-powered ship.

A complete battleship formation can not only have large warships like the Daifuku ship, but also small and medium-sized warships like the Cangshan ship, because the large battleship is difficult to turn, not to mention, there are also defensive blind spots, if the enemy uses small clippers to carry out fire attacks, no matter how advanced the gunboats, they may be defeated in the hands of the primitive sailing oars.

This is also the reason why the ocean-going fleets of the great powers have fought with the Ming sailors many times but have not been able to bargain at all, because the Ming Dynasty has too many such small clippers, and the ocean-going fleets of the great powers are not equipped with small warships to escort them because they need to sail on the sea for a long time.

Of course, Yang Cong would not make such a mistake, the Fuchuan battleship should be built, and the new Cangshan ship should also be built, so that the Ming fleet would not have to worry about the fire attack tactics of small clippers.