(Today's fifth watch)

After talking about the thousand-person warship, Zhang Liao began to explain the hundred-man warship again:

"The full load of the hundred-person warship in an ideal state is 600 people, and it must be very difficult and dangerous to cross the island to the east, so in a comprehensive comparison, it can carry 300 people. To sum up, I said that it can carry 50,000 people, which is a conservative number. ”

Being able to build hundreds of various types of sea warships in just five years is also a reflection of the economic strength of the Eastern Han Dynasty, otherwise, how can it be built.

In order to dispel the concerns of those ministers who sat in Luoyang and had never fought a war, Liu Xie said: "Wenyuan, you work harder and explain to you the structure and performance of the warship." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty," Zhang Liao said, took out a large drawing, asked the guards to help hang it up, and began to explain:

"The Beihai shipyard has always been completely closed, heavily guarded, in order to prevent the leakage of new technologies."

Zhang Liao said this, looked around, and then looked at Liu Xie, Liu Xie said: "The expedition is imminent, Wenyuan, you can disclose this secret to the ministers and even the people of the world." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Zhang Liao said, turned to the ministers and said, "The new warship has adopted a new technology, that is: steam!" ”

"Steam?" Everyone was stunned, because there had been rumors among the people that the imperial court was researching a secret weapon, a secret weapon that needed to use steam, but it failed many times, and it didn't expect that it would come out today.

Zhang Liao said: "That's right, steam!" Our warships, all iron-hulled ships, had a large steam boiler inside, and the ships had propellers in the tail. The boiler burns coal, produces steam, turns the gears, and finally drives the propeller to rotate and move the ship forward! This is a new technology, which is not available in overseas countries all over the world, only my Han family is unique. It has always been highly classified and blocked from the outside world. Now it's time to conquer the Waren Island, so it's revealed to the world! ”

A minister asked: "The iron-hulled ship is equipped with propellers and a lot of gears, as well as boilers, so it must also be loaded with a lot of coal, right?" Can such a huge guy drive to the sea? Won't it sink? ”

Zhang Liao said angrily: "Shut up! Before he left the school, he made such an unlucky remark. Your Majesty, this person should be beheaded immediately. ”

The man was so frightened that he quickly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, Wechen is guilty, Wechen is guilty!" ”

Liu Xie waved his hand and said, "Get up, do you know who is the chief designer of these new world sea ships?" ”

Everyone didn't know, and one person came out and said, "Could it be Your Majesty?" ”

Liu Xie smiled: "In the whole world, apart from me, who else has this ability?" ”

Zhang Liao said: "This colleague is right, the chief designer of the new steam warship is our Majesty!" ”

Everyone was amazed and impressed. Liu Xie pressed his hands in the air and motioned for Zhang Liao to continue explaining.

"A thousand-person steam warship is fully loaded with 3,000 people, but it must not be able to carry so many people when it actually goes out, because there are still many materials to be loaded, such as coal, food, weapons, war horses, etc., which need to be carried. Therefore, the load of a thousand-man steam warship in a state of readiness for war is fifteen hundred people.

"The combat readiness load of twenty ships is 30,000 people. The hundred-man warship is also a new-type steam warship, with a combat load of 300 people, and the total combat load of 120 ships is 36,000 people. The total combat readiness load of all large and small warships was 66,000 men. The unpredictable factor is tentatively set at a combat readiness load of 50,000 people. ”

Zhang Liao said: "Although it is a new type of steam warship, it is a hybrid of steam and wind, and it can erect sails when it is downwind. The following introduces its weapon system, the thousand-man warship has a main gun in the bow, ten secondary guns on each side of the ship, and one stern auxiliary gun, and a hundred-man warship, one main gun in the bow, one stern auxiliary gun, and two auxiliary guns on each side. ”

A minister said: "I really can't imagine that my Han will have such a powerful warship!" ”

Zhuge Liang asked: "Wenyuan, then these warships are so advanced, they must be complicated to operate, I don't know if there are relevant skilled operators." ”

Zhang Liao said: "When the warship was being built, the shipwrights were already trained at the same time, so it was no problem to go on the expedition. ”

Liu Xie asked, "Do you still have any doubts?" ”

The ministers no longer raised any objections. Liu Xie said again: "Wenhe." ”

Jia Xu, who came from Chang'an on purpose, said: "The old minister is here." ”

Liu Xie asked, "What happened to my firearms research?" I've been on the throne since the day I ascended the throne, but I've been waiting for you for 12 years, and you can't say that you haven't succeeded. ”

Jia Xu said: "Your Majesty, this time the old minister came from Chang'an, and he specially reported this good news to His Majesty. ”

"Oh? Let's talk about it! ”

"It was successfully developed last month, in order to verify, so it was a late report to report, as for the delay of more than ten years, it was completely because the materials were not up to standard, and now the material technology has reached the standard, and the firearms will naturally be produced. And ......"

"And how?"

Jia Xu said: "And the old minister also brought a batch of samples, and now they are outside." ”

"Oh? That's great! Check it out now! ”

Liu Xie got up and walked out, and all the ministers went out with him.

Outside the Qinzheng Hall is a small courtyard, there are already several long boxes on the ground, as well as more than a dozen Han soldiers, two wooden people are tied not far away, and a row of bottles is placed on a large box on the same ground.

Liu Xie pointed to the wooden box in front of him and asked, "Is it in here?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty," Jia Xu said as he asked the soldier to open it, only to see that it was stuffed with straw, and it was faintly visible that there was something in the straw. Jia Xu bent down and took it out, and Liu Xie exclaimed: "Haha, it looks very similar, I don't know if it can be used." ”

It really looks like an old-fashioned rifle, and Liu Xie took it and said, "Let me try it." ”

Jia Xu said: "Your Majesty, let's let the soldiers try." ”

Liu Xie said: "Do you not believe me, or do you not believe in yourself?" ”

With that, he picked up his rifle and aimed at the scarecrow in front of him......

"Your Majesty......" Jia Xu said again, meaning to teach him how to use it.

Liu Xie had already pulled the trigger on the scarecrow, and with a bang, the bullet hit the scarecrow, which frightened several people into screaming.

The bullet casing flew out, Liu Xieyi pulled the bolt, pushed the next bullet into the load, and said: "The chief designer of this gun is me, Wenhe, do you think I can use it?" It's a semi-automatic rifle, you name it. ”

With that, another shot was fired.

Jia Xu said: "Your Majesty, although the entire process of the firearm is supervised by Lao Chen, His Majesty is the designer, so Wei Chen thinks that His Majesty will name it." ”

Liu Xie said: "It's okay, this year is the thirteenth year of the Milky Way, so it's called 'Buyi Sanshi'." ”