Chapter 171: The Ironclad Ship is Born
In this environment, the guards in charge of guarding the environment, as well as a group of male compatriots such as Dog and Wangcai, all had to be evacuated several miles away. Because of such an empathetic deployment, Shen Xing was even more unscrupulous. Fortunately, after a few years of thriving, the dog has become very responsible and reliable. Keep in mind the tasks that Shen Xing gives on a whim, otherwise with Shen Xing's virtues, those serious things would have been forgotten a long time ago.
So when the time came for the confession, he conveyed the instructions to the woman from a distance. A few little girls couldn't see this kind of scene at all, but they had no choice but to do their duty.
"Young man, the dog manager said that the time you said in the morning to inspect the South China Sea Fleet has come!" The little girl blushed and trembled in the little fox's playful eyes. "Husband, Duo'er has grown into big girls, you can see if you find a time to collect it, look at their shy appearance It's not the first time to see it!"
"Don't teach bad children, pass on the clothes quickly, Duo'er, you go and tell the dog, the young master will be there later, let them get the ironclad ready!" The sun was sinking in the west, and on the calm sea, three warships with the appearance of real warships of later generations were gently pushed by the waves, and the sound of the sea hitting the steel sounded very comfortable.
Shen Xing pulled the red lady who had just recovered her spirit with one hand, Chen Yuanyuan with the other, and stopped kicking the big fat pig Niu Niu in front of them with her left foot, the bigger this guy is, the more ruthless his temper is, looking at this stinky pig who does not recognize his six relatives Shen Xing is sometimes depressed, a pig that has been raised for seven or eight years is still alive and well every day, how much blessing it has to be cultivated in the previous life to have today.
"Husband, don't rush Niuniu, she's too fat and she walks slowly!" Chen Yuanyuan was a little distressed, and bent down and touched its big ass. The red lady couldn't help but pat Shen Xing and smiled. "You guys have grown up from small fights, why are you still like this now, Niu Niu is also the mascot of our Shen family, it is also strange to say that it is only against you and the dog, and it is usually gentle to play with the children!"
"Does this guy remember his childhood grudge? I also bit my pants in the morning! If it weren't for Yuanyuan blocking it from smoking it early......! Shen Xing raised his legs and ran halfway through his words, and the three steel ships had already been imprinted in his eyes.
At this moment, on the real deck, Shen Xing was lying there knocking and knocking. Looked and looked. "Zheng Sen, have you tried shelling the steel plate of this ship, and what is the effect?" Zheng Sen was also so excited that he almost jumped up.
"I've tried it a long time ago, our most powerful artillery can be hit three times without leaking, it's been five years, at that time, because of one of your ideas, Jiangnan Shipyard found the best master to study, more than a thousand blacksmiths polished every day and night, do you know how many times it has failed? More than a hundred times, you mentioned the high oxygen concentration of the fire to weld the machine, they have experimented countless times! Now that the steam engine you mentioned is also installed, it can really run, how about we go around! ”
"Sister, do you see that this big iron ship can run on its own without a boatman and oars, is it also equipped with a steam engine?" Li Xiangjun patted Liu Ruye's arm excitedly. Liu Ru was also smiling very happily when she saw it. turned around and talked to the red lady who was holding him. "Sister Bijun, now the big stone hanging in my husband's heart can land again, hasn't he been talking about the ironclad all the time, afraid that he won't be able to run? You see, this is really running faster than a normal warship! ”
Although the red lady's face was still a little bad, she was also very excited to see this big iron guy running. "My husband said, what kind of industrial revolution is this, which cannot be compared with manpower! In the past, warships had to exhaust dozens of boatmen who rowed to death when they went to sea, which was the most unacceptable thing for the husband, but now as long as there are coal trains and ironclad ships, they can run forever! ”
The women applauded happily when they looked at Shen Xing who was shouting on the sea, although they knew the benefits of this ship, they never imagined that this ship would be the beginning of the disaster for the people of Africa and the Americas!
The three small freighters were each less than 50 people full, and they could only pounce a few times in the shallow waters near the shore, but they were better than nothing, at least they had a good start.
After going around the shore and connecting the women to the boat, the ironclad warship sailed around the entire Hainan Island, and the people on the shore had never seen such a smoky iron boat, one by one, put down their work and gathered on the shore to watch like a diorama.
Shen Xing, who was on the boat, looked at the rice fields in the distance, and remembered that a major tourist city in the future was actually planned by himself as the main producer of grain, and he also felt full of emotion, but what made him most proud was that the state took the lead in building a fruit base in Hainan, specializing in manufacturing all kinds of canned products.
Now that some places in Annan are connected, the canned food that ordinary people couldn't think of before has been made into an ordinary drink by the Shen Family Chamber of Commerce. After several years of vigorous development, Japan's shipbuilding industry is now doing a lot of things.
As long as you open your eyes and look at the Jumbo transport ship that Zheng Sen has driven, you can understand the development potential of this province in Japan. Zheng Zhilong, a pirate-turned-guy, Shen Xing was originally very worried about his work style, but he didn't expect that he would not only make the economy prosperous when he governed the place, but also did the complicated people's livelihood in an orderly manner.
In just three years, Japan Province has become the largest taxpayer in China, and has also united several islands in Southeast Asia to drive a small industrial circle dominated by fishing and transportation. Although there were many diehards in the middle, they were all beaten by the maritime militia.
"Zheng Sen, what did my father-in-law do with the mob that he arrested?" As soon as he returned to the shore, Shen Xing couldn't wait to ask Zheng Sen.
"What else can I do, most of these guys are nobles from the old country who are unwilling to lose their status and wealth and fight hard, but they don't want to think about what kind of country the current Chinese Empire is. Tens of thousands of people were thrown to the bottom of the boat by my father and rowed with a flirtat! My father is not as righteous as you and has a prison sentence, I am afraid they will not be able to return to the shore until they die! ”
Shen Xing lit a cigarette and gave Zheng Sen a thumbs up. "By the way, I heard that there are several groups of anti-resistance elements in your interior. It's getting better and better, what do they think? Although Shen Xing was silent, it was undeniable that there were thousands of people in Joseon Province who rebelled in the mountains against the rule of the Chinese Empire.
There are also one or two thousand old Manchus in the northeast, who are engaged in messing around, especially in Xinjiang Province, when a group of Persians from the Safavid Empire came in to carry out missionary work, and they also united with local diehards to stir up the people's own danger. Perhaps it was also the Erkeqing occupation of Kazakhstan that forced some local people to revolt.
And the Safavid Empire on the Iranian plains close at hand felt the chill of his lips and teeth, and moved such crooked thoughts. But Shen Xing didn't believe that just a few thousand mobs in those places could set off such a big storm. To say that there is no covert help from the local capitulation faction, only a fool will believe it.
He even suspected that Dol Roll had some small moves in Manchuria, the Li royal family in Korea, the nobles in the north of Annam, and the old department that had returned to the old country, these people were really thieves, and if they were not wiped out, it would be the source of the future turmoil in the Chinese Empire.
Shen Xing is now pretending to be a nobody on the surface, but secretly, Lao Cao's Dongchang Guard, Dog Wangcai's Iron Guard, Luo's Yang Jinyi Guard, and the Red Lady's Women's Einsatzgruppen have long since put down their other work to investigate the restlessness factor in these places.
Shen Xing didn't want to have so many fish that slipped through the net at that time, if he wanted to kill him, he would have to kill him cleanly, and he could leave a little fire. As soon as the time is ripe, that is the beginning of the liquidation of the large army.
"Big brother! I really like if the island of Taiwan can let me stay there for a few years! Zheng Sen's sudden request really caught Shen Xing off guard, could it be that the wonder of fate was here? After going around for so many years, Zheng Sen and Zheng Chenggong still want to go to Taiwan, a place full of fate with him.
"Go, there seems to be a lack of a naval base now, and Taiwan will be an important offshore platform after you arrive!" Hearing Shen Xing say this, Zheng Sen couldn't help nodding. "Big brother and little brother still don't understand a little bit, since you vigorously advocate that the Chinese people have more children and more children, why do you want to replace a large number of Han people and the aborigines of other provinces! This move has caused a lot of criticism! ”
Shen Xinggang wanted to explain, but saw that the girls were leading their subordinates to set up the barbecue grill, so he patted Zheng Sen on the shoulder and pushed him back to the table. "Let's sit down and talk while eating, I heard that you have married a daughter-in-law, did you bring it this time!"
Zheng Sen was rarely shy, and carefully calculated that he was just seventeen years old this year, and according to ancient customs, he had already reached the age of marriage, if it weren't for Shen Xing's later insistence on stucking the age of Chinese men and women at seventeen, this young master of the Zheng family would have run away with children like him a long time ago.
However, at this time, although the big families at this time could not get married and have children at the age of seventeen according to Xince, they still accepted concubines at the age of fourteen or fifteen secretly, as long as they kept the bottom line and did not give birth to children, Shen Xing also turned a blind eye, after all, Xince stipulated that if a woman under the age of seventeen became pregnant, the whole family would be imprisoned.
If you have a fetus, it will be an unforgivable crime, and you will have to serve in the army for tens of thousands of miles. After a while, Zheng Sen stretched out his finger and pointed to the beautiful girl who was chatting with Shen Xing's five Japanese ladies in the distance, and said, "Haven't you married yet?" It's set at the end of the year to do it, my father means to let you, the eldest brother, be the gatekeeper, she is a relative of the Japanese Yanagi family and my mother. ”
Shen Xing turned his head to look at this woman, although in terms of appearance, he was not as good as Chen Yuanyuan, Little Fox and others, but he was not inferior to his five Japanese female assassins. It seems that for Zheng Sen's marriage, Zheng Zhilong is also heartbroken, not only to consider the interests of his Zheng family in Japan Province, but also to take care of the preferences of this precious son.