Chapter 51 Fan Wencheng Yueyang commits suicide Taishan enters the navy

The boat stopped in Yangzhou, where Xiao Hongyu and Liu Ban mainly got off the boat and diverted back to their hometown. Of course, there are many soldiers accompanying them now, but Zhang Zhimu doesn't want to make any more trouble.

Xiao Hongyu and Yang Yulin made an appointment, and they stopped in Yangzhou for two days on the return trip to buy some things together.

When the ship started again, someone sent a telegram to Ouyang He, who was drinking tea on the deck and looking at the scenery.

Zhang Zhimu saw that Ouyang He glanced at the telegram, his face, who had always been moody, suddenly changed, he read the telegram again, and then covered his eyes with his hand. Zhang Zhimu felt a little strange. Ouyang He looked up and saw Zhang Zhimu watching him, got up and walked over, handed the telegram to Zhang Zhimu and said, "Mr. Fan Wencheng has gone west in Hexi!" ”

All the people on the deck were shocked by Ouyang He's words, and Concubine Zhuang even stood up and walked over and asked eagerly, "Mr. Ouyang, are you telling the truth?" ”

Ouyang He nodded vigorously and said, "Mr. Fan committed suicide by preparing poisoned wine for himself in Yueyang Yueyang Tower!" Leave a will and want to be buried in Yueyang! ”

Concubine Zhuang, who has always been calm, suddenly burst into tears, hid her face and cried! Only Fan Wencheng came forward to protect their mother and son when the country was broken. Concubine Zhuang's sadness is from the bottom of her heart.

Liu Jiantai, a university scholar, said disapprerovingly: "It seems that Fan Wencheng still knows shame, and he suddenly felt that he couldn't face his ancestors as a traitor in Yueyang Tower, so he could be regarded as recovering some face!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen also said: "After Fan Wencheng was also a famous family, he actually became a traitor and became a slave of the Manchu Dynasty, which is really sad!" ”

Concubine Zhuang couldn't listen anymore, and replied, "What qualifications do you have to accuse Mr. Fan." What do you have to offer the Han people there in the Northeast? In addition to collecting money and food, if a foreign enemy comes, your own army will run away, and you will not be able to protect your own people, so what right do you have to blame them? Do you care whether they live or die? You have to say that Mr. Fan is disloyal and unfilial! But they are loyal to their emperor. It's a pity that his emperor is really incompetent, which gives people like Mr. Fan the infamy of being a traitor, otherwise, maybe Mr. Fan will still be the founder of the country! ”

No one thought that Concubine Zhuang, who has always been peaceful, would speak so sharply!

Emperor Chongzhen and Liu Jiantai couldn't reply.

Ouyang He said: "In any case, Mr. Fan has made his own efforts to reduce the bloodshed of our Liaodong, and has made a great contribution to the stability of Liaodong!" ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Don't fight, Mr. Fan went by himself, and he also gave an explanation to himself and his descendants." His merits and demerits, let future generations talk about it slowly! He said to Ouyang He: "Let's bury Mr. Fan!" ”

Seeing Liu Jiantai's disdainful expression, Zhang Zhimu felt very funny, in the original history, when Li Zicheng attacked Beijing City, he led people to open the gate of Beijing City and surrendered, but now he seems to be filled with righteous indignation.

Zhang Zhimu had a very complicated mood about Fan Wencheng's death. It's a pity that this man is rich and full of learning, and he is a very great capable person, but his help to the Manchu Qing is also very hateful. If it weren't for the help of these traitors, those barbaric Manchus wouldn't have raged for so long. In the original history, the state of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was built with the help of these traitors. Fan Wencheng's withdrawal from the stage is not a good result.

However, Zhang Zhimu also saw that the pain of Concubine Zhuang and Ouyang He was all true feelings. Ouyang He and Fan Wencheng can also be regarded as sympathetic to each other.

It is not surprising that Fan Wencheng's death has caused people with different positions on a boat to behave differently. However, the atmosphere was a little dull, but fortunately, Yangzhou was not far from Zhenjiang, and it didn't take long for the boat to arrive at the Zhenjiang base.

In the morning mist, the passenger ship slowly stopped on the dock of the base, and Lu Bingyi, Yang Chang, Li Di and others, who came in advance, as well as the father and son of the Lin family with many people in the base, all greeted them on the dock. But Zhang Zhimu, like everyone on the boat, was attracted by the majestic mountain-like ship not far away. Zhang Zhimu accompanied the emperor down the gangway, and Lu Bingyi and Lin Zongwei greeted him.

Lu Bingyi smiled and asked, "Your Majesty, Mr. Zhang, how can this ship in front of you be powerful enough?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen said: "Oops! No wonder Zhang Dongjia said that let me see this ship and then build a few more. Such a ship is incredible! It's hard to imagine that we could make such a big ship out of steel? ”

Zhang Zhimu went over to hold Lin Zongwei's hand, took Lin Qing's hand again, and said, "You have worked hard!" On behalf of all of you, I would like to thank you for your efforts! ”

Lin Zongwei asked: "Mr. Zhang, should we board the ship first and have a look, or will we stay and talk?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen said: "Get on the boat immediately!" I can't wait! ”

"Alright, let's get on board now!" Zhang Zhimu said.

Since the dock where the ship was parked was very close to the berth where the big ship that was going to be delivered, everyone walked over together.

When you come to the bottom of the ship, you need to look up to see the ship, which makes the ship even more huge.

Fan Chengkun led the generals of the navy and the captain of the ship, in front of the ramp of the ship, facing Zhang Zhimu and them.

As soon as Zhang Zhimu and them approached, the generals of the navy wearing snow-white naval uniforms saluted Zhang Zhimu and Emperor Chongzhen neatly, and the emperor hurriedly waved his hand and said yes, seeing Zhang Zhimu shaking hands with the generals in the past, and Emperor Chongzhen also learned to shake hands with the generals in turn. Then, accompanied by Fan Chengkun, board the boat along the gangway.

Seeing someone boarding the ship, the officer on duty on the ship blew a small horn to inform the ship that someone had boarded the ship.

When he came to the ship, he couldn't catch his breath, and Emperor Chongzhen walked quickly to the deck, looked at the triple cannon covered with canvas, and asked: "Zhang Dongjia, is this our biggest cannon?" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Zhimu replied, "This is a triple 304 caliber cannon!" There were five of these triple turrets on board, and a total of fifteen of these cannons! ”

In fact, Zhang Zhimu also came to this ship for the first time, and it was also the first time to see these mighty cannons, and he was also very excited.

Emperor Chongzhen pointed to those 130-caliber cannons and asked, "What caliber are those cannons?" How many? ”

"That's, 130 caliber cannons, a total of thirty-six!" Zhang Zhimu said, "Actually, we still have 203 caliber cannons, but in order to facilitate the supply of ammunition, we have reduced the types of cannons." In fact, this 130-caliber cannon is enough for general targets! ”

"I've heard that the battleships of the Franciscans can hold more than a hundred cannons at most!" Emperor Chongzhen said.

"Huh!" Fan Chengkun, who was beside him, smiled and said, "Their ten cannons can't compare to one of ours." In today's world, there is no country whose warships can compare with ours. Such a ship, sailing to the shores of any country, can make the whole country tremble! ”

"Okay!" After listening to Fan Chengkun's confident words, Emperor Chongzhen said a good word, "This is a big country in Shangbang!" How can those barbarians be allowed to come back and commit murder! Emperor Chongzhen's hands trembled a little excitedly and said to Zhang Zhimu, "Zhang Dongjia, I would never have dreamed that we would have such a warship!" ”

Not only was Emperor Chongzhen and Zhang Zhimu a little excited after getting on the boat, but everyone who boarded the ship was not shocked.

This ship is really too big, Emperor Chongzhen from the inside out, from top to bottom, carefully looked at it enough, and ate on the ship at noon.

At lunch, Yang Chang said to Zhang Zhimu: "Our computer runs very stably on the ship. We are going to send five people to follow the ship for a year. They have just graduated from school and need to bring another belt with them to work on computers! And we also want to know what else can be managed by a computer on board! ”

"Yang Chang, I suggest that you set up a marine computer technology research institute with these five people as the main body. In the future, they will not be able to finish the computer application on board for a lifetime. Let me tell you, in the future, everything on board can be managed by computers. When our navigation technology is perfected, the ship will be fully autonomous. ”

Zhang Zhimu's words made Yang Chang a little surprised when he heard it, "I really can't bear to engage in marine computers with these few people!" ”

"Don't be reluctant, if they get the computer on board well, the experience they have learned can also be used elsewhere." Zhang Zhimu said, "If such a ship is completely managed by computers, the efficiency will be greatly improved." I'll talk to Commander Fan again and ask them to support their work! ”

After lunch, Emperor Chongzhen, like everyone, did not take a nap, and continued to visit after resting for a while.

Fan Chengkun kept reminding Zhang Zhimu and Emperor Chongzhen that they had to go to see two other 5,000-ton warships. Zhang Zhimu had no choice but to speed up the progress of visiting the big ship with everyone.

Since I had just seen the 25,000-ton ship, when I came to these two 5,000-ton ships, I obviously felt much smaller. In fact, a 5,000-ton warship is not small. The armament of the two ships was inferior to that of the larger ship, each with nine 203-mm cannons, six on the foredeck and three on the aft deck. There are also 12 130-caliber secondary guns, and the front, rear, left, and right sides of the ship are equipped with six-barreled 12.7 mm heavy machine guns to deal with small boats.

Zhang Zhimu knew that he didn't need that 25,000-ton warship to go out, as long as one of these 5,000-ton warships went out and blocked the coast of any country, he could force the country to surrender. Therefore, Li Zongwei told Zhang Zhimu that after the new 25,000-ton warship and the two new 5,000-ton warships were welded, Zhang Zhimu told Lin Zongwei that there were no special circumstances for such a ship, and that there should be no more construction. Zhang Zhimu knew that it would take a lot of silver to feed such a warship. And the warships in Yaogang are enough for the time being. Now it is necessary to develop large transport ships. This is a big ship that can bring benefits to the world.

In the evening of the same day, Emperor Chongzhen attended the **** dinner, and Emperor Chongzhen and Zhang Zhimu, who were very interested, frequently went to each table to toast the personnel and naval officers and soldiers who contributed to the shipbuilding. Zhang Zhimu could see that because the emperor attended the delivery ceremony, the atmosphere was particularly good. thought to myself, it seems that it is still very beneficial to keep the emperor.

At the delivery ceremony, the entire wharf was almost full of people, and the sailors on the three ships, wearing snow-white sea soul shirts, stood neatly on the side of the ship, looking very neat and beautiful.

Emperor Chongzhen asked Zhang Zhimu: "Zhang Dongjia, are the costumes of the sailors really designed by you?" ”

"No, I made the suggestion, and everyone discussed it after several improvements and finally finalized it like this!" Zhang Zhimu said.

"I'm glad to see the sailors! If I hadn't been too old, I would have wanted to be a sailor! Emperor Chongzhen said with some envy.

Later, Xiaohu said to Zhang Zhimu: "I want to be a sailor!" Zhang Zhimu remembered Emperor Chongzhen's words, and knew that these words were true.

During the solemn ceremony, after a few cannon shots, the red silk covering the side of the ship was removed. The name of the ship was revealed, and the 25,000-ton ship was called Taishan, and the two 5,000-ton warships were called Suzhou and Taizhou.

After the ceremony, Emperor Chongzhen very much wanted to go to sea with the Taishan to try it out, and Zhang Zhimu and others had to go out with him.