Concerning the future of the ocean-going business, of course Zhao Xin will not delay, hurry up, especially the next day, almost more than 5 hours of galloping, this is not simple, for nomads, almost on horseback, a day is no problem, for the Northern Song Dynasty, only the most elite cavalry can do this, ordinary people, there is no way to do this.

Not to mention, Zhao Xin is still a child, and he has been on horseback for a long time, which once made Wang Song a little worried, Zhao Xin looks like a teenager, very tall, and his physical fitness is very developed, but his age is not very old, such a long-distance nature, even he can't bear it, let alone Zhao Xin.

However, Zhao Xin has no problem at all, after the change of the card system, he may not be Sun Ji's opponent in terms of strength and skills, but in terms of the basic speed of the body, such as endurance, basic quality and many other aspects, he has surpassed Sun Ji, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is superhuman.

Continuous riding, it can be said that there is not much fatigue, even if it is a fast horse galloping, Zhao Xin is also thinking about the problem, navigation, which has always been a problem that Zhao Xin focuses on, finally saw the dawn.

4 experimental ships will not be of much use at all for the future ocean-going navy, but this is a very good start.

In less than 2 and a half days, we have arrived in Haizhou, because the day before, the march was too far, when we arrived in Haizhou, it was only less than half a day, in Haizhou, there was no stop, in the afternoon, I hurriedly boarded the ship.

This is a traditional fortune ship, but a little smaller, dozens of miles of voyage, which for the average ship, it may take a day, the general fortune ship has a speed of one or two knots, an hour is not more than 6 miles, it may take 4 hours, or even longer.

After the use of some auxiliary devices, it is possible to sail faster, and the main thing is that in the rear of the ship, a paddle wheel is installed, and the transmission and some machinery are used to operate it inside.

This kind of operation can save a lot of power, compared to the simple pulp, I don't know how much it saves, and it does not have to be affected by the outside, the entire power is in the cabin, and the paddle wheel is also semi-sunk underwater, even in some bad weather, it can still travel.

Just like the ship at Zhao Xin's feet, the small 1500-material fortune ship is much narrower than the ordinary fortune boat.

This was originally the disadvantage of this lucky boat, but in Zhao Xin's opinion, it is very good, it is impossible to make the lucky boat narrow, but from boxy to rectangular, the power state will be better, especially when traveling at high speed, the resistance of the sea water will be much smaller.

The entire power system is almost all made of pure steel, some of the steps are built by hand, and some of the more delicate devices, such as gears, cannot be mass-produced at all, and the current navy is only less than 100 sets completed.

Some of the larger ones will be used in the fleet to ensure that the ocean-going fleet of the Dinghai Navy can get power even when there is no wind, and the other part is used in the river fleet, although most of the products of the entire Dinghai Navy have no greater requirements for timeliness, but a small part can still use these high-speed transport ships.

There are only 2 ships left, located in the Dinghai Navy, responsible for the liaison between the Dinghai Navy and Haizhou, no, after knowing that Zhao Xin arrived, he was urgently dispatched.

Such ships are still a minority, only suitable for fast, not suitable for large-scale promotion, but in a small number of operations, it is very suitable, to put it bluntly, this is very useful for Zhao Xin.

It took about two hours, and finally arrived at the Dinghai Navy around the evening, and before the officials who took the initiative to greet him came up, he hurried directly to the shipyard.

This shocked everyone else, they had overestimated the role of the ship in Zhao Xin's eyes as much as possible, but when the actual situation was in front of them, they found that they still underestimated the role of the ship in Zhao Xin's eyes.

The appearance of boats may have started from ancient times, primitive people were faced with unsurpassable river channels, and on the premise of not being able to swim, they could only make a detour, and people who did not know which one thought of crossing the river with wood, which is the prototype of the boat.

In the Stone Age, the earliest boats, the canoe (hollowed out in the middle of a log), appeared in a similar primitive state, except that the interior was hollowed out to make it easier for people to ride.

After the advent of the canoe, it was the tool of the ship, from the first branches, to the penny and the oar, and on this basis, the real sense of the boat appeared, and the boat with oars and the boat with sails appeared. Later ships powered by steam or diesel engines appeared, which was a holistic direction of development.

The boat is a little different from other tools, it travels on the water, and represents a direction that the man has come to change and to communicate with.

The canoe allowed primitive humans to cross the current, broadened their horizons, and also allowed some humans who grew up on fixed road plots to have a larger-scale exchange.

And because of the appearance of ships, the continent became a whole, and countries began to appear and prosper.

This development is relatively slow, it has always been a slow development, if you look at a country, it is basically in the big rivers or near the sea.

During the Three Kingdoms period, why Soochow could hold it was because of the naval army and the Yangtze River defense line, once this was broken, they were not far from extinction, in the entire Chinese history, there were only a handful of naval armies in the whole system, and as for the water war, except for the Yangtze River, the others were also minimal.

Even on the Yangtze River, there are so few, let alone the ocean, because, for the ocean, only larger, more developed ships can cross the ocean and start marine trade.

China, because it is the most developed place in the world, so, from a very early start, the earliest to the Three Kingdoms period, there were maritime merchants, who came from thousands of miles away, they were close to the coastline, a big point of advance, and finally found a way to China, and finally obtained a lot of benefits.

The whole of East Asia, and the whole history of the world, is also a rare piece of land, not only rich in water, but also suitable for the climate, as long as it takes root, there will be enough income.

However, the rich environment of East Asia allowed the dynasty to gain enough from the mainland itself, so China paid little attention to the sea.

It may be said that China is developed enough and does not need some things from the outside world, or it may be said that China belongs to the characteristics of a continental nation, and rarely goes to the sea, especially after coming into contact with maritime business, after knowing the situation overseas, there is less pursuit.

The best thing about other people's homes is what they are here, what else to pursue, the mentality of the central country exists in the whole of China, and overseas is a barren land, which is also recognized by them.

This may not be entirely true, but it is also China's lack of willingness to go to the ocean, or not to go to the ocean on a large scale.

Since the establishment of a stable dynasty, China has rarely explored to the outside world, and the few that have explored outside have basically divided the regime, such as Eastern Wu, because it was pressed by the Wei State in the south, and it could not break through if it wanted to, so it could only develop outward, so it was inevitable to go to the ocean.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, because it was suppressed by the Jin army, it promoted the development of the outward, and the Southern Song Dynasty had too little land compared to the Northern Song Dynasty, but raised almost the same number of people, and the role of the navigation industry was very huge.

However, after the development of transportation, the prosperity of commerce, and especially the power of industrialization, it is inevitable to go to the ocean, and only by going to the ocean and expanding its influence can it have more raw material markets and larger dumping grounds. That's what the ocean really does.

For example, in the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions suddenly included all the countries in the Western Regions into the jurisdiction of the Han Dynasty, and the farthest could almost reach the western foot of the Pamirs, but on the ocean, even Japan, which was close at hand, was not involved.

It can be said that there are almost no cases of private merchant ships coming to Japan, or Japanese ships coming over, transporting or conquering them on a large scale.

The only time it appeared, it was the once invincible Yuan Dynasty, in order to conquer the whole world, the conquest of Japan, but the Sea of Japan was sunk by a storm, which is also the wind advocated by Japan, and since then, basically, there has been no action against Japan.

Zhao Xin, who came from later generations, knows very well what the ocean represents.

Not to mention anything else, even if you conquer Japan, how much silver, gold and copper can be brought by a simple Iwami Silver Mountain, don't underestimate this, Japan's Iwami Silver Mountain, at the peak of mining, but in hundreds of years, it accounted for almost one-third of the world's silver production.

Not to mention the various resources in Southeast Asia, such as natural resources, and for example, copper.

Copper even in the Bronze Age, is also a coin, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period of the knife coin, is an obvious example, to the bronze was replaced by iron, even more so, the entire Han Dynasty began the Central Plains civilization, almost all copper money as the main currency, the entire Chinese numismatic history, from the Han Dynasty, is a history of copper coins.

These resources, whether silver or copper, are currencies that, when obtained, become coins and generate value directly.

It is precisely because he understands the wealth in the ocean very well that Zhao Xin attaches so much importance to sea ships, and wants to go to the ocean and give the key point, which is the ship

From the time of China to the Northern Song Dynasty, the development of ships has reached a very high height, and the navigation ships of the whole world, especially in Asia, are mostly made by China.

Watertight cabins, rigid sailboats, as well as unique structures and composite keels, all give the ship a strong foundation, like the gate of the ocean, which begins to unfold.

But sometimes, the development is too good, it is not a good thing, China's ships, to the Northern Song Dynasty reached the peak, and then to the gradual decline of the Yuan Dynasty, by the foreign people to take away the core technology.

You must know that the craftsmen of the Song Dynasty, who mastered the shipbuilding technology, had been enslaved one by one by the Yuan Dynasty, and among the four class people, the Mongols were the highest, the Semu people were the second class, then the Han people, and then the Nan people.

The southerners were at the bottom, either they had to hand over their core technology, or they were simply destroyed, the shipbuilding technology of the Yuan Dynasty declined on a large scale, and in the Ming Dynasty, through public relations and efforts, it was temporarily made up for it, and Zheng He's treasure ship under the Western Ocean was born.

However, the high cost and the practice of demonstrating the prestige of the country were not trade and commercial activities, so that such a huge activity to the Western Ocean could not continue, and the treasure ship was sealed, and in the end, the drawings were directly lost.

After that, it fell into a long period of decline, and it was not until after the Manchu Qing Dynasty that it was in line with foreign countries and slowly improved, but it has completely lagged behind the world.

History has played a joke on China, in the 11th century, has stood at the peak of the world, the gross national product, almost accounted for more than ninety percent of the world, and even science and technology have been at their peak, the emergence of cold forging, so that the iron of the Northern Song Dynasty has crowned the whole world, even compared to the iron at the end of the Ming Dynasty is much stronger.

If the shotgun is the use of the iron of the Northern Song Dynasty, the failure rate will not be so high, and the power will be improved, but it is a pity that the war after that, coupled with all kinds of coincidences, made China after the Northern Song Dynasty, not a joint peak, but a gradual decline, to the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Opium War, even the musket can not be dealt with.

Take the muskets of the American Civil War, in the era of queuing to shoot, the range of the muskets, that is, less than 100 meters, is more powerful than the artillery, but how many artillery can the army carry.

If it is said that the Qing army has the infantry armor of the Northern Song Dynasty and the divine arm crossbow of the Northern Song Dynasty, how can it be more than 100,000 people, against tens of thousands of people, in the end, the battle record is upside down, even if it is a divine arm crossbow, at least it can kill a lot of people.

There is no if in history, the development of science and technology, in the inevitable, there is an accident, a genius idea, a unique idea, an accident on the testing ground, can create an epoch-making discovery.

This, in the 21st century, under the premise of a complete range of categories and a higher depth and breadth of research, there is also a certain amount of luck, not to mention that in this era, a genius scientist will promote a certain technology, tenfold, or even a hundredfold improvement.

It is a pity that China in the 11th century, the development reached its peak, and then it was 1000 years of sinking, correspondingly, in the 11th century, it was the darkest medieval in Europe, those were dozens of knights, hundreds of peasant soldiers of the war mode, in the Far East, it was already a large-scale group battle, and therefore, when the Mongols swept the world, a partial division of 20,000 people, has reached the Danube.

Zhao Xin's crossing, is the luck of the Northern Song Dynasty, but also Zhao Xin's luck, this is the best era, but also the worst era, he has the peak of population resources, but also has a terrible scientific and technological foundation, so that with the help of the card system, bravely climb the peak, in a short period of time integration, the ocean is an inevitable involvement, and must also be involved in the project, the sooner the better.