Gao Junshan said to Li Guo again: "Jiangnan returned to China, your contribution is not small, especially the recovery of Fengyang, which did not hurt the people, which is very in line with my thoughts." ”

"Thank you for the emperor's praise!"

Gao Junshan continued: "Therefore, Cao Wenzhao was transferred to Xinjiang, and I promoted you to the supreme commander of Jiangnan. Do you know what I'm going to do next? ”

"Please teach the emperor."

Gao Junshan took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and said, "After stabilizing Jiangnan, I want you to take Liangguang and Annam (northern Vietnam) with the cooperation of the navy." ”

"Annanguo?" Li Guo couldn't help asking.

"Yes." Gao Junshan nodded very clearly, and emphasized, "You must fight to Cam Ranh Bay, I hope to see you next time at the Cam Ranh Bay pier." ”

Li Guo didn't know where Cam Ranh Bay was, and Li Guo also resolutely carried out Gao Junshan's order, although he didn't know where that Cam Ranh Bay was, he believed that since the emperor said that he would see him in Cam Ranh Bay, this Cam Ranh Bay must be a very important place.

Gao Junshan then asked Li Guo: "You are familiar with Gao Jie, right?" ”

"Of course."

"In the past, he had a festival with our righteous army and abducted the woman who became his brother, but now he sincerely comes to vote for me Huaxia, focusing on the overall situation, I hope you can reuse Gao Jie."

Li said: "The last general must convey the emperor's meaning to Gao Jie." ”

Gao Junshan told Li Guo clearly: "I don't want you to tell Gao Jie, I want you to take the initiative to resolve the contradictions between you, he is sincere, and you must treat him sincerely, otherwise how will you cooperate in the future?" ”

"The last will know what to do."

Gao Junshan reminded: "He has a brave general under him, named Li Chengdong, you have to use him very much." ”

Li said: "I understand Li Chengdong, he is a capricious villain and cannot be reused. ”

Gao Junshan said: "Now is the time to employ people, no one is perfect, as long as you fully trust him, where can he go repeatedly?" And what about me? Isn't he afraid that I will destroy him? ”

"The last general must follow the emperor's wishes!"

"I asked you to follow me to Jinling, that is, to let you meet these people on my behalf and take them for your own use."

……

A long whistle, "Xiangyang No. 1" began to sail into Longjiang Port, the ships coming and going at Longjiang Wharf are quite busy, before they get to the wharf, they can hear all kinds of noise from the shipyard on the shore, Gao Junshan stands on the deck of the highest floor, looking at the riverside, the noise is like a beautiful music for Gao Junshan, because it is the workers are building ships.

"Xiangyang No. 1" docked steadily, and there was no welcoming crowd on the wharf, because Gao Junshan did not publicize that he was going down to the south of the Yangtze River with great fanfare, but only a few high-ranking generals knew about it, and even the three courts in the capital (Military and Political Yuan, Civil Affairs Yuan, and Metropolitan Inspection Yuan) were also rarely known.

The guards were all Caoyun's people, so they didn't attract much attention, and people thought it was just a commercial act, because Cha Caoyun was responsible for protecting the interests of merchants, and no one would have thought that this time it was to protect the emperor.

Gao Junshan was also very low-key, and when he got off the dock, he got into the carriage and went directly to the headquarters of Longjiang Shipyard.

In fact, the Longjiang Shipyard has been abandoned by the Ming Dynasty for many years, and now it is a prosperous scene, and it is the high mountain that has given it a strong amount of money to live in, and it has regained its vitality.

The director of the shipyard was Li Shiqi, one of Chongwen's disciples, "Three Navigator Li".

Gao Junshan came to inspect for no other purpose, that is, to come to the treasure ship, there are three giant treasure ships here, Li Shiqi said, these three giant treasure ships are not the treasure ships used by Zheng He in the West, they were built later by the shipyard, so they are all new, because the Ming court lacks funds, so there has been no sailor in the shipyard.

Gao Junshan rested in the factory for a day, and the next morning, he took a carriage to inspect the refitting of the treasure ship.

The carriage galloped along the river for an hour and came to a branch of the shipyard, which had 18 branches of the Longjiang Shipyard, which was very large.

This is one of the largest branch factories dedicated to the construction of treasure ships. The ship had been suspended for many years, so on the way here, Gao Junshan saw overgrown weeds all the way.

Now it is in full swing here, and as soon as you enter the factory gate, you will see a large banner with the words "Your navy must be vigorously developed."

Gao Junshan smiled knowingly, this sentence was said by himself to Zhou Wenjiang, the secretary of the Admiralty, at that time, Gao Junshan said, "Your navy must be vigorously developed", and now the navy has been renamed the navy, so the slogan on the banner is not wrong, and Gao Junshan agrees very much.

After entering the factory gate, there was no treasure ship, and the carriage continued to gallop towards the river, and the road inside the factory was much easier, and it was not long before I came to the shore where a treasure ship was parked.

Gao Junshan and his entourage, under the guidance of Li Shiqi, boarded the treasure ship. Li Shiqi accompanied Gao Junshan, and introduced the structure of the treasure ship to Gao Junshan as he walked.

The overall design of the mast sail of the treasure ship adopts a longitudinal sail layout and a hard sail structure, and the sail canopy surface has a reinforcement effect equivalent to a rib. The structure of the ship adopts a "sharp bottom and wide top", and the bow is high and the stern is high.

The hull structure is provided with a plurality of transverse bulkheads, and a whole cabin is divided into 28 cabins according to the function, which not only has the effect of strengthening the structure and sub-compartment watertight and anti-sinking, so that the ship is likely to develop to large-scale, but also is conducive to the classification of cargo in the compartment section to meet the requirements of the use of different functions.

The treasure ship is constructed entirely of wood. Because the ship technology of the Ming Dynasty has developed to have shovel nails, iron curiums, shovel nails, leech nails, etc., so that the complex wooden structure can be easily put together, hung and reinforced together through various ship nails, so as not to "fall apart".

The shape of the treasure ship is small square head, wide and flat stern. In the middle of the main deck, there is a deckhouse with bulwark, three stern stern and two permeable transom in the bow. It is divided into five levels, from the bilge to the deck.

Gao Junshan said: "'Xiangyang No. 1' is very close to it, that is, it is smaller than it, and it is also divided into five layers. ”

Li Shiqi said: "'Xiangyang No. 1' is a small treasure ship, which is built in imitation of Zheng He's treasure ship. ”

Gao Junshan suggested: "Your modification can refer to 'Xiangyang No. 1'. ”

Li Shiqi then introduced the power system of the treasure ship to Gao Junshan.

The power of the treasure ship is mainly obtained by the sails, with the help of the wind and the sailors' strokes. In these two important links of the power propulsion system, the use of a hard sail structure, the canopy surface with a strut, although the sail is heavier and laborious to lift, but it has a very high wind efficiency, so that the speed of the ship increases, and the mast is not set up with a fixed crossbar, to adapt to the sudden change of the sea wind and clouds, flexible to adjust the turn of the foot, can effectively use the multi-faceted wind.

Unlike the oars, the treasure ship has long oars on both sides and stern. This kind of long oar enters the water depth, many people swing, and the oar is semi-rotating under water, and the propulsion efficiency is high. It can also maintain a considerable speed when there is no wind, and the wading area of the oar outside the ship is small, which is suitable for sailing in the crowded waters of narrow harbors.

After Li Shiqi finished the introduction, they had climbed to the top of the deck, Gao Junshan looked at the deck, amazed, on the shore can not see its grandeur, on the deck, even Gao Junshan has to marvel at the Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding technology, because this deck is the size of a football field, in the same period of Europe, it is impossible to build such a huge warship.