The soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first. Before the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info went to sea, the huge machinery of Huiwangfu had to run at full speed, and the two major shipyards pressed all the orders to produce large ships. According to the standard set by Yang Changfan, the system of Fuchuan and Guangchuan was broken, and the battleship was reclassified by tonnage, following the modern standard, and divided into four classes: frigates, destroyers, cruisers, and battleships, and these four-class battleships were distinguished by tonnage, with frigates below 500 tons, 500-1000 tons for destroyers, 1000-5000 tons for cruisers, and more than 5000 tons for battleships.

In naval warfare, tonnage is an important objective parameter, and the total tonnage of the fleets of the two sides can reflect hard power to a certain extent, and the most disparity in the total tonnage of the fleet still dates back to the era of Zheng He.

The most evil situation boasted by historians and folk masters is that the tonnage of Zheng He's flagship is 44,000 tons, which is not much different from the Liaoning aircraft carrier that has just been launched in reality, and the total tonnage of Zheng He's fleet can be blown to 2 million tons, and the total tonnage of the new Chinese navy in the 21st century is full of this number. According to this statement, the scale of the Ming Dynasty navy in the 15th century was no less than that in the 21st century, and it also had the strength to fight with the US navy.

On the other hand, the two fleet voyages that were as great as Zheng He's.

Columbus's flagship was 200 tons, and the total tonnage of the fleet was 3400 tons.

Magellan's flagship is 200 tons, and the gross tonnage is 5850 tons.

If this is extrapolated, Zheng He's flagship was 146 times the size of Columbus and 2,000 times the total tonnage of Columbus a century earlier, and it was inevitable that this fleet would crush the world, and it could crush the world for hundreds of years.

However, the fact is that the Zheng He built by Yang Changfan has reached the limit of its technical level, and the tonnage still cannot exceed 10,000, roughly about 8,500 tons, which is more than ten times that of the captured Galen ship.

At the same time, the Huiwang Mansion hired a lot of Portuguese engineers to change the bow of the new ship, strengthen the keel, add the ribs, and Yang Changfan did his best on the basis of the existing technology.

However, Zheng and his old man are still out of reach......

With such a concept and standard, the First Fleet of Huiwangfu was expanded again, with one battleship, 12 cruisers, 20 destroyers, and 125 frigates, with a total of 158 warships and a total tonnage of nearly 150,000 tons.

According to the Portuguese engineers' inference, the tonnage of about 60 warships of the East India Combined Fleet that fought with the Huiwangfu fleet at that time would not exceed 35,000 tons, while the tonnage of the Huiwangfu fleet at that time was about 50,000 tons, and the current Huiwangfu fleet has been tripled again.

In terms of tonnage, Spain had a fleet of warships from all over the Americas, at most half of this fleet, and it was necessary to transfer warships from Europe to barely reach a draw, but they obviously did not dare to do so.

As for the guns, the flagship Zheng He is equipped with 80 Longxiao cannons, with an astonishing internal caliber of 20 inches, while the traditional Furlong cannon is only 5 inches at most. The rest of the destroyers are equipped with 40 15-inch in-diameter tiger roaring guns, and the frigates are equipped with 30 10-inch in-diameter wolf howling guns, and the total number of guns in the fleet reaches 4,300, which is about twice that of the East India Combined Fleet that year, and the average caliber also catches up with 1/3, and in terms of artillery hard power, it has also reached the degree of crushing.

Looking only at hard power, Spain can only fight if they gather the world's elite and dispatch their proud invincible armada.

The mysterious forces from the east endured and slept for too long, and finally woke up on the treasure island in the spring of Jiajing 42, 1563 AD!

The Huiwang Mansion is imminent in the new continent!

The whole moss bay is the same enemy, the ambition is in the four seas, the soldiers and generals parted with their families, the mercenaries from all walks of life in the South Seas came to assemble here, and the Portuguese middle-level generals who dug up a lot of money are also in place, and the Huiwang Mansion spent two million taels and took out nearly half of the wealth, just to seize the four seas.

There is no doubt that this step will completely determine the direction of the future.

Whether to fully join the feast of the Age of Discovery, or to continue to pretend to sleep in a safe corner, will be determined by the outcome of the Battle of the New World.

On the eve of the expedition, Yang Changfan sat in the courtyard in a daze, and Yang Le sat beside him, playing the Fan Lingling tune that he had just practiced. Yang Changfan looked back on the way he came, although he continued to stumble, but on the whole he was still successful, and he hoped that he would not get off the leash in the future.

Yang Le's music stopped abruptly, and he suddenly asked with some resentment: "Dad, why do you have to go?" ”

Yang Changfan turned his head to look at his eldest daughter, who was already six years old, and answered her with a smile.

"Do we have anything missing?" Yang Le put down the violin, stepped forward and sat on his father's lap, holding Yang Changfan's shoulders, revealing a very reluctant look.

Yang Changfan stretched out his hand and gently stroked the child's hair, which was as gentle as her mother: "It's because I lack nothing that I want to go out." ”

"Isn't it good to be blessed?" Yang Le asked again.

Before Yang Changfan could answer, a boy's voice came from the side: "Hmph! Girls' homes, rat eyes! ”

Yang Bigui walked over with a handful of silver flintlock handicrafts, and made a shooting gesture into the distance: "The man is ambitious in all directions. The world that Dad said is so big, so beautiful, there are so many places that I haven't been to yet, how can I stay at home! ”

Yang Lechong stuck out his tongue and mocked: "Then you have to stay at home too!" Dad said, you must study hard before you become an adult! ”

Yang Bigui immediately retorted: "Dad also said that you can go to sea for two months every year!" ”

Yang Le exclaimed: "You don't want to go to the east with your father!" ”

"Daddy won't let me." Yang Bigui shook his head helplessly.

"Haha! Just know how to say! After Yang Le sneered, he looked at his father again, "Dad, is it really because of the so-called ambition in all directions, as my brother said?" ”

"Some." Yang Changfan made a gesture, "But not all." ”

"What else?" Yang Bigui asked puzzled.

Yang Changfan leaned back in his chair and said quietly: "I think it's for the nation and the country." ”

A few years ago, he would never have said such a thing, and he didn't believe he would say it one day. It was only when he did it, got it, and had the ability to do more that he realized that he really had such an idea.

Yang Bigui's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Dad is right, a man stands up to the sky and the earth, for the people and the country!" (To be continued.) )