"These ships will be of great use in the future." Chang Wei said: "It's still too early to talk about it, please wait and see." ”

"Okay." Sun Jingting smiled in response, and then continued to look at the schooners that were nearly completed.

"They all weigh 160 to 300 tons, and 20 to 22 artillery pieces are installed." Chang Wei introduced: "There are two ships that have been launched, and five of them are about to be completed and launched, but it will take at least three to five months before they are delivered. ”

"It's not fully staffed either." Zhang Xuwen said in a warm tone without anxiety: "The sailor officers in the academy have only been out of the division for at least half a year, and they are already a crash course, all of them are recruited in the Daming Fujian Navy, and there are also old maritime merchants, pirates, and sailors. The Portuguese said it was too fast, but fortunately these people had been sailors or sailors of the Ming Dynasty, and had laid a deep foundation, otherwise it would have been a joke. ”

Li Shouxin nodded and said: "I also asked, the Dutch or the British and the Spaniards are all on the ship since childhood, about ten years old on the ship, starting from the lowest level of waiting for senior officers, and then familiar with each position, each position has to work for a year or two, so that when you are in your twenties, you can be promoted to lieutenant and captain, you can go to a small warship as a first officer, and in a few years, you can become a captain at the age of about thirty. ”

Sun Jingting listened attentively, and then nodded and said: "Master Zhang also said that the water master is not as good as the land master, but the concept is basically the same. Officers are best trained from an early age, and the Lu Division can first study literature, select outstanding people among the fifteen or sixteen-year-old teenagers to be trained as officers, first serve as soldiers for two years, then study in military schools for two years, come out and then become probationary officers, and then return to the school to serve as instructors for two or three years, which is also a process of further study, and finally come out again to consider using it at the middle level. You can also select soldiers from the auxiliaries, and then select officers from the soldiers, but such officers can generally only be low-level officers, which is the cornerstone of our army, but if you want to have good seedlings of senior officers, you have to start from the school from the baby, today I hear, the training of the officers of the naval division is afraid that it is earlier than the land division, this is also very good, you can choose children from Fujian, Guangzhou, Liaodong to choose eight to ten years old children, on the boat to cultivate. However, this is different from free education for children, and they will be given money on the boat, and they must be generous, otherwise the children of the common people are also born and raised by their parents, and they are the same as the top meat, and you take the sea adventure without a sound, and you may have to worry about your life. ”

When Sun Jingting spoke at length, Chang Wei and the others just listened, and at this time, everyone nodded, expressing deep agreement and admiration for Sun Jingting's mind and knowledge.

Li Pingzhi thought: It is worthy of being a person who has been by Mr. Zhang's side for a long time, he sees things at different levels, he speaks in a clear manner, and he tells the truth eloquently......

To tell the truth, Li Pingzhi is a very arrogant person, and I don't blame him, he has done so many things at such a young age and has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, so he will naturally have a little arrogance that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve. However, in front of Sun Jingting, Chang Wei, Zhang Xuwen and others, Li Pingzhi still has a lot of respect. There is no other reason, it is not that he is afraid of power, but Chang Wei's understanding of things and his resoluteness and ruthlessness that dare to make a move, far above him. Zhang Xuwen's gentleness and persistence, as well as the courage under the gentle surface, Li Pingzhi's self-belief is not better than Zhang Xuwen, and even Zhang Xuwen is still excessive. As for Sun Jingting, judging from today's short contact, he is even more of a dragon and a phoenix among people...... As for Zhang Han, Li Pingzhi didn't dare to think about it, Zhang Han was like a heavenly man in the eyes of these young people from the academy in Hutchison.

After looking at the unfinished schooner in front of them, everyone's footsteps did not stop, bypassing the slipway and continuing to move forward, only then did they see Jiang Kui leading a team of people to meet them.

Sun Jingting looked at Jiang Kui with a smile, the two Jiang brothers were also two of the first people to follow Zhang Han, and their qualifications were about the earliest one in Taiwan, but the Jiang brothers were very trouble-free, never caused trouble, and worked steadily and steadily...... It can be seen that the origin of the tiger does not matter much, except for a few really wicked people who are the tigers in these years, most of them are urban poor, without the support of the clan land, they can only eat blindly.

Jiang Kui was still the leader of the ordinary guards who recognized Sun Jingting in Lingqiu, but he hadn't seen each other for several years, so he immediately stepped forward to give a military salute, and then he was going to bow down and say hello.

Sun Jingting said with a smile: "The personal friendship will be talked about later, or hurry up and lead us to see the treasure who defeated the enemy." ”

Jiang Kui laughed when he heard this, so he didn't say much, and immediately took Sun Jingting and continued to walk forward.

Ahead is the coast, the tide keeps coming up, this is the low tide period, revealing a large area of sand, there are many small crabs crawling back and forth on the beach, looking like groups of moving gray-white pebbles.

The sea breeze brought the smell of fishy tides, and Sun Jingting suddenly found that he was also a little accustomed to this fishy and salty feeling.

Chang Wei pointed ahead and said: "There is a hilly hill over there, although it is not too high, but it is enough to obscure people's vision, here we send sentinel ships to guard all year round, as long as there are enemy ships appear, we will enter the port and suspend training, so in the past few months, there has been no abnormality." ”

Saying this, Sun Jingting's heart itched even more, and he wanted to know what it was immediately.

And in terms of secrecy, even what he doesn't know can only be watched on the spot, and the marching division doesn't mention it in the report, which means that it is the highest level of secrecy, only Zhang Han has read the report and knows about it, and he has never mentioned it in the meeting of the highest political officials, which shows that this matter is really crucial...... Zhang Han shouldn't have deliberately concealed it, maybe he felt that Sun Jingting couldn't understand it at that time.

Russians began to appear in front of them, shouting something to the sea, Sun Jingting turned his head around, and suddenly saw the situation in the sea in front of him on the right.

The body was shaken, and then shocked, and there was a huge earthquake.

After the shock, Sun Jingting pulled Chang Wei dumbfounded, and shouted: "Terrible, what the hell are you doing, what kind of ship is this, why haven't you said anything about the atlas every time you report to you?" ”

Chang Wei's face was full of pride: "Haha, this is the ghost that Dezhnev and Li commanded them to do!" The first ship had already been built, and I had only returned from Hirado, but it was quite reasonable to listen to their analysis, so we cut back and started building a large number of ships, and now there are four ships launched, which is quite a fast shipbuilding speed. ”

"Why so fast?" Sun Jingting said puzzledly: "These are all big ships!" ”

Floating on the sea in front of him were indeed several quite large warships, about forty meters long, estimated to be about forty-five meters, with towering masts, front sails and back sails hung up, white clouds floating over the hull, and what surprised Sun Jingting was the rowing on both sides of the hull!

How can Sun Jingting, who is accustomed to rowing boats being small sentinel boats and tugboats, not be surprised?

At that time, the saying was that the northerners rode horses and the southerners took boats, if it was the people of the south of the Yangtze River, the waterways everywhere were not imaginary, from the south of the Yangtze River to dozens of counties in eastern Zhejiang, each state capital, each county, and even between the towns and villages were connected by waterways, and nothing was to come and go by boat, whether it was carrying people or transporting goods, it was all the boats. It's also a joke to want to count on the sails for river boats, most of them still rely on human traction and rowing, the Upeng boat travels on the river, the boat paddles lightly under the starlight and moonlight, and the water is murmuring, and how many literati and' IELTS are obtained from the boat.

In front of me is completely two different things, the hull is dozens of steps long, the largest five Mingwa boats on the Jiangnan River are only less than one-third of this ship, not only long, but also high, the width is also extremely wide, the bow is low and the stern is high, several guns in the stern and the enemy tower are full of sailors in blue robes, guns in hand, bayonets are dazzling, quite exciting, and the small windows of the gun compartments on the left and right sides of the hull are opened, and the guns with black holes in a door point to the side of the sea and sky, with the order, many gunners run in the cabin, Shoot and clean the chamber back and forth...... This was a war drill, and the top and bottom were very serious, and they didn't even stop because of Sun Jingting's arrival.

At this time, a military official who came with Sun Jingting woke up and said: "No wonder I only saw twelve pounders when I first entered the port, and these new ships were not loaded with guns when they entered the port. ”

"Yes, yes." Chang Wei said with great interest: "The artillery sent by the Firearms Bureau, as well as our self-forged guns, ranging from twenty-four pounder guns to thirty-six-pounder guns, are all installed on these ships. ”

"This is a large rowing battleship?" Taiwan's secrecy work has really been done, but Sun Jingting is not displeased, after all, it is the most important military secret, and the fewer people who know about it, the better...... The more he looked at it, the more he liked it, and asked Chang Wei: "How much does each ship weigh, and how many guns are loaded?" ”

"They are all 450-ton ships, each ship is loaded with 30 guns, more than 300 sailors and gunners, and a company of soldiers is transported, and each ship has nearly 500 people." Chang Wei replied: "Compared to the Batavia, it is still smaller, but the number of artillery is basically the same, and the number of soldiers is above us, so we still have to fight." It's just that in terms of numbers, we're still a little bit worse. ”

Everyone was amazed, because it seemed that these four ships were about the same size as the Batavia they saw in the morning, they were all giant warships, and those small fortune ships were as low and ridiculous as young and children around them, and it seemed that such a big war ship could only be set on fire by setting fire to it, or jumping on the side, if the Ming warships were against these big ships, they had to have more enemies and fewer enemies, dozens of ships against one, constantly firing guns and arson, and fighting hand-to-hand, otherwise if the light was to shoot at each other, it would not be difficult to take one enemy and one hundred.

Sun Jingting was happy for a while, and then frowned secretly.