Chapter 233 Mengzhou chaos
Tianzhu, Mengzhou Outer Harbor, Jiang Guohou Qi Chang and his son Qi Ming looked up at the new generation of steam warships docked in front of them and ready to go.
Stopping on the coast, the huge size of several zhang high and dozens of zhang in length still made Jiang Guohou and his son couldn't help but be frightened.
The majesty of such a terrible warship, the majesty of the sea, could be foreseen by everyone almost by imagination.
With such a sea vessel, who else can resist the footsteps of the Tianzhu Army's hegemony, as evidenced by the news from Manraka half a month ago.
In this battle, it was almost devastating at the feet of the Tianzhu Water Division, and the lucky General Xu Qingyuan in the naval battle has now become a well-known hero among the people of Mengzhou City, and his achievements in the Battle of Tanjung with a mere fifteen warships defeated hundreds of warships in the Dinghai Fleet of the Ningwang Domain, which are praised by everyone.
In the current city of Mengzhou, I don't know how many people envy this general who became famous in World War I.
It is said that after this war, some people saw the terrible power of the navy. Some people in the DPRK and China have already proposed that the naval divisions of the imperial court be unified and organized, just like the central court of the Great Song Dynasty, independent of the soldiers fighting on land, and from now on, the naval divisions will be changed to the navy, and the various armies fighting on land will be uniformly renamed the army.
In this way, the aggressive force of the navy in the new era was freed from the shackles of the original army and became a force capable of fighting independently.
In this era, there are countless territories overseas, and countless opportunities are waiting for Tianzhu's good men. In the future, the navy will become an even more powerful force in the hands of the Tianzhu army.
As soon as the news came out, everyone in this land was excited, and the men who lived in the countryside all tasted the change in the direction of the court from this news.
Originally, if it weren't for this battle, the Tianzhu people would not have known that their country had grown to this point now.
Ning Wang Domain, in that year, this was also one of the three feudal domains of the imperial court, and even because of its convenient geographical location, there was a country that suppressed Tianzhu, but in the collision with the Tianzhu army, it only took two months to completely collapse, and the farts and urine were beaten, and now, there is almost a posture of being eaten by Tianzhu and swallowed by whales.
So if a big country is swallowed, how much benefit can the Tianzhu people get from it?
It is rumored that Ning Wang Fan is even a richer country than Tianzhu.
The greed of the people up and down has even become irrepressible.
The success of the early stage of the War of the Two Kings is setting off an unprecedented wave of war among the people, and I don't know how many young people with such ambitions are eager to join the new army to find fame and wealth on the battlefield.
This kind of fanaticism has been seen a lot by Jiang Guohou and his son for a while.
The terrible atmosphere of war in Mengzhou City, Jiang Guohou and his son all saw it, and the secret thoughts of the two fathers and sons when they came here are now gone. What are you kidding, starting a war with Tianzhu in such a war atmosphere, even the Great Song Dynasty may not be so easy to win.
Now the two of them no longer have any dissatisfaction with the imperial court, and now the two of them are still in Mengzhou City for another matter.
It turned out that the smooth attack of the Tianzhu army in this battle of the two kings made many people ready to move.
The great strength of the Tianzhu army in the war made all the princes under its jurisdiction see an opportunity from it.
Of course, the princes are not stupid, and it can be said that every hereditary prince has a group of military talents with accurate vision.
Everyone can see the several tremendous military advances shown by the Tianzhu Army in this war.
Not to mention the new military strategy and tactical system promoted by the Metropolitan Governor in the army, which surprised everyone, but also the innovation in weapons combined with this new system also attracted everyone's attention.
The steam warships docked outside the harbor were one of them.
Everyone who sees it is amazed, and who doesn't want to have it in their own home.
Can the imperial court rely on this warship to run rampant and annex the Ning Wang Domain, and those princes can also take this opportunity to expand outward and pick up a few overseas desert islands that the imperial court does not want?
The court swallowed such a large piece of fat, and everyone didn't say much, and it would be satisfying to drink some leftover meat scraps or something.
If nothing else, let's just say that the first powerful domain under the throne of An, the Qin family of the Marquis of Tianfang in the west, is quite in need of a new steam fleet equipped with new rifled artillery.
With such a fleet, as long as the Qin family of Tianfang Marquis takes root in the Mediterranean, those Tessie Europa, whether it is Eastern Rome or Western Rome, and what Greece, Venice, Florence or something can be swept away. The conquest of the European continent is just around the corner.
So now the little marquis of the Qin clan has come to Mengzhou in person thousands of miles away, and his eyes have long been on the shipyard outside the port.
There were also many princes from all walks of life who thought the same as Qin Fan, and they all tore their faces, either breaking into King An's palace to make trouble or personally staring at the shipyard outside the port.
All eyes were on the shipyard, just waiting for the ship to come out and grab it.
You know, whoever owns the steam warship first now has the invincible combat power at sea, and don't be too sharp to open up overseas, it's all money!
Several shipyards outside the city are in short supply at all, and even the ships that Tianzhu Sailor himself has already ordered will be favored by this group of old guys.
Mengzhou's shipbuilding industry has turned red and purple, and now whoever can build such a shipyard can make a lot of money.
But there is no way, although the steam warship is easy to use, but it is also very expensive, the core power of the warship, the output of the marine steam engine is still far from reaching the point where it can be produced at full capacity.
A few months have passed, and until now, there are only two places where Tianzhu has mastered this core technology and can create such a behemoth, one is the machinery factory under the internal affairs government of the domain attached to the Jiangzuoyuan, and the other is Li Zhe's own factory.
The private workshop that was almost destroyed in the Mengzhou Incident no one expected that it would grow into a money-making machine in the eyes of everyone today.
No way, the industrial base of this era is really poor.
Whether it is iron and steel metallurgy, industrial manufacturing, or handicraft processing and manufacturing technology with the characteristics of the times, it is far from reaching the point of large-scale machinery industrial production. And these are closely related to the steam engine industry.
is the result of Li Zhe using all his strength, desperately pulling out seedlings to help them grow, and using national forces to intervene in cultivation.
Therefore, even if he knew that the steam warship was easy to use, Li Zhe would not be able to fill Mengzhou Bay in a short period of time like dumplings.
With Tianzhu's current industrial strength, it can only go so far.