Li Zhe's fleet set out from Dinghai Harbor and went straight up along the coastline, passing through Bindo, Banda, and Yilu, with Siwu in front of the target.

On the sea, the big ship broke the waves, constantly raising waves several meters high, Li Zhe stood on the bow of his boat, looking at the sea and sky in the distance, although what happened in Dinghai Port made him angry, but he was not an ordinary person, this little thing was not enough to make him depressed for a long time.

This matter is essentially King Ning's faux pas, and it is his Royal Highness King Ning who is lost, what does it have to do with him Li Zhe.

To tell the truth, if it weren't for the fear of rudeness, according to his Li Zhe's nature, he wouldn't want to go to see King Ning, who was plain and inferior, when he Li Zhe wanted to see him very much.

Speaking of which, when Li Zhe first came here, he still knew a little low-key, and he was cautious everywhere, for fear of offending a big official and being crushed to death by someone. But since returning from the battlefield of the Northern Expedition, after the baptism of swords and guns, Li Zhe's nature has completely recovered, and he is more wanton than in his previous life, and he can't stand the disobedience of others.

And now in the whole Tianzhu, no one can cure him, and the only eldest princess who can cure him is unwilling to disobey him for some reason, so his temperament is nonsense.

Over the past year or so, he has done these things in Tianzhu, such as the reform of the city's shipping division, the Yihe Canal, and the development of Nanyanzhou, which of these things is not a major military matter.

If there is a change of lord in these things, it will never be easily entrusted to others. None of these are important things that must be done with the strength of the country. Only the princess indulges him wantonly, and supports him no matter what he does. Because of this, he did not flinch when he fought against those old ministers and important ministers in the court.

During the period when Li Zhe was in Kaecheng, he was sometimes surprised when he thought about it.

This eldest princess is too daring to let go of power to him! You must know that he carried out large-scale development in Kaesong, attracted population, and built all kinds of infrastructure, which is more like rebuilding a sub-base in Kaesong. Could it be that the princess was never afraid that he would go alone?

Or is this true love?

But he never believed in it!

As a politician, it is absolutely foolish to believe in feelings.

A true politician must always be absolutely calm and objective, never swayed by all kinds of emotions, he believes that he is such a person, and at the same time he feels that the county lord is also such a person.

Therefore, this kind of unprovoked trust from the princess has made Li Zhe even more confused, which has always been a hidden worry in Li Zhe's heart.

There are more than 40 ships in the fleet under his feet, of which only 13 are warships, and three of these thirteen warships are the so-called battleships in the West, the capital ships called locally, that is, the battleships that specialize in the main decisive battle, and the remaining seven are cruisers, that is, cruisers, cruisers, etc., as they are called in the West.

These ten warships formed the main escort fleet of this fleet. The last three are the notification ships that only the official sailors of the imperial court and military have, that is, the flying clippers of later generations.

It is said that this flying clipper ship in history is not until the nineteenth century to appear ship type, but in the Great Song Dynasty, the flying clipper ship was as early as hundreds of years ago, until now, I don't know how many generations have been developed, the manufacturing technology of the flying clipper has always been the secret of the imperial court sailors, in the early Song Dynasty of the Song Dynasty for the Great Song Dynasty made great contributions.

The cruiser of the imperial court is a ship type modified with reference to the clipper ship type, which not only ensures the speed and lightness of the clipper ship, but also takes into account the center of gravity and stability of the ship type, and can effectively serve as an output platform for artillery.

This kind of ship appeared hundreds of years earlier in history, which can be said to have greatly promoted the development of the navigation industry in the Song Dynasty, otherwise, the Hai Song Dynasty may not have been able to develop the scale it is today. In Li Zhe's view, this clipper is needless to say that it is a black technology that only exists in the parallel space of this life, something that should not appear in this era.

Although the three notification ships in Li Zhe's fleet were only a few hundred tons in size and had a very small cargo capacity, each ship had two guns in the bow and stern, and even if these two guns were really in the naval battle, most of them would not be of great use. With the urine nature of the clipper ship speeding up on the sea, the hit rate of this gun is absolutely worrying. Even if the gods come to operate the cannon, I am afraid that they will not be able to hit people, and the decorative significance is far greater than the actual combat.

Therefore, the combat power that Li Zhe really has in his hands is only three capital ships and seven cruisers.

This force, generally speaking, is more than enough to deal with pirates, you must know that in this era, it is a main naval division of the imperial court, and the ships that can really be used for combat are thirty or fifty.

In this era, naval warfare has entered the mode of artillery decisive battle, so the number of ships is no longer meaningful, and the quality of sea ships is important.

Among the three feudal domains of the Great Song Dynasty, the warships of the Tianzhu Domain have always been the best, and the reason is that Tianzhu has always dealt with Westerners most often, fought and communicated with the main fleets of Western countries, and has always been at the forefront of this era. In comparison, the Ningwang Domain and the Jingwang Domain, although they are also imperial frontiers, are still separated from the countries of Europa by a vast Pacific Ocean.

In the New World, the closest to the Celestial Empire is the Mexican colony under the command of Spain, but in this era, Spain is far from complete occupation, although Spain entered Mexico to attack the Aztecs more than 100 years ago, but more than 100 years have passed, the Spaniards are still trapped in the rich primeval jungle of Central America, and they are far from completing the conquest of this place.

Historically, Spain did not complete the conquest of Mexico until the eighteenth century, and soon, before Spain had time to enjoy the silver benefits from Mexico, only a few decades later, the Mexican independence uprising began, one after another, which made Spain anxious, and at this time it was by its side, in the northeast, there was a behemoth that rose rapidly, and Spain soon lost its rule here.

Therefore, from the perspective of historical consequences, the predatory rule of Spain over Mexico is also an inevitability, because anyone with a discerning eye knows that this land is destined to never belong to them.

Therefore, this means that the two domains of Ning and Jing seem to be located on the frontier, but in fact there is no difference between them and the mainland, and the military equipment of the two countries is not as good as Tianzhu, which is also inevitable.

Because of this, the two domains, especially the Ning Domain, were always a little estranged from the Tianzhu Domain.

Under the rule of the Ning Domain, I always felt that most of the people under the rule of the Tianzhu Domain were mixed-race, born lowly, rude, and powerful, which made people feel even more vulgar.

The Tianzhu Domain, on the other hand, felt that under the rule of King Ning, he was often condescending, inconsistent with the outside and the inside, and was always hesitant to do things, too restrained, which made people feel that they were not refreshing enough.

In short, although they are under the rule of the imperial court and of the same race, after hundreds of years of feudal system, the military and civilians of the two places have already changed their customs and become two completely different countries.

This is also helpless.

Li Zhe was not ignorant of this, but he never expected that someone would dare to attack the idea of his fleet.