Whether it is a Fu ship or a Guangdong ship, it was the mainstream of trade ships at that time, and there were also some small maritime merchants who had just started to use double canopy ships to transport goods, but the goods they transported were not as much as those of Fujian and Guangdong, and of course the profits were not much. The first two kinds of ships are about 100 tons or 150 tons, generally 344 meters long, the bow and stern will be equipped with a cannon each, sometimes the side will also be equipped with two guns, but they are small-caliber guns, the hull of the ship can not withstand the recoil of the cannon, if a shot out does not hit the enemy ship, but makes itself turn on its side, then it is really a joke.

"Where's the warship?" Li Guozhu couldn't help but ask: "Do you want a Fu ship to be refitted or a sand ship?" Or do you want to build more spiritual dragon ships, black ships? ”

Zhang Han said: "I heard that Lord Lingzun has a kind of Chinese warship, which is much larger than ordinary ships?" ”

"Yes." Li Guozhu said: "The Chinese warship is the flagship of my father, 32 meters long, 7 meters wide, more than 220 tons of draft, more than 100 tons of load, hull double masted, the middle mast is equipped with a lookout, the front is equipped with a turret and battlements, in case of jumping, this ship is called Tong'an ship in Fujian, and the Fu ship is about the same, but the turn is faster, and there is a Wangdou battlement, almost a pure warship, this kind of ship, we have more than a dozen, plus the modified Fu ship, my Li family has a total of more than 100 warships. ”

Zhang Han did not deliberately ask the Li family's maritime strength, at least Li Dan won the naval battle with the Spaniards, so that the white-skinned guys respected the maritime power along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, no country wanted to directly convert China into a colony, at that time the Europeans had already seized the entire South America and began to build colonies in North America, seized the entire Southeast Asia and entered South Asia, and seized most of Africa, and the entire ocean was full of colonial islands. It was a maritime hero like Li Dan who fought hard with his subordinates.

Zhang Han doesn't ask, it doesn't mean that Li Guozhu can't say it...... The Li family now has more than 100 large warships, most of which can be used as merchant ships in peacetime, as well as special warships such as Linglong boats, black ships, etc., as for the fishing boats in the offshore waters, eight-oared boats and four-oared boats, these small boats together do have more than a thousand ships.

There are only a few thousand people who can be called at any time directly under Li Dan, but once a large-scale naval battle breaks out, Li Dan can gather tens of thousands of people, these people are actually not Li Dan's direct subordinates, but only regard Li Dan as the leader of the alliance, once the interests of the Han maritime merchants are seriously threatened, Li Dan can call the shots and start a war with any country according to the situation, these people will definitely support Li Dan to the end.

With this strength, Li Dan is regarded as the head of maritime business, and he deserves to be a powerful man on the sea.

Li Shenming and others are actually almost ignorant of the sea power of the Ming Dynasty, because of the long-term ban on the sea, people's minds are subconsciously sinister overseas turmoil, and people who go to sea are easy to turn away from their hometowns and become foreigners, and they are more likely to be despised.

Since it is not affirmed by mainstream public opinion, even if there is the prosperity of overseas trade in the past few decades, it is still limited to the south, and for the entire north, it has neither touched the light of maritime trade, nor does it lack understanding of these things, even if it is a figure like Li Shenming.

With the words of Li Guozhu and others, Li Shenming and others gradually understood a more brilliant world.

"I want to ask," Zhang Han said, "Ling Zun won the battle with the Spaniards, how many people did Ling Zun lead, and how many ships did he use?" ”

"Well......" Li Guozhu thought for a while and said: "We use more than 400 ships, 30% of the large ships, 70% of the small ships, 13 large ships of the enemy, 10 of the rest of the Frut merchant ships, a few Dutch light boat sloops, and more than 10 brig kenf ships, adding up to less than 40 ships." ”

"So you're ten to one with the enemy's ships?"

"Almost."

"What about the personnel?"

Li Guozhu pondered: "There are more than 100 sailors on the enemy's big ship, more than 100 gunners and gunners, and merchant ships are generally half and half gunners and sailors, adding up to less than 3,000 people, and we have more than 20,000 people." ”

Zhang Han smiled slightly and said, "If with my financial resources, how long will it take to accumulate a sailor with such strength?" ”

Li Guozhu said with a smile: "It takes time to build a ship, and it takes time to recruit available manpower, if it is a sailor of this scale who can fight, it will depend on Brother Wenlan's financial resources, and it will take ten years to see." ”

A lucky ship, at least half a year to build, before there is a long time to dry the wood, the wood is not dry to go into the water, the ship is soaked in the water for a long time and then dispersed, a big wood to dry for at least a few years, plus the time of shipbuilding is also long, without a few years of hard work can not be launched, shipbuilding takes time, recruit the right people and then make it loyal and available, it is not possible without a few years, Zhang Han's current right-hand men can enrich the fleet's combat strength, but Zhang Han has no one to drive the ship, which is equivalent to starting from scratch, Even if there is the Li family to help you get some family funds first, you still have to slowly replace your own people...... This is what Li Guozhu's words meant, and when Zhang Han accumulates enough ships and trustworthy manpower, ten years will be less.

"So what Brother Wen Lan means, do you want these ordinary warships?" Li Guozhu is not a fool, he has already understood the meaning of Zhang Han's words.

"Well, exactly." Zhang Han said: "I heard that the Dutch Yi have surpassed the Spaniards recently, the East India Company is very arrogant, and they have been spying on Taiwan for more than a day, my character is that once I do something, I must do it well, and I must not be threatened by others." ”

The last time the Dutch spied on Taiwan was during the Wanli period, but in recent years, as the East India Company's strength has expanded, their interest in finding a foothold off China's coast has revived.

Recently, there have been many East India Company people who have been frequent in Tainan, and the Dutchman Jiang Kui saw last time was a pioneer figure, killing a large number of Han Chinese and indigenous people in Taiwan. The Dutch are also very interested in Macao, and they have snooped many times, and people of insight have seen that in the next few years, the Dutch and the Portuguese will have a war, and the Dutch is also imperative to colonize Tainan.

Li Guozhu vaguely understood what Zhang Han meant, Zhang Han's style of doing things is to open and close, and running Taiwan is to be a foundation, and now Taiwan is a terra nullius, only Yan Siqi and the Li family are running it, there are many indigenous villages in Tainan, and they form associations to protect themselves, and their strength cannot be insulted.

In addition, there is no government, nor a country, it is a real borderless land, Zhang Han wants this territory to operate into a very solid rear, if you are worried about being afraid, then there is no point in operating it.

If you want to make money, Zhang Han buys ten and eight ships, and with the Li family here, he is not afraid of people robbing him, and he can earn 100,000 yuan of silver a year, so why bother?

"My aim is to smash money." Zhang Han said in a relaxed tone: "First collect more wood, and then find talents who can build ships, Hongmaoyi has many ships and cannons, why can't I build such a ship?" I know that the Li family has defeated Hongyi, but it was with more people against fewer people, more ships against fewer ships, and defeated them with the way of attacking the horns of fireboats, and my idea was to use the same strong ships and sharp cannons to hit their warships, which would save time and effort. ”

Zhang Han said this, looked at Zheng Zhilong and said, "Will Yiguan help me?" I've heard that you're proficient in a variety of languages, so I think you can help with this kind of thing. ”

Zheng Zhilong only felt a little flustered and a little blocked in his heart.

No seamer has ever dared to say such a thing, it is simply wild, but if you think about it carefully, Zhang Han's words in front of him are all based on the truth, and there is nothing wrong with it, but Zheng Zhilong feels that he is too taken for granted, and the person in front of him thinks about the world too simply.

But is the person in front of him really so conceited, could it be his own chance?

Zheng Zhilong swallowed his saliva and said with a smile: "The Dutch's East India Company, there are hundreds of merchant ships, all of them are plywood ships, ranging from more than 100 tons to 2 or 300 tons, and they are generally equipped with more than ten or twenty guns, and if they focus on the loading of warships, they are even more. However, the capital ships are thirteen pure warships, and they also carry a small amount of cargo, mainly soldiers and artillery, to deter pirates and various forces on the ground in the South Seas. ”

Zhang Han said: "How big is the largest warship?" ”

Zheng Zhilong said: "It's the Batavia, 650 tons, the mast is 55 meters high, 56 meters long, 10 meters wide, the draft is 5.1 meters, there are more than 300 soldiers on the ship, there are 24 half-snake artillery, the cannon weighs more than 20 catties, and it can fight more than 10 miles ......away."

"More than ten miles away?" Chang Wei said with a smile on the side: "That's definitely not an effective range, even a half-snake gun can't hit this far." ”

At that time, the artillery, air closure and gunpowder were still in the original state, the half-snake gun was the Ming army's imitation of the Hongyi cannon, which could weigh five or six thousand catties, and was loaded with more than ten or twenty catties of cannons, and the effective firing range was at most five or six miles, and ten miles away could be hit, but of course the effect would be very poor.

"Yes, that's what Chang Gongzi said." Zheng Zhilong deliberately exaggerated the power of the warship's artillery, but he was blocked back on the spot, he calmed down, and said: "Batavia is their flagship, and most of the other dozen ships are of this size, maybe a little smaller, but some battleships have more guns, after all, Batavia is an old ship, the number of guns is not very large, and some new ships are already more than forty guns." ”

Zhang Han nodded silently, Europe is now a period of great development of navigation and sail warships, and it ushered in its peak more than a hundred years later, when the sail warships had more than 100 cannons, and even sail ironclad ships, until the steam warships were put into use, the sail warships gradually withdrew from the historical stage.

More than ten years later, it was the British who made the Sea Monarch, in order to fight against the Dutch, the British at this time were desperately building ships, the Sea Monarch weighed more than 1,600 tons, and there were more than 100 cannons, this was just the beginning, the warships going down were getting bigger and bigger, and the artillery was more and more, and the power was getting bigger and bigger.

Zhang Han knew that the number of battleship guns at this time was not large, the power was not great, and the aiming accuracy was not high, so he gave small warships room to fight, whether it was Li Dan or Zheng Zhilong, and later Zheng Chenggong had defeated the Spaniards or the Dutch, but their fighting style was ant colony warfare...... When Zheng Chenggong fought with the Dutch, he had more than 100,000 people and more than 1,000 ships, which was the accumulation of two generations of the Zheng family for decades.

This has to be played, don't say that Zhang Han can't afford to wait, even if he can wait, he won't use it.