Legend has it that the east, west, north, south, and seas were ruled by four dragon kings, each of whom had a huge and gorgeous dragon palace. There are countless gold and silver treasures in the Dragon Palace.

Of course, this is just a legend, but the sea does contain countless treasures.

Later, the Europeans opened a new route across the Atlantic to reach the Americas, detoured the southern tip of Africa to India, and the success of the first circumnavigation of the world, which is called the Great Geographical Discovery, also known as the Age of Discovery.

During this period, with the development of commerce, sea routes were constantly explored, various islands and landmasses were constantly discovered, and countless European merchants and pirates flocked to embark on sea voyages.

They built large ships with many masts and fast loads, carrying hundreds or even thousands of tons suitable for long-distance voyages, using a compass passed from China.

From the beginning of the 15th century, its rulers actively participated in the maritime exploration and colonization of Africa, after several generations of efforts, finally opened a new route through the southern tip of Africa to India, at first they carried out peaceful colonization in the newly discovered lands, and later, the Portuguese royal family was driven by material interests such as looking for gold and selling black slaves, and the great maritime discoveries turned into military conquest and plunder, and evolved into cruel colonialist rule and oppression.

The achievements of Portuguese seafaring discoveries shocked Europe, and the Spaniards rushed to follow suit, and the Spanish royal family actively searched for another new route to the East. They www.biquge.info financed the westward voyage of Columbus and his entourage from Europe, which ended up in the Americas, opening up a new route to the Americas. Columbus's voyage opened a new route from Western Europe to the Americas, laying the groundwork for Spanish overseas plunder and colonization.

Portugal and Spain actively explored new shipping routes, and also began colonial plundering of Asia, Africa, and the Americas before other countries. Both countries declare their territories wherever they go.

Portugal and Spain made bloody conquests and plunders everywhere they went, wherever they declared colonies, and at that time the two small European countries of Portugal and Spain became the most powerful countries in the world, at least at sea.

Portugal and Spain were the general vanguard of colonial plunder, and their success gave a good example to other European countries, and then the Netherlands, Britain and France, etc., used their strong military and economic power to squeeze out Spain and Portugal and continue to carry out brutal colonial plunder in Asia, Africa and America.

It is precisely because of these bloody colonial plunder, relying on their ships and cannons on the sea, that these countries in Europe, which were originally poor, have completed the bloody primitive accumulation and laid the most solid foundation for Europe to be stronger than the world.

In the later generations, Wu Yuanqing didn't look at the last thing he learned was mechanical, but in fact, his previous liberal arts grades were the best, and the best grades in history in the liberal arts, followed by geography, and then Chinese, English must be the worst, and even worse than the three years of high school before going to college, and he only passed all the English exams in the three years of junior high school, that is, when he took the high school entrance examination.

It's far away, back to the point, Wu Yuanqing knows a lot about the history of this great voyage, he knows how many treasures are hidden on the sea, but Wu Yuanqing doesn't want to play a round-the-world voyage now, he doesn't have the guts, and he also feels that Datang's naval navigation technology or shipbuilding technology at this time can't reach that ability.

In fact, when Wu Yuanqing saw what was said to be the largest sea ship in his family, he felt that his idea of coming to Malaysia and Indonesia did not seem to be realistic.

The most powerful period of Chinese navigation was undoubtedly when Zheng He went to the Western Ocean, when Zheng He's treasure ship was definitely the largest, strongest and most advanced sea ship in the world, without one, Zheng He built a huge navy of 25,000 men, and explored most of the southwest Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Before the Ming Dynasty, China's shipbuilding industry has always been the most developed, whether it is inland river ships or sea ships are the most superior at that time.

But looking at the big ship in front of him, which represents Datang and is also the best construction technology in the world, Wu Yuanqing's heart is wow, wow, wow.

Nima turned out to be a building ship, or a five-story building ship.

Floor ship. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, there was a general of the building boat, to the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Su built the building ship can be described as a big one, "up to the floor five floors, more than 100 feet high, left and right front and back six poles, and 50 feet high, 800 soldiers."

When Wu Yuanqing joined Changle from Jingzhou, the boat they took was very similar to the building boat, but it was an imitation building boat, and there was only one floor of pavilion on it. The boat is really good, in the Yangtze River, Dongting Lake is very stable, and the deck is big enough, and the scenery is excellent.

But now Nima is going to go to sea or not, not to mention that the boat is flat-bottomed, just say that the floors above Nima will cause the center of gravity to be unstable because it is too high, and the wind resistance is extremely poor, and the wind may cause the shipwreck to roll over if the wind is slightly stronger.

During the Three Kingdoms, Sun Quan's "Chang'an" building ship sank in the river due to a sudden gale. It was still the state of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, and Sun Quan ordered Dong to "supervise the fifth-floor ship to the mouth of the water", but unexpectedly, the storm suddenly rose, and all the fifth-floor ships sank.

Building ships are mostly used in rivers and lakes, mainly the Yangtze River, and also used in the offshore, due to the high center of gravity of the building ship, the poor ability to resist wind and waves is quite dangerous in the open sea. Almost all of the famous battles that Lou Chuan participated in were on the Yangtze River, such as the Battle of Chibi, the Battle of the Western Jin Dynasty to destroy Wu, and the Battle of Sui to destroy Chen.

This kind of ship, the Wu family here in Lingnan actually used it for sea ships, and most of the heads of the ships live here, and they have already traveled to Funan three times.

After being able to return safely three times in a row, Jinnyima is so lucky that she is very lucky.

You don't want to take this boat and come back safely, it is a blessing to invite heaven Lao Tzu does not care about you, but now he wants to let this young master go to sea on it, grandma has a leg, Lao Tzu will kill you.

Wu Yuanqing pointed to the sky and scolded the earth, and even kicked and kicked a meal, listening to him talk about the danger of this kind of ship going to sea, he finally agreed to Wu Yuanqing to go to sea, and Changle, who had to follow, flinched a little.

Seeing that Changle was worried and pitifully pulled his sleeve and kept shaking his head as if he wanted to dissuade him, the fire that Wu Yuanqing had just suppressed came up again, and he kicked and scolded again.

A few of the fleet stewards who were scolded and kicked were whispered a few words of defense at first that the ship was very safe and stable, and there would be no accidents.

After getting angry and comforting Changle again, Wu Yuanqing was about to give up his plan to go to sea, but at the moment he turned around, he swept to a slightly smaller ship behind the Fu boat.

Hmm, this boat looks a little interesting.