"Given some time, no one in the world can defeat an armed ship equipped with these weapons at sea." But this guy didn't think that this was a naval battle, the speed of the clippers, and the farsightedness of the telescope, plus the range of the artillery for one or two miles, this thing is enough to change an era, what else can't be satisfied?

In this era, the whole earth could not find such a powerful sea ship, and the power and lethality of artillery were still improving. When the installation is really completed, the sea of the entire planet will be Datang, who is not convinced, the cannon will bombard the damn!

Li Hao was very satisfied with the test of the clipper, and at the same time meant that the 500-ton ship could be put into service. And those well-built flying shear ships should be equipped according to this ship, and they can basically become ocean-going ships with combat effectiveness.

In fact, the test work of the new ship has been going on for a long time, and today it is just because Li Hao and Li Ke came over and gave them another demonstration. Li Ke didn't know much about naval warfare, he didn't understand why Li Hao was so excited, wasn't it just dozens of big ships loaded with artillery?

What Li Ke didn't know was that if Li Hao hadn't changed the course of history now, more than a thousand years later, those blue-eyed and white-skinned guys would have driven this kind of armed ship to the East, and then enslaved the East for nearly half a century, and plundered countless wealth back.

Now, the future is hard to say. When such armed ships with artillery appeared, everything would be different. As long as the technology here is not lost, who will enslave whom in the future is still two words.

"This is a test that changes times! This thing has to be written! Li Hao didn't explain too much to Li Ke, and everyone will know the benefits of this armed clipper after they arrive.

"Starting next year, Lingnan Road will enter a stage of rapid development in the future, and I hope that the development of the Tanzhou area where Brother Li is sitting will not be overtaken by us." After going ashore, Li Hao said proudly.

With these armed ships, the plundering and trade of the seas will be the world of the Tang people in the future. The Lingnan Road, which dominates this side, is undoubtedly the place that benefits the most, and it is not difficult to vigorously develop it, which is not to be proud of Li Hao.

The area that Li Ke now controls is the fastest growing place in Datang, but these things are not on the table. All the credit goes to the officials below, so that they can be promoted quickly. Li Ke doesn't need these things himself, but this kind of credit will bring him harm.

"After the development of Lingnan Road, don't forget that the flood control and water conservancy in the Yangtze River basin over there still needs a lot of manpower, and the cultivated land there also needs more cattle, and these things all depend on the virtuous brother."

Li Ke didn't pay much attention to what Li Hao said. However, Li Hao once said that if the south wants to develop, it is an indispensable step to ask for various resources overseas, so this guy immediately thought of what he lacked now.

The flood control and water conservancy projects organized by Liu Renliang and Tanzhou Prefecture have been carried out for several years and have achieved good results. But if they want to succeed, they have to continue to build, which requires a lot of manpower, and what they lack most now is manpower.

The prisoners of war that Li Hao had taken from the Tibetan side were far from enough to meet the needs of this side, and although the people of those places also joined in during the slack time, they were still not enough. And because of the water conservancy construction, there is now a lot of arable land over there.

The people in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River have a lot of arable land available because of water conservancy construction, but unfortunately because of the limited number of cattle, it is difficult for them to plant more land. Now ploughing cattle has become the biggest shortage in these places, and Li Ke has been having a headache.

"Isn't it just ploughing oxen? No problem with this! In the future, beef will become a home-cooked dish on the table of the people of Lingnan Province, and there will be beef to eat every day, and there are countless cattle. Coolies are no problem, those Kunlun slaves are the best choice to be coolies. ”

Li Hao laughed and agreed, these things really won't be a problem in the future. As long as you want, you can get as many as you want! If the Far Eastern Trading Company wants to make money, it will have to develop these vigorously in the future.

After the performance of the new ship is demonstrated, it is named, and this first sea ship has long been waiting for Li Hao to name it. "Let's call it Datang Enterprise, which represents that our Far East Company, an enterprise, will create countless myths on the ocean."

Li Hao is dominant in the south, and the Far East Trading Company is still his industry, and how he wants to name the ship is his own business, and no one can control it. The clipper was spoofed as the Enterprise, which was just some of Li Hao's idea, and had no real meaning.

The captain of the Enterprise is Han Long, and the captains of other ships have also made arrangements, and they will all test their own ships according to the experience summarized by Han Long for a period of time, and then when the Spring Festival is over, they will participate in the first ocean voyage at the right time.

"What's that tall cylinder-like thing? Will it be taboo? After going ashore, Li Ke saw a towering building next to him and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"What's the taboo? This is not Chang'an, all the floors cannot be higher than the imperial city. It was just a lighthouse, something to navigate the ship at night. Li Hao glanced at the direction that Li Ke was pointing at, and immediately understood what he was talking about.

The application of lighthouses in the East is also very late, the earliest lighthouses in the East did not appear until the Ming Dynasty, the time was too late, which seriously hindered the great development of shipping, and now it was taken out by Li Hao in advance. In the future, the southern side will be an important shipping route, how can there be no lighthouse? And because of the cement, the lighthouse is much less difficult to make.

"How do you navigate this thing? It's not all built on the shore. "Li Ke doesn't quite understand the use of this thing, and always thinks how to do this thing built on the shore, and there are often hurricanes on the southern side.

"This is not used during the day, so naturally I don't see any effect. At night, a fire is lit at the top of the tower, and then a mirror is refracted to the surface of the sea, which can be used as a reference for ships that are lost in the dark in the distance, guiding them ashore. ”

Li Hao knows a little about the role of the lighthouse, and the construction is not very clear, this thing is considered something that his students and those technicians have figured out by themselves according to Li Hao, and the effect is very good.

According to those Hu merchants who came from afar, the lighthouse in Datang is much better than that in their hometown, and it is even stronger. Li Hao was very satisfied with this conclusion, and he hoped that these lighthouses would not fall after thousands of years, and then be called a symbol of history.

After visiting the shipyard, Li Ke secretly went back to Tanzhou in a carriage, and he was not going to go back to Chang'an this year, so he spent the New Year in Tanzhou. Most of his family members also took over from Tanzhou. Now the situation in Chang'an is not very good, and it is good for him not to go back to himself.

At this time, the first newspaper of the Tang Dynasty or the entire human race was launched in the south. Nanfang Daily, Li Hao himself collected the engraving and the first three newspapers in a row. This thing is preserved, and it will be really valuable after a thousand years. Li Hao did a lot of such things, and he even had a storage room dedicated to storing these things.

It's just that whether these things can be kept for so long, this Li Hao himself can't say, maybe his unscrupulous descendants will scourge these things. He's putting it away now, it's just a hobby.

As soon as the Southern News came out, it attracted a lot more attention than Li Hao imagined. After 50,000 copies of the newspaper were thrown away, it was far from enough to meet the market demand, and the printing bank printed tens of thousands of more copies to meet the strong market demand.

At this time, all the southern businessmen knew that the newspaper that Li Hao said was such a thing, which not only had the things that the officials needed, but also the things that the people needed, and the things that their businessmen needed were also the same, which made its audience very wide.

Some businessmen with good eyes immediately felt the benefits of this thing after seeing the newspaper, and they found Li Hao here one after another, wanting to participate in it. It's just that it's too late, Li Hao said a long time ago that no one had invested in this thing before, and it won't be divided into shares after it is issued, and it's useless to have money.

At the beginning, Li Hao just wanted to control the newspaper in his own hands, and he didn't want to make money. But what I didn't expect was that the people's entertainment life at this time was too simple and boring, and the life of the nobles was better, but not everyone who lived in the Tang Dynasty was an aristocrat.

At this time, it is indeed a good thing to have a newspaper that can pass the time, can it not be popular? Besides, at this time, the life of the people of Datang has been out of the era of hunger and depression, and they are about to enter a period of vigorous development, and their purchasing power is also much stronger.

Two copper coins and a newspaper, such a big one, can not only know the dynamics of the imperial court, but also understand the laws of the Tang Dynasty. If you like poetry, you can also see the poems from above, and there are stories to read. Even the technology for farming is available, so where can I find such affordable things?

Besides, after buying this newspaper, it can not only be used to paste the holes on the wall, but it can also be cut into small pieces to wipe the butt. You must know that there is no paper in this era, and using newspapers is simply the best option, which is much better than using sticks, which is the idea of some people, and it is a little disgusting.

And Yuehailou and the workshops and various products that were in the newspaper also spread farther with this newspaper, so that many people know that there is a XX restaurant somewhere, and there are delicious things in it. This popularity became popular all of a sudden, and the benefits improved a lot.

"I'm going to advertise in the Southern Daily!"

This sentence has now become an idea of many businessmen, whether it is the newly established Lingnan Chamber of Commerce and Quanzhou Chamber of Commerce, as well as the long-established Tanzhou, Yuezhou, and Hongzhou Chamber of Commerce, their presidents have all come to Li Hao to discuss advertising at the instigation of members.