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Since Yang Guang opened the Grand Canal, Yangzhou has become the center of water transportation and salt transportation in the Sui and Tang dynasties. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info so-called "all southeast counties are all open to water, so the world's goods are the majority", Yangzhou as a pearl in the southeast, shipbuilding industry has been greatly developed.

When Taizong attacked Goguryeo, he used Tang Xun as the shipbuilding ambassador of Yangzhou Province, and supervised the construction of ships in Yangzhou for the Tang army to attack Goguryeo from both sea and land; During the reign of Emperor Daizong, Liu Yan built ten large shipyards in Yangzhou, and during his tenure alone, he built more than 2,000 large and small ships.

The prosperity of the southeast boat and the power of Yangzhou shipbuilding can be seen from this.

At that time, there were four major ports in the world, and it was also a prosperous place for shipyards, which were Yangzhou, Mingzhou, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou. There is a so-called "Guangzhou Tonghaiyi Road" in the southeast coastal area, which connects the ports and the seas, which is the early name of the Maritime Silk Road.

Nowadays, these four major ports, Mingzhou (later Ningbo) in Wuyue, Quanzhou in Fujian, Guangzhou in (southern) Han, are far away from the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and are unobtainable places for a while, so Yangzhou has become the existence that the imperial court must vigorously grasp.

Half of the foundation of Wu Guoguo is in Jianghuai, and the reason why Wu Guoshui is unparalleled in the world is that half of the foundation of the ship is in Yangzhou.

Originally, the Southeast Water Division was divided into three schools: Hunan Water Division, Wu Guo Water Division, and Wu Yue Water Division.

Needless to say, Wu Yueshui Shi was defeated in Wolf Mountain ten years ago, and Changzhou was lost last year, and he has not been able to recover for a long time; When the Hunan Navy Division fought against Chu in the last year, it fought a decisive battle with the Wu State Navy Division in the area of Dongting Lake, which was basically erased from the map; And the Wu State Sailor, who was originally a dominant family in the southeast and showed off his might, is not much better now, and was burned too badly by the Jiangling Sailor in Dongting Lake last year, and now Yangzhou has been taken by the Tang Dynasty, even if it is not a slump, it is not far off.

According to Li Congjing's meaning, Datang will renovate the Yangzhou shipyard and build the Yangzhou Navy.

At the end of June, Li Congjing took Mo Li, Wang Pu, Jiang Wenwei, Zhang Yi, Zhu Yuan and others to visit Yangzhou Shipyard.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Li Congjing would have found it hard to believe that the current shipyard could be so huge, and he had seen some shipyards in Fuzhou on the spot before he crossed, not that he had no knowledge at all, but he was still a little stunned by the scene in front of him.

The layout of the shipyard is simple, it is nothing more than two parts: indoor and outdoor, but the dock and the harbor are not separated - although there is no dock at this time.

The shipyard in front of you is not much different from the essence of the later generations, it covers an extremely wide area, as far as the eye can see, the place within a radius of more than ten miles, it is full of ship harbor slipways, the building ships under construction, dense as the military fort group outside Yikun Prefecture, the big one is like a city, nearly ten zhang high, dozens of zhang long abound, with the wooden elevated frame similar to the tower, towering into the sky, it is even more moving.

When people and horses are in it, they are indeed no different from grains of rice.

"I heard that Guangzhou can build 500 ships at a time, of which the cangboat is 20 zhang long and can carry six or seven hundred people, and the Mulan boat can accommodate 1,000 people. Li Congjing looked at it while walking, and was a little emotional.

"Our Chinese shipbuilding has a long history, and during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were various ships such as 'Three Wings', 'Sudden Attack' and 'Ship Boat'. Among them, the big wing is ten zhang long and one zhang five wide, which can accommodate nearly 100 people. When Gou Jian tried to kill Wu, there were already 300 warships. It was Zhu Yuan who spoke, he had previously recommended himself as a water builder of the Tang Dynasty, which shows that he is an expert in this area, at least the theoretical knowledge is impressive, and he acts as a commentator at this time.

He continued: "During the Qin and Han dynasties, the shipbuilding process was greatly improved, and when the First Emperor unified the south, he organized a grain fleet that could transport 500,000 stones of grain at a time. In the Han Dynasty, the country was mighty and prosperous, and the sailors were also greatly developed, and it is said that 2,000 ships and 200,000 sailors could be dispatched in a campaign. At that time, there were also ships that were more than ten feet tall, and large ships could weigh up to 1,000 stones. ”

"In the Han Dynasty, the Kunming Pool shipbuilding platform in the west of Chang'an City, the circumference reached forty miles, and there were often nearly 100 building ships in the pool."

Li Congjing was a little embarrassed when he heard this, and said that the country was as powerful as the sky during the Han Dynasty, which can be seen from this. According to the measurement at this time, this stone is about 100 catties, a big ship of 1,000 stones, that is, 100,000 catties, and 500,000 stones of military rations, that is...... Too lazy to forget it. If it is measured according to the Qin period, it is even more terrifying, and one stone is almost two hundred catties.

Li Congjing motioned to Zhu Yuan to continue, and he continued to explain: "The ships built by Sun Wu during the Three Kingdoms period had the largest upper and lower five floors, which could accommodate 3,000 soldiers, and the big ships such as 'Feiyun' and 'Gaihai' that Sun Quan himself rode were even more spectacular. When Sun Wu was destroyed, more than 5,000 official ships were captured by the Jin army alone, which shows that Sun Wu was prosperous in shipbuilding at that time. ”

"To the Southern Dynasties, Jiangnan has been able to build a 20,000-stone ship, the famous ancestor of the Southern Qi Dynasty, has 'built a thousand miles of ship, tried it in the Xinting River, and traveled more than 100 miles a day'. The so-called thousand-mile ship, that is, the vehicle and the ship, make people use the wheels of their feet to propel the ship forward. ”

20,000 stones, almost 1,000 tons, this is a very shocking number, but Li Congjing did not find it difficult to accept, when Zheng He went to the West in the Ming Dynasty, there were 2,500-ton ships in the fleet. In today's terms, it is a large ship of 50,000 stones.

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuan took a deep breath, Li Congjing knew that the next thing was the current shipbuilding technology, so he only heard Zhu Yuan continue: "Since this dynasty, the stern rudder, oar, sail and other processes have been well used and improved, and the connection process of tenon nailing, the flat joint process of diagonal iron nails, and the process of building watertight compartments for sea ships have greatly improved the quality of ships. ”

Smiling, Zhu Yuan continued: "On the big river, boats that are more than 20 zhang long and can accommodate people six or seven white are not uncommon, and some boats can even open gardens to grow flowers and vegetables. Therefore, our Datang ships, crossing the river and crossing the sea, are already walking on flat ground, and the ship is thousands of miles away, let alone a problem. ”

At the moment, Zhu Yuan said that the score was extraordinarily loud and proud.

As a Tang man, he does have proud capital.

Li Congjing looked at the ships under construction on the left and right, and then looked at the vast river, and his heart surged with emotions that only a traverser can have, and this emotion came from the so-called "great geographical discovery" in Western Europe and the ensuing colonial era, a certain kind of unrelieved feelings.

There was the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang ships frequently sailed into the Indian Ocean, which was not something that Li Congjing only knew after crossing, and the Tang people with Wanshi-class ships, as long as the power was enough, was enough to reach any place in the world where they wanted to go.

The ships that crossed the ocean in the era of the Great Geographical Discoveries of Western Europe, Mo said that compared with Zheng He's fleet, the ships of the Tang and Song dynasties were enough to crush them.

"What is the prince thinking?" Mo Li saw Li Congjing looking at the river and was distracted, and he didn't say anything for a long time, so he couldn't help asking.

"I'm thinking, in fact, in terms of the current level of science and technology, even if the Tang Dynasty is defeated, it will not be able to establish a solid rule in the area west of the Green Ridge. Deep inland, the road is too long, the capital invested is too much, but the harvest is not necessarily very large, the Tang people walking on the Silk Road are basically businessmen, not the careerists and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. After Wang Xuance, the Tang Dynasty officials almost did not return to Central Asia. ”

Li Congjing's thoughts drifted so far away that he directly said the words "science and technology" and "Central Asia", he took a few steps forward, leaving the crowd, leaving only Mo Li standing beside him, his words were more like self-care chatter, and continued: "But the ocean is different. Datang's ships do not say that they have arrived all over the world, but in time, they may not be able to reach all the places we think of. ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but accentuate his tone, "But why is it that China has opened up the Silk Road for thousands of years, and ships have crossed the ocean for hundreds of years, but it is only used for commercial goods?" ”

Mo Li looked at Li Congjing in a daze, and the action of shaking the folding fan slowed down unconsciously. In this situation, it seems to have returned to ten or twenty years ago, when both of them were still teenagers, and they liked to climb down the ladder to the dangerous eaves, and he also stayed beside Li Congjing like this, listening to Li Congjing muttering something that he didn't understand at the time.

The river is so wide, and the ocean at the end of the river is undoubtedly even wider, beyond the ocean, that is the real world. Li Congjing's gaze was far away, spanning a distance of thousands of years, and it seemed that he had arrived somewhere on the other side.

His tone was sonorous, and with a strong sense of injustice, "I've been wondering, why did the Han and Tang people, who are full of pioneering and enterprising spirit, finally come to the step of closing off the country, is it because we are agricultural civilizations, and our nature is to be small and rich?" Is it because the Confucian golden mean has nurtured us for thousands of years, so everyone is arrogant? ”

Li Congjing shook his head, his eyes showing sadness and indignation, "Since the Xia, the Chinese Dynasty has always had ups and downs, and it has been divided for a long time, and it has been prosperous for a long time, and it has been prosperous and declining, but after the Han and Tang Dynasties, how could China have been prosperous in the world?" ”

Li Congjing suddenly looked at Mo Li, his eyes were like iron, and he said word by word: "If people have no enterprising heart, they will have no lasting wealth, and if the country has no enterprising heart, there will be no permanent strength!" Since our Datang fleet has already discovered the overseas land, why should it stop the pace of conquest? Beyond the Great Wall and far away from the four seas, why only businessmen set foot here? China invented gunpowder, why is it only used for fireworks? China has given the world four great inventions, and what has the world finally given back to us?! ”

He almost wanted to punch his chest, "All this, you should complain about the sky, miss the opportunity, and eventually become a sleeping lion and be played by fleas!" Or should I work hard, forge ahead, and raise my Datang with the materials of the four seas, although there have been changes in tens of millions of years, Datang still dominates the world? ! ”

Li Congjing turned around again, facing the vast river, his bearing became vicissitudes and heavy, "The river is not a stagnant water, only because it is rushing eastward, day and night!" Because it is day and night, so the river is surging, although thousands of years have passed, and it is endless! What is the case? What does the country care about? ”

"Of all the things in the world, what is it that makes people promote scientific and technological progress, and what makes people improve the national system? Liya! ”

"If I make the Tang fleet go out to conquer the four seas, feed the ambition of my Tang people with the benefits of the world, and make the people with lofty ideals in the Tang Dynasty compete to come out across the sea, fight in the states with blood and bravery, and rebuild the society with the wealth of the states, then how can the world not be my Tang Dynasty forever dominant?"

"My Datang has the most advanced civilization in the world, my Datang has the most powerful fleet in the world, I Datang has the most learned talent in the world, and I Datang has the most prosperous armor in the world.

Mo Li forgot the action of shaking the fan, and looked at Li Congjing who was blown by the river breeze in a daze, unable to say a word.

The ambition of the past and the present erupted in his heart like a volcano, and today, this dream shared by him and Li Congjing has become blazing and new again!

Li Congjing turned his head to look at Mo Li, his eyes were full of energy, and he had the air of rushing straight to the bullfight, "By this year, I am only thirty years old, and I still have time!" In my lifetime, how can I not rewrite the history of China and the history of the world? ”

He waved his sleeves, looked at the sky, held one hand behind him, and pointed to the eastern ocean with the other, "The future of Datang is there!" I, Li Congjing, will lead you to the other side! And now, everything starts with the construction of the Datang fleet, from the construction of the Datang Naval Division, and from here - the shipyard in Yangzhou! ”

He turned around abruptly, looked at the young talents of the Tang Dynasty who were ten steps away, and suddenly shouted: "Wang Pu! ”

Wang Pu suddenly smelled it, couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly bowed, "Pu is here!" ”

Li Congjing's eyes were like lightning, and they were also like the sun and the moon, "The decree of the palace: Wang Pu is the ambassador of Yangzhou shipbuilding, and the general leader of Yangzhou slipway is renovated and expanded, and all things related to ship construction!" ”

Wang Pu's face was full of awe, and he promised with indignation, "Pu Deling!" ”

Li Congjing looked at Jiang Wenwei and the others again, and his voice was like a tiger roaring and a dragon groaning, "Zhu Yuan, Jiang Wenwei, Zhang Yi!" ”

Jiang Wenwei and the others all clenched their fists, "The minister is waiting for the order!" ”

"The decree of the palace: Zhu Yuan, Jiang Wenwei, and Zhang Yi are the deputy envoys of Yangzhou shipbuilding, and assist Wang Pu in commanding all matters of shipbuilding!"

"Wait for the order!"

Datang, a giant ship destined to cross the ocean and sail in the world, has begun his journey to the world from today!

Perhaps a hundred years later, no one will forget that today, a young prince of the Tang Dynasty, on the slipway of Yangzhou, pointed to the East China Sea, and drew a vast and boundless coast for the Hengqiang Tang Empire!