Chapter 34: Cave Harvest
When the guards received the order, they hurried out of the cave, flew up the cliff, and began to cut the vines and small trees that covered the entrance to the cave.
Clearing the vines and cutting down the trees on the cliffs was not an easy task, and it was not until two hours later that dozens of people had cleared the vines that blocked the light from the cave.
After the vines were cleared, everything in the cave was revealed, and Sun Hao not only saw that there were ships on his side, but also two semi-finished boats on the other side of the river more than 300 meters, which made Sun Hao very happy.
Sun Hao saw that there were several wooden boats by the river, although they were a little dilapidated, but they could still be used, so he took a few people to row a small boat with Wang Yan'er to the other side of the river.
The other guards had nothing to do, so they began to salvage the vines that had been cut down at the entrance of the cave and had fallen on the river.
Arriving on the other side of the river, Sun Hao stepped off the boat and saw that it was the same here, not only there were two docks, but there were also two semi-finished ships in the dock. These two battleships are almost complete, but the equipment such as naval guns has not yet been installed on the deck. With the scale of this semi-finished ship, if this warship is fully built, it is estimated that the displacement will be about 5,000 tons.
However, the two ships have not yet been painted, and due to a few years of no one to manage them, they are now rusty and have a very ugly appearance.
At the same time, Sun Hao also found the technical drawings and process data of the construction of the ship in the shipyard.
Hey! When Sun Hao saw a map on the wall, he was shocked.
This map is the geomorphological map of the islands of Papua, and although it is not as accurate as the maps of later generations, it is basically accurate.
The city is located southeast of the island of Papua, which means that it is now a British colony.
Sun Hao saw that this Fuming City was more than 300 kilometers away from the southeast seaside, and the big river in front of Fuming City was called Fuming River, and the warship with a draft of no more than 15 meters could drive directly into the sea.
However, there are two gossip waterway maps in the channel of the Fuming River, and Sun Hao looks at the gossip waterway map on the map like a maze. After reading it, Sun Hao understood why Britain had not found the reason here.
Sun Hao thought that the Qimen Dunjia in history, gossip and feng shui were just rumors, but he didn't expect it to be true. A gossip facility can keep the colonists of the British Empire out of the way, which has to admire the vast and profound Qimen culture of the ancestors, which is a complete miracle.
In later generations, the Royal Museum of England recorded that the British found the ruins of the descendants of the Ming Dynasty in Papua, and it is estimated that they used airplanes to fly on the river to discover the mystery of the waterway gossip, otherwise no one led the way, and they would never be able to enter.
Then, Sun Hao ordered all the guards to start carpeting on both sides of the cave, but nothing was gained.
This result made Sun Hao very disappointed, the science and technology of the Ming Dynasty was very advanced, especially in terms of firearms, Sun Hao wanted to find these materials in order to study the scientific and technological crystallization of the Chinese ancestors, and the most important thing was to get the rocket technology of the Ming Dynasty.
It was only after World War I that some countries invested in rocket technology and shone in World War II. Sun Hao just wanted to get the data and research in advance, leaving other countries far behind.
Daming not only has rocket technology, but also the book "Heavenly Creation", which records all kinds of invention technologies, and Sun Hao also wants to explore the truth.
There is no technology in the Ming Dynasty here, and Sun Hao doesn't know whether the Ming people in the past transferred the treasures and materials to other places, or hid them somewhere.
Sun Hao also hopes to find information about the treasure ship and see how big the treasure ship is in history. According to some records, the displacement of the treasure ship may be about 20,000 tons, which is about the same as the displacement of aircraft carriers at the beginning of World War II. It is really a miracle that a warship with a wooden structure can achieve such a large displacement.
There is also a saying that the displacement of treasure ships is about 6,000 to 10,000 tons, but how big the treasure ships in history were is completely a mystery.
Later historians studied the final result that the ship was 124 meters long and 50 meters wide, and that the treasure ship was driven by twelve hard sails, and that the displacement should have reached about 6,000 to 8,000 tons.
Although Sun Hao did not find the treasure transferred by Zhu Cijiong, a descendant of the Ming Dynasty, nor did he find the treasure of Zheng He's boss, nor did he find any treasure ships, but finding these four modern docks can be regarded as a harvest. However, Sun Hao didn't find the naval artillery factory in Fuming City, and he didn't know where their naval guns were cast.
As for not finding the treasure, Sun Hao is not worried, the items that need to be traded with Li Gang, there are still a lot of antiques in Fuming City's own general's mansion, and any porcelain vase can be exchanged with Li Gang, and you can exchange it for a lot of daily necessities.
Although it is not calculated according to the price of antiques in later generations, it is also expensive. The porcelain, calligraphy and paintings, and miscellaneous items of the entire city were collected by Sun Hao and placed in the General's Mansion, and there were these antiques, which were enough to exchange with Li Gang for a period of time.
"Husband, the ship here is so big!" Wang Yan'er stood beside Sun Hao, and when she saw Sun Hao standing in the dock in a daze, she spoke. Similarly, Wang Yan'er was also surprised to see such a large ship. Battleships, Wang Yan'er has also seen them in the Wuji Continent, but she has not seen such a large ship.
After Sun Hao heard Wang Yan'er's beautiful voice, he looked at her with a smile and said, "Well, yes, these ships are very large. If we want to develop our troops, the navy is indispensable, and we want not to be bullied by others, and only by building our own strong navy can we not only protect ourselves, but also attack the enemy. Sun Hao didn't want to say that he would have a lot of larger warships in a while to sweep Wang Yan'er's excitement.
The dock of this cave is about 10,000 tons, and the largest construction capacity is 10,000 tons of warships. Now the West can build warships of about 20,000 tons, and the shipbuilding capacity far exceeds that of Fuming City. It seems that the shipbuilding capacity of the Ming Dynasty has declined and cannot keep up with the pace of the West.
"If anyone dares to bully your husband, I'll give him a sword." Wang Yan'er's eyes were round and she said with a small mouth.
After Sun Hao heard this, he just smiled slightly, it is now the era of firearms, and no matter how powerful your swordsmanship is, you can't resist the attack of machine guns and cannons.
"Huh! Yan'er, this world is not what you see at present, the Westerners have strong ships and cannons, and the artillery bombards them, which is extremely powerful, and it is definitely not something that our flesh and body can resist, so we must develop the navy. Sun Haoyi reminded Wang Yan'er, a beautiful woman with a bun, not to think that she is invincible in the world because of her superb skills.
Cannon? Wang Yan'er has never seen a cannon, and she doesn't know what a cannon is, since her husband said that the cannon is very powerful, it should be powerful.
After that, Sun Hao rowed a small boat, took Yan'er Beauty and a few guards, and rowed out along the river.