Jinfan was like a cloud for a while.

Wang Haoran sighed: "Everyone in the world says that Qin's state is a wild and miasma land, it is me, unless I come to see it in person, I don't know that this place is as prosperous as promised!" ”

"If you had come a few years earlier, it would definitely not be like this." Wang Chuanyu is quite proud, and the prosperity in front of him also has a share of his contributions: "Yu Jimin has the talent of the world, he uses practical learning to the extreme, and I am also a little attached to the tail, and I have done my best." ”

"The lord has only done his part, if it weren't for the lord, our Qin' state would not have changed like this. Nowadays, there are 69 vertical streets in the city of Qin'zhou, which one is not paved with cement and planted with plantains! In previous years, when the typhoon came, it was full of water in the city, although there are also this year, but the water is discharged from the waterway only half a day, and there is no cholera and malaria after the wind, these are all wise and wise! ”

The curtain guest next to him made fun of it, and Wang Chuanyu stroked his beard and laughed.

In front of Wang Haoran, he didn't need to hide his pride too much.

"I should have come a long time ago!" Wang Haoran paused with some annoyance: "It's a pity that there are such changes here, but I haven't personally participated in them!" ”

"You were here before?" Wang Chuanyu smiled and said: "The county lord is a concubine, how can you leave the fiefdom lightly? I heard that this year, King Tang intends to recruit troops to King Qin, but what is the result? ”

As soon as he said this, Wang Haoran changed color slightly.

When Jianlu ravaged Gyeonggi, the imperial court transferred troops everywhere to Qin Wang, and Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, was bold, and even sent troops to Qin Wang with his guards and recruited people, and he was reprimanded by the imperial court and did not stop. As a result, Chongzhen was angered, abolished as a concubine, and confined in Feng'yang. The imperial court is extremely wary of these clans, and relatively speaking, those relatives who are not surnamed Zhu are relatively tolerant.

Of course, this tolerance is also "relative", and the emperors of the Zhu family have no generous masters.

"But it's finally okay, you can finally come out and do what you want now...... How, have you achieved anything from looking at the sky and the moon? ”

"Watching the sky and looking at the moon naturally has results, it turns out that above the moon, there is no osmanthus tree, and there is no Guanghan Palace, tsk, Chang'e should repent of stealing the elixir, the blue sea and blue sky night heart, above the moon, it is just a piece of surrounding mountains."

In addition to the production of military telescopes, Xinxiang also produced a small number of scientific research telescopes, which were mainly used by Xinxiang primary school for nature classes, but there were also a few exiles, mainly Yu Guozhen used to give away. For example, this Wang Haoran, Yu Guozhen asked Wang Chuanyu to give him a pair.

Wang Haoran was naturally very happy to get the telescope, using this thing to observe the moon and draw star maps, it was originally taboo for the clan to study astronomy, but Wang Haoran didn't care about it.

"Ha, this is in Xinxiang Elementary School, but it's common sense." Wang Chuanyu laughed.

"What is ridiculous about you, it's nothing more than that you've been by Yu Jimin's side for a long time......" Wang Haoran muttered.

The two brothers, accompanied by a group of recruiters and errand officers, walked to the dock of Xinxiang. The docks were bustling with five ships unloading and loading, three of which were more common fortune boats, and the other two were of a slightly different style. Wang Haoran was well-informed, and pointed to the two ships and said, "What kind of ship is this, could it be the boat of the people?" ”

"Where, that's the sea boat produced by Yu Jimin's Longmen Shipyard, but unfortunately, you didn't see Yu Jimin's Pillow Xia and Lianbo, these two ships are really beautiful...... Hey! ”

When he said this, Wang Chuanyu raised the binoculars, looked at the sea, and then exclaimed.

In the telescope, you can see a beautiful white sailboat, cleaving the waves.

Now the wharf of Xinxiang has changed, the old wharf because it is located in the Yuhong River, the river water is shallow, the river surface is narrower, it is no longer suitable for the use of large ships such as the Pillow Xia and Lianbo, so the second wharf has been opened at the mouth of the Yuhong River, which is where Wang Chuanlu and they are standing now. Construction of the new wharf began at the end of last year when Mr. Yu left and took 10 months, with the first phase of the project completed a month ago. Since then, the sea vessels have been berthed at the new wharf, while the old wharf is only used for inland shipping, after such a division of labor, the shipping order of Xinxiang has been effectively improved, and the speed of loading and unloading has also been greatly improved.

"I really said that Cao Lai Cao Dang, this is the Pillow Xia or Lianbo, you see!"

The ship could be seen with the naked eye, but it was smaller. Watching the ship approach quickly, it didn't take long for the sound of cannons to be heard from the distant fort, and nine cannons reminded everyone who was coming.

"It's the Pillow Xia, Yu Jimin...... Ah, the new Nanhai Bo is back. Wang Chuanyu laughed.

Although he laughed, he was not without respect, the dynasty from the founding of the country, ten years old for military merits and is a civil and military double knight, can be described as unique. Outsiders didn't know that Yu Guozhen directly bribed Chongzhen, and Wang Chuanlu only thought that the construction of Qin's state was known to Chongzhen, so in addition to a martial artist, he also added the title of Wenjue.

It's just that after dealing with Yu Guozhen for a long time, Wang Chuanyu understands that Yu Guozhen doesn't care much about the superficial respect of others, he cares more about personal ability.

"Ah, there's more than one, behind the Pillow...... It's huge! ”

Indeed, another giant ship appeared behind the Pillow Xia, and the Pillow Xia was already a rare giant ship in the Ming Dynasty at this time, but the giant ship behind it, whether it was the length of the hull or the height of the ship, was far superior to the Pillow Xia.

In the past, the ship was more than 19 zhang long and close to 20 zhang, about 4 zhang wide, and the ship building was one floor, which appeared relatively low, and its appearance was very similar to that of the battleship of the Franco. From the side side, there are twenty-four guns, so the whole ship should have forty-eight guns!

Coupled with a small cannon in the bow and one in the stern, the guns on this battleship reached an astonishing fifty, completely suppressing any warship of the Ming Dynasty!

"This ...... This is the battleship of the Franciscans? Wang Haoran changed color and said.

"Impossible, Yu Jimin has built a fort in Longmen in recent years, and a battleship of Francois can't enter the sea at all...... I looked, there was a name on the bow of the ship, and the position was the same as the name of the Pillow, and the words on it were ...... I saw it clearly, it was a Tianzhu number sixteen, and the Chinese characters on it were...... The Admiral Huaqing? ”

"Admiral Huaqing, what does this mean?"

"It should be Yu Jimin's name, he always has some bad taste, and he takes some names that others don't understand. However, as the name suggests, the so-called Huaqing should be the meaning of Huaxia Haiyan Heqing, which is not bad to be called a navy as a naval division, as for the admiral, it should be taken from the meaning of the five tiger generals......"

Not to mention that Wang Chuanyu and Wang Haoran, the two brothers, were guessing, Yu Guozhen was standing at the stern of the Pillow Xia at this time, looking at the battleship behind him with a smile.

At the same time as the construction of the two ships of Zhuxia and Lianbo, Longmen Shipyard began to build the first real warship in Xinxiang in accordance with the standards provided by Yu Guozhen. The process of building the ship was not very smooth, and it can even be said that there were twists and turns, and only a few of the old shipwrights died of illness. After the success of the two ships, Yu Guozhen ordered the resources to be tilted towards this battleship, and finally in mid-September, when he ended the Gyeonggi War, the battleship was officially completed and launched.

On the ship registration of the Xinxiang Fishery Political Bureau, the warship's surname was marked as a "naval research and training ship" and its port number was set as "16," while the official ship name was the "Admiral Huaqing" designated by Yu Guozhen long ago. It has a loading capacity of 1,700 materials, an unladen displacement of about 900 tons, and a full load of about 1,400 tons. Such a behemoth, with only thirty sailors, could carry four hundred soldiers - this number could be increased to six hundred in the case of offshore missions!

This is also the first battleship-level battleship in Xinxiang, and its birth means that in the South China Sea, the Xinxiang Fishery Administration has become a powerful force in the real sense!

"Really...... Terrific! Zhang Chi was beside him, looking at the giant ship in amazement.

"In Europe, there are still great ships that are a quarter larger than this one, and besides, although I call it a battleship, this ship is in fact more of an armed merchant ship, and there are still fewer guns."

"Fifty cannons is less?"

"Hehe, for a long time in the future, the main way of fighting at sea is the artillery of both sides to bombard, and the one with strong guns wins, and fifty guns ...... It's not enough. ”

When it comes to artillery, Yu Guozhen is a little nerve-wracking, he originally thought that it would be easy to build artillery, but it also took many years to initially complete the current artillery. Among them, it took a lot of time to speed up the casting speed and improve the service life of the artillery, such as the iron mold casting method, the inner mold water cooling technique, the cannon barrel sleeve insertion technique, and the steel wire sleeve tightening method, which were researched by the craftsmen.

The cannon thus cast, with the best black fire powder formula, not only has a much better service life than the artillery at this time, but also has a better range. Under the same caliber charge, the firing range is two to three percent higher than that of other artillery.

However, the rifling technology that Yu Guozhen has always wanted to come up with is still not very mature and is still in the experimental stage.

"Are you really going to send this ship to the north?" Zhang Chi asked again.

"That's natural, since it's called a research training ship, how can you study training without entering actual combat? Moreover, in my opinion, North Korea will definitely not be able to stop the Jianjiao, and after the Jianguo is subdued, the matter of Tamna will inevitably change, and the trade to North Korea will also be affected. At that time, the Huaqing can come in handy, take the North Korean sailors to train their hands, accumulate experience, if Jianyu comes to help the North Korean sailors, we can naturally beat Jianyu again. Yu Guozhen said with a smile.

A giant ship can't change the current situation in the South China Sea, Yu Guozhen knows this very well, the strength of the Xiyi Navy Division is still overwhelmingly superior to him, not to mention anything else, just take the Netherlands, which is known as the Red Maofan, as an example, the Dutch East India Company has 150 armed merchant ships, 40 warships and more than 10,000 soldiers, while the number of Tiger Guards in Xinxiang is now about 5,000, and the number of Fishery Administration is only more than 1,000.

Even Zheng Zhilong's sailors are far more powerful than the Fishery Administration!

Therefore, for the time being, it has become the top priority of the fishery administration bureau to use the DPRK and the Japanese state to train troops and accumulate experience in naval warfare, especially the experience in the tactical use of sail gunboats.

(To be continued)