When Zhao Zheng arrived in Lin'an, Chen Bao had been waiting there for ten days. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Three big ships, 873 teams in this era is undoubtedly the existence of the giant, the Ming history records that Zheng He went to the West when the treasure ship was 44 zhang long and 18 zhang wide. Converted into modern units, it is 146 meters long, 50 meters wide, and has a displacement of nearly 20,000 tons! This record is too sensational, you must know that after the founding of New China, the construction of the first 10,000-ton giant ship was celebrated by the whole country, with the technology and materials of the Ming Dynasty at that time, the construction of a 20,000-ton giant ship is undoubtedly a fantasy.

Zhao Zheng was also skeptical about this, it was difficult to build a wooden ship of 10,000 tons with modern technology, let alone the Ming Dynasty in the fifteenth century, and the Fengtian Temple, the main hall of Zhu Di, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was the largest wooden structure at that time, and the entity was only 95 meters long, 47 wide, and 35 meters high. According to the history of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He's largest treasure ship alone exceeded it in the area of the shipyard, which was suspected of trespassing and could not exist from the feudal clan etiquette. How could a treasure ship housed by a eunuch be bigger than the emperor's governing hall?

Although Zheng He's treasure ship is not as exaggerated as 20,000 tons, it has been found from later archaeological discoveries, as well as other circumstantial evidence from other wild histories, that Zheng He's treasure ship is a maximum of 2,000 sea ships, which is a kind of volume unit in ancient times, converted into modern units, and the displacement should be more than 1,000 tons, is this ship small?

Not small, but very large, Magellan's largest ship around the world was only 110 tons, and the rest were less than 100 tons, which was the latest ship that Spain could build at that time.

At that time, Magellan's fleet of five ships went to sea, one leaked halfway, the others ran away and fled back to Spain, only Magellan's Victoria continued to sail, more than 200 people went to sea, and only 18 people came back alive, most of them died of sepsis.

The largest main ship displacement of the fleet led by Chen Bao is more than 1,000 tons, which is not only the largest, but also the latest, and now the speed of the ships of the Song Dynasty is generally only four knots (4 knots per hour), and Chen Bao's ship is built according to the drawings of the wooden sailing ships of later generations, using the Bernoulli principle, whether in the case of downwind or crosswind, it can sail quickly, but due to the large hull can only run out of 10 knots speed, but for the navigators of this era is already a dream speed.

Chen Bao's main ship is called Baiyun, 63 meters long, 14 meters wide, displacement of 1,100 tons, speed of 10 knots, in order to prevent others from seeing money, greedy for life and afraid of death, the main materials are concentrated in the Baiyun, a total of more than 200 people.

Another Ping'an, 52 meters long, 12 meters wide, and 800 tons of displacement, in order to prevent escape, Zhao Zheng deliberately lowered his speed when designing, only 9 knots, so that the Baiyun could catch up. Mainly carrying and storing fresh water, nearly 300 people.

Another homecoming, the hull of which is the same as that of the Ping'an, is mainly used to carry people, as well as to grow fresh vegetables to prevent sepsis, with nearly 300 people.

In addition, two 100-ton sailing ships were built, with a speed of 12 knots, and no supplies were stored on them for reconnaissance and to collect coastal supplies to replenish the main ship.

Chen Bao went to Ryukyu once before, and had some sailing experience, and the most important thing was that he took advantage of the situation to subdue the crew, a total of more than 120 people, and their families were all protected and guarded by the Baiyun Taoist Temple and the Imperial City Division, and they were not afraid that they would have any different intentions. As for why the Imperial City Division would intervene, it was because the curious emperor knew that Zhao Zheng had such a big plan, how could he miss it, and the proceeds would also be shared with Zhao Zheng, so that the money could be invested in the big hole of the Salesian Bureau, Zhao Yun is now obsessed with the people's great praise for him, and wants to open a Salesian Bureau in every state and county in the Great Song Dynasty, so he arranged for the Imperial City Division to join in.

With the fifty people of the Imperial City Division, plus the twenty people selected by the Baiyun Daoist Temple and the Maoshan Sect, a total of 190 people formed the core of this voyage.

In addition, another 200 people were drawn from the forbidden army, and 200 people were recruited from the people, and as long as these people did not encounter extreme situations, their loyalty was guaranteed.

The remaining 200 or so were chosen from among the exiled prisoners, and their charges would be pardoned upon their safe return.

With these, Zhao Zheng is still not at ease, in the past two or three years, anything can happen, the people below feel that the sea journey is difficult, and if they want to rebel, it is also possible to seize the ship and escape, so the core of the fleet of more than 100 people must be armed to the teeth, Zhao Zheng gave Chen Bao all the flintlock pistols of the Tiandao Army and the flintlock pistols produced by the glass workshop in the past few months, in addition to more than 100 sets of armor, 100,000 rounds of paper shell bullets, and more than 100 boxes of grenades, in addition, the Baiyun also installed five guns. These are all things that Zhao Zheng pulled out from the glass workshop, and they are the things at the bottom of his own box.

With these firearms, Chen Bao was enough to suppress all opposing forces, and in addition, Zhao Zheng also put two ore training equipment on the Ping'an and the Homecoming.

On this trip to the Americas, Zhao Zheng didn't just plan to get a piece of rubber, the gold and silver in the Americas are very rich, and many of them are open-pit mining, how could Zhao Zheng let go of this opportunity, he wants to let every crew member who returns safely can save thousands of family properties, so that overseas becomes a golden country.

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Chen Bao's fleet went to sea in Hangzhou Bay, attracting many onlookers, such a vast sea, they have never seen it, and the place to go is said to be a brand new continent, said to be to find the elixir for the emperor and the national teacher.

Hangzhou Bay has been extremely prosperous in this era, the Song Dynasty's maritime trade was developed, but it was only limited to domestic trade before, but since Zhao Zheng's One Piece issued and the last time Baiyun Taoist Temple came back from the Nanyang merchant ship to carry out boxes of gold and silver, the people's enthusiasm for the Nanyang trade was ignited, plus when Zhao Zheng built the Baiyuan, he did not keep the technology secret, but intentionally exposed, so that the entire shipbuilding technology of the Great Song Dynasty has improved by leaps and bounds, and there are more than a dozen ships full of goods in various ports of the Great Song Dynasty every day to the countries of the South Seas. have made a lot of money.

The height of the boat is as high as ten meters, and the crowd of people is crowded and mocking, so that the separate languages of Zhao Zheng and Chen Bao are completely submerged in the sea of people. Chen Bao smiled, there was no parting feelings, in two years, I will come back, right?

The ship slowly sailed away from the harbor, and the goodbyes of the crew's families slowly faded into the sky. Zhao Zheng imagined what their expressions would be like when they came back two years later to face a motherland that had changed dramatically.

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After Zhao Zheng said goodbye to Chen Bao, he accompanied Zhao Yun to the Salesian Bureau, because Zhao Zheng put the copyright income of some of his works, such as One Piece, Haiguo Miscellaneous Talks, etc., into the Salesian Bureau, which further improved the finances of the Salesian Bureau, with an income of nearly 50,000 yuan per month, and Lin'an Mansion has set up six Salesian Bureaus and adopted nearly 5,000 orphans and abandoned babies.

Zhao Zheng's Salesian Bureau today is the first to be built, and it is also the largest one, and there is a huge ginkgo tree planted at the door, which is full of red ropes for blessings, which is the blessing of the nearby people who take the initiative to pray for the Son of Heaven.

Feed the people with the money from their own labor, and the ancient saints are nothing more than that. It also made these people feel that the Son of Heaven, who was higher than the Nine Heavens, was close to the hearts of his subjects.

Every time Zhao Yun saw this tree full of red ropes, there was a warm current in his heart, no matter how many times, he could harvest emotion and energy from it, and he walked into the Salesian Bureau with high spirits.

There are not many people in the Salesian Bureau who know the identities of Zhao Zheng and Zhao Yun, except for the Gongyin girl who is in charge, only a few supervisors know that Gongyin girl has restored her original name since she presided over the Salesian Bureau, Tong Xiaoxia. How can you still use your old name if you are all doing it all over again? It's just that although she has become a new person, this ability to hook people seems to have been lost.

"Brother Zhao, Third Brother Zhao, you are here." Tong Xiaoxia stared at Zhao Yun when he saw him, indescribably charming. Zhao Yun is probably too new, and he is becoming more and more indifferent to Tong Xiaoxia's flattery.

"Oh." Zhao Yun replied casually.

"How's the children's schoolwork?" The Salesian Bureau not only managed food and housing, but also invited more than a dozen teachers to teach them to read and write.

The classroom is open to the public, and children from ordinary families in Lin'an City can come in and listen if they want to. In addition to teaching literacy, Mr. Teaching also teaches some Confucian classics, and of course, New Taoism, but the main speaker is the Taoist priest from Baiyun Taoist Temple, how could Zhao Zheng give up such a good promotion opportunity.

In addition, the Baiyun Taoist Temple or the glass workshop will specially send people who are interested in it, and the children with high qualifications will teach them the way of refining.

The so-called refining tools are naturally carpenters, blacksmiths, etc., and changing the name suddenly makes people feel tall.

The Salesian Bureau has only been in the field for half a year, and most of the children are still in the literacy stage, so they can't learn advanced knowledge, and now they are just pulling the framework up.

The Baiyun Taoist Temple stipulates that after reaching the age of fourteen, they must leave the Salesian Bureau, and in their opinion, learning the way of refining weapons is also an additional means of making a living.

There are more than 1,200 children in this Salesian Bureau, each 100 people are a class, they read and write in the morning, and they have to work in the afternoon, after all, the Salesian Bureau is just a charity, not a place to raise a young master.

Older boys went to the glass workshop as apprentices, and girls weaved. As for the others, except for those under the age of five, they all need to clean the room, wash clothes, take care of the young, in short, they should not let everyone be idle, and let them understand the joy of creating their own value.

Today is the end of October, and after this last class, there will be two days off, so the naughty children in the classroom began to be restless, kept peeking out, and after discovering Zhao Yun and Zhao Zheng, they began to whisper and smile.

Without him, Zhao Zheng would give out some snacks to the children every time he accompanied Zhao Yun, and the food that day was better than usual.

As Mr. Teacher's class sounded, those children gathered around Zhao Yun and chattered: "Brother Zhao, Brother Zhao, I want sugar, I want sugar!" ”

Zhao Yun's temper at this moment was surprisingly good, and he said with a smile: "All of them, all of them!" Just as he was about to ask someone to bring the candy, the stern voice of the teacher sounded: "I don't know the etiquette, it's not decent." Everyone is on stand! ”

The children stood up one after another, honestly stretched out their hands, but their eyes looked at Zhao Yun, hoping that he could plead with Mr. Teaching.

Zhao Yun shrugged his shoulders and said that he couldn't help, as Mr. Teaching's ring ruler fell one by one, those children pretended to wail, waiting for Mr. to admonish, and watched Mr.'s back go away before they put their minds at ease.

Then he looked at Zhao Yun with disdain and condemned him for not being righteous.

Tong Xiaoxia saw the children's eyes on the side, although he was not afraid that Zhao Yun would be angry, but this circumference had to be solved for him: "You little conscienceless, dare to look at Brother Zhao with this look, do you want to eat candy?" ”

But that group of children didn't appreciate it, probably because they were used to it by Zhao Yun, knowing that Zhao Yun would be soft by himself, and sure enough, Zhao Yun immediately smiled and said: "Today you each have two pieces of candy!" ”

(At the end of the year, you need to do a work summary and have taken stock at the end of the year, so the previous update is a little unstable, sorry)