Lin Xishan looked at the three-masted giant battleship that was as tall as a city, with a sharp bottom and a raised tail and a raised tail, and said with a sigh: "General, how many people can be accommodated and how many cannons can be loaded!" ”

Zheng Chenggong looked at it, and also showed a trace of excitement, and said: "This ship has a displacement of 1,160 tons, a length of 58.8 meters, and a width of 13 meters. Capacity for 700 fighters, 68 guns! ”

"700 fighters, 68 guns, so much!" Lin Xishan shouted in surprise.

Zheng Chenggong said with some relief: "These craftsmen and carpenters have also accumulated rich experience in building more than a dozen lock ships, and they have personally dismantled three or four Western-style sailing ships before they dare to start building this giant ship!" ”

Lin Xishan looked at the huge hull, he had never been as confident as he was in recovering the old land.

"With such a sharp weapon, going north to attack the Manchu Qing is just around the corner!"

Zheng Chenggong nodded and said, "Definitely, then I will join hands with you to go north to attack the Jingshi!" ”

Lin Xishan said, "General, the other warships are like children in front of it, and they are simply vulnerable. Except for the lock ship, there is no need to build any other types of ships, so let's go all out to build this kind of warship! ”

Zheng Chenggong sighed and said: "That's so easy, it took a total of four hundred and ten carpenters and craftsmen to build this battleship, and it took more than 1,032 trees of wood to build this giant ship, and it took nearly eight months before and after!" ”

Lin Xishan was taken aback when he heard it and shouted: "It takes so long, and building a warship like this is better than three or four lucky ships!" ”

"It's the first time it takes so long to be on the safe side. It may not take so long to become proficient in the future, but to build such warships in large quantities. It is also unlikely. The amount of wood consumed is too great, and Fujian Province is afraid that it cannot afford it!

Since the Song and Yuan dynasties. Fujian's shipbuilding industry has always been leading the country. In addition to geographical reasons, another major factor is that Fujian is rich in wood for shipbuilding.

The deep mountains of Fujian have a large number of shirt wood, pine wood, iron wood and so on. The best time to harvest is when the frost falls to the vernal equinox, when the texture of the wood is firm.

At this time, carpenters from all over the country went up the mountain with carpenters and shipwrights recruited from all over the country.

Giant trees are felled, transported to the water's edge, formed into rafts, and flowed into the Min River along the waterway and sailed to the sea. It finally arrived at shipyards in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Xiamen and other provinces.

With Zheng Chenggong's vigorous construction of warships, and at the same time vigorously guiding merchants to trade at sea, at the same time, with the recovery of trade in Quanzhou, Xiamen, Haicheng and other ports. The desire to build ships is even stronger.

The ships consumed a large number of wood trees in Fujian, so that the materials for shipbuilding were increasingly scarce.

Now Fujian's wood prices and ship prices are rising rapidly.

In the early years of Longwu, a big tree in Fujian was worth no more than a few taels. In the third year of Yongli, Fujian's big wood has risen to four or five hundred taels per tree.

When Zheng Chenggong first built the lock boats, he needed four or five thousand taels for each ship. Now it takes eight or nine thousand taels to build one.

After all, the lock ship is still a small ship, like this medium-sized ship, I am afraid that there will be more than 30,000 or 40,000 taels. Not to mention large sail warships of more than 3,000 tons, sixty or seventy thousand taels are considered less.

Build a few more large warships, and the cost of shipbuilding alone can be worth the tax of a province. And that's not counting the cost of soldiers, weapons, and the like.

Like now, Zheng Chenggong has nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses. In normal times, a month's military salary is three or four hundred thousand. Not to mention wartime, the consumption of weapons, food, medical treatment, etc., a small war may cost millions.

This is still the cost of winning a battle, and losing a war is even more terrible. Minutes can drag a country to death.

Just like during World War II, Japan lost the Battle of Midway, and the Combined Fleet has been in a state of flux ever since. It is no longer capable of launching large-scale naval and air operations.

Pearl Harbor suffered heavy losses in the United States, and still suffered heavy losses in the early stages of the war between the United States and Japan. At the same time, the United States has opened up a battlefield in Europe.

However, the United States has strong national strength, in order to meet the needs of two-front operations. The United States built 26 large aircraft carriers, 9 light aircraft carriers, 115 escort aircraft carriers, 10 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 498 frigates, and 203 submarines during the war. Tens of thousands of landing ships of various kinds, as well as tens of millions of tons of civilian ships, far more than the rest of the world combined.

Therefore, even if the United States lost 56 large warships in the war, it was still able to win the final victory and be proud of the world.

Therefore, in the end, the war is all about national strength!

In addition to the need for a large amount of financial and manpower to support, the wood necessary for the manufacture of ships is also a top priority.

It takes a lot of giant trees to make a ship, especially the keel giant tree that makes a ship, at least 20 years old.

There are fewer and fewer giant trees of this age in Fujian, and the same is true for the timber in Guangdong.

There is timber in the northeast, but firstly, the roads are inconvenient, and secondly, the northeast is now the territory of the Jurchen people, and it is still unrealistic to go there to cut timber for the time being.

In order to solve the problem of timber, Zheng Chenggong had already sent a message to Zheng Tai, asking him to pay attention to see if there was suitable timber for making ships in Nanyang.

When Lin Xishan heard Zheng Chenggong's explanation, he also knew that he was taking it for granted, looked at the huge hull and asked, "General, what is the name of this battleship?" ”

Zheng Chenggong thought for a while and said: "In the future, there will be more and more warships, and it is unlikely that they will be appointed with miscellaneous generals like lock ships." I decided that the warships of this size will be collectively called the 'Former General' class battleship, and the name of this battleship will be 'Guan Yu', and the full name will be 'Former General Guan Yu', or 'Guan Yu' for short! ”

"Former General Guan Yu! Guan Yu! Lin Xishan muttered twice and said, "Isn't this the way foreign ships are appointed?" ”

Zheng Chenggong blushed a little when he heard it, and it was impossible to tell Lin Xishan that he couldn't think of any good names, and it was also convenient to manage, so he had to use this way.

Yao Qisheng, who had been following him, heard the rush and said, "Okay, the general's method is good." First, it is easy to remember, secondly, it can also remind the soldiers not to forget their loyalty, and third, it can also inspire the soldiers to be as brave as the martial saints! ”

Lin Xishan heard Yao Qisheng say yes, and he no longer objected.

In this way, the future warships of the Zheng family naval division were determined by the rank of the general, and the name of the ship was appointed by the name of the legendary general.

In the end, Yao Qisheng, who prides himself on being a talent, wants to make a masterpiece to commemorate this battleship.

shouted that someone brought paper and a pen, Yao Qisheng thought hard for a long time, and finally sighed and made a mess of the rice paper.

The battleship looks magnificent, but I haven't experienced it in person, so I really don't feel it.

Yao Qisheng also secretly made up his mind that he would definitely go to sea on a giant ship in the future.

……

On the sixth day of the fourth month of the third year of Yongli, Zheng Chenggong sent Lin Xishan, the commander of the navy, to lead 13,400 sailors and soldiers, 130 sand boats, 55 fortune boats, and 10 lock boats to the north of Zhejiang.

On April 10, the third year of Yongli, Zheng Chenggong personally led 45,000 infantry, 5,000 cavalry, 20,000 sailors, 160 sand boats, 40 Fu boats, and 10 lock boats to attack Fuzhou in two ways. (To be continued.) )

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