"Uncle Ping, what are the types of ships we have now? What's the difference? ”

"Back to the eldest prince, generally speaking, there are three kinds, there were originally treasure ships, but since the death of the three treasure eunuchs (Zheng He), no one in the Ming Dynasty has gone to the Western Ocean, resulting in many of the production techniques of treasure ships have been lost, plus those materials have also been burned. Therefore, now it is generally said that there are three kinds of sand boats, wide ships, and lucky ships.

The sand boat has a square head, square tip, flat bottom, small size, shallow draft, and is more suitable for offshore and river navigation.

The ship has a deep draft, good stability, and is easy to change the rudder and change course, which is suitable for sea navigation, and is convenient for navigating in narrow channels and reef-rich channels. It can be used as an ocean-going transport ship and a warship.

The head of the ship type is long, the draft is deep, the beam arch is small, the deck back arc is not high, and it has good seaworthiness and large endurance. It's just that the iron power wood and camphor wood required for the manufacture of Guangzhou Shipbuilding are relatively small, and the amount of wood required for shipbuilding is large. , resulting in very few ships of this type.

The ships of the Daming Navy Division have always used the Fu ship as the main battle ship to cooperate with the sand ship. ”

"Well, Uncle Xie Ping, Ming Yan has been taught. The affairs of the ship are entrusted to you, and I will leave 640,000 taels of silver, and I will trouble you to recall those carpenters to help restore the shipyard as soon as possible. At the same time, we will also build a few more sand ships, and we can build more than a dozen ships for the time being. ”

It's not that Zheng Chenggong doesn't want to benefit the ship more, but the territory is small, and there is no big place to build so many lucky ships.

"Don't dare, this is what the little one should do. When there was a great drought in southern Fujian, if it weren't for the master, I am afraid that I would have died without bones, and I would still be able to live to this day. Even if you fight for your life, you will be able to build a few more ships. ”

Zheng Xinguo spent a lot of effort to recruit experienced mechanics, not just to make sand boats and lucky boats.

In the future, it is determined that Dayuan will be recovered, and it is bound to fight with Hongfan.

Thinking of this, Zheng Chenggong asked, "Uncle Ping, how is this lucky ship compared to Hongyi's ship?" “

"Hongyi ships, our ships are not much different from theirs."

The performance is not much different!

Zheng Chenggong was a little surprised, didn't he say that since the beginning of the 16th century, the performance of ships such as Chinese ships was not as good as that of European ships? How can it be almost the same in Zheng Ping's mouth, it won't be self-deception, coaxing me, the eldest son!

Zheng Chenggong was a little angry and said: "Then why, every time my father fights against Hongyi, he has to rely on fireships to win." ”

"Oh, the eldest prince is curious why the master uses a fireboat! The little ones also participated in those battle formations back then, and they also knew a little bit about the situation at that time. ”

"Then worry Uncle Ping, explain it in detail."

"Back then, on ships, in fact, our sailors were better than our opponents in terms of quantity and quality, but we lost in artillery. At that time, the Ming Dynasty was very strict with artillery, and most of the artillery and manufacturing craftsmen were in Beijing, Shandong, and Liaodong. There are very few firearms assigned to Fujian and Guangdong, and many times we can only buy them from those Hongyi foreign vassals, but how can they give us the best. As a result, when we were fighting, the power and range were not comparable to them, so the Taishi had to think about defeating them with a fireship design at that time. However, later, when Taishi saw that this firearm was powerful, he looked for people everywhere to copy these cannons, and now our cannons are not lost to those ghosts. And since being scared by the Taishi, those ghosts no longer dare to come to Daming to spread wild. ”

Ships are not inferior to Europe!

Artillery is not inferior to Europe!

Zheng Chenggong was shocked for a moment, the history he knew was different from the history in the history books.

Yes, if it weren't for the fact that the performance of the ships was almost the same, then how did Zheng Zhilong destroy the enemy ships with fireboats, and how could Zheng Chenggong recover Dayuan!

After all, the sea is so big, and the blockage cannot be blocked. If the speed of the fortune boat can't keep up, I'm afraid that it will be played to death by people with kite flying tactics long ago.

But why is modern China so weak, and the guns of ships and ships are not as good as Europe, so that they have suffered a century of humiliation.

Zheng Chenggong's heart is extremely uncalm, what is the reason for it?

The history books he heard and saw before were reviewed in Zheng Chenggong's mind.

The Ming Dynasty never lost in naval battles, whether it was against Japan (the Battle of Wanli Korea) or against Hongyi.

But in the Qing Dynasty, it was lost again and again, the ** war was lost, and the Sino-Japanese War was lost;

The Ming Dynasty has closed the country, but it is useless, not to mention the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, but looking at Zheng Zhilong's annual toll fees for ships, you can know that it is a piece of waste paper.

However, the Qing Dynasty carried out a very thorough implementation of measures such as moving all the coastal residents from Shandong to Guangdong Province 50 miles inward, burning all the houses there, and not allowing the coastal residents to go to sea.

As a result of these measures, the fishery, salt industry, and trade industry in the coastal areas of East and South China have been abandoned, the countryside has been barren, and the coastal residents have been displaced and have suffered greatly from moving to the sea.

The Ming Dynasty was able to compete with the Western firearms, but in the Qing Dynasty it was stagnant.

For 200 years, China's navigation technology lagged far behind that of the West, and eventually Western warships roamed the Chinese sea.

The Manchus knew the power of firearms, otherwise they would not have happily rewarded him as the king of obedience when Kong Youde surrendered with firearms.

But the Manchus were afraid of firearms, and they were afraid that when they could not match firearms, they would be overthrown by the Han Chinese.

Therefore, after the Manchu rule was stabilized, it immediately ordered the cessation of research and casting of firearms.

In the past two hundred years, China, which was the first to study firearms, lagged far behind the Western guns and artillery, and finally let the Western army wreak havoc on Chinese soil.

The Manchus were afraid of the artillery fire of the ships and ships, and they were even more afraid of the Han Chinese.

They were afraid that the Han people would rebel, so they stipulated that the Han people gathered for thirty years, that is, they rebelled and killed!

Not to mention the prison of words on the minds of the Chinese.

The Manchus, for the sake of their rule, dragged the whole of China into the abyss.

All the sons and daughters of China, who will be indifferent to China's century-old humiliation such as the ** War, the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, the First Sino-Japanese War, and the Japanese War of Aggression against China?

The cultural relics made by the ancestors are displayed in museums in other countries, and the rivers and mountains that the ancestors built with their blood are now inhabited by foreigners.

This is a disgrace, a disgrace to China!

How many hot-blooded men have dreamed of returning to that era, dreaming of changing all this harm to the Chinese nation.

I just wish I could be born two hundred years early, I can't fight the enemy on the battlefield with a gunboat, and I can't recommend Xuanyuan with blood.

Now that God has let me travel through this era, then I have the obligation to change all this, and I must not let this happen again!

Huaxia must continue to become the hegemon of Asia and the hegemon of the world.