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"Your Majesty, please give an order!"

Luo Zhang knelt on one knee on the deck of the royal yacht Daming, and said to His Majesty the Emperor with a solemn face.

"Let's get started!"

Yang Feng said with great interest.

Immediately after that, the herald beside him immediately waved the signal flag, and on the sea not far in front of them, six huge battleships lined up, and all the gun ports pointing to the starboard side were slowly raised at the same time, all the battleships were one eighty-pound cannon in the front and rear, and five earphones in each row on the left and right in the middle, two twin forty-pound guns on each earline, and six warships with a total of twelve eighty-pound guns and sixty forty-pound guns all pointed to the sea three miles away.

There, a sail battleship with three decks.

With the signal on the Daming, the seventy-two cannons on the six battleships suddenly spewed flames, and the first round of salvo fire was completed in a very short time, and the earth-shattering cannon sound was immediately transmitted to the yacht, and only a few seconds later, I saw that the sail battleship was swallowed up by the explosion of fire in an instant, and when the fire passed, the giant ship that was originally nearly twenty zhang long directly became a pile of broken wreckage, burning on the sea surface and drifting with the waves, and soon began to gradually sink with billowing smoke.

There is no need for a second salvo.

After a single salvo, the six newest Invincible-class cruisers sent a second-class battleship to the bottom of the sea.

And it was nearly two thousand yards away.

"Your Majesty, such a fleet can really be said to be invincible, as long as we have enough supply bases, only fifty such warships, the minister can guarantee the conquest of all the seas and every coast in this world for Your Majesty, eighteen knots of speed plus terrifying firepower, the minister can not find an enemy that can compete with them, even the first-class battleships of the Europeans have no ability to resist in front of such a battleship."

Luo Zhang said excitedly.

"Conquer the world?"

Yang Feng said with emotion: "This goal should indeed be considered. ”

Anyway, it's time to think about it, even if he doesn't want to conquer the world now, those businessmen who are about to be suppressed to the point of plundering slaves, plundering resources, and plundering the market will not agree! They long for every country to be exempt from taxes for Ming goods, they long for every country to let them mine minerals, and they want to turn the people of every country into their slaves......

Well, it seems like there's no market for that.

Whatever, if the Ming Dynasty has a population of one billion, why do you need other markets.

Well, this is the current state of mind in the capital world of the Ming Empire.

Just as Emperor Yang said this, the six invincible-class cruisers that had lost their target had already lined up in front of the yacht, all the sails on the ship were raised, the boiler was burned enough to steam to drive the propellers to rotate at full speed, and the speed of the entire fleet quickly increased to eighteen knots, like a group of floating mountains, one by one, leaving a series of eye-catching tracks on the sea. At the same time, all the cannons pointing to the side with their backs to Yang Feng once again let out a roar that resounded across the sea, and the cannonballs filled with wet cotton gunpowder and triggered the fuse exploded into columns of water rising into the sky on the sea surface in the distance, and even the recoil of the cannons made these warships move slightly on the sea surface, and the scene was also quite spectacular.

Although the firepower of these warships is at most the destroyer class of World War II.

It is true that it is the level of World War II destroyers, and even lower, the caliber of eighty catties guns is 160 mm, and the caliber of forty catties guns is 120 mm, but these guns are much shorter than modern naval guns, in fact, they should be thirty-five times the diameter, so the bore pressure and recoil are much lower, and the same range is completely incomparable, the former has a range of 5,000 yards, of course, an effective range, while the latter is only 4,000 yards, and this range is even inferior to the 37 anti-aircraft guns in World War II.

But even then, in this day and age it was the dreadnought class.

In other words, this is indeed enough to conquer the world's oceans, after all, the dreadnought has an opponent and the like, but these warships can't find an opponent at all, let alone now, even in another fifty years, Yang Feng does not think that European countries can evolve to the point of challenging them, although these European countries are also studying steam engines and the like, in fact, Newcomen made steam-powered machinery earlier than the Ming Dynasty, but to this kind of industrialized things, materials and processes are the biggest obstacles, Europeans want to evolve the steam engine to thousands of horsepower......

It's better to save it!

As for the evolution to a horizontal steam engine plus a propeller plus a steel battleship......

Let's solve the problem of the steelmaking furnace first! It is too exaggerated to use graphite crucible steelmaking to support industrialization, and it is estimated that even a slightly larger part is not enough for that pot of steel, even if it is an invincible tonnage steel battleship, it is estimated that it will have to pour the strength of the whole country, and they do not have a steel machine, like a steel plate for shipbuilding has to be forged with water hammer.

Well, that's an exaggeration.

"A third-class battleship, with 10 24-pound rifled guns, 30 15-pound rifled guns, 10 9-pound rifled guns, 100 cast steel flowering shells and supporting ******, the starting price is 200,000 dragon yuan, and the price each time must not be less than 10,000 dragon yuan."

Just when Yang Feng was studying the great plan of conquering the world, on the wharf of the Changguo Military Port, which was more than a hundred miles away from him, a unique open-air auction was in full swing, and the auctioneer stood behind a table with a small hammer in his hand and shouted loudly.

In front of him was an elaborate model of a double-decked battleship, with its name and history on the shelves below.

As for the battleship Figure, which had belonged to the Dutch navy, had surrendered to the Ming army at Colombo, had participated in the Battle of Chiraza Harbor, and had sunk a British battleship, it was now behind the auctioneer, like a silent beast waiting to erupt, staring at the shore with its majestic muzzles. All the sails were raised in the sea breeze, as if they could take it free from the shackles of the anchor chain at any time, to gallop the sea, to declare the majesty of its owner, all of which told the bidders on the shore that it was definitely worth the price of 200,000 dragon dollars.

However, it is still too expensive.

200,000 dragon dollars!

This is equivalent to 200,000 silver coins of 37.5 grams, and the silver content of this mechanism silver coin with the pattern of a coiled dragon is 96 percent, which is equivalent to 36 grams of sterling silver, and 200,000 pieces, that is, more than seven tons of sterling silver of the European standard. In Europe, the cost of such a battleship is less than 30,000 pounds, and the gold coin of the British pound is eight grams, but only ninety-one percent of the gold, which is actually more than seven grams of gold. And the gold-silver ratio is one to fifteen, so that a sterling Sovereign gold coin is equivalent to less than 110 grams of silver, that is, less than three dragon dollars, and the price of 200,000 dragon dollars is actually more than twice that of Europe, and this is an old ship that is a new ship.

The old ship is twice the price of the new one.

Even with those fifty rifled guns, the bonus wouldn't be so high.

"Two hundred and one thousand dragon dollars!"

The representative of King Louis XIV of France, the Count de Verre, raised his hand and said proudly, while looking at the representative of Queen Anne of England with the same haughty gaze.

Howard gritted his teeth.

"Two hundred and twenty-one thousand dragon dollars, is there anything higher, if not, then this battleship will belong to His Majesty Louis XIV."

The auctioneer shouted in an exaggerated tone.

He also looked at Howard.

"Two hundred and twenty thousand dragon dollars!"

Howard shouted with a bloodied expression.

"Two hundred and twenty thousand dragon dollars, bold Queen Anne, may her beauty last forever, two hundred and twenty thousand dragon dollars! Is there anything higher? If not, then the battleship will raise the St. George flag! ”

The auctioneer shouted again in an exaggerated tone.

"Two hundred and thirty thousand dragon dollars!"

Count de Ville said with a gloomy face.

"Two hundred and thirty thousand dragon dollars, two hundred and thirty thousand dragon dollars, look at the spirit of the Sun King, may his brilliance also shine on Europe like the sun, two hundred and thirty thousand dragon dollars once, two hundred and thirty thousand ......"

"Two hundred and forty thousand!"

"Two hundred and forty thousand, oh my God, two hundred and forty thousand, the glory of the Stuarts, Queen of Great Britain, Her Majesty the Queen of Ireland, may her youth live forever ......"

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In this way, under the exaggerated shouts of the auctioneers, the battleship, which cost less than 30,000 pounds in Europe, was finally sold for more than 80,000 pounds, and the final flutter on its mast was the flare flag belonging to the Bourbon family, and it was clear that the golden light of the Sun King also shone on the far east as if it were shining on Europe.

In fact, Howard and the others all knew very well that Yang Feng's shameless arrangement was to squeeze their wealth to the maximum, but they had to play with the rhythm of this bastard, because they had no choice now.

At this time, the sea of Europe was in a delicate equilibrium, although Britain was defeated by the French navy in the Mediterranean, but with the control of Gibraltar, it still firmly blocked the French navy in the Mediterranean, that is to say, outside the Mediterranean, the Anglo-Dutch fleet was still the master, if Louis XIV bought a fleet from Yang Feng, and then transported a large number of sailors through Egypt, directly from the east back to Europe, that would be a lot of fun.

And Ahmed III would certainly have acquiesced in such a thing.

He and the Habsburgs could be described as incompatible, so a French victory on the battlefield in Europe was definitely what he was most happy to see.

Also in the Mediterranean, France has an absolute advantage, Louis can easily send a large number of sailors to Alexandria, with the acquiescence of the Ottoman Empire, through Egypt to the port of Suez, and then load the Ming merchant ships there in the port of Suez to transport to Changguo, where they board these battleships and return to Europe, once the French fleet returns, then the war anti-French alliance will directly admit defeat, otherwise these battleships will easily bombard the coast of Britain and the Netherlands.

So that the British have only one choice.

Compete with the French here, prevent them from buying warships, or at least buy them in the same number as the French bought, and then let the captured British sailors sail them back to Europe. But Yang Feng will definitely not let them leave early, this guy has long said that one hand to pay the money and one hand to deliver, the British still have money in Asia, they must be shipped from Europe, but they can't pass through the Mediterranean, so they can only go to the Cape of Good Hope, plus the time of information transmission, it is estimated that the payment will arrive in at least half a year.

At that time, France must have sent all the money with people.

In this way, the two sides can only fight and walk on the long voyage back to Europe, and whoever has more warships will be the victor of this war, so that at the auction, the competition for each warship can be said to be white-hot, because at this time, if you grab one more battleship, there will be more hope for victory.

Fortunately, Howard is not fighting alone, he has a huge alliance behind him, Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Savoy all the countries of the anti-French alliance are supporting him, this is their decisive battle with France, although this war took place in distant Europe, but the decisive victory or defeat of this war is in this eastern port, in the emperor who is still described as the devil by the Holy See, he wants whoever wins to win, he wants whoever loses to lose, I have to say that this is very embarrassing.

God no longer rules the world.

He is the master.

Fortunately, the British were relieved that the French were still alone, and Louis XIV had no allies, although Bavaria and Cologne initially joined the French side, but they both chose to admit defeat when France was pressed and beaten in the early stage, so now Louis led his nephew Philip to fight alone, so that their financial resources are not as strong as the anti-French alliance.

The British, however, did not know ......

It's just a play.

"Three hundred thousand dragon dollars."

The Earl de Ville cried out through gritted teeth.

"Three hundred and one thousand dragon dollars."

Howard also gritted his teeth and shouted.

"Three hundred and ten thousand dragon dollars for the first time, three hundred and ten thousand dragon dollars for the second time, three hundred and eighty-one thousand dragon dollars for the third time, deal, the glory belongs to the Stuart dynasty, Her Majesty Queen Anne used her boldness to tell people what it means to be a woman and not let the eyebrows, Her Majesty Louis XIV will have to watch with regret as the forty-six-gun battleship raises the Saint George flag, and I hope that the Count de Ville will be more generous on the next battleship."

The auctioneer shouted.

On the dock behind him, the St. George's flag was slowly raised on the mainmast of a forty-six-gun double-deck battleship, this battleship belonged to the British, or was about to belong to the British, after all, they had not paid yet, according to the standard they had to pay for the goods within a year, otherwise......

Otherwise the battleship would have been given to the French in vain.

Considering that Britain also had to pay the first war reparations of five million guilders to Daming at the same time, it is conceivable how poor the British government will be next, and if they do not pay the reparations within a year, then the temporary state of peace between them and Daming will be automatically lifted, and they will lose the qualification to buy this battleship, and then ......

It will still be given to Louie for free.

At the same time, Count de Vere and Han Qi, the secretary of the Daming Military Department who was sitting on the side and overlooking, inadvertently exchanged glances. (To be continued.) )