Poor Niu Dashen soon knew that he was not just a simple person who had a home and could not go back. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

He just has nowhere to go.

After knowing that Yang Feng was angered by the Huang disaster theory, Charles VI immediately drew a line with him, he was originally regarded as a guest in Austria and was quickly expelled by Austria, but France, which was originally his next stop, also refused him entry, Louis XIV did not want to provoke Yang Feng at this time, the French East India Company was supported by local trade, and the 500,000 rifled guns ordered by France from the Ming Dynasty have not yet been delivered, so the poor cow god can only temporarily accommodate himself in a church in Bavaria.

And not only that, but immediately afterwards, his old accounts with Hooke, Leibniz and even Halley and others were also turned up by newspapers led by the People's Daily and hyped up in various European countries.

Especially the People's Daily.

This newspaper directly characterized him as an academic liar who deceived the world and stole his reputation, an ungrateful moral villain, and also exaggerated that there was likely to be a dark evil organization behind him, which was deliberately trying to plunge the world into war, in short, in a very short time, Niu Dashen became infamous, and even the monarchs of some European countries began to doubt his personal character, and all kinds of gossip that did not know whether it was true or false, such as a mess in his private life, also began to circulate throughout Europe.

In short, the great god fell like this.

"Playing this with me, I didn't find a few little beggars to hug my legs and call Dad is already respectful enough for you."

Emperor Yang looked at the report and muttered to himself.

The end of the cow god is doomed, he has no value, this is an abandoned son for the European monarchs, and for him it is nothing more than a guinea pig who trains Jinyiwei to play public opinion warfare, in the next few years, the Ming Dynasty and Europe will maintain peace for a period of time, and he will not do anything to Europe before the railway is repaired to Europe and the Suez Canal is built, that is to say, the two sides will mainly have economic and diplomatic exchanges in the future, and public opinion warfare is essential.

"Your Majesty, according to intelligence, the impact caused by this person is still not small, and the European people are spreading more and more theories about our threat."

Lu You said.

"That's not worth mentioning."

Yang Feng said.

This is the inevitable result, what the monarchs of European countries want is also this result, Newton shouted out the theory of woe, they used Newton as a victim to clear their own relations, and then then promoted this view to gradually spread, in order to divert internal contradictions, this is all a routine, just like he supported Voltaire and these people to intensify their internal contradictions, it is nothing more than a secret war between you and me, it is not worth making a fuss, anyway, as long as the railway is built and the canal is opened, the huge fleet of the Ming army sails into the Mediterranean, On land, the army marched into the Eastern European Plain, and everything was a mantis arm.

"There are still too few boats."

Yang Feng picked up another report and said.

Usually think that there are a lot of Ming ships, but this time the guard of thousands of miles, he found that the Ming ships are still too few, if the future invasion of Europe, the sea through the Suez Canal will be the most important material supply, and it is also the most important way to transport troops, so the tonnage of merchant ships is the key to victory.

"At present, the total population of Europe is about 100 million, but the quality is relatively high, and the countries together can mobilize close to 10 million troops, and once we attack Europe, then there is certainly no possibility of breaking through, the Europeans will not be stupid to such an extent, once the war starts, it will be our attack on the whole of Europe. In this way, even if our equipment level is higher and our soldiers are more combative, five million army can be said to be indispensable, and less than this number will not guarantee the occupation of the whole of Europe. Expansion is not a problem for us, in fact our reserves are much more combat-ready than those in Europe, and we still have 30 million in reserve ready to join the army.

However, the capacity to transport materials is indeed insufficient.

Even if it is impossible to put five million into the battlefield at the same time, the front-line operation of two million army is also the bottom line, and at present, our transportation capacity is not to mention two million, and the operation of 200,000 people in the Middle East is already the limit, this is still a low-intensity operation, if it is a real big war, it is 200,000 people who are a little tight. ”

Luo Zhang said.

"Then build a ship, build a bigger ship!"

Yang Feng said.

"Within fifteen years at the latest, Daming's shipping tonnage must be increased tenfold, and it can be built with a unified ship type, prefabricated standard parts, and then the shipyard is only the final assembly, and the construction time in the dock is minimized.

Then he added.

To put it bluntly, he is learning free wheel, although welding technology is definitely not good, but this is not a big deal, it is nothing more than a slightly longer cycle, and he is not saying that he is in such a hurry as the United States, the Americans go to the water in four days, it doesn't matter if he goes into the water in four months, anyway, as long as the tonnage is expanded tenfold in fifteen years, then it is basically enough, and even if the speed is not accelerated, the tonnage of the merchant ship of the Ming Dynasty is also increasing at a rate of nearly doubling in a year, and now the largest merchant ship tonnage has exceeded 20,000 tons, That is, more than 12,000 tons by European standards.

"And the number of warships is also insufficient."

Luo Zhang said.

At present, the second batch of Dingyuan-class ironclad ships of the Ming army has been put into service, bringing the total number of such warships to six, and the number of cruisers has exceeded forty, but even so, the number of warships is still insufficient, mainly because the sea area controlled by the Ming army is too wide. The Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Cape of Good Hope, the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and especially the distant Yinzhou that is the Americas, these seas must maintain a large number of warships, although there is no match for them at sea, but even if the patrol scares people, it cannot be too few, and if it attacks Europe, it will really have to fight a large-scale naval battle.

"Then continue to build, build newer, bigger, faster cruisers."

Yang Feng said.

His current cruisers are actually of the same type, with a tonnage of three thousand outcrops, that is, about two thousand of European standards, steam and sail power, the fastest seventeen or eighteen knots, a single five-inch gun at the head and tail, and five twin four-inch ear guns on the side of the side, the firepower is fierce, but the endurance is so-so, although there is sail assistance, but if you really want to make sails, then this kind of battleship is not interesting, especially if there is no armor protection, if you go to Europe, it is okay in the Mediterranean, and it is very difficult to run to the North Sea to fight.

So he needed larger cruisers.

It's better to still have a little armor.

So it's time for a large protective cruiser to come into play.

"The endurance is 10,000 nautical miles, the twin five-inch guns, the speed is not less than 20 nautical miles, the internal dome armor is installed, and the artillery is changed to a turret, as for the tonnage, as long as it can meet the endurance of 10,000 nautical miles, it doesn't matter if it exceeds 10,000 tons."

Yang Feng said.

Luo Zhang hurriedly wrote it down, and the new generation of cruisers of the Ming Navy was according to this standard.

If the Ming army attacks Europe, then the main forward base must be Egypt, that is, Alexandria, this port is currently expanding, preparing to be the home port of the Ming Mediterranean Fleet in the future, then this cruiser must have the endurance from Alexandria, and then into the Baltic Sea, 10,000 nautical miles is the bottom line, from Alexandria to Helsinki will have to be 8,000 kilometers away, round trip adds up to 16,000, 10,000 nautical miles of endurance, but only more than 2,000 miles.

It's not an easy job.

You must know that he is not a steam turbine, but a three-expansion steam engine, even if he uses an oil-fired boiler, instead of using coal like the original historical protective cruisers, if you want to achieve such a range, the tonnage of this cruiser may have to be more than 15,000 tons of the Ming standard, and even exceed the tonnage of the Dingyuan-class battleships, and if you can't get it, you can get a displacement of 20,000 tons, that is, to reach the tonnage of those treaty-type light cruisers during World War II, such as Southampton, Brooklyn and the like.

It's scary, but it's a must.

Without such a voyage, it is difficult for him to effectively fight in Europe, this era will not appear to seize a port, and then get supplies, at this time except for the Ming Dynasty there is no other port to reserve fuel, of course, if it is coal-burning, it can be replenished, but even if the coal-fired warship is as big as the Dingyuan class, the endurance is unlikely to exceed 5,000, and it is impossible for him to even go out of the Mediterranean Sea to fight with this endurance.

If he can't get out of the Mediterranean, where will he go to replenish coal?

At this time in Europe, coal is mainly used in the United Kingdom, and the ports of France and Italy in the Mediterranean, it is almost impossible to get even a cruiser's coal, and his warships can only play a large endurance range, replenish enough fuel in Alexandria and then the combat radius can reach the Baltic Sea, only in this way can he really ensure his control over the entire European coast. As for building a battleship with a range of 10,000 nautical miles, it is needless to say that this is too urgent, in fact, the protective cruiser is already invincible in this era, and the ironclad ship is basically a deterrent, and such a 10,000-ton cruiser is enough to sweep the navies of European countries.

In other words, at this tonnage, against those sail battleships, even if they don't bring cannons, let them bombard with cannons, and let them bombard until they are desperate.

The huge size and the dome armor inside are not something that can be dealt with by a limited number of solid shells larger than a wine bottle, and when it comes to a ship of this tonnage level, the block itself is already a protective ability, and if a few more watertight compartments are designed inside, it will make the sail battleships bombard to despair. If you bring more, the same weapons as the Dingyuan class, that is, eight five-inch guns, it is simply the sea overlord level, so don't call it a cruiser anymore, just call it a battle cruiser!

Well, the Ming New Generation Battlecruiser Program was officially launched. (To be continued.) )