"Your Highness, are you still satisfied with these three warships?"

Off the coast of Dagukou, Howard stood on the Weihai battleship, the latest battleship in service with a displacement of nearly 3,000 tons, and said with his feet on the smooth Burmese teak deck. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, this ton refers to the Ming standard ton, in fact, according to European standards, it is more than 1,700 tons, the hull is made of solid Burmese teak, with a terrifying three-layer artillery deck, a total of eighty cannons, the most terrifying of which are two sixty-eight-pounder guns, but these guns are the old cast iron smoothbore guns of the British, and they are pulled back to the steel mill to return to the furnace. On both sides of this battleship, there is an identical battleship, which is the last three battleships that the British East India Company still owes Yang Feng, all of which are brand new goods built in Mumbai, and four more battleships are also under construction in Mumbai, but those four are bought by Yang Feng with additional money.

"Nice, good quality!"

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

There was really no problem with the quality of these three battleships, after all, he had a large number of ships built in Bombay, and had become the most important customer of the East India Company in the Far East, in addition to the remaining four battleships, there were more than a dozen large ocean-going merchant ships. Although Yang Feng's own shipyard can now build the same type of merchant ships, because of the insufficient number of workers, the output is far from keeping up with the demand. In the best years, the industry in the Yangfeng occupation area has developed rapidly, and the export volume has skyrocketed, not only more and more foreign merchant ships are coming, but also more and more merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty are sailing out, and even the farthest to the Persian area, and it is said that ambitious merchants are preparing to follow the map of Yang Wangye, bypassing the Cape of Good Hope to drive the ship to Europe to have a look.

"Well, it's time for you to give us the steelmaking technology."

Howard said.

"Is there already a fight in Europe?"

Yang Feng asked.

"War has not been officially declared yet, but last September we formed a formal alliance with the Holy Roman Empire and Poland."

"What is your calendar today?"

Yang Feng asked

"Fourth of May."

Howard said.

Yang Feng nodded casually.

Well, if the history of Europe had not changed, today the Anti-French League officially declared war on France, kicking off the Great War for the Spanish Throne that lasted until 1714, and in this great war in which almost all of Europe bled each other, France alone lost two million people to war and famine caused by war, while the country had only twenty-one million before the war.

"When you go back to Changguo, go to my fiancée, she will give you the things you want, from equipment to technical materials are ready, but you have to find someone to translate yourself, if you can't make steel, you can come to me."

Then Yang Feng said.

He is already playing with the steel-making furnace now, of course he will not mind giving them the crucible steel technology, anyway, this technology cannot really play the big steel industry, when the cost of the cast steel blossom bullet is too high, the British will still have to buy it from him, he has sold them a lot over the years, but they are all woodpipe fuses, and there are no empty shells filled with gunpowder.

sent away the satisfied Howard, and then Han Qi came back from Goryeo, as for the results he brought back, there was nothing surprising, Li Yan still continued to refuse to pay tribute to Yang Feng, and raised the banner to seek justice for the third prince of Zhu. He asked Yang Feng to immediately serve Zhu Cihuan as the Ming Emperor, and at that time Goryeo naturally paid tribute to the Ming Emperor, but Yang Feng's position as a Ming supervisor was sealed by himself and had no legal effect, even if Yang Feng had a great contribution to the Ming Dynasty, it was already the limit to be crowned a vassal king and enjoy the treatment of a prince. And the king of Goryeo is also a vassal king and enjoys the treatment of a prince, so the two are equal, since they are equal, and we don't recognize the prison state you added to yourself, so why do we want to call you a vassal, if you let the third prince of Zhu succeed to the throne of the Ming Dynasty and have a real emperor, we will only recognize the court of Nanjing at that time to be called a minister.

"This, this is just nonsense!"

Yang Wangye was furious.

Or it can be said that he is annoyed and angry, this is simply exposing his scars, I don't know if the third prince of Zhu can't mention it? Dare to force him to let Zhu Cihuan succeed to the throne, this is purely death, this is completely impossible to fight, if you don't beat him hard, won't anyone be able to ask this kind of question in the future?

"One more warning, give him one last chance!"

Yang Wang Ye said viciously.

"Order the 1st and 2nd Infantry Brigades to board the ship and move to Dengzhou immediately."

Immediately afterwards, he said to He Jin, who was standing with Han Qi.

This time, along with the three battleships, there were also his reinforcements, because the first and second infantry brigades had been fighting for more than half a year, and according to the plan, they needed to return to the south for rest, and the new fifth and eighth infantry brigades would take over their defense areas in Yixian and Beijing. At present, the defense of the Ming army around Beijing is mainly Yixian, one infantry brigade in Beijing, two infantry brigades in Shanhaiguan, and the first cavalry brigade stationed in Tianjin.

In this way, the first and second brigades of the infantrymen who went south to go home to rest and beat Li Yan by the way.

At the same time that Han Qi set off again to warn Li Zhuo for the last time, under the personal leadership of Yang Wangye, the two infantry brigades of the Ming army quickly boarded one warship after another at the mouth of the Great Assessment, a total of three battleships, thirty cruisers, and thirty troop carriers A huge fleet of troops rode the wind and waves on the sea, and soon arrived at Dengzhou, the destination of their trip, but did not go to Dengzhou City, but continued eastward to Ninghai Prefecture, where Yang Wangye first landed when he went north.

"This king wants to build a military port here!"

On Liugong Island in later generations, Yang Wangye pointed to Weihaiwei on the other side and said.

"The prince wants to divide the fleet?"

Luo Zhang, the commander of the battlefleet beside him, said.

The only military port of the Ming army is Changguo, where it must not be abandoned, since Yang Wangye wants to build a military port in Weihaiwei, it must be to separate the fleet, at present, the Ming Navy has nine battleships, fifty cruisers, the latter in addition to the British to build those, including the previous war captured more than 20 Qing warships, that is, the Yangtze River Naval Division, after replacing with new artillery, can also be used as a cruiser, in addition to more than 20 small frigates.

As for the river warships, they no longer belong to the naval establishment, but belong to the army.

This fleet is still composed of battleships and cruisers according to the past division, and there is also a sub-fleet under the Keelung Garrison, a small patrol fleet under the Changguo Garrison, and the main force is the battlefleet and the cruiser fleet, a total of 59 large warships. This fleet is already very large, and if all of them return to Hong Kong, the Changguo base will not be able to accommodate them at all, and the Ming army is now in two battlefields in the north and south, although there is no enemy in these two battlefields who can compete with themselves, but it is not good for the fleet to always run around, and it is indeed necessary to have a permanent fleet in the north.

"Well, the navy is officially divided into the Beiyang Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet, the Nanyang Fleet takes Changguo as its home port, and all the battleships, including the other four that will be received at the end of the next year, are all subordinate to the Nanyang Fleet, and you are the Admiral of the Nanyang Fleet, so that your subordinates will have a total of thirteen battleships, and another twelve cruisers, all of which are teak battleships built by the British. As for the remaining 20 smaller cruisers, plus the frigates, all of them will be assigned to the inland river fleet under the army, and then our main battlefield is on the Yangtze River, and the strength of the inland river fleet must be strengthened as much as possible, and finally the remaining eighteen cruisers will form the Beiyang Fleet, which will be stationed in this Weihai Weijun Port in the future.

In the future, our maritime enemies will mainly be European colonizers, and your main task is to block the enemy south of the Taiwan Strait in the event of a naval invasion to prevent them from posing a threat to our coastal areas. But you have to sail more south, the entire South China Sea is your training ground, if you feel the need, you can also send warships to continue south, to the South Seas, or even to the new continent I mentioned before, to find suitable colonization points, Europeans are colonizing the world, and we can't lag behind. ”

Yang Feng said.

His new continent is Australia, and at this time, the real world map has been used as the top secret information of the Ming General Staff, and has been shown to those senior generals, who already know what the world is like, including Australia, New Zealand, and even Hawaii and Antarctica.

At this time, the Europeans also knew about Australia, but they knew at least one approximately, no one had a real map of Australia, and the colonization activities had not yet begun, in fact, it was not until 1770 that Cook discovered New Wales, and in 1788 the British began to use it as a prisoner's penal colony, so now Australia is like a girl waiting for the boudoir, waiting for Yang Wang Ye to break her chup.

"The last general understands!"

Luo Zhang said immediately.

At this moment, on the sea in the distance, the battleship Ninghai transporting Han Qi slowly emerged.

Two hours later, Han Qi, the secretary of the Ministry of State Affairs of the Ming Empire, brought the last choice of the Goryeo people to Yang Wangye, Li Zhuo still refused to recognize Yang Feng's status as a prisoner, and refused to pay tribute to the Ming Empire government in Nanjing, and also asked Yang Feng again to release Zhu Cihuan and serve Zhu Cihuan to inherit the throne of the Ming Emperor.

"Hit, beat!"

Yang Wang Ye gave an order without hesitation.

The waiting Ming army in Ninghai Prefecture quickly boarded the ship, and the huge fleet went straight to Incheon, opening the prelude to the war of Yang Wangye to subdue the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued.) )