Chapter 372: The Age of Discovery

"Demons! You devil!

I'm going to accuse God of your sin!

You will receive eternal punishment in Hell!

……”

Xu Risheng howled dying, just like De when he was being barbecued. Molai is the same. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Don't they like it? I will give them this, as long as this kind of guy is caught in the future, they will all be dealt with according to this standard, and I will give them the same high-level treatment as the saints in their minds, and they should be grateful to me! ”

Not far in front of him, Emperor Yang said very proudly.

Well, he did give Xu Risheng a cross, but he didn't hang it around his neck, but nailed the bishop directly to a cross, poor Xu Risheng never thought that he could still enjoy the treatment of Jesus Christ. Although he is also a devout believer and revere this kind of thing incomparably, being nailed to it and kneeling under it every day to worship is not a conceptual thing at all, but at this time, the only thing he can do is to curse Yang Feng there. However, he did not know that he was only the beginning, and that in the future, the same cross would be erected with the advance of the Ming army, stretching from Asia to distant Europe.

Of course, for Yang Feng, this is just a trivial matter.

Although Yinzhen finally became a burnt sparrow, and the name of the Qing Dynasty finally passed away with his bone slag that was scattered in the army horse farm, the war in the northeast still did not end in the short term, and a large number of Qing troops who fled into the mountains and forests still needed to carry out long-term encirclement and suppression. Yang Feng also set up a strategic envoy to the northeast, and the Seventh Army was moved from Goryeo to Shenyang under the leadership of He Qin, the commander of the Seventh Army, and was fully responsible for suppressing bandits in the northeast, including Goryeo. In addition to the Seventh Army of the Army, Seoul, Pyongyang, Wonsan, and Pusan, as well as 14 garrisons in the two northeastern provinces, a total of 18 garrisons, so that in fact, the number of garrisons in the northeast and Goryeo was as high as 70,000.

Of course, Yang Feng doesn't need to worry about these personally.

Emperor Yang then headed south and returned to Nanjing.

"Your Majesty, do you want to start?"

On a naval warship in Hangzhou Bay, Shao Tingcai asked Yang Feng.

"Let's get started!"

Yang Feng said with great interest.

Immediately after that, on the mast behind them, the herald waved the signal flag, and about two miles away were two new steamships, both of which were the most standard clippers of the Ming army, with a mainmast in the front and rear, and a towering chimney of a steam engine in the middle, except that one of them had a paddle wheel, while the other did not. Immediately after receiving the order from this side, the chimneys of the two ships immediately began to billowing smoke, and soon they were moving to the left and right, and a thick cable between the two ships could be seen pulled up from the sea and quickly taut.

It's a tug-of-war, a special tug-of-war.

Suddenly, an unbelievable exclamation sounded around Yang Feng, because the steamship without the paddle wheel actually dragged the paddle steamer backwards, and although the latter's paddle wheel was still spinning desperately on the sea, it couldn't change its weird situation at all, it was dragged by its opponent, and kept retreating at a speed of more than seven miles per hour, and the ship without the paddle wheel, like a general who captured the enemy on the battlefield, dragged his opponent to ride the wind and waves.

"Oh my God, Your Majesty, this is simply a miracle, a propeller with a diameter of less than one zhang with the same horsepower actually defeated two paddle wheels with a diameter of more than two zhang!"

Shao Tingcai looked at this scene and exclaimed.

Well, this is the first propeller warship of the Ming Dynasty, of course, it is still just a test ship, with an iron-ribbed wooden hull, in addition to two sides of the sail, there is also a two-thousand-horsepower steam engine to drive the propeller to drive this fast cruiser of less than two thousand tons. And its opponent is exactly the same except that the propeller becomes a paddle wheel, in fact, it is the same big brother of this cruiser, because of the outstanding performance of the two ships of Zhenwu, the Ming army ordered two experimental fast cruisers in the shipyard, but not long after the commission, a new generation of propellers came out, which happened to be used in the second batch of two ships.

"That's not enough, I need a steel-hulled ship instead of a wooden hull."

Yang Feng said indifferently.

Of course, he was indifferent enough, but the people watching this tug-of-war couldn't be indifferent, because immediately after the propeller cruiser untied the cable, and the cruiser that got rid of the paddle steamer behind it increased sharply, and soon broke through the speed of thirty miles per hour, and ran faster and faster in an exclamation, and it didn't take long to break through the speed of forty miles per hour, and finally its extreme speed was fixed at fifty miles per hour.

Or sixteen nautical miles.

And that's not even using auxiliary sails.

"It is estimated that eighteen nautical miles downwind is no problem."

Shao Tingcai said.

The original history of the Yaojiang Academy in charge, now is the Ming Empire's Ministry of Industry Shangshu, in addition to the Ming Imperial Academy of Sciences the first supervisor, and the dean is of course His Majesty the Emperor personally concurrent, so far, after eight years of development, all kinds of talents in the Ming Dynasty have grown up, in fact, is really entering the era of industrialization, including real scientists have also appeared, all kinds of new inventions emerge in an endless stream, and even the periodic table has been made by a university professor.

"Continue to build, at least ten of these warships must be built by the end of next year, and I will form an expedition to the Americas."

Yang Feng said.

If these ships have coal supplies on the way, it is no problem to maintain a speed of ten knots, so that from Changguo, it will take less than two months to run to San Francisco, so that there will basically be no problem of dead people in such a short time, and such a short time is not much different from a trip to the Middle East, as long as there is a little bit of interest temptation, coupled with the slogan of rescuing the Yin people, it is estimated that the people of Daming will begin to set their eyes on the Americas.

Although the goods brought back by the Zhuyuan were completely submerged in the golden light of the Golden State Company, I can say in good conscience that if it wasn't for the fact that there were too many dead people, the trip would not have been a loss.

Not to mention that the sandalwood of Hawaii alone is tempting enough, at this time, the consumption of luxury goods in the Ming Dynasty skyrocketed, and sandalwood has always been the mainstream luxury, in addition to those bear skins, fox skins, antelope horns, deer antlers and the like are also extremely popular, but the mortality rate during the voyage is too high to be worth the past, but the mortality problem is solved, these are naturally tempting, and when there are more people to trade and military strongholds to be established, you can go to gold panning.

In other words, Yang Feng is quite helpless now, the Europeans are desperately running out to colonize, but he has to do everything possible to lure the people to colonize, and he has to pave the road for them in every possible way, so he is indeed quite sad.

"Your Majesty, the people of the Ruan family are here."

As soon as he returned to Changguo after finishing the experiment of the propeller boat, an attendant stepped forward to report.

"The Ruan family? Ruan Fuxuan actually has the face to send someone? Giving him so many weapons, even a cannon with a cap gun, he was actually defeated by Zheng Wei, he was simply a bunch of waste. ”

Yang Feng said disdainfully.

Well, Ruan Fujun was indeed defeated by the Zheng family again, over the years, through his special relationship with Yang Feng, he bought 10,000 musket guns and thirty smoothbore cannons from the Ming Dynasty, and hired a large number of retired Ming soldiers to train a new army of 10,000 people, and went north with great ambition to prepare to crusade against Zheng and unify Annam, but his old opponent Zheng family also didn't know where to get a bunch of smoothbore flintlock pistols, and also armed a large number of new troops, although the level of weapons was still not far behind him, But the problem is that even the best weapons in Annan's place are blind.

The Zheng family can't defeat him in a head-on battle, but they can easily deal with his 10,000 people in the jungle.

At the beginning, Ruan Phuchuan's army was so strong that it even hit Thanh Hoa, but Thanh Hoa could not be attacked for a long time, and the Zheng army in the occupied area continued to harass, although there were Ming merchant ships transporting supplies for him from the sea, but they were also exhausted by guerrilla warfare, and Zheng Jun saw that the fighter plane launched a large-scale counteroffensive and drove him back, and retreated to Rong City, only to rely on the help of a battalion of Ming troops sent by Chen Shangchuan, and stopped the rout in Rong City, but this rout made his elite lose everything, and he can only hold the front line of Rong City at present, So I desperately hope that Yang Feng can send troops to pull him.

"I'm sending troops?"

After returning to Emperor Ying's Palace, Yang Feng said to Ruan Shu speechlessly.

"Now that I have hundreds of thousands of troops, I have to be busy chasing down the remnants of slaves and rebels, cleaning up the remnants of bandits in the Northeast, and quelling the rebellion of those natives in Nanyang, how can I care about you? An army of 10,000 rifled, capped guns and cannons was defeated by a group of men with smoothbore guns and broadswords and spears, and they still had the face to come to me for help? ”

Then he added.

Ruan Fushu didn't dare to say anything, just lay on the ground and cried.

"Forget it, you're a good boy too, get up!"

Yang Feng sighed and said.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Annan is at Yingtian University, he just graduated last year, and he studied calligraphy and painting, and he often went in and out of the palace when he was in school, and he also knew that this child was not very good at words.

Nguyen Phuc Shu was still lying there crying.

"Okay, for the sake of your Ruan family's loyalty, I'll help you this time, but go back and tell your father that after the destruction of Zheng Wei, all the land north of the Red River will be included in the imperial court, and the land south can be given to your Ruan family as a fief, and Jiaozhou City will also be included in the imperial court."

Yang Feng thought for a while and said.

The country of Annam is not suitable for complete annexation, at least for the time being, and he has no interest in receiving millions of Yue people, not to mention millions of Yue people who are seriously resistant, and now the area around Saigon to Quy Nhon has become the Champa province of the Ming Dynasty, if the north of the Red River and Hanoi are taken, it is equivalent to solving the mountain barrier between the north of Annam and the Ming Dynasty, leaving only a narrow piece in the middle, and the Ruan family will be raised as a colony if they are honest in the future. If you are not honest, you will push it in an instant. (To be continued.) )