In the third year of Yongle (1405), Zheng He led the fleet to the Western Ocean for the first time, starting from the treasure shipyard in Nanjing, and the water came out of Longjiang Pass, passing through Champong, Java, Sumatra, Ceylon and other places, and turning back through the west coast of India.

From then until the eighth year of Xuande of the Ming Dynasty (1433), Zheng He led seven voyages and visited nearly 30 countries and regions in Asia and Africa.

Ma Huan, Fei Xin and Gong Zhen, who followed Zheng He to the West, all left a wealth of historical materials, namely "Yingya Shenglan", "Xingcha Shenglan" and "Western Fanguo Chronicles".

The book "Yingya Shenglan", the first volume contains: "Treasure Ship No. 63, the largest one is forty-four feet long and fourteen feet wide; The middle one is thirty-seven zhang long and fifteen zhang wide. ”

The literature also records the composition of Zheng He's envoys to the West, mainly including sailors, officers and soldiers, procurement, craftsmen, doctors, translators, etc., with a huge scale, with more than 27,800 people on his first mission.

Zheng He's fleet, whether in terms of performance, equipment and scale, was world-class at that time, mainly including treasure ships, horse ships, grain ships, seat ships and war ships, Zheng He's treasure ships had 9 masts and 12 sails.

Of course, treasure ships are also divided into large and small ships.

The smallest has a displacement of only a few thousand tons, while the largest treasure ship has no doubt in the slightest, with a displacement of almost 20,000 tons (the displacement is not equal to the hull of the ship's weight) and a deck area about the size of a football field. (No wonder it is said that you can ride a horse and run on it, train soldiers, and grow vegetables and farms!) ）

It can be said that Zheng He's fleet was the undisputed giant at sea for more than 1,400 years. Such a large fleet shows the astonishing level of shipbuilding in Ming Dynasty China!

In the modern 21st century, there were only a few dozen aircraft carrier formation battle groups, while Zheng He went to the West with more than 200 ships, and at that time, there were eight or nine aircraft carrier battle groups.

I'm mighty V5!

However, Zhu Zilong is now buying a copycat treasure ship.

This knock-off is only more than 70 meters long and only a dozen meters wide, but the height is okay.

As a reward for an extra half a month's salary, Zhu Zilong arranged for the modern workers in the factory to work overtime to add waterproof iron plates and other things to his cottage treasure boat. And the inner wooden board is also pasted with iron plates!

Hmph, hum, even if you get shot, with the power of the black gunpowder shell, you can't penetrate it at all!

(During the First Sino-Japanese War, there is a historical record that there was never a steamer that sank an iron warship because of a shell of black powder.) ）

The gold pipe of the cottage treasure ship is only placed with iron plates, which can only be regarded as half an iron ship. However, in 1626, the level of ships and shells of various countries lagged far behind that of the First Sino-Japanese War.

So, rest assured.

After dealing with these, Zhu Zilong asked the secretary to call the Nanjing Small Commodity Market Management Center.

Let them send daily chemical products and other products according to the delivery list, this year's wholesale is not only cheap, but also if there are acquaintances to introduce, directly to the door. Zhu Zilong also went up to pick up the goods one by one, and this billionaire was too much?

So, now all you need to do is make a phone call and check it out at home.

And these things, if you inspect them, you can hand them over to your employees, and as employees who have just accepted, they will be absolutely attentive to the inspection, and there will be no quality problems. This principle is the same as if you first became an official and basically did not engage in corruption in the first few years.

Most of the things have been done by others, and Zhu Zilong is a bit of a boss at this time.

No, he came to the antique cannon workshop again, which is a workshop for the production of imitation cannons for treasure ships, and the name of the town is the town feng shui cannon workshop.

There are still some replica cannons from the old ones here, and now that the equipment is back in use, it is okay to make new ones.

"Mr. Zhu, please see, this is the field ancient feng shui cannon you requested, steel casting, caliber 95mm, firing 5 kg women's shot put. Because it was made of steel, I took the initiative to shorten the barrel and pull the rifling. I did several experiments in the nearby mountains, using particle X, and the range was 1,500 to 2,000 meters. The workshop director reported to Zhu Zilong.

Of course, Zhu Zilong didn't need to pretend to compare, nodded with the boss's general expressionless face, and pointed: "A very good feng shui town house cannon, very light, two or three people can push it all over the ground." It should sell well abroad, but the disadvantage is that the operation is more complicated, and a skilled gunner can shoot two rounds in a minute. ”

Hearing this, the workshop director rolled his eyes in his heart, the boss of the heart, you said that it was a feng shui cannon, what does it matter if you shoot a few shots a minute.

And don't use this thing to fight, modern military artillery kills it in minutes.

Whoever fights with this is purely brain-dead. Even black African tribes won't buy this, and it's usually the rich who put on a façade.

He didn't know what Zhu Zilong thought, at this moment, Zhu Zilong touched these cannon bodies, and his heart was Mezz.

The benefits of this modern imitation of ancient artillery are obvious, light! The range is not bad!

With this kind of artillery, the "I Daqing" wild boar-skinned iron cavalry army, which was out of the range of the rifle, had to be forced to retreat the assembled front under the power of artillery fire. In this way, it will take more time for the cavalry to charge into battle. The formation will also spread out!

The rate of fire of two rounds a minute is not too much of a problem. There is no skirmish formation in the era of cold weapons, and the formation is very important when attacking, and you have to scatter and rush forward, just like sending you to death.

Besides, as long as the practice is diligent, it is also possible for this kind of modern imitation ancient artillery, which is not afraid of exploding, to fire three to four rounds in a minute in the future. There's room for growth!

For Zhu Zilong's optimistic appearance of the feng shui cannon, the employees and directors on the side did not feel anything strange.

The Chinese in the coastal areas of Guangdong and foreign countries, as well as some special wealthy people, superstitious feng shui is not a matter of one or two years.

It's not surprising that some people like light artillery, maybe people will use it as a cannon for the New Year. I didn't see it, it was reported in the news last time, did anyone deliberately buy real tanks and planes to put at home to compare?

After touching the cannon, Zhu Zilong came back and asked, "How much does such a cannon cost?" ”

The workshop director was obviously prepared, and quickly replied: "Counting the labor costs and transportation costs, it is about forty or fifty thousand yuan per door!" ”

Zhu Zilong's eyes lit up, forty or fifty thousand yuan is about the silver of the Ming Dynasty, more than one hundred taels.

It's a bargain!

You must know that in the Ming Dynasty, a large general cannon was made of all or most of copper, and the silver taels spent were really sea. So there are not many Quan Daming, and the explosion rate is relatively high!

The cost is one day and one place, and what general cannons and red-coated cannons are scum in all aspects in front of the rifled guns of modern industry.

Zhu Zilong, who left satisfied, came to the dispensing workshop again and found that it was not OK here.

Simply, he proposed to buy a small factory, and first asked for gunpowder from someone's warehouse. (Precursor to Mine Explosives)!

(Buying explosives from mines without approval is a crime.) However, it is easy to buy semi-finished products, and with special requirements and a regular name as an excuse, it is easy to spend some money. ）

After all, no one would believe that a billionaire would be a terrorist.

What's more, it's still done blatantly in front of everyone.

Besides, the shipyard is on the seaside, and the placement procedures are also regular, who can be bombed? Recently, grassroots officials and police officers have been here every day to help, passing by, and so on.

That's it!