Two missionaries who could build ships began to tell His Majesty the Emperor of the East about the warship construction technology of the West.

"That is to say, in general, a fleet should have one, or several large warships as the main warship, and then allocate several or some relatively small warships as a supplement to the firepower, and then some smaller warships to assist large and medium-sized warships in combat?" Yang Gengai originally had a limited understanding of the combat methods of this ancient warship, mainly from movies, television, novels, and games. For example, in Pirates of the Caribbean, two ships approached and bombarded each other with cannons.

"Exactly, Your Majesty the Emperor, large warships alone cannot complete combat missions, and they must also have the assistance of medium and small warships, such as some places where the water is relatively shallow, large warships cannot get close, which requires small warships to pass, and also, this large warship has strong firepower and strong ability to resist strikes, and can be used to suppress the enemy's warships head-on, all of which require the ...... of various warships to cooperate with each other."

Yang Gengai couldn't help nodding when he heard this, and felt that this made sense: "Sun Aiqing, tell me, how did my navy's sailors fight at sea?" Yang Gengai plans to compare the way the Western and Ming Dynasty warships fight, so as to determine what kind of warships he wants to build.

"Back to Your Majesty, Wechen has never experienced a naval battle, how to fight at sea, Wechen does not understand very well, however, Wechen has read some of the works of our dynasty, such as Qi Shuai said: 'The fortune ship is as tall as a city, non-human drive, all depends on the wind, and the ship is as short as my small cangboat, so the fortune ship is pressed down by the wind, like a car running over a praying mantis. It can be seen that the fortune boat of our dynasty is tall and large, driven by the wind, and it is the boat that crushes the Japanese like a worm, and it relies on the strength of the ship, so Weichen thinks that the battle between our dynasty and the Japanese people at sea relies on the large ship to suppress the small ship. Relying on the power of the collision...... "Although Sun Yuanhua has never experienced a naval battle, he still quotes scriptures and classics, and he is right.

“…… In addition, it is recorded in the Chenguan "Wubei Zhi" that "between the use of firearms and the waves, the ups and downs may not be able to get caught in the thief." Even if it is successful, it is not geometrical, but it can be faked to scare the enemy's heart. There are two things to do: to launch the Franco. It is the only one who is not in it, and there is no ship or powder in the middle, one also. With a fireball like on the bow of a ship, when they meet, they are thrown from a high position, and the fire is fired and the thief ship is burned, and the second is also 'It can be seen that naval warfare, one relies on the ship is large, strong, and can ram the enemy ship, and then relies on the sharpness of the artillery, bombarding the enemy ship across the sea, and finally, relying on fire and the like to burn the enemy ship. Sun Yuanhua still tried his best to explain to the emperor how to fight at sea.

Yang Reform is really a novice in this naval battle, he has only played games such as "Age of Exploration IV", watched some movies, read some novels, and only knows that he will bombard with artillery if he is far away, the more powerful the artillery will hit farther, the greater the attack power, once the ship is close, he will rely on sailors to board the ship and fight, and now he has heard Sun Yuanhua say, and he has some more reliable understanding of the battle method of this ancient sail warship.

"Then what kind of ship do I usually use in battle? How big is it? How many artillery pieces are there in general? Personnel? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, my warship, big like a three-masted gunboat, down, there are big ships like lucky ships, and then down, the smaller ones are the Haicang ships, Cangshan ships, battles, giant boats can carry hundreds of people, lucky ships can carry one or two hundred, small boats can carry tens to a hundred ......people, as for artillery, three-masted gunboats, such giant ships, artillery between dozens and a hundred, with other firearms, or bows and arrows, large ships like lucky ships, generally have more than a dozen cannons, with other firearms, bows and arrow......s and other weapons, as for treasure ships, It has been extinct so far, and Wechen doesn't know what exactly is assembled, as far as Wechen knows, the warships used by Qi Shuai Pingwei in our dynasty in recent years are mostly lucky ships, and each ship can accommodate about 100 people,...... "Sun Yuanhua also seemed to explain to the emperor all kinds of warships.

After listening to this introduction, Yang Gengai felt that the current warships of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be very weak! Compared with the configuration of the Western "Sea King", it is not a grade! It seems that the treasure ship can be compared with the Western "King of the Sea", however, the current treasure ship, the technical data has been destroyed, whether it can be built or not, it is still unknown, this Qi Jiguang anti-Japanese, with just a lucky ship that can accommodate 100 people, it seems that the decline of the Ming Dynasty Navy is real, and he may have been too optimistic about the Ming Dynasty Navy before. This is to fight for the hegemony of the seven seas, to find a piece of land for the people of the Ming Dynasty, and to take into account the pressure on warships like the "Sea King" on themselves! Yang Reform fell into deep thought.

"Ugh! The one just now is called ...... The missionaries of Amdo......"

"Your Majesty the Emperor, I look forward to your Majesty's inquiry." The missionary, Amdo, immediately agreed.

"I heard you say, are you Spaniard? In order to build a ship that is more powerful than the English? For revenge? Yang asked reform.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, indeed, there is a Spaniard below, the English have defeated our Spanish Armada, and have been suppressing my motherland, and I want to come to the East to find a more powerful force to defeat the English, and I really want to take revenge, Your Majesty, I can build super warships for Your Majesty, such as the 'Sea King', Your Majesty, I hope that one day, Your Majesty's fleet will be able to appear in the Mediterranean, defeat the English, and let the ugly English taste defeat!" The missionary, Amdo, spoke of the destruction of the Armada with a bitter and bitter expression, and anger welled up in both eyes.

Yang Reform looked at this foreigner very interestingly, and did anything to fight the British! Armadada? For this, Yang Reform still has a little understanding. Already destroyed? Looking at this Amdo again, it seems that he came to the East to find more powerful power in order to seek revenge, if this is the case, it can save a lot of trouble...... Yang Reform's head was running fast and he was thinking. After thinking for a while, he said: "Missionary Andor, I do have the intention of building large warships, as for your wishes, let's talk about this later, let's talk about it realistically, I need someone who can build Western warships for me, such as the 'King of the Sea', I don't know if you can do it?" Yang Reform thought about it for a long time, and decided to let this foreigner try, presumably, these foreigners have some real skills after Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua's recommendation, if they don't have the ability, they don't dare to come here to deceive themselves.

When he heard that the "King of the Seas" was going to be built, Amdo's eyes flashed with excitement, and he immediately said, "Yes, my majesty, I am willing to serve you. ”

"Well, that's good, then, you can first come up with the blueprints, demonstrate, make models, and train a group of craftsmen who can help you, I don't want to see you alone not be able to build a ship in a hundred years, understand?" Yang Gengai wants to learn this technique and then talk about it.

Amdo didn't feel anything wrong at all, and said happily: "As you wish, my majesty." He happily agreed to the emperor's request.

Another ship-building missionary was in a hurry, and Andor got the job of building the "King of the Seas", but he got nothing, and immediately said: "Your Majesty, what about me?" I'll build warships too. ”

Yang Gengai remembered that there was another person who could build ships, so he said: "You can accept the leadership of Amdo and build warships with him." Of course, if you feel that your talent is much stronger than that of Andor, you can apply to me to build a ship on your own. Yang Gengzhi remembered that this person named Amdo had a good impression of this person, so he decided to let this person take the lead in building ships, and the others would do it, of course, don't forget to arrange competition, arrange a competitor for Amdo, and let Amdo work hard, otherwise, someone will catch up later.

This person is a mixed bag, happy that he has a job given by the emperor of the East, very decent, and sad that he has to give his companion a hand.

"Big companion, take these two people down, settle them well, and give them the treatment of a guest, don't be disadvantaged, let them draw and design first, produce drawings, and models, this cost, just give a thousand taels first, and then add more." Yang Reform is not stupid, I am going to take a look at the real talents of these two first, if I can't even draw the drawings, I can also lose a little less, a thousand taels of water, and I can afford to lose.

Seeing that these two companions had been reused by His Majesty the Emperor of the East, the others immediately turned red and became uneasy, looking at the companions who went out, salivating. In the warm pavilion, there are only these people who can cast cannons, train soldiers, and be mercenaries.

After talking about the issue of the ship for a long time, Yang Gai already had a general understanding in his heart, and he also had a preliminary plan for dealing with the remaining foreigners. According to the feeling of summoning these foreigners today, there is still something going on between these foreigners and the Ming Dynasty. I have always been very decisive and fast, but today, it seems that I can't be too hasty. It's better to find someone who knows the inside story better, so as not to make a mistake in judgment.

"You've said it very well, so let's register your name, experience, expertise, and ability to do those jobs with my chamberlain, and then I will arrange for you, so be it...... Otomo, let these people go and register, and then send someone to settle them, don't let them go far. Yang Gai felt that there was still an inside story between this foreigner and the Ming Dynasty, which was a little different from the plan he originally considered, and planned to ask the insider, and then decided to use this group of Westerners. Today I got an important news, many of these plans have been affected and may need to be changed. Yang had no choice but to put pressure on the arrangement of these missionaries.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Chengen didn't have a good impression of these Franc machine people, and after promising the emperor, he left with these Franc machine people. The treatment of this group of foreigners is completely different from that of the group of people in front of them, and they immediately shouted bustlingly, but when they looked at it again, the guards around them were obviously not vegetarian, so they could only shrink their necks, go out, and do what His Majesty the Emperor wanted.

"Sun Aiqing stays, I have something to ask you." Yang Gengai saw that Sun Yuanhua was also about to follow this group of foreigners, so he hurriedly stopped him. This Sun Yuanhua must be an insider, and he is the one he is going to ask.

Sun Yuanhua immediately said respectfully: "Back to Your Majesty, I don't know what is going on with Your Majesty, please ask Your Majesty to inquire." ”

Yang Gengai saw that the group of people was almost gone, so he asked, "Sun Aiqing, I heard that I was in the Ming Dynasty and once hired Westerners as mercenaries?" Is there such a thing? Yang Reform couldn't wait to ask about this matter, if this matter is true, then, there is a big difference with his original plan, his original plan was to hire these people as his guest secretary, and now he suddenly heard that they are willing to be mercenaries, if so, it is much simpler, the relationship is no longer complicated, the status of the guest secretary is relatively high, it can be regarded as a certain political status, there are many people, and it is more troublesome, Yang Reform is also afraid that the courtiers will make trouble for themselves in this matter, If it was just an employment relationship, Yang Reform would not mind hiring a lot of foreigners to work for him.

Sun Yuanhua listened to the emperor's words, thought for a while, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, but there is such a matter, that is, a few years ago, when Liaodong was in crisis, the imperial court did hire a group of Portuguese artillery divisions, gunners, and this matter was still promoted by Xu Guangqi, the teacher of Weichen. ”

Xu Guangqi did this thing? Yang Gai thinks it's very interesting, it seems that his Master Xu is not only insightful in internal affairs, but also in military affairs!

"So what is the main purpose of hiring these people? What happened? What are the results? Is this relationship just employment? Yang Gengai was eager to know the details.

Sun Yuanhua thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, for these things, Weichen also heard Xu Shi talk about it, only know that these Portuguese seem to be specialized in training gunners, the specifics are not very clear, just know some fur, if Your Majesty wants to inquire carefully, I am afraid you have to ask Xu Shi." Sun Yuanhua also didn't know the ins and outs of this matter. said that he had to ask Xu Guangqi to know.

"Oh? That's ...... "It seems that Xu Guangqi has to ask about this matter!" Yang Reform is really interested in the fact that the Ming Dynasty people can use mercenaries, if they can hire Western mercenaries, they can even pay to hire a group of mercenaries to directly exterminate the Ryukyu Kingdom himself, so that he does not have to wait for his own ship to be built, and the sailors can start a war after the training of sailors, and by the way help his own navy training, in this way, it may be much better than relying on the internal sailors of the Ming Dynasty to retrain, because the navy of the Ming Dynasty has degraded very much, and these foreigners are different. To be able to cross the ocean from the West to the East, presumably, navigation technology, combat technology, are tempered, this actual combat experience must be very rich, as the emperor of the Eastern Empire, presumably, as long as you hook your fingers, there will be a queue of foreigners to be mercenaries, in this way, their own naval division and navy can grow rapidly, can shorten the time to become an army, and themselves, what they lack is time, this ship has not yet been designed, a year to build a battleship, that is just an idea, not necessarily can be built, even if it is built, I still have to do training to adapt to the surname, I have to experiment with the surname of the battleship, and I have to train those landlubbers to become real sailors, this, it will take longer, and I want to go to North Korea to fight this year, it seems that this mercenary has a lot to do, this matter, I really have to talk to Xu Guangqi immediately!

Yang reformed it and couldn't wait.

"Big companion, go to Master Xu's house immediately, I have something important." Yang Gai said to Wang Chengen, who had just returned from outside.

Wang Chengen was still about to close the door, but when he heard what the emperor said, he immediately stopped closing the door again, looked at the sky outside, and said worriedly: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's not too early this day." ”

"No, go now, Otomo, speed!" Thinking of the excitement, Yang Reform doesn't care what time is not there, thinking about the past, playing games, and all-nighters are also the norm!

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Chengen no longer persuaded the emperor, and immediately prepared items for the emperor to leave the palace.

…… The group went straight to Xu Guangqi's home.

Xu Guangqi's body was gradually healing, and he was recuperating at home, when he suddenly heard the housekeeper report that the emperor was coming, and immediately came out to greet him, but as soon as he came out, he met the emperor in a hurry, and saluted immediately.

"Minister Xu Guangqi knocks to see my emperor, long live, long live, long live!"

"Master Xu, don't be polite, please get up quickly, I have something important to discuss with Master Xu." Yang Gengai almost rushed into Xu Guangqi's house at a sprint speed, panting, which made Xu Guangqi very surprised, what happened to make His Majesty so hurried. Could it be that there was a coup d'état? The emperor intends to flee? It's not like that! There was no sound in the Jingshi, Xu Guangqi was so frightened that even his cold hair stood up.

"Your Majesty, why are you in such a hurry?" Xu Guangqi couldn't care about it so much, and hurriedly asked what was going on. If someone really rebelled, Xu Guangqi planned to fight to the death with him and resolutely defend His Majesty the Emperor.

"Ahem...... Master Sun, I would like to ask you, do you know about the mercenaries of the Franco-man? I heard Sun Yuanhua say, you urged this matter? Tell me about it. "Yang Gengai really wants to know the ins and outs of this matter, his own plan, there are still big loopholes, this attack on North Korea, using his own warships, fleet, is too impatient, this is only a few months, it is definitely impossible to build new warships, can only use the old Ming Dynasty naval warships or lease, buy merchant ships to transport troops, train new soldiers, it is too risky. If you can have an experienced foreigner as an instructor, the speed at which your fleet will become an army will be several times faster, and your combat skills will definitely be able to improve and mature rapidly.

This year, the peasant rebellion will break out on a large scale, and this relocation of the peasants to the sea must be carried out immediately, as soon as possible, otherwise, the power of this rebellion will one day overturn itself to the ground. Next year, the wild boar skin will enter the customs, if you can't drag the wild boar skin in North Korea before next year, then you can only fight with the wild boar skin in the pass, Yang Reform doesn't want to watch the wild boar skin rob again and again in the pass, so it's better to find a rope to hang as soon as possible, although Yang Reform has made a lot of preparations, and is even ready to let Yuan Chonghuan ignore his own danger, to copy the wild boar skin's nest, but the confidence in victory, is also between five and five, if you can drag the wild boar skin in North Korea as much as possible, then, You can free up a lot of time to train and raise salaries, and the longer the time, the greater the chance of winning the decisive battle with the wild boar skin.

(To be continued)