Xiao Sheng almost laughed, five million taels of silver, although this is all the budget for running the entire Nanyang in the next five years, Haijun can also get a share of the boss. What makes the outlook even brighter is that Li Xi has set a policy of first going south and then north, and Haijun's budget will also rise.

But then he fell into the agony of pleasure, and no one ...... Appear. 's Haijun was pulled all the way, and he was a little fat. With such rapid expansion, talent is far from keeping up with demand. The sailor trained by the "chief helmsman" of Haijun Lao Jin, in two or three years, has risen all the way from the sail sailer to the captain, and he has run the sea route to succeed, and he can rest assured that he is really fighting?

A more critical question is, which of Europa is playing the idea of the British huá? If this matter is not thoroughly understood, it will be difficult to prepare for sexuality.

Li Shi also kept wondering about this question, and it wasn't until Lang Shining and Chen Xinghuá returned from Hoi An and brought back the reports of the Nanyang Gongyuan Division and Xiao Xie that they were vaguely sure.

Fǎ Lanxi people ......, this is not speculation, but the "confession" of Nguyen Phuc Dong, the king of Quang Nam. He confessed to Xiao Xie that because Ying Huá had mastered Jiaozhi and continued and strictly implemented the zhèng policy of the Zheng Zhu when he was in charge of the Jiìn Gongjiao, the Fǎ Lanxi missionaries were worried that Ying Huá would get involved in Guangnan and would expel them from Guangnan, so they proposed a plan for Fǎ Lanxi to go out of Guangnan to help him defend the land. Nguyen Phuc Dong did not know if the Fang An had been handed over by the missionary to the Duke of Orleans, the king of Fǎ Lan Xi Zèng, and the missionary said that as long as he signed the agreement, it would be done.

Of course, Nguyen Phuc Dong is extremely good at Ying Huá, his nominal master Li Huang has been controlled by Ying Huá, and Ying Huá really wants to clean up Quang Nam, whether it is in name or strength, it is lightly loose. In his opinion, the reason why Ying Huá has never attacked Quang Nam and only cares about the control of Hoi An's trade routes is that Guangnan is still mixed with Portuguese and Fǎ Lancy people, and Ying Huá has scruples about this.

But for the Fǎ Lanxi people, Nguyen Phuc Tung was even more jǐngti, and although he allowed them to preach, he did not dare to let them wipe their hands. The fate of the King of Siam was just around the corner, and he remembered it vividly. fǎ Lanxi people play what calculations. He knew very well that it was natural to follow the old example of Siam and control Quang Nam. The people of Quang Nam would rather be governed by the Huá Xia, who are also yellow-skinned, than under the rule of the blond, blue-eyed Europa, like the Siamese.

Therefore, after going through the painful Quan Heng, Nguyen Phuc Dong chose to bow his head to Ying Huá and handed Xiao Xie the words of the Fǎ Lancey missionary, and even the proposal. At this time, Nguyen Phuc Dong had already learned about the governor of the Tongguan through the case of Cochin, but he was a prominent figure in the Dai Bao Ying Huá.

It seems that the answer case has been revealed, and the one who intends to be unfavorable to Ying Huá is the Fǎ Lanxi people.

Then things went further, and the Jesuits, through Lang Shining, revealed another piece of bad news to Li Shi. The Française Jesuits submitted a letter of love to Pope Clement XI of Rome, asking Qiú to wage a "holy war" against the British Huá on the grounds that the Decree issued by the British Huá was contrary to the Holy See's purpose of ruling the world.

This love letter, like the love letters from missionaries from all over the world to fight against heresy and punish those who hinder the spread of the gospel, is an attitude and has no real motivation. However, after the Pope forwarded it to Fǎ Lan Xi Zhi Zhi Zhi

However, if the South Central Kingdom had been returned to the British and the Macao Gate was directly recovered, Sir Sousa arrived six years ahead of schedule and became the first envoy of the King of Europa to meet with Li Xi frequently. The purpose of his trip is naturally clearer, to "claim justice" for the Portuguese in Macao.

As the cornerstone of the establishment of equal and friendly diplomatic relations between the two sides, Sir Sousa informed Li Xi of another bad news, King Philip V of Spain, received a report from the governor of Manila, it is not clear what the governor of Manila said, but the news came from the court, and the king said casually:

"Those anti-zéi who are thousands of miles away, do they also want to question my throne? They must learn to respect traditions and respect fait accompli. ”

Well, add another Spanish ...... If it is said that the people of Ranxi jumped their feet because they violated their "Holy Sect Sect Quanqili" in Annam. For nearly a hundred years, the Spaniards have been running Luzon, but they naturally don't want to see Huá Xia Zhiwen pay attention to the South Seas, which will mean that their Zuì business is about to be liquidated. When Li Shi confirmed that the threat to Nanyang came from these two families, he said that it was indeed a nest of snakes and rats... The euphemism of the Ye (River) Su (Crab) Society, the "declaration of justice" of the Portuguese envoy, Li Xi is a bīng to block, the water to cover the earth, the principle will never change, but in terms of tariffs and travel and residence, etc., to appease the two sides.

Then Li Shi threw the situation prediction to Xiao Sheng, and said: "If you want people to give people, you want money to give money, the bottom line is that a foreigner's gunboat will never be allowed to sail into Lingding Ocean!" Lao Xiao, you can watch it. ”

Xiao Sheng burned, predicting the situation, Fǎ Lanxi and Spain, the existing forces in Nanyang are not enough to threaten Ying Huá, and it is necessary to dispatch Dajun from the mainland. The two of them dispatched Dajun. It took a year for the two to go from the intention of bīng to the fleet's entry into the South Seas.

It sounds like a long time, but for Haijun Construction, it is just a flick of a finger.

Xiao Sheng summoned all the dignitaries of Haijun to gather in Xiangyuan Port and devote themselves to the grand cause of Haijun's leap forward.

The first is to count Haijun's belongings, and now Haijun has only one Nanyang Fleet, under the jurisdiction of three detachments of Xiangpi Port, Nanao, and Kunlun. There are two turtle class, 18 turtle class, and 30 soft sail sea carp class. Because the hard-sail sea carp class is only suitable for offshore operations, it is not counted in the fleet's bīng force.

Compared with the European warships, the British Huá battleships carried significantly less guns, and the main battleship Sea Turtle class only had sixteen 20-pound guns, which was equivalent to the 24-pound guns of the Europeans. At the same time, the idea of building a sea jun by Ying Huá is also based on high-speed cruisers as the core.

If it was only a single-deck cruiser, Xiao Sheng felt that the existing strength of Ying Huá Haijun was enough to deal with the two sides of the country. For example, the USS Gosport, built by Britain in 1702, was about the size of a thousand-mile turtle-class (more than 500 tons) and carried 40 12-pounder guns, making it one of Britain's most powerful cruisers. Although Ying Huá's turtle-level cannon is few, its power is far superior to that of the other party, and Gosport is not a turtle-level opponent.

However, the two countries of the West were not Britain, and at this time they did not pay much attention to the cruisers that only undertook reconnaissance and liaison and auxiliary combat missions. But they could not send a battlefleet to Asia, and the battleships were their great walls of the sea, only used to compete for European dominance. I really want to be blinded by the lease of oil, send a large battleship to come, this thousands of miles of trek, I don't know how many sailors to sǐ, how many ships to sink. After all, battleships have a large number of people, slow speed, and poor control, so they are not suitable for thousands of miles.

The most likely scenario is that the two ships dispatched a double-deck third-class battleship as the lead ship of the cruiser, with a group of forty or fifty guns, a fourth-class ship called a "frigate" by the Britons, and a fifth-class cruiser with fewer guns, which is not too big compared with Xiao Sheng's earliest estimate of "sixty gun-gun battleships, more than ten".

Taking the cruiser to fight these warships, there is obviously no chance of winning. Therefore, Haijun's imminent task is to build a ship, but what kind of ship to build, Bai Yanding, Hú Hanshan, Lu Hanshan, Lao Jin and other important members of Haijun all have their own opinions, and they quarrel in front of Xiao Sheng.

In his opinion, the battle at sea is more about who has more guns and who has more guns! As long as there are a few large ships, equipped with seventy or eighty cannons, and then the sea turtle class is remodeled and the artillery is upgraded, it is enough to form an advantage over the enemy.

Bai Yanding was a staunch supporter of the "wolf pack" tactic, and he believed that the cannon of the giant ship was the most accustomed battle fǎ of foreigners, and that Ying Huá Haijun had little experience and could not attack the enemy's strengths with his own shortcomings. It is necessary to build more medium-sized warships such as the turtle class, and at the same time transform the turtle class to win by quantity.

Lu Hanshan and Lao Jin are the guardians of the territory, and they feel that there are so many sea carp levels, and they can completely build sea carp classes and use small boats to fight the sea tactics

The sea carp class is also a 400-material ship, which is already considered a small ship, and most foreign merchant ships are so big.

In the end, Xiao Sheng made a decision, and the big ships with three gun decks should not be counted on, but the big ships with two gun decks must be built, and the sea turtle and sea turtle class must also be improved.

"Haijun's people are the most noble! We can afford to sink the ship, we can't afford to lose people! ”

Xiao Sheng went to explain his decision, the reason is very simple, the bigger the ship, the more people, sinking a ship, it will lose a large number of people, a three-story gun deck ship, one will get seven or eight hundred people, and if you lose a boat, the sea will break your muscles and bones. The people of Ying Huá Haijun, whether they are sail runners or gunners, they are all treasures, and it is difficult to train and replenish them sufficiently. The small and medium-sized boat tactics advocated by Bai Yanding, Lu Hanshan, and Lao Jin also have fatal flaws. That is, there is no warship that can compete with the enemy head-on, and no matter how fast it runs, it is useless. At the same time, the more ships there are, the more the need for captains, first mates, helmsmen, etc., and the greater the pressure on talents. Xiao Sheng's decision, everyone has to agree, indeed, Haijun is a technical species, lack of talents, everything has to be "people-oriented".

Since its founding, we have been implementing this purpose. Why work on the gun mount. Why did he only place sixteen cannons on a large ship of 1,200 materials, all in order to save manpower. The turtle-class has a capacity of only 150 people, and the Europa battleship of the same class has a crew of nearly 300 people, which is the gap in thinking.

Hú Hanshan cuō shook his hand and said excitedly: "Then, let's plan a big ship with two gun decks." ”

The three floors are gone, and there can finally be two floors, and in this South Sea, it can be regarded as a giant ship that is rarely seen.

Xiao Sheng niē chin said: "Count the cannon first, then count the ship......"

There are 20 30-pound guns on the gun deck and 20 20-pound guns on the middle deck, because of the up-tilting hull design, only 8 8-pound guns can be placed on the top deck, a total of 48 guns. Among them, the power of the 30-pound cannon was better than the 32-pound cannon of the Europeans. This class of ships can only be classified as the fifth-class ships of the Europeans, but the combat power is enough to compete with the four-class ships, and Xiao Sheng named this class of warships very cheesy "Sea Lion" class. The class is expected to be 2,000 (1,300 tons) in size. The capacity is 300 people.

The transformation of the turtle class is simple, changing the cannon and adding the artillery. It was increased to 20 20-pound guns, 6 8-pound guns, and slightly widened the hull, becoming a first-class selective cruiser, and its size also rose to 1,400 materials (900 tons), with a capacity of 200 people.

The turtle class was only improved on the original ship, replacing the 12-jin guns with 16 20-jin guns, and adding 8 8-pound guns to the top deck, with a capacity of 150 people.

Siam Shipyard has a municipal ship repair yard in Kowloon Bay, Xiangyi Harbour, and is also the office of the Privy Council Marine Repair Camp. Although the hull can be modified from the Jiu Zhou and Sea turtle class, and the craftsmen only have the shipbuilding data collected by the Coastal Defense Department such as the "Illustrated Description of the Europa Battleship" for reference, but after all, it is a new design, and many details are difficult for craftsmen to eat.

While urging the craftsmen to step up the design, Xiao Sheng urgently placed an order with the Siam Shipyard that the turtle-class could be directly modified locally, and it was important to build the new turtle-class first. He now has a bulging pocket, and he placed an order for eight new turtle-level turtles in one go, each with artillery, costing more than 50,000 taels of silver, 400,000 taels, and it was gone with a snap of his fingers. But he didn't care, the sea lion level estimated that each could be as high as 200,000 taels of silver...... Just when Xiao Sheng and other dignitaries were busy building ships, a distinguished guest arrived at Kowloon Bay.

"Brother Xiao, we have a new gadget in Foshan, do you want to try it?"

The person who came was Guan Fengsheng, Xiao Sheng didn't dare to slack off, but when he heard this, he didn't care.

"Uncle Guan, let's Haijun just hold your cannon, and the gun mount or something, I hope to change it, don't get sick of máo, the simpler the better."

Haijun Da Yue Jin, Foshan made a lot of money, this is a few hundred cannons, last year, Foshan made a lot of business.

Guan Fengsheng smiled plainly: "There is a new cannon, try it." ”

Xiao Sheng nodded again and again, saying that he was very happy to attend the demonstration of the new cannon, but said in his heart, what else can this cannon do?

(To be continued)