Yang Ling now follows Wu Hanchao to learn martial arts, has a famous teacher to guide him, and practices the best martial arts, which is much faster than ordinary martial arts practitioners.

Seeing that the situation was not good, he hurriedly leaned over and reached out to hold Cheng Qiyun's small waist.

Cheng Qiyun's waist looks like willow, but it is extremely plump and smooth, the tentacles are soft and soft, soft as boneless, and Cheng Qiyun's frightening face is slightly red, and the fragrance is slightly moving.

Yang Ling remembered the amazing scene of Cheng Qiyun raising his hand to dance at first glance in the mansion, with gold leaves and silver Ling tied around his waist, and the spirit snake as the bone and spring water as the skin, he couldn't help but feel a wave in his heart, unconsciously, his hand was tightened, and he greedily felt the slippery **.

Although the action was not obvious, the place where Cheng Qiyun, who was a little frightened, was held by him was like a soldering iron, and he seemed to feel his lightness, and the watery eyes glanced at him, there was no sadness in his eyes, but there seemed to be a faint smile, Yang Ling couldn't help but feel hot on his face.

"Uh, is this girl alright? Do adults still want to see the boat? Lord Luo was hung for a long time before asking.

Yang Ling turned around and said, "No need, the official will learn more about it after entering the stone city", after speaking, he lowered his head, and asked in a soft voice: "Is your foot hurt?" I'll help you into the Stone City to rest. ”

Cheng Qiyun listened to his concerned tone and didn't feel sweet in her heart, she would also behave, originally her ankles were only a little hot, and she didn't feel that there was anything serious, but this time she couldn't get up, Xiangxiang's soft body snuggled up to him without hesitation, let him hold it, and slowly walked towards Shicheng.

The two of them walked like this, but it was slow, a large group of gentry and celebrities in the back, and it was not good to go ahead of the two, a large group of people with long robes and big sleeves, as the two of them moved step by step, one step at a time, look at the slow formation, dignified under the leadership of the old lady into the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors.

Cheng Qiyun was held by him, looking up as if no one was around, his eyes were just staring at Yang Ling, and there was a feeling in his heart that he had never appeared before, only to feel that his heart was crispy and numb, a little sweet, a little sour, like a sour tooth, soft and did not dare to touch it, for fear that it would turn into a puddle of water when he touched it.

"Makeup and ask my husband in a low voice, the thrush is deep and shallow", if now I and he are in the boudoir embroidery couch into Qiyun's heart "tom" jumped, a moment of thought: I have such luck, such grace? If one day you can be hugged by his beloved him in his arms and sleep in the same bed, when he gets up in the morning, he has the opportunity to flirt with him thrush, and is loved by him in his arms like this, oh my God, thinking of this, the soft and tender heart is like a fried poached egg, and it breaks open, and a stream of heat flows from her heart to the bones of her limbs, so that her thighs can't help but tremble slightly.

How could Yang Ling know that once Dai Lou'er, a master of the wind and moon and the holy hand of love, moved her true feelings, that kind of child's mentality was even more sensitive than that of ordinary girls, and he thought that Cheng Qiyun's ankle was painful, so he was even more careful.

The two of them finally moved into the stone city next to the dock, entered the house and sat down, and a large number of officials who followed behind let out a sigh of relief, and even Qian Ning secretly wiped two handfuls of sweat.

Yang Ling asked Cheng Qiyun's foot injury, Cheng Qiyun's heart was sweet, how could she feel any pain, Yang Ling sat down on the side with confidence, beckoned the officials and gentry to sit down one by one, and smiled at Lord Luo: "Lord Luo, please continue."

Lorne coughed and said: "In order to save costs, the rudder components, sail winches, sails, cables, guns and other equipment are distributed in various small shipyards, each responsible for a piece, here is only responsible for the main body of the ship, and the final assembly will be carried out after completion."

Among the various ships built, the fortune ship is as tall as a city, the power is strong, it is easy to plow the waves, the draft is two feet, the boat is as short as the small cangboat of my dynasty, so the ship is pressed down by the wind, such as a car rolling mantis, if the ship does not avoid and face the enemy, there is no need for a soldier, only by the hull collision, the ship will be scattered into a sampan all over the place. ”

When Lord Luo said this, he seemed quite complacent.

Yang Ling shook his head and said: "This is not enough, we must build fast ships, warships that can travel far seas, otherwise we can only look at the ocean and sigh." The spray cans, guns, rockets and artillery loaded on the ship also need craftsmen to continuously improve their skills, which craftsman can improve the effectiveness of firearms and ships, Lord Qian, to be rewarded by the officials!

As far as this official knows, now that there have been Western firearms in the South China Sea, all firearms are powerful, no matter how big our ship is, it has been sunk before we see the shadow of the enemy? ”

Lord Luo hurriedly bowed and said, "Yes, yes, the lower officials must pay attention."

When it comes to the knowledge of this ship, the advantages and disadvantages of firearms, it is not what Cheng Qiyun is good at, she sat on the side without squeaking, looking at Yang Ling and talking, quite a general's demeanor, and her heart was even more joyful than showing her skills.

She couldn't help but smile at Yang Ling, this silent smile, her eyebrows were curved, her eyes were curved, the corners of her lips were upturned, and her beautiful face was instantly smart and vivid, and it was simply soft to the bones.

Lord Luo also saw this beauty and smiled, this is really a smile of Lou'er, upside down all beings, Lord Luo is not the object of Cheng Qiyun's flattery, but he was also dumbfounded by her bone-scratching smile, and it took a while to wake up.

He hurriedly looked away and continued: "In addition to the big treasure ship, the second is the horse clipper, the horse ship has eight masts, 37 zhang long and 15 zhang wide, mainly used to transport war horses, quartermasters and soldiers, and is equipped with artillery and firearms, which can be used for rapid water warfare.

Again, it is a warship, mainly used for frontal battles on the surface, and the overall equipment is all firearms, and it is the fastest. The ship is used for two combat modes: fleet escort and water and landing. Finally, there are the seven-masted grain ships and water boats, which can also raise domestic animals, grow vegetables, and be equipped with fishing gear to catch aquatic products, which is an essential supply ship for ocean wars."

These things were really unheard of by Yang Ling, he closed his eyes, took a long breath, and then slowly opened his eyes, and said retrospectively: "Such a powerful ocean-going sailor, anyone who tries to blow my Tianwei can immediately launch a devastating blow against it without mercy."

With such a huge fleet and the Nanyang feudal states as supplies, it is easy for the Celestial Empire army to be continuously exported to the west, and if it is fed by war and supplied on the spot in the occupying country, then the Ming Empire will be like the Yuan Empire in the past, and the whole world will tremble under its feet, the difference is that they are from the land, and we are from the water. Alas, who would have thought that we could too, if it weren't for today, how could it be in the future"

Yang Ling said leisurely, as if he remembered the song that made the hearts of the people feel heartache again: "Who made you majestic, who made this fire all over the place, hatred rushing to the clouds, who has no anger and no grief?" How much blood and sweat have been dripped, before I took the heavenly work to build, with my heart to build, to pass on the eternal generations, I don't want to end up this field, humiliate the family and humiliate the lintel, and hope that the shock of this fire can make my children and grandchildren remember, and they will wake up to the fact that why they are bullied, use this fire as a memory, and revisit the old grievances Why they are bullied by the Heavenly Empire", Yang Ling slowly exhaled a long breath, as if he vomited out the injustice and bitterness in his heart: No, that scene will never happen again, right? I hope that people in the future will turn the pages of history again, and what they will see will always be the glory of the strong Qin, Han and martial arts, and the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Yes, from now on, from under his feet, everything has changed All the officials don't know what Yang Ling said in his mouth is extremely heroic, why there is a sad expression on his face, he looks at each other, and he doesn't dare to intervene for a while.

Lord Luo swallowed his saliva, and then said cautiously: "My lord, you are visiting the Longjiang Shipyard on behalf of the sky, it is a great fortune for the local people, the Great Fortune Ship is about to be completed, this is the first giant ship we rebuilt according to Zheng He's charts, can you please give a name to the treasure ship?" ”

"Huh?" Yang Ling came to his senses and looked at Lord Luo seriously: "Do you want to lead the inscription?" I can't see that this technical talent is also quite good at sycophancy, promising, promising."

Yang Ling really wanted to give this Dafu ship a name, but he pinched his chin and thought about it for a long time, and the only name he could vaguely remember was that the Titanic sank! The Kursk sank! The Zhongshan ship sank.

He thought about it for a long time, so he had to make it up by himself, and slapped his head and said, "Let's call the Buddha's belly to support the boat."

Lord Luo said in surprise: "Buddha's belly propping boat? ”

Yang Ling said with a smile: "Exactly, as the saying goes, the prime minister can support the boat in his belly, and it is said that the Buddha's big belly can tolerate things that are intolerable in the world." The blessing ship saw the sky again, and the Ming Dynasty ocean-going sailors said that it was just around the corner, and this ship took the meaning of the Buddha's belly to support the boat, that is, to let the people of the Heavenly Dynasty be tolerant and tolerant, and to be able to absorb the strengths of the countries for their own use, and not to be blindly arrogant and make cars behind closed doors.

At the same time, my Heavenly Dynasty sailor should also punish those who insult, and those who are good will be handed over, not to bully others, and always have a compassionate heart. As for this Buddha word, hehe, sailing on the sea is the most auspicious, let's sail in the belly of the Buddha of Compassion, isn't it safe? ”

Lord Luo praised the festival: "Wonderful, wonderful, the name of the adult is of great significance."

The rest of the officials and gentry praised in unison, only Qian Ning and Yang Ling were familiar with each other, although he didn't dare to touch Yang Ling's woman, joking this kind of innocuous thing that could highlight his close relationship with Lord Qincha He still had a good grasp of it, and he was eating and laughing on the side at the moment: "Buddha's belly supports the boat, this name is good, when the lower official heard it, his mother was stunned to think of Dongpo meat." Mr. Wu and Mr. Xu Gongzi invited the best four celebrity chefs in Jinling to hold a big banquet by the river. ”

Everyone was amused by his jokes, Wu Jiyuan and Xu Jing laughed and said: "In order to welcome Qincha, the two of us have prepared a thin banquet by the river, please enjoy the light, please please."

The Xu and Wu families really deserve to be rich in the south of the Yangtze River, they specially rowed a carved beams and paintings, exquisite big pleasure boat, the ship invited the famous Jinling Kabuki and Maiko to help the fun, and even an inconspicuous musician who stroked the piano and played the pipa next to him was a famous music theorist in the south of the Yangtze River.

At the banquet, there are all kinds of rare delicacies such as Daigo, Lun, Wild Camel's Hoof, Deer Lips, Leopard Fetus, and Crispy Cheese Cicada, and they are conditioned by famous artists, and the beauty of the taste makes people want to make their tongues want to melt.

Most of the officials who went to the banquet had never eaten these rare delicacies, and when they saw it, they couldn't help but be secretly surprised by the generosity of these wealthy families.

Among these people, only Yang Ling was ignorant, and he didn't know how difficult it was to get a piece of these mountain and water treasures, and how many cooking procedures there were. The ignorant are fearless, and those well-informed officials who have lived in Jiangnan for a long time are amazed when they eat a dish, only Yang Ling has an unchanging look of Mount Tai collapsed in front of him.

The small cup of nine-pin soup cooked with four kinds of mountain delicacies, five kinds of seafood, three kinds of wine, and twelve kinds of traditional Chinese medicine after more than 40 processes, others are sipping and tasting, only Yang Ling took a bite, and it was not enough to quench his thirst, and the officials were in awe when they saw it: It is really not a loss to be a Beijing official, so bold.

Yang Ling drank a few glasses of wine, and his interest gradually increased, he chatted with the officials, and there were Cheng Qiyun's witty words in the middle, stirring up emotions from time to time, and everyone gradually let go, and laughter and joy came from the water.

Yang Ling was talking and laughing with Qian Ning, when he suddenly heard someone whispering, his voice suddenly rose a little higher, and said: "If the cannon is far away, it is difficult to hit, and it is easy to hit the target within a hundred zhang, but the enemy cannon can also break our ship's board."

Yang Ling followed the prestige, and saw that it was the two young officials sitting at the end of the banquet, arguing in a low voice, the two of them were forgetful, and the voice was louder, Yang Ling smiled: "Which department are the two officials, it seems that they are arguing about artillery, can they be said to listen to this official?" ”

The two young officials hurriedly stood up in fear and said: "Back to Lord Qincha, Lu Zekai and Cheng Bingxi, the ambassadors of the Nanjing Ordnance Bureau, have disturbed Lord Qincha's drinking, please forgive your sins."

Yang Ling had dealt with the Ordnance Bureau in order to study muskets when he was in Beijing, and knew that this ambassador was a petty official from Jiupin, and it was said that they were not qualified to go on the ship for a banquet, and Qian Ning didn't know what he wanted to ask, so the officials who studied various utensils prepared two just in case, so they followed the ship in a daze.

Yang Ling smiled and said: "It's not strange, it's not strange, what kind of official position is discussed at the banquet?" Please sit down, if you have anything to say, it doesn't hurt to say it, and I want to hear it."

The two of them still wanted to be polite, but Qian Ning said impatiently: "If the adults tell you to sit, you can sit, where are there so many rules?" ”

The two were startled, and then they apologized and sat down. Lu Zekai bowed and said: "My lord, the lowly duty specializes in artillery, and the lowly position thinks that offense is the best defense, and attacking instead of defending can achieve the greatest results." In naval battles, if one side has heavy artillery, it can be wiped out in one fell swoop if it is out of range of the opponent. After the new gunpowder formula was transmitted by the Jingshi Ordnance Bureau, the power of gunpowder increased greatly, and he thought that if the imperial court was willing to allocate manpower and property and devote himself to research, the artillery of our dynasty would be greatly enhanced."

Yang Ling couldn't help but look up and down: "Lord Lu is an expert in firearms?" ”

Lu Zekai didn't understand the word expert, but the estimation meant that he had some specialization, and he smiled with a smile: "The reputation of the adults is excessive, and the humble position is to study artillery."

The director of the Ordnance Bureau got up and said: "My lord, although Lu Zekai is young, he is indeed a specialist in the development of firearms in the Ordnance Bureau.

Yang Ling nodded, and smiled at that Cheng Bingxi again: "Then why is Lord Cheng arguing with Lord Lu?" ”

Cheng Bingxi said angrily: "My lord, I think that in the naval battle, the huge waves are turbulent, the hull is shaking, even if a long-range battle cannon is developed, it is difficult to hit the target, and in the end it is still close to a hundred zhang before the decisive battle." At this distance, the superiority of our artillery is not obvious, the thickness of the cabin is only two feet, and the effect of our heavy artillery hitting the target with the artillery of the enemy ship is the same.

Therefore, first of all, we should study how to strengthen the firmness of the hull, and the strength effect is different depending on the wood. He also found that the angles of inclination of the planks were different, the packing of the interlayer was different, and the damage caused by the shelling was also completely different, so it was necessary to start from this aspect and study how to strengthen the warships of our naval division as the first priority."

Yang Ling only realized that at that time, ballistics, geometry, etc. had not yet been systematically developed, even if a long-range cannon was developed, it was really a cannon to fight mosquitoes, and it was useless, but if it was used to bombard fixed targets in land warfare, it was still useful.

In addition, this development trend is a matter of time, first research long-range cannons, as soon as there are auxiliary aiming tools, they can play an effective role immediately, if the sighting tools appear and then think about studying cannons, it will be long-lasting.

However, at any time, strengthening one's own chariots and warships is the research and development goal of the army, and it is rare that although these two petty officials of the Ordnance Bureau have different opinions, they can have this insight in different research fields. It's just that no matter how much you study the plank ship, how strong can it be?

He joked: "If that's the case, then why not put iron armor on the battleship?" ”

When he said this, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and it suddenly occurred to him that modern steel warships could not be used because the ships were purely driven by wind power and there was no riveting and welding technology at that time, but what was the difficulty of adding a layer of iron plates to the walls of wooden ships? Doesn't this reinforce the hull?

He hurriedly asked, "So, what does Master Cheng think about adding a layer of iron plates to the hull of our ships, so that the wooden ships become ironclad ships?" ”

Cheng Bingxi's eyes lit up, and he praised: "Okay, this method is not very difficult, it can be equipped and used with a little research, but the iron plate is installed on the ship, and the silver consumption is too great."

Yang Ling said with a smile: "Although it costs more silver to install iron plates, but compared to the whole ship, I don't know how much silver is missing, if the ship is sunk, the ship is gone, and our well-trained sailors and soldiers are gone, how big is this loss?" ”

He added: "However, the ships are all driven by the wind, and the installation of iron plates is bound to be heavy, so I think we can study it." At present, our warships are mainly divided into six types, and a number of ironclad ships can be developed, which can be regarded as the seventh type of warships, which are specially used for coastal defense. ”。

Yang Ling said to Qian Ning: "Brother Qian, these two ambassadors of the Ordnance Bureau, you go back and take care of it, transfer it to the Ordnance Craftsman Bureau of the Zhenfu Division, and then transfer the personnel of the Ordnance Bureau for their use and provide silver money."

Haha, Lord Lu, you will specialize in how to attack, and Lord Cheng will specialize in how to defend, to see if you are powerful in the Lu family spear, or you are powerful in the Cheng family shield! ”

Cheng and Lu heard this, and their young faces overflowed with excitement, and they glanced at each other, with both joy and unconvincing competition in their eyes.

Later generations studied the naval envoys, and some people once said that the iron-walled ploughshare beak plane sea falcon warship built by Qin Shifu in the Song Dynasty was the earliest ironclad ship in the world, but this kind of warship was wrapped with iron sheets on both sides of the ship's side. Therefore, it is more commonly believed that the tortoiseshell ship invented by Yi Sunsin of North Korea is the ancestor of the world's ironclad ship.

However, now there is a banquet on the side of the Yangtze River, and a joke from Lord Qincha in the middle of the conversation and laughter has made the ironclad ship advance by Li Sunsin by decades, and it has been grandly unveiled.

Sometimes, history changes because of a casual remark by a big man.

(To be continued)