In March, happy events came one after another.

First, the British East India Company opened up trade with the Ming Dynasty. Earn good trade profits. At the same time, Charles I was even more excited when he learned that the Ming Empire was at war with the Dutch East India Company and hoped to form an alliance with the British, because in the eyes of Europeans, the ancient Eastern Empire of the Ming Empire was full of sacredness. Being able to form an alliance with the Ming Dynasty will undoubtedly be in an active position at the political level in Europe. Charles I immediately agreed to the request for an alliance.

On the issue of candidates, since Na Haonan of the Ming Empire was a marquis, in order to show respect and sincerity, Charles I sent Dudley to force Duke Gus to be a mission to Daming. And carried a royal sword given to the Emperor of the Ming Empire by Charles I, symbolizing a military alliance.

Again, Governor John's success in brokering this alliance was a great credit to the English Empire. King Charles I of England was pleased and agreed to John's offer to apply for a charter for the East India Company.

Charles I signed five laws granting the East India Company the right to occupy territory, mint coins, command forts and armies, form alliances and declare war, sign peace treaties, and try civil and criminal proceedings in occupied areas.

The enemies of the British East India Company included commercial competitors, hostile nations, and hostile forces within the country, so it needed more protection rights. The right to engage in military operations was very important to John's company.

After receiving a charter from King Charles I, the British East India Company soon established an armed force of its own, the main personnel of which came from the recruitment of the local population. With an army, the British East India Company could be said to have the character of a "state", which autonomously controlled the rule of Bengal, Chennai and Bombay, and had a formidable and threatening military force. At the same time, due to the direct trade between the Ming Dynasty and England, John's Company had its own motto: "Subordinate to the patron of the Emperor and the Parliament of England."

After the British East India Company was granted a charter. Of course, they must fulfill their promise to Deng Haonan, that is, to apply for the construction of large warships.

Since John was not sure whether the Ming Dynasty and England could form a military alliance, his company had already formed an alliance with Deng Haonan. Therefore, he could not tell him for the time being that the large battleship was built for Deng Haonan, so John placed a series of orders with the Royal Shipyards of England in the name of establishing the British Far East Fleet. Among them was a 1,500-ton warship armed with 100 guns.

Charles I had long been preparing to start building a luxury warship of his own, because the royal families of Europe had their own luxury warships. He, the king of England, is the only one who doesn't.

However, his parliament did not approve of his construction of lavish warships, citing the cost of life and money. For this reason, Charles I had already dissolved Parliament, but unfortunately opponents still abounded, much to his annoyance. Now John's application for the construction of large warships just gave Charles I a reasonable excuse. As a result, Charles I asked John to order two small ships in the name of the British Far East Fleet. However, one of them was to be given to Charles I in John's name, and Charles I was to compensate the East India Company for other preferential policies.

John, who had made a fortune, naturally had plenty of money, so he very generously reached an agreement with Charles I, so that the construction of the historical battleship "Maritime Sovereignty" began several years ahead of schedule. And it's two.

Of course, with Charles I giving the green light, the Royal Shipyard attached great importance to the construction of these two battleships. And hired the most famous shipbuilder Peter Pate to preside over the design. At the same time, John also sent the East India Company's employees to participate in the construction, and among the employees were twenty Deng Haonan's men, who participated in the construction of battleships in the name of the East India Company's employees.

The keels of the two battleships were laid in the dockyard of the Royal Shipyard in Portsmouth, England, on the 7th of the 4th AD.

The one given to Charles I was named the Sea Monarch. The one ordered by Di Haonan was named Zhenyuan.

The second ship has a design displacement. Stew, full displacement, staring stew. Long league feet lead meters. The use of standard timber from Kent Forest and oak from Sussex Forest are all built to a high standard. There are old 4 guns and 2 pounds on the Sea Sovereign, 8 blade pounds, old gates and untie gates. And the Zhenyuan was equipped with four guns for the pound. 8 doors are pounds, and 5 doors are famous pounds. The door was stunned.

Because the Sea Monarch was given to Charles I, its ship was luxuriously decorated, finely carved, and the Baroque art style was vivid, and it was said to be the crystallization of the shipbuilding industry at that time, which was amazed by the world, so the cost was 1.2 million British tin.

And there are not too many carvings on the Zhenyuan, because Deng Haonan doesn't like the luxurious carvings of Westerners, so he specially asked John. Without carving, the amount of material consumed and scrapped would be much higher, so the cost of the Zhenyuan was half that of the Sea Sovereign, at 570,000 pounds.

Zhenyuan sail goose ship,

Commencement: March of the year of persuasion

Completion: Pharyngeal Year and Mouth Month

Service: Compare the years and months of the blade

Displacement: in tons

Scale: Long boron meter full length, including ship smast, width, draft: heart one wang meter

Mast: The main mast is 6 meters strong

Voyage: Old Festival

Armament: Murder artillery. The pounder of the knife door, the 8 rush pomp cannons, the old pomp cannon of the strong gate, the door pomp cannon

Crew: Approx. person

Britain and the Ming Dynasty naturally could not form an alliance, because the Ming Dynasty did not dump England at all, and the British mission could only form an alliance with Deng Haonan.

Of course, an alliance with Deng Haonan is basically the same as an alliance with Daming.

However, Deng Haonan has no interest in forming an alliance with England at all, and may be a hostile side in the future. Because England will rise, and Deng Haonan is also ready to seize the world's sea power.

The two sides will have common contradictions in the future. If there is a contradiction, it is equivalent to a war that is not far away. But that's all for later, Di Haonan only likes the British battleship construction technology. The significance of political cooperation and economic cooperation between the two sides is far greater than that of military cooperation. Of course, this is with the English government, if the British East India Company has the ability to fight, then it can talk about the meaning of military cooperation. The British were willing to build battleships for Deng Haonan, which was the first happy event for Deng Haonan. Also in April, after the Pacific Trading Company returned, it brought back two happy events for Deng Haonan. One of them was to pry the mouth of Reynosa, the governor of Mexico, and successfully establish a colonial juggler and horse farm in the Seattle area.

A happy event from the outside is that Liu Jian and Hannock have reached a large-scale construction battle

King Louis XIII of the Bourbon dynasty of France financed Denmark and Sweden to attack the Holy Roman Empire against the Spanish Empire, and at the same time secretly prepared the 6th Army to directly enter the war. Due to internal instability in France, Louis XIII was wary of his mother, younger brother, and Habsburg wife. Marie-de-Medici also conspired to depose Louis XIII and make the Duke of Orleans king. And the discord between the king and his wife, who had no children for many years after marriage, also facilitated the intrigues of the Queen Mother and the Duke of Orleans. However, Louis XIII had the help of his courtier, Richelieu, and under the blow of his iron-fisted policy, he was able to stand up to the Duke of Orleans.

Due to the civil strife in France, Louis XIII did not have enough money to go directly to the war, so he wanted to make some extra money. However, overseas trade has always been monopolized by Spain and the Netherlands, and it is difficult to make money. Upon learning of Hannock's request for a large warship, Louis XIII immediately prepared to slaughter Hannock in order to accumulate more funds.

The price offered by France was very high, as high as five million francs. That's £1,260,000. Hannock thought that he had lost the deal, but Deng Haonan's bottom line was not a question of price at all, but whether he could obtain France's advanced shipbuilding technology.

After negotiations between Liu Jian and Hannock, the price was not a problem, but Hannock was required to arrange Deng Haonan's manpower to follow him to participate in the construction process of the battleship, and Hannock was required to ensure that all the people sent by Deng Haonan learned the technology.

Hannock naturally doesn't have any problems as a businessman, he just needs to make money, and he doesn't care about the leakage of any French shipbuilding technology.

So the shipbuilding agreement was reached, but the battleship built by the French for Deng Haonan was worth the money, because her overall performance was higher than that of the Zhenyuan battleship built in the United Kingdom, which fulfilled Deng Haonan's words, and the French warships were of the best quality during this period.

The French built it according to Deng Haonan's requirements, and the materials used were also the best. All are high-quality oak harvested from the Baltic Sea coast. Cheng invited the famous French shipbuilder Longewell to preside over the design, located in the Royal Navy Shipyard in Senazaire, France, and started construction on June of the old knife year.

Deng Haonan named the ship the Dingyuan sail battleship. Design displacement temple ton full load displacement, Asahi stew. Long knife rice. High-quality oak from the Baltic Sea coast is used, and the construction standards are high. The Dingyuan has the old gate artillery, among which the pomp cannon of the Limen". Loose pound cannon, blade door old pound cannon, door cannon. It adopts a French-style long hull design, a standard symmetrical layout of the left and right guns, a long ramming angle, and a tail cross balance rudder design.

The high quality of the French battleship is high in the structural strength of the battleship, which can adapt to bad weather, and at the same time, the standard of the French battleship is to equip it with a large caliber of artillery, so that the strength of the battleship's guard plate can resist the corresponding artillery shells, of course, it refers to the firing distance of the French Navy at a distance of 500 meters.

According to this standard, the outer layer of oak of the Dingyuan battleship was wrapped in a layer of copper skin, and the thickness of the oak baffle could withstand the shells of a 60-pounder gun from a distance of 500 meters.

In order to improve the degree of the battleship, the French also wrapped the lower part of the battleship waterline with copper skin, and applied fish oil to reduce the friction resistance in the water of the battleship and improve the degree.

Dingyuan sail battleship,

Commencement: June of the fourth year

Completion: Old Blade Years

Service: Closed year

Displacement: Heart stew

Scale: The full length of the long knife meter, including the ship's smast, is 73 meters wide. Draft: 6 m

Mast: Main mast aiming meter

Boat:. section

Armament: Murder artillery. The pound cannon of the force gate, the old door to the pound gun, the old pound gun of the blade door, the four pound guns

Jianyan: About 8 or 5 people

The start of construction of the second ship in Dingzhen made Deng Haonan really excited for several days. The reason why they are named Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, in addition to the fact that the names are very attractive and deterrent, there are also regrets in Deng Haonan's heart that cannot be erased from them.

With this regret has left a deep scar on Deng Haonan's psychology, it can no longer be changed, but Deng Haonan hopes that in this era, their names will forever be recorded in the annals of China's navy, and even in the annals of the world's navy. Let their names no longer bear shame, but glory.

"What do you think?" A coquettish cry awakened Na Haonan's contemplation.

Turn your head and look. But it was Hai Lanzhu who changed into a Hanfu.

Hai Lanzhu walked closer, tilted her head to look at Deng Haonan, and said, "Look at your deep eyes, it seems to be full of depression, who made you unhappy!" ”

Deng Haonan smiled bitterly and looked at Hai Lanzhu in Hanfu.

"Is it pretty?"

Hai Lanzhu saw Deng Haonan looking at her, and immediately shook her wide sleeved robe, and asked with a smile.

"Do you mean people? Or clothes? ”

Deng Haonan deliberately teased her, Hai Lanzhu widened her eyes and stared at Deng Haonan fiercely.

would rather offend a gentleman than offend a villain and a woman, Na Haonan knows the truth well.

"Hah! It's all good-looking! ”

"That's pretty much it!"

Hai Lanzhu withdrew her cannibalistic eyes, and admired her new clothes very narcissistically. Since Deng Haonan set off the imitation weaving revolution. Hai Lanzhu was fine, so she learned embroidery and making clothes with Wanshu. However, Hai Lanzhu has no talent in this area, and the silk fabrics she made are embarrassing.

Take the dress she was wearing in front of her, if it weren't for the material of fine silk and gold and silver thread entangled, such a dress would be almost the same as being thrown on the street as a mop.

"That's right!" Hai Lanzhu suddenly remembered the meaning, so she said: "Forget about you!" Wanshu asked me to tell you, tomorrow is her birthday! ”

"Okay!" Deng Haonan said happily: "It just so happens that I don't have anything to do, just to celebrate her!" ”

Then Deng Haonan asked suspiciously: "Why didn't she sue me?" But you want to come and sue me? ”

"I don't know!" Hai Lanzhu shook her head and said, "I asked her too, she just said that she was embarrassed!" ”

Deng Haonan thought for a while, and suddenly understood. It turned out that Wanshu was going to celebrate her fifteenth birthday tomorrow, and oh my God, Deng Haonan had promised her that the gray wolf would eat the little sheep on her fifteenth birthday.

Deng Haonan smiled dumbly, and then walked away with great determination and excitement.

Looking at Deng Haonan's back, Hai Lanzhu was stunned and said, "What are the two of you doing?" Nervous! Isn't it just a birthday! ”

Then he scratched his head and said to himself, "When is my birthday?" ”

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