"Although Nagasaki is a very prosperous port, compared to Quanzhou and Fujian Taiwan, Nagasaki is a little too small."

Li Xiang stood on the bow deck of the ship, looking at the port of Nagasaki not far away and said to his nephew Yang Biao.

Don't look at Li Xiang, although he is just a pirate, he still has the mentality of a Heavenly Empire in his heart.

From this point of view, the ancients were much stronger than the modern ones.

It's not like some people in modern times, everything is good in foreign countries, and it makes people hate foreign flattery.

"What my uncle said is that Nagasaki really can't be compared to the daimyo coast. But uncle, you also have to know that the Japanese can only have such a development, how can their small country be compared with the Great Ming. And it's good to get Nagasaki like this here. ”

Standing on the deck, Li Xiang and his nephew chatted without a match.

As the three Ming-style warships slowly approached the port of Nagasaki, Li Xiang and Yang Biao slowly stopped talking. The attention of both of them was attracted by the increasingly clear sight of the Song Empire warships docked in the port of Nagasaki.

"My grandmother! Where did this ship come from, how could it be such a big guy? I'm afraid it's two times bigger than a Ming-style warship, what the hell. ”

As they got closer and closer to the port of Nagasaki, they saw more and more clearly.

After approaching a certain distance, Li Xiang and Yang Biao were completely stunned.

Yes, the warships of the Song Empire can attract people's attention wherever they are placed and become the most eye-catching.

Because of its huge hull, and the dense cannon muzzles, and the cables that wear back and forth are unique in this era.

"Uncle, look at the sides of these huge ships." , Yang Biao's eyes are good. He quickly spotted the gun ports on either side of the Imperial battleship. It's just that now because there may be a war, the muzzle baffles have been lowered, so that the sides of the battleship seem to be densely packed with small windows.

"What's that?"

Li Xiang looked at it under his own reminding of victory, but he didn't understand what it was after watching it for a long time.

It was at this time that a battleship opened the muzzle baffle because it was going to clean the deck in the gun bay. It just so happened that Li Xiang and the others approached, which made him and his nephew see clearly what it was.

Ooh! Dare to love is artillery.

When she saw the object after opening the baffle, Li Xiang's eyes suddenly widened.

He could never have imagined that there were so many guns on such a huge ship.

To know the Tao, in Li Xiang's heart. If you want to say that the ships are strong, the only ones are the warships of the Southern Barbarians. However, if the warships of the Southern Barbarians were compared to these warships, they would simply become scum-like existences.

The reason why the warships of the Southern Barbarians were so powerful was because of the guns on their ships.

Although the European ships of this era were also equipped with artillery for naval warfare, they were not as powerful as they were more than a hundred years later.

Generally speaking, its battleships are equipped with more than a dozen guns.

At most, it's only twenty-four artillery, which is already a big deal.

However, Li Xiang and his nephew Yang Biao saw these huge warships differently, after they counted them on this side alone. More than forty artillery pieces were found.

There's only one side of this!

If you count the other side, it's almost more than eighty or ninety guns.

And these cannons were different from the twelve-pounder cannons of the Southern Barbarians, and they were obviously twice as thick as the muzzles.

As an old pirate, Li Xiang immediately began to imagine in his mind. If you have encountered such a battleship at sea yourself...... Then there is no way to fight against it except running.

With so many artillery pieces, it is estimated that they will be able to blast themselves into the sea to feed the fish and shrimp without waiting for them to lead people to rush over.

Terrible!

It's horrible!

It's unexpected. There is such a terrifying warship in this world, which is completely beyond my expectations.

So where did these ships come from?

Could it be a warship of the Japanese people?

After thinking about it, Li Xiang felt that this matter was unreliable.

The Japanese did not have this kind of skill at all, and they did not have the skills to build such warships. So it can't be a Japanese at all.

You must know that the most sophisticated thing about the Japanese people today is also the so-called tortoiseshell boat. This kind of ship is nothing but its size.

The shortcomings of slow speed, bloatedness, and inability to fight in the far sea were all despised by Li Xiang.

Moreover, the Japanese people's mindset of building sea ships was doomed, and it was impossible for them to build such warships.

Because they couldn't have imagined that such a warship would appear in this world.

"This ship is fierce when you look at it. I can't imagine what it would be like to fight them at sea. Li Xiang stared at the imperial warship docked at the dock in a daze, and said in a somewhat erratic tone.

In fact, at this time, not only Li Xiang was stunned, but even his nephews and the sailors on the ship were also stunned.

These people have followed Li Xiang for at least ten years.

They have been trading at sea all year round, have experienced a lot of things, and have dealt with many people. Basically, there are no sea ships that have appeared here in the East, and they have not seen them.

And according to their own judgment and assessment, the most powerful warship in the east is the warship of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the Nanbans from the West do not count.

"yes, it's horrible. I could never have imagined that there could be so many guns on one ship. Somewhere like on our side, four or five guns on a ship is already very remarkable. ”

Yang Biao opened his mouth, and said such a thing after the last word.

These ships can't belong to the crown prince from the Americas, right?

Suddenly, Li Xiang thought of this.

Damn it, if these ships belong to the American crown prince, then it seems that my judgment of him is biased.

After Li Xiang's heart trembled, he thought secretly.

Yes, he used to think that this so-called crown prince from the Americas was nothing at all. In Li Xiang's heart, Zhao Hongyu is not a dragon who crosses the river at all.

Therefore. He felt that Zhao Hongyu could not be the opponent of the Japanese people at all.

Which Cheng thought that Zhao Hongyu not only defeated the Japanese people, but also occupied Kyushu. Everything that was done did not appear as Li Xiang judged.

Well, Li Xiang admitted that she looked away.

In particular, it can also prove that this crown prince from the Americas, the infantry under his command is very powerful.

But the infantry is powerful, and in the east, especially here in Kyushu, only a strong naval division is useful.

Even if your infantry is very strong. But your sailor can't be that powerful.

Therefore, Li Xiang felt that he still had some capital and could come to look down on the crown prince. Even with the little capital he has, he can talk to Zhao Hongyu about the conditions or something.

Come to think of it, the kindness that this crown prince released to himself. I don't know if I like my own sea power.

But now Li Xiang knows that he is completely wrong.

Yes!

Not to mention anything else, just talking about these warships docked here in Nagasaki Port is enough to make Li Xiang sober up.

A person with such a sophisticated warship, would he still look at the amount of strength he has at hand?

Apparently unlikely.

Don't talk about anything else, these ships should be handed over to yourself. Then he will definitely be able to slowly overcome the unfavorable situation of Niu Zhou in the confrontation with Zheng Zhilong.

Blunder! What a mistake!

Li Xiang took a few deep breaths and slowly calmed down.

"Uncle, your face is a little unpleasant."

Seeing that his uncle's face became extremely ugly. Yang Biao was worried that Li Xiang had something wrong at this time, so he asked about it.

Li Xiang raised his hand and waved, "I estimate that these warships are most likely to belong to the American crown prince." It seems that I really got a lot of things wrong. And underestimate others. ”

The tone was lonely, and Li Xiang was hit all of a sudden.

Although he hadn't seen the crown prince of the Song Empire in the Americas yet, Li Xiang suddenly felt as if he was in front of someone. There is simply no capital to put forward conditions.

The crown prince of the Song Empire from the Americas, the infantry army and sailors are so powerful, they can have it with or without themselves. To put it mildly, if people want to, they can even kill themselves, and then slowly clean up Zheng Zhilong.

Neither he nor Zheng Zhilong can be his opponent.

Because none of them had such a good ship, nor did they have one that could carry so many guns.

And it can also be seen from the side that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince from the Song Empire in the Americas, he is really rich.

You must know that if an ordinary artillery is purchased from the hands of the Southern Barbarians, it will cost at least two or three thousand taels of silver. And the quality of the cannon is not guaranteed, and even if there is a gun, you need to use a ship that can withstand the weight of the gun and the pressure after firing.

Therefore; There are all kinds of sets of neatness, and there is no eighty or ninety thousand taels of silver, so there is no need to think about it.

And what about this crown prince from the Americas, just the cannon on the ship costs five or six thousand taels of silver, right?

The muzzle of the cannon is not small, so the cost is definitely not too low.

One artillery piece costs five or six thousand taels of silver, and more than ninety guns are placed on a warship, so it is four hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver.

And that's not even counting the cost of the ship itself.

It's like such a big sea ship, and it costs a lot of money to come.

Look at the stern, there's a little attic...... Tut-tut, a rough estimate of the cost of this ship will cost 150,000 or 60,000 taels of silver.

Li Xiang, who secretly calculated in his heart, was taken aback by the price he calculated.

Yes, the price of all the things of this Ming-style warship under his feet is only 120,000 taels of silver.

But the other person's ship, after a rough estimate, is four times the price of their own ship...... (To be continued......)