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The two sides of the truss sail and the sail on one mainmast puffed slightly, pushing the Flying Tiger to plow a white wave on the sea, and its speed was so fast that the Ming Zheng fleet encountered on the way was stunned, so that the sailors could never tell from the appearance that it was actually just a real ship mixed with Chinese and Western. (To read the latest chapters of this book, please visit the biquge.info of Wèn Aishang Novel Network)

However, the construction of the double-bottom and watertight compartments still had a lot of negative effects on the Flying Tiger, the most important of which was to reduce the number of guns from 14 guns on both sides of the Flying Sky of the same size to 8 guns on two sides in order to compensate for the loss of payload -- although the caliber was all expanded to 4 inches, the decrease in the density of firepower was an indisputable fact -- in order to make up for the loss of combat capability, the Flying Tiger also used pulley blocks and blocking hardwood to form a recoil device. In this way, the speed of the gun was increased, so as to achieve the ultimate goal of projectile weight not decreasing within a certain period of time.

After leaving the relatively busy Dongning-Ryukyu route, the Flying Tiger began to turn due north, where it will make a cruise between Zhoushan and Tamsui to estimate an approximate time for Zheng's future plans.

"It's a pretty good boat." Although He Qi, the grandson of He Yi, the former Zuohu Guard Battalion, was also born in Jiayin, but because he was younger in the camp, he was transferred to the regular army for two periods, but he was old enough and had been the leader of the boy camp for two periods, so he was promoted to squad leader not long after he was put in the sailor camp, and now he has achieved the position of the first mate of the Flying Tiger. "Chang Tianyuan estimates that even his eyes have fallen off when he is jealous now." Speaking of this, He Qi couldn't help laughing. "Finally, it was his turn to get the boat, and he only got an old boat."

"Who let him delay time in the Taijiang team." Chen Yi, who was transferred from the position of captain of the Knight to the Flying Tiger, said lightly. However, with his qualifications, once he has a new ship in the future, he will definitely have to change it to him first, but Du Hu will suffer hardship. The leader of the Taijiang team? If you don't do it in a bathhouse, you don't have to do it. ”

"You can't say that." He Qi didn't think so. "There are still Gong Tian and a team leader of the Ryukyu Battalion blocking the way, and it is not so easy for the first mate with the rank of squad leader like Yu and Du Hu to think of a boat, and it is worth it for him to go to the Taijiang team for two years, as long as the rank goes up, are you afraid that you will not be able to be a captain in the future?"

"That's just as well." Chen Yi understood, it turned out that he was a full man who didn't know that he was hungry, and as the captain of the ship, he and the peers who had not had the opportunity to take the ship had a different vision of judging the same matter, so he smiled and broke the news. "I heard it, Shisun asked Ma Yuan and the four of them to bring a team of craftsmen each, and started work at the same time, and said that four new ships would be built within the year, two of which are the same brigs as the Flying Tiger, and the other two are the same sailing brigs as the Flying Tiger, but they don't use the hull of the double bottom and watertight cabins, and it is estimated that many people are gearing up this time."

"Four boats at once?" He Qi suddenly exclaimed. "Obediently, this is a big battle, but it's a pity that no matter how redundant it is, it won't be your turn." He Qi sighed for a while, and suddenly came back to his senses. "No, there are so many domestic Australia in the shipyard that can build ships?"

"It's not all built in the Boy Scout yard," Chen Yi explained. "Besides, didn't the Boy Scout Shipyard dig another big Neiao a few years ago, saying that as long as the keel can be solved, it will be able to build a big ship of 5,000 materials in the future."

As soon as he mentioned the big ship, He Qi thought of the indulgent Franc machine boat: "I really want to have such a big ship now, think about the last time, that grievance." ”

Chen Yi obviously had the same feeling: "Who says it's not, but the Tartars in the west are eyeing each other, and Shi Lang's traitor is preparing to come to Dongning, so at the end of this year and the beginning of next year, a big war is imminent." ”

"Does the captain mean that the Qing Dynasty will attack Penghu and Dongning within the year?" The whole of Taiwan is worried about Shi Lang's army in Taiwan, and the Boy Scouts are not insulators, so they will naturally be influenced by their families and neighbors. "That's right, when the north wind comes together, it is indeed possible for the north captives to come by the wind."

He Qi said, and couldn't help but add force to his hand, so under the action of the rudder, the Flying Tiger drew an arc, and a certain inclination appeared on the deck. Seeing this situation, He Qi immediately returned to the rudder, and the hull immediately stabilized. Since most of the crew members of the Flying Tiger had trained in the Taijiang team, the Ryukyu battalion, and the expedition battalion in turn, not only did the unexpected situation just now not cause any adverse effects, but not even a single exclamation appeared.

He Qi himself didn't care much about this, but after returning the rudder to the front, he asked the serious Chen Yi: "Captain, you say, will you let us act as the first formation at that time?" ”

"That's not a good thing." Chen Yi responded. "When the time comes, hundreds of warships on both sides will fight, even if we add four new ships, it will only be ten, not even a fraction, and there are many generals in the army, how can we fight for this jackpot."

He Qi nodded, he is also behind the gate, and naturally he also understands the rules, this easy to shine and easy to get credit is generally distributed to those who are old enough to make the military leaders of all sizes calm.

"The captain is right, plus the boss must be Wu Pingbo, it is basically impossible for our grandsons to share some credit from it." But although he understood what was going to happen, He Qi still couldn't suppress the disappointment in his heart. "It's really unwilling, such a good ship, so many cannons"

"What's the pity," Chen Yi relieved. "If Wu Pingbo blocks the Tartars and traitors, there will be no shortage of our boats, if we can't stop it, then we are the last reliance of the grandson, besides, Wu Pingbo is now in his fifties, and in ten or twenty years, he will not be able to look at us."

Dongning's envoy arrived in Nagasaki at the end of February, and it has been more than three months, and the Japanese side has not moved at all, but Cai Hanxiang, the second son of Cai Zheng, who represented Dongning's envoy, sat firmly in Diaoyutai, and only sent people to Nagasaki to visit the office once a day, and then read and painted in the post house, and the life was also very freehand.

However, he was at peace in Nagasaki, but the top officials of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo were very divided over whether or not to receive him, and Hotta Masatoshi, the lord of the Furukawa Domain, who had argued for Tokugawa Tsunayoshi to succeed him as the fifth shogun, was adamantly opposed to allowing Cai Hanxiang to come to Edo to present the so-called credentials.

"The Ming Kingdom is left with Taiwan and a feudal, the stone is no more than 500,000, how is it the opponent of the Qing State with hundreds of countries, if Japan blindly supports the Ming State, then the Qing State will definitely retaliate against Japan in the future, although it is impossible to follow the example of Meng Yuan to cross the sea to conquer, but if the raw silk cannot be imported anything, Japan's prosperity will definitely be shattered."

"Isn't Hotta overly worried?" The old man Inaba Masashu is full of jealousy of this big man who climbed to the highest position in the shogunate because of one sentence, and in his opinion, the other party is just a speculative villain, so he naturally wants to contradict him everywhere. "The Qing State is the main sea ban, and it has not been many years since a shipload of goods arrived in Nagasaki, and the Ming Kingdom, hehe, that is, Zheng Fan, has always established a country by sea trade, and it is good for Japan for them to get the right to rule the Tang Dynasty."

"Dango Mamoru has a point." Another old man, Abe Masatake, was the lord of the Musashi Kunino (castle) domain, who served as the shogunate temple shrine, recommended the Confucian scholar Kinoshita Sadakan and others for Tsunayoshi, and was deeply influenced by Zhu Zhiyu (note: Zhu Shunshui) in exile in Japan, and was full of favor for the Ming Chamber. "Zheng Fan adheres to the name of the old country and is a loyal man, and Japan should associate with these loyal people, and should not go to the Qing Kingdom for petty profits."

"Ridiculous." Hotta Masatoshi is also a person with a straight temper, otherwise he would not have had a hard fight with the powerful dismounted general Sakai Tadashi. "If a loyal person is Japan, it is natural that he should be commended, but there are only interests between countries, and I don't see any benefit to Japan in supporting the remnants of the Ming Kingdom."

"Why is there no benefit, the Tang ships that have come to Nagasaki in the past few years are all from Zheng Fan, in case Zheng Fan is angry because of his refusal to see the envoy, and he doesn't come to the ship trade, who will supply the raw silk in this country, won't the wealthy merchants from all over the country have to jump their feet?"

"What do you mean by the war, the wealthy merchants can already interfere with the authority of the shogunate?"

"Don't misinterpret what Hotta is saying." The lord of the Hikone Domain, the lord of the 300,000-stone clan and the shogunate Wakanian Yokai Inaoko, frowned. "The following means that Japan will not be able to do it without pretense of foreign demand, once Zheng Fan cuts off the supply to Japan, and the Qing State continues to ban the sea, it will inevitably affect the people's livelihood in Japan."

"Don't worry about the military department, Zheng Fan doesn't have the courage to do this." Hotta Masatoshi said confidently. "Of course, Japan needs Zheng Fan to import raw silk and other necessary items, but Zheng Fan also needs Japanese sulfur, gold and silver, red copper, and Taidao, so they dare not cut off contact with each other."

"It's nerve-wracking." When the meeting broke up, several middle-aged and elderly people and Ruo Nian looked at each other. "Hotta-sama will definitely use the power of the big man to refuse to associate with the envoys of the Ming Kingdom, and in case of war, Japan has not experienced war for more than 60 years."

"Yes, yes, even if Zheng Fan doesn't dare to call, if tomorrow's trade is really interrupted, how should the wealthy merchants of Osaka and Edo be appeased, Lord Hotta insists on going his own way, but if something happens, we will have to bear it together."

"Would you like to ask Lord Yanagisawa to find out what Lord Shogun thinks?"

The so-called Yanagisawa Lord refers to Tsunayoshi's close man, Yanagisawa Yoshiho, who has the power to convey the general's orders to the old man and convey the report of the old man to the general, although the status is not as good as the big man, the middle elder, and the year of the year, but as far as the confidant Cheng Dù is concerned, he is more favored by the general Tsunayoshi, and is the best candidate for the old middle school to fight against Hotta Masatoshi.

"That's all I have to do now."

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