"Where are you referring to Espane?" Prince Henry asked Ding Yi in confusion, and then said with a wry smile, "I didn't expect that you really didn't hesitate to destroy Ceuta City, so what's the point of a city in ruins for you?" ”

He dared to refuse Cao Jixiang before, because he expected that Ding Yi's side would not be able to shoot at Ceuta, and if Ceuta was broken, there would definitely be a lot of casualties, and the building would also be destroyed, which means that Ding Yi spent cannonballs in exchange for a ruin, and the hatred of the remaining people, what is the point?

It's a pity that he didn't expect that it was not Ding Yi who made the decision.

Wan An didn't regard Di Yi overseas as a civilized person at all, and asked him to talk about humanitarianism? Let's talk about it, not to mention Cao Jixiang, who reported to him, incited again, and Po Xiu Bi said on the side that the Ming army was building fortifications in the Arakan Kingdom, using bamboo tendons and cement, how fast and strong it was, it was better to level the city and start all over again.

So for Wan An, who already had a grudge against Prince Henry, he would not consider that it was he who had taken the port of grapes first, and asked the other party to offer him a nautical school, and what he remembered was that Prince Henry had built a combined fleet, and more than a thousand cannons had beaten him like a dog and fled.

So the test gun was ordered on the spot.

As a result, Prince Henry looked at this side with the intention of fighting in ruins, and his idea of dragging into a street battle could not be realized at all, and the big shield and the like prepared before, let the twenty-ship first-class battleship bombard a few rounds like this, what is his opinion? This is not cowardice, and you can only admit it.

Ding Yi looked at Prince Henry, and he did not answer why he fired the cannon. But after thinking for a while, he said: "Ten years, you will be the chief of naval education for me for ten years." If you don't want to, you can apply for retirement and I will send you back to Portugal and pay you a monthly pension until you die; From the time you begin your appointment, if you are sick, the Metropolitan Government will pay for all medical expenses; If you don't do a good job in the middle, you will be fired. will pay you a severance payment for unemployment; If you are injured during this period, you will also receive a compensation......

"However, it starts with the appointment. If you do not do a good job, or if you are corrupt - I have no intention of dishonoring your dignity, but I have to inform you of the risks in advance - you will also be dealt with according to the law, up to the death penalty. Even betrayed the words of the Ming military secrets. Whether it is in this decade or ten years later, it will be punished according to the law of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Prince Henry looked at Ding Yi, and he didn't say anything about the conditions put forward by Ding Yi, or ask how much his salary was, how much power he had, and how it could be considered a leak. Instead, he said to Ding Yi: "If, Huaxia is really the same as your student said." So rich, so populous, so many literate people, then the establishment of a nautical school should not be on such a small scale as Sagres. Students must ensure that there are at least 200 to 300 students, divided into four grades, after enrollment, they must undergo two weeks of land assessment and one week of sea assessment, including sea swimming, sampan and other skills; In the assessment of the completion of the course, the collision prevention ......"

Ding Yi couldn't help but nod when he heard this, and said, "Of course, measuring the altitude positioning of celestial bodies with a sextant is also an essential subject. ”

"Sextant?" This is another term that Prince Henry has never heard of, after all, it turned out to be something that appeared more than two hundred years later.

Ding Yi signaled to the guards, so soon a sextant was moved to Ding Yi's cabin. It has a fan-shaped shape, and its components include a small telescope, a horizon mirror, an indicator mirror, and the scale arc of the sextant is one-sixth of the circumference. For Ding Yi, who made glass and mirrors, there is nothing impossible to achieve, but the scrap rate is high and the cost is high.

Prince Henry's eyes lit up as he listened to Ding Yi explain to him how to use the sextant, what an important position it was for his fanatical seafaring career, and he didn't need to say a word more. What kind of pension and the like that Ding Yi just proposed was not a temptation for him at all, but the sextant was not.

For the prince of one piece, the sextant is even more moving than the most beautiful maiden.

Until Ding Yi removed the cloth hanging on the wall in the cabin, revealing the world map.

Strictly speaking, it is the outline of the world map, only the coastline is complete, and many other places, Ding Yi remembers not clearly: "Here, isn't it Spain?" ”

"No, this is the Kingdom of Castile, this is the Kingdom of Aragon, this is the Kingdom of Gravada." Prince Henry shook his head and said to Ding Yi, in fact, Ding Yi was wrong, the Spanish Empire in history will not appear in a few decades, but Prince Henry's attention is obviously not here, "It seems that I can't go back." ”

Because both the sextant and the map of the world are things that cannot be leaked.

"Yes." Ding Yi did not twist and turn, and answered his question very directly.

Prince Henry was not surprised at all, he simply asked, "Is the earth round?" ”

"Yes."

"Let it be in Portugal, erudite and great Highness." He had no more problems, only one last request.

"I want Sagres as a port for the garrison, and if there is no problem, I can make Portugal part of your payment for ten years of work, and if you do not do well and are fired, or if you are questioned for leaking secrets, this promise will be null and void."

This made Prince Henry's expression look painful.

But many times, the strong do what he wants, and the weak can only bear the pain he deserves.

"My opponent has never been Portugal, if you do your job well, I can even allow a Portuguese fleet to follow the Ming fleet when opening up the New World, there are too many ownerless lands, I don't intend to swallow it myself." Ding Yi did not hesitate to throw the carrot again.

Because Prince Henry is worth the price.

Prince Henry looked away from the world map: "I have to send an envoy to report this to my brother, the king of Portugal. I don't think there will be much of a problem, Sagres for Portugal. It's so much worse than Lisbon...... It's just, Your Highness, it's not comfortable. ”

"I can understand that. I have done everything in my power to alleviate your pain. ”

After taking Prince Henry down, Wan An asked Ding Yi, "Sir, next, shall we march towards this Castle?" ”

"Nope." Ding Yi shook his head, and made changes on the map according to what Prince Henry said just now, in the area that was originally marked with Spain. "Garrison the troops first."

Two Marine brigades were stationed in Sagres, ten battleships and three destroyers were moored;

In Ceuta there was a Marine Brigade with four battleships and a destroyer. As well as those Western warships captured by the Ming army, to serve as a defensive force at sea, their firepower is enough to make any sea surface force of Western countries in this era. Unable to look directly and confront.

As for the rest of the troops. Ding Yi issued an order in late summer: "Reorganize and prepare to return to Daming." ”

The enemy failed to inflict damage on the soldiers, but the poor hygiene of Sagres and Ceuta did not allow the soldiers to adapt over time. The adaptability of the Chinese nation is extremely strong, but Europe in this year and Europe thousands of years later are not the same concept. Although the soldiers were still holding on, it was clear that the climate and eating habits had tormented them enough, and even in modern Europe, thousands of years later, the rice yield in Europe was only a few percent of that of China. And when the rice on the supply ships was sold to the local nobles at a high price. Brown bread afflicted the soldiers' stomachs.

So Ding Yi had to be reorganized, and three Marine Brigade soldiers would withdraw to Daming with the fleet.

The enemy also did not inflict any kind of trauma on this fleet. But nature can, it can do anything.

There were six battleships, because of storms, sea water, microbial erosion of the hull, etc., had to be returned to China for maintenance, of course, it could also be done in Sagres, Prince Henry's eldest brother, the king of Portugal, offered to requisition the people to repair a dock sufficient for the maintenance of battleships.

But no matter whether or not this can be achieved with the current Portuguese ability, Ding Yi, Huang Xiaoyang and others will not be willing to do this, which means that the technology of the watertight cabin will be learned by Westerners hundreds of years in advance. Ding Yike remembers this much more clearly than the history of Spain, which originally began to learn the technology of watertight cabins in 1795. In addition, there are rifled guns, shells, high and low aircraft, steering machines and other military technology, once large-scale maintenance is carried out in Sagres, it is inevitable that there will be leaks.

Wan An was very surprised by Ding Yi's decision, and even he proposed: "Even if there are three brigades, the disciple is willing to make a military order and propose the army to conquer Castleti!" Because the three Marine Brigades that returned to Huaxia only brought one base of ammunition, and all the other ammunition supplies were left, which made Wan An feel full of confidence.

"No, you have to go back to Daming with me, there are some things, you still have to go back; There are some things that are more suitable for you to do than the Admiral. Ding Yi stretched out his hand and patted Wan An's shoulder, "We are all still young, don't worry." "Indeed, Ding Yi is only twenty-six or seven years old, and Wan An is not yet forty.

So in the autumn of that year, four supply ships, loaded with war reparations such as gold coins and works of art, which the countries involved in the Combined Fleet had honestly paid after witnessing the naval battle in the waters of Ceuta, with a number of landing ships and supply ships, escorted by four destroyers and six battleships, set sail east and set sail home.

"What about my country? Rujin! Emperor Jing, who asked to stay but was rejected by Ding Yi, roared at Ding Yi angrily, "Didn't you say that the Mediterranean Fleet should be stationed in the Mediterranean?" What now? Why stop at Ceuta! ”

Ding laughed, the sea breeze blowing his loose black hair, and Morena rarely came on deck, because pregnancy made her movement inconvenient: "The fist is withdrawn to punch out more powerfully, you have to understand that." He said this to Emperor Jing, seeing that the latter still wanted to argue, Ding Yi added, "Morena is about to give birth, I hope that she will give birth to a child in Huaxia." ”

Emperor Jing didn't dwell on it anymore, because he also had children, and he could understand the mood of being a father. (To be continued......)

PS: The third shift, there will be another shift in half an hour.

Lao Jing is still working hard, asking for a guaranteed monthly pass!