Chapter 785: Shift in Focus

Spring is coming, the residual snow is still there, and the wind blowing on the face is a little warmer.

The Nagasaki docks were bustling with activity, and the samurai in the concentration camp left their families and lined up in long lines to board one passenger ship after another. Sending nearly two million people thousands of miles away is not an easy task in this era. It's been a long time and a painful journey.

The boats in the dock were a bit strange, not the usual sailboats, but strange ships with a huge chimney in the middle and black smoke constantly emitting. This is the first batch of steam ships with wooden copper shells produced by the Huating Shipyard, and at present, the endurance is limited, and it can only run the route from Huating to Nagasaki, and has to replenish coal in the Ryukyus. From paddle wheels to propeller propulsion, ugly and cumbersome new power units have stepped onto the stage of history. Although it only has a speed of six knots per hour, this kind of ship can sail at a constant speed without the need for sails, which undoubtedly opens a new era.

After completing the enthronement ceremony, Chen Xie is now on a hillside on the edge of Nagasaki Harbor, and from here you can overlook the entire pier. A total of 13 new steamships have been built, and six of them are currently in the port of Nagasaki, and these ships will run exclusively on the Nagasaki-Ryukyu-Takao route in the future. The new cargo ship, with a displacement of 2200 tons, armed with ten 75-caliber cannons, was in general armed merchant ships. There is no way, the sea is really not peaceful in these years, and it is really unsafe without some force.

A passenger ship can carry 1,800 passengers at a time, and after sending people to Kaohsiung, there are six new steamers to take people to Xinghai City, and then change to sailing ships to travel to distant India.

It's a complicated process, and it's a process that can't be helped. If you rely on the capacity of 12 steamships alone. A round trip for a month, which means that a maximum of 10,000 people can be transported in a month. After all, it was not a slave ship, these Japanese samurai had to be safely delivered to the place after all, and then they had to be expected to survive as much as possible and enter a new war.

More transportation, can only wait for the monsoon to come. Then it's time for the sailboat to shine.

Chen Xie's face on the hill could not hide the joy, the significance of the steamer used for maritime transportation cannot be overestimated. The achievements of industrialization extend from the land to the sea, although the steam ships are still made of wood, and there are still many N deficiencies of this and that, Chen Xie is already very satisfied. The Ming Dynasty of this era, because of his appearance and the fiddling of the golden finger, the level of science and technology is two hundred years ahead of the historical earth. There is a two-hundred-year lead, plus the advantage of the population base of the Ming Dynasty. After 200 years of reproduction, the whole world will be dominated by yellow skin.

Another practical point is that although the steamer cannot cross the Pacific Ocean, it can go all the way to India along the coastline, and there is no need to worry about the monsoon, which is the most valuable place. This is also the greatest guarantee for transporting nearly 300,000 Japanese samurai and more than 1 million family members to India.

"The shipyards in Lushun and Jiaozhou share the technology of Huating Shipyard, and there are 16 new cargo ships under construction at the same time. By the end of the year at the latest. It can be delivered in its entirety. Li Xiang, who was standing on the side, closed the Wen Jiàn clip in his hand after finishing speaking. For this new type of steamer, Li Xiang was also very shocked when he saw it.

The maturity of rivet technology, the emergence of steel keels, and the new technology of propeller propulsion, all these things combined to give birth to a new type of steamship. Of course, Li Xiang doesn't understand this. It is enough for Chen Xie to understand.

"See the boat? Soyuz One! Chen Xie raised his hand and pointed at it, and the people who followed him behind him looked over.

"See, this is Captain Huating's boat specially built for the president." Of course, Su Haochen knew very well the intention of this ship, in fact, this was the earliest ship in the same batch of ships, but it was the latest ship to be launched. A lot of the technology is used on another ship before it is used. After the launch, the ship was luxuriously renovated during the sea trials, and it took two and a half years to complete the ship. Generally, the construction period of the steamer is ten months, and two batches of 12 steamships are completed, and after the launch, sea trial and delivery, the ship is officially delivered and the maiden voyage begins.

"The Soyuz-1 battleship, costing 1.5 million yuan, has a displacement of 2,800 tons, adopts a lot of the latest technology, is equipped with four 105 mm caliber cannons, ten 75 caliber cannons, 24 Montini machine guns, a maximum speed of eight knots, and a cruising capacity of 1,000 nautical miles." The person who opened his mouth to introduce the ship was a rear admiral, who was also the captain of the Alliance One, one of Chen Xie's brothers-in-law, and Ye Xianggao, Ye Xianyun's cousin. When this kid was still 15 years old, he threw Ye Xianyun into the Dengzhou Naval Master Lecture Hall to study for three years, and after graduation, he served in various fleets and participated in expeditions to Europe. In fact, all the captains of this new steamer have more than ten years of naval experience, and they all went on a trip to Europe and came back. Each of them is an elite carefully selected by the Admiralty, and more than three generations of politicians have to be reviewed to ensure absolute loyalty to Chen Xie.

This young man with the same name as the former Shoufu in the history of the Ming Dynasty has faintly become the leader of the new generation of navy. After being able to become the captain of this warship with greater symbolic significance than actual combat significance, Ye Xianggao's future is unlimited, and he is almost the candidate for the commander of the Navy in twenty or thirty years. In this regard, Ye Xianyun is much more far-sighted than Zhou Xiuying, and on his first trip to Dengzhou, he took ten children of the Ye family in one go and stayed in Dengzhou to study. Later, she successively stuffed people into the army, and she sued Chen Xie for all these things and got permission. In contrast, other women have no knowledge.

"Let's go, go back, board the ship early tomorrow morning, go back to Liaodong, and watch a good show." Chen Xie turned around and left after speaking, leaving no room for Ye Xianggao to continue to show off. The Overseas Alliance is an organization that has not yet been formally established. After Dongying ascended the throne, Chen Xie would begin a long voyage from Dongying to North Korea, and then take the train back to Shenyang, this time the end of the trip was Xinghai City, the base camp of the official establishment of the overseas alliance, and Chen Xie finally chose to be in Xinghai City.

No one knows why Chen Xie didn't choose Liaodong, and no one knows that after Chen Xie landed in Incheon, there was already a team waiting for the special train here to quietly take the lead. The leader is Chen Xie's father-in-law Yang Tinglin.

"Sihua, the five-year period is still early, you can't wait to leave, you're fine, the cabinet princes must not look good." Yang Tinglin is the person with the highest voice for the next prime minister, and after transforming from an upright literati to a qualified politician, he has been very skilled in saying one thing to his face and doing one thing behind his back.

The carriage was very quiet, no one was arranged to serve in front of him, a tea set, Chen Xie made tea by himself, Yang Tinglin stroked his beard, his face was full of red, it can be seen that he has been in good shape recently. After Chen Xie Dongying became king, many things were actually clear, Yang Tinglin of course knew that Chen Xie had no intention of the Ming cabinet, and competitors became partners, so he could naturally laugh at Chen Xie.

"Boxiang, it's getting more and more hypocritical. I think you're wishing I got out of here, and I don't want to do it anymore. Chen Xie responded with a smile, not politely exposing his hypocrisy. Yang Tinglin didn't care about this, and said: "Don't be so reasonable, what are the two houses of parliament, you know better than me in your heart." Isn't the pattern of the Ming Cabinet from Wenchen ruling the world to the current pattern exactly what Sihua wants to see the most? ”

In response to this attack, Chen Xie did not intend to back down at all, but replied hard: "Is it interesting to be cheap and sell well?" In the real sense of the Ming Dynasty, the period when Wenchen was in power alone, do you think there was one? Don't you know whether the current situation is good or not? Do you choose for yourself, go back to the Wei Zhongxian period, or go back to the time of the first emperor? ”

"Hehe, Sihua, why didn't you mention Zhang Taiyue?" Of course, Yang Tinglin refused to give in lightly, and unceremoniously pushed back, Chen Xie crooked his mouth and retorted disdainfully: "Is it interesting to say this?" What was the situation during Zhang Taiyue's reign, do you really know anything about me? Do you want to find a few copies of the letters he wrote to Feng Bao to corroborate one or two? Is it really a celebrant to be an ornament? ”

Chen Xie's words, Yang Tinglin couldn't refute it, the higher the position, the more he could understand what the emperor's mind was. None of the emperors of the old Zhu family are fuel-efficient lamps. In fact, no matter who becomes the emperor, he will not give up his rights lightly. The ministers swore to defend their rights to the death and limit the imperial power, and the emperor of course had to fight back and defend his rights.

How the emperors of the Zhu family defended their rights in the past dynasties is essentially the same, but the gameplay is different. Zhu Yuanzhang is strong enough, the head of the killer is rolling, and the first thing the minister does when he gets up every morning is to explain the will. Zhu Di is not bad, Xie Jin, a big bull, froze to death on the ice with a word. The imitator of these two is Zhu Youzhen, and he did not show mercy when he killed the minister. The others have their own means, and the smartest is Jiajing, who directly got Yan Song to be a puppet. It's righteous to like to mess around, and it's okay to make yourself an official, and take someone out of Beijing to open a film with the Mongols. Even if it is the Carpenter Emperor Apocalypse, it is not a fuel-efficient lamp. took Wei Zhongxian's hand and defeated the Donglin Party.

All the means of these emperors were an end, for their own country and their own rights. Because they have mastered public opinion, the literati naturally have little kindness when they write biographies to these emperors. All kinds of smears are naturally not surprising, if we can't see this, latecomers will be led by the nose by these shameless literati when they look at history.

Chen Xie, who had already decided to shift his focus, naturally would not be serious on these issues, and after a simple blow to Yang Tinglin's arrogance, he immediately changed the topic and said: "In the future, under the banner of the entire Ming Dynasty, there will be only one management agency for foreign trade, which I call the customs. To put it mildly, in your hands, it will soon rot and decay, and leaving it to me is the only option. (To be continued......)