Chapter 1027: The East Sea Eagle, the Giant Shark, and the Black Pearl
Han Zhengqian's illness gave Han Mo an extremely ominous premonition.
It's not that he hasn't thought about it in his heart, Han Xuandao's various plans may not have been discussed with Han Zhengqian, and it is more likely that Han Zhengqian is the one who makes decisions in the back, but he has lived in the East China Sea since he was a child, with his understanding of Han Zhengqian, this old man is still very dedicated to the ethnic group, and he has always put the interests of the entire ethnic group first in handling things, because of this, he can have this prestige in the Han ethnic group that no one can match, if Han Zhengqian is not disgusting, Then he is also the only person in this world who can form a real constraint on Han Xuandao.
Once such an old man has an accident, then the last rope bound to Han Xuandao's body will also be untied, with Han Xuandao's intentions, Han Mo doesn't know what kind of things he will do at that time.
Han Mo knew the position of Han Xuandao very well.
Since the Han nationality has been in the Yan Kingdom, it has always been in a position that is not up or down, and it has never been really beautiful in the court.
But now that the situation has changed greatly, Han Xuandao has actually become the first powerful minister of the dynasty with the efforts of the Han people, and the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition.
A family that has always been in a depressed state in the court, a family giant who has not raised his eyebrows in the court for decades, and now suddenly has great power, and the top and bottom of the court are groveling, Han Mo is very sure in his heart that in such an environment, no matter how deep Han Xuandao's city government is, his psychological state will also change dramatically with the increase of power in his hands.
Throughout the ages, once you fall into the trap of power, it will make people go crazy.
Han Mo didn't know if Han Xuandao would become crazy because of the power in his hands, but he had suppressed it for too long, and now that he had the power in his hands, he would definitely gradually vent the suppressed emotions in his heart for many years.
And in order to keep the vested power in his hands, Han Xuandao will definitely ruthlessly eradicate any forces that threaten his power.
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Han Zhengqian was recuperating in the mansion, and Han Mo went to the Zhenfu military camp early in the morning for the past two days, followed several commanders to have a more comprehensive understanding of the Zhenfu army, and even got on the warship, and made a detailed look at the overall structure of the warship, and figured out the purpose of each structure on the ship.
Although he had come to the Zhenfu military camp from time to time before entering Beijing, he rarely boarded the warships, and he did not have a systematic understanding of the warships of the Zhenfu army.
However, there were two things that he remembered the most, the first was naturally the process of Peng Ban's development of the bamboo dragon spray, and the second thing was that the sea fleet had not returned for a long time, which made Han Mo worried.
With the help of Han Mo, Peng Ban personally developed the bamboo dragon spray on the one hand, but on the other hand, he sent a large number of people to collect the blue dragon bamboo.
Bilong bamboo is a special product of the East China Sea, this kind of bamboo likes to grow most in the place near the sea, and the bamboo tube is extremely huge, a long time ago someone used Bilong bamboo to make water pipes, diversion water for field irrigation, is the Central Plains hinterland, there are also many places to the East China Sea to purchase Bilong bamboo, so to find Bilong bamboo, in the East China Sea is just the place.
There is a group of people in the East China Sea who specialize in planting Bilong bamboo, and make a living from it, Han Mo spent less than 2,000 taels of silver, so that people purchased nearly 1,000 Bilong bamboo, ready to make bamboo dragon spray.
Although there was something strange in the camp, this was Han Mo's business, and no one dared to say more.
Although Han Mo resolutely presides over the military affairs of the Zhenfu Army before going north, Yu Gong is the acting governor appointed by the imperial court after all, and Yu Private is also the fifth young master of the Han family, so the commanders of the Zhenfu Army dare not slack off, and the other soldiers of the Zhenfu Army regard them as the main generals of the Northwest Army, although they don't know why the fifth young master suddenly came to the Zhenfu Army, but the slightly more shrewd faintly feel that this may be a major arrangement of the imperial court, and there are already many people in the Zhenfu Army who regard Han Mo as an idol, Therefore, they are extremely in awe of Han Mo.
Peng Ban was also very angry, since he received Han Mo's task, he buried himself in pondering, and made several molds according to the style of the drawings, but if there was a slight mistake, he redeveloped it.
On the morning of the second day after receiving the task, he had already made a rough prototype and instructed his subordinates to try it, but the spray distance was not satisfactory even to himself, so he did not sleep or eat, and continued to improve.
The equipment battalion is not short of equipment and materials, Peng Ban can become the captain of the equipment battalion of the Zhenfu Army, naturally has its talent beyond ordinary people, in fact, this bamboo dragon spray is not very ingenious, Peng Ban has been exposed to more ingenious equipment than it, so in the middle of the night, he modified a water dragon spray, and tried again, but still did not achieve the effect he wanted.
In his opinion, it was his honor that Han Mo could hand over such a thing to him, so he gave full play to his greatest talent, he knew that the biggest role of this bamboo dragon spray was the word "spray", and if you wanted to create a bamboo dragon spray that met Han Mo's requirements, you must start with the word "spray".
The bamboo dragon spray has to spray a longer distance, and the most important thing is the backseat mechanism of the bamboo dragon spray, and the backseat emitting mechanism must have enough thrust to spray a water jet.
There is a kind of water cylinder in the army, which is small and flexible, and its operation is to push the back push rod by human hands, and the spray distance is not far.
Peng Ban pondered for a long time, knowing that if such a thing is only pushed hard from behind, the thrust generated will not be too large, and the speed will be very slow, if you want to make the water jet spray far, not only must the force of pushing be huge, but also pay attention to speed, it is difficult to achieve such a requirement with human hands, and it is necessary to create a mechanism with enough thrust in the back seat.
He didn't sleep, and when he thought about the next morning, he finally came up with a way to let people find elastic beef tendons, and replace human propulsion with the elastic strength of beef tendons.
Knowing that in the early morning of the next day, he was ** sleepless, and led everyone to create a new bamboo dragon spray, and after the water injection test, the distance of the spray was really far.
Even so, Peng Ban still didn't know whether he had met Han Mo's requirements, so he personally took the two of them to see Han Mo with a bamboo dragon spray, and demonstrated it in front of Han Mo.
After Han Mo saw it, he was overjoyed, and praised it repeatedly, Peng Ban was relieved, listening to Han Mo praise his skills better than Gu Zhi Luban, Peng Ban's heart was overjoyed, and then Han Mo discussed with Han Yuan, and mobilized five hundred soldiers from the battalion to be assigned to Peng Ban to make bamboo dragon spray, Han Yuan naturally said the same, with a wave of his hand, five hundred soldiers were directly transferred to Peng Nerd.
These 500 soldiers, plus more than 200 people from the equipment battalion, there were more than 700 people, and under the dispatch of Peng Ban, they began to make bamboo dragon spraying that made them extremely puzzled.
Han Mo's side was calm, but three days had passed since the expected arrival of the fleet, and there was still no shadow of the fleet, and he was even more uneasy in his heart.
He went to Guan Shaohe's side once, but he didn't receive any news, Guan Shaohe comforted him, and proposed to go together to see the three warships that the Zhenfu Army had privately built for the fleet.
Han Mo was also about to take a moment to take a look, Guan Shaohe's proposal was in the right place, and the two of them went to the Black Water Cliff together.
This Black Water Cliff is dozens of miles away from Donghai City, Han Mo is dressed in civilian clothes, even the royal guards who follow are also lightly dressed, and they rode to the Black Water Cliff in their twenties, and saw three huge warships anchored in the sea from a distance, like three small islands lying on the water, painted with gray-brown hulls, huge, the mast stood up to the sky, towering straight to the sky, as if it was about to pierce the sky.
In order to build these three warships, a temporary wharf was built in Heishui Cliff in advance, at this time there were still many camps on the wharf, and there were still many materials left over from shipbuilding.
"Fifth Young Master, these three sea ships have spent a lot of effort." Guan Shaohe looked at the three behemoths: "Not to mention the countless silver, just to build these three warships as soon as possible, the fourth young master and I secretly recruited nearly a thousand people, day and night, it took more than half a year, and finally lived up to expectations." ”
Han Mo looked at the three warships, and a sense of amazement suddenly rose in his heart, compared to the large warships of the Zhenfu Army, these three warships were certainly a little smaller, but the momentum of the entire warship was by no means inferior to the large warships of the Zhenfu Army.
Han Mo and his party got off the horse, and there was already a group of people coming up at the other end, most of them were bare-chested, their skin was dark, and some even had scars on their bodies, Han Mo saw it in his eyes, and he knew very well in his heart that in order to build these three warships as soon as possible, these people did not suffer less.
When the scorching sun was in the sky, they were still striving for perfection, looking at the swarthy bodies, and then looking at the three behemoths, Han Mo sighed at the strength of human wisdom, and also sincerely thanked these unknown people in his heart, it was because of their efforts that they had such glory in front of them.
The royal forest guards who followed behind Han Mo were also wide-eyed and dumbfounded.
The group of people who came up, but the first one was wearing a very thin short shirt, the short shirt was very shabby, and it had already been soaked with sweat, but his face was full of pride, he stepped forward quickly, saluted Han Mo and said, "Fifth young master!" ”
Guan Shaohe said with a smile: "Fifth Young Master, this is Captain Liang of the Ship Battalion, the Fourth Young Master told me that when it comes to exquisite shipbuilding technology, if Captain Liang is the second in the Zhenfu Army, then no one dares to call it the first." Captain Liang was originally a member of the Ship Department of the Ministry of Industry, and it was Governor Han who heard of Captain Liang's name, so he was finally transferred, and now he has been in the Zhenfu Army for eight years. Pointing to the three warships: "These three ships were designed by Captain Liang, without him, we are afraid that we will not be able to see these three ships today." ”
Han Mo glanced at Captain Liang, and saw that Captain Liang was nearly fifty years old, compared to the stout men of the East China Sea, he was much shorter, but his eyes were very bright, and there was that confident taste all over his body, Han Mo had already stepped forward with a smile, and he did not bow his hand politely, but grabbed Captain Liang's hand, "Captain Liang, if you are grateful, I Han Mo will not say much, Captain Liang can lead everyone to make these three warships, it is really ...... Terrific! ”
When he held Captain Liang's hand, he found that Captain Liang's face showed a slight look of pain, and he wondered how he didn't have the strength to cause him to feel pain, but he felt that Captain Liang's hand was rough, and he hurriedly picked up his hand, but found that his hand was full of wounds.
Han Mo was taken aback, and Captain Liang had already smiled and said, "It's okay." Fifth Young Master, are you still satisfied with this ship? ”
Han Mo nodded, but still asked, "Captain Liang, your hand?" ”
Someone next to him immediately said: "Fifth Young Master, Captain Liang not only commanded us to do it, but also did it with us, and this wound was all injured when we were building a ship." ”
Han Mo asked, "Captain Liang, why are you doing this?" Look at your weak body, how can you ...... How can you do such a rough job yourself? ”
Captain Liang arched his hand and said, "Fifth Young Master, I should thank you." These three ships were built by myself more than ten years ago, and the ship's warehouse, a room, a mast and even a deck were all sketched out in my mind more than ten years ago. It's just that such a ship, each of which costs countless amounts of silver, although the imperial court has allocated money for repairing warships for so many years, but it has never planned to build new ships, I only think that this life ambition cannot be realized. I really didn't expect that the Fifth Young Master actually made me realize my heart's wish, and I thanked the Fifth Young Master! After a deep salute, the warship said: "Fifth Young Master, these three ships, every part of my heart is designed, according to the instructions of the Fifth Young Master, I have camouflaged the weapons on the ship, I dare to guarantee that this ship goes to sea, even if it encounters strong winds and waves, it will be stable as on the ground, and all the spaces on the ship, I have made the most reasonable arrangements, and I am about to fight, I also dare to guarantee that this ship has few opponents...... Fifth Young Master, Kanto Family, please board the ship! ”
Han Mo and Guan Shaohe immediately followed Captain Liang on the boat, and Captain Liang introduced: "Fifth Young Master, you see that the hull is gray-brown all around, that is a layer of wood on the outside, and inside the plank, there is also a layer of steel plate, if the enemy ship also has a catapult, and the stone is smashed on the hull, it is difficult to cause great damage to the spirit." ”
"It's still an ironclad ship." Han Mo suddenly laughed: "In this way, it is stronger than the warship of the Zhenfu Army?" ”
Captain Liang said with a smile: "The Kwantung family shipbuilding said before that to build the best warship, you don't need to think about silver, so I never think about how much silver it costs, just build the best and most powerful warship according to what I think." ”
boarded the warship from the board ladder, only to see that everything on the entire warship was new, but the warship guard was erected a very wide quadrangular punishment wood, just like a towering wooden box, Han Mozheng didn't know what it was, Captain Liang had already explained: "Fifth young master, this outside seems to be a square wood, but inside is a hidden catapult, as long as the wooden box is disassembled, inside is the already equipped catapult, you can adjust the direction at will, this is the equipment camp Peng nerd finally figured out, when the time comes, there is no need to hastily load and unload the entire catapult." , just load and unload this hidden square wood. ”
"Wonderful!" Han Mo gave a thumbs up, the wisdom of the masses was really infinite.
Captain Liang led everyone to the side of the ship, only to see that there were raised iron giant eagles on the side of the ship, the size of a human head, and one was placed on the side of the entire warship, every other arm's length, at first glance, it looked like a decoration on the side of the ship, majestic.
"Fifth Young Master, this is not for good looks." Captain Liang said: "This is a crossbow arrow, as long as you pull the mechanism, you can fire a crossbow arrow, and the appearance is made like this, just to hide people's eyes and ears!" ”
Han Mo nodded with a smile, and under the leadership and introduction of Captain Liang, he walked from the bow to the stern, and entered the shipbuilding layer by layer.
In the middle of this warship, there is a two-story ship, and the captain's command office is located on the third floor.
And the bow of the three warships is made in the shape of an eagle, looking at the bow from the opposite side, it is like an eagle is swooping over, the eagle's hook beak is huge, if it is used to ram the enemy ship, the giant eagle can give the enemy ship a fatal blow.
Han Mo and the three of them stood at the bow of the boat, feeling the oncoming sea breeze, Guan Shaohe said with a smile: "Fifth Young Master, these three warships have not yet been named, and now you have come in person to name the three warships." ”
Captain Liang also said: "Please give the name of the fifth young master!" ”
Han Mo knew that after a warship appeared, it would usually take the name of the ship, and all the ships of the Zhenfu Army had names, and his three warships were naturally indispensable.
Han Mo pondered for a long time before he said slowly: "The East China Sea Eagle, the Giant Shark...... Black Pearl! ”
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