Sun Chengzong left Xu Guangqi's residence and returned to the guest house in the city. He actually came here this time to represent the Ming court and wanted to negotiate peace with the 'revolutionary army', after all, he could negotiate peace with the Jiannu barbarians, and there was no reason why he couldn't negotiate peace with the anti-thieves. It's just that after he arrived in Jinzhou, Zhou Qingfeng was either far away in Goa, or he came back with busy affairs, and he never had time to meet him.

When he couldn't see Zhou Qingfeng, Sun Chengzong wandered around Jinzhou City, and after a few days, he also saw novelties, and it was unheard of to hear and see. At first, he thought that Zhou Qingfeng's attack on North Korea was a great achievement, and he was the ultimate in arbitrariness, but he didn't expect the latter to run so far away from Tianzhu in a blink of an eye.

There were many officials of the original Ming court in Jinzhou, and Sun Chengzong came to the door in the name of visiting to find out the truth. happened to meet Sun Yuanhua, and he learned more about the inside story of this 'revolutionary army' - he originally thought that the 'revolutionary army' would inevitably suffer great losses if it was so reckless. According to Sun Yuanhua's statement, Zhou Dashuai not only did not lose money, but also made a lot of money.

It's gold and silver, it's horses, it's beautiful women, what's more. The various anecdotes mentioned in the newspaper make people itch to watch, and people can't wait to go to Tianzhu to see it in person - these days, the Han people go to Goa, it is almost like going to the moon, it is too unimaginable.

On the way back to the guest house, Sun Chengzong wandered around Jinzhou City. The population of the city is increasing day by day, but the market is bustling but not cluttered. Police patrolling the streets were everywhere, and no one dared to disturb the people.

There are many restaurants and stalls in the market, and the prices are cheap and hygienic. A steamed bun only costs a few cents, and you can eat enough for a penny. If you are willing to spend a dime, then you can have a good meal. When people no longer worry about three meals a day, they will naturally be able to develop more intensely.

It's the middle of October, and the weather in the north is getting colder. Before nightfall, the workers and students in the city came out to find a place to have dinner, and even many peasant households came to transport and sell grain. Seeing that they are all dressed in new clothes and thick fabrics, I know that this year's winter will definitely not be too sad.

"It's a rare scenario."

With Sun Yuanhua's words during the day, Sun Chengzong's heart was heavy. Whether he admits it it or not, social change is just around the corner. The gentry always felt that the ruler would not be able to manage the country without himself, who would have thought that this 'revolutionary army' would not believe in evil, and would rather break with the old gentry than build its own set of management systems - but people do not use Confucius and Mencius to learn and do it very well.

Or even better!

Walking in the market, Sun Chengzong, who was wearing the official uniform of the Ming court, was full of white eyes. Especially those university students, they treated him with the eyes of the living corpses in the village and the dry bones in the graves. The sound of public ridicule and ridicule was endless, which made Sun Chengzong, who still wanted to understand the people's feelings, very passive, and he could only leave in shame.

The next day, Zhou Qingfeng, who had been missing, finally remembered this Ming lonely minister and decided to meet him. The place where the two met was at the Jinzhou Shipyard, which was also the location of Dalian in the future. The shipyard, which was an empty beach last year, has erected walls and built buildings. Several huge dry docks 100 meters long and 15 meters wide have been built.

There were several ships of varying degrees of completion erected in the dock, including one particularly large ship that was actually making a skeleton out of steel keels and ribs. Zhou Qingfeng faced the strong wind by the sea and received Sun Chengzong from the capital. When he saw the old gentleman, he smiled and said, "Mr. Sun, can you give me some explanation?" ”

Before meeting, Sun Chengzong also repeatedly thought about how to deal with this young handsome, but he didn't expect that the other party would take the initiative to ask. He bowed his hand modestly, "Dashuai is already a well-known person in the world, Sun doesn't dare to say what he doubts." But if you ask something, you just try to answer it. ”

Zhou Qingfeng asked with a smile: "As far as I know, the current Liaodong Economic Strategy is Wang Huazhen, who is a straw bag-like guy. If you don't consider my 'revolutionary army' and let Mr. Sun serve as the economic strategy of Liaodong, how will Mr. recover Liaodong? He also picked up a branch and drew a topographic map of western Liaodong on the ground, marking Shanhaiguan, Daling River, Xiaoling River, Jinzhou and other places.

"It's ......." Sun Chengzong really didn't think about it, but he only pondered for a moment before replying: "Build a fortress from Shanhaiguan, gradually advance, occupy Jinzhou, and then try to do anything else." ”

"Hahaha...... I knew you would think so. If I were Nurhachi, I would have beaten you while you were building the city. Zhou Qingfeng smiled, "Anyway, if you can't beat me in the field, I'll keep killing you." Four hundred miles from Shanhaiguan to Jinzhou, I wonder if Mr. Sun's people will have time to rescue? ”

At the speed of the rapid march of the guards, it would take two or three days for 400 miles, otherwise the logistics would not be able to keep up. And with the procrastination speed of the Ming army, it will be Amitabha Buddha who can arrive in ten days. Sun Chengzong was stunned when he heard this, and then carefully looked at the map drawn by Zhou Qingfeng, and was speechless for a while.

"I'm not as good as Mr. But to fight, Mr. is too ignorant. Zhou Qingfeng waited for the other party to be silent for a long time and then spoke: "There are many scholars in Daming, but you can only be officials, but you can't do things." Mr. Sun was a leading official in the Ming court, but he had too many assumptions in practice. But you always take this for granted. ”

The dialogue between Zhou Qingfeng and Sun Chengzong was exactly the latter's move in history after he took office as the Liaodong Economic Strategy. Sun Chengzong was not wrong in his plan to fight against Jiannu, and it was also right to advance gradually.

It's a pity that Sun Chengzong is just talking on paper, and he has empty ideas, but the specific implementation is full of loopholes. Nurhachi fought his painstakingly experienced Jinzhou defensive line, and the defense line built for millions of taels of silver did not serve any purpose at all—it was strange that the Ming court often sent some scholars who had never fought a war to be commanders.

"If it were me, I would use the ship to take Lushun first, and then gradually advance northward, all the way back to Haizhou from Jinzhou. If Jiannu comes to southern Liaoning, I will send ships to land in the rear of the Liaonan Peninsula and attack from the front and rear. If Haizhou can be taken, it will be able to echo Shanhaiguan from afar. Even if I don't fight Lushun, I will first deploy defenses in the Big and Small Ling Rivers, and use the rivers as a barrier to build a defensive line. ”

After listening to this, Sun Chengzong was deeply taught for a while, and showed a look of sudden enlightenment. But after he came to his senses, he immediately put on a straight face, looking very embarrassed. This old gentleman was one of the few brave people in the late Ming Dynasty, but it is a pity that the environment in the late Ming Dynasty could not cultivate practical talents. There are very few technocrats like Sun Yuanhua who know how to make artillery, and they are particularly easy to be trapped.

Zhou Qingfeng pointed to the dry dock of the shipyard and said: "The officialdom of the Ming Dynasty is too much to take for granted. It also used to have a powerful fleet, but unfortunately it was not used on the right path. What did Zheng He bring back when he went to the West seven times? It was originally a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, but it was a wrong thing that cost a lot but did not gain anything. ”

If before Zhou Qingfeng conquered Goa, Sun Chengzong could cite countless reasons to prove that shipping was useless, and Zhou Qingfeng would definitely not be able to argue with him even if he knew that he was right. But now Uncle Zhou can make a lot of money on his expedition of thousands of miles, and the facts couldn't be clearer, and there is no need to debate at all.

"The three on the left are standard ships of 500 tons. We now launch one ship a month. We have been building transport ships before, and now all three will be converted into cruisers. And the one that was one size bigger was a thousand-ton battleship. It's the first time we've built such a big ship, can we not know Chengdu? But we still have to build it. ”

Zhou Qingfeng took Sun Chengzong around the shipyard and took him to visit the highest scientific and technological achievements of the 'revolutionary army'. The ship is a comprehensive engineering project, and the construction is very difficult. Zhao Ze, who was in charge of shipbuilding, tried his best to build such a technological crystallization with a large number of illiterate and elementary school educated workers.

"How did you do that?" Sun Chengzong only looked at the dry dock and was dizzy at the complexity of shipbuilding. There are so many large ships that it's a miracle to be built.

"Decompose." Zhou Qingfeng spit out two words in his mouth, "We will disassemble the parts of the ship piece by piece, and a ship will have tens of thousands of construction drawings, and then manufacture them according to standards." Luckily, we also have a lot of very skilled carpenters, which is our most valuable talent pool. ”

Zhou Qingfeng has been recruiting carpenters when he was in Fushun, occupying southern Liaoning, and after conquering Tianjin, he has sheltered thousands of carpenters. Through the training and transformation of these carpenters, Zhao Ze's mechanical department slowly progressed from engaging in hydraulic machinery to having the ability to build ships.

Sun Chengzong stopped in front of the largest thousand-ton warship and looked up, he could not describe his insignificance in front of this behemoth, and couldn't help asking, "What are you building such a big ship?" ”

"Because my enemies have ships bigger than this." Zhou Qingfeng walked slowly next to the dry dock. Originally, he only wanted to build 500-ton warships for his navy, but this capture of Goa made him feel the weakness of the 'revolutionary army' in terms of naval strength. Greatly stimulated, he asked for the project of a thousand-ton battleship with iron ribs and wooden hulls.

This battleship will no longer use the popular cabin gun emplacements, but with a deck turret, the number of main guns will be limited to less than ten, and the number of secondary guns will not be too much. A situation like the Western sail battleships piling up more than a hundred guns at every turn will not arise.

"It's an experiment, and we're not confident that we'll be able to build it. Power, artillery, transmission, handling, hull, a lot of problems have not yet been solved. I don't know when it's going to be ready. Stimulated, Zhou Qingfeng decided to make a great leap forward in technology, and his only hope now is to quickly train some designers and builders with good enough technology.

One day in the cave, one year in the world.

In order to speed up technological progress, Zhou Qingfeng even reduced the number of trips to Goa to transport people and materials, and instead stuffed as many people and goods as possible in the isolated island of time and space at one time. The last time Xu Bing sent him 1,500 people at a time, it was enough to crowd him, but he found that if the area the size of two and a half football fields was used well, it could be crammed into thousands or even tens of thousands of people at a time.

In the course of the last few transportations, the island of time and space was almost like a slave ship selling piglets, crowded like canned sardines. The benefit of this is that the siloes of time and space have more time to be converted into caves and blessedness, which can be used to train more talent.

Standing in front of the skeleton of this giant ship, the young Zhou Qingfeng and the old Sun Chengzong represent two completely different eras, dividing the dividing line between advanced and backward. Zhou Qingfeng is full of vitality, dares to think and do, and is not afraid of failure. Sun Chengzong is already holding on to the flawed, timid, rigid and sluggish.

"Mr. Sun is the leader of the Ming literary circle, and he is also the person I admire. If Mr. wants to drag countless old-style literati in the world to be martyred for the Ming Dynasty, I don't care, just let you go. If Mr. Sun can follow the trend and reform and change, he will actually be able to make a new world. ”

"There are talents from generation to generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years. The older generation will eventually be replaced by the new one. I just don't want you who carry the Chinese civilization to be destroyed in the war, but I won't wait forever. ”

After Zhou Qingfeng finished speaking, he chuckled slightly at Sun Chengzong, "I'll give you another year, I won't attack the capital within a year, let you change." A year later, I will plough the court and sweep the holes, cleanse the world, and create a new China. ”

The commander of the 'revolutionary army' floated away, leaving Sun Chengzong standing still in front of the giant whale-like battleship. The old man groaned in pain, he already understood what the young commander meant, but he lamented even more - many people in this world do not see coffins. How easy is it to change?

"Sad ......, the catastrophe of my generation is coming!"