At present, there is no navy in the Great Food Country, only the guard has some small patrol boats, and the largest tonnage is only 100 tons.

At present, the Great Food Country does not have the ability to independently maintain and use thousands of tons of "big ships", let alone large capital ships of tens of thousands of tons or even tens of thousands of tons, so there must be a learning process.

1,000-ton destroyers, 3,000-ton small cruisers, 6,000-ton light cruisers, 10,000-ton cruisers, small battleships and aircraft carriers, capital battleships and aircraft carriers.

This series of ladders, if there is no teacher's hand-in-hand teaching, Da Shiguo will learn by himself, at least twenty years.

Maybe it won't work out in thirty years......

But the Great Food Country is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Jingyuan is still a prince, so it is impossible to grope around in the Great Food Country by himself, and he will definitely find a way to hug his thighs and find the Ming Navy to help.

But even if there is a direct leadership of the Ming Navy, so that the Great Food Country can normally train enough sailors and officers to be able to drive the main battleships and aircraft carriers to the battlefield, it is estimated that it will be ten years younger.

Zhu Jingyuan felt that the fastest plan was for the retired veterans of the local navy of the Ming Dynasty to move over as a whole to open the ship for the Great Food Country, and directly take the Navy recruits of the Great Food Country on the ship for training.

If you buy all the capital ships at one time and train the entire fleet as a whole at a time, it is estimated that it will be done in five or six years in total.

This first requires that they are willing to spend money, and then they have to fully cooperate with the Ming Navy.

In fact, the problem of money is not very big, the key is that the difficulty of power cooperation is too high.

Zhu Jingyuan thought about it for a long time, and finally gave up this extreme plan and decided on a 12-year study plan.

Within three years, master the technology of maintaining and using destroyers of more than 1,000 tons.

At the same time, the construction of the naval base was completed with more than four escort destroyers of 1,800 tons.

Within five years, it will master the technology of maintaining and using combat destroyers of more than 3,000 tons, and have more than four combat destroyers.

Within seven years, it mastered the technology of maintaining and using cruisers of more than 6,000 tons, and had more than four light cruisers.

Within nine years, it has mastered the technology of maintaining and using cruisers of more than 10,000 tons, and has two cruisers of 16,000 tons.

Within 12 years, master the technology of maintaining and using battleships and aircraft carriers, and complete the basic formation of the combat fleet:

It had one battleship, one aircraft carrier, four 10,000-ton cruisers, eight 6,000-ton light cruisers.

It has more than eight combat destroyers of 3,000 tons and more than 16 escort destroyers.

Then train the soldiers in two shifts on one ship, and strive to double the size of the fleet in fifteen years.

Zhu Jingyuan wrote down this general direction of development.

The next morning, Zhu Jingyuan handed over his plan to Guan Tianpei:

"Buying a boat according to this schedule and at the same time recruiting immigrants directly from the mainland, immigrants who aim to become naval soldiers and officers.

"In addition, craftsmen and workers for the construction of the naval base will be recruited to build and maintain facilities in Liusha City and Mengxian County."

Guan Tianpei was originally from the navy, and he was actually very familiar with warships.

But I was a little surprised by Zhu Jingyuan's plan:

"Your Highness...... Yesterday we had a meeting and didn't say, are you going to buy a yacht? How did it become a warship? ”

Zhu Jingyuan said as a matter of course:

"What happened to the warship? Warships are not more powerful than yachts? Do you prefer warships or yachts? ”

Guan Tianpei couldn't help laughing:

"Of course it's a warship."

Zhu Jingyuan also smiled:

"I think it's a waste to buy a yacht, so I changed it to buy a warship, and a warship can also be a yacht.

"It takes time to build a battleship, and the bigger the battleship, the longer the construction period, so we have to prepare the ship in advance.

"So orders for destroyers are about to be placed, cruisers in two years, battleships and aircraft carriers in five years.

"The entire project is directly in charge of you, and after the entire fleet is formed, you should be able to reach the rank of rear admiral at least.

"As for the teacher, I will contact my father separately and ask him to arrange for a group of veterans to come over and help."

Guan Tianpei understands that this is to build a fleet from scratch.

You can learn more in the process than you would in the current fleet.

Considering Zhu Jingyuan's special identity, following him to complete this task from scratch can be said to have a bright future.

Guan Tianpei said a little excitedly:

"My subordinates understand, I'll arrange it right away!"

Guan Tianpei went to Liu Zhixin and asked Liu Zhixin to coordinate the Great Food Country Barracks and buy the destroyer that Zhu Jingyuan wanted.

Liu Zhixin subconsciously thought that this was the escort fleet that Zhu Jingyuan had set up for his yacht.

So Liu Zhixin didn't think much about asking more, and directly arranged for the relevant departments to place orders.

Zhu Jingyuan first sent a telegram to his father, asking for support and help from the navy.

Then he went to the harem and informed the people he was going to bring with him, so that they were ready to leave in five days.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't mention the matter of summer vacation, there is no need to specifically say this purpose, just don't come back when you get to the place.

Specifically say it, and then let Liu Muyun's extroverted personality be promoted, it may have a slightly less good impact.

After all, I can bring my family, but I can't bring all the people, and ordinary people still have to stay here to suffer.

Including Liu Muyun and Yu Duxue, the two princesses, as well as Chunxiang and other maidservants, were a little surprised by Zhu Jingyuan's urgency.

Zhu Jingyuan's request to bring everyone, including his two sons, was even more full of doubts.

But he didn't raise any doubts, but made a guess in his mind as a matter of course.

I want to go to Mozhou to inspect, but I don't want to be separated from my wife and children......

This kind of speculation made none of them express any opinions, they all nodded their heads one after another, and immediately ordered people to prepare.

Five days later, the 15,000-ton passenger ship allocated by the Royal Passenger Line, Daishan Island, arrived in Quicksand City.

The Governor's Mansion of the Right Army of the Ming Dynasty also arranged a fleet to escort Zhu Jingyuan to Mozhou for inspection.

Zhu Jingyuan took his wife, children and maidservants on the boat.

Liu Zhixin brought the officials of the Great Food Country to see him off.

When he was about to get on the boat, Liu Zhixin couldn't help but ask Zhu Jingyuan:

"Your Majesty, have we chosen our yacht? Why don't you place an order with the destroyer? ”

Zhu Jingyuan had already given up the yacht, and he was stunned at this time:

"Yachts? What a yacht ......"

But when the words came to his mouth, he reacted:

"I haven't planned it yet, what I want is special, not a ready-made product, so you don't have to worry about it."

Zhu Jingyuan waved goodbye as he spoke, and boarded the passenger ship under the escort of the guards.

When the passenger ferry left the dock, Zhu Jingyuan and the other passengers felt cooler under the sea breeze.

However, the actual temperature is still relatively high, and Liu Muyun is still willing to walk around occasionally, and Yu Duxue has been paralyzed for a long time.

In order to leave enough time for the Mengxian side to prepare for the reception, the speed of the passenger ship on which Zhu Jingyuan was taking was reduced to 10 knots.

It took half a month to run slowly at sea before he could reach Mengxian, the capital of the Mozhou region of the Great Food Country.

The fleet left the Persian Gulf and headed south along the coastline of the Da Shi Peninsula and the East Mo Chau Peninsula.

When the boat approached the coastline in the east of Mozhou, Zhu Jingyuan felt that the temperature at sea was more comfortable.

By the time we reached the equator, the maximum temperature during the day was less than 30 degrees.

Even the lazy Yu Duxue was willing to come out and walk.

On May 2, the second year of Ankang, the fleet arrived at its destination and docked at the Mengxian wharf.

The guards on the ship first disembarked to set up defenses, and Zhu Jingyuan's family got off the boat and joined Lin Zexu, who was waiting here.

Then they took a car to the residence prepared for Zhu Jingyuan's family, a Taixi castle in the east of Mengxian County.

In the process of opening up new shipping routes, the Portuguese occupied Mon County as their stronghold in the eastern part of Mozhou.

The Portuguese built the castle in 1593 and named it Fort Jesus.

Later, the castle was occupied by the Omanis for a long time along with the city, and eventually fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty along with the city.

Now the Ming officials led by Lin Zexu call it Xiyi Fort, which was originally intended to be used as a military camp.

When they received that Zhu Jingyuan was going to come over for inspection, they found that there was no suitable place for Zhu Jingyuan to live in Mengxian County.

There are many different kinds of houses and manors in Mengxian County, but it is difficult to guarantee safety.

The castle has walls, a moat, and is a completely separate building.

The interior and surroundings are completely controllable, and the proximity to the existing county office seems to be a very suitable place.

So Lin Zexu arranged for people to clean it up by hand, and after rearranging it, it was used as Zhu Jingyuan's temporary residence.