"What's your name?"

"My name is Liu Yifeng."

"Yongdang Firm?"

"Yes."

That father-in-law is the young father-in-law who helped Liu Gonggong, the manager of Dengzhou East Factory, relieve the siege in front of Song Yingxing a few days ago. Because he doesn't have a beard, it's hard to judge his age, but judging by his face, he should be less than 30 years old.

"Who are you, sir?"

An official of the Maritime Safety Bureau still had the foresight to take the initiative to say: "This is the prince of Dongchang." ”

East Factory!

Liu Yifeng's pupils shrank, and he was instinctively a little wary.

No way, later generations basically have a one-sided evil feeling for the East and West Factory, mainly this group of eunuchs has done too many bad things that have lost their humanity, and in all literary works related to the Ming Dynasty, this group of eunuchs are basically villains.

This is not someone he can afford to provoke now, Liu Yifeng hurriedly saluted and left with the people of Yongdang Commercial Bank.

The prince looked at Liu Yifeng's figure and sighed that a person worthy of his background in the Southern Army actually knew so much about ships. He himself only learned about it because he had been involved in the affairs of the movement in recent years.

Liu Yifeng made the prince misunderstand his origin, let's not talk about it for a while, he is now full of thoughts about boarding the treasure ship to have a look.

When it was their turn to board the ship, everyone was sighing that the ship was too big, but Liu Yifeng was stunned.

No, isn't this treasure ship too small?

It is recorded in the "History of the Ming Dynasty": to build a big ship, repair 44 zhang, and 62 of the 18 zhang wide.

According to a carved ruler of the Ming Dynasty found by archaeology, some experts believe that a ruler in the Ming Dynasty is 0.28 meters. There are also experts who believe that one foot is 0.31 meters according to the record of "Ming Ministry Construction Ruler" in the literature.

Therefore, the length of the treasure ship varies from 110 to 150 meters, and the width varies from 30 to 50 meters. At this size, the displacement ranges from more than 10,000 tons to 30,000 tons.

What is this concept?

Many aircraft carriers and battleships of World War II were also of this displacement!

But the ship in front of him is about 50 meters long and more than 10 meters wide, and Liu Yifeng can't calculate the displacement, but it is estimated that it is only one or two thousand tons.

Is this a long time in the sea and shrunk?

"Li Hongji, are the treasure ships so big?"

"No, I've seen bigger ones."

Liu Yifeng breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that the ship in front of him was just relatively small: "How big is that?" ”

"It's a lap bigger than this one."

Everyone took a breath in unison, especially the Jurchens and Koreans who had never seen the world. But Liu Yifeng looked at Li Hongji in a daze, unable to believe what he heard.

A lap bigger?

That's not much bigger, and the big ten circles are not as big as the public account of later generations said.

In fact, the problem lies here, after all, the articles of the official account in later generations are often known for being unreliable in terms of professionalism.

With a pure wooden structure, it is impossible to have a ship with a full load displacement of more than 6,000 tons, and even the technology of later generations that can build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier cannot do it.

The sail warships of more than 5,000 tons in Europe in the 19th century are no longer purely wooden structures, and steel parts have been used in many key parts.

Moreover, those sail warships of more than 5,000 tons in the 19th century were also equipped with steam engines, because they were really too bulky, and the sail power could not drive the whole ship at all. Even with steam engines, those ships are as slow as snails, and they are basically face-saving projects that show national strength.

The appearance of such a huge data as Zheng He's treasure ship can only be caused by the different units of measurement used by various departments in the Ming Dynasty. The specific reason is because the Qing Dynasty destroyed too many documents of the Ming Dynasty and has disappeared in the long river of history.

In addition, it is not uncommon for civil officials who record history to write ridiculous data without knowing technology, even in countries around the world in modern society.

From a scientific point of view, the productivity of the Ming Dynasty when Zheng He went to the West was about 70 meters long, more than 20 meters wide, and the displacement of 2,000-4,000 tons was almost the limit.

If it is equipped with steel parts after the first industrial revolution, the main material is wood, and the key parts are supplemented by steel parts, more than 5,000 tons can be done, and it is basically impossible to do it no matter how big it is.

During Zheng He's voyage to the West, the productivity of other countries in the world could build a ship with half the displacement of a treasure ship, which could be regarded as a powerful country in the world. The appearance of thousand-ton ships in Europa recorded in history was at the end of the 15th century, and Zheng He's voyage to the West was at the beginning of the 15th century.

Unlike the excited crowd after boarding the ship, Liu Yifeng was a little excited. It's like a super beautiful netizen who has been in love with me for a long time, and finally was able to run offline only to find that the other party is just a somewhat handsome girl, and the online pictures are all changed from the pictures.

But this treasure ship is really a super beauty to everyone else.

Most of the people of the 5 trading houses have seen the largest boat in their lives, that is, a fishing boat or ferry boat with a length of 5 or 6 meters. As for the Jurchens and Koreans, many of them had never even seen a boat, only a raft.

The sampans hanging from the side of the treasure ship were larger than the largest ships they had ever seen.

Human beings have an instinctive worship and fear of man-made giants, and at this time, this worship is unconsciously converted into the worship and fear of the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

All Han people are faceless and honored. The mature woman is really the same, and Aobai's excited neck is red.

As for the birth of the Jurchens and the Koreans, they are afraid and afraid.

The Han people are terrifying, and my ancestors are honest and I don't deceive!

Kim Seung-woo swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, he was not born with mud legs. In summary, his ancestors were also big landowners around Pyongyang, but the Japanese invasion ruined his family, and his childhood was spent in exile.

After the Ming Dynasty repelled the Japanese people, he found that the entire ruling class of Goryeo was almost served by the Japanese people, and the ashes were all cleaned, and he simply became the master of Goryeo.

For most of the mud legs, the new master of the Ming Dynasty is much better than the previous Li family, at least most Koreans can finally eat enough.

However, there are still a small number of Koreans who are very dissatisfied with the former suzerainty of the Ming Dynasty, that is, people like Kim Seungwoo who once belonged to the upper echelons of Goryeo.

The Japanese overturned the chessboard of the Goryeo class, but the Ming refused to rebuild it, and came directly according to their own rules. As a result, these former chess players now have no value in making chess pieces, and they will even be liquidated by the class that was exploited by them in the past, and this is how he became Dongyi slave.

But what can be done?

Resist?

Kim Seung-woo patted the thick side of the ship, turned his head to look at several other treasure ships of the same size in the distance, and then looked at the expressions of the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau in the port who were not surprised by the treasure ships, and understood that the behemoth of Daming was not something that the current North Korea could resist at all.

Even at its peak, Goguryeo, who was rumored to have repelled the Great Sui, was not the opponent of this Ming Dynasty, not to mention that Goguryeo was later defeated by the Tang Dynasty.

He remembered what his father said when he died two years ago: "There will be no more Goryeo in the future, and if you want to live well, you must become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty." ”

He glanced at Liu Yifeng, who was directing the gathering of people from the five trading houses, gritted his teeth, and decided to start being a citizen of the Ming Dynasty from here.