On the port of Caoshan City, a group of people surrounded Song Xin and walked onto the deck of Zheng He.

"Lord Song, I have already explained to the captain, he will sail slowly."

Song Yingxing nodded, and under the watchful eyes of the unaware high-level officials of the Maritime Safety Administration, he forcibly held back the bitterness in his heart, and Yang Changbai, who had just finished reporting, immediately supported him when he saw this.

"I'm fine."

"Lord Song, it's really not good, don't go, let's wait for the Nanyang-level to go to Xushan City when we have the Nanyang-level."

Song Yingxing shook his head and denied Yang Changbai's proposal. The state capital of Dongshan Prefecture is in Zhishan City, and he has lived in Jishan City for more than a month, which can be used as an excuse to recuperate and deal with anxious official duties, but now that the official affairs handed over have been handled, his body and bones have also improved, and it is impossible to say that he can stay in Jishan City any longer.

And Song Yingxing also realized: his future is tied to death on the ship of the Maritime Safety Bureau.

Now it's in Dongshan Prefecture, and if you don't get it right, you will have to go to the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate, and you will take a boat to and fro, so it's a good thing for him to adapt as soon as possible.

The reason why the Nanyang class is called the Nanyang class is because the treasure ships of this class were designed for use in the Nanyang from the beginning. The grain, spices and even Kunlun slaves of the Annam Protectorate are all large transactions, and only by using Nanyang-grade transportation can the benefits be maximized.

The maritime trade volume of Dongshan Prefecture is actually very small, and it is not even as large as the trading volume of Dengzhou Mansion in Bohai Bay and the Goryeo Peninsula, not to mention the Nanyang class, and the Zheng He class is overkill.

Therefore, the Nanyang-class that appeared in Dongshan Prefecture was basically a fleet of people's husbands, and those who returned to Daming after transporting the people would not participate in the trade between Dongshan Prefecture. Wait for the next Nanyang-class to arrive in Caoshan City, and it will be next year's Minfu fleet.

The Zheng He-class ship they were riding on was specially transferred by the navy. The normal ships between Jishan City and Yushan City are all two-masted hard-sailed boats, although they are larger than the Guangchuan and Fu ships along the coast of the mainland, but in the face of Zheng He-class and Nanyang-class, they can still only be regarded as small boats.

Song Yingxing couldn't stand the bumps of the Zheng He class, and he couldn't stand this kind of small boat that was less than half the size of the Zheng He class.

After sending Song Yingxing into the cabin, Yang Changbai greeted Wu Sangui and Sun Xin, who were a little excited.

"Brother Yang, come and see, it's really the latest god cannon!"

Yang Changbai found out when he boarded the ship, but he had to help Song Yingxing to restrain himself. When he came to Dongshan Prefecture, the Zheng He-class was a ferry ship purchased by the Maritime Safety Bureau to unload artillery to transport important people or letters, and this time it was a warship in service with artillery in the navy.

Hearing his two friends talk about the god machine cannon, Yang Changbai was extremely excited, and quickly followed the two to the shelling cabin below.

The officer in charge of leading the three people greeted the naval soldiers guarding the door, let them in, and ordered the naval soldiers to open the gun jacket of a magic cannon to show them their true faces.

This magic cannon is indeed a miniaturized Furlong cannon, and the length of the cannon body is up and down, fixed on a gun carriage with wheels. Yang Changbai noticed that on the deck below each treadmill, there were two iron handles on the left and right sides.

"When the cannon fires, it will rush backwards, and we will tie the cannon to the handle with iron chains, so that the cannon will not rush too far."

Yang Changbai and the three of them nodded, fantasizing about that scene, but judging from the brand-new degree of the gun mount, it is estimated that this cannon has not fired for several years.

This is not that the Dongshan Prefecture Navy is slack, but that there is really no enemy.

In fact, the imaginary enemy of the entire Ming Navy has always been in the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate.

More than 30 years ago, more than a year after the Great Ming and Franc Mechanics fought on Luzon Island, the name of Franc Mechanic was engraved on a wooden board standing outside the gate of the Guangzhou Naval Governor's Palace.

That plank was the deck of a treasure ship, which was the flagship of the Ming Navy at that time. It was His Majesty who ordered people to erect outside the gate, which represented the humiliation that the Franc Machine's navy brought to the Ming Navy, and His Majesty wanted every navy person to remember the defeat of the Ming Dynasty in that naval battle.

Since then, the navy has been indignant, and cooperated with the Maritime Safety Bureau to buy a large number of Furlong and Dutch merchants, obtained the latest Furlong cannon, and absorbed technology to develop Daming's own small artillery that can be used on ships: the god cannon.

The Ministry of War, the Ministry of Works, and the Maritime Administration also worked together to dismantle three seagoing vessels known to the Frangi and Dutch as Karak. This is completely different from the Chinese ship system, which is an eye-opener for the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry.

The intricate but ingenious design of the soft sail also conquered the navy, because the soft sail was much more flexible than the hard sail in wartime, so the Zheng He class came into being.

The hull of the Zheng He-class is not as tall and stern as the Furlong Carrak, and it adopts a design similar to that of a treasure ship, with only one floor of the open deck of the whole ship, but a raised platform has been added to the stern, but the area of the high platform is only one-tenth of the entire open deck.

The overall shape is very close to the Galen ship, and with the full soft sail system, it is no wonder that Liu Yifeng recognized the Zheng He-class as the Galen ship of Europa at the port of Jinzhou.

The emergence of the Zheng He class made the shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty advance by leaps and bounds, and soon, the improved treasure ship Nanyang class was born. To put it mildly, these two types of ships are definitely among the best sea ships in the world today.

The Dutch shipwright, who has been naturalized by the Ming Dynasty, bluntly said that the Zheng He class is the top batch of warships in Europa, and several other countries in Europa may have similar top warships, but in terms of scale, the Ming Dynasty crushed them. They have one or two as flagships, and the main force is still less than 1,000 tons of various Karak ships, and the Ming Navy is that all warships are Zheng He-class!

The Ming Navy is looking forward to another battle with the Francos, and the shame will be washed away. But after Francois was taught a hard lesson by Da Ming, the focus shifted away from Nanyang, but he kept showing favor to Da Ming, so that Da Ming could not find a reason to go to war.

This made the officials of the Ministry of War and the Navy gray in their beards, and spent so much money to build so many Zheng He-class and Nanyang-class, which could only be used to scare Fusang Nu and Kunlun Nu in Nanyang.

Just when the household department was about to trouble them, the Maritime Safety Bureau came to the door and wanted to recruit Zheng He-class and Nanyang-class to transport Minfu for them, and the two sides hit it off, so the Minfu fleet was formed.

At the budget meeting of the Cabinet that year, the Ministry of Household made a big fuss in front of His Majesty about this matter, but it was defeated by the joint efforts of the Maritime Administration and the Ministry of War. Not only did the Minfu fleet switch to the Nanyang-class, but His Majesty also suggested that the navy ensure that a fleet of five Zheng He-class ships would be stationed in Dongshan Prefecture for a long time.

At that time, the Ministry of War and the Navy also faced the pressure of the Ministry of Household Writing every day to seal up the Zheng He, who had accidentally created too much, and decisively agreed to His Majesty's suggestion. Didn't your household dislike us too much Zheng He, and now they have a task to protect Dongshan Prefecture.

Although everyone is privately complaining that Dongshan Prefecture needs naval protection? Is it the "persecution" of the people of Dongshan Prefecture to protect the crabs that go ashore to lay eggs?

That's why this Nanyang-class gun is so new.

"It's a pity that this baby may not have a chance to fire in his life."

The sadness in the eyes of the naval officers and crew was sincere, and they all saw the power of the miniaturized Shenji gun during the exercise.

Their generation is the generation that grew up listening to the older generation of navy people talk bitterly about the defeat of the year, and whether it is the previous generation as their instructors or the atmosphere within the navy, there is a sense of fatalism that wants revenge.

However, the Francois had no intention of fighting again, and even Luzon Island only kept a few ports as transit points, giving up most of the island's interests to the Ming Dynasty in exchange for peace and trade.

In recent years, the focus of the Ming Dynasty's external expansion has also shifted to the Western Regions, and the Protectorate of Annam is unwilling to start a large-scale war, so he is bullied by a small country composed of a few Kunlun slaves.

Yang Changbai and Sun Xin, as well-known officials in the capital, their parents were still from the traditional army, and they had a lot of complaints about the navy occupying the majority of the budget of the military department every year, so they naturally knew the embarrassing position of the navy now.

After thinking about it, Yang Changbai persuaded: "There will be a chance, the ambition of the wolf son of Francois will inevitably come back one day, and the Annan Protectorate will still rely on you to protect it at that time." ”

The naval officers and crew members who said this were overjoyed, and when Wu Sangui saw this, he immediately asked about the war with the Francos.

Yang Changbai and Sun Xin were also interested.

The people of the Ming Dynasty only know how the Ming Dynasty beat the Francophone people in Luzon in the war, but they don't know how the Ming Navy was deflated at sea, because the internal propaganda for so many years has been so propaganda. The three of them came from extraordinary backgrounds, so they naturally knew that although they generally beat the Francois to take the initiative to make peace, Daming on the sea really lost.

Because it's dishonorable.

How the Navy lost that year, only the Navy itself knows, and the three of them are full of interest.

The naval officer didn't feel embarrassed, thought about it, and told the story of that year.