Zheng He left, with Wang Jinghong.

Today's Ming Dynasty is really different from before, Zhu Zhanyan still remembers that when Zheng He went to the Western Ocean, the entire fleet had a total of more than 200 ships, of which there were 63 four-story treasure ships with a scale of 151.18 meters long and 61.6 meters wide.

The general branch fleet is divided into horse boats, boats, warships and Zheng He's handsome ships, all around are warships carrying firearms, from the outside to the inside are warships, horse boats and boats, the most central is Zheng He's handsome ship.

With such a scale, it is already unrivaled in the world, and it can be said that it is equivalent to driving the aircraft carrier fleet to your door and knocking on the door in the future generations, and telling you that we are friends, right?

Zhu Zhanyan vaguely remembered that there was a record in the history books: For some reason, everywhere he went, although he could not understand the language, all countries were warm and friendly.

Whether this record is from "History of the Ming Dynasty: The Biography of Zheng He" or "Western Fanguo Chronicles", or "Yingya Shenglan", Zhu Zhanyan can't remember it clearly, he only remembers this sentence.

At that time, Zhu Zhanyan was just a joke, after all, it was really fun to drive the aircraft carrier fleet to your door to make friends, but now that he has experienced it himself, he can only sigh.

And now, the sea power of the Ming Dynasty is even closer.

This voyage can be said to have used almost all the sea forces of the entire Ming Dynasty, including the accumulation of Zhu Zhan Yan in Xiangzhou Mansion over the years, and the rest is only enough for war supplies and reserve to prevent accidents.

The two fleets that set off this time, Zheng He's fleet did not have much change, but the number of ships in the fleet increased, from more than 200 to more than 290, which can be regarded as 300 ships.

From here, it doesn't seem that much has changed, after all, more than ten years of dormancy, coupled with the increase of less than a hundred ships after King Wu took control of the imperial court, this is really a bit less.

But in fact, there were two fleets going to sea this time, in addition to Zheng He's fleet, there was also Wang Jinghong's fleet.

Wang Jinghong, who followed behind Zheng He and could only be his deputy, is now also the commander of the ocean who is in charge alone.

In terms of scale, Wang Jinghong's fleet and Zheng He's fleet can be said to be exactly the same, with a slightly larger number of ships, reaching more than 300 people, of which the number of warships is larger, and the number of ships is correspondingly reduced.

This is also normal, after all, Wang Jinghong's sailing road has to pass through the doorsteps of maritime powers such as the Kingdom of Aragon, the Kingdom of Castile, and the Kingdom of Grape Buds, and also get the English Channel to block the English.

Compared with Zheng He, Wang Jinghong's fleet had relatively more combat missions and a higher degree of danger, and such an adjustment was inevitable.

However, in addition to blocking the English Channel and stopping the English people going south, Zhu Zhanyan also gave Wang Jinghong the task of doing business.

Now money is not so important to Zhu Zhanyan, but he still needs food, and doing business can help Zhu Zhanyan achieve other purposes in addition to food.

Say, spread something on the soil of France or even England.

It can be regarded as laying a good foundation for the future.

In any case, this voyage can be said to be shocking, far beyond the world's cognition, and even more beyond people's cognition than the treasure fleet in the Yongle period.

To what extent?

It is probably that the Suez area can no longer accommodate so many ships, so that Zhu Zhan can only let Zheng He's fleet and Wang Jinghong's fleet set off separately.

One departs from the Mediterranean coast of Suez, and the other from the southern coast of Asia Minor, the easternmost part of the Mediterranean.

As for how such a large fleet passed through the Strait of Tunis between Sicily and North Africa, how to pass through the Strait of Gibraltar out of the Mediterranean, and how to deal with the possible sea attacks of the Grape Bud Kingdom and other countries, that is the matter of Zheng He and Wang Jinghong.

In terms of naval warfare, Zhu Zhanyan did not have much experience, let alone naval warfare experience of this level, but Zheng He and Wang Jinghong had exterminated pirates and destroyed the mountain country of Ceylon when they went to the West in their early years.

In this regard, Zhu Zhanyan thinks that he is inferior to the two of them.

Zhu Zhanyan has an advantage, that is, he will never force Lai Lai to point fingers in the aspects he is not good at, and he prefers to leave things to professional people to do.

Because he knows very well that this will be more efficient.

In any case, after pouring almost half of the Yongle Dynasty's hard work, coupled with Zhu Zhan's dormant accumulation for more than ten years, the huge sea overlord finally set sail at this moment.

Constantinople.

Zheng He and Wang Jinghong, one set out in the Suez region, and the other in the bay on the southern shore of the Asia Minor Peninsula, and they could not be seen from this cape at Zhu Zhan in Constantinople.

Even if the scale of these two fleets is the largest in the world, even all the ships of other countries combined may not be as large as the scale of the Ming fleet.

After all, the treasure ship of the Ming Dynasty is a giant at sea with a length of more than 150 meters, a width of more than 60 meters, and a displacement of more than 1,500 tons, and the length of Magellan's fleet, which completed the so-called round-the-world voyage a hundred years later, is only more than 20 meters long.

However, knowing that he could not see it, Zhu Zhan Yan still stood on the cliff of the coast, looking at the west from a distance, as if trying to see through the mist on the sea that was enough to make the world feel shocked.

"Your Highness, it's cold, it's time to go back."

Zhu Sanfeng, who had been following Zhu Zhanyan not far behind, waited for a long time before speaking.

Zhu Zhanyan sighed lightly, took one last look at the west direction with a bit of nostalgia, and turned around and walked towards the gate of Junbao.

In fact, at this moment, Zhu Zhanyan has not yet discovered how far he has gone.

If Zheng He's fleet successfully reached the Americas, whether it was North America or South America, the Ming Dynasty would truly reach the level of the so-called empire on which the sun never sets in history.

The three continents of Asia, Europe, and the United States span all the longitudes of the entire earth, which has basically reached the level of the so-called empire on which the sun never sets.

But......

If he knew, Zhu Zhanyan might be excited, but he was just excited, because he knew very well that there was a difference between the sun not setting and the sun not setting.

The nominal sun never sets is not worth singing, only the substantive sun does not set is barely enough.

Besides, the bright, the sun and the moon.

The Ming Dynasty in history, because of the so-called Confucianism Cheng Zhu Lixue, because of the so-called benevolence and righteousness of the Heavenly Empire, gave up the opportunity to open the Age of Discovery in advance.

Now, he's just making it up.

……

Papal State, Rome.

The news of the Daming fleet's ocean going to sea can't be hidden from people at all, firstly, because Zhu Zhanyan didn't want to hide it, and secondly, because the scale of the fleet is too big, and he can't hide it if he wants to.

What's more, the Holy See and the Holy Roman Empire, which have been staring at the Ming army.

Therefore, after receiving the news of the Ming fleet's ocean-going voyage, Martin V, Sigismund and Francesco immediately met in Rome to discuss countermeasures.

Perhaps, it is not appropriate to say that there is a distance, because Francesco did not come on his own initiative, but was called by Martin V and Sigismund, and he himself did not want to come.

Because he knew very well what it was at this time, after such a big move by the Ming army, Martin V and Sigismund called him over for something.

There is only one possibility, that is, they think that the Ming Dynasty can be said to have sent out all the ships on this voyage, and even if it does not come out, it will definitely have a great impact on the sea power.

Calling Francesco at this time is nothing more than wanting to take advantage of this opportunity to send troops to Daming.

"I advise you to abandon this unrealistic idea."

In the chamber under the Roman church, Francesco unconsciously banged on the table while persuading Martin V and Sigismund.

"If you can fight from the far east to our doorstep, and fight for eighteen years in a row, do you think such a person would make such a low-level mistake?"

"Yes! You can think that he is planning to do the trick, but why is it not possible for him to do the opposite? ”

Martin V and Sigismund looked at each other when they heard this, and they both saw a hesitant expression on each other's faces.

It turns out that there is no such thing as a perfect person in this world, that anyone can have defects of one kind or another, and that there is no one in the East and the West who does not make any mistakes in the aspect of domination and war.

Martin V and Sigismund made the mistake of being a fan of the authorities.

In just two years, the entire Balkan Peninsula can be said to have fallen, and the sea on the western side of the Mediterranean Sea has become a paradise for the Ming army, and they are rampant on it.

Such a huge defeat had not been tasted by Martin V and Sigismund, and the bitter fruit, called defeat, was a little too bitter in taste, making them anxious to spit it out and taste something sweet.

And that's exactly what happened.

Zhu Zhan Yan did not send all the ships out for the so-called face problem, in the past 18 years, he has done more than just fighting and killing people in places such as the Japanese Kingdom, the Indochina Peninsula, and the Delhi Sultan.

If a later generation of environmentalists saw what Zhu Zhan had done in the past 18 years, especially in the past few years after he got the blueprints of the treasure ship, he would definitely scold Zhu Zhan for drying up and fishing and destroying the environment.

However, Zhu Zhanyan didn't care.

In his view, as long as there is desire and the existence of enemies, it is necessary to exchange the environment for development, otherwise you will only fall behind more and more, and the beating will become more and more painful, and eventually you will still embark on the road of exchanging the environment for development.

We're going to go anyway, so why not go sooner? If you go early, you can still walk in front of everyone, at least you don't have to be beaten.

So, two ocean-going fleets of such a large size did not appear out of thin air, but at the expense of a large number of forests.

In the same way, this also allowed Zhu Zhan to leave enough sea power.

If it was really like Martin V and Sigismund thought that they would take this opportunity to carry out a surprise attack on the western side of the Mediterranean Sea occupied by the Ming army, then they would really have fallen into Zhu Zhan's plan.

Thankfully, for them, Francesco was sober.

But for Zhu Zhanyan, this should be regarded as a pity, after all, what he is most confident in at this time is not the army on land, but the fleet at sea.

If Martin V and Sigismund had lost their minds because of their eagerness to win, the Ming army could have marched on Rome.

It's just that there is no if in everything of time.

(End of chapter)