Li Jin's words deeply shocked everyone present.

Dignity is only above the edge of the sword.

Truth is always within the range of a cannon!

Originally, the role of the cannon was not to defend the city, but to measure the area of the country.

This kind of hawkish speech made the people around him all enthusiastic.

Lan Yu, who is a military general, couldn't help but roar:

"Well, that's great!"

"We should use cannons and let those bitches teach them a long lesson!"

Lan Yu's roar woke Zhu Yuanzhang up from his trance.

Glaring at the reckless Lan Yu, Zhu Yuanzhang then looked at Li Jin and said:

"Do you want to install this kind of gun on a ship, according to you?"

"Otherwise, how would you go to sea?"

Li Jin nodded and said:

"Of course."

"If this kind of cannon is installed on the treasure ship built by our shipyard, it can definitely run rampant all over the world."

"When the time comes, don't talk about the small country of Wadao, even those countries in the Western Ocean, I will let them taste the power of our Ming artillery."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned slightly and said:

"The Japanese dare to invade our Ming Dynasty, and it is natural to exterminate them."

"But those countries in the West have never intersected with our Ming Dynasty, so there is no need to provoke them again."

Li Jin rolled his eyes.

Just because they haven't provoked you now doesn't mean they won't provoke you in the future.

You must know that the current earth is a dark forest, and every civilization or country is a hunter with a gun.

The result of being discovered by others first is that when others surpass you, they will shoot you directly and eliminate you.

This Lao Huang must have never read a book, and he doesn't even understand the Dark Forest.

However, Li Jin didn't explain, just shrugged his shoulders.

The top priority now is to first exterminate all the Japanese invaders, and then ride the wind and waves to reach the Japanese island.

The complete conquest of Wadao Island is Li Jin's next goal.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Li Jin didn't speak, but remembering Li Jin's words just now, he didn't insist on bringing this base into the jurisdiction of the imperial court, but said:

"This base must be under the supervision of the imperial court, and the emperor must know everything that is happening here."

"Even if this kind of artillery is not placed in the arsenal, then its use, the emperor must know."

Li Jin was noncommittal, since he brought Zhu Yuanzhang here, he was naturally not afraid that the emperor would know.

He just wants to let the emperor know about this base, and only in this way can his plan to go to sea go smoothly.

Recently, he was in Shanghu County, and he could clearly feel that people from the outside world were constantly coming.

These people are not disaster victims at all, but some people of all kinds, and Li Jin finally determined that these people are spies.

Li Jin didn't know who the spies were, but this situation also made Li Jin more vigilant.

After all, if these people affect his plans to go to sea, then he really has no place to cry.

You must know that going to sea and conquering Wadao is very important to Li Jin, and if he is stranded again, Li Jin will even have to pay a heavy price for it.

This is also why Li Jin took Lao Huang to a small-scale military parade this time.

He just wanted to use Lao Huang's mouth to tell the emperor that he was fully capable of completely solving the problem of the Japanese invaders.

Not only that, but for Wajima, which is far overseas, he also has the ability to conquer that wild place.

Even if they have a population of millions and hundreds of thousands of armor, they cannot be their opponents.

Zhu Yuanzhang next to him couldn't help but light up after hearing that Li Jin planned to load the artillery onto the big ship.

At the beginning, he fought a decisive battle with Chen Youliang in Dongting Lake, but Zhu Yuanzhang felt that if Chen Youliang had a big ship that could be loaded with artillery, he would have a great advantage in the water battle.

But Chen Youliang didn't care about artillery at that time, but relied on his tall and sturdy boat, rampage, and wanted to knock himself into the lake.

As a result, he took advantage of the bulkiness of the big ship and the shortcomings of not easy to turn around, and defeated Chen Youliang.

If Chen Youliang had this kind of artillery on his big ship, Zhu Yuanzhang would not even dare to imagine the consequences of the water battle at Dongting Lake.

I'm afraid that now the grass on my grave is all deep.

No, there may not even be a grave, but there is no place to bury the dead.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be a little afraid, and said to Li Jin:

"How many of these cannons can you fit on the ship you built?"

Li Jin stretched out a finger, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with satisfaction, and said:

"Ten doors? That's a lot, not bad. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang still remembers the embarrassing scene when he could only load one cannon on his small boat.

Now I heard that the ships of the Ming Navy can be loaded with ten guns of this power, which is already a good progress.

With artillery of this power, as long as the opponent is hit, I am afraid that it will suffer heavy losses.

But Li Jin shook his head and said:

"Not ten, but a hundred!"

"A whole hundred of these cannons, Lao Huang, can you imagine the scene of such ships crisscrossing the sea?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was stupid, just now he was still satisfied with the ten cannons.

Now Li Jin has directly expanded him tenfold, a full hundred.

With a hundred such artillery, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but feel a little numb when he thought of a hundred powerful artillery pieces and the scene of ten thousand cannons firing at once.

Just now, with only ten cannons, you can wipe out all the animals within a radius of two miles, so wouldn't a hundred pieces of artillery be a radius of twenty miles?

It's also terrifying.

You must know that a radius of twenty miles can accommodate at least 100,000 troops.

The artillery carried by a large ship can exterminate an army of 100,000? Zhu Yuanzhang only felt that his brain was a little messy at the moment.

But immediately, Zhu Yuanzhang realized that something was wrong.

How is it possible for one ship to fit so many cannons?

A ship with only one deck, no matter how large, could not fit so many cannons.

"Li Jin, you dare to lie to us? Haven't you ever seen a giant ship? ”

"When the decisive battle of Dongting Lake was at the beginning, you kid didn't know where it was!"

"Chen Youliang's big ship may not be able to fit a hundred guns, let alone the ship built by your small shipyard."

"It's impossible for a ship on one deck to fit a hundred guns!"

Li Jin was very calm and said:

"Who said my big ship has a deck?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was full of doubts, isn't it a deck? How is this possible, even the Longjiang Shipyard at its peak had never heard of a ship with a double deck.

"Double deck?"

"Impossible, we once asked in person at the beginning, and it is impossible to build two ships."

"That not only requires superb shipbuilding technology, but with the current shipwright technology of the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to achieve."

"The keel of our Chinese ships can't support the double deck."

"If you build a double deck with an assembled keel, you won't be able to withstand a little wind and waves."

Although Zhu Yuanzhang forbids the sea, he has studied the ships quite a bit.

At the beginning, in order to defeat Chen Youliang's incomparably powerful fleet of sailors, he specially found someone to talk about the manufacture of various ships.

Among them were ships that increased their decks and allowed archers to hide in the second deck for shooting.

As a result, the original shipwright rejected it, believing that this technology was impossible to achieve.

Because the keel used in Daming shipbuilding is simply spliced, which can prevent shipwrecks caused by water leakage.

However, such a keel is just right to build one deck, and if two decks are forced, it will lead to unstable hull and very fragile.

It can't withstand any wind and waves at all, let alone the storm at sea, and even the wind and waves on the river can't withstand it.

So Zhu Yuanzhang didn't believe Li Jin's nonsense at all, what a two-layer deck, it's pure nonsense!

"Lao Huang, what era is it to beat Chen Youliang?"

Li Jin's face was full of disdain, and he said:

"That's already the memories of your older generation."

"Dongting Lake is indeed very large, but compared to the sea, it is a small water pool after all."

"No matter how big the big boat Chen Youliang uses, it is just the overlord in the lake, and it is nothing on the sea."

"What our shipyard has built today is a navy that can crisscross the seas and be invincible in the world, and the two are not the same level at all, let alone compare."

Since Li Jin returned from the Longjiang Shipyard that day, he summoned all the shipwrights of the original shipyard to Shanghu County according to Wang Dahai's list.

Then Li Jin set up the Longjiang Bao Shipyard in Shanghu County non-stop, and there was no stop at all.

After the personnel arrived, Li Jin did not let them make it according to the original manufacturing method of the treasure ship, but gave them an improved drawing.

Such drawings took advantage not only of the huge size of the treasure ship, but also of the Western double deck.

The only purpose of the double deck was to greatly increase the number of guns on board.

At some point in the future, the history of China will usher in a humiliating 100 years, and it is through this kind of ship that Western countries have opened the door to China.

The biggest difference between the two types of ships is the difference in the keel of the ship.

In the past, the keels used in Daming shipbuilding were spliced, and there were two main reasons.

The first is the spliced keel, which is able to create watertight compartments.

Multiple cabins can be built on the ground floor of the ship, and each cabin will be watertight.

If one of the cabins on the bottom floor hits the reef and leaks, it will not affect the other cabins and thus prevent the ship from sinking completely.

This is the pinnacle of Chinese historical ships, and as a merchant ship, it is definitely worthy of the top of the world.

Because of the large number of cabins, the large cargo capacity, and because of the deep draft, it can carry more goods, and it is the most developed airtight ship in the world.

The second reason for making such a keel is that the Ming Dynasty does not have particularly huge trees to make keels.

After so many years of reproduction by the Chinese people, the Central Plains has long been turned into fertile land, and there is no primeval forest.

But there is no primeval forest, which means that there are no excellent shipbuilding raw materials, and the keel with extremely strict material requirements is naturally impossible to find.

Although the Fu ship can be used as the warship of the Ming Dynasty.

But for naval warfare, Li Jin was somewhat dissatisfied that its ship speed was not very high.

In Li Jin's plan, the ships of the Ming Navy should carry a large number of artillery pieces, which can carry out devastating strikes on both sea and land.

Not only that, but as a warship, it must have enough speed so that if you find an enemy, you must catch up with them and destroy them all.

Such a warship with sufficient firepower and amazing speed is the hope of the Ming Navy, and it will also be a nightmare for the Japanese pirates.

So, Li Jin took out the later refitted lucky boat.

Although this kind of ship is similar to the Fu ship, the structure is completely different, and Li Jin prefers to call it the Galen ship.

This type of ship is one of the more well-known and tried and tested ships in the West, with excellent speed and double decks.

Each deck can be used individually, and as for fixing guns on the deck, it is even more easy.

Li Jin's drawings for Wang Dahai are this kind of vessels.

After Wang Dahai got the drawings, he quickly conducted model experiments in the experimental tank.

The results of the experiment are naturally exciting, and through the efforts of many shipwrights in Longjiang Shipyard, the boats on this drawing have been modeled and simulated by various data, and the effect is very outstanding.

Now Longjiang Bao Shipyard is working day and night, and it is building this kind of ship.

As long as these ships are built and the soldiers are trained at sea, then the plan to exterminate the Japanese can begin.

Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked when he heard that Li Jin had really built a big ship with a double deck.

"How is this possible, the person in charge of their Longjiang Shipyard told us in person that this is impossible."

"Why can it be done with you?"

"You just said that Da Ming lacks the materials to make the keel of the big ship, do you Li Jin have this kind of wood?"

Li Jin nodded as a matter of course and said:

"Of course!"

"When I sat on this Shanghu County Ordinance, I kept an eye on this huge timber for such a day."

"Since the location of Shanghu County is so unique, it must not be wasted."

"The sea must become an inseparable land of the Ming Dynasty, even if the emperor does not see the profits that the sea can bring to the Ming Dynasty, one day, I will also see the importance of the sea."

"With my tireless persistence, I finally met a businessman from Guizhou."

"Today's Daming, if there are any places where you can find wood for shipbuilding, it must be in the southwest region."

"Sure enough, when this merchant heard that I needed this kind of wood, he finally lived up to his expectations and brought in dozens of towering trees, enough to build a fleet to go to sea."

"It's just that the price of wood is a bit expensive."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he frowned and asked:

"How much?"

"Ten thousand taels of silver, one tree!"

Li Jin had a painful look on his face, he didn't have so much money in his hands at the beginning, but he still gritted his teeth and bought so much wood.

In order to be able to use this wood to make important weapons for going abroad, and to give the island country on the other side of the ocean a lesson that will be unforgettable for a lifetime.

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent, if it is calculated in this way, the silver that Li Jin spent on shipbuilding has been nearly two million taels of silver.

Is it really like what Li Jin said, to eradicate the plague of the Ming Dynasty? So much so that you want to destroy the entire Wajima?

Zhu Yuanzhang felt that things were not so simple, but he didn't know what the problem was.

He couldn't see what Li Jin could get out of it?