Soon after returning to Chang'an, Li Ye received a report that the Haihe Yamen semi-magic vessel was about to be launched.

This matter is very important, and even determines the success or failure of Li Ye's overseas cause to a certain extent, Li Ye has always been very concerned, so he left the central place and went to Lingnan Guangzhou to personally inspect it.

It was a clear day, Li Ye stood on the watchtower of the naval battalion, and looked around, and it could be seen that in the bay where the ships were connected, a large area of sea was vacant, and there were only three rather tall building ships.

These three building ships are exactly the same in terms of appearance and equipment.

Different from the pure wooden building ship, these three building ships are based on spirit wood and spirit stone to build a skeleton, and only use hard wood in the secondary parts, in order to eliminate the difference and achieve the camouflage effect, the entire building ship is painted black, shining in the sunlight similar to metal.

Each building ship is divided into three floors, the first floor is the Lu, the second floor is the Fei Lu, and the top floor is the Lord's room. Each floor is equipped with a protective female wall, which can be used to defend against local bows and arrows. There are arrow holes in the female wall that are used to fire bows and crossbows. In order to defend against enemy fire, the ship was covered with cowhide to insulate the heat.

In addition, it is fiber rope, oar, sail, pole and other equipment.

Because it was an experimental product, there were only these three semi-magic vessels launched in the first batch.

After seeing it from a distance, Liu Zhiyan and Peng Zushan invited Li Ye to visit the ship. Li Ye naturally nodded and promised, these three building ships are not much different from ordinary warships except for the overall color. The real doorway, you still need to get on the boat to see.

"There are three magic bed crossbows in the bow of the ship, and two in the stern, with the side-chord magic weapons Fuyuan crossbow, arm open crossbow, and horn bow crossbow, forming a strong crossbow array, just this part of the power, a warship is equivalent to a closed city. Peng Zushan walked in front and showed Li Ye the configuration of the warship.

Ordinary warships can't place so many magic weapons and strong crossbows, because they can't withstand the huge impact force when the strong crossbows are fired together, and if they are forcibly equipped, the result is that the warship itself will fall apart first.

"Of course, the most outstanding thing about the warship is not these powerful crossbows, but the magic circle built on the spirit wood spirit stone. ”

Peng Zushan walked to the deck and pointed to the place where several high-level Qi cultivation cultivators gathered, and there was a protruding high platform on the other side, "With these magic arrays, we can apply a layer of defensive light shield to the important part of the warship, even if it is a great cultivator of the True Human Realm, we can't easily break it." ”

Li Ye looked very satisfied and nodded from time to time.

Peng Zushan continued: "As for the thrust of the warship, we use the formation to combine the style and the oars, so that we can obtain a more powerful and stable force in addition to normal navigation. When the wind is not in the right direction, or when fighting, only the monks need to preside over these formations, and the ship can gain amazing speed. ”

Speaking of this, he said with some emotion: "But in this way, the consumption of spirit stones is a lot, and it requires a lot of Qi cultivation cultivators. In the past, such a warship would not have been possible at all, and the dynasty did not have so many Qi cultivators, nor did it have so many cultivation resources. ”

Li Ye disagreed, "As long as the warship is really strong, this investment is nothing." ”

Peng Zushan meant that maintaining such a warship would cost money and would also require talent. However, this is not a big deal for Li Ye at all, and he is also mentally prepared for this.

A half-magic weapon warship, if it is saturated, needs more than 300 qi cultivators, they have to control the magic weapon crossbow to maintain the operation of the formation, and one of them presides over each core

The heart formation requires a real human realm.

In the past, the seventh-rank official was also the level of the first level of qi training, and the strength of the monks in this warship was already the power of a feudal town!

If it was ten years ago, Mo said that such a half-magic weapon warship could not be built, and even if it was built, it would not be used at all. This is the fundamental reason restricting the emergence of such a powerful warship.

Nowadays, the cultivation colleges of the Tang Dynasty have been opened to the state level, and a few wealthy places, such as Gyeonggi, Qingzhou, and even counties, have cultivation colleges.

The number of monks that the academy can train for Datang every year is an extremely terrifying number.

As for consuming resources, Li Ye doesn't care.

Don't aircraft carriers burn money?

At present, the half-weapon warship is the same as the aircraft carrier.

With these half-magic weapon warships, you can plunder more wealth and control more resources, this is an investment, and there is nothing to worry about.

"These new warships are completely different from ordinary warships, and now they have been launched and are about to fight overseas, but they don't have a name yet, please give your majesty a name!" Liu Zhiyan saw that Li Ye was very satisfied with the warship, and lost no time in making this suggestion.

Li Ye saw that everyone looked over, his eyes were full of expectation, and he knew that they should be met for this request, at least, this was also to respect their hard work.

He pondered for a moment and said slowly: "These half-magic weapon warships are tasked with the mission of opening up overseas for the dynasty, and they need to show their might on the ocean, sweep away all enemies that hinder the progress of the Tang Dynasty, and protect the maritime territory of the Tang Dynasty. In that case, how about calling it a 'cruiser' in my opinion?"

"Cruiser?" Everyone chewed on the name, only feeling that it was very domineering and meaningful, and they were all happy in their hearts, and they all saluted Li Ye, "Thank you for your name!"

The three cruisers were called the cruisers Jiazi, B, and C in turn.

Seeing everyone leaning over and saluting, Li Ye smiled slightly, but he had some bad taste in his heart. But in any case, the cruisers in this world are different from the earth after all, but what is the same is that their appearance marks that ocean warships, and even the face of ocean warfare, have entered a new level.

Next, Li Ye stayed in the naval division camp for a few days, mainly to watch the cruiser drills and confirm their actual combat results.

The power of the cruiser naturally did not disappoint Li Ye, and its ability to consume resources also made Li Ye's smile gradually stiffen. He thought he was prepared for the extent to which the cruiser would burn money, but when he actually saw it, he knew what it meant to be a gold-swallowing beast.

With Datang's current national strength, there really isn't much spare time to build more cruisers before it actually controls the islands outside the South China Sea and communicates with the Americas to obtain resources there.

In comparison, the consumption of more than 2,000 ordinary soldiers on each cruiser is not worth mentioning.

However, with these three cruisers, Li Ye also has a lot of confidence in the next war against the Japanese state.

"Before sending troops to the Japanese State, the Lingnan Navy Division is bound to carry out the necessary reconstruction and reorganization around the three cruisers, the time is urgent, and the non-great talents are not up to such a difficult task, I don't know who Your Majesty intends to let take on this heavy task?"

As the final subject of the cruiser drill came to an end, Liu Zhiyan asked Li Ye curiously.

The answer to this question is not

It's not difficult, the most outstanding sailor generals in the Tang Dynasty are none other than Yang Xingmi and Sun Ru. Not long ago, Yang Xingmi went wrong when he was practicing, and he stepped down from the post of general of the Jiangnan Navy Division and was succeeded by Sun Ru.

Therefore, there is hardly any problem in the selection of candidates.

"Yang Xingmi is still available, and his achievements in the position of the general of the Jiangnan Navy Division cannot be ignored. Li Ye responded to Liu Zhiyan. His remarks show that the candidate for the general of the Lingnan Navy Division is naturally Yang Xingmi.

However, unlike Sun Ru, in order to successfully transfer to the Lingnan Water Division, Li Ye saw a series of "divine operations" of Yang Xingmi before. With his current cultivation, it is no longer difficult to monitor the world with the eye of the emperor.

But in practice, it is impossible for Li Ye to stare at everyone, just like Yang Fei, after he returned to Qingzhou, he remembered this old man, so he used the emperor's eye to understand the other party's situation. So in ordinary times, Li Ye chooses some important areas and important targets to pay attention to.

Yang Xingmi is an important general of the imperial dynasty, and he is also the most outstanding of the water divisions, and he is also the general of the Jiangnan water division, and it is impossible for him to escape the surveillance of Li Ye's imperial eye.

Liu Zhiyan is not an outsider, so Li Ye told the other party what Yang Xingmi did not long ago as a joke.

"This guy is so sinister, no different from a villain, Your Majesty knows that he is a moral disadvantage, why do you still use him?" After listening to the story, Liu Zhiyan was a little puzzled by Li Ye's decision to use people.

Li Ye smiled disappreciatively, "In terms of talent, Sun Ru is indeed inferior to Yang Xingmi, and now that his mind has been thrown by the other party, it is even more embarrassing."

"The status of the Lingnan Navy Division will become more and more important in the future, and overseas conquests are destined to be commonplace, in the face of those outstanding sailor generals in the world in a dangerous and unpredictable environment, do I not need to be more powerful, but use the weak? One general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies, this kind of thing cannot appear in the Tang Army. ”

Liu Zhiyan was speechless.

Li Ye's words clearly mean that the strong have everything, the weak have nothing, and virtue cannot decide anything at all.

Seeing that Liu Zhiyan was still a little confused, Li Ye continued: "Yang Xingmi can see the future of the Lingnan Sailor in advance, plan early, and do not hesitate to sacrifice his own cultivation for this purpose, and the plan is successful.

"The generals are ambitious, and I am not worried, but happy to see them come to fruition. Those officials and generals who eat and wait for death are useless to the dynasty and will only do bad things. In short, if you want to make a contribution, you have to use talents, and people who are virtuous and untalented are only suitable for educating children. ”

At this point, Li Ye didn't say more.

In the final analysis, Yang Xingmi is not a big traitor, as long as he does not rebel, Li Ye can let his ambitions be realized. And if he dares to have the idea of rebellion, before he takes action, Li Ye will let him know what it means to die violently.

Liu Zhiyan also understood what Li Ye meant, nodded and said, "Your Majesty, rest assured, I will keep this matter secret and will never reveal it." ”

Li Ye smiled slightly and didn't say anything. The reason why he told Liu Zhiyan this was also to ask Liu Zhiyan to know more about Yang Xingmi, after all, there will be many times for Haihe Yamen to deal with Lingnan sailors in the future.

Time flies, time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is June.