The emperor of Wanli of the Ming Empire still failed to come to Jinzhouwei after all.

The reason is that the second assistant of the cabinet, Lu Tiaoyang, is too good at mathematics.

The old man experienced Zhang Juzheng's love, everyone thought that he would be promoted to the first assistant of the empire, Zhang Juzheng ran to the house to celebrate before he spoke, this time he suffered an unwarranted disaster, and recently he has given the emperor three requests to retire home.

There is still a fourth letter on the sea, and he is waiting to return the emperor to the capital and play.

In the black words in the court, three is a very powerful number, three resignations and three concessions, everyone is playing around with you, and the fourth time must be taken seriously.

The old man was in a hurry to do big things, and he kept pinching the time for the little emperor, and the warship began to persuade the little emperor to return at the sixth hour of the voyage from Tianjin Port.

persuaded Xiao Wanli to be drowsy - it was already time to sleep, the old man didn't let him sleep, reasoned with him, and talked about the eighth hour, and spread the sea voyage to the little emperor.

Go back to Dagukou for eight hours, go fast on the road, go directly to the canal to take a boat, and arrive in Tongzhou before the sun rises on the fourth day, and the police will not affect the early dynasty when they return to the Forbidden City.

Xiao Wanli couldn't help it, he wanted to rub in for a few more hours and fool the old man to go to Jinzhouwei, but he thought of Empress Dowager Li's kindness, and finally decided to return obediently.

After all, Chen Shuai said that always kneeling is not good for development, it is easy not to grow tall, and there is also cold on the slate ground, and he will always suffer from leg disease.

When Chen Mu got on and off the ship from the Wanli and transferred to the Great Wall on the sea, the little emperor held on to the side of the Wanli ship and cried a handful of snot and tears, howling like a wolf, and the eunuch palace couldn't hold it.

Yang Tingxiang, who saw the Great Wall ship on the sea, couldn't help but say to Chen Mu: "Your Majesty's reluctance to give up on the handsome is enviable." ”

Chen Mu turned his head to look at Yang Tingxiang, and then at the Wanli - his gaze passed through the deck of the Wanli covered with artillery weapons, and those hurried eunuchs walked into the cabin with the book that the emperor wanted to memorize.

"Reluctant?"

Chen Mu originally wanted to say that the little emperor was crying, and the happy time was always so fucking short.

But when the words came to his lips, he secretly thought that the emperor should be described in a more elegant way, and he arched his hand towards the Wanli fleet, which was gradually turning course, and said: "Your Majesty sighs that Shaohua is fleeting. ”

"Shaohua is fleeting."

Obviously, Yang Tingxiang also saw the eunuchs walking into the cabin with books in their arms, and he had a new understanding of the emperor's wailing, and he smiled: "My subordinates understand, what does Chen Shuai say on the shore to design a small new ship below?" ”

"Don't worry, let someone make some tea, go into the cabin and say." Chen Mu said to the few people who followed him on the deck: "There will be no risks in the first half of the journey, and there will be no shortage of drinking water. ”

From the mouth of Dagu in Tianjin to the four thousand miles and hundreds of households, although the voyage along the way is nearly 10,000 miles, but the victory lies in the adequate preparation, the advance baggage ship has been waiting at the front thirteen outposts, not to mention the Jinzhou Wei in Liaodong, the Hwanghae Province in North Korea, the Jeolla Province, and the places where additional supplies are sent everywhere in the Khugu Ezo Land.

The Oriental Fleet is also strong enough to dominate the sea area, and it is a mature route, so coastal navigation will not encounter any risks.

Chen Mu likes the handsome room of the Great Wall ship on the sea, Nanyang not only took great pains to build this warship, but also used the silver taels that Guangzhou merchants gave Nanyang Wei to serve, and the shipbuilding cost of the Ming Dynasty has always been very low, even if the labor cost of a giant ship like the Wanli ship is only 1,700 taels.

The cost of his ship is lower, and the materials used are all good materials, the most expensive is the teak levied by the Guangdong Customs in kind, and some such as fir are requisitioned from neighboring provinces.

If the ship unloads its weapons and sells it, if anyone really dares to buy it, the price of the ship should be around 50,000 taels.

For no other reason, the hull and cabin decorations have skyrocketed in value.

In two ways, the official name of the ship is the Great Wall of the Sea, and the other name in the Oriental Fleet is the Nine-Headed Horse, and the bow of the ship is made of copper and stone art to make a nine-headed spirit wearing a crown and wearing a mountain armor with the carving art that developed to the peak in the Song and Ming dynasties.

The hull of the ship is painted with thin iron to balance the overall hull structure.

The cabin is located in the middle of the cabin, with cabins on both sides to protect it, two small and one large and three window doors fall at the stern, and the large window is facing the aft terrace, which is a traditional sliding door, and there is a three-step space in the door to flush the screen.

Two small windows on either side of the sliding door, no more than two feet long and wide, are made of translucent crystal.

In recent years, most of the merchants who have been in the business of gemstones have made goggles, and even crystals with variegated colors have been used to make lenses, and it is difficult to find such a large piece of transparent crystal.

"The end point of this voyage is Majiagang, I don't know how Ma Shuai has planned in Asia for three years, but even if it develops well, it can't support the sudden influx of nearly 10,000 people in our department."

Yang Tingxiang looked at Chen Mu at the indoor long table and spread out the coastal map he brought back by China Eastern Airlines, and said: "Chen Fo passed through Majiagang on his way back, and the flag army over there suffered a lot, and they were only able to support themselves last year. ”

"I have never heard people talk about this when I went to Spain and Portugal to find land, and there were many failures and few survivors, and there has never been a situation like Ma Shuai."

Chen Mu knew what he meant by what he had never meant - he probably knew some of the European explorers of this era, most of those people did not have state support for their first voyage, let alone the investment of wealthy businessmen, and most of them had a gambling spirit like Fu Yuan.

The results speak for themselves.

Since Marco Polo's book spread in Europe, only a few have really become famous, and I don't know how many have died.

But once they have a successful voyage, most of them are well prepared for the second voyage, or have royal investment or wealthy businessmen's investment, and they can be reaped if they are fully prepared and know the way.

Ma Gui is different, at the beginning, he undoubtedly took the wrong path and failed, so that more than 1,000 of his subordinates died and were crippled, and there were only more than 200 people left.

But he survived with a limited baggage without anyone supporting the imperial court or even thinking that he was dead, and led the remaining subordinates to establish Majiagang in a suitable place for survival.

"The west coast is where we can enter, the coast south of Mexico is occupied, and we have to go and see and make a trade deal with them, and the Spaniards and the Portuguese are not a big problem."

"The key lies in the indigenous people of Asia, and it is difficult to win their favor, but now that Spain and Portugal are in front, we can be good people."

"You want to design a light, fast, and easy-to-build ship, and set up the first shipyard in Majiagang, on the one hand, we use it for transporting goods, and on the other hand, we also use this kind of small ship to trade with the natives, as a small warship to support them, it is cheaper, it can load both cargo and people, and it can also be loaded with a few small cannons."

"Power is a ...... Armed merchant ships. ”