The port of King Lion Port is home to three brand new ships.

Two of them are not much different from the 2,000-mile Nanchang ship of the Western Military Government in terms of ship type, except for a thick and strange tube standing behind the main mast.

At this time, the reason why the shore attracted countless lion officials and citizens to stand on tiptoe to watch was not these two ships, but the huge shadow behind them—it was a sealed ship that was half the size of the two thousand warships.

More than 4,900 official ships are used to seal the boat, and the offshore sea is like a city in the clouds, so that the audience can feel their own insignificance without approaching.

Like this kind of big ship with a displacement of millions of catties, Daming has not built it for a long time.

Because the officers of the Wutang all have the same concept of naval warfare, they do not want to lead their subordinates to make a group assault with a large number of small ships in a naval battle, nor do they want to drive a large ship and a huge ship that is not strenuous to go on a rampage.

Almost all the generals who graduated from the martial arts hall have a portrait of the coveted flagship in their minds:

It should have the usual slender body of the Ming warship, whether it is a big-bellied man like Spain or a small body like Han.

The hull should be made of solid materials and excellent workmanship, and it is best to be fully supervised by Nanyang Weixiangshan Shipyard, but it is difficult under the current industrial division of labor in the Ming Dynasty, at least the Nanyang Military Government is responsible for repairing it.

Above the waterline, there should be a double-layer artillery deck, loaded with 38 to 42 Zhenshuo guns, no more and no less, less powerful than enough, more than enough to hold other weapons and water.

In addition to General Zhenshuo, which was used to destroy the hull, the twin sides of the upper deck were specially used to hold the Fran cannons, and these rapid-fire guns were specially designed to shoot shotguns, so each gun emplacement behind the ship was to be equipped with wooden boxes with prefabricated loose barrels of uniform caliber.

Overall, this dream ship can be indistinguishable from the lucky ships of the past in appearance, but the bow and stern are unnecessary, the civilian facilities have been drastically curtailed, the hull is thicker, and it is better to have enough carvings and majestic paintings worthy of the caliber of the guns.

And most importantly...... When you first launch the water, you must draw two eyes looking forward on the bow of the boat.

The eye of the boat is the attention of the past, and the eye is looking down at the fishing boat, which means that the sea is intuitive and full of loads; The eyes are looking upwards at the merchant ship, which means to see the sky and know the way, and move forward bravely.

All things have spirits, and so do ships, and the sailors on the ships should care for the ships like their wives and children, so as the admirals of the 'Imperial Modern Navy', they are still willing to continue the ancient tradition and sail the seas on the warships of Kailong.

Under this concept, the large sealed ship moored in the sea of King Lion Harbor is obviously not a warship.

It was not a warship in the past, and it is not even more so.

It was not opened here to canonize anyone, but specifically to fulfill the special wish of the emperor to transport coal from the Annam Ship Coal Station to the Lion Country...... The envoy on the sealed boat also learned the emperor's tone and severely criticized the king of the lion country: The kingdom larger than the Qiongzhou Mansion has no coal, what kind of system is it, what should your people do? Let the domestic businessmen find out where the coal mine is hidden, the people have to burn coal in winter, it is not good to burn wood, and the wood should be kept for shipbuilding.

The lion king, Rajanina, had fought valiantly as a prince, leading Ceylonese warriors of all ranks to defeat the Portuguese, and his troops consisted of cavalry, elephants, infantry and artillery, and the infantry had a very small number of Ottoman muskets purchased by Arab merchants, and the artillery was a kind of Ottoman carriage musket that was bought.

Although after the war, he relied on the majesty of the great victory to unify all places and ascend the throne as king, in front of the Ming Dynasty, he could only salute the envoy and replied: "Xiao Wang has mobilized all his subjects to find coal mines. ”

He really wanted to tell the Wanli Emperor Ceylon Yongxia that there was no winter, and his subjects did not have to burn charcoal for warmth.

But he didn't dare.

The Ming Dynasty is not Portugal, the Portuguese are doing evil in this land, they are good at provoking the relationship between the leaders of various places, dozens of hundreds of people appear in the form of mercenaries, and then after the establishment of the merchant station, the fleet arrives to oppose the guest, before that, the Portuguese army has always had ten times a hundred times the Ceylonese to do internal response.

Everyone who landed in the Ming Dynasty was a Ming army, and the dilemma of Portuguese manpower never seemed to appear in the Ming Dynasty.

Because of the lion country's well-behavedness, it has not yet experienced the combat ability of the Ming Western Flag Army, which looks different from the traditional army, but a long time ago, their king wanted to rob the gold and silver treasures on the ship of the Ming Treasure because of greed, and Zheng He, who was robbed, had to lead the army into the palace and then release all the prisoners in order to avoid war and killing.

How much does this person have to be blindsided to provoke the Ming fleet?

How is the Pirate King Chen Zuyi? In that era, there were hundreds of warships, standing in Japan, Penghu, Palembang, Malacca, and the Indian Ocean, plundering tens of thousands of ships in their lifetime, capturing more than 50 coastal towns, Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang offered a reward of 500,000 taels of silver, and Emperor Chengzu Zhu Di increased the reward to 7.5 million taels, why?

Emperor Chengzu will pay tribute, Chen Zuyi is a general in the Three Buddhas, the king died and he set himself up as a king, and others paid tribute to him, but he set off empty-handed, and he gave Emperor Yongle what he grabbed along the way...... Thinking about this scene, the eunuch stood in front of him: "Grandpa, the Three Buddhas Qi Dynasty Gong Daming sealed a seal of the King of Ryukyu and a pair of golden crowns." ”

Don't be angry?

It's not like Zheng He was arrested by such a bull.

This will make the lion king, no matter how brave and good he is, he will not go against the Ming.

Emperor Wanli, do whatever you want here, say whatever you want, it's okay, let's just listen.

Lives matter.

The reason why Yin Zhengmao waited at the royal port of the lion country was because these two ships were assigned by the emperor's edict, and the offshore voyage in the South Seas had been successfully completed.

Their route was from the Lion Country, and after four days they traveled at a speed of 300 miles a day to the port of Cochin on the west coast of southern India, and after arriving at the port of Cochin they rested for four hours and continued to the North Mountain, and traveled 2,400 miles in eight and a half days, and then set off for the west across the Indian Ocean, passing through Malindi and Mombasa, and returning to the Port of King Lion in ninety days, bringing back the report of the voyage to the open sea.

The two steam sailing ships were each powered by four Type A Huode Xingjun, and the main goal of the experiment was not speed, but to discover in advance the accidents encountered during the voyage and the lack of ship shape, and to correct them in the future.

Now that the coal yards from Japan to the coast of the Lion Kingdom have been built, and the coal supply road has been formed, it is only one step away from the realization of the emperor's promotion of 'his steamship' to the merchants of the world.

The poor one is to prove the superiority of the steam sailing ship.

At this time, the wind and waves in the Indian Ocean were not small, and Calicut, India, had driven away Vasco da Gama's fleet during the summer monsoon, and now the same test would fall on the two Ming steam galleons.

"Dashuai, the auspicious time has arrived."

At the head of the port trestle, Yin Zhengmao, who was dressed in a scarlet robe, closed his eyes for a moment, and when he opened his eyes again, the raised palm had already fallen: "Set sail!" ”