Although it is out of the first month, but the weather is still cold, Zhu Mingzhong, who is in this era, finally feels what is "Xiaoice River" in this winter, and realizes what dripping water into ice.

"Catch up, no matter what, you have to put the earth dragon dimension on the ......"

Thinking like this in his heart, Zhu Mingzhong, who was wearing a cotton coat and a fur coat, was in the snow in the backyard, but his eyes were looking directly at the tree in the courtyard.

This is a persimmon tree, although there is snow hanging on the tree, but there are still a few persimmons hanging on the top of the tree, of course, Zhu Mingzhong's eyes are not staring at the persimmons that have been broken, but those few lonely leaves.

"The most suitable thing to supplement vitamin C in the Age of Discovery is persimmon leaf tea!"

Again, Zhu Mingzhong's mind came up with the chat records he had seen on his mobile phone, if he hadn't vaguely had this impression, he wouldn't have remembered it at all, and he didn't even know that there was "persimmon leaf tea".

"Persimmon leaf tea contains 866 mg of vitamin C per 100 grams, compared to only 22 mg of lemon, which can be said to be a natural treasure trove of vitamin C, and can be stored for a long time, as long as each person uses a few grams of persimmon leaf tea to brew a few glasses of water every day, you can ensure sufficient vitamin C supplementation......"

It only takes a few grams!

And the production of persimmon leaf tea is not complicated, at least not more than tea leaves, it can be stored for a long time, the price is low, the production process is simple, and what is more suitable for supplementing vitamin C for sailors and passengers on board when sailing?

Not really!

"Persimmon leaf tea ......"

Saying this name, Zhu Mingzhong secretly thought,

"When spring begins, it's almost time to pick leaves to make tea! When the time comes, persimmon leaf tea will be designated as a "naval drink". ”

With persimmon leaf tea, perhaps the Pacific Ocean is no longer in danger, and although it is impossible to measure the longitude of sea voyages in this era, it is possible to sail directly to North America by measuring latitude.

"How long does it take to fly directly to North America?" What do I need to prepare? ”

Persimmon leaf tea can solve the problem of vitamin C, and in this way, sepsis is ruled out, and as long as there is enough food, the migrant ship should be able to reach the North American coast smoothly.

"If there were clippers, maybe it would be faster, a month? Or less? ”

However, Zhu Mingzhong regrets that there is no information about the clipper in the information stored in the mobile phone, but despite this, he is not a stranger to the clipper. It is famous for its speed, perhaps historically, it is famous as a tea ship, but for Zhu Mingzhong, the speed of the clipper can change the fate of the Americas - with the clipper, the vast Pacific Ocean will be "shortened".

From the time Magellan sailed around the world into the Pacific Ocean, after countless failures and the death of many navigators and explorers, the "Kuroshio" was finally discovered in 1565 by a monk navigator Urdaneta. The route departs from the Philippines in spring and summer, first by the southwest monsoon to the east of Japan, and then by the North Pacific Current and the California Current, across the Pacific Ocean to Mexico. But if the wind doesn't work for that stretch, the boat can easily be blown to Alaska. It generally takes seven or eight months to get from the Philippines to Mexico; It usually takes only two or three months to travel west from Mexico to the Philippines.

So how long does it take to get from China to the Americas? It will certainly not be less than seven or eight months, and such a long time, let alone ordinary passengers, even ordinary sailors may not be able to hold on. Time is of the essence when it comes to moving to the Americas.

If clippers can compress the time to less than two or three months, then everything will change. The vast Pacific Ocean will no longer be a moat, an obstacle to Chinese migrants entering the Americas.

The premise is - clippers!

"This type of ship is slender and long, with an aspect ratio of more than 6:1, a sharp and protruding bow end, and is hollow, and has a high speed and small tonnage. Due to the use of a hollow bow, it is convenient for the ship to raise its head in the wind and waves, which improves its course stability in the waves and reduces the resistance of the bow. The gradually degraded waterline at the rear of the hull smoothly transitions to a narrow, rounded stern. The ship is mostly equipped with 3-4 high masts and fully equipped sails, and the high masts are generally about three-quarters of the length of the whole ship, and there are outstretched sail trusses on both sides of the ship, called wing sail bars, which can be hung with wing sails, so that the transverse size of the sail far exceeds the width of the ship, and the transverse extension area of the sail is ......"

Recalling the information of the clippers he had seen, Zhu Mingzhong had already imagined the appearance of the "clippers" in his mind. It doesn't seem to be as complicated as it seems,

"Perhaps, you can let the shipyard build a small test ship first, even if it is an AFAB clipper, you can't eat a fat man in one bite, you have to take your time in everything......"

Right!

Step by step, you can't be in a hurry.

"When Cui Muhua brings the timber, there will be enough timber to build a ship, otherwise it can be made of pine wood first...... No, the clipper must be made of oak, its speed is too fast, ordinary wood is not suitable for making it, it seems that we still have to wait for North Korean oak wood! ”

When he shook his head and sighed softly, Gu Yanwu, who didn't know when he walked by, said with a smile when he listened to the last sentence of Jing Liu.

"Jinglu, it seems that after the opening of Keelung, you are more concerned about shipbuilding."

Gu Yanwu naturally didn't know that Zhu Mingzhong's goal was more "ambitious", and only when he was open to "Keelung" would he care about shipbuilding.

"Ning people, now that Keelung has opened the port, how can I not care, after all, we are not the only ones on the island, there are also the Dutch, if we want to gain a foothold there, we have to find a way to enrich the immigrants and people on the island, but if we want to enrich the immigrants, we must have ships, and shipbuilding is based on oak ......wood."

Shaking his head and sighing lightly, Zhu Mingzhong pointed in the direction of the Yellow River and said.

"In addition to transporting timber back from North Korea, I also ordered people to collect tree seedlings to raise seedlings, and when the spring comes, the saplings will be planted on the Yellow River dam, and in the future, we will build a timber forest on the barren mountains, although it is said that trees can only grow into timber in a hundred years, but if this is not the case, I am afraid that within a hundred years, there will be no ......more timber for shipbuilding."

With a vision beyond the times, Zhu Mingzhong naturally knew that closing mountains and cultivating forests was the best way to obtain timber, although it took a long time, but when the century-old oak timber suitable for shipbuilding in Korea, Northeast China and the Far East was cut down, if the timber breeding yard was not established in advance, I am afraid that the navy would fall into the predicament of having no timber to use.

Just like the United Kingdom, after losing its North American colonies, it suddenly fell into the predicament of having no wood to use, so that when building warships, it had to use elm, which was slightly inferior in performance, to build the waterline part. As long as there is enough patience, even if the natural forests have been cut down in a hundred years, those plantations will still be able to provide enough timber.

After all, in the era of wooden ships, it was most likely the forest that decided the fate of the Navy. There is even an extreme view that China's backward navigation technology after the Ming and Qing dynasties has a lot to do with the degradation of forests in China's coastal areas, and of course the fundamental reason is the sea ban.

But wood, as a basic raw material, of course, also plays a role.

"What Jingluo said is that this timber forest is really a matter of course, just like if there were no hundreds of years of willow trees on both sides of the Grand Canal, how could the Gunpowder Bureau have enough wicker for burning charcoal to make gunpowder, after all, this willow wood is the best choice for medicine!"

When Gu Yanwu naturally combined the timber forest with the willow trees on the canal and the willow charcoal from the Gunpowder Bureau, he said again.

"Although shipbuilding is a must, it has just been said that if you want to gain a foothold in Taiwan, you have to enrich the people of Taiwan, and if this person is full, how can you only be a soldier and a prisoner? In the opinion of the following officials, if you want to enrich the Taiwanese people, you must move to ordinary people! ”

Gu Yanwu's suggestion made Zhu Mingzhong look at him seriously, knowing that he had something to say, so he asked with a smile.

"Ningren, tell me what you think?"

"After a while, since I joined the government office, the lower officials have been thinking, when Jiashen changed the sky, why could the Qing Dynasty take over the world of my Ming Dynasty in just over the years?"

When this question was mentioned, Gu Yanwu's expression looked extremely serious.

"I want my Ming legacy is still not gone, the people of the world are all looking forward to the Ming Dynasty, when the sky changed, the gentry and the people around the country are raising the righteous army, resisting the Qing captives, even if they are rebelling against the West thief, they are also willing to be driven by my Ming Dynasty, such as Li Dingguo, although he was a thief in the West, against the imperial court, but now he is a loyal minister of my Ming Dynasty, supporting half of my Ming Dynasty, although it has won the hearts of the people, but why is it so fast to lose the world?"

Gu Yanwu's question made Zhu Mingzhong's brows frown slightly, this problem, even after three and a half centuries, is still disputed, so that there are still jokes on the Internet about "eunuchs are patriotic" and "Donglin is a disaster for the country", completely ignoring "Donglin may not be all gentlemen, and eunuchs may not be villains." As for blindly saying that Donglin is a disaster to the country, it is simply ignorant to the extreme, only thinking that the Donglin Party is a group of civil officials, completely ignoring the fact that the civil officials are big enough to say that because of the "North and South lists are taken separately", the civil officials are divided into north and south. Otherwise, Xu Guangqi would not have suggested planting rice in the north after the success of the trial rice planting in Tianjin, and when the Cao Yun was reduced, the officials from the north were afraid that the land in their hometown would be increased due to the decrease in the amount of grain, so they strongly opposed it, resulting in the failure of the camp. It can be seen from this that the influence of northern officials in the DPRK and China is not inferior to that of the south.

And on the other hand, since the Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, the party has been constantly fighting, and Donglin and the Xuan Party, the Kun Party, the Qi Party, the Chu Party, and the Zhejiang Party have attacked each other, which finally led to the situation of the eunuch dictatorship during the Apocalypse. How can such a Donglin Party, which is dominated by Jiangnan scholars, be dominant?

Party strife, Donglin, this is just one of the reasons, but this reason is not decisive!

"So in the opinion of the Ning people, what is the reason that after the Qing prisoners entered the customs, I lost the world so quickly?"