Beating Matteo Ricci is something Chen Wan has been preparing to do for a long time, if he doesn't do it earlier, when he continues to use him in the future, he doesn't know what will happen to him, so take advantage of the current beating and beating, let him be honest, and it will be much more convenient in the future.

This method, Xiao Ruxun has learned a lot from Yuan Huang, this old guy has been experienced for a long time, and he knows a lot about this matter, and often teaches some techniques that he heard from somewhere.

Part of Xiao Ruxun's ability to control is honed in the last days and on the battlefield, and more is the theory learned by Yuan Huang, and then slowly practiced.

Practice makes sense!

After solving the matter of Matteo Ricci, Xiao Ruxun issued the emperor's decree to the army, announcing the time and dispatch of troops to Spain, and the division prepared as soon as possible.

The army needs to leave at the end of October, settle the fighting by the end of November, then spend a little time to settle the aftermath of the war, and rush back to Burma to celebrate the New Year with their families by the end of December.

This time, 3,000 troops were dispatched, all of which were dispatched by the naval division, and several units of the army were not dispatched.

In fact, since the re-establishment of the Navy Division three years ago, Xiao Ruxun put forward the concept of the Marine Corps of the Navy Division, and the Ningxia Firearms Battalion, the main force of the descendants of Xiao Ruxun who was born in the northwest, are all from the northwest, and they are not familiar with water, and they will get seasick when they stand on the boat, and they are not suitable for water warfare by nature.

Since ancient times, China has the custom of northerners riding horses and southerners driving boats, northerners are good at riding horses, and southerners are good at making boats, so in terms of the distribution of troops, it is natural that northerners form cavalry and southerners form sailors.

In Xiao Ruxun's place, the importance of the water division is greater than that of the army, the army really does not have many battles, except for the first small group of bandits, there is no fighting, and now the army is mainly responsible for protecting the secret bases in the mountains of northern Burma, and is ready to deal with those restless Burmese natives at any time, and there is no large-scale war.

The sailor is different, Xiao Ruxun's sailor is the strongest in Nanyang, and after the rise of Nanyang commerce, he is famous for pirates.

In order to exercise the combat effectiveness of the sailors, Xiao Ruxun took the initiative to undertake the task of exterminating pirates, and in the three years of fighting, he continued to polish the combat effectiveness of the sailors, expand the scale of the sailors, and finally established a sailor division that was not afraid of the Spaniards and could fight them head-on.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty and the era of Zheng He's great exploration, the tonnage of the main warships of the Ming army reached about 2,500 tons, and the size of the largest warship was larger than a standard football field now, making it a well-deserved marine giant.

But time flies, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the shipbuilding technology of the Ming army has not advanced but retreated, and none of the warships taken over by Xiao Ruxun exceeded 400 tons.

For this reason, all the more than 100 warships left by the Ming court to Xiao Ruxun were beaten by Xiao Ruxun as auxiliary ships, and the hull was transformed, the old and worn sails were removed, and the new sails were replaced with high-quality ones, and then oars were added on both sides of the hull, and the muzzles were increased, and all unnecessary armaments were removed, turning into firepower ships that could travel quickly.

Then, within the current range of technology, Xiao Ruxun instructed his shipyard to do its best to build galleons and build multi-decks to increase the number of combat soldiers and artillery, although it is a pity that most of the shipbuilding techniques of the ocean-going ships used by Zheng He's fleet were lost, which made Xiao Ruxun feel extremely sorry.

In the choice of sails, Xiao Ruxun still chose to use Chinese-style hard sails, and did not choose to use soft sails, not to say that there was no research, when fighting with pirates, Xiao Ruxun captured more than one Western-style soft sailing ship, conducted some research, and then dismantled.

In contrast, under the existing conditions, Xiao Ruxun decisively chose the hard sail and abandoned the soft sail.

In another shipyard, however, when it came time to build merchant ships that needed to sail to Europe, some of the ships were built with Western-style soft sails.

Military warships are basically all hard-sail structures, which require fewer sailors, and will not cause a large number of deaths of sailors when they are retracted, and more importantly, Xiao Ruxun has no way to build larger warships at present.

The largest warship under his command is only about 700 tons of draft, which is about twice as large as the current warships of the Ming army, but it cannot be compared with the main warships of the early Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Xiao Ruxun is also very resentful of those bureaucrats who decide their heads, so many important technologies have been lost, so that Xiao Ruxun's current shipwrights can't imagine how their predecessors built super ships that are four times larger than today's largest warships, and they don't understand how they can use such heavy hard sails to support the mast.

Their main task was to build warships, and groping was a matter they discussed with each other during their rest, and for three years they had been building ships almost non-stop, and until this war was the beginning of the war, they were able to build more than 300 warships.

Of course, Xiao Ruxun's shipyard cannot be compared with the official shipyard of the Ming Dynasty in terms of equipment and numbers, and the record of an annual output of 1,300 ships is not to be considered, but it is not tiring to build 300 ships in more than two years.

So these masters also studied Western-style soft sails in their spare time, and then built a 400-ton Western-style soft sail warship for Xiao Ruxun with the remaining wood.

Xiao Ruxun laughed and scolded them for having no place to use their energy, it was better to find a way to study the treasure ship, they said that they had to study who was superior and who was inferior between this soft sailing ship and our hard sailing ship.

Xiao Ruxun had no choice but to make a comparison for them, and sent a warship to let the two sides compare, but in the process of raising the sail, a young man accidentally fell into the sea from the top of the mast.

Fortunately, he fell into the sea, and the man lived, and if he fell on the boat, he would definitely fall into meat sauce.

The masters looked at each other, you look at me, I look at you, they all buried their heads in making their own ships, and this ship was assigned by Xiao Ruxun to the ocean-going caravan as a frigate.

People are a very valuable resource for Xiao Ruxun now, and the population of more than 1.3 million is just a drop in the bucket for him, and as far as the current productivity is concerned, he still needs at least 1 million people to roughly carry out the initial development of Myanmar, and when the population reaches 5 million, it can meet the needs of further development of Myanmar.

Except for a section of the southern sea, most of Myanmar is still uninhabited, with only roads and infrastructure that have been repaired, but there are no people, and from Bago a little north to the military base in the mountains of northern Myanmar, a large area is a desolate no-man's land, empty of fertile soil and abundant water.

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