In the newly built thirty-long dock of the Ming Empire Navy Shipyard on the south bank of the Pearl River, Davis looked ahead with a trembling gaze of worship.

In front of him was a miraculous scene.

The steam-powered tower cranes on both sides of the dock continued to lift heavy steel beams from the transport ship of the canal on the other side, and then slowly put them on the center line of the dock below, and then the god emperor who had just cut off one of his ears wiped it casually, and the two steel beams became a whole in an instant, and even the middle connection joint could not be seen, and such steel beams continued to be lowered one after another, and a battleship keel more than sixty meters long was laid.

Then another thin steel beam began to be lowered.

As with the keel connection, these steel beams were aligned with the keel's predetermined position by the worker, and then the god emperor went over and wiped it casually, and a ship rib was connected to the keel, and then his hand stroked it along the ship's rib, and the ship rib automatically bent into an arc.

In this way, one after another, all the ribs of the ship were constantly connected to the keel, followed by various other steel components, all of which were pre-fabricated by the tower crane and put down by the workers, and the god emperor used to wipe or touch them at will to complete the connection, and even turn them into the desired shape, and set aside all kinds of drill holes for various needs. The whole process proceeded in an orderly manner, and in just a few hours, the skeleton of a battleship was completed, at which point the Emperor patted the workers on the shoulder, who began to paint and install the steam power system, and even at the same time used the teak planks obtained from dismantling the British battleship to install the remaining wooden parts of the skeleton.

"A month!"

Yang Feng walked up to Davis, stretched out a finger and said: "In a month, it will be launched and cut waves on the sea like the three ships of Dingyuan, and it will be officially commissioned to join the Daming Navy fleet in three months." ”

Davis was left trembling, and he didn't care what he said.

Yang Feng then turned his head to look at the remaining four same docks lined up on the coast, each of which had an identical warship under construction, and smaller docks were barely visible from a distance, and countless transport ships were also being built in these docks.

"Go back and tell Victoria, from today unless she satisfies me, a British merchant ship will not want to pass through the Taiwan Strait, I will give you another year, and if the twenty-one million taels of silver have not been delivered to me in a year, my fleet will attack Singapore, and even bombard Madras, Calcutta, Colombo, until even Bombay is in ruins, don't scare me with the Victory, it is useless for you to drive all the battleships of the British Navy, I will use a hundred and ten pounders to bombard them all to pieces."

Then he said to Davis.

With that, he pointed to the side with his hand, where a rear-loading gun mount was raising its muzzle.

Of course, his new ship could not continue to use 42-pounder guns as the main guns, a class that had already proven difficult to fly a third-class ship kite in actual combat, so it would have to be replaced with a 110-pounder Armstrong gun.

The standard displacement of the five new battleships was increased to 2,000 tons, and the design consisted of a new six-inch gun mount with a shield on each of the bow and stern decks, equivalent to 187 millimeters, and the shells actually weighed more than 110 pounds. In addition, on the inner deck there are a full forty four-inch rear-mounted broadside guns, which are equivalent to the level of a thirty-two-pounder gun, but they are still old gun mounts, and as for the deck, there are eight two-inch guns, which are equivalent to the ten pounder class, but this one has a new gun mount. This is the firepower configuration of his new battleship, and the power is of course the use of both sails, which is still very exaggerated in this era to be purely coal-burned, and the combination of sails is the best choice without the support of countless colonies, and the boiler must also retain the ability to burn firewood in an emergency, which is also very important.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me for the offense, but twenty-one million taels is still too much, and the contemptible people understand the reason why you want this figure, but the Tatars have not completed the payment of the reparation!"

Davis said cautiously.

"That's your business, it's none of my business!"

After Yang Feng finished speaking, he left proudly, leaving him behind to cry without tears.

Poor Davis stood there lonely and watched the busyness of those workers, they were building not just a battleship, but an emerging maritime supremacy, only east of the Strait of Malacca can already be described as such, if these five battleships join the Ming fleet, this brand new fleet will dominate the western Pacific, he couldn't help but sigh, and at this moment, a person behind him gently patted him on the shoulder......

"Did you catch it?"

Yang Feng asked his Ministry of Commerce Shangshu Luo Wen.

This Shangshu is a member of the Luo Fangbo clan.

"In the future, our merchant ships will be shipped to Singapore, but the British will give us tax exemption, and the British will continue to allow our ships to go to Burma and Bangladesh to buy grain."

Rowan said with a smile.

Yang Feng forbade British merchant ships to go north, in fact, the trade rights of the Chinese route were transferred to the hands of the Chinese in the South Seas, and the latter contributed money and efforts to do everything possible to help him in the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, of course, there must be enough benefits, Yang Feng forbade the British merchant ships to go north, and then the Chinese merchants of the South Seas countries continued to maintain the export of tea and silk from the north to Europe, of course, including all kinds of good things from Guangzhou, the money was earned by these Chinese merchants, and the latter gave him another part in the form of protection money, and at the same time undertook the task of buying grain from the South Seas and even India and transporting it back.

The result of this is the rise of Chinese merchants in the Nanyang area, and he, as their protector, allows them to oppress the natives, and when he settles the country, he can directly annex them.

In addition, this method can also artificially create famine among the natives of Nanyang, he does not need to do it himself, as long as he keeps buying food at a high price, those British and Dutch colonists will do this kind of thing for him, as long as there is money to be made, they will not care about the life and death of those natives, they will do their best to scavenge food from the natives, and then exchange gold and silver from the hands of Chinese merchants. Including those Nanyang feudal monarchs will also increase gold and silver for their own treasury at the cost of starvation of their own people, don't overestimate the discipline of those Nanyang monarchs, they have done a lot of things in cahoots with the colonists, so the Indian kings cried and shouted not to let the British go.

So as long as he kept buying grain from the South Seas with gold and silver, he would definitely hear the news of a new version of the Great Famine in Bengal or the Great Famine in Java.

And that's good news for him.

"There is another matter, a grain ship returning from Bengal reported that they had met a French ship in Calcutta, supposedly an envoy of the King of France, and it is not clear whether it was an envoy to the Tartars or we are here."

Rowan said.

"French? Philip couldn't bear the loneliness anymore. ”

Yang Feng sneered.

At this time, France was the July Dynasty or the Orleans Dynasty, and after the exile of Charles X, the Duke of Orleans, Louis Murphy. Philippe was proclaimed king by parliament until February 1848, and it has to be said that France without Napoleon was abolished, and throughout the nineteenth century they kept tossing, the Bourbon dynasty was restored, then geming, changing the Orleans dynasty and then geming, changing the republic and then Napoleon III came to power, and then geming out of the Paris Commune, and then changing the Third Republic, fortunately, the Third Republic survived the nineteenth century.

However, they did send a mission to the Qing during this time in their original history.

Moreover, the captain of this mission also cheekily squeezed into the signing ceremony of the Treaty of Nanjing, that is, this mission took advantage of the fact that our Qing Dynasty was smashed by the British, and when he saw the foreigners, he was shocked to get a friendly and commercial treaty, and sent the first consul to the Qing State, and France officially stepped onto the diplomatic stage of the Qing State and then went to the Second Crow to grab the Old Summer Palace step by step.

"Regardless of them, if they come to us, they might as well give them a chance, and if they go to the Tartars, they don't go back."

Yang Feng said.

French merchant ships actually occasionally went to Guangzhou to trade, they had consuls in Manila, and they even helped the Nguyen Dynasty to fight the war and obtained a treaty, but the Nguyen Dynasty did not admit it after the victory, if they were willing to come to Guangzhou to make friends, they could give them the opportunity to trade, anyway, their share was limited, and they could use them to continue to fight the British, such as giving France some new arms, but if they ran to find Daoguang, then when they came back, they could take it directly or sink it at sea.

"Let's go, go to the Humen prisoner of war camp."

Yang Feng then said.

"Your Majesty, what are you doing in the prisoner of war camp?"

Rowan said suspiciously.

At this time, Yang Feng had already taken out a small box from the drawer in front of him, and then opened the lid to reveal a stack of books inside, but this book was not in Chinese but in English.

"I want to send light to Europe!"

Yang Feng picked up one of them and said quite proudly.

On the cover of the book reads:

"Capital"

Well, he can't wait for the mentor, although the mentor is about to graduate from college at this time, it will take a long time to grow up, so Yang Feng must play the role of the messenger of light.

Send the truth to the Europeans.

It is said that Victoria will definitely not be able to withstand her Uncle Yang's cannons, and the British will not be able to bear the losses caused by being expelled from the East, and it is not surprising that the British will definitely pay for it, anyway, they will not be able to force Daoguang again, their fleet will not be able to defeat the Ming army, but it is still very easy to clean up Daoguang, so these British soldiers will definitely be released back to Britain in the end. Then they can return with the light, it is said that these soldiers are all from poor people, they have traveled thousands of miles to the east to fight hard just because life at home is too difficult, so it is necessary to let them know who caused their suffering, and also let them visit the Ming Dynasty, let them feel the new era on the spot, and then ......

Then let them go back to Europe with the light, and let the light shine on their homeland.