Chapter 489: The Eastern Han Dynasty Giant Ship

The area where the Chen Kingdom was located in the Eastern Han Dynasty was the southern part of the peninsula.

Mountains make up about two-thirds of the peninsula's area and the terrain is diverse, with low mountains, hills and plains intertwined. Low mountains and hills are mainly found in the central and eastern parts of the country, and are mostly below 500 meters above sea level.

In the south, on the coast of the sea, it is a rare plain area. The kingdom of Chen shared the plains from the west, the middle and the east, and became the main residence of the people.

Later records show that in the southern part of the peninsula, a tribal confederation of the kingdom of Zài may have existed between the 4th and 2nd centuries BC.

In fact, this tribal alliance has been in existence for more time.

"Koryo sticks." After Qin Feng finished describing the general situation of Sanhan Chenguo, Qin Feng suddenly came up with such a sentence.

Xu Shu and Jia Xu glanced at each other in confusion, they couldn't understand the meaning of this sentence.

In fact, Qin Feng knew in his heart that strictly speaking, this Goryeo stick should be Goguryeo in the northeast of Youzhou today. Many years later, Goguryeo went south and conquered Samhan and ruled the peninsula for many years.

However, the Korean word Sanhan touched Qin Feng's nerves. Now that he has the unimaginable rights of future generations, this Han, Qin Feng does not intend to let it continue to be passed on. So, he got up and said solemnly: "Reserve supplies in winter, and in the spring of next year, the troops will enter the morning country." ”

"As a vassal state of the Han Dynasty in the past, the Chen Kingdom is unforgivable if it does not come to worship and say anything now, and it dares to take in the rebellious ministers and thieves of the Han Dynasty. In this unionized country, there is no longer any need to save zài. Chenjun will be its final destination. Qin Feng said coldly.

Xu Shu and Jia Xu glanced at each other, "Open up the territory and expand the territory!" This stirring word pops into their minds. Expanding the territory is the ideal of every capable person. Xu Shu and Jia Xu are no exception. Now that the shape is very good, why not take the opportunity of Gongsun Zhan. What about the inclusion of the Morning Kingdom in the territory?

"Subordinates are willing to die!" The two said together.

Qin Feng made a plan to enter the Chen Kingdom in the coming year, and began to accumulate supplies in Lelang.

Time flies. It's December.

A steady stream of materials was transported from the mainland to Lelang County. However, it is thousands of miles away, and the consumption during this period is huge. However, there is no way to do this, in ancient times, there were no cars, no highways, and no heavy transport aircraft, and every qiē had to rely on people to push horses. You can't help but feed the people who transport it, so consumption is inevitable.

On this day, Qin Feng was discussing with the generals and military advisors about the Spring Festival of the army.

At this time, a tiger guard walked in and said, "Lord Qi, the envoy to Tanggu has returned." Ask to see. ”

"Oh?" Only then did Qin Feng remember that when he was in Changli County a few months ago, he had sent a messenger to Tanggu to inquire about the situation of the Northern Academy of Sciences. "Pass him in."

After a while, the messenger respectfully came to the lobby and fell to the ground.

"Get up and tell me what you've seen and heard." Qin Feng said with a smile.

The messenger got up, couldn't hold back his excitement, and said, "My lord." The keel ship was built. It's so big, it's bigger than a building ship...... it's huge, and it can carry four or five thousand people. There are so many waves in the sea that they can't blow ....... The messenger danced hand and foot, and along with the description, he began to use a hammer in the east and a mallet in the west.

From ancient times. Humans know the sea, but when they try to explore it. Often gone with no return. Therefore, the sea was mysterious and dangerous in the eyes of ancient people. The famous generals in the hall. When I heard that the lord had built a huge ship that could sail in the sea, I was shocked.

"Even a building ship can't travel on the sea, what kind of giant ship is this?" Xu Shu couldn't help but say.

Qin Feng keenly captured a few keywords, huge, able to drive in the sea. This is an extremely important thing for him, because with such a large ship, he can start the Age of Exploration in this Eastern Han Dynasty hundreds of years in advance.

The Age of Discovery is an era of exploration and discovery, an era of excitement and yearning. If Huaxia leads this era, then it can be unceremoniously said that the world will be mastered by the powerful Huaxia.

In later generations, Britain was only an island country, and because of its huge navy, it became the most powerful country in the world. How many countries with a much larger land area have surrendered to its feet.

"Today's Huaxia will definitely go further than it!" Qin Feng stood up excitedly and said hurriedly: "Benxiang is going to Tanggu, I want to take a look at the giant ship that can sail in the sea!"

The envoy hurriedly said: "My lord, when I came, Lord Ma Jun once said that he wanted to test the ......!" ”

Qin Feng calmed down a little, his heart was full of anticipation, and he said: "The flying pigeon passed the book to Ma Jun, so that the keel ship entered the Datong River and went upstream...... ”

Since Qin Feng met Yi Heng, who was domesticating birds, when he was hunting, he ordered him to form a pigeon battalion. Now more than a year of development, the flying pigeon biography has been popularized in the army.

The legend of the flying pigeon lasted for thousands of years, and it was not until the advent of radio that it withdrew from the stage of history. The speed of the flying pigeon is self-evident, so after the dragon bone giant ship thousands of miles away received the order, it immediately sailed towards the Datong River day and night.

Three days later, on the bank of the Datong River, five miles outside the north gate of Lelang County, hundreds of people gathered here, because they heard that an unprecedented big ship was about to come here, so they all came to see the excitement.

Qin Feng stood on the dock and looked forward to it, this dock had just been perfected, and the water depth was more than twenty meters, just to welcome the arrival of the keel giant ship.

After a while, several masts appeared on the river to the west.

"The earth is round, that's why we see the mast ...... first." Qin Feng said with a smile. He always taught his subordinates a simple and vivid theory when he got the opportunity or remembered it.

"What the lord said is very true, if it is boxy, then you will definitely see the whole hull at once!" Xu Shu said admiringly.

Jia Xu sighed: "I didn't expect that the star we humans live in is called the earth, which is actually round and gravitational. The wisdom of the lord and the sages of the ancients cannot be compared. ”

When a group of famous ministers heard this, they nodded yes. In their opinion. The heavens are round and the earth is what the sages said, and it has been wrong for thousands of years. Of course, it's not as wise as his lord.

Qin Feng was very embarrassed when he heard this, and said in his heart that if you also lived in the next life for decades. You'll be wise, too.

As he spoke, the big ship approached, and the entire hull was revealed.

"Wow! It's huge! ”

"I'm afraid it's a hundred times bigger than a fishing boat!"

"Cut, the old man was fortunate to see the building boat when he was young, and the building boat was a hundred times bigger than the fishing boat, and the giant ship that drove over was two or three times larger than the building boat!"

"Ahh Doesn't that mean that this giant ship is hundreds of times larger than ordinary fishing boats! The people were frightened and talked about it.

"It's really big! It's like a moving fortress castle! Xu Shu and the others were also dumbfounded.

When the huge battleship came to the docks. The huge hull of the ship resembles a towering city wall. It is almost impossible to believe that this huge battleship was made by craftsmen. They prefer to believe that it is the work of the gods. Under its huge body, even top strategists like Xu Shu and Jia Xu were born to worship and worship.

The moment the battleship entered the dock, a huge shadow enveloped the entire dock, and the lively dock suddenly turned into a deathly silence.

"Oh God!" Some of the people could not resist the oppression of the giant ship and fell to the ground.

Zhao Yun and other fierce generals also changed color, and they looked at the huge ship as tall as the city wall. Suddenly the same thought arose, "How to occupy it!" ”

In the entire wharf, only Qin Feng was calm and calm, and said to himself: "This wharf that can safely dock the building ship is still a little small....... ”

Sailors on battleships. Showing their bodies on the tall deck, looking at the densely packed stunned crowd below, their faces smiling proudly.

"Made. Laugh at something, put down the drawbridge. Greeting the Lord. Cheer me up and line up to meet ....... Zhou Wu, the governor of the Qin army and the navy, scolded loudly. He was a little flustered. Because Qin Feng was conquest of Gongsun Zhan, he had no energy to manage the process of the giant ship for the time being. And Zhou Wu is the governor of the navy, and he is always paying attention to the movements of the Tanggu shipyard. When the dragon bone giant ship was completed, he couldn't help but temporarily take over the giant ship in the name of the governor. This matter has not had time to report to the lord, so Zhou Wu is a little flustered.

Under the greeting of the navy and the awe-inspiring gaze of the people, Qin Feng boarded the giant ship. Walking on the wide deck was an eye-opener for him.

Huge warships came across the sea, which was previously unimaginable. The fundamental reason is that the shipbuilding technology of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the hull does not have keel technology, and it is basically a flat bottom. The flat bottom should be very stable at first glance, but that is because there are no strong winds and waves above the river. Later experience proved that the ship was still sharpened under the side of the ship, and the cross-section of the ship was a V-shaped pointed bottom boat, which was suitable for sailing in the sea. Even any seaworthy vessel in later generations, even a fishing boat, is a pointed bottom.

To put it simply, the culet is able to take root underwater, while the flat-bottomed boat is obviously just floating on the surface of the water, which can be called rootless duckweed.

For this reason, the small boats of the Eastern Han Dynasty could not withstand the huge waves of the ocean, and one wave was the end of the capsized. And large ships such as building ships, don't look big, but without keel balance, it is not enough, and it is impossible to pass through strong winds and waves, so there has never been a ship crossing the sea before.

However, now that Qin Feng has a keel giant ship, he has taken the most important step towards conquering the sea, and what he needs to do in the future is to expand the scale of production and explore and draw nautical charts.

"First find out the Japanese country, Taiwan, and the islands of Southeast Asia, and explore ...... Europe and the United States." Qin Feng stroked the compass disc in front of the bridge bridge and thought.

Under the vague guidance of Qin Feng, Ma Jun and other Eastern Han Dynasty scientists used the three-masted structure he proposed to expand it, and added nine-masted sails to twelve sails as the power on this giant ship.

Since Qin Feng provided Ma Jun with a graphic template for a later strategic ship, the appearance of this giant ship looks like a wooden strategic ship with a huge mast sail.

Twenty-eight chariot-sized Yuan Rong crossbows on the front and rear left and right can be called ballistas. Let this cross-era giant ship become a veritable strategic ship at present. An unsinkable giant ship, its firepower is capable of tearing a building ship to shreds.

Qin Feng couldn't help but imagine the scene when it fired, and suddenly thought of the big ship that fired giant ballistas in the game of the Age of Empires in the later generations.

"Good, good!" Qin Feng wanted to laugh very much, but in order to maintain the majesty of the monarch, he could only hold back.

After Zhou Wu finished explaining, he looked at the wide deck with hot eyes, and suddenly sighed in frustration and said, "It's a pity that we can't make one in a year." ”

Qin Feng nodded, of course he, as a monarch, knew very well how difficult it was to build such a huge ship. Supplies are not the main problem, the main problem is craftsmen.

The lost Zhou Wu became excited again, and said, "When I came, Lord Ma Jun gave a special explanation and asked the lord to name this giant ship. As the Governor of the Navy Zhou Wu naturally knew what it meant for such a giant ship to come out. Even if the name is a grass people, it will be famous for centuries.

Qin Feng also smiled because of this, because the Eastern Han Dynasty did not have the concept of warships in later generations, so Qin Feng shamelessly named this contemporary unsinkable battleship "Strategic Ship", "Chaos-class strategic ship, Yedu!" ”

Chaos! Strategy, ship! Everyone felt that the lord had described the momentum of this giant ship in just six words.

"Long live the Prime Minister!"

"Long live Yedu!" The people began to cheer and jump, they believed that Qin Feng, who had such a big ship, would definitely be able to unify the world and bring good days to the people. Of course, people habitually ignore the existence of the Han family.

"Unfortunately, it can't be built on a large scale." Qin Feng sighed, but he quickly released his mood. Because in his opinion, the modern powers of later generations did not have a few strategic ships at the beginning, and he should not be too greedy 1,800 years ago.

Every time Qin Feng thinks about it, he can't help but admire the greatness of ancient scientists, Ma Jun, a scientist, and Huang Chengyan, a scientist of organism, really came up with keel technology. "Keel technology, must be kept secret. With this keel technology, it is possible to build many different types of ocean-going vessels, such as transports, small frigates, troop carriers, and so on. ”

As a result, Qin Feng flew a pigeon to pass on the book to Yedu, and sent more elite intelligence agents to the Tanggu Northern Academy of Sciences to prevent technology leakage.

And Qin Feng was also ambitious, and he couldn't help but think: "Let the battle of the Three Han Chenguo become the first battle ...... to expand your territory." (To be continued......)