In February of the third year of the Apocalypse, when the spring is cold and cold, Tianjin Port.

Zhu Youdong gathered here with officials from the Ministry of War, Ministry of Industry, Si Li Jian, Yu Ma Jian, Dongchang, and Jinyiwei departments, as well as many teachers and students from Fangshan, and many senior generals of the Ming Dynasty military. Of course.

Come and watch the trial of Ming Dynasty's two ironclad ships.

However, in this warm and expectant atmosphere, there is also something a little alien.

"Your Majesty, can you give me an accurate answer? Only when I have news can I go back and do my work."

Among the figures in crimson high-level official uniforms, a man in cyan mid-level official uniforms looked particularly cross-eyed. At this moment, although he could not hide his tiredness, his eyes were still very bright. His hands were even more bold.

Pulling Zhu Youdong's sleeves: "Your Majesty, I don't ask for much, just one hundred thousand, and the first batch will be one hundred thousand. This can be considered a step-by-step process, and it's stable, right?"

"Oh my God~!" The official who could speak such a time-traveler-like language to Zhu Youdong was undoubtedly Li Jia, who was from the Fangshan Clan and is currently the governor of Singapore.

This guy set out from Singapore in early December and arrived in Beijing in mid-January. Then he heard that the imperial court was planning to organize a migration of 300,000 people this year. I was overjoyed and asked again, and it turned out that 120,000 was divided between the shipping and engineering teams, and the remaining

The 180,000 yuan was divided equally between the five states of Central and South China and the Taiwan government. Disappointed, he quickly sought an audience with Zhu Youdong through his teacher-student relationship, and said: Your Majesty, we in Singapore will take care of all these 180,000 people.

Then Zhu Youdong picked up the memorial on the desk and beat him all over.

Your state of Singapore is now connected to the military, and there are only 20,000 military dependents. How can you afford to eat 180,000? With so many people pouring in, can you accommodate them?

As a result, this guy shamelessly kept pestering him and took the initiative to lower his salary by 10,000 yuan every time he was beaten. He continued to pester him from Beijing to Tianjin. Well, he didn't just drop 10,000 yuan every time, but he submitted a very detailed resettlement plan every time.

: How many people do you give me, how do I place them, what situations will occur, and how to deal with these situations or make plans - without these placement plans, how could Zhu Youdong tolerate this guy's attempt to commit suicide?

Seeing Li Jia's various pretentiousness in front of Zhu Youdong, Sun Chuanting, who was standing by his official title in the distance, felt tight in his heart: This Li Jia was in the same year as him. When there was a great locust plague in North China, as a new Jinshi, they went to supervise the disaster relief.

When the grain money was distributed, we had the experience of being hunted together, which could be regarded as a life-and-death friendship. But now the two sides are in a competitive relationship, and any life-and-death friendship has to be put aside: if Singapore State captures 100,000 Han people, he, a Taiwanese

The prefect only brought back a few thousand people, how could he explain to his colleagues?

"Well, Brother Yunong, Brother Yu is not from Fangshan, so he is not close enough in front of the emperor. Are you..."

"What?" Standing next to Sun Chuanting at this moment, Chen Xiaotian, who was also born in Fangshan School and is currently serving as a Jinyiwei Taiwan Prefecture Hundred Households, almost jumped up: "Prefect, you won't let me be like that shameless guy Li Jia.

Are you going to kneel down and lick the Emperor? Although we are all Fangshan students, everyone has different personalities. I can't do that kind of thing!"

Looking at Sun Chuanting who was silent, Chen Xiaotian thought for a while and said: "Prefect, you don't have to worry. Regardless of geographical location, level of development or the number of existing Han citizens, Taiwan is far better than Singapore. If Singapore can resettle 100,000 Han citizens,

Then it's not a problem for me to resettle 200,000 people in Taiwan. As you know, the imperial court actually has millions of Han people who need to be resettled. It's just that the emperor wanted to seek stability and planned to relocate 180,000 people to sea in the first year. I think,

Let that fool surnamed Li make trouble, as long as he can make a hundred thousand, then we will naturally have two hundred thousand."

"Ah? Hahaha, what Yunong said makes sense, so let's just wait and see how things change."

Because most of the people who came here today were high-ranking officials of the third rank or above, Sun Chuanting and Chen Xiaotian were actually standing on the edge of the team. At the other end of the team, there was also a young official wearing a blue official uniform.

He stared at Li Jia who was tugging on Zhu Youdong's sleeve with sharp eyes.

This is of course the governor of Yangon State, Hong Chengchou.

"Hey, I'm really confused. I'm going back to Beijing to grab people. Why don't I bring at least one of my colleagues from Fangshan in the state with me? No, I have to find people later. I heard that Xu Xianchun, a colleague of Jinyiwei, also arrived last night

, I don’t know where this will be. Although I have little contact with them on weekdays, no matter what, his office is in my Yangon state. No matter what, we have to let him speak for us in Yangon state! I am in Yangon state.

It’s not easy. Across the Yangon River is the Portuguese, no, it is now the Spanish colonial stronghold Salian. Among the five overseas states, the one with the greatest pressure from border defense is Yangon State. How can we not resettle more Han people in our state?"

Just when officials from various overseas states had different thoughts, suddenly, the crowd shouted: "Come out!"

Then everyone's eyes were uniformly focused on the sea.

As an inland sea surrounded by two giant hands, the Shandong Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula, the Bohai Sea is generally calm. Therefore, Zhu Youdong simply let the two ironclad ships sail directly to the sea for review.

The first ship to sail out is temporarily called Tiejia No. 1. The chief designer is Bi Maokang, and naval admirals such as Li Guozhu and Yan Siqi also spent a lot of effort on it. In short, this ship is purely of this era.

After having a steam engine, try to design products.

The entire ship is 65 meters long and 13 meters wide. On both sides of the ship's midship, there is a huge wheel-shaped iron cover, inside which is a paddle wheel like a waterwheel. On the deck of the hull, three masts are still designed.

Hang the sail.

After the ship sailed out, except for Zhu Youdong and a few others, everyone else exclaimed in surprise.

"It's really iron armor!"

"Oh, this is incredible. Can an iron weight float on the sea?"

"My father-in-law, the skeleton of this ship is actually made of wood, it's just covered with a layer of iron."

"Oh, that's it. But, this is amazing! Although we are not good at water warfare, we also know that after it is covered with iron sheets, the thieves' cannonballs will not be able to penetrate our warships in the future!"

"Haha, my father-in-law is absolutely right!"

Faintly hearing the exclamations coming from the shore, Li Guozhu and Yan Siqi, who were sitting in command on the ship, looked at each other and smiled. Then Li Guozhu shouted at the copper pipe near the command seat: "What's the current speed?"

After a while, a voice came from the copper pipe: "Speed ​​now, six knots!"

"Send a message to the brothers on deck, fill up the sails, and raise the boiler pressure to maximum! Run at full speed!"

"As you command!"

Soon, under the control of the sailors of the No. 1 ship, the three huge sails of the warship also rose. The speed of the entire warship quickly increased to nearly ten knots. The bow of the ship split huge waves.

, which made the people on the shore cheer again.

"Hahaha~" Sitting in the command room, leaving the door open, listening to the cheers and waving flags from the shore. After laughing heartily, Li Guozhu yelled at another copper pipe: "Observation tower, target

Have you seen the boat?"

"I saw it. Our ship is at six o'clock and is currently two thousand meters away."

"Okay, turn around, and start bombarding when we get close to 1,000 meters. Brothers, please work harder! If we hit within three rounds, I will disembark and invite all the brothers on the ship to the Piaoxiang Courtyard!"

This sentence was shouted at a row of copper pipes, and then quickly, many voices came back from each copper pipe: "Admiral is mighty"!

The No. 1 ship quickly turned around, then approached the target ship and started shelling. It should be said that the officers and men of this ship had done serious training and detailed preparations for today's appearance. Therefore, soon, the 150mm cannon fired

The shells set off huge water columns around the target ship. When the second round of shelling came, there was a huge clicking sound - a hit.

The cheers on the shore became even louder, but Zhu Youdong's brows furrowed even tighter.

What kind of ship is this? The length-to-width ratio is only five to one! Except for aircraft carriers, the length-to-width ratio of other ships in future generations will not be only like this.

That’s all for such a flat boat. The key is the power aspect, which is using a paddle wheel. Therefore, the boat is now at its limit of ten knots - and this is because of the help of the sail.

Of course, no matter how failed the design of this ship is, as the emperor, he must protect the enthusiasm of scientific researchers of this era. Even if they have taken a detour due to historical limitations, you must pay attention to the method to bring them back.

method.

While Zhu Youdong was contemplating, the target ship that had been hit continuously was finally torn apart: Because of smokeless gunpowder, the artillery on the No. 1 ship is now also a breech-loaded gun. The range and power of the artillery shells are much stronger. In addition,

Approaching and shooting. Therefore, this old target ship quickly disintegrated.

Amid even more enthusiastic cheers from the crowd on the shore, Li Guozhu and Yan Siqi came out of the command room, boarded the ship, waved to everyone on the shore, and left with satisfaction.
Chapter completed!