When Mao Wenlong arrived in Tianjin, the first thing he did was to send invitations to the navies of various European countries to watch the battle.

This is an unprecedented new thing. During a war between the two sides, a group of people were invited to watch the fun. This is really an anecdote for the ages. Since they were invited and food and water were provided for free, they could also have a deep understanding and evaluate the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty Navy.

In the future, when we meet and fight, we must know ourselves and our enemies. This excitement must be seen.

As a result, fleets from all over the world rushed to the Ming Dynasty, preparing to watch the excitement. Of course, there were also some who were ambitious, hoping that the Ming Dynasty would be exhausted and suffered heavy casualties, and would take the opportunity to invade the Ming Dynasty and reap great benefits.

I have invited the world, and of course, I cannot leave behind what is in front of me.

Mao Wenlong decided to take the 40,000 officers and soldiers of the Denglai Navy with him. He did not let them fight, but let them learn how to train the new sailing battleships of the future and the iron-clad ships of the future.

Now Mao Kexi's warships are all sailing warships, and there are no ironclads yet.

But Mao Wenlong was ready to end this war, complete the transformation of the Ming Dynasty, and start building ironclad ships directly.

Because building a large number of ironclad ships requires a large amount of steel, Mao Wenlong planned to promote the economy after the Ming Dynasty was peaceful, and the other was to prepare for an industrial Ming Dynasty, so he wanted to implement a large-scale steelmaking movement in the Ming Dynasty.

But in the past two years, Mao Wenlong has actually quietly built two thousand-ton ironclads. As for Mao Wenlong not knowing how to build boilers, that is a matter of detail that he doesn't care about. There is Bi Maokang, and he invests countless arsenals every year

What about the research team?

As expected, Mao Wenlong came up with the concept of boilers and steam turbines, and Bi Maokang's research team actually came up with it for him.

It's just that it's outrageously cumbersome, outrageously crude, and outrageously expensive.

But these are all details. Don’t worry about such details. Now that you have chicks, are you still worried that they won’t grow into proud roosters in the future?

The warships of the current Denglai Navy have basically been eliminated by Mao Wenlong. The new warships are all ready to be ordered for ironclads. And now, in addition to hundreds of training ships, the Denglai Navy has already become

Army.

When Mao Wenlong saw Shi Lang, he had already been promoted to Chief Qian of the Denglai Navy.

To be serious, he is the Army Chief.

Seeing young Shi Lang's unconvinced look, Mao Wenlong asked: "You've drank seawater four times and you're still not convinced. I'm convinced."

Shi Lang snorted coldly: "The last time you won the naval battle against the Denglai Navy, you relied on the strength of the ship and the power of the artillery. Our Denglai Navy's ships were old and invincible, and we couldn't win. If I have something you want to wait for,

Battleship artillery, I will definitely defeat you."

Mao Wenlong confirmed his statement: "You are right, I bullied you with the strength of my ship and the power of my guns. If I gave you the same warship, I might not be able to defeat you, but" pointed at Zhennan Wang Mao Kexi

: "But my grandson can destroy you."

Mao Kexi laughed loudly: "Don't you just think that I am stupid and don't know how to fight?"

Shi Lang nodded: "With brute force, you can only bully the weak. Without strategies, you can only be defeated when facing a real opponent."

Mao Ke laughed happily: "To tell you the truth, my god-grandfather's purpose is to destroy the ships and save the people. He is going to equip you with brand new warships, and then build a deep-sea Ming fleet to let you traverse the four seas, so I am tied up

If you let me let go of the fight, with only 3,000 old warships of your Denglai Navy and 40,000 useless, I can send your entire fleet to the sea in at most two days." Then he looked at Hengmeileng.

Shi Lang said, "What? You're still not convinced? If you're not convinced, let's make a fuss."

They are of similar age, so of course they are not convinced.

Mao Kexi asked Mao Wenlong for instructions: "Master, let this kid open his eyes, and then let me compare with him."

"I see this as a matter of fact." Destruction agreed happily: "This can be regarded as a preview for the future sea battle while waiting for the observation groups from all over the world."

Of course Shi Lang was happy, so Mao Wenlong took Shi Lang and the generals above the rank of Commander-in-Chief 1,000 of the Denglai Navy to first visit his fleet to familiarize them with its performance.

As soon as the generals of the Denglai Navy boarded Mao Kexi's battleship, they were like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden or the country bumpkin entering the five-star hotel. They were wowed all the way and their jaws dropped to the ground.

After visiting for two days and getting familiar with the various capabilities of the battleship, Shi Lang went straight to Mao Wenlong with blood-red eyes: "Commander, when you say you want to rebuild the Ming Dynasty Navy, you must build something like Prince Mao, otherwise all of our navy

Brothers strike.”

Mao Wenlong smiled and rejected his threat: "I don't plan to equip you with such a warship."

Shi Lang was a little disappointed: "I know that we are stepmothers. I don't dare to compare with your grandson. I just hope that the difference is not too big and I will be satisfied." The other generals were also a little discouraged. But Shi Lang was right.

, others are god-grandsons, and people like myself are real grandsons. There is no comparison.

Mao Wenlong smiled and took them to the beach, silently looking towards the direction of Dongjiang Town.

Everyone didn't know what he was waiting for, but when the superior stood like this, everyone could only stupidly follow the sea breeze.

After a long time, Mao Kexi suddenly cheered: "Grandpa, our baby is here."

Looking in the direction of Mao Kexi's finger, Shi Lang was puzzled and surprised. Just below the sea level, two wisps of thick black smoke were like dragons stretching into the sky.

Who moved the cooking pot to the sea? And the pot turned out to be so huge.

As the thick smoke approached, everyone saw two boats coming, spitting smoke and rumbling fire.

These two boats have no masts or sails, but they are like pregnant women running on horses.

Mao Wenlong was ashamed of such a shape, because the boiler and steam engine were indeed huge, so he had to make the hull extremely bloated.

"There's no way, otherwise the boiler and steam turbine cannot be accommodated. Let's just make do with it for now. When the boiler and steam turbine are slimmed down later, I will design a battleship with the most graceful lines." Mao Wenlong confidently followed Denglai, who had lost his chin again.

Said the navy officers.

Standing on the boat, Mao Wenlong kept stopping those country bumpkins from banging on the side of the boat: "Who said that things floating on the water must be wood and not iron? As long as there is - forget it, Shi Lang, as a future naval warfare expert, you are always like this

It's very shameless to bite the boat gang with your teeth."

Shi Lang has gone crazy, and now Mao Wenlong regrets the mistake of putting something that transcends five hundred years in front of the most outstanding person from five hundred years ago, and driving this person crazy.

"Shuai Mao, give me five hundred of these warships, and I will sweep the world for you." Shi Lang promised unsteadily.

"Do you know how much this item cost me? One item costs a full 100,000 silver dollars, totaling 130,000 silver dollars. Five hundred items, even if you draw all the silver in the world, it won't be enough."

"Fifty points, I'll sweep the whole world for you." Shi Lang sat on the ground and paid back the money.

"Are you dreaming? Do you know how many bases this thing needs to supply along the way? It is also sweeping the world. Without bases along the way, it is just a piece of iron-clad waste."

Stroking the huge cannon muzzle that could penetrate people, Shi Lang promised: "If you give me fifty, we will have our supply bases all over the world."

Mao Wenlong stretched out his hand very cautiously: "Bring me the money, five million silver dollars."

Shi Li was confused at that time: "Commander, shouldn't this fleet be paid for by the country? At least it should be paid for by you."

Mao Wenlong solemnly told him: "For foreign wars, I do it on a business basis. I can lend you a loan, even if you need a hundred such warships and tens of millions of dollars, no problem. But it must be a loan. In the future, you will need a loan."

Yes. But if you ask the country to provide you with even one battleship for free, I'm sorry, no."

Shi Li immediately ran back to the generals of his Denglai Navy and muttered, and finally ran back and said loudly to Mao Wenlong: "One hundred, and the loan will be paid off in ten years."
Chapter completed!