In short, being able to hit more with less head-on, Zheng Xixi felt that the Star Sea Fleet was like a god descending from heaven.
Therefore, when Foreign Affairs Commissioner Tang Xingqiang received him, Zheng Xixi completely changed his attitude. Far from being self-conscious of being Ming orthodox as before, he became more cautious.
The reason is very simple. Since the Xinghai Fleet is so powerful and can easily defeat the Helan fleet, it is not difficult to deal with the Zheng family army.
These days, it is more practical to have a big fist.
It must be said that the victory of Yuxian Port cleverly promoted the development of some things.
At least the alliance between the Xinghai Kingdom and the Zheng Family Army went smoothly, and even Champa and other countries wanted to embrace this golden thigh.
After some negotiations, Xinghai Kingdom and Zheng Jiajun reached a series of agreements.
The general idea is that Xinghai Kingdom provides Zheng Jiajun with a loan of 2 million Xinghai coins. Zheng Jiajun can use this loan to purchase various commodities exported by Xinghai Kingdom. At the same time, Xinghai Kingdom will also send a team of instructors to carry out all-round transformation and training for Zheng Jiajun.
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The Zheng Family Army can also send a certain number of officers to Xinghai Kingdom for further studies.
With this thick agreement in hand, Zheng Shixi returned happily.
When he returned to Jingmen where the Zheng Jiajun was entrenched, Zheng Chenggong praised him for his hard work. However, most of the senior officers in the Zheng Jiajun did not believe what Zheng Hereditary said about the great victory at Yuxian Port.
No way, they have seen the power of the Helan people with their own eyes, but they have never heard of how powerful the Xinghai Kingdom was, which was just founded.
Zheng Xixi argued with these officers to no avail, but he was not anxious at all, because in a week, he would go to Xinghai City again, and the Xinghai Kingdom's fleet would escort the materials he purchased and the instructor team to Jingmen.
By then, these guys will know how powerful they are.
The Senate of the Xinghai Kingdom attaches great importance to the alliance with the Zheng Family Army. This has been said before.
Therefore, in less than three days after Zheng Xixi returned to Xinghai City, three 3,000-ton transport ships were loaded. Under the escort of a first-class battleship, a second-class battleship and a frigate,
Heading towards Jingmen.
Zheng Xixi was very excited when he boarded the Xinghai Kingdom's warship for the first time.
Squat down and stretched out his hand to knock the iron sheet covering the deck under his feet. Zheng Xixi couldn't help but exclaimed: "The wooden ship is covered with iron armor. This is really a generous move!"
A person like Zheng Xixi could naturally tell at a glance that the armor covering the battleship probably weighed hundreds of thousands of kilograms.
And he was willing to spend hundreds of thousands of kilograms of fine iron to build the armor that covered the hull. This was the first time he had seen such a large-scale obstruction.
Using these fine irons to make artillery, wouldn't it be a good weapon?
However, he can fully understand how high the defense power of this battleship will be after it is covered with iron armor.
No wonder, the Xinghai Kingdom’s fleet could easily defeat the Helan fleet.
Zheng Hereditary immediately determined that the key to victory or defeat was the iron armor.
From the perspective of the ancients, this is not surprising. In many cases, the outcome of a battle depends on the number of heavy armors.
When rogue bandits first emerged in the Ming Dynasty, a group of two to three hundred soldiers wearing heavy armor could easily defeat tens of thousands of rogue bandits. This is the reason.
You can't hit me, but I can cut you down. In this case, how can those rogues dare to fight against the officers and soldiers?
When the fleet arrived at Jingmen, the senior leader who led the team invited the senior officials of the Zheng Family Army to watch the Xinghai Fleet's shooting performance in order to let the Zheng Family Army feel the strength of the Xinghai Kingdom and avoid unnecessary accidents.
This shooting performance undoubtedly shocked many senior Zheng Jiajun officials, including Zheng Chenggong.
They never imagined that the warships of the Xinghai Kingdom would be so powerful!
In just five minutes, the first-class battleship of the Star Sea Kingdom poured hundreds of artillery shells at the target island, blasting the island into flames.
While waiting for everyone to get on the boat to the island to check the situation.
What Zheng Jiajun’s senior officials could see was that all the livestock placed on the island had been turned into pieces, and rocks blown into pieces could be seen everywhere.
“The power of artillery is astonishing!”
This is what Zheng Chenggong said when he was secretly discussing with Zheng Hereditary.
No way, the Starship Battleship is too powerful!
It was so strong that Zheng Chenggong wanted Zheng Hereditary to buy one and come back.
The problem is that this Star Sea Battleship is not for sale for the time being, but it is a giant transport ship that costs 7,000 materials. The Star Sea Kingdom can sell it to its allies.
To say the least, this giant transport ship is an excellent warship in the eyes of the Zheng family's army. It doesn't run very slowly and can easily carry thousands of soldiers.
In the past, this giant transport ship was invincible on the sea.
But after Zheng Hereditary asked about the price of the giant transport ship, Zheng Chenggong never mentioned the matter again.
No way, it’s too expensive.
A steam transport ship with a capacity of 3,000 tons is sold in Xinghai Kingdom for as high as 370,000 yuan!
The butt inflammation is so black!
You must know that the cost of this steam transport ship is actually only 90,000 yuan.
Just in the words of Chen Liuxiang, the commercial affairs committee member of Xinghai State, it is best for high-tech products such as steam engines not to be sold out. If they are sold out, then the value of technology must be reflected.
In this regard, a group of technical staff from the Ministry of Industrial Affairs are very supportive, and senior officials from other departments do not dare to offend these two departments easily.
Can’t afford it, can’t afford it!
However, the staff sent by the Xinghai Kingdom's Commercial Affairs Department were also concerned about the customers' concerns, and immediately recommended a new type of sailboat to Zheng Jiajun.
Well, this new type of sailing ship is actually a castrated version of the steam transport ship.
In addition to having no steam engine and no navigational bell, its tonnage is smaller than that of a steam transport ship, only 2,300 tons.
But in the eyes of Zheng Jiajun, such a large ship is also an astonishing 5,000-material ship.
And the price is much cheaper than the steam transport ship, you can buy it for only 199,900 yuan!
I have to say that although the price seems much more expensive than building a ship by yourself, Zheng Jiajun cannot build such a giant ship that costs 5,000 materials.
It’s less than 200,000 yuan, which is really cheap.
In this way, apart from the purchase of the Thunderbolt 1646 and the Napoleon cannon, the remaining loan amount of about one million was used to fill the big hole of the transport ship.
Zheng Chenggong is ready to learn from the Xinghai Kingdom in an all-round way and form a new fleet with five giant ships as the core.
To this end, with Zheng Chenggong paying an extra 50,000 yuan for each giant ship, the Xinghai Kingdom specially helped add a hundred Napoleon naval guns to the giant transport ship.
Well, in fact, these Napoleon naval gun versions are modified from Napoleon cannons that have been eliminated by the army, so in terms of cost, they are extremely cheap.