Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 298 Da Ming Needs To Be Self-improving
On the channel from Dongfan Qianwei to Wubei City, fifty Spike warships and one hundred wheel boats were arranged in two large and small circles to protect a Dragon Fang warship heading north at full speed.

Standing on the top deck of the Longya battleship, Taichang looked at the endless sea all around him, and couldn't help but feel a lot of thoughts in his heart.

At this moment, the Dutch have been repelled. He also left fifty chariots and fifty warships for the Nanyang Navy and the Beiyang Navy. I believe that with the strength of the Dutch in the Far East, even if they are Even if they come out in full force, they can't do the Nanyang Navy and Beiyang Navy.

He didn't need to stay here all the time, because he had been away from the capital for too long, and the imperial concubine Wu Wan'er was about to give birth, so he had to rush back.

To be honest, he wasted too much time this time.

He thought there would be a big battle, but who knew it would end like this.

The Dutch attack on Daming this time can be said to be anticlimactic, like a child's play.

At the beginning, he was really intimidated by the title of the sea overlord, and he always felt that it would not be so easy to repel the Dutch fleet.

He also expanded the navy, built the acropolis, mobilized artillery, and even transferred the cavalry from the Shenwu Battalion.

As a result, the performance of the Dutchman made him unexpected.

How could he have imagined that the overlord of the sea would be so vulnerable!
The performance of the Dutchman also reminded him.

Never be complacent and complacent at any time.

The Dutch may feel that they have replaced Spain as the maritime hegemony, and they are already invincible, so they are proud, complacent, and start to relax, and they are not as aggressive as they were at the beginning.

The results of it?
Not to mention whether they can do better than Ming Dynasty, but the British and French in Europe will soon overtake them!
This is the result of complacency and complacency.

If the Dutch could maintain their naval superiority and continue to develop more powerful warships, why would they be overtaken by Britain and France?
Of course, Britain and France did not become the ultimate world hegemony.

These colonial countries are like this. Once they feel that they are invincible, they start to be proud, complacent, relax, and enjoy themselves.

If you do this, you will be replaced by other countries sooner or later!

This is a world where the weak prey on the strong. If you want not to be surpassed or bullied, you must become the king of this world!
Moreover, you have to stay vigilant at all times, strive for self-improvement, and maintain an advantage at all times, otherwise you will be surpassed.

In fact, he was also a little proud and complacent. He always felt that with the current development momentum, Daming would be invincible sooner or later.

Now that Daming is not invincible, he thought he could sit back and relax!

It definitely won't go on like this.

Daming must remain vigilant at all times, must constantly strive for self-improvement, otherwise, there will always be a day when he will be surpassed.

He sighed slightly, and then asked: "Li Qing, do you think the navy will be invincible after being equipped with enough Spike and Dragon Fang warships?"

Why did the emperor suddenly ask this?

Yuan Keli thought about it carefully for a while, then nodded, and said cautiously: "Yes, Your Majesty, looking at the strength of the overlords of the sea, the Dutch, at most they can gather more than two hundred buildings, gunboats and thousands of ordinary warships. This strength is actually not as good as our one hundred Dragon Fang warships and thousands of Spike Fang warships, that is to say, after four or five years, our navy will expand to more than one hundred thousand, and we will almost be invincible in the world."

Alas, it really is.

Yuan Keli, a veteran who has commanded the Navy for many years, would have this idea.

It's not that Yuan Keli is proud and complacent at the moment, he should not be proud and complacent, but he thinks that the Daming Navy will be invincible if it continues to develop like this!

Could a hundred dragon fang warships and thousands of wolf fang warships really be invincible?
That is impossible!

Later, people will develop ironclad warships and even build warships with pure steel plates.

The dragon tooth warship and the wolf tooth warship are a dish in front of the armored battleship!

Taichang shook his head slightly and said: "Mr. Li, I am not criticizing you. There is something wrong with your thinking. Think about it, if there is such a battleship covered in iron armor, can the Dragon Fang warship and the Spike warship be able to beat it?" ?”

Armored warships!
is it possible?
It's possible!
Since both men and horses can be covered with iron armor, why can't warships be covered with iron armor?
If this kind of iron-clad warship really appeared, the Dragon Fang Warship and the Spike Fang Warship really couldn't beat it.

Because you can't blow people up, but they can make you riddled with holes!
Yuan Keli hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, forgive me, I really didn't expect this. What do you mean, we should rush to build iron-clad battleships next?"

There are so many things you didn't expect.

Taichang nodded slightly and said: "Yes, we can't stand still here. We must continue to develop new types of warships, including guns and artillery. We must continue to study and maintain our advantages. It's like the 36-pound cannon of the Dutch. We don't have , this point, we have already begun to fall behind!"

A 36-pound cannon and a shell weighing more than 30 catties, I'm really afraid.

Once the cannon came off, it was simply devastating, and neither the Dragon Fang Warship nor the Spike Fang Warship could hold it back!

When Yuan Keli heard this, he couldn't help but nodded and said: "The emperor is wise, we should continue to study."

Taichang nodded slightly, and then asked: "Then what kind of warships or warships do you think the navy should lick?"

Yuan Keli thought about it carefully for a while, and then said cautiously: "I think we can try to put iron armor on the Spike and the Dragon's Fang first, because the load of the Spike and the Dragon's Fang has not reached the limit.

Just like the dragon tooth battleship, the load is at least a million catties, and the total of 120 five-hundred-jin Thor cannons is less than 20 catties. Others such as food, fresh water and ammunition, including sailors, are also less than 20 catties, that is to say, the Dragon Tooth battleship has not reached half of its load capacity.

If it can put on five to six million catties of iron armor, the Dragon Tooth battleship should have no artillery to move it. "

The iron armor weighing 60 million jins is not that there are no artillery that can move it, it's just that the current artillery can't move it.

Moreover, if the Spike and Dragon Fang warships reach the limit of their carrying capacity, then the troop transport function will be lost.

Taichang shook his head slightly and said: "It's not enough just to put the armor on the Spike and Dragon Tooth warships. We will definitely have to relocate a large number of troops and even ordinary people in the future. If they are all ships that can't carry more people, then trouble.

Therefore, we must at least have a giant ship that is as big as the dragon tooth battleship and can carry thousands of people.

In addition, we can also install iron armor on the wheels and a bow artillery, so that the wheels can also launch surprise attacks on enemy ships like the Spike. "

His thinking span is indeed a bit wide. At this moment, the Daming Navy has not equipped enough wooden warships, so he wants to develop iron-clad warships.

And it's not one kind, but many kinds, ironclad battleships with various functions must have.

Yuan Keli felt that his thinking was a little behind. He pondered for a while, and then carefully cupped his hands and said: "The emperor is wise, I really didn't think carefully about the configuration of the iron-clad warship. After I go back, I must think carefully .”

All right, you go back and think about it slowly.

Taichang didn't want to eat a fat man in one bite, and leap from a wooden battleship to an iron-clad battleship in one go.

He just reminded Yuan Keli not to think that he is invincible easily.

These days, if you think you are invincible, start to relax, and start to stagnate, then it's over.

In fact, he should have thought about it carefully after he went back.

At this moment, Daming has steam engine technology that is decades ahead of the European continent. However, Daming's weapons and equipment are not much ahead of others, and they are even far behind others in terms of quantity.

This shouldn't be!
With the current national power of Ming Dynasty and the current technology of Ming Dynasty, it should surpass the European countries in all aspects!

It seems that he is not bold enough, not crazy enough!

He was frowning and thinking, when Zhang Yuanfang suddenly ran over and cupped his hands, "Your Majesty, we are almost near Taicang Port, would you like to take a look?"

Taicang Port?
just forget it.

This is only the first port opened by Daming. In the future, Daming will open more ports, and even go overseas to open up many ports.

In addition, after the establishment of the Daming Western Company, the foreign trade model must be adjusted to a certain extent.

As for how to adjust, he hasn't thought about it yet.

At this time, he really has too many things to go back to deal with, and it doesn't make much sense to go to Taicang Port, it's just a waste of time.

Taichang thought about it carefully, then shook his head slightly and said, "Forget it, let's go back to Beijing directly."

(End of this chapter)