Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 456

As the sun sets, the sky is full of red clouds, and the breeze blows over the sea, as if a piece of golden light has been scattered, which is extraordinarily dazzling.

Seeing that the sun was about to set in the west, an endless black line finally appeared in front of him, and Dong Fan had arrived.

The huge fleet sailed at sea for a whole day, and finally rushed from the northern tip of Luzon to the south of Dongfan.

However, there is no port terminal nearby.

Because the Ming Dynasty hadn't developed Dongfan for a long time, and the number of people who migrated to Dongfan was less than a million. With this small number of people, it would be considered good if they could cultivate all the wasteland near the acropolis.

The mountainous area to the southeast has not yet been developed yet.

The fleet sailed north along the coastline for about half an hour, until it was dark when a towering bastion finally appeared in front of it.

This is the acropolis of Dongfan avant-garde.

Dongfan Qianwei, which was formerly known as Fengshan.

There is a good natural harbor here, and it is perfect to build a pier in the narrow bay.

However, there is only a small dock here, and even the navy fleet cannot dock.

There is no way, Taichang can only order the ship not to disintegrate, first sail into the harbor as a whole, break down and rest for one night.

In the early morning of the next day, he inspected the bay in Dongfan Qianwei carefully, and decided to forget about building a large port here.

Because the route from Taicang Port to Dongfan to Luzon and then to the British government will definitely become the main route to the south of Nanyang in the future, and there will definitely be a lot of fleets that will stop here or depart from here.

If another super shipyard is built here, the port terminal will definitely not be enough.

Therefore, he still decided to build this place into a large port.

As for the shipyard, anyway, Dongfan has a lot of places and a good natural harbor. If this one doesn't work, there will be another one.

Soon, the fleet continued to set off, heading north.

About an hour or so, another towering bastion appeared in front of it.

This is the acropolis of Dongfan Zuowei.

Dongfan Zuowei is also the original Dongfan senior member.

Historically, this is where the Dutch built Zeelandia Castle.

There is also a good natural harbor here, but the harbor here is much larger than that of Dongfan Qianwei.

If the harbor in Dongfanqianwei is like a river with a width of several miles, then the harbor here is like a lake with a radius of tens of miles.

Moreover, the outer periphery of this harbor is blocked by a row of horizontally arranged islands and a small peninsula protruding horizontally, which is not the kind of open mouth.

That is to say, as long as the entrance of the harbor is blocked and idle ships are not allowed to enter, the ships passing outside will not know what is going on inside, even if they pass by the entrance of the harbor.

This place is very nice.

After the flagship approached the port of Dongfan Zuowei, Taichang scanned the entrance of the harbor with the telescope at the back, and nodded slightly.

The telescope with a viewing distance of more than ten miles can only vaguely see the dark shadow at the entrance of the harbor. Other telescopes must be unable to see anything clearly if they scan in from the entrance of the harbor.

Although it is impossible to keep the secrets of the steam engine and ships forever, it is still necessary to keep them secret.

It is very suitable to build a shipyard here.

Anyway, the fleet going to Nanyang can berth at the port of Dongfan Qianwei, and it does not need to be used as a transit supply place.

Moreover, there is also a big river flowing in here, with sufficient fresh water resources, it doesn't matter how many people live here.

Taichang scanned the surroundings again, and then asked, "Feihong, what do you think of building a shipyard here?"

Hearing this, Zheng Zhilong nodded repeatedly and said, "Your Majesty is wise, this place is indeed very good."

Well, in fact, where the shipyard is built has nothing to do with him. He just wants the emperor to quickly determine the address of the shipyard, and then immediately build the shipyard, dig waterways, and quickly build armed merchant ships.

The Daming Western Company does not have an armed merchant ship at the moment, and they have to borrow ships from the Navy Fleet for any cargo, which is really too troublesome.

Taichang saw that Zheng Zhilong had no objection, and immediately said decisively: "Bo Ya, you immediately lead ten Aegis warships, twenty Longya warships, and more than three hundred Spike warships to Wubei City to pick up one hundred thousand soldiers from the Shenji Battalion. Come here, and call Liangfu, and ask him to bring a few workers from the Ministry of Industry and old craftsmen over to see how the dock is built here."

Sun Chuanting cupped his hands and said "obey the order", and he was about to leave.

But Taichang said to Zhu Youjian, the king of letters, "Jian'er, you go back with Boya."

The letter king Zhu Youjian pursed his lips when he heard the words, but in the end he didn't say anything, and left with Sun Chuanting directly.

He also knew that it was too long to play this trip, and it was time to go back and take care of the Daming Bank.

After all, the Daming Bank had to send people to the vassal states to establish semicolons, and also to unify their currencies. There were many things to do.

Taichang thought for a while, and then said to Zhang Zhiji and Xu Yunzhen: "You each lead four Aegis ships and fifty Spike warships to the other four acropolises in Dongfan to pick up people, make a few more trips, each The Acropolis will bring over [-] garrison Wei Qingzhuang."

Zhang Zhiji and Xu Yunzhen quickly took orders and left.

Taichang said to Yuan Shu and Sun Quan: "Each of you lead ten Longya warships and one hundred Spike warships to Taicang Port and Nanzhili to pull cement and timber."

He just did what he said. Although he didn't know how to build the dock and waterway at the moment, he could expand the port, build the city wall, and make the early preparations.

Zhang Zhiji and Xu Yunzhen had just led the fleet to leave when he disembarked in person and ordered the commander of the Weicheng to gather [-] guards and young men to prepare to start work.

Here, he plans to build a super large shipyard, and the scale will naturally not be as small as that of Gecheng on the other side of Wubei City.

He directly ordered people to draw a box twenty miles long and five miles wide beside the Acropolis, and then organized the nearby Tunwei Qingzhuang to start digging the foundation of the wall.

The foundation of the wall is being dug here, and the young guards of the other four acropolises are also constantly gathering. In less than four days, they have gathered [-].

Materials from Taicang Port and South Zhili are also constantly being collected here, and the cement and timber near the port wharf are piled up like mountains.

The city wall here was meant to block the other three sides and prevent idlers from entering the shipyard. It is equivalent to the wall of a factory. There is no need to build it too high. One foot high is enough. It is not too much to build such a city wall. quick.

About ten days later, when Sun Chuanting arrived here with Wang Zheng and [-] soldiers from the Shenji Battalion, the walls of the city walls were almost completed.

Wang Zheng looked at Fangcheng, which could not be seen at a glance, and couldn't help saying: "Your Majesty, how big a shipyard are you going to build?"

Taichang smiled slightly and said, "It's not very big. The north wall is only twenty miles long, and the east and west walls are only five miles long. How about building fifty docks side by side in such a city, digging fifty Is there any problem with the waterway?"

In such a large place, it is of course no problem to build fifty dock waterways.

The question is, what kind of boat do you want to build?
Wang Zheng asked again: "Your Majesty, what kind of ship are you going to build here?"

Taichang said without hesitation: "That is, large fishing boats and armed merchant ships."

Dozens of these large fishing boats have already been built, and Wang Zheng is naturally familiar with them. The question is, what kind of armed merchant ships are they?
He asked again: "Your Majesty, have you thought about what the armed merchant ships will cause?"

Taichang still didn't think about it: "It's simple, just change the large fishing boat, that is, remove the platforms on both sides of the large fishing boat, don't install fishing ropes and chutes on both sides, just leave the hoist, and install ten on the left and right. Just one cannon like the Spike. By the way, put another one on the bow, a total of 21 guns."

My God, where is this an armed merchant ship?
This firepower is simply stronger than that of ordinary warships!
If the Dutch knew the configuration of this armed merchant ship, they would probably be scared to pee.

Because the fire rate of Daming's artillery is too terrifying, 21 artillery pieces are estimated to have similar firepower to their building gunboats!
Of course, Taichang knew that Daming's artillery fire rate was much faster than that of Europe's muzzle-loading artillery, and there was a reason for him to install so many artillery pieces on these armed merchant ships.

He was thinking that if one day he was really beaten by European countries, he would be able to mobilize enough armed merchant ships to serve as warships in an instant.

The firepower of this kind of armed merchant ship is much stronger than those so-called warships in Europe. If you really want to fight for your life, it is possible for an armed merchant ship to overturn a large ship and gunboat.

Wang Zheng didn't have much feeling for firepower.

He just thought about it for a while, then nodded slightly and said: "Well, this armed merchant ship is simple, and it is easier to build than a large fishing boat. Your Majesty, how many ships does this shipyard have to build in a year?"

Taichang thought for a while, and then said decisively: "Large fishing boats can be built less, a hundred or so a year should be about the same, and armed merchant ships should be built more, preferably four to five hundred a year."

My God, how many artisans does it take?

(End of this chapter)