Can you live forever

Chapter 177 The Essentials of Shangzhou

The biggest impact of Zhang Zhixiang's championship is the battleship Xuande.

But the Xuande will not be delivered until June next year, and because the weight of the Xuande battleship is so high, apart from this battleship, No.1's other quotas are not even as good as No.4.

This means that the strength of the Wang family will not grow explosively before next June.

The vacuum period lasted for fifteen months.

It is impossible for the Xu family not to take advantage of this time. In this era of giant ships and cannons, with a main ship like the Xuande, one can imagine how arrogant they are on the battlefield.

before this.

The largest ship built by Zhoushan Shipyard is only 2.4 tons (about [-] tons), which is nearly one-third short of the [-] tons of Xuande, and it reflects not only the tonnage, but also shipbuilding technology, steel technology, and the latest Important firepower configuration.

The red cannon was only matured in the middle of last year and put into production.

The Xu family's main ship is the [-]-cost Hongxi battleship delivered at the beginning of last year. Not to mention the extra cost in the later stage to upgrade the artillery, the main gun is generally difficult to replace.

The main gun of the Xuande is more than [-] catties, while the main gun of the Hongxi is only [-] catties.

The power and range of the two are not the same.

The Zhoushan Shipyard was able to build large-scale battleships with a capacity of [-] materials only five years ago. So far, only three ships have been built in total, each named after the Da Ming Ming.

They are: Jianwen, Hongxi and Xuande.

Without using Hongwu and Yongle, probably even Mojiao thinks that a battleship of this tonnage is not worthy of those two year names. Of course, it may be because Mojiao doesn't like Hongwu and Yongle.

Both Jianwen and Hongxi are in the hands of the Xu family.

Among them, the Hongxi number was won by Xu's family, and the Jianwen number was in the martial arts conference five years ago, and an old fairy of Yuanying appeared, so the Jianwen number had no owner and entered the auction process.

The Xu family has strong financial resources and spent a lot of money to photograph this boat.

In recent years, the Xu family's ranking in the martial arts conference has never dropped out of the top four. Therefore, in addition to the two battleships, a large number of other small and medium-sized warships have also been included in the bag.

Even after entering a new era, the Xu family still maintains their status as the overlord of the ocean.

No one knows the navy better than the Xu family.

So Xu Hai knew very well what the Xuande would bring to the Wang family. Although it would not make the Wang family and the Xu family on an equal footing, it was qualified to protect themselves.

If the fourth battleship is still taken by the Wang family, the offensive and defensive momentum will be completely reversed.

Xu Hai will not sit back and watch this happen.

Therefore, there will be a big battle in the future. If the Wang family can be completely defeated before the Wang family gets the Xuande, that is the best result...

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"The Xu family will gather all their strength to deal with the Wang family before the delivery of the Xuande, which means that the Xu family must recall most of the ocean's troops, and the blockade of Shangzhou will be minimized."

"Also, there is news that I didn't tell you before."

"The mission of the Kingdom of Date arrived in the capital at the end of February. Yiqiong is now following Jiajing to the south. You will meet at that time."

"In North Shangzhou."

"Civilization is mainly concentrated in the Mexican plateau, where 3000 million Indians live, and the Aztec and Maya are both large countries with tens of millions of people."

"The Aztecs are in the north, the Maya are in the south, and the two states are close."

"Then Cuba Island and the island chain to the east are all small Mayan city-states. In the 14th year of Jiajing, the Xiluo people spread the plague in Shangzhou, which started from the east coast of Beishangzhou."

"The kingdom of Date will bear the brunt, but also the island of Cuba and the central island chain."

"In just a few months, the islands have all fallen, and only one remnant fled to the Kingdom of Date, and then the people fled westward by boat sporadically to Maya."

"The Xu family and the Xiluo people intend to let them go west."

"The patient entered Maya with the plague, and has captured Dos Pilas, one of the three major states of the Mayan Empire. Dos Pilas is rich in emeralds, gems, quetzal feathers, and gold. ) has a port, is an important trade center, and can be said to be the richest place in Maya."

"After the plague raged, the Xu family and the Xiluo people broke through Daus Pilas and gained countless wealth."

"Although the plague spread to the north, the Tikal state of the Mayan Empire is working hard to control the plague, and with the support of Calakmo in the north, which is also the largest state of the Mayan Empire, it is resisting the aggression of the Xu family and the Xiluo people."

"The news stayed in the autumn of the 15th year of Jiajing. The current information is based on the information from the Yiqiong Mission."

"It is worth mentioning that."

"The Kingdom of Date doesn't have an exact map of the world, and they don't know the specific scope of the Mayan Empire. They think that Cuba Island and the central island chain are the Maya, but in fact it is only a part of the Maya, and the Maya has not yet perished."

"of course."

"After half a year, the Xu family and the Xiluo people may have perished Maya. This is possible."

"My personal preference is that Maya is still holding out."

"And the Aztec's military strength is stronger than that of the Maya. They have coexisted for a long time, and they should join forces to deal with foreigners. Shangzhou, at least the situation in North Shangzhou, is still some time away from complete corruption."

The inference based on the available information is indeed the case, as long as there are no accidents.

For example, even though foreign enemies are present, the country itself is still in civil strife.

then it's all over...

Wang Zhi is not Wang Yuanzhi. If it were Wang Yuanzhi, he would have a better understanding of the Aztec situation. The current emperor of the Aztec Empire is Montezuma II.

The Aztec Empire has a big contradiction right now.

That is, it is a country with abundant martial virtues and a country built on martial arts, but most of the Aztec's strength and resources are not in the hands of warriors, but in the hands of priests.

Montezuma wanted to reform a long time ago, reducing the power and resources of the priest class and strengthening the warrior class.

Powerful force could allow the Aztec Empire to continue to expand, but the priests obviously couldn't.

As early as more than ten years ago, Montezuma was in a stalemate with the priests. Now that the invasion of foreign enemies is changing, both Montezuma and the priests should have the idea of ​​taking this opportunity to solve each other.

I just don't know whether it was Montezuma who solved the priests, or whether the priests solved Montezuma and caused the warrior class to riot.

The former is okay, and it can even be said that the Aztec Empire will be stronger than ever, able to better resist the Xu family and the Xiluo people, but if it is the latter...

North Shangzhou is in jeopardy.

As for Nanshangzhou, there is only one Inca Empire in the south, which is distributed near the Andes Mountains. Most of the other places are still in the tribal period, and there are many uncivilized cannibals in the rainforest.

Even the Xiluo people rarely go to the east coast of Nanshangzhou to grab things, because there is really nothing to grab.

This is also recorded in Kunyu Wanguo Quantu. People in the east of Nanshangzhou either live in crypts or hang from trees with bark nets as beds to sleep.

and so.

The situation in Shangzhou mainly depends on North Shangzhou, and North Shangzhou now looks like Maya and Aztec, similar to the Kingdom of Ida, all of which are too small in size. Cherokee is different from Maya and Aztec. Gram, just like Xixia in the Northern Song Dynasty.

They only have combat power, but they are too small to carry civilization.

And as long as the Maya, Aztec, and Inca do not collapse, the Yindians will still have room to resist in the face of foreign aggression...

　There are two more chapters in the afternoon.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)