The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 400 Arranging the Coast
There is also good news that the construction of the three battleships that began in March last year has been successfully completed and one can be delivered to the Navy.

Huang Sheng was happier when he got the news of the launch of the battleship than when he learned that Chu'er was pregnant, and immediately took the generals to see the effect.

This battleship with three full gun decks is 77 feet long, [-] feet long at the waterline, [-] feet long at the keel, [-] feet five feet wide, [-] feet in draft, [-] tons in displacement, and [-] cannons. .

The gun deck is equipped with sixteen 32-pound guns and sixteen 24-pound guns, including four rifled guns each, the middle gun deck is equipped with twenty twelve-pound guns, including four rifled guns, and the upper gun deck is equipped with twenty nine-pound guns The artillery also included four rifled guns.

The bow deck is equipped with a 32-pound smoothbore gun and two 24-pound rifled guns, and the aft deck is equipped with two [-]-pound rifled guns.

This battleship should be the largest warship in the world today. Although the British "Sea Monarch" is larger, with a displacement of [-] tons, they have not started construction yet, and it will be eight years after they are successfully launched.

Huang Sheng asked to go to "Huaxia Island" for a trial voyage in person, but Zhao Shimin didn't stop him, but followed him on board. They had already made several round trips between Huangjiawan Island and "Huaxia Island", and they had confidence in this battleship.

In order to be prepared, Huang Mingdao and a group of military officers asked Liu Liangcai's "Liaodong" to take more than a dozen new warships and load many sealed pontoons to set off.

Cutting through the waves all the way, the speed of the ship can reach eight knots, and the propeller driven by manpower can exceed ten knots. The battleship without the army crew can reach six hundred. Huang Sheng named this battleship "Huaxia Haiquan".

Huang Sheng now has a balance of 80 shi of grain in his hands, so it is natural to plan.

In the upcoming trip to Nanyang, at least 80 shi of grain will be transported back. In addition to the output from the farmland, this year, after feeding the 10,000+ people of the Huang family system, there will be more than 80 shi of grain that can be used to help Daming again. common people.

Huang Sheng arranged for the fleet to go to the coastal port of Daming to transport the sea trade goods back to the sea trade. The granary in the new area of ​​Wang Gongchang in the capital can store 25 shi first, Funing County can store 15 shi, Tianjin Wei can store 15 shi, Huaian Fuhai One hundred thousand stones were stored in Lianyungang of later generations of Zhouzhou.

Grain can save the lives of too many ordinary people in troubled times. This is what Huang Sheng can do for the people of Ming Dynasty. With these pre-prepared grains, it is possible to save hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in Ming Dynasty when the crops are not harvested in spring.

Huang Sheng is going to continue to accept refugees from the disaster area to work in his own system, because the victims will not resume production if they stay in the disaster area, and those thieves in Shaanxi will not provide opportunities for ordinary people to produce and save themselves.

They just want to destroy the fragile balance, because only when a large number of proletarians are produced, the thieves will continue to grow. These thieves will destroy a place intentionally, and the people who escaped by chance will not be able to survive after returning home.

If Huang Shengduo rescues an ordinary person from the disaster area, the bandits may lose a source of soldiers, and people with families and families will continue to work in the Huang family system, which will make the Huang family gradually become stronger and form a virtuous circle.

The thirst for food made traveling to Nanyang very important, and the continuous import of food from foreign countries would benefit the entire Han people, and many Han people would survive during the harsh Little Ice Age.

The trip to Nanyang in the second year of Chongzhen started on May 21. Not only the goods of the Huang family and the maritime trade partners needed to be transported, but also the goods of various merchants from north to south.

There are battleships "Huaxia Haiquan" and "Liaodong" that went to sea, 24 small battleships "Yangzhou" series, 36 No. 15 blessing boats and straw boats, [-] sentry horse boats, horse boats, blessing boats, and cover boats. There are [-] cargo ships such as Lun Ship and Zhu Yin Ship, with a gross tonnage of [-].

There are still twelve small battleships headed by "Jiangyin" staying on "Huaxia Island" Huangjiawan Island to maintain the safety of the route, and there are more than one hundred other warships of various types.

The left-behind forces are so strong that they can deal with emergencies. Huang Mingli's task is relatively easy, although the Patriarch took away five hundreds of cavalry archers and all the firearms and marine troops.

Because Huang Sheng arranged for him to focus on ensuring the immigrants of "Huaxia Island" and not to contact Jiannu for the time being, Hou Jinjun felt that this mysterious force disappeared out of thin air.

Hou Jin's Hong is quite jealous of Huang Sheng. He sent unshaved Han Chinese spies many times in an attempt to sneak into the Huang family's system to learn Huang Sheng's strength. Unfortunately, the Huang family's defense is so good that most of the spies can't come to Huang. The home island will be found in Fort Zhongming.

The Huang family adopted the method of supervising and laboring suspicious people who came to the island and isolated them from the world for three years. This effect was so good that Hong sent more than 100 spies, and now they are all being reformed through labor in the Huang family system.

This is the advantage of using the island as a base. It is not easy for the enemy to infiltrate. The neighbors here help each other. Strangers will be found immediately when they come. Those who cannot prove their innocence cannot leave within three years. Intelligence work is time-sensitive. .

Hou Jin could only learn about Huang Sheng's recent situation through the leaky Daming officials, but the information that Hong had got was that Huang Sheng had withdrawn from the Ming Dynasty's officialdom in Ding You, and he would not lead the army for about three years.

Hong Xie ordered to pay close attention to the actions of the Ming court, and found out that the Emperor of Ming ordered Huang Sheng to reinstate him and report back to him immediately.

And Huang Sheng seems to have been forgotten by the Ming court a long time ago, and there is no news about him at all. The information that Hong got was a long time ago. Everyone is cursing Huang Sheng's early death.

Huang Sheng didn't know that Ba Xiao had already set his sights on him. He took the Yuanhang fleet all the way south, stopped at Fushan, Daishan, and Taiwan along the way, passed by Yaogang again to show the military threat to deter Zheng Yiguan, and then went directly to Manila for trading, and then came to Feifu port.

When he came to Guangnan Kingdom for the third time, the Daming Fleet received a warm welcome. Hu Mingshan came to see Huang Sheng on behalf of Ruan Fuyuan. The last time Daming expressed his willingness to provide military force to help Guangnan Kingdom expand its territory to the west, the public opinion in Guangnan Kingdom was in an uproar.

Ruan Fuyuan, the lord of the country, believes that his territory is too narrow and long, and he has long been attacking westward. The country built on the basis of Theravada Buddhism in the Lancang Kingdom is not capable of fighting.

Every time the generals under the command of Pawuba Yuwala, king of Lancang, relied on a stone city with a circumference of seven or eight miles to hold on, every time Guangnan Kingdom was unable to attack for a long time and had to give up the territory it had obtained and retreated with hatred.

This stone city named Xialiao guards the key point. If the Dayue Kingdom acquires the city and expands [-] miles westward, and has a strong city garrisoned, it can completely consolidate the acquired land.

King Lancang also knew the importance of Xialiao City. The generals stationed there were his confidantes. There were [-] troops. When the enemy invaded, the number of people who came to Xialiao City for refuge could reach [-]. Ten thousand.

Because the Lancang Kingdom attaches great importance to this city, the materials are well prepared. The water, food, and wood are enough for 10 people to use for more than one year. Therefore, every time they are surrounded by the enemy, they can exchange time for space.

The invading enemy army is constantly being harassed along the supply lines stretching across the mountains. When the veterans are tired, they will face the new force of the Lancang Kingdom to rescue them.

(End of this chapter)