Great Tang Southern Emperor

When Liu Rengui came up, he was full of resentment, full of resentment—you even sold my food, aren't you ready to live?

Chapter 786 Where did the ship come from?

Chapter 148 Where did the ship come from?

"How come there are no ships?" Li Zhen raised her eyebrows, and asked intentionally: "There are so many ships in the Yuezhou fleet, didn't they all sell none of them?"

"Your Highness, you should know that this is not what this subordinate is talking about. Merchant ships, this subordinate is talking about merchant ships. Warships are indeed good things, but I can't go to sea with dozens of warships to do business, right? How much cargo can I pull? Huh?" Liu Rengui was even more entangled, as a rare middle-aged and elderly person under Li Zhen's command, he had never lost his composure before, but today he really couldn't bear his emotions.If he didn't know that offending the boss is likely to be punished, he really wanted to flip the table at this time (╯‵ ′)╯︵┻━┻.

Li Zhenzuo suddenly realized: "Merchant ships...there is no need for merchant ships. In the future, you will mainly lead the fleet. In the future, the Yuezhou Fleet will not need to do business anymore. You only need to protect the coast of Datang. I have already opened a head, and those merchants will naturally help me tear a big hole."

"..." Is this really the case?

"...Your Highness, has no one told you that your acting skills are very bad?" Looking at Li Zhen speechlessly, Liu Rengui mercilessly exposed Li Zhen's poor acting skills: "What is your plan? Just give me an accurate word, the subordinates are dying of anxiety, so please stop teasing me, is this really fun?"

"Uh...Are my acting skills bad?" Li Zhen obviously didn't grasp the point of the topic, but was just entangled in her poor acting skills.

"Your Highness...it's not so bad." Liu Rengui complained with strength: "This subordinate is really going to be angry, so please stop teasing this subordinate."

"Okay, okay, I'll just say it." Seeing that Liu Rengui was really going to get angry, Li Zhen hurriedly begged for mercy: "You guessed right, I was indeed prepared for a long time... But I was right in the previous sentence, The Yuezhou Fleet will not participate in the sea route exploration campaign in a short time. The Tianzhu war is about to start. I need the Yuezhou Fleet to sail to the southern end of the Tianzhu Continent, and at the critical moment, give a severe blow to the South Tianzhu coalition led by Chaluqi—— This battle should be regarded as the famous battle of the Yuezhou Fleet."

"Yes, I understand." Liu Rengui finally understood Li Zhen's plan. It is true that Zhe Louqi combined the power of half of the Tianzhu Continent to fight against Datang. There are too many variables in fighting in different places, and it is basically impossible to lose the battle, but it is certain that you will suffer in some aspects.

If under such circumstances, the Yuezhou Fleet suddenly appeared in the back of the South Tianzhu coalition army and stabbed it fiercely, it would definitely cause chaos for the coalition army, and maybe it would be possible to decide the world in one battle—even if this was not possible, The fleet can also imitate the Dengzhou fleet, directly transporting troops to the enemy's rear to stab the vitals in one fell swoop, and it can also kill with one blow.

"This subordinate understands what to do." Liu Rengui was also very excited. After all, Liu Rengui is a naval genius. Although he really likes to sail freely on the sea with his own fleet, what he wants more is to make contributions, not to mention Sailing on the aimless sea, where is the enjoyment of real war with real swords and guns?Of course he was going to choose war.

but……

"But Your Highness, even if we want to participate in the war, we still need a lot of transport ships." Liu Rengui thought of this again. After all, the power of warships is powerful, but they can't go to land, and they want to really occupy a piece of land. The territory still needs the army to complete, and the role of the warship is at most to use firepower to suppress the enemy in the offshore.

But to transport the army, transport ships are also needed, but now that Li Zhen has sold all the cargo ships, what does Liu Rengui use to transport troops?

Does it depend on battleships?

How many people can this carry?

Isn't this nonsense?

"Don't worry, when have you ever seen Ben Gong do that thing?" Seeing Liu Rengui's tangled look, Li Zhen smiled lightly: "The new ship has been prepared for you, not only the cargo ship of the fleet, but the king We are also preparing to form a new fleet to continue exploring the unknown seas—of course, this time the captain of the fleet cannot be you.”

Liu Rengui didn't care that he couldn't continue to lead the fleet. Compared to this, he cared more about another question: "Where do we get so many ships?"

This is his biggest question at the moment. There are three large shipyards under Li Zhen's name: Dengzhou Shipyard, Yuezhou Shipyard and Quanzhou Shipyard.

These three shipyards have the ability to independently manufacture large ships, and Liu Rengui believes that the docks of these three shipyards must be full of orders.

But the problem is that these orders have been transferred by Feng Zhibao to those crazy businessmen at ten times the price. Although Li Zhen still has some small and medium-sized shipyards, such shipyards do not have the ability to manufacture large ships. It can be built, and the speed will definitely not be too fast-then the question is, where did Li Zhen's boat come from?

"I naturally have my own channel, but I can't tell you for now, and you will know later." Li Zhen will not say it, this is one of his biggest secrets, and he has a secret that is no less than three The shipyard of a large shipyard, and this shipyard was built earlier, with a larger scale, and is fully militarized. The craftsmen in it have signed a lifelong confidentiality system, and they are not allowed to leave the shipyard for half a step. To put it bluntly, this is a group of Skilled slaves were obtained by Li Zhen through various channels over the years.

As for the location of the shipyard, it is located in a place that no one will pay attention to in this era-Vladivostok. It also has a name in later generations, Vladivostok.

Of course, those are the names of later generations. At this time, the Russian nation has not yet formed, let alone found it across Siberia.

At this time, Vladivostok was still a barren land. Except for Li Zhen, there were only some Tatar fishermen who might stumble here. Other than that, no one would know that there was a huge ice-free port here. It is completely possible to seal off the strategic location of the entire Siberian Pacific Ocean outlet.

Speaking of Vladivostok, it is natural to produce sea cucumbers, which are rich in sea cucumber resources, and the name Vladivostok was originally named after this.

But in addition to being rich in sea cucumbers, it is also the largest ice-free port in the Far East, one of the few ice-free ports in the Pacific coast of Siberia, and the base of the Russian Pacific Fleet.

Of course, this place is still barren now, let alone civilization, if you travel a hundred miles and see a living person, you are lucky, and even if you see a person, what you see is likely to be man-eating savages...

Chapter 787 Vladivostok Shipyard

Chapter 149 Vladivostok Shipyard

Why did Li Zhen occupy Vladivostok?

Of course it's not for catching sea cucumbers here - although there is such a purpose o(￣︶￣)o.

Speaking of it, it started more than ten years ago, probably not long after he just traveled to Datang, and after confirming his mission, he already understood that if Datang wanted eternal prosperity, it was only by virtue of the wise monarchs and ministers. Not enough, if you want to continue to prosper, the country must have money, must ensure enough wealth, at least to ensure that the people will not go hungry, and if you want to get a lot of money, it is definitely not possible on land, the only way is Find a way from the sea—that is, start the era of great navigation.

But if you want to set off the curtain of the age of great navigation, you must have a large number of ships...

This requires a large shipyard, and this kind of thing cannot be supported by Li Shimin, so this requires Li Zhen to build it himself.

But at that time, Li Zhen was still trembling. Just doing a small business, she was taken into consideration by those who cared about her. If some people knew that she had built a large shipyard, wouldn't they send someone to grab it?

Therefore, it is definitely not possible to build the shipyard in the territory of Datang. At this time, Li Zhen thought of Vladivostok, a super large port that is remote, desolate and uninhabited, so she began to send her confidantes to explore the terrain here, and got specific information.

Then in the four years of the Turkic War in Zhenguan and the tearing between Huihe and Xue Yantuo, Li Zhen captured a large number of slaves. In addition to giving to the court and rewarding his subordinates, he also detained more than 3000 slaves in his own hands. People, most of them are craftsmen or craftsmen - so the shipbuilding workers have been found, and the Vladivostok shipyard began to build silently, and slowly developed and expanded, and has been unknown to outsiders.

After more than ten years of development, the scale of the Vladivostok Shipyard is now very large. There are tens of thousands of craftsmen (slaves) alone, all of which were searched by Li Zhen over the years.

The ships manufactured in these years have not appeared in front of the world, but have been secretly stored. It is estimated that there are nearly a thousand ships in total - all of which are large ships with a displacement of more than a thousand tons, and even one-third of them are It was still a giant ship of [-] tons.

And according to the news from the shipyard, the [-]-ton super cargo ship they have tested and manufactured has been launched for sea trials, and the current situation seems to be in good condition. If there is no problem with this ship, in the next time In the sea, the sea shipyard can fully guarantee the speed of launching such a huge ship at a rate of three ships a month (a large shipyard with tens of thousands of people, it should not be a problem to manufacture three giant ships a month).

But the only problem is that the shape of these sea ships is not the same as the orthodox Asian ships, but they use clipper sails that are different from the style of Chinese ships.

Clipper sailing ship, this is a high-speed sailing ship that only appeared in the 1853th century. Its biggest feature is the use of a hollow bow. The "Grand Republic" built in 93 is 162 meters long, 91 meters wide, 3400 meters deep, with a displacement of 61 tons, a mainmast height of 3760 meters, a full sail area of ​​12 square meters, and a speed of 14 to 13 knots per hour. It takes [-] days, marking the peak of sailing development.

It's just that the glory of the clipper sailboat did not last long, because in the late nineteenth century, steam ships appeared and completely replaced the sail-powered boats, and the clipper sailboat became the last swan song of the sailboat.

But in any case, although the glory of the clipper sailboat did not last long, it cannot be denied that this is indeed a good boat.

Therefore, when building the sea shipyard, Li Zhen first thought of this kind of ship, and because there were many Europeans among his shipwrights (many of which he sold from Europe through slave traders), for the same root and the same Li Zhen was not worried that they would not be able to accept this style of flying scissor sailboat, so she took out her own design drawings (on the contrary, Li Zhen was more worried that the shipbuilders of the Tang Dynasty would not be able to adapt to this design, because Huaxia Guda The boats in China are generally rectangular, and the aspect ratio basically does not exceed 4:1, and most of them have a ratio of 3:1 or even 2:1).

Of course, the clipper boat he designed is still different from the clipper sailboats in history, because the real clipper sailboat is of course very fast, but this is achieved by sacrificing sailing stability - the aspect ratio exceeds 6: 1. This is basically a wooden stick floating on the sea. How stable can such a boat be?It might turn over at any time.

Therefore, when Li Zhen was designing, he deliberately widened the width of the sailboat (it didn’t widen much, but the aspect ratio changed from 6:1 to 4:1, the width increased, but the length did not decrease), and the height of the mast was reduced. , greatly increasing the stability of the ship.

Although a major modification was made to the scissor sailboat, it did not actually affect the speed of the ship, because Li Zhen also added some designs known to later generations (such as the streamlined principle) while modifying the design drawings, so the speed of the sailboat It didn't drop much, but increased the upper limit of the ship's displacement. This is why the shipyard dared to test the manufacture of a 3000-ton freighter—because after studying the drawings, they found that more than [-] tons did not seem to be the limit of this kind of ship. As a result, the unique death gene of the Porridge Corporation broke out. Under the research of all the designers, they began to design and study the [-]-ton ship, and now it seems that the effect is not bad.

If the trial voyage goes well this time, maybe you can catch up with the big fleet to sail to Nanyang, and follow the fleet to Lingnan, it will be too mighty and spectacular, and then Li Zhen's fleet will have a truly huge ship. Mac flagship.

"Your Highness didn't lie to your subordinates, did you?" Liu Rengui looked at Li Zhen's mysterious look, and always felt a little unreliable. How did he know that Li Zhen had a large shipyard behind the scenes?Moreover, it is still a super large shipyard that can build huge ships of [-] tons-you must know that even today's Yuezhou Shipyard can only produce ships of [-] tons, and the larger ships with a displacement of [-] tons are only in the During the research, even the design drawings have not come out, let alone [-] tons.

If those designers knew about this kind of thing, they might all hang themselves in shame—it’s too embarrassing. I have designed a boat for a lifetime, but in the end it is not as good as a group of foreign devils. I am really ashamed. Ancestors, shameless to meet the elders of Jingdong.

What's the point of living by yourself?It's better to find a noodle and hang yourself in a place with many people.

Chapter 788 Thousand Ships

Chapter 1 Fifty Thousand Ships

"Why did I lie to you? What is there for me to deceive you? This is the truth." Li Zhen smiled and said: "You can rest assured, I have already issued an order, and it is estimated that in half a month, we will The ship should be able to arrive. At that time, you will only think that you don’t have enough manpower, not that the number of ships is not enough. So you’d better recruit more people during this period, otherwise, when the ship arrives, you will not have enough It would be too embarrassing to sail the boat manually."