Great Tang Southern Emperor

There are only three large shipyards, and even including the undisclosed sea shipyards, there are only four.

Even including those medium-sized shipyards that can manufacture large merchant ships but are very slow, Datang only has less than [-] shipyards, and [-]% of these shipyards are built by Li Zhen himself, and only a few belong to the government. Several companies can only produce river boats, and if they want to transform, they must upgrade their technology-this shows that the ancients ignored the ocean.

Compared with the national support of the Netherlands, the royal family even invested in the construction of the shipyard, the difference is not a little bit...

In fact, Li Zhen was already very surprised and proud of being able to achieve today's scale—well, yes, Li Zhen is very satisfied with her current achievements. It's just to pretend to be aggressive in front of Ruo.

I have to say, this feeling of acting aggressive is really cool, no wonder so many people in later generations are willing to act aggressive.

"My lord, don't tease your subordinates." Liu Rengui said with a wry smile, "Just give your subordinates an accurate number. How many ships do we have?"

"I really didn't play tricks on you." Li Zhen said seriously: "I repeat again, there are really thousands of ships that we are going to meet next, and each of them has a displacement of more than a thousand tons. There are giant ships of [-] tons and [-] tons mixed in, and if all goes well, we will also have a ship with a displacement of [-] tons appearing here as the flagship..."

However, although Li Zhen's tone was very serious, what he said was so outrageous that Liu Rengui didn't believe it at all.

"...Your Highness, the more you talk, the more shameful you are." Liu Rengui expressed disbelief: "It's a [-]-ton ship. According to what I know, among the three major shipyards in the Tang Dynasty, the strength is the strongest. You can only manufacture [-]-ton merchant ships, right? Even [-]-ton ships are still under design, and the design drawings haven't even been released... Where did you get the [-]-ton ships?

Your Highness, you may not know much about ships. The tonnage of a ship is not just a matter of lip service. Sometimes every additional ton of displacement requires many adjustments to the ship...a ​​[-]-ton merchant ship, subordinate I believe it definitely exists, but according to my subordinate's estimation, I probably won't see its birth during my lifetime. "

Seeing Liu Rengui's disbelief no matter what, Li Zhen was also helpless: "I said you are too courageous, right? This is not the Liu Rengui I know. Can't you have some confidence in our technology?" ?You said that I don’t understand ship design? I really don’t want to hear this, don’t you remember? The earliest Zonghai class (different from the Zongheng class, the Zonghai class is a merchant ship, and the Zonghai class is a warship) But most of them were designed by me in this palace. Even if they were handed over to Dengzhou Shipyard later, a large part of the difficulties were solved under the guidance of my palace. Forgot?"

"Naturally, my subordinates don't dare to forget, but these five thousand tons... are really not joking. At present, we haven't even solved the four thousand tons. If it is five thousand tons... we can definitely make it. The problem is it Can you run?" Liu Rengui's face was tangled, he wanted to believe it, but deep down he thought so.

To put it bluntly, a sailboat is a pile of wood put together, let alone a ship with a displacement of [-] tons, even a ship with a displacement of [-] tons can be made, but can such a merchant ship run?I'm afraid that before going to sea, the wooden structure will not be able to withstand its own pressure, and it will collapse and collapse, right?What is the use of such a ship even if it is built?

"In your eyes, is Bengong the kind of person who can only do face-saving projects? Why can't he run? Bengong tells you that not only can he run, but his speed is not slow. He is about to complete the water trial. What if Everything is going well, this time we will be able to follow our fleet to Lingnan, and when the time comes, I will let you see it with your own eyes, won't it be over?" Li Zhen rolled her eyes and said angrily.

A [-]-ton ship is naturally a clipper-style sailboat, as long as it is a clipper-style sailboat, its speed will generally not be too slow.

"Yes, my subordinates will be waiting for this day." Liu Rengui responded, but from his tone, it was obvious that deep down in his heart, he didn't believe it. It was just because of Li Zhen's face that it was hard to refute. That's all.

Li Zhen waved his hand and began to drive people away: "Okay, go back and recruit people quickly, even if these 1000-ton super giant ships are fake, then more than [-] ships with a thousand-ton class and above are real, and I don't have this point." To be honest, when the ship arrives, but you don’t have enough manpower, it would be a shame.”

"That's another thing my subordinate wants to say." Liu Rengui's face became even more bitter when he heard the number of ships: "Your Highness, you should still be wise and wise. If you hand over all the thousand ships to your subordinates, your subordinates will It's really powerless."

"I didn't say that I would hand over all these ships to your command. Why do you think it's so beautiful?" Li Zhen smiled lightly: "You think that this time, Bengong took out so many ships at one time, just for the purpose of transporting troops Tianzhu? Isn't that too embarrassing for them?"

"Then your Highness means..."

Li Zhen smiled mysteriously: "What I mean by this palace is... multi-faceted blossoming..."

The two understood in seconds: "Your Highness, what does it mean to send a fleet to explore the sea while starting the war? This is indeed a good idea, but do we have enough talents? Not everyone can be the captain of a fleet of."

Again, an experienced captain is not so easy to train, and a captain who can lead an entire fleet is one in a million, not so easy to train.

Chapter 790 Nanyang Map

Chapter 152 Map of Nanyang

"But I don't intend to let them go out to sea." Li Zhen laughed.

"Not out of the far sea?" Liu Rengui frowned when he heard this, and said, "But if what His Highness said is true, it would be a pity that such a good ship should only be left to wander in the near sea, right? Such a ship is born to be It should go out to the far sea, it would be too wasteful to only put it in the near sea.”

"I didn't say that. If it's not the far sea, it doesn't necessarily mean it must be near the sea." Li Zhen smiled brighter, he thought it was really interesting to tease Liu Rengui.

Li Zhen's words were too convoluted, and Liu Rengui didn't understand why it was near the sea and far away?

He simply asked for forgiveness directly: "Your Highness, please stop teasing your subordinates... What are you planning to do?"

"You'll know just by looking at this."

Li Zhen didn't explain much, but took out a map.

"This is a map of Nanyang? This is Luzon, right?" Liu Rengui has seen many maps in Li Zhen's hand, but many of them are partial maps. For example, Li Zhen asked him to go to Luzon, so he drew a chapter from The map from Datang to Luzon, but Liu Rengui did not see the rest of the place.

The reason why Li Zhen did this was not because he was stingy, because he was afraid that others would be unfavorable to him after seeing the map. The main reason was to keep it secret. After all, the map itself was a strategic material in ancient times, and the map in Li Zhen's hand was even more of a strategic material among strategic materials. , even if it is revealed a little bit, it will cause endless waves in the outside world.

As for the full picture, it is even more forbidden to let people know, otherwise it may cause a small war, and it is not impossible.

After all, this is a specific topographic map of the entire Nanyang. Now everyone knows that Nanyang represents endless wealth-if the map falls into the hands of their own people, that's all. The pot is full, and the island still belongs to Datang.But if it falls into the hands of the enemy, I am afraid that an opponent will rise up in this endless sea to compete with Datang, which is not what Datang wants to see.

You must know that in today's Datang, everyone knows that Nanyang is a place to make a fortune-this sea is so big, it is impossible to have only one Luzon Islands, what is lacking is just exploration.

As long as you are brave enough, as long as you are lucky enough, even if you can only find an island, even if it is just a small island, as long as it is not a pure rock reef, at least you will not lose money on this trip, at least those islands The wood inside is all Nanyang specialties, and transporting it back to Datang is a fortune.

It's just that although the current businessmen are crazy, they prefer to eat ready-made ones. Before the potential of Luzon is fully discovered, they will not explore new sea areas-after all, it is dangerous to go to Luzon, but it is worthwhile One target, but those unknown seas are purely luck, no one knows what will be encountered, if there is a big danger, the entire fleet will be finished.

But Li Zhen believes that sooner or later someone will go out to sea to find new islands, and this day will come soon-once the interests of the Luzon Islands are divided, then those who are not willing to fail will lose money in order to get back their capital or For other reasons, sooner or later, you have to go down this road.

And once the losers pioneered this precedent, those who have been watching on the mainland or those who have the ability but not the strength will eventually embark on their old path-by then, the age of great exploration will truly begin.

The map in Li Zhen's hand was drawn by him based on his memory, and most of the Nanyang islands were marked in it. Although there were some deviations, those important islands had already been drawn, and the directions were not too different.

Li Zhen didn't know what would happen if this map was seen by others, or even if people knew of its existence.But Li Zhen has reason to believe that those crazy businessmen will definitely get this map by any means—even if the person they have to deal with is the Prince of Tang Dynasty.

So speaking of this map, the entire Tang Dynasty knows no more than one person. Even Li Zhen's brothers, what they see is not the whole map, but the known regions divided by Li Zhen. As for the map, as for these unknown regions, he rarely showed them to others—even his confidantes, only Xue Rengui and a few others knew about them.

"Yes, this is the map of Nanyang. This is the Luzon you explored, and this is the Indochina Peninsula, which is the part of the Nanyang Peninsula that was conquered by us before. This is Linyi, and this is Chenla. The Queen's Kingdom and Baitou Kingdom are here. Here." Li Zhen pointed to some known locations and explained to Liu Rengui one by one.

"Then where is this place?" Liu Rengui asked excitedly, pointing to the largest piece on the edge of the entire Nanyang map: "It's such a big island, it's not much worse than Nanyang. If this is opened up, it will be another Nanyang."

"This is... um... this is... the Island of Paradise. It got its name because there is a very beautiful bird called the Bird of Paradise." Looking at the island of New Guinea, Li Zhen thought for a while and made up a random one. As far as the name is concerned, no one knows the specific name of this island except himself, not to mention that the western colonists have not discovered it yet, so the naming right is of course in the hands of Li Zhen.

"Why didn't I hear His Highness mention this island?" Liu Rengui asked suspiciously, this island should be the number one island in Southeast Asia, right?Although only a part is painted, the exposed part alone is much larger than Borneo in terms of area.

"Of course I haven't told you about this, because this place does not belong to Nanyang, it is the territory of Australia, so I didn't introduce it to you." In order to gain the support of his confidantes in the development of the navy, Li Zhen introduced them to them. from Australia.

As Li Zhen expected, when they found out that there was a continent no smaller than the Great Tang outside of the Great Tang, everyone went crazy—if they could occupy this place, it would be a great contribution.

Why go down to twelve cities in one day?

What destroys the country in World War I?

Can it be compared to opening up a second continent?

There is no need to think about it at all, this is definitely a great contribution to being able to pass down the annals of history.

That is to say, since then, no one has any objection to Li Zhen's development of the navy.

Nonsense, if you want to conquer the New World, you have to cross the sea, right?

How do you cross the sea without a boat?

And according to what Li Zhen said, Australia is still a barren land with only a few aborigines and no basic civilization.

That is to say, after conquering Australia, it still has to build, or at least immigrate there.

But this is a continent, not a peninsula like Nanyang—this work is destined not to be done by one person, not even under the auspices of the imperial court, and all the people must participate.