I'm really not the carpenter emperor

Zheng Yiguan, young but mature.

In the face of a local general at the level of the Fujian General Soldier, he did not show any signs of humiliation, and he was very confident in his heart.

No matter how it is discussed, the court will agree to its request.

Because at this time, the Dutch had blocked Zhongzuo Port for several days. If such an important port for business exchanges was blocked for one day, the loss would be huge.

With the current capabilities of the Fujian Navy, they are still unable to repel the Dutch fleet by themselves, and there is no one else who can help them in the short term except their own Zheng family.

Yu Zigao had no choice but to nod his head in agreement, saying:

"Since it is a cooperation, I will ask the governor on the stage to ask His Majesty to allow the Zheng family to do business in the southeast sea area."

"but……"

Zheng Yiguan nodded confidently. Hearing these two words, his expression changed, and he asked, "But what—?"

"The rest of Hongmaofan's ships are alright, but there are three warships about [-] feet long, each with a lot of heavy artillery on the left and right sides, and the range is extremely long. I don't know what kind of new ships it is?"

"Ha ha……"

Zheng Yiguan knew it as soon as he heard it, and sneered a few times. Seeing that he was so confident, Yu Zigao quickly raised his ears and listened carefully:

"I also know some Western ships, so it's okay to tell Yu Shuai."

After the cooperation was reached, Zheng Yiguan's title also changed, and he began to respectfully call Yu Zigao "Yu Shuai".

Not long after, Zheng Yiguan was sent away. Although Yu Zigao's face was solemn, he was much less worried than before.

From Zheng Yiguan's mouth, he learned.

This kind of three-masted sailing ship has an unexpected name-"Galen ship", I don't know what it means.

Galen ships are not only used by the Dutch, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, and almost the entire West have generally used this kind of ship as their main warship.

And it didn't take long for Westerners to popularize Galen ships, just in the past few decades.

Therefore, if one of these Galen ships can be captured and imitated, it will be able to catch up with the footsteps of the West.

In the early years, the blueprints for the manufacture of treasure ships, which were nine feet long and powerful, had long been burned, and none of the craftsmen knew how to make them.

Today, the establishment of the Fujian Navy mainly consists of three types of ships.

One is the Cangshan warship, which is the main warship commonly used by the navy of the whole country, including the Fujian navy.

Cangshan boats are generally equipped with two thousand-jin Folang machines, three bowl-mouth guns, four Lumi guns, forty spray tubes, sixty chimney tubes, 30 yuan fire bricks, one hundred rockets, four heavy crossbows, and crossbow arrows. One hundred sticks.

Second, the dragon boat.

The fire dragon ship is a small assault ship, which is generally used to forcibly pick up enemy ships and snatch close combat. The advantage is that it is fast.

As for the disadvantage, except for the firecrackers held by the sailors on board, there is almost no long-range firepower.

The third is the large number of net shuttle boats.

It is more appropriate to say that this kind of boat is a boat, because it is too small, and it is a fishing boat commonly used by coastal fishermen.

Net shuttle boats usually consist of two to four sailors, each equipped with a firecracker. The tactic of combat is to surround and go up, cooperate with fire dragon boats, and use wolf pack tactics to wipe out the enemy.

In addition to the three types of warships prepared by the Fujian navy, the imperial navy in some areas was also equipped with a small number of large and small blessing ships.

The Fuchuan is considered to be the most advanced ship of the Imperial Navy today.

The manufacturing and maintenance costs of Fuchuan are extremely expensive. Nowadays, the armaments of various places are slack, and the imperial court has no money. Like the Fujian navy, the navy of all regions generally chooses the relatively cheap Cangshan ship as the main warship.

As for the combat effectiveness, it turns out that the Cangshan ship is not at the same level as the main western warship "Galen ship" in terms of size and loading firepower.

On the contrary, the Denglai Navy, since Yuan Keli became the governor, began to vigorously manufacture the Dafu Ship, which was used to replace the Cangshan Ship as the main warship.

The Dafu Ship of the Denglai Navy was built in strict accordance with the standards and belongs to the top combat power of the Imperial Navy today.

As far as Yu Zigao knows, the Denglai Navy currently has 23 Dafu ships.

This kind of large blessing boat is only nine feet long, which seems a little shorter compared to the twenty-foot Galen boat.

However, the length does not fully represent the combat effectiveness. Although the Daifuchuan abandoned the length, it steadily increased its height.

The Dafu boat is as tall as a building and can hold hundreds of people. It has a broad bottom, a raised bow, a high tail, and a draft of about two feet. It is extremely powerful.

When Qi Jiguang fought against the Japanese, the fleet used the Dafu ship as the main force, and the Cangshan warship and the fire dragon boat as the auxiliary, and fought against the Japanese pirates at sea, winning every battle.

As for the firepower of the Dafu ship, it is not inferior to the Galen ship, but it is slightly insufficient in intensive shooting.

According to the description in "Wu Bei Zhi", this kind of giant ship is only nine feet long, but it has three floors on top, with guard plates on the sides, protected by bamboos, standing upright like a wall, with a total of four floors.

The lower layer is equipped with ballast stones, the third layer is used for fresh water tanks and cold weapons, the second layer is where soldiers live, and the uppermost layer is a balcony, which needs to be climbed up from the third layer.

Both sides of the Dafu boat use plank wings as rails, people lean on them to fight, and arrows, rocks and cannons are all fired from a bird's eye view, which is really a powerful weapon in naval warfare.

The Dafu ship is equipped with a heavy-duty red cannon with the most powerful firepower at the bow, and the left and right sides are equipped with six thousand-jin Flang machine guns and three bowl-mouth guns.

Going up three floors, there are [-] Thunder Cannons on the left and right sides, and the firepower is more than ten times that of the Cangshan Ship.

In addition to these cannons, the officers and soldiers of the Navy always have 100 Hudun cannons, [-] Lumi blunderbusses, [-] heavy crossbows, [-] crossbow arrows, [-] heavy fire crossbows, [-] rockets, and [-] fire bricks on board. , to increase firepower at medium distances.

As for cold weapons such as knives and guns for close combat, there are always thousands of them in a lucky boat.

Although the firepower of the Dafu ship is not inferior to that of the Galen ship, the power of the artillery on it is not at the same level as the artillery loaded on the Galen ship.

The most powerful firepower on the Dafu ship is the heavy red cannon and the Qianjin Frang cannon, but to be precise, the only one that can achieve the same power as the artillery on the Dutch Galen's ship is the heavy red cannon.

It's like a god with a group of pits, hundreds of cannons, and the only thing that can shoot at the Galen ship at the same distance is the heavy red cannon at the bow.

The range and power of the artillery were not enough, and the other hundreds of guns could only stare blankly at the continuous firing of the red cannons without any effect.

Except for the heavy red cannon, even the projectiles fired by the Qianjin Frang machine at the same distance cannot touch the Galen ship.

As for the large number of Wankoupao and Hudunpao, they are even younger brothers.

The three Galen sailing ships outside the middle left are not fully military warships, but improved military and commercial dual-purpose ships, and their firepower is fundamentally different from that of fully military Galen ships.

It is such a military-commercial dual-purpose ship, which is also equipped with nearly forty single-layer side cannons, which easily gave the Fujian Navy a full head.

Even if the big blessing boat is dispatched, the Dutch may look scared at first glance, but the paper tiger will burst if poked.

Fuchuan and Galen boats have their own advantages and disadvantages, but the quality of the artillery loaded on them is very different. Even if the problem of the ship is solved, they will still be fired without advanced firearms.

The Dutch are not fools.

As soon as they fight, they will immediately know that only one gun on your side has enough range. At that time, they will not go to the middle distance to play with you.

If the Dutch played tactics and walked while fighting, the Fuchuan could only be beaten passively, and even if the other boats went up, they would be easily taken away by a round of shooting.

In this way, the price of taking down a Galen ship is not enough for any navy at present.

Yu Zigao chatted with Zheng Yiguan for a long time, and found that the main purpose of this battle was not to drive the Dutch out of Penghu.

Instead, they want to capture their entire Galen ship, and study it carefully, what is worth learning here.

So in response to Zheng Yiguan's request, Yu Zigao also raised a point.

If the Zheng family wanted to obtain official business permission from the imperial court in the southeast waters, it would not be enough to simply help the Fujian navy repel the Dutch.

The Zheng family had to capture a whole Galen ship and hand it over to the Fujian navy. If there were any missing items, the imperial court would not allow the Zheng family to trade.

Chapter 2 The Dutch Ambition

In the middle of the night, the moonlight shone on the sea, emitting sparkling light.

Five sailboats lined up in a rectangular array, escorting the three-masted ship in the center to break through the waves, and the command flag with the word "Zheng" hanging on it was flying high in the night sky.

The three-masted ship in the middle is about two feet long.

Zheng Yiguan leaned over the side of the boat, looking at the deep sea, quietly listening to the sound of the waves crashing against the bow, looking a little restless.

The current Zheng Yiguan is not as old as Emperor Tianqi, and his body is not very strong. Compared with the pirates under his command, he even looks a little thin.

However, despite his young age, his experience of fighting against wind and waves since he was a child made him a resolute character. Compared with people of ordinary age, his physique is also stronger.

Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps.

A young man climbed out of the small cabin behind Zheng Yiguan, came behind him and patted him on the shoulder, and said softly:

"Yiguan, why don't you go back to sleep?"

Zheng Yiguan didn't even look back, and said calmly:

"I'm not sleepy, you go back to sleep."

The one who came was Zheng Yiguan's younger brother, who later changed his name to "Zheng Hongkui" Zheng Zhifeng.

He was not too surprised when he heard this.

He knows the temperament of his brother best.

Zheng Zhifeng didn't intend to leave either, so she removed a wooden board that was in the way under her feet, lay beside Zheng Yiguan, and asked:

"What's on your mind?"

"Why did you agree to Yu Zigao today? He obviously wants to borrow the hands of our Zheng family to get the Dutch ship equipment, which will serve multiple purposes."

Zheng Yiguan snorted, noncommittal.

He knew everything in his heart that the Fujian navy had received the emperor's decree to annihilate the Dutch invaders in Penghu in a short period of time, or at least drive them away.

The main warship of the Fujian Navy is the Cangshan ship, which is inferior to the Dutch Galen ship in all aspects.

In Zheng Yiguan's view, even if the Cangshan ship met a Dutch merchant ship, it might not be able to beat it.

As for his own Zheng family fleet, although they don't have much power in the southeast waters now, they don't have much pressure to deal with these few Dutchmen.

Zheng Yiguan has been following his uncle Li Dan, trading between the Ming Dynasty and Japan.

But since last year, he began to separate from Li Dan intentionally or unintentionally, leading the Zheng family to make a living and develop his own power.

He could tell that it was a time to compete for sailing power.

Although my uncle Li Dan is already the largest maritime merchant outside the imperial court, he still keeps his eyes on Japan, which is a tiny place.

Compared with the vast southeast sea area, the Sea of ​​Japan is really too small.

In the current southeast sea area, it can be said that there are all kinds of heroes, pirates, maritime merchants, and Western colonists, all kinds of forces are mixed and attack each other, but none of them can be called the leader.

Either be dragged to death by Li Dan, or take the Zheng family out of the Sea of ​​Japan, and lay down their own world in the vast southeast sea.

Zheng Yiguan decisively chose the latter.

If you want to develop power, you must first have money, and money is inseparable from running a business to transport goods, so Zheng Zhilong's top priority is to obtain a formal business license from the imperial court.

Only in this way can he proceed to the next step of development.

As for the imperial court, it wanted to maintain the prestige of the country and drive away or annihilate the Dutch invaders, but the battle of the center and left proved that the strength of the Fujian navy was not enough.

Zheng Yiguan is not an impulsive person. For him, Gao Wenlu's attack is just a trigger for the greater significance.

With this fuse, he can justifiably go to the Fujian Navy to cooperate, and even if Li Dan finds out, he has an excuse.

The current Zheng family can't break away from Li Dan and tear themselves apart from the Li family.

"Cooperating with Yu Zigao is a win-win situation." Zheng Yiguan said lightly:

"The Fujian navy is not enough to repel the Dutch alone. If you want to develop independently from Li Dan, this opportunity cannot be missed."

"I understand." Zheng Zhifeng nodded without hesitation, then sighed again, and sighed:

"A whole Galen ship and Dutch weapons, how easy is it?"

Speaking of this, Zheng Yiguan looked even more determined.

He looked at the bow of the ship breaking through the waves under his feet, and said emotionlessly:

"If you want to do great things, you must sacrifice. Our Zheng family wants to establish a foothold in the southeast sea, and even become king and hegemony. This is just the beginning."

Zheng Zhilong sighed helplessly, looking at the vast sea, his heart suddenly became brighter, and he was instantly relieved.

……

The scorching sun shines on the sky above the center left. In the past, the bustling port was full of boats and boats, but now it is so quiet that it makes people feel a little scared.

Eight Dutch warships were moored around the port, which frightened hundreds of ships of the Fujian Navy from approaching.

Admiral Gao Wenlu of the Royal Navy stood on the board of one of the Galen ships, carefully observing every move of the yellow-skinned monkeys in the port with a telescope.

After a while, he put down the binoculars and smiled contemptuously:

"These people are all scared to death. In broad daylight, there is no living person in the port."