The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

One is the Nautical Academy.

Tianjin, as the first city to open the sea, must establish a maritime academy.

The idea of ​​the Nautical Academy is that Yan Song got inspiration from Prince Enrique Henry of Portugal.

Among the 20 missionaries who came from the Holy See this time, there was Dimas, a Portuguese missionary, who proudly mentioned this prince who had made great contributions to Portugal.

As the first country in the Age of Discovery, Portugal played a very important role.He is the Prince of Portugal, a navigator, born in 1394, and was called "The Navigator" because he set up a nautical school and rewarded nautical careers.

Dimas said that Prince Henry's contribution to voyages was not to explore in person, but to vigorously promote the exploration.

He founded a nautical academy in Lisbon to train native sailors and improve their nautical skills.He set up an observatory and recruited geoscientists, cartographers, mathematicians and astronomers from all over the world to study together and formulate plans and programs.He extensively collected various documents and materials such as geography, meteorology, trade winds, ocean currents, shipbuilding, and navigation, and analyzed and sorted them out for his own use.

In 733, he also established a nautical travel library, including "Marco Polo's Travels", collected many maps, and drew new maps.

He funded mathematicians and craftsmen to improve and make new navigation instruments, such as improving the compass imported from China, the quadrant (an instrument for measuring altitude, especially altitude), and the barometer (a simple astrolabe, used to measure latitude).

Thanks to Enrique's efforts, Portugal has quickly turned from a small country to a maritime power, and has become a powerful maritime empire second only to Spain, controlling countless lands and colonists in the Eastern Hemisphere.

After listening to Enrique's successful experience taught by Dimas, Yan Song followed suit.

Build a sailing academy! ! !

Established in ports such as Tianjin and Shanghai, it trains professional nautical talents, divided into captains, first mates, navigators, sailors, gunners, doctors and other majors, comprehensively trains naval talents, improves shipbuilding skills, and improves navigation equipment.

He modified the blueprints and sent them back to Michelangelo to continue perfecting the blueprints.

Urban design drawings must be revised many times, even hundreds of times, in order to comprehensively consider the needs of all aspects and achieve good results.

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Chapter 518 The race to build the city wall begins [2]

Yan Song was tired from working on the design drawings, so he called Chen Yuanyuan to rub his shoulders and back.

Unexpectedly, as long as Mr. Yan Ge takes a break and thinks a little bit, someone will definitely disturb him.

This time is no exception.

Wang Jiaping approached aggressively, and barged in again, seeing Yan Song smiling and flirting with Chen Yuanyuan.

Wang Jiaping cast even more contemptuous glances.

Yan Song was furious, why is this kid not polite?What if I can't hold back in front of Yuanyuan's beauty, and I can't help but want to use real swords and guns?Wouldn't it be obvious to him.

The two snorted at the same time.Wang Jiaping sneered and said, "Mr. Yange, we'll meet tomorrow! I never thought you'd still be so elegant, haha!"

Yan Song said unhappily: "It's not a big deal? Why are you so anxious?"

Wang Jiaping was despised by Yan Song, so angry that he couldn't hold back, he said sharply: "Tomorrow, I will show you, a treacherous official who is addicted to wine and sex, the power of justice!"

Wang Jiaping walked away, Yan Song had a sinister smile on his face.

The next day, the day of gambling arrived.

Hearing that Yan Song had an affair with the imperial envoy again, there was a sensation in Tianjin, and countless people came to watch.

Yan Song announced the rules of the game in public.

"The two sides will contribute 1 people each to build a section of the city wall in Tianjin within a one-month period. The one with the better quality of the city wall project and the faster construction progress will win."

On the other side was Wang Jiaping, who was waiting in full force, with the tiger-headed imperial envoy flag raised high and fluttering in the wind.Behind him, Yi Xuexue, the commander of the right guard of the rear army, one on the left and the other on the right, and the two generals, and behind him are more than 1 uniform "migrant workers", who are strong, murderous, and skilled craftsmen holding professional tools .Behind him are large stones, wood, mud, lime and other construction materials piled up like a mountain, and everything is available.

On the other side, Yan Song casually identified 1 people from among the White Lotus disciples. They were loose, standing together, chatting in an unorganized and undisciplined manner, like a group of refugees.Their tools are only very primitive agricultural tools, and they don't have much material.

When both sides saw it, they had already reached a conclusion.

There was a lot of discussion.

"Why do the 1 people sent by the imperial court look so imposing?".

"Nonsense! These people have thick calluses on their palms, and they are the elite of the army!"

"Huh? The army? Imperial Commissioner Wang also mobilized the army?"

"It's not just the army. I saw them sorting out the materials yesterday. Some of them are obviously skilled craftsmen who are used to large projects."

"Whether it's physical strength or experience, Wang Qin's team crushes old Yan Ge."

"What do you know? There are people behind Imperial Envoy Wang! Without the support of big bosses in the court, how could he get so much help?"

"Why is Mr. Yan Ge not in a hurry? You are so calm."

Ever since they knew that imperial envoy Wang had a profound background, and that his subordinates were either strong or capable, public opinion was unanimously optimistic about imperial envoy Wang.

Although Yan Ge's old new-style fortification method is also impressive, but after all, the time is still short, and everyone has not seen any magic.Therefore, comparing the two, at least on the outside, Imperial Envoy Wang crushed Old Yan Ge.

Even the odds offered by the dealer, Wang Qinchai, were much lower than Yan Song's.

It can be seen that the outside world is not optimistic about Yan Song's gambling.

Yan Song and Wang Jiaping looked at each other, handed Michelangelo's design drawings to Wang Jiaping, and said in a deep voice, "Please Wang imperial commissioner to build it completely according to the drawings. You are in charge of the west, and I am in charge of the east. Let's do our own things. We'll see in a month's time."

Commissioner Wang snorted coldly, and went back with the blueprint.

Wang Qinzheng acted vigorously and did what he said. He received the blueprint in the morning and started working in full swing in the afternoon.

He has 1 people, under strict military orders, orders are prohibited, and according to the method of ancestors' fortification recorded in the book, he started a crazy construction model.

Under the guidance of experienced craftsmen, [-] strong sergeants used professional tools, shouted, sweated and transported the large stones that had been mined to the construction site one by one, and stacked them in the positions specified in the drawings.