After hearing his cousin's plans for the future, Emperor Wanyan felt quite unhappy.
Advancing eastward and annexing the three Koreas was originally his plan to govern before he came to power. However, in the early days of his rise to power, he was restrained by his clan elders. In the middle of his rise to power, he fell into a struggle with his cousin. Now he is being held hostage by his son Wanyan Kangtai.
Thirty years, a full thirty years in office, he did nothing.
Now that my cousin got what he wanted, how much time is left for him?
He was almost sixty years old, and his appearance was already showing. Based on the average lifespan of Jurchens, his cousin would have to hand over power in another ten years at most.
If you don't hand it over, the consequences will only be worse.
Promoting the Han system is just promotion, and it is far from integrating into the bottom of the ethnic group. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic generations of the ethnic group will not be willing to be led by an old wolf that has lost its teeth, even if these old wolves were once the wolf kings and warriors. The invincible commander.
Ten years is not enough time to finish Yan Wenqi's work.
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"Our hero is back. Let's go together to greet..."
Yuyang, Tianjin Port, the dock where five Xuanwu gunboats slowly sailed in. Nian Run, dressed in a crimson official robe, led a group of generals in bright armor and walked quickly towards the first Xuanwu gunboat.
Xuanwu gunboat, the pinnacle creation of Quanzhou Shipyard in the Ming Dynasty, combines the advantages of Chinese and Western gunboats. It has a length of 180 paces, a width of 33 paces, five decks above and below, and 18 guns on each side of the two decks. Driven by three sails, it can sail three hundred miles in a day and night, and can travel four hundred and fifty miles with the current.
In order to build a Xuanwu gunboat, the Ming Dynasty needed to spend 600,000 taels of silver, and the construction period was at least 19 months. Today, the Documents Department has found that there are only 21 Xuanwu gunboats in total, divided into six fleets to perform tasks. .
In order to support Wu Dynasty's actions, the Ming Dynasty transferred five Xuanwu gunboats at one go, which is enough to show that the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to Wu Dynasty.
Unfortunately, the Xuanwu gunboat was too heavy and had too deep a draft to enter the Yellow River or the canal. Navigation on the Yangtze River could only go as far as Zhenjiang. Otherwise, with the gunboats, the Song Dynasty and the Chu State would not have dared to provoke the Ming Dynasty.
"This Xuanwu gunboat is really spectacular, far more majestic than it appears on paper!"
"As expected of the Ming Dynasty's Dinghai Shenzhen. I heard that this gunboat can fire from a thousand steps away. Three out of ten shots will hit the target. It can directly destroy the shore defenses without even touching the shore. The shooting range is three times longer than our Shenwu cannon." Baibu, I really don’t know how Akito did it?”
"With this weapon, it is no wonder that Ming people can travel across the sea and sweep away all obstacles. If we have a few ships, we don't need too many, just three ships, the Wu Dynasty can turn the Bohai Sea into an inland sea!"
The Wu Dynasty, which occupied Qingzhou, Jizhou, and most of Youzhou, always regarded the Bohai Sea as its own inland sea.
Seeing it as an inland sea is just seeing it, and there is no telling how many gaps there are between actually turning it into an inland sea.
But with the Xuanwu gunboat, it's not far away!
"Stop dreaming. Ming people will not give you the technology of Xuanwu gunboats, even if we are allies now. I heard that more than ten years ago, after the Ming Dynasty used Xuanwu gunboats for the first time, it attracted the attention of Western pirates. Peeping, they wanted to seize the ship and take the Xuanwu gunboat as their own. In order to seize the three ships, the Semu pirates dispatched more than 30 warships and set up an ambush overseas with Man Cijia. In the end, they didn't catch any hair!" a veteran in the army lamented. .
Tonnage is not the most attractive strength of the Xuanwu gunship. After all, it is the tonnage. Above the Xuanwu gunship there are Zhenhai class, Zhenyuan class, two-tier giant treasure ships. The real power of the Xuanwu gunship is the cannons on it, and the dissipation of the gun recoil by the hull itself. Weak craftsmanship.
"If we can't get the Xuanwu class, should there be hope for the Xuangui? I can tell you that according to the covenant, the Ming Dynasty will train us 300 shipwrights. These people have already set out for the Ming Dynasty in March. In three years, no matter what, we should Learn something!”
Xuangui is the previous generation of Xuanwu gunboats, and it was also relied upon by the Ming Dynasty merchants in the early years when they emerged from Manchuria. Although it is completely behind Xuanwu gunboats, it is still a first-class warship in the vast oceans.
"Hopefully!"
Of course it is good to have dreams, but if dreams cannot become reality, they can only be dreams.
"Three years is not enough. In terms of various craftsmanship, we are at least twenty years behind the people of the Song Dynasty, and ten years behind the people of the Ming Dynasty. For a single shipbuilding company, the gap is probably more than thirty years!"
The generals of the Wu Dynasty were all proficient in cavalry strategy, but it does not mean that they were unfamiliar with naval warfare.
Japanese pirates!
The Japanese pirates also have brains. They know that the persimmons should be picked when they are soft. If they can't pinch Ming Chao, they will pinch Wu Chao. If they can't pinch Wu Chao, they will pinch Sanhan.
In the past hundred years, the Wu Dynasty had frequently dealt with Japanese pirates and learned about naval battles.
"So what if it's thirty years? Let's catch up slowly. When the Song Dynasty comes, it's time for us to consider it!"
After saying that, all the veterans fell silent.
The contract is in place, and there will be no bad blood between Ming and Wu in the short term.
Without the contract, the Xuanwu gunboats were so powerful that they could not land in the end. Even if the Ming Dynasty destroyed several seaside docks in Wuchao, they could retaliate in Xuzhou.
As long as the Wu Dynasty did not go to sea, the Ming Dynasty would eventually become a threat to the Wu Dynasty. It was far less like the people of the Song Dynasty who were thinking about the things in your home all day long.
After some cursing, the gunboat stabilized, and ropes thick as arms were thrown off the gunboat. Workers who were already familiar with the Ming Dynasty's ship docking rules immediately rushed forward. The ship's gallery was erected, and soon one could accommodate three people. The parallel corridor rushed back.
The Wu Dynasty paid great attention to this side and sent Nian Run, who was also a good person from the Ming Dynasty. Song Jia, the Marquis of Pinghai, led a group of Ming Dynasty military generals, and the envoys led by Zhang Gaodong, the Ming Dynasty Longyuan University Scholar, were divided into six columns. Already standing on the deck.
Five Xuanwu gunboats can make a trip for the alliance, but if they do nothing else, the price/performance ratio is too low.
The war is over, and the complementary plan finalized by the Ming and Wu Dynasties in February has been implemented. It is time to discuss the second round of plans to further strengthen the alliance between the two countries.
"Thanks for your hard work!"
Randy walked down the pier with Song Jia and Zhang Gaodong. Nian Run immediately greeted him, briefly greeted Randy, and then exchanged greetings with Song Jia and Zhang Gaodong.
It's not that he doesn't pay attention to Randy, but in front of the guests, his family can only be a little neglectful.
"I thought there would be some kind of celebration waiting for us, but I didn't expect that brat Nian Run wasn't prepared at all. There really was someone behind the scenes who was so courageous that even our great hero was thrown aside!" The commander of the Documents Department looked at the people who were walking away. The crowd smiled playfully.
"Whenever and in what scene, you still make this joke with me, if you are willing, you can take off your face and follow me!" Randy was too lazy to pay attention to his brother.
"Why should we keep up? Are we going to continue to be fooled? Before we boarded the Xuanwu gunboat, we always believed that the technological gap was only thirty years. But after boarding the Xuanwu gunboat, we wouldn't have been able to catch up for fifty years. No, this is not just shipbuilding technology, but also materials. Can you believe that most of the materials inside this gunboat are steel?"
The commander waved his sleeves and said, "If we hadn't been politely invited into the armor, I would really wonder if this was a show of disgrace?"
"Aren't they afraid that the ship will sink?"
How can ships use iron?
Wouldn't it sink if you use iron?
Randy and the two were confused about this, but Ming Dynasty not only used it, but also used it on a large scale.
