Li Jin's words deeply shocked everyone present.
Dignity only lies on the edge of the sword.
The truth is always within the range of the cannon!
It turned out that the role of cannon was not to defend the city, but to measure the land area.
This hawkish statement made everyone around him excited.
As a military general, Lan Yu couldn't help shouting:
"Okay, that's great!"
"We should use cannons to teach those sons of bitches a lesson!"
Lan Yu's roar suddenly woke Zhu Yuanzhang out of his daze.
After glaring at the reckless Lan Yu, Zhu Yuanzhang then looked at Li Jin and said:
"As you say, do you want to install this kind of artillery on the ship?"
"How else would you go to sea to fight against Japanese pirates?"
Li Jin nodded and said:
"Of course."
"If this kind of artillery is installed on the treasure ships built by our shipyard, it will definitely be able to dominate the world."
"When the time comes, not to mention the small country of Japan, even those countries in the West, I will let them taste the power of our Ming Dynasty artillery."
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned slightly and said:
"Japanese pirates dare to invade our Ming Dynasty. It is natural to destroy them."
"But those Western countries have never interacted with our Ming Dynasty, so there is no need to provoke them."
Li Jin rolled his eyes.
Just because they don't provoke you now doesn't mean they won't provoke you in the future.
You must know that the current earth is a dark forest, and every civilization or country is a hunter with a gun.
The result of being discovered by others first is that when others surpass you, they will shoot you directly and eliminate you.
This old Huang must have never read a book, and he doesn't even understand the dark forest.
But Li Jin didn't explain, just shrugged.
The top priority now is to wipe out all the Japanese pirates first, and then ride the wind and waves to reach the Japanese island.
Completely conquering the Japanese island is Li Jin's next goal.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Li Jin was silent, but when he remembered Li Jin's words just now, he did not insist on bringing this base under the jurisdiction of the imperial court. Instead, he said:
"This base must be under the surveillance of the imperial court. The emperor must know everything that happens here."
"Even if this kind of artillery is not placed in the arsenal, the emperor must be informed of its use."
Li Jin was noncommittal. Since he brought Zhu Yuanzhang here, he was naturally not afraid that the emperor would know.
He just wanted to let the emperor know about this base. Only in this way could his plan to go to sea go smoothly.
Recently, when he was in Shanghu County, he could clearly feel the constant influx of outsiders.
These people were not victims of the disaster at all, but various people. Li Jin finally determined that these people were spies.
Li Jin didn't know who the spies were, but this situation also made Li Jin wary.
After all, if his plan to go overseas was affected by these people, then he would really have no place to cry.
You must know that it is very important for Li Jin to go to sea and conquer Japanese islands. If he is stranded again, Li Jin will even have to pay a heavy price for this.
This is why Li Jin brought Lao Huang to conduct a small-scale military parade this time.
He just wanted to use Lao Huang's mouth to tell the emperor that he was fully capable of completely solving the problem of Japanese pirates.
Not only that, he also has the ability to conquer the Japanese islands far overseas.
Even if they have a population of millions and wear hundreds of thousands of armors, they cannot be their opponents.
Zhu Yuanzhang next to him couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he heard that Li Jin planned to install the artillery on the big ship.
When he and Chen Youliang had a decisive battle on Dongting Lake, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that if a big ship like Chen Youliang could carry artillery, it would have a huge advantage in the water battle.
But Chen Youliang didn't care about artillery at that time. Instead, he relied on the tallness and solidity of his ship and ran rampant, trying to knock himself into the lake.
As a result, he took advantage of the ship's bulkiness and difficulty in turning around, and defeated Chen Youliang.
If Chen Youliang's ship had such artillery, Zhu Yuanzhang could not even imagine the consequences of the Dongting Lake water battle.
I'm afraid that the grass will be as deep as one person's on my grave now.
No, there may not even be a grave, but a death without a burial place.
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but feel a little scared, and said to Li Jin:
"How many such artillery pieces can be loaded on the ship you built?"
Li Jin stretched out a finger, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded happily and said:
"Ten doors? That's a lot, not bad."
Zhu Yuanzhang still remembered the embarrassing scene when his boat could only carry one artillery piece.
Now I heard that the ships of the Ming Navy can be equipped with ten cannons of this power, which is already a good improvement.
With this kind of powerful artillery, if the opponent hits it once, it will probably cause heavy losses.
But Li Jin shook his head and said:
"Not ten gates, but a hundred gates!"
"A hundred of these artillery pieces, Old Huang, can you imagine the scene of such ships roaming the sea?"
Zhu Yuanzhang was dumbfounded. Just now he was still feeling satisfied with the ten cannons.
Now Li Jin actually expanded it ten times for him, to a total of one hundred doors.
One hundred such artillery pieces, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but feel a little numb when he thought of the scene of a hundred powerful artillery pieces and thousands of artillery fires.
Just now, only ten artillery pieces were able to wipe out all the animals within a two-mile radius. Wouldn't a hundred artillery pieces cover a twenty-mile radius?
This is too scary.
You must know that a radius of twenty miles can accommodate at least one hundred thousand troops.
Can the artillery carried by a large ship wipe out an army of 100,000 people? Zhu Yuanzhang only felt that his mind was a little confused at this moment.
But immediately, Zhu Yuanzhang realized something was wrong.
How could one ship fit so many cannons?
A ship with just one deck, no matter how big it is, cannot possibly hold so many cannons.
"Li Jin, do you dare to lie to us? Do you think we have never seen a giant ship?"
"During the decisive battle at Dongting Lake, you didn't know where you were!"
"A ship as big as Chen Youliang may not be able to hold a hundred artillery pieces, let alone a ship built by your small shipyard."
"There is no way a single-deck ship can hold a hundred artillery pieces!"
Li Jin was very calm and said:
"Who said my big ship had a deck?"
Zhu Yuanzhang's face was full of doubts, wasn't it a deck? How is this possible? Even at its peak, Longjiang Shipyard had never heard of a ship with double decks built.
"Double deck?"
"It's impossible. We asked personally at the beginning. It's simply impossible to build two ships."
"Not only does that require superb shipbuilding technology, but it is simply impossible to achieve with the current shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty."
"The keels of our Chinese ships cannot support double decks."
"If you use the assembled keel to build a double deck, it will not be able to withstand even a little bit of wind and waves."
Although Zhu Yuanzhang banned the sea, he still had some research on ships.
In order to defeat Chen Youliang's extremely powerful naval fleet, he specifically talked to people about the construction of various ships.
Among them is this kind of ship that adds a deck and allows archers to hide on the second deck for shooting.
As a result, the original shipbuilder rejected it flatly, thinking that this technology was simply impossible to achieve.
Because the keels used in Ming Dynasty shipbuilding were basically spliced together, this could prevent shipwrecks caused by water leakage.
However, with such a keel, it is just enough to build one deck. If two decks are forced to be built, the hull will be unstable and very fragile.
It can't withstand any wind and waves at all, not to mention the storm on the sea, not even the wind and waves on the river.
So Zhu Yuanzhang didn't believe Li Jin's nonsense at all. The two-tier deck was pure nonsense!
"Old Huang, when did beating Chen Youliang happen?"
Li Jin looked disdainful and said:
"That is already a memory of your older generation."
"Dongting Lake is indeed very big, but compared to the sea, it is still a small lake."
"No matter how big the ship Chen Youliang uses, it is just the overlord in the lake and nothing on the sea."
"What our shipyard is building now is a navy that can traverse the four seas and is invincible in the world. The two are not at the same level at all, let alone comparable."
Since Li Jin returned from Longjiang Shipyard that day, he summoned all the shipwrights from the original shipyard to Shanghu County according to Wang Dahai's list.
Then Li Jin worked non-stop to establish the Longjiang Bao Shipyard in Shanghu County without any pause at all.
After the people arrived, Li Jin did not ask them to build the treasure ship according to the original manufacturing method, but gave them an improved drawing.
This kind of drawing not only draws on the advantages of the treasure ship's huge size, but also draws on the advantages of the Western double deck.
The only purpose of the double deck is to greatly increase the number of ship-borne guns.
Sometime in the future, Chinese history will usher in a hundred years of humiliation, and it will be through this kind of ship that Western countries will open the door to China.
The biggest difference between the two ships is the difference in the keels of the ships.
In the past, the keels used in Ming Dynasty shipbuilding were spliced together. There were two main reasons.
The first is a spliced keel that creates a watertight compartment.
Multiple cabins can be built on the bottom floor of the Fuchuan, and each cabin will be watertight.
If a cabin on the bottom floor unfortunately hits a rock and leaks water, it will not affect other cabins and prevent the ship from sinking completely.
This is the pinnacle of Chinese historical ships. As a merchant ship, it is definitely worthy of being the best in the world.
Because the Fuzhou ship had many cabins and a large cargo capacity, and because of its deep draft, it could carry more items. It was the most developed air-tight ship in the world.
The second reason for making such a keel is that there are no particularly huge trees in the Ming Dynasty to make keels.
After so many years of multiplication by the Chinese people, the Central Plains area has long been transformed into fertile farmland instead of virgin forests.
But there is no virgin forest, which means that there are no high-quality shipbuilding raw materials, and the keel, which has extremely strict material requirements, is naturally impossible to find.
Although Fu Chuan can be used as a warship of the Ming Dynasty.
But when used in naval battles, Li Jin was a little dissatisfied that its speed was not very high.
In Li Jin's plan, the ships of the Ming Navy should be equipped with a large number of artillery, which can carry out devastating strikes whether on sea or land.
Not only that, as a warship, it must have enough speed, so that as long as the enemy is discovered, it must catch up with the enemy and destroy them all.
Such a warship with sufficient firepower and amazing speed is the hope of the Ming Dynasty navy and will also be the nightmare of the Japanese pirates.
So, Li Jin took out the lucky boat that had been modified in later generations.
Although this kind of ship is similar to the Fu ship, its structure is completely different. Li Jin prefers to call it a Galen ship.
This kind of ship is a relatively well-known and proven warship in the West, with excellent speed and double decks.
Each deck can be used independently, and fixing the artillery on the deck is even easier.
The drawings Li Jin gave to Wang Dahai were of this kind of ship.
After Wang Dahai got the drawings, he quickly conducted model experiments in the experimental tank.
The results of the experiment are naturally exciting. Through the efforts of many shipwrights in Longjiang Shipyard, the ship on this drawing was modeled and simulated with various data, and the effect was outstanding.
Now Longjiang Bao Shipyard is working day and night to build such ships.
As long as these ships are manufactured and the soldiers complete sea training, the plan to exterminate the Japanese pirates can begin.
Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked when he heard that Li Jin actually built a double-deck ship.
"How is this possible? The person in charge of their Longjiang Shipyard told us personally that this was impossible."
"Why can it be achieved here?"
"You just said that the Ming Dynasty lacked the materials to make the keels of large ships. Do you, Li Jin, have such wood?"
Li Jin nodded naturally and said:
"Of course!"
"When I became the magistrate of Shanghu County, I have been paying attention to this huge timber, just for this day."
“Since the location of Shanghu County is so unique, it must not be wasted.”
"The sea will definitely become an indivisible territory of the Ming Dynasty. Even if the emperor does not see the profits that the sea can bring to the Ming Dynasty, one day, I will see the importance of the sea."
"With my tireless persistence, I finally met a businessman from Guizhou."
"In today's Ming Dynasty, if there is anywhere where you can find wood for shipbuilding, it must be in the southwest."
"Sure enough, when the businessman heard that I needed this kind of wood, he finally lived up to his expectations and got dozens of giant trees, enough to build a fleet to go to sea."
"It's just that the price of wood is a bit expensive."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he frowned and asked:
"How much?"
"Ten thousand taels of silver, one tree!"
Li Jin had a look of pain on his face. He didn't have so much money back then, but he still gritted his teeth and bought so much wood.
The purpose is to one day use these woods to make important weapons for the country, and teach the island country on the other side of the ocean an unforgettable lesson.
Zhu Yuanzhang was silent. If calculated this way, Li Jin spent nearly two million taels of silver on shipbuilding.
Is it really like Li Jin said that he wanted to eliminate the Japanese pirates for the Ming Dynasty? To the point of destroying the entire Japanese island?
Zhu Yuanzhang felt that things were not that simple, but he didn't know where the problem lay.
He doesn't see what benefits Li Jin can get from it?
