In short, being able to hit more with less head-on, Zheng Xixi felt that the Xinghai Fleet was like a god descending to earth.
Therefore, when Foreign Affairs Commissioner Tang Xingqiang met with him, Zheng Xixi completely changed his attitude. Far from being self-conscious of being Ming orthodox as before, he became cautious.
The reason is very simple. Since the Star Sea Fleet is so powerful and can easily defeat the Helan fleet, it is not difficult to deal with the Zheng Family Army.
These days, it is more practical to have a big fist.
It must be said that the victory of Yuxian Port cleverly promoted the development of some things.
At least the alliance between the Xinghai Kingdom and the Zheng Family Army went smoothly, and even Champa and other countries wanted to embrace this golden thigh.
After some negotiations, Xinghai Kingdom and Zheng Jiajun reached a series of agreements.
The general idea is that Xinghai Kingdom provides Zheng Jiajun with a loan of 2 million Xinghai coins. Zheng Jiajun can use this loan to purchase various commodities exported by Xinghai Kingdom. At the same time, Xinghai Kingdom will also send a team of instructors to carry out comprehensive transformation and training for Zheng Jiajun. .
The Zheng Family Army can also send a certain number of officers to Xinghai Kingdom for further studies.
With this thick agreement, Zheng Shixi returned in a hurry.
When he returned to Jingmen where the Zheng Family Army was entrenched, Zheng Chenggong praised him for his hard work. However, most of the senior officers in the Zheng Family Army did not believe what Zheng Hereditary said about the great victory at Yuxian Port.
No way, they had seen the power of the Helan people with their own eyes, but they had never heard of how powerful the Xinghai Kingdom was, which was just founded.
Zheng Xixi argued with these officers to no avail, but he was not anxious at all, because in a week, he would go to Xinghai City again, and the Xinghai Kingdom's fleet would escort the materials he purchased and the instructor team to Jingmen.
By then, these guys will know how powerful they are.
The Xinghai Kingdom Senate attaches great importance to the alliance with the Zheng Family Army. This has been said before.
Therefore, in less than three days after Zheng Xixi returned to Xinghai City, three 3,000-ton transport ships were loaded. Under the escort of a first-class battleship, a second-class battleship and a frigate, Heading towards Jingmen.
Zheng Xixi was very excited when he boarded the Xinghai Kingdom's warship for the first time.
Squatting down and reaching out to knock the iron sheet covering the deck under his feet, Zheng Xixi couldn't help but exclaimed: "The wooden ship is covered with iron armor. This is really a generous move!"
A person like Zheng Xixi can naturally tell at a glance that the armor covering the battleship probably weighs hundreds of thousands of kilograms.
And he was willing to spend hundreds of thousands of kilograms of fine iron to build the armor that covered the ship's hull. This was the first time he had seen such a large-scale obstruction.
Wouldn't it be great to use these fine irons to make artillery?
But he can fully understand how high the defense power of this battleship will be after it is covered with iron armor.
No wonder, the Xinghai Kingdom's fleet could easily defeat the Helan fleet.
Zheng Xixi immediately determined the key to victory or defeat on the armor.
From the perspective of the ancients, this is not surprising. In many cases, the outcome of a battle depends on the number of heavy armors.
When the rogues first emerged in the Ming Dynasty, a group of two to three hundred soldiers wearing heavy armor could easily defeat tens of thousands of rogues. This is the reason.
You can't hit me, but I can kill you. In this way, those rogues will not dare to fight against the officers and soldiers.
But when the fleet arrived at Jingmen, the senior leader who led the team invited the senior officials of the Zheng Family Army to watch the shooting performance of the Xinghai Fleet in order to let the Zheng Family Army feel the strength of the Star Sea Kingdom and avoid unnecessary accidents.
This shooting performance undoubtedly shocked many Zheng Jiajun senior officials, including Zheng Chenggong.
They never imagined that the warships of Xinghai Kingdom would be so powerful!
In just five minutes, the first-class battleship of the Star Sea Kingdom poured hundreds of shells at the target island, blasting the island into flames.
When everyone took the boat to the island to check the situation.
All the Zheng Jiajun senior officials could see was that all the livestock placed on the island had been turned into pieces, and rocks blown into pieces could be seen everywhere.
"The power of artillery is astonishing!"
This is what Zheng Chenggong said when he was secretly discussing with Zheng Hereditary.
No way, the Star Sea Battleship is too powerful!
It was so strong that Zheng Chenggong wanted Zheng Xixi to buy one and come back.
But the problem is that this Star Sea Battleship is not for sale for the time being, but it is a giant transport ship with seven thousand materials. The Star Sea Kingdom can sell it to its allies.
In the eyes of the Zheng Family Army, this giant transport ship is also an excellent warship. It does not run slowly and can easily carry thousands of soldiers.
In the past, this giant transport ship was invincible on the sea.
But after Zheng Xixi asked about the price of the giant transport ship, Zheng Chenggong never mentioned the matter again.
No way, it's too expensive.
A 3,000-ton steam transport ship is sold in Xinghai Kingdom for a whopping 370,000 yuan!
The butt inflammation is so black!
You must know that the cost of this steam transport ship is actually only 90,000 yuan.
However, in the words of Chen Liuxiang, the commercial affairs committee member of Xinghai Kingdom, it is best for high-tech products such as steam engines to be sold without take-out. If take-out is required, then the value of technology must be reflected.
In this regard, the technical staff of the Ministry of Industrial Affairs are very supportive, and the veterans of other departments do not dare to offend these two departments easily.
Can't afford it, can't afford it!
However, the staff sent by the Xinghai Kingdom's Commercial Affairs Department were also concerned about the customers' concerns, and immediately recommended a new type of sailboat to Zheng Jiajun.
Well, this new type of sailing ship was actually a neutered version of the steam transport ship.
In addition to having no steam engine and no navigational bell, its tonnage is smaller than that of a steam transport ship, only 2,300 tons.
But in Zheng Jiajun's eyes, such a large ship is also an astonishing 5,000-material ship.
And the price is much cheaper than the steam transport ship, you can buy it for only 199,900 yuan!
I have to say that although this price seems much more expensive than building a ship by yourself, Zheng Jiajun cannot build such a giant ship that costs 5,000 materials.
It’s less than 200,000 yuan, which is really cheap.
In this way, apart from the purchase of the Thunderbolt 1646 and the Napoleon cannon, the remaining loan amount of about one million was filled into the big hole of the transport ship.
Zheng Chenggong is ready to learn from the Xinghai Kingdom in an all-round way and form a new fleet with five giant ships as the core.
For this reason, with Zheng Chenggong paying an extra 50,000 yuan for each giant ship, the Xinghai Kingdom specially helped add a hundred Napoleon naval gun versions to the giant transport ship.
Well, in fact, these Napoleon naval gun versions are modified from Napoleon cannons that have been eliminated by the army, so they are extremely cheap in terms of cost.
