Daming pirates

New boathouses began to spring up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain along the coast, and various types of ships began to be built for sea navigation. Among them, sand ships commonly used in offshore waters, Fu ships suitable for ocean voyages, and sturdy and durable Guangzhou ships were the main types.

The volume is getting bigger and bigger.

When the sea ban first started, most of the shipyards and newly built shipyards could only build sea-going ships of about 200 materials due to the immature shipwrights' skills. However, as the craftsmanship of the shipyards in various places improved, the number of ships increased.

The ships are being built larger and larger, starting from 400 materials, to 700 to 800 materials. The masts of the ships have changed from single masts to double masts, and now to three masts or even four masts, making the performance of sea ships more and more important.

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Of course, the leaders among these shipyards are the shipyards under the Sea Wolf Group. After Yu Xiaotian went north to take control of the court, the shipyards under the Sea Wolf Group began to set up branch factories on land and along the coast.

They now established two shipbuilding branches in Quanzhou and Hong Kong, then established a branch factory in Songjiang Prefecture, and later set up a branch factory in Qingdao. In the first year of Chengtian, Yu Xiaotian had just recovered Liaodong, and they

He immediately ran to Lushun and built a very large shipyard in what was later to be Dalian.

This step can be said to be very beautiful, because since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, China's navigation industry has been developing. A large number of forests in the south were logged, and then ships sailed to various places. By the time of Zheng He's voyages to the West after the Ming Dynasty,

, there are no big trees that can be used to build big ships in the entire southern Zhili area.

Nowadays, with the opening of the sea ban, large and small boathouses have been built in the South, and the demand for wood is increasing. Now the wood used for shipbuilding in the South is either imported from Nanyang, or imported from Taiwan Island, and Hainan.

It is also a place where timber is produced.

However, this still cannot meet the needs of major shipyards. The only way is to harvest wood from Sichuan, then release the wood along the Yangtze River and discharge it from the Yangtze River Estuary, and transport it to the shipyards for shipbuilding.

Moreover, the wood also needs a drying time. The harvested wood needs to be dried for three months to half a year at the shortest. Some hardwoods even need more than two years of drying time before they can be used for shipbuilding. Otherwise, if they are forced to be used in shipbuilding, the ships will be built too.

The structural strength cannot be guaranteed, and deformation and cracking may occur after launching into the water, which could lead to a shipwreck.

In this regard, the shipyards of the Sea Wolf Group currently have a great advantage. They control the timber production of the entire island of Taiwan. The raw materials can only be used by the Sea Wolf shipyards first, and the excess will be sold to other shipyards for use.

Moreover, they have mastered the wood distillation process and have the technology to build large-scale wood distillation plants. The harvested logs can be put into use as soon as possible through the dry distillation process in a relatively short period of time.

In addition, Sea Wolf's shipbuilding technology is also the most advanced. They use standardized production, prefabricated components, and then assemble and launch the slipway. The ship production process is intensive and simple, and the shipbuilding cycle is much shorter than that of ordinary shipbuilding. It usually costs 400 yuan.

A standard ship type with 800 materials can be delivered in the shortest one to two months from ordering to delivery.

Moreover, the ships they built were of the best quality, durable, strong in wind and wave resistance, and strong in anti-sinking ability. Although the price was high, they were still sought after by major shipping merchants, and orders fell like snowflakes to Sea Wolf's shipyard.

Among them, Sea Wolf's shipyards in various places have to continuously expand their scale and recruit shipwrights.

After the fall of the Jiannu, Liaodong returned to the hands of the Han people. Liaodong currently has abundant timber resources, and transportation is also quite convenient. After the timber is cut down in the mountains, it can be transported directly to the sea through waterways. Most of them go to the sea through the Yalu River, and some

In other places, you can take Daling River, Daliao River and other large rivers to get out to sea.

Under Yu Xiaotian's reminder, the Sea Wolf Group seized the best piece of land in Dalian Bay in later generations, mobilized a large amount of manpower and material resources, and quickly built a large shipyard there, and built supporting equipment.

There are a large number of wood processing plants and drying plants. In less than two years, a large-scale shipbuilding base was built there, and a large number of ships were built and launched for use by maritime merchants.

In addition, through the introduction of technology, the shipyard of the Sea Wolf Group has acquired a new Western-style shipbuilding process through reverse copying and other means, and has added Chinese shipbuilding methods to improve ship performance. Nowadays, shipbuilding capabilities are extremely strong. In addition,

China currently has inexhaustible manpower, allowing them to build the most powerful warships and the best-performing sea-going ships in the world.

Coupled with the unparalleled existence of the bug Yu Xiaotian, he has a grasp of the history of world ship development and knows many newer ship types. Now in the third year of Chengtian, the Seawolf Shipyard has been able to build a ship with a displacement of up to

Huge sea-going ships ranging from 1,500 tons to 2,000 tons.

These ships are basically Galen ships, with extremely strong carrying capacity and navigation capabilities. Looking at the entire Asia, at least there is no force that can compete with the large and medium-sized navies.

If it weren't for the fact that Yu Xiaotian wanted to fight for land hegemony and compete in the Central Plains in the first few years, which required heavy investment in the army, constantly expanding the army's strength, and allocating limited resources to the army, now the navy would have already had enough resources to conduct expeditions around the world.

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Now that the Central Plains on land has been completely stabilized, the army has developed to a certain extent. There is no need to continue to invest a lot of more resources in the army. The more than 300,000 army troops currently owned by China and North Korea are enough to sweep across the country.

There is no problem in the whole of Asia.

So Yu Xiaotian finally set his sights on the sea again and began to formally realize his dream, so the entire military expenditure began to tilt towards the navy.

At this time, Yu Xiaotian carried out a considerable restructuring of the ruling structure in the DPRK. He formally introduced the cabinet system and established a prime minister and six associate ministers. Among them, the prime minister was responsible for the affairs of the world and was directly responsible to him.

, manage the country according to Yu Xiaotian's instructions.

The six associate ministers are responsible for agriculture, education, industry and commerce, military, justice and other affairs, and are managed by the Prime Minister. In addition, ministers from various ministries also join the cabinet to participate in the board of directors, and the cabinet is responsible for managing the national affairs of China and North Korea.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian currently has power over the cabinet. He has full power to negate any decision made by the cabinet, revoke orders that the cabinet has issued, and replace any member of the cabinet at any time.

But under normal circumstances, the cabinet has considerable autonomy and can share most of the government affairs for Yu Xiaotian. As long as there are no problems with the general direction, Yu Xiaotian decided to let these cabinet ministers do it freely. He only needs to be at the helm.

His job is to let them know what he thinks. Once any of these people deviates, he can replace him at any time and take back his power.

For the time being, he has not handed over military power to the cabinet. Only when mobilizing troops, his approval must be obtained before mobilizing troops. The power to launch war is also entirely in his hands. This way, he can first ensure his absolute control over the world and avoid losing control of power.

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However, the implementation of the cabinet system has indeed liberated Yu Xiaotian from the heavy handling of government affairs. He no longer needs to get up earlier than a chicken every day to go to court to listen to government affairs, nor does he need to review memorials every night until late at night.

I can't hold my head anymore.

The cabinet only needs to summarize the various government affairs they handle into a briefing every day, and submit it to Yu Xiaotian the next day. Yu Xiaotian can just review the briefing. Once he finds that some government affairs handling in the briefing does not meet the requirements,

His idea, then he can have the power to recall the instructions that the cabinet has issued and revoke the decisions that the cabinet has made.

If necessary, he has the power to convene a cabinet meeting at any time, instead of having to personally summon all the officials into the palace to attend court, which completely frees him from these chores.

After the cabinet system was established, Yu Xiaotian breathed a sigh of relief. After the last morning court, he went directly back to the harem, covered his head and slept for most of the day before getting up refreshed.

After a few days of good rest, he got addicted to doing things again. He recruited his craftsmen who had cooperated with him in making various models into the palace, and sent people to make him a large drawing board and a full set of drawing tools.

, began to spread in the imperial study room.

By this time, after Yu Xiaotian's preparations many years in advance, China and North Korea now had nearly a hundred ocean-going expedition fleets, and had recruited over 10,000 sailors for the ocean-going expedition fleets.

The ships in these expedition fleets are all galenic ships that are very suitable for ocean voyages. Each model is newer than the last, and they are constantly being improved. Although the displacement is not necessarily large, the ship speed is fast and the hull is extremely strong.

It is highly armed, and the ship is also equipped with the most complete material storage facilities of this era, allowing it to sail on the sea for a long time.

The sailors and captains are also carefully selected. Each has a strong spirit of adventure and is extremely loyal to Yu Xiaotian. All of them have received training and internships in ocean navigation and have strong independence.

The navigation ability can cope with the ever-changing conditions on the sea.

Over the years, this ocean-going expedition fleet has been sent to various parts of the world in batches to explore places that the Chinese have never been to before. They are responsible for exploring new continents, and are responsible for investigating and mapping the islands and continents discovered along the way.

nautical chart.

By the third year of Chengtian, the expedition ships of these expedition fleets had arrived in many places in the world. They had left their footprints along the coasts of South and North America, such as the Arabian Sea in the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal, and Oman.

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The bay has long left their footprints and sail shadows, and as far away as Madagascar and the Cape of Good Hope have been conquered by them. There are even expedition ships that have circumnavigated the Cape of Good Hope and along the west coast of Africa according to the instructions provided by Yu Xiaotian.

Traveled to Europe.

Some expedition ships crossed the Pacific and sailed to the west coast of North and South America along the charts they obtained. They also sailed along the west coast of North and South America, inspecting many places along the way and drawing a complete picture.

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They have even established bridgeheads belonging to China and North Korea in coastal areas such as North and South America and Africa, and declared that these places belong to China and North Korea.

The most important thing is that according to Yu Xiaotian's instructions, they have already found Australia in the southern hemisphere, and landed on the east and west coasts of Australia. They built two castles respectively, which were named Dong'ao City and Western Australia by Yu Xiaotian.

city ​​and declared the entire Australia to be the territory of China and North Korea.

(I went out for a day yesterday. I originally set it to update two chapters. When I went out, I set the automatic update. As a result, there was a problem with the automatic update. This chapter was not updated. When I came back today, I found that only one chapter was updated.

So I’ll make it up today! I’ll never trust automatic updates again! Wow, I’ve been tricked several times!)

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