Dream of Red Mansions: The Strongest Dandy

Its most brilliant achievement, in the Battle of Trafalgar that broke out near Cape Trafalgar in Spain in 1805, the British fleet, with sail battleships as the main force, defeated the combined fleet of France and Spain led by Villeneuve in one fell swoop, and established Britain's hegemony as a maritime power!

In other words, this thing, even 100 years later, is still said to be the most awesome warship in the world!

The sun never sets on the empire, it was this sail battleship that laid it in one fell swoop.

Seeing the drawings of this sail battleship, Zheng He was very excited, picked it up and studied it carefully for a long time, nodded and said: "This sail battleship is indeed advanced.

Equipped with 108 cannons, the ship has a crew of 850 people, and can store 35 tons of gunpowder and 120 tons of shells, and can travel continuously for six months at a time.

It's fast enough to take on any occupation, colonization, and piracy mission.

If there are 10 such ships, I am confident that I can sweep the East and South Seas!

"

Hu Xueyan was a little worried: "But in China, there is no shipyard that can give birth to this kind of sail battleship." "

"It doesn't matter" Zhen Baoyu said lightly: "What Young Master Ben has is money! It doesn't matter if there is nothing in the country, as long as we occupy an island and start building a shipyard, recruit skilled craftsmen, and buy Western artillery, we are not afraid that we will not be able to get it!"

437 Zheng He and Hu Xueyan were excited.

That's right.

Money can make ghosts grind.

With the young master's current daily income and the rate at which he can earn three million silver a day, he is still worried about having no money to build a sail battleship?

Zheng He said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, my son, I have already thought about where to build an overseas colonial base. "

He pointed to the southern end of the Straits of Malacca: "This is it!"

Zhen Baoyu saw that it was the southern tip of Malaya, and the current name was Xinjiapo!

Zheng He smiled faintly and said: "When I went to the West seven times, I led a large army to anchor here many times. It is a major transportation route connecting the South Seas and the Indian Ocean. As long as we control this place, it is equivalent to containing the two oceans with one hand! Westerners and Orientals must look at us!"

Zhen Baoyu nodded, and said in his heart: "It is worthy of Zheng He, and he immediately fell in love with a strategic place like Xinjiapo." Indeed, isn't it because it holds the key points of the two oceans because it is holding the key points of the two oceans?"

"Son, as long as you give me 50 big ships and thousands of sailors, I can help you lay this projectile land" Zheng He said in a deep voice: "Set up a shipyard here, recruit sailors from the East and the West, buy Western artillery, and within a year, I will definitely be able to build the sail battleship on the drawings you gave me!"

Zhen Baoyu nodded.

Someone asked, since you have the [Sail Battleship Blueprint], why do you still need to buy Western artillery?

Because the artillery of the Qing Dynasty was too backward!

If the military modernization of each dynasty is ranked, it is responsible to say that it cannot compete with the Ming Dynasty, or even the Yuan Dynasty.

There is no other reason for this, because it is already backward!

Before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it was still a slave

After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, although there was military technology in the Kangxi era, it only stayed on the rough and inferior technology of the red-clothed general cannon, and even the artillery used in the Ming Dynasty was much more advanced than the Qing Dynasty.

After the Qing Dynasty unified the whole country, lest the Han people rise up to rebel, it is strictly forbidden to develop advanced artillery, and even kitchen knives and firewood knives must be registered and controlled!

What advanced weapons can you count on this Qing Dynasty to develop?

On the contrary, because the Europeans often have to kill each other, they are holding back their strength, trying their best to climb the military technology tree, you make a cannon, I will immediately send spies to steal, to copycats, to pirate, but also to develop more advanced cannon cannon (BGBB)!

In Europe in the 19th century, it only took ten years for a military technology to be pirated from the most advanced Britain to Russia, the most backward and easternmost country.

It's been a decade!

The so-called birth in sorrow and death in peace. The Qing Dynasty slowly destroyed the creativity of China in the dream of the Celestial Empire, and in the bloody nature of the people at home suppressed by the Eight Articles of the Foolish People's Policy, and gradually fell behind, and finally almost perished.

Hearing Zheng He's assurance, Zhen Baoyu didn't say a word, and took out a dragon head silver ticket from his arms.

That's five million taels!

Hu Xueyan's eyes widened.

Although the young master is making money every day, it is flowing water!

These five million silver tickets are almost equivalent to all of Zhen Baoyu's current liquidity.

In a word, Zhen Baoyu spent a lot of money, and the heavy treasure was pressed on Zheng He!

Zheng He also knew Baoyu's expectations and weight, knelt down, and said in a deep voice: "Young master, within a year, I will definitely produce 10 sail battleships and dominate the South Seas!"

Zhen Baoyu smiled and said: "A year is too long, let's get some ordinary goods first, and beat our competitors well! Pan, Lu, Wu, and Ye are four wealthy families, and their lives are too comfortable." I'm going to bankrupt them one by one!"

Zheng He's eyes were shining: "Do everything?"

"Of course!" Zhen Baoyu said with a smile: "If you can't rob, pirate, or kill, I want you, Zheng He, who has been to the West seven times, to be useful?"

"Okay!" Zheng He slowly stood up, and the tiger's body exuded a strong murderous aura: "The Pan, Lu, Wu, and Ye clans are all lackeys of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and a source of financial resources. The generals will disguise themselves as pirates and wipe out their fleets so that their ships cannot go to sea!"

"Occasionally hijack our own fleet" Zhen Baoyu smiled: "It's fair and reasonable, the villains of the province suspect us!"

Hu Xueyan added: "Gao Ming! From time to time, I will send some ships loaded with grain, craftsmen, ordnance, and cannons, and they will be robbed by you! You can have a steady stream of replenishment of strength! Hahaha!"

The three of them looked at each other and laughed together.

Without further ado, Zheng He and Hu Xueyan immediately took a boat south and headed for Guangzhou to act cheaply.

Zhen Baoyu stared at the backs of the two big generals and smiled slightly.

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