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Chapter 260 The sky is high and the emperor is far away 2
"Which one is better than fighting this sailing ship like mine?" Yuan Yingtai raised his telescope and looked carefully. He found that it was basically the same as what the navigator said, so he began to further discuss the combat issue.

"Well... that Guangzhou ship is worth at least ten thousand tons. It should be a local garrison warship. The chief envoy is only riding a fast sailing ship. It is mostly used to deliver news and train new sailors. It is difficult to evaluate." This question is still there. This really put the navigator in a difficult position. After careful consideration, he still had no definite answer.

"What if we have to fight?" As expected, Yuan Yingtai is just a layman and must compete.

"No victory or defeat! The two-masted traffic ship is fast and can turn flexibly, like a sentinel of the frontier army; the Guangzhou ship is thick-skinned and slow in movement, like a heavy horse; as long as you don't exploit your shortcomings and avoid your strengths, there is nothing anyone can do. who."

At this time, another man wearing a sailor uniform but with much fairer skin walked out of the hatch.I happened to overhear the conversation between two people and immediately gave the answer without thinking.

Since boarding the ship from Tianjin Wei, Li Rumei has fallen into a rhythm of vomiting and vomiting, spending almost all of it lying in the cabin.It wasn't until I got close to Quanzhou that I gradually got used to it. I had to walk around on the deck every day, and I would ask the sailors and navigators for questions in my spare time.

But he has one more advantage than Yuan Yingtai. He is a general himself. He knows weapons by analogy and can roughly understand them with a little explanation.If you don't understand something that is too complicated for a while, you can still get it right after a few actual operations.

"What if Governor Yuan's battleship comes?" Yuan Yingtai turned around and cupped his hands, but he still kept his question to himself and had to ask clearly.

"A low-ranking official is not talented. I asked about this in Quanzhou. It was him who was full of disdain when faced with a fortune ship of the same size, and uttered arrogance that one enemy is more than enough for ten!"

It should be said that among Li Chengliang's sons, except for the third, Li Ruzhen, all of them were well educated, had military exploits, and were good at behaving.Although Li Rumei is already the commander of the Guangdong capital and is basically on the same level as the right chief envoy, she has been keeping a low profile since joining the ship and is very humble.

"Oh? What Li Dusi said is true!" Yuan Yingtai is not just a rotten scholar who only looks down on warriors with his eyes. He knows that this Dusi is also a person valued by the emperor, and they will cooperate with him in the future, and his attitude will be equally gentle.It's just that this time his expression was a little serious, and his brows were slightly wrinkled.

Before leaving, the emperor not only told him to go to Guangdong to complete the work, but also asked for detailed monitoring of the naval situation on the way.Yuan Keli's new warship has been seen up close in the Tianjin Shipyard. Apart from having more sails and taller masts, it has no advantages over the Fu Ship and Guang Ship ships seen along the way.

It was more than a size smaller, and the number of sailors on board was several times fewer.If they really want to fight on the sea, even if everyone works together and is not afraid of death, they may not be able to win easily one on one. How can they be so exaggerated?

"The feudal government is overly concerned. I am fortunate enough to have spent some time in the shipyard and know a thing or two about the new sailing ships. Although Governor Yuan's battleship is small in size, it has a big weapon hidden in its belly. I wonder if the feudal commander has any. Notice the small doors on both sides of the hull?”

"The small door...isn't that a window?" Yuan Yingtai thought about it carefully, and it seemed, almost, maybe he had some impression.I didn't take it seriously at the time, I just thought it was a row of portholes, which could be opened when needed to ventilate the cabin below the deck, and then closed when the wind and waves were strong to prevent the influx of seawater.

"Uh...it's okay to count it as a window, but this window is not that window. The back is not a cabin but an artillery piece. There are as many artillery pieces as there are windows."

Li Rumei now also feels the navigator's embarrassment. Chatting with laymen is indeed tiring.Well, you thought it was a cruise ship on the Qinhuai River. It even opened the windows for ventilation. This is a warship. With so many windows, you are not afraid of a big hole opened by a cannon! "...I'm afraid there will be ten or twenty guns. How can such a large number of artillery pieces be placed on a sailboat with less than a thousand materials? Could it be that Yuan Keli made a false report?"

Sometimes, if a person is too serious about something, he will feel like he is over the top, and everything he says will change to the same train of thought.Just now, Yuan Keli was suspected of improper military training, and now he is accused of falsely reporting military equipment and embezzling military expenditures.

"No, no, Xianguan has seen more than ten kinds of artillery in Liaodong Town and North Korea. The small ones only weigh one or two hundred kilograms and can be carried on horseback; the large ones can easily weigh one thousand kilograms and need to be placed on fortified cities.

The cannons on Dudu Yuan's ship are thin and long, weighing no more than 5 or 6 kilograms. There are 10 cannons on the left and right sides. They are all hidden behind the windows. Closing the doors and windows in case of strong winds and high waves will not hinder navigation.

Although the cannon body is light and slender, its power is terrifying. It can be fired again in a breath. The solid bullet can still penetrate a foot-thick pine board at a distance of four to five hundred paces, and the explosive bullet explodes when it hits the ground.

The battleship looks very similar to this ship, so it must not be slow.If you rely on speed to hover around the enemy ship and then use artillery to fire, it is very similar to the Beilu's method of riding and shooting.Ordinary ships are not as fast as them, and they will be beaten if they don't chase them. They will also be beaten if they chase them. One against ten is not an exaggeration. "

Seeing that the feudal lord was stubborn and was targeting Yuan Keli, Li Rumei hurriedly finished her words in one breath. At the same time, she secretly complained in her heart that it would not be easy to be the governor in the next few years.

"So it seems that Yuan is being abrupt. I am shouldering the great trust of His Majesty when I take office this time. I don't dare to be careless at all. I hope Si Mo will laugh at me." Yuan Yingtai may have sensed something wrong from Li Rumei's words and expressions, so he took advantage of the situation and acted on his own. review.

"How dare you, how dare you... This big ship should be here to welcome us. Why don't you hurry up and change your clothes? The feudal lord please!"

It's a pity that no matter how you explain it, the label of rigidity and rigidity will not be removed for a while.Just at this time, sailors climbed up the mast one after another, apparently trying to lower the sails and slow down. The sailing direction was facing the Guangzhou ship. Li Rumei quickly ended the conversation.

"Yuan Fantai, Li Dusi, I'm the manager of Xiaxuehua Sugar Mill, Zhuque. I'm here to welcome you two by order of the governor." Li Rumei's guess was correct, and the two ships soon stopped a hundred steps apart.A rowing boat was put down on the Guangzhou ship, and soon someone climbed up from the side.

The person who came was young, lean and thin, polite, well-behaved, moderate in attitude, neither humble nor arrogant.If he hadn't been wearing a strange pair of clothes, put on a robe and a scarf, he would still be a scholar at last.

"It turns out to be President Zhu. I have been well-known for a long time. I saw him today. He is indeed a talented person and has not lost any of his royal bearing." What is puzzling is that Yuan Yingtai's return gift was also very solemn. It was not like meeting a businessman at all, as if he had met a businessman. Colleagues in North Korea and China.

"Ah... Manager Zhu..." Li Rumei was a little confused now. She was looking at the sky with her hands behind her back, just waiting for someone to quickly arrange for the ship to enter the port.I didn't expect Yuan Yingtai to be so solemn, so he quickly put down his arrogance and returned the gift, but he didn't know what to call him.

(End of this chapter)