People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 307 Good news continues! Princess Jiangdu has given birth! The steam engine is about to start!

It took a lot of time to go back and forth.

When Chen Han received Lan Yu's letter in the capital, he had actually just received two pieces of good news.

The first one is the news from Lan Yu.

The other one was that his wife, Princess Jiangdu, gave birth to a fat boy, weighing seven pounds.

This little kid cries very loudly after working out.

At that time, the old man also heard this cry outside, and he was extremely excited.

Because this is the first person from the fourth generation of the old Zhu family that the old man has seen.

So the old man paid special attention to him. After he was taken out, the old man hugged him personally and gave him his name.

At the same time, because of the birth of Chen Han's child, an amnesty was directly announced to the whole world, and the whole world was allowed to celebrate, and neighboring countries were also invited to celebrate.

As the old man said before, take this opportunity to summon all the countries in Southeast Asia and tell them about the establishment of the Ming Dynasty Naval Base in their countries.

After the news spread, the whole world was shocked.

Chen Han, everyone has seen the changes that Chen Han has brought to the Ming Dynasty in recent years, and they respect Chen Han particularly.

After hearing the news, everyone was really happy for Chen Han.

Chen Han was also happy for several days.

Later, they received a letter from Lan Yu and the others, which stated that Annan State would invite the head of the Ming Navy to go to their court to discuss the establishment of a naval base.

I also told him that pirates were currently using pirates to attack their navy in the waters of Annan Kingdom.

Then the Ming Navy conducted a drill, which shocked Annan.

That's why we had this discussion.

Lan Yu still wanted to ask Chen Han what their plans were.

After discussing with the old man and His Royal Highness, Chen Han sent a letter to Lan Yu.

That is, no matter what method is used, we must strive for the best conditions for establishing the Ming Naval Base.

Inform them of the benefits of establishing a naval base.

The situation must be opened up first in Annan Kingdom before other Southeast Asian countries can be encouraged to build naval bases.

The construction of the naval base not only means the pace of Ming Dynasty's outward expansion, but also means that it will be a bridgehead to capture the naval bases of various countries in Southeast Asia in the future.

After replying to the letter, Chen Han came to his wife's side.

I told her about the current progress in Nanyang.

Although Princess Jiangdu has finished giving birth, it is just as she said.

She is not a weak little girl, but is in good health.

And before getting married, she often did various physical exercises.

Therefore, his physical fitness is much better than that of ordinary women.

In addition, the royal family eats well and uses it well, and the people who serve them are also professional.

So she was able to move around normally within two days after giving birth.

This kind of recovery ability is the envy of many people.

After hearing what Chen Han said, Princess Jiangdu walked up to her son and gently shook the bed.

After seeing her son sleeping soundly, she smiled slightly.

"You men don't need to say anything to us women about the matters you discuss.

But now that the plan has been carried out according to our established pace, I believe that my husband can handle these things. "

Chen Han stood under the window and looked out the window. At this time, his home had already been replaced with glass windows.

Looking out through the glass window, I can see the prosperity outside.

He looked at the garden from a distance and said with a smile: "I came to Ming Dynasty because I hope that Ming Dynasty can become stronger and that Ming Dynasty can get rid of the previous Confucian prejudices.

I just hope that Ming Dynasty will become famous overseas and lay a good foundation for Ming Dynasty to overcome difficulties in the future.

Now that the Ming Dynasty's navy has fought its first battle in Nanyang, and with the establishment of a naval base based on Annan Kingdom, in the future, Ming Dynasty will have a safe supply area when it goes south to Nanyang.

With this naval base in Annan, we can build ports in the Kingdom of Champa, Java, Sumatra and other places.

Based on this, we will go all the way south around the Southeast Asian countries to Oceania.

In Oceania, there is a huge, empty land that is basically uninhabited.

We must colonize there.

There are many high-quality iron ores there, and there are even high-quality pastures.

It can become one of the most important mineral producing areas in our Ming Dynasty. "

Chen Han thought of the almost inexhaustible iron ore in Australia.

And it is the highest quality iron ore, and the eyes are fiery.

Even in modern times, our country still needs to import a lot of iron ore from Australia.

This shows how important that place is.

And there are only some Maori people living on it.

Chen Han did not intend to use the methods of Western colonists to directly kill the Maori people above.

Instead, we should establish a base in Ming Dynasty where we can mine ore, and we can cooperate with the local Maori people and let them dig.

After all, Europe used to be a place where the West exiled criminals, and those people were basically descendants of criminals.

Instead of letting these people occupy such a beautiful land, why not let Ming Dynasty colonize it?

If it could control Nanyang and Oceania, Ming would not only own a huge amount of land.

In the future, by enfeoffing the heroes and letting them go to colonize, so that they have a stronger motivation to make contributions, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone?

After understanding this, Chen Han's eyes became more and more fiery.

"If naval bases are established in various countries in Southeast Asia, then Ming Dynasty should vigorously expand its navy.

Today's navy only has 5,000 people. I want to expand it to 50,000 or even 500,000 people.

We must build the navy into the most powerful army.

Let them set sail and go all over the world.

From the looks of it, the steam engine should be on the way.

If there were no steam engines, it would be impossible to reach all parts of the world by hand-cranking the oars.

Once we have the steam engine as a source of power, then our Ming Dynasty can truly reach an enviable level. "

Princess Jiangdu had also heard Chen Han talk about the so-called steam engine before.

The principle is very simple, it is to use a boiler to boil water and use the power of water vapor to drive various mechanical movements, thereby reducing manpower input.

Today's hydraulic drive is also a type of kinetic energy.

But hydraulic power has too many limits.

The geographical environment, drought degree, etc. are all conditions that restrict the kinetic energy of water conservancy.

So if a steam engine can be developed, it can be installed on any machinery.

It only needs to generate steam by burning coal to drive various machinery, thereby driving the machinery to do work, and that would be perfect.

Although Princess Jiangdu had never seen anything like that, from the information brought by Chen Han, the couple discussed and conducted some small experiments, so they understood the power of the steam engine.

Princess Jiangdu was particularly looking forward to the thought of something like mounting a horse...

(End of this chapter)