Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 405 Building a World-Class Navy

Before this personal expedition, Lin Yi led the guards and galloped more than 300 miles southeast to Tianjin City.

The reason why I came to this city is because it has become an important military base of Ming Dynasty, and the Tianjin here is also the Tianjin area of ​​later generations.

This city now has a history of more than 200 years. This is when Zhu Yuanzhang's fourth son, Yan Wang Zhu Di, crossed the sea and landed from here when he launched the Jingnan Campaign. Emperor Yongle.

To commemorate this place, Zhu Di named it Tianjin in 2, the second year after he ascended the throne, which means the ferry that the emperor passed by.Since then, the city has been built and Tianjin Guard has been established, and this has become an important military location. Later, Tianjin Left Guard and Tianjin Right Guard were added.

Now Lin Yi regards this area as a naval training base. The specific location is in the vast sea area outside the Dagukou Fort. The Bohai Bay is the most suitable for training the navy, because the waters in this area are incomparable to the waters of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River.

And now that the Qing Dynasty has fallen, and North Korea has become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, this water area is super safe.

Because now Ji Dong wants to build a world-class navy, not just focusing on big rivers, but also capable of fighting in the sea, and even sailing in the ocean.Because Lin Yi's goal is not just Zheng Zhilong's rebels, he wants to deal with the Dutch red-haired and other maritime powers, at least to take back Taiwan.

Therefore, the current Daming Navy will definitely not be able to meet the needs. In the past six months since Lin Yi's class returned to Beijing, the plan to build a world-class navy has begun.

The first thing is to build a ship. If a craftsman wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools.

The warship Lin Yi built this time is of course different from the previous warships. He plans to spend a year building a world-class giant warship. This giant warship must be able to mount a ton of red cannons on it to effectively cover the range. Up to 10 miles.

Second, it must have a strong ability to sail against the wind and endurance, that is to say, the power must be sufficient.

This point is not wishful thinking of Ji Dong, because he knows that Daming's navigation ability has always been the world's leading, and navigation ability represents a country's naval strength.

Lin Yi had learned about Zheng He's voyages before traveling, and that happened during the reign of Emperor Yongle. Eunuch Zheng made seven voyages to Southeast Asia, India, Africa, the Cape of Good Hope, and the Persian Gulf.

It can be said that in the 15th and 16th centuries, China's navy has always been world-class, but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, affected by natural and man-made disasters, this great empire gradually declined.

It was only then that Portugal, Spain, and later the Netherlands, the sea coachman, and the United Kingdom, etc., emerged as maritime hegemons.

Now the Netherlands has replaced Portugal and Spain as the overlord of the sea, and his influence has extended to Taiwan, China. Now Lin Yi has to revive the glory of the navy.

But to build such a huge ship at sea requires a lot of manpower, material resources and scientific and technological support, and it takes a certain amount of training to be able to become an army.

Therefore, after discussions between Lin Yi and the think tank Song Xiance, Gao Hongtu, Lu Daqi and other officials from the cabinet and the 6th Ministry, the heavy responsibility of shipbuilding fell to Nanjing officials.

The technology, manpower, materials, and money required for shipbuilding are not a problem. For the technology of building a large ship, you can check the information and find skilled craftsmen.

Money is not a problem in the Ming Dynasty now. Now the Ming Dynasty is different from two years ago and has money. The south of the Yangtze River is already rich. Under Lin Yi’s instructions, their taxes have been increased in the past two years. Production has also resumed, people live and work in peace and contentment, and they also have some tax revenue.

There is also a considerable amount of silver obtained from the old bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng of the Dashun Army, and the Qing Dynasty. In addition to Lin Yi’s savings and the tribute income from Mongolia and North Korea, the pockets of the Ming Dynasty have already bulged.

But even so, Lin Yi ordered to invite scientists and military experts from the Ming Dynasty, namely the famous Song Yingxing, Song Yingsheng and Tang Ruowang.

The two brothers of the Song family are very famous, "Heavenly Creation of Things" is still a priceless treasure. It is a pity that from Shenzong to Tianqi to Ming Sizong, these three generations of emperors and a group of officials under them did not know the goods. The two brothers of the Song family are so capable So I got a Juren, and then I went to the capital to take part in the general examination many times, and they were unsuccessful. Later, the two of them became officials only as fifth-rank and eighth-rank officials, and they also worked as schoolteachers.

After finally becoming a fifth-rank official, the war continued, and all the people in the yamen ran away. Later, they finally got tired of the officialdom and resigned. They were unhappy in life, and they still wrote the world's masterpiece, "Tiangong Kaiwu", Known as the 17th-century craft encyclopedia.

Now that Lin Yi is in charge of the country, these two giants of science certainly cannot be buried. Therefore, Lin Yi issued a decree to ask Shi Kefa, Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, to go to Xinfeng, Zhejiang Province, the hometown of the Song brothers, with Lin Yi's letter. .

The Song brothers are both 60 or [-] years old, and they originally thought that they would spend their entire lives in obscurity as Lin Quan.

Unexpectedly, the imperial court still cared about them, and named the two brothers as the left and right servants of the Ministry of War in Nanjing. The servant, can be regarded as a step up to the sky.

Therefore, when the two brothers of the Song family saw Lin Yi's handwritten letter, they were so excited that they burst into tears, knelt down on the ground, and bowed to Beijing, weeping with gratitude.

Then he packed up his things immediately, and returned to Nanjing with Shi Kefa and the others.

As for the German missionary Tang Ruowang, Lin Linyi knew his value even more. He was not only a scientist, but also a world-renowned military expert. He once cast dozens of cannons for Emperor Chongzhen.

Lin Yi, a well-known scientist in this period of the Ming Dynasty, had learned it before time travelling, but Xu Guangqi couldn’t find it, because he left this world before Lin Yi’s time travelling, so he could only look up his famous works, like Song Yingxing, Song Yingsheng, Bi Maokang, Tang Ruowang, these Taishan Beidou-level figures in the scientific and military industries, of course Lin Yi can think of them.

Mr. Bi has already given Lin Yi everything he has learned in his life. The self-generating flintlock gun came out more than 100 years in advance, and the Song brothers also came. This German Lin Yi ordered Jin Yiwei to look for it.

In the past half a year since Lin Yi returned to Beijing, the factory guards have of course been adjusted. The so-called emperor and courtier, although Lin Yi has not ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, it will be a matter of time.

It turned out that Cao Huachun, the admiral of the East Factory, Bingbi Wang Chengen, the supervisor of rites, Gao Qiqian, the eunuch of the Yumajian, and some brains of the Jinyiwei, followed Li Zicheng and the Dashun army to invade Beijing and the Emperor Chongzhen went to Meishan to hang himself. , These people died and fled.In particular, Li Zicheng and his Dashun Army were defeated in Beijing and destroyed in the Shanhaiguan battle, and the Ming Dynasty came back from the dead.

The original Dongchang and Jinyiwei heard that now the prince of Ming Dynasty has voluntarily abdicated and let the prince and grand teacher Lin Yi take over the country on his behalf. Some people dare not stay in the factory guard anymore because they all know that the factory guard has a feud with Lin Yi Back then, Gao Qiqian led thousands of factory guards to eradicate Lin Yi, but they were all eradicated by Linyi, killing several Jinyiwei overnight, including two thousand households of Jinyiwei.

Now how can they not be afraid that Ji Dong will find them to settle accounts with Qiuhou, so they have already run away without a trace.

After Lin Yi returned to Beijing, he still established Dongchang and Jinyiwei. These two secret service agencies immediately felt that this was a characteristic of Daming, and it would benefit him without any harm, so they must not be abolished.

Now the eunuch who is the admiral of the East Factory is Lu Jiude, and the commander of Jinyiwei is Ma Shiying's son Ma Luan. The factory guard is temporarily in the hands of these two people. It has been tested for a long time, so Ji Dong has already known it well, and there is no need to doubt their loyalty at all.

The factory guards sent people, and the commander of Jin Yiwei, Ma Luan, came out in person, made an open and secret investigation, and finally found the German guy Tang Ruowang. Lin Yi personally met him in Beijing, promised him to continue preaching in Daming, and built a building for him. Church, but he must continue to study for Daming's firearms.

Tang Ruowang readily agreed, now that the Qing Dynasty has perished, he wants to preach here, but he must continue to serve the Ming Dynasty, which he knows very well.

Lin Yi named him Doctor Guanglu, and Song Yingxing, Song Yingsheng and Tang Ruowang formed the military expert group of Ming Dynasty. Song Yingxing was in charge, and the first thing to do was to build this giant warship in Nanjing.

In this regard, after the officials in Nanjing received Lin Yi's order, Shi Kefa led the officials in Nanjing to go all out to support Song Yingxing and the others in building ships in terms of manpower, material and financial resources.

Shipbuilding and naval training are carried out at the same time. Now Lin Yi has set the naval training base of the Ming Dynasty in Bohai Bay, which is the vast sea outside Tianjin Wei Dagukou.

Accompanied by officials from the Tianjin 3rd Division Yamen, Lin Yi inspected the naval training here.

In addition to the 5 troops commanded by Jiangyin Sangong along the Yangtze River to deal with Zheng Zhilong's rebels, the navy of the Ming Dynasty has now recruited a group of 1 new recruits. The generals will personally coach, and the training is in full swing.

Even though the number of these 1 sailors is not large, in the future, for the super giant ships built by Song Yingxing and the others, the sailors needed will be selected from these [-] sailors.

1 people will select 3000 elites to board the ship in the future. After this battleship is formed, it can become the aircraft carrier of Ming Dynasty.

The remaining 7000 sailors will be assigned to other large and small warships as accompanying ships of the giant warships to form a formation of ocean-going warships.

After inspecting the naval training base, Lin Yi returned to the capital with his troops.

Then he chose an auspicious day, and left the capital with a camel artillery team and 10 troops.The generals who accompanied him this time included the chief general of the Beijing Battalion and the current commander of the Standard Battalion, Zu Keyong, the commander of the Invincible Battalion Dong Sheng, the commander of the Artillery Battalion Wang Qi, and the commander of the Camel Artillery Team Min Min Myrtle. In addition, there are Zhang Hua from the Guards Battalion, Xiaoying, Zhe Zhe and Su Morer from the Women's Battalion.

This team was originally going to fight in Sichuan, to clean up Zhang Xianzhong's remnant Sun Kewang and others, and to put down the chaos in Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan.

But Lin Yi's marching route was not going out of the capital to the southwest, but straight down to Nanjing.

More than half a month later, the team drove to the vicinity of Nanjing. 10 people set up camp outside the city.

Then Lin Yi took the soldiers of the guard battalion and women's battalion to Beijing.

Outside the city of Nanjing, Shi Kefa took all the civil and military officials from Nanjing to welcome Lin Yi and others into the city.

It was the first time for Lin Yi, the accompanying capital of the Ming Dynasty, to come to Nanjing, and it really is a place where tigers dominate the dragon.

Ji Dong didn't care to watch the scenery here. What he cared most about now was, what kind of construction is his warship now?
Soon came to the shipyard, a military important place.This place is heavily guarded, and outsiders are not allowed to get close, let alone enter.

But on this day, on the road from Nanjing to the shipyard, there were all soldiers of the Ming army, one post at five steps, one post at ten steps, traffic control was implemented, that is, all martial law was imposed.

Ordinary people and those irrelevant people such as idlers should either let them detour or let them hide far away.

The official road was cleaned cleanly, Nanjing's Jinyiwei opened the way in front, followed by Lin Yi's guards and the women's battalion, and Lin Yi rode in the middle on horseback.

When they arrived at the gate of the shipyard, the welcoming soldiers were even more clearly armored, and all of them held their own flintlock guns in their hands, which looked neat.

In order to protect the shipyard, more than 5000 elite soldiers lived here, that is, 5 thousand households.

At this time, Song Yingxing, Song Yingsheng, and Tang Ruowang, accompanied by Commander Wei and other officials, also greeted them at the door. They were all in brand new official uniforms. After seeing Lin Yi's horse's head, they quickly knelt down on the ground.

Lin Yi asked them to avoid courtesy, Song Yingxing, Song Yingsheng and Tang Ruowang, the three of them have their own characteristics, and they are all good-looking.

After seeing the ceremony, like the stars holding the moon, Song Yingxing and others led the way, and Lin Yi entered the fully enclosed shipyard.

Song Yingxing first took out the blueprints they had designed and presented them to Lin Yi. Of course, the blueprints passed through the Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of War and then passed on to Lin Yi's Longshu case. Implementation.

This was filed by Song Yingxing and the others. In order to let you see it clearly, I took out the blueprint first.In fact, there is no need to look at the drawing, Ji Dong already has the drawing in his mind, and just wants to see where they have progressed.

Judging from the size of the graphics, this giant warship has a total length of 150 meters, a width of 60 meters, and a draft of 4.5 meters. The water part has 4 floors and a load capacity of more than 2000 tons. It is not afraid of waves.Including the red cannon Qianjin Flang machine, there are a total of 70 various artillery pieces on the ship.

There are 10 masts on the ship, and the sail angle exceeds 70 degrees, which means that as long as there is wind, this warship can sail by the wind, including tailwind and headwind.

If there is no wind at all, hundreds of sailors will use the water wheel as the power. Even so, the speed is not slow.

Because after the completion of this giant warship, it will be able to accommodate 3000 officers and soldiers, with 500 sailors in charge of driving the ship alone, 200 sailors on one side and 400 on both sides to increase the power of this giant warship.

When no wind is available, they are in a fixed position like treadmills, and through the action of pulley levers, they add driving force to the ship.

If this giant battleship is completed, it will be much larger than the largest ship in Zheng He's fleet, and it will be much larger in volume and tonnage than the most advanced British and French cruisers 100 years later.

Therefore, after this ship is completed, it can definitely be called the overlord of the sea. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the aircraft carrier of Ming Dynasty.

This blueprint was designed by Song Yingxing, Song Yingsheng and Tang Ruowang according to Lin Yi's several requirements. They checked the information and looked through the files.

But the drawings are easy to draw, and it is not easy to find such a huge battleship.

Lin Yi took the drawings and came to the dock workshop. All the soldiers working here, countless soldiers are busy here.The outline of the main body of the ship has come out, but according to Song Yingxing's words, it will take at least 8 to 10 months to complete.

Lin Yi looked around, while Song Yingxing, Song Yingsheng and Tang Ruowang explained to him. Everywhere he went, Xiaoying, Zhezhe Su Morer and others also listened with great interest. They had never heard of such a big warship.

After reading it, Ji Dong was generally satisfied, but he also pointed out a lot of areas for improvement.After all, before Ji Dong crossed over, as a special vanguard of the Marine Corps, he was familiar with aircraft, submarine aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and frigates.

The battleship built in front of him is nothing compared to the ships in the aircraft carrier formation that Ji Dong saw before crossing.

They carefully recorded Ji Dong's opinions and suggestions in detail, and finally Ji Dong rewarded them and stayed here for three days.

Three days later, Lin Yi left Nanjing City and took his 10 horses, and began to march westward, straight into Sichuan.

Lin Yi intends to pacify the war in the Southwest within one year, and then start his world-class navy plan, which of course includes building the women's battalion into the Ming Dynasty Marine Corps.

(End of this chapter)