Guozhou is one of the British Navy's several major home ports, and its strongest First Fleet Headquarters is located in Guozhou, in order to express the importance of the navy, Li Lu led his family to visit the Guozhou base, on the way back, several cronies who accompanied Li Lu's southern tour asked Li Lu several questions in a row, their questions are all around a center, is the ocean really so important?
These cronies have both natives of the time and space like Xue Xiruo, as well as systematic people like Xu Da, and they are all a little puzzled that their king attaches so much importance to the sea, "Your Majesty, the strongest thing in our Great Britain is the army, and the potential enemy of the known world is not our opponent at all, the navy only needs to be responsible for sending us ashore, why add another marine??"
”Xu Da expressed his dissatisfaction with Li Lu's plan to increase the Marine Corps, he is a field marshal, this Marine Corps, Xu Dashuai can't control it."
You, where do you know my intentions, I tell you, my teacher once told me, if you want your country to be rich and strong, you must not ignore the sea.Wealth comes from the sea, and danger comes from the sea. ”Li Lu brought out his imaginary mentor again, this sentence was obviously said by Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, how did it become your master's words??
Seeing that a few of them were a little confused, Li Lu said to them, "You only see the output on land, and you haven't thought that the ocean can feed a large number of people, let's not say anything else, just say that this fish, with these sea fish, how many more people can be fed?"
In addition, our United Kingdom is a country founded on industry and commerce, and although land transportation is safe, it is much slower than sea transportation......."
Li Lu asked people to open a world map, pointed to North and South America and Australia and said to them, "These continents are still in a state of wilderness, there is no land connection with the Eurasian continent where we are located, and we do not develop an ocean-going navy, how can we send your army up?"
”After Li Lu finished speaking, he took out a pamphlet and handed it to the people present, they borrowed the pamphlet and looked at it, on which were written three words: "Theory of Sea Power"; after a cursory reading, Zhou Yulin, commander of the First Fleet of the British Navy, was excitedly unable to do so, and this pamphlet completely raised the navy to a strategic position as important as the army.This pamphlet, called The Theory of Sea Power, begins by stating that a country like Britain that is founded on trade (i.e., the export of goods) must control the seas.The seizure and maintenance of sea supremacy, especially on the main lines of communication related to national interests and overseas trade, is a major factor in the strength and prosperity of a country.To seize and maintain supremacy of the sea, it is necessary to have a dominant maritime power, that is, a strong fleet and merchant fleet, as well as a well-developed network of bases.This pamphlet analyzes the impact of a country's geographical location, natural environment, territorial scope, population size, national character, and government policies (including the policy of developing maritime capabilities) on sea power from a strategic perspective, and proposes that naval strategy is to build and strengthen maritime capabilities in peacetime and wartime in order to achieve the country's strategic goals.In this pamphlet, Li Lu clearly pointed out that the method of seizing sea supremacy is a decisive battle of the fleet and a naval blockade, and the only way to completely seize sea supremacy is through a decisive battle of the fleet.He stressed the concentration of troops, and regarded the concentration of forces as a basic operational principle and the main means of implementing the naval strategy.Just when they were discussing Li Lu's plagiarized theory of sea power, Li Songyi came over and told everyone that an expedition fleet of the navy had returned, and after hearing that an expedition fleet had returned, everyone present rushed to Guozhou Port under the leadership of Li Lu to meet these returning warriors.When they came to the port, they were surprised to find that the original fleet of ten warships was now only three, and the crew had been reduced from more than 1,000 to less than 400 people, and the survivors were all weak and tired, their faces were covered with scars, their faces were blue, and even the corners of their mouths were ulcerated, and their expressions were terrifying.Li Lu looked at it, and sighed in his heart, he immediately knew that his fleet was crushed by something, this demon who captured two-thirds of the fleet members was the "scurvy" that made the navigators frightened, seeing that these crew members had suffered a great crime, as their leader and commander, Li Lu felt deeply guilty for not thinking of this "scurvy", "Zhou Yulin, how did you do it?"
Didn't you stock up on more vegetables and fruits for the fighters??
”Li Lu looked at his subordinates and was very dissatisfied."
Your Majesty, don't blame Commander Zhou, fruits and vegetables rot quickly in the humid, hot, and salty sea, and we can only carry baked cakes and cured meat......s that can be stored for a long time," Mao Yingying, the commander of the exploration fleet, said with a grin, "Most of the brothers died of scurvy......
Your Majesty, you are the wisest man in the world, is there any cure for this disease?
”"This disease, there is a cure, and it is very easy to treat..... as long as you eat more vegetables and fruits, it can be cured......"
Li Lu said with a smile, this scurvy in another time and space, once made Europa's sailors frightened, but in distant China, as early as the Song Dynasty, Chinese sailors successfully solved the problem of scurvy.Yes, during the Song and Song dynasties, our ancestors solved this problem, and they also used one of our ancestral talents, that is, planting vegetables, growing vegetables?
Growing vegetables at sea?
Some people say, you are talking nonsense, right?
At that time, will it be soilless cultivation?
However, in the "Travels" of the medieval Arab scholar Battuta, such a strange scene is vividly recorded: the huge Chinese sea ships can not only store a year's worth of grain, meat, vegetables and fresh water.In addition, on the deck of the fourth floor, you can see strange wooden barrels everywhere, in addition to cultivating flowers and plants, you can also grow a variety of vegetables, and there is no shortage of vegetables to eat almost every day.Europa ship to talk about scurvy?
The crew of the Song Dynasty, who ate with peace of mind, said: This is really not a thing."
Yulin, if you go to the ocean in the future, you must reserve enough green tea and kimchi on the ship, that is, these green tea and kimchi are drunk, and after eating, you can also turn soybeans into bean sprouts......
"If you want to eat fresh vegetables, it is not difficult to eat, as long as you raise vegetables as bonsai, we can use large wooden barrels to fill the living soil, and grow vegetables on it....... most important thing is that each ship must be equipped with at least one doctor, these doctors must be carefully selected good doctors, and there must be sufficient reserves of medicines...
When Li Lu mentioned kimchi, he couldn't help complaining in his heart, obviously kimchi was invented by our Chinese people, but in later generations, it was declared a World Heritage by a shameless country, and it was called the first kimchi in the universe, which was shameless to the extreme.Li Lu was taken aback after looking at the few animal skins that Mao Yingyong and they brought back, "This, this is a kangaroo??"
You guys, you guys actually went to Australia??
”"Your Majesty, you are really powerful, these furs are exactly the kangaroo you mentioned, their young beasts always stay in a bag in the belly of the mother beast......"
Mao Yingying looked at his king with admiration, "It's a pity, we originally brought a few alive, but they, like us, also suffered from that scurvy....."
Li Lu looked at these brave navigators, and sighed very emotionally, "Brothers, you are all real warriors, I want to reward you well, even those who sacrificed, I will not let them sacrifice in vain......"
What did these navigators, including Mao Yingyong, go to sea for, not to achieve fame?
Now that they heard the promise of their commander, they were overjoyed, "Ten thousand wins, ten thousand wins, ten thousand wins!"
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