Chapter 23 The Vertical and Horizontal Launches God knows how desperate Li Zhen was when he learned that there were no chili peppers in the Tang Dynasty after coming to this era.
In the previous life, he was not spicy, but in this life, he can only use garlic and lilies to increase the spiciness......
It's so desperate to say.
In a sense, the reason why Li Zhen came to Lingnan to develop the shipbuilding industry and start the Age of Discovery was to find the Americas one day and get chili peppers - don't think that this reason is nonsense, and don't underestimate the resentment of a foodie.
Although it may be much worse than when Auntie's food attack occurs, it may be much worse than being able to destroy the world, but for the sake of a delicacy, conquering the world is really not a joke, especially if he has this ability.
"Your Highness?
Your Highness?
Zheng Yintao saw that Li Zhen was intoxicated with fantasies, and even saliva was about to flow out, for fear that Li Zhen would make a fool of himself, he hurriedly woke up Li Zhen: "Your Highness, the hour is coming, you should preside over the launching ceremony of the Zonghai." ” The Zonghai is the lead ship of the "Zonghai class", a third-class battleship, with two gun decks, 81 guns, a capacity of 720 people, a standard displacement of 1428 tons, a full load displacement of 1562 tons, and a water trap at the bottom.
The design of the Zonghai class is reasonable and the performance is superior, even in the 19th century British Royal Navy, it is not outdated, and it is the most important combat power of Li Zhen to conquer the sea in the future.
According to Li Zhen's plan, there are a total of 12 'Zonghai class' ships that have started construction in Vietnam, and the first ship is the Zonghai, as long as there is no problem with the sea trials of the Zonghai, the remaining 11 warships will gradually start construction in the next two years, and they should all be delivered to the Yuezhou fleet within three to five years.
In addition to the battleships of the Zonghai class, the Yueju Shipyard will also undertake the design of the first class battleships, preparing them for the future to be able to build first class battleships.
"Oh yes, it's time to get in the water."
Li Zhen came to her senses, touched the corners of her mouth with a little weakness, and found that there was no feeling of wetness, so she immediately breathed a sigh of relief and handed Zheng Yintao an approving look.
As the sacrifices such as five sacrifices and grains were pushed into the sea, in front of the sunken people, everyone on the shore immediately cheered, and the ceremony before the battleship entered the sea was officially completed, and the next thing was the main event.
With Li Zhen's order, the Zonghai was slowly pushed into the sea by the wrestlers.
"Poof!"
"Whoa."
"Whoa."
The Zonghai was smoothly pushed into the sea, and after a few quick ups and downs in the sea, it stopped steadily on the surface of the sea, during which the ship did not make a single abnormal sound, which shows that the structure of the Zonghai is quite compact and the performance is quite reliable.
After going into the water, the next thing is the sea trial, looking at the Zonghai that is gradually moving away, Li Zhen is even more excited, and the excited Zheng Yintao said: "Not bad, this king will make a great contribution for you, if we can really conquer the sea in the future, Zheng Yintao, you are the biggest hero, this king will personally ask his father to knight you." ” "Thank you, Your Highness, your subordinates will do their best to fight for Your Highness's great navigation for the rest of their lives."
Zheng Yintao immediately slapped his ass - although Li Zhen didn't eat it.
"Okay, let's do it, pack a few copies of the drawings and send them to Dengzhou, Minzhou (that is, Fuzhou, at this time it is called Minzhou, Fuzhou was called in the Kaiyuan period) and Quanzhou, let them start work too."
Li Zhen commanded.
"Yes, my subordinates."
Zheng Yintao said a little depressed: "It's just cheaper than those three bastards." ” "Don't complain, I've promised to knight you, those three people don't have this treatment, what else do you have to complain about?"
Li Zhen scolded with a smile.
The manufacturing capacity of the Vietnamese ships is quite good, and twelve warships can be built in three or five years, which is already very fast.
But Li Zhen will not be satisfied that there are only twelve warships in his fleet, in his plan, the future Datang fleet must have at least more than 100 third-class battleships and more than 10 first-class battleships, so many ships, just one Vietnamese ship will definitely not be able to eat, there must be other shipyards to share the responsibility for it.
Li Zhen established many shipyards in Datang, but the most important ones were only four, Dengzhou Shipyard, Minzhou Shipyard, Quanzhou Shipyard and Yuezhou Shipyard.
Originally, Suzhou and Hangzhou were also two major outlets to the sea, and they were also very suitable for building large shipyards, but these two places were the territory of the family, and the officials up and down were all controlled by the family.
If I really dare to build the shipyard there, I am afraid that it will not be long, and I am afraid that they will be able to infiltrate the shipyard from the bottom to the sky.
The shipyard that he worked so hard to build was just a wedding dress for others, and he was afraid that they would also use the shipyard to steal business with themselves - cultivating enemies for themselves, this kind of thing Li Zhen couldn't do, so Li Zhen could only give up these two places and wait for the opportunity in the future.
At present, he also has only four large shipyards, of which the Yue Ship is the largest, with thousands of workers alone, from small ships to large ships, from civilian ships to warships, all have the ability to manufacture separately, and have a separate design department, which can be said to be the most complete shipyard.
In addition to Yuechuan, the Dengzhou Shipyard was the only large shipyard in the north and the first shipyard established by Li Zhen.
In the beginning, the main role of Dengzhou Shipyard was to train workers and transfuse blood for Vietnam and other shipyards, so Dengzhou Shipyard had a very strong ability to train workers, and it also had quite strong ship design capabilities.
It's a pity that the outstanding craftsmen were all sent by Li Zhen to Yuechuan and other shipyards, and the scale was not as good as Yuechuan, so they could only be ranked below Yuechuan.
As for the Fujian and Quanchuan ships, these two shipyards are no less than the scale of the Yue ship and the boarding ship, but because they only have manufacturing capacity and no research ability, they have to be at the bottom of the list.
However, because they only focus on manufacturing, these two companies are even on the top of the ship and boarding the ship in terms of manufacturing capacity.
In Li Zhen's plan, in the next five years, the Yue ship will build 12 longitudinal sea class ships, and the boarding ship will be 10 ships, and at least 15 ships will be built in the spring ship and Fujian ship, plus the accessories produced by Li Zhen's small shipyards throughout the country......
Five years later, the Datang fleet will have at least 60 or more 3rd class battleships and more than 2 1st class battleships.
Five years later, on the entire sea, the sky and the sun will be covered by the Tang Dynasty's fleet, and under the majesty of the Tang Dynasty, other small countries can only hide next to it and tremble.