The ride of the four-masted sailboat is quite good.

At least on the Grand Canal, Liu Mingqi couldn't feel the bumps at all.

But this is also very normal.

The flow of rivers and the sea are completely different concepts.

The waves on the sea can reach a height of more than 100 meters. Can you see this on the river?

Due to terrain and environmental factors, even if rivers are flooded, most of them will not be able to have any waves of dozens of meters. This is the case, but there are very few such places.

The four-masted sailboat weighs 3,000 tons. If it can sail on rivers, it must be a big river. If it is a smaller place, it can only be stranded.

But when it comes to the sea, it's completely different.

A wooden boat worth only 3,000 tons cannot withstand one or two super strong winds, let alone a tornado.

This requires a good motivation.

At least you can see the tornado far away in the sky and avoid the power of its path.

The four-masted sailboat is not bad now. If it is fully activated, there will be more than 300 rowers in the bottom cabin rowing. Under the wind, the fastest speed can reach 60 miles per hour.

This speed is enough to get rid of the tornado with good vision.

But if it is encountered suddenly, it will be a bit unlucky.

This is also the reason why Liu Mingqi is stepping up research on steam engines.

Once steam power is created, the speed can soar rapidly when the instant explosion occurs.

Tornadoes cannot be encountered every day, but the enemy is possible.

The four-masted sailboat has strong defensive power and attack power, but the problem is that it is too large and cannot sail at all.

In the real pursuit, it can play a very small role.

So next year, Chen Xiaowei and Xu Dongping will go to sea. In addition to five four-masted sailboats, there will be many ships and sea falcons to cooperate.

Otherwise, it would be a disaster for the four-masted sailboat.

Let’s not talk about Zheng Chenggong’s father burning the Dutch ship with a small fire boat and gaining absolute hegemony in the southeastern waters.

Just talking about the destruction of the Spanish Invincible Armada in 1588 can fully illustrate the facts.

The Spanish Invincible Armada in 1588 was really an invincible existence. Whether it was defense or attack power, it was the best in the world at that time.

So when Great Britain fought against it, including themselves, they were in a desperate and pessimistic attitude, and they went there with the determination to die.

What's the result?

As a result, everyone knows that Great Britain defeated the Spanish Invincible Armada and became the Empire of the Sun never set.

How did the Spanish Invincible Armada lose?

It's just that I lose in this flexibility.

Let's not talk about the specific thrills, just to put it simply, that is, the Royal Navy carried the fierce attack of the Invincible Armada while using flexible small cannon boats to directly attack the Invincible Armada, and used ants tactics to chew off one Invincible Armada warship after another, which finally made the Spaniards unable to survive and could only end up losing.

With such a lesson, Liu Mingqi must not only let the four-masted sailboats go out, but all the ships of all sizes must be gathered together.

Even if the burden is a little bit greater, you must adapt to this kind of combat method.

Otherwise, once you lose in a large-scale battle, you will never have a place to turn over like an invincible fleet.

So this year Chen Xiaowei ordered ten large ships and ten large sea falcons. My uncle had originally ordered the same amount of large ships last year, but this year it doubled, with the same configuration as Chen Xiaowei.

This is a huge deal.

The shipyards in the world are heard from the news. Each company has ordered several ships, and the profit is as high as tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Miao Yan is actually very jealous too.

He also wants to grab these orders back.

However, the technical reserves of the canal shipyards are insufficient, and the technology requirements for these ships that are already very familiar to the people are not yet meeting the requirements.

Secondly, the masters recruited by the Cao Shipping Shipyard were all involved in the manufacturing of four-masted sailboats.

They have no time to overcome these difficulties all day long, so why are they still free to produce these small boats?

Therefore, Miao Yan did not say this to Liu Mingqi.

Fortunately, Miao Yan didn't say it, otherwise Liu Mingqi would tell him what the danger of official monopoly is.

Neither private monopoly nor official monopoly is a good thing. Only when the two checks and balances and promotes each other is the best way to develop.

...

After coming down from the pier, Liu Mingqi heard that Su Feng had arrived at his residence and was waiting for him.

As the number one person in Zhejiang, Su Feng is still very busy, and the things he came here in person must not be simple.

Liu Mingqi understood that it must be related to the attack.

Liu Renhuai and Miao Yan are both leaders in charge of pursuing the case, but they are both very busy. It is natural that Su Feng comes over to replace Liu Renhuai, and his identity is not embarrassing.

Sure enough, Su Feng, who met Liu Mingqi, told one thing.

He reported: "Your Highness, you have found out that these Japanese people were all those who were ambushed during the invasion last year. They were hiding in the mountains at first, and then they waited until Lin Hao came back from Japan before they came into contact with each other and came to Huai'an City."

Liu Mingqi was a little puzzled, "How did they know I was coming to Huai'an City?"

"It's very simple. Didn't you create the four-masted sailboat? You'll probably come when it is delivered!" Su Feng said, "not to mention that they have another purpose this time, that is, to kill Mrs. Chen in Huaian City, and then Lord Miao will definitely be implicated. Maybe Huaian City will be in chaos and they will have the opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of the situation."

"Um……"

The boy nodded as he listened.

These Japanese people were hiding deep enough, and I don’t know if there were any other hidden Japanese pirates besides them.

The boy asked again: "Where is Lin Hao? How did he come out?"

"He pretended to be a businessman on an overseas island and came back with the caravan." Su Feng said, "According to those merchants, Lin Hao was very generous and cheerful. No one expected that he was the beast. Even the customs officials did not recognize him in accordance with the portrait drawings."

This is the shortcoming of ancient times.

If it were modern facial recognition and fingerprint recognition, Lin Hao would not have come in so quietly unless he was airborne.

Xi Kan has already interrogated the ins and outs of the collusion between the Wang family and the Yan family and Lin Hao.

Su Feng has also clarified the matter of how the Japanese pirates came about before.

There is only one left.

Where did those wooden handle grenades and hell cocktails come from.

Su Feng also talked about this: "We don't understand the origin of the Hell cocktails, but judging from the remaining things, the hell cocktails they made are more kerosene than our gasoline. Although the power is not as good as that, there are too many sources available, which is difficult to verify."

Liu Mingqi also understood what he said.

As long as you understand the principles of the Hell cocktail, it is relatively simple to make.

Even you can use oil.

The difference is that because oil is too viscous, it is impossible for it to explode and burn like gasoline in an instant, causing great damage.

Kerosene undoubtedly has many similarities with gasoline in this regard.

The distribution of kerosene is naturally very wide, and Japan also produces a small amount, and Dakang has even become popular among the middle-level wealthy families. In any village, you can find out how many families use kerosene.

"We also have clues to the remaining wooden grenades." Su Feng said: "According to the large-scale inspection and review, we found that a group of borers appeared in the Northern Navy fleet. Zhang Gongli arrested them for strict interrogation and found that they reselled the wooden grenades."

“Resell wooden handle grenade?”

Liu Mingqi took a breath as she heard this: "Isn't this stolen secretly? Did they sell it directly?"

"right!"

Su Feng also had a bitter face, "The wooden grenade produced in Jiangnan is the first to supply the Northern Navy and Southern Navy, and then the major cities along the coast.

These Northern Navy borers, from the warehouse link to the subsequent training consumption, have crazily sold more than 700 wooden grenades in such half a year!"

"More than seven hundred!?"

Liu Mingqi was sweating coldly, but immediately he felt something was wrong: "No, Lin Hao and the others can only have one or two hundred at most, not many at all! If there were more than seven hundred, I would have been finished long ago!"

If Lin Hao throws hundreds of wooden grenades directly over, he can break Liu Mingqi's defense.

More than 700 pieces were thrown together, and Liu Mingqi would be seriously injured even if she didn't die.

"The more than 700 wooden grenades are not sold to a family. They said they were sold to more than a dozen families in total, all of which were overseas merchants." Su Feng said: "They thought that the merchants sold to foreign countries would hide their traces. Unexpectedly, Lin Hao's people were among them. After he took them, they would assassinate you directly."

After a pause, Su Feng said again: "Your Highness, your defense is very tight, especially in Dingxiang Building, so they don't have an opportunity to take advantage of it. Otherwise, if they explode directly in Dingxiang Building... the consequences will be unimaginable."

indeed.

Liu Mingqi was going to Dingxianglou for dinner. His guards and the guards of the Embroidered Guards searched everyone. All corners were checked clearly, and even the floor was lifted to check.

In this case, the wooden grenade cannot be brought in.

But Liu Mingqi always felt something was wrong.

As long as they want, they can always find opportunities.

As the best assassination location, Dingxianglou is naturally the most suitable one.

Anyway, they prepared all the dead soldiers, so they threw the wooden grenade and rushed over with the wooden grenade that pulled the fuse away. There is hope for them to die with Liu Mingqi.

Why did I escape from Dingxiang Tower and they used wooden grenades?

This doesn't make sense from logic.

Unless Lin Hao never thought about taking my life from the beginning?

No no no no!
Chapter completed!