In addition to the treasure ship more than 200 years ago, this should be considered the most majestic sea ship in Asia. It is 75 meters long, more than 20 meters wide, two-story black artillery cabins, and a tail building that is more than ten meters high behind it. If calculated based on the material, it is a circle larger than the largest warship in the Ming Dynasty today, and it can have almost five thousand materials.

This ship was enough to shock Mao Jue. I really don’t know what the two rows of ten-mast treasure ships look like with more than 200 meters.

These seven warships cost a lot. Even in the twelfth month of winter, the construction did not stop. The hot water in the bathhouse burned with coal was hot. The boatman nailed the boat board in the cold and waist-length cold water and then dried the skeleton for ten minutes. When he was frozen, he immediately went to the cold pool to soak it, then went to the warm water, and finally took the hot water. When he came out, he followed these three procedures and finally got the biting sea water. Fortunately, there was no labor security in this era, otherwise Mao Jue would have to be sued for heaven.

Six teams took turns working shifts, relying on the large number of people, one winter, they forced the warship Mao Jue wanted.

These were also the efforts of Goryeo scholar Yin Shu. Welcoming Mao Jue to come for acceptance was also regarded as a top priority. When the army entered the shipyard, more than 6,000 workers welcomed each other. Fortunately, they did not cheer with hammers and saws, otherwise it would be too scary.

It was so good that the provincial leaders came to inspect the situation. Mao Jue led the officers' regiment to walk in the middle of the road, and from time to time, he waved his hands like both sides. Of course, if there were a number of red flag cars following behind, there would be even more. He walked to the bottom of the pond, and Yin Shu had already been waiting there. He bowed heavily, and he reached out to make a call with great pride.

"Jiang Ye! The craftsmen in the shipyard are full of gratitude! I'll wait for you to come, so I'll preside over the launch of the new ship!"

The warship has been built for several days, and it is purely a flattering thing that Yin Shu wants to play. Leave the headlines to Mao Jue, just like the first time it was a big girl. However, when Mao Jue saw this warship, he was really satisfied and didn't care about the stupid things he had stopped working for several days. He rolled up his sleeves very much.

"Okay, if you do well, let me get off to a good start in the future!"

After saying that, Mao Jue regretted it.

When watching TV, the new boats were hitting the bow with champagne, but the new boats in the Ming Dynasty were a bit strange. When a few were launched, they threw a few sacrifices into the water. The best sacrifice was jade, and this time they used jade.

Not to mention the sacrifice, the key is that he still has to read the sacrifice. Although Yin Shu is a scholar of Goryeo, the sacrifice he wrote is as sharp and obscure as the scholar of the Central Plains, stinking and long, and difficult to pronounce. In front of tens of thousands of subordinates and shipyard workers, what is the guzheng, baizhu, and Mao Jue, he didn't recognize the first sentence.

Fortunately, being a leader can also exercise IQ. At the critical moment, Mao Jue scolded Yin Shu while not blushing, and was chanting Kong Hou Jiahuang. Anyway, those who knew the words below were less than one row, and he would read whatever he could not read. Not to mention, except for Yin Shu, the remaining rude men were worshipping Mao Jue's "sky literary talent" and "experienced knowledge".

"The God of the North Sea, bless me to sail! Sacrifice every year, and the sea has been around for a hundred years!"

It took Mao Jue a full half an hour to read the sacrificial text. He almost yelled out the last few words. After reading them, seven jade talismans engraved with a pattern of auspiciousness and wishes were thrown into the sea by him. As several splashes of water splashed, the entire Xiongjin Shipyard roared again.

The tide continued to brush the coastline, flooding large areas of wet mudflats. The days when a large ship was launched usually need to be calculated. It must be at the time of the tide. Mao Jue's army came over and chose a day. As the tide overflowed the dam opening of the shipbuilding dam cave built by Li Shunchen, it poured into the shipyard. As the water flow gradually rose, the heavy warships in the pond floated up little by little.

To be honest, these Li Dynasty people are very exaggerated. They are good at meticulous arguments and never thought about meticulous construction. Take the Nanhan Mountain City near Wangjing for example. This was once an ancient city of Goguryeo. It had a dangerous terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack. After experiencing the Japanese turmoil in the Renchen, the officials of the Li Dynasty, who learned from the pain, discussed the renovation of the Nanhan Mountain City. Once an enemy attacked, they could provide a shelter to the Li Dynasty royal family and ministers. However, the actual construction was delayed until twenty-two years later, and they relied on issuing certificates to monks and semi-forcedly conscripted monks to build it. It was announced that it was completed in just one year of construction. The quality of this project can be imagined.

A few years ago, the Dingmao chaos, and the Later Jin army fought to the city of Wangjing in one go. North Korea Inzu didn't even dare to stay in the Nanhan Mountain City, and fled to Jianghua Island. It also showed from one side how sloppy the Li Dynasty was. Fortunately, Li Shunchen was not such a person! The Xiongjin Shipyard had carefully designed and built this series of water conservancy facilities. The turtle ship that defeated Toyotomi Hideyoshi drove to the battlefield from here. Even though Mao Jue has privately changed the size of the pond, as the tide was at the forefront, the huge and heavy warship still left the birthplace and slowly climbed onto the boat embankment.

"One, two, three, pull! One, two, three! Use force!"

Tens of thousands of ship workers put down the work they were working, pulled the ropes they tried, and used all their energy to pull them, dragging the warships to the sea, in front of the dam, and a special towing boat in the water, standing at the bow and looking down, they were as small as a group of ants, but these tiny workers dragged the giant forward slowly.

It was like a newborn baby giving birth, and it was extremely difficult to pass through this narrow waterway. When the lock was at the moment, the boatmen opened the gate and released the water again. This time, Mao Jue clearly felt the shock and bumps. The huge hull thrust into the sea with the current. With a thud, the bow of the boat hit the deep water for a few meters. The splashing waves even flooded the small half of the boat. Mao Jue's body instantly turned into a chicken and leaned against the sails and cables, and did not fall into the sea. After entering the water, the hull swayed violently to the left and right several times. Then he finally stopped. Whether on the boat or on the shore, his heart fell back into his stomach, and a large number of cheers rang out.

"Bless the sea god!"

This important step was finally completed. Mao Jue ordered the Oriental warships he was supervising to withstand the postgraduate entrance examination in the sea. The sailors quickly pulled up the sails on the bow. The sea breeze bulged enough strength to push the hull. The whole boat rushed to the deep sea happily and happily like an arrow off the string.

Although his clothes were still wet and the sea was dripping downward, Mao Jue's mood was also surging at this moment. He seemed to have found the feeling of Captain Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean". Standing at the bow of the ship, it seemed that the whole world could be conquered by him. The spirit was so vigorous that it could not be described in words.

"Master Jiang, give this boat a name?"

Seeing Mao Jue feeling happy, Yin Shu also came to join in the fun. With his excited suggestion, he pinched his chin. Mao Jue really thought for a while before nodding.

"Just call it the Black Pearl! This ship is covered with black tung oil, and it is the pearl of our Dongjiang Town, the Black Pearl! It deserves its name!"

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It is not that easy to launch the new ship. It took about four days before Mao Jue lifted his three warships down the water. However, Mao Jue could not mention the last four. As time does not allow it. The tide of this month has passed. Jeolla, the army of Li Shanhai of the Southern People's Party has gathered. Mao Jue needs to turn with him before the Japanese pirates launch an attack on the Li Dynasty and will not wait for next month.

Another more realistic problem is that there are no cannons equipped with the last four warships. The sail battleship from Spain is large, but it seems to be really a cannon. Two meters per cannon, and the bow and stern of the hull of more than 70 meters will be removed. Sixty cannons are installed on the first floor of the cannon cabin, and two layers of it will be 120. Moreover, marine cannons must be specially made, and the weight tonnage cannon mounts are different from land war artillery.

After all, he is an engineering student. Mao Jue's artillery workshop is also different from the traditional Ming Dynasty's cannon casting methods. The artillery workshops in Jiangnan all use mud molds to cast cannons, while Mao Jue uses mud molds to cast iron molds first, and then uses iron molds to cast cannons.

Traditional mud molds contain water vapor, which can easily cause trachoma and hollows on the cannon. The waste rate is extremely high. It is also affected by the weather. A mud mold often takes several months or even a year to produce a cannon. This is also one of the reasons why it took thousands of taels to cast a red cannon in the Ming Dynasty. In contrast, there is not so much talkative matter in the iron mold. As long as the pig iron liquid refining process is done in place, a production team composed of several masters can almost one cannon a day, and the cost of artificial coal and iron materials is only a few dozen taels.

But even with this high output, a large number of cannons were cast in four months, and 360 ship cannons would soon be exhausted by the iron old man in the blacksmith shop. Otherwise, because Mao Jue gave him a lot of salary and benefits, someone would probably have already been running away.

With ships or guns, this sail battleship is not as good as Mao Jue bringing the forty or fifty-meter-long lucky ship. At least it is equipped with more than twenty bronze cannons. On the fourth day, he ordered Yin Shu to toss out the ship next month and then headed to Tieshan Port, and then continued to build a large sailing ship for him. On the other hand, Mao Jue could only bring a BMW with Rolls-Royce money, and led his three armed battleships and several small functional ships to sail to the south of Li's North Korea first.

However, Mao Jue's character of being fed up with the new and old was also revealed. He had originally lent a few big lucky ships to him as the main battleship, so he retreated all of them. The guards who led the team stood at the bow of the ship and cursed.

On March 15th, when the imperial edict sent by Emperor Chongzhen arrived at Pi Island, Mao Jue's fleet had actually arrived in the southern part of Gyeongsang Road, and the army of Li Shanhai of the Southern People's Party was merged between Zhen Island and Mopo outside the Lee Korean Sea.

This is still a special place. During the Japanese turmoil in the Ionchen period, Lee Sun-sen defeated the huge naval army of 133 Japanese pirates and more than 200 supply ships in the Mingliang Strait between Zhendao and Mopo in twelve slab boats. In the later era of Mao Jue, the Koreans also made the movie "The Battle of Mingliang" for this.
Chapter completed!