Gu Sanmazi walked on the "Yu Qian" in a generous manner, looking at the blue sea and blue sky, looking very energetic.

Heiwa, who had also changed into military uniforms, couldn't help but smile and said, "Boss, you are also a general officer now, and you are also a high-ranking official in the entire Ming Dynasty."

"That's right, don't forget, your boss is now the general officer of the Imperial Guard. He is not the general officer of the border army who only knows how to farm. In ancient times, this was the commander of the imperial guards of His Majesty the Emperor. Isn't it said that Lin Chong was the coach of the 800,000 imperial guards? Hehe, what is a coach!"

Gu Sanmazi waved his thumbs up and said.

"Then so, boss, you have become Taiwei Gao now. You have snatched Lin Chong's wife's father, haha." Heiwa and Gu Sanmazi are brothers in trouble. Although they have become people from the court and have become superiors and subordinates, they have not become unfamiliar. Therefore, Heiwa dares to make fun of Gu Sanmazi directly.

Gu Sanmazi is not a person who holds grudges and will not hold grudges with his brothers, but he doesn't like to suffer losses. He hurriedly retorted and said, "What Taiwei Gao? I don't have the qualifications yet. I can only be regarded as the commander of the imperial guards. If you want to talk about Taiwei Gao, then Master Lu Ge is considered. The Ministry of War and the Imperial Guard are both his leaders, and they are also the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet. Do you think he is considered the Grand guard?"

"Ahem, General Gu, please pay attention to your words!"

The person who coughed was Rong Kun, the general law enforcement officer of the South China Sea Fleet and the deputy commander of the Jinyiwei. This person is a graduate of the second phase of the Royal Military Academy. Now he has been appointed as the general law enforcement officer of the South China Sea Fleet and has become famous for directly killing several officers who have strangled the young people. This person even once beat Gu Sanmazi in the military school. Gu Sanmazi hated this evil spirit very much, but he had no choice but to remind himself with a cold face. Gu Sanmazi also regretted his words and closed his mouth, but he was not in the mood to show off again.

Heiwa also left the "Yu Qian" in disappointment and went to his command ship.

The Yu Qian was the second steam-powered warship of the Ming Dynasty, just like the Zheng He. Since the first one was named after Zheng He, Zhu Youxiao simply ordered that the new warships would be named after the Ming Dynasty, and that the Ming Dynasty had created great meritorious civil and military generals, which also encouraged later generations to continue to make great achievements for the Ming Dynasty with their ancestors as role models.

However, due to the improvement of alloy materials and the improvement of precision of some parts, the "Yu Qian"'s steam engine cylinder confidentiality and high temperature resistance are higher, and the aviation is a little faster than the "Zheng He", but it is not much faster. After all, before the first steam-powered warship appeared and the first armored warship appeared, the current technical improvements were only small-scale improvements, and they were not considered a big breakthrough.

Even though the current science and technology exhibition in the Ming Dynasty has entered the fast lane, more and more trained craftsmen and apprentices have entered the Royal Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Ordnance Department for research, and the total number of scientific and technological talents has exceeded 10,000 people, it is still difficult to directly enter an era. What a breakthrough for a warship requires is breakthroughs in steel smelting, machine tool production, precision instrument manufacturing and fuel improvement to facilitate his breakthroughs.

However, many technical fields of the Ming Dynasty have encountered bottlenecks. Although there are more and more application research results based on steam power, basic research has caused the current knowledge to be derailed due to the unsteady approach of the previous path. Many basic research can only rely on a few talented geniuses to support, such as Song Yingxing, Xu Guangqi, etc.

Like now, the Ming Dynasty did not have a systematic theoretical project at this time. Of course, this is related to the fact that the technological progress of the Ming Dynasty was too dependent on Zhu Youxiao's use of the theory. He bought whatever he thought of, paid great attention to practicality, but ignored the consolidation of the scientific theoretical foundation of the Ming Dynasty bit by bit from theoretical knowledge.

Now, Zhu Youxiao had to ask major research institutions, especially the Royal Academy of Sciences, to organize and systematic various scientific and technological theoretical knowledge, and to popularize them to every scientific and technological worker. For this reason, disciplines such as Investigation, Chemical Engineering, and Biology were established by the Royal Academy of Sciences and began to organize personnel to classify knowledge systems.

Therefore, it is difficult to make a major breakthrough in the science and technology of the entire Ming Dynasty in the short term. However, as long as the originally disordered scientific theoretical achievements of the Ming Dynasty are sorted out and classified, more and more professional geniuses will join in. At that time, as long as the theoretical breakthrough is made, a big step in application can be made.

For example, knowledge such as electricity, aerodynamics and other knowledge may appear in the Ming Dynasty in the near future.

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But at this moment, the soldiers on the "Yu Qian" who were responsible for looking at the enemy situation in the distance suddenly fired three white phosphorus bombs.

Seeing this, Gu Sanmazi hurriedly took out the monocular lens in his hand to look at it, but there were countless enemy ships appearing at the distance between the water and the sky, and the flag "Zheng" was blatantly erected.

"General, there are more than a hundred enemy ships ahead!" At this time, the wardrobe also rushed over and reported to Gu Sanmazi about the enemy's situation.

"I have seen it all. The Zheng family is really brave. Last time I wanted to eat our First Fleet in Ryukyu, I was beaten to death by us. Now I want to eat our South China Fleet again. It seems that when Mr. Li scolded him in Quanzhou last time, he didn't give him any memory."

While Gu Sanmazi was talking, the deputy governor of the South China Sea Fleet also came over and asked anxiously: "General Gu, do you think you will immediately raise the alarm and immediately carry out first-level combat preparations?"

"It's not in a hurry. These Zheng family fleets don't seem to have the intention to fight, otherwise they wouldn't have been in the downturn. They would have been more like coming to greet us." Gu Sanmazi said, then put away the monocular lens and ordered someone to bring the map.

The so-called map is a military map recompiled by the Ministry of War based on the Jinyiwei information and the Kunyu Wanguo map. Many new elements have been added to it, and the reefs and bright reefs are also clearly marked.

While Gu Sanmazi looked at him, other officers on the Yu Qian also surrounded him and asked: "General Gu, isn't the Zheng family's fleet just trying to scare us, right?"

"Isn't it just to scare me back? Zheng Zhilong really thinks that Gu Sanmazi is a rat? He retreats when he sees his situation?" Gu Sanmazi said as he said, "Transfer my order, don't worry about the Zheng family's fleet for now, speed up, pass the chicken cage first!"

So, the warships of the South China Sea Fleet completely ignored Zheng Zhibao's fleet and continued to head south.

Zheng Zhibao's fleet also followed, biting the South China Sea fleet.

"The Zheng family's fleet seems to be in dispersed," a military officer complained.

Gu Sanmazi couldn't help but smile and said, "Don't worry about him, let me know, change the direction after passing the chicken cage and rush to Luzon first."

"General, we are going to Guangdong and Guangxi, why are we going further south?" the officer couldn't help asking.

"Hmph, if you don't lead the Zheng family fleet farther away, how can I eat him? Eat him in front of his house? What if Zheng Zhilong is anxious and red-eyed?" Gu Sanmazi smiled.
Chapter completed!