Chapter 49 Yuan Kou
Outside Kaohsiung Port, the fleet set sail and gradually drifted away. Until the shadow of the sail disappeared in the sky, Empress Dowager Yang moved back to the palace. This was her last time in public. Since then, Empress Dowager Yang was deprived of the power to raise the emperor and was sent to the cold palace to be under house arrest. The education and growth of Emperor Zhao Bing were responsible for the ministers.
The overseas trade of the Song Dynasty was very developed, and sea ships were built quite large. These fifty ships were loaded with food, drinking, water, weapons and ammunition, and were equipped with sextant and compass made by the Party's patriotism. They were definitely considered an important navy in the world. In the 11th century AD, the era of great navigation had not yet begun. Australia and North and South America were not discovered by European colonists. Endless territory and treasures were waiting for them to conquer and seize as long as they were willing.
But the time travelers did not replace Columbus and Magellan's ambitions. They still had their homeland and focused on how to return to the base time and space. Therefore, after leaving Kaohsiung, the fleet headed south and crossed the Bashi Channel, which was Luzon Island in the Philippines. Now this place is called Mayi, and it is still an uncivilized land.
A few days later, the fleet arrived at Mayi, and in the eastern part of Luzon Island, anchored and moored in the natural excellent harbor, landed in and established a base. The first to board the land was Liu Handong. He held a flag of the Song Dynasty and inserted the flagpole on the beach and announced loudly: "From then on, this will be the territory of the Song Dynasty."
Although the Song Dynasty had been expelled from the Central Plains by the Mongols, it was still the orthodox Han family. Time travelers did not have the ambition to establish a country and still regarded themselves as Song people. No one had any objection to this.
The local indigenous peoples in Mayi were still in a barbaric state and were unable to compete with the colonists. They had to let them cut trees and burn bricks by the sea, build houses and castles, and slowly take root.
The number of new immigrants in this group is only 1,500, men account for the vast majority, and only a handful of women is 38, among which 30 are women. Guan Lu, Zhen Yue and Lu Zhu are the second largest female camp, and the few remaining people are the wives of pirates. More men and fewer women bring a serious problem, and it is difficult for immigrants to reproduce their offspring efficiently and expand their population.
Of course there is a way. The easiest way is to intermarry with the local natives of Mayi, but the Southeast Asian race is short, black and thin, and the mixed races born with them will not look good, which is really difficult.
A castle was quickly completed by the sea. Dang Paiguo named it Xinbianjing. He is an excellent time traveler with a large amount of ancient life knowledge and can quickly improve living conditions in any dynasty. As the saying goes, literary can bring peace to the world, and martial arts can immediately determine the world. This is not a brag. Dang Paiguo is a professor in the Department of History. He reads the Four Books and Five Classics, can recite famous poems and songs in history, can dictate the palace examination articles of the top scholars in the imperial examinations of various dynasties, and also writes a beautiful small flies-headed calligraphy. He can make cement, steel and iron smelting, build European-style three-masted ships, fire glass, and make steam engines and iron-clad ships. In time, he can conquer the earth.
But now he is trapped in the pain of longing for love.
People will change their moods with the environment. The Party Patriotic country, which is based on time and space, is a diamond princess. He never lacks women around him. He rarely gets into feelings for anyone. He plays every show and takes his own needs. His original intention of sleeping in Empress Dowager Yang is not very pure. He just wants to satisfy his small and dirty thoughts in his heart. Sleeping in a woman with respect for his identity. The young and beautiful empress dowager in the exile court is the best choice. At first, he thought he would not be moved. When he left Kaohsiung, he also felt that he would come out quickly, but the fact is that as long as he was idle, the figure of Empress Dowager Yang would appear in his mind.
Empress Dowager Yang, whose boudoir is Yang Wanyi, is the concubine of Song Duzong. A widow who has lost her husband and children is already pitiful enough. Even the happiness of the rest of her life is to be brought into it. How sad is it? Party Patriotic feels that it is useless. So what if you can make steel, burn bricks, and build steam engines? Even your own women cannot be protected. What a man.
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Liuqiu, Kaohsiung Prefecture, the right prime minister Wen Tianxiang inspected the brick kiln port. The smoke exhaust holes in the brick kiln were blocked by the furnace ash, and all 100,000 bricks were scrapped. This is the sequelae of the party's patriotism's departure. Although he taught his skills without reservation and the craftsmen also learned how to operate, the workers knew it but did not know why. If there was no accident, they would be unable to deal with it.
The problem of burning bricks can be solved. At most, you can give up the red bricks and continue to burn the blue bricks and tiles. However, the work of the military weapon station cannot be made at all. Especially the production of artillery, which was the killer weapon to restore the country in the Song Dynasty. After the Party and Patriotic Country left, all the work of the military weapon station also fell into a state of half-stop. The quality of the steel refined was not good, and all downstream production was affected.
It was only then that Wen Tianxiang realized the importance of the party’s patriotism, and he couldn’t help but lament: “God will not help me to the Song Dynasty.”
The drizzling winter rain fell, and the flowing winter was also cold. In the cold wind and rain, Wen Tianxiang was on the Imperial College, with the sound of books coming from the sound of books of sages. Here, the teaching work of sages was restored, and no more learning of any mathematical study.
Wen Tianxiang stood outside the school building and listened for a while. The students recited the Hundred Family Names. Suddenly, he thought. If the Imperial College could cultivate talents who replaced the party and patriotism, wouldn’t it solve a big problem? Those mathematical materials for Investigation are of great use. He quickly found the Imperial College and asked him where the textbooks compiled by the Eight Immortals were.
"It's all sent to fill the furnace." Master Jijiu said contemptuously. He was a serious scholar and the descendant of Zhu Xi, and he was most disgusted and hated by fallacies and evil deeds.
Wen Tianxiang hurried to the kitchen of the Imperial College and took out some broken scrolls from under the stove. He couldn't help but feel heartbroken. However, the order to abolish the mathematical investigation was issued by himself, so he had to knock off his teeth and swallow it with blood.
After leaving the Imperial College, Prime Minister Wen's carriage went to Kaohsiung Port again. The plan to exchange industrial products for grain formulated by the Party and the Patriotic Republic of China is still in progress. The cheap rice trafficked from Chameng feeds Kaohsiung's population of 300,000. The high-yield Chameng rice is also planted in the crop fields outside the city. With the increase of arable land, it will be self-sufficient in a few years.
The sea was foggy and covered with clouds. Wen Tianxiang retracted his thoughts and looked at a strange three-masted ship in the harbor. This was a warship designed and built by the Party Patriotic Kingdom. It has not been officially completed. Although there are drawings, no one can follow the construction. If this warship is equipped with three hundred cannons, it will be a giant at sea.
Wen Tianxiang comforted the craftsmen with kind words and asked them to try their best to build the warships. Those who offer suggestions will be rewarded with great rewards, but looking at the craftsmen's frown, it is afraid that it will be difficult for a thousand gold medals to take effect.
The sea breeze brought the sailors' unscrupulous laughter and scolding. Wen Tianxiang, who was sitting in the sedan chair, listened to him and heard that the Eight Immortals had gone to Ma Yi, and he was building up wasteland and reclamation under the banner of the Song Dynasty, and spreading branches and leaves.
"If it weren't for the filthy palace, they would have been considered loyal ministers and good generals." Wen Tianxiang thought, but affair with the Empress Dowager was a taboo and could not be compatible.
Wen Tianxiang was about to return home when he suddenly heard the sedan chairwoman's scream: "Sir, there is a boat on the sea!"
Isn’t it normal to have a boat on the sea? There are no hundreds of sea boats entering Kaohsiung Port every day. Wen Tianxiang’s face sank and he lifted the curtain to scold him, but his hands froze.
On the foggy sea surface, at the end of the sky, there is a shadow of a mast and sail coming from west to east.
Could it be that the Eight Immortals are back? Wen Tianxiang was a little relieved, but his suspicion arose again. If he came from Ma Yi, he should have come from the south rather than the west.
He took out the Thousand Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile, which was also the invention of the Party’s patriotism. It was a monocular telescope made of natural crystals that could see situations in extremely distant places. It was most useful in naval battles.
In the camera, the mast is like a forest and the flag is flying, which is a word "yuan".
The sea fog dissipated and the sun was shining brightly. An extremely large fleet on the sea level showed its true form. The shapes of these warships were very strange. The bows were painted with hideous beast heads, the hull was covered with black iron armor, and dense gun holes on both sides of the ship's side.
"No, the Pu family does not have warships of this kind." Wen Tianxiang was shocked and puzzled. Within a year, the Yuan Dynasty could not have built such a huge fleet, and the style of these warships was different from any sea ship he remembered. It was somewhat similar to the three-masted ships designed by Dang Paiguo.
Before they knew it, the Yuan army navy concealed the suspicion of Fujian and Guangdong, broke through the defense line of Penghu, and went straight outside Kaohsiung Port.
The bell echoed inside and outside Kaohsiung Port. The Song army warships rushed to meet the enemy. The two sides launched a fierce naval battle near the sea outside the port.
Navy Marshal Zhang Shijie rushed over to watch the battle with Wen Tianxiang. He said confidently: "Prime Minister, don't panic. Our army has magical weapons and powerful weapons in hand. No matter how many Tartar boats there are, it's useless."
The Song army warships were generally equipped with ship-based artillery guns. This type of gun is longer than the barrel of the land gun and has a larger tonnage. In order to ensure the range, it is not in the form of a mother-child gun, but a standard bore gun. The launcher is a rated charge in a silk bag. The charge amount is selected according to the range and the shells also have solid bullets, flowering bullets and chain bullets. The latter is a special artillery shell for naval battles. It is linked with iron chains for two iron balls. It is quickly swung after being fired out of the bore, which is extremely destructive to the wooden hull.
With this sharp firearm, Zhang Shijie was naturally full of confidence. He sneered and raised the Thousand Mile Mile Mile Mile, hoping to see the men smash the Yuan army warship with cannons, but what he saw was that the Yuan army warship also extended artillery.
The two armies rushed forward, and high water columns rose up from the sea. They were splashes of water from the dead shells. Occasionally, ships were shot, wood chips flew everywhere, and casualties were killed and injured. This battle was different from any previous naval battle. The protagonist was no longer a bow and crossbow, but gunpowder and artillery shells. The casualties and bloodiness of the war directly increased.
"When did the Mongolians have artillery?" Zhang Shijie put down the Qianli Mile Mile Mile, shocked and depressed.
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Chapter completed!