The iron-clad ships were built very quickly. As early as the first year of Yongzheng, Huo Chong's iron smelting plant began to secretly try to cast large castings in addition to making mechanical equipment such as bearings. After Huo Chong began to rebel, he did not care about the large investment in new technologies and new equipment.

When the gas hot balloon machine began to replace the steam engine and provided various power to the reflective iron smelting furnace with a furnace content of more than three cubic meters, the production of large cast iron parts reached a new peak.

In May of the sixth year of Yongzheng, half a year after Yongzheng's death, the first iron-corched boat with material parts was launched. The iron keel bone was fifteen meters long, more than one meter more than expected. Every two feet above, a pair of iron ribs were installed. The width of the wooden board used for the entire boat's hull was no more than 10 cm. The hull was made of a double-layer shell, and the sealing cabin ratio below was larger than that of the pure wooden-corched boat.

A 10-jin cannon with a rifled cannon is installed on the bow of the upper deck of the double-layer deck, and a 1-jin rapid-fire cannon with ten shells weighing one kilogram on both sides of the deck. Four five-jin cannons with slide rails are installed on both sides of the middle deck.

The power is a double-mart hard sail, which is woven with sisal fibers. In addition, paddle wheels are installed on both sides of the ship.

The ship was sailed out and tried for a few days. After a happy life in the sea, Feng Yukuan and other veterans jumped straight on the deck. The sails were light and sturdy, and no matter how strong the wind was, they were fine. The paddle wheels could serve as a good steering assistance and even provide power when facing the wind.

Even if I have many unfamiliarities with driving the new ship, the brothers felt so good by relying on the sail alone.

Four ships were built at the same time this time. One ship had many problems and could only be adjusted in advance. Feng Yukuan hurried back and asked to take advantage of the southeastern wind in the summer to go to Japan.

Huo Chong happened to receive news that he had already destroyed seven or eight Qing Dynasty parodies in Liangshan, and had to agree to Feng Yukuan's request.

There are so many good things in Japan, such as rosin, sulfur, copper, and mercury. These are all war materials.

Although the Qing Dynasty was backward, it was not stupid. While Huo Chong was not strong enough to seize Liangshan, many fortresses were built. No matter how bad the fortress was, it had considerable defensive power. The great man used great technical force to transport 10 kilograms of cannons to the mountains and collapsed the stone walls.

Although the loss of manpower is reduced to the limit, the consumption of materials is huge. We must quickly obtain supplementary channels.

After receiving the order, the Han fleet immediately attacked. Because they were going to Japan, more than fifty people were stuffed on each ship.

The Ming Dynasty flag was raised on the ship and sailed on the route that the maritime merchants were used to. Even if they hadn't been away for ten years, Feng Yukuan was still familiar with the road. The captain and staff next to him held a small notebook and recorded what Feng Yukuan said.

Feng Yukuan was very happy and recalled the glorious years of his youth. After he bragged for a few days, he finally felt like he was in the mood to take care of young people with completely different styles. However, he saw that young people were more fiddling with various navigation equipment.

After asking, I found out that this was a complete set of navigation equipment obtained from the Spanish. It was called a sextant, longitude measurement, etc.

Feng Yukuan had received a lot of geography and celestial knowledge training with young people before. After all, he had run so many sea routes. He always saw the mast first and then the hull. Feng Yukuan could accept the concept that the earth was a ball.

Gravity can also be understood. On the full moon night, the astronomical tide can be used to pull up the sea water by using the moon's gravity.

But Feng Yukuan always couldn't understand why such a ball as Earth could float in the void. Could it be that the ball wouldn't fall off?

When Feng Yukuan saw the equipment controlled by the young man, he sighed in his heart. He was really old and couldn't understand what the young man were doing.

The purpose of this trip was Nagasaki, which was also the most important seaport in Japan in this era. Whether it was Chinese ships, Dutch or other ships, they had to be parked at Nagasaki Port.

This important trading port is located west of Kyushu, Japan, only 900 kilometers away from Shanghai.

The fleet headed straight here, and Feng Yukuan soon saw the familiar terrain and happily guided the ship to the usual handover position.

As soon as I arrived at the place where Japanese ships were supposed to be coming to divert water, I heard the alarm bell in Nagasaki Port. There were already many people running on the shore. There was even movement on the pedal.

Feng Yukuan was shocked. I didn’t hear that Japan was fighting with China. In the past, ships were fine when they arrived here, but why did they suddenly use swords and guns today?

The crew members have never seen such a scene. Most young people have seen the land of another country for the first time, and they don’t even know that Japan is making military preparations.

He ordered people to get off the sail and stop the boat. Feng Yukuan decided to wait a little longer.

At this time, Nagasaki Pinsheng was really scared by the news of the new arrival. He ran to the fort and opened the telescope. As his subordinates said, the fleet preparing to enter the port consisted of three ships. The shape of the ship itself was very strange, very different from ordinary Chinese ships. On the contrary, it was somewhat similar to European ships.

That's all. The flag fluttered on the mast and was blown by the sea breeze. The big Chinese characters on it were, "Ming"!

The style of the flag and the text on it. This is the ship of the Ming Dynasty! It has been sixty years since the Ming Dynasty left Japan in Japan, the ship of the Ming Dynasty, and the ship of the Ming Dynasty has arrived outside Nagasaki Port.

"Your Excellency, could it be...the Ming Navy?" the subordinates next to him asked nervously.

This phrase is completely Japanese in style. The so-called "Ming Dynasty Navy" is by no means the literal official navy of the Ming Dynasty. It translates the Japanese language into Chinese, which is "Ming Dynasty Pirates".

When Nagasaki heard about it, he felt something was right. The Ming Dynasty had been destroyed for decades, and many Ming dynasties fled to Japan to live. Feng Zheng had seen it when he was a child.

Now, there is a fleet of ships flying the Ming Dynasty, which is suspicious no matter how it is. Thinking of this, Feng Zhe suddenly had an idea and ordered: "Fire a few shots!"

If the other party was a pirate, when he saw Nagasaki firing at them, he would probably know that he had been seen through. He should have left in shame.

In Japan, what the matter itself is doesn’t matter. What’s important is not to bother others. If you make things happen, it will undoubtedly disturb others. If you disturb your fellow classmate, you will be resentful. If you miss your superiors, you may be prepared to commit suicide by septum.

Feng Yukuan waited and felt something was wrong. Why was the cannon on the Japanese fortress pushed outside the artillery tower?

The naval personnel traveling here were also puzzled and asked Feng Yukuan, "Master Feng, what does the Japanese mean?"

"I'm afraid I want to fire at us?" Feng Yukuan was not very confident in explaining. It was also the first time he saw the Japanese fort react like this.

"Fire the artillery?" The fleet commander was a young man named Mei Qian, who had been following Huo Chong for five years. Hearing this, Mei Qian immediately shouted: "Steam engine! Start! Artillery, in place. Once the Japanese fire, they will blow up their cannons!"

The sail-powered steamboat immediately took action. When the ships were started, the gunners were ready for artillery battle. Only then did the Japanese turret fire its first gun.

The shells flew to a distance of more than fifty meters away from the Dahan fleet. Meigan was a little confused. It took another fifty meters to hit the Dahan Navy's ship.

Because he was born into an artillery, Mei Gan knew very well that fifty meters was not a distance that could be ignored for a cannon. Looking at the splashes caused by Japanese shells when they entered the water, the shells might be three kilograms of cannons.

The range of the three-jin cannon is only 400 meters, and it must be the carefully made artillery like the big man. Is this gun only so far?

Pushed by the steam engine paddle wheel, the ship sailed about 800 meters away from the Japanese fort and stopped.

Seeing the Ming fleet leave, Nagasaki breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "Souga! The other party is indeed a navy army!"

After the words were finished, the "Ming Navy" suddenly spit out a roll of eyes on the bow of the ship. It turned out that the guy who looked at the strange one turned out to be a real cannon. The "Ming Navy" began to fight back.

Feng Yukuan felt uncomfortable by the loud noise and vibration of the cannons, so he could only retreat to the stern of the boat and watched the young man fighting fiercely.

The three cannons were extremely accurate, and the shells fell near the Japanese fortress. Just as Feng Yukuan thought about how long it would take to hit the Japanese fortress, he saw thick smoke suddenly rising from the Japanese fortress. He could even see something being smashed and flew out from a distance.

The young men of the Han Navy cheered. Mei Gan ordered: "Catch up! Go to Edo!"

With Spanish sailors leading the way, the fleet left Nagasaki, first entered the Seto Inland Sea, crossed the relatively stable sea surface, and drove into the Pacific Ocean. Then we walked north carefully and finally saw a huge bay.

"It's Edo when you go in," said the Spanish sailor.

Meikan gathered everyone together and took out Huo Chong's warrant again, "Comrades! The governor has his order. If Nagasaki Port allows us to trade in Hong Kong, we will trade with them well. If Nagasaki does not allow us to enter Hong Kong, we will fight to Edo and find the shogunate to reason!"

Feng Yukuan had heard of it once and had seen this document stamped with the seal of the Han Governor. However, hearing this "reasoning" method again still made Feng Yukuan very uncomfortable.

From the perspective of the Chinese, this is not justified, and it is already a sign of being unreasonable. And everyone is facing Japan after all, it is a country. Just three boats go to the capital to block the door. Is it really possible?

"Can you trust the governor?" Mei Gan asked loudly.

"Faith!" the young soldiers responded in unison.

"The governor said that when he was able to go to Beijing to kill Yongzheng, he personally brought his brothers into Beijing. He killed Yongzheng and avenged everyone! Now the governor told us in his hand that he would block the Edo outside and fight them. Japan would promise to do business with us. I can trust the governor, do you believe it?"

"Faith!" the young soldiers continued to shout.

Feng Yukuan didn't say anything. But seeing that he had never seen anything around him, according to the drawings, the ship drove hundreds of miles, or even thousands of miles.
Chapter completed!