After the old man signed a contract with the Florians in Macau last year, Zhao Hao dragged it until the end of the year, and finally returned two Western sailboats.

He delayed the time mainly to allow Jiangnan Shipyard to reassemble the disassembled Oriental Beauty. Yang Fan was indeed Niu Boyi, but he actually put it together for them. In order to allow the poor Oriental Beauty to sail to Macau safely, it is said that the light nails and iron hoops were added to a total of 5,000 kilograms, just like the big sailing wind to the rivet.

As a result, the Oriental Beauty drove from Chongming Island to Xiangshanao, but it did not fall apart at all. As for what will happen in the future, whether it will fall apart as soon as the gun fires, it has nothing to do with Jiangnan Group.

Most of the Portuguese crew members, including Major Alfonso, returned to Macau. However, there were also those who chose to stay and not go back like Pinto and Blanco.

Pinto was afraid of going back to be a scapegoat. Blanco and others gave too much to Mr. Zhao, and were mothers. Although the Ming Dynasty stipulated that foreigners were not allowed to enter the border without tribute, they could only work in the shipyard and live in Xingang City, but it was a hundred times better than the storm that only sheep were living on a ship.

Now Pinto is a full-time professor at the Danluo Island Coast Guard School, and Blanco is a special engineer at the Jiangnan Shipyard. In order to listen to both sides, Zhao Hao also brought them on this trial voyage.

Both of them are proud of Western sail suits, especially full sail suits. They believe that the test results are due to the fact that all three ships are too small. If they were replaced with the Oriental Beauty, the unparalleled speed advantage of Western sails is reflected. Because larger ships can be equipped with larger and more full sail suits, the larger the hull, the faster the speed.

For example, the speed of the Oriental Beauty when it is downwind is not as good as the Duke of Goa, which has a backward ship shape. The Chinese sail is not as good as the weight of the sail itself, and it cannot increase infinitely with the increase of the ship. If a large warship of more than 1,000 tons is built, a small horse will pull a big cart.

Therefore, the more obvious the advantages of the ship's Atlantic sails! Therefore, large warships still need to use Western full sailing suits!

Yang Fan disagreed with this. He believed that Peng Fan's shortcomings could be overcome. If he was too heavy, he could try to lose weight, and he could also install rigging to reduce the burden on sailors.

As for the full sail suit that the red-haired ghost was proud of, he laughed. Because through communication with the Furang boatman, he knew that this kind of sail suit was suddenly appeared in Europe without any warning during the Xuande period.

According to the records of the treasure shipyard, the foremast and main mast of Zheng He ship were tent sails, and there were also horizontal soft sails on the main mast, and the rear mast was hung with horizontal soft sails and triangular soft sails. Moreover, there was a diagonal head column on the bow, and there was a horizontal soft sail on the head column. There were also triangular soft sails in front of the foremast.

Except for the sails that were replaced with cross sails, they were almost exactly the same as the full sailing outfits of Western ships.

Moreover, this so-called full-sail outfit was already very perfect in the Tang Dynasty...

If this is a coincidence, it would be a coincidence.

It was heard that Yang Fan was insinuating that they were copying the Ming Dynasty sail outfits, but Blanco stopped doing it. He said no, at most we just borrowed from the Arabs.

The Arabs also copied the Ming Dynasty. Yang Fandao.

As a result, the two sides fell into a fierce quarrel, and soon entered the stage of greeting each other's female elders and racial discrimination.

Of course, in this era, the ones who were discriminated against were the red-haired ghosts...

When he heard Blanco say aggrievedly, isn’t it just a child? What’s so great? Mr. Zhao finally couldn’t help but shout and stopped. Then he scolded Yang Fan, saying, “Racial discrimination cannot be spoken or written on his face. What’s the difference between that and the person who is discriminated against?

Finally, he concluded that commercial ships and warships below 1,000 tons should be mainly Chinese sails, but the advantages of Western sail cables should be absorbed.

As for large warships above 1,000 tons, you have to build such a large ship.

~~

The reason why sailing tools are so important is that the main source of power for sailing in the Age of Discovery is wind.

In addition, ocean currents are also very useful in the East China Sea of ​​the Ming Dynasty.

After two years of continuous cruise, the security area has basically figured out the currents and monsoons in the East China Sea.

"In the jurisdiction of the security area, it is mainly affected by the black tide, which is the main trunk of the entire Ming Dynasty's East China Sea circulation." A few days later, on the Prajna, Jin Ke reported their observation results to Mr. Zhao and said: "This current is darker than other normal sea waters, so it is named 'Black tide'. The black tide comes from south to north, remains unchanged in all seasons, and has a very fast flow rate. Therefore, when heading north, you should travel as much as possible to greatly shorten your voyage."

"The black tide will also bring rich fishery resources." Mr. Zhao stood on the railing. Looking at the sea with obvious dark colors, countless seagulls were hovering. He couldn't help laughing: "It's a pity that there is no cold storage, so the ocean fishing cannot be developed..."

"Cold storage, ice cellar?" Jin Ke was stunned.

"When I didn't say it, you keep going." Zhao Hao shook his head and took a sip of orange soda filled with bubbles.

Drinking soda with the sea breeze was his dream a few years ago, and it finally came true.

"As for the wind in the East China Sea, it is also obvious seasonal. The northerly winds are mainly northerly winds in winter, but the prevailing wind directions are different. North China, Japan and other countries have roughly northwest winds, while Southerly winds in Central and South China are northerly winds. "Jinke continued to report: "So we reorganized the shipping schedule for East Asia based on ocean currents and monsoons, and handed it over to the Royal Maritime Transportation and Danlu Chamber of Commerce for trial, in order to help them further improve their efficiency..."

~~

What Jin Ke mentioned in the East China Sea is much beyond the scope of the East China Sea in another time and space.

In the world map published by the Tiedi Bookstore of Jiangnan Group - "The Complete Map of Kunyu and Ten Thousand Nations", Mr. Zhao blatantly defined the worlds of the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, the Ming Dynasty's coastal waters from Ainu Island in the north and end in the Diaoyu Islands in the south. Japan and North Korea completely cover it, and it is also the jurisdiction of the Danluo Security Area.

The South China Sea of ​​the Ming Dynasty refers to the entire sea area south of the Diaoyu Islands, north of Jue Island, east of Malacca, and west of Luzon Island.

The so-called Jue Island is the name of Australia by Chinese sailors.

According to the "A Brief History of the Islands" by Wang Dayuan, a folk navigator of the Yuan Dynasty, he once visited the Malay in Rosas, which is the Darwin Port in Australia. He also described the local customs and customs in detail. Quanzhou merchants and sailors who sailed between the east and west all year round also knew that place. They thought it was the last island on the earth, so they called it "Juedao".

In another time and space, it was not until 1606 AD, that is, 45 years later, that is, Europeans discovered Jue Island. It took nearly two hundred years before the British Captain Cook landed on the east coast of Jue Island and shamelessly claimed to be British territory.

Of course, Mr. Zhao can no longer let the British devils pick up this big advantage. How can such a good place be used as a labor camp? It would be too wasteful!

Isn’t it delicious to take it down and exil the prisoner to the Ming Dynasty?

Mr. Zhao, in accordance with the international practice at this time, blatantly declared that this land belonged to the Ming Dynasty.

But in fact, the international practice at this time is that you have to at least set foot in this land before you can brazenly claim. But Zhao Hao did not have the Kung Fu to send a scientific expedition team? Fortunately, the Chinese were there at the latest in the Yuan Dynasty, so he could brazenly claim based on this that the Jue Island has been an inseparable part of the Celestial Empire.

As for the West Sea of ​​the Ming Dynasty, it refers to the sea areas of all the Ming vassal states west of the Strait of Malacca and east of the Western countries, including Siam, Myanmar, Ceylon and other Ming vassal states. That is, the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal in another space-time.

These countries are traditional tribute countries of the Ming Dynasty, and most of them belong to the core vassals stipulated in the "Emperor of the Ming Dynasty" - the "Nation of Non-Suppression". Their territorial waters are of course the Ming Dynasty's territorial waters, and the Ming Dynasty has the obligation to protect their security from threats from invaders.

The North Sea of ​​the Ming Dynasty refers to the coastal waters of the Nurgandusi north of the Essay Island. But it should be noted that the Ming Dynasty did not clearly define the area under the jurisdiction of the Nurgandusi. So Mr. Zhao blatantly determined that the north of the Liaodong Dusi, to the sea, were all under the jurisdiction of the Nurgandusi.

Another concept of time and space is to explain it, that is, the North Sea of ​​Ming Dynasty includes the Okhotsk Sea, the Bering Sea, and the complete East-West Siberian Sea...

These four seas constitute the boundary of the Ming Dynasty. Among them, the East China Sea, the South China Sea and the West China Sea are the inland seas and belong to the sea areas to be focused on.

As for the Beihai, it will not become a hot topic for hundreds of years, so the importance of the first three seas is not that high for the time being. But it is absolutely right to take over the descendants in advance, so that they can get the claim "from ancient times" in the future.

Those who swept the world are all included in the world and cover all the world!

Mr. Zhao’s dream in this life is to let the world be shined by the sun and the moon, and the world will return to China forever!

~~

Wang Rulong and Jin Ke stood upright behind Zhao Hao, watching Bo Ruo break through the waves, and listened to him describing his irrelevant dream of the world...

"What, do you think I'm in a dream?" Zhao Hao asked with a smile when he saw that both of them were shocked.

"How could that happen?" Jin Ke shook his head and said seriously: "The East China Sea is under the control of the young master. You can ignore the North China Sea for now. Then aren't the only ones left in the South China Sea and the West China Sea?"

"Yes, with our current strength, it is not difficult to drive the red-haired ghost out of the South China Sea." Wang Rulong also said in a deep voice: "According to the plan, the young master can dominate the South China Sea within ten years. Then in another ten years, the Xihai will return to the young master. You are less than forty years old at that time."

"Hahaha, I also think time is quite abundant." Zhao Hao laughed for a while and said seriously: "It is a very serious task to cover the world within twenty years, because history has given us less than thirty years. If you want to unify the world in thirty years, the difficulty will increase exponentially."

"Yes! I will complete the task to the death!" Although the two of them didn't know what the young master had, they firmly believed in the judgment of the Lord of the East China Sea.

"Okay, thanks to you, otherwise I wouldn't dare to have such a dream." Zhao Hao smiled emotionally.

"Young Master is joking. With the power of the young master, without the King Rulong of the Jinke, there will be King Ruhu of the Silver Master who will serve the young master." Jin Ke said modestly: "The Ming Dynasty is full of talents, and there is no shortage of generals like us, but there has never been a person like the young master who can see the ocean heavier than the land!"
Chapter completed!