"See Father..."

Empress Changsun pushed Li Shimin over. Now Li Shimin also likes to come to the beach. In order for Li Shimin to come out safely and quickly, Li Zhan designed a wheelchair for his father, and Empress Changsun pushed it out easily.

"Okay... OK..." Li Shimin is still very difficult to say a lot of things now, but what he said is still very clear.

"Your father, now you have to come out to see the sea every day, otherwise you will feel unhappy. Oh... I said, what if you are all in good health, what should I do if you return to Chang'an? The biggest thing in Chang'an is the lake.

But the lake does not have the momentum of the sea...!"

Empress Changsun smiled and complained slightly.

Everyone laughed happily. At this time, Li Ke smiled and said, "Father... I'm in good health, we are not in a hurry to go back to Chang'an, and stay in Dengzhou for a while first.

You don’t know your father. The day before yesterday, Lao Liu and Lao Qi went out to sea again... or whaling... This time we caught a big whale weighing one ton. Oh my God... that was really exciting.

When the father is all gone, we brothers will accompany the father to whales and at sea...that is the real man's adventure."

"Haha... That's right..." Li You also quickly squeezed over and smiled, "Father... the most important thing is that I stabbed. When my father is ready, my godfather will use a spear gun. Although this spear gun was invented by my elder brother, I am the one who uses the best one."

Seeing his son rushing to talk to him, Li Shimin was very happy. You must know that this was never useful before. After the emperor was in charge of his work for a long time, he would ignore a lot of things.

After I didn't become an emperor, those things seemed to come back. Although it was a bit empty if I didn't become an emperor, this emptiness was soon filled with another thing.

"Grandpa Emperor...Grandpa Emperor..."

After the sons finished speaking, the grandchildren rushed over. They were led by their favorite daughter? Li Mingda was the leader. Li Ping, Ang Li, Li Jue, Li Hao, Li Yuxi... Several children came to Li Shimin's side? Li Shimin immediately showed his happy appearance.

"Okay...good...good..." Li Shimin kept saying good words, and could tell what he wanted? How much he liked his grandchildren.

Little guys? He happily surrounded Li Shimin. Empress Changsun smiled and said, "Come on... Come on... Let's push your emperor grandpa together and go and see the sea..."

"That's great..." Li Mingda cheered, cheering happily with a group of children? Walking to the beach with Li Shimin and Empress Changsun.

Looking at the backs of parents and children? Li Tai suddenly took the lead and said, "It is right for the eldest brother to take his father to Dengzhou to recuperate. Look, he is in good health. Doctor Sun also said that he can have such a great recovery? It's really amazing.

And the father will get better and better later!" As he said that, Li Tai looked at Li Zhan and said, "Thank you? Brother...!"

"Haha..." Li Zhan smiled and waved his hand, "It would be unnecessary to say thank you to me. That's my father? In fact, I actually want to thank you? Because of your trust in me, I came with me.

You know? At that time, someone said that I brought my father to Dengzhou to trick you into Dengzhou and then help the prince ban you."

When Li Zhan laughed, Li You raised his hand and showed a slightly apologetic expression and said, "Hey...Brother... This is what you are wrong. Isn't this what my uncle said, that big fool was blinded by hatred.

However, I have always supported my elder brother, so you can't wear small shoes for me."

"Haha...Looking at Lao Liu, if you want to wear small shoes for you, you will be finished long ago. You will still be like now, and you will be having fun in Dengzhou every day."

Li Ke walked to Li You's side and patted Li You on the shoulder hard.

Li Yan, Li Tai and others also laughed.

However, after laughing, Li Ke looked at Li Zhan and said, "Brother... I heard that Dengzhou Shipyard has launched a new attack warship. Can you tell me if you have any ideas?"

"What..." Li You said in a daze: "Dengzhou Shipyard has launched a new warship... What kind of new warship is it?"

Li You looked at Li Zhan with a pair of surprise.

Li Zhan looked at Li Ke with some fun and said, "Yes... The fourth brother, you are well-informed. The new warship has always been made secretly. Can you tell me, how did you know?"

"Hey...!" Li Ke smiled and scratched his head, "Brother... don't blame me. I discovered it accidentally when I was going to repair a boat. Later, I often went to see it. To be honest, Big Brother... You are really a genius. I really admire how you came up with these. 1."

Li Zhan was touted by his younger brother, and then smiled slightly, "Think about it casually... In fact, I don't want to think about it, but we must seize the initiative now. I still have to work hard for some things."

When Li Zhan said this, the scene in his mind was that thousands of years later, our country was bombarded by warships in other countries. Because the scene was too close to Li Zhan's era, Li Zhan had no choice but to think about it.

Although Li Zhan did not want to change history too much, Li Zhan really couldn't bear to have his country be crushed by foreign iron hooves again.

As we all know, with the beginning of the Age of Discovery in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, European maritime forces developed rapidly in terms of mass and quantity. The Ming Empire in the far east, since Zheng He's seven voyages to the West, has been peaceful all over the world and the long coastline is peaceful.

There is no pressure or demand. Under the focus of the border defense of the northern Mongols, the coastal defense is naturally put on the side.

Even in the early Jiajing period, the coastal defense of the Ming Empire was broken, the military equipment was corrupt, seven out of ten warships survived, and large numbers of soldiers fled. In the end, the Japanese riots broke out on a large scale in the middle Jiajing period, and the Ming Dynasty had to reorganize its coastal defense under such circumstances.

But the Japanese pirates were not very powerful maritime forces. They were similar to nomadic peoples who invaded from the sea. Their main purpose was to go deep into the inland to plunder wealth, so they did not choose to fight the Ming navy head-on at sea.

Japanese pirates often drove light and fast small and medium-sized boats, quickly broke into the near-shore landing, and then raided in various places. In the era without radar, it was difficult to effectively intercept the sea surface.

For example, Yu Dayou once drove a large ship because his speed was not as fast as the Japanese pirates' boat and his draft was too deep, so he could only helplessly watch the Japanese pirates escape from the shallow water.

In this case, in order to effectively intercept the Japanese pirate ships that had been discovered, the Ming army could only change the large ship to 200 materials, and then change it to 150 materials and 100 materials. Once it is discovered, it will not catch up.

Therefore, when the Ming army dealt with enemies like Japanese pirates, they generally used small and medium-sized ships, while large ships were limited to 9 to 10 meters long Fu Ship and Guang Ship warships. The firearms were mainly made of traditional arson and mortar firearms such as fire bricks, fireballs, rockets, bowl-mouth cannons, and a small number of Flangers and a four or five-pound ship-launched gun, which was enough to have a crushing advantage on Japanese pirate ships.

But these firearms can only deal with Japanese pirates and small pirates with weak maritime power.

Moreover, this model similar to public security warfare is actually harmful to the development of maritime forces.

Just as the European and American ships were getting bigger and bigger, our country's ships became smaller and smaller. Later, as the Qing army entered the pass, large-scale maritime bans and closed-door lockdowns came. The development of Chinese warships came to an abrupt end.

At the same time, Britain and the Netherlands have entered the era of sail battleships. Both sides are pulling battle lines and bombarding with warships equipped with dozens of heavy artillery... Then, by the time of the Opium War, a European battleship can already beat the entire Chinese navy...!

During the Qing Dynasty, the main warship of the Chinese Navy was called the rushing ship...at 70-108 feet (about 22.4-34.5 meters).

Then, sand ships and double-sacred ships with lengths of 50 to 70 feet (about 16 to 22.4 meters) were used for attack and pursuit, and again, bluff ships and sentry ships with lengths of 20 to 50 feet (about 6.34 to 15.36 meters) were used for chasing sentry probes.

Among them, the Dachanghua Ship is more than 36 meters long, about 7 meters wide, and has 24 cabins, which can carry a load of 1,500 stones. Each ship is equipped with sailors, more than 30 ship workers and 80 sailors. The Zhongchanghua Ship is 23 meters long, 6 meters wide and 2 meters deep. It is equipped with sailors, more than 20 ship workers and 60 sailors. The Dachanghua Ship is all equipped with double brigs, double rudders, and double iron anchors.

At that time, European and American ships could already install fifty cannons on the flank. What are the advantages of competing between the two?

Li Zhan didn't want this to happen again, so Li Zhan was ready to develop his own navy, which was different from before. During the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He had a very powerful navy.

Most readers know that Zheng He's "Seven Voyages to the West" was a great feat of the world's sailing at that time. It was 87 years earlier than the Western Columbus' sailing, and is still a world record. The fleet led by Zheng He was larger than the battle group of today's US aircraft carriers. Once, the number of large ships led by him reached 62, and the total number of personnel of the fleet was 27,800.

Currently, the largest aircraft carrier in the world is the US Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, with a total staff of about 6,000 people, only one-quarter of Zheng He's fleet.

Zheng He used a ship to voyage to the West to call the "Dabao Ship". According to the "History of Ming Dynasty", the large ship was 44 zhang long, and ten zhang in the Ming Dynasty was equivalent to 3.2 meters now. That is to say, Zheng He's large ship was about 142 meters long, which was called the "Ming Dynasty aircraft carrier". At that time, no country could build such a large ship. At that time, Columbus went to the United States to take three sailboats with a displacement of nearly 100 tons. It was already a large ship in Europe at that time, but compared with the Dabao Ship, it could only be regarded as a small ship.

But Li Zhan did not agree with Zheng He's voyage to the West. Although Zheng He's voyage to the West was great, that's right, his voyage to the West was not very meaningful, just like a rich man showing off his wealth, that's all.

On the contrary, you, a rich man, exposed your wealth, so that later the rich man was missed by the garbage.

What Li Zhan has to do this time is to be more ruthless. The warship built by Li Zhan is called the Mulan Ship... It is a kind of warship in the Song Dynasty. "The boat is like a huge room, and the sail is like a cloud hanging in the sky, and it is several feet long."

This boat can carry thousands of people at a time and store food for one year on the boat.

In order to solve the problem of supplying non-staple food, pigs and wine were raised on the boat, which is the so-called "a boat of thousands of people accumulates grain for a year, and pigs and wine are made."

Such a giant ship is simply a floating island on the sea. In addition to its different weapons and equipment and power, it is very similar to today's aircraft carriers.

The intention of creating the Mulan ship is actually very obvious. Li Zhan will soon embark on his colonial journey and show his national prestige and benevolence all over the world. Li Zhan does not need such a false reputation. Li Zhan must learn from the empire without setbacks. Only in this way can Li Zhan ensure that his descendants can still protect themselves thousands of years later and will not be bullied.

"Brother...!" Li Ke looked at Li Zhan who was a little lost and asked, "Did these ships be prepared for us?"

Li Zhan was pulled back to reality by Li Ke's voice. At this time, Li Zhan looked at Li Ke and asked, "Fourth brother, do you know Mulan?"

"Mulan..." Li Ke thought for a while and said, "It's General Mulan, she... Of course I know that it's very powerful to join the army for my father...!"

"Our ship is called Mulan ship, and she will also go on a war for us... I remember I told you... The Tang Dynasty can only be considered a corner of the world, and there are many wider worlds on the sea. As long as you work hard, you can all become kings or emperors."

Li Zhan's words made Li Ke, Li Tai, Li You, Li Yan and others feel nervous.

Following Li Ke, he looked at Li Zhan and said, "Brother... can we go out to sea..."

Li Zhan looked at his younger brother and smiled and said, "The Mulan Ship will complete three ships this year... The ocean is not enough, but it is more than enough to hit the small island country near us.

I would recommend the first battle in Goguryeo... The purpose of this battle is to learn, you learn naval warfare, and then build your own naval team. In the future, I will provide you with weapons and ships. At that time... you will go and get your own land."

"Brother...!"

The princes looked at Li Zhan with excitement, and at this time Li Zhan also breathed a sigh of relief.

This tone was saved by Li Zhan in six years. Li Zhan thought about it... Although he did not want to change the world's technology, Li Zhan had to change the future of his country.

After all, Li Zhan is a Chinese, and he cannot bear to have his country been in a passive state of being beaten.

Therefore, Li Zhan was preparing to learn the Empire of the Sun Never Settings. During the Tang Dynasty, he formed an Empire of the Sun Never Settings. From this change, he hoped that his country could be saved.

Of course, Li Zhan cannot know about the future, but Li Zhan thought that he had made efforts, so he was worthy of his conscience.

Because of Li Zhan's decision, the military force of the Tang Dynasty was activated again. However, Li Chengqian was of course fully cooperating. However, cooperation was cooperation. So what crime was appropriate to give Goguryeo?

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Chapter completed!