"Can you really build such a ship?" Yan Siqi was so excited that she could hardly speak.

"Of course, our emperor is the best shipbuilder." Zhang Yongdao.

Yan Siqi quickly knelt on the ground: "How dare you let Your Majesty build a ship for me?"

The little carpenter stood up and helped Yan Siqi up with both hands: "Yan Qing, please come up quickly. I just like to make some small things. If I have the opportunity to make such a big guy, I will never ask for it!"

Yan Siqi said: "Your Majesty, if you want to build such a large ship, you need to cut down tens of thousands of acres of wood. It takes three to five years to dry the wood. From cutting down wood to building warships, it takes at least five years. Today we only need smaller warships of about five or six hundred materials."

The little carpenter smiled and asked Wei Zhongxian to get the model of another ship: "Wei Daban, bring the model of the Clippers."

Wei Zhongxian went back again and brought a model of a flying boat.

"How fast can this ship run?" Yan Siqi asked in surprise.

Zhang Yong thought in his heart: The seventeenth festival is seventeen nautical miles per hour, which is about thirty-five kilometers per hour, which is 63 miles per hour, and by two. He said, "You can run 120 miles per hour, and you can travel 1,400 miles per day and night."

"One thousand four hundred miles a day and night? It's so fast!" Everyone except Gao Shixin was shocked, and even the ship designer Emperor Tianqi himself was shocked.

"Okay, great!" The little carpenter clapped his hands and looked overjoyed. "One thousand four hundred miles a day and a thousand four hundred miles a day and night, from the capital to Guangdong, it only takes six or seven days to reach! With such a ship, coastal stations can be changed."

Fortunately, the carpenter emperor did not say that he would withdraw the post station, but instead asked the post station to change its course. Zhang Yong and Gao Shi said secretly in his faith.

Yan Siqi asked, "It's really good that this boat can be so fast without paddling."

Although the galloping and cliffs use slave sailors, it also costs a lot of money to support those slaves. With this kind of clipper, what other galloping ship is needed? How good is the Clippers use this kind of ship in the future.

Zhang Yongdao: "General Yan, haven't you seen such a ship very narrow and long? The hull is narrow and the sail surface is large, so you will naturally run faster. There is no need for oarsmen, but you can walk like flying on the sea. But if you encounter the windless season, of course you are not as good as a sailboat."

Yan Siqi said: "There is windy all year round along the coast of Ming Dynasty, and the number of gallops and sailing boats has also reduced the number of artillery, so this ship is better."

Zhang Yongdao: "General Yan, this ship is not too big, because the hull is narrow and it is impossible to equip too big artillery, so this kind of ship is a kind of ship that can run away after being shot. This way, it is called a privateer. The Emperor of Ming Dynasty issued you a privateer license. In the future, you can legally rob the Taixi ships on the sea by driving this ship."

"Private license? Can this work?" Yan Siqi was stunned. Isn't the Ming Dynasty a country of etiquette? How do you encourage officers and soldiers to rob other people's ships?

"Where can you get the money you earn from doing business quickly?" Zhang Yong said with a smile.

"Hahaha!" The carpenter emperor also laughed, "Yongwazi is right! Of course, the robbery is the fastest! But those sour scholars in the court may be quite criticized. However, I can issue a decree to Yan Qing for privateing permits. Don't let the ministers in the court know about this matter, otherwise I will face the attacks of censors again."

The little carpenter who had been ruined by Zhang Yongshuo had already developed into a foolish monarch. He would abandon all the etiquette countries with virtue and repay grievances with virtue, but instead robbed them like barbarians.

But the privateer has not been built yet, and there is no way for Yan Siqi to rob the Western merchant ships.

According to Zhang Yong's design, there are two types of privateers in the Ming Dynasty, both of which are flying scissors. One is a small privateer with a displacement of only 200 tons, with eighteen four-pound cannons installed on the ship; the other is a privateer with a displacement of 500 tons, with eighteen sixty-four-pound short-barrel cannons installed on the ship.

Of course, the firepower of a fly-scissor privateer can't be compared with that of a warship, but it has excellent maneuverability and very fast speed; the firepower may not be stronger than an armed merchant ship, but it has good maneuverability and stronger vitality than an armed merchant ship. The purpose of this kind of ship is to beat me and run me; those who can beat me cannot beat me. However, at present, there seems to be no ship that can beat me. Although the speed of a sailing speed is good, it does not have enough endurance. It can only sail at a high speed in a short time, and it will slow down over time. The fly-scissor ship that relies entirely on wind power does not have the problem of endurance. As long as there is wind, it can keep running.

The little carpenter also took out the models of the catamaran fast sailboat, first-level three-layer battleship, large-scale cargo flying scissors and other ships. Yan Siqi was amazed and ecstatic. He knelt on the ground and said happily: "Your Majesty, if our Ming Navy can have so many good ships, I will definitely help Your Majesty expand its territory and make the Ming Dynasty more prosperous than the Tang Dynasty!"

Emperor Tianqi laughed and helped Yan Siqi up: "Yan Qing, tell me about the Dongfan Island you opened."

Yan Siqi replied: "Your Majesty, I immigrated 50,000 from Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other places in Fujian to Dongfan. I cultivate rice fields on the seaside in the west of Dongfan. I can plant rice in three seasons a year, or two seasons of rice in one season, with wheat growing vigorously, and the yield per mu far exceeds that of Huguang. However, a large area of ​​land in the depths of Dongfan Island cannot be reclaimed. There are jungles and severe miasma. The Han people entered the jungle and fell ill countless times, so I had to give up. There are many natives in the local area, as well as the Red-Fautumn Yi, occupied the southwest seaside; there are big Farangji people in the north, and two groups of Westerners built castles and controlled Dongfan, making it difficult for us Han people to explore."

"So with your strength, can you drive away the Red-Fare Yi who occupied the Dongfan?" asked the little carpenter.

"You can drive them away, but now you're driving them away is probably not worth the loss. If we want to sell our silk and ceramics to the countries of Taixi, we still need Red-Furious Yi's ships. We can only sail to Manila at most, and we can't go any further. It's still more than 30,000 miles from Manila to the countries of Taixi, and it's all about the ocean-going transportation of Red-Furious Yi's ships. If we have a quarrel with them now and they will no longer allow our ships to enter Manila, but collude with Jiangnan merchants, then wouldn't we be worth the loss?" Yan Siqi said.

Zhang Yong thought to himself: In real history, Zheng Chenggong recaptured Taiwan. Although he made him a national hero in later textbooks, he was not removed from the national hero list like Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang, Li Dingguo, and Zhang Huangyan. However, from the perspective of anti-Qing, Zheng Chenggong defeated the Dutch people, and also laid the root of disaster for the later Dutch colluded with the Qing Dynasty to capture Taiwan. During this period, those foreigners should be guided rather than driven away.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yong said: "Your Majesty, I have a way to make Hong Maoyi give up the Eastern Band on his own initiative."

"What method?" The little carpenter who had been led by Zhang Yong and was determined to expand the territory quickly asked.

Zhang Yong said slowly: "It's actually very simple. They occupied Dongfan just to obtain a base for re-export trade and supply Danshui. We can help them take down Ryukyu and exchange them for their withdrawal from Dongfan. In addition, we can open a port at the Yangtze River Estuary and let Hongmaoyi set up a residential area at the Yangtze River Estuary and build it by us, and they pay us rent. With these two, they will naturally be willing to evacuate Dongfan."

"Take Ryukyu? Isn't Ryukyu my Ming vassal state? Attacking the vassal state for no reason may ruin my Ming dynasty reputation." The little carpenter shook his head.

"The two ends of Ryukyu's first rats are obeyed by our Ming Dynasty as the sect leader, but in fact, they have been controlled by the Satsuma clan! The Japanese are their real sect leader!" Zhang Yongdao.

"This, aren't we going to fight the Japanese again?" asked the carpenter emperor.
Chapter completed!