In the next two days, Yang Zhen sent Qiu Biyong, Zhang Guogan and others to lead the team back to Lushunkou to report the news of his upcoming return. On the other hand, Yang Zhen led Zhang Chen, Li Shouzhong and others to continue to stay in Jinzhou to learn about various issues.

Party situation.

During his stay, on the one hand, he met with Lu Pinqi and Xu Changyong, who came from Fuzhou City after hearing the news, and asked about the situation of Jinhai North Road. On the other hand, under Shen Zhixiang's warm invitation, he inspected the four buildings built by the shipyard on the spot.

A hundred materials battle ship.

A battleship is actually a dual-purpose ship that combines a warship with a boat. It can be used to carry large numbers of soldiers across the sea. It is also equipped with artillery, rackets and other naval warfare equipment, and can be directly put into combat.

It has the function of taking a boat, which means it has a large space and is stable.

As for its function as a warship, it means that it is large and powerful.

However, Yang Zhen has basically become "immune" to the sea-going ships he has seen in this era, and he knows that many sea-going ships with great names are simply not worthy of their name.

Including the so-called four-hundred-material warships of this era, he has already had expectations and predictions.

He knew very well that this was not the end of shipbuilding at Jinzhou Shipyard.

In fact, as early as the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the construction of Chinese sea ships or naval warships could already reach thousands of materials.

At least when Kublai Khan ordered the conquest of the Wonu Kingdom in the early Yuan Dynasty, there were already hundreds of warships with more than a thousand materials among the naval warships dispatched, not to mention the two thousand or even five thousand ships used by Zheng He on his voyages to the West during the Yongle period.

It's a big deal.

But now the shipyard under his jurisdiction will be able to build a battleship with 400 materials.

Although Yang Zhen already felt very relieved, he knew in his heart that this was by no means the end.

During his stay in Jinzhou, Yang Zhen took a day to go to the shipyard and saw the 400-material ship newly built by the shipyard.

The large hull is eight feet and seven feet long, the widest point is one foot and six feet, and the cabin depth is only six feet.

With such a body length and cabin depth, if you cut off the head and tail, the cross-sectional area is approximately 400 to 500 square feet.

According to Shen Zhixiang and others, this is the size ratio specified by the French for the construction of four-hundred-material battleships in this era.

Judging from its body length and deck width, it is indeed much larger than a 100-material or 200-material naval warship.

However, its six-foot cabin depth is only two meters high when converted, which really makes Yang Zhen a little bit dumbfounded.

If the space occupied by the bottom watertight compartment is deducted, then the internal space of this so-called 400-material ship may be enough to reach 400 materials.

Of course, Yang Zhen himself was not a shipbuilding expert, so there was nothing he could do about it.

Apart from requesting that the ship be built larger, that is, continuing to enlarge the construction according to the size ratio of the four-hundred-material battleship, and striving to build several thousand-material ships, he could not put forward any specific requirements.

However, he made it clear to Shen Zhixiang that in the future, the thousand-material ships built by Jinzhou Shipyard should strive to increase the cabin depth to 1.2 feet, and at the same time, on the second deck below the cabin, ten to twenty Tianyou doors should be placed.

Support the heavy red barbarian cannon like the general.

And it is best to be on the top deck, where thirty to sixty existing sky cannons that can open shells can be placed.

Yang Zhen's request made Shen Zhixiang stunned.

Although he had heard of the Thousand Material Ship, he had never seen one.

As for the plywood ship with several decks that Yang Zhen was talking about, he had occasionally heard it mentioned by maritime merchants traveling to and from Nagasaki several years ago, but it was the stuff of red-haired Japanese from Japan.

But even the plywood boats of the Japanese red-haired Japanese have never been heard of being able to accommodate twenty heavy cannons each weighing several thousand kilograms, let alone sixty cannons weighing several thousand kilograms each.

That’s a cannon worth several hundred kilograms!

But in response to Yang Zhen's request, Shen Zhixiang curled his lips and did not refute in the end.

Although only a short year has passed, astonishing changes have taken place in my nephew-in-law.

Of course, it may not be that Yang Zhen has changed much, but that his own mentality, especially his position in front of Yang Zhen, is completely different from a year ago.

If when he first surrendered to Yang Zhen, he often felt a little dissatisfied and dissatisfied with the orders given by this young nephew and son-in-law, but now, that dissatisfaction and dissatisfaction have long disappeared.

Because everything Yang Zhen has done in the past year or so, if he were in another place, he might not be able to do the same thing.

Therefore, now facing Yang Zhen's various demands, he can only honestly say that he will go all out.

Of course, he did not need to do these things himself, but as soon as he turned around, he imposed this requirement on the shipwrights in the shipyard.

Furthermore, if Yang Zhen wants to build a large-scale ship with more than 1,000 materials, he will have to continue to invest more in the shipyard, and he will have to continue to spend a lot of money.

This is what he, the shipping supervisor, would like to see.

On the morning of the first day of February in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Yang Zhen bid farewell to Shen Zhixiang, Xu Tianchong and others, and led Zhang Degui, Zhang Chen, and Li Shouzhong to start their journey south again from the Dragon King Temple area outside Jinzhou City.

When passing Nanguanling, Yang Zhen met with Liu Wanzhong again, then took a short rest and went straight to Sanjian Fort.

At Sanjian Fort, Yang Zhen also summoned Zhang Yanhong and Jin Guangyu, the generals of the prison camp who were stationed here, and highly praised their contribution to the success of cement firing with local methods, and promoted both of them to deputy generals in one fell swoop.

At the same time, the responsibilities of the two prison camps led by the two men were also divided.

Yang Zhen ordered Jin Guangyu's prison camp to transfer the prisoners engaged in cement burning as well as the mines and kilns to Zhang Yanhong's prison camp, and Zhang Yanhong was responsible for the cement burning affairs.

Correspondingly, Yang Zhen also ordered Zhang Yanhong to hand over all the lime kilns, brick and tile kilns and affiliated mines in his prison camp, and ordered Jin Guangyu to take charge of other kiln and mine affairs other than cement firing.

Zhang Yanhong and Jin Guangyu did not expect that Yang Zhen would really fulfill the promise he made to them and actually be promoted to deputy general because he successfully fired cement.

The two of them were overjoyed and received the new order with great gratitude.

After such a delay, by the time Yang Zhen arrived outside the north city of Lushun, it was already dusk.

So he simply met Pan Wenmao, Wang Shoutang and others outside Beicheng, who were waiting there. After accepting everyone's congratulations on his triumphant return, he was greeted by Fang Guangchen, Li Ji, Qiu Biyong and others who hurriedly arrived.

We hurried back to the south city of Lushun where the main town government office is located.

In the next three days, Yang Zhen returned to the town hall and plunged into the gentle countryside in the backyard.

While working hard to make up for his wife and children who were always together and separated, he also took every opportunity to roundaboutly tell his wife Qiu Bihan about Shen Qiyuan's secret alliance and marriage with Jinhaizhen.

Fortunately, at this moment, Jin Haibo's wife Qiu Bihan already knew these things from her brother who rushed back to Lushunkou in advance, and also received a letter of persuasion from her uncle Qiu Zhenhai.

Qiu Bihan, who was still a little unhappy at first, saw that Yang Zhen did not mean to neglect her, and apologetically explained to her repeatedly the significance of forming an alliance with the marshal of the Second Military and Horse Command of the Northern Dynasties, so in the end he had no choice but to be "magnanimous" Accepted the reality.

His uncle became the "matchmaker" in this matter, and his mother, aunt and even his brother came to persuade him.

Yang Zhen stayed in Jinzhou City for two days before returning home. After returning home, he performed extremely hard in front of him, which made Qiu Bihan unable to agree.

After all, jealousy is one of the seven causes.

No matter what, she didn't want to get a reputation as a jealous person.

In addition, in this era, with Yang Zhen's current status, it is probably inevitable that he will have many wives and concubines in the future.

In this regard, Qiu Bihan, as the uncle's wife, cannot be generous.

However, Yang Zhen himself is also very aware of the truth behind this "generosity", and naturally he will not abuse this generosity carelessly.

Putting aside the feelings of debt and guilt in his heart, when Yang Zhen returned to Lushun and met Qiu Bihan, he felt a sense of joy and love that a little separation was better than a newlywed.

If he could plunge into the land of gentleness and never come out, then he would be happy with it, but in fact it is of course impossible.

On the morning of February 5th, Fang Guangchen, Li Ji and others, who had been waiting for Yang Zhen to summon him, could no longer wait and had to persuade Zhang Degui, Zhang Chen, Pan Wenmao, Wang Shoutang and others to come to the backyard of the main town house. Asking to see Yang Zhen outside the door.

And Yang Zhen was not a man who only loved his children. After hearing the report, he quickly summoned everyone in the second hall of the main town hall.

"Don't you know, Governor, that Wenwen Township is the Tomb of Heroes! Now that the world is in chaos and the overall situation is about to be destroyed, how can the Governor be content with being a rich man and not thinking about making progress, hiding in this small backyard every day and indulging in the love of his children?"

As soon as Yang Zhen showed up, Fang Guangchen, who was the consultant of Jinhai Town's general government, said this to him angrily.

It's just that we haven't seen each other in just half a year. Fang Guangchen, who stayed at the back of Jinhai Town to consult with the general town government, has grown hair on his temples and looks much haggard and older. The previous suave and suave appearance of a young man from an aristocratic family has also disappeared.

"Hey, what Fang Youyi said is serious. The commander-in-chief went on an expedition to Zhenjiang Fort, fought many battles, and returned triumphantly. He only rested for a few days. He didn't think about making progress and indulged in the love between his children?"

"Well, Fang Consultation, you can't be too harsh on the governor. People have seven emotions and six desires, and things have priorities. If a good day is not allowed to pass, then my generation will conquer the east and west, fight in the south and the north, and we will suffer hardships. Why come?"

Faced with Fang Guangchen's accusation of seeking perfection, Yang Zhen himself laughed it off, but Zhang Degui and Zhang Chen immediately fought back on Yang Zhen's behalf.

Of course, their retorts to Fang Guangchen were not actually all about defending Yang Zhen.

In fact, after resolving the huge crisis caused by Yang Zhen's surprise attack on Zhenjiang Fort, both Zhang Chen, who had been following Yang Zhen, and Zhang Degui, who went north to guard the Jinzhou defense line, really breathed a sigh of relief after returning to Lushunkou.
Chapter completed!