"Father."

When Wang Yuan Capital was a little out of control, Wang Jiangque reminded him calmly. He came to his senses and naturally turned into a surprise expression. He looked at Zhang Zhixiang and asked, "Is that true?!"

Zhang Zhixiang felt that the businessman was indeed greedy for money. Although he was not happy, he still nodded.

He told Wang Yuanzhi that this was to make him make this money, not to make profits from it, but to transport so many people back, which was always beneficial to the people of the Ming Dynasty.

He was a little excited and didn't want to speak again.

Zhang Yonghuan noticed something, looked at Wang Yuanyi's eyes calmly, and then lowered his eyelids. He knew that Zhang Zhixiang might have fallen into the secret of Guiyuan Business.

Bao Buyu Wang Yuanzhi had the idea of ​​killing someone to silence him...

However.

Wang Jiangque, who was sitting beside him, spoke again. She took the initiative to speak to Zhang Zhixiang for the first time: "The fleet set off from Hangzhou Prefecture, to the South China Sea, crossed the Mantaka, crossed the small Atlantic Ocean, served as supplies along the way, went to Mo Niande, went up the river, crossed Lake Borno, entered the Mediterranean, went west, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and entered the Atlantic Ocean, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, arrived at Garyman Island, then entered the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and along the St. Lawrence River, you can reach Lake Superior."

"The voyage is about 60,000 miles."

"Although I go day and night, it still takes three months to arrive. Without any mistakes, it may take four to five months to take action."

"Even if the local ginseng is like weed, it must be picked smoothly and dried."

“How many people do this require?”

"If I hadn't had a lot of friendship with the local natives, this business would probably not be possible."

She said softly and said the sailing route so clearly. Smart people knew that the Wang family must have been to Lake Superior, and the analysis of the interests of the Wang family hit the nail on the head.

At the same time, it is also awakening others.

It doesn’t matter if the Wang family’s business is made public. The Wang family can do it, but others can’t do it.

Even Wang Yuan was shocked by Zhang Zhixiang's sudden reveal, but this little girl was still unmoved, and even said something to stabilize the situation, which even showed that she had no intention of conspiring to keep the secret. It can only be said that it was really amazing.

Zhang Yonghuan glanced at the girl in surprise and smiled, "This is the reason, Anping, you must not talk nonsense, otherwise Mr. Wang would have to go to Beishangzhou for nothing, and the loss would be significant."

Zhang Yonghuan usually calls him "the uncle of the junior". Now that he calls him "Anping", he thinks he is the "junior".

Zhang Zhixiang realized that he followed the words and fought the smooth movement.

I was still thinking about the route and time that Wang Jiangque mentioned. The voyage of 60,000 miles only takes three months. I also have to consider the direction and currents of the wind during the starry night? Can sailing ships really be completed? Can the sailing of the sea be so stable? There are also a large number of river sections, and there are more problems in inland river navigation?

After chatting for a while, I put aside the topic just now, and started talking about overseas scenery to liven up the atmosphere.

Zhang Zhixiang raised his question: "Can you really arrive at Lake Superior in three months? How fast is the ship actually? "

Wang Yuanzhi knew that Zhang Zhixiang had never seen a sea boat.

He asked, "Have you ever seen a drought in the little fairy? Even when building a large palace, it is used to drag pillars and large stones. It can also be pulled by a million kilograms. It is just a very water-consuming thing. It often requires a well to be dug in advance every few miles to replenish the water at any time."

"During the Zhengde period, the palace was renovated and the middle stairs were replaced."

"The big stone was three zhang long, one zhang wide, five zhang thick, and weighed 320,000 kilograms. When we entered the city, we built 16-wheeled carts and used 1,600 mules and horses to pull them to the palace."

"Since there is drought, there will be water."

"When a boat is also a boat worker, it means the machinery on the ship. The principle is that charcoal fire produces steam to push the wheel shaft, and when it goes back and forth, it provides power to the ship. We generally call this machine a steam engine."

"This thing was developed when Zheng He was voyage to the West. The treasure ship used fine steel as a keel to become a giant ship of 20,000 materials, which was driven by this thing."

"A thousand-material sea ships can travel thousands of miles a day with steam engines and sails."

Zhang Zhixiang was stunned when Wang Jiangque lowered his eyelids, thinking that it was a rusty bun on the mountain. So, the times have changed, and the steel giant ship can ride the wind and waves, so how can it be the era of immortal cultivators?

However.

Is Zhang Zhixiang a local bun? No, he was just shocked by the fact that there was a steam engine in the Ming Dynasty!! He suddenly had some doubts that he had really traveled to the Xianxia plane, rather than the steampunk science fiction plane?

After a long time, is Zheng He's fleet a giant steel ship?

No wonder I have been arguing about the tonnage of the treasure ship, saying that wooden keels cannot have 10,000 tons of ships. Indeed, wooden keels cannot be made of. If steel is used as keels, there will be no problem.

As for whether the Ming Dynasty has suitable steel and steel output?

There is one.

Tiangong Kaiwu has clearly recorded the steel speculation method, and there is no problem with the technology. There were 245 counties producing iron ore at the peak of the Ming Dynasty, only 45 in the Yuan Dynasty, and only 137 in the Qing Dynasty. As for steel output, in the early years of Hongwu, there were 13 state-owned iron ore areas, and Emperor Hongwu prohibited the private iron ore from opening, which means that the state-owned production capacity of only 13 special mining areas recorded more than 18.47 million kilograms.

According to the Ming Dynasty records in March of the seventh year of Hongwu.

All production of state-owned iron plants has a fixed quota, with a total annual production of 8.052,987 kilograms. Even the newly added iron and iron ferry in Longzhou, Sichuan and Shuntian Prefecture Zunhua in the Yongle period were only 820,000 kilograms. The total is only 8.87 million kilograms.

1847-887=9.6 million jin.

The 9.6 million kilograms of iron were taxed from 13 mining areas. In the early Ming Dynasty, there was a high iron tax rate of 15 to 1, which means that the steel production capacity of these 13 specialized mining areas reached 144 million kilograms.

During the peak of the Ming Dynasty, there were as many as 245 iron mine areas, even though many mining areas were not as large as those 13.

But it’s okay to increase the total amount by ten times? After all, there is no record of the people, and the amount of private mining is also extremely large!

so.

Conservatively estimated that during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, the annual steel output was at least 700,000 tons. So what was my country's steel output in 1949? Answer: The crude steel output that year was 145,000 tons.

It seems that it is not impossible to build iron-clad ships with production and quality...

pity.

The copy of "Yongle Encyclopedia" has been destroyed and stolen. If the complete original version of "Yongle Encyclopedia" can be found from Yongling, then all the mysteries of history will be solved. Unfortunately, when he passed away in his previous life, he still did not have enough technology to complete this task.

Forget it, just treat it as a magical parallel plane.

Wanting to get through the joints, Zhang Zhixiang no longer had to worry about the steam engine. After exploring some of the ships from Wang Yuanzhi, he listened quietly to them about overseas scenery.

Perhaps because Zhang Zhixiang and others came from Longhu Mountain, Wang Yuanzhi specially selected sacrificial sacrifices from various ethnic groups overseas.

There are many barbarians overseas.

Many tribes were not civilized and still believed in blood sacrifices and living sacrifices. Even in the largest country in Shangzhou, the Aztec Kingdom, they often captured savages to worship gods.

Although in the Ming Dynasty, both the Aztecs and the savages belonged to the Yindi'an people...

But they obviously don't think so.

The Aztec sacrificial groups had seriously affected the operation of the empire. They occupied a large amount of resources and were not responsible for production or wars, which led to their emperor Montezuma II in a very delicate situation, which was a bit overwhelming, and the country was also on the verge of civil strife.

There are certainly some reasons why those priests can maintain their privileges.

For example, in the capital of Aztec, there is a big snake in the temple in Tenochtitlan, which is said to be dozens of feet long and is the incarnation of the sun god on earth.

Wang Yuanzhi said that he had seen this snake.

It has no wings or feathers, but just a golden giant snake, which is actually fifteen feet long, feeds on living people every day, has already gained wisdom and belongs to the category of evil spirits.

Such evil spirits also appeared in ancient times.

It is said that the righteous path was born because of this, destroying the lewd sacrifices in the mountains and fields, and killing all the demons in the world. Before that, demons lived in the mountains and fields and secretly occupied the throne of gods. Most fools offered flexibly sacrifices to their lives, so boys and girls were so innocent.

There is Zhuanxu in China who can escape the heavens and heavens, and there is a way to eliminate evil spirits.

But not overseas.

Therefore, voyages overseas not only have to face dark terror in the sea, but also worry about all kinds of evil spirits left since the wilderness...

(ps: The record of drought comes from the Forbidden City architectural document "Winter Official Chronicle" in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. It records that He Shengrui was in charge of the renovation of the Qianqing and Kunning palaces in the Forbidden City in the 24th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. This is the case of changing the middle way.)
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