Shortly after returning to Chang'an, Li Ye received a memorial that a half-magic vessel was about to be launched in the water in Haihe Yamen.

This matter is of great importance and even determines the success or failure of Li Ye's overseas career to a certain extent. Li Ye has always been very concerned about it, so he left the central place and went to Guangzhou, Lingnan for personal inspection.

On that day, the sky was clear and the air was clear. Li Ye stood on the viewing building of the Navy Camp. Looking around, he could see that a large area of ​​sea was empty in the bay of the ships, with only three quite tall tower ships.

These three tower ships are exactly the same in terms of appearance and equipment.

Unlike pure wood building ships, these three building ships built a skeleton based on spiritual wood and spirit stones, and hard wood is only used in secondary parts. In order to eliminate the differences and achieve the effect of camouflage, the entire building ship was painted black and shines with a metal-like luster in the sun.

Each tower ship is divided into three floors, the first floor is the hut, the second floor is the Feilu, and the uppermost floor is the Jue Room. Each floor is equipped with a protective female wall, which can be used to defend against local bows and arrows, arrows and stones. There are arrow holes on the female wall to fire crossbows. In order to defend against enemy fire attacks, the ship is covered with cowhide and heat insulation.

In addition, there are ropes, oars, sails, oars and other equipment.

Because it was a test subject, there were only these three half-magic sea ships launched in the water.

After seeing it from a distance, Liu Zhiyan and Peng Zushan’s master and apprentice invited Li Ye to visit the boat. Li Ye naturally nodded and promised that in terms of appearance, these three tower ships are not much different from ordinary warships in addition to the overall color. The real way also requires aboard the boat to see it.

"There are three magic weapons and bed crossbows on the bow and two at the stern. The magic weapons with the side strings of the Fuyuan crossbow, the arm-opening crossbow, and the horn-opening crossbow, forming a powerful crossbow formation. With this part of the force alone, a warship is equivalent to a pass city." Peng Zushan walked in front and showed Li Ye the configuration of the warship.

Ordinary warships cannot accommodate so many magic weapons and powerful crossbows because they cannot withstand the huge impact force when strong crossbows are fired at once. If they are forced to be equipped, the warship will fall apart first.

"Of course, the most outstanding part of the warship is not these powerful crossbows, but the magic circle built on the spiritual wood and spirit stone."

Peng Zushan walked to the deck and pointed at the place where several high-level monks of Qi training gathered. There was a protruding platform there. "With these magic circles, we can apply a layer of defensive light shield to important parts of the warship. Even the great monks in the real world would not be able to easily break through."

Li Ye was very satisfied with seeing it and nodded from time to time.

Peng Zushan continued: "As for the thrust of the warship, we use formations and styles and oars to combine them, so that we can gain more powerful and stable power beyond normal navigation. When encountering the wrong wind direction or when fighting, we only need the monks to preside over these formations, which will allow the warship to obtain amazing speed."

Speaking of this, he said with some emotion: "But in this way, the consumption of spirit stones will be large, and many Qi-training monks need to be in charge. In the past, such warships were impossible to appear. The dynasty did not have so many Qi-training monks, nor so many cultivation resources."

Li Ye didn't care, "As long as the warship is indeed strong, this investment is nothing."

Peng Zushan means that maintaining such a warship is very expensive and requires talent. However, this is not a big deal for Li Ye, and he is mentally prepared for it.

If a half-magic warship is running in saturation, more than 300 Qi training monks need to control magic weapons and crossbows to maintain the operation of the formation. Among them, those who preside over each core formation need to be real human realm.

In the past, the seventh-rank official was at the level of the first level of Qi training, and the power of the monks in this warship was already the power of a vassal state!

If it were ten years ago, not to mention that such a half-magic warship could not be built, even if it was built, it would not be used at all. This is the fundamental reason that restricts the emergence of such a powerful warship.

Nowadays, the Tang Dynasty's cultivation academy has been opened to the prefecture level, with a few wealthy places, such as the capital, Qingzhou, and even the counties and towns.

The number of monks that the academy can train for the Tang Dynasty every year is an extremely terrifying number.

As for consuming resources, Li Ye doesn't care.

Don’t aircraft carriers burn money?

The current half-magic warship is in the same sense as the aircraft carrier.

With these half-magic warships, you can plunder more wealth and control more resources. This is investment, and there is nothing to worry about.

"These new warships are completely different from ordinary warships. Now that they have fallen into the water, they are about to fight overseas, but they don't have a name yet. I dare to give them a name for you!" Liu Zhiyan saw that Li Ye was very satisfied with the warship and took the opportunity to make this suggestion.

Seeing that everyone was looking over, Li Ye looked at him with anticipation, and knew that he should meet their requirements, at least, this was also respecting their hard work.

He pondered for a moment and said slowly: "These half-magic warships are responsible for the mission of expanding overseas for the dynasty. They need to show their power on the ocean, clear away all enemies that hinder the progress of the Tang Dynasty, and protect the marine territory of the Tang Dynasty. Since that's the case, according to my opinion, what about the 'cruiser'?"

"Cruiser?" Everyone was chewing on the name, feeling that it was very domineering and meaningful. They were all happy and saluted Li Ye at the same time, "I would like to thank Your Majesty for giving you a name!"

The three cruisers called the cruisers Jiazi, B and C in turn.

Seeing everyone leaning over to salute, Li Ye smiled slightly, but he was a little disgusted. However, the cruisers in this world are different from those on the earth. But the same is that their appearance marks the appearance of marine warships and even marine wars, which have entered a new level.

Next, Li Ye stayed in the Navy camp for a few days, mainly watching cruiser drills and confirming their actual combat effectiveness.

The power of the cruiser naturally did not disappoint Li Ye, and his ability to consume resources also made Li Ye's smile gradually stiff. He believed that he was prepared for the level of money burning in the cruiser, but when he saw it, he knew what the gold-swallowing beast was.

With the current national strength of the Tang Dynasty, before actually controlling the archipelago outside the South China Sea and communicating with the Americas to obtain the resources there, there was really no effort to build more cruisers.

In comparison, the consumption of more than 2,000 ordinary soldiers on each cruiser is not worth mentioning.

However, with these three cruisers, Li Ye has more confidence in the next war to attack Japan.

"Before sending troops to Japan, the Lingnan Navy will inevitably carry out necessary reconstruction and reorganization around the three cruisers. Time is tight, and only a big man cannot handle such a arduous task. I wonder who Your Majesty plans to take on this important task?"

As the final subject of the cruiser drill came to an end, Liu Zhiyan asked Li Ye curiously.

The answer to this question is actually not difficult. The most outstanding naval generals in the Tang Dynasty were nothing more than Yang Xingmi and Sun Ru. Not long ago, Yang Xingmi had a problem while practicing and stepped down as the General of the Jiangnan Navy and was succeeded by Sun Ru. Now Yang Xingmi is recovering from seclusion. After all, he is just an idle person.

Therefore, the candidates are about to emerge, and there are almost no difficulties.

"Yang Xingmi is still available. His achievements in the position of Jiangnan Navy General cannot be ignored." Li Ye responded to Liu Zhiyan in this way. His words showed that the candidate for the Lingnan Navy General was naturally Yang Xingmi.

However, unlike Sun Ru, in order to successfully transfer to the Lingnan Navy, Li Ye saw Yang Xingmi's series of "magical operations" before. With his current cultivation level, it is no longer difficult to use the Eye of the Emperor's Way to supervise the world.

But in fact, Li Ye couldn't stare at everyone, just like Yang Fei. After returning to Qingzhou, he remembered this old friend, and then used the Eye of Emperor Dao to understand the other party's situation. So in normal times, Li Ye chose some important areas and paid attention to important goals.

Yang Xingmi was an important general of the dynasty, and was the most outstanding among the navy. He was also a general of the Jiangnan Navy. His actions could not escape the surveillance of Emperor Li Ye's Eye of Dao.

Liu Zhiyan was not an outsider either, so Li Ye told the other party what Yang Xingmi did not long ago as a joke.

"This guy is so sinister, no different from a villain. Your Majesty knows that his virtue is a disadvantage, why do you still use him?" After hearing the story, Liu Zhiyan was a little puzzled by Li Ye's decision to employ people.

Li Ye smiled disapprovingly, "In terms of this, Sun Ru is indeed not as good as Yang Xingmi. Now that his mind is thrown away by the other party, he is even more embarrassed.

"The status of the Lingnan Navy in the future will become more and more important. Overseas wars are destined to be commonplace. In a dangerous and unpredictable environment, facing the outstanding naval generals in the world, don't I have to be more powerful, but instead use the weak? A general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies. This kind of thing cannot happen in the Tang army."

Liu Zhiyan spoke speechless.

Li Ye's words clearly mean that the strong have everything, the weak have nothing, and virtue cannot determine anything at all.

Seeing that Liu Zhiyan was still a little confused, Li Ye continued: "Yang Xingmi could see the future of the Lingnan Navy in advance, and made plans early, and did not hesitate to harm his own practice for this reason. The plan was successful. The foresight, determination and meticulous thoughts reflected here are all needed by the general of the Lingnan Navy.

"I am not worried about the generals, but I am happy to see them succeed. Those officials who are busy and wait for death are useless to the dynasty and will only make bad things. In short, to make achievements, you must use your talents. People with virtue but not talent are only suitable to educate children."

After all this, Li Ye will not say much.

After exploring the roots, Yang Xingmi is not a traitor or evil person. As long as he does not rebel, Li Ye can enable his ambitions to be displayed. If he dares to have the idea of ​​rebellion, Li Ye will let him know what sudden death is.

Liu Zhiyan also understood what Li Ye meant and nodded, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will keep this matter secret and will never disclose it."

Li Ye smiled slightly and said nothing. The reason why he told Liu Zhiyan this was to ask Liu Zhiyan to know more about Yang Xingmi. After all, in the future, there will be a lot of time when the Haihe Yamen and the Lingnan Navy will be dealing with each other.

Time flies, and the years pass by, and June is in the blink of an eye.
Chapter completed!