Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

Chapter 497 New Questions

The Americas were discovered in the 12th year of the Yongle reign, and Zheng He brought back the good news in the 13th year of the Yongle reign.

After that, Zhu Di began to arrange people to go there.

In a letter received last month, Zhu Gaochi said that a Xuanfu Division had been built in America and many people from the country had been relocated there.

"Yes, the last time His Highness mentioned this place to the Crown Prince, didn't Master Zhang also say that he wanted to go take a look with the treasure ship? Perfect!"

I remember rolling up my sleeves clearly.

When the prince was discussing with Zhang Xin who should go to Wu America, Zhang Sanfeng jumped out and recommended himself.

There is a place where Zhang Sanfeng cannot go on his own. No matter who they are, as long as their Taoism is not as good as Zhang Sanfeng, they will definitely not be able to harm Zhang Xin.

“This seems to be possible!”

Zhang Xin thought about it carefully.

Going away from home seemed to be the solution to her current predicament.

As long as she is not in a place where others can reach her, everything becomes clear.

Just like the missing Zhu Yunwen.

She could be a traveling princess consort.

"Of course you can. A treasure ship can hold thousands of people! Then you can bring along the families of the remaining Tiqi in Beijing."

Last time when the people from Biyun Mountain Villa were sent back to the capital, the Imperial Guards also sent back almost half of them, mainly because of the limited space on this mountain.

The remaining one thousand or so Ti riders had also been on the mountain for a long time.

Even if we take turns to go back to Beijing during shift changes, we are still separated from our families for a long time.

The main reason for rolling up the sleeves is that we are worried that these people will have problems over time.

Their families are all in the capital.

If the family members of some of these people were bribed or secretly captured and used as a threat, everyone in Biyun Villa might die inexplicably.

Wei Guan is a civil servant. Once Zhang Sanfeng is not here to manage the situation, it is difficult to predict what will happen next.

"Bring me the letter the prince wrote last year so I can read it again."

Zhang Xin thought for a moment and gave the order.

"Yes."

He rolled up his sleeves and went there immediately.

After more than twenty letters were brought over, Zhang Xin flipped through a few of them and found the letter in which Zhu Gaochi mentioned the treasure ship.

In the past two years, the Shenjiying has researched more and more things.

The craftsmanship of treasure ships also made great progress.

The original steam-powered treasure ship was powered by a combination of steam boilers and human power.

Now it can be almost completely driven by steam boilers.

In his letter, Zhu Gaochi said that improvements had been made to the coal-adding area. The water that originally took a quarter of an hour to boil could be boiled in half a quarter of an hour. Without the need for manpower, a treasure ship could be driven simply by a steam boiler and could reach its maximum speed in half a quarter of an hour. The overall speed of the ship was also increased by about 30% compared to before.

Even part of the treasure ship's frame was made of fine steel.

It not only makes the overall ship more solid, but also greatly increases the ship's own weight, so that the ship will not capsize easily even if it encounters a storm when sailing in the sea.

Originally, because the oars had to be positioned on both sides to extend out and the rowers had to be positioned, cannons could only be placed at the bow and stern, with only a small number of cannons on both sides.

This means that the firepower coverage is insufficient. Once attacked from the side, there will be casualties if the bow does not turn fast enough.

Now that the steam boiler can almost completely replace rowing, the two sides of the boat were adjusted by the people of the Shenjiying Camp to become places for deploying artillery.

In the Shenjiying's vision, with ten cannons on each side of the treasure ship, plus two cannons in the front and back, the Ming Dynasty's treasure ship would basically be invincible no matter where it went.

But once the guns were installed on the ship, new problems arose.