More than ten miles away from Lushun City is Lushun Port.

At this time, the entire Lushun Port had become a huge military port with considerable buildings.

After entering the port, you can see many large tower cranes erected on the huge bluestone pier, busy loading and unloading goods.

This is a lively and busy pier scene.

Because it is a military port, Zhu Youxiao is not planning to develop business here.

Of course, there are civil ports, just northeast of Qingniwa, more than 100 miles away from Lushun Port, where is an extremely huge bay.

That huge bay is as big as a dozen Lushun Port, and it is most suitable for building huge civil ports.

There are now a large number of ships in the ports within Lushun Port, most of which are ships of the original Tianjin Navy and the Goguryeo Navy, which are basically used to train naval soldiers.

As a ship that operates on the sea, all kinds of sea ships in this era were built with various woods.

After a long-term soaking of various sea ships and warships in the sea water, sea maggots will gradually erode into the ship board, gradually eroding the empty ship board, reducing the service life of the ship.

In severe cases, various problems may occur when ships sailing on the sea.

However, it is also easy to deal with sea maggots. You only need to regularly sail into some rivers and moor in freshwater for a few days. The sea maggots will die completely because they cannot survive in freshwater.

This operation is very important for the maintenance of wooden sea ships in this era.

Therefore, the Royal Navy soldiers trained in Lushun Port often have large numbers of ships, and go out to sea to detour to nearby rivers for a few days, so as to train and protect ships.

When Zhu Youxiao first came here, he saw these scenes.

He saw a huge fleet, led by six Leopard cruisers, slowly sailing into Lushun Port.

Soon, you will arrive at the side of the trestle bridge of several huge bluestone piers and stop.

The closer he got to this huge military port, the more satisfied Zhu Youxiao saw it.

A brand new military port was established step by step under his efforts, and it was a military port that exceeded the vision of this era and was almost planned by later generations.

It won't take long to take place here and become more and more important and become one of the important bases for the Ming Empire to expand its outward expansion.

After entering the port, he could also see dozens of new forts built on some small islands in the distance.

Several new lighthouses that are more than ten feet tall have been built in several places outside the military port.

These lighthouses are important facilities for the ships of the North Sea Fleet to provide important guidance for the course of ships.

With their existence, ships coming here can easily find Lushun Port even at night.

Then, safely guided by the water diversion boat, sailed into the military port and parked in the anchorage of the large pier.

A new type of Franca cannon was placed on those dozens of cannons.

These cannons are specially designed and cast for turrets. They are much larger and grow a lot more than what the Army uses now, and have greater range and power.

Even the cannons used by the Navy are new Franc cannons that have been improved again, which can hit farther and have stronger destructive power.

Each cannon is set up on a rotating gun mount, and the muzzle can be easily pointed in all directions, making its firing boundary very wide and much more flexible.

This rotatable gun mount can eliminate the gunner's effort, and then aim the gunner at the target.

It only needs to turn the gun mount to aim at the enemy's target direction relatively easily.

In addition, the cross-fire of artillery from various artillery batteries can easily kill enemies who want to invade the military port, which gives these artillery bases a strong defensive ability.

This is a real military port, with a large number of naval soldiers and ships stationed. Once an enemy invades, each of the artillery can quickly receive rapid support from the military port garrison.

These turrets can easily block the port and its nearby waters, making it impossible for the enemy to rush into Lushun Port before occupying or destroying these turrets, and cannot pose a threat to this huge military port.

Therefore, after the construction of these forts in Lushun Port, it has become quite safe.

Even if a powerful enemy blocks the waters outside the port, Lushun Port can completely rely on the turrets and warships here to counterattack.

There is also a huge city nearby, where the large amount of food and supplies stored there can be held on for a long time.

So this time I came here from afar to see these forts. After the lighthouse had been built, Zhu Youxiao felt a little accomplished and couldn't help feeling a little proud again. Ziwei

After all, these are his ideas.

It’s a pity that he came now during the day and could not see the actual effect of the lighthouse. However, by night, you can see the shining beautiful scenery of these huge lighthouses at any time.

The focus of Zhu Youxiao’s visit this time was to inspect the progress of the Lushun Shipyard.

Before the New Year, Zhu Youxiao came here and made plans for Lushun Port and Lushun City.

At that time, all kinds of work had just begun, and all kinds of things had not stabilized, but just a just start.

This time he came here to check the situation here, see if the construction speed and construction standards of the shipyard here have reached the expected progress and scale.

Zhu Youxiao knew very well that the eighth year of the apocalypse this year was a critical year for him.

He is very likely to have to deal with the provocations of enemies from all sides and fight many big battles. If he does not quickly blow up the warships, he may not be able to handle them by then.

Last year he ordered the formation of two fleets. Now most of the soldiers of the two fleets of the Royal Navy have completed their initial training and have been formally incorporated into the combat sequence of the two fleets.

In addition to the leopard cruiser that is about to be built in full swing, the current Royal North Sea Fleet has also added many new ships.

Now not only are the leopard cruisers in urgent need, but even the enlarged and extended naval guns specially designed for Leopard cruisers are relatively in short supply.

Not long ago, Zhu Youxiao asked the Royal Military Equipment Department to increase the production and reserve of guns, cannons and ammunition. In the past few months this year, the large-scale production of firearms such as muskets and cannons was particularly critical to him.

Otherwise, in two months, there will be forty-eight Leopard cruisers in service, and many warships of the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty will probably not be able to catch up with suitable artillery.

At that time, many naval soldiers were probably going back to the era of close combat, and they could only fight against the enemy at sea with muskets, bows and crossbows.

After Zhu Youxiao arrived at the huge shipyard not far from the military port, he immediately started to wander around the seemingly boundless and boundless shipyard.

He went to the boat dormitory first.

The twenty-four large ship platforms that have almost been built in the boat lot will be completed and put into production soon, and will be gradually started to be started in a few days at the latest.

Two ships have even started construction and discharged materials, and two other new Leopard cruisers have begun to be built as a continuous research process to improve while building them.

After all, the twelve Leopard Cruisers that have been built and put into use are only the first generation ships, and many problems can be found during construction and use.

These problems need to be improved and improved again and again.

Only in this way can the warships built by the shipyard be continuously upgraded, and the size and speed of the warships will become larger and faster, and the Royal Navy can develop and grow rapidly.

This is also the top priority for Zhu Youxiao and is the thing he pays most attention to.

"See Your Majesty!"

Zhang Guangzhe, the commander of the North Sea Fleet, led the soldiers and had just returned to the nearby river maintenance ship. When he heard that His Majesty had arrived, he immediately brought the generals of the Royal North Sea Fleet to pay homage.

"Flat!"

Zhu Youxiao asked everyone to get up.

After the king and his ministers talked for a while, Zhu Youxiao asked about the training of the shipyard and fleet.

Because there are less than three months left, the two fleets of the Royal Navy of the Ming Empire will have to voyage and start a series of naval battles, so what Zhu Youxiao is most concerned about now is the specific situation of the shipyard and the Royal Navy.

He must teach those Western countries a profound lesson.

We must also interrupt the puppet dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty, explore and ambition for the ocean, and trap them firmly in the huge Jiangnan area.

Otherwise, the huge hidden dangers brought by their full deployment of firearming troops will be unimaginable.

Zhang Guangzhe quickly began to report to Zhu Youxiao and talked about the situation about the boat dormitory.

Although he was thick-skinned and liked to brag, it was just a small matter. In terms of big matters, the commander of the Royal North Sea Fleet was still very reliable.

He is a smart person. No matter how awesome he is, he will never dare to miss a big deal at critical moments.

The current Ming Empire and the navy's military expenditures are increasing significantly every month.

If he could not achieve some impressive results, he, the commander of the North Sea Fleet, would definitely be beaten to the end without saying a word by His Majesty the Emperor.
Chapter completed!