428 Clipper

In mid-December of 1632 AD, which according to the Ming Dynasty was the beginning of November in the fifth year of the Chongzhen Emperor's reign, Qian Qianyi, the Minister of Rites and Ambassador of Recruitment, arrived in Dengzhou by boat and anchored at the port in Shuicheng.

Come down.

When two fast schooners named "Baiju" and "Feiyan" anchored at Shuicheng Pier, Qian Qianyi got off one of them with a tired face, and looked at it in disbelief at first.

I looked around until I saw the Penglai Pavilion, the landmark building of Dengzhou Prefecture, next to me, and then I felt a sudden look on my face:

"We really arrived in Shandong...so fast"

"Oh my, brother Shou, it really is you."

"Sure enough, Mr. Qian has arrived, a distinguished guest."

Qian Qianyi was still in a daze. On the pier, a group of civil and military officials in official robes also hurried over. When they met, they just greeted him with greetings. With his current popularity, all the local civil and military officials would know as long as they got the news.

, all rushed to greet them. Qian Qianyi, who was also good at dancing, greeted them one by one. During this period, he couldn't help but ask about his itinerary. When he mentioned this, Ambassador Qian had a sad look on his face, and kept saying that he didn't expect that--

What didn't you expect? I didn't expect to come back so soon.

——The report of the Shandong war was sent back to Hainan a few days ago, and soon to the Philippines. Lao Qian, who was leisurely enjoying the mango, banana and jackfruit there, immediately couldn't sit still and immediately found Professor Li and told him that he wanted to return to North Korea as soon as possible.

Professor Li asked him how long he planned to go back, and the answer he received was that the sooner the better - Qian Qianyi knew very well that the war in Shandong would end so soon, and the court would definitely reward him based on his merits. Although he would definitely not be able to escape his first contribution in strategizing.

, but if I am not present, I am afraid that I will not get much benefit - Zhou Yanru, Wen Tiren and the others are not good people, so it would be unfair to dismiss them with a false name.

Of course, there are his Donglin colleagues in the capital who can help him with the delay first. But it is impossible for people to wait for him for this kind of thing forever. If it takes a long time, he will definitely become obscene. So Lao Qian was so anxious at that time that he was even a little bit tongue-tied.

Select words complained that the short-haired army was too fast and too efficient.

At that time, the old professor smiled and comforted him and said there was no need to worry. Is it too late to rush back within a month? Yes? That's no problem - we promise to send you to Tianjin within twenty days, and the remaining ten days are enough for you to run back and forth.

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So a telegram was sent back to Hainan Island, informing the shipyard to bring two newly built clipper schooners to Manila. It happened that these two ships also had to undergo long-distance trials, so a fleet was formed to send money.

The ambassador returns to Beijing.

Luzon is about 4,000 kilometers away from Shandong, which is equivalent to more than 2,100 nautical miles. With the average speed of a schooner on the ocean surface of more than 15 knots, it only takes six or seven days to complete it. Of course, in actual navigation, it will definitely take

Affected by various factors such as wind direction, ocean currents, wandering and taking wrong paths, etc., the time taken will be greatly increased, but even this is far beyond the concept in the minds of ordinary people in this era.

Zhu Dadian and others heard the date of their departure from Qian Qianyi, and compared it with the current date, their eyes were straightened. But it was impossible for the old Qian to lie or get the date wrong - there were still people who came back with him.

Eunuch Cao and several people from the Luzon Business Association, so many people said in unison that they had never been on such a fast boat - you must know that they also stopped on Taiwan Island for a period of time to replenish fresh water and water.

The grain was then released directly to Shandong.

So a large group of people came to Shuicheng Pier to watch the two super fast boats as if they were looking at monsters. Compared with the crowds when Qiong Haijun first arrived, Dengzhou Water City is now much emptyer——

All the captured ships were privately divided between Shorthair and the Zheng family. Even the remaining ones that were too small and broken and not suitable for long voyages were either rented or sold and distributed to local fishermen and merchants. Once there was an owner, it was naturally impossible to return them.

Let these ships sit idle, all sailing out to make a living.

Therefore, these two schooners parked alone on the pier are as eye-catching as cranes among the chickens. People in the Ming Dynasty did not understand what streamlined shape was, but they could also appreciate the slender body and arc of these two ships.

The line bow brings huge advantages in speed.

"I really don't know what it looks like on the sea."

A group of people murmured and commented that if it were ordinary people, the dock sentries would not come near at all. Unfortunately, these all have backgrounds. Even if their short-haired commander is right next to them, they can't stop them too much and can only pinch them.

The nose stood there and let these people look around and look at the Western view - it was really a Western view: not to mention that the shape of the schooner was similar to the European sailing ships of this era, and the person in charge of the fleet this time was still a foreign big nose.

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"Hi, Dahuang, Andrew, welcome to the mainland."

The officials of the Ming Dynasty rushed to greet Lao Qian, and the traveling people were also entertaining their associates. This time, the captains of the two clippers "White Horse" and "Feiyan" were Andrew and Huang Xing - they

They are also the two people in the navy group who are most familiar with this type of schooner. They personally led the team mainly to further familiarize themselves with the performance of this type of fast sailing ship and provide more basis for improvement for Wang Ruobin - now Boss Wang is playing sailing.

I became addicted and drew a lot of novel designs. In addition to traditional styles, there were also some weird ones such as catamarans and pontoons. However, the ones actually constructed in the shipyard were all ordinary ones for the time being - in Qiong

Until the navy's fleet of clippers is sufficient to meet its needs, the committee does not agree with him diverting manpower and material resources from the shipyard to experiment with weird things that have never appeared in history. As for when the fleet will be able to meet its needs, only God knows.

"It's just you two. Didn't the old man come?"

Jie Xi and others originally thought that Professor Li would come in person. After all, judging from the tone of his last telegram, the old man had a strong desire to return to Beijing. However, according to Huang Xing, Professor Li did hesitate for a long time, but in the end

I still gave up this plan - as the leader of Qiong Haijun, even if the old man is only in name, if he takes the initiative to go to Beijing like this, it is difficult to explain what new ideas the emperor and ministers will come up with, especially in the

Currently, they are coveting the technological weapons of the Qiong Navy.

"So the old man won't come. He also asked me to tell you: If any of you here want to go to Beijing to broaden your horizons, you'd better be careful and bring as many people as possible, and don't go together."

Jie Xi, Pang Yu, Beiwei, Ao Sayang and others, as the main persons in charge of countering the rebellion in Dengzhou, are expected to be summoned by the Ming Emperor. However, Lao Jie and the others have discussed this many times, and there is already a consensus within the team on this.

in conclusion:

"None of us will go, let's just let Chen Tao be the plenipotentiary representative."

Many people wanted to go to Beijing in the 17th century, but if they risked having their heads chopped off, it was not necessary. Although they accepted the Ming Dynasty's recruitment, except for a few people such as Chen Tao,

In fact, most people in Chuanzhong have never trusted Chongzhen and his group of officials who have made many mistakes in history. They are not willing to place their own safety on those people.

Huang Xing actually felt the same about this, but he was still responsible for sending Chen Tao, Ambassador Qian and others to Beijing. This relieved Wen Desi, and the Second Fleet no longer had to make a special trip to Tianjin.

Pang Yu and others are very happy about this - this way they can use the transportation capacity of the Second Fleet to send another batch of laborers back to the south. Several batches have been sent back one after another under the organization of Ling Ning, Zheng Zhihu and others. The Zheng family's

The ship takes people directly to Taiwan, and the short-haired ship goes to Hainan Island... Although the two parties have agreed on the distribution ratio in advance, in fact, because there are so many people waiting to be transported at the beach, it is basically whose ship belongs to

If the team arrives first, they can just load up the people and leave - they have to recruit as many people as possible before the governor of Shandong and the court officials wake up, so as not to regret it later.

Ling Ning's first fleet included three large Western sailing ships, plus several large-tonnage fortune ships. After capturing Dengzhou Prefecture, they were assigned the majority of the captured ships. Logically speaking, they should have an absolute advantage in this competition.

However, when the battle for labor really started, everyone was surprised by the strong capabilities displayed by the Zheng family - they found countless small boats that could not go to sea at all, and clung to the coastline day and night.

It stopped to pull people to the south, it is said that it went all the way to Zhangzhou and Xiamen, the hometown of the Zheng family, and then stopped to wait for the big ship to slowly transport them to the other side of the Taiwan Strait...

As a result, their transportation capacity is terrifying. Although the passenger capacity on each boat is not large, it cannot handle the large number. Pang Yu and others watch the Zheng family's boats here every day, rowing people away like ants.

It was inevitable that I would feel depressed - could it be that the Zheng family had taken advantage of the situation we had worked so hard to open up? If it weren't for the fact that they also had a share in the immigrants brought to Taiwan, Jie Xi could not help but want to reject the Zheng family

The fleet is re-crewed.

Although the size of Wen Desi's second fleet is much smaller than that of the first fleet, they are still regular large ships. If they are slightly overloaded, it will not be a problem to carry 1,800 people. As for food and fresh water, they can stop at the shore along the way.

Additional information - Qiong Haijun is also learning from the Zheng family now.

So just one day later, two fleets were launched from Shuicheng in Dengzhou Prefecture - Wen Desi's second fleet was fully loaded and headed west, bypassing the Shandong Peninsula and then heading south. It only consisted of two fast sailing ships.

The small formation headed towards Tianjin Port in the north. The curious sailors in Dengzhou Prefecture finally saw how this kind of sailboat sailed on the sea - when the sails were fully opened, they looked like two flying fish gliding on the water.

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When "Baiju" and "Feiyan" left the port, they happened to meet the Ming Dynasty's patrol fleet returning - after recapturing Dengzhou, the Ming army managed to get a few ships, and pretended to patrol the nearby waters from time to time, which was regarded as rebuilding Dengzhou.

The meaning of the state navy. That day, there happened to be a few patrol boats wandering around the sea off Dengzhou and returning. I didn’t know the identities of these two ships. I only saw two big white sailing ships rushing towards the heart of Tianjin Wei. It happened that they were again

Blocking the waterway, I wanted to stop him and question him.

As a result, in the blink of an eye, they passed by those open boats. When the sailors on board reacted, they could only see the butt of the boat in the distance... {Piaotian Literature thanks all book friends for your support,
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