Li Guodong left a lot of money-making weapons in Jiangnan, which were actually also powerful weapons for the transformation of the gentry in Jiangnan. Then he left Jiangnan and went to Fujian.

This time, I took the Zheng family army's Dafu ship directly from the Yangtze River and exited the Yangtze River estuary from the waterway south of Chongming Island.

On Chongming Island, there were Ming Navy stationed. Controlling Chongming Island was of great significance to going to sea from the Yangtze River. The estuary of the Yangtze River was in a violent land-making movement. If the Chongming Island navy had not guided the seaship, the ships entering and leaving the Yangtze River estuary would either sink or run into the reef or run into the ground. This was also the serious consequence of Zheng Chenggong's third Northern Expedition, and the failure to occupy Chongming Island in advance caused the defeat, resulting in heavy losses.

Chongming Island is the gateway to the Yangtze River. Due to the sea ban, the Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding technology was basically abolished, and there was no court's merchant fleet in and out. All fleets entering and leaving the Yangtze River estuary were fleets of gentry and maritime merchants. To put it bluntly, according to the Ming Dynasty's regulations, only Yuegang was the only port to open trade to the outside world. These ships entering and leaving the Yangtze River estuary were actually smuggling ships. However, the navy officers and soldiers stationed in Chongming Island did not care about smuggling ships at all.

The Zheng family army fleet left the Yangtze River estuary and sailed all the way to Fujian.

To be honest, June of the lunar calendar is the typhoon season. Li Guodong went out to sea on a sea boat, and he was a little worried, but he was afraid that it would be over if he encountered a typhoon. Thank God, he did not encounter a typhoon. In the summer, as long as there is no typhoon, the waves will be calm and the sailing is very stable. However, Li Guodong plans to not take a boat when he goes back. In this era without weather forecast, if he encounters a typhoon on his way back, everything will be over.

The 600-foot Dafu ship sailed on the sea for four days and three nights, and finally arrived at Zheng Zhilong's home in An'anhai Town, Nan.

The fleet stopped at the dock, and Shi Fu took Li Guodong to Zheng Zhilong's mansion.

On the sea, a sea-crossing bridge over the bay is more than four miles long, which is the famous Anping Bridge. Zheng Zhilong's mansion is located in Anhai Town on the side of Anping Bridge. This is a four-entry courtyard with a strong architectural style, red bricks and red tiles, and the lower part is white stone strips. There are two thick carved lions and large stone pillars at the gate. Outside the vermilion gate, two Ming soldiers stood.

"The new Wuwei Bo Li Guodong came to visit his lord." Shi Fu said to the guards at the door.

The guard recognized Shi Fu and hurried in to report to Zheng Zhilong.

After only a while, Zheng Zhilong went out to greet him. When he saw Li Guodong, he clasped his fists and said, "It turned out to be Brother Li! I was wrong. Now I should call him Uncle, welcome!"

Li Guodong replied to the gift and followed Zheng Zhilong into the mansion, and Shi Fu followed them.

Arrived at the hall and sat down with the guest of honor.

"What's wrong with visiting Zheng again?" Zheng Zhilong asked.

"Zheng Junmen, Li wants to build a shipyard and a warship by the Yangtze River. As for the cost of building a shipyard, Li will not lose the money from Zheng Junmen." Li Guodong replied.

"What's the use of building warships?" Zheng Zhilong asked in confusion.

"Of course it is used to deal with Jiannu. Jiannu had long been ambitious to annex my China. In the future, Jiannu will likely capture the north and approach the Yangtze River! If there is a powerful navy, Jiannu will not be able to cross the Yangtze River. Let alone the Yangtze River, Li promised that they would not even reach the Yangtze River."

Zheng Zhilong laughed: "Mr. Zheng thought that you were planning to rebel if you built a navy!"

"Your Majesty the Emperor treats me as much as a mountain. How could Li rebel? It is naturally to help the court to solve the problems. If Jiannu really enters the Central Plains, Li will help the court and protect half of the Ming Dynasty. This is not only helping the Ming Dynasty, but also helping the Han people in the world, so as not to let my Chinese fall into the world for the second time!"

During the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, although the Han people lost the north, they still saved half of the southern country, so they did not count as destroying the world. The Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed, and the Southern Song Dynasty persisted in the south for more than 150 years, and it was not counted as destroying the world in these 150 years. However, the Mongols conquered the Southern Song Dynasty, which was the first time the Han people had destroyed the world. If there were no Li Guodong, in a few years, the Qing Dynasty entered the pass and conquered Jiangnan and destroyed the Southern Ming Dynasty, it would be the second time that the world would be destroyed.

"So that's it!" Zheng Zhilong nodded, "My uncle has also helped Zheng before. If he wants to build a ship, Zheng will naturally be willing to help! However, what Mr. Master wants is the Yangtze River warship. In Zheng's opinion, he should build more sailing warships with less than 300 materials."

Li Guodong asked: "Does Zheng Junmen know how to build the red barbarians' plyboats?"

Zheng Zhilong nodded: "Of course, I know how to build it, but there are no plywood ships in Zheng's army. To be ashamed, when he fought with Hongmaoyi last time, because of Zheng's mistake, all the plywood ships were burned by Hongmaoyi. From then on, Zheng stopped building large Thai-style ships."

Li Guodong said: "There were Thai missionaries in Li's army who came by land. I heard from the red barbarians that the plywood ships sailing inside and outside the Ming Dynasty were not barbarian warships, but just some armed merchant ships. Those ships seemed majestic, but in fact they were thin and had big fillings. If they met a real warship, they would be beaten to the ground. Therefore, Li believed that Zheng Junmen should build a batch of warships that could actually go out to sea to fight."

"If it were imitating the Red-Fao Yi warship, it would probably cost a lot of money and it would take more days to complete the construction." Zheng Zhilong sighed.

Li Guodong said: "There is no need for an armed merchant ship with thin skin and large fillings. If we want to build it, it is a warship. It doesn't need too big. It only needs about 600 materials. Twenty to thirty red barbarian cannons are installed on the ship."

After saying that, Li Guodong took out a sketch from his sleeve.

In fact, in real history, the ship conceived by Li Guodong was called the Red Single Ship. This ship entered the Yangtze River and was a giant. In fact, even if it was on the coast of the Ming Dynasty, it was better to use this ship to fight against the armed merchant ships of Western colonists. The thin and large filling armed merchant ships were actually not defeated. The ship conceived by Li Guodong was not completely a red single ship. After all, the red single ship was modified by a merchant ship, while Li Guodong's warship was a real warship, a warship that was both used inland and outshore.

Zheng Zhilong looked at the drawings presented by Li Guodong and saw that this kind of ship was somewhat similar to Western warships, but it only had a layer of artillery deck, and the sails used were also hard sails, but they could be replaced with soft sails. It is a dual-purpose warship that can be hung with both soft and hard sails. The large ship has a length of 18 zhang, four zhang wide, and eight hundred official materials, which is equivalent to more than 400 tons later; the small ship has a length of 15 zhang, three zhang and five zhang, and six hundred official materials, which is equivalent to more than 300 tons later.

In addition to building more than ten inland warships like this kind of Chinese and Western style, Li Guodong also had to build a batch of centipede clutch, namely the galloping clutch. The galloping clutch was small tonnage, only about 200 materials, and was equipped with more than ten artillery pieces. Although it was not as good as the armed merchant ships of Westerners, it was already invincible on the Yangtze River.

Zheng Zhilong said: "Since Boye wants to build a ship, Zheng will naturally help him. Moreover, the warship designed by Boye is also useful to Zheng himself. As long as it is built with ironwood from Nanyang, it can be invulnerable to swords and guns, and can easily deal with the plywood warships of Hongmaoyi."

"Zheng Junmen is willing to build a boat yard for Li, and Li is very grateful!" Li Guodong stood up and bowed to Zheng Zhilong to thank him.

According to Li Guodong's requirements, about 16 formal warships with built-in single-layer gun decks were built, and the materials used were all for Zheng Zhilong to buy ironwood and oak from Nanyang to build. In addition, sixty centipede clutches, more than two hundred small gunships that could enter the canal, more than five hundred small warships and thousands of sampans. In addition to the formal warships, the wood used by the other warships was ordinary fir.
Chapter completed!