However, in order to achieve this goal, Li Qing knew that the road he was going to take was too long.

The current national strength of the Tang Dynasty is basically at a level that is just a little stronger than Wanduzi, let alone military strength, but at the same time, other corners of the world are in a state of what other corners of the world don’t know, but Li Qing knows it.

Going a little further, Europe's Emperor Charles is already in his twenties and is about to take over the entire Frankish dynasty. He will start attacking the entire European continent in the next few years. Compared with others, you are far inferior to the Tang Dynasty.

Looking at the history of previous lives, the people of the Central Plains had contacts with Europe during the Han Dynasty, but since then it seemed like they had broken off contact. Then there was Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty, and then there were some missionaries with ulterior motives in the Qing Dynasty entered China. However, at that time, the Qing Dynasty had no ability to show off its power with these people. When people found that your dynasty was nothing more than gold and jade, the destruction followed.

Even if he couldn't wait for that time, Li Qing didn't want China to become such a situation many years later, so he had to start making plans at this time.

This is a world where the strong prey on the weak has always been, but the manifestations are different. If your fist is not strong enough, it will only be the result of being swallowed up by others.

If you want to become strong in this regard, you must quickly build a very powerful navy according to Li Yong's idea.

In fact, Li Yan has consulted a lot of information from the Ministry of War and has his own understanding of the situation of various troops in the Tang Dynasty. If An Lushan had not disturbed him like this, in fact, looking at the surrounding situation, the Tang Dynasty's naval army was really strong. As early as a hundred years ago, the Tang Dynasty used its own warships to defeat Japanese warships. Basically, since then, Goguryeo, Japan, and North Korea, no one dared to have even a slight disrespect for the Tang Dynasty, and even more afraid to launch a war from the sea.

This is actually a good thing for the current situation of the Tang Dynasty, because it is true that your things were lost by prodigal sons, but your technology is still there. As long as the technology is still there, it will not be slow to recover.

How did the Qing Dynasty end up being beaten without leaving any zither? In fact, it was because they felt that they were so good in the early stage that the missionaries from mainland Europe praised them in front of the royal family and officials of the Qing Dynasty, saying that you are so awesome and we can't catch up! They were a little confused at that time, and didn't know how much they were. When they saw that they had sent all the good things from their places, they thought the whole world would have to pay tribute to them.

It is under this mentality that people will collapse step by step.

Li Yan knew that many dynasties died of blind confidence. Although you might be the most awesome a hundred years ago, once you stop making progress, the enemy will definitely make you pay a very heavy price.

Since Li Neng decided to let Hong Yuan develop the naval army, he has done a very in-depth study on the extent to which the warships of the Tang Dynasty have developed. He found that the naval army before the Tang Dynasty was mainly equipped with six types of ships: building ships, turrets, fighting ships, boats, yachts, and sea falcons. This is actually quite excellent in this era. Fighting some small countries, such as Japanese warships, is like playing.

Among these six types of warships, the hull is huge, and each ship carries up to six or seven hundred soldiers and sailors, which is the main platform for maritime combat.

In addition, the marshals, fighting ships and boats are responsible for raids and close combat; the yachts are used for fleet contact and reconnaissance; the sea falcons are equipped with anti-capsulse floating plates, which are special ships used in bad weather. It can be said that they have achieved full coverage of various scenarios. The basic framework is definitely fine. The rest is the transformation of various ships and the corresponding training of the navy.

Li Yi also checked the naval battles that occurred in the Tang Dynasty before, and found that it had basically not happened since the first year of opening. Although the name of the navy is still there, there must be few generals who truly understand the navy. Li Yi doesn't know whether Zhang Chong is capable or not.

So some things can only be considered by Li Qing himself, and of course, Hong Yuan has to execute them.

Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty is basically on track little by little. It won’t take long to spend money and materials basically nothing. No matter what the development of the navy is needed, it can be obtained. The only thing that is not good is that Li Neng cannot witness many things in person. After all, Chang'an City is an inland city, and with the transportation of this era, it is not convenient to go to the beach.

Through research on Li Yan, it was found that the Tang Dynasty warships all used flat joint structures that used nail joints and mortise and tenon, and a water-sealed bin wall was set up in the hull, which not only ensured that the hull was strong and smooth, and had low navigation resistance, but also effectively improved the ability to prevent sinking. This forced Li Yan to give a thumbs up to the craftsmen of this era.

With these crafts as the basis, no matter how I want to improve this warship in the future, I have a foundation for realization. Li Wen believes that the Tang Dynasty is not short of skilled craftsmen.

In addition to the very skillful craftsmanship on the warships, the Tang Dynasty warships were also very sophisticated on the weapons carried on the warships.

On the weapons carried on the warships, the Tang Dynasty's navy, in addition to conventional individual weapons, also equipped large winch crossbows, catapults and other long-distance weapons on the building ships.

The farthest shooting distance can reach about 700 steps, which can be called the Tang Dynasty version of ship-to-ship missile.

In addition, the Tang Dynasty Navy also had a close-range attack weapon - a slap rod. The principle of this weapon is similar to a seesaw: a wooden frame is set up on both sides of the ship, a cross bar is placed on one end, a huge rock is tied to one end, and a huge rock is hung outside the ship; the other end is controlled by human forces. When the enemy ship approaches, the huge rock is turned over the enemy ship. As long as the soldiers let go, the huge rock can smash the enemy ship into a pile of broken wood.

But if you break Li Qing's head, he can't imagine these weapons. What you can do now is to make some improvements based on the predecessors.

After Li Yan sorted out all these information, he asked Lei Wanchun to send it to Huang County. He hoped that Hong Yuan could understand his meaning.
Chapter completed!