Lord of the House: Chapter 27 Iron Mountain Shipyard

Yezier's inspection of Huangcheng Island was only half a day's light.

It's not that there is nothing to see on Huangcheng Island, but Huangcheng Island is located in the sea. Once the Huaidong Naval Warship is called to smell the fishy smell, the Emperor of Heaven and all the princes and ministers will be trapped on the island. open up.

It was also Ye Jier's insistence that Ye Jiduodi and Na Hexiongqi reluctantly agreed that he should lead a group of princes and ministers to visit Huangcheng Island. However, once the navy escorted the Emperor of Heaven and the princes and ministers to the sea, how could the movement be small?

Unable to hide Huaidong's secret room in Dengzhou, in order to prevent the news from spreading and attracting Huaidong warships to attack, after arriving on the island, Ye Jiduodi and Na Hexiongqi repeatedly urged the emperor to leave the island.

Ye Zier looked up at the sky, and asked Ye Jiduodi, Na Hexiongqi and other places to push them impatiently, and said, "Go to Tieshan!"

That He Xiongqi and Ye Jiduodi looked at each other and saw that the Emperor of Heaven had a firm intention, while the other princes and ministers probably knew that dissuasion was useless, and they had no intention of dissuading him, so he could only make arrangements according to his orders.

The safety of the sea journey does not mean how many escorts are needed, but the journey must be fast, and the Huaidong naval battleship formation can not catch the fighter jets - Ye Jier wanted to go to Tieshan, and Hexiongqi was half an hour younger. It was arranged to sail across the sea and sail into Tieshan Port when the sky was about to twilight.

Tieshan, also known as Tiemenshan Island, is actually two semi-offshore islands on the inner side of the Liaodong tip next to the cliff bank. When the tide is shallow, the mud bed will be exposed. The North and South Tiemen Mountains face each other across the water, encircling a piece of water with a depth of seven or eight miles, and the entrance of the water inlet is opposite to the headland, the opening is only four miles wide, and on the four-mile wide water mouth, there is another The small cape island of Sotuozi.

Na Hexiongqi chose Tieshan to build a water village at the northern end of the sea-locked defense line, because he saw Tieshan as a natural sea city, which is very conducive to defense, and the east flank of Tieshan is the Laolongling that traverses the entire tip of Liaodong. The terrain is towering and steep. , easy to defend and difficult to attack; the northern foot of Laolongling is the city of Jianjinzhou in eastern Liaoning.

Beiyan deployed a total of more than 20,000 elite soldiers of water and horses in Liaodong Jian; from Jinzhou City to Tieshanzhai, the city walls are connected, using the terrain of Liaodong Jian, to do their best to be dangerous and far-reaching, shaped like a dragon, Dangerous as hell.

From the eleventh year of Chongguan, the most important official shipyard in Beiyan moved to Tieshan after three years of Yongxing.

When inspecting the navy, Yezier could see the situation of the navy going out to sea to learn from Dengzhou on the other side. There is no need to make a special trip across the sea to Jinzhou;

Beiyan Shipping Administration was established in the eleventh year of Chongguan, and developed in three periods in nine years.

In the eleventh year of Chongguan, Beiyan recruited more than 1,000 craftsmen from Korea, set up a shipyard and established a water army.

The original shipyard was built in the inland Qingnang River on the north side of Jinzhou City, in order to block the estuary at any time to prevent the invasion of the Dengzhou Navy and the Huaidong Navy at that time. The depth of Liaodongjian ranges from tens of miles to more than a hundred miles. With such a depth, naturally there cannot be many deep and wide rivers and rivers. The Qingnang River shipyard is shallow and narrow, making it impossible to build large ships.

Although Beiyan's early shipping administration did not make it capable of directly forming a naval force that could compete with the Dengzhou Navy at that time, it also laid a certain foundation for Beiyan shipping administration and naval construction.

After the Qingzhou war, Beiyan controlled most of Shandong, especially Chen Zhihu's co-operation in Liu Yefei's plan to move the tiger away from the mountains, and lured the main force of the Dengzhou navy to the land to encircle it. Really have the conditions to set up a navy.

Ye Jier first used Chen Zhihu to also lead the navy, and then appointed Zhao Zhen, who killed the leader, and Liu Yuanlong, the traitor who surrendered to Yan, as the deputy governor, and actually presided over the construction of the navy.

In addition to building the sea defense line, Na Hexiongqi moved Yuanyue's future in Denglai and the evacuated boatmakers and shipbuilding facilities to Liaodong, and built a new shipyard in Tieshan together.

After relocating and Denglai boat craftsmen, there are as many as 4,000 craftsmen in Tieshan Shipyard, who can build large ships with watertight cabins of 2,000 stones.

When the world is south and the north is the car; it is precisely the demand that makes the north good at car building, while the south is good at boat building. Goryeo faced the sea three times, but was blocked by pirates, trapped in the near sea, unable to travel far, and not good at building large ships.

Following the tradition of shipbuilding in the North and Korea, Tieshan Shipyard was able to successfully build a 2,000-stone watertight ship in just two or three years after its completion. Although it is far from being on a par with Huaidong, its performance is already quite impressive.

Lin Fu appointed Sun Daluo, a blacksmith, as a supervisor in Chongzhou, which caused a lot of trouble in the city. Before that, more than a decade earlier, when Ye Jier first ascended the throne, he promulgated the "Edict of Seeking Talents" in Liaodong, claiming that " It is not limited to merchants and pawns, and subordinates to peasants. Anyone who has a skill and presents it to the yafu will be awarded to the officials.”—Speaking of Beiyan’s emphasis on craftsmanship and pragmatic innovation, it was earlier than Huaidong.

Its rise in Liaodong has its own advantages, and it is not accidental. If it wasn't for Huaidong's birth, the Yuanyue royal court, which was weak and full of internal contradictions, would have been very difficult to stop Beiyan from embezzling the Central Plains.

The third major development of Beiyan Shipping Administration was inseparable from the Battle of Jingxiang.

Although the battle of Jingxiang, the collapse of Beiyan, and the loss of nearly 300,000 troops and horses, it was not nothing. In the battle of Jingxiang, Beiyan's main harvest was to get nearly 20,000 southern craftsmen who were donated by the luxury family.

These craftsmen, almost after the Nanyang War, moved north and merged into the government-run workshops controlled by Beiyan. Among them, nearly 3,000 shipbuilding craftsmen, who were most in short supply in Beiyan, were brought to Tieshan Shipyard after they moved to Jinzhou. All the shipbuilding skills mastered by the luxury family.

Only then did the generals of Beiyan realize more and more profoundly the gap in shipbuilding technology between the north and the south. After the integration of luxury craftsmen, Tieshan Shipyard quickly became capable of building super-large sea ships, and at the beginning of the year began to build six 5,000-stone ships at the same time.

The defeat of the Battle of Jingxiang forced Beiyan's strategic focus to shift to the eastern front, changing from strategic offensive to strategic defensive. The strategic focus shifted to the eastern front, and the situation changed from offense to defense, and the navy was a link that Beiyan had to strengthen.

If the Huaidong warships cannot be blocked out of the Bohai Sea, Beiyan's defense forces on the eastern front will be doubled, and it will be more difficult, just like the luxury family in Mindong gradually nibbling away the Huaidong navy. Weak evil. Beiyan can turn the southeastern Shandong and the entire southeastern half of the Shandong peninsula into rubble, and pull together with Huaidong, but it cannot turn Yanji, western Liaoning, and the Bohai Sea in eastern Liaoning into rubble!

Simple Swordfish Village, Miaoshan Island, Huangcheng Island and Tieshan Village, no matter how solid they are, without the cooperation of a navy above the water, and without the ability to fight offshore, there is no way to form a sea-locking line of defense. .

Yezier does not expect to build a navy that can compete with the Huaidong navy in the East China Sea in a short period of time. It is impossible, but the navy warship, relying on Daoyu Village, Miaoshan Island, God It is not impossible for Chengdao and Tieshanzhai to block the Huaidong Navy warships outside the mouth of the Bohai Sea.

This tactic is exactly the same as the battle against the city in the land battle.

Simply fighting a battleship on the sea surface could not beat Huaidong. Relying on a dangerous island with complete combat readiness, the battleship could control the sea area 30 to 40 miles deep.

Of course, in front of the Huaidong Navy, it is definitely not a simple matter to build a navy that is not far behind and above the standard. When everyone walks into the gate of the heavily guarded Tieshan Shipyard, they are greeted by a A huge ship with half of its plates removed to reveal its ribs and keel.

Ye Jibaishi was shocked when he saw it, and thought to himself: So the rumors are true, so Hexiongqi is really dismantling the ship and laying it in the open space of the shipyard?

This is a Jinhai-class warship built by the Chongzhou Shipyard. It was purchased from the Hojo clan at Hexiongqi's heavy investment and after several turnovers; and the Hojo clan acquired this warship from the Irike clan. grab it.

The Irie clan succumbed to the coercion of the Hojo clan and transferred the Jinhai-class warship sold to them by Huaidong to the Hojo clan, and lied that they had hit the rocks and sank. an important reason.

Lin Fu will not help Adou who can't be helped. What Lin Fu needs in the Haidong area at this time is still some forces that can be helped.

This warship really embodies Huaidong's highest shipbuilding technology. Just looking at the giant skeleton made of fine iron, the black lacquered metallic luster is daunting. A ship can directly collide with an enemy ship by taking advantage of the turbulent ocean, and it can also be unfavorable.

Before the ship entered the Tieshan Shipyard, it accidentally touched the reef in order to avoid the wind and waves, but of the thirteen watertight cabins, only one was destroyed, and it did not even affect the navigation - how can it not be surprising?

Such a warship was made with great effort and cost hundreds of thousands of taels of gold and silver. It was not incorporated into the navy, but he asked Na Hexiongqi to dissect it in half and put it in the open space of Tieshan Shipyard. For confusion, his face was quite ugly.

Ye Zier stepped forward, reached out to touch the cold fine iron skeleton, and looked at Hexiongqi who was standing behind him: "Su Tingzhan, is this Huaidong's iron skeleton ship?"

In the battle of Jingxiang, Su Tingzhan fled without fighting. In the end, Ye Jier not only did not punish him, but also awarded the title of Gaizhou Bo, and transferred him to Yanjing to consult the naval army, intending to use him to supervise the naval army.

Su Tingzhan didn't know that Huaidong was powerful and invincible, but the world was so big, where could he fit in?

Although She Yuan, the envoy of Shewenzhuang, instructed them to go to the northwest and leave this unfavorable place, but the Qiangs in the northwest are fighting for the supremacy, and it is also a **** place. She Yuan obeyed She Wenzhuang's intention, insisted that he did not dare to leave the switch, and moved to Tianshui as his general.

Su Tingzhan stepped forward and saluted, "Your Majesty, this is indeed the Huaidong iron skeleton ship."

"The people of East Fujian have gone to sea for generations, and their shipbuilding skills should not be bad, but you can talk about it, what kind of person is Lin Fu, who even thought of casting a ship's skeleton with fine iron?" Ye Jier asked the officers and ministers without a hand .

Zhang Xie thought to himself, what kind of mentality did Chen Xiyan have to call Lin Fu a pig herd? He didn't believe that with Chen Xiyan's eyesight, he really started to look away.

Su Tingzhan didn't say anything: Huaidong made his chariots covered with iron plates in the battle of Jingxiang, making them invincible iron armored chariots on the battlefield; in this way, Huaidong could even cover iron armor on warships. How will they compete with the Huaidong warships at sea? He hid his words and didn't say anything, not for anything else, but for fear of hurting the confidence of Beiyan's generals.

Yezier asked Na Hexiongqi, "Have you asked the craftsman to estimate how much iron the ship consumes?"

"Roughly estimated," said Na Hexiongqi, "only the keel consumes more than 120,000 jin of fine iron..."

When He Xiongqi said this, many people present took a deep breath.

The price of refined iron is comparable to that of copper, and 120,000 catties of refined iron are worth 20,000 taels of silver. This ship was acquired from the Hojo clan, and it cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. It’s not wrong at all—Beijing controls it. The iron yard produces 1,000,000 kilograms of refined iron a year~www.mtlnovel.com~ I don't do anything else, but use it all to build ships, and I can't build eight or nine ships a year!

In the shipyards of Huaidong, Chongzhou, Mingzhou and Jiangning, Jinhai-class merchant ships and warships can build forty ships a year; Linzhengjun-class warships and merchant ships with larger hulls can be built a year. Build ten...

Of these ships, even if only one-third of them are iron skeleton ships, the consumption of refined iron is likely to be as high as three million kilograms.

Ye Jier entrusted Na Hexiongqi to set up Xijian Temple in Dengzhou, which specializes in collecting all kinds of information on Huaidong, saying that Huaidong produces more than 30 million catties of iron materials a year, and he is constantly looking for iron ore to set up sites. At that time, all the princes in Yanjing City were dismissive, thinking that under the manipulation of He Xiongqi, the spying of Xijian Temple was exaggerated, but after several cross-examinations, the truth was really unacceptable.

"It's good for Xiong Qi to dismantle this boat and put it here, but it's not good enough. It should be placed in front of the Golden Palace. The princes and ministers called Dayan have their eyes open! The era has passed; don't think that you will have no worries if you still occupy half of the country - if you don't wake me up, it will be too late!" Yezier spoke word by word, every word seemed to smash into the people present. The hearts of the princes and ministers, but after he said these words, he seemed to have exhausted all the strength of his body, coughed hard, and bowed his back like a shrimp. Concubine Yu hurriedly went up to help him, stroking his back to ease his breath, but looking at the iron skeleton behind him, she couldn't help thinking: What kind of man is Lin Fu, to call King Khan so jealous?

She married Yezier as a concubine at the age of fourteen, and it has been fifteen years so far. In her eyes, Ye Jier is the unparalleled and unparalleled hero of the world, but the defeat in the battle of Jingxiang made her realize that the man who was once called the pig herd by the world may be stronger. . My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter