Otherworldly Castle Era

Chapter 34 Split plan

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“Your Majesty, my Daxia ships are all built from wood produced in the Southern Territory Forest.” Shen Kuo nodded at Li Jie, and Li Jie explained.

“The northern region is full of ice and snow, and the temperature in the extremely cold places is extremely low. My Daxia ship has never sailed in such extreme weather, so the hull cracked.”

When Li Jie said this, he turned his head towards Shen Kuo, and Shen Kuo continued: “Your Majesty, there is no solution for the time being, unless all the wood for shipbuilding is replaced by steel, but we have never built such a steel ship.”

“That’s it!” Yang Song couldn’t help lowering his head to meditate after hearing the answers of the two. This kind of situation has never been encountered before.

There is no way from time to time. Yang Song can think of several ways, but these methods are either impractical or not in Xia Guo’s interests.

In addition to Shen Kuo’s method of using all steel to build ships, another method is to abandon Xia Guo’s interests in Beilu, so that there is no need for ships, and Xia Guo’s ships naturally don’t have to go to Beilu. .

If there are any problems with the power of the sails from time to time, you can also find a way to put the steam engine on the ship, but this is the material problem of the entire ship, but it is not so simple to solve.

Finally, Yang Song asked the two of them unwillingly: “If the ship sails between the two places before the northern sea is frozen, or sails when the weather turns cold in summer, can this be avoided? problem?”

In this regard, Shen Kuo thought for a while, and after discussing a few words with Li Jie in a low voice, he replied: “Return to your Majesty, this can only slow the cracking speed of the ship, but it cannot be completely avoided.

Yang Song saw that there was nothing to do, but Xia Guo’s interests in the Snow Kingdom definitely couldn’t be abandoned, not to mention that nearly half of the Marine Brigade’s troops stationed in Coldfish City needed Xia Guo to provide regular supplies.

Yang Song looked at the map. In addition to the vast sea between the Xia Kingdom and the Snow Kingdom, there was a vassal federation between the two countries on the land.

In fact, there is another way to go by land if there is no sea route, but the Xia Kingdom and the Ice and Snow Kingdom are separated by a vassal federation on land.

The federation of princes spans the central and northern parts of the continent, and the distance between the north and the south is eight or nine hundred kilometers. This is an impractical road no matter what, unless…

Thinking of this, Yang Song’s eyes lit up. He suddenly thought that this federation of princes was not actually a monolithic country, but was composed of many city-state lords.

Many years ago, Xia State attacked and destroyed the indigenous civilizations of this world, and waged a war of punishment against the so-called center of indigenous civilization, the Federation of Princes.

However, because of Xia Guo’s strategic layout, he did not occupy any land beyond the boundary river. After withdrawing troops, Xia Guo discovered that the originally loose alliance of the princes’ federation had become stronger.

The threat of Xia Guo to neighboring countries is too great, for fear that it will be destroyed by Xia Guo someday, and this has to make these countries work together to resist Xia’s powerful strength.

Thinking of this, Yang Song already had a draft, and waved to the waiting Shen Kuo and Li Jie: “Thanks for your hard work. Go ahead and look for ways to improve the ship.”

“Chen Zunzhi!” Seeing this, the two did not say much, glanced at each other, and left the royal study room together.

After Shen Kuo and Li Jie left, Yang Song immediately summoned Chen Ping and said: “Chen Ping, I have a task to hand over to the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Security.”

Chen Ping solemnly folded his hands and replied: “What is your majesty’s instructions, the minister will follow the orders.”

“Chen Ping, I want you to find a way to dismember the princes’ federation in the north of Daxia.” Yang Song said this, thought for a while, and continued to order: “No matter how many parts you dismembered by the princes’ federation, But one of the countries that connects north and south must be controlled by Daxia.”

Yang Song then told Chen Ping about the problems of the ships at sea and the need to connect with the ice kingdom by land.

“Yes, your majesty, the ministers follow the order.” After listening to Chen Ping, he didn’t ask much, and took the order.

Yang Song looked at Chen Ping who was leaving. He was very much looking forward to Chen Ping’s “competition.” If there is a vassal state controlled by Xia in the north, it will be able to connect the north and south of the mainland by land.

With the idea of ​​dismembering the princes’ federation, Yang Song turned his gaze to the plateau west of Xia State. If it is possible to disassemble the Anyuan Kingdom on the plateau as well.

Because of the geographical relationship, Xia Guo paid enough attention to the Anyuan Kingdom in the West. After all, the offensive from the top down was still very powerful.

If Xia Kingdom can occupy a piece of land on the plateau, it can prevent the Anyuan Kingdom from sneaking out—although the Anyuan Kingdom must not dare now.

However, it is inevitable that the other party will not take the risk and make a sudden attack on Gao Yuan. Yang Song will not hand over the people’s safety initiative to the other party-Xia Guo’s various defense areas exist for this.

However, this is only Yang Song’s idea, and it has not yet reached the point where it will be implemented soon. Now his most important thing is to develop the country.

After Chen Ping left, Yang Song thought about it for a long time in the study alone. He originally thought that the current sailing warship would be enough to use, at least at this stage there is no need to develop more advanced ships.

But now that this situation has emerged, Yang Song has to make another plan, which is to put the construction of the steel steam-powered ship on the agenda.

In fact, steam-powered ships have long existed , but they are just small steamers used for inland water transportation. They are completely different from the big ships at sea, and the steam power of steel hulls The ship’s level is higher.

According to the science and technology tree of the previous world, on the opposite side of the ship, the first is the wooden sail ship, and then the steam-powered-sail hybrid ship, including the successive development of paddle steamer and dark steamer.

After that, it was an all-metal armored ship, and then the steam engine evolved into a steam turbine, and finally it was once the romance of how many men in the world-the big ship cannon.

Now Yang Song wants to develop directly from the sailing warship to the level of the armored ship. Not to mention other things, only materials, hull splicing, rear-mounted artillery, and other important and key technologies, Xia Guo is completely absent.

Theoretically speaking, the age of gunpowder that Xia Guo has crossed has entered the age of steam. Some technologies such as the large-scale and miniaturization of steam engines, the in-depth application of steam engines, metal smelting and processing, primary chemicals, optics, etc. are also talented.

However, Xia Guo is at the entry level in terms of these technologies. Let alone development, he has already exhausted all he can if he thoroughly understands the materials in the library.

To put it bluntly, this is all caused by Xia Guo’s lack of high-level talents, just like a person suddenly grows from a baby to a teenager, it is difficult to continue to develop without a certain amount of time and experience accumulated in the process.

Fortunately, Yang Song has been investing in education, and he has achieved initial results in the past few years. At least the previous technologies have been fully understood, and he is now at the beginning of continued development.

Science and technology are productive forces, and science and technology are promoted by a sufficient number of outstanding high-level talents-all of these are inseparable from people themselves.