Datang: Let you supervise the country and become an emperor through the ages

Chapter 262 Eighteen Giant Ships

In Chang'an City, outside Sun Simiao's pharmacy, Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang walked in, laughing and shouting.

"Old Sun, you missed a big event today, that old bastard Li Gang, you've lost face today!"

"Hahaha... You haven't seen that old man Li Gang will lose his face in Chang'an City from now on!"

"It's really the right time to come back to Chang'an this time. I really didn't expect so many interesting things to happen in Chang'an city!"

Hearing the discussion between Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang, Sun Simiao looked puzzled, so he stopped what he was doing and listened to Yuan Tiangang explain the ins and outs of the matter, but he didn't act like the two of them. joy.

Back then, he wanted to worship Li Fu as his teacher many times, but Li Fu refused on the spot. After Li Gang found out, he even mocked himself.

Now that Li Gang himself has tasted the bitter fruit of Sun Simiao at that time, Sun Simiao naturally has a bad feeling in his heart.

"Hmph, does Li Gang really think that the prince will accept anyone as an apprentice? The prince's first disciple must be me!"

When Sun Simiao said this, he looked proud and complacent. Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang couldn't help being dumbfounded when they saw this.

No matter what, they never expected that this worldly miracle doctor and the world's great Confucianism would both rush to become Li Fu's apprentice!
This made them unable to understand. Is His Royal Highness the Tang Prince really so popular?

More than ten days later, Tang Jian, Duke of Ju, appeared in Penglai City.

"Huh?" Tang Jian came to the coast, saw Shen Lian and his Jin Yiwei at a glance, and couldn't help but lose his voice.

"Duke Ju? Why are you here?" Shen Lian also found Tang Jian at this time, and stepped forward to salute.

Tang Jian looked Shen Lian up and down, "No wonder I haven't seen you in Chang'an. I didn't expect you to be in Penglai. What are you doing here?"

Before Tang Jian's question was answered, he saw more than a dozen huge ships on the sea in front of him, slowly heading towards the pier on the coast.

Each of these giant ships was huge, at least over [-] meters in length. When more than a dozen giant ships sailed into the dock in the harbor, Tang Jian could no longer hear any sound.

Tang Jian is not an ignorant person. The ships he is familiar with are not as big as those in front of him, and when he thinks that this is a huge ship that is completely used for war, Tang Jian can't help his blood rushing up.

Standing on the shore, looking at the ship in front of him, the graceful shape, the gleaming ram at the bow, and the densely packed bows and crossbows on both sides of the ship, Tang Jian even saw standing upright on the deck, at least more than four He was even more excited when he set up a trebuchet.

"Here, are these all my Tang's navy, warships?" When Tang Jian said this, his lips were dry, and he made a screeching sound like hot water being poured on a red-hot iron.

Shen Lian didn't care about Tang Jian's gaffe at all. When he was sent to Penglai by Li Fu, when he saw the huge ship in the shipyard launching, his expression was not much better than Tang Jian's at this time.

"Mr. Ju, this is a warship from our Datang Shipyard, not the sampans in the Datang Navy today."

"Warship?" Tang Jian only felt his throat become more dry, "This warship is too, too big!"

When Tang Jian received Li Shimin's order at first, he didn't feel anything, but now seeing such a large warship with his own eyes, his whole mind was completely led by the huge figure of the warship.

"Shen Lian, are these warships built by the Prince's Shipyard?" Tang Jian finally asked him the questions he should ask when he came to Penglai.

In Tang Jian's view, Shen Lian belongs to Li Fu, and Shen Lian has a special status around Li Fu. His appearance in Penglai actually explains a lot of problems.

Shen Lian didn't hide anything, nodded and smiled: "This shipyard in Penglai was opened here by His Royal Highness, and it is specially responsible for building the giant ship that Duke Ju is seeing now. There are already ten such huge ships now. Eight."

Eighteen giant ships?Tang Jian's heart beat violently again, and he couldn't help asking: "Then what are the uses of these warships..."

"When His Royal Highness sent me to Penglai, he said a word to me." Facing the sea in front of him, Shen Lian said with a faint smile: "Every place that my Great Tang ship passes by is my Great Tang territory. "

Wherever the giant ships of the Tang Dynasty passed, was the territory of the Tang Dynasty?Tang Jian's eyes widened for a moment, His Royal Highness really dared to think!
"Does Duke Ju think there is something wrong?" Shen Lian noticed Tang Jian's gaffe and asked with a smile.

"No, no." Tang Jian swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, but couldn't help asking: "Hey, with these eighteen warships, can we destroy Dongying, which is across the sea from my Tang Dynasty? "

"It's better for Duke Ju to delete the word "whether or not." Shen Lian's face darkened.

He is the person in charge of the shipyard now, and he has learned about the manufacturing and performance of warships all the way, so he can be said to be the only person in Datang who knows the best about the power of the warship in front of him.

In Shen Lian's eyes, to deal with a small barbarian country like Japan, which is still in a semi-primitive society, it does not need eighteen warships at all, and at most three warships can completely razed Japan to the ground.

Tang Jian actually said in front of Shen Lian that he would use [-] warships to deal with Dongpu. This was an insult to the strength of the warships, an insult to him, and even more an insult to the prince!

If eighteen warships can't defeat Japan, why would His Highness spend so much effort to build such a huge shipyard in Penglai?

Tang Jian heard that Shen Lian's tone was not kind, and his heart shuddered, but he still said in a deep voice: "The Duke of this country came here at the order of His Majesty to understand everything here. Shen Lian, Duke of the Kingdom, can you go aboard and have a look?"

Hearing this, Shen Lian took a deep look at Tang Jian, and immediately moved out of the way, casually making a gesture of invitation, "Duke Ju, please!"

After the Duke of Ju boarded the ship, he discovered that the warship in front of him had six floors in total, and the internal and external spaces were extremely spacious. According to Tang Jian's visual inspection, it could accommodate at least a thousand troops.

Together with the sailors and other combat personnel on board, only one warship can haul an army of more than 3000 people.

Tang Jian was completely convinced by this result, and Shen Lian gave him the relevant introduction after boarding the ship.

With only three warships, they will definitely be able to sweep the entire East Ocean!
After learning about the specific situation of the Penglai Shipyard and the warships, Tang Jian hurried back to Chang'an and reported to Li Shimin overnight.

After Li Shimin heard Tang Jian's briefing, he immediately ordered Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and other important court officials to be summoned to the imperial study room to listen to Tang Jian's information about the shipyard that he had obtained in Penglai.

(End of this chapter)