Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Although Zhu Youjian didn't know Donglin's intention of doing this, the seeds of doubt had been planted, and questioning became the only result.

This is the nature of human nature.

This is the case for everyone. As long as the other person does something and you get a handle on it, no matter what he does in the future, you will subconsciously be suspicious!

Where is the proposed He Ru Chong from?

A native of Tongcheng, Anqing Prefecture, Nanzhili Province.

It was Guang Shiheng whose character collapsed the fastest when Wang Zhang was stabbed off his horse by the intruders - he was also from Tongcheng.

Of course, you can't fire the map cannon.

After all, the Tongcheng School was one of the largest geopolitical factions during the Ming and Qing Dynasties - there were 240 Jinshi in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

For example, Fang Yizhi, Zuo Guangdou, Zhang Tingyu... are all from Tongcheng.

For example, in the years when Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yunwen, and Zhu Di alternated, Ji'an, Jiangxi Province, dominated the imperial examinations.

This doesn't matter, Yang Shiqi was recommended as an official without going through the imperial examination...

This outstanding man who once presided over the government of the Ming Dynasty and made Yingzong work tirelessly and fight against him was a native of Ji'an Prefecture...

Because of this incident, He Ru Chong resigned from his post in the second year, the fourth year of Chongzhen's reign, after serving as Zhou Yanru's deputy for a general examination.

Politics is no small matter.

It can be seen from this that in fact, in the third year of Chongzhen, the Donglin Party was essentially suppressed by Chongzhen.

As for the fact that the Jiangnan gentry group took advantage of the imperial court's overseas trade, did Chongzhen know...

It's all guesswork.

What is clearly recorded in history is Chongzhen’s attitude!

——Emperor Chongzhen insisted on letting Hu Ke give the title of Du Sance as the chief envoy, and Xingren Si Xingren Yang Luan as the deputy envoy. He built ships in Fujian and went to sea, and canonized Shang Feng as the King of Ryukyu Zhongshan.

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, the large sealing boat used for canonization was completed and went to Shuri Castle, the capital of Ryukyu, for canonization.

When it comes to the canonization of Ryukyu, few people nowadays will write down the real intention.

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The warship used as an envoy to Ryukyu to confer the title was a specially built "sealing boat".

Fengzhou was built under the decree of the central court - that is to say, it represents the true technological level of the Ming Dynasty.

Modern people always use locally made boats to explain how backward technology was in the DPRK...

Not to mention North Korea - where in modern times dares to build an aircraft carrier?

So, should we adopt their tone?

This seal boat has only one purpose - to promote force.

It shows that those who are behind in the warships of the DPRK will never dare to mention Fengzhou.

The various existing Ming Dynasty materials are all post-political liquidation books that have been destroyed beyond recognition by the Qing Dynasty and do not affect the "greatness of the Qing Dynasty".

Such books can only be used as reference and cannot be cited as evidence.

Although CNKI does not charge money to read papers, just go and look at the materials they cite!

Basically, serious papers must cite overseas materials.

Regarding Feng Zhou, there are two completely different records in the incomplete history books:

One: Fengzhou is a wooden warship covered with iron plates, that is, a wooden-rib ironclad, or a wooden-hulled ironclad with iron sheets.

This, to be honest, is scary.

If this is true, then the use of steam power is inevitable!

Because it’s too heavy, otherwise there won’t be enough power!

If this inference is true, then the record that "steam ships did not appear until the Jiajing period" can be pushed back nearly 200 years...

Second: Fengzhou is the small ship of Zheng He's fleet - the treasure ship.

This speculation is currently the mainstream in the historians.

Let’s talk about Feng Zhou:

In 1633, when Chongzhen enthroned the King of Ryukyu, he built the sealing boat——

The captain is fifteen feet long, two feet six feet wide, one foot three feet deep, divided into 23 cabins, with five large masts erected front and rear, seven feet two feet long, and six feet five inches in girth.

Compared with the UK at the same time -

In 1637, Britain built the "Lord of the Sea", the largest warship in the West at the time.

In general, the two ships are equivalent.

Sealing boat: 47 meters long, 12 meters wide, 16.5 meters deep, 4 meters draft, and 12.5 meters sea level;

British ship: 51 meters long, 14.7 meters wide, 23.17 meters deep, 6.8 meters draft, and 16.37 meters sea surface height.

In terms of appearance and size, the Fengzhou made in the third year of Chongzhen's reign is slightly weaker.

However, China has exclusive watertight cabin technology, so its battlefield survivability is higher than that of British ships.

In other words, even in the Chongzhen period, the warships of the central court of the Ming Dynasty were still comparable to the main warships of the West.

At the very least – don’t fall behind.

As for the cost of Fengzhou, according to the existing Ming Dynasty data "Shi Liuqiu Lu", the cost of Fengzhou was 2500 taels of silver.

(If you are interested, you can search for ships smaller than this in the Qing Dynasty. How much did they cost... no, how many times the price of the ships in the Ming Dynasty...)

As for the weapons on Fengzhou...

According to the ancient books that have survived from the Ming Dynasty, such as "The Examination of Eastern and Western Oceans", "Yu Xiyi Ji", "Huangming Xiangxu Lu·Helan", it is clearly recorded:

Under the mast of Fengzhou, there are giant iron cannons that are more than two feet long - there are about thirty of them, and the cannonballs fired weigh thirty kilograms.

According to the naming rules of iron artillery in the Ming Dynasty, the original text was called "giant artillery", which must be a heavy artillery weighing more than three thousand kilograms.

(This is nonsense.

The cannonball weighs thirty kilograms. This is not a giant cannon, but a musket...)

In addition, the sealing boat is divided into three layers of plywood, with gun windows and copper blunderbuss on each plywood.

(According to the naming convention of the Ming Dynasty, bronze guns are artillery pieces weighing less than a thousand kilograms.)

Such a huge battleship, such terrifying firepower...

No wonder Zhang Xie said, "The Ming Dynasty is more powerful than the Netherlands, firstly, its ships, and secondly, its guns"...

Even if the first one is killed, Fengzhou will not be recognized as an armored ship.

Then the largest ship in Fengzhou is Zheng He’s treasure ship——

"Nine masts and twelve sails", "The maximum length is 44 feet and the width is 18 feet; the middle one is 37 feet long and 15 feet wide", "Sails, anchors and rudders cannot be moved without two or three hundred people"...

Just how big was the treasure ship - over 140 meters long and 57 meters wide!

You need to know the appearance dimensions of the 52d drive - 156 meters long and 18 meters wide...

For such a huge ship, the sails are powerless——

This just proves the first point...

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So, the historical data of the Ming Dynasty are really difficult to describe and contradictory.

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In fact, after the mid-Ming Dynasty, the imperial court's shipbuilding technology had been stolen from the Zhu family by scholar-bureaucrats.

There is a saying that the fortune ship is a variant of the treasure ship...

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Written in the 45th year of Wanli reign (1617), "The Examination of Eastern and Western Oceans", the most quoted original text by Zhang Xie is:

"It may be said that Helan's great skill is the boat and the gun. The boat is thirty feet long, five or six feet wide, and the board is more than two feet thick. It is lined up in rows and has five masts. The boat is made of iron as a net and the outside is lacquered. Horse oil can be seen in the light. The boat has three floors, with small windows beside it, and copper muskets are placed in each... There is a huge iron cannon under the mast, more than two feet long... It can crack the stone city and shake for dozens of miles... …”

Many people in modern times use this paragraph to prove the power of the Netherlands, but never mention the premise of this sentence!