Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

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The governor's office on the island of Ceylon is not far from the port to the south.

The original governor was Cohen, but before that, Cohen's fleet was defeated by Zhao Wen, and Cohen was also handed over to Zhao Wen.

Therefore, Hongyi re-dispatched the governor to take over the remnants of the Hongyi East India Company.

The new Governor was called Anthony Van Diemen, and he was not a very good character.In history, he was the most important person in the Hongyi East India Company. Because of his existence, the Dutch East India Company's power became more stable and powerful.

When this person came to Batavia controlled by the Hongyi East India Company, he started a series of battles with the Frang Robots, and finally occupied a series of areas controlled by the Frang Robots, completely occupying Sri Lanka, etc. land, monopolizing the business of local spices and pearls.

Completely penetrated the route from Batavia to the country of Wa. To a certain extent, Zheng Yiguan at the same time also had to be afraid of Anthony.

This person is also an ambitious person, and his desire for land even surpasses that of Maozi.

In addition to actively expanding the influence of the Hongyi East India Company, he also extensively set up schools, churches, orphanages and hospitals to teach Latin.

At the cultural level, it further invaded the local people and assimilated the local people at a deeper level.

He formulated the "Batavia Code" and ruled the local people with his own ideas of governing the country.

He sent a nautical expedition headed by Abel Tasman to Oceania from the 15th year of Chongzhen to the 17th year of Chongzhen.

During this period, areas such as Van Diemens Land, the Tasman Sea, New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji and the north coast of Australia named after him were discovered.

Because of Anthony's existence, the power of the Hongyi East India Company in Asia has further expanded.

Historically, he was a high-spirited and very arrogant person.But now he is not like this. At this time, he is sitting in the chief's office on the island of Ceylon, looking at the map on the table, with a sad face.

This map is the map of Hongyi's colony here.

But now, most of the land on this map has become Zhao Wen's territory.

Anthony sat in front of the table, sighing incessantly, his face full of frustration.

He really couldn't understand that the colony that had been established with great difficulty at the beginning would fall apart in an instant.

He has never fought against Zhao Wen's fleet, and he doesn't know what kind of power Zhao Wen's fleet has.

"Damn it, the colony that was finally established was taken away by a yellow-skinned monkey." Anthony slapped the map on the table and kept cursing. In his eyes, all yellow-skinned people were yellow-skinned. monkey.

At this moment, Wells hurried to the office.

Anthony looked at Wells who walked in, and asked, "What's the matter? I see you are in such a hurry."

Wells put his hand into his bosom as he spoke, took out the three "Heavenly Craftsmanship" and put them on Anthony's desk.

Wells pointed to the three "Heavenly Creation" on Anthony's table and said to Anthony: "Mr. Sir, I hope you read these three books, believe me, the contents of these three books are definitely You'll be amazed, you've never seen anything like this before."

Seeing Wells like this, Anthony looked puzzled.

He really couldn't understand why Wells asked him to read these three books.

Moreover, the text on the cover of these three books seems to be Chinese characters.

Anthony frowned and said, "I don't know Chinese characters, what are you asking me to see these things for?"

Wells slapped his head and hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, I forgot this, I forgot that you don't know Chinese characters. But I want to tell you that although you don't know Chinese characters, you can take a look at the illustrations above , I believe these illustrations will surprise you.”

Anthony was puzzled, what kind of illustrations would surprise him?

Anthony muttered a few words, and finally picked up the first volume of "Heavenly Craftsmanship" and started to read it.

To Anthony, the Chinese characters on it were like ghost symbols, he couldn't see them clearly, and he didn't know them at all.

Anthony casually flipped through a few pages, and the words on it were really like astronomy to him, making him feel dazed.

Anthony flicked through the pages randomly, and turned to the page introducing steam trains.

The above illustration is an illustration of a steam train, and the illustration is black and white.

Anthony looked at the illustration above and asked suspiciously: "What is this? Is this a car? Why have I never seen it before?"

Although the illustrations of the steam train are not very detailed, there are no design drawings of the steam train.

But there are steam train appearances, steam trains running, steam trains carrying people, and steam trains carrying goods.

All these things were drawn with pencils and finally engraved. Although it was not very clear, Anthony could clearly see the contents of the illustrations.

Because he couldn't understand the text explanation, Anthony was confused and didn't know what the illustrations were trying to express.

But Anthony vaguely feels that these things are not ordinary things. This is a car, but the length of this kind of car is too exaggerated. Anthony doesn't believe that there is such a long car in this world.

Although the Renaissance in the West is now over, there is still a long time before the Industrial Revolution begins. As for the emergence of steam trains, it is still nearly a hundred years for the West.

There is no theory in this area in the West now, and Anthony has never heard of it, so for a while he didn’t know what the illustrations meant. About the illustration of the steam train, I am a little at a loss.

Anthony put the first volume of "Heavenly Created Things" on the table, then stretched out his right hand, pointed to the illustrations on it, looked at Halls and asked, "What is this? Is this a car? How could it be so? Long? And I see that there are still people sitting on it. How many people can it pull this time? Why didn’t I see the cows or horses pulling the cart in front? Could it be that this kind of cart runs by itself? This is impossible, there is no such thing in the world. I have never seen any car that can run by itself, and I have never heard of it.

Unless it can be like a boat with sails on it, but there is no car that can sail on land with sails on it. I have never seen such a car, and I don't believe that there is such a car in this world.Please tell me, what is this thing, is it really a car? "

Obviously, Anthony doesn't believe what's on the illustration, and he doesn't believe that there are such cars in this world. He prefers to believe that this is a fairy tale.

Anthony's reaction was seen by Wells, as if he already knew Anthony's reaction.

Wells took a deep breath, walked to the front of the table, pointed to the illustration about the steam train in the first volume of "Heavenly Craftsmanship" on the table, and began to explain to Anthony in detail, "Mr. Sir, let me explain to you now. your question.

First of all, the thing on the illustration is called a steam train. Although I don't know why it is called a steam train, the above introduction is a steam train.

His power is not a cow or a horse, it seems to be something called a steam engine.Because there is no introduction about the steam engine, and there are no design drawings and theories about the steam engine, so I don't know what this steam engine is.

But what is known is that this steam engine is very powerful, and it can pull more than a dozen carriages made of steel to drive at high speed.Each carriage can hold about [-] people.

Mr. Officer, think about it, one carriage can hold so many people, what if there are dozens or hundreds of carriages?The power here is beyond our imagination. "

"It's impossible, I don't believe there is such a magical thing in this world, and you just told me that this carriage is made of steel.

I don't believe it even more, the carriage made of steel must be very heavy.No cows, no horses, can it be pulled by this so-called steam engine?

This is so unbelievable, this is simply a fantasy, I don't believe there is such a thing on this.I would rather believe that this is a kind of witchcraft, and I do not want to believe that there is such a steam engine in the world that can really pull such a heavy thing. "Anthony's head was shaking like a rattle. He didn't believe that there would be such a magical thing as steam in this world.

Wheels didn't feel surprised by Anthony's reaction, because at the beginning, his reaction was similar to Anthony's.

Wells didn't really believe in the contents of "Heavenly Creation", but according to the reaction of the captured captain, this thing was largely real.

In the following time, Wells explained the first, second and second volumes of "Heavenly Creation" to Anthony in detail.

The content of these three books is very large, and it takes a very long time to talk about it until the next morning.

Fortunately, Wells knows Chinese characters, otherwise I really don't know what is on it.

Although it took such a long time, Anthony and Wheels did not feel tired, they were still very energetic.

The contents of the book let their thinking go beyond this world and beyond this era.To them, the content of the book is like a powerful and unconstrained style, appearing suddenly in front of their eyes.

The sun shone into the office from the window. Anthony sat behind the desk, the sun shone on his face, his face was full of disbelief, and even a little dull.

Anthony's eyes were straight, staring at "Heavenly Craftsmanship" on the table, his body trembling non-stop.

Wheels sat across from him, and Anthony's reaction was similar.

After a long time, Anthony took a deep breath and murmured in disbelief: "It's incredible, it's really incredible, how can there be so many strange things in this world."

Anthony raised his head to look at Hals, and said to Hals with horror on his face: "Do you know what this is? This is power beyond the gods. I really can't believe that there is such a power beyond the gods in this world." The contents of this book are simply too unbelievable."

Anthony's scalp was numb, and his hands were waving wildly in mid-air.

Now he can't control his limbs a little bit, he was shocked and overwhelmed by "Heavenly Creation".

To Anthony, the contents of "Heavenly Creations" are more like a book full of magic and witchcraft.

"I think so too, but now I just don't know if the things in the books are true. If it is true, then this Eastern Empire is really terrifying." Wells deeply agrees.

"Didn't you say that the captain you captured said these things were true?" Anthony continued.

"He's the only one, I'm not sure yet. We need to grab a few more people and ask them to confirm whether the contents of the book are true. The contents of the book are so unbelievable, I have to be serious .”

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Chapter 725

A fleet of sailing battleships sailed on the mighty sea, and the sails took advantage of the wind to move very fast.

This fleet is exactly the fleet jointly sent by Zheng Zhibao and Mao Chengzuo.

Because it was not a decisive battle, Zheng Zhibao and Mao Chengzuo did not take out the treasure ship in their hands.

In fact, the power in the hands of Mao Chengzuo and Zheng Zhibao can completely defeat Hongyi, but Zhao Wen doesn't want to do this.Because the domestic war is not over yet, and the overseas land is not land, it will take a lot of time to completely occupy it, and there are many things to do.

In addition, Zhao Wen already has a large territory in Southeast Asia, so Zhao Wen wants to wait until the domestic war is over before starting.

Treasure ships loaded with weapons pose a great threat to other ships on the sea. Even Hong Yi, who is known as a sea coachman, is unmatched.

This fleet has a total of twenty ships, which were divided into two small formations when they were twenty kilometers away from the port of Batavia.

One of these two formations headed for Ceylon Island, and the other headed for Luzon.

Although Luzon did not attack merchant ships, the Frangji on Luzon have not been very stable recently.

Because of the rise of Zhao Wen, Frangji and Hong Yi came together accordingly, and they planned to resist Zhao Wen together.

Luzon is not too far away from Java. In the past, the Frangbots on Luzon Island were relatively stable, but recently, with the arrival of the Hongyi reinforcements, the Frangroids on Luzon Island began to feel uneasy. Taken together, although there were no attacks on merchant ships, incidents of harassment at the border also occurred from time to time.

The ship is sailing on the vast expanse of sea.The sea breeze blows the sails, and all of them are inflated.

The two formations headed for their respective sea areas.The distance to Luzon is relatively short, but the distance to Ceylon is relatively far.

The main purpose this time is just harassment and demonstrations, not a real war.Therefore, the number of weapons carried on the ship is relatively small, and the supplies are relatively small.

On the sea controlled by Hongyi on Ceylon Island, Hongyi ships have been patrolling the sea since the reinforcements arrived.

Although Hong Yi also wanted to take revenge and take Java back, they would not do so easily until they figured out the true strength of Zhao Wen's fleet.

Of course, they were also afraid that Mao Chengzuo and Zheng Zhibao would attack them, so when Hongyi's reinforcements arrived at Ceylon Island, they kept guarding the sea.

When the ships of Zheng Zhibao and Mao Chengzuo had just entered the sea to the east of Ceylon Island, they were discovered by the Hongyi Fleet patrolling this sea.

These Hongyi fleet hurriedly passed the news to Ceylon Island.

To a certain extent, in fact, Mao Chengzuo and Zheng Zhibao did not intend to conduct a sneak attack quietly, they just wanted to swagger and tell Hongyi on Ceylon Island with great fanfare that I am here, and I am here to mess with you.

Only in this way can Hongyi's prestige be better thwarted.

The sail battleships in the hands of Mao Chengzuo and Zheng Zhibao are actually not that different from Hongyi's sail battleships. The sail battleships in the hands of Mao Chengzuo and Zheng Zhibao were also improved by Zhao Wen based on the sail battleships captured by Cohen's fleet. The two have nothing in appearance Too big a gap, only the inner weapons are somewhat different.

It has to be said that these Westerners have already achieved very high attainments in wooden battleships, and these sailing battleships are also very mature, so Zhao Wen does not need to redesign a sailing battleship, after all, it would take a lot of time to redesign.

In Zhao Wen's plan, it won't be long before he starts building ironclad ships, so the current sail battleships only serve a transitional role and don't need to be redesigned.

Mao Chengzuo and Zheng Zhibao didn't have to worry that the fleet in their hands was not Hongyi's opponent, because the weapons on their ships were all provided by Zhao Wen, and these weapons were simply not something Hongyi of this era could resist.

Although there are ten ships going to the waters near Ceylon Island, if they face each other face to face, these ten ships can completely challenge ships several times their size.

If Hong Yi adopts the siege tactics, then these ten warships can completely retreat, there is no need to worry at all, even if Hong Yi pursues, they may not be able to catch up.

When these ten ships came to the waters near Ceylon Island, the Hongyi ships cruising in the waters near Ceylon Island found them all at once.

When the news came back to Ceylon and reached the ears of Ceylon Governor Anthony, Anthony panicked for a moment.

He thought that these people were coming to attack them, and when he really found out that there were only ten ships coming, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Too much deception, this is simply too much deception, only ten ships dare to come to me to act wildly, these yellow-skinned monkeys really don't take me seriously, I must let them know what it is A real naval battle."

While grumbling, Anthony walked out of the office and came to the square outside. He looked at the signal soldier following him and shouted loudly: "Order all the ships docked in the port, let the first-class warships and twenty second-class ships Class battleships remain in port.

As for the remaining ships, let them all assemble and head for the target sea area after two hours. "

When Anthony's order was passed on, all the ships docked at the port outside Ceylon Island moved.

There are almost 60 ships docked outside Ceylon Island.

Of course, it doesn't mean that these more than 60 warships are all very tall warships. In Hongyi's naval battle sequence, the warships are divided into first-tier warships, second-tier warships, and third-tier warships.

Among them, the first-tier warships have the largest volume and the most artillery, followed by the second-tier warships, and then the third-tier warships.

Hongyi is now fighting in the west, so the number of first-class battleships mobilized here is not many, only four or five.

The number of second-tier warships is not the largest, accounting for about 30% of all warships, and the rest are basically some third-tier warships and armed merchant ships.

Most of the warships docked in the port outside Ceylon today are second-tier warships, third-tier warships and armed merchant ships.

Because the Hongyi on Ceylon Island had to guard against the attacks of Zheng Zhibao and Mao Chengzuo at all times, they moved very quickly, and they were assembled within a short time.

When Anthony arrived on Ceylon Island, he led a total of more than 200 ships of various types, but now not all of these ships are on Ceylon Island, and some are stationed in other places.

After Anthony's order was passed on, the ships on the port moved according to Anthony's order and set off towards the destination sea area.