Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 753

[Chapter 753]

at Dongpu The north wind blows overnight, and winter arrives unexpectedly.

In the early morning, a thin layer of ice formed on the small puddles in Yanzhou.

In the sleeping hall, Zhao Xu wrapped himself in fox fur and came back from Jinghai, and a month passed in a blink of an eye.

During this time, neither the south nor the north were peaceful.

However, as he predicted, both the Shizu and Beidi were only creating small frictions and did not make a large-scale attack.

“Your Highness, this stove is really useful.”

Zhao Xu was sitting in front of the stove warming up, when Yang Susu came over.

This stove is a briquette stove, which naturally burns briquettes.

Precautions are also marked on the furnace shell: ventilation is required to avoid poisoning.

This is made by a private workshop in Yanzhou.

At the same time as the opening of private workshops, the Patent Department was established in Yanzhou, and the imperial court promulgated the Patent Law.

Zhao Xu handed over the civilian technology that can be realized by Yanzhou industry to the patent department.

You only need to pay a patent fee to obtain technology from the patent department and use it in your own workshop.

This briquette stove is one of the patents.

At present, many briquette stove workshops have appeared among the people to manufacture and sell briquette stoves.

And according to Yang He’s reaction, when this briquette stove came out, the sales were pretty good.

Especially the people living in Yancheng no longer need to pick up plants and burn pots for cooking.

“There will be more and more interesting things in the future.” Zhao Xu took a piece of bread from Yang Susu.

Feng Er bought this from a pastry shop.

Not all patents in the Patent Department are charged, and some are free, such as bread baking, cake making and so on.

In addition, there are many contemporary dishes.

This is to promote the development of Dasong’s catering industry.

“Your Highness said so, and the concubine is looking forward to it.” Yang Susu said: “In the future, the days of praising the common people will really become more and more prosperous.” Hearing

this, Zhao Xu felt a sense of accomplishment.

His goal is to get the people of Dasong out of poverty and live a prosperous life.

Of course, he also knew that he was still far away from this goal.

The briquette stove and bread must be enjoyed by at least moderately wealthy families.

The vast majority of people are still engaged in agriculture and cannot afford these things.

According to Fei Wen, ordinary people in Britain can drink a glass of milk and eat bread every morning.

This is created by the wealth accumulated by its foreign plunder and domination of overseas markets for more than 200 years.

This point is not very different from the information he knows.

According to his memory, it was recorded in a contemporary historical material.

English countrymen in the eighteenth century lived in red brick cottages with red tile roofs, wore woolen clothes and leather shoes, ate white bread and drank milk.

Diet-wise, vegetables and meat are common.

This is still the eighteenth century, so it is in the nineteenth century.

But the more he understands these, the more he is full of fighting spirit.

His grandson will not only catch up in technology, but also catch up with the living standards of the people in the grandson.

He will make Dasong a holy place that the people of the world yearn for.

Just to realize these, he needs the market and resources all over the world.

Ninety percent of the current market and resources are in the hands of Western countries.

They will not allow themselves to sell goods to their colonies.

Nor will they be allowed to mine their colonies for minerals.

They guarded the land and resources they plundered tightly.

This is why he wants to tear up the old order and establish a new one.

Otherwise, Da Song will be suppressed forever, unable to breathe.

The days of Dasong people will be dark forever.

And now, the challenge to the old order has begun.

Don’t they believe in the law of the jungle where the weak prey on the strong, and think that the weak should be enslaved by them?

Then, they compete with each other.

Thinking of this, he looked in the direction of Jinghai.

Two days ago, Zhou Yi sent someone to send him the date of going to sea.

Today is the day they go to Dongpu.

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Jinghai.

The sea breeze howled, mixed with cold.

After the temperature dropped sharply, the navy soldiers changed into cotton uniforms.

With the increase of spinning mills and weaving mills in Yanzhou.

Supplying the military with military uniforms is getting easier and easier.

At this moment, Zhou Yi was standing on his flagship Laoting.

port.

Twenty-four steamships, forty-eight galleons, and sixty troop carriers were assembled.

This fleet will go to Japan.

The remaining twelve sailing warships are responsible for patrolling the coast in case of accidents.

When everything was ready, Zhou Yi gave the order to go to sea.

The whistles of twenty-four steamships blew simultaneously.

Then he dragged the sailing warship to the sea.

The remaining twenty-four sailing warships followed closely behind.

Sixty troop carriers followed.

However, these troop carriers will sail with them for a while.

After stopping in the Kingdom of Ryukyu, Marines will be on standby on Ryukyu Island.

It is only three or four miles away from Dongying.

When landing operations are required, warships will escort these troop carriers to land.

After all, the soldiers need to eat, and they have been floating in the sea with them, and the supply pressure is huge.

In the Ryukyu Kingdom, the soldiers’ supplies are not a problem.

Furthermore, they need to fight the British and Japanese fleets first.

Only then can we launch an attack on Japan.

After five days of sailing, the fleet arrived in the Kingdom of Ryukyu.

Immediately, the fleet headed north and headed straight for Edo.

During this time, Zhou Yi got information.

Dongpu has launched 18 sailing warships, and another 18 will be launched in more than a month.

In this way, Britain and Japan had twelve steam ships and thirty sailing warships.

In Zhou Yi’s view, Beidi and the influential clans were provoked by Dongying and Britain, and they might also be suspected of attacking the west.

I’m afraid we have to wait for all the sailing warships in Japan to be launched and wipe out the Yanzhou Navy in one fell swoop.

However, their wishful thinking will eventually come to nothing.

Even if all the warships of Dongpu were launched into the water, he was not afraid at all.

This time, they not only had steam ships, but also rifled guns with greater range and power on the sailing warships.

Edo would be the graveyard of their battleships.

After another three days of sailing, Zhou Yi arrived at Jiangwaihai.

Along the way, they encountered many Japanese merchant ships.

But Zhou Yi ignored it, and it was too late for these merchant ships to discover them.

Because these merchant ships are too slow to report in advance.

It wasn’t until the sentry tower at Edo Harbor spotted them that the shogunate and Britain learned of their whereabouts.

“Twenty-four steamships, are you sure they are steamships from Yanzhou!” When he got the news, Wolfe was tasting red wine and eating steak.

At that time, the knife and fork in his hand fell to the ground, and he was beyond shocked.

“These warships are flying the flag of King Yan.” Watanabe’s face was ashen.

The British warship docked at Edo Port, and Dongying’s warship also docked at Edo Port, and did not hide in the inland river.

Because Japan has been practicing naval battles with Britain these days.

Now, these battleships are all exposed to the artillery fire of King Yan’s fleet.

(end of this chapter)