"Who is scolding?" Zhao Peng's voice came from outside.

When he heard the voice of Zhongyong Hou, the maid Qingyue was stunned when she was shouting and scolding inside. Seeing Yun'er bringing Zhao Peng in, Qingyue quickly looked happy: "I will meet the marquis!"

After Qingyue bowed, she asked Yun'er again: "Yun'er, why have you been buying vegetables for so long? Look at what time is it now? We and my sister are waiting for you to come back."

A personal soldier named Wang Bao next to Zhao Peng was interested in Yun'er. Seeing Qingyue blamed Yun'er, he quickly stood up and explained to her: "Miss Qingyue, you misunderstood. Miss Yun'er bought vegetables and prepared to come back. She was called by our Marquis, so she was dragged back until now. Don't blame Miss Yun'er."

"Hmph, don't say it first, sister is almost fainting from hunger." Qingyue snorted coldly.

Zhao Peng hurriedly said, "Miss Qingyue, don't worry, I'm waiting to be the host in Japan. Now let's call Mrs. Chen and go to the best restaurant in the city to have a good meal."

"But what should I do if I bought the vegetables?" Yun'er asked.

"The weather is cool now, and it won't break until night." Zhao Peng said.

Chen Yunying walked out when she heard the movement outside. She had heard that it was Zhao Peng's voice. After coming out, she looked at Zhao Pengfu: "Why is the Marquis coming again today? By the way, the little woman heard that the Marquis has married the princess."

Zhao Peng replied: "I'm here to test the boat. I have built an unprecedented big boat. I ran out and walked around, and planned to go to the side of the stick to give them a big gift!"

Yun'er also echoed: "Sister, you don't know, this new ship is too big, it's like a mountain."

"Like a mountain? Is it bigger than the princess I came before?" Chen Yunying asked.

Zhao Peng smiled and said, "This is Yue Fei, three times larger than the Princess! The Princess is just a fast ship, and Yue Fei is a warship."

"Okay, then go to the dock to see the Marquis' new ship. There is a restaurant near the dock. After seeing the boat, go for a meal." After hearing what Zhao Peng and others said, Chen Yunying also became a little interested in Zhao Peng's new ship.

When the group arrived at the pier, they saw the Yue Fei who was anchored on the pier. Chen Yunying was stunned: "It's so big! This is the first time I have seen such a big ship. When a young woman was a child, she also saw the big ship of Hongmaoyi in Ningbo, but it was not as big as this one."

Standing on the dock shows the hugeness of the ship. The lower deck and the bottom deck are windowless. The entire huge hull gives the people standing on the dock a sense of oppression as if they are standing at the foot of a mountain. When you look up, you can see the cannon door that is taller than the window on the second floor, as well as the transparent glass windows of the stern officer's compartment and the captain's compartment.

One of the officer cabins had lights on, and the gentle yellow lights shone out from the window. Standing on the dock, you can see the lights on in the cabin.

"Does Miss Chen want to get on the boat and have a look?" Zhao Peng asked.

"Okay, okay!" Yun'er and Qingyue clapped their hands in excitement, "A such a big boat really wants to go up and see what it looks like inside."

Zhao Peng and his personal soldiers took Chen Yunying and her two little maids to the boat along the gangway that they had laid down on the side of the boat. They got on the boat from the gangway and walked up to the upper deck.

Before walking onto the boat, at the entrance of the gangway entering the boat, several Jinyiwei blocked the way. They saw that it was Zhao Peng, so they made a way to let go.

When I walked into the upper deck, I saw two rows of very thick and short cannons placed on both sides of the upper deck.

When Chen Yunying saw this stubborn cannon, he asked strangely: "Hey, isn't this a sky-surge cannon? Why is the muzzle flat? Not facing the sky?"

"This is not a sky-rushing cannon, it is a cannon, that is, a flat-fired cannon. This is a short-barrel cannon. Because of its large caliber, it is more powerful than a twenty-four-pound cannon when firing shotguns, shrapnel and flowering cannons. However, when this kind of cannon attacks the ground, it can also raise the muzzle and use it as a sky-rushing cannon." Zhao Peng explained.

Chen Yunying walked up to look at these naval guns carefully. Only then did she realize that the barrel of this kind of cannon was longer than the barrel of the sky-rushing cannon, that is, the barrel of the mortar cannon. Naturally, this kind of cannon must be much heavier than the sky-rushing cannon.

The upper deck was originally very spacious, but there were cannons on both sides, masts, cables and the like in the middle, making the huge upper deck seem very crowded. Walking towards the rear deck, the rear half was relatively spacious because there were no cannons occupied. When you walked to the stern of the boat, there was a rudder behind, with a door to the rudder in the middle, and there were stairs to climb the rudder on both sides.

Zhao Peng first took everyone up the stairs and arrived at the helm above.

Above the rudder, there is a rain canopy, and there is a short column in the middle of the rudder, with a compass on the top, and a "pillar" facing the stern of the boat, there is a circular rudder plate.

Zhao Peng introduced: "Just turn the rudder, you can turn the rudder, which is much more labor-saving than the old rudders in the past."

"But how do you know whether the rudder is now positive or steering?" Yun'er asked.

Zhao Peng replied: "It's very simple. There is a scale on the rudder plate. If zero degrees are aligned at the straight line in the middle of the column, it means that the rudder is positive. You can see how many degrees the steering degree is. If the degree on the rudder plate is aligned at the straight line, it means how much degree the rudder turns."

The rudder is not large in size, and the front half is a bridge. There is a small mast behind the bridge. In a full sail state, the tail sail, cable sail, wing sail, etc. can be hung on the small mast, so that the boat can eat enough wind power to move forward at full speed.

The second half is an empty deck. During the naval battle, there is a command platform above the rudder. In addition to the steering sailors and captains, there are also fleet commanders, personal soldiers, commanders and so on.

Go down from the rudder and walk into the middle door. There is a staircase that leads to the cabin. On both sides of the staircase are the top bathroom, and behind the staircase is a large conference room.

After descending from the stairs, I entered the cabin. This is the artillery deck. I walked into the cabin. The heavy artillery on both sides made me feel that this kind of cannon looks very powerful at first glance. There are currently few people in the cabin. Except for the few sailors left behind, the rest of the people got off the boat and went ashore.

"These red cannons are so big, much larger than what we use on land." Chen Yunying sighed.

"The Red Cannons were originally the naval cannons of the Thais. The Red Cannons used by our Ming Dynasty were actually twelve-pound naval cannons, which was a relatively small naval cannon. Because the art of casting artillery between the Ming and Qing Dynasties was not up to standard, the twelve-pound red cannons weighed more than 3,000 kilograms. The twelve-pound red cannons of the Thais were about 2,800 kilograms. They used copper cannons on land, and the twelve-pound cannons were less than 2,000 kilograms. The twenty-four-pound red cannons used on our ships had 4,800 kilograms of gun barrels, and the total weight was more than 6,000 kilograms," Zhao Peng introduced.

If a six thousand pound cannon is used on land, it will even be a big problem for movement and marching. However, if it is used as a naval cannon, it is relatively convenient to use a six thousand pound cannon on a ship.

Zhao Peng introduced: "There are twenty-eight twenty-four-pound red cannons on each side. Within five hundred steps, a volley cannon can be sent away with a four hundred enemy ship. The turtle ship that beats sticks is probably a volley. The small cannons on the turtle ship can hardly hurt our ship."
Chapter completed!