Lin Feng respected each table one by one. During this period, when he met Feng Yansi, the governor of Fuzhou, Lin Feng paused. The person in front of him looked like a middle-aged Confucian scholar, neither fat nor thin, with fair skin and smiling. He just touched the cup gently with Lin Feng without saying a word.

When he was a little drunk, Lin Feng came to the last table. The table was full of young generals accompanying him. Lin Renzhao and Chen Desheng, who were slightly injured, were also at the table. They just bandaged the minor injuries on their bodies and were eating and drinking, and they were all energetic!

Before Lin Feng arrived, the apology etiquette arrived first: "General Lin, General Chen, I'm sorry! Special training focuses on practical combat and never hold back. There are many offenses! Let's go back to Lin's banquet and make a special appointment!"

Lin Renzhao picked up a glass of wine, stood up and smiled strangely, "Those guys are so cruel, and they even want to fight to the death! But I like it! I'm afraid of blood counting in wars! Lord Lin, for the sake of these people's ruthlessness, Renzhao respects you with a glass!"

Lin Feng laughed loudly and drank it all. Chen Desheng followed him and directly copied a small bowl and insisted on having a bowl with Lin Feng.

Why was Lin Feng afraid? He drank it all in a few sips. He also intended to make friends with these young generals and found an empty seat on the table and sat down.

After having a bowl of all the generals on the table, Lin Feng turned to Lin Renzhao beside him and asked, "General Lin, do you have many warships in Caishiji?"

"There have not been war for many years, not many. Why, Lord Lin is also interested in water war?" Lin Renzhao said a little lonely. The fierce general is most afraid of death on his pillow. There has been no major battle in the Southern Tang Dynasty for many years. He was not on the battlefield of the Fujian Destruction, so Lin Renzhao has long been abusing him.

When Lin Feng mentioned the warship, the deputy generals of the Zhongyi Army, Chen Desheng, Chen Decheng and Zheng Yanhua, turned their heads around.

The Zhongyi Army was known to be strong in land and water. Chen Hui, the father of the second Chen, the governor of Jianzhou and the attendant of the military commander of the army, started from the head of a war boat. In the spring, Cha Wenhui attacked Fuzhou, and Chen Hui was responsible for attacking from the side of the waterway. He led the navy to take dragon boats down the turbulent Minjiang River, and drove more than 700 miles a day and a night to the battlefield. Chen Hui personally led the sailors to jump into the cold river water and dived deep into the deep to sink the enemy ship. The Wu Yue navy saw that the large ship was sinking for no reason, and he also saw that there seemed to be "dragons" (dragon boats) passing through the enemy fleet. He was shocked and thought that the enemy had received divine help. The Wu Yue navy, who was unwilling to fight, was defeated. General Ma Xianjin, Ye Ren'an and others were captured. The former Fujian general Zheng Yanhua also surrendered at that time.

"In Lin's vision, the next special training will inevitably include water combat projects, so I want to borrow the warships from Caishiji for training." Lin Feng explained bluntly.

"Oh, it seems that Lord Lin thinks that fighting the navy in the future is also essential?" Chen Decheng asked.

"Of course, in Lin's opinion, the navy may even be more important than the army in the future!" Lin Feng nodded and said.

"Mr. Lin, wait!" Chen Decheng threw down a sentence, stood up, ran to the head table quickly, lay in his father Chen Hui's ear and said a few words. Chen Hui stood up to Li Jing, who was in charge of the position, and Li Jing then claimed the crime and walked directly towards the table.

"Mr. Lin, listen to Decheng's words, do you attach great importance to the navy?" Chen Hui sat directly beside Lin Feng and asked.

"Yes! Back to Lord Chen, Lin believes that the future war form will not be dominated by land warfare, with water war as the supplement, or even a combination of water and land, and then water war as the main one, with land as the supplement!" Lin Feng said loudly without a shocking speech.

"Oh, please explain in detail by Lord Lin!" Chen Hui said with his fists.

Chen Hui's attitude of asking for advice not only made Lin Feng a little unable to withstand, but he sideways to avoid this etiquette, but also attracted the attention of several people around him who happened to come to toast the old general.

"Mr. Chen, please wait. General Lin, may I ask, are all the warships now achieving tail rudders and watertight compartments?" Lin Feng did not answer directly, but turned to ask Lin Renzhao.

"Well, now all ships have tail rudders, sea falcons, double chariots, tower ships and other large warships are built with watertight cabins to separate the cabins." Lin Renzhao replied immediately.

The invention and use of rudders is a great contribution of the Chinese nation to the world's ship manufacturing and water transportation. In classics, rudders are also written as rudders, and their name began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Liu Xi's "Shi Ming? Shi Shi Shi" said: "The tail is called rudders. rudders are tows, and they are tows in the back. And the boat is corrected so that the flow is not to make others rebellious." This shows that the rudder is located at the tail of the ship, which can correct the course and prevent the ship from deviating from deviating from the route.

Another major invention of the Chinese nation in ship manufacturing is watertight compartment. Simply put, when building a ship, it uses wooden boards, fillers, etc. to separate the cabins into multiple cabins that are not connected. If one of the cabins is hit by water, it will not be poured into other cabins, which can avoid sinking. Since the early Tang Dynasty, Chinese wooden ships have adopted watertight compartment structures.

When Chen Hui heard Lin Feng mention these two professional terms, he knew that Lin Feng was not talking nonsense, and his eyes were even brighter.

"Then let's think about it. With the navigation technology such as watertight cabins and the great development of steel in the future, we may invent taller and wider warships in the future, transporting the elite army troops from water and sea to behind the enemy, and then hit a blow and change the entire battlefield situation!" Lin Feng began to fool these naval generals who did not have the concept of joint combat in the water and land.

The things Lin Feng mentioned were not bizarre, and this was one of the important uses of the navy in the past: transporting troops. But the word "sea road" he mentioned made Chen Hui stunned and asked directly: "Can troops be transported in the vast sea? What should I do if I get lost? What should I do if I delay the battle?"

"The solution was mentioned in Lord Lin's ten questions on recruiting talents!" He Jingzhu, the governor of Chuzhou and the commander of Chuzhou's regiment training, who was standing behind to listen to the lecture.

Lin Feng quickly stood up and gave his seat to several veteran generals, but was rejected and just urged Lin Feng to continue talking.

"As the master said, Lin mentioned in the ten questions about recruiting talents, the pointing instruments and charts were for preparations for future maritime trade and sea combat. Another basic condition for naval battle was to build a large enough sea ship. What if we could build a tower ship that was forty feet long and more than ten feet wide in the future? Naturally, we were not afraid of waves, and could carry more troops." Lin Feng continued to throw big cakes outward. However, these data were not compiled by Lin Feng. According to the "History of Ming Dynasty? Biography of Zheng He", Zheng He sailed in the Ming Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty "62 treasure ships, the largest one was forty-four feet long and 18 feet wide", which means that the maximum could reach 148 meters and 60 meters wide, with four layers, nine masts on the ship could hang twelve sails, and the anchor weighed several thousand kilograms, and it took two or three hundred people to set sail.

"Can such a large ship be built? Can it be sailed?" Huangfu Hui, the governor of Shezhou and the governor of Fenghua Army, asked in surprise. Huangfu Hui was a native of Weizhou. In January of the fifth year of Baoda (947 AD), after the Khitan destroyed the Jin Dynasty, he fled to Jiangnan with his family as the former governor of Jin Mizhou and defected to the Southern Tang Dynasty. Huangfu Hui has always led the army and never thought that the navy could develop such a huge ship.

"The larger the object in the water, the greater the buoyancy it receives. Logically speaking, even the larger the ship can sail on the river or on the sea." Chen Chengzhao, the governor of Baoyi Army, who was already 54 years old, responded to the conversation. Chen Chengzhao, a native of Jinling, was born in 896 AD. He loved water conservancy since childhood. According to historical records, the deeds of Chen Chengzhao's reputation for building water conservancy were all captured by Zhao Kuangyin when he was captured by Zhao Kuangyin when the Northern Song Dynasty attacked Huainan. Chen Chengzhao successively presided over the supervision of the people, and five feet and two rivers were used to transport water transport. He successfully managed the Yellow River many times. Finally, he served as the commander of the Youlongwu Army. After his death, he was posthumously named the Prince's Taishi.

Lin Feng smiled and continued, "Entertain Chen, good knowledge! Please believe Lin. After His Majesty's national talent, Lin will inevitably concentrate manpower to develop a large warship that can be used for actual combat. Lin would like to ask all of you to imagine: the bow of this big ship can be equipped with iron armor to break the enemy ship with pears; the hull is covered with iron armor, so you are not afraid of enemy impact or attack; the boat is wide and can accommodate thousands of soldiers; the boat can even be equipped with a long-range attack weapon, which is equivalent to a movable water castle!"

"Wow!" The big cake Lin Feng drew out of thin air suddenly made several veterans open their mouths. There were many waterways in the south of the Yangtze River. If such a warship could be invented, it would be a war weapon with both defensive and offensive!

Seeing the busy talk here, many generals surrounded him.

Seeing that more and more people around us, Lin Feng consciously raised his voice several times: "The army, the navy and the country are like a person's legs, and it is difficult to support one's legs. The navy fleet will be an important support for us to break away from the bonds on land, expand our influence to all the land, and let wealth return to the sea!"

All the military officials present were important officials. The opportunity was really rare. Lin Feng also took the opportunity to preach his overseas expansion ideals and open up the ideological clues of these people. He continued to speak loudly:

"Since ancient times, there has been the most obvious truth: power only exists within the range of bows and arrows! Where armed forces cannot reach, the power of the country cannot be substantially achieved. If our Tang Dynasty wants to be powerful in all the seas, we must ensure that our military power can reach all the seas! An extremely powerful fleet that is hiring the ocean will be another fist that extends out! "

"Good ambition! Good ambition! Both Lin's surname are Lin, but today I realized that his name is not true. Master Lin is the truly ambitious and proud of the mountains and seas!" Lin Renzhao was aroused by Lin Feng's bold words and shouted.

"Okay, okay, Lord Lin is young, but his heart is full of energy. He really kills us and other old people!" He Jingzhu, the governor of Chuzhou and the commander of the Chuzhou regiment training, couldn't help but praise him.

Although the other veterans were in deep thought, their eyes still showed unblocked appreciation.

Okay, let’s stop here. Lin Feng quickly made a bow and asked everyone to forgive himself for being arrogant and speaking nonsense.

Li Jing, who was excited to hear it in the outer circle, then walked over and punched Lin Feng hard.
Chapter completed!