Chapter 1000 The Great Zhou Navy
As a ruler, Zhou Xu has always liked a comfortable life, approving documents every day, commuting on time, and having no worries about food and drink.
If you have nothing to do at night, you can either study the mantra by yourself, or you can talk to your concubine to share your feelings. There is nothing wrong with living a stable and fulfilling life.
After unexpectedly learning from Bam that a mortal concubine could not give birth to an offspring with him, Zhou Xu finally understood the crux of the matter, and his whole person could be said to have suddenly become enlightened.
But at the same time, there is a little bit of tangle.
After all, as Chinese men, carrying on the family line has always been a big deal for them.
Unlike before, he really has a throne that needs someone to inherit it now!
As an extraordinary being, although his natural life span has been greatly extended, in the end, Zhou Xu doesn't know how many years he can live now.
Take the elves, who are born with extraordinary lives, as an example. Their natural lifespan is around 1,600 years old.
In other words, extraordinary beings are not immortal. Their lifespan is reversed and they will still die when it is time to die.
Not to mention that if you encounter any special situation, such as a serious illness, or suffering a fatal injury, in this case, it will be useless no matter how long your life span is.
From this perspective, the existence of a descendant is indeed necessary.
As a ruler, Zhou Xu habitually prepares himself for the worst, rather than thinking that he is an extraordinary being and has a long natural lifespan, so he foolishly fails to prepare for the worst. .
But the problem now is that ordinary human women cannot be pregnant with his child. Only women with a higher life level have a chance of giving birth to a child with him.
Under this premise, considering the genetic problem of five-dimensional attributes, it would be better if the other party's five-dimensional attributes could be higher.
But now he just thinks about it casually, not knowing how to find it at all, so he can only just let it happen.
In the new year, the focus of the Great Zhou Dynasty has now completely shifted to the southern border, and the development of border fortresses has been given the highest priority.
With all the building materials and supplies arriving in advance, once the labor force arrives, the entire work efficiency can be said to be quickly reached. At this time, the coastal fortress on the border is already fully constructed.
At the same time, in the dock next to the harbor, the shipbuilding team that came from the Black Moon City Shipyard had also successfully completed the construction of three sea-going ships, two small and one large.
This is undoubtedly Zhou Xu's request. The situation of shipbuilding along the coast is different from that of shipbuilding in the inner lake.
Qingshui Lake is inside their territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No matter where the ship goes, there will be no enemies and there is no risk.
Therefore, except for the few small boats built at the beginning, the ships on Qingshui Lake are mainly large transport ships and fishing boats. Their main purpose is to have strong transportation capacity and high work efficiency.
But at sea, the situation is different.
When they sail on the sea, they may encounter enemies!
In the event of a battle, although this large ship has a higher troop transport capacity, it is slow and has limited flexibility.
On the other hand, small boats, although poor in troop transport capabilities, are light, flexible, and can travel fast.
Once a battle breaks out, whether it is to support one's own large ship or to directly attack the opposite ship, small boats can complete such tasks.
While building sea-going ships, the formation and training of the navy will undoubtedly have to be carried out simultaneously.
Under this premise, since even large lakes were rarely seen before, the lizard people's water properties are very average, let alone the sea.
In this way, the important task of forming a navy fell on the human troops headed by Bai Tu.
Bai Tu had always lived inland, let alone the sea. He had never even seen a few big rivers. When he was first asked to form a navy, he was completely unimpressed.
Fortunately, Zhou Xu had already considered this and sent him a training plan focusing on naval soldiers, allowing Bai Tu to quickly find a direction for his efforts. At the same time, the respect for Zhou Xu in his heart also became a little stronger.
To become a naval soldier, the most important thing is not to get seasick, and then you need to be able to swim and have good balance.
After all, in this era, maritime combat mainly took place on ships, and the battles between the enemy and ourselves were carried out in the form of boarding battles.
The ship is bumpy and swaying on the sea. If you want to fight in those conditions, you can't do it without good balance.
And during the battle, if you accidentally fall off the boat and fall into the sea, you will be dead if you are not good at water.
In this way, as long as you determine what conditions are needed to become a naval soldier, then the answer will naturally come to you as to how to train.
For this first naval force, they first set the size at three hundred people.
This number actually takes into account the large ship being built later.
Otherwise, even if you expand the size of your army to 5,000, or even 10,000, it will be useless. The ship in your hand will only be able to carry 300 people even if it is fully loaded.
What are the remaining thousands of people used for? Standing on the shore as a cheerleader?
In this way, the relevant work began quickly.
This is the first time they established a navy in Dazhou. The original soldiers basically have no foundation in this aspect. There are only a few soldiers who were originally fishermen and engaged in fishing-related work. They have water skills. , can swim and be able to work on the boat.
No need to say much about these soldiers, just recruit them directly. Now they can be regarded as the elite of the naval force.
The remaining soldiers can participate as long as they meet the two requirements of not getting seasick and having good balance.
Whether you can swim or not has become secondary. After all, swimming can be learned.
But the physiological problem of seasickness is a flaw for naval soldiers who need to stay on board for a long time.
The first batch of navy soldiers, the three hundred places were quickly filled.
At that time, the ship had not yet been built.
But at that time, Bai Tu had the training plan sent by Zhou Xu and was not panicking at all.
If you don’t have a boat, practice swimming and balance first.
Swimming was practiced directly in the sea. For balance, they simply built a single-plank bridge at first. Later, after the equipment department learned about the situation here, they casually made a two-wheeled plank for them. The car comes out.
Because the wooden cart only has two wheels, if a person stands on it and the center of gravity is unstable and the balance is not good, it will sway left and right and fall down immediately.
Surprisingly, it is a good equipment for training balance.
Later, after the first sea-going ship was built, they immediately added sea training for driving sea-going ships into their daily training projects.
Now, one large, two small, and three ships are practicing in the offshore area, and the battle really looks like a decent one.
On this day, the Zhou Navy carried out training in the offshore area as usual.
At this moment, on the sea in the distance, a ship about thirty meters long broke into their field of vision!
(End of this chapter)