A warship costs 500,000 taels of silver, which is really expensive.

Li Xiang was completely shocked by the price she estimated.

And he knew that he had estimated that he was missing.

Not to mention anything else, such a warship can carry so many artillery and can sail and fight on the sea. At least this kind of ship cannot be built by the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the cost is definitely not expensive.

With those artillery, such a ship must be more expensive than you estimate.

This is not a ship, it is simply made of silver.

Li Xiang even felt that he had hallucinations. He found that the warships had turned into silver colors and began to flash silver gloss.

The warship he saw was the Dutch-style commercial warship improved by the Song Empire.

This improved version based on Dutch Commercial War dual-purpose ocean-going ship, in addition to the hull's heightened deck and thickened, the bow also added impact angles and artillery, and iron plate armor and artillery were also installed on the stern.

At the same time, the three poles also featured an additional sail, which added impetus to the ship.

Of course, the most important and most secret thing is that the bottom of these ships are equipped with engines and propellers. This is a thing that was absolutely not available in the 17th century and can be regarded as a secret weapon of the Song Empire.

Therefore, the improved warships, in terms of speed, firepower and defense, must be much higher than the sea ships of all countries in the same era.

This has been proven in the Americas.

Whether it was the Spanish or the Dutch, their fleet met the fleet of the Song Empire, and they could only be wiped out.

Even after a naval battle, the proportion of damage to both sides was very large.

The fleet of the Song Empire also experienced magical zero-war damage.

At sea, the speed and artillery range of a warship are largely the winning and losing balance of battle.

At least from now on, the Song Empire is the lucky one who stands on the side of the goddess of victory.

Although the Imperial Fleet in the East is not very good, with Jiuzhou taking over Zhao Hongyu, he will stand here, and the Imperial Fleet will definitely shine one day in the future.

Of course, the Imperial Fleet was not without its own light before this.

Did the most elite Japanese iron-armored navy besieged soon after, and the entire army was wiped out?

But this matter is too embarrassing for the Japanese, so it is impossible for the Japanese to promote it.

So, no one knows about this in the Eastern Sea.

But this also shows that the strength of the Imperial fleet can also be demonstrated in the East.

As an old pirate, Li Xiang has been unable to see these imperial warships anchored at Nagasaki Port since he saw them.

He is a pirate, and he can deal with the ocean and sea boats all his life. For a pirate, a ship is equivalent to a war horse mount under a cavalry's crotch.

"Uncle, do you think these ships belong to the crown prince of the Song Empire in the Americas?"

Standing beside Li Xiang, Yang Biao, who was looking at the sea boats, his eyes were full of envy and shock, and his eyes widened even wider after hearing the words of his uncle Li Xiang.

Li Xiang nodded: "These ships cannot be from Japanese, nor from Southeast Asian countries. The Goryeo people cannot have such shipbuilding techniques, so I can only say they belong to the crown prince."

Yang Biao thought about it and felt that this matter seemed to be what his uncle said correctly.

Yang Biao also knows what kind of person the Goryeo is.

Like the Japanese, the Goryeo people built ships with huge tortoise shells that could ride on many soldiers.

Due to ideological reasons, the Koreans would never be able to build such warships with a large number of artillery fire, because they didn't have that much money at all.

And when South Asian countries, let alone, their own ships can just stroll near the sea. They can't go to the far sea at all, so it's impossible for them to be.

In Yang Biao's eyes, the natives in Southeast Asia who work as enlightened are like monkeys in the primitive jungle.

Therefore, they would not build such fierce warships.

And the Southern Barbarians had never thought about it.

As for the Ming Dynasty... it wouldn't be true.

Warships like this are expensive, even more expensive than the legendary treasure ship.

Even if it could be built in the Ming Dynasty, the main officials in it embezzled some money and were doing some money, so it would be impossible for a ship to be built so well.

Besides, Yang Biao knew very well what the warships of the coastal navy of the Ming Dynasty looked like.

Today's Ming Dynasty's sea waterproof division is equipped with warships of 200 materials. The main large warships of this type of warship generally have 5 masts, 18 zhang long and 6 zhang wide and 8 feet wide. The displacement is about 1,700 tons, and the width draft ratio is between 2.93 and 3. The ship is equipped with catapults, cold weapons and combatants, but there are no artillery.

The rest are either horse ships ‘clippers’ or sea ships (transportation), or chain boats (small assault ships).

Moreover, the Ming Navy's naval battle method focuses on board battles, which is a very mainstream tactic in the East. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty would not spend so much money to build such an expensive warship.

Although since the Europeans came to the East, they have allowed the Orientals to see what maritime artillery battles are, the Orientals have occupied the geographical advantage and have sufficient human resources, and have not learned the Europeans' naval combat methods at all.

On the contrary, they are still conservatively using the ancient naval warfare model.

Only pirates like Li Xiang or Zheng Zhilong, in order to maintain their dominance at sea, had to learn the European tactics and began to install artillery on their ships.

But the problem is that personal behavior like them will ultimately play a wired role. At the same time, due to the rules and silver reasons, it is impossible for them to load artillery on ships on a large scale and use artillery to fight at sea.

You know, it is not unreasonable to fire a cannon.

The cheapest cannon costs more than 1,000 taels of silver, but you always need shells, right?

In this era, more than a thousand taels of silver is not a small amount.

Now the Ming Dynasty has suffered many natural disasters, causing people to be displaced.

Therefore, it only costs five taels of silver to sell a little girl from among refugees now. Sometimes I don’t even need money, so I just follow me.

One acre of high-quality fertile land, the best twelve taels of silver, and the cheapest 3 taels of silver is less than one acre.

Even in the disaster area, one acre of fertile land can be as cheap as one and a half taels of silver per acre.

One tael of silver can be purchased for half a stone of rice (90 kilograms) early in the Ming Dynasty, but this is due to natural disasters.

Of course, depending on the environment, rice prices may be high or low in different places.

But if you sell pork in Nanjing, you can buy more than 40 kilograms for one tael of silver, and a sesame cake costs only 5 cents. If you eat a bowl of Yangchun noodles without meat, it will cost only 8 cents.

It can be seen how strong the purchasing power of one tael of silver is in this era.

Therefore, although a cannon worth more than 1,000 taels of silver is the cheapest, it seems to be very expensive.

It’s not enough to have cannons alone, you still have shells.

Otherwise, the cannon worth more than a thousand taels of silver would be a decoration.

The shells cost money!

So how many shells will be needed after a naval battle?

There is no accurate number in this thing, after all, it depends on luck and the quality of the gunner.

The shells of a few coins were shot out one after another, and they were all white silver.

Although the pirates would buy some cannons to install the storefront, they didn't have to think about using cannons in naval battles.

This thing costs too much money.

So, even for a person like Li Xiang, although four cannons were set on his Ming-style warship, these four cannons have not been opened many times in five or six years, and have become completely a decoration.

This is true for Li Xiang, and so is Zheng Zhilong, not to mention the Ming Dynasty.

So, in the end, it will definitely not be the warships of these countries.

Because there are many artillery guns in this kind of warship, after a one-time volley, at least a lot of money will be gone.

Look at the muzzles of these cannons, they are larger than those used by the Southern Barbarians, so the shells are definitely much more expensive.

A solid bullet costs two cents of silver in this era, and a flowering bullet costs one or two to three cents of silver. The reason why flowering bullets are more expensive than solid bullets is because the flowering bullet has a high lethality, and of course the price is not cheap.

Think about it, this basically means that it is, stuffing the silver into the barrel and then shooting it out.

This is very unacceptable for Orientals who have very serious small peasants' thoughts.

"Uncle, you said that if this warship was bombarded with artillery at one time, it would cost as much money."

Yang Biao looked at Li Xiang in shock and asked.

Li Xiang also felt a little moved about this. He felt that the other party was so rich.

"It's hard to say, such a big gun can cost three or four cents of silver just for solid bullets. If you count this way, you can throw it out at least fifty or sixty taels of silver. Think about it, it's really a waste of money."

Wow!

A shelling will cost fifty or sixty taels of silver.

This is just a solid bullet, and it is the consumption of a shelling bombardment.

After a naval battle, you can't just fire a cannon, it's simply impossible.

So, after calculations, a naval battle costs at least thousands of taels of silver if it is just a shell.

Thinking of this, Yang Biao felt his brain feel a little drowsy.

Damn, why do I feel like I am using silver to smash the enemy? A naval battle will cost thousands of taels of silver, my god.
To be continued...