Chapter 1000: The Great Zhou Navy
As a ruler, Zhou Xu always likes a comfortable life, reviewing documents every day, going to and from work on time, and having no worries about food and drink.
When I have nothing to do at night, I either study the mantra by myself or talk to my concubines about my feelings. My life is stable and fulfilling, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Ever since Zhou Xu unexpectedly learned from Bam that as a mortal concubine, he could not give birth to children, he finally figured out the crux of the matter and felt suddenly enlightened.
But at the same time, there is a slight little entanglement.
After all, as a Chinese man, continuing the family line has always been a big deal for them.
Unlike before, he now really has a throne that needs someone to inherit!
As a supernatural being now, although his natural lifespan has been greatly extended, in the final analysis, Zhou Xu does not know how old he can live to.
Take the elves, who are born as extraordinary beings. Their natural lifespan is around 1,600 years.
In other words, extraordinary life is not immortal. It will eventually die when the time comes.
Not to mention if you encounter any special circumstances, such as a serious illness or a fatal injury, in this case, no matter how long your life is, it will be useless.
From this perspective, the existence of an offspring is indeed necessary.
As a ruler, Zhou Xu habitually prepared himself for the worst, instead of thinking that he was an extraordinary being with a long life span and foolishly making no preparations for the consequences.
But the problem now is that ordinary human women cannot conceive his children. Only women at a higher level of life have the chance to give birth to children with him.
Under this premise, considering the inheritance of the five-dimensional attributes, it would be better if the other party's five-dimensional attributes could be higher.
But now he was just thinking about it casually and had no idea how to find it, so he could only let it go.
In the new year, the focus of the Great Zhou has completely shifted to the southern border, and border fortresses have been given top priority in development.
With all the building materials in place in advance, once the labor force arrived, the overall work efficiency could be said to be quickly raised to the maximum. At this time, the coastal fortress on the border has been built in a decent shape.
At the same time, in the dock near the harbor, the shipbuilding team that came from the Black Moon City Shipyard had successfully completed the construction of three ships, two small and one large.
This was undoubtedly Zhou Xu's request. The situation of shipbuilding along the coast was different from that of shipbuilding in inland lakes.
Qingshui Lake is located within the territory of their Great Zhou. No matter where the ship goes, there will be no enemies and there is no risk.
Therefore, except for a few small boats built at the beginning, the ships on Qingshui Lake are mainly large transport ships and fishing boats, whose main feature is their strong transport capacity and high work efficiency.
But out at sea, the situation is different.
They might encounter enemies while sailing on the sea!
Once a battle breaks out, although this large ship has a higher troop transport capacity, it is slow and has limited flexibility.
On the other hand, although small boats have poor troop-carrying capabilities, they are light, flexible, and fast.
Once a battle occurs, small boats can complete tasks such as supporting their own large ships or rushing directly towards the opposing ships.
While building sea vessels, the formation and training of the navy must undoubtedly be carried out simultaneously.
Under this premise, since large lakes were rarely seen before, the lizardmen's swimming ability was very average, let alone the sea.
In this way, the task of forming a navy fell on the human forces led by Bai Tu.
Bai Tu had always lived inland before. He had never seen a big river, let alone the sea. When he was asked to form a navy at first, he was completely in the dark.
Fortunately, Zhou Xu had already considered this and sent him a training plan centered around naval soldiers, allowing Bai Tu to quickly find the direction of his efforts.
At the same time, his respect for Zhou Xu became even stronger.
To become a navy soldier, the most important thing is not to get seasick, and then to be able to swim and have good balance.
After all, in this era, naval battles mainly took place on ships, and the battles between the enemy and us were carried out in the form of boarding battles.
The ship is bumpy and shaking on the sea. If you want to fight under such conditions, it is impossible without good balance.
And if you accidentally fall off the boat and into the sea during the battle, and you are not a good swimmer, you will be dead.
In this way, as long as we determine what conditions are required to become a naval soldier, the answer to how to train will naturally come.
They initially set the size of this first naval force at 300 people.
This number actually takes into account the large ships that are being built later.
Otherwise, even if you expand the size of your troops to 5,000 or even 10,000 people, it will be useless because the ships you have can only carry 300 people at most.
What are the remaining thousands of people for? Standing on the shore as cheerleaders?
In this way, the relevant work was quickly carried out.
This was the first time that the Great Zhou Dynasty had formed a navy, and the original soldiers had basically no foundation in this regard. There were only a few soldiers who were originally fishermen and engaged in fishing-related work. They were good at water and could swim and work on the ship.
Needless to say, these soldiers can be recruited directly and can now be considered the elite in the navy.
The remaining soldiers can go on board as long as they meet the two requirements of not getting seasick and having good balance.
Whether or not one can swim becomes secondary, after all, swimming is something that can be learned.
However, seasickness, a physiological problem, is a major drawback for naval soldiers who need to stay on board for a long time.
The first batch of naval soldiers, 300 places, were quickly recruited.
At that time, the ship had not yet been built.
However, at that time, Bai Tu, holding the training plan sent by Zhou Xu, was not panicked at all.
If you don’t have a boat, then practice swimming and balance first.
They practiced swimming directly in the sea, and at first they made a simple single-plank bridge to improve their balance. Later, after the equipment department learned about the situation here, they made a two-wheeled wooden cart for them.
Since the wooden cart only has two wheels, if a person standing on it has an unstable center of gravity and poor balance, the cart will sway from side to side and fall down immediately.
Surprisingly, it is a good piece of equipment for training balance.
After the first ship was built, they immediately added sea training for driving the ship into their daily training.
Now, three ships, one large and two small, are conducting drills in the offshore area, and the scene looks really realistic.
On this day, their Great Zhou Navy was conducting training in the near-shore area as usual.
At this moment, above the sea in the distance, a ship about 30 meters long came into their field of vision!
(End of this chapter)
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