[The ship used by Columbus to plunder and rob was actually smaller than the ship of the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period 2500 years ago!] 】
After this relic was unearthed, I felt that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the warships on the mainland had surpassed the ships of the so-called "Great Navigation Age" in the West!
The earliest naval battle in Chinese history occurred in 485 BC, was a large-scale naval battle between the navy of the State of Wu and the navy of the State of Qi in the Yellow Sea, the State of Wu failed and retreated to the Yangtze River Valley, and it was precisely because of the defeat of the State of Wu in the naval battle that gave the Yue King the opportunity to goug, and the navy of the State of Wu fought another war with the navy of the State of Wu, and the State of Wu failed again, which eventually led to the destruction of the State of Wu.
Some people will say that the scale of naval battles in the Spring and Autumn Period can be so great that it may be just a few ships fighting, which is actually completely wrong. The water division of the State of Wu led by Xu Cheng of the State of Wu had hundreds of warships, and the water division of the State of Qi was even larger. This is recorded in detail in the Chronicle of the Left Chronicle.
Gu Donggao, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, also expressed his views on this matter in the "Spring and Autumn Timeline", saying that the haidao had been made in the Spring and Autumn period, and the Spring and Autumn season, but the three kingdoms were bordered by the sea, and they fought with their troops. The so-called "Three Kingdoms" here refers to the State of Qi, the State of Wu and the State of Yue.
So, how powerful was the navy of the State of Qi at that time? Qi Xiangguanzhong called the State of Qi the "Kingdom of the Sea King", which shows the strength of the Qi Navy. According to historical records, the Duke of Qi Huan once went to sea by boat from Yantai in present-day Shandong, along the Shandong Peninsula, all the way to the south, until today near Qingdao, a king inspected his own territory, went out by boat, and took the minister of culture and military affairs;
Liu Xiang once recorded in the "Saying Garden", "Qi Jinggong, swimming on the sea and enjoying himself, does not return in June, so that the left and right know, dare to have a premonition to return, death will not be forgiven!" "A year of monarch, actually sitting on a boat on the sea can play for half a year, it can be seen that the shipbuilding industry of the State of Qi at that time has been very developed, both the monarch rides on the "building ship", how big is the building ship? It can carry 3,000 soldiers (historical records record that there are 3,000 pawns of the building ships), and there are also escort warships, which are also divided into several different categories, each with its own appointment, such as "big wing, small wing, protrusion, bridge ship, ship ship" and so on. At that time, the Vietnamese shipbuilding industry was also very developed, and the Vietnamese people were "using boats as cars and using horses as horses", which shows the widespread use of ships.
It can be seen that the battle between the water division led by Xu Cheng of the State of Wu and the water division of the State of Qi was by no means a battle of several ships, but a naval battle of a huge scale. And the form of naval warfare at that time has also been very advanced.
Why?
This can be demonstrated by the artifacts unearthed. A cultural relic from the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period was unearthed in Shanbiao Town, Jixian County, Henan Province, called the "Warring States Feast, Fishing, Hunting, Hunting and Attacking Battle Pattern Picture Pot", and the ornamentation of this copper pot depicts how naval battles were fought during the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period.
The bronze pot decoration depicts the land and water offensive battle map, each of which has a flag and a feather flag on the ship, the front line is clear, and a person on the right stern is beating a drum to help the battle, that is, the so-called drumming and advancing. The people on the boat mostly use long weapons suitable for water warfare, and the people on the bow of the second ship are engaged in white-knife warfare, and there are fish turtles swimming under the boat, indicating that the boat is in the water, and there are frogmen on both sides diving into the water.
In the naval battles of the Spring and Autumn Period, the division of labor was clear, and the battle situation was fierce, with some special rowing, some special fighting, and even special frogmen diving into the water and destroying enemy ships. It is especially unbelievable that the rower is actually in a closed cabin, and it is possible to row the boat exclusively, regardless of the fierce fighting on the deck of the ship.
Back to the point, after 2000, European pirates began to travel far and wide, how big were their ships? When Columbus sailed, there were three ships with a total crew of 90, that is, one ship was to accommodate 30 people for survival. The captain is 23 meters long and less than 8 meters wide! And the spring and autumn period of the ship "big wing" can accommodate more than 100 soldiers! And the building boat accommodates more people.
Therefore, it can be said that the so-called "Great Navigation Age" in the West uses less ships than the ships of the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period 2,000 years ago!
However, Western historians are good at boasting, and have exaggerated these genocidalists (including Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Pedro Alvarez Cabral, Juan de la Comosa, Bartolomeu Díaz, Giovanni Capoto, Juan Ponce de León, Ferdinand Magellan, Amerigo Vespucci and Juan Sebastián Elcano) pirates as navigators, plundering and looting them everywhere, and exaggerating them into geographical discoveries. What a shame!
