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Chapter 1031 Future Battleship

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    Entering the shipyard area, it has become a large construction site, and thousands of workers are busy working on it.  The preliminary construction has been going on for almost a month, and the living area has been completed.

    However, a large shipyard, especially a shipyard that mainly focuses on sea-going ship manufacturing, has high requirements for comprehensive strength at this time, which cannot be underestimated, and its money and material consumption can be said to be overwhelming.  Without this donation from the Wuzhou family as the starting capital, Huang Mingyuan would not be able to come up with so much money for a while.

    In order to build this shipyard, Huang Mingyuan not only invested huge sums of money, but also transported the best trees from Sichuan for use.  A large number of craftsmen were transferred from Laizhou and Haizhou, as well as craftsmen recruited through the Lu family in Jiangnan, which barely made up for the demand for talents.  The shipyard here still needs to carry out a series of infrastructure construction. In fact, it may take three years before the actual ship is launched.

    However, Huang Mingyuan is not in a hurry. This is a seed that will always take root and sprout.

    Huang Mingyuan looked at various construction sites with curiosity, and sometimes chatted with the craftsmen.  Huang Mingyuan had never been to the two shipyards in Laizhou and Haizhou before, but this time it was his first time seeing them.

    As we walked along, workers everywhere looked sideways, probably wondering what kind of big shot this was.  Huang Ren, the general manager of the shipyard, led the way, while Tang Yi, the chief designer, introduced the construction status of various areas to Huang Mingyuan one by one.  Although this place is incomparable to the tens of thousands of tons of slipways in later generations, looking at this scene at this time and imagining the hundreds of meters long treasure ship sailing into the sea from here in the future, it is also exciting in my heart.

    "Jade (Tang Yi's character), the wind and waves in this sea are huge, incomparable to those in rivers. What do you think about this ship, Jiade?"

    Tang Yi knew very well that if Huang Mingyuan wanted to build the previous ship, he would not have asked such a question, so he did not dare to neglect Huang Mingyuan's test, and hurriedly replied: "My lord, sailing on this sea is inherently risky, running aground on rocks.  , water intrusion is common, and the cabins of the ship are connected. Once water enters, the ship will be destroyed and everyone will die. In order to ensure waterproofing, we built the ship in Haizhou before and divided the ship into three watertight compartments, but I secretly think that this is not enough  At that time, Liang Guo¡¯s eight-gallon ship once divided the cabin into eight parts. Our sea-going ships must also install as many watertight compartments as possible and install watertight doors.¡±

    An expert will know if there is one as soon as he takes action.

    Huang Mingyuan asked: "In this way, the technical requirements for the strength of the ship's keel will be greatly increased. Is it possible to be technically successful?"

    "Going back to my lord, we have been continuously increasing the design of watertight compartments in Haizhou. Now it is technically possible to realize the design of ten to twelve watertight compartments."

    Huang Mingyuan glanced at Tang Yi after hearing this, but he couldn't tell that Tang Yi was still such a thoughtful person.

    Of course, watertight compartments greatly enhance the survivability of the ship, but the design of the ship itself is more important.  Huang Mingyuan himself does not know how to design ships, but he knows the development trend of ships in the future.

    If possible, Huang Mingyuan hopes to build a batch of sailing battleships from the Age of Discovery to sail across the seas.  But at this time, gunpowder had not yet appeared, let alone artillery. Sail battleships whose main combat power was artillery were not reliable.

    The warship that Huang Mingyuan needs now must be huge in size, reasonably structured, exceptionally strong in construction, and highly safe, all of which require extremely high technical requirements.  It is difficult to innovate in a short period of time, so at this stage we still have to imitate first.

    If we compare the construction level of ships, the two Song Dynasties are the first to be mentioned.  The peak period of China's navigation industry was during the Song Dynasty. Basically, the four largest ships in ancient China were formed during the Song Dynasty.

    At the Laizhou Shipyard, Huang Mingyuan had people build sand ships.  This kind of boat is a development of the current ships. It appeared in the Tang Dynasty and is a large flat-bottomed sailing ship that is not easily stranded in the sand.  Because it is slightly modified from all current ships, production is not difficult.  The sand ship has a unique structure, with a square head, square tip, flat bottom and shallow draft. It is wide, large, flat and shallow. It has superior performance in offshore navigation and large load capacity. It is the future offshore transport ship designed by Huang Mingyuan and the main force of the entire maritime transport.  .

    But the main purpose of Huang Mingyuan¡¯s shipyard in Hu Douzhou is to go abroad, to Southeast Asia, and to the world, so sand ships suitable for offshore navigation are not suitable.

    Everyone walked around the shipyard and entered the main hall.

    Huang Mingyuan said to Tang Yi: "In this naval battle, in addition to attack power, it is speed, so I think the bottom of the warship can be changed to a pointed bottom. The pointed bow can ride the wind and waves; the wide tail can balance the hull; and the two ends are tilted.  , double rudder design. It can move forward and retreat freely in shallow seas and deep seas." At this time, Huang Mingyuan designed a new ship based on the historical Fu Ship.  The lucky boat is as balanced as a scale, with the underside like a knife, a wide base at the top, a wide tip at the front and a wide tail at both ends. It has a wide range of stability and can sail in seas with dangerous weather.

      Tang Yi was surprised when he heard this and said, "My lord, this design is wonderful. The pointed bottom reduces water resistance, and the wide body maintains balance. If the upper design is enlarged, the seaworthiness will be stronger."

    Huang Mingyuan was shocked when he heard this. Isn't Tang Yi's design the Guangzhou ship of later generations?  The starting point for Guangzhou Shipbuilding's design was the anti-Japanese war ship. The transverse structure of the hull was composed of tight ribs and bulkheads, and the longitudinal strength was maintained by the keel and Dalu (wooden character pong).  The structure is solid and has good seaworthiness and endurance.

    ?? If Fuzhou and Guangzhou can cooperate with each other, if they can add iron to the ship, their combat power will be ahead of the entire world within a thousand years.  These are exactly what Huang Mingyuan needs for colonial development.

    ¡°Both types of ships can be built at the same time and continuously improved according to actual conditions.¡±

    "No!"

    Huang Mingyuan is not a boat person, and he doesn't know which one is better between Fuzhou Shipyard and Guangzhou Shipyard. However, since they are both products of historical selection, they can be used for both.  Huang Mingyuan has never engaged in shipbuilding, and what he has learned is only a little understanding of history. Whether he can succeed depends entirely on experiments.

    At this time, Tang Yi asked Huang Mingyuan to name two types of ships. Huang Mingyuan thought about it and was not going to change their names, so he continued to name them "Fu Chuan" and "Guang Chuan".

    The two chatted until late at night before Tang Yi left.

    After Tang Yi left, Huang Mingyuan suddenly remembered that the Guangzhou ships in history were mostly made of iron wood, which was stronger than the Fu ships made of pine and cedar. If the Guang ships and the Fu ships collided in the sea, the Fu ships would be destroyed.  Crash.  Ironwood is more durable and more resistant to insects.  However, it is mostly produced in Yunnan. Now Huang Mingyuan cannot get ironwood from Nanning Prefecture.

    Fortunately, Xinyi, Guangdong, Tengxian, and Rongxian, Guangxi also have ironwood, and there are more in Indochina and Southeast Asia, which makes Huang Mingyuan's resentment towards Indochina and Southeast Asia even deeper.

    In fact, China itself is already very beautiful. Huang Mingyuan is not a person who likes colonization, let alone the United States.  But the entire Southeast Asia is a natural big granary. If it can be obtained, the number of Chinese people it can feed will double. Huang Mingyuan really has to be tempted.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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