Goryeo, Tamna, Yongduam Seaside Chiyang Advanced Shipbuilding Works.
"Master Guard, follow me, I will take you to see our newly built Cangshan Ship..."
See that the request you made is taken seriously by the other party, and you can immediately start to solve it. The person in charge of the junior shipbuilding institute, a junior marine engineer with the same character experience card background, Yue Heli couldn't help but have a smile of satisfaction and gratitude on his face. He was originally a shipbuilder at the Zhejiang Coastal Guard Station in another time and space, and had worked in Nanzhi He worked for the Qingjiang Shipyard in Huai'an Prefecture and built many various ships for the Zhejiang Navy of the Ming Dynasty, thus accumulating a lot of valuable shipbuilding experience. Chinese-style ships such as sand ships, Cangshan ships, bird ships, and Guangzhou ships could be given to other ships. With enough resources, wood, and manpower, this guy can command the craftsmen to build these military and national weapons at any time!
However, this ability did not bring any benefit to Yue Heli! In the final analysis, he was just a low-status military craftsman with no background. His success in building the ship was all due to the eunuchs, civil servants, and even the flag officer. But if he made any mistakes during this period, then This is the fault of lowly craftsmen like them. According to military law, if a serving craftsman fails to complete the work on time, or causes huge losses to the shipyard during the work, the lighter case may be slapped with a plank and exiled, and the worst case may be sent to the execution ground! Therefore, this guy works conscientiously in the shipyard, walking on thin ice, and is afraid that if he is not careful, he will be killed!
However, sometimes if you don’t look for trouble, trouble will take the initiative to find you! This guy who just passed his 40th birthday this year was very unfortunate. The official who supervised the shipbuilding wanted to replace the pine wood with shoddy wood. The other joints were opened, but only the other joints were opened. When I arrived at his place alone, I was politely rejected by this timid and cautious guy! Are you kidding? Naval warships are important weapons of the country. If you want to make a fuss about the materials, you can just deal with it if nothing happens. If something goes wrong and the warship sinks or the battle is affected, as the leader of the craftsmen, I , that is the main responsibility! And the laws of the imperial court don't care whether you are the mastermind or not. As long as something happens to the ship, you will be dragged out and beheaded in public! Therefore, Yue Heli, who did not want to risk all his wealth and life for a small profit, could only refuse the offer despite the unhappy looks from his boss and colleagues!
The consequence of doing this was that Yue Heli was isolated! The supervising officials and other craftsmen who had not achieved their goals did not want to have anything to do with this stubborn guy who seemed easy to talk to at ordinary times, but blocked everyone's way of making money at critical moments. As the saying goes, "Destroying a person's wealth is like killing his parents." Some people even tried to hire a murderer to evaporate Yue Heli, a guy who didn't know how to promote, and replace him with an obedient craftsman! Fortunately, Yue Heli was quickly transferred away by a sudden official document, which put an end to these guys' sinister intentions of hiring murderers!
However, what the former did not expect was that the sudden official document was not sent by the superior government at all, but was the magical power of a self-proclaimed system master, in order to save his life from those guys with ulterior motives! Of course, at the same time, the new conquerors of Tamna Island also needed a junior naval architect. As a result, Yue Heli came to another world in a daze and officially took over Kang Lin's first shipbuilding factory! Fortunately, the treatment of the Chiyang Bandit Group is pretty good. They can get five taels of silver and one stone of rice and food every month. At the same time, no one dares to look down on the guy who is the head of the department. Therefore, Master Yue He Liyue's life was pretty good during this period, and even his originally sallow complexion became rosy.
Closer to home, when Kang Lin followed Yue Heli into the primary shipbuilding factory, he was surprised to find that there was no dry dock as he had imagined. The 150-material Cangshan ship was actually placed directly on the ship frame. The guy thought about it for a long time. I still couldn’t figure out how to launch a ship without slide rails and a dock, so I asked shamelessly, “Why is this boat not built in a dock and placed on this wooden frame? How can it be launched into the water after it is built? "
"Sir, just cover the beach with mud and pull it with a rope!" Faced with the question from his leader, Yue Heli did not dare to neglect, and immediately gave the correct answer with a fist in his hand.
Damn, it’s so simple! Kanglin nodded. The saying that the wisdom of the people is infinite does not seem to be empty talk. There are no slide rails or docks. Just using a wooden frame and mud, you can successfully slide a wooden boat 17 meters long and 3.6 meters wide into the sea. It is really a genius idea. I would never have thought of it myself. !
"Sir, this ship is a Cangshan ship made of 150 materials. It is more than five feet long and more than one foot wide. The fir wooden hull has been completely built. It will be launched into the water after being outfitted..."
Seeing the confused look on his leader's face, Engineer Yue smiled brightly and introduced the specific information of the Cangshan Ship to the former. It turned out that the Cangshan Ship was a two-masted ship with a draft of eight feet. The mainmast is seven feet high, and the hull is divided into three decks. The lower deck is filled with earth and stone for ballast, the middle deck is where the crew and sailors rest, and the upper deck is the battle deck, where the sails are hoisted and the anchorage is lowered. Of course, the hull of the ship has been completed at this moment, and the inside of the Cangshan ship cannot be seen from the outside at all, but Kang Lin can see the tall masts and the deck made of fir. In addition, according to Yue Heli, the bottom plate of this ship is more than six inches thick, the side plates are also four inches, and the width of the planks is six inches. The middle part of the ship is the widest, and it gradually becomes narrower at the head and stern. The horizontal connections of the ship plates are flat joints. The longitudinal connection uses a flat joint connection, and the twisting material used for filling in the board seams is made of a mixture of hemp silk, tung oil and oyster shell ash. These things can play a very good waterproof role!
As for the bowmast and mainmast of the ship, they are located in front of the third and seventh bulkheads. The hard sails unique to Chinese sailboats and the soft sails commonly used on European sailboats can be hung on them. When the wind is in the opposite direction, you can also fly out. A speed of seven to eight knots! In addition, in order to be able to raise and lower the sail more flexibly and adjust the sail direction, Yue Heli and the others also installed a rotating shaft and a reel on the mast base. Looking at the rudder, although it is made of hardwood, the key parts are still unambiguous. , in addition to being able to rise and fall freely, it also has a lot of holes in the steering plate. It is said that this will make the rudder more effortless to operate!
However, what attracted Conlin the most was the mountains of shipbuilding raw materials piled up in the work sheds. Especially iron components. Chinese ships have been using iron nails to connect ship plates since the Warring States Period. By the Tang and Song Dynasties, they were fully mature. Now being able to see these long-lost things makes this guy excited! There are six or seven types of iron nails here, including shovel nails, square nails, jujube nails, climbing-head nails, and flat-head nails, all in different forms and with different uses. There is also a peculiar ruler-shaped iron component, about fifty centimeters long, five centimeters wide, and 0.6 centimeters thick. One section is folded into a right angle. There are four small holes on the ruler. Yue Heli said that it is used to connect ship plates. The curley nails used are used to connect the outer panels to the bulkheads!
"It's really a great experience. It turns out that there are so many types of nails for shipbuilding. I thought there was only one kind of iron nail that comes and goes! By the way, Master Yue, when can our Cangshan ship be launched into the water, and can it be equipped with the most How many artillery pieces?”
After listening to Yue Heli's introduction, Kang Lin already had a 70-80% understanding of the first self-produced ship in his fleet, but he was more concerned about what kind of ship could be launched into the water and how many cannons could be equipped on the ship. After all, Although Chiyang currently has no shortage of ships, there are not many ships that can serve as warships. Of course, those old Ming army ships purchased from Zhujiawan can still be used, but wouldn't it be better if they could build gunboats themselves. So, this guy asked about the former.
"Sir, originally according to the regulations of the Ming Army, this ship can be equipped with three bowl-mouth blunderbuss, two large Folangji blunderbuss, and two nine-headed bird carrying blunderbuss. However, our ships are all made of fine fir and pine wood. It is also equipped with artillery slides, so it can be equipped with one five-pound eagle blunderbuss, four Ye Gong Shen blunderbuss and two large Folang machines. Although the number of cannons has not increased, the power has been greatly enhanced. After all, no matter how many nine-headed birds there are, the bowl-mouth blunderbuss is still inferior to the eagle blunderbuss and Ye Gong’s divine blunderbuss, not to mention that our blunderbuss has been modified and strengthened by the system master, so it is even more powerful! I have tried cannons. Within a hundred steps, as long as they are hit or scratched by our cannonballs, the six to eight-inch ship planks will be pierced or broken. Although it still cannot cause any huge damage to Goryeo's main ship, the wooden house ship. The damage effect is very high, but against their auxiliary ships, the sword ships, the fierce ships can have great lethality. As for the Li Chao's transport ships and baggage ships, not to mention...".net
"Oh, the combination of the small Cangshan boat and the short Dizi gun can exert such power? Then I want to see how powerful the boat built by Master Yue is. If it is really as you said If you do that, I will not hesitate to reward you!"
Seeing that Yue Heli was so talkative and frothing at the mouth, Kang Lin also became interested in the new Cangshan boat he mentioned! It's not that he has never seen the latter. He has equipped several of them under his command. To be honest, he doesn't see anything special about them. This kind of ship was mainly used in the Ming army to chase enemies and retrieve heads, not for combat. The main ships, however, Yue Heli now said that they could carry six pounds of eagle guns and six pounds of Ye Gong's divine guns and ground-character guns, making them veritable mosquito gunboats, which made him want to see their elegance. So he ordered Yue Heli to command the craftsmen to immediately smear mud on the beach, preparing to take advantage of the sunny weather today to launch his first self-built ship into the water and equip it with the Chiyang Navy Fleet!
"I obey, sir. Brothers, my lord has an order. The new ship is launched and the fleet is assembled. Everyone, please get busy!"
