Even the keels needed by some large ships take more than ten years to dry the wood!

"Use the beam!"

Zhu Cijiong said in a deep voice: "Hubei Guangfu has left countless remaining cities. Even if the wooden beams used in the building are slightly deformed, you only need to push the roof tiles upwards!

Shipbuilding is our top priority now. Use these wooden beams to deal with them first, and cut down the wood for later use!”

Yunyang is full of mountains, with lush trees on the mountains, and there are many trees on the mountains for hundreds of years, and there is no shortage of wood at all.

The only thing that is lacking is time.

Therefore, Zhu Cijiong decided to demolish the house first and use wooden beams to deal with the current difficulties. After the subsequent wood drys, there will be enough wood to use it!

Wang Changan sat down. Although His Majesty’s decision would waste some manpower, it has to be said that it is the best solution at the moment!

"Is it difficult to manufacture a three-masted ship?"

Since I mentioned this, Zhu Cijiong asked me simply, but there were some problems.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty!"

Wang Changan smiled: "We in the Ming Dynasty have always been short of skilled craftsmen. With His Majesty's motivation, the small three-masted ship is not difficult at all~!"

Wang Changan, who was engaged in shipping business at home, naturally knew what the three-masted ship was.

This is a powerful weapon for the West to dominate the sea!

Due to the different emphasis, the Western three-masted ships have greatly improved their seismic resistance, and even more than a dozen artillery cannons can be arranged on the side of the ship.

He had already tried it. If the three-masted ships were made completely according to the drawings given by His Majesty, they would be more powerful than Western ships.

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The emergence of the three-masted sailboat completely changed the history of the West lagging behind the East in shipbuilding technology.

It also made the West gradually occupy a major position in world trade. The subsequent "geographic discoveries" were closely related to the emergence of this kind of sailing ship and the use of new navigation technologies.

Its appearance made the navigator and the shipbuilder unable to think of anything else worth improving.

This thing in history was used until the era of iron armored ships in 1890, and even the three-masted ships were laid with iron armor and became iron armored three-masted ships.

Of course, this thing has another flaw - the watertight cabin.

The watertight cabin that appeared in the Song Dynasty of China was not valued by the West during the large-scale use of three-masted ships.

But Zhu Cijiong knew how powerful this thing was.

It can be said that a ship with a reasonable design of watertight cabin is enough to become a legend that does not sink at sea.

In history, a ship designed with a watertight capsule was floating on the sea for three months after being bombarded without repair!

Of course, this situation is difficult to replicate, but when the three-masted ship is combined with the watertight tank design of China, the three-masted ship of the Ming Dynasty has been ahead of the world for hundreds of years.

Wang Chang'an has been tested by someone. In the Han River, a three-masted ship made of watertight cabins was subjected to a total of 100 bombardment by red cannons. Even the cabin had been crossed several times, and the ship could still float on the water for several days.

The earliest record of the history of shipbuilding in China is the Spring and Autumn Period.

Emperor Yu of Wu was the largest ship in China at that time.

Even the smaller big wings are nearly thirty meters long in later generations.

Although it seems smaller than the Greek three-layer warship that was blown by Westerners in the same era, its combat power is not comparable.

A 45-meter-long and six-meter-wide Greek ship, 170 wooden oars flying around while sailing, is like a giant in the Mediterranean!

In fact, this thing is tied with leather strands and ropes. It is extremely majestic when sailing, but it is actually very uncollected. Especially when naval wars occur, the warships mainly collide, but they are as loose as rafts.

Chinese ships pay attention to the use of mortise and tenon structure and nails in combination, and always pay attention to actual use ability.

The naval battle between Wu and Qi, which were in the same era as Greece, is enough to explain everything.

To borrow the words of American scholar Dupuy, "From the 1st century to the 3rd century AD, the leading position in the world's shipbuilding industry fell into the hands of the Chinese!"

The tower ship that began to mature in the Han Dynasty was 100 meters long. The entire hull was usually constructed with three-story castles. Various weapons were deployed far and near. They were placed on the ocean of the world at that time, and they were invincible!

And don’t think that this huge tower ship is a flower stand and has more details and technology. Compared with the Western world, the tower ship is not a little ahead.

For example, in driving, the Chinese oars are easier and labor-saving than the Western oars. Even when the direction is controlled, the Chinese boat's rudder is farther away from the Western oars.

It was precisely because of the advanced nature of warships that the Han Dynasty was strong and deeply rooted in people's hearts.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, the Han Dynasty's navy fought many times across the sea, crushing North Korea to the north and pacifying Vietnam to the south.

Almost at the same time as the land Silk Road, the Maritime Silk Road has also been opened! According to the records of "Han Shu. Geography", Chinese sea ships had already opened up the route from Guangzhou to Tamil Nadu, India during the Han Dynasty.

All exclusive wing-shaped sails in China have greater wind speed.

The multi-mast mismatch technology that appeared during the Jin Dynasty further ensured that the ships flew against the wind.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, scientist Zu Chongzhi tried to eliminate oars and drive the wheel axles to drive the ship.

When it developed into the mid-Tang Dynasty, Li Gao, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, developed a dedicated vehicle and ship in the Yangtze River.

Since then, this kind of ship has been improved several times and has become the main battleship of China's inland rivers. Its technology has long been ahead of the ancient world.

There are many historical records that when Tang Dynasty ships drove to the Persian Gulf, they often couldn't even enter the port because of their large draft because of their large hull, so they had to change to another small boat!

By the Song Dynasty, Chinese ships had become the only protagonists on the ocean. According to the Arab traveler Batuta in the Song and Yuan dynasties, "People who go to China take Chinese ships."

The shipbuilding technology of the Song Dynasty was even more crushing in the world at that time. It was no longer the simplest one with the leading technology, but the overall concept.

First of all, the concept of shipbuilding. Before the Song Dynasty, shipbuilding was hollowed out to strengthen the hull.

However, the people of the Song Dynasty broke through this horn: making big is not necessarily strong, the key is to be hard, and the important step in building ships is "determined with dragon bones", which was perfectly realized in the Song Dynasty.

From then on, no matter whether the Chinese build large and small boats, they would first build a keel structure. The bones were hard, and even if the big and small boats were large and small, they would be quite stormy!

What foreigners are even more unmatched is that the Song Dynasty's shipbuilding was not only able to set the keel bones, but also draw sea charts. Every time a large ship was built, it had to have a reliable ship chart plan and even a professional dock.

As for the designs of cross-section compartments and watertight compartments, they are also more mature.

Throughout the Song Dynasty, the ships of the Song Dynasty became the only protagonists in the ocean, and the navy was even more unique in the world.

The "Yuanfeng Law" that specializes in managing maritime trade was also introduced in the Northern Song Dynasty. The prosperous national economy of the two Song Dynasties mainly came from maritime trade.

Literatures like Su Dongpo will spend money to form fleets to go out to sea when they are idle.

At that time, Chinese ships were crisscrossing the South China Sea, and the kings were often greeted by him wherever they went.

When it comes to the status of the ocean giant, the one who best represents the ancient Chinese shipbuilding must also be said to be Zheng He's fleet!

As Zheng He's fleet, which had seven voyages to the West, represented the highest technology in the ancient world based on the theory of shipbuilding level:

Not only is it built large enough, it can reach a maximum length of more than 100 meters, but it also has finer technology, more wind-resistant eleven mast hard sail, human-like propeller design, huge body and faster speed.

In the ocean of the 15th century, every time I appeared, I was stunned by a lot of foreigners.

According to the Portuguese poet Carmons, when the Portuguese fleet first came to North Africa, the locals were all used to seeing these European ships - there were ships that were even better than you, who had already come from the East!

However, marine trade is really too profitable.

Countless jealous gentry finally united to train candidates and became decision makers of the court.

With the unremitting efforts of these people, the Ming Dynasty's maritime career led by the royal family was banned.

In the past 130 years, the Ming Dynasty had to be punished for its own martial arts and built two-mast sailboats without authorization. The coastal garrison system collapsed and there was no money to maintain a strong navy.

After suffering enough suffering from the Japanese pirates, the Ming Dynasty, which understood the importance of the navy, gritted its teeth and rebuilt it from the Jiajing period and finally had a powerful navy again.

This navy not only beat Portugal and Spanish colonists many times, but also went to North Korea to crush the Japanese pirates, and once again launched the brand of Chinese ships.

According to Spanish scholar Mendoza, the Ming Dynasty warships were strong and durable, and one service life was equivalent to two European ships.

The Spanish governor in the Philippines at that time was actively learning the warship manufacturing technology of the Ming Dynasty and imitating a large number of Chinese ships!

During the late Ming Dynasty, when the Netherlands, which was a "sea coachman", was rampant in the East Asian ocean, the Ming Zheng regime, who retreated to Taiwan, still combined with Western navigation technology to create a powerful bird ship:

Usually nearly 60 meters long, it is equipped with about 30 heavy artillery pieces, and has learned Europe's unique ply cabin technology. Therefore, the combination of Chinese and Western power is powerful, and once monopolized the entire East Asian route.

The Kangxi Dynasty in history also followed suit, using more bird boats to cross the sea to fight eastward to pacify Taiwan.

However, since then, as China completely closed the navigation gate, the masterpiece "Bird Ship" was completely demolished and modified by the Qing Dynasty.

From then on, there were only small small boats with extremely small tonnage left along China's coast. The scale and combat power of the Qing Dynasty navy was far behind that of Britain, not to mention the United Kingdom.

The fate of being behind and being beaten is finally inevitable!

Zhu Cijiong, who was familiar with Chinese history, naturally knew that during this period of the Ming Dynasty, Chinese ships were generally divided into three factions.

The sand ship represented by the north, the blessed ship represented by Fujian, and the Guangzhou ship represented by Guangzhou.

These three types of ships are designed for the sea surface conditions in their respective areas. Therefore, although the reputation of the lucky ship is even greater, it is not commonly used in sandy and calm places in the north.
Chapter completed!