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Chapter 300 Start the Three Kingdoms Voyage

Early the next morning, Lu Bu walked out of the bedroom with a refreshing spirit. Yan Lin and Wu Xia lay softly on the big bed and slept soundly, with a happy brilliance on their faces, which was the bright light that only women who had been fully moisturized could emit.

Lu Bu became more and more confident in his ability in that aspect, but he knew that beauty was always a bone-scraping steel knife and should not be indulged. Although there were many beautiful maids in the mansion, he did not mess with them...

Under the service of Diao Chan and Du Xiuniang, Lu Bu was dressed neatly, walked out of the inner house and headed to the Military Affairs Council in the outer house.

The General's Mansion is located in the center of the central castle, forming a dock. The walls around the General's Mansion are four meters high, and the bottom is made of stone. There are large blue bricks on the top. The four corners of the wall are erected at the six-meter-high arrow tower. There is another wall in the General's Mansion that divides the General's Mansion from west to east into inner and outer houses.

On the east side of the outer house is the famous Military Council, which is the central system of the Central Army. The several courtyards around the Military Council are all departments and departments under the Military Council. On the west side of the outer house is the garrison of Lu Lingqi's Boy Scouts, and on the middle side of the outer house is the place where Lu Bu meets guests. The two thousand guards led by Dian Wei and Zhao Yun live in the courtyard inside the wall of the mansion.

The Military Affairs Council is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Military Sect, the Military Industry Department, and the Military Information Department, which is responsible for the full operation of the Central Army.

Lu Bu's ideal is that there are two courts under the cabinet, one is the Government Council, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Works, which is responsible for the court and local government affairs. It does not have a Ministry of War or the Ministry of Justice, and shall not interfere in military and local public security; the other is the Military Council, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Justice, and all the powers of the Ministry of Justice are delegated to the Military Council. The Military Council is not only responsible for military affairs, but also for local public security and punishment.

At this stage, in order to establish the orthodox court in Yecheng, Lu Bu brought Lu Zhi, Cai Yong, Ma Riyi, Yang Biao, Huang Wan, Liu Hong, Liu Yu, Huangfu Song, and Zhu Yan as auxiliary ministers of the cabinet. Except for Lu Bu, everyone else was respected. Because Lu Bu firmly grasped the Central Army, he would not be overshadowed by other auxiliary ministers, but he was still far away from the position of powerful ministers such as Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao, so Lu Bu's grand plan to separate military and political affairs was far from being implemented, so he could only think about it in his heart.

When Lu Bu was fighting outside, the Military Affairs Council was the Chief Censor of the Censor, and the remaining Chief Censor Tian Feng and Yecheng Ling Man Chong were responsible. After Lu Bu came back, the Chief Censor of the Army Ju Su, the Central Military Advisor Dong Zhao and others were responsible.

Lu Bu stepped into the Military Affairs Council. Ju Su, Dong Zhao, Guo Jia, Xu Shu, Jia Xu and others were all there, but the Censor Tian Feng and Yecheng Ling Man Chong were no longer there. Lu Bu asked with a smile: "Where are Tian Yuanhao and Man Boning?"

Guo Jia smiled and replied: "Lord, haven't other cabinet ministers proposed a system of recommendation and joint seats? As the chief censor of the censor, Man Boning, as the commander of Yecheng, has the responsibility to check whether some talents recommended by the court ministers are honest and honest!"

Lu Busen smiled and said, "It's so great. In the past month when I was not in Yecheng, many people in the court have been causing trouble. Our Central Army has never seen any assistance. They are very excited to slander the Taiwan Strait. Such people must teach them some lessons!"

Although Ju Su was a royalist party and was more loyal to the Liu Han court than Guo Jia, Dong Zhao and others, he was not satisfied with the behavior of some ministers in the court. He said sternly: "Lord, there are enough ministers in Yecheng now. They can completely overwhelm Luoyang. There is no need for us to indulge those who are just famous but only play with power tricks behind our backs and ruin the good situation that our Central Army struggles to maintain!"

Guo Jia nodded: "I will urge Man Boning to seize the time to collect evidence of those people's followers. When the lord returns from Qingzhou, he can start a round of cleaning up Yecheng!"

Dong Zhao handed over a document: "Master, this is a document sent by Zhang Fan, the magistrate of Bohai County, and Qin Yi, the magistrate of Bohai County. They found a natural port in the southeast. They had already named it Tianjin according to the lord's intention. The shipyard built there was already working day and night. According to the drawings sent to them by the lord's bus, they also led 2,000 Yellow River Navy to Tianjin Port, and recruited 2,000 fishermen in the coastal areas of Bohai County and formed two brigades. According to the lord's intention, they named Bohai Navy and practiced quickly near Tianjin Port."

Lu Bu opened it and saw that in the official documents sent by Zhang Fan and Qin Yi, in addition to what Dong Zhao mentioned just now, they also said that because of the lack of skilled craftsmen and the lack of experience in building large ships, Lu Bu was preparing to send a large ship of sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn in South America thousands of miles away. They had not built it yet, and it was estimated that it would take four months to build ten. In addition, the large fishing boats recruited from both sides of the Yellow River and the Bohai Sea could barely be formed into two fleets. It would take four months to see them off.

Lu Bu frowned: "Four months? At that time, we had already attacked Dong Zhuo in Luoyang. Where can we have time to go to Bohai to see them off? What's more, I have made an agreement with Chen Gong and Ren Jun that I would let them see sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn within three years. According to their progress, it would be very difficult to get the sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn within three years!"

Lu Bu took out the drawings of Qin Yi's Cross-Ocean ship as they were. After taking a closer look, he wanted to find a way to speed up the construction.

This drawing is a historical record of Lu Bu. It uses the southern ships from the Sui and Tang Dynasties. There are wooden impellers on both sides of the hull. One wheel is called a car. It is pedaled by manpower and the ship is like flying. It is somewhat similar to the later ships. The large ship is twenty meters long and three meters wide, two feet thick at the bottom of the ship, twenty wheel paddles, three layers high, and can hide thousands of soldiers.

This large chariot has only one sail on one mast. The sail area is large. It can make full use of wind power, and it is easy to operate and save labor. The mast top is the most effective. The so-called headscarf top can lift the hull to lift the hull with a light body. When the wind is down, the navigation speed will be accelerated. Add a tent skirt under the tent, that is, the edge of the sail is made into a folded angle or curve. The upper part is smaller and the lower part is wider, so that the wind pressure center is lowered, so that the boat will not be overwhelmed by the wind. Adding flowers on both sides of the tent can prevent the hull from tilting, and flowers are mostly used when the wind is next to it.

This ship also specially used an open rudder and a balanced rudder. The open rudder is to save effort by turning the rudder. Shipbuilders have made many holes on the rudder surface, called an open rudder. Due to the surface tension of water, the opening of the rudder surface does not affect performance, but can reduce the resistance of water. Therefore, the open rudder can be called a unique invention. The balanced rudder is to move a small part of the rudder surface to the front of the rudder rod, which can reduce the swing torque of the rudder surface and make the operation more flexible and light.

With the wheel paddles and large sails, coupled with the design of the open rudder and balanced rudder, the sailing speed of the large ship is directly at the forefront of the times. It can be said that this large ship can run out of the highest speed before the steamship was invented.

The Lu Bu has a special design, which uses watertight compartments, which divide the cabin into several maximum compartments with the cabin. The thick compartments plates are closely tied to the hull plate, increasing the lateral strength of the hull. The compartments plates actually act as ribs, thereby replacing the ribs, simplifying the shipbuilding process and sturdy hull. Secondly, the watertight compartments improve the ship's ability to resist sinking. If an accident occurs, the ship will only enter the bad compartment and not affect other compartments. The ship will not sink immediately, winning valuable emergency repair time, and the ship's safety performance will be greatly improved.

After adopting a watertight compartment structure, it is convenient to make a secret inner warehouse inside, and place weapons and firearms in the inner warehouse. When sailing in the ocean, if you encounter a large fleet, you will be disguised as merchant ships. When you encounter some small fleets, you will take out weapons from the inner warehouse to rob.

The shape and hull structure of the ship of Lu Bu designed this Transo Ocean are determined by the keel. The keel is composed of three sections: the head keel, the main keel and the tail keel are connected by mortise and tenon. It is in the middle of the bottom of the hull. The hull gradually expands from the keel to the two sides in an arc shape. The hull plates are mortise and tenon-type overlap and flat joints to form a step-shaped shape, and reinforced with bamboo nails, iron nails and turban nails. The seams are greasy and tightly twisted materials such as hemp silk and tung putty ash. The cross-section of the ship is V-shaped, and the keel device penetrates the head and tail of the ship at the bottom of the pointed bottom. The pointed bottom of the ship is conducive to breaking the waves, and the bottom tip is deep in draft, stable, and easy to turn the rudder and change direction, and can be used on narrow and reef-like waterways.

The most important thing is that Lu Bu will also place the compass in the Henghai ship. Lu Bu has instructed Zheng Hun, the doctor of the Cabinet Department, the General Manager of the Central Ordnance Department, and his new apprentice Ma Jun, to rebuild the compass. Although this compass is shoddy compared to later compass, it is much better to sail on the vast sea than if it is not. You should know that this batch of Henghai ships are going to South America tens of thousands of miles away.

Lu Bu also specially designed the small sub-boat of the Trans-Ocean ship, which was made of the remaining wood made of the large Trans-Ocean ship. It is about five meters long, with a small bow and stern, with a pointed bottom and ten oars. It can ride fifty people, and is specialized in harassing and salvaging spoils.

After looking at it, Lu Bu found that his drawings were ahead of the Three Kingdoms era. In this era, even in the coastal areas of Jiangnan where the shipbuilding industry was developed, there were no vehicles and ships. Since the drawings were fine, it was a problem with the shipyard.

Lu Bu thought for a moment and said to his secret order Lu Cui: "Tell them three points.

First, Chen Lin and Cui Yan's recruitment department in Yecheng will recruit ship workers and fishermen in the Jiangnan area at all costs. The boat yards there also have a training system for old leaders and new leaders.

Secondly, they need to set up a factory supporting the shipyard to process parts such as sail tents, ropes, iron nails, etc., and also set up stacking warehouses with wood, tung paint, hemp, etc., as well as establish a strict system for the construction standards for ship parts and the acceptance of shipbuilding materials.

Third, two large transoceanic ships were built in the early stage, and each large ship followed ten medium-sized fishing boats to form a fleet. In a month, I will see two transoceanic fleets going to sea!

By the way, tell Qin Yi that if he can successfully bring those three crops back from the other side of the ocean, I will grant him the title of Fubo Central Army General and Marquis of Jinghai!"

Lu Bu is in a high mood, and he is about to start the era of the Three Kingdoms. (To be continued...)
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