"A month, that's normal." Gao Lao glanced at Zhu Youxiao strangely, and explained, "The information you gave is already detailed, and if we are still doing it slowly, then we don't deserve to be called a master." Besides, the hull structure of a Western-style warship is a bit similar to that of a Canton ship, and below the deck, it is nothing more than the removal of watertight compartments, the addition of more ribs, and the bottom of the ship to become larger to increase buoyancy. ”

As if opening the conversation, Gao Lao began to talk endlessly about the advantages of the Fuchuan Guangchuan, and by the way despised some of the designs of the lower Galen ship flying scissors, and by the way questioned Zhu Youxiao's vision of choosing the type of boat. Gao Lao's appearance is like an old man who cares for his calves, and he has the best expression of his own child.

Zhu Youxiao listened, a little silent, he was not unable to refute Gao Lao's words, on the contrary, he was extremely sympathetic to Gao Lao's words, he was just regretting, regretting that China's shipbuilding technology and advanced concepts were a little out of time.

China's shipbuilding technology and concepts are very advanced, and they are still being used on modern ships in the 21st century, such as the famous watertight compartment technology.

The watertight compartment technology has multiple effects, the first is the same as the ship's ribs, which strengthens the lateral structural resistance, one is safety and anti-sinking, and the other is to strengthen the defense and structural strength of the deck.

However, such advanced technology is not suitable for this era, for the naval warfare of this era, the most important thing is the power and the number of guns, the watertight compartment is good, and the Fuchuan is not unable to add artillery to become a gunboat, but it conflicts with the transparent deck.

With watertight compartments, it is impossible to build a transparent deck, and vice versa, so that it is not possible to increase the number of decks, which limits the number of guns, and the thermal weapons of this era still rely very much on the number to exert their power. In modern times, ironclad ships were rampant, and deck-mounted main guns replaced side guns as the mainstream, and at this time, watertight bulkheads became popular throughout the world, replacing permeable decks and becoming the mainstream.

In addition, there is also a very efficient use of wind power in the hard sail technology.

For thousands of years in China, will no one think of using soft sails? Impossible. It's just that by the Ming Dynasty, all that remained was the hard sailboat, and the others were abandoned by the smart Chinese in the long process of use. 3. The monsoon is changeable, and the use of the monsoon by the soft sail is very low, and the sailing is very slow when the wind is headwind, which is far less efficient than the use of the wind by the hard sail.

However, limited by ancient materials and technology, hard sails cannot be made very large, while soft sails can, although the efficiency is low, but the area is larger, so that large sailing ships are compared to China's hard sailing ships. In modern times, in order to save costs, many oil tankers will raise their sails to use wind power when the monsoon is strong, and their sails are hard sails.

As for other technologies that are still shining in modern times, there are even more, ancient Chinese shipbuilding technology far surpassed that of the Western world, but unfortunately, it was too advanced, resulting in ships made under this guidance, a bit premature.

As the saying goes, half a step ahead of the times is a genius, and one step ahead is a madman. China's shipbuilding was too far ahead, and the result was lost to the Galen ship, which was very relevant to the development of the times.

"Elder Gao, I naturally have my own considerations for choosing these ship types, you just have to make it now." Zhu Youxiao slowly spoke, interrupting Elder Gao's words.

Gao Lao immediately stopped his mouth, he had some speculation in his heart, but at this moment he no longer had the calmness he had at the beginning in the face of Zhu Youxiao, but had a trace of fear, and did not dare to refute, and he said at the moment, "Yes, yes, the owner is right, it is the little second child who is too talkative." ”

"Elder Gao, since the clipper ship has been successfully trial-produced, how big can it be built and how long will it take?" Zhu Youxiao asked facing the west, which was the direction of Jingshi.

"This .........," Gao Lao hesitated, and after considering his sentence, he said cautiously, "If the wood has been prepared a long time ago, plus the utensils and manpower are sufficient, it will look like about two months." ”

"As for the size of the ship, this cannot be guaranteed, in addition to technical reasons, wood also accounts for a large proportion. If it is a lucky boat, as long as the keel is strong enough, it is not a little second child to brag, no matter how big it is, it can be built for you. The slamming of the old man's chest, but before Zhu Youxiao could be happy, he began to complain again, "But this kind of soft sailing ship, in addition to the keel, also has a mast is also very important, and it also needs good whole wood." ”

"And what about the timber that the shipyard has stockpiled now?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"This ......." Elder Gao hesitated, a little afraid to answer. Wang Wenyan, who was still next to him, relieved himself and stepped forward to reply.

"Prince ....... Dian, this kind of wood that can build big ships, especially the good wood that can be dried in the shade, is either in the hands of the government, or in the hands of those big families along the coast, even if it is in the deep mountains, it is guarded, or it is not supplied to the court, or it is not the industry of the local big clan, and outsiders cannot be allowed to intervene."

Speaking of this, Wang Wenyan smiled bitterly, "My subordinates have sent people to buy them many times, but they can't ask for them, and then they secretly bought some from the shipyard by the sea through some underground channels, and they were burned by those pirates." ”

"Xu Xinsu!" This name popped out of Zhu Youxiao's mouth again, which made him hate the owner of this name again.

"And how big a ship can you make out of the rest of the wood?" After calming down, Zhu Youxiao asked again.

"Two thousand big ships, one." This time it was Gao Lao who answered, he raised a finger, his face was bitter, "If it is a big fortune boat, the little second child guarantees that it can be built for the owner at one time, and there will be no mistakes, but if it is this flying clipper boat and that plywood boat, the little second child is not sure, he has never built such a big one before, and he has no experience." ”

Hearing this answer, Zhu Youxiao pondered, a ship of 2,000 materials, with a displacement of 1,000 tons, if it is not loaded with goods and all of them are manned, it will probably be seven or eight hundred people. Considering the scenario of using this ship, it is more practical to use the Galen ship, the Galen ship is much slower than the clipper ship, but at least it is much faster than the Fu ship.

The fortune ship is also five or six knots, and the Galen ship can reach the speed of ** knots.

In fact, the type of ship that Zhu Youzhu wanted was a combination of the clipper ship and the Galen ship, collecting the advantages of the two ships, discarding the disadvantages, and building a ship type that was fast and loaded with a large number of guns.

Of course, if the combined ship type does not meet his requirements, he will also retreat to the next best thing, and want to load the guns on the clipper ship, although this vitality is certainly not as good as that of the Galen ship, but it is also useful to be faster.

However, these require a lot of experiments and theoretical research and design, and these just take time, if his shipyard was built earlier, it would naturally save a lot, and now maybe the fleet is floating in the China Sea, because of Xu Xinsu's attack, his naval plan was almost dragged to death.

"Xu Xinsu!" Zhu Youxiao cursed in a low voice again, he had never hated a person as much as he did now.

"Whew! Elder Gao, the big shipyard on the north side of the port has been built, you will relocate the shipyard there, and then make every effort to build me a 2,000-material Galen ship, that is, a plywood ship. Zhu Youxiao raised his head and stared at Elder Gao tightly, with indescribable resoluteness and coldness in his eyes.

"Yes, host." Gao Lao felt a chill in his heart, and bowed his head and agreed.

"Let's go!" Glancing back at the slender and graceful clipper again, Zhu Youxiao walked away with his heavy armor.

He had a bad premonition in his heart when he went to the capital, as if it was not so easy for him to ascend the throne smoothly, so when he heard that the shipyard had succeeded in manufacturing the clipper ship, he immediately left the team, came to check, and then at the last moment, issued an order, asking the shipyard to have the largest ship that could be built now.

This is the retreat that Zhu Youxiao prepared for himself, if something really happened when he ascended the throne, so that he could not ascend the throne smoothly, then he would retreat to Tianjin, use this ship to escape for his life, and flee to Taiwan.

At this time, Taiwan was still a barren country, and Yan Siqi, the king of later generations, did not set his sights on Taiwan, and it was not until 1624 that he was respected as the king of Taiwan by later generations before he set foot on the land of Taiwan.

This road was arranged by Zhu Youxiao very hurriedly, and it was very unreliable, from the death of Wanli to his accession to the throne, it was only about two months in the middle, and it was still to build such a new type of Galen ship, and I don't know if these masters recruited from Fujian can complete the task.

"Wen Yan, don't go back with me this time, just stay in the shipyard, watch over those craftsmen, urge them, be sure to build the ship within two months, and at the same time you must hold the hundreds of sailors who can manipulate soft sails in your hands, you must master it." Before leaving, Zhu Youxiao left Wang Wenyan, who was supposed to go to Beijing with him.

"Your Highness, what are you?!" Wang Wenyan was shocked, why did Taisun's demeanor look a bit like explaining the future?

"This time to go to the capital, my hunch will change greatly, this is our backhand, you must guard it." Zhu Youxiao admonished.

"I will live up to His Highness's trust." Wang Wenyan knelt down and promised loudly. For him, Zhu Youxiao is still very relieved, Wang Wenyan, Qi Jin, Yu Zhigao, in the eyes of outsiders, are already his irons, which can be described as both loss and glory.

On July 10, Zhu Youhua returned to his residence, Yulin Military Camp.

With him, there were 1,500 Yulin soldiers, and when he came out, he was accompanied by more than 800 Yulin troops, more than 100, and the forbidden troops guarding the gate could not be counted, so he easily mixed in, plus the hundreds of people loaded in the vacant carriage, now there are 1,500 soldiers in the camp, plus dozens of people who are being trained, I am afraid it is more than that.

There are a few hundred more people, which is not much for a huge camp, the entire camp can accommodate three thousand people, which is only half of the people, and they can settle down, but it is impossible to train at the same time, the school field is so big, and it can't be opened with a thousand people.

"Today is the 10th, and there is still one day before Wanli's death." Zhu Youxiao finally found the specific date of Wanli's death in the book, July 21, which made him greatly relieved, with a specific date, he could better plan and arrange.