The blue sky gives me many dreams!

The bright sea water and the white track of the sea water outside the porthole deeply attracted the attention of Vice Captain Yan Donglai, who closed his diary and reveled in the beautiful scenery outside the window.

Yan Donglai is by no means a junior brother, he has seen a lot of seascapes, but the seascapes he saw from the new battleship are extremely different.

This is the largest warship in the southeast province, with 76 guns and 32-pounder guns.

All the navies except this ship have to envy him!

Even if he stayed on this big ship for ten days, Yan Donglai still felt comfortable!

Perhaps, I should sleep for a while and enjoy the precious time that I rarely had when I was commanding at sea.

Yan Donglai lived in the senior officer's cabin in the stern department, a single room!

Not as big as the captain, but with a bed five meters wide, a small table on which to place a potted plant, and a comfortable chair, he was already satisfied.

Compared to all the battleships, the new battleship improved the living conditions of the officers, and the officers of the other battleships generally only lived in a single room for the captain, and the senior officers lived in at least two people, while this battleship had two luxury suites with bathrooms, bedrooms, and living rooms, one of which was reserved for the captain and the other for the senior officers.

There are four small single rooms, divided between three co-captains and chief navigators, and six double cabins, which are much more comfortable than all warships.

As for the sailors, the environment in which they lived had improved, the per capita area of the battleship had increased (0.2 square meters more), and the center of gravity of the battleship had been lowered, the body was stout, the stability was very good, it was not easy to capsize in the wind and waves, and it was stable and not bumpy in peacetime.

An insulating layer has been added below the open deck and five large ventilation towers have been built on the open deck, which is very eye-catching! 、

The ventilation tower is covered with metal plates and felts on the roof, and fan blades and multiple air inlets are used inside, which are blown by the wind on the deck or the hot air in the deck, thereby driving the air flow below the deck to rise, bringing out the hot air in the deck, and then inhaling fresh air from the air inlet to promote air circulation.

Of course, all inlets are designed to be protected and can be closed in time to prevent water from flowing in when there is a storm.

This greatly improved the living and working conditions of the sailors, and the conditions of the previous battleships were very difficult, and the scorching sun of Southeast Asia made the stern of the battleship at one or two o'clock in the afternoon like a huge oven!

The personnel were simply unable to rest in the cabin, and coupled with the high-intensity training, many officers and soldiers suffered from skin diseases!

The improvement of ventilation conditions has allowed everyone to at least know how to write the word "cool", at least to be able to stay in the battleship deck at noon.

In addition to the necessary bread, compressed dry food, dried meat, dried fish, dried meat, instant noodles, tea, jam, and dried vegetables, the supply of fried chicken, barbecue cutlets, baked bread, baked cakes, and homemade snacks has also been increased, such as the "yokan" of the Japanese Kingdom introduced by the Southeast Prefecture.

Yokan originated in China and was later introduced to Japan as a traditional sweet. In the early days, yokan was indeed a soup made by adding mutton to boil and then cooling to form a frozen meal. Later, yokan was introduced to Japan, but during the Kamakura period and the Muromachi period, Zen Buddhism was introduced, and because monks were not allowed to eat meat, yokan slowly evolved into a jelly-shaped food made from beans.

In the early days, the lamb soup was made by mixing adzuki beans with wheat flour and then steaming them.

In the 17th year of Tensho (1589), Yoshiyuki Okamoto, the owner of the Suruga shop in Wakayama, improved the original yokan and added kanteni (a dried vegetable made from the sun and boiled to solidify into a jelly-like form) to the filling. Similar to the modern "agar") to make yokan, and the shape of the yokan was consolidated into a square with a bamboo pole.

This toy is really delicious, and it looks beautiful, the surface is smooth, dense and translucent and light-receiving, no matter how you look at it, it can be called a work of art, and it can be eaten as a dessert or afternoon tea after cooking.

Of course, there are also Chinese-style cloud cakes, jujube cakes, pretzels, Cantonese oil horns and so on.

Sometimes the main meal is made of Fujian-style vegetable cakes, which is a local flavor snack in southern Fujian, similar to spring rolls, which is made of rich ingredients in a thin and transparent dough, with dipping sauce, and can be eaten cold.

The fillings are mainly fresh vegetables and local specialties in season, with red carrots as the main force, adding bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, shiitake mushrooms, cabbage, shredded egg skin, pork leg meat, fried leeks with eggs, diced bacon, roasted meat cut into thin strips, coriander, water celery, etc., including all kinds of small stir-fried dishes can be greeted into the dough (is the northern friend more familiar with it?). ), especially rich and delicious.

Fruits are indispensable, the supply of coconut, mango, papaya, banana, pineapple, pomelo, orange, watermelon, etc., so that the officers and soldiers are supplied together, especially the coconut is very favored, because it itself has a lot of water, and it is nutritious.

The soldiers' recipes were abundant, changed frequently, and if they were not trained enough, they could easily gain weight.

On the new battleship, the storage capacity of fresh water has been increased, and a large silver alloy water tower has been activated!

Silver ions can sterilize, thus extending the storage time of fresh water.

There is a risk of heavy metal poisoning, but it is better than drinking water from the lead pipes of the Romans, because the release of silver ions is very slow, and it is difficult to cause toxic damage.

Therefore, there are many towers on the battleship "Southeast Asia No. 10", and the cost is high, but it is not spared!

How much silver does a 10 cubic tower of mercury cost? Even if it's an alloy, so the people of the Southeast Mansion are convinced by Yan Dashao, this guy invests all his money in the welfare of the army and the people, and he has almost no savings!

At the same time, there are coal bunkers.

Coal is used to heat food, not cold biscuits and dried meat.

Serve hot food, live at sea, add an egg to your big bowl of hot noodles, fill it with two bottles of rum, and let you dare to go into the water and take on the shark!

When warships anchor in different places, local dishes such as all kinds of seafood and fresh meat dishes, marine fish, prawns, crabs, shellfish, and so on will be provided to the officers and men in a consistent manner.

This kind of food supply was second to none among the navies of various countries at that time, and Yan Changwu, the commander of the Southeast Prefecture, attached great importance to the navy beyond the reach of any country in the world.

The standard of food is high, the cost is huge, and the degree of attention lies in the fact that Chen Xinji, the premier of the southeast province, is the director of the three armed services, and one of his important responsibilities is to supervise the army's food.

In the future, the design of warships will successively refer to the "Southeast Asia No. 10" battleship, improve the living environment, improve the quality of food, plus the rich bonuses, a good promotion mechanism, and good resettlement work after retirement, the morale of the Southeast Army is quite high, and the enlistment rate is also high, which is to regard the navy and even the army as a career rather than a profession, and its combat effectiveness is completely different.

The situation of seafarers and navies in other countries was very different, because of the difficult conditions and high dangers, even if there were many adventurers in the red-haired fan, they were often short of personnel, and had to be supplemented by unskilled naval and merchant mariners, foreign seafarers, freed slaves, sentenced smugglers, volunteers, and seaside fishermen.