Chapter 495: Tomorrow Ship Trial

"Will it sink, let's try it tomorrow, this horse will invite Your Majesty to come and watch, you must know that Your Majesty has always been worried about the steamship in his heart."

Li Er attached great importance to this steamer, and he also promised him at the beginning that once the research was successful, he would definitely report to him as soon as possible.

"Yes!"

The craftsmen hurriedly saluted him again, and watched him leave expectantly.

For these craftsmen, it is their greatest wish to be able to build a good ship, especially this unconventional steamship, which may go down in history if successful.

After leaving the shipyard, Zhao Yin went directly to the palace.

"You kid has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, let's say, why are you here this time?"

Seeing Zhao Yin, Li Er rarely smiled, put down the pen in his hand, and asked directly.

"It's a good thing, it's a great thing, the steamship has been successfully developed, I wonder if Your Majesty is interested in going to sea trials?"

With a smile on Zhao Yin's face, he didn't believe that Li Er was not interested in this matter.

"Really? Let's go now! ”

This is definitely great news, Li Er directly threw aside the work at hand and walked over with great interest.

"Father-in-law, this is not in a hurry, the trial voyage is tomorrow morning, and the son-in-law will come over today to report a message!"

He deliberately didn't say the time just now, just to see what kind of urgency this old guy was in his heart.

"Tomorrow? Well, then tomorrow! ”

Li Er was stunned for a moment, then walked back and glared at him angrily.

"If I'm not mistaken, you kid said that the steam engine can also be used in textiles? That's right! ”

In order to hide his embarrassment, Li Er directly diverted the topic.

"If my father-in-law doesn't talk about it, my son-in-law will forget about him, and I've been busy with the shipyard recently, and I haven't been able to get out of my mind!"

Zhao Yin smiled awkwardly.

The use of the steam engine is too extensive, and he just said it casually at the beginning, and he didn't expect Li Er to take it seriously.

But now that you think about it, the steam engine led the first industrial revolution, especially in the textile field, and its role was quite large.

"It doesn't matter, compared to the textile machine, the steamship is the most important, so it can be seen that you kid now knows to worry about national affairs!"

Li Er nodded with satisfaction.

You know, this kid has always looked at money, and now he can make him forget such an important thing, so that means that this kid has finally grown up now.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Zhao Yin sweated a lot in his heart, he really forgot where he was so great as he said.

"But then again, this steam engine is really a good thing, according to the news that Dai Xuan reported back, the steam engine has a huge role in agriculture, completely improving the people's drought distress, and even the steam engine pumping water has transformed some dry fields into paddy fields."

In the past, when the fields were irrigated, they could only take water diving, which was good near the water source, but if the fields were on high mountains, then the water could not jump at all, so the crops could only wait for drought to die.

"The role of the steam engine in agriculture is indeed not small, but now the output of the steam engine is too low, and the price is also very expensive.

There are still many plans for the improvement of the steam engine, but it is a pity that the current technology has not been able to keep up, which also makes him helpless.

"There's no hurry, there's a lot of time, and I'll have to wait."

Li Er said with a smile, if he didn't understand the structure, he would never say that.

But now, he understands that the successful development of a steam engine is definitely not a simple matter.

"Your Majesty can think so, then the son-in-law will be relieved."

Zhao Yin pretended to be relieved and sighed leisurely.

"How many people will the new ship carry?"

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Li Er slowly opened his mouth and asked.

"Theoretically, there are thousands of people, but the steamship has just been developed, so I don't recommend too many people to go up!"

After a slight groan, Zhao Yin said.

Now Datang's technology, the power of the steam engine is simply not enough to carry too many people.

"Is that true?"

Li Er's eyes suddenly lit up.

If the steamship can really carry so many soldiers, then the conquest of the Japanese kingdom is definitely just around the corner.

In the past, Datang's ships, let alone carrying soldiers, did not dare to transport too many goods, for fear that if one was not good, the ship would sink directly.

Well, now that the steamship created by this kid not only solves the problem of transportation, but the most important thing is that its tenacity is absolutely unimaginable, after all, relying on manpower, it is not easy to destroy the iron plate that is difficult to damage by the sword.

Also, the pointed-bottom sailing ships made by this kid have also greatly improved the practicability of the Datang ships, even if too many steamships cannot be produced in the short term, relying on these pointed-bottom sailboats, Li Er is sure to destroy the Wa Kingdom!

Moreover, he has already sold the flat-bottomed boats that Datang once developed to the people, and if it weren't for the slow manufacturing speed, he would not have replaced all the boats immediately.

However, such expectations are not very far away, and as time goes by, Datang wants to completely eliminate those flat-bottomed boats, which is definitely just around the corner.

Originally, the Datang Navy Division had a lot of ships, but they were all flat-bottomed boats, and once the enemy attacked, they could only rely on the number to crush them, and they couldn't take the initiative to attack at all!

But now that there were sharp-bottomed sailboats, the officers and men of the navy had long since abandoned the flat-bottomed boats, and they didn't even bother to look at them again.

If there is another enemy now, they are absolutely confident that they will take the initiative to attack once and vent the anger they have held back for so many years.

There are many benefits to a spire-bottomed sailboat, and speed is just one of them.

It really made the soldiers embrace it for another reason.

Because of its stability, no matter how rough the wind and waves, the sharp-bottomed sailboat can always sail smoothly on the sea!

Especially when the first batch of spire-bottomed sailing ships arrived, the views of the naval officers and men were the same as those of the original craftsmen, and their hearts were full of doubts and doubts.

With the actual action, the superiority of the spire-bottomed sailing ship gradually became apparent, and this completely conquered these naval officers.

"The emergence of sailboats has completely replaced the former flat-bottomed boats, and now there is a note here, the above is a request, how to deal with these eliminated flat-bottomed boats, I know that you have a lot of ideas, let's talk about it, but do you have any suggestions?"

Li Er smiled and picked up the fold in front of him, and shook Zhao Yin a few times.