Regardless of 3721, the Beigang dock was immediately emptied, and the two old battleships were put on the rack for reconstruction, and the funds were first misappropriated from the reserve funds of the Southeast Prefecture treasury.

Yan Changwu postponed the plan to send troops to Guangdong, went to the Debeigang dockyard, organized engineers to conduct "consultations," and made a plan to transform the big ship.

Drawing a diagram of the structure of a large ship and finding out its key stress points came in handy, and this is when the cartography taught by Phineas Pate came in handy.

Yan Changwu is also a shipbuilding designer, and he personally drew various structural drawings.

On the map operation, brewing the transformation plan, deciding on labor and materials, the cost is no longer considered, and it is the fastest and the best rather than the most economical.

He led by example, did not leave the dock for ten days, fought for ten days, almost all night, and came up with a perfect renovation plan.

It is nothing more than lowering the height of the bow and stern of the big ship, removing unnecessary decorations, and removing some of them before, and now removing all unnecessary decorations more thoroughly, strengthening and transforming the hull structure, strengthening the strength of the gun door protection wall, updating and changing the sails, and so on.

Due to the lack of a large stern and the adjustment of the cabins, it was decided to reduce a pair of gun emplacements at the rear of the upper gun deck, but to install 18-pounder guns (the door structure has been strengthened), a total of 24 guns, compared to the original 12-pounder guns (a total of 26 guns), and the firepower of the whole floor has not decreased but increased.

There were 26 24-pounder guns on the lower deck and 18 6-pounder guns on the open deck.

But when the plan came out, when Yan Changwu was complacent about transforming the firepower of the battleship, he piled up heavy artillery there, and the shipbuilder Barents had already seen that something was wrong: "...... The structural changes here are unbalanced, the front is heavy and the back is light, which makes it easy to bury your head, and once the waves occur, you can't stand on the open deck at all, let alone run! ”

"What then?"

"Reduce the artillery ahead," Barents suggested, but Yan Changwu was worried, my cannon!

For Yan Changwu, who is artillery, every pair of heavy artillery is reduced to make his heart feel like a knife.

But without reducing the artillery, the seaworthiness of the large ship will be very poor, and on the contrary, it will be counterproductive.

After discussion, two pairs of 18-pounder guns were reduced at the front of the upper gun deck, and one pair of 24-pounder guns at the front of the lower gun deck, and another 18 6-pounder decks became six 12-pounder deck guns, all of which were placed in the rear, so that the bow could move forward through the waves.

Such a new battleship had a total of 24-pounder guns/24 guns, 18-pounder/20 guns, 12-pounder/6 guns, which changed a lot and became 50 guns, with a total weight of 1008, which was a little less than the previous 70 guns (24-pounder/26, 12-pounder/26, 6-pounder/18) with a total of 1044 pounds (36 pounders less, equal to 1 to 18-pounder), but acceptable.

The point is that it has been modified to be streamlined, with greatly increased seaworthiness and speed, allowing it to keep up with cruiser formations.

It used to be as clumsy as a hippopotamus and swerved as slowly, but now it is as strong as a lion pounces!

The designers talked there, and the captain Yan Donglai could only listen attentively, and everyone comforted him that it was nothing to have a pair of 18-pounder guns, and Yan Donglai was in the dark, yes, nothing, but it was not your warship!

Every captain loves the warships under his command like a wife, and it is simply intolerable to miss a pair of heavy guns.

Well, when the modification is completed and launched, I'll "fine-tune" it!

His idea was to add a pair of heavy guns to his battleship, and if the logistics department refused to do it all, then buy it himself! Yan Donglai said ruthlessly.

The so-called black who is close to ink, red who is close to Zhu, close to Yan Changwu, who shouts wildly: "I want firepower, I want to output", other captains and deputy captains (he is in charge of the gun deck) plus gun captains are even more crazy than him, and it is very normal to equip his warship with larger caliber guns!

Hey, it's still the South China Sea level! Its firepower is (24-pounder guns/26 guns, 18 pounderers/26 guns, 12 pounderers/6 guns, 6-pounder guns 12 guns), and a salvo of gunships on one side can throw 618 pounds of pound metal shells, and the two sides add up to 1236 pounds, compared to the Southeast, one side is equal to ten more 18-pounder guns, which makes people itch to think about it!

But think about it, the latest candidate for the captain of the two Nanhai-class battleships will definitely not be his turn, after all, no good thing can be taken by him.

But the latter batch of Nanhai-class battleships, as long as they perform a better assault, hehe, it's not mine or who's!

Yan Donglai secretly made up his mind!

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After the designers were busy, Yan Changwu entrusted Barents to watch the progress, and he was ready to lead the team.

And Barents, as the chief designer, had to run at both the North Harbor (converted ships) and Kaohsiung (battleships under construction), which was hard enough.

The dock workers in Beigang have been mobilized and entered the period of "General Battle", which is also the characteristics of the national dynasty brought by Yan Changwu, once the General Battle, that is, the operators work in three shifts, day and night, all night, fighting hard to the death, no vacation, and must complete the first pair of battleship refit within three months.

The necessary supplies are complete, which is also the benefit of paying attention to the collection and storage of supplies.

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Before setting out, Yan Changwu asked the financial officer Chen Hebin about their million-dollar bond issuance, and Chen Hebin said lightly: "Sold out!" ”

"Ahh

With Yan Changwu's nerves, he couldn't help but be startled.

At the beginning, they decided to issue bonds to the public, thinking that they would issue a total of one million silver dollars (Spanish silver dollars) of bonds with an interest rate of 10 percent, and repay 200,000 yuan in the next year, 300,000 yuan in the second year, and 500,000 yuan in the third year.

They just sent invitations to wealthy businessmen in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian provinces, and as a result, they were all sold out within ten days!

900,000 yuan is not enough to sell, it can be said that it is a moment to grab the light (100,000 yuan is subscribed by the southeast mansion itself), most of the people did not buy it, and the late buyers also asked them, do they have to buy?

It seemed that it would be inappropriate for them to eat an extra three million or even five million silver dollars, because there were at least twenty or so many of the guys who came one after another, and they found nothing.

The buyers are all mainlanders, among which Wang Gongzi, the representative of Wang Zhidong, the big boss of Quanzhou shipping, ate 300,000 silver dollars in one go! There was also a pair of Chen brothers from Nanjing, who were not amazing, they also ate 300,000 silver dollars, plus three people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, they each ate 100,000 silver dollars, and just six people swallowed up 900,000 silver dollar bonds.

According to Chen Hebin, those guys should be representatives of officials and businessmen in the southeast region.

Yan Changwu is really amazed by the wealth of the Ming people!

The people of the Ming Dynasty are indeed rich!

Because of the silk porcelain and other commodities of the Ming Dynasty, the silver of the Japanese Kingdom and the silver of Spain poured in like a rising tide, almost two-thirds of the world's silver went to the Ming Dynasty in China, and there was no commercial tax, and the bulk of the silver was taken by the people, and the imperial court only collected a little bit of silver for taxes.

Divergent thinking, poor Emperor Ming, poor Ming court!

I shed tears for him!

Imagine that Emperor Chongzhen, because of lack of money, put down his face and his dignity as an emperor, and begged his ministers and relatives to donate money and pay the soldiers guarding the city of Beijing.

As a result, Wei Zaode, the first assistant of the cabinet, donated five hundred taels; The heart of the richest eunuch, the king, donated 10,000 taels; Zhou Kui, the national abbot, donated 13,000 taels (this is Zhou Kui, he donated 10,000 taels, his daughter is the queen gave him 5,000 taels of silver to ask him to donate, he donated 3,000 taels, and deducted 2,000 taels himself, and when Li Zicheng came, tortured him and beat him out of 530,000 taels of silver!) ）

It is said that Li Zicheng scavenged 60 million taels of silver in the capital of Daming, and how rich it is in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian, the nest of the Donglin Party!

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Seeing that Yan Changwu was not happy and annoyed, Chen Hebin felt strange, and he complimented Yan Changwu and said, "...... They all said they believed in the Overseers! ”

Yan Changwu smiled bitterly: "What they believe in is my cannon!" ”