"The grass people see my emperor!"

"Ten thousand years of my emperor!" ……

These craftsmen, led by several masters, were a little scared and a little excited to pay homage.

They were all recruited by the Ming court, and they were brought with their families.

Many craftsmen and their families who came to Qingdao Port for the first time were shocked and frightened at first.

But after arriving here, being brainwashed by the officers and men of the Royal Guard for a period of time, and experiencing the good life here, the attitude of these shipwrights has changed greatly.

In this era, craftsmen were untouchables, and their social status was very low, although they could eat with their skills, but their lives were always struggling near the poverty line, and the quality of life was not at all.

If the master has better craftsmanship, if he is valued by the court and the owner, he can still live a better life, and the family can at least basically solve the problem of food and clothing, and if the owner is generous, he can still have a little savings.

But in this era, the vast majority of craftsmen cannot reach such a level, and the money they earn can only take care of their wives and children to eat half full, and they will not die of hunger.

They can't even add a decent new outfit for a few years, and if they're not careful, they may lose their jobs.

If they lose their jobs, they immediately become hungry and may starve to death at any time.

So before August last year, the artisans belonged to a rather embarrassed group of people, but after arriving at Qingdao Port, they found that the first aspect of food became much better.

The food here is quite good, full of meals, three meals a day, which is like when I used to work for those shipyards, even if it was the main craftsman, I could only manage two meals a day.

Moreover, the food here has oil and water, and they can eat meat from time to time, at least there are fish and shrimp to eat every once in a while, which they couldn't think of before.

In the past, the proprietors of those boats were reluctant to say anything, and gave them such a good meal to eat.

In addition to the fact that the food was much better than before, the shipyard also issued clothes for them to wear, although they were all coarse cloth clothes of the same style, and the style was also very simple.

But they were pleasantly surprised by the sturdy and comfortable clothes that they could trade in if they wore out.

And then there is the aspect of living here, which is really frightening to everyone: all the artisan households, each family in the nearby super large and gorgeous coastal city, have been allocated a large and well-decorated residence by the imperial court.

The kind of neat and well-equipped big house, according to the new measurement method newly promoted and promulgated by the imperial court, is at least 200 square meters wide, which makes everyone think they are dreaming!

Once they get sick, there will be doctors who will prescribe medicine for them, and they don't even need to spend money on medicine, which was even unthinkable before.

In the past, when they worked for the imperial court or the owner, they had a minor illness, and they were reluctant to spend money to see Lang Zhong for medical treatment.

At that time, when I was sick, I didn't have the money to go to the pharmacy to grab medicine, and when I was sick, I generally carried it hard, and it was okay to carry it, but if I couldn't carry it, it would become a serious illness, and even if I spent money to see a doctor, it would be too late.

Many middle-aged and elderly craftsmen used to be afraid to go because they were sick, and in the end, they couldn't afford to get sick and couldn't even do their work, and the whole family suddenly fell into a predicament.

But here in the Qingdao Port Shipyard, once they get sick, they can immediately go to the infirmary to see Lang Zhong, and the large medical hall built in the city, Lang Zhong will prescribe medicine for them, and he will also write them a note.

If you take the note to the shipyard and hand it over to the person in charge, you can rest, and you won't deduct your salary, which is considered a paid vacation, which is even more unthinkable.

What's more, when they come to work here, the court does not use them as slaves, but when they work here, they will be paid according to their craftsmanship and the importance of the work they do, and then they will be paid on time every month.

Moreover, there is food and shelter here, and even clothing, and individuals basically can't spend any money, so these wages can be saved, which is a lot of money and food every month.

In this way, the craftsmen naturally felt at ease, and they worked honestly here, and now they want them to go, but they are not willing to go.

Here they have a stable job, can support their families, have food, clothing, a house to live in, and even a doctor to see a doctor when they are sick.

If you go back to the old life, you won't kill them.

Now this huge Qingdao shipyard manufacturing, with these visible and tangible all kinds of rich benefits and perfect living and working conditions, the craftsmen of the shipyard are naturally motivated.

They often wake up in the morning, have a hurried breakfast, and then rush to the ship's dormitory to start work.

After all, this hard work not only has a full salary, if the task is overfulfilled with quality and quantity, there is also a lot of bonuses, and some masters receive a monthly bonus, which is much higher than the salary.

At this time, the craftsmen were not as squeamish as the later generations, who implemented an eight-hour work system and complained of misery when they worked overtime, but people did not have this concept at this time.

Zhu Youxiao roughly calculated that in addition to eating and resting every day, the craftsmen basically had to work for at least five hours a day, and even worked for six hours during the long days in summer.

During this time, the ship's liao was in a hurry, and at night they had to fight at night, working overtime, sometimes even seven hours.

If this were replaced by a person from later generations, it is estimated that he would have left his post and quit his job, resigned or went to the relevant departments to complain.

"Everyone, please get up, don't be nervous! Let's do what we need to do. ”

Zhu Youxiao hurriedly told everyone to calm down, "I'm just coming over to take a look!" Go on with your work, don't delay your work, and I'll see and go. "No. 3 Chinese Network

He said to the kneeling craftsmen with a kind face.

For these ordinary people of the Ming Empire, especially all kinds of craftsmen, he rarely lost his temper, and the craftsmen who saw His Majesty the Emperor were very grateful to this young emperor.

After the craftsmen got up, they hurriedly thanked the emperor and got up to go to work.

For the craftsmen of this era, Zhu Youxiao can also be regarded as an expert, don't forget that he is now a top carpenter, and he will soon be able to upgrade to a master carpenter.

The original improved model of the clipper was created by him and handed over to the masters for analysis and imitation upgrades.

He waved his hand to stop the guards behind him, and after he stepped onto the slipway, he looked around.

He found that these Leopard cruisers, compared to the first batch of ships, had not changed much in structure, and the ship type had only been fine-tuned.

However, some changes were made in this batch of ships, especially the hull bearing structure, which was strengthened to allow it to carry heavier guns and strike resistance.

These problems must be considered, after all, the large ships are constantly being upgraded, and the Royal Military Armament Department, with the help and guidance of the Royal Academy of Sciences, is constantly improving and upgrading the artillery.

Those gunners, while increasing the caliber of the guns and increasing the power of the guns, also controlled the weight of the guns so that they could be loaded on large ships.

So until then, both sides need to be ready now to continue to strengthen the structure of the ships being built so that they can carry larger and heavier guns.

Now the two new Leopard cruisers have undergone some changes and continue to significantly strengthen their structure, so that they can be loaded with more and more powerful guns when necessary in the future.

After looking at the structure and construction of these two large warships, Zhu Youxiao said that he was very satisfied.

These increasingly powerful warships were carefully built by these shipwrights, and they were more elaborate than those Western ships.

Many of the problems he found difficult to solve, but when they were handed over to these skilled shipwrights, they could come up with a solution to them.

From this point, Zhu Youxiao did not dare to underestimate the wisdom of these old shipwrights.

These shipwrights were basically illiterate, but they relied on the oral transmission and hand-to-hand teaching of the previous generation of their families, and they memorized many skills and had quite strong creativity.

If it weren't for the habitual conformism, these craftsmen, who had reached the pinnacle of their craft, could have built better ships than the Chinese and Western-style sailing ships of this era.

And now with Zhu Youxiao's suggestions and the reference of the battleship model, they can quickly imitate it, and they can also continuously upgrade this new type of battleship.

On the amidship deck of one of the boats, Zhu Youxiao stopped.

This is the rear deck of the mast, which is the widest part of the ship, and most ships have openings here as a hatch to enter and exit the ship's cabin.

However, the upper and lower hatches of this large battle ship were adjusted to the front of the mast, leaving this piece of space.

This part is also the strongest part of the hull deck structure, and the bearing capacity is also the strongest, and the underside is reinforced with beams and reinforcing ribs, which is enough to carry a lot of weight.

This part of the current area, including the thickness of the deck, has been doubled compared to the previous battleship, so that this area has obtained a fairly solid platform.

According to Zhu Youxiao's proposal and design, this platform is now equipped with a circular wooden outline, and a gun carriage is erected on the outline.

Underneath the gun carriage, there are small wheels mounted on the profile, which can easily rotate the gun carriage and point the cannon on the gun carriage in any direction.

The gun carriage is a slipway gun carriage, so that when the gun is fired, the recoil is directly transmitted to the gun carriage slide, which drives the gun carriage to move backwards and counteracts the recoil.

Coupled with the reaction force of the latest retraction device, the gun mount is pushed back to its original firing position, which makes it easier and faster to control the gun launch.

However, there was still a problem, this contoured all-round rotating gun carriage had a much larger footprint than the average wheeled gun carriage, making it impossible to place more guns on the ship's deck.

However, for the Leopard cruiser, its carrying capacity is very large, at least for now, it is definitely the largest wooden galleon of this era, so it does not have the slightest bad effect on the ship.

However, at present, the contour of the battleship has not yet been completed, and the guns are not in place, but the structure has been preliminarily completed.

The next step is to continue to adjust, and wait for the special gun to be in place, and then install the gun carriage before testing.

Zhu Youxiao is now focusing on this thing, this is a way that he has been thinking about for a long time, so that his Leopard cruiser series can be loaded with a super-large caliber cannon and obtain super firepower.

This idea was simplified by him with reference to the main guns of warships in later generations.

When the time comes, it will no longer be a legend if it is more than ten miles away.

After seeing this rotating gun carriage, Zhu Youxiao's heart was full of joy and he did not hesitate to praise the craftsmanship of the craftsmen.

He had just drawn a diagram of the structure of the gun mount and asked the masters to experiment with it to see if they could get it out.

But I didn't expect these skilled craftsmen to complete it so quickly, and still complete the design modification and manufacture of this gun mount.

It can be seen that these craftsmen of the Ming Empire are indeed capable of good, but they were too rigid in their fixed thinking in the past, which inhibited their independent creativity.