In the eighth year of Qi, on the thirteenth day of the first month, on the edge of the Datong River in the southeast camp of the capital.

"Li Dingguo, Hao Shaoqi, Zhong Jixiang...... Come here! ”

On the edge of the big wharf built of bluestone, Zhu Youxiao was very excited and shouted to Li Dingguo behind him, "Everyone come to listen to my command!" ”

There was no way not to be excited, and after a dozen years of hammering and hard work, he finally got the mature model of the clipper ship in his mind.

This model of the clipper uses a 10:1 ratio, which is only one-tenth the size of the final complete body.

However, this is also a behemoth, with a displacement of more than 200 tons!

Because of its size, even the final assembly of the model was carried out yesterday afternoon by pulling some large parts to the Chase River.

Yesterday afternoon, Zhu Youxiao called Li Dingguo and asked him to bring a team of 100 people into the palace, and he had important things to do for him.

Then, Zhu Youxiao used a super-large flatbed ten-wheeled wooden cart built by himself, and Li Dingguo worked together, and it took everyone about half an hour to get the model parts of this flying clipper ship to the edge of the big dock in the southeast camp.

Afterwards, everyone worked together until dusk came, and the assembly of the clipper model was completed.

Early this morning, Zhu Youxiao took Li Dingguo and the generals of the Boy Scouts to the big wharf in the southeast of the capital with great interest to conduct the first trial voyage of this model clipping boat.

In a temporary dock on the edge of the Bluestone Grand Pier, there is now a model of a warship with a very new style.

This model of the battleship is not very large, with a displacement of just over two hundred tons, which is only one-tenth the size of a real full-fledged clipper.

After all, this is just a model of a battleship that has shrunk tenfold according to scale.

But it looks like the ship is extremely graceful, with low sides and a low superstructure.

This new type of warship is completely different from the type of Galen ship that is currently being built on a large scale by foreigners from all over the world.

It can be a completely new type of ship in this era.

The ratio of length to width of this novel clipper is about six to one.

The underwater shape of the hull is designed as a pointed bottom resistance hull and maintains a certain lateral resistance profile, resulting in a particularly beautiful appearance at the waterline.

The bow of the battleship, the waterline surface is concave, and the long and sharp curved scissor-shaped bow is suitable for fast sailing, and can easily split the waves at sea to reduce the resistance of the sea ahead.

The peculiar bow greatly extends the length of the hull, stretching outward along the bow, there is a slash, which can hang some more support cables and triangular sails in the bow, which is conducive to expanding the force capacity and volume of the sail.

What's even more peculiar is that the bow of this battleship is a hollow hollow bow, which is completely different from the solid bow of the previous Ming Empire's Fu ship and Yangrao Galen ship.

The hollow bow makes the battleship sail in the waves, which makes it easy to raise the bow and improves its course stability in the wind and waves.

At the rear of the battleship, the gradually shrinking, sloping assembly line, the transition to the narrow round stern is very harmonious, and the graceful bow shape is harmoniously integrated, making people look very comfortable.

The new warship had three masts and could hang sails with a very large area.

The three masts are very high, basically up to three-quarters of the total length of the battleship, and are a standard tall mast.

And because of the long proportions of the hull, between the three masts, the effect of the operators interfering with each other, will be compared, and the transom mast is very wide, which greatly exceeds the width of the hull.

But the protection of this clipper is not very strong, there is only one deck.

This was also due to the fact that the battleship had a low freeboard, which could not arrange a two- or even three-story artillery deck.

On the ship's side deck, four new Furlong cannons were arranged on each side, two in the front and two in the rear.

A flying clipper ship with a total of eight new Franco rapid-fire guns on board.

Although this battleship model has not yet been launched, whether it is a knowledgeable person or an unknowledgeable person, after seeing this battleship model, everyone's first impression is:

This new type of warship is not only pleasing to the eye, but it must also be a very fast warship, which is very suitable for high-speed navigation in the water

After Li Dingguo saw this battleship, he was very excited, walked a few steps to the temporary dock and stopped, and began to carefully look at the ship in front of him.

His big eyes revealed a keen gaze, as if looking at a peerless treasure, revealing a look of eagerness.

In normal times, His Majesty has told everyone that the future is the era of the ocean.

In this era, whoever controls the seas will control the world hegemony for the next few hundred years.

Therefore, it was because of the incomparable importance of the sea that there was a compulsory swimming training course in the new army of the imperial court.

As for Colonel Zhu You, the army must at least be able to avoid seasickness when taking a boat, so that he can be a qualified soldier.

Otherwise, in the future, the Ming Empire will expand greatly, and too many places will need soldiers to land and fight, where can a landlubber-like soldier shoulder the heavy responsibility of expanding the territory?

Anyway, in the area he completely controls in the future, there are not too many people in the empire who want to be soldiers, and he can easily pull out more than 10 million people.

Since you can't meet the standard of a qualified soldier, I'm sorry, it's good to retire, and a lot of people are waiting in line to serve as a soldier!

In a word, rich, capricious.

This model of the clipper ship was built according to the drawings designed by Zhu Youxiao himself, and when it was built, it was supplemented and improved.

Prior to this, he had already built a miniature model boat and conducted a trial voyage on the lake in the Imperial Garden, which was extremely fast.

It is expected that the full version of the clipper will far exceed the speed of all types of ships in the world at present, and even its maximum speed will be more than double that of all existing ship types in the world!

"Your Majesty, this kind of battleship looks pretty good, but is it really as fast as yours?"

Li Dingguo asked with some surprise while tapping his hand on the side of the boat.

"Of course!"

Zhu Youxiao nodded and smiled: "This mature and improved flying clipper was originally born for high-speed sailing, and of course it runs fast. ”

"If it can't travel as fast as any other ship today, then why bother with it?"

"I'm not full!"

Indeed, in order to design and build this clipper ship model, Zhu Youxiao has been busy for more than ten years, which can be regarded as the most awesome carpentry work he has spent his time on since he was reborn.

After the manufacture of this clipper ship model, the carpenter's experience points gained were also very gratifying, and the experience points increased by 50 points in one fell swoop!

In addition, he has recovered and completely controlled the Liaodong Peninsula and half of the Liaoshen Great Plain, and now his attribute panel has changed greatly:

"Host: Zhu Youxiao, Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Constitution: 100, Spirit: 100

Life span:

Luck Value:

Skills: Top Carpenter (5300), Basic Swordsmanship, Basic Horsemanship, Advanced Sharpshooter

Artisan Hammer Upgrade: Luck (Unfinished), Grandmaster Carpenter: (Unfinished)"

The experience points of his various skills have increased a bit, especially the high-level carpenter has become a top-level carpenter, and the next step is the master carpenter.

The basic swordsmanship and basic riding skills will be upgraded soon.

"I've been working as a carpenter for so long, and I've finally upgraded."

He sighed secretly, "Damn! It's not easy! ”

It's no wonder he's sighing a little now.

In order to meet the requirements of the upgrade as soon as possible, he basically did not waste any free time, and whenever he was free, he summoned the craftsman to hammer it out and do some carpentry work that he was interested in.

Now, even if the clouds are open, the sun and the moon have been opened, and the level of carpenter has been improved.

It is only a big realm away from that grandmaster-level carpenter, and it is no longer desperately far away.