"This fir wood is of the highest quality, as strong as our European oak (white oak) and even more durable than oak!" Shipbuilder Barents noted.

"Compared with cedar, camphor wood is much inferior, at most it can only be used as patrol boats, fishing boats and yachts, while pine boats are just materials for river boats!"

"Are you really that sure?" Yan Changwu asked in a deep voice, this is related to strategic decision-making!

He has always thought that camphor wood is good, after all, it is very corrosion-resistant, and he can't help but secretly rejoice that there are many camphor trees in his own Taiwan, but Barents said that fir wood is better, which can be compared with oak.

"I swear in the name of Mazu!" Barents said solemnly, holding the icon of Mazu Niangniang in his hand and swearing.

Barents was one of the first five Dutch people to submit to Yan Changwu, knowing that they had betrayed the Western god ---- God, and God would not have any good fruit for them to eat, so they simply converted to the Eastern god ---- Mazu!

Since he said so, Yan Changwu believed him and sent Yan Qingquan, a capable steward in the house, to the northern Fujian region to buy long-term fir trees.

Northern Fujian, located in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, with Nanping as the center, here the mountains are towering, the low hills are undulating, the river valley and the mountain basin are intricately intertwined, producing good wood!

Living up to the trust, Comrade Yan Qingquan went to Nanping, Jianyang, and Wuyi Mountain in northern Fujian to parade and successfully completed the task!

His method is to smash it with money, there is nothing that money can't settle, if there is, then smash twice as much!

Soon, the fir trees from the northern Fujian region continued to flow down the Min River, and the Ming Dynasty Inspection Department along the way pretended not to see this, and a boatload of big trees passed in front of them, and they all let them go... The silver dollar is in hand, go back to the house for tea!

Yan Qingquan did a very good job, he not only organized people to cut down the fir trees in the mountains and transport them away, but also swept away the unsellable fir trees in the wood factories in various places!

This is the key to building a ship!

The success of building a ship must choose fully dry wood, the requirement is to reduce the moisture in the wood to less than 20%, which requires the wood to be properly stored for several years, in wartime, it is impossible to maintain a sufficient supply of applicable wood, the military can only use the dry degree is not enough or the quality is slightly inferior to the wood to build the ship, the warship built because of the water content, easy to deteriorate and corrode, causing disaster.

Ideally, the ship is built slowly with dry wood, let the frame and shell of the ship dry naturally, and then carry out the follow-up work, so that it takes at least 3 years to build a ship, preferably 6 years, but in case of emergency, a boat can be built in 6 months.

The use of old wood stored in various woodyards can come in handy, and some of them can be used immediately to build ships by placing wood in a ventilated and airy place that is not exposed to rain!

It's not a good job, the northern Fujian region is bitterly cold, and the people's lives are hard, Yan Qingquan abducted more than 10,000 people from there to return to Taiwan!

In addition to him, the Southeast Prefecture also sent a lot of people to cross the sea to various shipyards, and recruited a large number of shipbuilders and helpers to join the Kaohsiung shipyard at a high price.

The shipbuilding industry in Fujian Province has been famous for a long time.

It has a historical heritage, in the first year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1403), the imperial court ordered Fujian to build 137 ships. Yongle three years (1405) to Xuande eight years (1433), Zheng He has 7 times to the Western Ocean, many of the treasure ships used are made in the Minjiang River estuary, the largest 44.4 zhang (about 150 meters), the width of 18 zhang (about 60 meters), each ship carries an average of 400 ~ 500 people, the largest up to 1000 people. In terms of scale, structure, equipment, etc., it was the largest and most advanced ship in the world at that time. Even if "the waves are in the sky, and the waves are like mountains", there are still "clouds and sails high, stars gallop day and night, wade through the waves, and walk on the thoroughfare".

During the Ming Dynasty (1474), Fujian City moved from Quanzhou to Fuzhou, and the shipyards spread all over the coastal areas of the province, and the shipbuilding industry of the government and private offices was very developed. Its technology is advanced and well-equipped. There are mainly fortune boats, treasure ships, sealed boats, and white ships.

A large number of shipwrights and masters arrived at the Kaohsiung shipyard, which greatly enhanced the shipyard's technology and construction strength.

The Ruixing Silver of Yuegang has given great help to the Southeast Mansion, and the master of the old Fujian Shipping Company in Fuzhou and the helpers have been sent to the Southeast Mansion until they are packed!

The operation of the Minfa shipping company encountered difficulties, the capital turnover was not effective, and the result of borrowing from the Ruixing silver could not be repaid, and the Ruixing silver took advantage of the fire to rob and gave the Minfa shipping company two ways out, one is to repay the money, and if it is not repaid, it has to be done according to the rules of the rivers and lakes, and the other is to go to the southeast to serve.

Under coercion and temptation, Lin Sheng, the owner of Minfa Shipping Company, crossed the sea and joined the Kaohsiung Shipyard in Southeast Prefecture.

And Minfa Ship is a big ship that can make lucky ships!

Fu ship is an official ship built by Fu in the Ming Dynasty (1368~1644). The Fu ship is a large ocean-going ship, as tall as a building, with three floors, its bottom is sharp, its top is wide, its head is high, and its tail is towering. The hull is long and narrow, and the draft is deep. Sealed compartments, if one compartment leaks, the other compartment is unharmed. The ship is about 147 meters long, 60 meters wide, carries about 1,000 tons, and can accommodate an average of 400 to 500 people. The Fu ship was used for both navigation and sea warfare, and showed great power in the Ming army's battle against the Japanese invaders.

So the shipbuilders, helpers, slipways, materials, and funds were prepared, and the Kaohsiung Shipyard began to build a sixth-class sail battleship.

This is an agile sloop warship, and instead of building a larger warship, Yan Changwu adopted the method of "running in small steps" and started from a simpler ship.

Led by the Hongmao Panbarents, the masters participated together to determine the design plan.

After reading the design drawings, the masters said, "Oh, I was going to make a plywood boat (a Western-style sailing boat is called a plywood boat)!" ”

Barents: "......"

The keel was laid on the slipway, the keel was fixed, the accessories (ribs) were measured, and the ribs and keel were joined, and the ribs were densely packed and combined to form the hull, and a thick armor layer was formed by these strong ribs and the outer and inner plates, which firmly protected the lives of the battleship and the people inside.

The Western-style construction method is adopted, the wood is made into curved ribs, first through steam steaming, the wood is softened, and then the column is set at several points according to the angle, stuck, and then bent a little bit like bending steel bars, after all, the wood is elastic, and then it is launched, the whole expands, and the structure is tightened, relying on the overall mutual tension to make the strength of the hull be fully guaranteed.

When the hull is formed, the outer and inner plates must be laid, some places are fixed by wrought iron parts, and in many places they are clamped, and hemp rope, hair, putty, tar, asphalt and other items are used to fill the gaps in the outer plate to prevent water seepage.

The main mast was made of large cedar wood more than 1 meter thick, and a cross crane was used to erect the mast.

Sail making: This is an important job in the shipyard, in the large room, the coarse canvas bought from Macao, the shogunate and even Fujian Province is cut and sewn according to the size of the sail in different positions, and it is successfully made by hand with a needle and a thread to make a specific sail.

The red-haired Babybarents has made a secret move: to make the canvas less likely to catch fire!