On the way back, Lin Xiao inadvertently touched his pocket, found a lot of objects, and took a look, it turned out to be a sachet, and there was a powder note folded inside the small and delicate sachet bag.

Lin Xiao smiled bitterly and read the note, which was a few lines of beautiful handwriting:

"The west wind blows the flowers into mud, and the bees and butterflies cry to the fragrant dust; On the day of the reincarnation of Qing, Mo gave a poem before the note. ”

Lin Xiao stood up with a bookworm, his heart was like a knife, this goblin, it turned out that he not only knew everything, but also ......

Lin Xiao finally understood that there was a thought in the world that could not be described in words, rough and sad.

"Fairy, I can't repay what I owe you in this life...... If there is an afterlife, I would like to be a human being for the rest of my life, and only be one of the many beings in front of you, even if I have a hard life, even if I wander the world, I will only let you fulfill your wishes. ”

……

That night, because he had to attend the launching ceremony of the new ship as agreed the next day, Lin Xiao decided to return to Fangcheng overnight.

On the way back, Lin Xiao had a gloomy face, buried his head in the road without saying a word, and gradually left Duan Zhenghong and Ding Shuai behind.

"Captain, what's wrong? Worse mood than during the day? Duan Cannon was full of doubts and asked Ding Shuai in a low voice.

"It's not a ...... That one, didn't you see that his eyes were red when he came back? Ding Shuai also whispered.

"That's not it...... I saw a beautiful woman well, why was I unhappy? Duan Dacang's face was puzzled.

"You pig brains, huh? Captain...... Didn't you just get engaged to Lu Gong? Ding Shuai said with a look of disdain.

"What's wrong with the engagement? Isn't this just the right to take the two Qiao, hugging left and right? Isn't that a beautiful thing? ”

"You! …… Do you think anyone is as shameless as you? Ding Shuai scolded when he heard this, and then lowered his voice, "Don't forget, then Lu Gong came with us, and if you change it, can you really do that?" ”

"Cut, since ancient times, heroes have been so lustful, people are not romantic teenagers, is this wrong?" Duan Zhenghong choked back, "But what you said is also right, if you change me, I can't hurt people's hearts." ”

"That's it, I don't think you kid will dare to come nonsense...... But it's a shame to think about it, tsk......"

……

The next day, the Tiger Harbor dock was full of people, and the launching ceremony of the first self-made warship after returning to China was about to begin.

What caught Lin Xiao's eyes was two new ships draped in red, one large and one small, one of which was quietly parked in the dock, and the other much smaller one was made directly on the frame without using a dry dock.

Accompanied by Sun Lei and Mei Laoqi, Lin Xiao first boarded the smaller one, which is a typical Chinese-style canton ship, about 400 material ships in size, with a carrying capacity of almost 40 tons, it is already a large ship in ancient China's sea ships, the hull is wide and narrow, and the stern is slightly empty, which is already the largest ship allowed by the imperial court to be built by the people since the implementation of the maritime ban policy in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

According to Sun Lei, although these shipwrights claimed to have the ability to build larger 1,000-ton ships, for the sake of safety, before starting to build a real 1,000-ton warship, he felt that it was still necessary to observe and verify through practice, so this test ship of several tens of tons was born.

Lin Xiao visually measured the length, the length of the ship was about thirty meters, the width was about five meters, and he roughly estimated the lower displacement, about seventy or eighty tons, less than a hundred tons of displacement, and could carry forty tons, which was already very remarkable.

From the structural point of view of this ship, the bottom of the whole ship is divided into thirteen cabins by twelve bulkheads, and the bulkhead panels are made of large camphor planks, with a thickness of more than ten centimeters, which is the most advanced structure of the Chinese gulet ship in the world - watertight cabins, each watertight bulkhead and the outer hull panel junction has beam ribs and is fixed with iron nails.

The thickness of the bottom plate is more than 20 centimeters, the middle of the ship is the widest, the end is gradually narrowed, the transverse connection of the ship adopts the flat joint, the longitudinal connection is connected with the plane with the same mouth, and the iron nails are also used between these ship boards for nailing, and the places with nail holes are covered with putty twisted material, and the joints of the plate are also filled with twisted material.

This twist material is mixed with hemp silk, tung oil and oyster shell ash, the composition of tung oil is tung oleate glycerides, easy to oxidize, polymerization reaction, the formation of paint film is tough and water-resistant, the calcium carbonate content of oyster shell ash is more than 90%, the lime fired at high temperature is most suitable for blending tung oil, the lime itself has strong adhesion, lime and tung oil mixing, can promote the polymerization of tung oil, the formation of tung oleate, excellent waterproof.

The ship is equipped with a headmast and a mainmast, the mast is a large camphor wood fixed to the bulkhead and hull, there are two square holes on it, and the mast clamp post is inserted into the square hole, and then the mast can be fixed through the mast clamp post.

One of the great features of the Chinese sailing ship is that the mast can be slept down and disassembled, and the mast seat is provided with a rotating shaft and a square hole in the bulkhead for resting the mast.

Ballast is the pebbles that can be found everywhere on the beach, and the dragon ribs on both sides are used to lay the bilge deck, on which cargo and personnel live.

The rudder is made of iron wood, which is a primitive balance rudder that can be lifted and lowered, and there are many holes in the rudder board, according to Mei Laoqi, which can make the rudder operate with less effort, and it is also a unique design on the ship.

"How is this ship launched?"

Lin Xiao was very interested in how to get into the water in ancient times when there was no slipway and no dock.

"When you fill the beachhead with thin mud, you can pull it with a rope." It's so simple.

Lin Xiao nodded, the so-called wisdom of the people is infinite, and it is not an empty word.

What interests Lin Xiao the most is the many shipbuilding raw materials piled up in the workshop next to him, especially those iron parts.

When he was in Haiphong, Chen Yiming once talked to Lin Xiao that Chinese shipwrights had been using iron nails to connect ship plates since the Warring States Period, and they had fully matured by the Tang and Song dynasties, and now Lin Xiao was also excited to see these things with his own eyes.

There are six or seven kinds of iron nails here, shovel nails, square nails, jujube core nails, climbing nails, flat nails, different forms, each with its own usefulness.

Lin Xiao walked around the ship, looking at this real Ming ship, and wondered in his heart whether he could turn this ship into a sail cruiser, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that this ship was still too small, and it would be too small to be a warship with a few breech guns at most, and it would be too small to be a sea ship, but it was still good to use it as an inland river transport ship.

"Mr. Lin, let's go over there and have a look? That's the real battleship. Sun Lei on the side interrupted Lin Xiao's contemplation.

"Okay, let's go." Lin Xiao looked up at the tall bow of the big ship in the dock not far away.

The large ship in dry dock was similar to the Unicorn in terms of size, but it was a little smaller in size, and even Lin Xiao could tell at a glance that the sails used were different, the Unicorn was a standard European brig, while this ship used traditional Chinese hard sails.

(End of chapter)