The boat undulated in the waves, Li Jing and the little sister stood at the bow of the boat, Li Jing hugged the slender waist of the little sister, the little sister opened her arms, simulating the scene of the Titanic, Li Jing gave the little sister the sad story while enjoying the warmth with the little sister.

"Do you like me" The little senior sister rubbed Li Jing's cheek with her cheek and asked affectionately.

"I like to bully you," Li Jing said.

"Shhh

"You said that if our ship sinks, and your two sisters and I fall into the water at the same time, who will you save?" Li Jing has a big head, why do girls like to ask this kind of question when they are petty.

"Then you are dead, my two sisters are very water-based, they will definitely save me. You just wait for the end," Li Jing said leisurely. Then, there was a sharp pain in his feet.

"Senior sister, can you old man not step on my toes," Li Jing said helplessly.

"Can you not call me Senior Sister?"

"Then what do I call you?"

"You can call me Jiaojiao, or Gillian"

"Okay, Sister Jiaojiao"

"You sister control" The little senior sister angrily scolded Li Jing with the new noun she learned from Li Jing.

When it was dark, the Black Swan returned to Nanao Island again, and the pirates had already dispersed, and the second uncle also went to arrange the follow-up matters. This time, it was not moored in Wupingzhai, but at Houjiangwan Wharf. The topography of Nanao Island is in the shape of a dumbbell, with flat land in the middle and mountains at both ends. The flat land is about 10 square kilometers. All have been bought by Li Jing.

At this time, a shipyard was under construction. A row of twelve dry docks is under construction. With the funds transferred by Li Jing, the Li family recruited more than 3,000 shipbuilders along the coast, many of whom were craftsmen from the original government-run shipyards. As soon as the ship was moored, Boss Zhang soon got the news and brought the shipyard management personnel to pick up Li Jing.

Boss Zhang, formerly known as Zhang Cheng, has been appointed by Li Jing as the owner of the shipyard and is fully responsible for the affairs of the shipyard. More than 20 brothers and more than 30 Francophone masters from the Batavia shipyard have been assigned to different positions, and at the same time, among the newly recruited craftsmen, hundreds of skilled and capable old craftsmen have been promoted to be foremen. I basically put up the shelves of the shipyard.

Li Jing expressed satisfaction with Zhang Cheng's work efficiency, in addition to the finance, security, supervision, auditing, and material management sent by the Li family to be responsible for the treasurer, the specific management and production were handed over to Zhang Chenglai. It can be regarded as fulfilling Li Jing's promise, and every process in the entire shipyard has been recorded, and the quality is implemented to the people. The management is relatively tight.

When Li Jing disembarked, a shipload of masonry and stone was being unloaded, the movable pulley crane at the wharf had been replaced with riveted steel, and a large amount of Polante cement from Ma'anshan was also unloaded in sacks. The dry dock is made of masonry and concrete, which is very sturdy and can be used for a hundred years without problems. Among them, there are six dry docks for warships, each of which is 75 meters long and 50 meters wide. All dry docks are design drawings provided by Li Jing.

Considering that these dry docks were used by Li Jing for a long time for large-scale ship building in the future, the future expansion was considered at the beginning of the design, so they were built very large and prepared for the future construction of large ships.

According to the information available to Li Jing, the French Valmy (Valmy) is the largest first-class sail battleship built by the French Navy in the 19th century, and it is perhaps the world's largest pure sail-powered battleship. Length× width× draft = 64.05 m× 18.11 m× 8.61 m. Full platoon 5826 tons, 1100 crew, 120 guns.

At the beginning of the design, it was expected to assemble 66 30-pounder cannons, 50 30-pounder Karen guns, and 4 18-pounder cannons. As a result of advances in artillery ammunition technology, she was actually equipped with 50 30-pounder cannons, 16 80-pounder cannons that fired explosive shells, 38 30-pounder cannons that fired explosive shells, and 12 30-pounder Cullen guns when she entered service.

Like the size of several well-known sail battleships, these dry docks can also be built and repaired.

For example, one of the largest sail battleships in the United States, the USS Constitution, which is also the symbol of the United States Navy, has a total length of 62.2 meters, a width of 13.6 meters, a depth of 6.85 meters, a displacement of 2,200 tons, a speed of 13 knots per hour (24 km/h), a sail area of 3,969 square meters, 28 24-pounder guns and 10 12-pounder guns, an effective range of 400 meters to 1,200 meters, and a crew of 400 people, launched in Boston on October 21, 1797.

One of Britain's largest sail battleships, HMS Victory, is a famous ship of the British Navy. Construction of this famous ship began in 1759. It entered service in 1778 with 108 cannons, a crew of 850, and a capacity of 35 tons of gunpowder and 120 tons of shells on board, which could travel continuously for six months at a time. Construction began in 1759 and was completed in 1765, consuming more than 2,000 oak trees and 38 tons of iron. The displacement is 2,162 tons, the length of the ship is 67.8 meters, and the width of the ship is 15 meters.

These six dry docks can be used to build or maintain two first-class sail battleships at the same time.

What remains are six merchant dry docks. All five are medium-sized docks with a length of 50 meters and a width of 25 meters. The Spanish galleons of this era were about 35 meters long and no more than 10 meters wide. Enough to build sailing merchant ships of all sizes.

But the remaining dry dock is the largest, with a length of 200 meters and a width of 50 meters, this dry dock Li Jing allowed three to five years to complete, and was not in a hurry to meet the construction deadline, this dock was prepared for the construction of the ultimate dream cargo sailboat, built by Li Jing for the most perfect sailing merchant ship he knew.

The "Preussen" large five-masted full-sail (full-sail, meaning all mainmasts with four-cornered sails) steel sailing ship was made of German Joh. A cargo ship built in 1902 by C. Tecklenborg for the famous shipping company F. Laeisz in Hamburg was a further improvement of the German five-masted galleon "Potosi" in 1895.

At the time, she was the only five-masted full-sail sailing ship in the world, and the largest classical sailing ship ever built. The total length of the ship is 146.9 meters, the hull length is 131.9 meters, the length between the two columns is 121.92 meters, the beam is 16.4 meters, the depth is 10.24 meters, and the draft is 8.3 meters. The registered gross tonnage is 5081 tons, the deadweight is 8100 tons, and the full load displacement is 11330 tons.

The five masts are all made of steel, with a height of 68 meters from the keel to the top of the mast, and the rigging is also a wire rope. The hull of the boat is very plump and streamlined, and the paint is also very special, with three horizontal color bars in black, white and red from top to bottom.

The Prussia had a total of 47 sails: 30 sails on five masts, 12 ram sails between masts, 4 bow spinnakers and 1 small aftermast, all of which had a total area of 6,806 square metres. She was a pure sailing ship, with two small boilers and steam engines used only to drive four steam sail winch, a steam windlass, hydraulic steering gear, water pump, and generator. With the assistance of the power of steam, driving and maneuvering such a behemoth "requires only a crew of 45 instead of the 245 that is usually needed in this era."

Of course, the premise is that Li Jing makes a steam engine. Otherwise, the ship would have lost 245 crew members and would not have been able to play.

Li Jing has all the drawings of this ship in his hand, whether it is steel ship plates, keel components, sails, wire cables, masts, or riveting processes, they can be met with the production capacity of Ma'anshan Steelworks, and they can be solved technically. Li Jing had already made up his mind that after building a small number of old-fashioned sailing ships to train his team, both warships and cargo sailboats would use the clipper type. Achieve corner overtaking.

The Prussian is the ultimate blueprint for Li Jing's reference. The performance of this clipper is so impressive.

The ship is sturdy enough to sail in stormy weather, and can even withstand force 9 winds (at this point, eight men have to work together to hold the steering wheel). Between 2 February and 1 May 1903, the Prussia set a record sail from Cape Lizard, Cornwall, the southernmost part of England, to Iquique, a port on the Pacific coast of Chile, in just 57 days. She made 12 round-trip voyages from Hamburg to Chile and one round-the-world voyage via New York and Yokohama.

The Standard Oil Company of the United States used her to transport oil from New York to Japan, arriving in Yokohama 112 days later. The Prussia could reach a top speed of 20.5 knots, and it was common for the Prussia to run thirteen or fourteen knots. The longest 24-hour voyage was recorded for 392 nautical miles on the way to Japan in 1908 and 426 nautical miles in the South Pacific in 1904. British sailors at the time found her to be faster than the Potosi (with a top speed of 19 knots), making it the fastest cargo galleon since the clipper era.

Li Jing demanded that at least one dry dock for warships and one dry dock for merchant ships be completed by the end of this year. The battleship first imitated the Dutch battleship of the Flaming Phoenix captured by Li Jing, and Li Jing had already scanned all the information through the platform and compiled a construction manual. The customer service sister put out the demand on the platform, and the host of other planes paid through gold and gave an improvement plan.

Li Jing, a merchant ship, decided to start by imitating a Spanish galleon. When the team matured, they began to explore the construction of flying clippers from small to large, adopting the principle of small steps and fast running, and each boat was slightly enlarged and improved under the premise of avoiding technical risks. Step by step, the ultimate cargo galleon like the Prussian.