"Wang ...... Uncle Wang, do you really want to dedicate this ship to your father? Li Chengqian's eyes widened.

In any case, he never imagined that Li Yuanjing would give this steel battleship to Li Shimin.

This is the only one in Datang, which took nearly 100,000 stone of steel and nearly two years to build.

"Of course, this ship is too big, and it consumes too many resources, this king will not build a ship of this level in the future, and dedicating it to His Majesty can also show the strength of my Datang!" Li Yuanjing nodded without hesitation.

Pretending to force this kind of work, Li Yuanjing has long been perfect, there is nothing to entangle at all, and it is just a matter of convenience.

Could it be that Li Yuanjing told Li Chengqian that this king doesn't look down on this ship?

Funny!

If you really say that, what can you do if Li Shimin doesn't want this ship?

Li Shimin didn't want this ship, so he wouldn't ask him to build a new ship, so what could he do?

The ship looked pretty bad, and the tonnage was big enough and hard enough.

But in Li Yuanjing's opinion, there are still many problems, and there is no problem with pretending to be forced to Li Shimin on weekdays.

But for myself, it's a little impractical.

As for the time lost, it doesn't matter.

Now that he has experience in building steel warships, Li Yuanjing is confident that he will build another new ship, not to mention two years, at least within a year and a half.

Besides, Li Chengqian is only eighteen years old now, and he is still young, so it is the same if he waits for a few years to go out.

However, Li Chengqian did not rush back to Chang'an, but sent people to gallop and send the news back to Chang'an.

Li Shimin was also stunned after receiving the news, and he was sure to be surprised, Li Chengqian's personal experience gave him a feeling of blowing the stream, and Li Yuanjing wanted to send the ship to the imperial court for no reason, which made him even more strange.

However, a steel giant ship with a self-weight of nearly 100,000 stones still deeply attracted Li Shimin's attention.

As a result, Li Shimin made the most absurd decision since he ascended the throne, and personally went to Haizhou to take a look at the steel giant ship that frightened Li Chengqian and couldn't speak.

However, the emperor's travel is not as simple as he thinks, first of all, he has to arrange the government affairs of Chang'an to deal with the problem, and secondly, he has to select the officials of each ministry to follow him, and then formulate the itinerary, etc., which is very troublesome.

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"Your Highness, I think that according to this line of thinking, is there still room for improvement on the Tang Emperor?"

"Well, there is too much space on the upper level, and it is too empty, since you have decided not to transport goods, it is most appropriate to install some catapults!"

"No need to ......" Li Yuanjing rejected everyone's proposal.

After deciding to give the Tang Emperor to Li Shimin, Li Yuanjing began the construction of a new ship.

Steel or something is not a difficult thing for him, anyway, the Tang Emperor has not been completely completed, and he continues to use this name to ask for supplies.

Even if those people knew, they didn't dare to refuse.

After all, the Tang Emperor is dedicated to the emperor, think about it, how people play is the family matter of other brothers, and they outsiders should not get involved.

While telling Li Shimin about the situation in the book, he asked people to do what Li Yuanjing asked.

"The Tang Emperor is the symbol of the Tang Dynasty, it represents the emperor, and it is the supreme existence. It doesn't need to be equipped with too many weapons, as long as it exists, it is a deterrent to the enemy! Li Yuanjing said directly.

After the improvement of the steam engine, the power of the Tang Emperor was improved, but for a 5,000-ton warship, this improvement was a bit difficult.

If you don't experience it carefully, you can't see the difference at all, maybe you can run one or twenty miles more than before in one day?

Although this is also an improvement, Li Yuanjing still figured out the key to it.

Is there a use for building such a big ship?

In this era, these wooden ships of the Tang Dynasty were the most advanced ships in the world, and the Devil Country and Baekje were barely the second maritime powers in the world.

But what kind of ship are they?

Even the ships used by Datang to transport goods are not as good.

So, what are you doing with those multi-thousand-ton warships? Idle and bored to run out and pretend to be forced?

Although it is very good and effective, it is quite refreshing to watch the soldiers on the shore who are training look at this battleship from time to time.

But except for being cool, there is no use for eggs at all.

In other words, Li Yuanjing can build a warship at will, even if it is iron-clad wood, he can sink any warship in the world.

As for the so-called Europe, the Age of Discovery, think about it or forget it, it is said that Comrade Lao Mai's ship even struggled to load ten people, what else to compare with himself?

Therefore, the specifications of the new battleship were determined by Li Yuanjing.

The length of the ship is fifty meters, and the width is seven meters.

Because the Tang Emperor is too heavy, the draft is a little deep.

Now that the reason is known, it is natural to make changes in the next construction plan, and according to Li Yuanjing's plan, the specifications of the straight keel will be reduced by one-third, and the horizontal keel and the rest of the components will be doubled.

According to the example of the Tang Emperor, if this battleship is built, it will probably be about 1,500 to 2,000 tons.

As for the boiler, Li Yuanjing chose a boiler this time.

It's not that the more boilers there are, the more power there is, because everyone on the Tang Emperor doesn't have much experience, there are also more problems.

As more and more problems appeared, Li Yuanjing became more and more dissatisfied with the ship.

That's why I had the idea of giving it to Li Shimin to pretend to be forced.

And this ship brought him countless valuable experience, for example, Li Yuanjing's proposal to link the two boilers for processing.

This idea gave the steam engine workshop a new idea, and the gang began to tinker.

Since two boilers can drive a steam engine in linkage, can a boiler also drive two steam engines?

The steam engine and the boiler are completely two things, one is to provide steam, and the other is to compress the steam and convert the power.

So, the experiment of the gang was so successful, they found that it was completely feasible, and there were even some improvements in terms of power output.

This mom sold batches, tried a lot of methods, and finally came up with a set of plans with the largest power output.

That is, one boiler drives two steam engines, and two steam engines drive two propellers respectively.

Even if it is necessary to make one boiler larger, it is better than two boilers, and the total weight is still reduced by one-third.

But the savings in fresh water and coal are not one-third, which can ensure the ship's endurance.