As Yuan Keli said, Dengzhou Shipyard is indeed not too far from the wharf where Zhu Youzhen went ashore. From that pier, the ship can reach the Dengzhou shipyard smoothly in less than half an hour.

Entering the Dengzhou Shipyard Yard, Zhu Youzhen still felt very excited.

As the largest shipyard in the north of the Ming Dynasty, if nothing else, just talking about the area of hundreds of acres, it is definitely a rare behemoth in this era.

Dengzhou Shipyard is said to be a shipyard, but in fact, it is a large collection of workshops required for all kinds of shipbuilding. Various shipbuilding workshops, such as plate making, tent making, ash making, rope making, etc., extend inland along the coast. The whole shipyard is a huge market town.

The core area of the shipyard is the huge dock where the treasure ships are manufactured.

"Your Highness, that's the dock where the treasure ship was built."

Liu Shan, the ambassador of Qipin Shipyard, who led the way, proudly pointed to a huge depression and introduced it to Zhu Youzhen.

This is the shipyard of this era?

Looking at this huge dock, Zhu Youzhen immediately understood why the Dengzhou Shipyard was built here.

This huge dock is actually a small bay in itself, surrounded by land on three sides and facing the sea on one side. The shipyard took advantage of this natural topography to build a huge gate on the seaward side and dug up most of the inner beach, which led to the construction of such a huge dock.

As he got closer and closer, the dock, which was nearly the size of two basketball courts in length and width, and had a depression of nearly 10 meters, was revealed in front of Zhu Youzhen's eyes.

The ship has been built and undocked, and the empty dock should have just been drained of seawater, and many workers are still cleaning up a large amount of silt and seagrass brought by the seawater at the bottom of the dock.

Seeing the huge wooden barrier at the end of the dock, about 10 meters wide, used to divide the seawater, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but take a breath.

The sea outside the levee is significantly higher than the bottom of the dock. If the levee loosens and seawater backs up, the workers who clean up the silt at the bottom of the dock will be wiped out.

It's too dangerous, the embankment ......, Zhu Youzhen understood it.

The keel of the ship should be laid in the open space at the bottom of the dock, and then the shipwrights will build it little by little like a house. When the ship is fully built, the shipyard will bring seawater through the gate to the dock and float the ship. After that, simply remove the embankment near the sea, and the ship can sail directly into the sea from which side.

The embankment is the final channel for the ships to leave.

This dock and this shipbuilding process are still very advanced!

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but nodded secretly.

Hey, just this length, width, and height, a little more expansion should be enough to build the Victory, right?

"That, Liu Shan, is this the largest shipyard in Dengzhou?"

After carefully estimating the size of the dock, Zhu Youzhen asked eagerly.

"Back to Your Highness, this is the largest shipyard in Dengzhou."

Liu Shan understood what Zhu Youzhen wanted to ask, and he hesitated for a moment before bowing down and saying, "Your Highness, this dock, according to the masters, can no longer be expanded. ”

Liu Shan didn't dare to look up at Zhu Youzhen, he lowered his eyes and said to himself: "Your Highness, the sand around the dock has been dug up, and if it expands outward, there are hard rocks everywhere, and it will be difficult for the people to dig it.

The expansion of the dock and the expansion of the travel locks must also be expanded. But if the locks are wider, it will be difficult for us to block the leakage of seawater.

What's more, even if the dock could be deepened, the channel would not be deep. With the draft of the Victory, if the channel is not dug deeply, even if the Victory can be built in the dock, the Victory will not be able to sail out of the dock. ”

Hearing what Liu Shan said, Zhu Youzhen's brows slowly furrowed.

Liu Shan said that he could understand that the dock was expanded, and the hard rock could still be blasted by gunpowder, but if the problem of the lock and channel was not solved, it would be useless for the dock to be expanded. Locks and waterways are the biggest problems.

"Alas," after thinking for a long time, Zhu Youzhen finally sighed helplessly.

Dockyard expansion will be difficult. Before going to the shipyard, Zhu Youzhen was actually prepared in his heart. But Zhu Youzhen never expected that the dock of Dengzhou Shipyard could not be renovated at all.

Zhu Youzhen, who was greatly disappointed, could only turn his mind to the various docks in Dengzhou.

After carefully inspecting the various wharves in Dengzhou, Zhu Youzhen's idea of using the deep-water wharf to build the Victory also came to naught.

There are a total of 5 large wharves in Dengzhou City. Among them, the Denglai Navy controls 3 places, and the remaining two are civilian passenger and cargo terminals.

After several days of investigation, Zhu Youzhen was disappointed to find that the wharves in Dengzhou were all shallow-water wharves, which could not accommodate the Shengli with a draft of 8.8 meters.

What disappointed Zhu Youzhen even more was that the wharves in Dengzhou were all sediment matrix wharves. Before the advent of high-grade cement, Dengzhou was unable to rebuild a suitable deep-water wharf. In other words, even if there is a ready-made Victory now, Dengzhou cannot be used as a home port for the Victory.

The Daming Denglai Naval Base, which owns the first shipyard in the north, cannot be used as the home port of the Victory. As a result of this investigation, Zhu Youzhen completely lost confidence in building the Victory immediately.

The future trend of the Age of Discovery is that the ships will get bigger and bigger. The larger the ship, the greater the displacement; The larger the displacement, the deeper the draft of the sea vessel will be.

Even the Victory, which is less than 4,000 tons, cannot be berthed at Dengzhou Wharf, and how can it withstand those 10,000-ton battleships in the future.

Dengzhou's low development potential is really disappointing for Zhu Youzhen.

After a whole day of frustration, Zhu Youzhen slowly eased up.

It was no longer possible to start building the Victory immediately, so Zhu Youzhen had to readjust his goals.

Dengzhou does not meet the needs of the future naval base, so he must find a new high-quality deep-water port suitable for future development. On the Shandong Peninsula, deep-water ports should still be easy to find.

Thinking of those famous seaports in Shandong in later generations, Zhu Youzhen showed a smile on his face.

Daming Dengzhou is a famous tourist attraction in later generations, and the famous Eight Immortals cross the sea - Penglai.

In later generations, Yantai, to which Penglai belongs, is a very famous port city. Yantai Port is a high-quality deep-water harbor that can accommodate more than 100,000 tons of giant ships, and is ranked among the top in the country.

Yantai Port is not far from Penglai, as long as Yantai Port can be found, maybe you can also find a wharf suitable for the Victory.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen cheered up again.

Find a boat, go to sea, find a harbor.

However, the ideal is very plump, but the reality is too skinny.

Zhu Youzhen has been searching along the coastline for two days, and his eyes are sour, but he still hasn't found the famous deep-water port in his memory-Yantai.

Lying on his back on the recliner, staring at the white clouds slowly fluttering in the sky, Zhu Youzhen was in a very bad mood.

Yesterday they had already passed by a small island that looked like a gourd, which should be the tourist attraction of the future - Eight Immortals Island.

After the Eight Immortals Island, they have been walking for more than a day now, why haven't they found Yantai Port yet?

Is Yantai so far from Penglai?

In the previous life, Yantai to Penglai was only more than 1 hour's drive, will we have already walked through?

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but think wildly in his mind.