Zhang Qiang listened to Ruan Jin's report, and then discussed with the craftsmen of the shipyard and solved some of the problems they were embarrassed about, mainly when the materials would arrive, whether they needed to cooperate, how many people were needed, who was at home, and what difficulties they had.

The craftsmen who can stand here and report to Zhang Qiang are all craftsmen of engineering after the new scientific examination system of the Chinese Kingdom comes out, and the examination of the craftsmen is very strict, they are not to be officials, but to promote a higher level, they can choose from these exams, for example, after passing the third-level craftsman, they can choose to take the management or chief planner, and the third-level management can be examined, and they are the head of the craftsmen.

It is equivalent to saying that the craftsmen in charge of administration, they have their own skills, and at the same time know how to make them, and their own skill level is not too low, which helps them not to make low-level mistakes of outsiders commanding insiders, and at the same time, this official is a way out for those craftsmen who know that they have no ability and can no longer be promoted.

The system of the Huaxia Kingdom is very humane.

But the chief planning engineer is more difficult, starting from the third level of the exam, after the test is qualified, he will serve as the leader of the fourth-level craftsman apprentices, and follow the fourth-level craftsman.

The fourth-level craftsman does not necessarily have a third-level craftsman, maybe a novice, maybe a few novices, he is responsible for the food and accommodation of the fourth-level craftsmen, the novices' food and accommodation management, and at the same time obeys the arrangement of the leader of the third-level craftsman management team, which is equivalent to being an administrative assistant first, arranging production tasks, and at the same time joining the ranks of craftsmen, and continuing to learn from the fourth-level craftsmen.

Why do you want to start with the third level, because the highest level of craftsmen in the Huaxia Kingdom is now level five, there are very few level five craftsmen, and there are not many fourth-level craftsmen, and there are many third-level craftsmen, but on the whole, those who can reach level three are craftsmen who have a hand, and some are craftsmen who have been engaged in a certain aspect for a long time.

After the third-level management examination, the person will accumulate experience and qualifications like an official, and make political achievements, which have reached the peak of promotion, then he will be promoted to the administrator of the fourth-level craftsman management team, and at this time he has an official position, as a clerk in the Huaxia Kingdom, a formal civil servant, and when he is promoted, he is a formal official from the ninth grade.

Officials who have craftsman experience from Jiupin and have reached the third level of craftsman manage the entire craftsman team.

There is a group of transferred personnel, finance, logistics, and the third-level management clerks who have been admitted, their purpose is to serve the craftsmen and engineers, and when they reach the fifth level, the engineers reach the fifth level, and they can take the chief planner examination, responsible for designing the ship, the fifth-level craftsmen are responsible for manufacturing, and the managers are responsible for serving them and arranging manpower to help them.

Officers, craftsmen, engineers, chief planners, managers, apprentices, helpers, formed a technical team responsible for the design of ships and shipbuilding. There are other officials in the shipyard who are responsible for other things, but it is okay if these officials are not craftsmen.

Each shipyard has at least one such team managed by an official from the Jiupin craftsman, a chief planner is the designer, a fifth-level craftsman is in charge of the general manufacturing, a large group of fourth-level and third-level craftsmen are responsible for the specific manufacturing, and a large group of managers are responsible for preparing materials and helpers to serve these craftsmen.

Of course, sometimes the fifth-level craftsman is not alone, there may be a fifth-level carpenter, a fifth-level painter, a fifth-level sailing wood selector, a fifth-level canvas maker, a fifth-level cable maker, and so on, a large group.

Sometimes there may not be so many fifth-level craftsmen, but there may be a group of third-level craftsmen, and the personnel are not necessarily all craftsmen of the same level for each type of work, some are first-level, some are second-level, and some may be third-level.

They are busy with a group of apprentices, and they may be responsible for many processes, but when they have to take the exam, they can only test the one they are best at, and become a first-level craftsman or a higher-level craftsman in that item.

When Zhang Qiang proposed to the only team in this shipyard that he wanted to replace a new type of warship, they were very happy, because if they made it first, then they would be rewarded, as well as political achievements and honors, which is very important for the craftsmen of the Huaxia Kingdom, related to their income, the treatment of their families, and the promotion will be faster in the future, they can take the lead in having the experience of building this kind of ship, this is the technology.

Because of the news brought by Zhang Qiang, they were very excited, so they discussed the modification of the sailboat very actively, dozens of people said a word, including the Dutch and Spaniards who were captured in the previous wars, as well as the British, and the most were the Portuguese.

They had seen the sailing ships of their homeland in their hometown, and their advice was good.

Zhang Qiang asked the managers recorded next to him to summarize these opinions.

A day later, they were summoned again, several fourth-level craftsmen, two fifth-level craftsmen, a chief planner, and three low-status foreign craftsmen, the Portuguese, the British, and the Spaniards, as for the Dutch, they were a group of merchants, who only knew how to use money to smash other kingdoms, since the Dutch lost to the British, their warship construction was not as good as the Spaniards and the British, and the Portuguese were the most familiar with the previous Ming Dynasty of the Huaxia Kingdom, so they were also called to participate.

After some discussion, Zhang Qiang summed up some characteristics, in order to improve, it is necessary to make the structure of the ship more reasonable, the aspect ratio is reasonable, which is conducive to resisting wind and waves, reducing the superstructure, and in order to make the ship run fast, the hull must be lighter.

The mast must be high so that the area of the sail can be increased, and the larger the sail area, the higher the natural wind force and the higher the power level.

The mast must increase in height, a taller mast is needed, and a taller tree is needed, but there is no such tall mast in the shipyard at present, and the mast must be integral, otherwise it will be blown separately and broken from the connection.

However, a craftsman proposed that an iron hoop could be installed, and the link should be wrapped in iron to increase the strength of the mast connection, so that there was no need to look for tall wood in the deep mountains, and there were not so many deep mountain woods in the Huaxia Kingdom, even if the Qing army was in Liaodong, because of the large population, in fact, many places were set foot by humans, and small trees were cut down, so that they rarely saw a hundred years of intact wood suitable for building higher masts.

There are in Europe, Zhang Qiang vetoed it without thinking about it, this has to deal with these Taixi people, and it will have to be put for a year or two before it can be used when it is shipped back, isn't this torture?

The hull has to continue to be elongated, not too wide, the solution is a reasonable length-to-width ratio, this is not too difficult, there are more than ten years of training of the chief planner of the Huaxia Army to calculate, design, can come up with the best plan, anyway, Zhang Qiang knows that a new ship type is not a short period of successful experiments.

Zhang Qiang, as a traverser, also put forward the concept of flying clippers in many of the sightrows, changing the shape at the junction above the waterline and the waterline, and then making a sharp shape to the place where the hull extends on both sides, the bow floats up, and the waterline is lowered and then extends forward to form an acute angle, which is equivalent to an L-shaped bow, which changes the previous vertical or oblique straight waterline bow shape to form a scissor-shaped bow.

At the same time, the bow part is made into a watertight compartment to form an empty compartment, which increases the buoyancy of the ship, especially the buoyancy of the bow, and at the same time builds a plurality of watertight compartments along the side cabins on both sides of the waterline to form a buoyancy device similar to a pontoon, and does not put anything in the cabin, and the cabin above the cabin is also made into a watertight cabin, but this is used as a warehouse, which is used for counterweights on both sides of the hull to prevent the hull from swinging sideways.

Everyone talked to me for a few days, came up with a plan, and then drew the drawings with the help of the fifth-level craftsman.

(End of chapter)