Chapter 149 Vladivostok Shipyard

Why did Li Zhen occupy this Vladivostok?

Of course, it's not for the sake of catching sea cucumbers here - although there is also such a purpose(* ̄) ̄*).

Speaking of which, it has to start from more than ten years ago, probably not long after he just crossed over to Datang, after determining his mission, he has already understood that Datang wants eternal prosperity, it is not enough to rely on the monarch and the virtuous, if you want to continue to prosper, the country must have money, must ensure that it is rich enough, at least to ensure that the people will not go hungry, and if you want to get a lot of money, it is definitely not possible on land, the only way is to find a way from the sea - that is, to open the age of discovery.

But in order to raise the curtain of the Age of Discovery, it was necessary to have a large number of ships......

This requires a large shipyard, and this kind of thing cannot be supported by Li Shimin, so this needs to be built by Li Zhen himself.

But at that time, Li Zhen was still trembling, just doing a little business, he was remembered by someone with a heart, if some people knew that they had built a large shipyard, they would not send someone to rob it?

Therefore, it is definitely not possible to establish a shipyard in the territory of Datang, at this time Li Zhen thought of Vladivostok, a super port that is both remote and barren and uninhabited, so he began to send henchmen to explore the terrain here and get specific information.

Then in the four years of Zhenguan's Turkic war and the tearing between Hui and Xue Yantuo, Li Zhen captured a large number of slaves, of which in addition to giving them to the imperial court and rewarding his subordinates, he also privately detained more than 3,000 people, most of whom were craftsmen or craftsmen - so the shipbuilders were settled, and the Vladivostok shipyard began to be built silently, slowly growing and growing from outsiders.

After more than ten years of development, the scale of today's Vladivostok shipyard is very large, and there are tens of thousands of craftsmen (slaves) alone, all of which were scavenged by Li Zhen over the years.

None of the ships built over the years have appeared in front of the world, but have been secretly stored, and it is estimated that there are nearly a thousand of them in total—all of them are large ships with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons, and even a third of them are still huge ships of 2,000 tons.

And according to the news from the shipyard, the 5,000-ton super freighter they have tested has been launched for sea trials, and the current situation seems to be very good, if there is no problem with this ship, in the next time, the shipyard can guarantee the speed of launching this giant ship three times a month (a large shipyard with tens of thousands of people, it should not be a problem to build three giant ships a month).

The only problem, however, is that these ships are not the same as orthodox Asian ships, but rather use scissor sailboats that are different from the Chinese style of ships.

The flying scissor sailing ship, which is a high-speed sailing ship that would only appear in the nineteenth century, is characterized by the use of a hollow bow, a slender shape, a sharp and protruding front end, fast speed and small tonnage - of course, relatively, the "Grand Republic" built in 1853, 93 meters long, The width is 16.2 meters, the depth is 9.1 meters, the displacement is 3400 tons, the mainmast is 61 meters high, the whole sail area is 3760 square meters, the speed is 12~14 nautical miles per hour, and it only takes 13 days to cross the Atlantic, marking the peak of the development of sailing ships.

However, the glory of the scissor sailing ship did not last long, because in the late nineteenth century, the appearance of the steamship completely replaced the sail-powered boat, and the flying scissor sailing ship became the last swan song of the sailing boat.

But in any case, although the shear's glory did not last long, it cannot be denied that it was a good boat.

So when building the sea shipyard, Li Zhen was the first to think of this kind of ship, and because there were many Europeans among his shipwrights (many of them were sold from Europe by slave traders), Li Zhen was not worried that they would not be able to accept this style for the same kind of flying scissor sailboats, so he took out his design drawings (on the contrary, Li Zhen was more worried that the Tang Dynasty shipwrights could not adapt to this design, because the ships of Huaxia Guda were generally rectangular, and the length-to-width ratio would basically not exceed 4:1, Most of them are 3:1 or even 2:1 ratios).

Of course, the clipper he designed is still different from the historical clipper sailboats, because the real clipper sailboat is very fast, but this is achieved at the expense of sailing stability - the aspect ratio is more than 6:1, which is simply a wooden stick floating on the sea, how stable can such a ship be? It may happen at any time.

Therefore, when Li Zhen designed, he deliberately widened the width of the sailboat (it was not widened much, but the length-to-width ratio changed from 6:1 to 4:1, the width increased, but the length did not decrease), the mast height was reduced, and the stability of the ship was greatly increased.

Although the scissor sailing ship was greatly modified, it did not actually affect the speed of the ship, because Li Zhen modified the design drawings at the same time, and also added some designs that he knew in later generations (such as the principle of streamlining), so the speed of the sailboat did not decrease much, but increased the upper limit of the ship's displacement, which is also the reason why the shipyard dared to experiment with the manufacture of 5,000-ton freighters - because after studying the drawings, they found that more than 3,000 tons did not seem to be the limit of this kind of ship. As a result, the unique death gene of the porridge legal person attacked, and under the research of all the designers, they began to design and study the 5,000-ton ship, and now it seems that the effect is not bad.

If this trial voyage can go smoothly, maybe he can catch up with the big fleet to go to the South Seas and follow the fleet to Lingnan, it will be too powerful and magnificent, and then Li Zhen's fleet can have a real giant flagship.

"Your Highness didn't lie to your subordinates, did you?" Liu Renliang looked at Li Zhenshen's mysterious appearance, and always felt a little unreliable, how did he know that Li Zhen had a large shipyard in secret? And it is also a super shipyard that can build 5,000-ton giant ships - you must know that even today's Yuezhou shipyard can only produce 3,000-ton ships, and larger 4,000-ton displacement ships are only under study, and even the design drawings have not come out, let alone 5,000-ton ones.

If those designers knew about this kind of thing, maybe they would hang themselves one by one in shame - it's too embarrassing, they have designed a ship for a lifetime, but in the end they are not as good as a group of foreign devils.

What's the point of living on your own? It's better to find a noodle and find a place with a lot of people to hang yourself.

(End of chapter)