Chapter 503: Flying Scissor Sailing
Hainan Island has risen to the world's largest steel mill, and everyone in the team brought by Gu Shanhai can take charge of themselves. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
He has been eating steel rice with his father since he was a child, and he sweats like rain every day when he smelts and smelts iron.
A young man with practical experience, after eight years of study, Gu Shanhai, who is about to stand up, is entering the golden age of a man.
The steel mill he managed received high-quality iron ore and coal, and there were thousands of workers under his command, and the world's finest molten steel was converted into high-quality steel, and the quality of warships and machinery was just around the corner.
Hainan Island has also set up shipyards, arsenals, cement factories, glass factories, vehicle factories, and so on, and the tertiary industry has also developed rapidly. There are as many as 250,000 industrial workers in the factory, and women account for 30%.
The Han people on Hainan Island reached 800,000, and because there were too many brides from the Yue Kingdom, there was at least one woman among the young people of the appropriate age. The road around the island has been paved and the leech area has been filled with slag.
The leech area sounds creepy, but it's not worth mentioning, and the hot and humid weather combined with the swamp full of dead branches and leaves is a breeding ground for those disgusting and bloodthirsty things.
Do a good job of protection, use the slag to fill the swamp, destroy those shrubs, let the sun shine on the earth, and the leech area will disappear.
Most of the Li people on Hainan Island have gone down the mountain, some have immigrated to Jiaozhi, some have become homesteaders on Hainan Island, and some have become industrial workers who are fluent in Chinese.
There will be no more hunger, no more birds in the mouth, no more oppression from the lord of the mountain and the lord of the bow, and the Li people who have obtained a good life are grateful to Dade.
The change of customs is underway, and their women are not willing to be literate, and presumably the Li girls in the future will also be as beautiful as flowers.
Huang Sheng's division and rule is to try to integrate the Li people into the Han nationality, and there is no idea of wantonly slaughtering these foreign nationalities, but to eliminate ethnic contradictions, we must always grasp unremittingly, and we will never tolerate the black sheep who resist sinicization, and the iron-fisted and cold-blooded side is still necessary.
At the end of May of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the crew that ended the tour of Nanzhili came to Jiaozhi under the leadership of Lan Caier, and they took the team of the pioneer group led by Zhao Shimin to the south.
Zhao Shimin's design team is unprecedentedly large, and these designers know that all the territories of the Huang family are separated by the sea, and how to turn this disadvantage into an advantage must have safe and high-speed ships.
Improving, improving, and optimizing ship design is the pursuit of all designers in the Huang family system.
As a result, designers and shipbuilders come on board every long voyage to experience the voyage firsthand, and now designers have many bold designs.
The Huang family ship designers have never been on paper, and many of them have sailed many times with the sailing ships they designed and built, and they have constantly learned first-hand information in practice.
Due to the continuous progress of the hot forging process of the Huangjia steel keel, the length of the overall steel keel has made a breakthrough.
The designers considered an appropriate increase in the length of the ship with the same width, which made it possible to reduce the height of the ship, increase the mast and increase the sails.
In the age of sailing, how to get the maximum wind power can get the highest power, obviously they were right, they considered reducing the height of the ship, naturally reducing the drag, and of course increasing the speed.
In the chamber of the Inner Courtyard of the Annan City Mansion in Daming, Annan Port District, Zhao Shimin took more than a dozen top designers of the Huang family to show the ship design drawings that had been discussed by them, explaining the design concept and ultimate purpose for each drawing.
Huang Sheng listened with relish, now that he has enough money and food, steel and coal can meet the basic needs, the next step is to increase the acquisition of copper, and of course he must do his best to build bigger and faster sailing ships.
Huang Sheng took a fancy to a design drawing, and came up with a flying clipper sailboat designed by the Americans, this drawing is very similar, this ship also has a small freeboard, less superstructure.
The aspect ratio is about 6.5 to 1, so the design lowers the center of gravity and not only improves the stability of the ship, but also allows the sail to be fully utilized.
The boat can sail almost against the surface of the water, and its underwater shape is designed with minimal drag to increase speed, but maintains a certain lateral drag profile, resulting in a particularly graceful waterline.
Even in the head of the waterline surface is concave, the long and sharp curved scissor-shaped head column is suitable for racing, and can split the waves to reduce wave resistance at sea.
The head column also extends the length of the hull, and a slash bar is extended along the head column to hang some more support rope spinnakers at the head, which is conducive to expanding the capacity of the support sail.
Huang Sheng discussed with everyone the design of this sailboat, which is close to the flying scissor sailboat, the designer did not consider the hollow bow, but fully considered the anti-sinking, designed the unique multi-sealed cabin of the Chinese ship, and the Huang family's increasingly mature propeller technology was of course cleverly used.
Huang Sheng proposed the concept of a hollow bow, explaining that this could make it easier for the ship to raise its head in the waves, and improve its course stability in the waves.
Zhao Shimin and all the designers felt that the mouth was suddenly opened, and some people were so excited that they couldn't help but scratch their ears and cheeks, and they had the urge to modify the design immediately.
Huang Sheng, a half-expert, showed off his golden finger in front of these real experts who have been trained from continuous practice.
Zhao Shimin and the designers were thundered, they admired it so much, and many people felt that they had solved the incomprehensible design problem.
Huang Sheng encouraged everyone to be bolder, complete the drawings and start construction immediately, don't be afraid of failure, you can build five ships of different sizes at once for sea trials, so that the final finalization will have a basis.
Huang Sheng knew that he would not fail, and his heart was already happy, in history, the flying scissor sailing ship was the end of the sail era, and no sailing ship could surpass it.
The best scissor sailing boats can reach speeds of more than twelve knots, and are said to reach fourteen knots, crossing the Atlantic in just thirteen days, marking the pinnacle of sailing development.
The scissor sailboat came too late, and it wasn't long before the age of sails was replaced by the era of firepower powered by steam engines.
Now that the flying scissor sailboat designed by the Huang family has an all-steel keel, high-quality and Xiyi oiled sails, and more propeller manpower drive, how many knots will the maximum speed reach at sea in the future?
Huang Sheng looked forward to this design and told Zhao Shimin to concentrate on building a new ship type, naming this type of ship the "Destroyer" series, and later naming it after national heroes and scientists and sages who made great contributions to the Han civilization.
Let Zhao Shimin not save the cost, and the whole ship must be wrapped in nickel and white copper.
Nickel white copper is a unique technology of the Han people, of course, it must be used in the right place, and it is certain that the "destroyer" series that will be built successfully will surpass the quality and speed of the flying scissor sailing ships that will appear two hundred years later.
Huang Shengke didn't care that the appearance of the "destroyer" was actually a new type of ship with faster speed and stronger firepower designed by later generations to deal with torpedo boats.
Anyway, his new battleship also highlights the word "fast", and the warship used to expel the enemy seems to be very good, and the name "destroyer" is well deserved.
Zhao Shimin is a workaholic, and when he sees the head of the family, he takes the design team to talk about work, new ideas, and new ideas.