Not far from Lin Sen's barracks, there was a shipyard that was not well known in the local area, and many shipbuilders had recently come here.

If there are people from Yangzhou who are well versed in this industry, they will definitely be able to find that many of them are the top skilled masters in the industry.

Maybe they don't have a lot of fame, they may not be paid much, and their status is not on the table, but many of them can exist as the pillars of a shipyard.

Although those shipyards are not as deeply involved with the major forces as those caravans, and many of them are alone, so many shipyards should not be ignored, I don't know which person has such great energy and can gather so many top craftsmen.

Lin Sen took his guards and walked into this shipyard as if unintentionally.

A group of old craftsmen were arguing around what looked like a drawing.

If you listen closely, you can hear words such as "watertight cabin", "keel" and "mast", which are obviously discussing the construction of ships.

Seeing Lin Sen's arrival, these craftsmen did not stop arguing, and were still expressing their own opinions.

It wasn't until Lin Sen leaned over and picked up the drawings and looked at them that these people stopped temporarily and hurriedly bowed down.

"No need to be polite, I'm just here to see how the discussion goes, you are the experts in this area, I just put forward an idea, and I don't have to follow the framework I gave me completely." Lin Sen waved his hand indifferently, signaling for a waiver.

Compared with people's contempt for craftsmen at this time, Lin Sen regarded them as treasures, and whether his task could be completed quickly depended on whether they could build this new ship quickly.

The connection between Lingnan and the hinterland of the Central Plains is too weak, and no one is willing to come here for more development, and more people are counting on the locals to come spontaneously, in addition to the local environment is more uncomfortable, and the inconvenience of transportation also has a lot to do with it.

It takes a lot of time to travel by road, it is very uncomfortable, and it is very difficult to transport large quantities of goods.

This is also an important reason why most of the caravans who come to Guangzhou to do business are caravans with huge power backgrounds, and only they have enough strength to open up such a trade route.

In addition, in fact, there is no more people to see the benefits, there is no more motivation for exchanges between the north and the south, and there are naturally far fewer people between the two places, which makes the whole Lingnan seem to have become an independent kingdom naturally.

If we want to strengthen this connection, we must naturally start from these aspects.

And no matter which aspect you want to develop, it must be related to transportation.

There is no faster and more convenient way to circulate more goods, and other ideas are nonsense, and the so-called road construction if you want to get rich first is not unreasonable.

It is obviously not possible to improve by land in the short term, and it is not even a matter of one or two generations, so taking the sea route has naturally become a better choice.

Lin Sen hopes to build a faster and larger sea ship first.

Even if you can't keep up with the navigation technology for the time being, you can only move along the coastline, and you can't easily carry out transoceanic operations, but it can still play a very effective role.

Linking ports like Guangzhou and Yangzhou alone will not promote exchanges between the north and the south.

Why is it said that Yangzhou is not a strong businessman who can't go at all, and it's not that the businessmen here in Guangzhou don't want to go to the more prosperous Yangzhou, a very real problem in front of him is that it is difficult to go by sea.

The sea distance between Guangzhou and Yangzhou is more than 3,000 miles.

Of course, there are a lot of opportunities and profits, such as higher selling prices, more trading partners, faster disposal of the goods at hand and more trips, no matter how you look at it, you can make more money.

But it also means greater risk, and more wear and tear on the road, and with the current navigation technology, the danger is really not small.

The new type of sea ship envisioned by Lin Sen will at least have a lot of improvement in safety, stable and sturdy, more suitable for ocean voyages at the same time, but the cargo capacity is not small, and when necessary, it can be used as a warship.

The main body he used has made some improvements on the basis of the traditional Fu boat, which is more like the old lock boat, which is commonly known as the duck butt guy.

It has a traditional Chinese sail outfit and a streamlined Western-style hull, which is faster than a traditional Chinese-style sailing ship, requires fewer manpower than a Western-style sailing ship, and is easier to build and maintain.

At the same time, it also refers to the construction concept of the mature Guangzhou Ship, and the keel and watertight cabin are naturally indispensable.

It also used a design commonly used in the small fast warships of Datang at this time, which would place a floating plate on each side of the ship to form a shape structure similar to a trimaran.

The benefits of this kind of thing are also obvious, which can reduce the possibility of rollover and help balance the hull, because the streamlined hull must not be like the traditional fortune boat, the amplitude of roll on the sea surface is relatively small, and more assistance should be better.

Since this is a brand-new ship type, it can also be said to be a hodgepodge of products, and there is no mature precedent to follow, Lin Sen himself knows that he is not an expert, this kind of thing is more like a fabrication, and it is really difficult to say what the actual effect is, so let these experienced old boatmen discuss it more.

Anyway, this ship type is originally experimental, and if it is easy to use, it will naturally be finalized, and if it is not easy to use, it will be changed again.

This is also an important reason why Lin Sen feels that he is likely to have to work here for one or two terms in order to complete the task.

The only thing that gave him confidence was the mountains of wood that had been piled up in the shipyard.

Later generations of Canton ships mostly used hardwood such as iron power wood, so that they could easily break other ships when used as a warship, and the materials used by Lin Sen here were even more powerful.

When making keels and ramming, you can use white wood that is even 30% harder than iron birch, or you can use serpentine wood that is slightly less hard than white hard wood, but also higher than iron birch.

Because this wood has the highest density of all woods, it also takes into account the role of ballast, which greatly reduces the possibility of capsizing.

There are also a lot of options for the upper deck, including ebony, ebony, black sandalwood and red sandalwood.

These precious woods are not only beautiful, but also hardness can be ranked in the top ten, and the hull produced in this way is self-evidently strong.

And all these kinds of wood, their hardness is better than that of iron wood.

Some parts that need to be lightweight, as well as the two large floating boards that provide buoyancy, can be made of balsa wood.

Because of the density, the buoyancy that balsa wood can provide is obviously incomparable to other woods of the same volume.

It is also relatively strong and does not easily be damaged, and later generations of surfboards are often made of this wood.

What's more, Lin Sen also wants to move many secret weapons to this ship, so that its combat effectiveness can be increased by several steps, which is enough to surpass all the warships in Datang's current service.