The shipyard also began to speed up the outfitting of the new Ryukyu battleship, Zhang San was going to take the new Ryukyu to review the navy that day, so the shipyard was also very nervous, the new Ryukyu installed 108 guns, it is a 1,000-ton ship, although there will be a larger ship in the future, but at this stage this is also the largest warship in the world.

With the change of warships to artillery, then the tactics of war have also been innovated, artillery can be loaded with shotguns, so it is almost impossible for the enemy to rely on the jump gang to fight, the Ryukyu ship is already large, basically a round of shots, the opponent in the jump helpers will also be finished.

Without the need to jump gang battles, then the previous Ryukyu style of playing with two or three hundred jump helpers every time they went out would be eliminated, others could not board their own ships, and Zhang San did not look forward to capturing the other party's warship, so the number of people on the ship was greatly reduced.

After calculation, the sailors and gunners of a thousand-ton ship would not exceed four hundred and fifty people, and then a company of musketeers on board would not exceed five hundred.

The smaller ships below will need fewer sailors, which means that the Marine Corps will really become a Marine Corps in the future, and the reduction of personnel on board will require changes in the corresponding cabin design.

For example, the cabins that were originally used as personnel accommodation are no longer allowed to be so many, and the supplies that used to need to be prepared for thousands of people do not need to be prepared so much as the number of personnel decreases.

However, because the ammunition reserves were strengthened a lot due to the increase in gun positions and firepower, it was basically completely different from the interior of the previous battleship, and everyone did not think about it so much after the construction of the Ryukyu was started.

It was only with the experiment of small warships that everyone gradually discovered these problems, but fortunately, the symbolic significance of the Ryukyu was greater than the actual combat significance, and it would not participate in fleet operations, so such a setting was more conducive to the use of Zhang San's entourage.

Because the turntable and cannon at the bottom of the ballista are set on the deck, the ballista warship can face the enemy on the side of the side and the front and rear directions when fighting, but it will not work after changing to artillery.

The lower gun windows of the guns were small, the angle of rotation was also limited, and the bow and tail of the ships could only be equipped with one or two guns, so future naval battles had to be changed to the side against the enemy, forming a battle line.

This is also the so-called battleship, I remember seeing a British seventeenth-century battleship standard, the first class battleship is more than 2,500 tons, the second class is more than 2,000 tons, the third class is more than 1,300 tons, and the fourth class is more than 1,000 tons.

So according to this standard, Zhang San's battleship is only a fourth-class battleship, but there are still three or four hundred years before the Age of Discovery, so Zhang San can study it slowly now.

For example, the 1,500-ton merchant ships that are now being built in the shipyard are to accumulate experience for the next step of building 1,500-ton warships, and Zhang San remembers that the largest wooden battleship in Europe is estimated to have about 5,000 to 6,000 tons, so this proves that wooden warships can at least be built to that tonnage.

As for the anti-heaven level of the treasure ship, Zhang San really didn't dare to imagine that kind of big ship could really be built? But if it is actually made, it must be very exciting, and it will be very face-saving to open it, right?

The Great Song Dynasty built many large ships, such as the Nanhai No. 1 shipwreck in later generations, which had a displacement of 800 tons and a load of nearly 500 tons, which was exactly the same as the load of the Wanshi ship, so it proved that the Great Song Dynasty had merchant ships of 10,000 stones.

Moreover, this era is the time when navigation and shipbuilding technology are becoming more and more mature, so there is no problem in building large ships, especially ships of more than 1,000 tons, with the current technology, there is no problem at all.

Although a thousand tons are already invincible now, Zhang San still hopes that he has more trump cards in his hands, and the bigger the ship in the ocean voyage, the better, the South China Sea is like a bath tub, it really only needs a bath tub to cross, but Zhang San will expand the trade route to the Indian Ocean in the future, and further Europe, a ship of several hundred tons is really not available.

Busy with hurried preparations, Zhang San continued to inspect various factories and construction sites, and during the period, he also went to meet Yang Zhi and Wei Dingguo and others, all of whom were studying in school, and they were also very excited to see Zhang San.

In the past, these people may think that Zhang San is just a big bandit, and even calling himself the king overseas is like a joke, but with the smooth war against the Song Dynasty, the next step is to accept the canonization of the Great Song Dynasty and really establish the Ryukyu Kingdom.

This is like getting official recognition, after the establishment of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Zhang San was the king of the Ryukyus, and after Zhang San became the king, the officials and generals under him were also officially recognized officials.

For the people of this era, after being recognized by the Great Song Dynasty, although being an official of the Ryukyus was inferior to the official of the Great Song Dynasty, it was also an official, wasn't it, it was better than being a bandit, so the people who were captured before quickly changed their concepts and became active in learning.

Just like Suo Chao and Qin Ming, both of whom have now completed the first stage of study, and their grades are good, as long as the next stage is still so good, then a battalion commander will not be able to run away.

The position of battalion commander was to manage a battalion of 1,000 men, and the rank of captain or major was usually awarded, and these positions were taken from the Chinese counterpart, and these people did not understand the name as difficult as one might think.

For example, a captain is like an official position such as a cavalry lieutenant in ancient times, and a major is like a lieutenant in the Han Dynasty, and the Ryukyu Army is expanding, and after becoming a major, it is very likely that the later one will become a general.

There are wars going on everywhere in the Ryukyus now, everyone is promoted quickly, and now some generals with the rank of colonel and even brigadier general were even penniless three years ago, so everyone has a lot of expectations for their future.

Being a general is the dream of every soldier, even if it is the lowest-level brigadier general, it is not a general, and if you want to become a brigadier general, you need to hold a position above the regiment commander, for a battalion commander to be promoted to a regiment commander, and then from the regiment commander to lead the army, how long does it take?

Some capable people think that it will be very short, just like Suo Chao and Qin Ming, they feel that they will be able to become real generals in less than a year or two, of course, Zhang San also thinks so.

After the reform of the navy, a part of the marines will be reduced to the army, and then the next stage will focus on building the army, because the navy's current 300 ships are enough, and even if new ships are built, the old ships will be phased out.

Even Spain, which was later known as the Invincible Armada in Europe, was only about 150 large ships, and his so-called large ships were not necessarily as big as the warships of the Ryukyus, so Zhang San felt that he could maintain a fleet of 300 warships for at least a hundred years in East Asia.