Zhang San arrived at the shipyard, the flags were already fluttering here, the new ship was in the special new dock, Zhang San stood in the stands and listened to the introduction of the shipyard, and the new Ryukyu ship was launched to the point that there was no champagne to ask the priest to baptize these things.

However, Ryukyu had to worship Mazu and the like, and these traditional rituals were more complicated and time-wasting than those in the West, so Zhang San led everyone to go through the ceremony, and then the dock opened the sluice gate and began to release water.

When the new ship floats and removes the braces, and the boat is towed out of the dock and parked on the dock, the whole ceremony is over, because it has not yet been done, so there is no need to go up to visit, so the busy morning has passed.

After eating, Zhang San rested in the car for a while, and when he woke up, he had already arrived at the naval headquarters, in fact, the design work of the new generation of warships had already begun, but because Ryukyu technology had not made leaps and bounds, the design improvement of the gunboats had been going on, but the design work was really slow.

Zhang San did not expect his designers to come up with a new ship in a year, but although the design of the gunboat came to a standstill this year, the design of other types of ships was carried out well.

For example, the design and construction of slave carriers, livestock carriers, passenger ships, grain carriers, supply ships, and many other ships have been successful, and in general, Zhang San is still very satisfied with the work of the design bureau.

After everyone sat down, Zhang San got two renderings, Zhang San saw that this new ship was more streamlined, and the design of the underwater part began to gradually move closer to the U-shape, but the design of the upper part was indeed very different.

Zhang San took out the design plan, and saw at a glance that this is the legendary farther and more controversy, simply put, it is the pursuit of shooting farther, larger cannons, the pursuit of design quality, the pursuit of more cannons, faster rate of fire, the pursuit of quantitative superiority.

Of course, Zhang San knew the direction of the development of warships in later generations, but what has been verified by history does not mean that it is the most suitable for Ryukyu now, and the reason is very simple, that is, the enemies faced are different, and the international environment is also different.

Now the Ryukyus can be said to be a dominant power, and when it comes to warships, it surpasses the enemy by an era, but in the advanced warships are all used against the enemy, look at what kind of ships are the enemies of the Ryukyus?

Either it is the Great Song Dynasty's lucky boats, sand boats, centipede boats, or a bunch of large and small sampans, generally speaking, it is an enemy who relies on numerical superiority and uses traditional gang-jumping tactics to fight.

What kind of ship is most effective against such an enemy? Of course, a warship with more artillery that can destroy more ships is the most suitable for the moment, but this kind of thing that goes against the tide of history can easily lead the country astray.

Zhang San remained silent, planning to listen to what the designer said, after the family was done, the first thing to talk about was Lao Chen's son Chen, and the reason why Lao Chen gave his son such a name was also to let everyone ignore his surname.

Remembering that if Zhang San didn't dislike his surname, he Chen Fu would still be sleeping on the streets of Yangzhou, Lao Chen's son followed him to learn shipbuilding since he was a child, and after Chen Fu followed Zhang San, he sent his son to school to receive systematic education.

A few years later, with the help of his father, he is now a ship designer in the Ryukyus, and this time he designed the multi-gun version of the next generation of gunboats required by the Navy.

Chen looked at Zhang San a little shy, Zhang San nodded and smiled at him, he took a deep breath, spread out his renderings, and began to say: "Hello everyone, I designed this ship mainly to deal with the main enemy in the next period. ”

Then Chen Zhu spread out a piece of paper and said: "Everyone, please see, this is the map of the number of ships of the naval divisions of various countries that I obtained from the Ministry of Intelligence, ranging from hundreds to thousands, and even tens of thousands of ships can be mobilized during the war between the Chola Kingdom and the Song Kingdom, and the number is the main opponent of our next stage of the war." ”

Chen took down the map of the number of ships of various countries and continued: "My ship is based on the New Ryukyu, after the expansion of 500 tons, the total tonnage will reach 3,000 tons, and the ship is equipped with 180 guns of three calibers, just such a ship can face any enemy and win a naval battle!" ”

Everyone looked at this ship with muzzles covered with guns, and really looked forward to whether the ship he built was as good as the design, Chen continued: "And this kind of ship does not need to develop larger guns, all the design structures are basically common to the current gunboats, which can greatly reduce the cost and repair is also very convenient." ”

These generals are looking through the information in their hands, discussing in a low voice, Zhang San thinks that this is indeed the truth, in the next stage, Zhang San's main enemies rely on numbers to win, and only such a multi-gun battleship can better meet the needs of the navy.

After Chen finished speaking, Du Xuehang came confidently, came up and nodded to Zhang San first, the two had just met in the morning, and Du Xuehang became a master craftsman through the design of the gunboat, and now he has returned with honor, naturally more confident and calm.

He opened his design and said: "See the king, hello generals, this is the new Ryukyu I designed, please see, this ship also has a displacement of 3,000 tons, but the number of guns is only seventy-two. ”

Speaking of which, although everyone got the design drawings and parameters, they still felt that Du Xuehang's design was unreliable, and could such a small number of guns deal with the siege of many enemy ships?

Du Xuehang confidently pointed to the drawings and said: "Everyone knows that this generation of gunboats was designed by my team, and after receiving the design requirements of the Navy's new generation of gunboats, our team designed a lot of schemes, and finally we chose this one." ”

Du Xuehang said excitedly: "The design concept of this plan is to sink this generation of gunboats!" ”

Hearing Du Xuehang's words, not only everyone, but even Zhang San couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and secretly said in his heart, this young man is so big, Du Xuehang let everyone digest it for a while and then said: "Everyone, please see that although this new Ryukyu only has seventy-two guns, his smallest caliber cannon is one hundred and twenty millimeters, and the largest caliber is one hundred and eighty millimeters. ”

Du Xuehang took out a three-view and hung it and said: "In addition to using large-caliber guns, we have also improved the shape of the ship, in addition to being more streamlined, we have also added ramming angles, which can not only hit the opponent's ship but also help the ship better split the wind and waves." ”

Du Xuehang said excitedly: "We used the model to verify that the new appearance design of the ship of the same tonnage can increase the speed by at least one percent compared with the traditional gunboat, and reduce the number of guns, that is, the tonnage is saved and the personnel who operate the guns are reduced, and the final weight saved will make the new ship at least two percent faster than the gunboat." ”

Du Xuehang said proudly: "It can be said that the gunboat can't catch up, can't hit and can't hit, can't run, and will only be easily sunk by the New Ryukyu in the end." ”