Whether it is a Chinese or a foreigner, they all pay attention to a name before and after death. Fame and fortune are like a root of all evil, and few people throughout the ages have been able to finally see through it. Everyone wants to be a pillar of the country that will be remembered for a long time, and they don't want to leave a stench for thousands of years.

Even if Qin Hui is resurrected from the ground, and he is judged in the first trial, he does not want to fall into the current infamy: People are ashamed of their name from the Song Dynasty, and I am ashamed of my surname Qin in front of the grave. That's a real stench for 10,000 years!

And correspondingly, it is necessary to live in history, and the Chengtian Hall is a ladder to the sky.

If someone's name is recorded in the history books, it will not necessarily be recorded in history, and there are more names recorded in history textbooks, and they are also famous in history, but who dares to say that it is a history of history? More tepid wooden people. And Huang Baozhou not only went to the Chengtian Palace, but also presided over the manufacture of the big iron ship, which is remarkable.

Didn't you hear what the emperor said just now?

The big iron ship is not called the big iron ship, but the big iron ship. 100 percent of this kind of ship is to be used as a naval warship. As long as it is characterized as a warship, then it can be expected that there will definitely be a capital ship in the future naval fleet that will be named Huang Baozhou, which is the real history!

After the previous sailing ship was invented, there was a ship named after the director of the ship in the general logistics ocean transportation team, and Huang Baozhou's treatment would definitely not be bad.

For Chen Ming, the title can be sealed but not abused, in his eyes, Huang Baozhou's contribution is definitely not small, if China also has any knighthood, Lord Lord's title, Huang Baozhou can not be canonized. But the lowest title in China is an earl, even if it is a liujue, it is much higher than a lord.

Of course, Chen Ming can also make a 'doctor' knighthood, but he thought about it, and it would be announced after Chen Ding succeeded to the throne.

He, forget it.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Huang Baozhou and the senior staff of the shipyard behind him are all overjoyed, the emperor's reward will not be just one person, Huang Baozhou can paint the Chengtian Palace, and at least a few of them have been promoted to the third level.

"This is the Great Iron Ship?" In the dock, Wang Qi, Dai Junyuan, Cao Zhenyong and others looked at the big ship firmly tied with a rope on the high platform, their faces were full of surprise, the big ship in front of them was completely different from the ships they had seen before, just like a model of an unfinished ship, not to mention the mast, and there was no paddle wheel on the hull.

They have heard the words big iron ship more than once, but these people only think that this big iron ship is a layer of iron shell on the outside, yes, until now, these people don't know what the big iron ship is, Chen Ming is very strict in secret.

And now the hull of the ship was covered with paint, and the surface of the hug was indeed a layer of iron, reflecting the luster in the sun, like a huge iron city towering there.

Huang Baozhou nodded with a smile: "Your Majesty, the tonnage of this ship is around 1,500 tons, and when it can carry 2,700 tons of cargo, the iron ship can carry one-fifth more than the wooden ship of the same tonnage." ”

It is really hard to believe that iron ships can carry more than wooden ships without experiments. When they first came up with such data, Huang Baozhou lost all his hair, and they couldn't think of a reason. But that's just the way it is!

"It's all made of iron, won't it sink when you go into the water?" An official accompanying Chen Ming couldn't help but ask, Wang Qi and the others also showed suspicious glances on their faces, Huang Baozhou actually said that the carrying capacity of iron ships is more than one-fifth of that of wooden ships, what nonsense!

It's just that with their identity, it's not time to speak.

"Naturally not, this ship weighs 1,500 tons, and the buoyancy under the displacement line can reach more than 4,000 tons." Huang Baozhou explained. As the first person in charge of this project, he still knows the ship very well.

It may not be as fast as it should be, but it will never sink to the bottom when it reaches the water.

The questioning official said 'oh', he naturally knew the relationship between buoyancy and load, but he doubted it in his heart.

Chen Ming looked at China's first big iron ship, in fact, it was not suitable to say that the first one, in order to build this big iron ship, Jiangnan Shipyard had built several models in proportion before, but they were all experimental ships, just like those experimental things made by the Ship Research Institute, of course, they were not real. Compared with the ships of later generations, this ship looks very ugly, in order to place the steam engine, the belly of the big iron ship is very large, and the load is incomparable, the weight and load of the cargo ship of later generations are generally more than 1:3, and the load of this big iron ship can only reach 1:1.8, but it is also higher than today's wooden ships.

According to the study of ships, the cargo capacity of a wooden sailing ship is up to 1.5 times the weight of a sailing ship. And don't look at the big iron boats are made of iron, but the performance ratio is more cost-effective than wooden boats. First of all, this large iron ship is durable and durable, and when a typhoon hits, the research of the steamship proves that under the same strong wind and waves, a large number of wooden sailing ships will be damaged to varying degrees, or even damaged. And the iron ship was slightly injured at best.

In terms of resistance to disasters and attacks, iron ships have a complete advantage.

In addition, according to the survey report of the shipyard, the actual cost of a 1,000-ton wooden ship is not lower than that of a large iron ship among the sailing ships suitable for East-West trade or Sino-US trade. With the rapid development of metallurgical technology and the continuous progress of the steel industry, such a development will soon leave the wooden ship behind in terms of cost, and there may even be all-steel ships in the future.

Chen Ming believed that day would come, just like the Western world in the original time and space. After the great development of iron and steel metallurgy in the middle of the 19th century, the cost of iron ships was not only lower than that of wooden ships, but iron ships were soon eliminated by steel ships. He believes that at any time the maturity of China's large iron ship technology, the growth of steel performance and the progress of metallurgical technology, it is still easy to achieve the weight and load of 1:2+, and the cost of steel ships is cheaper than the cost of wooden ships is just around the corner.

After a series of ceremonies, Huang Baozhou's eyes looked at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, can you go into the water?" ”

Chen Ming nodded, Huang Baozhou quickly conveyed the order, dozens of crew members boarded the big iron ship, took out a sharp axe to cut the rope, the entire slipway immediately made a 'squeak, squeak' sound, the last few ropes did not wait for the crew's sharp axes to fall has been torn off, the swinging rope rubbed against the air fiercely, making a 'snap' whip sound, fortunately, the crew had been prepared to avoid the rope, otherwise it would be much heavier than being whipped by the whip.

Without the rope restraint, the big iron ship slowly slipped into the water along the designed route, and the huge waves parted to both sides, and when the whole captain was all in the water, the bow of the ship suddenly sank, making a huge noise, splashing in all directions, and then the whole big iron ship floated on the water like a duck with a big belly.

"It's really unsinkable."

Before the so-called hearing is false, seeing is believing, before the launch, many civil officials still had doubts in their hearts, they could not understand why the ship composed entirely of steel would not sink, and in Huang Baozhou's mouth, this ship made of steel could be loaded better than wood, but now they began to believe it.

"Doot, doot......" A puff of white smoke rose from the big iron ship, and the crew began to warm up the boiler, which took quite a long time to start compared to the internal combustion engine.

[The internal combustion engine also takes time, but it is shorter than steam]

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you want to board the ship with me?" Chen Ming asked everyone with a smile. This big iron ship, which has been named 'Chengtian', will be Chen Han's first steel transport ship, how could Chen Ming not get on the ship and walk around in person?

A few people behind him turned pale when they heard this, and Chen Ming looked at it out of the corner of his eye, this is mostly a well-known conservative. It's not that these people haven't studied physics, but learning is learning, and application is another matter.

They have a rejection of rapidly changing technology, and now they are even more worried about what to do if the iron lump in front of them sinks. It's just that Wang Qi didn't give them a chance to speak, and said first: "Your Majesty, I would like to go on the boat and have a look." There was no reluctance on his face, the big iron ship in front of him was the first big iron ship in the world, and Wang Qi was rare.

He still has a long political life.

Chen Ming will retire next year, and the new emperor will succeed to the throne, at this juncture, it is impossible for the emperor to replace the first auxiliary minister, unless he is very, very dissatisfied with Wang Qi. And Wang Qi's first cabinet chief assistant this year is at the point, and he wants to maintain his value in the eyes of the new emperor, and this big iron ship is very necessary to pay attention to.

You must know that today's Chen Han is the Chen Han of the war and the Chen Han of migration. With this big iron ship in hand, vigorously develop the steamship manufacturing industry, which will have a promoting effect on the entire empire. And Wang Qi even thought of the sailor fleet, if this kind of ship can run faster than sail warships and sailboats, then the former can be completely eliminated, and the middle one can also stop production.

Originally, the sailing ship made the technical line of the Chinese sailors one step higher than the Westerners, and now if this all-iron ship can be turned into a warship, it will really be a big step ahead of the Westerners. It can greatly reduce the gap between the sea surface forces of the East and the West.

You can figure it out with your toes, iron battleships are much harder and more durable than wooden ones.

Shousuke spoke, and even the frightened civil officials quickly shut up, they understood that there was not much danger in boarding the ship, but they could not overcome the fear in their hearts.

The huge wooden plank was put down, and under the leadership of the emperor, a group of civil officials boarded the big iron ship, which had quite a large space on the ship, more than enough to accommodate hundreds of people, and the iron armor was protected by railings, which seemed safe.

"Boom ......"

Soon after everyone boarded the ship, the steam engine emitted a loud roar, which startled many people, and then the ship slowly moved, carrying hundreds of Chinese monarchs and ministers to the waters outside the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Chen Ming and the others only came back after a little turn at sea for dozens of miles, and did not test for a long time. He praised Huang Baozhou and others loudly, but many of the officials who followed him turned pale.

The splash test was extremely successful, the ship ran smoothly, and the maximum speed was measured at ten knots, of course, this was only the first test, and the big iron ship had to undergo more tests and most importantly outfitting in the future. At that time, as the battleships and coal, drinking water, food, etc. came aboard, the speed of the Chengtian was bound to slow down. But no matter how slow it is, it will not compromise the speed, and such a speed can already meet the needs of the operation.

After returning to Nanjing unknowingly from Shanghainese, Chen Ming immediately fulfilled his promise to use Huang Baozhou to supervise the construction of ships and paint a portrait of the Chengtian Palace. In order to commend the achievements of the iron ship department in building a large iron ship, Chen Ming waved his hand and sent a rain of medals, and all the personnel involved in the Jiangnan Shipyard were richly rewarded.

As soon as the news of Huang Baozhou's portrait of Chengtian Temple was published in the newspapers, it caused a heated discussion throughout the country.

Although this is not a knighthood, what is the Chengtian Palace? That's not the kind of knighthood that can leave a portrait of yourself there.