-- The Puron Marine Bureau is an integrated department that manages marine fisheries, commerce, and terminal safety management. In addition, the biggest task of the Oceanic Bureau is to be responsible for the production and design of warships. At present, there are 13 technicians, 5 captains, and 278 other workers and carpenters.

The city of Pleon was promoted in various ports and taverns, and seven experienced shipwrights and two captains with sea-going experience were recruited again. In order to fulfill his dream of fleet development, the King of Pullen spared no effort to implement the "Five-Year Ocean Plan" and the "Eight-Year Fleet Dream".

The first is the first five-year plan, in which the royal city of Pullen was to solve the problem of starting from scratch, to complete the initial accumulation of primitive technology, in the process to attract, train sailors in various skills and training in naval combat. In the next three years, the fleet of the Pulon Royalty must have the ocean-going strength to sail directly from the British Isles to the Mediterranean, and it must break through the current technical limitations and upgrade the shipbuilding technology of the Pleon Royalty to the 14th ~ 15th centuries AD.

The biggest problem facing the formation of the Pulon fleet was not the materials and technology, with the current technology of the Pulon Iron Bureau, the Pleon royal city was fully capable of building ocean-going warships in the fifteenth century. However, what the city lacks is a crew and captain who can handle this sea beast.

In order to meet the necessary conditions for the future development of the marine army, King Plun divided the first five-year plan into three stages.

The first stage is for the designers of the Oceanic Bureau, for which King Pulen will personally train them and explain their own design ideas to them, so that these designers with a little cultural background can understand how to design new hulls more reasonably. Particular emphasis is placed on explaining the typical three-masted sailboat, as well as a spinnaker at the tail to help with steering.

The second stage is the novice training period, which uses the newly built ships to train novice sailors so that they can initially adapt to the various operations of the new warship. When the training of the first batch of sailors is completed, this group of sailors will be scattered like dandelions into the training camp of the second batch of sailors, and then batch after batch until a systematic cycle of teaching is completed...... The first Marine Academy will be officially established in the Pulon Royal City, which will rely on each other to become the foundation of the town.

And then the third stage is the most important and at the same time the most basic - actual combat training.

King Pullen deployed the actual combat plan near the docks in London, England. Intertek's plan is straightforward and violent, which is to sink all the ships around London without leaving them behind! Forced merchant ships from the continent to make a detour to the harbor city of Pandora.

To this end, King Pullen will disguise the first ships and sailors sent out to fight in battle as pirates, and carry out commercial strikes against the enemy from a military point of view. Moreover, within a year at least, the city of Pulon will complete this battle plan codenamed "Waves".

Now, King Pullen is teaching the designers how to build new warships in the design office of the Maritime Bureau.

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"See? Here are flat timber joints made of oak at the bottom of the boat, and reinforced by five strong deck beams protruding from the outside of the hull. The long keel layup was carefully designed to reinforce the bottom of the ship, while in the middle the bottom was almost flat. The main ship material is oak, which is one of the best ship materials in Europe, and its durability and strong resistance to decay are one of the elements that become the basic material of Zuò. ”

In a small room, fifteen chairs were neatly arranged under the stage, and around a huge round table, a dozen of the first shipbuilders of King Pullen were seated, and they held their breath and looked carefully at King Pullen who was standing on the stage and explaining.

King Pullen has a delicate model of a sailing ship on the platform, from the keel to the sail shaft, as well as the stern turret and bow, and its most characteristic spinnaker is the highlight of this battleship.

"Now that the Norsemen have mastered how to build a Kirk, there is no justification for the construction of a sailboat that looks like an illegal building. There is an absolute gap between us and the kind of ship we are going to build, and we are stronger, faster, and have more load. ”

"You see, the main feature of this ship is the use of a spinnaker, a spinnaker with great potential, requiring less steering manpower and more dexterity and ease of steering, and this two-masted medium-sized galleon is the future main combat ship of our King of Pleon. For the time being, it is characterized as a medium patrol ship, codenamed July, and the Puren Navy, which bears the name July like the October Regiment. ”

At this time, an old man who looked to be thirty or forty years old slowly raised his hand, and his expression seemed to be a little restrained and a little nervous.

It is also natural that the famous King Pullen himself came to teach these lowly commoners, and even taught them that precious knowledge for free. This was a supreme honor in the Middle Ages.

"Oh? Karas, is there anything you don't understand? ”

Tianxiang stopped to continue explaining, put down the model in his hand and asked.

"My king, why don't we use the sail that is now in common use, but the kind of spinnaker that has never been seen before, and how does it work in the wind pattern? What are the advantages over our current sailboats? "Kalas is also a veteran of shipbuilding for thirteen years, and his questions are quite practical and realistic. Don't ask anything else, just ask what considerable advantages this model of sailing ship has over the current ships.

That's a good question, and the lowest of the other designers is three years of shipbuilding experience, and the highest is that Kalas has thirteen years of construction experience. These were all craftsmen who had been dug up from various caravans by the city of Purun or from various islands.

Most of the people here fled the impending war between England and Scotland and brought their families to Pandora, the harbor city of Pullen.

"The advantage of the spinnaker is that it requires less manpower, because it does not have to worry about running out of food and water and prolongs the endurance, and the light hull and the spinnaker have flexible combat performance when sailing. So, its biggest advantage is its long range, higher sustainability than similar boats, plus we changed the hull lap structure to a flat joint structure, which gives it a faster and stronger hull, which greatly improves its survivability. ”

"In addition, this flat joint structure gives us the possibility to upgrade the sailing ship to a medium and large combat unit, and if we thoroughly master the shipbuilding technology of the parallel structure in the future, it is not impossible to build a large warship with a length of 30 meters and a width of 5 meters. If it is built, then there is no doubt that a large naval combat unit that can be built on the level of 100 people will make our Pulon King City a veritable maritime power. Further, if this type of battleship is upgraded to a four-pole giant battleship, it can carry heavy weapons and a third-class battleship with sailors of hundreds of meters. Then! We will conquer all the seas of Europe. “

"However, it will take time and the hard work of all of you here day and night, and your sweat will be the basis for our voyage to the King of Purun in the future. In addition, you don't need to be too anxious. With our current technical reserves in Puren, there is no possibility of building a third-class sail battleship in three years! Therefore, I hope that you will calm down and concentrate first on learning new shipbuilding techniques, and at the same time not forgetting to train the twenty-seven apprentices I have arranged for you. ”

"If the Oceanic Bureau is a human being, then I am the brain, and you are the internal organs and blood vessels. And what sustains life and keeps us alive is the red blood that flows in the veins. Remember, all plans for the royal city of Pullen are based on sustainability, and there is absolutely no room for personal heroism and unrealistic delusions. People who don't know how to work as a team, mavericks, and arrogant people don't have a place for them, so keep that in mind. ”

After Tianxiang finished speaking, he nodded at Karas.

"Now can you understand the benefits of spinnakers?"

"Yes, I have truly experienced my king. But how are we going to build this dhow? Because according to Wang, we don't have any technical reserves at all, and we start from scratch completely, so where should we start first? ”

"Well, you don't have to worry about that."

Tianxiang waved his hand to the guards standing in the doorway.

"Let them in."

"Yes!" The guards saluted respectfully, then turned around and brought in the guests who had been waiting outside the house for a long time.

There were five people who entered, all wearing brown striped cloaks, a white feather pinned to their heads, and a long coarse cloth with saws and mallets on them.

They had a tool backpack with a delicate hammer and nail bag around their waists, a one-handed saw hanging from their right, and a hammer behind their backs. Without exception, all of these people belonged to the Ministry of Fabrication, a direct subordinate department of the Iron Department of the Princes of Puren.

The five people here have a white feather on their heads, all of whom are veterans with more than five years of carpenter experience, and they are also the leaders of a team of thirty people. (PS: According to the military rank, it should be equivalent to the army centurion or commander.) ）

"Did everyone bring it? Daniel. ”

Tianxiang looked at the tallest and strongest man standing in the crowd and asked.

"Yes! Following the king's orders, I brought out a total of one hundred and fifty carpenters this time, all of whom were apprentices who had been trained and approved by us old men ourselves. Although their skills are not as good as ours, they are all smart and hard-working guys, and I believe that they will all be able to come in handy in this project to create an ocean fleet for the city of Puron. ”

Daniel is one of the most promising candidates for the title of Minister in the Ministry of Works, and there are three other excellent craftsmen who are currently staying in the city of King Pullen, making three upgrades to the city and not making it to the city. However, Daniel's strength can be trusted, and many things can be entrusted to him with peace of mind if he is there.

Tianxiang nodded, then he turned to look to the other side.

"Karas, Daniel. The construction of the new ships in the city of Pulon will be left to the two of you, and I will send you the three copies of the ship styles that I have designed before, but because our paper mill has not yet started construction, the paper is very precious, so you must take care of it. ”

"Yes!" Callas and Daniel replied at the same time.

"In addition, Daniel reminds you that this Kalas next to me is the highest person in charge of the design department of our Pulon Marine Bureau, and you must unconditionally obey his arrangement during your tenure, and you are not allowed to ask any questions about construction issues except in the selection of materials, understand?"

"Understood, one qiē follows the king's will!"

Well, Tianxiang showed a satisfied expression.

Then, he began to continue to teach some basic knowledge of the ocean, and he also touched on the problem of the compass, but considering the current practical problems, Tianxiang decided not to be too impatient for the time being, to force the newly established Oceanic Bureau to do too much, after all, the pressure that human beings can withstand is limited, and it is also one of the important responsibilities of a leader to learn to properly decompress them.

The course lasted for twenty days, during which King Puron entrusted the inner workings of the city to Nilai. However, it was clear that Nee seemed to be very unaccustomed to the ever-expanding city of Pleon and the many things that were going on inside, and he had a feeling that he didn't know what to do.

In particular, the weekly report, monthly review, and semi-annual assembly were raised for King Yu Pulun. In addition, there are various modern management methods and engineering checks, as well as weapons development, agricultural cultivation, maritime trade, foreign sales, and even tax adjustments, resource allocation, army scheduling, foreign intelligence surveys, and so on...... This qiē is driving Ni crazy!

Therefore, after Tianxiang returned to the Pulen King City after completing his twenty-day training in the Oceanic Bureau, Ni almost rushed to the city, hugging Tianxiang's waist and not letting go! The one he cried was a terrible death, which really made the listeners sad and the listeners shed tears. According to Tianxiang, the wail of an old sow before death is not as memorable as Ni's cry.

Now Ni finally understood why, even though he was already the closest person to the king, he still felt that he would never be able to get close to the other party. This is not because Tianxiang's own character is too cold, but the gap between the two is no longer a gap between people, but a complete gap between two dimensions.

Especially after seeing Tianxiang's incomparably skillful use of only three days to dispose of the things he had been squeezing for nearly half a month, Ni swore that from today onwards, whoever said that the king could surpass him, he would strangle the other party alive! Where can this Nima be able to surpass the existence zài! It's just that I'm afraid that my neck will break when I look up!

King Pullen looked at Ni who was crouching in a circle in the corner, and he shook his head lightly and sighed.

“……… It seems that the modern way of working is really not suitable for this group of people. Sure enough, the problem is still in the basic education of Wangcheng, including the basic knowledge of mathematics and geography, if I don't even have these foundations, I can't continue to maintain this efficient work mode alone. ”

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"Do you want to think about the basic education in Wangcheng?"

Standing by the window, King Pullen said to himself as he stared at the rising sun in the distance