Li Chen found another reason for himself to go to sea. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoMastering the gold and silver mountains is very helpful to the whole Datang. How does it help? Isn't it just that Li Chen has more money for himself?

Of course not. Now one of Datang's predicaments is that money is panicked. The two tax laws are implemented, but in fact, in many cases, not much money is collected, and some money is levied in kind. There's no way, there's just no money.

Today's Datang, the phenomenon of short Mo is serious, and 800 texts are used as 1,000 texts. Then all the bad money was released, and the people discounted it by three, or even ten.

What are the dangers of insufficient money? Quite simply, the economy is depressed. A large number of resources are idle, and production capacity cannot be increased.

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations theory is very clear. Money itself may be useless, it can't buy things, it's nothing. However, currency can be used as a standard for transactions.

The goods themselves will be damaged, but the currency will not. If there is not enough money today, and everyone can only barter, then the production capacity will inevitably not be increased, and there will be no way to produce in large quantities, because the exchange is inconvenient. Transaction volumes will also shrink, and taxes will not be collected.

If you can use gold and silver coins early, like the future generations. The help to the whole country and to the people is immeasurable.

For example, taxation and direct access to silver taels can be much simpler and less troublesome than copper coins or even physical goods. It is more convenient to store and transport silver than these two, and the state alone can save trouble and money in taxes.

Therefore, Li Chen must go to sea and master Japan's gold and silver mountains. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was because of the lack of silver inflow from the outside world that social disorder led to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. Li Chen can't let this phenomenon happen again under any circumstances. Knowing that this might happen, and not preventing it, he simply committed suicide by hitting tofu.

Or, not to mention gold and silver, there are many copper mountains in Japan. If it is vigorously developed, the problem of Datang's money panic can also be solved. He will not give up any way that is possible to change the status quo of Datang and make Datang better.

Halfway through the race, it was getting late. The group stayed in the guest house. At night, Li Chen was looking at his drawings again, and Liang Kuai also had one of this drawings, which was what Li Chen's new ship would look like in the future.

This ship, Xin Bow just thought it was strange, he didn't see the drawings, only the current semi-finished products. If he had seen this drawing, he would probably have said, "What is this?"

The ship, already in length-to-width ratio, has reached 1:6. Li Chen also tried to keep the bow hollow, and the part of the bow of the ship was specially designed to be a closed hollow bow.

That's right, Li Chen was completely set up in accordance with the fastest clipper mode in later generations, the peak period of sailing technology in the Age of Discovery. If it was successfully launched, the ship would have reached his expectations, and the technology had been ahead of the world for a thousand years.

Li Chen was also very pleasantly surprised to achieve such a result, you must know that since the great geographical discovery, Westerners have continued to improve ship technology. It probably took more than 300 years to develop the clipper ship.

Li Chen believes that as long as the ship is built, there will not be much change in history. A thousand years, the Chinese are a thousand years ahead in navigation technology, can they conquer the sea and let China embark on a different path?

However, Li Chen's efforts on this ship are not limited to this. It's called the Strange Ship because it's a long leg. Or rather, the fins. On both sides of the boat, Li Chen added something similar to a fish's fin, a technique that was only applied to ships in the 20th century, to reduce the fin.

The speed of the clipper boat is very fast, very bumpy, although it can ride the wind and waves, but the stability is not good. With this technology, stability can be increased without compromising speed. This is not a thousand years, it is 1,200 years ahead of the world.

These are the hulls, and as for the sails, after discussing with the bow of Xin, Li Chen decided that it would be better to use a Chinese-style hard sail. Compared with soft sails, the difference between hard sails and soft sails is that they can't be bigger.

Is a hard sail really worse than a soft sail? Li Chen disagreed. From an objective point of view, don't talk about modernity, just take the extreme of the sailing era, the flying clipper, look carefully at its sail, it has long been not the kind of big sail we imagined, with many small brackets in the middle, horizontal, it doesn't look like a hard sail section by section?

Compared with soft sails, hard sails have the advantages of saving manpower, easy to operate, cheap and high wind utilization, and when they have to fall in a storm, they are faster than soft sails.

The only two weaknesses are that the first is to drop the sail quickly and the sail to start slowly. Second, it can't be bigger. However, Li Chen believes that if it were not for the Chinese who had been stagnant for too long in the navigation period, they would continue to develop the navigation industry like the Westerners. This question will not be a problem at all.

"Butterfly sail, it should be possible for the time being, anyway, it has been ahead of the world for a thousand years, and there will always be a chance to surpass it in the future." Hopefully, hopefully. Li Chen looked at the drawings, put them away again, and said words that only he understood.

For the problem that the hard sail is not big, Li Chen proposed a little improvement, not to use ordinary ones to hang like this, but to open them left and right. From afar, it looks like a butterfly with outstretched wings. A similar image flashed through his mind. Who said that Chinese hard sails are not as good as Western soft sails, can soft sails be like this, open left and right, and make full use of the wind power?

But that's not all? Li Chen proposed Zhang Fan left and right, and also put forward the idea of a fourth mast, but the bow of Xin didn't see it because it hadn't been erected yet. Li Chen asked Liang to hurry, at the bow of the ship, there will also be a tilted mast, so that you can hang a sail in front of you, do you think this is the end? Not really.

When there is no problem in the sea trial, Li Chen will also let them hang the sail between the mast and the mast. A diagonal hanging spinnaker, but this has to be a soft sail.

I hope that when the time comes, the bow of Captain Xin will not be too frightened to get on the ship, whose ship will hang sails like yours. However, Li Chen will say very calmly, you are rare and strange.

The use of wind power to the limit, which can be fully reflected in the clipper boat, if you have seen the clipper boat pictures or real objects or models, you will not be surprised. That's how those sailboats are hung, like that kind of old skinning, and they have to be thoroughly used to finish. Now Li Chen has applied it to his own clipper, hoping to have the same effect.

Li Chen, who put away the drawings, was not very happy, and there were two hopes in a row, with only one purpose. It's not just that he hopes that the boat will really be as fast and smooth as he thought. I hope that he can play a role in throwing bricks and attracting jade, and can really stimulate the development of Datang's navigation career. This is the fundamental plan for 10,000 years. (To be continued.) )