After the next dynasty, Zhang Qun, the director of the Ministry of Works, directly sent the batch of crystal mirrors to my imperial study, and I gave the principle of the telescope and the sniper crossbow scope to the public to understand it thoroughly, and it seems that his ingenuity only works in this regard

And as soon as I finished speaking to the public, Xu Liang came to the imperial study with the shipbuilders and ship models from the Ministry of Industry

"Xu Liang, the secretary of the Ministry of Ministers, and the director of the Shipbuilding Department of the Ministry of Labor, and the master craftsman, see Long live my emperor."

"Flatten, put all these ship models on the table over there." I pointed to the large table next to the ear room of the Imperial Study

I walked from behind the dragon case to the table where the ship models were placed, and looked at the crystallization of the great wisdom of these ancient Chinese people, the navigation technology of the Song Dynasty was the peak of ancient China, and the folk ocean-going ships of the Song Dynasty had even reached the farthest point of East Africa. Most of the warships of the Song Dynasty were chariots and boats, with sails on board and wheeled oars under the sides of the hull, such as the loach boat when Gao Yu conquered Liangshan in the Water Margin. The main warship of the Song Dynasty was usually a superstar vehicle, usually 60 to 90 meters in length and 10 to 15 meters in width, with about 20 to 24 wheel pulps on the sides, and the sails were used in conjunction with the sails when advancing, and the speed was extremely fast. Each capital warship can carry more than 800 sailors and naval sergeants. In addition to the large main warships of the Song Dynasty, there were also small melee warships such as two-car ships and four-car ships, which were about thirteen to fifteen meters long, with fast action and convenient turning; There is also a small assault warship called "Flying Tiger Battleship", the length of this kind of warship is about fifteen meters, and it is also the most widely used warship in the Song Army's coastal operations and lakes and rivers, and like the loach ship is a kind of general-purpose warship that can patrol the rivers, lakes and seas in the Song Dynasty Navy, in addition to these, the Song Dynasty also has many vehicles and ships, ten ships, flat-bottomed anti-sand boats, multi-pulp centipede ships and other warships, and the most powerful navy in the Song Dynasty is the Dengzhou Naval Division

Zhou Qingguo, director of the shipbuilding department of the Ministry of Industry, and Wei Fei, a master craftsman of the shipbuilding department, kept telling me the names and uses of these warships, Zhou Qingguo was about thirty-five years old, like Xu Liang, he was a typical workaholic, speaking of battleships, the head was the way, well organized, and Wei Fei was already in his sixties, but his spirit was very good, he was a veteran who had built ships all his life, and in later generations, this old man was also regarded as an academician-level shipbuilder

"Zhou Aiqing, when you handed over the battleship to the naval division, did you also equip the weapons?" I asked Zhou Qingguo

"Back to Your Majesty, when the Ministry of Industry was subordinate to the Ordnance Department in the past, we equipped the battleship with shipboard weapons, take this largest 24-wheeled pulp vehicle ship as an example, when we hand over the new warship to the naval division, I will equip the battleship with 40 bed crossbows, 100 pairs of shooting rods, oil, thunderbolts, fire bricks, spray barrels, explosive arrows, etc., and now our Ministry of Industry and the Ordnance Department are divided into two departments, so we no longer equip the battleship with weapons, and the new battleship should be handed over to the Ordnance Division, The Ordnance Division disposes the weapons before handing them over to the mariners. ”

"Then your shipbuilding department, now there are craftsmen, how many ships are shipped every year?"

"Long live, our shipbuilding department has a total of 500 craftsmen, and every year the Ministry of War provides a plan to build ships, but the Ministry of War has not given us the task of shipbuilding in the past few years, so we ......" Zhou Qingguo said with a little blush

"I don't blame the Ministry of War for this, and I don't blame you for this, my country is surrounded by strong enemies on land, and I haven't paid better attention to the development of the navy in recent years, Wei Aiqing, are all our Great Song Dynasty warships this kind of straight sail and single sail?" I asked Wei Feidao

"Back to Your Majesty, yes, we have been this kind of sail from ancient times to the present." Wei Fei replied

"Why not consider multi-deck sails and spinnakers?"

"This, the minister doesn't understand what His Majesty means." Wei Fei said suspiciously

To be honest, I don't have much research on sailboats, but I know that the sailing ships in Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were extremely fast, whether it was downwind or upwind, those sailboats could use the wind to continue to move fast, and the reason was the application of spinnakers and multi-layer sails, and their warships were very suitable for long-distance navigation, until the appearance of steam ironclads, this huge combination sail battleship withdrew from its historical stage, and became a museum collection, And Europe in this timeline will no longer have to get gunpowder and artillery for Genghis Khan's western expedition, and I will make all the seas of Europe and the world become a water paradise for the Han people in the future

"Don't understand? So, I'll draw it for you. "I kept sketching on paper with a quill what European warships looked like in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and kept telling them everything I knew

"Your Majesty, Lord Kang Laima of the Left Capital and Lord Ouyang, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Lord Cheng Feicheng, the newly appointed secretary of the Ministry of Industry Standards, have come to meet Your Majesty." Little Beanzi said suddenly

"I know, let them in, sit there and wait." I pointed to the chair in the study and said to Little Bean

"Chen Ma Kanglai, Ouyang Shuliang, Cheng Fei, see Your Majesty." The three of them came in and saluted me

I looked up at them and said, "Sit there and wait." Then I continued to talk to Zhou Qingguo and Wei Fei about the sailboat: "By adjusting the spinnaker and multi-layer trapezoidal sail, whether it is downwind or upwind, we can use the wind to sail, instead of a straight sail like us, which can only be used when downwind and partial wind, once we encounter a headwind, we can only use long pulp and wheel pulp, so that the maneuverability of our warship will be greatly reduced. Let our Great Song's battleships have the best maneuverability, whether downwind or upwind. ”

"The ministers obey." Zhou Qingguo and Wei Fei bowed down and took the order

"From today onwards, the Shipbuilding Department will be transferred to the Ordnance Department, Zhou Qingguo will be promoted to the shipbuilding department, Wei Fei will be promoted to the director, and the two of you will be jointly responsible for studying the battleship, and then with this picture drawn by Gu Zhen, you will study the gunboat with Gongyi Nature and Ling Zhen, as for this slap stick, the bed crossbow is all gone, leaving only short- and medium-range weapons such as thunderbolts, fire bricks, and spray barrels, and as for the long-range weapons, all of them have been changed to ship-based artillery." I instructed Zhou Qingguo and Wei Fei

"The ministers obey."

"Alright, you two stand down." I said

"The ministers are leaving." Zhou Qingguo and Wei Fei bowed and exited the imperial study

And I looked at Xu Liang silently there, and I asked him, "Xu Aiqing, what's wrong with you, why don't you speak?" ”

"Your Majesty, why did you transfer the shipbuilding department to the ordnance department, isn't this untrustworthy Weichen?" Xu Liang thought I was cutting his power, so he complained to me

"Old Xu, do you think I'm cutting your power?"

"It's not, the minister thinks that the emperor thinks that the minister is not capable, so he asked." In fact, the emperor was very suspicious of the dictatorship of the ministers, but Xu Liang was not autocratic, but had strong self-esteem, thinking that I thought he was not capable, and took the shipbuilding department out of the Ministry of Industry

"Xu Liang, I'm not cutting your power, let alone thinking that your ability is not enough, but the construction of warships requires the equipment of shipborne weapons, and warships are not built by you at will, and then handed over to the Ordnance Department to configure and install weapons, but to build warships according to the needs of weapons, for example, our current warships do not seem to have reserved a place for shipborne artillery, and you seem to be not as proficient in the research of warships and other war equipment as you are in the study of other things. Go back and think about it, haven't you been asking Liu Shihai how to figure out my mind recently, go and ask him. Stand down. ”

Watching Xu Liang exit the imperial study, I thought to myself, I really TMD said too much, explain to him a yarn, being this emperor really makes me feel anxious, and I have to give psychological counseling to the minister

Seeing that my brows were furrowed, I was obviously not in a beautiful mood, but Ma Kanglai still said to me: "Your Majesty, you see, the minister is ...... about this."

"Say, the three Aiqing came to see me, what happened?" I tried to adjust my mindset for a moment, and then said with a very kind smile on the three of them

"Your Majesty, after the recommendation of Lord Ma and the assessment of the ministers, we jointly recommend Lord Cheng Feicheng to be the head of the industry standard." Ouyang Shuliang said to me

"Long live my emperor when I see Cheng Fei." Cheng Fei bowed to me

"Let's be flat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Cheng Aiqing, Master Ma Kanglai, and Lord Ouyang Shuliang are all ministers that I trust and rely on, since they jointly recommended you as the squire of the Industry Standards Division, that is their trust in you, and their trust is my trust, as the squire of the Industry Standards Division, you must lead by example, and you must not be corrupted by them to corrupt your heart, do a good job in this position, although his status is not high, but it is very important, go back and meet Tiehu, Zheng Junyan and Liu Shihai, and hand over to them, And familiarize yourself with your tasks and devote yourself to the new work as soon as possible. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister must remember His Majesty's teachings." Cheng Fei bowed deeply to me

"Two Aiqing, is there anything else?" I asked Ma Kanglai and Ouyang Shuliangdao

"If the minister has nothing to do, he will retreat." The two of them bowed and said

"Then step aside."

"The ministers are retiring, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Is it good to be an emperor? Actually, I'm really tired