Chapter 361: The Opportunity Comes Soon
'Hey, are you listening?' Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info', on the grass in front of Hanliang Palace, Li Chen was lying lazily, with a book next to him, and Su Xiaoxiao was next to him. Seeing that Li Chen was absent-minded, he was so dissatisfied that he reached out and pushed him. Among the few women around Li Chen, she is the only one who dares to do this.
Chao's words will be used as a human flesh cushion for him. Yang Er will read her books by himself, otherwise he will play the piano. Xiaohong will be silently on the side, not disturbing him, and not knowing what he is thinking, sometimes Li Chen feels that she is looking at him, and sometimes looking into the distance. Only Su Xiaoxiao will be dissatisfied and wake him up.
"Yes, I'm listening, you said that the Flying Express can be finalized and officially mass-produced." The Feikuai is the merchant ship of Li Chen's experimental series, and the latest one is one.
This boat, after several tests, will become the final model of Chinese high-speed sailing boats, and it will be destined for the Feifu series. Or you can call it Swift. Liang Kuai said that it is almost impossible for this ship to have any big room for improvement, and it will be adjusted in the future, which is a small adjustment. Therefore, this ship will be finalized and mass production will begin.
This final and decisive fast merchant ship, with a total length of nearly 100 meters, has extended the limit size of the Tang ship by one-third, which is almost the limit of the current shipbuilding technology. This is a very amazing progress, Li Chen knew that Liang Kuai had made a very big effort, for this reason, Li Chen named this ship Fei Kuai according to Liang Kuai's meaning. It's a reward for him.
In terms of the choice of sails, of course, hard sails are used, and the masts reach an astonishing twelve. The twelve masts, which are staggered and carefully calculated, can ensure that all aspects can eat the wind. Almost all the passing wind is completely left behind as the power of the boat. If the wind had a soul, he would probably say, "I'm so pitiful." The wind also has the right to wind.
With the sails wide open, with a tailwind, the boat can reach an astonishing high speed of thirteen knots at full speed. Unless it's a headwind, ships can reach very high speeds. As for the ship type, it is still an elongated type, with a length-to-width ratio of 1:9, and the ship's side is three and a half feet.
The astonishing thirteen-knot high speed is no less than that of the flying clippers of later generations. This ship will remain in history forever in the future, when people talk about the fastest ship in the era of sailing ships, in the history that Li Chen did not cross over, people will remember the clipping boat. Now, people will only say, Flying Class.
This is also the reason why Liang Kuai wants to name it. Who doesn't want to be famous in history. If the engineer who designed the clipper boat had named himself after himself, perhaps everyone would have known his name, rather than a high-speed sailing ship or a clipper ship.
However, Li Chen was deeply suspicious, and heard about the rapid level in the future. Do you think of a craftsman named Liang Kuai, or is it because the ship itself is very fast, so it will be named?
'Let's build a few more shipyards.' Increase the number of people, pay attention to secrecy, although in the future will be open to build for others, but I don't want the technology of this ship to be spread too quickly. Li Chen commanded, Su Xiaoxiao nodded, "Sister Zheng, who is currently in charge of Yangzhou, plans to build a new shipyard on an island off the coast of Wenzhou, and will bring the craftsmen and their families over, so as to achieve the effect of secrecy." ’
An island off the coast of Wenzhou? Could it be the famous Zhoushan Islands? Does the island exist now? Li Chen was surprised. But since Zheng Peipei said it, he should be sure.
Moving to an island? This is a good way, I didn't expect Zheng Peipei to have a good brain. Moving to the islands and reducing the number of people can ensure that the technology is not leaked as much as possible.
Just kidding, according to normal history, Li Chen has built this kind of fast sailing ship thousands of years in advance. In the future, unless there is a breakthrough in steam engine technology, it will be almost impossible to build a faster ship. If other countries other than Datang learn the technology, how can Datang maintain its maritime superiority?
Therefore, even though this plan may cost a lot of money, Li Chen will still vigorously carry it out. Even, Li Chen considered that if there was any need for technical confidentiality in the future, it could be handled by comparison. However, thinking of this, Li Chen was deflated.
'Say, 'When will these days end?' Li Chen said a little deflated, "What? ''It's been a year, it's been a year since I ascended the throne, when will it really be for me to make a big difference, I don't need to hide. ’
Li Chen was really a little discouraged, it was already April now, and it had been almost a year since he ascended the throne. In order to cultivate Taoguang, although he has done some serious things this year, he has more time to play leisurely. You have to play with different tricks.
It's been a long time, and people are almost completely lazy. He almost thought, he didn't care about anything, just keep having fun, and wanted to say that such a day would be good.
If it was Li Chen in the past, as soon as he crossed over, he would live in a large manor of several square kilometers, resplendent with carved beams and paintings. There are also four beautiful wives, who stretch out their hands every day with tea and open their mouths with food, and are served very thoughtfully, and they have a proper and comfortable life.
Wake up and eat as much as you want, have exquisite food, sleep when you want, and live in several palaces, whether you want to be warm in winter or cool in summer. If you want to see the pastime, there will be someone to relieve him at any time, so you don't have to worry about it.
He has long since sunk, this is his greatest ambition in life. What is the hard work? Isn't it just to ask for a wife, live in a mansion, go out and drive a sports car, now, he has everything, what else do you have to work hard?
However, now that he has to live, he has great ambitions and is still progressing, not enjoyment, but a kind of torture. All the time, it is cutting his spirit and ambition. He was worried that after another year like this, he would completely admit defeat.
Don't think about reviving Datang, continuing Chinese culture, and letting Datang stand on the top of the world's countries, it will never be easy. The great thing is to develop navigation, and before the world is in turmoil, follow the example of Fu Bo and them back then, and cross the ocean. But when they first arrived in Fuso, he would go a little further and go directly to the Americas.
'Don't worry, soon, don't be discouraged like that. Su Xiaoxiao was unexpectedly gentle, "My husband Ju is a witty, inexhaustible idea in his head, and a man with great ambitions, no matter what difficulties, he can overcome them." ’
'Huh. Li Chen smiled awkwardly, who is this talking about? By the way, today's game was exciting, Xiaohu scored two more goals. Su Xiaoxiao changed the topic and talked about today's game, "I think he won the title of the king of the ball, and he is sure to sit down, don't be a soldier in the future, just go straight to play football." ’
'Playing that, you say professional football, that's probably more suitable for him.' Su Xiaoxiao pursed her lips and smiled, and Li Chen also laughed.
'Hello, who's saying bad things about me. At this time, the two of them sneezed into the protagonist, Xiaohu, "Haha, I'm afraid it's not that someone says bad things about you, but which lady misses you again." ', one quipped.
That's it, today's game is over, I don't know how many big girls are sending this to our team, sending that. I envy us bachelors. Xiaohu didn't reply, and someone else quipped.
They are all players from the same team, not only the same army, but also the same Zuo Shence army, and they are all from Xiaohu's team. knew that this team was upright and easy-going, so he dared to joke with him.
'Go, it's too idle, we almost lost today, if you think you can still run ten laps, let's practice tactics.' Xiaohu feigned anger and said, "Ah, I have a stomachache and I have to go to." ''I went with him, and he just fell into the pit last time. Seeing that Xiaohu was angry, he immediately watched and made fun of everyone, each finding a reason to scatter birds and beasts, but there was also a discordant voice, so the two of them staged a full martial arts on the spot.
Xiaohu didn't care, but went to wash today's jerseys, and while walking, he wondered if he wanted to give his uncle advice, these two sets of jerseys seemed to be enough, but in fact they were not enough. If it's normal, you can wear it in turns. But if you play, you can't always change the first half to be blue, and the second half to red
No, no, suddenly Xiaohu knocked himself on the head, I am a soldier, I am a soldier to defend my family and defend the country, and I am a soldier to defeat the enemy, not to play football. Playing football is only for a while, and I didn't join the Shence Army specifically for the sake of playing football.
However, Xiaohu thought with some sadness that during this period of time, it seems that the time to play football is longer than the training time, although playing football is also a good practice, but they are not a football team after all. It's just that this phenomenon can't be reversed by his own efforts.
Besides, the situation is much better now than before. The previous drill was also three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, or even a little more excessive, and I didn't practice once in ten and a half days and months. Nowadays, in order to play football well, many people have spontaneously started to train themselves, which is much better than doing nothing all day before.
It's just, as he just said, they are soldiers after all, not real football players, and they don't practice playing football all day long, and they play football all day for others to see, what's the matter?
Since Li Chen held a football match, this kind of sport with simple rules and extremely confrontational has sprung up all over Chang'an. There are people all over the country who have set up football clubs. Because most of them are high-ranking officials and nobles, they have their own way to find officers and soldiers in the army to act, or guide and referee.
Like today, just after a performance match for the purpose of guidance, spring is a good time to go green, the weather is neither cold nor hot, so in the suburbs of Chang'an, this game has attracted a lot of people to watch, Xiaohu estimates that after this day, this football game will probably slowly rise in the land of Datang.
It's good to rise, to rise a little more, so that there are more football players, and they won't go to perform here and there all day long.
In a cranky thought, Li Chen came to the sink and began to wash clothes. While still wondering, when will I really do what a soldier should do? For example, killing the enemy to defend the country, clearing rebellions, and so on.
Xiaohu didn't know that this opportunity would come soon, faster than he imagined. (To be continued.) )