More than 20 miles outside the city on the west side of Wu County, near a port of Taihu Lake, a dock fort covering an area of more than 100 acres, backed by green mountains, the ferry in front of the door, by the mountains and rivers, towering among them.

This is the largest shipyard in the entire Wu County, but the previous Wu County Taishou ignored the Wu County Water Army, and this shipyard had already begun to be abandoned during the Zhongping period of Emperor Ling.

It was only recently that Sun Jian had established the General's Mansion and ordered it to be reopened and set up a Jiangdong Warship Manufacturing Workshop, with Dong Qi as the supervisor.

Sun Quan even gathered hundreds of craftsmen who knew how to make ships in one go in all parts of Wu County, and also recruited thousands of apprentices to station here, and began to manufacture and develop the warships needed by the Jiangdong Navy.

Although it has been deserted, there are still many tools and places where the original ships were made, and as long as there are people and materials, they can make fighting ships and warships at any time.

However, for Sun Quan, the manufacture of warships for inland rivers was just an excuse, and what he valued most of this dock was to develop warships that could sail the sea.

This has become a base for Sun Quan's research and development of warships, and Sun Quan has been transferred to hundreds of elite Jiangdong naval forces around, and no one can enter without customs clearance documents.

The dock fort is very large, the houses are in rows, towards the direction of Taihu Lake, several ferries have been established, Dong Qi stands on the largest ferry, there is no down-and-out haggardness, the whole person is more energetic, as if he is several years younger, and is in high spirits to explain to Sun Quan, the building ship that will be fished up from the Taihu Lake.

"Childe, this building ship can still be used!"

Dong Qi carefully inspected this somewhat dilapidated building ship, breathed a long sigh of relief, stretched his brows, and said: "The building ship of the Huiji Navy captured by Gongzi is a three-story building ship, ten zhang one foot three, and a total length of eighteen zhang and two feet five, which should have been built by my senior brother himself back then, and the time will not exceed ten years, and I know the main structure well, although the bottom is chiseled, as long as it is repaired, it can still be used." ”

"Your senior brother?" Sun Quan was slightly stunned, his eyes burst out with a gleam, and he asked anxiously, "Where is it?" ”

"My senior brother turned out to be the supervisor of the ship manufacturing in Huiji Shanyin, the shipbuilding technology is pure furnace green, when a certain person learned shipbuilding in Huiji, the master died not long after, the technology basically came from him, but he also died of illness three years ago." Dong Qi sighed slightly, with some nostalgia in his expression, and said.

"Oh!"

When Sun Quan heard this, his expression was slightly disappointed, if he talked about the ability of shipbuilding, the craftsmen of Huiji were basically ranked first, and the group of shipbuilding craftsmen he recruited, although they were all from Wu County, most of the skills came from Huiji.

The large shipyard in Huiji County, which belongs to the jurisdiction of the county guard, was originally intact, and Cheng Pu took over, and now it has continued to start construction and began to manufacture warships for the Jiangdong Navy, otherwise Sun Jian would not dare to let Sun Quan rashly expand the 30,000 Jiangdong Navy.

After all, for Sun Jian, Sun Quan's dock has just reopened, how long it will take to build a warship, Sun Jian has no bottom line in his heart, and naturally he will not pin all his hopes here.

"Childe, I've taken a look at all the destruction warships in the dock these days, except for this building ship, more than two-thirds of them are built by the main body and can be repaired."

Dong Qi walked around, inspected all the warships, looked solemn, and said respectfully: "As for the others, I'm afraid they will be disassembled and remanufactured." ”

"Two-thirds of it works, and that's good!" Sun Quan was very satisfied with this number and asked, "Dong Gong, how long will it take for you to start working on these warships that can still be repaired?" ”

The Jiangdong Navy is now in dire need of warships, and this is a batch of warships put into use, which can at least allow them to wait until they are satisfied during training.

"Now there are hundreds of masters in the dock, and there are thousands of apprentices recruited by Gongzi, if the materials are sufficient, in a month, the old man is sure to repair them and re-launch!" Dong Qi groaned for a while, and then said cautiously.

"Good!" Sun Quan showed a hint of joy in his expression, and said: "You open a list of materials, and I will urge the people from the General's Mansion to send them as soon as possible, and the rest will trouble Dong Gong." ”

"This is his job!"

Dong Qi's eyes were shining, and he nodded in response.

"Dong Gong, show me the new building ship you want to build!"

At this time, the entire dock was busy, Sun Quan and Dong Qi walked around the dock of the two, and walked into a spacious wing room, where a tall desk was full of more than a dozen small model ships.

"Let me see what the ship you want to build is?" Sun Quan walked up, picked up a small model boat, and said in a condensed voice.

"Childe, now Jiangxia, Yuzhang, Huiji, most of the building ships in Jiujiang are three-story, about ten zhang high, about twenty long, and can carry about 1,000 soldiers, but because of some deviations in height and weight, the biggest problem of the building ship is stability."

Dong Qi's personality is a bit like those scientists and technomaniacs in later generations, even if he has been depressed and failed to build ships in recent years, he still maintains this kind of obsessive research on warships.

Speaking of this, he was a little excited, looked at Sun Quan, and began to analyze the Lou boat he studied: "Lou ship, is a kind of castle on the water, controlled by the rudder, surrounded by a stilt to stabilize the dìng, as the main core of the warship, set up a battlement on it, wrapped in leather, for defensive purposes, equipped with a strong crossbow, the range is within 500 steps, and it is also equipped with a clap rod, which is used to throw stones, but because of the height, the lack of center of gravity, the stability is not high, and it is easy to capsize, this problem of stability has not been solved by anyone, Some people want to lower the height, but relatively speaking, the mention of the building ship has faded. ”

Dong Qi picked up the largest model ship among them, stared at it, and said in a deep voice: "When my senior brother and I were together five or six years ago, we studied a kind of giant building ship, a total of fifteen zhang, five stories high, thirty-one zhang long, capable of carrying three thousand soldiers, with three sails installed on it, with the stability of the wind. “

"That's it?" Sun Quan squinted, stretched out his hand to take the model ship, observed it carefully, his eyes flashed with essence, and asked in a deep voice: "However, it is indeed a warlike ship, can you make it?" ”

"Childe, this is just an idea of me and my senior brother back then, there are still many problems, which have not been solved, and it is not suitable to be built!" Dong Qi gritted his teeth and wanted to say that he could, but he was really not sure that he could make it.

If it was only a three-story building ship, he was familiar with it, had experience, and was confident that it could be built, but no one had ever built this kind of giant building ship, and the cost was too high and the requirements were too high, so if it was built and could not be used, it would be a sin.

"If there is a problem, overcome it!"

Sun Quan waved his hand, didn't care, stared at the model ship, and said: "If you don't do it, you will never know whether it's right or wrong, if you don't build it, can you know its future by looking at this model ship?" Now, I command you to use this building ship as the main thing in the future, and build it, but you have to be careful in this process. ”

"No!" When Dong Qi heard this, his heart was shocked, his expression was slightly excited, his eyes were shining, and he nodded.

"Dong Gong, if this building ship is manufactured, can it go to sea?" Sun Quan looked at the model ship, his eyes were raised, some hope flashed, and he asked in a condensed voice.

"Childe!"

Dong Qi's expression suddenly became a little solemn, and said: "This piece of blue sea, for each of our shipbuilding craftsmen is a difficult to surpass the skyfall, at present, all our warships in Jiangdong, at most, can only sail on the seaside, and the design of this ship is the brainchild of my senior brother and me, if I can create my ideal form, it should be able to sail on the sea, at least to reach Yizhou (Taiwan in later generations) is no problem." ”

Jiangdong will not be no one curious about this sea, and there have been people who have arrived in Yizhou by boat, but most of them have not returned, and few can come back, but with Jiangdong's current ships, it still depends on luck to go to Yizhou, bad luck, a wind and waves, the ship is destroyed and people die.

"Good, good if there was hope!" Hearing this, Sun Quan took a deep breath, his eyes burst into light, and he said loudly: "This ship must be built, no matter what you want, I will get it for you, and you must build this warship." ”

"Dong Qi understands!"

Dong Qi heard a determination from Sun Quan's voice, which made his confidence even greater, he was willing to try, but he was afraid that no one would support him, and Sun Quan's support made him have no worries.

"By the way, Dong Lao, why doesn't your ship have a water compartment?" Sun Quan looked at the model ship very carefully, and his brows furrowed.

"Compartment?" Dong Qi's expression was slightly puzzled.

"It's a watertight compartment!"

Sun Quan was stunned when he saw this shipbuilding master, and immediately remembered, this seems to be a shipbuilding skill in the Tang Dynasty, and this era does not seem to have it, so he analyzed it in a deep voice: "Separate and divide the cabins, and strictly separate the cabins from each other, even if one or two cabins are damaged and enter the water, the water will not flow to the other cabins...... The watertight compartment not only improves the ship's anti-sinking performance, but also increases the safety performance of long-distance navigation. ”

"Watertight compartment?"

After all, Dong Qi is a master shipbuilder, and his familiarity with ships is incomparable, and he suddenly understood the meaning of Sun Quan's words, and his eyes suddenly burst into essence, and he said loudly: "Childe's words are very good, but it is a reminder!" ”

"Dong Gong, I know that you are very familiar with warships, but it is difficult to achieve great things behind closed doors!"

Sun Quan felt that Dong Qi's character was a little arrogant, so he reminded softly: "If you want to build a warship that can sail in the sea, the opinion of every shipbuilder is very important, and you must gather the opinions of all the craftsmen in the dock to make up for the aspects you can't think of!" ”

The hundreds of shipbuilders that Sun Quan summoned in one breath recklessly actually regarded this place as a base for battlefield development and research, allowing them to better exchange technologies between the two sides, so as to improve the research and development of warships.

"What Childe said is very true, I will gather everyone's thinking in the future, refit this warship, and be sure to keep improving."

Dong Qi was shocked, immediately bowed down, and said respectfully.