Yang Meng raised a head, and provided the shipyard designers with a broad idea, some things, as long as a small mention, can change the direction of the development of things, the keel of iron and wood is the result of these people's discussions.

Iron rib ship, is not a pioneer, because of the shortage of qualified wood, iron rib has long been invented, a sea giant, need a hundred and ten acres of forest, the ship board is still second, the mast and the main keel of the hull, the requirements for wood are extremely harsh, many ancient trees that have grown for thousands of years, is cut down in this way.

With this idea, the design can continue with fewer giant trees in shipbuilding, the faster the development of iron ribs, and the weight of iron rib ships is lighter than that of all-wood warships.

"Hmmm! It's not bad, it's a bit of a shelf, I-beam, oh...... Have you ever seen an I-beam? ”

Looking at the drawings sketched by the designers, Yang Meng picked up the pencil on the table and drew a few strokes casually, and the I-shaped iron rib with a wide bottom surface also had a provenance, and the fixed position of the iron armor was also available.

More than an hour later, a new ironclad transformation plan, in the midst of the debate between designers and mechanics, took shape roughly.

"My lord, this is our renovation plan!"

While designing and translating, the general steps of the transformation were also marked in the blank space of the drawings with square words, and after looking at the drawings in detail, Yang Meng only had one feeling, stupid!

"Stupid you bastards! After all of them are disassembled and then assembled, it doesn't cost money?

Divide the hull of the ship in one piece, and you have come up with such a stupid method, stupid is a word specially prepared for you, right?

According to the divided hull, iron plates are made. You stupid bunches. Is it the man who wants to die in the ironworks?

It's a ironclad ship. I'm afraid that the new construction will take less time than the renovation, right? ”

After saying this, without waiting for the designers to react, Yang Meng laughed first, looking at the current method from the perspective of future generations, this matter is his own mistake, in general, the method proposed by these nine people is still feasible, although it is a little stupid. But after all, it is doable.

To be able to come up with such a method within two hours, these people are also attentive, but they are too harsh, and looking at the drawings again, Yang Meng also found a mistake in himself, transforming the main keel of the battleship, this thing is promising!

England is worthy of being the first naval power in the world, and the structure of these three 3,000-ton warships is roughly the same, and the time of launching and decommissioning is basically the same. What the Navy gives, it's just different.

Split the main keel in two. The ribs are all replaced with iron ribs, and the remaining materials are discarded.

The nine people racked their brains to come up with a solution, but they were refuted by the shipyard owner as worthless, and anger also rose on the faces of these nine people, but before they could refute, Yang Meng opened his mouth first.

"Isn't there any other use for these materials cut by warships? Think again! ”

All of you here are old people in the shipbuilding industry, and when it comes to materials, Yang Meng can also roughly understand the end of the road.

"My lord, you mean to use the main keel of the cut to build another battleship?"

The designers reacted slowly, but the two forty or fifty-year-old technicians reacted the fastest, and they directly followed Yang Meng's train of thought.

"Right! It's one to two! Only with the main keel with a firm explanation, the ribs and the ship board are just a trivial matter, according to the original drawings, and then copy a new ship, it is also extremely simple, just according to the dimensions of the splicing. ”

As soon as this idea was proposed, the designers and mechanics present were also convinced, and in terms of brains, they were really stupid.

"My lord, do you have a better way?"

This question is for the transformation plan just now, according to the old main keel, to build a new ship, for these people, it is a trivial matter, and the nine people are most concerned about Yang Meng's not stupid method.

"Modular retrofit! Forget it, you don't understand it, let me explain it to you in detail!

If you look at the drawings of these three ships, there is basically not much difference, the whole ship is covered with iron armor, you also have to consider the difficulty of manufacturing iron armor, one piece of iron armor is one size, which is obviously not conducive to large-scale production, and the main armor is controlled within a standard size.

With the overall armor, other special-shaped armor will also be out of size, and at the same time as mass-producing standard armor, manufacturing these special-shaped armor together will save a lot of time.

There are also the steps of transformation, after the battleship is fixed ashore, remove the cabin and watertight compartment inside, then the structure of the entire battleship will come out, the first step is to transform the main keel, after the transformation is completed, install it to the original position, and then replace the ribs and ship board step by step, mark the position, and record it with numbers, which is much faster than dismantling and reassembling again, and it is not easy to make mistakes.

Your original estimate of time is two years, double your manpower, and add the steps I mentioned, and improve the iron works, at least half a year, if the iron works go well, it is very possible to complete it within a year. ”

Yang Meng finished explaining, the nine people in the shipyard are really convinced, many things are just an idea, and the shipbuilding industry is even more so, modular transformation, what brain, this can be thought of, nine people according to their own experience estimated, if it can be transformed directly, it will be almost the same within ten months, plus the production time of the iron factory, one and a half years, it is definitely a very conservative number.

"Here and here, two main guns will be added, and the rest will be as they were, and you will need special reinforcement for the hulls of these two places, and the recoil of the guns will be based on the sixty-eight-pounder long-barreled howitzer."

Yang Meng didn't say this, these nine people could still admire him for a while, and when they said that a sixty-eight-pound howitzer was installed on the ship, the faces of these nine people showed an impossible look.

According to the best cannon casting technique, a sixty-eight-pound iron cannon has to be at least fourteen or fifteen tons, and the weight of the cannon body, coupled with the huge recoil, is also a devastating threat to the ship, special reinforcement?

What is a special reinforcement method? A 68-pound long-barreled cannon has a landing area of two or three square meters. Not to mention whether the ship will capsize after the cannon is fired. The sheer weight of the gun barrel alone combined with that terrifying recoil. The entire deck will be torn apart, and if you don't get it, the battleship will immediately disintegrate after firing guns.

A warship is not a battery, you can put a cannon on it, and it is not a problem to put a 68-pound mortar on it with 10 guns and 8 guns, but Yang Meng is not talking about a mortar, but a 68-pound long-barreled howitzer. There is not much of a problem with the placement of more than a dozen tons of objects, but if you want to open fire, you have to think carefully.

"My lord, the cannon body is too heavy, the landing area is too small, and if you add recoil, it is easy to tear the hull."

"If the gun body is heavy, the weight of the gun body will be reduced, and the landing area will be small. Won't you design a chassis? Here's what it looks like, with a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree rotating base. Let's go back and research! ”

That's pretty much it, the idea of the transformation of the ironclad ship is already there, and the rest is the detailed steps, after a whole day of argumentation, Yang Meng is also a little tired, and the mental work is much more tiring than the march.

"My lord, there is another problem, and that is the anti-corrosion of armor."

"Hmmm! This is also a problem, you go back and try it yourself, copper, galvanizing, asphalt, whichever effect is good!

Don't soak in seawater, use high-concentration brine, so that the time is shorter. ”

Yang Meng is not good at these things, these people ask left and right, and he is a little tired, so he has no patience.

"Let's go back! In the shortest possible time, come up with a feasible way, with the nine of you as the structure, organize an ironclad transformation team, this is a confidential thing, go back and take a good look at the confidentiality code in the contract! ”

Confidentiality is also the top priority, the most unreliable, can only turn the living into the dead, although the area of the shipyard is large, but the shadow monitoring is impenetrable.

The sun had already set, and on the Wumengmeng deck, after a few punches to refresh his muscles, Yang Meng walked into the cabin.

Wei Fuzi had already gotten up, and Wei Fuzi, who was only wearing a gauze robe, walked around in the cabin, it was also lively, and when he saw his man staring at him stunned, Wei Fuzi secretly said that it was not good.

"Master, it's time to eat, Lan Ying has already said it, and she is willing to serve you!"

At this time, Wei Fuzi still cares about what kind of food his man eats, and it is better to be rude than to suffer himself.

Lan Ying, who had been bowing her head and not saying a word while talking, also arranged the meal, and with Yang Meng's instructions, the amount of food was much less, but it was also much more refined.

Under Yang Meng's greeting, the two women did it to the table, a few glasses of wine were eaten, and the atmosphere was slowly harmonious, during the banquet Yang Meng asked Lan Ying many questions, and after confirming it, Yang Meng's heart fell into his stomach, and many people had to guard against it.

If you are just a rich man, it is okay to bear the burden of the Yang family, carry the life and death of countless people, and joke with your own life, which is a joke with the lives of countless people.

After finishing the meal, it was naturally an after-dinner exercise, Wei Fuzi hung out the war-free card, Yang Meng could only work hard against Lan Ying, compared with the woman in the back house, Lan Ying, who is in her thirties, can be regarded as a unique flavor!

There was a lot of shyness and smuness between the activities, although there was a little less interaction, but with Wei Fuzi beating the side drum next to him, the job was quite done.

"Zhiqing, buy a house for Lan Ying in Guangzhou City, prepare some gold and silver, and let her settle down in Guangzhou in a few days!

Lan Ying, although things have been done, I don't restrict you, just find a next home when you need to find a next home, and the things between us will be rotten in the stomach. ”

At the beginning of the storm, Yang Meng also adhered to his principles, this matter is your love and my willingness, although there is a little more persecution, but it is better than picking up guests in the building.

A woman with two children, it is difficult to find a stable income, if she didn't meet Ding Taichen, selling her sons and daughters and selling her body is likely to be the way after Lan Ying.

"I can hold it! Besides, at my age, how can anyone want anything but to enter the secret door? ”

"As you ......"

This is also the way of the world, if you go to the mountains of Yunnan, with Lan Ying's stout physique, you can barely find a home, but most of this child will be sold, half of the eldest child will eat Lao Tzu to death, and no one will feed the children of outsiders in vain.

After sleeping comfortably until dawn, he asked about the progress of the ironclad ship, and it would take a few days before Yang Meng took the time to go to the Guangzhou Iron Works in Baiyun.

100 times that of the Xishan Iron Works, nearly 3,000 newly built blast furnaces, still within a radius of dozens of miles, in the planning of the iron plant, Pan Shicheng did not make the slightest discount, Yunyan's huge profits, making the impossible possible.

The iron plant is still under construction, many machinery is not yet in place, more machinery is being commissioned, and the huge mine is piled up with mountains of iron ore and coal, which is called flat land and mountains.

A small part can start construction, and most of it will take about a year, which is just right for the transformation of ironclad ships.

Looking at the armor and iron ribs that have been built, the supply of armor and iron ribs for the transformation of ironclad ships can basically be done, although the time will be slower, but this is not a hurry, as long as the shipyard has a drawing, the ironworks are producing while improving the process, and the cooperation of this time is quite appropriate.

It took more than ten days for the designers and technicians of the shipyard to come up with a plan that was still a little sloppy, and pointed out the areas that needed to be improved.

In the past ten days, Lan Ying has become much more polished, her work has become more and more proficient, and some things can be let go, which is also a good thing for Yang Meng.

After more than a month, the complete plan that has been changed more than a dozen times has finally been taken out, and Yang Meng has no opinion on this, after all, this is not his own specialty, what should be said and what should be done is done, and it depends on the ability of the shipyard.

What's more interesting is that the place where the designer signed this scheme is his tuba, although there is some suspicion of sycophancy, but there is also more than a month of hard work in it.

Three English 3,000-ton warships, one broken and two turned into six, based on these three battleships, four ironclad ships with an all-iron structure, as soon as the construction started, it was ten warships, occupying a small half of the shipyard's production capacity.

Spending money is Yang Meng's most confident thing, more than half of the countries in the world are sending him money, with this thing of Yunyan, ten test warships are not a loser!

These ten warships, if they fail, the accumulated experience is enough, and the most important thing is to be able to train a group of technicians who can build ironclad ships, and the craftsmanship and skills are basically available, in Yang Meng's mind, even if it fails, it is only a subtle omission, and it is not so easy to fail, and the easiest to fail is the four all-iron battleships.

Once successful, six iron-wood warships, four all-iron warships, 3,000-ton warships, 400 to 600 naval guns, and 20 deck guns will defeat the English navy, although there is no hope of defeating the English navy, but guarding the coastline from Guangzhou to Guangxi should not be much of a problem. If the bomb is successful, then Yang Meng will have the confidence to annihilate the British Asian Fleet in one fell swoop. (To be continued......)