Yu Xiaotian slept until dawn in the rare night, only got up and washed up and came to the front yard, when he arrived in the front yard, there were already many people waiting here.

Ma Xiao, Liu Laoliu, Guo Fu of Chuanliao, and several of his shipwrights all came to Yu Xiaotian's residence early at this time, sitting bored in the living room and chatting, guessing what Yu Xiaotian was going to say when they asked them to come over this time.

When they saw Yu Xiaotian coming out from behind, everyone hurriedly got up and saluted Xiaotian.

"Ha Lu Ha! I'm sorry, I'm sorry guys! I'm really tired these days, I was busy until the fourth watch last night before I slept, and today I'm greedy for a lazy sleep, so you have been waiting for a long time! Yu Xiaotian waved his hand so that his subordinates didn't have to be polite, and said to them with a smile.

Liu Lao Liu turned around and sat back on the chair and said to Xiaotian: "Xiaotian, it's not a way for you to go on like this, you are busy all day long, and you have to be busy until the second half of the night at night, don't you fall asleep?" You also have to pay attention to your body bones! ”

Yu Xiaotian smiled and nodded in agreement, turned to the people present and said, "I called you here today because I have a big matter to discuss with you!"

Steward Guo, you can probably guess what I asked you to do! ”

Guo Fu hurriedly bowed down and said: "The big boss recruited the small ones to come over, and he must have said that he would build a new ship!" During this period of time, the timber of the shipyard has arrived, and I thought that the big boss would come back this time to let the small ones start building new ships, but the big bosses have not let us start work, and the small ones thought that the big masters must be thinking about what kind of new ships we should build! Today, it is estimated that the big boss must have made up his mind! I don't know if the small one is right or not? ”

Yu Xiaotian smiled and said, "Those who know me are also in charge of affairs!" Not bad! That's right! I called you here today to talk about it! Come on, go and bring out the thing I finished last night! ”

Liu Wang agreed, and hurriedly took a few personal soldiers to Yu Xiaotian's workshop, and carried a shelf to the large living room, but Yu Xiaotian sold the shelf and covered it with a red cloth, so that everyone could not see what was covered underneath.

But judging from the shape of the red cloth, everyone can guess that there must be a model ship built with a boat underneath.

In fact, Chinese craftsmen shipbuilding, from a long time ago in the Song Dynasty, has been the first to make a ship model for testing, after continuous modification, to determine the ship type, on the ship model as a sample, according to the proportion of the start to build a new ship.

This kind of thing was even more popular in the Ming Dynasty, and the general shipwrights would do this, and even among the shipwrights, there was a set of shipbuilding secrets, how big the ship put and how many materials, there was a fixed number.

Today, I saw that Yu Xiaotian actually carried out a ship model, although I haven't seen what the ship model looks like, but Guo Fu and other shipwrights are still very surprised, they all know that Yu Xiaotian knows more about shipbuilding, but they didn't expect Yu Xiaotian to be able to do this by himself.

In the past, Yu Xiaotian had already brought a lot of surprises to their craftsmen, whether it was the craftsmen on the side of the gun, the craftsman on the gun side, or even the craftsmen of the glass field and the soap field, when it came to Yu Xiaotian, they all admired the five-body projection.

Guo Fu and the others couldn't believe that Yu Xiaotian actually knew how to build ships, so they hurriedly gathered around this ship model one by one.

Even Ma Xiao, Liu Laoliu, Li Gouzi and others couldn't help but surround them together.

Yu Xiaotian walked triumphantly to the side of the ship model, stretched out his hand and grabbed the red cloth, and said to everyone: "I dare to bet with you, you must not have seen anything below!"

Everyone, please take a look! The Nannitz Sloop is making its debut today! ……”

As soon as his voice fell, he shook his hand to uncover the red cloth covering the ship model, and raised his hand to throw the red cloth on Liu Wang's head on the side.

A model ship with a novel design was immediately displayed in front of everyone's eyes.

Guo Fu and the other shipwrights looked at each other, and they were all surprised, and they hurriedly approached and began to carefully look at the ship model in front of them.

Yu Xiaotian put his hands behind his back, showing an expression of villain's triumph, turned around and took a cigarette, lit it, and sat on the chair next to him with Erlang's legs up, and let the gang go to watch his masterpiece first.

In terms of appearance, this ship has completely broken away from the category of Chinese sailing ships, only the design of the bottom large compartment, and some of the characteristics of Chinese ships remain.

Even these guys, who thought they were very knowledgeable, had seen such a ship for the first time, so they were all very curious, and they looked around the ship model and discussed it.

"What kind of ship is this? Isn't it too slender? Haven't seen it! I've never seen it! In this case, the boat should be fast! ”

"Not bad! The bow of the boat is sharp, which can plow the waves, and the bottom of the boat is also pointed, and there are ribs on both sides to prevent the waves from getting on the boat! There are so many ribs in this boat! If you do that, the ship should be sturdy! It's just a bit of a scrap! However, the cabin is saved, and it is much easier to load the ship! ”

"Look at the mast and the sails, it's the first time I've ever seen anything like this in my life! Blame! It's weird! Is such a sail easy to use? I don't think it's easy to serve without our sails! ”

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Everyone gathered around the model of the ship to express their opinions, constantly discussing the practicality and safety of the ship, as well as the possible troubles during the construction of the ship.

Yu Xiaotian didn't care about them, he sent a bowl of porridge, drank it slowly, and served some small pickles, and someone actually sent him a salted duck egg, so that Yu Xiaotian ate it very refreshingly, and listened to the discussions of these guys while eating.

Gradually, the opinions of the boatwrights began to be unified, and after carefully looking at the model of the ship, they determined a few points.

One is that if this ship is built, the speed of the ship will definitely be faster, and it will be more flexible, the aspect ratio is placed here, and the shape of the bottom and the shape of the bow show that the boat is very suitable for high-speed driving, and the relatively large rudder at the stern also shows that the ship is more flexible.

The second is that the ship should be relatively strong, the keel of the ship is made of a complete piece of wood, the two ribs of the hull have dense ribs, the bottom layer is also equipped with several compartments, and reinforced with partitions, plus the beams and decks of the middle deck, making the ship appear very reliable and make people feel down-to-earth.

The third is that the sail setting of this ship is too strange, like this boat, they think that it is completely possible to have two masts, use two sails in front and rear, and if you need to hang the sail in front, you can also add a triangular front sail, instead of using this soft sail, it is better to use the hard sail they usually use.

In addition, they felt that the upper deck of this ship was straight, in addition to the convenience of loading, if it was used as a war ship, a lot of guns could be arranged on both sides of the hull on the first floor below deck, and it could also be seen from this ship model that there were some gun doors on the middle side of the hull on both sides of the ship, which was quite similar to the big ship of the Tessians they had met by chance before.

At least this kind of ship has more guns than the ships they are using now, and cannons can be placed on both sides of the hull, and even if the hull of this kind of ship is not large, the firepower should be much more than the various ships they use at present.

On the whole, these boatwrights believe that this boat is quite beautifully designed and has many advantages, at least it is better than their common ship types such as fortune boats, wide ships, sand boats, and bird boats, but there is another disadvantage, that is, the side of this kind of ship is a bit low, and it is not easy to jump when encountering the enemy's big ship!

Yu Xiaotian had already finished breakfast at this time, wiped his mouth, pushed the dishes and chopsticks aside and stood up.

"It seems that you are all well-informed people, and although it is the first time you have seen this kind of ship, you still see the benefits of it!

You're right, this kind of ship is called a sloop, and the biggest advantage is that this kind of ship is very fast! At least more than double, if not more, than our fastest bird ship right now!

In addition, this type of boat is very suitable for use in offshore places, with high speed, shallow draft, simple and flexible operation, and fast maneuvering in narrow waterways.

But if you use him to go out to sea, there is no problem, its ship has a low center of gravity, it is not easy to capsize, and the mast can even be lowered when necessary, even if it encounters strong winds and waves on the sea, it is not afraid that it will easily capsize! You can still fly!

In addition, you can also see that this guy is very sturdy, using a large number of dense ribs, in this case, the hull structure will definitely be very strong, plus the bottom and middle decks and partitions, the overall strength is much more than that of ordinary ships, if it is with the same size of the ship, it can also take a lot of advantage.

Even if he were to directly hit some ships much larger than it, with the structure of its bow, it could still smash the other party and ensure that it did not sink!

In short, I have been thinking for a long time about what kind of ship do we need, and what kind of ship is the most suitable for us? In the end, I chose this type of boat as our first prototype boat.

As for those bird boats, sea cangs, and lucky boats, although I can't say that they are bad, I can responsibly say that they are outdated! Don't look at our Ming Dynasty is still using them, but if you use them to deal with those red-haired people or Franc machine people's clippers, it will be too much of a loss! ”

Yu Xiaotian walked to the side of the boat model, stretched out his hand like stroking his beloved woman, gently stroked the boat model from his hand, and said to everyone.

When Ma Xiao heard this, he jumped up and exclaimed, "So fast? Can this boat run so fast? Are you sure? God, it's twice as fast as a bird boat! Isn't that like flying? ”

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said, "If the wind is right, it's completely fine!" Even faster! ”

When they heard this, their eyes lit up, for they certainly knew how important the speed of the ship was to them.

If they go out to sea, if they go to hunt down other merchant ships, with such a fast speed, almost any merchant ship has no chance to escape, and can only be caught up and taken by them.

But if they run into an enemy and can't beat them, they can take advantage of the high speed of this kind of ship and immediately turn around and flee, and the enemy can only follow their butts and smell their farts, not even their farts.

If this kind of boat can really run so fast as Yu Xiaotian said, then their sea wolves will really be extremely bullish in the future.

Even if it is the most difficult to use this kind of ship to transport goods, the time for people to run one trip on a boat, they can run two trips, so that the profit can be doubled, and there is no need to worry about being robbed by pirates on the road, people can't grab it if they want to, they are too fast, so it is difficult to use this kind of ship to do business, and it is difficult to make money!