Zhu Jie continued: "Not only the Treasure Shipyard, but also the Firearms Bureau, the same, as much as possible to hand over some processes to the people, as long as the quality is controlled, don't underestimate the power of the people......"

Bi Denghan on the side hurriedly replied: "Yes, the emperor, the minister has written it down, and when I turn around, the Firearms Bureau will talk to some private businessmen, as long as there is money to be made, they are happy to take over these jobs!" ”

Zhu Jie nodded, looked at Hu Yanlei, and said, "Hu Yan, go on." ”

"The second way,"

Hu Yanlei said, "Actually, we can divide the work, the emperor, the workers of Longjiang Bao Shipyard have been used to building giant ships after this period of training, but the area of Longjiang Bao Shipyard is limited, but it is not suitable for building giant ships; On the contrary, the Quanzhou shipyard, because of the Fujian naval division, has been supervising the construction of small ships for many years, and is better at this field, but it has mastered a larger dock, and now the treasure shipyard system is indeed facing many contradictions, and the minister thinks that he can make adjustments to the current situation, and deploy workers who are proficient in building large warships to the Quanzhou shipyard, so that the Quanzhou shipyard will specialize in building giant ships, and the craftsmen of Quanzhou will be transferred to the Longjiang Bao shipyard to specialize in building non-main warships, so that they will perform their duties. The production capacity of the two treasure shipyards will be the largest outbreak! ”

"Not bad, not bad!"

Zhu Jie laughed, "Huyan, it seems that you have grown a lot in the past two years, and you can see these problems clearly!" Okay, together with the affairs of the Songjiang Fu Shipyard, as well as the Longjiang Bao Shipyard and the Quanzhou Bao Shipyard, all in your hands, in three years, I want to see twenty-five Tian-class main warships and sixty low-level main warships, is there a problem? ”

Hu Yanlei bowed down and said, "Do your best!" ”

"Don't you do your best, but you have to do it!"

Zhu Jie said in a deep voice, "I don't have that much time, the strength of the four Western countries must be solved in the shortest possible time, five years is too long, if it can be solved within three years, it will be great!" ”

"Obey the order!"

Zhu Jie stood up and continued: "Also, from the Longjiang Bao Shipyard, the Firearms Bureau, and Jinling Academy, we will transfer personnel to form an organization - the New Weapons Design Bureau, which will be jointly managed by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Industry to complete the design project of the giant ship. ”

Hu Yanlei smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, we can't patronize the construction of giant ships, equipped with giant cannons, you know, warships are built of wood, the power it can withstand is limited, if our artillery is too powerful, the vibration generated when the cannon is fired is enough to shock the battleship into two sections, as far as I know, now the heaven-class battleship in our Ming fleet, there is such a hidden worry, a two thousand five hundred warships, carrying nearly a hundred guns, will be our battleship in an instant, Bear the huge pressure, at the beginning, but can barely withstand it, with the extension of the service time, this hidden danger will become bigger and bigger, our warships are not as strong as Western warships......"

Zhu Jie was stunned and said, "Why? I never thought of it......"

Hu Yanlei said respectfully: "Your Majesty, in the final analysis, the problem lies in the warship construction method of the Ming warship and the Western warship, first, we use a hard sail, and the soft sail used by Western countries, which brings a huge difference to the structure of the warships of the two sides, first! The difference in speed, the hard sail of the Ming battleship is the whole sail to take off and land, the area can not be too large, the area is too large, it will bring huge trouble to the lifting sail, and the hard sail is too heavy, if it is too big, the weight of the hard sail plus the wind is likely to cause the mast to break, so our hard sail is smaller than the soft sail, and the wind power is small, the wind force is small, and the speed of our battleship is slow, which has been reflected in the naval battle, the maximum speed of the Western warship can reach sixty miles per hour, And the speed of our Ming warships can only reach a maximum of forty miles; Although our hard sails can be turned in all directions, with the help of the wind in all directions, but, in the final analysis, this problem has also been solved with the help of attached wing sails, and when it comes to real sailing and fighting, our warships still suffer very much in speed; Second, our warships use the watertight compartment technology, which is much higher than the sinking resistance of Western warships, but because of the use of watertight compartment technology, our warships rarely use keels and ribs, which causes our ships not to sink easily, but because of the lack of ribs, and the lack of sufficient solidity, the hull of the Western warship is undoubtedly much stronger than our Ming warship, which caused the problem just mentioned, the hull structure is different, so that our warship can not be loaded with artillery indefinitely, in that case, will bring huge hidden dangers to our battleship, it is very likely that the huge vibration of the artillery will tear the hull apart, causing a shipwreck! Thirdly, our fortune ships are wide at the top and sharp at the bottom, like an inverted triangle, coupled with watertight compartments, which makes the space on the sides of the ship on both sides of us limited, and the addition of too many artillery will reduce the role of our watertight compartments, and at the same time, the artillery is too crowded, which exacerbates the hidden danger of tearing the warship! ”

Zhu Jie's heart suddenly, remembered the common sense of the ships he had seen, the problem of sails, two hundred years later, because of the popularity of the steam engine, the warship completely got rid of the dependence on the sail, this believes that because of his appearance, the steam engine may not take so long to appear, but now it is different, at least the possibility of the appearance of steam ships in a few decades is not very large, especially the steam turbines used on giant ships, there should be more technologies to solve, and now the dispute between soft sails and hard sails needs to have a conclusion; There is also a difference in the structure of the warship, so that the Ming battleship cannot carry too much heavy artillery, and there is a solution to this problem.

Later generations advocated all the iron cannons, and the problems existing in the structure of the warship can be solved through deck technology, and the number of guns can be solved through deck technology, as for the structure of the battleship with the lower tip and the upper width, Zhu Jie does not plan to change, because Zhu Jie knows that in the future, the hull structure with the lower tip and the upper width is the trend, which is more in line with the principle of hydrodynamics.

As for the problem of watertight compartments, it can be retained, but it is necessary to reduce the proportion and appropriately increase the ribs of the warship, otherwise, in the naval battle, the warship is not solid enough, it is a great loss, and if you hit the opponent with dozens of cannons, you may not be able to sink the opponent, but if the opponent hits more than ten cannons on your own, it is possible to destroy your ship, this is a problem that must be considered!

(End of chapter)