Chapter 111: High-Speed Sloops

As a result, the Plymouth Ship Architects Guild sent a senior designer to re-evaluate the speed-enhanced dhow declared by Gangzi.

At the end of the review, the senior ship designer wrote in the report: "Pock is right, the '100 points' evaluation is because we stipulate that '100 points' is the highest score, I can't imagine that the speed attribute of a dhow can be improved so much without reducing other attributes, it seems that the view that we have always thought that the dhow that is being used in large quantities is a very mature design, is wrong." I have to admit that it was a perfect makeover, the only regret is that it came from an oriental. ”

A senior ship designer said the same thing, and the president of the Ship Designers Guild had to pay attention to it. He gathered Pock and all the sailors involved in the review and carefully inquired about the details of the dhow. After receiving a unified answer, he approached Sir Gardner himself.

Lawrence Manor, Gangzi was called to his side by Sir Gardner.

Sir handed over the Intermediate Ship Designer Promotion Voucher issued by the Ship Designers Guild to Gangzi, and after Gangzi successfully used the voucher to advance, he said, "What are you going to do with this speed-enhanced dhow?" The Plymouth Ship Architects' Guild wanted to fund the purchase, so they could learn how the dhow was designed for wave resistance after a few years of research. Of course, they will be happier if you are willing to sell your blueprints directly, so that all the dhows produced in the world will be upgraded to your standard in return, and in return for each dhow launched, you will get a certain share, which will be a huge wealth with staying power. ”

Gangzi thought for a moment and rejected Sir Gardner's second proposal, and said, "All my achievements come from your teachings, sir, and I am willing to give you the speed-enhanced dhow free of charge, and I will not interfere with what you do; As for the blueprints? I refuse to sell. I can't tell you why, I'm sorry, sir. ”

Sir Gardner did not show displeasure: "Any decision you make is your freedom, I will give that speed-enhanced dhow to the Ship Designers Guild in your name, so that it can bring a lot of convenience to your future operations in Plymouth, at least no one will throw you in prison casually, hehehe......"

"Thank you, Sir."

Gangzi then asked a few more questions about the design of the ship, and then said goodbye to Sir Gardner.

The price offered by the Plymouth Ship Designers Guild to buy blueprints is very tempting, upgrading dhows for the entire world. The increase in fame brought by it is self-evident, in terms of benefits alone, each dhow built can get a commission, which is equivalent to royalties, as the most common ship, in the face of a large base, this wealth is no longer calculable.

But Gangzi chose to refuse, he didn't want to be overturned by the battleship he designed one day. As for the Plymouth Ship Architects' Guild to take the speed-enhanced dhow to study, Gangzi did not continue to refuse. Because he will continue to study at Plymouth for a long time to come. Offending the Ship Architects' Guild did him no good. Anyway, Sir Gardner also said that it would take a few years to study the theory of the ship's wave resistance through real objects, and God knows if he would play this game after a few years.

Not to mention. The speed-enhanced dhow that the Ship Designers Guild took was only generated by Gangzi with a sketch of material reduction and labor, and it was not at all the first dhow transformed by Gangzi's transformation drawings from pure manual detailing.

High-speed dhows: gross deadweight: 60

Durability: 18

Max Weapons: 10

Steering force: 115

Propulsion: 105

Standard sailor: 20

Necessary sailors: 5

Maximum sailor: 25

This dhow is completely based on the structure of the Black Pearl's hull, and the speed is absolutely violent. The Ship Designers Guild eventually studied the speed-enhanced dhow. It was absolutely impossible for the dhow he produced to reach such speeds, which was the main reason why Gangzi easily agreed to give the speed-enhanced dhow to the Ship Designers Guild.

Leaving Plymouth, Gangzi teleports to Anne's Village.

Thanks to Casey's insistence. Gangzi left all of Jack's treasures in Anne's Village. With the support of sufficient gold coins, the construction of Anne Village has progressed rapidly, and a complex of buildings has been formed by the lake. At the same time, the cave shipyard has been built, and the junior shipyard can already be used for the construction of dhows.

Gangzi had accumulated a large number of dhow design drawings when he was training as a junior ship designer, and when he saw the shipyard in a state of rest, he took out ten sloop merchant ship building drawings and ten dhow battleship shipbuilding drawings and threw them into it. He quickly produced ten drawings for the transformation of high-speed dhows and handed them to Liang Hong, asking him to transform the dhows.

The quality of the drawings of this kind of schematic transformation varies, and although it does not reach the most perfect state of the first one, it is faster than the speed-enhanced one. I believe that when Liang Hong drove the Taishan with so many high-speed dhows to rob, it would definitely set off a speed frenzy in the Caribbean Sea.

It's just that......

Gangzi looked left and right and asked Liang Hongdao, "Why didn't you see Casey?" ”

"She went to the entrance to the Applegas Islands to salvage the pirates' naval guns, unlike Black Sail Island, we can only use salvaged to deal with it first, and the future naval guns can only be looted and seized." Liang Hong spoke out about his difficulties.

Gangzi found that he had indeed overlooked this.

He thought for a while and said: "It is not a long-term time to obtain artillery by salvage and robbery, I will discuss with Sun Tiezui when I go back this time, whether to carry out the ocean-going trade from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, and then the artillery from Heifan Island can be transported to your side, and the goods you loot can also be transported to Asia and sold at a good price." ”

The problem of artillery was solved, and a batch of high-speed warships were obtained, Liang Hong was in a very good mood, and when he saw that Anne Village was temporarily fine, he immediately drove the Taishan out to rob.

I didn't see Casey, and I felt a little sorry.

Gangzi didn't go to the entrance and exit to find Casey, but teleported to Black Sail Island.

The development of Heifan Island, which has a good capital chain, has not stopped, and it is now a first-class county. The tall walls enclose the entire beach and the pier. The two batteries on the arm of the island and the two batteries on the city wall are all pointed to the harbor waters, and the batteries are all equipped with 16-pounder iron smoothbore guns produced by Black Sail Island, and all ships that attempt to attack Black Sail Harbor will be mercilessly bombarded by them. Especially the two batteries on the arm of the island. The high altitude makes it impossible for any surface ship to attack it, and it is truly impregnable.

Inside the city wall is the main building complex of Heifan County, where there are not many living facilities, all of them are various factories and workshops. Now, due to the development of the major territories and the gradual ability to build brigs, the business of the Black Sail Shipyard is not as prosperous as before, but the orders for such a monopoly business as artillery have indeed increased unabated, and it is an important economic input for Black Sail Island.

Gangzi came to the shipyard, and the shipyard without orders was basically out of production, and its usual job was to do maintenance on its own merchant ships, which was deserted.

Now I find out how wise it is that my brother didn't sell his own renovation blueprints.

Gangzi stuffed more than 100 dhow designs into the shipyard. The shipyard is in full swing to build dhows. Then he brought Sun Tiezui to discuss the opening of a trade route between Black Sail Island and Anne Village.

As soon as he heard that Sun Tiezui was extremely energetic: "This attention is good, now we have ten brigs of merchant ships, it is a bit of a waste for a caravan of this size to run trade around Asia, I have long wanted to run the Atlantic, and I have not been able to make the trip because I am worried about the safety of the road, now there is Anne Village in the Atlantic Ocean to protect, and there is a black sail fleet in the Pacific Ocean to escort it, and the time is ripe for ocean trade, and I will start to purchase materials now." When the fleet returns, we will go to the Atlantic. ”

The main force of the Black Sail Pirate Fleet has not yet returned, and the ships anchored on the dock are all merchant ships under Sun Tiezui's command, and the remaining fleet has been destroyed after the battle with the Tosa fleet. It has not been replenished, and the defense of the territory has been in charge of the Mao Tianjia dhow during this time, and the emptiness has reached the limit.

Gangzi was also purchased through the Jiuzhuo Merchant Group, but after the East Asian Sea War. Battleship drawings are really too scarce, not to mention a brig battleship, even a sloop battleship drawings are out of stock. Thankfully, Gangzi was promoted to mid-level ship designer in time. Theoretically, it was already possible to design a brig, so Gangzi took out the drawings and began to draw.

"Drawings of a brig battleship with a twisted mast"

"Drawings of a brig with a sloping deck"

……

Such a pathetic rate! It took ten to scrap one and succeed in one, it's too pit, brother didn't take blank drawings to draw, he really drew a simple drawing, of course, brother's grasp of the drawings of the brig is not thorough, but my brother is promoted to an intermediate ship designer is 100 scores, and the success rate is increased by 5%. That's the plot rate? It is conceivable that the ship designers trained by the Lingxiao Legion will be able to throw blank drawings into it after they reach the intermediate level, and it must be very joyful to be surrounded by all kinds of defective drawings.

Gangzi tried to produce it several times, and the success rate increased slightly, about 10%-15%. It takes 3,000 gold to generate the blueprints of the brig, and the cost of the drawings of Gangzi is 30,000 to 20,000, which is not a loss in terms of the price of the drawings of the brig, but it is not too profitable.

So Gangzi didn't make a large number of drawings, but only produced five blueprints of brigs to supplement the garrison fleet on Heifan Island.

It is worth mentioning that another captain has appeared in the tavern of Black Sail Island.

Luo Pei: Captain

Intermediate leadership

Intermediate navigation

Intermediate gunnery

Intermediate Ballistics

Beginner speed

Intermediate marine knowledge (requires intermediate navigational skills, familiar with the topography and humanities of most sea areas)

Captain's Skill: Wayfinding (Finding a route in a complex sea environment, consuming physical strength)

An expedition-type captain, a talent who explores uncharted waters, and the most important thing is that Luo Pei is a woman.

With such frequent female subordinates, do you want to open the rhythm of the harem, my brother has already begun to look forward to the spring beach on Heifan Island, wahahaha......

Sugar Xiaotang: "What is my brother doing, the semifinals are about to start!" ”

Scared brother, hehehe...... (To be continued......)