You must know that in the ancient Chinese navigation industry, because the fine timber in the southern mountains was cut down on a large scale, it was very difficult to find a good keel of a large ship, and finally it was necessary to cut down trees in the old forests of the northeast, and then transport them to the shipyards in the south by sea.

The timber in front of him is basically enough for Storm Castle to build hundreds of big ships, and Duke has no intention of using wood to build ships all the time, after all, there will be no more after a hundred years of beam timbering, after all, it will still develop in the direction of steel shipbuilding, since he has the experience of later generations, he naturally has to work hard to develop in this direction.

Old Watt looked at the mountains of giant trees in front of him, his face was also extremely surprised, he had always thought that he had come from scratch, because few empires in this era would attach so much importance to the shipbuilding industry, let alone a lord. But judging from the timber reserves in front of him, Duke's ambition is far greater than he imagined, an ambition that only a super imperial ruler deserves!

"Lord Lord, I am completely impressed now, and I have also seen your preparation and determination, and I will contribute my own strength to the shipbuilding industry in the Storm Territory in the future!"

At this time, Old Watt was completely convinced, and even changed his address to Duke, directly calling him Lord Lord. Not to mention anything else, just the mountains of giant trees in this are not something that other lords, or even emperors, can do with determination and perseverance, after all, investing in the ocean in this era is an extremely risky thing, and the storm territory is not the Mediterranean coast, and there is almost a more than ninety percent chance of losing money.

But Duke still did this, and even did the preparation of the premise impeccably, just this determination and perseverance alone are destined for Duke to become an amazing career in the future, so it is not a shame to show his allegiance now, and Old Watt has already decided in his heart that the Storm Territory is destined to become the peak of his life.

"You're welcome, since we've arrived at the Storm Shipyard, let's discuss the future direction of shipbuilding. ”

Duke was going to get down to business at this point, because he wasn't really happy with the sailboats of this era. Those ships are very reluctant to deal with the Mediterranean, which is relatively calm, and the Sea of Death is the real ocean of this world, and ordinary ships have no way to deal with it.

Moreover, the most advanced sailing ship of this era is only the big sailing ship of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries on the earth, which is relatively large, but in fact, the displacement is only more than 100 tons. Although this kind of galleon is much larger than a fishing boat, you must know that the largest displacement of Zheng He's treasure ship in the previous period has reached an astonishing 1,300 tons, which directly makes the sailing ship of this era more than ten times larger.

If there is no essential difference between shipping and land transportation, then taking such a big risk to develop shipping may be lost. Even if Duke has now controlled part of the Sea of Death, the Killing Tribe has not been wiped out, and there is even a sea giant tribe in the distance, so the value of any ship's cargo needs to reach more than 1,000% profit, otherwise it will not be able to bear the risk of losing ships and goods.

So Duke's goal jumped directly from the Galen ship, which resembled the Spanish galleon of this era, to the "English" Galen ship. Although this kind of Galen ship still did not change the essence of the Galen ship, this light Galen ship is more suitable for long-distance navigation and combat, and more importantly, it is not very difficult to build, at least with the current technology of the old Watt shipyard, it is not a difficult thing to improve such a Galen ship.

At present, the sailing ships of this world are actually similar to the Middle Ages on the earth, and the three-masted galleys that pass through the Mediterranean Sea cannot play a role in the ocean because of their poor seaworthiness, mainly because the bow and stern are too high, which is very easy to attract the wind, making it difficult for the ship to maneuver when the wind is headwind.

And the most obvious change of this "English" Galen ship was the lowering of the bow superstructure, moving it into the hull, or even placing it in the head hanger. The new design is relatively long, narrow, fast and maneuverable against headwinds. With such a small change, Britain on Earth surpassed Spain's "Invincible Armada" in the Age of Discovery, and finally became the later hegemon of the seas, reaching the glory of the empire on which the sun never sets.

Duke told Old Watt about his plan for the English Galen boat, and Old Watt quickly understood Duke's proposal for renovation. But this method of shipbuilding had not been tried by anyone before, and he did not know how effective it was, but Duke had already given an order, and said that if all the problems were related to the waste of materials, it had nothing to do with Old Watt, which reassured Old Watt and decided to build according to Duke's method after the shipyard started.

However, Duke is not very satisfied with this kind of British Galen ship, the reason why he wants old Watt to build this kind of British Galen ship is actually to accumulate experience, Duke's ultimate goal is to build the flying clipper ship that appeared on the earth in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, because the speed of this kind of ship has reached the peak of the sailing age, completely changing the history of the previous sea movement is to use years as a unit of calculation, so that the efficiency of trade in goods and exchanges between places has been doubled.

However, compared with the "English" Galen ship, the clipper ship has much more places to transform, although Duke is not afraid of the consumption of raw materials and the investment of funds. But it would be a waste to pull too many seedlings, and it would be a blow to the confidence of the Storm Shipyard, and it would not be easy for them to understand a type of ship that has never been seen in the world at all.

"By the way, Viscount Watt, it is not enough for the Storm Shipyard to only have more than a hundred skilled workers, I will give you special authority and financial priority, and you will find a way to raise the number of shipbuilders to more than a thousand. ”

"By the way, if you can, first build a few small sailing training ships, the future storm fleet needs a large number of sailors, now the storm fort is far from enough, we must hurry up to train, as for the training of sailors, in fact, I am also a layman, Viscount Watt You can decide for yourself, but the more the better!"

Now that Duke has decided to start the Age of Exploration at Stormcastle, these things are on the agenda, and the shipyard of a hundred good people, at the speed of this era, can only build two small ships of white tons in a year and a half. Duke's request was far from this, what he wanted was a fleet!