Neixiang County Boat Workshop.

Xiaoqiangshi placed household shipwrights here, and if you add the old blacksmiths, carpenters, and lacquer craftsmen who joined in, the total number of households exceeded 1,000.

Dragon Thirteen, ready to do a big job.

Wang Ziqi, the former Yellow River pirate, is currently the head of the shipyard.

Although he was a former Yellow River pirate, but in the past, he was a generation of military households under the command of Tongguan Wei who was responsible for the ferries of the Fengling Ferry to and from Tongguan.

Otherwise, in later generations, he would not have been appointed by Zhang Xianzhong as the governor of the water division, ranking second only to the front and rear left and middle governors.

In the hands of Long Thirteen, no matter where you come from or what you have done, since you have come to Xiaoqiangshi, you can only follow the rules of Xiaoqiangshi.

There were Li Zhanchun and Wu Dading in the past, and Wang Dingguo and the Wang brothers in the back, all of them were like this, and they were obviously not suitable at first, but since they were approved by Long Thirteen, it means that they are still manufacturable, otherwise, he will either not accept it, or secretly kill you.

In the front, there are Ma Shouying, He Yilong, etc., and then there are dangerous Taoist gods Gao Jiaji, Xue Rengui, Jiao Deming, etc.

As for Yuan Zongdi, Bai Wenxuan, Long Xiaoshi, Ou Mubu, etc., they were all only old when they took refuge in Long Thirteen, and they did not join the team of thieves (Long Xiaoshi is purely a star chasing Wang Fuchen), they are all blank sheets of paper, and after two years of training under Long Thirteen, both their ideas and methods are similar to Long Thirteen.

In addition, the brothers Li Xin and Li Zhong, who have never been thieves, these people are the basic plate of Long Thirteen, even if there are people from thieves who are against the water, they can't shake his foundation.

When he learned that he was about to become the commander of the water division under the Xiaoqiang Division, Wang Ziqi was naturally very happy, and now, his urgency was even higher.

Without him, the nine dragons Liu Jinfu came.

There is already a fleet of ships that have been transformed by the Dragon Thirteen swaggering on the Han River, and he is known as the "Standing Tai Sui", how can he make the "Nine Dragons" uniquely beautiful.

So, after letting him come to Neixiang County to supervise the construction of new warships, he came in a hurry.

At this time, on the Daming River, the main warship running was 200 materials, which could hold 200 pieces of wood, which were converted into later units, about 300 cubic meters, one ton.

Shipyard.

One such large ship is being installed.

Wang Ziqi introduced: "The big boss, more than a month ago, we were preparing the ship, according to what you agreed with us before, the keel selected a whole section of fir wood, nearly seven zhang, because the oak and oak you fancy are not superb."

"The ribs are made of oak, and the planks are oak."

"The overall length, width and height are 21 feet, and the height is 21 feet, and the draft is about 4 and 2 floors...... The direct deck mentioned by the big boss is about two inches thick, which is much thicker than the warships of the officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers are only more than an inch, and only the sea ships can reach two inches......

Speaking of this, Wang Ziqi seemed to be a little puzzled, "Big boss, is the thickness of these two inches a little too much, the more it is according to the meaning of the next, one and a half inches will be fine."

Long 13 shook his head, "No, you have to take precautions."

Wang Ziqi had no choice but to nod and continue to introduce, "Because of the direct ...... The deck, the surface of the ship is almost flat, and the first deck is equipped with a stomping, about three feet high, through which the soldiers can fire with guns, guns, and bows and arrows."

"By the way, some of the battlements are lower, and they are specially equipped for artillery."

"According to what I said before, to install a oar at the stern, it takes three people to shake it together, and one person to rudder, using the transmission device that the big boss and I came up with, and one person can easily use it."

"Equipped with two masts, one side of the sail is hoisted, and the canvas is prepared to be made of a layer of coarse cloth brushed with tung oil, and each side of the sail is also operated by four people."

"On the first deck, there are six squatting guns, three on each side, all equipped with gun wheels and rails, and there are holes on the deck that can be put into wooden poles at any time, and canopies can be erected at any time on rainy days."

"The middle deck is equipped with a 100-pound tiger squat, two on each side and one on the first part."

"There are four oars on each side, each of which requires two oarsmen to shake, and the oars can be used by two people according to what the big boss said before, and the oars are separated from the gun positions, and in addition, there are two more oars in each oar, which is the new ..... Ahem, the trainee sailor prepared it, and it can be rotated as needed."

"You see, the bow of the ship is roughly pointed, but it is not exactly pointed, and it adopts an oval system, which not only satisfies the carrying capacity, but also facilitates the breaking of the waves."

"It is planned to have 20 hand-to-hand combatants, 10 firecrackers, 1 blacksmith, 1 carpenter, 1 medic and 2 cooks on board."

"Combined, this type of ship can accommodate a maximum of 100 crew members."

"The ships of 100 are slightly smaller, with only one mast, with only four Tiger squat guns on the first deck and two on the middle deck, and the oars are reduced to three on each side, and the crew is about a man."

"After completion, the bottom compartment of the 200-material warship can be loaded with about 30 stones, and the 100-material warship can be loaded with about 30 stones, and in addition, it can also be loaded with another 100 crew members."

"The big ship of 400 materials and the horse ship of 600 materials you mentioned can only be started after the construction of this batch of warships is completed......

Long Thirteen nodded, "Don't panic, if you can successfully repel the enemy's encirclement and suppression this time, you can start building after the autumn harvest, maybe you don't need to build."

"This ......"

"Not to mention, how long will it take for these ships to be built?"

"Great boss, according to what we agreed before, a fleet needs at least ten warships, two patrol ships, and we will continue to use the official army's patrol ships, but ten new warships must be built by ourselves anyway."

"At the moment, we have opened ten docks, but for the sake of prudence, we can only build two of these two hundred or one hundred ships first, and ...... them after the sea trials."

"How long will that take?"

"In fact, once the ships are ready, it will not take too long to build these ships, a month will be enough, and at the end of this month, the two ships will be launched for sea trials, which will take about 10 days, and if there is no problem, the construction of another eight ships will start at the same time from mid-June, and it will be launched in mid-July."

"I'm afraid it won't be until August when it can really be put into use, and it will take more than two months."

Long Thirteen was noncommittal, and he looked away from the shipyard and into the distance.

"In August, will Wu Mud, Fu Zonglong, and Zhu Xieyuan give themselves this time?"

However, he was also in a hurry, especially when he made his own decision to change the bow of the ship, whether the oval structure can be used normally in China's inland waterways, all this is unknown, and it must be a sea trial, in order to get out of the ship as soon as possible, he also asked the shipyard to build two ships at the same time, which is already a bit bold.

Of course, if he hadn't set the planks and gangs so thick, maybe the progress would have been faster, but since he had a sailor, he suddenly had a sense of foreboding in his heart, and although he didn't know where the source of this premonition was, he still took precautions and temporarily increased the thickness a little.

Eventually, he began to clear his mind.

"Now is the age of firearms, and the reputation of Xiao Qiangshi's good use of firearms is estimated to have spread to all parts of the Ming Dynasty, in Nanjing, where there are all the equipment and personnel to build large warships, plus cannons, if you still build those thin-skinned ships that used to run on the Han River, I am afraid it will be vulnerable."

"To be on the safe side, try to be prepared."

"What's more, his ship needs a large number of tiger squat cannons, and the ship is built, if there is no artillery configuration, his advantages will not be reflected, and if the enemy uses the strategy of ants to attack the ship, he will still not be able to eat and walk around."

After returning to the county seat, it was noon again.

He had lunch with Long Xiaoshi, and after the meal, he said, "There is no news from this Zhu Qijun today?"

Long Xiaoshi was about to speak, when the voice of the guard came from outside the door.

"The big boss, the professor from the royal mansion of Neixiang County is here."

In the Ming system, the prince's palace had twenty-four officials registered in the imperial court under the left and right long history, but the county prince's mansion only had one eight-grade meal and a nine-grade professor.

Long 13 met the professor in the main hall.

A young man in his early twenties, but he was wearing a blue robe, according to the regulations, the blue robe could only be worn by a person from a Jinshi background, could anyone still be willing to go to a county palace to serve as a professor?

The young man was thin and small, and he looked extremely weak, but his expression was neither humble nor arrogant.

Before the man could speak, Long Thirteen took the lead in asking, "Are you from the south?"

The man was stunned for a moment, and then replied, "Exactly, I am from Nanzhili Suzhou Mansion."

"Suzhou Mansion? How did you get here?"

"......, ahem, I am related to Mrs. Wang Furu, and Mrs. Ru is also from Suzhou, so I ......

"Are you from a priesthood?"

「...... Yes."

Long Thirteen nodded, and secretly thought: "Most of this person is a Jinshi identity bought with money, at this time, the imperial court is not only paid for Liao, Xuan, and Lian, but also donated, and most of this person is bought through Zhu Qijun's concubine."

"Ahem, the students are here to report yesterday's events to the big boss."

"Oh?"

"Big boss, please forgive me, after the king returned home, he suddenly contracted the wind cold and fell ill, so he ......."

Seeing this, Long Thirteen thought that Zhu Qijun was delaying, thought about it, and did not blame him, but asked, "I have always had a question, after other people's families entered our department, the staff and servants all ran away, and the opposite was the opposite, why are there few people in the county king's mansion?"

The man replied, "Although the king of the county is young, he usually pities the poor and pities the old, and the people cannot bear to leave suddenly, so they ......."

"Well, what's your name?"

"Back to the big boss, my surname is Huang, a famous machine"

Long Thirteen didn't care, and after chatting with him for a while, he let him leave.

When he returned to the main hall, he suddenly remembered something.

Huang Ji, isn't he the grandfather of the famous dramatist Hong Sheng in the late Ming Dynasty, is it him?

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