Li Chang took off a little meat tendon, chewed it vigorously, and said in his mouth: "We feel that others can't beat us in naval battles, and their ships can't catch up with steam engine ships." ”

"What if it runs aground! Or the steam engine is broken, surrounded and beaten, and the ammunition is gone. Zhu Wentian shook his head.

"Let's go out to war and just a ship? All the steam engines on the ship are broken, it's time for the craftsman to lose his head, we can't use a ship that is too big for our sails? ”

"If it is more than 20,000 stones, you need more masts, otherwise you can only drive a ship of 2,000 tons.

When the steam engine technology matures, we can make a ship without sails, and make a ship of 100,000 stones out of steel.

When the rubber comes back, we can build oil-burning boats, which can carry a lot of fuel at a time, unlike coal-burning ones, which can't support a bunch for too long, and we have to add sails.

There is not one, but many steam engines, and it is okay to break one like this, I remember that there was one, there was an impression, and I could draw it. ”

Zhu Wentian also wants to build a large ship with a capacity of 10,000 tons, and there is a complete set of drawings of a freighter in his library, and the rest are materials and thumbnails, and not so many people like to study this.

He doesn't have high requirements, just one kind, as long as it is made, those craftsmen will continue to study.

He doesn't have a warship, a cargo ship is a warship with weapons, and with other shipbuilding technologies in the world now, a large ship with a capacity of 10,000 tons of steel is an invincible existence.

"Once we build one, and then the supply of parts is sufficient, we can continue to go out of the ship, I have to perfect some welding techniques, electric welding and fire welding, fire welding needs oxygen."

Zhu Wentian said to the lieutenant commander while thinking about it that he decided to build a large-scale storm ship, like the liberty ship in World War II, as long as the parts were ready, it took more than four days to build a 10,000-ton cargo ship at the earliest.

Daming doesn't need four, forty, or eighty days, no problem, a few more docks, and build them at the same time.

Oxygen can only be collected by electrolysis, and it is not possible to separate air, and there is no such low temperature environment.

After the oxygen and hydrogen are electrolyzed, an air compressor is required for bottling, which is another difficult thing.

In fact, there is no air compressor that can also be acetylene welding, and it can be pressed into the cylinder by other means, such as a one-way valve, like a needle tube, which can be pressed at a time, and can enter but not exit.

When it's time to use it, open another valve so that there is oxygen under pressure.

Anyway, as long as you are willing to spend money and don't calculate the cost, it's not a problem, fire welding and electric welding go hand in hand.

Welding electrodes are not difficult to make, there are many formulas for the coating, and no one has yet collected patent fees.

The lieutenant finally finished eating a string of meat tendons, and found a toothpick to pick it there: "There are more boats, more fish, and the people of the Ming Dynasty have meat to eat." ”

"If there are more ships, the industrial structure of the Ming Dynasty will be adjusted accordingly, and industrialization will become more and more obvious, otherwise you will not be able to make money.

Businessmen will never be allowed to go to sea in the next few years, and they will mess up the market when they go to sea, sell goods to Yiren at a low price, buy them at a high price, and put us in a pit.

They can only sell to us, and then we trade with the Yi people, monopolize, kill if they are not satisfied, control capital internally and control trade externally.

I really don't worry about those merchants, not only at sea, but also on land trade that we control. ”

Zhu Wentian once again emphasized that the state monopoly, if there is no monopoly, once a businessman has more funds, especially if he goes to overseas bases, will he still support Daming?

For example, the water-powered loom, the businessman figured out how to do it, and went to Tianzhu and other places where cotton was planted to make it, and the Ming Dynasty's cotton-for-cotton plan for Tianzhu was suddenly scrapped.

The chief nodded vigorously as he listened: "Yes, our technology can't be passed on, otherwise how can we get a special industrial zone?" When the apprentice learns well, he must be controlled, that is, he will live in the designated place.

If other places in the Ming Dynasty need to be built, they will be sent over and guarded by the army.

Not to mention the manufacture of weapons, we are counting on using good weapons to bully people, how can they fall into the hands of the enemy.

Oops, the Northern Yuan ran away, they have firecrackers, and then they will fight others again, use the resources there to make firecrackers in large quantities, and even improve? ”

Li Chang frowned when he said that he thought that Beiyuan had seen the flintlock pistol of the Ming Dynasty and would definitely study it.

Zhu Wentian disagreed: "There are already them, there are firearms in other places, and when our fleet goes to trade, there will inevitably be conflicts, let's use muskets to hit them, and they will increase their efforts to study firearms."

It's not too late! We have been ahead of them for a long time, and they can't do the primer, and when we look back, our small artillery cannons and grenadiers and grenade launchers are equipped with the army, just their guns that break black powder, hum! ”

Zhu Wentian knew that Europe had not yet entered the era of queuing up to be shot, and some places used firecrackers, and arquebuses were all wooden!

At this moment, the Ming Dynasty used the rear loading flintlock paper shell bullets, and there was rifling in the barrel, and the paper money issued with silver and gold as collateral was accepted by the people, and copper was used to make bullets.

What paper shell bullets? It didn't work well, it needed copper, even the cartridge case with the bullet head was copper, and then there was the primer fire, which was now the guns that the village was equipped with, including pistols.

"Captain, everyone still has to be busy, the next step is the assault rifle, the most durable, cost-effective, easy to operate."

Zhu Wentian thought of the AK assault rifle he wanted to build, not that this gun was the best, but that it was the most suitable, and this was the magic gun.

"Did you still make a single-shot gun?" The lieutenant knew that there were drawings for several kinds of guns.

"Yes, the effective range is long, and even if it can shoot a single shot, it is not as good as a special sniper rifle.

It is best to kill the enemy at a distance of five or six hundred paces, and then wait until you get close to use bursts, mortars, etc.

To fight a war is to make money, we must build a ship quickly, and then go to the other side of the mountain and the other side of the sea to dig copper mines.

Japan also has copper, so let's exchange it with them, so that we don't have to cross the dangerous strait to dig copper on the other side of the sea. ”

Zhu Wentian is talking about Chile, South America, that is, the big cherry is very expensive.

Without having to cross the treacherous Drake Passage, Mexico also has a lot of copper.

As for the use of steel shells and bullets, there is no such technology, and it is not a matter of simply changing the material.

"You say you make creation, but we don't understand. I feel like I've been saving up this momentum before the Chinese New Year, and now I'm finally going to work hard. ”

The chief picked up the skewers of meat tendons again, and stuffed his teeth to eat.

Zhu Wentian eats roasted pork belly, does not need lettuce leaf wraps, and does not dip sauce or put garlic cloves, and eats it directly, not greasy.

"Hanhan, what are some things to send to the craftsmen's homes? They didn't rest much during the Chinese New Year, only two days off, and some of them rested for three days. ”

The chief suddenly thought of subsidizing the craftsmen, the craftsmen worked very hard to make things for Daming, and the key was that there was no additional overtime pay, and there was a fixed amount of money every day.

The artisan's family sometimes helped, and there was no pay.

"When it comes to skin care products and children's snacks, the craftsmen's families are important, and the craftsmen themselves are nothing more than a matter of what to eat.

Improve the fishing tools, use the big steam engine to drain the hook under the boat, and surf the Internet in the back, and go to the deeper water to catch shellfish, this is delicious.

Counting on the people of the sea to pick up shellfish in the reef and other shallow places can't pick up much, do you want coral? I provide techniques for coral fishing. ”

Zhu Wentian didn't know what to give, and felt that it was good to take care of the craftsmen's families.

(End of chapter)