There is nothing difficult in the world, but the rich are afraid. Nowadays, although the Daming Sea Ban still has a name, it has actually been relaxed a lot, but even so, it is still not a simple matter for Ningbo Mansion to build a boat. In particular, what Bo Fu wanted to build was a ship that had never appeared in this era - a fast sailing ship, this guy tried to build a clipper ship with a displacement of about 300 tons, the inverted side of the ship was higher than the aft tower of the deck and the corridor attached to the aft tower, the two high masts could be hung with sails, and the mast sticking out of the bow could also hang a spinnaker, the narrow hull and the graceful hollow bow were expected to run at sea at a speed of more than 14 knots, which belonged to the high-speed ship of a supercar in this year.

But even if Bo Fu has money, drawings and ideas, but it is still difficult to build this ship, the shipbuilders in Ningbo have never built this kind of streamlined ship before, and Bo Fu is not proficient in those processes, so he can't instruct those craftsmen how to make it - magic power doesn't play much role here, he can indeed make wood bend or build on its own, but making a model sailboat is still different from making a real ship- The biggest reason is that Bo Fu doesn't want to use demonic power, and one of his wishes is to plant the seed of a high-speed sailing ship in the current Ming Dynasty - at least a few decades later, the Ming Dynasty's navigation career will have a great development since the Three Treasure Eunuchs went to the West in the past, and this time the development is completely out of the need for capital profits, "Maybe I can drop a dice at this moment or exert a little force." ”

To say that the most and most outstanding craftsmen at this time were indeed in the Ming Dynasty, and the shipbuilders who were recruited by Bo Fu saw the small sailing ship model and those drawings that Bo Fu took out, and even their eyes were red - this is a food craft, and their apprentices and grandchildren are estimated to be able to eat and drink without worrying about this. Bo Fu asked them to improve the original design. The ships of the Ming Dynasty had watertight compartments and lifting stern rudders. On the other hand, there is no one on the model of the Bo Fu. The shipwrights redesigned the hull structure. The watertight compartments and ribs were installed as they had planned, and construction began. Bo Fu cast a thick keel with lead, which made the center of gravity of the ship very stable, and the next process of cutting the ship board and splicing the hull Bo Fu let the craftsmen do it themselves, and he himself soaked in the restaurant and teahouse in Ningbo every day.

To say that there are still things, Ningbo is close to the sea, very close to Zhoushan, and Putuo Mountain is the Guanyin Bodhisattva Dojo. Naturally, there are many kind monsters who have listened to the Dharma and thus started their spiritual cultivation. Although most of them are fish, shrimp, mussels and turtles, but because they are influenced by Buddhism, they are all upright-looking. These monsters are happy to practice in the red dust, and the so-called snail girl has heard a lot of stories here. In fact, he really saw a few monster outsiders or monster daughters-in-law and old women, even among the shipwrights, he also saw a few monster shipwrights who sold their labor - these guys' demonic qi was very perfectly restrained, in fact, their cultivation was originally biased towards the Buddhist lineage. There is no demonic spirit in the first place. These monsters are also enjoying themselves, "Could it be that this is the origin of the mixed life of shemales in the future" Bo Fu looked at the monster shopkeeper in front of him who was settling accounts at the counter. It was a turtle that had been in business for more than twenty years.

Of course, there are also the monsters of the shark and whale genus, and these demons make waves on the sea, sometimes showing demon body statues, and tricking the fishermen into erecting their obscene shrines and eating the offerings. As for the most vicious of them, it is to set off the big wolf, overturn the fisherman or the merchant ship, and eat the person who falls into the water on the boat—it's just that most of these monsters don't dare to do this in the shallow water near the sea, otherwise there will naturally be cultivators who come to the door to get merit. Bo Fu also saved a few of these monsters, "just look at those bald donkeys are not pleasing to the eye, and the others are nothing" He teased those monks, but these monsters did not end well - everything that seemed to be more delicious ended up sacrificing Bo Fu's five internal organs temple, and those that didn't look good were thrown directly into the deep sea by Bo Fu.

On this day, Bo Fu was eating wine in a restaurant along the street, and a shipbuilder came running quickly, "Dongjia! Dongjia! mast is broken!" but there was something wrong with the tall mast in the design. This mast was originally made by the method of building - it is really not easy to use a piece of wood for this straight mast of more than 30 meters long, especially in this year, the good shipbuilding wood has been transferred to the north a few decades ago, and all of it was used in the treasure ships of the three treasure eunuchs of the year, and the imperial court sea ban has not been directly abolished in the past ten years, and the wood used to build the big ship has not been prepared at all

If there were always skilled craftsmen, they came up with the idea of making a long mast out of sections of wood with tenons and rivets, which was a common method for making masts in the future. And everything worked fine after the first and second masts were installed on the ship, but just when the crossbar was installed, something went wrong - one of the masts broke. Fortunately, the deck had not yet been laid, otherwise it would have been necessary to have major surgery to deal with the mast that directly penetrated the two decks of the design to the keel. Bo Fu looked at the scene, "Don't do anything, don't stop fighting! Knock down the gourd and sprinkle oil! Just get the steelmaking blast furnace and the rolling machine out!"

The big project began, and this small ship changed the history of the entire world

Three months later, a man with a black face on top of a tall earthen steamed bun pulled a hand gate, and a hydraulically powered mechanism hoisted a crucible and poured out a shiny red molten steel. The molten steel is poured into a mould on the ground, and then the drum under the mould begins to roll, and the hydraulically driven rolls blow the molten steel that is beginning to solidify into a steel plate. Then the next process, which was also powered by water, and the steel plate, which was still soft, was rolled into a hollow pipe, and the sound of the craftsmen swallowing on the side could not be suppressed even by the roar of the molten steel splashing and the rumble of the rolled steel plate. As for the money that Bo Fu is now collecting on the side - he sold the technique and the design of the machine to the local shipbuilders - this blast furnace is a small blast furnace with a daily output of several tons, which is worthless in the future generations, and the rolling machine can also roll steel plates with a width of more than one meter, and it is not able to roll any thick steel plates or very thin steel plates, and the steel plate rolling machine can roll out steel pipes with a diameter of a few centimeters to about 30 centimeters. These can already be regarded as artifacts in this world - just among mortals and in the supernatural world, what kind of super-thick or ultra-thin, super-long or ultra-short steel pipes can be made casually - at least it is possible for demons at the level of Dracula to make them

Using steel pipes and wood, the craftsmen put together two new masts, lighter and stronger than the original—thanks to the magic of Bo Fu, who had been going to sea and turned them into hollow steel pipes. And at this time, the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty also found Bo Fu and the merchant, and directly collected the blast furnace and the machine - just gave the merchant a little money, everyone knows that this can be used to make artillery, but they did not take away the drawings in the merchant's hand

Half a year later, the long and narrow sailing ship with a length of about thirty meters and a width of five meters went into the sea, the side of this ship was quite high, about three meters above the water, and the sails were hung on the high mast, and those sailors were running back and forth to pack up the rigging - by the way, none of these sailors were human beings, all of them were stunned by Bo Fu and directly tied up the monsters in the sea who were thrown on the boat, and then restrained by the forbidden law, although these guys were tied up by Bo Fu with violence, but there was not much resentment - The first is that they don't dare, and the second is that Bo Fu helped a few of them do a "plastic surgery" to make them look at least ordinary humans

In the amazed eyes of the maritime merchants in the Ningbo Mansion, the strange sailing ship left the harbor with a very nimble and fast movement, and Bo Fu also saw the appearance of the maritime merchants pouring into the shipbuilding merchant's house

The number of youkai sailors who were tied to the sailboat was small, that is, fifteen, and five people who operated the sailboat were enough - in a place far from the shore, Bo Fu also cast a demon spell to transform the ship (to be continued......