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"It's really not easy to build your boat!" Zhang Chengjia said with a smile: "The key is that my family doesn't have such a small dock. I had to ask someone else to help build it!"

Wen Fei naturally knew that although the Zhang family was declining. But there are still several shipyards in hand, and even an old shipyard in Europe.

Now ocean transportation, at least 10,000-ton ships. If it's too small, then there is no cost advantage at all, and it won't survive at all. It was really embarrassing to build this 500-ton river steamer.

Wen Fei smiled, and was not polite to Zhang Chengjia. Boarding the boat, it looked wide and flat, and the waterline was not deep. It is suitable for driving in rivers.

But none of this matters, the key is the power of the ship. It is actually a boiler, and it doesn't matter if the boiler is burned, and it can burn inferior coal......

This is really too important! You know, there is not a lot of coal in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Many people have the impression that the ancients burned firewood, including the great master himself. But I didn't think about how much fuel would be consumed every day in a city like Tokyo City, a city with a population of millions concentrated in one settlement?

During the Northern Song Dynasty, its copper output was as high as 14605969 catties, almost 55 times that of the 15th year of the Tang Dynasty. But how much fuel does it take to smelt? And what about steel?

Ceramics, boiling salt, brewing, gold, silver, lead, tin, alum mining and metallurgy, as well as people's daily energy and various wood tools, building materials, deforestation and land reclamation, etc. The annual consumption of wood will be in the tens of millions of cubic meters.

In fact, the Northern Song Dynasty began to use coal on a large scale, and even many homes in Tokyo City used coal for heating in winter. Of course, these were called charcoal in the Song Dynasty.

It's just that the coal is burned out and there is gas. Carbon monoxide. It has a strange smell when burned, and it is easy to be poisoned by gas. Therefore, those who burned charcoal for heating were of course poor in the Northern Song Dynasty. For example, rich families heat themselves in winter, and they burn good smokeless carbon fires.

Although the quality of the coal in the Northern Song Dynasty is certainly not very good, it is enough for this steam engine. Even if there is no coal in this steam engine, even firewood can be burned......

"I really don't know what you're doing when you build this kind of strange ship?" Zhang Chengjia sighed.

Wen Fei smiled: "Naturally, it has my use." ”

Zhang Chengjia saw that Wen Fei refused to speak, and he didn't ask any more. For Wen Fei, he is still in awe. said with a smile: "The master acts, we laymen will definitely not be able to guess!"

Wen Fei was noncommittal. I followed and learned how to drive the ship for a long time. It's not too much trouble to say, modern ships are much easier to drive than sails, and there are no so troublesome sails.

But. The ship. It's not that Master Wen can drive away alone, what makes Master Wen a little annoyed is how to get this ship back to the Northern Song Dynasty?

You can't let this ship disappear in the dockyard for no apparent reason, right?

But Wen Fei's eyes lit up then, isn't there someone using it in front of him. At that moment, he asked Zhang Chengjia: "How can I get this ship away secretly?"

Zhang Chengjia said with a smile: "This kind of thing is not the simplest, let the shipyard ignore the movement here at night." No matter what you do, they won't care, after all, can you go to a world war with this ship?"

Wen Fei thought about it too. What is there to worry about such a backward ship. So it was on this windy and dark night. A boat quietly disappeared into this world without anyone knowing.

This gave Wen Fei the biggest lesson, although he had understood this truth before. But after this incident, it became clearer and clearer.

Big people don't need a reason to do things! When powerful people do things, naturally someone will help you cover them up, instead of thinking about it yourself......

The son of the Zhang family, who wants to build a weird boat to play around, and wants to drive away secretly, do you need a reason?

God knows what strange things these rich boys who can't spend enough money will do in addition to playing yachts and small models on Hainan Island?

So on the wharf of the Bianhe River, in a large area of the river that had been cleared by the officers and soldiers, the water suddenly splashed. A steel boat painted with red anti-rust paint suddenly appeared on the canal.

The exclamations came and went, although they watched those officers and soldiers blocking the river as if they were facing a great enemy, and they didn't know what to do. But it has been made clear to everyone that something important will happen.

But such a large ship made of steel can actually float on the water. It still scared everyone.

The timid one lay on the ground with a pop. Even if you are bold, you are still a god for half a day. It took a long time before someone realized that someone reacted: "It's the Heavenly Master, it must be the Heavenly Master who brought down such a big ship from the sky!"

Sure enough, I saw our Wenda Heavenly Master then, and he got out of the cockpit with a gray face. This boiler-burning thing is just dirty!

The eight commanders of the Liangshan Army were all waiting on the shore, especially the brothers of the Ruan family who were very unruly. Regarding the matter of Liangshan Zhao'an, he is even more opposed.

It's just that among the three armies of Liangshan and Mabushui, the status of the navy is the lowest. The commander of the Liangshan infantry army is the flower monk Lu Zhishen. The commander of the Ma army is Xiao Li Guanghuarong. Prestigious figures.

And Li Jun is the first brother of the navy, but the ranking is behind Mu Hong. In Tiangang Star, they are all countdown characters. You can imagine how low the status of this water army is!

Therefore, since the ranking of the Ruan family brothers is low, it is conceivable that there is no weight in speaking. Naturally, it is not taken seriously, and even if it is opposed, it is useless.

But in this way, the Ruan family brothers' mood is not very smooth. It has always been a passive strike, ignoring the orders of the Heavenly Master of Wenda......

However, the most important thing for the Wenda Heavenly Master is the water army in Liangshan. Although Liangshan's sailors don't know how. However, there is indeed a lack of people available in the hands of Wenda Heavenly Master. I have to hope that I am above the Liangshan Water Army.

Most of the eight commanders were not very convinced by Wen Fei, the Heavenly Master. I was called to the river early in the morning to blow a cold wind, and when I was already extremely anxious, I heard a pop and splashed water.

Ruan Xiaoqi, who didn't have a good temper, just wanted to scold, but saw his brother Ruan Xiaoer pointing behind him in a daze, looking like he couldn't give up......

Ruan Xiaoqi turned his head. I was stunned. A large boat more than ten meters long and five or six meters wide appeared on the surface of the river in this turn.

It is said that in previous years. It is estimated that it can carry more than 20,000 stone and has a carrying capacity of about 1,100 tons.

But Ruan Xiaoqi has never seen it. And the big ship with a displacement of 500 tons in front of him. It's appalling enough. It's not the size of the ship, the size of the wooden ship is definitely not the same as the iron ship.

The Song Dynasty shipwreck "Nanhai No. 1", which was discovered in the waters of Yangjiang in the 80s of the last century, is the largest Song Dynasty ship found in the world. The length is more than 26 meters, the width is more than 10 meters, the hull is 8 meters high without the mast, the displacement is estimated to reach 600 tons, and the load may be nearly 800 tons.

It is only about 100 tons of displacement, but the volume of this ship is almost half larger. The momentum is also much more magnificent than this kind of flat-plane boat.

The key issue is the color of the ship. This texture, no matter how you look at it, looks like an iron ship......

"This ...... This...... Can iron float on the water?" Ruan Xiaoqi was completely dizzy.

Commander of eight naval armies. Dumbfounded, I couldn't care much, and one by one I rushed to the vicinity of the dock. Looking at the grizzled Heavenly Master Wen, he said in fear, "Father Shang, is this the ship you brought down from the sky?"

Wen Fei smiled slightly: "How about it?" Do you want to come up and try it?"

The shape of this ship is quite strange, in order to be further transformed in the Northern Song Dynasty, so that it can be used as a warship. Master Wen had the entire deck of the ship welded a circle of steel plates, at least a meter high. It looks even more nondescript to the extreme!

"How can this boat run without sails?" Zhang Shun said in surprise.

At this time, the others came back to their senses from the shock that such a large piece of iron could actually float on the water. Yes, how can a boat sail without sails?

But how many sailors do you need to row such a large ship, and how far can it run? Is this ship an empty shelf?

Wen Fei laughed, it was really pleasing to be able to shock these dirt buns who didn't deal with him. Wen Da Heavenly Master thought of it very uselessly.

He called them aboard the boat and said, "Don't worry, this boat doesn't need sails, and no one needs to row it." As long as there is charcoal, the boat can run!"

The eight former commanders of the Liangshan Water Army, and the current generals of the Shenwei Army, are skeptical. Never heard of the kind of charcoal that can make a fire to keep warm, and at best smelt metal, to drive a ship away?

Could it be that they set fire to the back of the boat's butt and then burn the boat away? The group looked strange, if Wen Fei hadn't scared them all with such a lump of iron that could float on the water, maybe Ruan Xiaoqi would have said something ugly by now.

But now, they could only follow Master Wen Da on the boat with half a doubt. When it came to the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a lot of manpower available. Wenda Heavenly Master is not stupid, he went to add coal to the boiler by himself.

This old-fashioned boiler that can burn low-quality coal and even firewood is really very tight. Wen Fei estimated that the speed of this boat could run more than a dozen knots was already quite remarkable, and it was not possible to run at such a fast speed.

Do you need such speed on the canal though?

Instructed a few naval commanders with a novel face to add coal to the boiler. This kind of boiler wants to burn completely, and there is no half-hour or hour-long rest.

A few commanders were curious, but they couldn't take care of it, and desperately added coal to it. The water in the boiler is heated up quickly, and it is boiling hot. A whistle of "...... buzz" sounds, when the pressure of the boiler finally reaches a pressure.

Wen Da Tianshi couldn't take care of too much and started the ship. So on the ancient Bianhe River, the iron boat emitted a terrifying roar, spitting black smoke with sparks, just like the kind of monster that appeared in mythology and ran out to eat people wrapped in dark wind and black clouds.

I don't know how many people on both sides of the Bianhe River were frightened by such a movement.

Then I saw that the iron boat was shaking violently, parting from the unclean water of the Bianhe River, and slowly moving.

On both sides of the strait, I am afraid that tens of thousands of people watching the excitement cheered, and I don't know what to be happy about.

When the ship finally started, the most excited were the few sailor generals who took turns shoveling coal, and were covered in black like Africans. Only after putting in the labor and personally participating in it, will the fruits obtained be more cherished by oneself.

This truth is common in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad! When these generals of the navy army have paid a huge amount of labor. When I saw that the iron boat finally slowly left the river bank and sailed forward. These generals shouted the loudest.

"The more the fire burns, the faster the boat will run!" Wen Fei's words were firmly remembered by them. It felt that the ship was not fast enough, and only a few commanders who were ordinary people spreading speed cheered and diligently shoveled up the coal.

At this time, it was the turn of the Wenda Heavenly Master to sweat. He really hadn't sailed a boat, especially a steam boat, and the last time he drove a yacht with an internal combustion engine, the river ship flat-bottomed boat, which was completely different.

For those modern vessels, the automation is extremely high. Often even if it is a 10,000-ton giant ship, it only takes a few people to manipulate the posture. Especially those yachts for the rich, which are much simpler to operate, are completely foolish.

But this time it was different, no one designed an autopilot system for this steamship piloted by Master Wenda, and no one wrote a set of control software for him.

Wen Fei, who had to rely on himself to use the rudder to take the helm, was already sweating like rain at this time.

The Bianhe River is several hundred meters wide, but after all, it is only a small canal. Moreover, the ships come and go, leaving the navigable waterway even narrower. So under the manipulation of Wen Fei, a layman shipyard, in the cheers of hundreds of people on both sides of the strait.

The iron boat piloted by the Great Celestial Master crashed into a cargo ship by the river that hurriedly gave way. At this time, the boiler is heating, and the speed is at least seven or eight knots. Crashed headfirst into the ship.

Steel and wood wrestle again, Wen Fei was originally designed by the standards of a warship. Therefore, the steel plate used in this ship is an order of magnitude better than the ordinary marine steel plate.

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