This wooden sunken ship under the sea is still well preserved, and the wooden structure has suffered almost no damage.

Those wooden boards are still very strong despite being soaked in sea water.

Maybe this sunken ship can be salvaged and repaired before it can sail again.

This provides high research value to many cultural relic researchers.

They can use this to study the grand occasion of Zheng He's voyages to the West and the shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty.

These are all good research objects.

Such a well-preserved Ming Dynasty treasure ship is really rare to see.

Some old Ming Dynasty shipbuilding sites have been salvaged before, but compared with the complete ships salvaged this time, they are completely incomparable.

This sunken ship is a ship made of 2,000 materials. It adopts a "wide at the bottom" structure, with the bow higher than the stern.

This kind of ship shape has high performance in controlling stability in rough seas. At that time, the bottom tank of the ship was ballasted with earth and rocks, and its stability could be said to be second to none at the time. In order to further improve the stability, the Ming Dynasty treasure ships also used waterwood and drapes on both sides.

Water board. This kind of wooden board facing the side of the ship can further reduce the amplitude of the ship's hull shaking to both sides.

Another unique design of the hull structure at that time was to have multiple transverse bulkheads, which divided the entire cabin into multiple cabins according to function. The interior of the ship was divided into different cabins with wooden boards and sealed with each other. This not only strengthened the ship's

The structure is subdivided, watertight and anti-sinking. The researchers counted west and found that there are about twenty-five cabins. This is why the ship can carry so many items. It is also very stable and can carry so many items.

That’s why it’s still well preserved.

Erqianliang sea-going ship adopts an all-wood structure.

The ship craftsmanship of the Ming Dynasty developed to include spade nails, iron curiums, shovel nails, leech nails, etc., so that complex wooden structures can be easily assembled, hung, and reinforced with various ship nails to prevent them from falling apart.
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The basic ship type of the Ming Dynasty treasure ship mentioned above is a Fu ship, with a small square bow and a wide and flat stern.

The architectural form is a building ship. There is a deckhouse in the middle of the main deck to form a midship building with bulwarks. There are three stern buildings at the stern and a two-story transparent forecastle at the bow. From the bottom tank to the deck, there are

It is five floors.

There is a majestic tiger head relief on the front of the bow, a solemn flying dragon relief or painting on the front of both sides, a phoenix painting on the rear, and a roc with wings spread above the stern plate.

Do you think this value is high?

The movement of wooden sailboats on the sea mainly relies on the wind power of sails and the paddling of water by sailors. The Ming Dynasty treasure ships adopt unique designs in these two important links of the power propulsion system.

First of all, unlike the segmented soft sails used by European sailing ships at the time, the Ming Dynasty treasure ships used a hard sail structure with stays on the sail surface. Although this kind of sail is heavy and laborious to raise, it has extremely high wind reception efficiency.

This increases the speed of the ship. Moreover, the mast does not have fixed beams, so it can adapt to sudden changes in sea conditions. It can adjust and swivel its legs flexibly, and can effectively take advantage of the wind coming from multiple directions.

Different from the oars, the Ming Dynasty treasure ships were equipped with long sculls on both sides and stern. This long scull goes deep into the water and can be swayed by many people. The semi-rotating action of the scull underwater is similar to today's propellers, and the propulsion efficiency is high. In the unmanned aerial vehicle,

It can maintain a considerable speed even when the wind is windy, and the wading area outside the boat is small, making it suitable for sailing in crowded waters in narrow harbors.

As everyone salvaged the sunken ship and analyzed the structure of the sunken ship, the key reason for the sinking of the ship was finally found.

It was mainly caused by the crew’s own operational errors.

It was due to its own operational errors, and the fact that the sunken ship ran aground on the rocks while going to sea. After all, it was the first time to go to sea, and we were still in the process of exploring the route. Then we encountered strong winds, causing the ship to roll over.

The ship sank before the hull could be repaired.

However, although the ship sank, the people on the ship were fine and were rescued back to other ships.

This also taught the fleet experience, and we have never encountered such a situation again.

Researchers soon discovered a rather special thing, clam shell glass, while salvaging the sunken ship.

This is equivalent to the light source in the boat. There is no need to use open flames for lighting. After all, in this wooden structure boat, the most feared thing is open flames. Once the fire is used improperly, it will definitely explode in an instant and cannot be saved.
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Totally too late.

Therefore, the fleet has strict regulations on the use of open flames, and you can't just use it if you want. Unlike now, if you want to smoke, you can just use a lighter.

Just like in a cotton factory, you are not allowed to use fire easily, and even static electricity must be protected.

Each of these clam shells is cut into a neat rectangle from the flattest piece about the size of a palm, and is carefully polished to make it smooth and flat. The thickness of the clam slices is only 0.1 mm, and it is very transparent, but the original curved surface of the clam shell is

The texture is still clear, but the other side emits the unique pearl luster on the inner wall of the clam shell.

Craftsmen will place the ground clam slices on the thin treasure ship wooden lattice windows with a length and width of 6-7 cm, which not only blocks the waves, wind and rain, but also ensures the transparency of the house. When the glass is not used, the treasure ship

This kind of lighting is a pioneering work.

This is a very important discovery and a very special thing. It is definitely one of the most attractive items on this ship.

The discovery of this sunken ship also gradually solved some mysteries for everyone.

After all, this treasure ship with more than 2,000 materials is not yet the main ship, which means that the main ship will be bigger.

Therefore, the previous inference that the Zheng He treasure ship as the main ship may have a displacement of 10,000 tons is very possible.

Some scholars have restored the treasure ship based on shipbuilding principles and Chinese-style wooden sailing building procedures, and calculated that the largest treasure ship has a full load displacement of approximately tons. Taking the square coefficient of 0.43, it can carry 9824 tons.

This shipwreck can definitely provide great research value for Zheng He's voyages to the West and the Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding technology, and can reproduce the leading shipbuilding technology at that time.

"Awesome!"

One expert looked excited. He had never been so happy as he is now.

The well-preserved state of this sunken ship provided a lot of useful information for his research.

"Although the ship sank, it was better preserved."

The other sunk ships have long since disappeared in the long river of history and can never be found again. They may have been burned in subsequent wars, they may have been dismantled, or they may even have been damaged in subsequent battles.

But this ship was the best-preserved ship because of its accidental sinking in the past.

After being discovered hundreds of years later, it became the subject of research.

"I didn't expect this luck to be so good."

"The things found in the old shipbuilding site that were discovered before were less than one-tenth of this ship."

Do you think they are excited or not?

And all this is thanks to Fang Hao. If he hadn't discovered the sunken ship, it is estimated... that the ship would still be alone on the bottom of the sea, and it would be difficult to be found.

Maybe it will be discovered eventually, but it may be hundreds of years later.

So Fang Hao's contribution to this is not ordinary.

The salvage of the sunken ship is progressing very smoothly, and researchers have also used 3D scanning structures to scan and preserve the sunken ship.

As for the sunken ship, experts on site tried to carry out repair plans to see if it could be repaired, and then... they salvaged the sunken ship and towed it back to the port.

Compared with the weight of the ironclad ship, the weight of this wooden sunken ship will definitely be much lighter.

The repair plan is not complicated, and it is not difficult with current equipment and equipment.

As the commander-in-chief of the scene, Fang Hao coordinated and handled these matters so that all these matters could be resolved.

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On the Internet, a group of people watched the live broadcast of the sunken ship being salvaged.

Everyone watched it with gusto.

"Damn it, it turns out our shipbuilding technology was so advanced before!"

After learning about the structure of these Ming treasure ships, a group of people were surprised.

These shipbuilding craftsmanship was definitely leading the world at that time, and it was definitely unique.

Look at those in Europe and America at the same time, those people are still far behind us.

Even though they had already started the Renaissance at that time.

But before the industrial revolution began, those people were still far behind us.

"This is the confidence of our Ming Dynasty!"

"Those designs are so cool."

"I can still feel how advanced it was back then."

"At that time, it was possible to build ships with a displacement of several thousand tons or 10,000 tons. How terrifying this is!"

"If this is an ocean war, who else will we be afraid of?"

"It's definitely a dimensionality reduction attack."

"So why are we like this now?"

"We are all closed to the outside world. We have been stuck in our ways, so we are slowly falling behind."

"Ah ah ah, it's all that woman's fault. If it weren't for her, how could we have been so miserable and set back three hundred years?"

"Fortunately, we are almost back in pursuit now."

Everyone is very angry. When they think of the bad history of the past, it is not ordinary bad.

Fortunately, this is all over now.
To be continued...