Today, four monster ships arrived on the pier of the port.
Why are they called monsters?
Because, their appearance is simply huge and terrifying that they have never seen before.
Although they are not as large as the several large-scale warships beside them.
But it also far exceeds the size of other ships.
It is seven to eight feet long and two to three feet wide. When docked on the pier, it looks like a monster from the deep sea, which is intimidating.
However, these monster ships are different from the Han family ships that often appeared on the docks in the past.
All of them have eliminated the parapets and floors of the building.
But that doesn't make them smaller.
On the contrary, it showed the majesty of a maritime overlord and an invincible ship.
This is because, after the bulky parapets and floors of the building ship were eliminated, these things were replaced by an unprecedentedly huge mast.
Four huge masts stand on the hulls of these monsters.
Although the huge sails have been lowered, any pedestrian who sees these masts will know that this kind of ship has the ability to brave the wind and waves on the sea.
It is a new generation of Han family's main ship designed entirely for the ocean.
"Junhou, this is Lou Chuan Yamen's brand new elite warship!" Xu Ji took Chen Xi and stood on the deck of a monster, and proudly introduced to the latter: "This ship was built by Jiangdu Shipyard.
The first-class craftsmen from Qi, Lu, Wu and Chu were recruited by the Louchuan Yamen and built according to His Majesty's will. It is the most suitable ship for sailing the sea in the world today!"
After the establishment of the Louchuan Yamen, Louchuan and others took on the offshore patrol, escort and transportation tasks of Qilu-Liaodong-Korea.
After a long period of practice, everyone on and off the building boat knew that the old building boat was just a kind of ship designed to fight in the inland waterway.
Its performance on the ocean is not as good as on inland rivers. It is not as reliable as imagined.
So far, several large ships have sunk in storms or tides offshore.
Hundreds of soldiers and generals died after falling into the water.
Therefore, Lou Chuan Yamen began to urgently need a brand new ship suitable for sailing on the sea.
So in the first month of last year, after the report was submitted by the building ship, the emperor approved it, and the design and construction of this brand-new large-scale warship began in Jiangdu Kingdom.
At the beginning of the design, the design goal of this kind of warship was to be used for long-distance voyages on the sea.
At the beginning, the design was not smooth.
After all, China has never had experience designing a ship specifically for ocean navigation.
However, the emperor later intervened in this matter and issued an edict to remove all unnecessary buildings and structures on the basis of the building ship, and required the hull structure to be improved to adapt to the natural environment of rolling ocean waves and changeable climate.
As a result, there is now such a monster battleship.
This brand-new warship is the first of its kind in Zhuxia, specially designed for the marine environment.
It made reference to all the adverse reactions of building ships in the ocean reported by the building ship yamen, and made various designs suitable for sea navigation.
For example, its four-sided sails are made of hard cloth. Once it sails into the sea, when moving against the wind, the speed is nearly two-thirds faster than the old building ships. When the sail is full, the speed is even faster than a galloping horse.
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It only took half a month to get from Jiangdu to North Korea!
This was unimaginable in the past!
However, even so, this kind of battleship is only an experimental ship.
Only four ships were built in total, and only these four were built.
The meaning of Lou Chuan Yamen is to use these four ships to test whether their design is reasonable, and then use the feedback suggestions in practice to continuously modify and improve them.
The ultimate goal is to create an ocean-going ship that can span the ocean and reach thousands of miles away.
After hearing about Chen Xi's plan to visit the country of the Japanese slaves, Xu Ji's uncle Xu Wen immediately ordered that the four ships that had just completed the sea trials be transferred to North Korea to participate in this war.
Voyage.
The purpose is to take this opportunity to test whether the design meets actual needs.
After all, the distance between North Korea and the country of Japanese slaves is neither close nor far.
It can be said to be both offshore and offshore.
Of course, the most important thing is
This operation of Lou Chuan Yamen also had the task of finding where the Xu Fu fleet sent by Qin Shihuang had gone.
At that time, Xu Fu led three thousand boys and girls and a huge fleet to the sea to visit the gods and obtain the elixir.
After going to sea, he disappeared without a trace.
It’s hard not to pay attention to this matter!
You know, Xu Fu's fleet carried a large amount of treasures, artifacts and gold and jade.
If we can find them and retrieve the wealth, there will be hope for the Lou Chuan Yamen's funds.
Moreover, Xu Ji was very aware of his uncle's ambitions.
General Lou Chuan does not want to just show off his power in the inland river, or be a fisherman, catching fish in the black water.
On and off the building and on the boat, they were not willing to just hang around and wait to die.
Up and down, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers are eager to find a new world.
A new world that only Lou Chuan Yamen can travel to and conquer.
Even if you take 10,000 steps back, you still have to find a route to the body and open up this route.
At present, the King of Nanyue is in Chang'an, and everyone in the Louchuan Yamen has high hopes for Nanyue.
They all want to use this to open a route to body poison.
Everyone's ideas are very simple. If he can come, I can go.
Since Shendu merchants can come to South Vietnam, it makes no sense that Chinese building ships cannot go to Shendu.
Once this waterway is opened up and ships can be launched up and down, a fortune will be made immediately!
The upper and lower pockets are all bursting.
Therefore, today's building boats can be said to be very motivated.
Of course, Xu Ji would not tell Chen Xi about these things.
Xu Ji acted like "I'll do the work, you can rest assured", and he impassionedly explained the advantages of these four new warships to Chen Xi one by one. In many places, he naturally exaggerated and Chen Xi couldn't understand it anyway.
Chen Xi, of course, does not understand navigation, nor does he know anything about building ships.
Even before this year, he didn't know what people had for three meals a day.
But young people have great minds.
Chen Xi listened as Xu Ji kept boasting about how strong, fast and powerful these new warships were.
My heart was also filled with excitement.
Moreover, he carefully observed these new warships and after on-site inspection, he also felt that such large ships were indeed very reliable.
The huge sails on the deck gave him a sense of security.
"This Captain has decided!" Chen Xi stroked the thick rope on the deck and said to Xu Ji: "I will sail with the fleet to the country of the Japanese slaves!"
In Chen's mind, this new type of warship was large and strong, and Xu Ji was impressed by it, and the country of the Japanese slaves was not too far away from North Korea.
Korean barbarians can row small sampans, float along the ocean currents, catch Japanese slaves and float them back. It doesn't make sense. Now that there are such majestic ships and powerful fleets, they can't reach them!
What's more important is that he personally commanded the fleet and marched thousands of miles to the outside of the eight wastelands, a foreign land of barbarians that is not recorded.
This is an unprecedented and great journey.
How can we not leave his name in the history books in the future? (~^~)
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