A simple Taoist robe, a simple Taoist bun, and a simple whisk, that's all he has. Oh, and there is also a storage ring on his finger.
Facing Zhang Hao's surprised look, Guang Yangzi smiled gently: "Why, little friend, do you feel a little shabby?"
Zhang Hao smiled a little sheepishly, "Senior, please make me laugh. Senior, please come inside."
As he spoke, he asked the guards to inform his father Zhang Shengde. The headmaster had already come forward in person, so the Zhang family had to show enough respect, and only Zhang Shengde could come forward in person.
Zhang Hao continued to receive everyone at the door. After a while, Bai Ye also came with a few people smiling. Because there were outsiders present, Bai Ye did not call Zhang Hao 'junior brother'.
"Master Zhang, I take the liberty of disturbing you."
Zhang Hao looked at the smile in Bai Ye's eyes and said, "Deacon Bai is here in person, and the Zhang family is full of glory. Please, please."
After the white night, the representative of Xinglin Hall finally arrived belatedly. The representative of Xinglin Hall was Zhou Shuhai’s eldest disciple, Xie Hongsheng, who was similar in age to Zhang Hao.
Among the representatives from all parties, Xie Hongsheng is the youngest. The last time he went to Xinglin Hall, Zhang Hao did not see Xie Hongsheng. He seemed to be in retreat. Now Zhang Hao saw this young man. He was very calm and spoke in a leisurely manner.
I don’t know if it’s the temperament created by alchemy.
After Xinglin Hall, everyone had arrived. Zhang Hao accompanied Xie Hongsheng as he walked inside, talking at the same time. For such a disciple of Zhou Shuhai, Zhang Hao was a little wary - would the moon come first when you are near the water~
Xie Hongsheng didn't talk much and felt a bit bored. When talking about the division of interests this time, Xie Hongsheng just said that he just came to take a look, and Zhou Jue was responsible for the specific negotiations.
This time Zhou Jue only represents Xinglin Hall, while the headmaster of Jiuyang Sect personally takes action.
By the time Zhang Hao arrived in the lobby, Zhang Shengde was already entertaining everyone, and everyone was chatting and laughing; for the time being, they were mostly talking about cultivation, the situation in the Kingdom of Jinyang, etc.
Zhou Jue sat aside and looked at Zhang Hao blankly, his eyes... very complicated.
Zhang Hao gave Zhou Jue an ordinary smile and looked at everyone: "Thank you all for taking the time to come to Zhang's house. Please come with me."
Mei Qianyun from Yuxue Villa was the first to speak: "Zhang Hao, we are here to discuss shares today, where are you taking us?"
"How about I take Fairy Mei to see the sea?" Zhang Hao smiled.
Everyone burst out laughing.
Mei Qianyun spat angrily, "After a few days of not seeing each other, things have turned bad. Yingying, I heard that Zhang Hao has been playing some kind of hidden beauty in a golden house recently."
"Ahem!" Before Mu Yingying could speak, Zhou Jue was the first to quit, "Fairy Mei, we are going to see the iron ship model that the Zhang family just built. If you don't want to see it, just forget it."
After saying that, Zhou Jue turned around coolly and walked out. When he passed by Zhang Hao, he asked dryly: "Let's go to the seaside where the Dutian Liehuo Array was installed last time."
Zhang Hao nodded and Zhou Jue strode away.
Zhang Hao smiled at everyone and said, "Everyone, please. The Zhang family has built the first model of an ironclad ship."
Zhang Shengde also extended the invitation again, and everyone walked out chatting and laughing. They were also very curious about the so-called "ironclad ship" of the Zhang family. Although we had seen the one-meter-sized model last time, it was too crude.
I can't feel the power of industry at all.
Mu Yingying looked at Zhang Hao's figure, gritted her teeth, and approached Zhang Hao. "Brother, can you tell me something about the armored ship?"
Zhang Hao looked at Mu Yingying. The girl bit her lower lip and looked a little sad.
Zhang Hao felt a little guilty and had a headache, and nodded: "This time the armored ship is the result of more than three hundred craftsmen working almost non-stop for a month.
The design of an ironclad ship can be said to be completely different from that of traditional ships. This difference is not just about replacing wood with steel. The biggest difference lies in technology and design.
Compared with traditional ships, the bottom of the ironclad ship is convex rather than flat.
And because of the heavy weight of the ironclad, we completely canceled traditional methods such as sails and oars, and instead adopted the mechanical power that everyone has seen before.
Also, the traditional connection between ship templates mainly uses the mortise and tenon method, with auxiliary nails. The sealing method is mainly glue, paint, hemp, etc.
The new ironclads are completely connected by rivets. For sealing, most of them rely on the process itself. Sometimes soft copper sheets are used to complete the sealing.
In fact, sealing technology is one of the most difficult technologies for making ironclads."
Zhang Hao talked as he walked, and everyone asked various questions from time to time; after a while, he arrived at the beach, where the Dutian Liehuo Formation was last installed.
The waves roll tirelessly, but there are no longer many marine monsters here. The Dutian Fierce Formation has turned the sea area within a radius of five or six kilometers into blazing, which is no longer suitable for the survival of marine monsters. With the surrounding dark green
Compared with the sea water, the sea water here is translucent blue, with a vague sense of death.
However, everyone's eyes were focused on the port.
This port is still very crude. It is better to call it a port than a pier. It just has a few wooden piles and a few wooden boards.
However, the 'ironclad ship' parked next to the port is particularly eye-catching.
As Zhang Hao said, only after seeing it can you feel the majesty of the armored ship.
Bai Ye jogged a few steps and came to the port for a closer look. Previously, he only thought Zhang Hao was bragging, but after seeing it, he really felt an indescribable power; the black hull revealed
A kind of heavy and domineering.
Compared with traditional wooden ships and those flashy flying boats, although the current ironclad ship is only ten meters long, it has subverted Bai Ye's traditional concept.
The hull is slender and gives people a vague sense of sharpness.
The most obvious thing on the ship is the three-meter-high mast. Then there is a red waterline on the hull.
The hull is straight from top to bottom, with hard lines, and an atmosphere of the steel industry comes to mind. There are no complicated sails or oars, and the hull is completely sealed. The most obvious thing on the surface of the hull is undoubtedly the rows of rivets.
Already.
There are two ways of rivet arrangement. One is double row and the other is four row. It can be seen from the rivet direction that four rows of rivets are used in the main load-bearing beams and other positions, while two rows of rivets are used in the secondary positions.
The rivets are as big as fists, and the rivets are arranged very densely, with only ten centimeters between each rivet.
The white night gently patted the side of the ship, feeling the thickness of the steel, and then looked at the deck. The deck was made of wood. But the mast on the deck was the most eye-catching. It was a lookout, but compared to the hull, it was too high.
Already.
Bai Ye frowned slightly and asked: "Although I have never studied ships, is your mast a little high? Will it cause instability to the ship?"
Zhang Hao smiled, "Deacon Bai will know later.
Everyone, the boat can carry 20 people, and everyone can take turns to get on and experience it."
Before Zhang Hao finished speaking, more than 20 people immediately rushed onto the deck. The ship was not big, so when more than 20 people were squeezed in at once, the deck seemed crowded; and the waterline on the ship was also close to the sea.
Everyone swayed back and forth on the deck, wanting to test the balance of the ship, but they were soon surprised to find that no matter how they swayed, no matter how the ship bumped, it would automatically correct itself.
"Very stable!" Mu Pengcheng said, "My family has built boats before, but even the best building boats, which are seventy or eighty feet long, are not as stable as this boat. It's strange... Oh, I understand.
Yes, the bottom of this boat is very heavy and you can hold it back."
"We call it the center of gravity!" Hou Shangzhuo and Wang Dake, the shipbuilding leaders of the Zhang family, came over and it was Hou Shangzhuo who spoke.
Mu Pengcheng turned to look at Hou Shangzhuo. When he saw that he was just a craftsman in the Qi refining stage, he suddenly looked down upon him, "What's so important and so careless?"
Hou Shangzhuo smiled, turned to look at the last few people who boarded the boat, and asked them to get off.
"Why!" Someone quits, so you, a little craftsman, can command me?
Hou Shangzhuo still kept smiling: "I am the person in charge of this ship, and I have the final say on this ship!"
After successfully building the ironclad ship (model), Hou Shangzhuo quickly matured and became confident.
"Come down! We are here to observe and learn today, not to cause trouble. In this sea trial, safety comes first." On the shore, the headmaster of Jiuyang Sect spoke.
Hou Shangzhuo watched several people go down, stood at the bow of the ship, and said loudly: "Please let me introduce to you the general data of this ironclad ship.
This ironclad ship is still a model, with a length of 10.6 meters, a width of 2.7 meters, a draft of 1.6 meters, a full load displacement of about 22 tons, and a dead weight of 12 tons.
The ship's keel, load-bearing frame, ship sides, etc. are all made of ordinary iron, and the hull is riveted.
In terms of the power system, in order to propel the heavy hull, we abandoned traditional sails, paddles, etc. and adopted our own mechanical power technology.
Of course, this ship is still a model after all, and many technologies are still being tried and perfected. But we can already see a bit of the future of steel ships.
Please stand still, the ship is about to start."
Having said that, Hou Shangzhuo ordered the craftsmen to take their places - there were currently no sailors and no one had sailing experience. Therefore, the temporary sailors were shipbuilders and other craftsmen. They were most familiar with this ironclad ship.
Some craftsmen climbed to the observation deck of the mast, and some got into the engine room. Hou Shangzhuo and Wang Dake stood at the bow of the ship to command. The deck was now empty, with no buildings; the only item was the rudder.
Standing at the bow of the ship, Hou Shangzhuo and Wang Dake looked at each other, seeing the surprise and confidence in their own eyes, and then looked at the vast sea ahead.
Hou Shangzhuo shouted: "Start!"
"Start!" a craftsman shouted.
Voices full of pride floated in the waves and sea breeze. Bai Ye and others looked at Hou Shangzhuo's back, and suddenly had a strange feeling: their backs seemed very tall!
Bai Ye suddenly felt a tremor under his feet, a low and powerful buzzing sound, and then he felt the ship begin to move slowly.
"How did it move? Why didn't you feel the breath of the formation?" Bai Ye couldn't help but ask. He had never seen a steam turbine before.
"It's a steam turbine!" said a person who had visited the steam turbine last time.
"Qi... what kind of chicken?" Bai Ye didn't understand.