Bah!

One of the pirate captives spat the ground, turned his head and struggled to pick up the heavy stone and walk forward.

Behind him is the ever-growing port of Hung Kai, the port named after someone else.

In the harbor, more than thirty ships that had just been captured from the pirates dropped their sails and anchored quietly. The bloodthirsty pirates who used to operate these ships across the world temporarily played the role of coolies, contributing their own strength to the infrastructure construction of the Han Dynasty's territory.

Following the direction spurned by the pirates, we can see that at the entrance to the port, the Yuehai Tower on the hill was built with countless manpower.

It is said that it is a building, but if you think so, it is very wrong!

The building is just this building, or part of this group of buildings. This building is actually a mixture of a fortress and a fort.

Relying on the mountain, five thousand officials and slaves worked hard for nearly half a year to finally complete this fortress. The hardships involved in this are known only to Shouhan himself.

"! In order to build this gate, it took almost half of Lao Tzu's cement and lime and thousands of stones of gunpowder. ”

Fortunately, there is also the application of the original pulley set overhead crane, which makes it less difficult to transport those large stones that have been blasted by gunpowder, but it is also extremely hard.

Truckloads of crushed stones were transported to the foot of the mountain, where small bucket carts loaded with stones were towed on huge winches and carried up the hill along the slides. "In the construction of the interior, the transportation of large wooden boulders is to slide on the ice in winter, Annam is hot, and the military situation is urgent, it is impossible to use this method, fortunately, the general pointed out the slide, and at any cost, with the best fine iron to build the slide. In this way, the delivery of stone is much faster. Lei Mingsheng, one of the directors of the workshop who presided over the construction, was full of praise.

For now, however, the group of prisoners carrying stones in the harbor did not think so.

"Lao Hai, if we kill the guards and jump into the sea to the nearest boat, what do you think we have a chance of escaping?" The pirate, who had just been spitting, walked up to his companion and asked in a low voice.

"I advise you to die of this heart! As soon as dawn I saw the terrain. This fortress is extremely tricky. The artillery fire on three sides, one facing the harbor, one side blocking the shipping lane, and the other side, facing the sea. As long as the gunner is not blind, even if we succeed in seizing the ship, I am afraid that we will be sunk before we leave the port! The captive, known as Lao Hai, stared at Yuehailou with a gloomy face.

"Son of a bitch! I don't know which bad guy built such a fortress without virtue! ”

"Lao Tzu cursed him for everything not going well today!"

At this moment, that yin guy is convening a meeting in the large conference hall of Yuehai Building.

Zuo Tianpeng led the smuggling to the north, oh, several captains, boatswains, and gunners of the trade fleet, and various functional departments of the General's Mansion, according to the so-called household room, officials' room, soldier's room, workshop, and ceremonial room, except for the person who hated the ghost Bao Zhongchen did not come, the rest were all here.

Well, several big shopkeepers of the Han Yuan firm are also Shi Shiran in office.

"Rank, how's it going here?"

The guards ordered the windows on all sides to be opened, and a gust of sea breeze blew. It makes people feel relaxed and happy.

Lei Mingsheng, who presided over the construction, stood up very reservedly, saluted the Shouhan, and then turned around and made a circle to the Tuantuan in the four places. "Ladies and gentlemen, I was ordered to build this place on the next day, I thought it was to build a Jincheng soup pool, but unexpectedly, after getting the design of the adult, I was suddenly scared!"

"The adults actually asked the little old man to use crushed stone, lime, and burnt ash to build masonry, and add steel bars as bones. Think about it, what kind of price is that steel bar, my lord, it's almost like hitting a wall with silver! ”

That day, the little old man wanted to argue a few words, but the adult said with a tiger face, disrespecting the general's order, tied up and beheaded. also scared the little old man, on the day of completion, the newly made cannon should be used to test, if the artillery fire destroys the breastwork and gun position, then the little old man's head will not be guaranteed. ”

"Rich man Lei, why are your six and a half catties still on your neck?!" A boatswain laughed and teased Lei Mingsheng.

"This is the way of the adults, with steel as the bone, and the mixture of stone, sand, burnt ash, and lime is extremely strong. As soon as the second comes, the life of the little old man should not be extinguished, and he will serve the adults again. More than a dozen artillery shots were fired, and sure enough, there was no damage. Little Lao'er has the life to drink tea and talk to you here. ”

"Lao Lei, this Yuehai Building is finished, you should hand over these five thousand people and let them go to do the work for me and others. But you shouldn't continue to take advantage of these labors! ”

"This, but it's not for the little old man to call the shots, you have to listen to the adults and the council."

After some jokes, Shouhan motioned for everyone to start their discussions.

"Xiaopeng, it stands to reason that you should be allowed to rest at home for a few days like the sailors, but after all, you are not ordinary sailors and gunners and helmsmen. So, after resting at home for two days, I let you come, and don't blame you. ”

Speaking of this, Shouhan stood up and saluted a group of people led by Zuo Tianpeng, shocking several captains and boatswains who knelt down and kowtowed in return.

"Tell me about the journey north. Don't talk about those things like customs and customs, and leave them to the banquet to talk about. ”

As Li Shouhan's personal entourage, Zuo Tianpeng is well versed in the meaning of Shouhan, and he wants to understand the achievements and problems that have arisen in the process of going north, which are man-made and belong to institutional problems, and which are technical problems that need to be solved at the technical level.

"My lord, this time I went north, and the brothers all said that the peat stove equipped on the ship is a good thing, so that everyone can eat hot meals and soup at any time, and the fifty liters of sugar cane wine is also a good thing, which can quench thirst and fatigue, and if you go to sea again in the future, you need to prepare more!"

"Good! These are good, say those difficulties of you! If you don't talk about the results, you can't run, and the problems can't be said! ”

If you don't talk about the results, you can't run, and the problems can't be said!

Shouhan's words made everyone present quiet, and people chewed on the meaning of Shouhan's words carefully.

"My lord, rank, then, Tianpeng will dare to offend!"

"My lord, the Swift Ship was built by you, and it is indeed a good ship, and it travels fast. However, "

Hearing Zuo Tianpeng say but, Shouhan's heart sank suddenly.

"It's because the speed of the ship is too fast, once it encounters the wind, the ship is not easy to control, this time to the north, we encountered two westerly winds, the brothers felt almost blown away from the water by the wind to wait for the boat, a few timid babies hugged the mast and cried, or Lord Zuo ordered, there are those who dare to move immediately beheaded. This made the whole ship quiet. ”

"There is also this artillery, the adults love us, and more than 200 large and small cannons are handed over to us, but compared with the newly cast steel cannons in the Wanli and Jiajing periods, the firing range is short, the charge is also small, and the rate of fire is slow."

"And it's much heavier," a nearby gunner muffled. "The newly cast guns have a uniform caliber, smooth inner walls, and for the same weight, the guns themselves are much lighter, which is not the case with the old guns. In order not to overload one side of the ship, we adjusted the gun emplacement layout once on the Leizhou Ocean to make the load on both sides as close as possible, so as not to overturn the ship while moving rapidly. However, in this way, the gun positions were not uniform, and in the artillery battle with the pirates, the shells could not hit the opposing ships. ”

The artillery commander surnamed Shen talked eloquently, and it could be seen that this was his actual experience, and several directors of the workshop present either recorded it on paper with charcoal quickly, or whispered to the apprentices and nephews next to him to record it for themselves.

"Those bowls and the like, don't appear on the ship after they are marked, they are in the way, and they don't have any effect."

"This time I went north, and my lord handed over more than 200 doors of all sizes to me, although the firepower is strong, but it is also a wide variety, with different calibers and types of ammunition. In order to operate these firearms, skilled gunners had to be dispersed to each firearm as a last resort. This ensures that the artillery is fired in accordance with the captain's orders. ”

"The guns are of different types, the caliber is different, the ammunition is heavy and messy, and the firing range is also different. If it weren't for the rockets on each ship, the number of victories and defeats in this confrontation with pirates would still be between two. ”

Shen Quan's words, although they were mixed and unorganized, were the practices he discovered from actual operations, which made everyone present nod their heads after listening to them.

However, Hu Licheng, the old fox sitting in the crowd, peeked at Shouhan's face, and on that young face, there was no joy or sorrow at all, and what he saw was that Shouhan kept writing in a book, and he didn't know what he was memorizing.

"I hope it's not like I'm writing black accounts." Hu Licheng couldn't help but sigh in the deepest part of his heart.

“… Also, our gun emplacements, now our new ships are on the lower deck, and the gun doors are opened on both sides of the ship's side so that the guns can fire. Mark the opinion, whether to cover the gun door, link the gun door cover with hinges, and when not in use, close the gun door with a hinged door cover to prevent seawater from entering the cabin and eroding the gun emplacement and cargo in the cabin. ”

Chu Tianlei, who was beside Shen Quan, waited for Shen Quan to finish speaking, stood up, and after saluting Shouhan with his fists folded, "My lord, I have something to say under the mark." ”

After receiving the signal from Shouhan to raise his hand, Chu Tianlei turned around and made a circle of movements.

"My lord, rank, what Captain Shen said just now is the truth. I was fortunate enough to serve in this northbound fleet. Traveling thousands of miles, although it is dull, but there are also some experiences. ”

"My lord, as for the arrangement of the ship's gun emplacements, it is found that among the large and small guns of each ship, the two steel cannons at the stern and the four twelve-pounder bronze cannons on the two sides are the most excellent compared to the other types of guns. Between the two, mark the humble opinion, and the steel cannon is better. ”

"Huh!"

"Oh?!"

"Huh!"

After listening to the negations and questions for a long time, I finally heard the positive opinions, which made the workshop owners and craftsmen's associations, shipyards and Taipingdong factories very excited.

"The benefits of bronze cannons, needless to say, are now just talking about these ten newly cast steel cannons. A steel cannon of the same caliber and the same bullet weight has three advantages over a bronze cannon. First, the gun body is light and easy to maneuver, and the same twelve-pounder cannon, the steel cannon is a third lighter. Moreover, the draft on the ship is limited, and if the gun is lighter, it can carry other materials by a pound, or if it is lighter, the speed will be faster. ”

"Second, the charge is large. The standard has been jointly tested with several gun commanders, and the steel cannon can be loaded with one-third to one-half more than the bronze cannon. And there is no risk of exploding. If the dosage increases, it means that the range is long, or the lethality is strong. ”

"Third, it occupies a small area. The copper cannon tube wall is thick and heavy, the steel cannon is lightweight, and the size of the standard is measured. The gun emplacements of three bronze guns, plus the operating personnel, ammunition and other items, can be used for four steel cannons to operate and fire. ”

"My subordinates are courageous, and I implore you to abandon the messy firearms of the old days, and all of them are equipped with steel cannons or bronze cannons. Especially with steel cannons as the best policy! ”

Hearing this, the corners of Shouhan's mouth also showed a hint of a smile. What I didn't expect was that my efforts in the previous paragraph were simply a joke, and I was teased by reality. Chu Tianlei's actions are undoubtedly a good step for Shouhan.

I originally thought that scissor sailing would bring me an advantage at sea, but I forgot that scissor sailing has high requirements for sailors, and these sailors who are used to controlling the lucky boat, whether it is from the shape of the boat to the use of sails, they are crossing the river by feeling the stones.

But fortunately, this is only the real yàn stage, and there is still time to correct it.

What needs to be considered now is how to combine the advantages of scissor sailing ships or Western ships with the advantages of Chinese ships of fortune. Used to compensate for each other's disadvantages.

As a result, the atmosphere in the conference hall became warm again, and several masters of the Craftsmen Association, the leaders of the craftsmen of the shipyard, the big and small leaders, and the sailors Chu Tianlei and Shen Quan led by Zuo Tianpeng, launched an almost quarrelsome discussion.

People have different opinions, whether to adopt the scissor sailing boats proposed by Li Shouhan for future ships, or to insist on the existing fortune ships to put facts and numbers on each other. Some swing around with teacups and teapots on the table, and some draw sketches on paper to try to convince each other.

Li Peilin, who had not spoken for a long time beside Shouhan, couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, how could he have seen such a scene?

Finally, people's understanding is gradually unified:

Disadvantages of Western sailing ships: First, the cost of using a large number of high-quality wood as rib guides is too high. Second, compared with China's hard sails, the Western soft sail also needs more sailors, and the operation is more complicated, while the characteristics of China's Fuchuan with a wider hull and good stability make it able to carry more cargo, and of course, it can also carry more personnel, that is, more hand-to-hand combat effectiveness.

Historically, Chinese sailing ships have used hard sails, hard sails are generally woven with fine bamboo strips or cattail leaves, the advantage of hard sails is that the overall efficiency is high, can rotate around the mast, and can even completely use the wind in all directions, the hard sail per unit area and the soft sail compared to the hard sail for the use of wind power is much greater than the soft sail, but because the hard sail is too heavy, the larger the sail is heavier, and some large ships have hard sails and even "hundreds of people can not move", so the sail area will be smaller than the use of soft sail Western ships.

But the biggest disadvantage of the soft sail of the Western ship is that because the overall efficiency of the sail surface is low, the mast needs to be built very high, and the mast is too high, which will bring the strength of the mast, in order to increase the strength of the mast, it is necessary to tie many ropes on the mast to enhance the strength of the mast, so that the sail surface can not rotate around the mast like a Chinese-style hard sail, and a part of the wind it can not be used, even if it is used, it is extremely inefficient because it is a soft sail. Therefore, the highest efficiency of the soft sail is when the wind is downwind, at this time its efficiency per unit area is comparable to that of the hard sail, but the soft sail can be very large due to its light weight, so the thrust that can be obtained when the wind is far greater than that of the hard sailboat, and it can also drive larger boats.

Of course, it is not possible to sail downwind most of the time, according to the white nooli effect, the maximum use of wind power by soft sailing ships is when the side is downwind, of course, there are also side headwind times when the efficiency is low, and in order to take advantage of the wind blowing from the front side, it is necessary to use the triangular sail. Although the efficiency of using crosswind and headwind is higher, but its efficiency is lower in the downwind situation, but the Chinese hard sail does not have so many concerns at all, as long as one sail can use the custom of all directions called eight-sided wind. The disadvantage of the hard sail is that because it is the whole sail lifting, the area should not be too large, otherwise people will not be able to pull it. The height of the mast should not be too high, otherwise the strength of the mast will be affected, otherwise the soft sail will not have any advantage over it.

Each of the three types of sail outfits has its own benefits and cannot be generalized. For circumnavigation around the world, large transverse soft sails are most suitable for long-distance navigation in the deep sea; For freight in the region, hard sails with fewer users are a better and more economical choice, which can save transportation costs. For smaller clippers known for their speed, the spinnaker effect is better.

Of course, the mast of Chinese sailing ships is also very different from the masts of Western sailing ships, because the masts of Chinese sailing ships are far less than those of Western ships in height, and the requirements for strength are not as strict as those of Western ships to be fixed with dense ropes. The mast of Western sailing ships is composed of 3 or 2 independent masts leading to guò masts, and the masts are towering, some even reaching 3/4 the length of the ship, and the area of sails that can be hung far exceeds that of Chinese sailing ships, so the advantage in speed is also significantly better than that of China.

In wind-powered sail battles, high speed means that ships are more agile and can quickly seize advantageous positions to shell enemy ships! In addition, increasing the aspect ratio means increasing the length of the ship's side on one side, which can carry more guns on the same gun deck, which means increasing the fire density of the weapon! Therefore, Chinese sailing ships are at a disadvantage compared with Western sailing ships in terms of speed, flexibility, and firepower density of weapons output. Generally, the area of soft sails is very large, hundreds of square meters of soft sails are everywhere, and the advantage of downwind is very obvious.

Once we have found the problem, the next thing we think about is how to solve it.

Coughing twice, the leader of the shipyard craftsmen, known as Liao Sanye, touched his rosacea nose and stood up to express his opinion.

"Proprietors, gentlemen, shopkeepers. My three fat ancestors were in the Longjiang Shipyard, so it can be said that I grew up in the shipyard's shavings. If it weren't for the unfavorable years, I wouldn't have had this fate to go to the owner to do this ancestral business. ”

"The new ship that the adults let build is fast, with fewer people and more gun positions. In my opinion, it might as well be used as a special gunboat and sentinel ship to escort the fleet of lucky ships. As for the lucky boat, the mast should be appropriately heightened, and try to change it to a soft sail used by the Hongmaoyi people. At the same time, artillery was added to the ship for self-defense. ”

Liao San Fat Man is really an expert in shipbuilding for many years, and he found a solution to the problem in a few words, the scissor sailboat is fast and loads more guns, then I will use your speed and firepower advantage; The Fu ship carries a lot of goods, and it is stable, so I will use it to load goods, transport troops, and carry passengers.

Looking at Liao San's fat man's oily bald head, Shouhan couldn't help but feel a burst of pride in his heart, he had separated the craftsmen from the farmers, so that the craftsmen had a superior social status, stable economic income, adequate nutrition, perfect play space, and let people see the reward mechanism of hope, these measures have begun to see the harvest.

Today, this summary meeting was held as the Zhuge Liang Meeting, and countless stinkers sharpened and collided their ideas and ideas together, and they collided with sparks.

No, the idea of separating military and civilian uses put forward by Liao San Fat is a good solution.

Shouhan knew that the Hunan army sailors of that year separated the warships from the baggage ships and living ships, so they won the water battles in Tianjiazhen and other places, and then controlled the Yangtze River, and the troops reached the Tianjing City.

The ship's train of thought was solved, and the next thing was artillery.

The artillery was less intensely discussed.

Hu Licheng, who was sitting in the crowd of Han and Yuan merchants, listened to Ling Zheng, the director of the Taipingdong Factory, and argued with several other people about the benefits, cost, labor, and amount of the bronze cannon and the nine-turn steel cannon, "It's a cost performance!" "If you don't need to use that much copper for casting cannons, if you just cast money, the copper of those cannons will be enough to support it." Do you want to give this thing to adults? ”

While calculating, his left hand kept stroking the hard metal in the sleeve. Finally, he gritted his teeth, stood up, and stood out from the crowd.

"Hu Licheng, a hundred subordinate households, has something to say."

A yellow and clear metal block was placed on Shouhan's table.

"My lord, we don't lack copper, at least, we can find it!" These are Hu Licheng's words, although his hoarse voice of cigarettes and alcohol is not so loud, but it makes the people in the council hall hear it clearly.

"By the grace of the Lord, the concession of refined salt will be handed over to the Bid. Last month, the sons and nephews of the family went to Chenla Trade and traveled to Bodhisattva. (It is now the Pursat province of Cambodia.) Trade with the local natives, and hundreds of stones of refined salt were traded to thousands of catties of raw copper. According to the local natives, there are many copper ore seedlings here, and the burial is very shallow. After returning home, the sons and daughters reported the matter under the mark, and they did not dare to hide it under the mark. ”

Nima's! A caravan selling salt exchanged thousands of catties of raw copper, which shows the abundance of copper here. What if it's used to mint money? Li Peilin didn't dare to think about it, he just felt a little dizzy in front of him.

However, Shouhan was quite serious, and the expression on his face was not as excited as the others.

"Lao Hu, in this way, your Tong Han Yuan firm has been accepted. You see whether to use salt or cloth, you can discuss this with a few shopkeepers. About this copper mine, you go back and ask your nephews to write a post, preferably with a map. Also, the concession of Tonghe Dyeing Workshop in this area has not yet been given out to others, if you are interested, you can hand over 500 taels of silver and sign a one-year trial contract. ”

This old fox! Several old people present had an indescribable feeling in their hearts. Why did he get the bet right every time? For only five hundred taels of silver, he obtained the concession of Tonghe Dyeing Workshop in Zhenla?!

However, it is not Hu Licheng's commercial progress that is remembered. Rather, it's the following.

First, the General's Mansion officially stipulated that every major event, in addition to the regular meeting every ten years, a Zhuge Liang meeting should be held, and after joint consultation, the general will decide.

Second, the ships and ships in the harbor, both original and newly captured by pirates, began to be transformed. At the same time, captured pirates began to screen and educate.

Third, the original old miscellaneous artillery began to be gradually replaced by the newly built nine-turn steel cannon. The scissor ship, named the Tempest, was armed with a twelve-pounder cannon as the main force. The weapons equipped on the Fu ship are large, medium and small caliber Franc machines, ranging from ten to six pounds. After the replaced artillery is returned to the furnace for smelting, the copper is refined and put into storage. It is said that the general has other uses.

Fourth, a new institution was set up in the Han Yuan firm, called the Commercial Investigation Office. All people or merchants who have dealings with Han Yuan firms, as well as large and small shops who handle dental slips in Ha Jing, must report to the department about the various local customs and customs involved in their business activities. Mountains, rivers, roads, towns, villages, acres, crops, meteorology, minerals, forests, nationalities, etc., are all included.

Progress comes from constant introspection and self-denial, and every introspection may be accompanied by embarrassment and even pain, but our nation is also constantly using this kind of self-denial to achieve self-denial, and finally gave birth to the 5,000-year-old civilization of China. Today's large-scale update is to warn today's people that the courage to reflect and be good at self-criticism is the biggest difference between talents and fools.

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