It is not only the flag army that is subject to the discipline code, but also the warsmiths and Yu Ding of Xiangshan.

With the ordnance orders from Nanhai County's furnace household and pirate Wang Linfeng, the scale of the Xiangshan Ordnance Bureau is stretched at this stage, which will undoubtedly affect the huge demand for armaments after Chen Mu is promoted to commander in the next step.

To this end, Chen Mu recruited a new group of craftsmen, more than 30 as his home craftsmen, entered the Xiangshan Ordnance Bureau, engaged in day and night care of the forging hammer, the operation of the saw machine, and then joined the cause of cannon casting after they became proficient.

For Chen Qianhu, casting cannons is the most important thing in Xiangshan.

The addition of new craftsmen could not increase the speed of making ordnance in Xiangshan, the biggest change was that the Ordnance Bureau spent a high price to introduce a large blast furnace with 700 catties of sunrise iron from Foshan Town, Nanhai County, and hired three good armor-making craftsmen from Foshan, drawing iron for wire, thread for rings, and connecting armor to teach the craftsmen of the Ordnance Bureau specializing in armor-making.

Chen Mu paid these three craftsmen as much as three taels and hired them for two months, which is sixty taels. Not only did they learn to make chain mail, but they also learned to make scale armor and arm armor, laying a good foundation for making Chinese-style plate armor in the future.

Of course, whether it is the money of hired workers or the money of social studies teachers, they all take the treasury account of Xiangshan, and anyway, there is too much money in the treasury of Xiangshan to spend it.

Chen Mu couldn't spend much of his own money.

There is no shortage of shipwrights in Xiangshan, each Yu Ding will basically repair the ship, Xiangshan Shipyard has more than 170 Yu Ding to learn shipbuilding with the shipwrights sent down by the Guangzhou government, and the matter of repairing Lin Feng sent 30 Dafu ships entered the country very quickly, one of the 400 material fortune ships was directly demolished by the shipwrights The bow and stern were demolished, and a three-story wooden house was built on it, so that the carpenter carved out exquisite decorations, and at the same time modified the hull, increased or decreased the structure, resulting in a painting boat.

Now it has entered the stage of lacquer carving and painting, Su Sanniang, who lives in Guangcheng, came to see it, and was very satisfied with the painting boat, and at most September it will be able to enter the river and reopen the Yangui boat.

In addition to textiles, Yu Ding of Xiangshan divided logging, fishing, breeding and other affairs according to the general flag of the family flag army, and waited until all things were closed and specialized in farming.

There is little land in Xiangshan, so this distribution is just right.

In early August, Guan Yuangu rushed to meet Chen Mu, and he was happy.

"Qianhu, four two-pound cannons of different materials have been built and loaded, and ...... Xiangshan Shipyard has ten hundred warships have been created! ”

Chen Mu has been waiting for a long time, in March this year, they dismantled the five-foot three-foot-long dhow boat obtained from the Haojing Franco Robot Shipyard, and then began to imitate according to its characteristics, and now five months have passed, although only ten hundred boats have been built, but this is the first batch of self-shipbuilding ships of Xiangshan Shipyard, which also makes Chen Mu overjoyed.

"Let's go, go to the shipyard!"

Leading the horse, accompanying the horse, a group of more than ten people rode the horse to roll up the earth dragon and galloped towards the shipyard.

When he arrived at the official road of the shipyard, he could already see ten ships moored in the shallow sea sparkling in the evening, and dismount on the shore.

"So big? Guan Jiang, tell Chen about the ship-building process and the characteristics of this kind of ship. ”

Guan Yuangu had already prepared and said to Chen Mu: "In March this year, the shipyard dismantled the Western boat, which has a simple structure, and it is different from our ship, one is in the ribs, two is in the cabin, and three is in the bottom. ”

"Our ship has fewer dragon ribs in the compartment, and the ship has no more dragon ribs in the compartment; The bottom of my ship is pointed, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and the bottom of the boat is round, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom; Therefore, the left and right sides of the ship are more stable, and artillery can be erected. Guan Yuangu said that these heads were the way, and even exuberant, "In April, one hundred and forty materials were consumed, and five hundred and twenty workers were used to create a fast ship, which was imitated by its round bottom, and the speed of the ship was extremely slow, so it was dismantled and abandoned. ”

"In May, the waves rushed to the shark ashore, the boatwright slightly repaired the head and tail, the imitation fish type with a pointed head, wide body, narrow tail, both for the warship, thousands of heavy artillery battles, then to Yi boat round bottom as the system, sloop hard sail, into the sea to Xinhui, one hundred and sixty miles eight hours, and push only two five-pound guns left left to put on the left and right, blow up one, the ship is fine, so it is customized."

Guan Yuangu's expression was extremely normal when he said that the five-pound Guan cannon was blown up on the ship, and he didn't blink his eyes, which made Chen Muguang want to laugh.

"Not counting the collision angle, the bottom of the ship is five feet and six feet long, the widest part is one foot and four feet, the materials used are two hundred and thirty-four, and the labor is seven hundred and forty, all of which are good materials, and the silver consumption is one hundred and forty-four taels, and it can carry one hundred and eighty-eight stones." Guan Yuangu was very proud of the superintendent to build such a sea ship, and the old craftsman's loose face was full of radiance, and he hugged his fists and said: "The type of ship has been decided, and its crew is twenty or thirty, with four five-pound guns and six Franco-aircraft. ”

Since Chen Mu arrived at the shipyard, there have been craftsmen who have run to drive the ship, and now they have rowed the sampan over, Chen Mu nodded with satisfaction, took Guan Yuangu to board the sampan, boarded the ship and inspected the warship.

He said that this ship was built bigger, and it looked one-third larger than the original dhow, and now Guan Yuangu said that it really used more than 200 materials and a length of more than 18 meters, and it can already be called a medium-sized warship in the East Asian Sea during this period, although it is not as big as the 400 ship, but it is just right.

What's more, in the future, this ship will carry a new five-pound cannon and a Franco machine made by the Xiangshan Ordnance Bureau, which can not only cause damage to the small hull, but also cause damage to the enemy troops on the ship.

Chen Mu's expected naval division's main ship was not so small!

Even if the ten-pound cannon is built, this ship can only put one door in the bow, that kind of big guy is still out of place for the side of this ship, and the stern is in accordance with Chen Mu's requirements, with big fishing nets and fishing gear.

Chen Mu's positioning of this ship is not only an offshore patrol and defense clipper, but also an armed fishing boat for the future guard.

The hull had only been painted with tung oil, not yet painted, and had not been painted with fish scales or pitch black, as was customary, and the interior of the ship was also unadorned, with only four gun windows for the guns, the Franc was a killer gun, and the recoil was small, and the swing frame on the side of the ship was their place.

Although the inside and outside are new hulls, the ship has the same bow and stern high-rise appearance, with bulkheads on both sides of the bottom and under the bow and stern, with passages in the middle, and four-foot-high bunks on both compartments, with decks above, barely enough to turn over, and the ventilation is average.

There are turrets in the bow and stern, but the lower part of the bow is a wooden structure that enhances the ability to ram the corner, and the structure under the stern that enhances the upper and lower impact ensures that a mortar gun is placed on it, and inside is the kitchen, which leads to the warehouse at the bottom.

The sails are not mats, and the prosperity of Xiangshan no longer has to be the same as the pirates, their sails are good canvases bought by the Toquan merchants, which are lighter and easier to hoist.

Such a ship, except for the fact that the sailors are not comfortable to rest and are not suitable for close combat, can occupy a great advantage in artillery battles in the entire Asian sea, which is in line with Chen Mu's expectations.

"Since it is the inspiration of the sharks, it is called the Xiangshan Shark Boat, and it seems that the big ship will wait for the whales to rush to the sea."

Chen Mu smiled as he spoke, and he understood a little better, and waved his hand: "Let the shipyard continue to build, this summer, the entire shore will build shark boats." I'll go back and make a map of the big ship, and when I dismantle the big black ship that Pereira has sent, I'll compare them one by one, and next year I'll talk about building a cannon ship - we'll go see the cannons. ”