At the same time, the hull of the battleship is generally made of extremely hard elm, oak, beech wood, etc., and the thick hull can even block shells with a relatively small angle of incidence.

Although the Egalen ship did not have a watertight cabin, its survivability was not too weak in artillery battles. Of course, once it is broken below the waterline, it will be ten deaths, which is not as good as the lucky boat.

Finally, the sails of the Galen ship are also very different from those of the fortune ship.

The former uses a soft sail made of a single piece of canvas, which is small in weight, can build the mast very high, and is easy to make into any shape, and can achieve a large draft area with a reasonable arrangement, and the maximum speed is very high.

The latter uses a large number of parallel crossbar poles to prop up the sail, which has the advantage of being easy to operate and the sail to turn quickly.

But with that comes the weight of the whole sail is very high, and if the mast is too high, it will seriously affect the center of gravity of the ship. Therefore, the whole sail area is smaller, and the maximum speed is not as good as that of soft sails.

In the naval battle of wooden sailing ships, whoever can grab the upper hand can achieve a huge advantage, and it is a battle between the fortune ship and the Galen ship, and often loses the upper hand position because of the low speed.

So on the whole, as a warship, Galen has a lot of advantages. Of course, if it is a merchant ship, it is easy to operate, has good sinking resistance, and is cheaper.

Because of this, when Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan, he used 20 large ships, more than 40 Fu ships of more than 400 tons, and more than 100 fast ships and sentinel ships.

The main fleet of the Dutch consisted of only two fourth-class warships of more than 400 tons, three armed merchant ships of 400 tons, and thirty or forty small merchant ships.

But even with such a huge disparity in strength, Zheng Chenggong finally repelled the Dutch fleet only with arson ships and gang jumping, and the ratio of losses on both sides was as high as a dozen to one.

If it weren't for the Dutch reinforcement fleet that came from Indonesia later, it would have been a long time before Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan.

This shows the great advantages of the Galen ship as a warship.

It was Zhu Linmi's plan to build five to six 500-ton and two 700-ton Galen ships as the main force, supplemented by some small Galen and clippers, so as to suppress the Dutch fleet.

He would never allow the Ming Marines to fight the enemy when their ships were weaker than the Dutch.

When the Ming Navy Division was completed, the control of maritime trade would return to the hands of the Ming Dynasty, even with the trade volume of Southeast Asia alone, it would be enough to solve the financial problems of the imperial court.

It's just that the Nan'an Shipyard, which is the only one that can build large ships at the moment, lacks skilled craftsmen who can make Galen ships.

The Galen ship they had built before was only 2560 tons, and Zhu Linmi, for the sake of safety, planned to let them build two large ships of the same size first, and then go on to 500 tons.

During this period, the largest slipway in the shipyard was also empty, and it was better to simply build a big boat than nothing. When there are more warships in the future, this big ship can be converted into commercial use.

Soon, a sample of the 260-ton Galen ship was handed over to Zhu Linmiao.

This small sample is like an extremely delicate model, and all the structures inside and outside the ship are meticulously visible, which is exactly the same as the drawings that Zhu Linmiao gave to the craftsmen.

Zhu Linmiao carefully checked the sample again, confirmed that there was no problem, and ordered the craftsmen to start construction immediately.

With accurate samples, and the experience of these craftsmen in making similar ship types, Zhu Linmiao completely let them do it.

In the afternoon of the same day, he and Shi Lin rushed to Yongbeili with their own soldiers, and Nan'an was temporarily handed over to Pang Zhu to take care of. In fact, he didn't know anything about the specific construction process, and even if he stayed, he wouldn't be able to do anything.

As soon as he stepped into the car with his front foot, a person behind him hurried over, and when he got closer, he nodded on one knee and said, "Meet Your Highness." The subordinates recently inquired near the Na Cheng Kee shipyard, but they gained something. ”

Zhu Linmiao turned her head to look, and it was Ma Yanzhen, who was in charge of Nan'an Shipyard.

"Go on."

"Your Highness, my subordinates have found out that the Cheng Ji Shipyard is the property of the eldest son of Li Guangchun, the squire of the Ministry of Rites." Ma Yanzhen looked proud, "And he has been building large sea ships in violation of regulations for more than ten years, and he himself has big ships to deal with Ryukyu." ”

"Oh?" Zhu Linmiao smiled and nodded when she heard this, "Since it is the industry of 'your own people', it will be easy to do."

"Ma Yanzhen, you did a good job."

"Your Highness Xie, your subordinates should do their best to run errands for Your Highness."

Zhu Linmi's carriage went north, and he wrote a note on the wooden table in the car, ordering his soldiers to return to Fujing and hand it over to Xuanbu Langzhong Hongsi, and then squinted and thought about the construction of Yongbeili.

A few days later, the missionaries in Tianxing Mansion and the surrounding areas began to put on a new play, which was written by Tian Zhuangfei himself, which was about the Song Dynasty, and the imperial court needed to build war boats, so they bought a large amount of wood, but there were profiteers who disregarded the country's righteousness and took the opportunity to raise the price and hoard Juqi. In the end, the Song and Yuan sailors had a shocking battle in Yashan, but the Great Song sailors who could have won the battle were too high because of the high price of wood, resulting in half of the warships being built less than expected, and the battle was wiped out.

The play took two days before Li Guangchun finally heard his niece mention it.

He couldn't help but wonder in his heart, the Xuanbu platoon was so inexplicable, even thinking about the Dutch bombardment of the grain ship of Eziba, which angered the auxiliary king.

The imperial court seems to be building a ship in Nan'an recently, he was suddenly stunned, as an old fritter in the officialdom, he vaguely smelled something strange, and hurriedly sent his henchmen to Nan'an to see.

When the henchman came back to show Li Guangchun, he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly called his eldest son, and picked up a stick and beat him.

"You kid is crazy about money, aren't you! Whose money do you dare to take? Don't hide! His Royal Highness the Auxiliary King is in Nan'an, do you want me to fall in the foyer of the Li family?! ”

When he was tired, he threw the stick aside and called his henchmen to advise him.

Soon, Pang Zhu received a message from Cheng Ji Shipyard, saying that the previous timber was the shopkeeper's confusion, and the price quoted was "ten" instead of one, and asked him whether he wanted to make up the timber or return the money.

There are many officials with a keen sense of smell in Tianxing Mansion, and on the day of Cheng Ji's price change, there was an imperial history to impeach Li Guangchun's son for hoarding Juqi, intending to disturb the construction of the imperial court's sailors.

Li Guangchun was so shocked that he had no master, and went home to "repair" his son again. It wasn't until he learned that the imperial court went to Nan'an to verify that it was a misunderstanding, that his heart returned to his stomach.

Zhu Linmiao received Ma Yanzhen and Hong Si in Yongbei to report the consequences of the incident, and couldn't help but smile and say to himself, "I will also teach you how powerful the propaganda is." In the future, even the presidential election is afraid of the TV station, and you can't handle it? ”

He then sent people to Nan'an to instruct Pang Zhu to buy all the ten times the timber promised by Cheng Ji, and there will be a large number of warships to be built in the future.