Lin Weiye replied: "It's your business whether you can get Sun Yuanhua or not, I only care about this batch of mercenary instructors, hehe." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Xia Nan touched his chin: "Speaking of which, if the trip to Shandong can fish in troubled waters and get these people back, it will be a big gain." It would be better if we could think of ways to change the original historical trend so that the cannons and craftsmen of Dengzhou would not flow into the hands of Huang Taiji. ”

Lin Weiye smiled: "If you can do it, it is indeed very good." ”

Xia Nan was in high spirits: "I suddenly felt that it was very meaningful to go to Shandong, and a sense of historical responsibility and mission arose." ”

"Very good, very good, hurry up and complete your historical mission, and bring me some coal back by the way."

Xia Nan decided to put forward conditions: "I can help you find coal, but going to Shandong is not as good as going to Guangzhou, Guangzhou is just passing through the Qiongzhou Strait, and I have been seasick!" I've almost finished running most of China's coast to Shandong, you have to get me a fast and steady boat, let me sit on a broken sampan, and I won't go if I am killed! ”

Lin Weiye felt reasonable, this time and space navigation is a dirty, bitter and dangerous thing, from Lingao to Shandong, along the coastline of one or two thousand nautical miles, improve the navigation conditions should indeed be. He agreed: "No problem, give me a little time, I'll draw the design of the clipper, and then get it out with Charles, to make sure it's fast and stable." ”

Clippers? It sounded like a bull's fork, and Xia Nan was interested, "Is this clipper also a sailboat?" How fast? Is it hard to make? ”

Lam Weiye said: "The clipper boat, also known as the clipper sailboat, is a high-speed sailboat that originated in the United States in the 19th century. Because the bow of the ship is designed to be hollow, it splits the waves when sailing, so it is named flying shear. This kind of ship is slender and long, fast and not large tonnage, it can be said that its advantages and disadvantages are extremely obvious, the advantage is that it is fast, and the disadvantage is also because all the design is the pursuit of speed, sacrificing the load capacity, and it is not suitable for loading artillery as an armed ship. ”

"So what else can this clipper do in addition to delivering a courier?"

"You can think of it as a semi-professional transport ship, although the carrying capacity is not suitable for transporting goods such as grain, but it is very suitable for transporting high-value goods such as tea, silk, porcelain, etc., and can be transported by ocean. During the Opium Wars, the Great Powers used these ships to import opium, load it with tea and transport it back to Europe and North America, and the fastest record across the Atlantic took only 13 days."

In the summer, Nan took a cool breath and crossed the Atlantic in only 13 days on a sailboat powered entirely by the wind? Thinking that it took me five or six days to go around Guangzhou for the first time, it was simply the speed of ants crawling. He thought about it for a while, and said to Lin Weiye very unhappily: "Okay, you old Lin, since you have such a good thing, why didn't you get it out earlier?" ”

Lin Weiye spread his hands and said helplessly: "At the beginning, there was no such urgent need, and everything was for the sake of military struggle, my first task was to make iron, design and manufacture flintlock pistols and artillery, and then warships, and I didn't have three heads and six arms!" ”

said the same, Xia Nan weighed it and said: "Now that the situation is stable, there is no external threat in the short term, there is no need to build two warships at the same time, how about suspending the construction of one and transferring manpower to build flying clippers?" ”

Lin Weiye silently estimated and replied: "The process of flying clippers is relatively simpler than that of warships, and if you also build medium-sized clippers with a displacement of 500 tons, it should be possible." ”

"How much does a 500-ton clipper ship load?"

"It's a little more than half of the displacement, less than 300 tons."

It's almost enough, and in the summer, Nan immediately made a decision and immediately got on the horse and flew the clippers.

Because the clipper ship does not need to consider the threat of shelling, nor does it need to bear the strong recoil of the ship's guns, the strength and internal structure of the hull are much lower than the requirements of the battleship.

Although the trip to Shandong will be postponed, Xia Nan thinks it is still worth it if he sharpens his knife and does not mistake the woodcutter.

To go to Shandong is not better than to go to Guangzhou, you must first go to Leizhou, and then along the coastline, all the way through Macao, Quanzhou and other seaports, through Ningbo, Songjiang, Huai'an, bypassing Weihaiwei, in order to reach Dengzhou, if you are lucky, you can get there in two months, and you can't get there in three months in case of wind and waves. With the clippers, you can reach Dengzhou in 10 days at the latest, and you can return to Lingao in half a month.

Waiting for the time for the construction of the clipper, he couldn't be idle anyway, and in the summer south began to plan the construction of Lingao New City. He had been thinking about this plan for a long time, and the escape of craftsman Zhou Bingkun made him decide to speed up the progress of the plan.

The biggest purpose of building the new city is to create a sense of belonging and cohesion of the whole system: the craftsmen live in the simple dormitories of the factory, even if they are renovated and reinforced with cement, they are not their own homes, even if they get a good salary, but they lack a sense of belongingZhou Bingkun defected just because they were paid less than others.

Chinese have always attached importance to the concept of "home", whether it is a factory worker or an office worker in the old time and space, they will return to their hometown every New Year's holiday, and no matter how prosperous Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen are, it is not their home. If a new city is built, so that the craftsmen can completely settle their homes in Lingao and spread their branches, they will not think of leaving.

In addition, if there is any selfishness, it is that he and Lin Weiye miss the old time and space, and the cement and concrete buildings can somehow get back a little bit of the feeling of a modern city.

He called everyone to a meeting to discuss the construction of the new city. How to build the new city, whether the city wall is needed, how wide the area is appropriate, how to deal with the current county seat, etc., all need to listen to everyone's opinions.

Before discussing, Wei Lianheng took out a sample of rattan armor and gave it to Xia Nan.

Xia Nan picked it up and looked at it carefully, this is a rattan half-body armor similar to a vest, but it has more shoulder pads than the vest, and it can be put on directly like a vest. It is quite light in the hand, much lighter than the cumbersome chain mail of officers and soldiers.

Wei Lianheng explained: "The rattan armor soaked in tung oil is not only strong, but also tough, and ordinary swords can't help it. And when the arrow hits the rattan armor, if the arrow is shot in the gap between the two vines, the two vines can just jam the arrow, so that the arrow can not move, if the arrow is shot on the vine, because it has been soaked in tung oil, the arrow will slide to the ground. However, it takes too long to make a set of armor with tung oil, although we have simplified the number and time of soaking, but no matter how fast it is, it will take two months, this sample has not been soaked in tung oil, just to let you see. ”

Xia Nan nodded: "Very good, this kind of armor is very lightweight, and it can be accepted for two months." Just make a few hundred sets according to the appearance of this rattan armor, and ensure that every team member can equip it. "To be continued.

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