Liu Quan and Tan Er were in full swing, and Xia Nan dragged Maria around Hujiazhuang, wanting to redesign and build a manor. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Maria admires the oriental culture very much, and hopes to build a garden with oriental characteristics, most of the summer nan's subordinates are from the soil buns, only Sima De is a person, or from the wealthy Jiangnan, so he was pulled over as a staff officer.

Sima De is a traditional literati, although he does not understand architecture, but Jiangnan is full of exquisite gardens, usually see more, as the so-called "familiar with 300 Tang poems, can not compose poems will also chant", about the setting of the courtyard, where to build a rockery, where to use as a garden, but also put forward a lot of opinions decently. According to him, there should be water in the garden, pavilions and pavilions on the water, built according to the water, you can enjoy the cool, enjoy the moon, take a rest, and have a garden in the backyard, plant seedlings and flowers, and live in it can be relaxed.

On August 16, it is advisable to sacrifice, pray, break ground, and trade, and the new Zhuangzi officially broke ground. As the wall in the front yard was demolished, Hujiazhuang, which had once feared the people nearby, disappeared into a cloud of rubble.

Because of the need to meet the demand for an artificial lake in the south of the summer, Zhuangzi expanded more than a dozen acres of land on the original basis. In order to accommodate Maria and other female dependents, he purchased a house in the county town as a temporary residence.

Fortunately, this is the sparsely populated Qiongzhou Mansion, and if it is in Jiangnan and other places, there is no such big room for expansion. If the surrounding houses are forcibly demolished, I am afraid that it will cause public resentment to boil, and Xia Nan will inevitably be labeled as "rich and unkind, fish and meat township".

In order to build this Zhuangzi, the people of Nanming spent a lot of money to find craftsmen from Fucheng in the summer, and completely used ancient traditional construction techniques, instead of using cement and bamboo-reinforced concrete like barracks and factories. This is a bit like the phenomenon of old time and space: ordinary people desperately drill into the city, exhaust their life savings, buy a house, and live in a reinforced concrete forest, while the rich go to the suburbs, build villas in the countryside, enjoy the idyllic scenery and the fragrance of birds and flowers, pay attention to green and healthy from the environment to building materials, and all-wooden houses are not new.

On September 20, the good news came that the clipper was built ahead of schedule. In the summer, Minami rushed to the Bofu shipyard with great interest to see this new thing. As soon as he arrived at the dock, he was struck by the avant-garde shape of the clippers.

It has to be said that the sailing ships of the sail era have a different beauty compared to modern steel ships. This medium-sized clipper is slender and long, with a total of three masts, and a significantly larger canvas area than that of the Galen.

According to Lin Weiye's explanation, "the long and sharp curved scissor-shaped head column is a situation suitable for racing, and it can split the waves to reduce wave resistance at sea", which reminds Xia Nan of the aerodynamic design of the old space-time supercar, and the streamlined body is also to reduce the resistance of the air at high speed, which is similar to the design of the flying clipping bow.

The bow and freeboard of the ship are designed to be outwardly floating, and it is said that the ship will not have serious waves when sailing at high speeds, ensuring that the ship's powerful power can be converted into high speed to the maximum, which seems to be similar to the working principle of the tail of a supercar.

Circling around the dock, the slender figure of the clipper boat was very much to Xia Nan's appetite, and he said to Lin Weiye: "If the battleship is compared to a hard-core off-road vehicle, then the clipper is a supercar?" ”

Lin Weiye was happy: "It can be compared like this, it is very vivid." Everything about clippers is designed for speed, much like a sports car. ”

"It's all called Flying Shear, how fast is this kind of ship?"

Lin Weiye thought for a while, "The ideal speed should be between 12 and 15 knots, depending on the wind direction." However, the speed of more than 10 knots is appropriate. ”

Xia Nan didn't have an intuitive understanding of the speed of the sailboat, and he asked, "So how many knots is the speed of an ordinary sailboat now?" "Just know how much faster the clipper is than today's mainstream sailboats, and you know the advantages of this type of boat.

"3 to 6 knots, an average of just over 4 knots."

Xia Nan has a bottom in his heart, three to four times faster, which is completely overwhelming. The only concern now is that too many sailors will be needed to crowd out the manpower of the battleship.

"How many people do I need to operate this ship?"

"There are only thirty-six people when the fight is full, and twenty people are enough under extreme conditions."

Xia Nan sighed and said: "The speed is fast, and the crew is saved, which is perfect!" ”

Lin Weiye poured a scoop of cold water at the right time: "There is no perfect thing in the world, the clipper ship is still defective, due to the limitation of technology, the wooden bow is easy to be damaged under the pressure of shearing waves, and the hull, especially the bow, needs to be overhauled after each voyage." This problem can only be overcome when the right steel appears, and only the steel hull can withstand such great pressure. ”

Xia Nan disagreed: "It's not a big problem, every time I come back from a voyage, I pay attention to maintenance, the car has to be maintained regularly, and the 1 car has to change tires frequently." ”

"Now William needs to train the sailors, and the first time the local aborigines fly this kind of pilot, I'm afraid they will be scared too fast," said Lam. ”

So Xia Nan waited a few more days for William to train the first sailors to operate the clippers. William is worthy of coming from a maritime powerhouse, and he adapted to this new type of ship very quickly, and he was able to skillfully drive the clipper ship in less than two days.

After returning from the first trial voyage, he excitedly told Xia Nan and Lin Weiye that this kind of boat was so great that he felt like he was flying against the sea when he sailed. It's just that those indigenous sailors, who are usually accustomed to the turtle speed of fishing boats, suddenly increased to more than three or four times the speed, are frightened, especially when sailing, the side of the ship is almost close to the sea, and they feel that they will get into the sea at any time.

After the sailors can handle the ship more skillfully, it can be officially delivered. According to the rules of the ship being completed and sailing, Lin Weiye asked Xia Nan to give the ship a name.

Looking at this clipper ship ahead of this era, thinking that ancient China was about to be cut off by barbarian peoples, and since then it has fallen behind the world civilization and fallen into the darkness of hundreds of years, and the south is unwilling in the summer. If the Chinese civilization had developed smoothly, with the ingenuity of the Chinese people, inventions such as the clipper could have been born in China, and the Industrial Revolution would not have originated in Britain.

Xia Nan felt a sense of mission in his heart, since he came to this chaotic era at the end of the Ming Dynasty by mistake, he wanted to turn the tide, let the Chinese civilization get rid of the poisonous hands of the barbarians, set sail, and return to the top of the world. He blurted out: "Let's call it Yangming!" "To be continued.

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