Time passed little by little, until a quarter of an hour later, the original high interest of the people began to become depressed, and the huge hull of the ship was still motionless in its original position, and if the sailors inside stepped on the pedals under their feet, the sound of the trumpet was useless.

Failed, the two-month-long renovation plan failed! Yu Zhining, who was standing at the bow of the boat staring at a certain reference object on the ground, suddenly had a feeling of wanting to kill.

It was two months of hard work, hundreds of people worked tirelessly, boatsmiths, carpenters, blacksmiths, and all kinds of craftsmen circled around 'her' for two whole months, and the final result turned out to be like this.

"Mr. Yu, go back, Madame is still waiting at home." The 'fang' squad leader who was assigned to Yu Zhining came over and comforted softly.

For two months, he followed Yu Zhiyu every day, knowing how much hope Lao Yu gave to this ship. Now that everything is back to square one, he is a little uncomfortable in his heart, not to mention Lao Yu, who is the head of ship construction.

"Let's go!" Yu Zhining nodded a little abruptly, two months of hard work, in exchange for the result was just a gloomy sigh.

"Crunch ......".

A series of subtle strange sounds suddenly reached everyone's ears, drawing everyone's eyes to it. It stands to reason that now that the ship is floating on the water, there should be no more such noises that only appear when buildings collapse, so where does this sound come from?

Following the direction of the sound, everyone's eyes slowly froze, and two taut ropes appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and the subtle strange sound was emitted by the force of these two ropes.

Rope? Forced? What are these two ropes for? Yu Zhining, who didn't react for a while, looked at each other with the captain of the ship, the sailors, and the craftsmen.

Then a thought of killing came to me, damn the cable, the cable that would only be used after the ship docked.

Which bastard tied the cable on? Does the ship need this in the dockyard? What are you doing with it! And the most important thing is ......, if the cable is not untied, it can't drive any boat!

"What are you doing in a daze! I don't know how to cut it. "The captain had been staring at the cable for a long time, and finally he broke out, and if he caught the bastard tying the cable, he would have to hang the bastard on the bow of the boat and let him drink a month's worth of seawater.

"Bang, bang" twice, a sailor rushed up with an axe, and his axe fell, cutting the taut cable, and then the hull of the ship shook violently, and when everyone had no time to react, it began to move slowly.

"Gone! Let's go! ”

"The ship is moving! The boat is really moving! ”

"The sky has eyes......

The excited voices rose and fell with each other, this was the first ship in Datang without oars and sails, and it was the result of everyone's hard work in the past two months. When everyone was already desperate, the heavens could not bear to see their efforts wasted, and finally threw the wreath of victory at them.

"Blow the trumpet! Set sail......! The captain also cheered up the moment the ship moved, swept away the gloom just now, waved his arms and shouted loudly.

Yu Zhiyu was being supported by the 'fang' squad leader at this time, and the dramatic change made the old man's spirit a little unbearable, and his mood was a little unstable between the ups and downs.

The world is always full of coincidences, and it is a coincidence that the cable is not untied, and it is also a coincidence that everyone did not notify the sailors below to stop pedaling.

In short, by various coincidences, although the ship was not launched according to the calculated time, it finally sailed out of the dock.

"Mr. Yu, you succeeded!" The boat was sailing on the sea, everyone was celebrating, and Yu Zhining was only accompanied by the 'fangs' squad leader, and the two of them stood at the front of the bow of the boat, facing the winter sea breeze, with an indescribable pleasure on their faces.

"Yes, it worked! It's not easy, the next step is to fix the water leakage. Yu Zhining nodded, and glanced back at the sailors running around the boat, his eyes flashing with excitement.

When the big ship was launched for the first time, he had the same feeling, but this feeling was not very strong at that time, after all, it was just a transformation, just a flat-bottomed boat to a pointed bottom, and before he arrived in Quanzhou, the ship had already been built more than half, so the success at that time was not entirely his.

But this time is different, this time is a breakthrough in the history of shipbuilding, and this time it is the whole process supervised by Yu Zhining.

It can be said that without him Yu Zhining, there would be no warship driven by propellers.

Of course, Li Chengqian's design also played a big role, but he is the prince, so don't participate in this kind of strange and ingenious thing, anyway, in the past, glass, wine, cotton clothes and quilts, three-edged crossbows, pulley bows, pulley crossbows and the like did not have his name written on them.

The speed of the boat was not fast, it was even slower than when the lever was used, but anyway, the boat was moving.

And Yu Zhining knew that the reason why the boat was moving slowly was because of the proportion of the gear set below, if the proportion was doubled, then the speed of the ship would definitely increase again.

But that's a story for later, and it's not too late to solve those problems when the leakage problem is solved.

And if I remember correctly, when the young master handed over the drawings to him, he seemed to have said that if he used that thing, it seemed that he could turn the ship into iron, and even the iron boat ran faster in the water than all the ships in Datang now.

Lao Yu thought that the young master must be crazy at the time, isn't that for the iron boat? Everyone knows that if you throw iron into the water, you will definitely sink to the bottom, and I really don't know what that kid thinks.

But now, ......, Lao Yu's thinking has changed, he wants to see what the iron ship looks like, the kind of iron ship with no wood at all driving on the sea, as if there is no need to load any weapons, just by hitting all the enemy's ships can be knocked apart.

Cultural people's brains are generally very big, just for a short moment, Lao Yu has already thought of the steel battleship from the problem of the ship's leakage, but he has no experience in later generations, and even if Yu Zhining wants to break his head, he can't figure out what a battleship made of iron and steel should look like.

However, being distracted does not mean that others will also be distracted, and not long after the propeller-driven warship came out of the dock, it was surrounded by the Lingnan sailors passing nearby, and a group of red-eyed soldiers had to go up to the ship anyway to see what it was like to have no lever and no sail.

(End of chapter)