Moreover, the money obtained from selling horizontal knives can be exchanged for some in-demand items that I need now, well, silk cloth is a must, and now there are many displaced people, and silk cloth is just used to make clothes. Others, such as various daily necessities, are also good.

In this way, after taking it, it can be sold to those homeless, so that the place where they rent a place to live looks more like home.

Liu Hongji listened to it frequently, and gave me a straight thumbs up. "Brother Xian is really talented, in this way, in less than two years, this Hancheng County will definitely be managed by you as solid as gold."

"Hehe, hopefully, by the way, brother, there is still something to worry about you, is there a way, get me some experienced old shipwrights." I asked Liu Hongji.

Liu Hongji touched his beard and said with some curiosity: "Isn't the virtuous brother going to build a ship?" ”

"Yes, the younger brother does need to build a ship, and now the transportation between Hancheng County and the outside is mainly completed by waterways, and the younger brother can't always rent a boat, right? Besides, many of the boats are not very functional, and I have several designs here, but unfortunately there have been no suitable shipwrights. I nodded and replied

"That's no problem, it's wrapped up in Brother Wei, I'll definitely try to get it for you." Liu Hongji patted his chest and agreed, Ben Gongzi couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately promised heavy benefits to this, as long as this guy can find that kind of skilled shipbuilder, Ben Gongzi will be grateful.

Liu Hongji did not go back, but soon, with his letter, it took less than five days of work, and two old shipwrights who had worked in Luoyang Shipyard for more than 20 years stood in front of Ben Gongzi with unwilling expressions.

Behind these two old shipwrights, there were four squatting underworld saffron double stick thugs with fierce faces and healthy flesh, seeing this scene, my son's face was black, but Liu Hongji was smiling happily, very proud, I felt that this should not be an invitation, but a kidnapping, Khan

"How about the virtuous brother, if you say that your brother is wrapped around me, it will definitely be wrapped around me. Wow ha, you two, are you boatwrights, say it yourself. Liu Hongji slapped Lao Tzu with excitement and almost dislocated his shoulder blade,

"Brother Tai, don't do it, these old shipwrights are what the younger brother needs, if you really provoke others, even if you don't dare to face Yu openly, you will be disobeyed by the yang and the yin, and the incident will be delayed, and it will be too late to cry when the time comes." Ben Gongzi hurriedly stopped this reckless guy, put on a kind smile, and looked at the two old shipwrights in their forties with calluses on their hands.

And Liu Hongji had already rushed over to greet his brothers. I don't have the time to pay attention to that hooligan, these two old shipwrights are really good hands at the Luoyang Shipyard in the Eastern Capital, and besides, they are still from Dengzhou.

"You mean you've built ships?" Oh, the cake seller, this son originally wanted to come in step by step, starting from ordinary river boats, and then trying to make sea boats when the time is ripe, but I really didn't expect that these two old shipwrights actually built sea boats. Lean, as the so-called want to sleep, someone sent a pillow, so lucky.

"Grandpa Guo, of course I don't dare to lie to you, our old brothers, we have been building sea ships for seventeen or eighteen years, and we only arrived here in Luoyang, the eastern capital, the year before last." The old shipwright replied honestly.

I was excited, I didn't care about it first, called Liu Hongji, led my bodyguards and Xiaomi, and of course had to catch up with two old shipwrights, and rushed to the shipyard five miles away from the wharf, which is the newly excavated shipyard north of Hancheng County.

Four docks were built with cement. The largest wharf, about 30 zhang long and 10 zhang wide, and the other three, all about 20 zhang long and five or six zhang wide, were completely speechless when the two old shipwrights saw the dock made of gray-white cement.

"Grandpa Guo, oh no, Childe, this, what kind of building ship are you going to build here? But this shipyard is a bit too big, isn't it? The old shipwright stammered. Well, I don't like to be called old, what kind of grandfather, it's not as good as the son.

"It doesn't matter, it's bigger anyway, and it's convenient for the people in it to do things. As for the building ship you mentioned, that thing Ben Gongzi is not interested in building. I pursed my lips with some disdain.

China's navigation technology and shipbuilding technology have developed greatly in the Han Dynasty. Among them, in terms of shipbuilding, the most famous ship in the Han Dynasty was the Lou ship. The name of Lou Chuan first began in the Yue Kingdom in the south during the Warring States Period, and there was a Lou Chuan Army, and the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty had military commanders with the official title of "Lou Chuan General".

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was ready to conquer South Vietnam, so he built a large building ship, with a superstructure of three or four layers, ten zhang high, and could carry thousands of people. Each heavy superstructure is equipped with cabins, women's walls, and battle grids, which serve as the support and protective facilities for soldiers and soldiers. The women's wall and the battle grid are open as if they are sword holes and spear holes, which can be attacked from a distance and can be defended at close range. In addition, it is equipped with defensive weapons such as scarlet stones and iron spikes. There are many flags on the ship to make a strong reputation.

The building ship became the main warship of the boat division, and thus also became the synonym of the boat division, so the Han Dynasty boat division became the building ship army, referred to as the building ship, or the ship army; The soldiers are called Lou Chuan Shi, and the leading officer is called Lou Chuan General. The person who oversees the building is called the building officer. During the Three Kingdoms period, the Wu Navy was equipped with 6-story building ships, such as "Feiyun" and "Gaihai" and other large building ships, which could carry 3,000 soldiers.

Since then, successive naval armies have used building ships as the main warships. During the Western Jin Dynasty, the building boat was equipped with a shooting rod. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sun En and Lu Xun's maritime rebel army also had a boat division with large building ships as the main force. At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, the boat division was equipped with a large building ship, the Wuya ship.

Well, this son has seen this kind of behemoth when he was in the eastern capital of Luoyang, it is said that Yang Su and Wang Qing, who built ships in Sichuan to attack Wu at the end of the Three Kingdoms, also built warships in Sichuan, and the largest of them is called Wuya.

It has five floors and is more than 100 feet high. There are six poles on the left and right, and they are fifty feet high. Eight hundred soldiers. Flags are added to it. There's a lot of space on board, and you can even drive on deck.

The problem is that this thing is a typical top-heavy thing, it seems to be huge and indestructible, but the problem is that as soon as the wind comes, it may turn over, I remember that Yang Xiong once told me that when he conquered Goguryeo, the sailors of the Great Sui built a large number of ships, with the building ship as the main force, but whenever there is a strong wind at sea, the danger of the building ship is even higher than that of the sampan.

In the first two expeditions to Goguryeo, the Lou ships were often like this, and there were no losses during the battle, but on the way to the march, they encountered wind and waves and caused more than seventy percent of the losses. Moreover, Yang Xuangan rebelled and burned down the dock located outside the city and a large number of building boats, well, many building boats were brought by Yang Guang to play along the river, which is a pity. For this thing, Ben Gongzi really has no interest in building it.

"Let's go, I'll take you to see the model ship." This son should lead the way and go forward. In the vicinity of the dockyard, not a few houses have been built, because there are only a dozen or so boatmen who have built fishing boats, and there is a shortage of workers. Therefore, for the time being, shipbuilding has not yet started.

I came to an office reserved for my son, and on the table in it, there were four ship models, all of which were different from the ships of this era, and even some of the ships made the two old boatmen feel strange

This is a drawing I made from my memory of an eighteenth-century sailboat, and then I have it made by a skilled craftsman who specializes in making wooden handles. Among them, the most representative is the Galen ship, which belongs to the most classic work of the Great Voyage Period, and there is also a classic masterpiece of the Chinese nation: the lucky boat

There is also the best type of ship in the Western Voyage of Discovery: the Galen ship. There is also a kind of flying clipper that only began to appear in the eighteenth century, the flying scissor sailing ship is slender and long, the length-to-width ratio is generally greater than six to one, the bow tip is sharp and protruding, and it is hollow, and the speed is fast and the tonnage is not large. Due to the use of a hollow bow, it is convenient for the ship to raise its head in the wind and waves, which improves its course stability in the waves and reduces the resistance of the bow. The tapering and inclined waterline at the rear of the hull smoothly transitions to a narrow, rounded stern. Ships are often fully equipped with sails with three or four tall masts.

The tall mast is generally about three-quarters of the length of the whole ship, and there are overhanging sail booms on both sides of the ship, called wing sail bars, which can hang wing sails, so that the transverse size of the sail far exceeds the width of the ship, and the transverse outreach area of the sail is larger. This type of ship was a new type of fast sailing ship developed in the United States in 1830, and was eventually gradually replaced by a steam engine ship after 1870.

This is arguably the fastest ocean-going sailing ship, which was used by the Americans to trade tea and opium in China from the forties of the nineteenth century. Later, the gold rush caused by the discovery of gold mines in the western United States led to the rapid development of flying scissor sailboats.

The "Great Republic," built in 1853, was 93 meters long, 16.2 meters wide, 9.1 meters deep, had a displacement of 3,400 tons, a mainmast height of 61 meters, a total sail area of 3,760 square meters, and a speed of between 12 and 14 nautical miles per hour. However, only a few decades later, it was quickly replaced by the emerging steam-engine ship.

The other is a square-headed square-tip flat-bottomed sand boat, this thing is absolutely wonderful, the structure of the sand boat is unique, the square head, square tip, flat bottom, so its draft is very shallow, the bottom can sit on the beach, not afraid of running aground, the influence of the tide is relatively small, in addition to the sand boat, multi-mast and multi-sail, plus shallow draft, small yin force, can sail quickly on the sea and rivers, seaworthiness is quite good.

And the important thing is that although the draft of this thing is shallow, but the load is not low, remember that the information is recorded in the 4,000 stone to 6,000 stone, that is to say, it can carry 500 tons to 800 tons of goods.

I am most familiar with these four kinds of boats, because I once bought these four ship models, did it myself, and glued them together piece by piece, so I know the structure of these three kinds of ships very well.

That's why I was able to get the man to model these four ships.