The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 219
Li Er is an old fritter who is used to running in Japan. He knows that with such strength, no one can beat him on this sea route.

He was already thinking about how to take the Huang's warship to find the only way for ships from other countries to pass, and complete the task of cracking down on all foreign supplier fleets to and from Japan that his son had entrusted.

This kid thinks that the more he fights, the better, because his family's business will get better and better. Li's family has unique strength in Beizhili. When they go out to sea, they will be escorted by warships of the Huang family, and their profits will double in the future. It's hard to say.

Everything is ready, and the flagship 'Liaodong', which has poured countless skilled craftsmen and efforts of the Huang family, is on the stage. This is the maiden voyage!

Huang Sheng suddenly thought of the 'Titanic', it seemed that its maiden voyage hit an iceberg and sank.

In addition, in Europe in the year after, the self-righteous King Gustav II of Sweden built a flagship "Goblet" with an excessively high center of gravity. People die in the sea.

Huang Sheng, who is cautious, believes that the excessive casualties caused by the maritime incident are entirely due to the carelessness of the commander. As long as there are psychological preparations and material preparations, all this can be completely avoided.

Huang Sheng can't predict whether the maiden voyage will be smooth, but he can prevent everyone from being helpless when misfortune happens.

Chinese ships have a multi-sealed cabin structure, and there is no possibility of sinking instantly. As long as the supplies you bring are sufficient, there are enough ships going to sea together, and you are safe.

Huang Sheng was also reluctant to abandon the ship in case of an emergency. This flagship has poured too much effort into the top master of the Huang family, and he has also invested too much emotion in himself.

Even if the design is contrary to expectations, you will find clues during the voyage, and you can continue to improve the design after returning to the voyage. If the flagship sinks into the vast sea, everything will come to naught.

Huang Sheng has a way to bring the sealed floating boats and fasteners at home. So many wooden sealed floating boats can theoretically float objects exceeding [-] tons. They can be used as lifeboats and emergency boats to increase the buoyancy of accidental ships.

The maiden voyage is of great significance, and no mistakes are allowed. The best sailors and gunners of the Huang family are selected to serve the flagship, and care must be taken for their safety.

The Huang family's warships were still in full swing, seven No. [-] Fuchuan-class warships and fifteen straw boats, plus five unarmed No. [-] Fuchuan and forty horse boats. These are all remodeled and upgraded sea ships. No slower than the flagship 'Liaodong'.

The goods were loaded on horse boats and blessing boats, and all the porcelain produced in the past few months, many dioramas and soap gift boxes, and the small amount of Songjiang cloth produced were also shipped.

The fleet dispatched by the Huang family has a total tonnage of more than [-] tons, and there is no such a large amount of cargo and supplies to be loaded. All the cargo ships are only filled with a small space, and the warships are all empty.

There were as many as 500 sailors and gunners who went to sea, as well as six heavy infantrymen of the general banner and 870 musketeers. Six engineers of the general banner were selected to take them on board, and 30 people from the medical team were on board.

Zhao Shimin took a dozen master craftsmen on the maiden voyage together, and they are the main designers and participating manufacturers of this flagship.

Zhao Shimin's attitude was a bit heroic, Huang Sheng couldn't help but laugh, so what if he failed?It is completely possible to do it all over again, and I have made such an arrangement to keep Qingshan alive.

But they were right to know first-hand, that being on a voyage in person would allow them to spot problems and solve them.

Even if the flagship sinks on its maiden voyage, there will not be too many casualties, but only a loss of 10,000+ taels of silver.

The flagship's maiden voyage does not have cargo, no interior decoration, and no artillery.Therefore, it is not too valuable. If all the equipment and decorations are completed according to the design, the value of the flagship will be 20 taels of silver.

Now only the bow gun and the tail gun are five real rifled steel guns that can be fired. Most of the other gun positions are fake.

Only 22 six-pound and four-pound smoothbore guns refitted from other warships are real. These artillery are only temporarily embezzled. They are not the artillery required by the design at all. many.

The production of rifled steel guns is not easy. Eleven twelve-pound guns were produced. Except for the installation of four on the "Liaodong", the bow guns were replaced for seven No. [-] Fuchuan-class warships, and fifteen nine-pound rifled guns were produced. The steel guns replaced the six-pound and four-pound copper-core iron guns installed on the bow of the grass.

The bow and stern guns of the 'Liaodong' are large-caliber rifled steel guns, [-]-pounders and [-]-pounders and [-]-guns respectively. Attack all the way forward.

When the enemy ship is able to fire sideways, it should be hit by more than nine shells. Whether they are willing to compete with the enemy's sideways or not depends on whether the Huang family is willing or not.

There are more than 3000 people and 68 boats. When they set off, thousands of sails danced vigorously. The scale is not small. The small families who came to see off from Huangjiawan Island all smiled. They trust the owner and know that their relatives will not be too dangerous, and they will earn a lot of money.

Because as long as the Huang family starts to perform tasks, all participants will be paid at double rates.

Every time you go on a mission, you have a chance to make meritorious service. The future of your relatives cannot be obtained by living on the island all day. The Huang family is the most fair. As long as you dare to fight for it, there will be no shortage of opportunities for you.

Amidst the blessings of relatives, the mighty fleet set sail for a long voyage, riding the wind and waves all the way, the flagship is very stable, 88 people increase power, in the case of normal wind, the speed of the ship can be increased to level eight, if the wind and water are completely smooth Can exceed ten knots.

When the wind is smooth and the water is smooth, all sails can be put down, and it can also reach five knots completely driven by manpower.Against the wind and the current?Oh shit!Our Huang family chose to avoid such a fucking flight.

Just kidding, you can sail long distances by taking the big zigzag method. In the age of sails, you are not afraid of headwinds or no wind. Fortunately, no wind at sea is too rare, so there will be several levels.

The Huang family's forty horse boats, ten lucky boats, and seven straw boats are still spliced ​​into a huge whole. More than 2000 people work, study, and train together happily.

Eleven large and small warships headed by the flagship are cruising around the fleet, and all the telescopes are observing the movement of the nearby sea, not because they are afraid that pirates will appear to attack their own fleet. There is no such big pirate on this route. appetite.

It was the captains of those warships who were looking forward to discovering passing merchant ships or pirate ships. The Huang family was an officer of the Ming Dynasty, so it was difficult to deal with merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty, and they felt embarrassed when they saw foreign ships.

57 ships are connected to form a huge moving platform. There are thick cushions made of straw rope and hemp rope between the boats to prevent head-on collisions. There is no doubt about the comfort and stability. On the platform, the Huang family soldiers can even A group of two or three small flags for small-scale running drills.

Li Er and the six tents ran happily on the spliced ​​deck. They also told everyone that this was the happiest voyage.

Patriarch Huang Sheng was deprived of the right to take the maiden voyage of the flagship 'Liaodong' by his subordinates.

The technical director of the Huang family, Zhao Shimin, had good reasons. He emphasized that this was not the maiden voyage, but a trial voyage, because this flagship has not yet been delivered to the army, and it is still a semi-finished product of the military factory, which is under his management in name.

Moreover, there are no living facilities in the 'Liaodong', and it is inconvenient for the teacher to take a group of commanders on board. No wonder Zhao Shimin deliberately did not carry out the interior decoration.

The last time Huang Mingdao attacked Fuzhou, he was sent to stay on the beachhead and command the warships to shoot at the enemy who came to Jinzhou to help, so there was no good thing for a field attack.

He looked at his high-spirited cousin Huang Mingli with envy, and thought that instead of commanding warships, he would command landing troops in the future, and compete with the enemy face to face.

This time, he was taken out to sea by the Patriarch to serve as the commander-in-chief. After seeing the huge flagship, he dismissed the idea.

Huang Mingdao didn't listen to Zhao Shimin's dissuasion, and he must personally participate in the sea trial of the 'Liaodong'. He also had good reasons, saying that he was also experienced in frequent sea trips, and he might be able to give some advice to the flagship.

Zhao Shimin naturally agreed, they were all worried about the safety of the Patriarch, and he was not afraid at all.

Huang Sheng is people-oriented, and puts the safety of the soldiers under his command first in every battle. Now his subordinates also consider safety first for him. He is full of emotions for a while. Who can match the soldiers of the Huang family who love each other so much?

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