The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 504 Flying Scissor Sailing Ship

The largest steelmaking plant in the world has risen on Hainan Island, and everyone in the team brought by Gu Shanhai can be on his own.

He has been eating steel with his father since he was a child, and he sweats profusely every day in iron smelting and blacksmithing.

A young man with practical experience, after eight years of study, Gu Shanhai, who is approaching his thirties, is entering the golden age of a man.

The iron and steel factory he manages has obtained high-quality iron ore and coal. There are tens of thousands of workers under him. Stoves of the world's best molten steel are converted into high-quality steel. The improvement of the quality of warships and machinery is just around the corner.

Hainan Island has also established shipyards, arsenals, cement factories, glass factories, vehicle factories, etc., and the tertiary industry has also developed rapidly.There are as many as 25 industrial workers in the factory, and women account for [-]%.

The number of Han people in Hainan Island reached 80. Because there were too many brides from the Dai Viet Kingdom, young people of the right age had at least one woman.The road around the island has been repaired, and the leech area has been filled with slag.

The leech area sounds creepy, but it is actually not worth mentioning to manage. The sultry and humid weather combined with the swamp full of dead branches and rotten leaves is a breeding ground for those disgusting and bloodthirsty things.

Take good protection, use slag to fill the swamp, destroy those shrubs, let the sun shine on the ground, and the leech area will disappear.

Most of the Li people in Hainan Island went down the mountain, some immigrated to Jiaozhi, some became self-cultivated farmers in Hainan Island, and some who were fluent in Chinese became industrial workers.

No longer will you be hungry, no more birds will come out of your mouth, no longer oppressed by Dongzhu and Gongzhu, and the Li people who have gained a good life are grateful.

Changing customs is in progress, and their women are not willing to tattoo their faces anymore. Presumably, the girls of Li people in the future will also be as beautiful as flowers.

Huang Sheng's divide and rule is to find ways to let the Li people integrate into the Han nationality. He has no idea of ​​wanton massacre of these foreign nationalities, but he must be persistent in eliminating ethnic conflicts. He will not tolerate the black sheep who resist Sinicization. Iron fist and cold-blooded side are still necessary.

At the end of May in the fourth year of Chongzhen, the production crew that had finished their tour in South Zhili was led by Lan Caier to Jiaozhi, and they took the team of the development team led by Zhao Shimin to the south.

Zhao Shimin's design team is unprecedentedly large. These designers know that all the territories of the Huang family are separated by sea. How to turn this disadvantage into an advantage must have safe and high-speed ships.

Improvement, improvement, and optimization of ship design are the pursuit of all designers of the Huang family system.

Therefore, every long-distance voyage has designers and shipbuilders on board to experience the voyage in person. Today, designers have many bold designs.

The ship designers of the Huang family never talk on paper. Many of them have sailed many times with the sailboats they designed and built, and constantly mastered first-hand information in practice.

Due to the continuous improvement of the hot forging process of the Huangjia steel keel, the length of the overall steel keel has made a breakthrough.

Designers consider appropriately increasing the length of the warship while keeping the width of the warship constant, so that the height of the warship can be reduced, the mast and sails can be increased.

In the age of sail, how to obtain the highest power by maximizing the wind power is obviously correct. They consider reducing the height of the ship, which naturally reduces the resistance and of course increases the speed.

In the meeting hall of the Yamen Court of Daming Annan City Mansion in Annangang District, Zhao Shimin led more than a dozen top designers of the Huang family to show the owner the ship design drawings that had been discussed by them, explaining the design concept and ultimate purpose for each drawing.

Huang Sheng listened with gusto. Now that he has enough money and food, steel and coal can meet his basic needs, the next step is to increase the acquisition of copper. Of course, he must do his best to build bigger and faster sailboats.

Huang Sheng took a fancy to a design drawing, and a clipper sailboat designed by Americans popped up in his mind. This drawing is very similar, and this ship also has a small freeboard and less superstructure.

The aspect ratio is about [-]:[-]. This design lowers the center of gravity, not only improves the stability of the ship, but also can give full play to the role of the sail.

The boat can sail almost close to the water surface, and its underwater shape is designed to minimize resistance to increase speed, but maintain a certain transverse resistance profile, resulting in a particularly beautiful waterline.

There is even a concave on the waterline surface of the head, and the long and sharp curved scissor-shaped stem is in a posture suitable for racing, and it can cut waves to reduce wave resistance on the sea.

The stem column also extends the length of the hull, and if a slash is stretched out along the stem column, some stay jibs can be hung at the bow, which is beneficial to expand the capacity of the sail.

Huang Sheng discussed with everyone that this design is close to the clipper sailboat. The designer did not consider the hollow bow, but fully considered the anti-sinking, and designed the unique multi-sealed cabins of Chinese ships. Of course, Huang’s increasingly mature propeller technology was used skillfully. .

Huang Sheng put forward the concept of hollow bow, explaining that this can make the bow of the ship easier to lift in waves and improve its course stability in waves.

Zhao Shimin and all the designers felt that something was happening, and some people were so excited that they couldn't help scratching their heads, and had the urge to modify the design immediately.

Huang Sheng, a half-expert, showed off his golden fingers in front of these real experts who have been trained through continuous practice.

Zhao Shimin and the designers were taken aback, they were overwhelmed with admiration, and many felt that they had solved the puzzling design problem.

Huang Sheng encouraged everyone to be bold and start building immediately after completing the drawings. Don't be afraid of failure. You can build five ships of different sizes at once for sea trials, so that the final design will have a basis.

Huang Sheng knew that he would not fail, and he was already happy. In history, the clipper sailboat was the end of the sailing era, and no other sailboat could surpass it.

The speed of the best clipper-style sailboat can reach more than [-] knots, it is said that it can reach [-] knots, and it only takes [-] days to cross the Atlantic Ocean, marking the peak of the development of sailboats.

The clipper sailboat was just born too late, and it didn't take long for the age of sails to be replaced by the age of fire powered by steam engines.

Now that the flying scissor sailboat designed by the Huang family has an all-steel keel, high-quality and western-style oiled sails, and additional propellers for human drive, how many knots will the maximum speed reach when running on the sea in the future?

Huang Sheng was looking forward to this design very much, and told Zhao Shimin to concentrate on building a new ship type, and named this type of ship the "Destroyer" series, and named it after national heroes, scientists and sages who had made great contributions to the great Han civilization.

Tell Zhao Shimin not to save cost, and the whole ship must be covered with nickel-nickel-nickel-nickel copper.

Nickel-nickel-nickel copper is a unique technology of the Han people. Of course, it must be used in the right place. It is certain that the successful "Destroyer" series will be built soon. The quality and speed will surpass the clipper sailboats that will appear in 200 years.

Huang Sheng didn't care that the appearance of "destroyer" was actually a new type of ship with faster speed and stronger firepower designed to deal with torpedo boats in later generations. It was originally used to destroy torpedo boats. There was no such ship name in the age of sails.

Anyway, his new battleship also highlighted the word "fast". The warship used to expel the enemy seems to be very good, and the name "destroyer" is well deserved.

Zhao Shimin is a workaholic. When he saw the owner, he would lead the design team to talk about work, new ideas, and new ideas.

(End of this chapter)