Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 249
In Haihe Shipyard, inside the huge dock, Wang Zheng is leading several disciples busy around a huge table.

They all drew copper rulers and sharpened charcoal pencils there, and they drew quite complicated battleship structural drawings.

A few people were bowing their backs, bowing their heads, and their expressions were so focused that they didn't respond to a large number of people walking in.

Looking at the improvised beds and the messy bedding on them beside the table, Taichang couldn't help shaking his head slightly and sighing.

Alas, these people don't care about anything as soon as they get busy.

He raised his hand and made a silence gesture to the civil servants and generals, then walked forward lightly, patted Wang Zheng's shoulder carefully, and said softly: "Liangfu, take a rest first, I'm a little Let's discuss it with you."

Wang Zheng couldn't help raising his head when he heard the words and exclaimed, "Your Majesty, why are you here?"

All the disciples were so frightened that they quickly dropped the things in their hands, bowed their hands and said, "See Your Majesty."

Taichang raised his hand helplessly and said: "Okay, I told you all that there is no need to be polite when working. Since everyone has stopped, let's all stop and have a rest."

He wanted to invite everyone to sit down, but when he looked up, he didn't find a stool.

Alas, these guys.

He couldn't help but shook his head and smiled wryly, "Why don't you even have a stool here, don't you need to sit down and rest?"

stool?

Wang Zheng subconsciously said: "Your Majesty, we can just sit on the bed and rest."

Sit on the bed?
Taichang pointed to a group of civil servants and military generals behind him and said: "So many people sitting on the bed will collapse your wooden bed!"

When Wang Zheng heard this, he turned his head to look at it, and couldn't help being shocked.

Why did such a large number of people come in without saying a word!
Minister Bi Maokang of the Ministry of Industry, Minister Lu Xiangsheng of the Ministry of War, and Governor Yuan Keli of Denglai, these positions are all higher than him.

He froze for a moment, then hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Lord Bi, Lord Lu, Lord Yuan, please be rude."

You are still rude, the emperor is standing next to you and you forgot to salute.

Bi Maokang shook his head slightly, and then reminded: "Liangfu, it doesn't matter whether we sit or not, you have to find a stool for the emperor, right?"

stool?

No!
He thought for a while, then waved his hand and said, "Quick, go and move some uprights to support the deck."

Hearing this, several disciples rushed to the side where the wood was piled up, carried a few dried uprights, and carefully piled them behind Taichang.

This thing is easy to use. It is square and one foot wide. When stacked together, it becomes a long bench.

Taichang nodded slightly, then waved his hand and said, "Everyone, go and get some, set the table and sit down."

Hearing the words, a group of civil servants and military generals hurriedly followed those disciples to carry the pillars.

At this time, Taichang looked down at the drawings on the table.

Wang Zheng drew the overall structure of the building, the gunboat, and his disciples drew the structure of the cabins on each floor.

The building gunboat does not seem to be very complicated from the outside, it seems that a few layers of cabins are stacked on the hull, and then rows of gun ports are opened.

However, the real structure diagram is indeed extremely complicated.

Because shipbuilding these days is not made of large pieces of steel plates welded together, but one piece of wood and one piece of wood riveted together.

A building ship gunboat is about 60 meters long, more than ten meters wide, and more than ten meters high, and is divided into five or six floors. The wood used in each floor and each position is different. It can be said that it is There are more than a hundred shapes of wood, and the number is more than ten thousand pieces!

There are also cannons, cannon carriages, boilers, steam engines, water wheels, etc., etc. I don’t know how many things have to be reflected in a picture. The complexity of this picture can be imagined.

Anyway, Taichang was a little dizzy looking at the dense lines.

This Wang Zheng is really amazing!
He couldn't help admiring: "Liangfu, your drawing is too good. There are so many things in a building, boat, gunboat, and you can understand it clearly. It's really amazing."

Wang Zheng hurriedly said modestly: "Your Majesty, in fact, I just changed the cabin above the deck. Except for the steam engine and water wheel below the deck, they are all drawn according to the treasure ships of the Yongle Dynasty."

After all, he directly took away the blueprint he had drawn, pointed to the blueprint below and said: "Your Majesty, look, this is the blueprint of the treasure ship. I have been studying the blueprint of the treasure ship for many days. Our Daming's shipbuilding ability is really awesome, if it weren't for this blueprint, I wouldn't know how to build such a big ship."

Drawings of Zheng He's Treasure Ship!
Taichang took a closer look, and couldn't help sighing again.

This blueprint has mold in many places!
Alas, almost 200 years have passed, and Daming has silently regressed for almost 200 years.

These blueprints have also been shelved for almost 200 years. If it takes another few decades, the blueprints will probably be so moldy that they can't be seen clearly!

It’s okay, it’s okay, I can still see clearly at this moment, otherwise, the Daming Navy would really go back 200 years!

At this time, a group of civil servants and generals had already piled up wooden stools and stood around the big table waiting.

Taichang directly raised his hand to signal everyone to sit down, and then said solemnly: "This time, everyone is called to the shipyard to discuss the reorganization of the Daming Navy. It will definitely attack our Ming Dynasty, so we must rush to form a real naval fleet before the Dutch come over!"

Everyone has heard that the current maritime overlord, the Dutch, is about to fight over.

They have also seen most of the Spanish building boats and gunboats.

If the navy's current warships are used to fight against other people's gunboats, there is only one way to win, and that is to surround them with hundreds of small warships and pile them up with human lives!
To be honest, no one wants to fight like this.

After all, sailors are human too!
All civil servants and military generals looked eagerly at the blueprint on the table after hearing the words.

It would be great if Wang Zheng could quickly build the building boat gunboat. If the Daming Navy also had the building boat gunboat, then there would be no need to make huge sacrifices.

Seeing this, Taichang simply asked: "Liangfu, how long do you think it will take to build this large ship and gunboat?"

Wang Zheng heard the words, thought about it carefully, and then estimated: "This blueprint can be finished in more than ten days. By then, the first batch of [-] craftsmen should have arrived, plus the current more than [-] craftsmen. That's six thousand craftsmen.

Wei Chen is going to gather [-] artisans to work day and night, trying to build one within three months for a try.

If there is no problem, then another 25 craftsmen can be summoned to rush over to build 25 building boats and gunboats at the same time. We estimate that it will take at least ten months to build these [-] building boats and gunboats. "

It will take three months for more than 3000 craftsmen to build a building boat and gunboat at the same time?

The number of spare parts for a building ship and gunboat is scary, but no matter how many there are, there are only tens of thousands of them, right?
More than 3000 craftsmen built it at the same time, and each craftsman only needs to assemble more than ten or twenty parts at most!
Of course, it is definitely not that simple to build a building, a gunboat, and it is impossible for 3000 people to squeeze in and build it at the same time.

Taichang was a little puzzled and said, "More than 3000 craftsmen are building a gunboat at the same time? This gunboat can hold up to 300 people, right? What about the others? What are they doing?"

Wang Zheng quickly explained: "It's true that there can't be so many people standing on the gunboat. It is enough for two or three hundred people to actually work on the boat. The rest mainly saw all kinds of wood, especially two or three inches thick. Oak deck. The oak deck is the most used for this five-six-story building ship gunboat, and the oak wood is hard and porcelain, and it is very difficult to saw. It is estimated that at least 300 people will be needed for the oak deck alone. It takes more than two months of non-stop sawing to be enough for a large ship and gunboat."

2000 people saw the oak deck!

This is too labor-intensive, right?

Taichang frowned and pondered for a while, then suddenly remembered that steam engines can replace labor!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but excitedly said: "Liangfu, we have a steam engine, we don't need someone to pull the saw, just connect the saw to the steam engine, it will be fast and you don't need to stop to rest, the sawing speed must be very fast!"

When Wang Zheng heard this, his eyes lit up.

That's right, if a steam engine is used to pull a saw, it will be at least ten times faster than a human saw!
He also couldn't help but excitedly said: "Your Majesty is wise, as long as there are several hundred steam engines to see, I will be able to trial-produce a building boat gunboat in two months, and the next 25 ships, if more steam engines are used to see , half a year is enough, and, without so many people, it is enough to recruit tens of thousands of craftsmen!"

(End of this chapter)