Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 336 The Real Artifact of Sea Battle

On the north bank of Wubei City, the new shipyard has already been completed. Rows of Spike warships have appeared on the waterway, and the dock for the construction of Aegis ships has also revealed a huge figure.

The Shenji Battalion and Shenwu Battalion have also been assembled, and the 40 soldiers are still taking turns to go into battle, building the city while practicing.

At this moment, they not only built the new shipyard, but also built several grid cities on the north bank of the Haihe River.

The purpose of these grid cities has not been determined for the time being. At this time, there are only rows of tents inside, and there are no buildings.

However, ancillary facilities such as port terminals and warehouse towers outside the city have been fully constructed.

Standing on a tower next to a port, Taichang looked at the neat docks along the coast, and couldn't help nodding: "Well, very good, this dock has been repaired very well."

Generals such as Qi Jin and Cao Wenzhao quickly bowed their hands and were humble.

This is really not too difficult, because they bring their men and horses to build the pier every day.

The so-called practice makes perfect, no matter how difficult it is to build, it can become extremely proficient after several months of continuous construction.

The reason why Taichang asked the soldiers of Shenjiying and Shenwuying to build docks and cities was not only to speed up the development of Wubei City.

Because the construction of docks and cities is a necessary subject for future overseas expeditions or overseas colonization.

If you want to win a piece of land overseas, you must first have a port and a wharf.

At the moment, the navigation technology in the entire Far East and even the Western countries is not very developed. Unless he leads the army to the European continent, it will be difficult to find a port that can dock the warships of the Daming Navy on a large scale.

Therefore, no matter where they hit, it is estimated that they will have to build port terminals.

The next step is to build the defense of the Acropolis.

The structure of this acropolis is different from ordinary cities or grid cities.

However, it doesn't matter, the work required to build any city fortress is actually the same, that is, digging earth, burning bricks, building walls, and so on.

As long as these skills are proficient, any city and fortress can be built quickly.

At this moment, no matter whether the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion and the Shenwu Battalion are building the port or the grid city, it is not so fast.

As long as there are enough materials, they can build a port dock with hundreds of Spike warships in one day.

As for the construction of Gecheng, it is also one month, one month, and the speed is very fast.

Of course, the grid city they built was just a city wall, with no buildings in the middle.

If it is necessary to build a complete acropolis, it will be difficult to complete it with one more month.

However, it is different when there is cement!

In fact, the development of cement should have been started a long time ago, but they have been busy building steam engines, machine tools, and weapons and equipment before, so they left this matter behind.

Overseas colonization is about to start at this moment, so it is natural to develop cement as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Taichang couldn't help waving his hands and said: "Let's go, let's go to the plate factory to have a look, General Qi, Wen Zhao, you don't have to follow me, go and do your own business."

After finishing speaking, he led a group of personal guards to the pier below.

At this moment, the bridge on the Haihe River has not been built yet, and the traffic on both sides of the river can only rely on Spike warships and carts.

Alas, building bridges is also an important matter, because many large bridges must be built when building railways in the future.

It's a pity that there are still too few talents studying technology in Daming at the moment, and no one is doing many things.

Don't talk about building bridges right now, the train hasn't been developed yet.

Alas, there is no way, we can only take it slowly.

He secretly sighed for a while, and the car had already arrived at Gecheng Wharf on the south bank of the Haihe River.

He is going to hand over the cement development to Cheng Jiashuo. This guy has been following Song Yingxing and the others to get familiar with the development of machine tools. He should have almost trained, and it's time to come out and take on the big responsibility.

Cheng Jiashuo is currently helping to buy a new type of press machine at the board factory. Because the Aegis ship is about to start mass production, the demand for boards will inevitably increase sharply. Therefore, the board factory must buy some new presses.

Taichang walked into the workshop and saw that this guy was still working beside the hot molten iron!
Alas, why is this guy so unafraid of death?
He simply walked over and grabbed the guy's arm, then walked out.

emperor!

Why are you dragging me?
Cheng Jiashuo is so dazed!

When he saw that it was the emperor, he naturally didn't dare to say anything.

Taichang pulled him all the way to the door, feeling that it wasn't too hot, and then he let go of his hand and said solemnly: "How many times have I told you that molten iron is too dangerous, don't come near it! They also know how to use this new type of press machine." If you do, you don’t want to follow them to make these machine tools in the future.”

what?
Cheng Jiashuo said with some reluctance: "Your Majesty, isn't that humble minister free to do something?"

You still have a lot to do.

Without hesitation, Taichang said: "You develop the cement for me first."

cement?

what!
Cheng Jiashuo couldn't help asking curiously: "Your Majesty, what is cement?"

Women are made of water, men are made of mud, and Brother Chun is made of cement.

wrong!

Taichang didn't know why such a sentence popped up in his mind suddenly.

He thought about it carefully, and then slowly said: "Cement is actually clay, lime and other things that are crushed and mixed with some water, then fired and ground into powder."

It turns out that cement is such a thing!
Cement, cement, is really water and mud mixed together, isn't clay just mud?
Question, why should clay and lime be crushed and mixed together, then fired and then ground into powder?

What a hassle.

Cheng Jiashuo was puzzled and said, "Your Majesty, what is the use of this cement?"

Of course it works.

It is very useful.

Taichang nodded without hesitation and said: "Well, because this cement dries quickly, has strong viscosity, and is quite hard after it dries, as hard as a stone, so this thing is very useful for building city walls and houses, bridges and repairs. The road and so on can be used.”

Is this cement so magical?
When Cheng Jiashuo heard this, he couldn't help being interested.

However, he has never seen this cement before, and he has never made it before, so he still has a lot of things he doesn't understand.

For example, what is the ratio of clay to lime, what else needs to be added, how high the firing temperature is, how fine the powder is ground, and so on.

He didn't know these things, so he could only ask Taichang the same thing.

Taichang is actually not very familiar with these, and there are only some vague memories of novels in his mind.

He could only recall and explain to Cheng Jiashuo.

The two were chatting in full swing when a naval officer hurried over and said out of breath, "Your Majesty, the Aegis battleship has been assembled and debugged, Lord Wang and Lord Yuan asked the future to ask, do you want to come over?" Let's test sail together."

Of course I will.

This is the sea battle artifact he has been looking forward to for a long time!

He hastily explained a few words to Cheng Jiashuo, and then ran to the pier outside the city with a group of personal guards, hurriedly boarded the Spike warship, and headed straight for the shipyard.

At this moment, the springboards and brackets on both sides of the first Aegis ship have been dismantled, and the entire battleship is finally exposed.

This aegis ship looks really terrifying, its exterior is all black black iron armor, without a trace of wooden boats, the whole is like a steel fortress.

Or, the steel fortress is not enough to describe its power, because its size is too big, let alone its length and width, its height is enough to give people a strong sense of oppression.

There are four floors above the deck of the Aegis ship, not three, and the fourth floor has a herringbone eaves structure, which is higher than ordinary cabins.

Calculated in this way, the height of its water surface has reached a terrifying height of more than six feet.

What is the concept of more than six feet high, that is more than 20 meters!
The height of one floor of an ordinary building is less than ten feet.

In other words, the Aegis ship is as high as seven or eight floors!
This kind of giant ship that is invulnerable to swords and guns, even if it hits it with its front ram, it can smash ordinary water transport ships or even blessing ships to pieces!

What's more, the number of artillery inside it is no less than that of a gunboat, and it can also carry an astonishing number of musketeers.

It can be said that whether it is defense or attack power, the Aegis ship is the most outstanding in the world today.

This is the real artifact of naval warfare!

(End of this chapter)