Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 760 The World's Largest Shipyard

It seems that the shipyards these days are very simple to build. You only need to dig the waterway and build a dock, and you can basically start building ships.

As for specialized wood processing factories and warehouses for storing wood, small-scale shipyards do not need it at all, and wood processing and storage can be placed in the dock.

Of course, what Taichang wants to build is not a small-scale shipyard, what he wants to build is the largest shipyard in the world today!
The reason why Peng Bin ordered people to dig the waterway first and repair the cement berms on both sides of the waterway was because these two things took the most time.

It was Wang Zheng who took him to build the Dongfan Shipyard at the beginning, so he is naturally familiar with the construction of the shipyard.

It can be said that most of the manpower and time in building a shipyard has to be spent on excavating waterways and building berms. As long as these two are completed, it will not take much time to build docks and wood processing factories.

What's more, many of the materials for the construction of the dock and the wood processing factory were directly dismantled from the shipyard in the Armed Forces City this time.

In other words, as long as he dug the waterway and built the berms, after the local fleet of Ming Dynasty arrived, it would take at most ten days to build the dock and wood processing factory.

At this moment, he has already organized people to dig more than a hundred large and small waterways in the shipyard, and the berms are almost finished, just wait for the cement to dry completely.

Just at this time, the local fleet of Daming also rushed over.

He was directing the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion to pour the cement in the middle of the last drainage channel, when a shout of surprise suddenly sounded in the distance: "Yan Ru, I have found you."

It turned out that Du Linzheng led someone to look for it.

The relationship between them was really not that good. In the years when they took the Juren examination, they almost ate and slept together, and they were closer than brothers.

Hearing this, Peng Bin couldn't help running over excitedly, grabbed Du Linzheng's arm and said, "Bozheng, long time no see!"

It's true that they haven't seen each other for a long time.

When Taichang led the fleet to America for the first time, Peng Bin followed him, and he never went back. It has been three or four years.

The two talked about their divorce, and then they discussed the matter of building a shipyard.

Du Linzheng looked at the waterway where the end could not be seen at a glance, and couldn't help asking: "Yan Ru, how big a shipyard is the emperor planning to build?"

Without hesitation, Peng Bin said: "The emperor means that this shipyard must be able to build at least [-] large and small ships a year. I excavated the water channel according to the plan of [-] ships."

My God, the plan of [-] ships a year!
There is no shortage of materials here. Question, do you guys think that people don't need people to build ships?
Du Linzheng couldn't help reminding: "Yanru, the shipyards in Wubei City, Jinling City and Dongfan all have a great demand for shipbuilding craftsmen, and I really can't get too many skilled hands.

I brought here this time, and there are less than [-] craftsmen who specialize in shipbuilding. How is it possible to build [-] ships a year? "

You don't understand this.

Peng Bin smiled slightly: "Don't worry, the shipyard here doesn't need so many skilled craftsmen.

Because the shipyard here mainly builds civilian ships, and the largest merchant ship is only [-] materials.

Moreover, we still mainly build small boats with less than [-] materials, and many of them do not need to install steam engines.

Ordinary people as long as they study hard, it is no problem to be a deputy at all. "

Uh, mainly small boats, and many of them don't use steam engines?

At this moment, isn’t Daming’s ships constantly being built in Dali and Kuaili?

Du Linzheng was puzzled, "Why do we build so many small boats?"

Peng Bin explained in detail: "You haven't looked at the detailed map here, the river here is like a spider's web, densely packed everywhere, and many large ships with two thousand materials in the river can't get in. Can build a boat with less than [-] materials.

Also, the boats we built were mainly used by the Indians of the primitive tribes here, and a small half were used by the Indian tribes in North America.

They don't know anything about steam engines. If a steam engine is installed, they have to be taught how to use it. "

Uh, okay.

The North American Indian tribe should be better. If you want to teach the Indians of the primitive tribe here to use the steam engine, it is really difficult.

Du Linzheng nodded slightly, and then asked, "Then what kind of ships do we mainly build?"

Without hesitation, Peng Bin said: "In the early stage, we mainly build octopus boats and net shuttle boats with two hundred materials. They don't need any nets or masts and sails, as long as they are equipped with oars and rudders. , very simple."

Uh, this is too simple, right?
At the moment, most of what Ming builds are armed merchant ships and aegis ships with [-] materials!

It’s good for you, just make it ten times smaller, and build a boat of [-] materials, and it’s still a single-layer boat, the kind with only oars and rudders.

To be honest, Du Linzheng really couldn't adapt to such a drastic change.

He froze for a moment, then asked, "Then what's next?"

Peng Bin still didn't think about it: "After the dockyard for building octopus boats and net shuttle boats is completed, we will build [-]-material centipede boats. They don't need any guardrails or guard boards, just oars and rudders."

Eight hundred materials, which is much bigger.

Question, can you make something else.

Why do you always build this kind of boat with only oars and rudders?

Du Linzheng couldn't help asking: "Yan Ru, do we only build some such backward small boats, don't we build ships with steam drive?"

Peng Bin still didn't think about it: "Build it, after the construction of the centipede shipyard is completed, we will build steam-driven water transport ships and armed merchant ships. By the way, the emperor will also build large-scale equipment such as mining machinery and infantry fighting vehicles that are specially designed for transport. merchant ships."

Well, finally some advanced steam ships came.

Du Linzheng was a little puzzled and said: "Since we are going to build large water transport ships and armed merchant ships here, why don't we first build a dock for the construction of large water transport ships and armed merchant ships? Yan Ru, those backward rowing boats cannot go to sea, yes It's useless for us Da Ming!"

Well, you think I don't want to build a big steamship?

Peng Bin said rather helplessly: "You may not know that the supply of steam engines here is very tight, it can be said that there are not more than one.

You should know how many steam engines are needed in a large steam ship. The question is, if we want to use steam engines at this moment, we have to wait for the Ming Dynasty to send them over, at least half a year.

The emperor has ordered the Ministry of Industry to build a steam engine manufacturing factory in the capital of Western Yin.

You have been floating on the sea all this way, maybe you haven't received any news?

The current situation is that if we want to build a large steam ship without a steam engine, what is the use of building it?
Therefore, we can only build paddle boats first. "

It turned out to be the case.

Du Linzheng finally understood that he originally wanted to say that he had brought more than a thousand sets of steam engines and boilers.

However, if you think about it, forget it, it is all for adding equipment when building various factories.

For example, this shipyard needs a lot of sawing machines, and the sawing machines they brought over are simply not enough.

Because Wubei City can build hundreds of ships a year, and only half of the sawing machines can be dismantled. Here, two to three thousand ships are built a year, and hundreds of sawing machines need to be added.

After discussing for a while, the two men gathered their hands and began to build the dock.

If the dock was built from scratch, it would probably take a month or so. However, Du Linzheng dismantled a lot of materials for the construction of the dock this time, and they basically only needed to build the outer frame and roof.

Originally, Peng Bin thought of using cement columns as the frame, but Du Linzheng suggested that he use wooden squares as the frame first.

Because it turned out that when Wubei City first started building the dock, there was no cement and steel bars, and the materials he dismantled were basically matched with wooden square frames.

In this way, the speed of dock construction is much faster.

Because there are a lot of wood here that is more than one foot long and two feet long, and there are any thick ones, so they can be directly processed into wooden squares with a sawing machine.

As for the others, they were basically dismantled from Wubei City, and there was no need for processing at all.

Nearly [-] craftsmen and tens of thousands of soldiers from the Shenwu Battalion worked together, and more than [-] docks were built in two or three days like a magic trick!

Of course, the first batch of docks they built were all standard docks for building small boats with less than [-] materials.

The next step is to build octopus boats, net shuttle boats and centipede boats.

These used to be the standard warships of the Daming Navy, and the original Daming Navy built a lot of these ships, and the master craftsmen who specialized in shipbuilding were used to making them.

They don't even need drawings, they remember the dimensions of the parts and components on it, and they can just build them directly.

Because this kind of paddling boat is too simple, there are not many parts and components on it.

As a result, after another two or three days, the first batch of octopus boats and net shuttle boats were launched.

This kind of boat does not need to test any water, and there is no need to build anything on it. After launching, it only needs to match the pre-processed oars and rudders.

On the city wall to the east of the pharmaceutical factory, Taichang turned his binoculars and looked at the ten octopus boats and ten net shuttle boats docked at the pier on the other side. He couldn't believe his eyes.

How many days is it?

The shipyard actually shipped out ships, and there were still twenty ships at a time!

This speed is too scary, right?

To be honest, Peng Bin and Du Linzheng didn't feel any sense of accomplishment after building such a backward boat.

However, they still arranged for people to go up to test the ship in an orderly manner.

Because most of these ships were built for the primitive tribes here, there were two sailors and nine giant horse tribes young and strong on each ship.

As for how to steer the boat, there is nothing to teach. As long as you don’t have a brain problem, you can basically sit on it and row. If you want to row faster, you can just row hard together while shouting.

After all, this is the first time that the shipyard here has produced a ship, and Peng Bin and Du Linzheng also created a little atmosphere.

There is a brand new cowhide drum in the middle of each boat. The sailors on the boat roughly demonstrated the operation of the oars and rudder, and let the young and strong of the giant horse tribe sit on it and try it. Basically, it is almost the same. .

The next step is to paddle together to the beat of the drum.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom."

Slow and rhythmic drumming soon sounded on the river. On each ship, a sailor was beating the drums, and a sailor was behind to help watch the rudder.

After all, there is nothing wrong with rowing the oars, even if you row randomly, the oars will hit each other at most, but you must be careful when steering the helm, and you can't turn it randomly. If you turn too frequently or the angle is too large, it is still possible to capsize the boat.

At the beginning, the young and strong of the giant horse tribe were not very neat.

The sailors on the ship were not in a hurry, they just kept beating the drums slowly and rhythmically.

The [-] boats went back and forth on the several miles long river and slowly turned a few times, and the paddling movements of the giant horse tribes on it finally gradually became uniform.

At this time, the sailors who played the drums began to increase the frequency of the drums.

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom."

The sound of the drums on the river became more and more intensive, and the young and strong of the giant horse tribe also rowed faster and faster, and the more vigorous they rowed.

Soon, twenty boats galloped across the river like a dragon boat race.

The characteristic of the net shuttle boat is that it is fast, the hull is relatively narrow and long, and eight strong men paddled with all their strength, which is much faster than people running.

The octopus boat is mainly for carrying loads, and it can be a little wider than the net shuttle boat. Eight strong men can row it with all their strength, and it can run faster than people.

There are really cruise ships on the river, and it is very lively.

The giant horse tribe and other tribes, men, women and children on both sides of this tributary came to watch the scene, and couldn't help bursting into cheers.

Octopus boats and net shuttle boats quickly became the favorites of the primitive tribes here.

Because this kind of boat is too simple to operate, and the draft is only a few feet liters, so you don’t have to worry about being stranded, you just need to push it out. Basically, you can go to any river, and it’s no problem to carry a few thousand catties.

More importantly, the weather here is hot, and the steam engine is even hotter. Even if Taichang wants to equip them with some steam-driven clippers, they still don't want it.

Sometimes it's like this, no matter what it is, it's not that the more advanced the better, but the more practical the better.

The primitive tribes here still love this kind of rowing boat!

(End of this chapter)