The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 307 Longjiang Shipyard

After drinking the great tonic soup, Zhu Cihong originally wanted to call the ten talented people over to cultivate their relationship, but he was worried that Zhang Yan would misunderstand that he was worthless, so he had to give up.

"Your Majesty, here are all the records of the queen mother and princess in the past two years!"

In the huge bedroom, only Xu Lan stood in front of Zhu Cihong, holding two thick account books.

After Zhang Yan and Princess Kunxing saw the contents recorded in the account book, they would definitely turn pale with shock, and they would also feel as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.

It records every word and deed of the two people in the past two years, where they have been, who they have contacted with, and what they have said, all of which are recorded in great detail.

Everyone knew that Zhu Cihong had established the inner factory and the western factory, and the specific functions of the two factories, but no one knew who the factory supervisors of the two factories were.

If Zhang Yan was here, she would immediately understand that Xu Lan, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army who she has always trusted and regarded as her right-hand man, is the most mysterious supervisor of the inner factory.

Zhu Cilang took the booklet and flipped through it. After reading it, she put it aside and said to Xu Lan: "From now on, the inner factory will no longer have to monitor the queen mother and princess."

"It's Your Majesty!"

Xu Lan hurriedly replied, in fact, she didn't want to spy on the queen mother and princess, especially the queen mother, every time she thought of this, she felt very guilty.

After Xu Lan left, Zhu Cihong took a brazier, tore up the booklet and burned it himself, the corners of his mouth were bitter.

However, I was very surprised that Zhang Yan was secretly writing novels, but I was relieved after thinking about it.

For the next two days, Zhu Cihong has been cultivating relationships with the ten talented people. As for the imperial examination, he does not intend to intervene.

Zhu Cihong had only nestled in the palace for five days, and couldn't stay there any longer. On the sixth day, he quietly went to the Longjiang Shipyard.

Zhang Yan is both gratified and helpless about this, and the gratified thing is that Lang'er is not the kind of foolish king who is greedy for women and has no morals.

Unfortunately, Lang'er is also not a serious emperor who can seriously handle government affairs in the palace.

After more than four years of operation, the Longjiang Shipyard has spent countless human, material and financial resources, and its current scale has far exceeded that of the most glorious early Ming Dynasty.

There are more than 20 craftsmen and managers of all kinds, and they can start construction at the same time to build [-] large ships with a weight of more than [-] tons, and small and medium-sized ships with a weight of less than [-] tons, and thousands of ships a year.

At this moment, as far as the eye can see, there is no end to the slipway by the river. Countless heads are busy around the row of slipways, and the sound of ping-ping-pong-pong is endless, and the scene is magnificent.

And behind the slipway, there are large brick houses, which are also densely packed, with as many as thousands of rooms.

These factories are all workshops related to shipbuilding. Some of them make canvas hemp rope, some process wood materials, and some make paint, tung oil, and copper nails.

Farther away, there is a gunpowder factory, a cannon factory, and an iron foundry. It can be said that the technological facilities of Longjiang Shipyard are quite complete.

However, although the management and scale have far surpassed that of the early Ming Dynasty, due to the loss of many technologies and blueprints, the shipyard has never been able to build an ideal large ship.

It wasn't until last year that I bought a large Spanish ship, and the craftsmen dismantled it, combined with Daming's existing shipbuilding technology, and finally designed two ideal large ships.

One has a draft of about [-] dan, and the other has a draft of [-] dan. At this moment, the construction of these two giants is coming to an end.

As far as the eye can see, almost all the small boats under [-] dan were built on the row of berths by the riverside, which are more than ten miles long. Only these two big ships with over [-] dan standing in the middle stand out from the crowd.

Standing on the top of a distant mountain, Zhu Cihong saw these two giants almost at first sight.

"Let me introduce the specific performance of these two warships first!"

"It's Your Majesty."

The steward who was in charge of supervising the construction of these two giants quickly replied, and then explained.

The styles of these two ships are actually similar, they both abandoned the traditional square bottom design of the Ming Dynasty and adopted the western pointed bottom design instead.

The main structure of the hull is composed of a huge log keel with a length of 100 feet and more than [-] ribs. The structure below the deck is all mortise and tenon structure. No copper nails are used, but its firmness is stronger than that of Western sailing ships. not weak.

The sails of the two ships did not blindly borrow from the soft sails of the Westerners, but the traditional hard sails of the Ming Dynasty were still used for the main sail, and the soft sails of the Westerners were used for the auxiliary sails at the bow and stern.

After completion, a sea-going ship of about 45 tons will be [-] meters long and seven meters wide, with a seven-to-one aspect ratio.

Compared with the traditional sea-going ships of the Ming Dynasty, the length-to-width ratio is no more than five to one, and it is undoubtedly much slimmer. The main mast plus the hull are as high as 50 meters.

The one with about 65 tons has a length of an astonishing 70 meters, a width of nine meters, and a height of [-] meters with the main mast and hull.

Two sea ships, the large one is expected to carry fifty red cannons, and the small one can carry 35 cannons.

As for the specific speed, because it has not been completed, it cannot be determined, but only based on the structure of the hull, it can be guessed that it will definitely be much faster than the traditional blessing ships and treasure ships.

Although the draft of the two sea-going ships is said to be [-] to [-] tons, in fact, everyone knows that after the actual completion and launch, the full load will definitely increase several times.

All the stewards and craftsmen are aware of this point. Even Zhu Cihong came to the berth after listening to the steward's introduction, and looked at the biggest giant among them, and secretly clicked his tongue. The displacement is likely to exceed five hundred tons.

After all, the full-load displacement of a wooden ship is terrifying, and the weight that can be carried is several times, even ten times, that of the ship itself, which is far beyond that of a steel warship.

A load is 120 catties, and a thousand loads is only 12 catties. Even if there is a discrepancy between the Ming Dynasty and later generations, if it is calculated as a ton, a ton of two thousand catties is only about 150 tons. , sailing, fresh water food, etc., the standard displacement may be around [-] tons.

For later generations of warships that are often tens of thousands of tons, the current wooden boats are indeed insignificant.

However, Zhu Cihong is very satisfied with such a scale. Although this giant ship is still far behind the treasure ships of the past, it is not much smaller than the sea-going ships of Westerners in this era.

What's more, these two ships are still prototypes. As long as they are launched into the water and tested, and there are no major problems found, with Daming's current strength, it is absolutely possible to build even larger sea-going ships.

It is not impossible to build a real thousand-ton sea ship.

(End of this chapter)