Warring States Eagle

"That's right, it would be great if we could build a lucky ship from the Ming Dynasty!"

While Shimadzu Takahisa of Satsuma was hoping to get a huge ship from the sea visitors, Masara, who was far away on the shore of Imari Bay in Matsuura County, Hizen Kingdom, expressed the same expectation when looking at the scene in front of him.

Standing on the rocks by the sea, the sea breeze blows from the west one after another, bringing a strong and slightly salty smell.Hundreds of meters away from the coast, there is a large factory where people are constantly moving around. That is the largest seaport of the Roche family, the Imari Bay Seaport.

At present, there are four relatively large and well-established seaports in the territory of the Luo family, namely Hirado Port, Imariwan Port, and Karatsu Port in Matsuura County of Hizen Country, and Hakata Port in Chikuzen Country, which is under restoration.Among them, Hirado Port and Hakata Port are the only commercial ports open to the outside world in the territory of the Luo family, and Karatsu Port is a military training seaport responsible for training the standing navy (in the future, this will be a branch of the Naval Academy of the Roche Academy). Imari Bay Port is a shipbuilding port.

And because the only shipbuilding workshop of the Luo family is currently established here, after several years of continuous development, the Imari Bay Port has become the largest in the Luo family's territory, with the most wharf buildings and the most extensive cement floor. a port.

On the second day after negotiating an alliance with Kitahara Kenmori, Masamori started his second trip to inspect the territory of the Luo family without stopping.The first stop of this itinerary is naturally the shipbuilding workshop in Imari Bay, which is the closest to Kishidake Mountain Castle.

It has always been Masaragi's dream to manufacture ships belonging to the Luo family.Eight years ago, when the Luo family occupied the Matsuura County area and acquired a number of shipbuilding facilities and local shipbuilding craftsmen.Zhengliang asked the cabinet to start building the first navy ship workshop of the Roche family here in Imari Bay.

certainly.Due to lack of comprehensive technology and lack of sufficient raw materials.At that time, the workshop was only in charge of repairing and maintaining the naval ships of the Luo family.However, with the continuous expansion of the territory of the Luo family, the Luo family obtained more and more shipbuilding materials, shipbuilding facilities, and shipbuilding craftsmen.More importantly, two years ago, Wang Hai, a businessman from the Ming Kingdom, helped the Luo family "invite" several households from the Ming Kingdom to work as craftsmen in the Ming Kingdom Shipyard.In order for these craftsmen to settle down in the Luo family's territory with peace of mind, Wang Hai directly "invited" all the relatives of these craftsmen.

According to the statements of Wang Hai and others, in the Ming Dynasty at this time, the more famous shipyards mainly included Longjiang Shipyard in Nanjing, Qingjiang Shipyard in Northern Jiangsu, Qinghe Shipyard in Shandong, Tainan Shipyard in Fujian, and Jilin Shipyard in Northeast China.And these craftsmen were "invited" from Longjiang Shipyard in Nanjing and Tainan Shipyard in Fujian.Anyway, at that time, the families of these craftsmen were in different troubles, and even several craftsmen were about to go bankrupt.So it is a good thing for them to "invite" them here.

With the addition of these craftsmen, the ship repair workshop of the Roche family in Imari Bay Port gradually began to transform into a shipbuilding workshop.

After nearly two years of preparation, the wharf warehouse at Imari Bay Port has already stockpiled mountains of wood, iron, tung oil, oyster ash, rattan, palm, hemp, raw lacquer and other materials.Since the Luo family had already started maritime trade with Ming smugglers and Nanban merchants at this time, and because the territory of Wa was mountainous, there were also abundant products suitable for shipbuilding, so it was not too difficult to prepare these materials.

As for the living organization of the workshop, Zheng Liang also referred to the workshop organization of the shipyard in the Ming Dynasty, and divided it into four compartments according to the professional nature: one compartment made wooden shuttles and sculls; the second compartment manufactured ship wood, iron parts and cables; the third compartment repaired old ships; The four compartments make brown tents and other things.This kind of rational organization of production and strict division of labor is conducive to promoting the improvement of productivity.Improve the future shipbuilding capacity of the territory.

Finally, there is the issue of shipbuilding model selection.In this regard, Zhengliang is more inclined to choose the ship model of the Ming Dynasty.And the current Ming Dynasty Middle School.There are mainly three types of ships: Guangzhou Ship Type, Fu Ship Type and Sand Ship Type.

Guangzhou Shipyard got its name because it was built in Guangdong.The head is long and the draft is deep.The beam arch is small, the arc of the ridge is not high, and it has good seakeeping.In terms of structure, the transverse direction is composed of close-spaced ribs and bulkheads, and the longitudinal strength is maintained by keels and large ribs.The shipbuilding materials are lychee wood, camphor wood and iron chestnut wood (wulu wood), which are strong and durable, but the source of materials is difficult and the cost is high, which hinders its development.The front of the side of the Guangzhou ship is equipped with a falling board that can be lifted vertically and protrudes under the bottom of the ship to stabilize the roll and stabilize the course.Rows of diamond-shaped small holes are opened on the rudder plate, which saves effort in steering without affecting the rudder effect.The tomast and fore-mast of large Canton ships are both tilted forward, with hard cloth sails hanging from them, and the canopy poles are thick and sparsely arranged.There are sculls and oars on medium and small Guangzhou ships.Guangzhou Shipbuilding has good wave breaking ability, which is good for deep water navigation.

Fuchuan got its name because it was built in Fujian.The ship has four floors, the lower layer is equipped with ballast stones, the third layer is used for fresh water tanks, and the second layer is used for living.The bottom tip is wide, the tip is wide at the front and the tail is wide, and the tail seal structure is horseshoe-shaped. The two sides are arched outwards. There is a wide and flat deck, and the sides are reinforced with split log planks.Shipbuilding materials are mainly pine, fir, camphor, nanmu and other woods.Some Fu boats have running water tanks at the bow or stern, and the tanks have holes near the full waterline.When the bow or stern descends in the waves, the water flows into the living water tank; when ascending, the water flows out slowly, which reduces the ascending speed of the ship, so as to reduce the pitching.Fuchuan has good wave breaking performance and is suitable for deep water navigation.

Fuchuan also derived some ship types, such as sentinel boat (grass boat), winter boat (haicang boat), bird boat (wave boat) and so on.There is a small type of bird boat called a clipper.The smallest of the winter boats is called Cangshan boat, and the larger one is called Cangjiao boat.

Some people regard the bird ship as an independent ship type, juxtaposed with the Fuchuan, Guangzhou Ship, and Shachuan, thus dividing my country's sea-going ships into four categories.

A sand boat is a flat-bottomed ship that originated in Chongming, Shanghai.The characteristics of sand boats are: flat bottom, square head and square stern, which is good for sand travel, and it will not be hindered if it is less placed; the draft is shallow, less affected by the tide; the boat is wide and stable, and it has anti-rolling equipment such as water boards, hard water wood and safety baskets. ; Multiple masts and multiple sails, good speed.Because sand ships have a flat bottom and cannot break through big waves, the main navigation area is the northern sea.

Zhengliang finally chose to build Fuchuan.A few years ago, when Ming Guo and his party were about to return to the territory, he personally experienced the thrill of being chased and killed by those huge lucky boats, so he had a deep memory of the sailing speed and combat power of the lucky boats.

However, since the naval warfare of the Japanese country was mostly carried out in shallow sea areas, these lucky boats still needed to be further modified to adapt to the local naval combat environment and navigation needs.

Just now, he had already visited the workshop in the distant port. When he saw the main keel of the ship more than ten meters long, Zheng Liang couldn't help being deeply shocked by its huge body.This keel is exactly the keel of the first Fuchuan that Luo's family shipbuilding workshop tried to build by itself.Zheng Liang believed that with the appearance of warships like the Luo family on the sea, it would definitely add a strong color to the history of the Japanese navy.

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