After seeing off two chattering guys, Zhao Bing's ears finally became quiet. He lay on the table and looked at the model of the fly-scissors, but his heart was not calm. Today, he had never been close to his wish. The model of this ship was ready when he had just arrived in Qiongzhou. That was his most difficult period. Thinking that once he could not gain a foothold in Qiongzhou, he would strive to build a fly-scissors. With its leading-edge performance and speed, no ship could catch up with him.

But because of one thing or another, it was not implemented, and the ship model could only be dusted in the studio until now. But now he wants money and people, and there are a large number of shipbuilding wood available in Nanyang. Zhao Bing thinks it is time to let fly-shears be released, and it can be said that it was born in time. He knew that the sea trade will still be the main source of filling the warehouse for a certain period of time.

However, their strong and large-scale intervention, especially the most profitable spice business, will surely trigger new competition and trade frictions, and maritime trade is also an important income for many countries and states. Once it rises to competition at the national level, trade frictions will rise to the highest form of competition, triggering a war until the winner is decided and a boss is played.

Therefore, Zhao Bing knew that to win this trade battle, a powerful ocean-going fleet must be established. Although his naval army had an overwhelming advantage in the naval battle with the Mongols and Yuan, the warships used were suitable for offshore operations and were not suitable for long-distance ocean-going combat. Building a new type of warship and building an ocean-going fleet became an imminent matter.

However, the fly-scissor ship is not suitable for use as a warship, and of course it is not Zhao Bing's only choice. He knew that three hundred years later, there was a kind of warship born in the Great Discovery Age of the West, and it also became a pioneer of battleships.

In the fifteenth century, the Western world also launched sea adventures in search of the legendary oriental spice land. At that time, the Mediterranean three-masted paddle sailboat was too poor to play a role in the ocean because of its poor seaworthiness. A sailboat that became Clark became a favored ship, with enough space for a large number of crew members to accommodate cargo on return flights. When Magellan sets out for a global sailing, the ships he uses were all Clark sailboats.

However, Clark sailing has a huge design problem. The huge front and back boats make the ship's center of gravity too high and it is very easy to attract wind. This can easily overturn the ship when encountering a powerful storm, and reduce the wind area of ​​the sails, making the ship difficult to operate when facing the wind. Therefore, people improved the Clark sailing, which is the well-known Garen sailing ship now.

The Galen ship is a completely sailed ship, mostly equipped with three to five masts. In addition to the last mast using a spinnaker, it is mostly equipped with a cross sail as a sail. It uses a lowered bow and an extended hull, which is longer and narrow. In addition, it replaces the traditional curved stern with a square stern. Its unique structure reduces the wind resistance of its front side, improves navigation speed, and is easy to steer. It makes it have unprecedented stability when sailing on the water surface, making it more suitable for ocean navigation.

Several countries claimed that they invented the Galen sailboat, but no matter who was the first to create it, its good performance Most sailing countries quickly adopted the Galen sailboat, the British, Spanish, French, Danes and Dutch all made changes to the design according to their respective needs and developed their own unique designs. Due to their wide range of uses, Galen ships can also be easily converted into commercial and military sailboats, so that commercial Galen sailboats will generally be equipped with several cannons or heavy artillery for arming.

In the UK, shipbuilders began to develop light Galen ships. In order to make them more suitable for long-distance artillery battles and improve their operating performance, they lowered the first superstructure, moved it into the hull, and even placed it in the first hanging. The wall panels of the lower hull were penetrated, so that heavy artillery could be placed on the lower deck. The plump appearance along the Clark sailing was modified, so that the length of the keel was three times the width of the ship. The structure of the ship building was simplified, especially the front hull, whose size was greatly reduced.

After Spain established a colony in the Americas, it needed to carry a large number of cargo and soldiers across the Atlantic Ocean. Therefore, the Galen ships built by the Spanish generally had four masts, with two masts hanging on the front and two masts hanging on the back. The standard length is about fifty meters and the displacement is 1,200 tons. The oblique ribs allow it to have several layers of uniform decks, and the stern deck is even as many as seven layers, with a draft of eight meters. Of course, the huge hull gives it a good endurance, making them the largest seaship in the world for a long time.

The Galen Sailboat not only has good seaworthiness capabilities, a strong hull, but also can carry more materials and has extraordinary endurance, making it suitable for many different fields such as ocean exploration, ocean trade and naval warfare. And the era when it was manufactured was the era of great navigation where Western European countries competed to establish maritime power. Therefore, the emergence of the Galen Sailboat also had a certain impact on the development of the European situation.

In addition, the great success of the Galen-type sailing ship made it a design standard for warships before the end of the sailing era, including battleships. Among them, the requirements for navigation and firepower are overwhelming conditions, so as to seize favorable positions and exert advantageous firepower during battle. Becoming the main battleships in war, they all have the characteristics of low side, cross sail, and cannon artillery on both sides. Many such ships are lined up in a long row to exert the firepower advantages of both sides. This is also the first time the name "battleship" has been used...

If Zhao Bing thought, of course, he hoped to form an ocean-going fleet with Garen sailing as the main force. Because the Garen sailing ship would inevitably be associated with the Spanish treasure fleet, because the Spanish Garen sailing ship full of treasures from the New World will always inspire our imagination and entangle our thoughts. This was the early stage of Spain's three-century New World rule, the treasure fleet had developed and became an integral part of the economic system.

A typical treasure fleet consists of multiple types of ships. Heavy armed Garen sailing ships and merchant ships became the main body of the fleet. Some small delivery ships and small reconnaissance ships accompanied the fleet with supply ships. The only difference between merchant ships and Garen sailing ships is the load of weapons. They left Spain with the industrial finished products needed in the Spanish colonies in the New World, but brought back a full ship of gold, silver and industrial raw materials.

As a former modern man, Zhao Bing certainly knew what such a fleet meant to a country. He could not only help the country get rid of the financial crisis, provide a lot of funds for the country's development and construction, and support a country's economy, but also enable it to rise rapidly among the great powers, gain prestige in the world, and expand its territory overseas.

The future is full, realistic and skinny. This time, it made a big profit overseas, but for Zhao Bing, it only relieved the crisis, and it was still far from being able to spend money with big money. Moreover, the money had been found in the family of the mother-in-law long ago. First, the workshop was moved out and the industrial town was built, and each one could not be saved. Secondly, the Lin'an city was renovated to solve the housing problems of officials. Although they could not lose much in the end, they had to pay in advance; and secondly, the burial of the biological mother and the Empress Dowager Feng'an also needed a large sum of money.

It was not budgeted at first, and its iron and wood structure, material costs, research and development, and manufacturing costs were not small. Galen sailboats generally used oak as keel, pine as masts and some hardwood as hull and decks. It was not expensive to make a Galen sailboat. It took a lot of carpenters, blacksmiths, and boatmen to complete the work. The problem was that Galen sailboats only existed in his mind, and they didn’t even have a ship model!

However, once Zhao Bing has an idea, he is unwilling to give up, especially because it is not easy to come by himself, and his life is short, and time is fleeting when he relaxes a little. He still feels a little unwilling to leave with many regrets. But wanting to do it does not mean doing it recklessly. Things must be prioritized and a reasonable plan must be made.

After pondering for a long time, Zhao Bing figured out that what he lacked most now is money, so making money is still the first priority. As we all know, the faster the cargo is, the lower the cost and the more profits he earns. Therefore, he listed the fly-scissors as a priority project. On the one hand, the faster the boat is, and secondly, it is also sold in season. Even if it is a fruit, everyone wants to eat the first bite, and the price is that they need to pay a higher price.

The same is true for the current trafficking of incense medicine. Affected by the trade winds, cargo ships can only travel back and forth once a year. Everyone is rushing to traffic in one season. Naturally, the price is cheaper if the quantity is large, but with the fly-scissors, they can travel at a distance. Before the large-scale incense medicine is launched, it has started selling it. That is the only portion of scorpion shit. The result of no competitors is that the price will be opened as you want. Later generations can only eat ash.

Zhao Bing planned to use the advantages of not being affected by trade winds, fast ship speed and high load capacity, and only trafficking in high value tea, silk and fragrant medicine. Other things with lower profits such as porcelain and Chinese herbal medicine are sold by ordinary merchant ships. Returning to the sea can traffic in horses, gold, silver, jewelry and other things that are urgently needed in the Song Dynasty. Therefore, the scale of the fleet does not need to be too large at the beginning, and it will gradually expand after a certain accumulation.

Of course, establishing a flying scissor fleet also has practical significance. Using it can quickly increase troops overseas and transport urgently needed materials. It can also make a temporary guest appearance as a warship to use. Zheng Yong said it is right. Cannons cannot be equipped. Don’t we still have crossbows? In the current era of cold weapons dominating, we can still dominate the sea. Besides, if we can’t beat them, we can run. At this time, there is no ship on the earth that runs faster than it does.

Relatively speaking, Zhao Bing thought that the demand for Galen ships was not so urgent. The main enemy of the Song Dynasty was still the Mongols and Yuan dynasties, and near-shore combat was still the main form of combat. Moreover, the Mongols and Yuan navy did not have the ability to fight the ocean. Now they have lost again and again, and they have already suffered great energy and are unable to confront their own navy. As for the war due to trade frictions, although it is impossible to determine when it will break out, it is not enough to trigger a war in a short period of time.

At the same time, a long-distance fleet is not just a warship. It also requires familiarity with the ships and training. It also takes time to form an army. Therefore, Zhao Bing thought that technical reserves can be made at present, design first, and one or two test ships can be built to verify their performance, optimize design, train sailors. With talent reserves and money, large-scale manufacturing and assembly can be carried out quickly.

After thinking through the pros and cons, Zhao Bing put this matter on the agenda and took two hours every afternoon to discuss with several masters who were going to serve as supervisor. To be honest, he was also unsure of whether he could build a fly-scissor ship. After all, from a structural point of view, imitation of the turtle ship is much more complicated, and modern fly-scissor ships have been eliminated for more than 200 years, and he has never seen any real thing.

Even the ship model was made by Zhao Bing based on the records and pictures of the remaining materials, and the masters were even more distorted, which was very different from the ship model they often involved. In this way, he could only grit his teeth and imitate the original ship model without any changes, and disassemble the ship model, explaining little by little from the materials used to the manufacturing of accessories, and how to assemble them, so that they can be clear and clear.

At the same time, Zhao Bing ordered the boat yard to which the military weapon prison belonged, to start preparations, collect and purchase the required materials, build the dock, install the equipment required for debugging, and select craftsmen. After the seminar here is over, the construction will be started. Zheng Yong was also ordered to select a group of sailors from the Imperial Navy, build a simulated training ground, and use it to train soft sail operations and formulate rules.

Zhao Bing was going to court, and summoned his ministers to listen to the report, discuss matters with the prime ministers, and reviewed memorials. Now, he was discussing the manufacturing process of the fly-sheared ship, so he got into the studio when he had a little free time to calculate the data, draw drawings, and prepare for the production of the Galen sailboat. He was so busy that he had no time to take care of the affairs of the palace, and he couldn't say a few words to the concubines.

"Hey, why did you arrange for foreign ministers to meet today? There are many less official documents?" This day was not the day when you went to court, but Zhao Bing still came to the study early in the morning. Chen Shishi, who was in the imperial office, sent today's work arrangements and official documents needed to be processed as usual, but after seeing it, he frowned and asked strangely.

"Your Majesty, today is the summer solstice. As the rules are taken, the three days of rest have been closed. All ministries and provinces have already sealed the yamen, so naturally there are fewer official duties." Chen Shishi said with a smile and said.

"Oh, I'm so busy that I'm confused. Why haven't you gone back to rest?" Zhao Bing smiled bitterly and shook his head, and asked again.

"Go back to Your Majesty, I will be on the turn today and I will be off tomorrow." Chen Shishi replied.

"I have a lot of things, so you can't spare time, and you will suffer, and you will not be able to accompany your family!" Zhao Bing nodded and said.
Chapter completed!