Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 546 Arriving in Malacca

The blueprint of the ship in Lin Hua's hands not only designed a watertight cabin, but also installed a bulbous bow for the warship.

In fact, water-tight cabins have appeared in China long ago, but the West did not have them at that time.

The main purpose of the "bulb bow" is to reduce the wave resistance and increase the speed of the ship when sailing.

The resistance of a ship during sailing mainly comes from two aspects, one is the frictional resistance and viscous resistance between the hull and water, and the other is the resistance of collision and wave-making when the bow chops the waves.

The streamlined design of the hull is to reduce the frictional resistance and viscous resistance formed by the viscosity of water; the installation of bulbous bow is to reduce the wave resistance and wave breaking resistance during sailing.

When there is no bulbous bow, the bow will stir up a lot of water waves, resulting in greater resistance?
The bulbous bow protrudes forward for a section, which can first arouse a water wave, and then the water waves aroused by the bow have to be 180 degrees out of phase.

In this way, it can be offset with it, thereby greatly reducing the wave-making resistance.

At that time, Western ships did not have watertight cabins. It can be said that Huaxia was about a century earlier than the West in this regard.

The waterproof tank technology of Western ships also imitates our Chinese shipbuilding technology.

The ships of the Tang Dynasty in China had watertight compartments, which were only available in Europe in the 18th century.

The watertight compartment structure adopted by Chinese ships has long been appreciated by foreign countries.

Marco Polo, an Italian executor in the Yuan Dynasty, gave a detailed description of Chinese ships in his "Travel Notes".

Bentham of the United Kingdom once inspected Chinese ship structures, improved the European shipbuilding process, and introduced Chinese watertight compartment structures.

In 1795, he was commissioned by the Royal Navy to design and build six new ships.

In his treatise, he said that the boats he built "had bulkheads of increased strength, which protected the boat from flooding and sinking, as the Chinese do now.

"Later, Mrs. Bentham noted in her biography of her husband: 'It was not General Bentham's invention.

He himself once said openly, 'This is what the Chinese people practice today, just as the ancient Chinese practiced it'.

"Since then, China's advanced watertight compartment structure has gradually been absorbed by shipbuilding techniques in Europe and around the world.

It is still an important structural form in ship design.

Lin Hua didn't come from a shipbuilding background before, but after being captured by the Dutch and working in Batavia, he gradually became an outstanding shipbuilding engineer.

Seeing the design drawings of the bulbous bow and the watertight cabin, he immediately felt how much this would promote the progress of the Galen ship.

As Malacca is the second overseas territory of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youjian still wants to visit it.

Zhu Youjian led the land and sea troops to board the ship, and the fleet left Huangming Island and headed for Malacca (later Malaysia)

Two days later, the fleet came to the waters near Malacca. Zhang Huang said that Li Dingguo had already received the report that the emperor was coming to Malacca.

For the safety of the sage, they immediately ordered martial law around the port, and the Longteng army sailed every five steps and made ten steps and one sentry.

Some Chinese in Malacca and local working and passing aborigines were restricted to five hundred steps away.

Then the two of them led the soldiers to greet each other at the port, and waited for two hours before seeing the Ming fleet enter the port of Malacca.

Standing on the deck of Dayu, Zhu Youjian looked at the city of Malacca in front of him, with a sincere smile on his face.

The Straits of Malacca, which later generations were stuck with China, now belongs to Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, the fleet has entered Malacca HNA, and Zhang Huangyan and Li Dingguo are waiting at the port."

Zheng Chenggong and Qi Jiguang, who were standing beside Zhu Youjian, pointed to the two on the shore and said to Zhu Youjian.

Zhu Youjian nodded:
"Well, the decree is for the soldiers to log in and rest for a day, and by the way, resupply the fleet in Malacca."

"According to the purpose"

The will was quickly conveyed, and Zhu Youjian and Qi Jiguang, surrounded by generals such as Qi Jiguang and Zheng Chenggong, made it the first time for a Chinese emperor to land on the land of Nanyang.

After disembarking, Qinglong Cao Zhengchun walked in front of and behind Zhu Youjian from left to right
Jin Yiwei and Dongchang fanzi surrounded the emperor, and looked around vigilantly with their hands on the handle of Xiuchun knife.

Once they saw that someone was unfavorable to the emperor, they would immediately step forward and let those people go to see the king of Hades.

Seeing the emperor landing, Zhang Huang said that Li Dingguo hurried forward and bowed to salute:

"My minister, Zhang Huang said that Li Dingguo is meeting His Majesty."

Behind them, all the soldiers followed and saluted:

"See Your Majesty!"

Zhu Youjian raised his hands slightly, smiling all over his face:
"The soldiers have worked hard, free from courtesy!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty Long En, long live my emperor!"

Some Chinese in the distance have long been stunned by the overwhelming warships in the port. They have never seen so many tall and huge ships, let alone iron-clad warships.

They didn't know that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty came to Malacca until the sound of shouting long live came from the port.

When they left Daming, Daming was experiencing internal and external troubles, and natural disasters caused refugees everywhere.

At that time, the Chinese in Batavia and Luzon were massacred, and Daming could not protect himself, and of course he could not control the life and death of their overseas Chinese.

Now I heard that the Ming Dynasty has already suppressed the Eastern captives and exterminated the bandits, expelled the Portuguese in Macau, and wiped out the Dutch invaders in Taiwan.

Vigorously develop industrial agriculture and foreign trade, both have entered the prosperous age.

Some time ago, I heard that the Batavian Dutch and local aborigines massacred the Chinese again.

This time was completely different from the past. The Son of Heaven was furious and immediately sent troops to attack Batavia.

Strongly killed the governor of Batavia, and then defeated Bandan Ma and destroyed the country.

Now the entire Batavia region and sea area have been incorporated into the territory of Ming Dynasty.

Originally thought that such a great, godlike Emperor of Ming Dynasty was just a legend, and they would never have the chance to see it with their own eyes.

Who would have thought that the legendary Emperor Ming would be able to visit Little Malacca, let alone that they would actually meet a real person.

The Chinese in Malacca fell to their knees and kowtowed in the direction of Zhu Youjian to thank him:

"Thank you, His Majesty, for sending heavenly soldiers to save us overseas Chinese, long live, long live, long live, His Majesty the Emperor!"

Seeing so many Chinese prostrate not far away, Zhu Youjian was also overwhelmed. He knew that this was recognition and gratitude to him as the emperor.

Reaching out to separate the many guards around him, Zhu Youjian went directly to the Chinese outside the protection circle.

"Your Majesty, no, Daming has offended too many foreign devils and natives during this time, safety comes first!"

Qinglong Cao Zhengchun hurriedly stopped in front of Zhu Youjian, they were worried that some people in the crowd would be unfavorable to the emperor.

Zhu Youjian smiled slightly:
"It doesn't matter, I believe they are all good people."

"Your Majesty, what the Governor and Commander Qinglong said is reasonable, it's better to be careful..."

Qi Jiguang, Zheng Chenggong and other generals also persuaded the emperor that in Malacca, where they were unfamiliar, they were very worried about His Majesty's safety.

As soon as Daming was on the right track, the emperor would personally lead the conquest. In case of any accident, no one could take the responsibility.

Zhu Youjian's expression sank:
"Retire, they are my citizens of Daming just like you, you must trust my sons and daughters of Huaxia."

(End of this chapter)