Wentang

Chapter 350 Scare
"Manpower can only be used as an aid? How do you rely on driving?" Mei Jing asked with a frown.

"The wind, the sea is very windy, and there will be three-foot waves even if there is no wind, so we must learn to use the power of the wind. Of course, it is inevitable that when there is no wind or headwind, oars are still needed." Yue Shan said.

"But what about Adverse Wind?" Wendy continued to ask.

"That's why I said to redesign the seagoing ships. The previous ships could only take advantage of the wind when they had a favorable wind. The ship I want needs to be 'windy from all directions, but only the head is not feasible'." Yue Shan said.

"Besides taking advantage of the wind? It's impossible." This time it was Mei Xiang who spoke.

What does this sentence mean?It literally means that the wind from all directions cannot be borrowed except the head-on wind, and the wind from the other seven directions can be borrowed.

This kind of technology was only mastered in the Song Dynasty, and it was completely absurd in the early Tang Dynasty.

"How can I not try?" Yue Shan said, seeing that they still wanted to refute, he immediately turned cold and said: "This will not work, that will not work, what do I want you to do?"

Mei Xiang and the others broke out in a cold sweat in shock, and their faces turned pale.The chat just now was so cheerful that I forgot the identity of this young man. The other party only needed one sentence to ruin their family.

"Qingshui, please forgive me, Qingshui, please forgive me. We are so obsessed with your whimsical ideas that we are overwhelmed by your whimsy. Please Qingshui, please forgive us." Mei Xiang begged.

Mei Zhen and the others also saluted and shouted: "Qingshui, please forgive me."

"I made a military order in front of the saint to build a brand new navy for the country. The new warship is the first and most important step. If things fail, before the saint punishes me, I will send your family away Go to the underground league members." Yue Shan threatened.

"Plop!" Mei Ji and Mei Ji fell to their knees, followed by the Jianghehu brothers also kneeling down.

"Don't worry, Qingshuihou, even if we die, we will help you build a new type of warship, and we will never delay your event." Mei Xiang shouted in horror.

"Remember what you said now." Yue Shan said coldly.

In the next moment, the murderous look on his face dissipated, and he replaced it with a gentle smile, and said, "Don't worry, we won't treat you badly after such a matter. It's not impossible to help your family get rid of your craftsman status."

Hearing this, the four brothers Jiang He Hu showed joy on their faces, while the two brothers Mei Rong and Mei Rong smiled wryly.How can a new type of warship be so easy to build?

It is true that new warships are not easy to build, but Yue Shan's purpose is not to embarrass them, but to build new ships, so he will naturally provide help.

He has also learned about the shipbuilding industry in this era, and he can only say that the ancients were very good, and developed a prosperous maritime trade under very simple conditions.

For example, the Tang Dynasty did not have a shipyard for shipbuilding. This thing did not appear until the Song Dynasty, and the West did not invent the shipyard until three or four hundred years later.

The use of monsoons has existed since ancient times, but it is limited to the use of tailwinds. The technology of "wind from all directions, but only the head is not feasible" was also formed in the Song Dynasty, while the West did not master this technology until the [-]th century.

There are also shipbuilding blueprints, that is, first design the blueprints and then build ships according to the blueprints.

Westerners always ridicule that no matter what Chinese people do, they don’t plan in advance, but plan while building, causing a lot of waste and not being efficient.

It's actually slander.Take shipbuilding as an example. Ancient China learned to make ship models and blueprints in the Song Dynasty, while the West had to wait hundreds of years before mastering this technology.

Including the star-stretching technique, it was almost formed in the Song Dynasty, and it was also earlier than the West.

But there is only one point that is far behind the West, and that is the design of sea ships.

In ancient China, the center of gravity was always on the land and did not pay much attention to the ocean. When designing ships, the first consideration was to travel in inland rivers, so they were basically flat-bottomed boats.

At sea, the design concept of flat-bottomed boats is naturally inherited, and no one realizes that a new kind of boat is needed on the ocean.

However, the draft of flat-bottomed boats is too shallow, and they cannot resist the big wind and waves at sea, so they can only drive along the coast, so they cannot really go deep into the ocean.

On the other hand, there is insufficient understanding of hydrological conditions such as monsoon currents.Think about why Jianzhen's eastward journey failed so many times and you will know, and Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty failed to attack the Wa Kingdom.

History has attributed the two failures to luck and to the 'Kamikaze', while Yueshan prefers to attribute it to insufficient understanding of hydrological conditions.

Why do you say 'Century Navy'?Does it really take a hundred years to build a ship?Or does it take a hundred years to train sailors who have always been good at fighting?neither.

What really needs a century to explore is the sea itself.Monsoon currents are only part of it.

Some people will say, is the monsoon current so important?impossible.

In fact it is that important.

Think about it, one army is familiar with conditions anywhere in the ocean, and the other understands nothing but good warfare.Let them fight freely on the sea, who will win in the end?

Not to mention anything else, lure the enemy to a place they are not familiar with, and even use the monsoon and ocean currents to kill them.There are also reef areas and whatnot.

Of course, what's above the monsoon currents is only part of the ocean, and there's a lot more you need to know to be a strong navy.

The ocean is so big, it is impossible to understand these things within a hundred years.

That's why there is a saying of "a century-old navy".

Although the people of the Tang Dynasty did not lack adventure factors and expansion concepts, they were all for land, and they were really Buddhist for the sea.

What Yue Shan has to do is to change this situation.

The first is a new type of sea-going ship, which is easy to handle with a sharp bottom, and can be built by experienced boatmen after two more experiments.

The more difficult point is that "the wind comes from all directions, but only the head is not feasible". This use of sails can be said to have reached the extreme, and it needs to be summarized again and again.

The second is to train a new type of navy, instill the concepts of ocean, sea power, and coastal defense, and ignite them with the flame of ocean expansion.This is even more important than sea ships.

As for observing and understanding hydrological conditions, there is no rush right now.The foreign aggression on the land of the Tang Dynasty has not yet been resolved, and the exploration of the ocean is not urgent, and there is plenty of time for research.Right now, it is enough to study the hydrological environment around Datang.

The method of adding red dates with big sticks is very effective, and the members of the Mei family no longer dare to have any doubts about Yue Shan's words.No matter what the request is, it will be carefully argued over and over again, and I dare not refuse it without full confidence.

But soon they discovered that Qing Shuihou was not only murderous, but also had real abilities.Although they don't know much about shipbuilding, they are impressed by many ideas, and they have a feeling of "it can still be like this".

After his guidance, everyone in the Mei family felt that they had benefited a lot, and it seemed that it was not impossible to complete the new type of sea-going ship that seemed impossible at all.

After having this feeling, they immediately put their fears behind them and devoted themselves to the research and design of new warships.

When the ship first entered Dezhou, which is the boundary of Xindizhou, they had already produced the design drawings of three ships.

At this time, Yue Shan put them aside for the time being, and there were too many things waiting for him in Dizhou.

(End of this chapter)