Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 373 Simple for Simple

Song Qingshu thought that the gods would have to go back to Macau to get the ship map, but he didn't expect that, as Shi Lang said, maybe he believed too much in the poor and generous gentlemen in the East, and the ghosts actually brought the shipbuilding blueprints with them. On the other hand, they were quite straightforward. Now that they had decided to change, they planned to make a deal with Song Qingshu on the spot, but Song Qingshu was a little caught off guard.

In the minds of Chinese people in later generations, foreign products are definitely better than domestic products, and the toilet seat covers are all Japanese, but they don’t know that foreigners often deceive people. The Qing government’s famous Hanyang made it in later generations. The German army itself did not use this gun well. , It is easy to jam and explode, but it was sold to China, which made Li Hongzhang happily move the complete set of equipment back home, thinking he had taken advantage of it.

There is also the Mauser pistol, the famous box cannon in anti-Japanese films, 24 rounds, also in Europe because of too much recoil and low accuracy, it was abandoned by various countries and sold to China. Look at the sharpshooters in those anti-Japanese films. One shot at one devil, in fact, this thing is not accurate at all, it is basically used as a small submachine gun.

So Song Qingshu also kept an eye out. In the middle of the night, he sent people to the Longjiang Shipyard to bring a few old shipwrights to the cathedral. The people also eagerly opened the bag almost at the same time, and burst out in amazement at the same time.

"So simple!!!"

The gang of ghosts really gave the Cavill-style ship that is commonly used in the Iberian Peninsula, not the latest British Galen-style galleon that is most in line with the age of firearms. The Cavill ship did support the mission of exploring the world in the Age of Discovery , suitable for long-distance voyages, but this kind of ship is not very suitable for artillery battles, and this ship is still relatively small, basically unable to serve as a capital ship.

This is quite exasperating, obviously the Portuguese also have more advanced Galen ship blueprints, but they won't give it to you, no matter how angry they are, it's useless.

Fortunately, the Cavill ship does have its own unique features. First, the design of the sail position is very reasonable. A triangular sail is used to control the direction. The center of gravity of the ship is extremely low, and the poop is built at the rear, which makes it easier for sharp The front part of the ship splits the waves, and the open splint maximizes the performance of the sail. There is also a sketch of the sharp bottom at the lower part, which solves the technical problem that Fuchuan should have a sharp bottom today.

In short, it is impossible to accept everything according to the order, but this transitional ship type does have its shining points, which can be used as a reference.

"This idea is so fucking simple, why didn't the old man think of it!"

He is Song Qingshu's most qualified old engineer, Chen Laomu, a nine-rank master craftsman who has built boats in Jiangsu and Zhejiang all his life, couldn't help but slap his brow that was covered in sunburned scars. He still understood at a glance, but the spark that burst out in his mind was more important than anything else, if not, he would still follow the rules.

As Edison said, genius is composed of 90.00% sweat and 90.00% inspiration, and that [-]% inspiration is more important than [-]% sweat.

Seeing Chen Laomu nodding straight there, Song Qingshu heaved a sigh of relief, but the Archbishop of Macau was unwilling, and angrily slapped the secret recipe handed over by Song Qingshu on the seat, and asked angrily.

"Your Excellency, we believe in the reputation and elegance of the Orientals, but are you fooling us?"

Thinking about the ancient oriental secret recipe, Song Qingshu only wrote a few words in the letter, and even wanted a shopping list.

Tea leaves, sour lemons, oranges, vegetables, bean sprouts!
Ignoring the archbishop's anger, Song Qingshu asked Chen Laomu first, pointing to the blueprint and asked: "I am not asking for copying, can the extreme technology above be applied to our ship?"

"Don't worry, Commander, with this boat map, if you can't build a big boat that can run fast in the sea and stand still, you don't need to keep giving orders, old man, I will stand on the bow and jump down to feed the sharks!"

Seeing the old guy pat his chest so confidently, Song Qingshu turned around with a smile, but asked back: "Your Excellency, Archbishop, do you know why God asked Adam and Eve to guard the orchard, but to guard the flock of sheep and fish?" ?”

"This……"

Needless to say, no one in the Western Holy See, which has such a huge problem, has really thought about what God will do, which can only be guessed by mortals?Song Qingshu left Archbishop Malegoby speechless with a question, and it took him a long time to ask back.

"Then your Excellency said, why do you want to guard the orchard?"

"Because in the orchard there are materials that make it difficult for human beings to leave and rely on for survival. After 2000 years of research by our oriental healers, we call it vitamins! At sea, most of the crew in your country use beef jerky, brown bread, etc. Preserved food to fill your hunger? You have traveled far and wide, escaped from the realm set by God for mankind, entered the control of Satan, and did not carry the gift bestowed by God, so it is only natural to suffer from this kind of scurvy.”

Song Qingshu spread his hands and talked eloquently. The archbishop of Macau and other priests who listened to him were really dumbfounded. They never thought that this young Oriental knew God better than them. They have studied theology for so many years, and they really learned a lot body.

But before they finished admiring them, Song Qingshu took out a few big bamboo tubes from his bag with a wicked smile and put them on the table to introduce them one by one.

"This is the tea cake in bamboo tube, the canned citrus in bamboo tube, and the canned material in bamboo tube that I specially developed based on this time. It is specially designed for sailors and can be stored for half a year. In view of the good personal friendship between you and your Excellency, our company can sell it to you at a [-]% discount." Fleet, a can only costs fifty cents!"

This was still talking about God, and suddenly it turned to business. A group of god sticks didn't turn their heads. They were silent for a long time, and then the Archbishop of Macau viciously gestured countless middle fingers to Song Qingshu in his heart.

This devilish oriental man whose heart fell into Qian's eyes!

Don't look at a little vitamin C. Westerners didn't solve the nightmare of all sailors, scurvy, until the beginning of the [-]th century. Don't look at the simplicity, who told you not to know!Song Qingshu easily fooled the opponent's shipbuilding technology, although this technology is not advanced technology.

Moreover, the new flavors launched by Yingtian Cannery have also found new customers. The priests didn’t buy anything. The boat back was filled with half a boat of tea cakes and half of canned food. It is estimated that they were sold to those who are now aggressively developing eastward The British ally, anyway, no matter who it sells to, the expansion of the cannery's sales can never be faked.

After obtaining some urgently needed technology, Song Qingshu also summoned the shipwrights to step up the final design, and finally finalized the final blueprint at the beginning of November in the tenth year of Chongzhen.

The new boat is completely reborn from the old Taifuchuan. The original slightly square flat bottom was replaced with a bottomless one, and all the tall front and rear boathouses of the original Fuchuan boat were replaced, leaving only a low rear boathouse. As the living area and the entrance of the plywood, and compared to the Cavill ship, Song Qingshu's ship has undergone a new layer of changes.

Originally, regardless of the Cavill ship or the Dafu ship, the gun positions were all on the deck, but now Song Qingshu moved them to the bottom of the plywood, and also set up two layers of plywood under the warehouse. The hull of 60 meters to 80 meters can at least accommodate 44 cannons to sixty cannons.

Moreover, the hard sails used by Fuchuan have also been replaced with soft sails. Anyway, with the current textile level of Jiaduobao Company, it is more than enough to manufacture canvas. The same triangular large sail is set up in front to control the direction. The original Dafu boat was several times faster.

However, there are gains and losses. The original Dafu ship was used to deal with traditional naval battles. The sides on both sides were thickened with protective ship plates to prevent collisions with the bow. Portholes can be opened, which is equivalent to weakening the protection of the sides. And if As an ocean-going fishing industry, it is actually very appropriate to change the big-bellied blessing boat to a pointed bottom and cancel the ship building. In the slender hull this time, Song Qingshu especially emphasized the need to strengthen the upper and lower plywood, reducing the cargo space. His boat was not suitable for the ocean fishing industry, but it was Lao Chen who saw the murderous intent of all guns from the portholes on both sides.

"Marshal, this ship is a bit..., if the board of directors asks?"

When Song Qingshu finally nodded with a smile, the more than 20 shipwrights cheered along with him. When he took a moment, Chen Laomu asked hesitantly, but Song Qingshu's answer was only a gloomy eyes.

Seeing that murderous look in his eyes, the old boatman's back grew shaky for a moment, and then fell silent without saying a word.

Even though it’s more than November, under the temptation of wage increase, thousands of boatmen rushed to work by the river under the icy wind, seeing the benefits of the sea, this time the board of directors It is also extraordinarily generous, with a total of [-] shipbuilders working together, the huge hull is like a lot of giant beasts crawling on the empty beach of the Longjiang Shipyard.

In fact, China's shipbuilding speed is still much slower than that of the West. Western ships are nailed together, but there is no nail on the Chinese ship. The triangular blocks corresponding to the concave and convex, look at the size and splicing together, compared with the rush boats in the West, this kind of boat is at least two or three times stronger, and it is less likely to leak.

But at the same time as the benefits, the disadvantages are also obvious. The slowness of work is a shortcoming. Once the damaged part cannot be repaired quickly, it is a shortcoming that is difficult to overcome. After all, each ship plank is unique. Recently, the sound of artillery in the north has been It was faintly rumbled in his ears, and Song Qingshu felt an indescribable sense of anxiety as he watched the slowly built hull.

"No, it's too slow!"

"But Marshal, I really can't go any faster, this is already a continuous shift!"

The old face was blown by the river wind to make it even older. Chen Laomu said with a bitter face beside him, and Song Qingshu was silent for almost 5 minutes.

"From now on, give up the mortise and tenon joint method, and use nails and asphalt to fill the joints as in Fanchuan."

In the end, Song Qingshu decided to give up the ancient Chinese shipbuilding method and pursue modern versatility and efficiency. Although this decision reduced the quality of ships in Longjiang Shipyard, the effect it brought was like a blowout...

(End of this chapter)