Transcendent Noble

The Blinol River meanders through the bare fields from north to south. The slanted white sails of the Golden Sheep hold the biting northwest wind and push the ship’s sides into two parts in the dark green water. The endless white waves.

On the bow deck, Sylvia wore a sky blue dress and looked side by side with Victor at the Blinol river bank. The cold wind of the season of water was wrapped in misty cold mist, blowing across her body, surrounded by nostalgia, as if there was a pair of invisible hands, grabbing a coat of wind and mist and draping it on her body.

The skirt is fluttering, and it outlines the infinitely beautiful body curve. Sylvia glances sideways at Victor in an annoyed way, and her pure blue eyes look towards the river bank.

There, the six-legged dragon roared low and a group of dragon knights accompanied the ship. The ribbons on the long spear flew in the wind, and the dark purple scales rubbed and collided, making a clanging sound.

"The power and speed of the Xunlong crushed the middle-level bronze Knights. They are so large that they are difficult to kill with a single sword. The first-level Knights are chased by the Xunlong cavalry, and the odds of winning are slim." Sylvia Retracted his gaze, frowned, and sighed: "Xunlong is good at swimming, but they have no threat to the Golden Fleece in the water. They will only be shot and killed by a strong bow and a hard crossbow one after another... without the extraordinary Knight. , The role of Bronze Knight in the water battle may not be as good as Captain Hansen... He is the best captain that Augustus Royal Family can find, but he is not the best captain of the Borui Kingdom."

"My dear, do you say that the fleet we have cultivated in ten years can really compete with the Borui people on Lake Fes?"

"So we must introduce new technology to bring the two sides closer to the ship The gap in the field." Victor looked back towards the helmsman position, and Hansen's lieutenant was teaching the rookie sailor of Gambis how to steer. The two princes Augustus who are used to occupying the helmsman position are all in the captain's room, working with Marquis Goron on the paddle wheel designs he provided.

Sylvia pursed red lips of crystal clear and near-transparent slightly, and said in an annoyed voice: "The Royal Family has begun to accumulate shipbuilding experience and cultivate water army soldiers. The descendants have nothing yet. You gave the paddle wheel system that you worked so hard to design to the royal family first. It’s really unwilling."

Victor put his arms around Sylvia’s soft and elastic waist, bowed his head and pecked her lips. One mouthful, pointing to the Taotao River, said with a slight smile: "Who let them have the Basai Lake and the Blinol River? Dear Madam, you can rest assured that our efforts today will be more generously rewarded."

Sylvia pursed her mouth and said softly: "My love, I really hope you kept your hand."

In response to Sylvia's pure and deep blue eyes, Victor touched his nose and shook his head to say. with a bitter smile: "Actually, about ships, I only provided an immature idea. The Augustus family is responsible for the improvement, implementation and application. They will pay huge manpower, material and financial resources for this. Speaking of which, we have instead accounted for In order to be cheap...the final result, they will definitely keep one hand, and what we have to do is, on their basis, try to go further."

The so-called paddle steamer refers to the two sides of the ship or tail section A ship with a runner is called a paddle steamer because the part of the wheel is exposed on the water. Paddle wheel propellers can operate continuously, which is a step further than paddle propulsion tools. Of course, its shortcomings are also very obvious, such as heavy, complex structure and easy to damage, easy to collide when docking at the dock, when encountering wind and waves, part of the flanking driving wheel is exposed on the water, which affects the stability of navigation, and so on.

Therefore, paddle steamers are widely used in inner lakes and inland waterways with relatively small wind and waves, and they evolved from the ancient wheel boats in China. Primordial paddle steamers are completely driven by wooden wheels in a human trampling cabin. In the 17th century in Earth World, French scholar Dennis Papin first proposed to use steam engines to drive flanking-driven ships to sail. In 1707, he built a flanker in Kassel. The ship was driven and tested in Fulda. However, the ship was not driven by machines, it was still driven by humans. However, Papan's ideas have a very important meaning.

In 1807, the American Robert Fulton successfully achieved a breakthrough. His wooden paddle steamer "Clemmonton" used the steam engine invented by Watt and became the first successful operation of the Earth world. Commercial ships.

Foreign world There is no coal and oil, the manufacturing cost of charcoal is too high, and the heat efficiency is too low. It is unnecessary to think about the development of steam engine ships. The paddle steamer proposed by Victor has to be driven by humans. Fortunately, humans in this world are much stronger than humans in the Earth world. There are also various secret ways to improve strength and physical fitness. There is no problem with well-trained sailors driving paddle steamers.

Whether the human-powered paddle boat is faster than the paddle boat remains to be verified. Victor is sure that it is not as flexible as the paddle boat. However, if this ship power technology from Earth world can be realized here, it is very in line with the strategic needs of the water fleet of the Kingdom of Cambes to dominate the inland rivers of the Inner Lake.

Paddle may seem simple, but it is not easy to play various tricks. Experienced oarsmen are familiar with their ships and the hydrological conditions. They cooperate with sailmen and helmsmen to make ships move forward, backward, and turn around quickly. In this regard, the navy that Gambis is still preparing to build is too far behind the Borui fleet. If Gambis uses Borui ship technology to develop surface power, let alone ten years, even 50 or 100 years. Don't even think about competing with the Borui fleet.

No one can swear sovereignty over Jinshuihe, because no one has the ability to build a castle on the water. Lake Fes in the Golden Water River is of course a place where no one can do it. In the era when the bronze Knight was the mainstream, the extraordinary Knights would not be a last resort and would not attack each other, which would harm the fundamental interests of the entire Knight class. Bronze Knight on the water is really not as deterrent as an experienced old captain. The gap between Gambis’ naval fleet and Borui’s fleet is like a baby and brawny man. Captain Borui can hang Gambis’s fleet with his hands tied.

Assuming that Rand Empire takes the lead ten years before the port can be built. In the first two decades, the battleship of the Gambis Kingdom has an absolute advantage in number, but the army of the Borui Kingdom stationed in the Dusk Forest, they can The shipbuilding wood produced in the dusk forest was continuously transported to the port of Fes Lake. With their unique shipbuilding technology, Borui battleship groundwater one by one, the quantitative advantage of the Gambis fleet quickly disappeared. The Borui naval forces acted as freemen and sailors in Tyrannize on Fes Lake. They often acted as water pirates and lake pirates. While fighting on the ground with the Kingdom of Gambis, they seized control of Fes Lake non-stop. Gambis's navy skills are not as good as humans, except for the spout, I am afraid that he can only stare.

The only way for Gambis is to introduce new technologies to avoid competition in the field of traditional ships. Paddle-wheel sail-driven battleship technology provides this probability.

First of all, the sailors of the paddle steamer can just step on the wheels. No skill is needed. Anyone can step on the wheels in the cabin. Moreover, the output power of the waist and legs is definitely greater and more durable than the chest muscles of the arms. The continuous operation of the paddle drive is an advantage that the paddle drive does not have. Continuous operation means that the paddle steamer can sail against the current in the inland waterway without wind or breeze. Once the oars of the oars are exhausted and unable to move the oars, the ship is washed back by the river.

Secondly, Victor really took a lot of thought in designing the paddle-wheel drive system. He made full use of the principle of leverage and gear structure to maximize the output efficiency of paddle-wheel rotation and watering and reduce the physical consumption of sailors. Traditional oars sailing requires 60 oarsmen, and it is not impossible to operate continuously. Paddle-wheel sailboats only need to be equipped with 40 steppers to continuously drive the ship forward, backward or turn, and the ship’s sailing speed may still have an advantage.

Actually, Victor’s shipbuilding knowledge mainly comes from the content of the homunculus-like will side. He is still not sure how effective Earth World’s paddle-wheel drive system is. Sylvia has full confidence in the wisdom of her lover and believes that the ship drive system he designed is precious. Sylvia feels sorry for providing such expensive technology as this treasure to Kite Castle, but at the same time she is deeply helpless.

Ship building is a profound and complex science. Paddle steamers are not as simple as adding one or two big wheels to a sailboat. The ship is a large system, composed of many sub-systems. Suddenly changing its driving sub-system will affect the whole body. It takes a lot of manpower, material resources, financial resources, and the most precious time to carry out continuous testing and correction. Finally, In order to get the finished product of the paddle steamer.

It is also not easy to manipulate a ship skillfully. Large battleships include captain, mate, sailor, navigator, watchman, sailor, and oarsman. They must be familiar with every part of the ship. , Be competent for every job, trust each other and cooperate with each other. An excellent team of sailors can give life to a ship. In a sense, these people are more powerful than the bronze Knight on the water.

Whether it is shipbuilding or training a team of sailors, it takes time and space.

Centaur Hills does not have these objective conditions, and Alchemy Tower is also useless.

There are 21 types of ship building plans in the will side of the homunculus class, of which 4 types of ships can travel on water, and the rest rely on alchemy arrays as driving forces. The homunculus class with forging skills can build ships, but they can’t sail ships. What use is Victor building a ship according to the blueprint?

What's more, the Silvermoon River in Centaur Hills is a shallow river. Large ships are not navigable, and Rose Harbor has not yet been completed. Victor and Sylvia have to find another way out if they want to cultivate the navy of Centaur Hills.

In the entire Kingdom of Gambis, only the Augustus family’s Lake Carril Fish Harbor and the Joshua family’s Deepwater City have conditions for shipbuilding and training. In fact, the Elder's Council of Gambis has passed an important resolution, Augustus, York, Joshua, Wellington, Nimes and Chebman, Six Great Families concentrated their efforts to build a navy in Basse Lake, accumulate shipbuilding experience, train sailors, and practice ships. The water surface works in concert to jointly seek water supremacy of Lake Fess.

In order for Victor to verify the vision of paddle-wheel sailing, he must share paddle-wheel drive technology with Augustus.

From another point of view, Victor just came up with an idea, and the actual implementation depends on the Augustus family. With the results, the lord of Gambis has participated in technology sharing. Augustus is the one who suffers the most, but who made them the Royal Family of Gambis?

For the Kingdom of Gambis, the most pressing problem now is to exchange time for strategic space. If you are a hindrance to each other in big decisions, then Lake Fes simply don't ask for it!

Of course, Sylvia did not know that Victor did hide a hand.

Homunculus has mature bearing technology.

It goes without saying that the importance of bearings to mechanical rotation motion. The large scholar of the silver tower invented wooden ball bearings based on the cultural relics left over from the Chosen One era. However, due to the limitations of processing accuracy and material lifespan, wooden ball bearings cannot be popularized and can only be used as toys and crafts as an item that needs to be promoted. Technical reserves developed.

Alchemy assistants use crystal glaze to fire water crystal beads of the same size, and then infiltrate thorium to make standard thorium bearings. By applying Thorium bearings to vehicles and ships, Victor is confident that the operating efficiency of carriage and paddle steamers will be qualitatively improved!

In addition, the thorium flat-bottomed sea boat made by the alchemy assistants has a stable structure and is able to enter the shallow waters of the coastline, drive away the murlocs, and land on the beach.

Victor has these technologies, and his direct fleet must be able to cross the rivers and seas, unmatched and unmatched.

This is the technological monopoly brought about by the materials science of Alchemy Empire!

The sound of high-top leather boots stepping on the plank came from the deck. With the unique rhythm of the footsteps, Victor knew that it was Lora who came over without looking back.

The brilliant and brilliant Crown Princess walked up to Victor and Sylvia, took out the crystal telescope, and pretended to visit the up ahead of the Golden Sheep.

"Fourteen days, have you decided on the type of ship I provide?" Victor asked gracefully with a smile.

Lora jade green glanced at Victor with jewel-like eyes, and snorted contemptuously from Xiuting’s nose, and nodded said:

"It's set, you have provided four paddle steamer manufacturing plans, and we are going to build them all. In addition, I also decided to include the flat-bottomed paddle steamer in the trial manufacturing plan."

Victor went wide in an instant. The eyes asked incredulously: "Her Highness the Princess, I must remind you that the experimental shipbuilding may not be successful at one time..."

"I know."

Lora calmly The look made Victor feel bad. He thought for a while, and tentatively said: "If you fail, you have to reform, and if you can't, you have to reform... , Plus the paddle wheel sailboat... How much shipbuilding wood is wasted?"

"Yes, so I asked Centaur Hills to provide half of the test shipbuilding wood, canvas skin, iron essence nails, Thin steel essence boat bottoms, oh, yes, there are special murloc viscose." Lora said with a slender jade finger that was slender and round and shook his head.

Victor sucked in a breath of cold air, his head shook like a rattle, and he continued: "No, no...Oh, I mean, just choose a plan first, no It’s necessary to trial-produce so many at one time... Well, the paddle-wheel flat-bottom sailboat is useless, and it can’t go retrograde in the blood river."

"It hasn’t been built yet, how do you know it’s not good?" Lora inserted Xiaoman Waist, squinted big beautiful eyes, and his expression joked with danger, like a kitten preparing to hunt mice.

"The shipbuilding plan you provided is all paddle boats under 700 tons, could it be......"

"I promised."

Sylvia nodded Yes, said flatly.

Victor also had to smile nodded wryly, and twitched in pain. The wood used in shipbuilding is very elegant. The century-old redwood in the dark forest has a tight texture and does not rot when exposed to water. It is an excellent raw material. But it must go through processes such as soaking, drying in the shade, and plate making, and it takes five years to be used as a shipbuilding material. The price of redwood in the Dark Forest has now doubled by a full six times, and Randal leads the annual purchase of redwood for more than 20,000 goldsore. Leaving money aside, the key is that the timber is ready for use in five years. Victor has spent huge sums of money to purchase redwood, hoping to reserve more qualified shipbuilding materials in preparation for building a fleet. Lora asked him to take out the wood for shipbuilding and participate in the research and development of the paddle steamer. He would rather pay for it than use the family's reserves.

Waste if you are willing to waste, what are you doing?

Victor murmured in his heart, and said with a cold face: "Trial production of paddle steamers is the overall situation of the kingdom. You can't just let the descendants of the Royal Family pay, and the other Great Family can do their best!"

"hmph! Just waiting for you...This is the will of Your Royal Highness Randal, and it has nothing to do with my younger brother."

Lora raised her beautifully-lined chin, wrinkled her small nose triumphantly, and then again With a look of disgust, he said: "The Flatlake Town terminal is in front of you. In a long time, you will see the old fart guy."

"Victor, you and the old fart get together, the more I I hate you more and more." Lora turned back to the cabin, and when she was going down the stairs, she turned her head and dropped a sentence, kicking, kicking, and kicking and disappearing on the deck.

Victor shrugged his bladder disapprovingly, rubbed his chin, and turned his head to say with a smile to Sylvia in a low voice: "They seem to be aware of my intentions."

The cold wind on the bow of the ship , The breeze beside her body stopped, Sylvia graciously pulled her hair behind her ears, said with a beautiful smile: "Goron, Williams, and Lora don’t know shipbuilding. They studied the shipbuilding plan you provided along the way. It’s not to figure out the changes behind the deduction plan."

The technical conception of paddle-wheel drive shared by Victor and the lord of Cambes is based on the overall situation of the Kingdom of Cambes. There is also a small game in the overall situation. The development strategy of Fez Lake and the Blood River, the leapfrog tactic, and the paddle boat trial-building plan can also be considered as a decoy for the Tofoven wizard.

"We are not afraid that he will not take the bait now."

Victor's mouth has a confident smile, his dark golden eyes staring at the boundless river, his sharp eyes piercing through In the misty cold fog, the pier of Changqiao Town is in sight.