Nothing is difficult in the world, only for the rich... Although the Ming Dynasty Sea Ban still has a name, it has actually been relaxed a lot, but even so, it is still not an easy task for Ningbo Mansion to build a ship.
In particular, what Bofu wanted to build was a ship that had never appeared in this era-a fast sailing ship. This guy was trying to build a ship with a displacement of about three meters.
A clipper ship of about 100 tons, with an inward-inclined side, a poop that is higher than the deck, and a corridor attached to the poop. The two tall masts can be hung with sails, and the mast protruding from the bow can also be hung with triangles.
With its sails, long and narrow hull and graceful hollow bow, it is expected to be able to reach speeds of more than fourteen knots on the sea. In this year and age, it is a high-speed boat like a supercar.
But even if Bo Fu had money, blueprints and ideas, it would still be difficult to build this ship... Ningbo's shipbuilding masters had never built such a streamlined ship before.
Bo Fu is not proficient in those processes, so he can't tell the craftsmen how to make them - the demon power doesn't play much role here. He can indeed make the wood bend or piece it together, but making a sailboat model is not the same as making a real sailboat.
The boat is still different - the largest
The reason is that Bo Fu does not want to use demon power, and one of his inner wishes is to plant the seed of a high-speed sailing ship... In the current Ming Dynasty - at least a few decades later, the Ming Dynasty's navigation industry will have a
The great development since the Sanbao eunuch's voyage to the West in the past, and this development is entirely due to the needs of capital profits... "Maybe I can throw a dice at this moment...
Or put a little more force."
To say that the most outstanding craftsmen at this time were indeed in the Ming Dynasty, the shipbuilders recruited by Bo Fu even had red eyes when they saw the small sailboat model and the drawings that Bo Fu brought out - this is a craft of eating.
, relying on this, their disciples and their descendants can probably eat and drink without worries. Bo Fu asked them to improve the original design. The ships of the Ming Dynasty had watertight compartments and lifting stern rudders, and Bo Fu
There is no such thing on the model. The shipwrights redesigned the hull structure, installed watertight compartments and ribs according to their ideas, and then began construction. Bofu cast a thick keel with lead, making the ship
The center of gravity was very stable, and the subsequent processes of cutting shipboards and splicing the hull were left to the craftsmen themselves, while Bo Fu spent his days hanging out in restaurants and teahouses in Ningbo.
There are still some things to say. Ningbo is close to the sea and very close to Zhoushan. Mount Putuo is the ashram of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Naturally, there are many kind-hearted monsters who have listened to the Dharma and started practicing spiritual wisdom. Although most of them are fish, shrimps, clams and turtles.
belongs to, but due to the influence of Buddhism, he became
In appearance, all of them have decent appearances. There are few crooked melons and cracked jujubes, and they don't have faces full of flesh and evil. These monsters are happy to practice in the world of mortals. Stories like the so-called snail girl are also here.
He heard a lot. In fact, he actually saw it
He saw a few monster crew members or monster wives and old ladies. Even among the shipwrights, he also saw a few monster shipwrights who sold their labor. These guys had perfectly restrained their monster energy. In fact, what they cultivated was originally
I prefer the lineage of Buddhism, and I don’t have it in the first place.
What kind of monsters are there? These monsters are enjoying themselves, "Could this be the origin of the mixing of humans and monsters in the future..." Bo Fu looked at the monster shopkeeper in front of him who was settling accounts at the counter.
It has been more than twenty years since the turtle took shape and opened a hotel.
Of course, there are also monsters that take the form of sharks and whales. These monsters make waves on the sea, and sometimes appear as monsters, tricking the fishermen into erecting their silver temples and eating the offerings. The most vicious among them is the
The big wolf capsized the fisherman or merchant ship and ate the people who fell into the water - but most of these monsters would not dare to do this in shallow waters offshore, otherwise there would naturally be cultivators
Knock on the door to get merit. Bo Fu has also saved a few of these monsters... "I just don't like those bald donkeys, but there's nothing else."
." He teased those monks, but these monsters didn't end well - all the ones that seemed to be delicious were sacrificed to Bo Fu's Five Zang Temple, and those that didn't look delicious were directly killed by Bo Fu.
Thrown into the deep sea.
On this day, Bo Fu was having a drink in a restaurant along the street. A shipbuilding craftsman ran over quickly and said, "My boss! My boss! The mast is broken!" But there was something wrong with the tall mast in the design. This mast was originally made of spliced components.
It's made in a legal way - in fact, it doesn't take a single piece of wood to make this straight mast more than thirty meters long.
It's easy to handle, especially these days. The best shipbuilding wood has been allocated to a little north a few decades ago, and all of it was used in the treasure ship group of the Sanbao Eunuch. In the past ten years, the imperial court's maritime ban has also been
It was not directly abolished, and the wood used to build big ships was not prepared at all...
There are always skilled craftsmen. They just figured out how to use sections of wood with tenons and rivets to form a long mast - this was also a common method for making masts in the future. And the first and second masts were loaded on the ship.
Everything went fine after that, but something went wrong when installing the crossbar——
One of the masts was broken. Fortunately, the deck had not been laid yet, otherwise major surgery would have been necessary to deal with the mast, which directly penetrated the two decks in the design and reached the keel. Bo Fu looked at the scene and said, "If I don't do it, I won't stop doing it."
! Overturned the gourd and spilled oil! Just take out the steel-making blast furnace and plate rolling machine!"
The big project began... This little boat changed the history of the entire world...
Three months later, on top of a tall steamed bun, a man with a gray face pulled a hand switch. A water-driven mechanism lifted a crucible and poured out bright red molten steel. The molten steel
It is poured into a mold on the ground, and then the rollers under the mold begin to roll. The hydraulically driven rollers explode the solidified molten steel into a sheet.
Steel plate. Then the next process is also driven by water power. The steel plate that is still very soft is rolled into a hollow tube. The sound of the craftsmen on the side swallowing saliva is considered to be molten steel.
The roar caused by the splashing and the rumble of rolling steel plates could not be suppressed. As for Bo Fu, who is currently collecting money - he put this
The technology and machine design were sold to local shipbuilders - this blast furnace is a small blast furnace with a daily output of a few tons, which will be worthless in future generations; and that rolling machine can also roll wide
The width of the steel plate is a little more than one meter, and it is not possible to roll out any thick steel plate or very thin steel plate; and the machine for rolling steel plates can only roll out a few centimeters to 30 centimeters.
Steel pipes with a diameter of about 1 meter. These can already be regarded as artifacts in this world - only among mortals... But in the supernatural world, what is ultra-thick or ultra-thin, ultra-long or ultra-thin?
You can make it by just messing with a short steel pipe - at least it's possible to make a Dracula-level monster...
Using steel pipes and wood, these craftsmen once again put together two new masts, which were lighter and stronger than the original ones. This was due to Bo Fu's demonic power. This guy originally planned to make the masts into hollow steel pipes after going to sea.
. And at this time, the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty also approached Bo Fu and the businessman, and directly took away the blast furnace and the machine - just giving the businessman a little money. Everyone knew that this could be used to make artillery, but
They did not take away the drawings in the hands of the businessman...
Half a year later, this narrow sailing ship, which was about thirty meters long and five meters wide, went into the sea. The ship's side was quite high, about three meters above the water, and sails were hung on the tall masts.
The sailors were running back and forth to pack up the rigging - by the way, none of these sailors were human... They were all knocked unconscious by Bo Fu and directly tied up on the ship, and then restrained using forbidden methods.
Although these guys were kidnapped by Bo Fu with violence, they didn't have much resentment - firstly because they didn't dare, and secondly because Bo Fu helped some of the less human-looking guys to make a
"Plastic surgery" to make them at least look like ordinary humans...
In the eyes of the maritime merchants in Ningbo Prefecture, who were amazed, this strange sailing ship left the port with a very flexible and fast movement, and Bo Fu also saw the maritime merchants pouring into the door of the shipbuilding merchant's house...
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The number of monster sailors who were tied to the sailboat was not many, that is, fifteen, and the number of people who controlled the sailboat was five. When they reached a place far away from the shore, Bo Fu also used his magic to transform the boat.