After drinking the Dabu Decoction, Zhu Cixiang wanted to call the ten talented people over to cultivate their relationship, but he was worried that Zhang Yan would misunderstand him as a shameless person, so he had to give up.
"Your Majesty, this is the entire record of the Queen Mother and Princess in the past two years!"
In the huge palace, Xu Lan was the only one standing in front of Zhu Cihong, holding two thick account books.
When Zhang Yan and Princess Kunxing see the contents recorded in the account books, they will definitely be shocked and will also feel as if they have fallen into an ice cellar.
It records every word and deed of the two people over the past two years, including where they have been, who they have contacted, and what they have said. Everything is recorded in extremely detail.
Everyone knows that Zhu Cixiang has established the inner factory and the west factory, and also knows the specific functions of the two factories, but no one knows who the factory supervisors of the two factories are.
If Zhang Yan were here, she would immediately understand that Xu Lan, the commander of the Royal Forest Army who she has always trusted and regarded as her right-hand man, is the most mysterious inner factory supervisor.
Zhu Cixiang took the book and read it. After reading it, he put it aside and said to Xu Lan: "From now on, the inner factory no longer needs to monitor the queen mother and princess."
"It's your Majesty!"
Xu Lan quickly replied that she actually didn't want to spy on the Queen Mother and the princess, especially the Queen Mother. Every time she thought about this, she felt very guilty in her heart.
After Xu Lan left, Zhu Cihong took a brazier and tore up the booklet himself and burned it. The corners of his mouth were filled with bitterness.
However, I was very surprised that Zhang Yan was secretly writing a novel, but I felt relieved after thinking about it.
In the next two days, Zhu Cixiang has been cultivating relationships with ten talented people. As for the imperial examination, he has no intention of intervening. At most, he will try to see if there are any talented people who want to take the science test.
Zhu Cixiang only stayed in the palace for five days before he couldn't stay any longer. On the sixth day, he quietly went to the Longjiang Shipyard.
Zhang Yan was both pleased and helpless about this. What was gratifying was that Xun'er was not the kind of foolish man who was greedy for women and had no morals.
Unfortunately, Xinger was not a serious emperor who could seriously handle government affairs in the palace.
After more than four years of operation and countless manpower, material and financial resources, Longjiang Shipyard's current scale has far exceeded that of the most glorious early Ming Dynasty.
The total number of craftsmen and stewards exceeds 200,000, and they can build a hundred large-scale ships of more than 1,000 tons at the same time. Thousands of small and medium-sized ships of less than 1,000 tons can be built every year.
At this moment, at a glance, there is no end to the berths on the river. Countless people are busy around the rows of berths, the sound of ping-ping-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong is heard, and the scene is spectacular.
Behind the slipway are large brick and tile houses, also densely packed, with thousands of them in total.
These workshops are all related to shipbuilding. Some make canvas and linen, some process wood board materials, and some make paint, tung oil, and copper nails.
Further away there is a gunpowder factory, gun foundry, and iron foundry. It can be said that the process facilities of Longjiang Shipyard are quite complete.
However, although the management and scale have far exceeded those of the early Ming Dynasty, the shipyard has never been able to build ideal large ships due to the loss of many technologies and drawings.
It wasn't until last year that I bought a Spanish large-scale ship. The craftsmen dismantled it and combined it with Ming Dynasty's existing shipbuilding technology to finally design two ideal large-scale ships.
The draft of one ship is about 1,000 tons, and the draft of the other is as high as 2,000 tons. At this moment, the construction of these two giant ships is almost finished.
Looking around, the rows of slipways on the riverside that are more than ten miles long are almost all built with small boats of less than 500 tons. Only these two large-scale ships of more than 1,000 tons stand in the middle, standing out from the crowd.
Standing on the hilltop in the distance, Zhu Cixi saw these two giants almost at first sight.
"First introduce to me the specific performance of these two battleships!"
"It's Your Majesty."
The steward who was responsible for supervising the construction of these two giant ships quickly replied and then explained.
The styles of these two ships are actually similar. They both abandoned the traditional square bottom design of the Ming Dynasty and adopted the Western pointed bottom design.
The main structure of the hull is composed of a huge log keel 20 feet long and more than a hundred ribs. Everything below the deck adopts a mortise and tenon structure. No copper nails are used, but it is stronger than a Western sailing ship.
Strong or not weak.
The sails of the two sea-going ships did not blindly borrow the soft sails of the Westerners. Instead, the main sails still used the traditional hard sails of the Ming Dynasty, and the auxiliary sails of the bow and stern used the soft sails of the Westerners.
After completion, the ship, which weighs about a thousand tons, will be 45 meters long and seven meters wide, with an aspect ratio of seven to one.
Compared with the traditional sea-going ships of the Ming Dynasty, the length-to-width ratio was no more than five to one, making them undoubtedly much slimmer. The main mast plus the hull was fifty meters high.
The one with a weight of about 2,000 tons has an astonishing length of 65 meters, a width of 9 meters, and the main mast plus hull is 70 meters high.
Of the two sea-going ships, the larger one is expected to be able to carry fifty red cannons, while the smaller one is expected to be able to carry thirty-five cannons.
As for the specific speed, it cannot be determined because it has not been completed yet, but based on the structure of the hull, it can be guessed that it will definitely be much faster than traditional fortune ships and treasure ships.
Although the draft of the two sea-going ships is said to be one thousand to two thousand tons, in fact everyone knows that after the completion and launch, the full load capacity will definitely be increased several times.
All the stewards and craftsmen knew this. Even after listening to the steward's introduction, Zhu Cixi came to the slipway and looked at the largest ship, the Big Mac, and secretly clicked his tongue. He doubted that this big wooden ship would be fully loaded after it was launched.
The displacement is likely to exceed 500 tons.
After all, the fully loaded displacement of a wooden ship is very terrifying, and the weight it can carry is several times, or even ten times, more than the weight of the ship itself, which is far beyond what a steel battleship can match.
One load is 120 jins, and one thousand dans is equivalent to 120,000 jins. Even if there is some difference between the Ming Dynasty and later generations, one jin is calculated into tons. One ton is 2,000 jins, which is only about 60 tons. Adding cannons,
Crew, sails, fresh water, food, etc., the standard displacement is probably around 150 tons.
Compared to the warships of later generations, which often numbered in the thousands and tens of thousands of tons, the wooden ships of today are indeed insignificant.
However, Zhu Cixiang was very satisfied with such a scale. Although this giant ship was far from being able to catch up with the treasure ships of the past, it was not much smaller than the Western ships of this era.
What's more, these two ships are still model ships. As long as they are launched and tested, and no major problems are found, with Ming's current strength, it is completely possible to build even larger ships.
It is not impossible to build a true thousand-ton large-scale ship.