Water Margin: I, Wang Lun, will have many children and many blessings in Liangshan.

"These dozen or so ships are all agricultural tools. They are not sold to the north, but only to the mainland of the Song Dynasty and various countries in Southeast Asia."

The official of the Protocol Department returned to his post, and his face was full of pride at this moment.

The boss is the leader, and everything in front of him is the result of everyone's hard work.

A dozen sailing boats slowly And when it arrived, it was parked on the side of the trestle on the seaside.

Dozens of small boats swarmed in and began to carry the goods.

As soon as the ship arrived, the goods had been sold long ago. The owner of the goods personally directed the boat and shouted to give everyone money for processing. The goods must be loaded before tonight so that he can sail south and deliver the goods before the Chinese New Year. Once the goods are delivered

, it is profit and money!

"Our Liangshan ships seem to be different from these foreign ones?"

"Yes, I feel the same way. The concierge said with a smile:"These galleys are good, but the boss has ordered the development of better sailboats.""

Chai Jin and others did not focus on the cargo first.

Instead, they focused on the galleys carrying the cargo.

More than half of the foreign ships were strange-looking soft sailing ships, which were also the mainstream of sailing ships in front of them.

Most of these ships were It came from Tianfang, and the shipbuilding technology came from Northern Europe.

This is called a"Kirk" ship. It has a single mast, a square soft sail, a hanging bucket-style cabin at the front and rear, and a double-layer hull. The manufacturing method is splicing. Mainly.

Short, square, and flat, it is somewhat similar to a Fuzhou ship, but it has no watertight compartment and carries a larger cargo capacity than a Fuzhou ship.

When sailing in deep seas, this type of ship has a high capsize rate, so it is not suitable for crossing the ocean and is only suitable for traveling along the coast. , this is very similar to the Fu Ship.

The development of sailing ships is now at a turning point. In northern and southern Europe, there are still a considerable number of galleys. Whether they are warships or merchant ships, galleys are still faster than Kirk ships, but they carry cargo. It is not as large as the pure Kirk ship, so the Kirk ship has become the mainstream sailing ship in Europe and Tianfang within a few decades of its advent.

As for Nanyang merchants, there were not many at first. The business there has been gradually controlled by Chinese merchants. By the end of the Southern Song Dynasty By the time of the Ming Dynasty, the trade of various Southeast Asian countries had been completely controlled by merchants in the Southern Song Dynasty, and a large number of Han immigrants had even appeared.

By the Ming Dynasty, about half of the population of many Southeast Asian countries was Han Chinese.

The natives of Southeast Asia had no ability to do business29, nor did they have the ability to manufacture goods. Merchants, many merchant ships say they came from Nanyang, but they are actually merchants from Fujian and Zhejiang. They are stationed in Nanyang and are regarded as just Nanyang merchants.

Nanyang merchant ships are also lucky ships.

Three masts, one master and two mates, unlike the Kirk ship There is a building at the back, and there is only a small building at the rear.

Unlike the Kirk ship, the Fu ship is not a double-cabin, but is built with a watertight cabin.

The shape of the keel and the sails are all similar to the Kirk ship. Completely different.

The shipbuilding industry in the Song Dynasty was also developing. Later, giant ships with front and rear decks appeared, and there were many large ships of more than 1,000 tons. In the Yuan Dynasty, the trade cabin line and shipbuilding industry of the Southern Song Dynasty continued, and there were many ships of more than 2,000 tons. Giant Fu Chuan.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, trade was booming, and 4,000 ships entered Guangzhou Port every year, mainly Fu Chuan and Cantonese-style ships.

Fu Chuan was famous for its stability, especially in the face of bad weather and complex routes, even if It will not capsize easily when encountering big winds and waves. After becoming giant, this characteristic was brought to the extreme. The shipbuilding industry did not develop explosively all at once. The shipbuilding industry in the Southern Song Dynasty came from the slow development of the Northern Song Dynasty.

According to"Mengliang""Records" records:"The large one can carry five thousand people, and can carry five or six hundred people. The medium one, which can carry two thousand to one thousand people, can also carry two to three hundred people.""""Material" is a commonly used unit of size for Chinese ships in the Song Dynasty. One grain refers to one stone of japonica rice, which is about 55 kilograms. A large ship with five thousand grains can carry up to 300 tons. Lu You

's"Entering Shu" records that the Wuchang navy exercise, twenty or thirty More than 700 warships were dispatched, and the scene was spectacular. This also reflected the scale of shipbuilding at that time.

《In"Along the River During the Qingming Festival", the Bianhe River ships use a balanced rudder. This method of installing a balancer in front of the rudder stock reduces the rudder torque and greatly increases the flexibility of shallow water river transportation and the safety of navigation.

Meng Liang Lu, the era recorded by Lu You was the period when Liangshan was born.

The size of sea-going ships has reached about 300 tons, and water ships can transport up to 5,000 grains, which is 5,000 shi. This number is quite astonishing and extremely terrifying.

Much more powerful than the Ming Dynasty’s ships!

In the Southern Song Dynasty, because trade was more important than in the Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial court had special official institutions, shipyards, and water conservancy institutes, specializing in manufacturing official ships for sea trade.

《The article"Mulan Boat" in Volume 6 of"Lingwai Dai Reply" contains:"The boat is like a huge house, the sail is like the clouds hanging from the sky, the rudder is several feet long, there are hundreds of people in the boat, a year's worth of grain is stored in it, and the pigs make wine in it." Ships with tens of thousands of dendrobium can only be built with Qinzhou ebony wood that can"hold tens of thousands of dendrobium".

Ibn Potuttay, a Moroccan traveler in the first half of the 14th century, also saw many Yuan Dynasty merchant ships in the southwest seaport of Kozhikode, India, and left a deep impression on him:"Chinese ships are divided into three classes, and the larger ones are called Japanese ships. , the middle one is a white boat, and the third class is called a sailboat. The big ship has three to twelve sails, and the sails are all made of bamboo as a cross frame and woven into a mat shape. The big ship can carry a thousand people, and there are 600 sailors and soldiers inside. Four hundred people, plus three small boats attached……Each ship has four floors, with many public and private rooms for the use of merchants. The toilet secret rooms are all well-equipped. Sailors planted flowers, grass and ginger in wooden barrels on the ship."

From these records, we can clearly see the development of the shipbuilding industry in the Song Dynasty.

From the large ships of twenty to thirty feet to one hundred meters long, it was the early Southern Song Dynasty.

It was the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty when a ship with a thousand people went to Lingwai.

The total number of soldiers and sailors was a thousand. This was already a hundred years after the Great Navigation in Europe.

By the time a ship had a thousand people, the fortune ship already had more than a dozen sails, covering the sky and the sun like clouds hanging from the sky. , there are three levels on the deck and bilge, there are ship buildings in the front and rear, and there are already more than a dozen watertight compartments, including a main rudder and an auxiliary rudder. The safety performance and cargo capacity have been greatly increased.

Now there is a"Nanhai Ship" salvaged and put to sea in Fuzhou"" is a small and medium-sized fortune ship, but it carries as many as 180,000 pieces of various porcelain.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty was founded by force. It was not a closed and conservative farming country. It liked trade, gold and silver utensils and In terms of spices, foreign trade was much more proactive than that of the Southern Song Dynasty. The shipbuilding industry of the Yuan Dynasty also developed further than that of the Southern Song Dynasty, not only because of trade, but also because the Yuan Dynasty did not engage in inland water transportation, it only engaged in sea transportation.

Every year, ships from the south Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Mingzhou, Hangzhou in Zhejiang, Jiankang in the south of the Yangtze River and other places shipped a large amount of grain and transported it to the metropolis Beijing by sea.

Therefore, there was no pain of transshipment inland.

This has been the case for hundreds of years, and as a result, Emperor Shun During the period, he encountered a Prime Minister Tuotuo who was working hard to govern and insisted on dredging the canal.

As a result, when he dug out the Yellow River, a stone man was dug out. The stone man had one eye, which instigated the world to rebel. The world was in chaos, Henan, Shandong, Huaihei, and Jiangnan. They are all owned by Red Scarf.

Water transportation has not been interrupted.

There are many sea-going ships.

Fang Guozhen still transports grain northward every year in Fujian and Zhejiang. On the one hand, he wants to bet on both ends and will not bet all his wealth on Red Scarf's victory.

On the other hand, The Yuan court paid money to transport grain north, and it was very profitable.

It was also because the shipbuilding industry of the Yuan Dynasty was more developed, and shipping and trade surpassed those of the Southern Song Dynasty.

After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty first pacified the south, and the rest of Fang Guozhen and others fled to sea. Became a pirate.

Coupled with the rise of Japanese pirates,

Lao Zhu began to ban the sea. At the same time, the shipbuilding industry, which was once prosperous and had hundreds of thousands of employees, also stagnated.

Fortunately, there were still 3,000 nails left in the broken ships. During the Yongle period, After Zhu Di's seven voyages to the West, the shipbuilding industry could not suddenly pop up. No matter how wise and powerful Zhu Di was, he could not change the craftsman and shipbuilding technology that could build ships.

This was four hundred years of trade development from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, and then to the Yuan Dynasty. The shipbuilding inheritance that came out!

The so-called Ming Dynasty treasure ship fleet was just a slightly larger trading fleet during the Southern Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty. The so-called treasure ships... were ordinary large sea ships in the Southern Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty. It was really nothing unusual.

Just This... After Zhu Di's death, the civil servants burned all the shipbuilding blueprints. The craftsmen were dismissed and the shipyards were closed.

Until the demise of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding industry did not recover and could only build small and medium-sized ships..

During the Battle of Liaoluo Bay, the Europeans were already using the Spanish Clark ship, an improved version of the Kirk ship, or the more advanced Galen ship warship. The

Zheng family navy, relying on its advantage in numbers, surrounded it with dozens of Fu ships. With the help of large European warships, they used primitive tactics such as fire attacks, gang jumping, and corner charging, and coupled with the advantage of large numbers of people, they barely managed to repel the Dutch colonists. Looking back on the Southern Song Dynasty, these Kirk ships had no obvious impact on the Fu ships. Advantages, both sides are neck and neck, each has its own strengths and weaknesses.

Later, before the Clark ship appeared, Fu Ship continued to make rapid progress. From the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, China's shipbuilding industry was unique in the world and unrivaled in the world.

By the time the treasure ships were built during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Europe already had Clark ships, and the two sides were once again at a similar level.

With the emergence of Galenic ships, schooners, steamships, armored battleships will follow... (To read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Then the ones that are behind are not even a little bit behind.

It is lagging behind in all aspects, being crushed behind.

At least in front of them, although Chai Jin and others looked strange, they didn't feel anything special.

Kirk boats, Fu boats, and Cantonese boats are not much different, but they are slightly different in shape.

What really made them feel different was the galleys in Liangshan.

On the seaside and inland rivers, this kind of boat is also built very large, and it can carry oars like flying. There is no need for a small boat to serve as a pilot boat when entering and leaving the water port, and it can come and go freely.

Cargo transportation, control, speed... they all have absolute advantages over Fu Ship and Kirk Ship.

The disadvantage is that due to the large amount of space required to accommodate the oars and rowers, the carrying space is obviously insufficient.

Even so, based on the existing navigation needs and conditions, the performance and practicality of this kind of galley ship clearly exceeds that of the Kirk ship, Fu ship, and Cantonese ship.

"The boss is not very satisfied with the galleys now. The Construction Department and Shuiying are cooperating to develop new ships, but it is not going well."

The concierge didn't hide the things that didn't go well in Liangshan. It was already successful enough, but some flaws or even small failures are not a big deal?

Of course, what Wang Lun ordered to develop was not the current Kirk ship. It was not advanced. What was the purpose of research and development? ?

It is not a Fu Chuan or a Cantonese ship.

For offshore transportation, Fu Chuan has been developed to its extreme, which is larger and more stable than the treasure ships of the early Ming Dynasty. It is indeed sufficient.

But Wang Lun is considering making the Song Dynasty ahead of schedule in a few decades. There is no need to deny that flat-bottomed hard sails are not suitable for large-scale voyages. The early colonists used Clark ships with soft sails and pointed bottoms, and later Galen ships were built in Vietnam. The bigger they got, the more advanced they became.

By the time of the Galen ships, that is, when the Dutch and British colonists came up, Galen ships of five to six hundred tons were already common, and Galen ships of one thousand tons were also common. The

British Sea Monarch is the pinnacle of the early Galenic ships.

This ship was built in the late Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty. It has three decks and weighs 1,683 tons. It is a standard giant wooden sail warship.

The warship has a More than a hundred artillery can fire huge sixty-pound shells, and the Ming Dynasty's Hongyi cannon, which weighs five thousand kilograms, is far behind.

One shot can fire a one-ton shell, even if the gunpowder technology at that time had not broken through 277 Progress, the artillery shells are also solid iron bullets, not explosive shells, and the power is still not small. It is now possible to give up the corner jumping gang battle. During the naval battle between the

British and the Spanish Armada, the artillery technology and artillery fell even further behind. After a day of roaring fighting, Very few battleships were sunk by artillery shells, and more losses were due to various reasons such as angle battles and post-war fires.

By the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, with the development of battleships, artillery, gunpowder, and tactics, angle battles jumped Gang wars are also gradually being eliminated.

However, the Ming sailors of the Zheng Navy risked dozens or hundreds of cannons per warship, using small boats and only a few cannons on the Fu ships to deal with the enemy ships, and they were still able to win in the end. , is really commendable, and can even be said to be an act of defiance. What

Wang Lun wants to build is the Galen ship.

Liangshan already has artillery technology.

In a few decades, heavy artillery will be released.

Plus the Galen ship , it is not difficult to cross the ocean.

Wang Lun cannot even imagine how much territory he can gain for China.[]

In this time and space, he has reached his limit.

If future generations fail to live up to expectations, they will still be unable to win and hold on to the power of the world.

Then Wang Lun had nothing to say.

The Galen ship is not easy, the ropes are so messy, the front, middle and rear masts and ropes must be coordinated.

The construction of the sharp bottom ship keel, as well as a large amount of qualified hardwood...

The construction department is currently in the stage of building a large model, and there is still a long way to go before the test ship is launched.

Chai Jin and others didn't understand this, but they just felt shocked and inexplicable.

In their eyes, the galley is already good enough……

"These iron tools are also exquisite products that cannot be made by ordinary workshops."

Chai Jin looked out of the corner of his eye and could tell at a glance that the ironware sold in the south was not ordinary. The fine iron ingot base material, rolling, grinding, sanding and other methods were all made of fine workmanship. The ironware in front of him was polished and sparkling. It's very sharp.

When you hold it in your hand, it feels comfortable and delicate, but also heavy and solid.

Forks, rakes, shovels, shovels, plows, these are agricultural tools.

There are also daily utensils such as pots, stoves, shovels, etc.

"Each ship has tens of thousands of pieces, mainly sold to Japan, Korea, and other Southeast Asian countries. Of course, the Song Dynasty wanted the most"

"Hundreds of thousands of pieces are sold every day, and the profit is not high. The average price per piece ranges from ten to dozens of yuan."

"These are the needs of ordinary people. The boss said that the price of daily necessities, including salt, will be reduced again in the future when there is no shortage of money."

"This is very different from soaps, mirrors, carriages, telescopes, myopia glasses and other products. For people's livelihood products, we only focus on quantity, and with good quality, it is only a matter of time before we fully occupy the market."

Looking at the dazzling array of various iron tools on the ship in front of them, Chai Jin and others were silent.

Not only in terms of ability, but also in terms of people's realm, they are also far behind the master.

Người mua: Tê Tê Ka