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    The battleship made of century-old oak was officially launched in autumn.

    The first batch of warships consisted of two ships, both of the Galen type.  One is 650 tons, the other is 500 tons, with four masts and square sails.

    Galleons are fitted with square sails, a practice that began thirty years ago and are also known as "forgate sails".  The later sail frigate was also named "Fogate Sailing Ship", but the two are not the same thing.

    In addition, the deck superstructure was deliberately reduced during design, and the forecastle was also shorter than that of ordinary Galen ships.

    This change is all to make the hull lighter and lower the center of gravity of the hull.  Not only is it more flexible when sailing, but it is also less likely to be capsized by storms.  It's just that from the appearance point of view, it is not as tall and mighty as before the improvement, and those with proper appearance are deduction items.

    Europe is also making this kind of improvement, and even moved the foremast aft to directly above the forecastle, so that the mast distribution is more reasonable and efficient.

    "Good boat!"

    Before Kuang Hong boarded the ship, he couldn't help admiring.

    Kuang Hong is the eldest son of Kuang Lu. His father previously served as the Zuo Buzheng of Guizhou Province, but now he has been transferred back to Nanjing to serve as the Zuo Shilang of the Household Department.

    Kuang Hong himself joined the court of Datong early. He was good at poetry, music, riding, and swordsmanship. In history, he recruited troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty and died in the eastern suburbs of Guangzhou.

    After Zhang Dai and Liu Xiangke were promoted, it was impossible to go on foreign missions in person. Kuang Hong was appointed as a negotiating envoy this time, and went to Batavia with the heads of Dutch prisoners of war.

    "These two ships were designed and built by Dutch shipbuilders and Han-made shipbuilders," Hong Xu introduced with a smile.  Use soft sails. The Han-made shipbuilders needed to add stalks of water wood to the bottom of the boat. The Dutch shipbuilders didn¡¯t know about this. After making trouble to His Majesty, the Han-made shipbuilders won this time.¡±

    Gan Shuimu is the anti-rolling keel, which relies on the hydrodynamic effect when the ship rolls to generate a stabilizing moment to reduce the ship's roll.  It can play a miraculous effect when encountering a storm, and it can also make the ship more stable when sailing in normal times.

    This kind of ship anti-rolling device in China is at least 700 years earlier than that in Europe (subject to the unearthed objects), and it has been used from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty.  In Europe, it was not invented until the end of the 18th century.

    The two new ships of the Datong Navy combined the advantages of Eastern and Western ships, and not everything was decided by the Dutch shipbuilder.

    Kuang Hong led people aboard the warship, and all the heads of the Dutch prisoners of war were packed in wooden boxes.

    As Hong Xu walked, he introduced: "The Spanish ship captured before was named 'Datong, but now it is changed to 'Taiwan'. The largest new ship is called 'Guangzhou'. The smaller one next to it  The new ship is called 'Fuzhou.' On the Guangzhou, there are more than 40 large and small cannons, the largest one is a 6000-jin cannon."

    Kuang Hong was full of pride when he heard it: "With this giant ship, I can sail all over the world!"

    Kuang Hong is from Nanhai, Guangdong, and has been used to seeing sea ships since he was a child.  Now that I am on the 650-ton Guangzhou, I suddenly don't want to be a civil servant, and I want to become an admiral in the navy.

    The naval fleet departs from Taicang Port.

    There are a few small boats in front of them, pulling and guiding the large naval ships, avoiding shoals and reefs all the way, and entering the sea smoothly from the Yangtze River.

    The navigator holds a nautical compass in his hand, which can be used in conjunction with the "Haidao Needle Classic".

    "Haidao Needle Classic" is a collection of the painstaking efforts of countless Chinese navigators, and it has been accumulated since the Song Dynasty.  At the beginning, only the waters near China were recorded, until Zheng He's voyages to the Western Ocean, and the other side of the Indian Ocean was also recorded.

    Although most of Zheng He's voyage materials are lost, his "Hai Dao Jing Jing" has been circulated. The "Zibao Shipyard Sails from Longjiang Pass to Foreign Lands" published in the Wanli period is a set of Zheng He's voyages to the West.  needlebook.

    The "Haidao Needle Classic" used by the Datong Navy collected and sorted out a large number of needle routes, and at the same time asked the maritime merchants in various provinces to contribute their own nautical charts.  After summarizing, the "Datong Haidao Needle Classic" is engraved, and private maritime merchants can also buy it at a high price.

    Tianqian, Earthly Branches, and Bagua divide the nautical compass into 24 equal parts.

    ? Following Zheng He¡¯s voyages to the Western Seas for positioning: set sail at Taicang port, use Danyi needles, and level the Wusong River after one watch.  Use Yimao needle, one shift, to Nanhuizui.

    Translated into human words: Set sail from Taicang Port, drive in a direction of 105 degrees, and pass ten miles (some say twelve miles) to Wusong River.  Then drive in the direction of 97.5 degrees, passing ten miles, to Nanhuizui.

    All the routes of Zheng He's voyages are all accurately positioned, such as in the South China Sea¡ª¡ª

    "When sailing from Sumatra, use dry needles. At twelfth watch, the boat levels Longsiyu. Forty watches, the boat uses Xinyou needles. At fifty watches, the boat sees Mount Ceylon." (Departing from Sumatra Port, along 307.5  Sailing in the direction of 120 milesThe wall is just a residential area, and the palace is in the castle in the center of the city.

    After entering the city, Kuang Hong found bloodstains everywhere, and some Banten soldiers were cleaning up the corpses.

    All the way to the castle, there are more bloodstains in the castle.

    Finally, Kuang Hong met Ban Dan's new Sultan, Ah Geng.

    This Sultan Ageng had just killed his brothers and seized the throne of the king by force.  Next, he will work hard to build an elite navy and set up a caravan to sail to the Philippines and India.

    It is a pity that after the death of Sultan Ageng, his sons fought for the throne, and the Netherlands took the opportunity to support one of them and controlled the state affairs of Banten from then on.

    Standing in the blood-stained ground, Sultan Ah Geng smiled and saluted Kuang Hong: "Welcome the envoy from China, you are the most honored guest of Banten. The hateful Dutch are the enemy of Banten, and the Netherlands is also the enemy of China."  .We have the same enemies, so we are destined friends.

    Kuang Hong looked at Ah Geng standing in the blood, and heard the translation of the speech, and immediately made a judgment: the person in front of him must be a foreign hero!

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