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Text Chapter 581 The Ding Dynasty Giant Ship

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    After that, he smiled at the deputy named Dongliangjun and asked: "Your 'big ship'. I want to know how big your big ship is?"

    "Sixty meters long, fourteen meters wide, with a load capacity of more than 500 tons (displacement of 1,000 tons)." At this time, the envoy stepped forward and answered quickly, his head slightly raised with indescribable pride.

    "Hmm That's really big. You can't find such a big ship in the Western Continent, except for the horse-drawn tugboats on the Ale River of the Holy Lana Empire that are specially used to carry loads. But we are already designing a 'big ship' similar to yours  If completed, it is expected to be able to carry nearly five hundred tons, but it will not be as big as your ship. It is only thirty meters long and about eight meters wide." After the envoy finished speaking, he tried to maintain his tone.  So relaxed, I gestured with my hands and said to the envoy.

    In fact, what I am talking about is just a commission received by the Shipbuilding Bureau of the Maritime Administration of the Holy Lana Empire from the Atlas Sea Knights.  They hope that the Shipbuilding Bureau of the Holy Lana Empire can use the superior technology of the Holy Lana Empire as a standard to help them design a load-carrying ship more suitable for sailing on the Atlas Sea. The requirement for a warship type is that it can carry at least  Forty cannon made the ocean voyage.

    Because they found that the large Karak originally designed by the Winged Lion City-State was no longer suitable for the navigation needs of the Atlas Sea.  The Carrack sailing on the Atlas Sea had a huge design problem. Those huge forward and stern buildings made the ship's center of gravity too high, which could easily capsize the ship when encountering a storm on the Atlas Sea.  Moreover, the huge ship building makes large Karak ships often drag when sailing on the Atlas Sea. It also reduces the wind-receiving area of ??the sails and reduces the ship's speed.

    It¡¯s no wonder that when the Winged Lion City State designed the Karak ship, it considered the trade and cargo-carrying needs of the East. The huge front building and poop made the Karak ship useful both in loading cargo and in close combat.  They all have great advantages, but it is obviously no longer suitable to put them on the Atlas Sea.  Taking into account the wind and wave conditions and load-carrying requirements of the Atlas Sea, they wanted a ship with a high shipboard that could ensure load-carrying capacity and speed at the same time.

    When I learned about the creation of this new ship, I immediately wrote a letter to the Shipbuilding Bureau of the Imperial Government Maritime Administration in Weeping Willow City, suggesting that they name this new ship the "Galen type".  But it seems that they don't like this name, which I didn't explain, but named this new ship "Prince type". The reason they gave is much better than mine, because this type of ship was used in the Holy Lana Empire.  Customized during the reign of the Prince Regent.

    Considering that it was to be used to replace the large Karak sailing ship currently sailing on the Atlas Sea, the Imperial Shipbuilding Bureau set the ship type on a similar model, that is, a large prince ship. In fact, the so-called "large" is also  It's just comparable to the "medium-sized Galen" in the previous life, and far from reaching the standards of a large-sized Galen.

    After listening to what I said, Ding Chao Zhengshi smiled.  Looking at the proud smile on his face, I knew that the ruthless angle was about to appear.  The deputy envoy Dong Liangjun next to him seemed to want to change the topic, but the envoy had already said: "Five hundred tons? What do you think of a giant ship that is 140 meters long, 56 meters wide, and has a load of 10,000 tons?"  ?¡±

    "Ten thousand tons? Hmmis there such a big ship?" Of course I knew that there had been very large ships in the history of my hometown, but I was a little surprised to hear it said by an envoy from this world.  After all, in the hometown of the previous life, there are only records of the treasure ship. There is no design drawing passed down, so it is naturally impossible to restore and build it.  The huge ship is one hundred and forty meters long, fifty-six meters wide, and has a carrying capacity of eighteen thousand tons. From these figures, one may still have a vague idea of ??this kind of ship.  But I can try to imagine a ship with the displacement of the Nassau-class dreadnought of the previous World War (converted according to the square factor, the displacement of 10,000 tons of deadweight is about 23,000 tons), and the length and width are two Nassau-class ships  Dreadnoughts side by side.

    "Sois that giant ship your flagship?"

    "No. Your Highness" Ding Chaozheng closed his eyes and shook his head gently: "Our flagship is a large ship with a load capacity of more than 500 tons. Most warships and cargo ships are also such large ships. Giant ships are not  It is not used as a flagship location.¡±

    "Oh" He nodded to express his understanding.  Then he asked: "Do you have any paintings or drawings of that kind of giant ship? I want to keep a copy in my library.¡±

    Listen.  This time the deputy envoy Dong Liangjun no longer hesitated.  Immediately replied: "Sorry, Your Highness, because of our mission. We did not bring the map of the giant ship. But after we return to Tianfang, we can ask the painter on the ship or the Tianfang studio to draw a painting of the giant ship and send it to someone.  Come to your Highness."

    "Haha. Okay." He nodded towards Dong Liangjun with a smile.  It seems that Dong Liangjun is more difficult to coax than that sergeant.?More.  While getting close for some purpose that I still don¡¯t know yet.  He also remained as vigilant as he should have.

    But it¡¯s enough for me that he only painted giant ships.  I really just want to save it.  The Ding Dynasty fleet did not regard such giant ships as the main ships used for combat and cargo carrying.  There is no large-scale construction. I believe they must have very reasonable plans.  After all, the ship does not cross

    , but also consider its cargo capacity and sailors. As a cargo ship, a ship with a larger size, fewer sailors and faster speed is more suitable for long-distance cargo.  In this era, ships that were too large had to take into account the size of the port.  If you can't enter the port, just using other ships to transport supplies back and forth will prolong the time at least several times, which is not a good thing for ocean voyages.

    After listening to the descriptions of Ding Dynasty officials, I can now roughly confirm that the historical descriptions left in previous lives are correct, but that later generations made mistakes based on their inertial understanding of Western ships.  When it comes to the maritime history of my hometown in my previous life, people who lived in my time would be greatly moved by the treasure ships. Most of the topics discussed around that historical event were about the treasure ships.  However, they have never been able to understand why there are not many descriptions of large treasure ships in the historical records left by that dynasty. The protagonists of the descriptions are all ships with a displacement of more than a thousand tons or smaller?  Don't large treasure ships exist?

    Regarding this question, the envoy of the Ding Dynasty has already answered it. The large treasure ship does exist, but it is not the protagonist of their voyage.  Since you are not the protagonist of sea voyage?  Does this mean that the giant ships are just a visual deterrent?  This possibility exists, but if it is only this possibility, it is not enough to motivate them to spend a lot of materials and money to build such a huge ship.  Building a giant ship is not just about calculating the materials and money required for a giant ship, but also considering a large enough dock and design.  It would be too wasteful just for visual deterrence.

    Since it is not a false name, there is only one explanation left.  This giant ship was originally built as a sailing town. In the long history of wooden ships, it should be the only ship with a small number of urban functions. Although it carries cargo, cargo transportation is far from its most important role.  important functions.  In an era when most countries did not have good ports or even no ports and docks at all, the existence of such a large offshore platform was very necessary for that fleet.  Because the navigators and sailors involved in the voyage did not know what kind of situation they would encounter before setting sail from the home port for the first time. For a large fleet, having such a platform can solve many problems that occur at sea, even  When a war occurs, it can stay at sea for a long time and be used as a pre-war camp on the sea, improving the stay time of the fleet far away from the mother country in that sea area.

    I turned my head to look at Mindi and found that she had already recorded the data mentioned during our conversation.  Then he turned back and said to Dong Liangjun: "I can't wait to see what that giant ship looks like. By the way, are there livestock on that giant ship?"

    "Yes, Your Highness, and it's very big. When we arrived in Tianfang this time, the lord of Muland gave us several large exotic beasts. These exotic beasts were installed on the giant ship. In addition, there are also freshwater animals specially raised for breeding.  Fish pond, because there are officials in the fleet who are not used to eating sea fish with too strong smell, so there is a special fresh water pond on the giant ship."

    ¡°I think it¡¯s good to raise livestock on a giant ship, but raising freshwater fish exclusively on a giant ship, I think it¡¯s a waste. It¡¯s not only a waste of space on the ship, but also a waste of fresh water, which is very precious at sea.¡±

    "Haha I think so too, Your Highness." As he said that, Dong Liangjun looked at the envoy.  "If the officials who are sent on an envoy by His Majesty the Emperor are all from Dongliang County, then we naturally do not need to consider designing the fresh water pond. But since there are officials on board who are not used to eating sea fish, then the fleet will set up fresh water for these officials.  Raising fish in the pond is also within their treatment, which is His Majesty¡¯s favor to the officials. But Your Highness, you are right, fresh water is very precious at sea, and it does waste some time for us to frequently replenish fresh water.¡±

    "What do you think of the ships in the Western Continent? I found that you also have a certain understanding of ships."

    "Haha Because I have watched those big captains since I was a child, Your Highness. But Your Highness, we came here on a Mulander sailing ship this time, so we don't know much about the ships in the Western Continent. It's just that  When passing through the northern port of the Muland Empire, I briefly took a look at the cargo ships of the Winged Lion City State. Their ships were very crowded, and they would rather load more cargo than free up one or two cabins for people to live in. Those sailors  The living quarters are worse than the prisons of our local government in Ding Dynasty. I heard that their ships can sail for a long time at a time. I don't know how their sailors can survive in that kind of place.??So long.  " Dong Liangjun's answer was indifferent and did not involve the structural defects of the ship that I wanted to know about.

    ¡°I just hoped that he would mention the design deficiencies of the Western Continent¡¯s ships, but I didn¡¯t expect that he would just talk about the treatment of sailors.  I have to say that this Dong Liangjun is very smooth.  See more, talk less. Only this kind of people can always be on guard.

    ¡°Perhaps I should find another time to talk to the upright Ding Dynasty envoy alone about this. I believe I can get more out of that envoy¡¯s mouth because of his sense of superiority.  (To be continued, if you want to know what happened next, please log in.;

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