Daming Military Empire

Chapter 663 Steel Behemoth, Invincible Battleship
Zhu Cijiong often sighs that it would be great if there were computers and printers in this era.

If there are these two things, he only needs to draw out the drawings in his mind, add annotations, and send them out. With Bi Maokang's current skills, they can definitely make things out very quickly.

However, unfortunately, the Ming Dynasty did not have these two things.

Moreover, it is simply impossible to develop these two things according to the current technical level.

Therefore, he could only call everyone together, draw and talk, explain carefully, let them fully understand what it is, and then draw drawings to do it himself.

After explaining for a long time, he finally clarified the issue of the displacement and the airtight compartment, but this only solved the problem of the excessive quality of the ironclad battleship, and did not involve the specific production process.

Next, he will separate the various links of the development of the entire iron-clad battleship and hand it over to specific people to be responsible, so that the iron-clad battleship can be truly made.

Which part should I talk about first?

Zhu Cijiong thought about it for a while, then decided to start with the simplest.

If you want to say what is the simplest in all the links of manufacturing an ironclad warship, or all the equipment and materials that need to be used, then the steel plate is none other than the steel plate.

Steel plates can be mass-produced by Daming. The steel plates for ships are only made of slightly different materials, and the formula of the materials is also provided by the system.

Zhu Cijiong directly said to Song Yingxing: "Chang Geng, I will write you some steel formulas later. You can make these steels, which will be used when building iron-clad warships."

For Song Yingxing, this couldn't be easier. Even if he didn't have the formula, he could slowly develop it. What's more, now that the formula is available, he just needs to make a trial. He quickly cupped his hands and said, "I understand."

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Cijiong asked Xu Fuyuan again: "Fuzhai, have you ever seen a hanging gourd?"

That thing is everywhere now, Xu Fuyuan has seen it before, he nodded quickly and said: "Go back to the emperor, I have seen it."

Zhu Cijiong nodded, and then said: "Think about it, if you replace the chain with a steel wire rope made of thin steel wires, and then use a motor to drive the wire rope up and down, wouldn't it be more powerful and save trouble?"

Xu Fuyuan heard the words, thought for a while, and then excitedly cupped his hands and said: "The emperor is wise."

Zhu Cijiong shook his head helplessly, and said with a wry smile: "Okay, I'll draw a sketch for you, and you can make this thing as soon as possible."

After that, he picked up the brush and drew a sketch of the electric hoist, and handed it to Xu Fuyuan.

Next, Zhu Cijiong drew a sketch of a blind rivet and a rivet gun, and then pointed to the sketch and said to Wang Zheng: "Liangfu, this is called a rivet, and this is called a rivet gun. The usage is to make a heel on two iron plates. Move as big as the rivet, then insert the rivet, and then pull the core of the rivet with a rivet gun, so that the head of the rivet will be deformed, and the two iron plates will be riveted tightly together, do you understand? ?”

This is actually not complicated, it is just a matter of conception, as long as you think about it, it is not difficult to make it.

Wang Zheng looked at it with interest for a while, then nodded and said: "Go back to the emperor, I understand."

Zhu Cijiong nodded, handed the sketch to him, and said: "This is also used when building iron-clad battleships, so hurry up and make it."

Wang Zheng hastily cupped his hands and said, "My minister obeys the order."

The seemingly simple things have been explained, and the next things are more complicated, but there is one thing that should be made soon, and this thing is the electric welding machine.

It's not that the principle of the electric welding machine is simple, nor is it that the electric welding machine is easy to develop. The main reason is that he has handed over this project to Xia Yunyi for research and development four years ago, and the difficulty of the electric welding machine is not the electric welding machine itself, but the electric welding machine. The production of strips.

He believes that after so many years, Xia Yunyi should have made the welding machine long ago. As for the welding rod, the system has provided detailed recipes and production methods this time. He only needs to give it to Xia Yunyi, and he believes that this thing can be made soon. come out.

Thinking of this, he asked Xia Yunyi directly: "Yizhong, how is the development of the electric welding machine going?"

Xia Yunyi heard the words, and said in shame: "The emperor forgives the sin, Weichen has already made the electric welding machine, the main reason is that the welding rod is too difficult to make, Weichen tried many kinds of materials, but the welding effect is not very good. "

Zhu Cijiong nodded and comforted: "It's good that the welding machine is finished. I have already thought of the material and production method of the welding rod. After the meeting, I will write it to you."

Xia Yunyi was naturally pleasantly surprised when he heard the words, and thanked her again and again, the problem of the welding machine was solved.

The next thing left is the production of ironclad battleships. This is a huge project. If we have to introduce it step by step in detail, it may not be finished in a few days. However, ironclad battleships are actually wooden warships covered with a layer of iron armor. , and the wooden battleship will be mass-produced early in the morning, so he doesn't need to make too many introductions, but the overall structure and how the armor is covered need to be introduced in detail.

Zhu Cijiong thought for a while, and then picked up the brush and started to draw. This time he drew in more detail, including the structure of the entire hull, and marked some dimensions in some places. After finishing the drawing, he directly said to Bi Maokang: " Menghou, look, this is the general structure of an ironclad battleship. The interior is actually similar to a wooden battleship, except that a sealed cabin is added. Do you understand?"

Hearing this, Bi Maokang carefully looked at the sketch drawn by Zhu Cijiong, then nodded and said: "Go back to the emperor, I understand."

Zhu Cijiong nodded, and took another blank piece of paper to draw. This time, he drew a battleship, but judging from the marked size, it seems to be larger than the armored battleship, and there are no gun ports on the sides. , but there are a lot of artillery on the deck.

After finishing the painting, he said to Bi Maokang again: "Look, Menghou, this is another kind of iron-clad battleship called an iron-clad cruiser. Its structure is simpler than that of an iron-clad battleship. It is mainly used to hit enemy warships. You see do you understand?"

In later generations, the main function of the cruiser is of course not to hit the enemy's battleship. Everyone is a lump of iron, and if they hit each other, they will die together!
However, cruisers at this time are more suitable for collisions, because the warships currently produced by the Anti-Habsburg Alliance are all wooden warships, and it is definitely a challenge to use ironclad warships whose quality and hardness are far superior to those of wooden warships. It will fall apart when it hits, and the cruiser is basically equipped with super cannons, and it is also in the front and rear directions. When it hits the enemy ship, it can also concentrate firepower to bombard it, which is especially suitable for frontal toughness. That's right.

Compared with the structure of the armored battleship, this structure is simpler. Bi Maokang naturally understood it at a glance. He nodded quickly and said: "Go back to the emperor, I understand."

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Cijiong explained to him in detail how to cover the surface of the battleship with iron, and how to make and install the ram. It took nearly half an hour to finish.

In the end, Sun Yuanhua was the only one present who didn't arrange any tasks. It's not that he was not good at skills, but that now that wars were going on everywhere, he had a lot of things to do. Zhu Cijiong was afraid of delaying things, so he didn't arrange tasks for him.

(End of this chapter)