Great Song Pirate

Chapter 228 Flying Shear Ship (To)
In the season of early spring, the south of the Yangtze River is already full of spring. Xu Yi and Li Mutian sat on the boat of the Li family, talking and laughing happily. Just after the new year, after Xu Yi arranged many affairs on the island, he bid farewell to the wives who were reluctant to leave, and bid farewell After leaving Xiao Jiaojiao who was still breastfeeding in Yiqing's arms, she left Dulong Island and met Li Mutian in Hangzhou, heading north by boat.

For this trip, they took the canal and took a tank boat all the way northward, starting from Hangzhou, passing through Suzhou and entering the Yangtze River, then diverted from Yangzhou to the Bianhe River to Bianliang in Tokyo, and then went northward by land to the east and west routes of Hebei. Time, this can save a lot of hard work, and allow Xu Yi to appreciate the beauty of the Song Dynasty along the way. Xu Yi is very satisfied with Li Mutian's arrangement, and Li Mutian also wants Xu Yi to accompany him to the north. I am very happy, besides having one more person to chat with, Xu Yi has a lot of good players around him, which also gives him a bunch of free bodyguards, and he has both, so everyone is happy.

"Brother Xu, do you know that the situation in the north has changed during the time you returned to the island for the festival?" Anyway, the people on the boat were all brought by the Li family and Xu Yi. Xu Yi asked.

After Xu Yi recalled the historical events in his mind, he smiled calmly: "What major event can happen? Could it be that the Kingdom of Jin sent troops to capture Yanjing and other places?"

Li Mutian, who was planning to be a fool at first, was taken aback when he heard this, he almost didn't throw away the tea bowl, and asked with a look of astonishment: "Brother Xu is really a semi-immortal man! He's far away at sea, and he already knows about this matter. Our Li family also just got the news not long ago!"

Xu Yi was almost laughed at by his semi-immortal person, and secretly laughed to himself that this Xu Banxian must not be able to take off his hat. Okay, so he quickly explained: "What kind of half-immortal am I! Don't listen to people's nonsense, you forgot that Lin Xiong went to the escort in the north a few years ago, and told me about it after he came back. It's just a coincidence, don't talk about me as a half-immortal in the future, people will think I can tell fortunes!"

Only then did Li Mutian understand, and said with a smile: "I thought Brother Xu was really good at pinching and counting! This kind of thing was also counted by you. If you are not called a half-immortal, you should be called a god. It turns out that someone told you one step ahead. You! Hehe, this is not surprising, but the current situation makes our father and son a little confused. I didn’t hear that Song and Jin, the alliance of the sea, had agreed that after the destruction of the Liao Kingdom, Yanyun and other places would be owned by the Song Dynasty. Why? Why did the Jin people occupy Yanyun and other places in advance this time? In this way, is it hopeless for my Song Dynasty to take back Yanyun? How can it be impossible for our Song Dynasty to take back Yanyun from the Jinren? Cloud it!"

Xu Yi sneered at this: "I said Mutian, don't worry about the land of Yanyun anymore, it's not a good place, if you want to sell horses there again, I won't say anything Think about it! Why do the Jin people want to take Yanjing now? It’s not that the old thief Tong Guan has suffered consecutive defeats, fearing that he will be impeached by all the officials after returning to the court. It’s a trick, asking the Jin people to send troops to help, and take down Yanyun and other places on behalf of Song Dynasty. It is estimated that they will be handed over to Tong Guan later, but there is no telling what will be left there! And there is a future. It will definitely be the junction of Song and Jin countries. Once the two countries turn against each other, it will be the first place to bear the brunt. If you go there, it may be unknown whether you can come back alive. If you want to go there again, I will I will never stop you again, but don’t regret it when the time comes!"

After Li Mutian heard what Xu Yi said, he dispelled the idea that had just arisen. Xu Yi has been able to predict the development of the situation in the north every time for so long. There is endless money in the world, why bother to go to that place to sell horses?With the current savings of their Li family, I'm afraid they can't run out of food and drink!Forget it, let's go honestly and clean up the business in the north and withdraw back!
They stayed in Suzhou for a while, let Li Mutian deal with the business affairs here, and let Xu Yi appreciate the scenery of Suzhou in the Song Dynasty, because since the Song Dynasty, the north has not been peaceful, and the emperors of the Song Dynasty have deliberately After the management of the south made Jiangnan much more developed than in the previous era, and completely broke the tradition of the southerners being indifferent, all parts of the south of the Yangtze River have become the economic and cultural centers of the Song Dynasty, faintly surpassing the prosperity of the north, and it is precisely because of In this way, Jiangnan has the opportunity to become China's land of fish and rice. Xu Yi has already read and understood these things in history books.

After seeing the bustling scene of Suzhou, everyone continued to travel northward. Two days later, they entered the Yangtze River and arrived at Yangzhou City. According to old habits, Xu Yi did not show off and asked Li Mutian to handle the affairs of Yangzhou. He arrived first. The shipyard looked at Gray and Gong Zhen here, and inspected the shipyard. The work here started early after the Chinese New Year. The three berths are trying their best to build Jiangbeihai of different sizes according to their respective capabilities. The ship and the ship yard are also very busy. The people above and below are working in full swing, and the manpower has increased a lot. Seeing that two boats are about to be launched, Xu Yi is very satisfied with this situation, because Gong Zhen is taking care of the boat. Compared with Fan Sheng's field ability, everything is arranged in an orderly manner, and based on the experience of the previous two ships, another change has been made to make the bow part sharper, which is more conducive to the ship's smooth sailing. Quickness, reducing the phenomenon of sinking the head in big waves.

After Xu Yi saw the newly modified ship, he suddenly had a familiar feeling. After this modification, the Jiangbei sea ship seemed to be close to a ship type, that is, the ship that appeared in the United States in the eighteenth century. A ship type of famous sea-going ship is the famous flying shear ship type in the world.

Before the appearance of steam engine power, this type of flying shear ship almost monopolized the fast sailing ships on the sea. It can be regarded as the pinnacle of sailing ships. Some, played a very important role in the maritime trade in the 12th century. Xu Yi still has some understanding of this type of ship. There have been many famous ships in history of this type of ship, such as the American Mackay clipper ship. Qingqi', American clipper ship 'King of the Seas', American clipper ship 'James Baines', the world's fastest British clipper ship 'Seimpira', British clipper ship 'Short The Shirt, etc., can be called the representative work of the flying shear ship, especially the United States and the United Kingdom, which once used this kind of ship to engage in the tea and opium trade in China, forcing the Qing government to open the gates to legalize the opium trade, and how much China has been poisoned. Man, during the Opium War, how many foreign ships of this kind appeared in China's territorial waters, so Xu Yi has a deep memory of this kind of clipper ship. If the Chinese have built this kind of clipper ship now, wouldn't it be ...?
Xu Yi immediately dismissed the people around him, sat in the room and began to search carefully for the relevant knowledge of this kind of clipper ship in his mind, until he had a headache from recalling, and finally summed up some relevant information. This type of ship has a small freeboard , less superstructure, not only improves the stability of the ship, but also can give full play to the role of the sail.The ship sails almost close to the water surface, and the aspect ratio is generally greater than 6:1. Its underwater shape is designed as the minimum resistance to increase the speed, but it maintains a certain transverse resistance profile, resulting in a particularly beautiful waterline, and even has a The concave, long and sharp curved scissor-shaped stem is in a posture suitable for racing. It can cut waves (cut waves) to reduce wave resistance on the sea, so it is called flying shear; the stem also extends the hull. If you extend a slash along the bow column, you can hang some jib sails on the bow, which is beneficial to expand the capacity of the sail; the hollow bow makes it easy for the boat to lift its head in the waves, and improves its course in the waves stability.The sloping waterline of the rear body that gradually becomes thinner transitions harmoniously into the narrow round stern, blending harmoniously with the graceful bow shape.This type of clipper ship is more obvious that the sail area is very large. Generally, 3-4 masts are fully equipped with sails, often with tall masts, the height of which reaches 3/4 of the captain's length. Stay sails sometimes have outrigger yards on both sides of the ship, called wing sail bars, which can be hung with wing sails, which increases the lateral overhang area of ​​the sail. The front mast of the 3-masted clipper ship is farther away from the stern, so a shorter slash can be used, and the interference between the sails is less... It can be seen that the horizontal size of the sail greatly exceeds the width of the ship.

After recalling these things, Xu Yi didn't dare to delay, so he sent someone to find a piece of charcoal, sharpen it and use it as a pencil, and after finding paper, he started to smudge and draw, without even thinking about dinner. Going to eat and working until the early morning, when Li Bo saw Xu Yi was busy, he knew that he had a new idea, maybe it was another genius idea, so he kept people from disturbing Xu Yi and guarded the place himself. There was a guard in front of the gate, and Daniel and Qian Gui stayed with him and waited here.

It wasn't until early in the morning that Xu Yi stretched out from the house, laughed and shouted: "It's finally finished, I'm really a genius! Haha, go and get me Gong Zhen, I'll let him have a look." A new thing!"

"Big boss! It's already late at night! I guess everyone is asleep, so you should have something to eat and rest!" Li Bo reminded him in a low voice.

"Oh? Is it late at night? I stayed in the house all day? No way! I said why are you so hungry! Hurry up, get me something to eat, I'm about to starve to death!" Xu Yi looked Looking at the moon in the sky, I realized that I hadn't eaten for two meals. At this moment, my stomach was rumbling, and I made a serious protest.

Qian Gui was clever, so he turned around and ran away. After a while, he brought a big plate with a lot of sauced beef and two pancakes. Good stuff, you'll be fine with all of this!"

Xu Yi smiled and patted Qian Gui: "Qian Gui still loves me, this is already very good, not bad!" He said, grabbed the pancakes and started chewing on the beef.

Xu Yi's biscuits were not finished, so Ge ​​Lei and Gong Zhen ran over. It turned out that the two of them hadn't slept at all, and had been so exhausted, waiting for Xu Yi to come out. Seeing that Xu Yi had already gone out, they ran immediately over here.

"Can't the two of you let the young shopkeeper sleep for a while and then talk about it tomorrow? Why come here after you don't sleep well!" Li Bo was very dissatisfied and taught them a lesson.

"Brother Li, what you said is wrong. If you can stay here, Qian Gui and Da Niu can stay here. Why should we go to sleep? He is your young shopkeeper, isn't he my young master?" The shopkeeper? Cut!" Gray argued with a look of resentment.

Gong Zhen also said: "It's rare for the shopkeeper to come here. He hasn't slept yet. Of course we don't dare to sleep either, ha ha!"

"Okay, okay! Don't argue, you won't die if you sleep less for a while, hehe! Let's strike while the iron is hot, Gong Zhen came just in time, you guys and Gray all go to sleep, Gong Zhen just stay, I I have something to talk to Gong Zhen about." Xu Yi munched his mouth full of pancake beef and gave them instructions.

"Da Dang... the young shopkeeper doesn't sleep, and I don't sleep either. I'm the young shopkeeper's bodyguard!" Daniel said stubbornly, sticking his neck.

"Go, go, little brat! Go to sleep, as long as I'm here!" Qian Gui smugly taught Daniel a lesson.

"Get out of here and go to sleep, I'm here, I don't need you!" Li Bo scolded the two of them with a glare, and the two guys were afraid of Li Bo, so they put their heads down and muttered that they were bullying the small, The boss was dissatisfied and went to find a place to sleep.

"You go to sleep too, this is our own place, what bodyguard do you want? Go to sleep!" Xu Yi said, Li Bo had no choice but to drag Gray to sleep.

"The shopkeeper is really blessed to have these brothers!" Gong Zhen laughed as he watched them leave.

"Yes! I think so too. Let's not talk about it. I think of a new type of ship. Here are some sketches. You can take a look at it first. This type of ship is more suitable for sailing than our current Jiangbei ships. The speed is extremely fast, once we can build such a ship, it will be even more powerful for us to go to sea! The next trip to Nanyang may shorten the time by half!" Xu Yi pulled Gong Zhen to the table and took the sketches he had drawn. It was displayed in front of Gong Zhen's eyes.

Gong Zhen's gaze was immediately attracted to these sketches. This type of ship is really beautiful, but it is also very weird. He has never seen this type of ship before in his memory. What kind of ship is this?How many good things have been installed in the head of my shopkeeper!

The two discussed until it was bright, and Xu Yi finally confessed: "We are not in a hurry to build this type of ship now. You can make more ship samples first and keep testing until you feel mature. This type of ship is even more important. Keep it secret, don't let outsiders know, when I need it, I will let you build it, remember!"

Gong Zhen nodded vigorously in agreement.

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