Chapter 578

"Brother Xiaoyu, this ship is so big, so many..."

On the dock, looking at the navy fleet that had just returned from an ocean training, Li Waner immediately exclaimed, ignoring the Queen's manners.

"Hehe, Wan'er, this is just the beginning. In the future, my warships in Daqin will only be bigger and bigger."

Qin Huan smiled and waved his hand. His face was very calm. In fact, he was very excited. Nearly a hundred wooden sailboats were parked together, which was far more shocking than one or two or more.

The royal guards on one side also looked silly one by one. After all, the smallest frigates of these sea ships were a whole circle larger than those on the Yangtze River.

The largest cruiser is 80 meters long and 20 meters wide, and the main mast is about 40 or 50 meters high, which is not inferior to the treasure ship of that year.

"At the end of the day, I will pay a visit to your majesty, my lady. Long live your majesty, long live your mother, long live your mother, long live your mother!"

At this time, the naval officers and men on board also saw the people standing on the wharf to meet them. It turned out that the majesty and queen in dragon robes stopped their work one after another and hurriedly knelt down. For a moment, the sound of paying homage rang through the whole wharf.

"Flat!"

"The soldiers have worked hard."

Qin Yu's voice was like a Hong Zhong and falsely raised his hand. In fact, he said it was an ocean training. He just went to Ryukyu to publicize the national prestige of the great Qin Dynasty.

Not long ago, the Ryukyu Kingdom became the first to eat crabs. This time, the Ryukyu king also came with the fleet and asked for the canonization of the great Qin Dynasty.

"Thank you, your majesty!"

The generals just got up. Their faces turned red with excitement. They didn't expect his majesty to meet them in person. At the moment, everyone felt his Majesty's attention to the Navy.

The king of Ryukyu was so moved that he almost cried, so he knelt down directly in front of Qin Huan and Li Waner after getting off the ship. He couldn't say anything excited. It was obvious that the emperor of the kingdom not only came to meet him personally, but also took the queen with him.

The Ryukyu king, who had always admired the culture of the Central Plains, was so flattered that he almost fainted.

Qin Huan didn't come to meet the king of Ryukyu. It was just a coincidence. Seeing that he couldn't say anything excited, he had to comfort and encourage him to be the horse bone of Qianjin city. After all, Ryukyu is small, but at least it is also the first vassal state of Da Qin.

The officers and men of the naval fleet add up to more than 20000. Except for officers and some old sailors who often run ships, almost all the others are young men who graduated from the Naval Academy in advance. It took more than half an hour to get off the ship alone.

After only one night's rest, Qin Huan officially held the military formation ceremony, which was one of the purposes of his visit, because the fleet had no name, and the warships also had no name.

Qin Huan had already figured out the name of the fleet. It was called the Imperial Navy of the Qin Dynasty and the Oriental fleet. As for the naming of warships, he didn't bother to be so complicated, so he started according to the naming method of previous navies.

Frigates are named after the county seat, destroyers are named after the state capital, cruisers are named after the provinces, and future battleships will be named after their respective countries, which will also give a Han abbreviation.

The ceremony was a little cumbersome, so it was held from the morning until the afternoon. Qin Huan not only appointed Liu Yan as the commander of the Oriental fleet, but also appointed the commander of each ship, and awarded the Royal Navy flag and fleet flag.

The Navy, like the army and the National Guard, are temporarily under the direct jurisdiction of the military and political yuan and the Marshal's office. The fleet level is temporarily equivalent to that of each town. The commander in chief is also the rank of lieutenant general, the rank of deputy commander in chief and major general of cruiser commander, the rank of captain of Destroyer and the rank of captain of frigate.

In terms of treatment, the military reputation of all officers and men is 50% higher than that of the army, and there are some subsidies every time they go to sea.

With the end of Cheng Junyi, more than 20000 active soldiers and 50000 newly recruited students were excited and felt promising. Even an ordinary young man could feel his Majesty's attention to the Navy.

In the next few days, Qin Huan summoned a group of teachers to focus on solving the problem of keel. As for the design of more than a dozen commercial seagoing ships and river flat bottom merchant ships, he didn't have to worry about it himself.

Because the shipyard already has a mature ship design team, with thousands of people, who have thoroughly understood the advantages of Western ships. If they were not afraid of divulging secrets, those Portuguese would have been driven away by Qin Huan.

On the beach.

Looking at the huge things like the huge dinosaur skeleton on the slipway, Qin Huan was also deceitful. In particular, the skeleton of the cruiser looked like the skeleton of an Oriental Dragon. The huge and slender keel was full of curved ribs.

Although Qin Huan didn't know much about wooden sailboats, he also knew that the keel could not be spliced. He had to use a whole piece of wood, so he didn't ask an idiot, but directly asked a group of teachers: "Aiqing, is it feasible to cast the keel directly with steel?"

"This... Your majesty, the keel of the cruiser is about twenty or thirty feet long, and one person holds it thick. If it is cast with molten iron, it must be at least hundreds of thousands of kilograms."

All the old craftsmen were shocked. For a long time, one of the old men replied tremblingly. They were obviously frightened by Qin Huan's idea.

"It doesn't need to be so thick. It should be almost as thick as the mouth of a bowl. A circle of wood can be set outside."

Qin Huan said with his hands, but he didn't think about casting an iron column as big as a wooden keel, otherwise it would be heavier than Sun Wukong's Ruyi golden cudgel, so he just wanted to cast an iron core so that the outer keel can be spliced.

"This..."

The old man looked at Qin Huan's gesture and looked away along the huge keel next to him. He didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Others were also lost in thought, because they didn't know if it was feasible. After all, they had never tried.

"Your Majesty, if you use good refined iron and cast it at one time, it may be really good. It's just the consumed iron..."

"Don't worry about this first, as long as you can. In this way, there's nothing to talk about on paper. Let's try it first."

Qin Huan waved his hand. Now the iron smelting blast furnace has been produced. With the improved steel pouring method, two earth kilns can directly produce a large amount of molten steel, and the efficiency is not what it used to be.

Although the molten steel produced by this direct practice can only be regarded as ordinary refined iron, which is not comparable to refined steel, it should still be possible to cast an iron bar as a keel dragon heart.

As long as the weight is controlled at about 50000 kg, it is absolutely more cost-effective than transporting a whole wood all the way.

The only worry is that the iron column is too thin and easy to bend. If the iron column is too long, there will be defects and easy to break.