Chapter 590

The brinor river winds through the bare fields from north to south. The slanting white sail of the Golden Goat covers the bitter northwest wind and pushes the ship's side to separate two continuous white waves in the dark green river.

On the bow deck, Sylvia, dressed in a sky blue dress, looked at the riverside scenery of brinor side by side with victor. The cold wind in the water season wrapped in the misty cold fog, blew by her side and surrounded by nostalgia, as if a pair of invisible hands grabbed a coat of wind and fog and put it on her.

The skirt was floating and outlined the infinite beautiful body curve. Sylvia looked at Victor angrily, and her pure blue eyes looked at the river bank.

There, the six legged fast dragon roared in a low voice. A team of fast Dragon Knights accompanied the ship. The ribbons on the long guns flew in the wind, and the dark purple scales collided and made a clang sound.

"The strength and speed of the fast dragon crush the medium-level bronze knights. They are huge and difficult to be killed by a sword. The early-level knights are chased by the fast dragon cavalry, and their chances of winning are slim." Sylvia drew back her eyes, frowned and sighed: "Xunlong is good at swimming, but they pose no threat to the golden wool in the water. They will only be shot one by one with strong bows and crossbows... If extraordinary Knights don't take action, the bronze Knights may not play a better role in water warfare than captain Hansen... He is the best captain that the augustian royal family can find, but he is not the best captain in the Borui kingdom."

"Honey, do you think the fleet we have trained in ten years can really compete with the Borui people on Lake Firth?"

"So we should introduce new technologies to narrow the gap between the two sides in the field of ships." Victor looked back at the helmsman. Hansen's mate was teaching the rookie sailors in Gambis how to steer. The two royal augustes who used to occupy the helmsman were all in the captain's room and studied the design of the Ming wheel he provided with the Marquis of Cologne.

Sylvia slightly tooted her crystal clear red lips and said angrily: "the royal family has begun to accumulate ship building experience and train navy soldiers, but the latter family has nothing. It's really discontent that you provide the Minglun system you have painstakingly designed to the royal family first."

Victor hugged Sylvia's soft and elastic waist, lowered his head, pecked on her lips, pointed to the Taotao River, smiled and said, "who let them have bassac lake and brinor river? Dear Madam, don't worry, our efforts today will be more richly rewarded."

Sylvia smiled and said softly, "my love, I wish you had a hand."

Facing Sylvia's pure and deep blue eyes, Victor touched his nose, shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "In fact, I only provided an immature idea about the ship. The Auguste family is responsible for the improvement, implementation and application, and they will pay a huge amount of human, material and financial resources. Speaking of it, we took advantage... They will certainly keep a hand in the final result, and what we have to do is to try to go further on their basis."

The so-called open ship refers to the ship with runner installed on both sides or tail of the ship. Because part of the wheel is exposed on the water, it is called open ship. The open ship propeller can operate continuously, which is further than the propeller propulsion tool. Of course, its disadvantages are also very obvious. It is bulky, complex structure and easy to be damaged. It is easy to collide when docking at the wharf. When encountering wind and waves, it is driven by the flank Part of the wheel is out of the water, affecting the navigation stability, and so on.

Therefore, Ming ships are widely used in inland lakes and inland waterways with less wind and waves. It evolved from ancient Chinese cars and ships. The original Ming ships were completely driven by human stepping on wooden wheels in the cabin. In the 17th century of the earth world, French scholar Dennis Papan first proposed to use steam engines to drive ships to sail only. In 1707, he built a side drive ship in Kassel However, the ship was not driven by machines, but still driven by manpower. However, Papan's idea had a very important significance.

In 1807, American Robert Fulton made a successful breakthrough. His wooden Ming ship "clemonton" used the steam engine invented by Watt and became the first successful commercial ship in the earth world.

There is no coal or oil in the world. The manufacturing cost of charcoal is too high and the combustion efficiency is too low. There is no need to think about developing steam engine ships. Victor proposed that Ming ships should also be driven by manpower. Fortunately, human beings in this world are much stronger than those in the earth world, and there are various secret ways to improve strength and physical fitness. There are no Ming ships driven by trained sailors Question.

It remains to be verified whether the manpower driven Ming Lun sailboat is faster than the paddle sailboat. Victor is sure that its flexibility is not as good as the paddle sailboat. However, if this ship power technology from the earth world can be realized here, it will be very in line with the strategic needs of the naval fleet of Gambis kingdom to dominate inland lakes and rivers.

Rowing seems simple, but it's not easy to play all kinds of tricks. Experienced paddlers are familiar with their ships and the hydrological conditions. They cooperate with the sailor and helmsman to make the ships move forward, backward and turn around quickly. In this regard, the Navy still being built by Gambis is is far worse than the Borui fleet. If Gambis uses the Borui ship technology To develop water power, let alone ten years, even 50 or 100 years, don't want to compete with Borui fleet.

No one can swear sovereignty over the Jinshui River, because no one can build a castle on the water. Of course, the Fisi Lake in the Jinshui River is a place where no one can. In the era when bronze knights were the mainstream, extraordinary knights would not attack each other unless they had to, which would damage the fundamental interests of the whole Knight class. Bronze knights are really not as good as an experienced old captain on the water More deterrent. The gap between Gambis's naval fleet and Borui fleet is like a baby and a strong man. Captain Borui can sling Gambis's fleet with his hands tied.

Assuming that the port can only be built after ten years under the leadership of the RAND Empire, in the first 20 years or so, the warships of the Gambis Kingdom have an absolute advantage in number, but the army of the Borui Kingdom has stationed in the dusk forest. They can continuously transport the shipbuilding wood produced by the dusk forest to the port of Firth lake. With their unique shipbuilding technology, the Borui warships are underground one by one, The quantitative advantage of the Gambis fleet soon disappeared. As a free sailor, the Borui Navy ran roughshod over the Firth lake, often playing a water thief and a lake thief. While fighting a saliva lawsuit with the Gambis Kingdom on the ground, it constantly seized the control of the Firth lake. The Gambis Navy is not as skilled as people. I'm afraid it can only stare at it except spitting.

The only way for Gambis is to introduce new technology and avoid competition in the field of traditional ships. Minglun sail driven warship technology provides this possibility.

First of all, the sailors of Ming ship just step on the wheels. They don't need any technology. Anyone can step on the wheels in the cabin. Moreover, the output force of the waist and legs must be greater and more lasting than the pectoral muscles of the arm. The continuous operation of the open wheel drive is an advantage that the paddle drive does not have. Continuous operation means that Ming ships can sail against the current when there is no wind or breeze in the inland waterway, and once the paddlers of paddle sailboats are exhausted and can't paddle, the ship is washed back by the river.

Secondly, Victor spent a lot of time designing the Minglun drive system. He made full use of the lever principle and gear structure to enhance the output efficiency of Minglun's rotation and water beating as much as possible and reduce the physical consumption of sailors. The traditional paddle boat needs 60 paddlers and can not run continuously. The Ming Lun yacht only needs 40 wheel treaders to continuously drive the ship forward, backward or turn, and the ship's sailing speed may still have an advantage.

In fact, Victor's shipbuilding knowledge mainly comes from the content of alchemy human will side. He is not sure how much utility the bright wheel drive system of the earth world has. Sylvia is full of confidence in her lover's wisdom and thinks that the ship driving system he designed is precious. Sylvia felt sorry and deeply helpless to provide such valuable technology to kite castle.

Ship building is a profound and complex knowledge. Ming ship is not as simple as adding one or two big wheels to a sailboat. The ship is a large system, which is composed of many subsystems. Suddenly changing its driving subsystem and moving the whole body, it needs to invest a lot of human, material and financial resources, as well as the most valuable time to constantly test and correct, and finally get the finished product of the Ming ship.

It is also not easy to operate a ship skillfully. Large warships include captain, mate, boatswain, navigator, lookout, sailor and oarsman. They must be familiar with every part of the ship, be competent for every work, trust each other and cooperate tacitly. An excellent crew can give life to the ship. In a sense, these people are more powerful than bronze knights on the water.

Whether it's shipbuilding or training a crew of sailors, it takes time and space.

The human horse hills do not have these objective conditions, and the alchemy tower is useless.

There are 21 ship building schemes on the will side of alchemy humans, of which 4 ships can travel on water, and the rest rely on the alchemy array as the driving force. Alchemists can build ships, but they can't sail. What's the use of Victor building ships according to the drawings?

Moreover, the silver moon river in the Renma hills is a shallow river, and large ships cannot be navigable, while the rose port has not been completed. Victor and Sylvia must find another way out if they want to cultivate the water army in the Renma hills.

In the whole kingdom of Gambis, only the bassac Lake karil fish port of the August family and the deep-water city of the Joshua family have conditions for shipbuilding and military training. In fact, the Senate of Gambis has passed an important resolution. Auguste, York, Joshua, Wellington, Nim and chebman, the six families, have concentrated their efforts to build a naval force in bassac lake, accumulate shipbuilding experience, train sailors, practice ship surface cooperative warfare, and jointly seek the water hegemony of Firth Lake.

In order to verify the idea of Ming Lun sailboat, Victor must share Ming Lun driving technology with Auguste.

From another perspective, Victor just came up with an idea. The specific implementation still depends on the Auguste family. With results, the great lords of Gambis participate in technology sharing. Augustus was the one who suffered the most, but who made them the royal family of gombis?

For the kingdom of Gambis, the most urgent problem now is to trade time for strategic space. If we hold each other back in making big decisions, don't take the lake of Firth at all!

Of course, Sylvia didn't know that Victor did hide his hand.

Alchemists have mature bearing technology.

The importance of bearing to mechanical rotary motion need not be mentioned. According to the cultural relics left over from the era of God chosen, the University of Yinbai high tower invented the wooden ball bearing. However, due to the limitation of processing accuracy and material service life, the wooden ball bearing can not be popularized and can only be used as a technical reserve to be developed in the form of toy crafts.

Alchemy auxiliary soldiers use crystal glaze rock to burn crystal beads of the same size, and then infiltrate silver to manufacture standard silver bearings. By applying silver bearings to vehicles and ships, Victor is sure that the operation efficiency of carriages and Ming ships will be improved qualitatively!

In addition, the ceryin flat bottomed sea boat made by the alchemy auxiliary has a stable structure and is not afraid of the wind and waves of the sea. It can enter the shallow water area of the coastline, drive away the coastal fishermen and rush for beach landing.

With these technologies, Victor's direct fleet will be invincible and invincible across rivers, seas and lakes.

This is the technological monopoly brought by the material science of the alchemy empire!

The sound of high leather boots trampling on the board came from the deck. With the unique rhythm of footsteps, Victor knew that Roland was coming without looking back.

The gorgeous long princess went to victor and Sylvia, took out the crystal telescope and pretended to look in front of the Golden Goat.

"Fourteen days. Have you decided on the type of ship I provide?" Victor asked gracefully with a smile.

Roland's eyes as green as gems glanced sideways at Victor. Xiuting's nose hummed contemptuously. His monocular glasses knocked in his palm, nodded and said:

"It's decided. You have provided four plans for the manufacture of Ming ships, and we are going to build them all. In addition, I have decided to include the flat bottomed Ming Lun sailboat in the trial construction plan."

Victor suddenly glared at her eyes and asked unbelievably, "Princess highness, I must remind you that testing shipbuilding is not a success."

"I know."

Roland's calm expression made Victor feel bad. He thought about it and said tentatively, "if it fails, it has to be rebuilt, and if it can't be rebuilt... I let you choose a trial construction scheme. You can choose all of them, plus the flat bottomed open sailing boat... How much shipbuilding wood will be wasted?"

"Yes, so I asked Renma hill to provide half of the experimental shipbuilding wood, canvas skin, refined iron nails, thin and refined steel ship negatives, oh, by the way, and special fish man viscose." Roland shook his head and said.

Victor took a breath, shook his head like a rattle, and said in a voice, "no, no... Oh, I mean, just choose a scheme first. There's no need to trial produce so many at once... Well, the Ming Lun flat bottomed yacht is useless. It can't go retrograde in the river of blood."

"It hasn't been made yet. How do you know it can't?" Roland put in a small waist, narrowed his beautiful big eyes, and his expression was joking and dangerous, just like a kitten ready to hunt mice.

"The shipbuilding schemes you provided are all open sailing ships with less than 700 tons. Is it..."

"I promised."

Sylvia nodded in agreement and said plainly.

Victor had to smile bitterly, nod his head and twitch in pain. The wood used for shipbuilding is very exquisite. The Centennial red wood of the dark forest is close and does not rot in water. It is a very excellent raw material. However, it must go through the processes of soaking, drying in the shade and plate making. It takes five years to be used as shipbuilding material. The price of mahogany in the dark forest has now increased by a full six times, and Randall's funds for purchasing mahogany every year exceed 20000 kinsol. Not to mention the matter of money, the key is that the wood will be finished in five years. Victor spent a lot of money on purchasing mahogany, hoping to reserve more qualified shipbuilding materials to prepare for building a fleet. Roland asked him to take out shipbuilding timber and participate in the R & D and test of Ming ships. He would rather pay than use his family's reserves.

If you want to waste, waste it. What are you doing with me?

Victor muttered in his heart and said coldly, "the trial production of Ming ships is the overall situation of the kingdom. We can't just let the royal family pay, and other big families have to contribute!"

"Hum! Just wait for you... This is the will of his highness Randall, and has nothing to do with my brother."

Roland raised his beautiful chin, proudly wrinkled his small nose, and immediately said with another look of disgust: "in front is the wharf of Pinghu Town. In half a day, you will see the old guy."

"Victor, you're getting mixed up with that old man. I hate you more and more." Roland turned back to the cabin. When he came down the stairs, he turned his head and dropped a sentence. He pedaled, pedaled and disappeared on the deck.

Victor shrugged his shoulders disapprovingly, rubbed his chin, turned his head and whispered to Sylvia, "they seem to be aware of my intention."

The cold wind on the bow and the breeze on the side of the body stopped. Sylvia gracefully lifted her hair behind her ears and smiled: "goron, Williams and Roland don't know shipbuilding. They studied the shipbuilding scheme you provided all the way, not to figure out the changes behind the deduction scheme."

Victor and the great lord of Gambis share the technical concept of Minglun drive, which is out of the overall situation of the kingdom of Gambis. There are also small situations in the overall situation. The development strategy of Firth lake and Blood River, frog leaping tactics, and the trial construction plan of Minglun sailboat can also be regarded as a bait for the wizard of Dover.

"We're not afraid he won't take the bait now."

Victor's mouth was filled with a confident smile, his dark golden eyes looked at the boundless River, his sharp eyes pierced the misty cold fog, and the wharf of Changqiao town was in the distance.