Yang Cong has always had a dream, which is to lead a fleet across the Yu Ocean and defeat the so-called continental powers.

Although he is not very familiar with history, he also knows that in this era, in the era of great navigation, if he does not develop maritime strength and only knows how to keep his country in order to protect himself, sooner or later people will come to him.

When it comes to shipbuilding technology, who can compare with the Ming Dynasty in this era? When Zheng He led a huge fleet to the West, the European powers could only fish in small fishing boats.

Unfortunately, over the past hundred years, the Ming Dynasty has wasted time on the ban on sea bans, navigation technology has been stagnant, and shipbuilding technology has even been retreating.

Fortunately, it is not too late to catch up at this time.

At this time, the European powers should be still in their infancy. The battle of Xicaowan in the first year of Jiajing can explain everything.

The current overlord of the sea is just so powerful. The Ming Dynasty dispatched a commander of the garrison and several hundred households to beat its ocean fleet. If the Ming Dynasty started to catch up from this time, then there might be no "sea coachman" in the Netherlands and the "Empire of the Sun" in the future.

Yang Cong didn't know when the real maritime powers like the Netherlands and Britain would replace Spain and Portugal and dominate the sea. What he can do now is to develop the maritime strength of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible and lay a solid foundation for future maritime hegemony.

The shipbuilding capabilities of Longjiang Shipyard are actually quite good. At least, in terms of foundation, they are much stronger than the Nantai Shipyard in Fuzhou.

This is the old capital of Jinling. During the Hongwu period and the early years of Yongle, almost all the craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty gathered here. There are not too many talents in shipbuilding. Although more than a hundred years have passed, it turns out that those craftsmen who built ships have long passed away, but their descendants have been making a living near Jinling City. Their technology has also been passed down from generation to generation through blood relationship.

Perhaps, in another hundred years, these shipbuilding technologies will dissipate in the long river of history, because these craftsmen mainly learn craftsmanship to make a living. If there is no ship to build for more than a hundred years, they may be able to barely pass on the shipbuilding technology. If the time is longer, in another hundred years, who will stick to this useless skill and go hungry?

After Yang Cong expressed his ideas, he realized this.

Fortunately, he came early, otherwise, in more than a hundred years, the shipbuilding technology such as the Ming Dynasty that was ahead of the times would have been completely abandoned.

So, what is his idea?

His idea was to rebuild the Longjiang Shipyard and restore the original six super-large dock waterways, first strive to build twelve lucky ships in a year, and then find ways to slowly expand production capacity.

As for the standard of the Fu Ship Warship, he had already decided.

The entire warship is divided into five layers, with boilers and steam engines placed at the bottom, and the second layer stores grain and ammunition. The upper three layers are filled with gun doors. Each layer is equipped with forty thousand-pound giant cannons, twenty on the left and right. There are a total of one hundred and twenty on the three layers.

The reason why he set the cannons on both sides was that he wanted to make this new warship a little bit like the Ming Dynasty, because many things in the Ming Dynasty were numbered in the Jiazi Chronology method. One Jiazi was sixty years old, and it happened to be sixty cannons on both sides, which was very convenient to number.

As for the bow and stern, he was preparing to cast two thousand kilograms or even larger artillery. As for the number, it was the tightest one. There were three gates in the front and three gates in the back, with a total of six gates.

In short, he must use existing technology to maximize the firepower of the new Fu Ship warship.

Such a warship can crush the opponent in firepower even if it encounters the main battleships of the European powers!

Once his idea was proposed, several foremen were greatly excited.

Six dock waterways were built at the same time, twelve warships were built a year and six warships were built in half a year. This number sounds a bit small, but in fact, the workload is not small at all.

You should know that the Fuchuan warship is a large warship that is more than ten feet long. If it were the measurement method of later generations, it would be a large ship that is more than forty meters long.

Such a warship is only four or five hundred square meters on one floor. With the existing technology, it is quite troublesome to build, and the labor consumed is not a little bit.

It can be said that as long as six dock waterways are really built at the same time, all the craftsmen in Longjiang Shipyard will not have to worry about their work.

They dared not expect such a thing before. You know, the Longjiang Shipyard has been abandoned for more than a hundred years. The craftsmen are running around for a livelihood, and they are so tired. Moreover, they have to respond to the imperial enlistment, serve the court for free, and work for the court for free, and go back and forth without saying anything. They have no money to make money. Many craftsmen have given up their original business, even their own household registration, flee to a foreign land, and become refugees.

Now, they not only have a fixed job and income, but also don’t need to go back and forth and serve the labor, because building warships is just for the court, and can be used to offset labor. At worst, they will deduct one or two months of wages every year, which is much better than running back and forth.

Yang Cong didn't expect that the Longjiang Shipyard's potential was so amazing. At the same time, six large warships were built without having to recruit people everywhere!

I have to say that this is an unexpected surprise.

In addition, Wang Xuan was in charge of the shipyard and elite disciples from the Shipping Academy helped him, so he didn't have to worry about specific things at all. He just put forward the idea and provided enough funds.

The matter was in Jinling, everything was arranged at Longjiang Shipyard, and he went to Fuzhou again.

At this moment, the Nantai Shipyard in Fuzhou has almost stopped working, because the number of naval soldiers is limited, no one can control the Cangshan ships built by many. Moreover, the fleet size of Wang Zhi and Hong Tiezhu has expanded almost in recent years. At least, before opening up new markets, the merchant ships under their command are enough.

Such a large shipyard naturally cannot let him stay idle. Yang Cong's idea was to build a new Cangshan boat here and change the original sailboat into a steam engine-driven steamer.

A complete battleship formation cannot be made of large warships like the Dafu Ship. Small and medium-sized warships like the Cangshan Ship are also indispensable, because not to mention the difficulty of steering the large warships, there are also blind spots in defense. If the enemy uses small clutches to carry out fire attacks, even the advanced gunboats may be defeated by the original sailboats.

This is also the reason why the ocean-going fleet of the great powers fought with the Ming Navy many times but could not get any advantage, because there were too many small clutches like this in the Ming Dynasty. The ocean-going fleet of the great powers had to sail on the sea for a long time and was not equipped with small warships to escort. Once they encountered the "ship and sea" tactics like the Ming Dynasty, they had to stop.
Chapter completed!