In fact, after all, the Tang Dynasty ships were still too small. Compared with the large ships of tens of thousands of tons and hundreds of thousands of tons in later generations, the Tang Dynasty ships were only about two thousand tons at most, which was not much larger than the patrol boats in later generations. Therefore, in terms of technology, explosive pressure and rivets are enough.

This is the conjecture of Li Chengqian, a half-baked scientist. Yes, this is just his conjecture. With his ability, this thing has no way to calculate. First, because he cannot do this kind of stress analysis, and second, the amount of measurement data is too large, and it is impossible for him to complete it alone.

So the first ironclad ship of the Tang Dynasty began to be built under such circumstances. I have to say that the bigger your heart is, the bigger your dream is.

...

A few days later, an old man got into a wrong nerve from somewhere, or maybe he had walked into the wrong place. Anyway, he somehow got to the shipbuilding construction site, and then an old man fell in love with it.

Five days later, there were three more old people.

Ten days later, the entire construction site was filled with old goods.

Old goods represented by Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Gong, Chai Shao and Qin Qiong shouted at the construction site every day, calling it supervision of production, but in fact, fools know that old goods are going to work on the groundwork to firecrackers.

Just imagine, explosives must be used for explosion crimping. Note that explosives are used here instead of gunpowder. Explosives are much more powerful than gunpowder, so the explosion process is naturally much more refreshing than gunpowder.

So after the old guys first saw the explosion crimping, they immediately fell in love with this job and resolutely devoted themselves to the shipbuilding industry.

"Hey, have you done that? Why haven't you started yet?" Seeing that Yuchi Gong had just lit a big firecracker, Cheng Yaojin became anxious and ran to the edge of the pit to squat, staring at the construction craftsmen below with their eyes as big as a copper bell.

"Mr. Cheng, no, it's not that I won't make you happy. Actually, today's project has been completed." The craftsman was almost crying when he was staring at Old Cheng, and said with great grievance.

"No, my old man Cheng hasn't fired a fire yet, so add another shot." Cheng Yaojin didn't understand that shipbuilding requires craftsmanship. In his impression, the faster the project progress, the better. The so-called "today's project is completed" is just an excuse for those unscrupulous craftsmen.

"Master Cheng, no. If you add this shot, our work today will be in vain, and it is very likely that a lot of materials will be wasted." Seeing that Old Cheng was too persistent, the craftsman had to explain: "Look at these iron plates, the villain must arrange for people to connect all of these iron plates to rivets. If they were crimped before they were connected, it would be very likely that the previous iron plates would be shaken open, and the project would be in vain today."

"I don't understand what you said, "I don't know if I want me to fire another shot!" Cheng Yao's eyes widened. In his eyes, what would be a waste of a few iron pieces. At worst, he could just pay him a few dollars.

But if you shoot a shot less than the old Yuchi, it would be a shame. If you might even be laughed at by that old man, it would be a shame.

The craftsman was forced by Old Cheng in the end and had no choice but to think about it for a while and said, "Master Cheng, why don't you get some explosives for you? You must not explode this iron plate again."

"That's true, as long as you can fire a firecracker." Cheng Lao Pian agreed quickly.

So, not long after, a big pit was blown out with a "boom" from the open space not far from the construction site.

Then the vicious cycle began like this. With the precedent of Lao Cheng setting off fire in the open space, other old people would naturally not miss this opportunity. They snatched the warehouse where the explosives were stored in a few seconds, and then ran away with the stolen explosives in one go.

As for the firecrackers? The ghost is setting off, so you will naturally have to take back something so exciting to share with everyone.

...

Eastern Palace.

Li Chengqian was dealing with some of the newly sent me and continued to make him feel like a big head.

Outside there were the chirping of children, the strange screams of Lao Cheng, and of course, the sweet laughter of his wife.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, every household is reunited, and several of Lao Cheng's sons are stationed in the city. The old man ran to the East Palace to play with his granddaughter when he had nothing to do.

I have to say that this old man may really be old, and he would never have done such a thing in the past.

"Grandpa, grandpa, you said last time that you wanted to give Langya something fun, where is the thing?" After enough fun together, Li Xiang and Langya sat on Lao Cheng's thigh, one left and one right. The little girl raised her head and pulled Lao Cheng's curled beard and asked.

Old Cheng was not vague and said with a strange smile: "Hehe, Xiao Langya, fortunately my grandfather was prepared this time, otherwise you would have been asked by him."

"Really? Grandpa Cheng, what's fun?" Li Xiang sat on Old Cheng's other lap. When he heard that he was prepared, he immediately became interested and asked happily.

Langya frowned: "Grandpa lies, you have nothing on you, how could there be something fun?"

"Hey, little girl movies, I look down on your grandfather. OK, okay, let me see what is fun today." Old man Cheng is already a rascal, and he is so old that he can't bear it anymore when the child is excited.

Originally, he just wanted to brag in front of his granddaughter, but at this time he forgot, so he reached out and pulled out something as thick as a teacup from his waist and held it in his hand: "Did you see this thing be called a detonator, just pull the thing on it..." Lao Cheng said while pointing at the fuse on the detonator, and then continued: "With a 'boom', this thing will sound even louder than thunder..."

Halfway through, Lao Cheng's face changed, because just as he was showing off, a white and tender hand had reached over, and unexpectedly saw the fuse on it pulled out, and the specially designed fuse began to burn almost instantly.

He was about to kiss his life, holding two children in his arms and holding a guy who could kill someone. Lao Cheng felt that his back was standing up. Even at the most dangerous moment on the battlefield, he had never been so nervous.

In the test of life and death, Lao Cheng's potential was unlimitedly stimulated. In the blink of an eye, he could see the location of everyone in the yard clearly. Then Lao Cheng screamed strangely: "Everyone is lying down!" Then he raised his hand and threw the deadly thing in his hand towards a rockery pool in the corner of the yard.

Then he hugged the two children in his arms as fast as possible, turned around and squatted down, and turned his back to the direction where the explosion was about to ring.
Chapter completed!