A ship worth more than 1,000 tons is too big. It takes a lot of time to build one, and it will not be able to build it in just a few years. Therefore, Zheng Sen, one of the shareholders, made a suggestion: "We can build a small boat first, reduce it according to the scale, and build a small boat of 400 materials. In just two or three months, build one first to try the effect, and then build a large ship later."

The ship with four hundred official materials was actually not small for the Ming Navy at that time, about 180 tons to 200 tons. In fact, it was inaccurate to calculate the tonnage of ships based on materials in the Ming Dynasty. The material was the unit of calculating the load capacity of the ship. One material was the load capacity of 300 kilograms, and one kilogram was 596.8 grams, one material was 179 kilograms, and four hundred kilograms were the load capacity of 71 tons.

In fact, the unit of material is volume. A cargo hold with a volume of one cubic cube is one hundred materials.

Cargo ships use civil materials as units, with a cargo ship with a displacement of about one thousand materials being 330 tons, while warships use official materials, basically 400 materials are 200 tons.

The use of materials to calculate the displacement of a ship is very inaccurate. The volume of the cargo hold is calculated, while the tonnage of the ship should actually calculate the displacement. The large cargo hold capacity is not necessarily small; the small cargo hold capacity is not necessarily large, and there is no accurate one. Zhao Peng decided that the calculation of the future ships will be based on the displacement.

However, the use of materials has become a practice for Orientals, and it will not be a short time to change it.

A four hundred materials fly-scissor ship was built, and the volume of the entire cabin was four cubic amphitheater, that is, the cabin was four zhang long and one zhang wide and one zhang high. The bow and stern part and the helm building part were deducted, and then the size was calculated based on this.

The length-width ratio of the fly-slicing boat is between 8 to 1 and 9 to 1. Therefore, the fly-slicing boat has a longer length and its draft is smaller than that of the fly-slicing boat.

The length and width of the Fu Ship are relatively small because the construction of a ship that is too long requires longer wood. Long wood is rare, so the Fu Ship built is relatively short, and the width is increased in order to increase the cargo capacity.

In order to speed, the fly-scissor ships need to reduce their width. If they reduce their width, they need to increase their length. The required wood is longer and the cost is much more expensive than the lucky ship with the same displacement.

In terms of scale, the length of this fly shear boat is twelve zhang and the width is 105 zhang. A twelve zhang long wood is relatively easy to obtain, and a big tree more than 30 meters high is actually not rare. According to Zhao Peng's original design, the length of the fly shear boat is thirty-two zhang, so that long wood is rare.

In order to save costs, the ship board can only use spliced ​​wood. However, the keel must be made of whole wood, and spliced ​​wood cannot be used to lay the keel. This requires several woods over thirty feet long, which is difficult to find, so Zheng Sen decided to postpone the construction of large-scale fly-sheared ships and build small fly-sheared ships first.

The shipbuilding first laid keels. Under Shi Fu's command, the shipbuilders shouted the labor horn and laid three keels with a length of ten feet underground on the dock.

"Uncle Shi, the keel of the ship is not on both sides, not at the bottom of the ship." Zhao Peng asked curiously.

Shi Fu explained patiently: "First place all three keels on the ground, one of which is at the bottom, and then start building a shelf based on the two keels. When the height of the shelf increases to an appropriate height, then lift the other two keels, place them on both sides, fix them on the shelf, and then lay the shelf towards it."

According to Shi Fu's introduction, Zhao Peng learned that the middle one was called the main keel bone, which was built with the thickest and strongest wood; the two on both sides were called side keel bones, which were slightly smaller than the main keel bones; in addition to the three keel bones, there were four dragon tendons on both sides of the ship, and the ship frame that Zhao Peng believed was actually the ribs connecting the main and secondary keel bones and the dragon tendons.

The main keel is placed on the ground in the middle of the dock. Under Shi Fu's command, the workers nailed the ribs to the keel. Because the bottom of the scissors is sharp, they have to wait until all the ribs are nailed to the top before nailing them.

The workers started laying ribs, and the morning passed quickly. When lunch started, Zhao Peng suggested: "Let's have dinner in the shipyard cafeteria at noon, and let's see how the food is here?"

Zheng Sen nodded: "Uncle Shi and the others have been having meals in the shipyard canteen for the past few months, so we might as well go and have a look."

The canteen is a three-meter-high single-story auditorium, which can accommodate more than 1,000 people to eat at the same time.

When he walked into the cafeteria, Zhao Peng saw rows of long dining tables inside, with two benches placed on both sides of the dining table. The workers went to the window to get food, and when they got food, they went to the table to eat by themselves.

Zhao Peng observed the window for selling food. The workers who were dining for free were lined up at the window with their meal cards. After they arrived, the uncle who was cooking took the meal card and stroked it with a pen.

"Brother, can you show me your meal card?" Zhao Peng called a worker.

The worker saw that it was an official wearing a flying fish suit, and he quickly handed over his meal card respectfully.

Zhao Peng took it and saw that the dining card was a cardboard card with the number of meals on it. Every time the workers called for a meal, the staff in the cafeteria would click a dot in the blank space above.

"What should I do if the number of times is used?" Zhao Peng asked.

The worker replied: "Send it once a month, and it happens to be three meals a day, and it will not be used up until the end of the month."

Zhao Peng nodded with satisfaction and expressed satisfaction with the management of the shipyard canteen. The shipyard is managed by Shi Fu, which shows that this person is quite capable.

There are various dishes in the window, with as many as a dozen varieties, including braised pork, fried fish cubes, dried tofu, various vegetables, etc. Every worker with a free card comes to make a meal. One person is limited to two vegetarian and one meat, or two half meat-vegetarian and one vegetarian. You can also choose staple foods, including rice, noodles, steamed buns, vegetable buns, etc., rice steamed buns and noodle buns, and noodle buns.

In this era, such canteen food was very rich. Compared with the people in the north who could not afford to eat, workers working in shipyards were simply living in heaven.

However, Zhao Peng, Zheng Sen, Shi Fu and Shi Lang were not eating in the canteen lobby, but walked into a private room in the elegant seat next to the lobby. This is the place where senior management of the shipyard eats. There are six large round dining tables, and there are chairs on the backrest beside the dining table.

Walking into the private room, Shi Fu called a waiter: "This little brother, come on."

The boy walked up and saluted Shi Fu: "Hello Director Shi!"

Shi Fu pointed to Zhao Peng and Zheng Sen and introduced: "One of these two is the loyal and courageous man and the other is our young master. Prepare the wine and food, don't let the Marquis and the Young Master down!"

"No!" the young man replied.

Shi Fu ordered the dishes, and soon the table was filled with delicious dishes, including large bowls of buckles, steamed mandarin fish, stewed chicken soup, dumplings, sweet and sour pork ribs, Nanjing salted duck, etc.

After lunch, the construction continued in the afternoon. When it was almost dark, Zhao Peng and Zheng Sen bid farewell to Shi Fu and explained that they would come again the day.

Early the next morning, Zhao Peng and Zheng Sen came. Watching the workers' construction, Zhao Peng was also silently learning the shipbuilding technology of this era. Maybe there will be some usefulness in the future.

The next whole day, he repeated yesterday's events like yesterday. After several consecutive days, Zhao Peng came to the shipyard every day and went back to be intimate with his two little lovers at night.

Five days later, the ribs were completed, and Shi Fu began to direct the workers to install the secondary keel. Several workers pulled up the winch and raised the secondary keel to a certain height. They pulled the winch. The workers moved a mechanism on the winch, and the winch fixed the secondary keel in mid-air, and then nailed the secondary keel to the ribs.
Chapter completed!