The captain has three bedrooms, a study, a living room and two bathrooms.

The living room is covered with red carpets, the bedroom is covered with dark green carpets, and a floor-standing lamp stand is installed. A whale oil lamp is used. It will have a special fragrance when igniting the whale oil lamp, which is much better than candles and ordinary oil lamps. There is also a glass cover on the whale oil lamp.

The master bedroom and second bedroom bed in the captain's room are soft beds made of rattan. Not only is it soft when lying on it, but it will not feel hot in summer. In summer, bamboo mats can be placed on the bed, and bedding will be placed on winter.

The master bedroom faces the stern, there are three windows that can be opened, and glass is installed on the windows. In this way, even if the boat is closed, the light in the cabin will be very good. The two secondary bedrooms face both sides, and windows that can be opened are also installed, and glass is installed on the windows, increasing the lighting in the cabin and greatly improving the comfort of the ride.

The living area on the ship is decorated in a relatively luxurious manner. Although the cabin of the senior crew is a bunk bed of four people per room, the cabin still feels more comfortable. Moreover, the beds are all soft and slim-faced beds, and people are lying on it. The senior crew cabin has windows, and the air circulation and lighting are good, and the ride comfort is far greater than that of previous ships.

The floor and walls in the toilet are tiled, as well as a washbasin with marble countertops, and there are tap switches in the toilet. The source of the water is the reservoir at the rear of the helm above the captain's room. When sailing, the reservoir above the captain's room is filled with water. Once there is no water here, sailors can pump water from the freshwater tank in the bottom cabin to enter the reservoir.

There are many reservoirs on the boat. The sailors shake the hand-cranking water pump to pump the fresh water in the bottom fresh water tank into the reservoir to supply water to the bathroom, washbasin, kitchen and boiler room of the entire boat. Since the hand-cranking water pump is used, the fresh water in the bottom litter can be pumped into the reservoir above the boat. Therefore, tap switches are installed in all water-using places in the entire boat. Just turn the faucet switch, tap water can flow out of the faucet, which is very convenient to use.

There are nine bathrooms on the ship, including two in the captain's room, two in the senior crew area, two gunner's bathrooms, two sailor's bathrooms on the lower deck, and one upper bathroom in the helm on the upper deck.

Except for the upper bathroom in the helm building, the rest of the bathrooms are equipped with tap taps and switches to flush the toilet. After going to the toilet, pull down a handle, and a cover in the toilet pit will be automatically opened. After rinsing water and flushing the excrement into the sea.

There is no tap water in the upper bathroom in the helm of the upper deck, but there is a hand-pressure water pump inside. Just press the handle a few times, the water in the fresh water tank in the bottom cabin can be pumped up for washing the bathroom and washing hands.

Not long after the Spring Festival in the fourth year of Shaowu, the large-scale Yuefei flying shear ship, which had been built for one year and four months, was finally completed. After a series of debugging, on the tenth day of February of the fourth year of Shaowu, the large-scale Yuefei flying shear ship was ready for trial voyage.

The Yuefei flying shearing ship is very magnificent and huge, and can be said to be the most advanced battleship in the world today. But what made Zhao Peng sighed was that the construction of this ship was too slow. All the workers in the Nanjing Shipyard started construction together, and the workers in the artillery factory were also starting construction. It took nearly a thousand people more than a year to build it.

In fact, the speed of shipbuilding can be increased. As long as you recruit more workers and use the method of old workers to lead new workers, three to four ships can be started at the same time, so that four fast battleships can be built in a year.

But even if the speed of shipbuilding keeps up, the skilled sailors and gunners can't keep up, so more sailors and gunners need to be trained to meet the requirements of the navy.

So there is a saying in later generations that it makes sense to say that a hundred-year navy is, five-year army, ten-year air force, and a hundred-year navy. In the future, it is difficult to build a powerful navy even more difficult than the air force, because the navy needs too many technical talents, and the navy is the most expensive branch of the army.

In order to build the Yuefei flying scissor ship, Zhao Peng spent more than 600,000 yuan in silver dollars. According to purchasing power, it is equivalent to more than 600 million yuan in later generations! But this price is actually not expensive. The Battleship of the Sea King built earlier than the Yuefei cost more than 40,000 pounds in total. One pound was twenty shillings silver coins at that time, and the 40,000 pounds were about 800,000 taels of silver. This cost is half that of Zhao Peng's Yuefei, and its combat power may not be stronger than Yuefei.

The Yuefei fly-scissors were built with ironwood that was more expensive than oak, but the price was not as expensive as the King, because the artificial price in the east was much cheaper than in the west.

The Ming craftsmen were originally the lowest-ranking group, and they would be fine as long as they could survive. However, after coming to the Royal Shipyard in Nanjing, both their status and income were greatly improved. Even though Zhao Peng paid them much higher than their original work for the Ministry of Works, their wages were still very low compared to British shipbuilders.

On the tenth day of the second month, firecrackers were ringing at the Xiaguan Wharf in Nanjing, and gongs and drums were loud. The huge Yuefei was parked on the wharf and waiting.

"What a big ship!"

"It's so big, it's like a mountain!"

"It's so big. I wonder if the treasure ships from the Chengzu period were that big?"

When the people saw this huge ship, they were talking about it.

With Zheng Sen's order, the sailors on the Yuefei flying scissors pulled up the anchor chain, unzipped the cables, and gently pushed the wharf with bamboo poles. Under the dual action of the bamboo poles and the river water flow, Yuefei slowly left the wharf. With the surging river water downstream, the giant ship gradually entered the center of the Yangtze River.

"Rise half a sail!" Zheng Sen shouted.

The sailors pulled the cables one after another, and the sails slowly rose. However, because there were many passing ships in the Yangtze River, especially the canal estuary from Wuchang to Guazhou, there were a lot of ships coming and going, so the flying scissors did not dare to sail at full speed and could only sail half a sail.

The speed of the Yuefei flying scissor is not very fast, which is around 8:5 knots. This is still the case. If it is in still water, it is estimated that half a sail will only have a speed of seven knots.

After the ship sailed across the Suzhou area, the river became very spacious, and there were obviously fewer ships on the river. There were almost no shadow of a boat within dozens of miles. So Zheng Sen ordered the acceleration, and the sailors raised two-thirds of the sails.

The ship's speed has increased, and the speed has reached 13.5 knots.

The Yuefei Clippers maintained a speed of 13:5 knots and drove towards Chongming Island. After arriving at the waters of Chongming Island, according to the navigation beacons on the sea and the lighthouse on the shore, the Yuefei Clippers avoided the shallows of the reefs and sailed directly towards the Yangtze River Estuary.

After passing the Chongming Island waters, the turbid Yangtze River water and the turquoise sea water are in front of them. The width of the Yangtze River estuary is more than 80 kilometers. There are endless water surfaces on both sides, and the shore cannot be seen.

"Rise the sails!" Zheng Sen ordered.

The Yuefei rose up full sails, and after leaving the estuary of the Yangtze River, he turned north and galloped towards Shandong.

However, the Yuefei flying scissors advanced at full speed, and the speed was obviously not as good as the Kunxing Princess. The 500-ton Princess Kunxing could reach an amazing speed of 20 knots, while the Yuefei had been lifted to a full sail, which was only sixteen knots.

The Yuefei flying shears with sextant installed can be relatively far away from the coastline. Without seeing the coastline, they sail at full speed towards the Jiaodong Peninsula in deep water areas.

"This ship is much more comfortable inside, but in terms of the feeling of driving the ship, it is still much more satisfying to drive the Princess Kunxing. That is the real flight, and the ship is still a little slower." Zheng Sen said.

Zhao Peng smiled and said, "Damu, although our ship is slower than Princess Kunxing, it is still the fastest battleship today. Can the Taixi ship be comparable to this ship?"
Chapter completed!