“We need to build bigger ships, but building big ships is no easy task. We can only take it one step at a time. Let’s start with this steam-powered sailing ship!”
Qin Mo pointed to the beautiful model she had designed and began to explain the correct path for ship development to the group of technicians who showed an insatiable thirst for technology.
"Your Highness, how big of a ship should we build it?"
“At least three thousand tons. You think it’s too much for a one thousand-ton ship to carry five hundred tons of coal, but do you still think it’s too much for a three thousand-ton ship to carry one thousand tons of coal?”
"Three thousand tons, that's...too difficult!"
"Ton" is a unit of measurement that Qin Mo popularized in the shipyard. Compared to the materials commonly used in Daxia, it is a ratio of 1:15. A ship of three thousand tons is equivalent to forty-five thousand tons of materials. In the era of wooden sailing ships, this was a very imaginative target.
Nowadays, most of the ocean-going vessels in Taiwan are around 1,000 tons, and even the giant galleons do not reach 2,000 tons. Moreover, people believe that this is the limit for wooden sailing ships.
Qin Mo's steam-powered sailboat design was clearly a slender, high-speed sailboat with a much lower carrying capacity than the galleon.
"That's why I said back then that we needed to design a completely new steam sailing ship. It had to use a lot of metal components to strengthen the hull structure, otherwise it would not be able to meet its huge displacement."
Looking at the somewhat bewildered Ximan and the others, Qin Mo said with an inscrutable expression, "Is a three-thousand-ton ship difficult? If I asked you to build me a ship weighing tens of thousands of tons, would you despair?"
"We are not desperate, Your Highness, all we need is your guidance!"
Compared to Seaman's research spirit of daring to analyze and question, Qin Mo's students were used to the routine of "go to Qin Mo when you have difficulties." As long as Qin Mo said it was possible, then any unbelievable thing would come true.
"Actually, it's both difficult and easy. All you need to do is make the entire ship out of steel!"
"Steel sailboat..."
Everyone, including Allen, crashed.
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