The docks of this period are incomparable to the modern docks of the old time and space. In fact, they are digging a large pit on the shore, connecting 6 sides and facing water on three sides, building a ship. After the ship is built, the water is drawn into the pit and the ship floats up and out.

Of course, Xu Wenyi has seen a big scene. The dock he directed to build could not be so simple, so he looked down on these old docks at all. He directly brought down these old docks and started to build new docks.

The dock he guided to build is a typical dry dock: its basic components are docking ports, dock rooms and docks. Dock doors are used for entering and exiting ships, and are equipped with simple waterproof dock doors for drainage and irrigation of docks; dock rooms are used to place ships, and the base plate of the dock rooms are equipped with keel piers and side piers supporting the ships; docks are opposite to the dock doors, and their plane shape is semicircular, connected to the dock rooms, where the tail rudder is installed and repaired.

When building a ship, first drain the water in the dock and build the hull on the keel pier. When the built ship is out of the dock, first pour water into the dock. When the water level inside and outside the dock door is flush, open the dock door and lead the ship out of the dock.

The most workload of building a dock is to dig pits, with a large amount of earth and the highest technical content is the keel piers in the dock room. They must be made of hard and solid wood to support the huge hull. In addition, since they often have to be soaked in water, they also have good corrosion resistance.

Kong Youde entrusted all these things to Xu Wenyi. Kong Youde knew almost nothing about this. Xu Wenyi is an expert in this field. What he wants to build here is the warship he will command in the future. He will definitely devote all his energy to it.

However, although I don’t understand it very much, Kong Youde will still come over and take a look at it every now and then. Although these built warships will not be of much help to his plan in the short term, this is a way out, a way out after the plan’s failure.

If Kong Youde had not experienced the feeling of death before traveling through time, he would probably not be so worried, but after all, he had experienced death in real life, so he had a deep fear of death.

Indeed, there is a great possibility that his separatist plan will be successful. Li Jiucheng and Geng Zhongming and others will be in the rear in front of the imperial army in Laizhou, and then they will be at ease in the rear. Then they will take down the entire territory of Dengzhou. They will rely on well-trained soldiers, strong armor, excellent improved versions of flints, steel field cannons, etc., and have great confidence in repelling the court's attack, then negotiate with the court, and finally successfully separatist.

However, this is just a plan after all, and because of the influence of his "little butterfly", some unexpected changes may occur, such as Li Jiucheng and the others surrendered directly, or escaped from Laizhou to become bandits, or the court made up their minds earlier to concentrate their troops to suppress the rebellion, or even if they could not defeat the imperial army at all, these are not impossible.

As long as this plan is not realized, it is a plan after all. Even if the success rate is high, there is still a possibility of failure. A reliable retreat is enough to calm his heart down so that he can devote himself to other preparations.

Moreover, Kong Youde also agreed with the same statement-giant ships and cannons are men's romance. When he thought of leading a fleet of huge style battleships and cutting waves on the sea, he couldn't help but feel excited, and he wanted to get out the battleship as soon as possible.

Although this new project once again increased the burden on Kong Youde, he was not worried at all, because the reserve resources are still sufficient, and it would be enough to continue such an uncontrollable small trumpet for another three or four months. However, in one and a half months, he would lead his army to start a new round of conquest.

On the 19th day of the first lunar month of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the construction of the new Zaohe Shipyard was officially launched.

A large amount of silver poured out, and the newly recruited naval officers, craftsmen, workers and materials gathered here quickly.

So, the area along the ridge of Zaohe River became busy, and more than 3,000 people turned this place into a bustling factory.

With more people and more power, the construction of a new shipyard is coming to an end in just a few days. The next step is shipbuilding work, which is much larger than that of a shipyard, and it is more complex.

The first month is a relatively leisurely slack season. In order to earn money for food, some people near Zaohekou support themselves before the bumper harvest of rice. There are many people coming to work.

At the same time, a large number of workers have also entered Mishenshan, Zhishan, Miaoshan, Chishan and Shushan generations, and began to cut down a large amount of wood for subsequent shipbuilding work.

The thick camphor wood, chestnut wood, iron wood, hawthorn wood, pine wood, fir wood and other things were all cut down, and as long as the diameter was above the bowl mouth, they were cut down. This was Xu Wenyi's original words, and the people below followed the orders and strictly implemented them.

As a result, all kinds of wood were transported to the mouth of Zaohe River and soon piled up like mountains.

Kong Youde himself was also at Zaohekou to discuss the issue of warships with Xu Wenyi. This was his only way out after the failure of his plan, and he had no choice but to worry about it.

"Thank you for your hard work! You're so tired these days!"

Looking at the shipyard built according to his own design, Xu Wenyi said with a smile, "Thank you no matter how hard you are, but I feel happy."

Xu was really lucky to meet someone who knew me so well. Now that the dock has basically been completed, the materials for shipbuilding are sufficient, and the shipbuilding can be started the day after tomorrow.

However, sir, although you have said that you will build a small Garen ship equipped with more than a dozen guns, what about the specific specifications?"

Kong Youde thought about it and then said, "The shipmakers in Dengzhou basically built old-fashioned lucky ships and broad ships. They were not familiar with the structure of Galen ships. They first built smaller ones, and then made larger ones when they were skilled.

In my opinion, let’s build a twelve cannons first, three ships and thirty-six cannons, and they still have the power to fight against the escaped Dengzhou navy!"

Xu Wenyi also nodded and said, "Indeed, now only one of the subordinates knows how to make it. It is not easy to make mistakes when building small ones first, and it can be completed quickly. If necessary in the future, these craftsmen will be skilled, so it is better to build large ships."

After saying that, Xu Wenyi took out a drawing, and saw that the marking was not in English, it should be in Spanish, and handed it to Kong Youde, "Sir, this is the drawing of the small Garen boat of the English. You can check it out first. There may be some things that are not very suitable. You can put it forward, and you can modify it as soon as possible!"
Chapter completed!