According to the agreement between Chu State and Seleucus, at least 2,000 of the six thousand horses were mares. In ten years, only these two thousand mares could produce ten thousand horses. This was not the kind of hybrid horses before, but the pure Nissa horse. The Chu cavalry riding a 1.55-meter-5 war horse met the Qin cavalry riding a 1.33-meter-3-meter-heavy horse. The result of the desperate hedging between the two sides must be that the Qin cavalry fled in panic.

Thinking of this picture, Xiong Jing laughed happily. Gongshujian said strangely: "Why is the king laughing?"

"Nothing happened." Xiong Jing quickly curled his smile. He felt that it was too early to be happy now.

Gongshujian didn't know what Xiong Jing laughed at. He continued the previous topic: "If you can add another deck on the upper deck, there will be more horses to transport, and one boat can transport two hundred horses..."

"No!" Xiong Jing rejected it without thinking. Adding another layer can certainly transport more horses, but the center of gravity of the ship will also increase significantly, which is a very dangerous thing, especially when the return journey, the storm was in full swing. This was his concern. In fact, the lower deck of the 24-gun gunboat (i.e., the artillery deck) has only one layer, and the upper deck is on top, and there is no second upper deck.

When designing a new ship type, Xiong Jing did not have that kind of ability. All he could do was to take the ship type he had made before as it was. As for why the 24-gun gunboat with a drainage of 500-600 tons in the Sail Battleship era had only one layer of gun deck, Xiong Jing could not answer this question with detailed data or experience. He only remembered that this ship type had only one layer of gun deck.

A twenty-four-pound naval gun weighs two tons, which is equivalent to four pinissa horses (the actual 24-gun gunboats cannot be all twenty-four-pound guns, and often eighteen-pound guns or even twelve-pound guns, which weighs several hundred kilograms less). The total weight of a one-two-pound horse has exceeded twenty-four guns. Adding another layer to transport ninety horses will definitely be a disaster.

Thinking of this, Xiong Jing shook his head again, Gongshujian's confusion made him suddenly want to go to school to see it. Even the descendants of Gongshu mostly built ships with experience rather than mathematics. Just like he chose the type of ship, he could only copy, not create, and the students in the school systematically learned mathematics and physics. Although the textbooks are simple, the foundation is at least comprehensive, and generations of accumulation will one day they will reach the height of later generations.

"King, Zaofu bought more than 10,000 large seals every year. If more than 30 Taotie-level ships were launched in the next year, the large seals might not be enough." If you cannot add a deck, you cannot add them. Gongshujian did not ask much, but talked about wood.

"Oh." Xiong Jing nodded to express his understanding. A Taotie ship requires at least seven hundred big chapters, and thirty ships are 21,000. The previous plan was that after the palace wood was used up, twenty to twenty-five ships were built every year in the first three years. Now, more than ten ships have suddenly increased, and the wood supply is insufficient.

"Can you use the keel and ribs as a keel or a rib?" Xiong Jing had the idea of ​​the keel. Since the keel mansion can make cannons, the cannons are also a keel at the beginning. The difference is that the keel is square, and the ingots used to make cannons are round.

"Chain may be." Gongshujian said. "But only can be made of keels, not ribs, and the big seal is still insufficient."

"How much wood is there in the palaces of the Three Kingdoms of Zhao, Qi and Wei?" Xiong Jing asked again. This is also a major source of wood.

"Do you dare to ask the king's cypress wood, is it cypress wood?" Gongshu Jian asked about these two kinds of wood. "There are many cypress wood, cypress wood, few nanmu, camphor wood, and no elm wood. If cypress wood, cypress wood can, don't worry about the wood."

"Cypress, cypress?" Xiong Jing thought. Cypress, cypress, is not hardwood, it seems to be a kind of wood between hardwood and softwood. People like to use them as coffins. This is not a coffin that is sawed into three long and two short boards, but a whole piece of wood is directly hollowed out to make a coffin. You can imagine how big the breasts of the tree are.

"There are also many cypress trees and cypress trees in each county. If so..." Gongshujian looked a little eager, but he did not dare to act rashly without Xiong Jing's consent. The sea was still very mysterious to him, and he had never taken a sea boat to go out to sea. He was very worried about the taboos in building boats and using wood.

"May." Xiong Jing's answer was very vague. "The owner should be informed that the boat owner should be built with cypress and cypress trees. The boat is not strong and will not live long."

"How long will it last?" Gongshujian asked. The shipyard model is to process incoming materials, and whoever invests will produce wood to build ships. If cypress and cypress can be built, the owner will definitely ask about the lifespan of the ship.

"It may be ten or twenty years, or twenty years, and twenty years, all under maintenance." Xiong Jing roughly mentioned a number. Thinking about the drying time of shipbuilding now is only five years, it can only be said that it has basically met the drying standard (the qualified should be six years). If the ship built in this way is not maintained frequently, its lifespan is estimated to be only twenty years. If the cypress and cypress wood have a long drying time, it has a drying period of more than ten years. If it does not encounter strong winds and waves, it may be used for four or fifty years.

"It will not last shorter than the Taotie made of hardwood." Xiong Jing made a conclusion. "If we do not build boats with Dazhang next year, but use the palace woods that were dismantled from the Three Kingdoms to build boats, how many can we build?"

"This..." According to the plan, Dazhang shipbuilding, which has been dry for five years, will be launched next year. Now Xiong Jing wants to change this order and first build a ship with the wood removed from the palaces of the Three Kingdoms. Gongshujian has not yet counted how much wood removed from the Three Kingdoms.

"Thirty ships?" Xiong Jing didn't want accurate numbers. He just hoped to have as long as possible dry wood. "Thirty ships?"

"More than thirty ships." Gongshujian said. "If all the wood is available, it will be no less than seventy or eighty ships."

"So much?" Xiong Jing was a little surprised, he was a little disbelief.

"Yes." Gongshu Jiandao. "The three kingdoms are all great countries. Daliang, Handan and Linzi have been established for hundreds of years. The palaces are prosperous, so the state of Chu is not as good as that of our country. If cypress wood and cypress wood can be made, the sea boats they built will be more than that of Chu."

"Na Ming will use the wood of the Three Kingdoms palaces to build boats in the next two years." Xiong Jing breathed a sigh of relief.

"King," Gongshujian said again: "There will be more ships in the Three Kingdoms than me, if the Three Kingdoms..."

"So what if there are more than me?" Xiong Jing didn't care at all. "All sea boats are under my jurisdiction, so what's the benefit if there are more?"

"I know." The profits of overseas trade are huge, and the sooner the water is, the more profits it will be. As Xiong Jing's private minister, Gongshujian naturally has to consider Xiong Jing. "I will tell the nobles and merchants of the Three Kingdoms to quickly transport the wood."

"What about craftsmen?" The matter of wood continued, and Xiong Jing asked about craftsmen again.

"There is no craftsmen." Gongshujian said. "There are more than 20,000 craftsmen in the Three Kingdoms, and some have been assigned to build fishing boats."

During Linzi, what the four countries discussed was not only building an economic system for allocating resources, but also focused on the interoperability of the military-industrial logistics system of the four countries. Specifically, it was the universality of weapons and the interoperability of logistics.

For example, the arrows of Chu were improved four-edged armor-breaking heavy arrows, but the arrows of the Three Kingdoms were still light arrows. Zhao was greatly influenced by the Hu people, and they used two-wing arrows. This kind of arrow was suitable for use immediately. When they encountered the enemy, they pretended to escape. As they ran, they suddenly pulled the bow and turned around. With a "bang" sound, they were an arrow. Later, the Romans were very afraid of this shooting method after paying more than 30,000 people's blood in Kale, and they called it Parthian horse return arrow (parthian.shot).

This kind of shooting arrow must be light, and only light can the arrow be fast, and only fast can it be difficult to defend. The four-edged heavy arrow in the State of Chu is not suitable. Although heavy arrows have strong armor-breaking ability, they have slow speed and short range. Heavy arrows are suitable for dealing with armored soldiers in the array.

Light arrows, heavy arrows, crossbow arrows, continuous crossbow arrows; wooden bows, wooden crossbows, continuous crossbows, Jing crossbows; chief spears, barbarian spears, huge blades, shields; military chariots, heavy chariots, Qinghan boats, big boats, big boats... All military-related weapons, vehicles, boats, and even roads, bridges, and rails must be unified, and differentiated from Qin State as much as possible and gaps are made. Only in this way can the four countries truly unite materially.

"Han is also willing to send craftsmen to Yingdu." Gongshujian said another thing. "I don't know if..."

"Korea?" Xiong Jing said. "Korea is not trustworthy. There must be many spies among its craftsmen..."

Unlike Wei, Han, who was completely a vassal of Qin, Xiong Jing had long distrustred in Korea. "Are there insufficient craftsmen?" he asked again.

"It's enough at this time." Gongshu Jian kept saying and thinking.

"If you build fifty sea boats every year, how many craftsmen are needed?" Xiong Jing asked.

"Forty thousand is enough." Gongshujian said. "However, it takes a lot of time to build cars and arrows. If there are Korean craftsmen, it will be very beneficial to me."

Arrows are consumables, and the three kingdoms of Zhao, Qi and Wei were all big arrows. Although the Chu army had only 36 bowmen, the 30,000 Ying army used more than 200,000 arrows in the Battle of Linzi alone. If the war was a national war, and over the years (such as the battle to defend the city), it would not be impossible to consume 10 million or even tens of millions of arrows a year.

A few months ago, Ge got Linzi, in addition to asking for troops, he also asked for food, and finally asked for arrows. After more than a year of fierce battle, even if he was spared, all the arrows in Zhao State had been sold out, and he could only make as many as possible.

The Northern Song Dynasty Arrowmaking Institute once had a fixed quota for arrow production: three people made 150 arrows in two days, that is, 25 arrows per person per day. But that was a thousand years later, in that era, the arrow feathers had already started to use goose feathers, and in this era, they were still using carved feathers. If we count from the raw materials, the most skilled craftsmen in this era only made fifteen arrows every day. If the army of the Four Kingdoms really wanted to fight against the Qin army, the output of arrows must be over 100 million, and the craftsmen who made arrows in this way would be close to 20,000.

Gongshujian's suggestion makes sense. There are only one or two thousand arrow craftsmen in various countries nowadays, while South Korea often uses crossbows. It is said that there are three or four thousand arrows to make arrows. If these three or four thousand people can be recruited, it will be of great help.
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