If he remembered correctly, the British Empire was indeed testing a new warship.
The hull was made of wood and was covered in steel armor. It was equipped with a steam engine and a sail.
It was indeed the Warrior.
However, this ship, according to its original history, was only tested in December 1860, and was officially equipped in October 1860.
And now, in 1712, Great Britain had already developed this warship?!
Zhu Shengkai looked at the businessman from Henry Shipyard in the United Kingdom. He suddenly felt that there was nothing bad about this era.
Because as long as you had money, people in this era could sell you anything.
They had no sense of secrecy at all.
The United Kingdom had only just entered the water and had yet to officially equip advanced warships.
Zhu Shengkai wasn't afraid that this businessman would lie to him.
He had the system to check if the blueprint was real.
After the system's inspection, it confirmed that this blueprint was indeed real.
"The British Empire has such a shipyard. They just built warships for the British Empire and then sold the design drawings.”
"Tsk tsk."
Zhu Shengkai was worried about the future of Great Britain.
However, there was nothing bad about it.
In any case, he only had Great Britain and the Sun Never Sets.
The Warrior warship blueprint was the most advanced warship in this era.
It was an epoch-making design, but Zhu Shengkai knew that the Warrior had exposed some unreasonable aspects in the later battles.
Later on, the British Empire repaired and modified the Warrior.
Zhu Shengkai knew this, but he still bought the Warrior blueprint.
Because the system had given him a hint.
"Do you wish to spend 100,000 cultural points to modify the Warrior warship blueprint?”
"After modification, it will be possible to add an all-steel hull.”
Zhu Chengkai checked his current cultural value.
It was still growing.
It had already reached about 50,000.
It would be fine after a while.
Currently, there was not much steel production in Xindu. It was used to build the railway and the construction of Xindu. The steel production was basically used up.
Therefore, Zhu Shengkai could only expand the scale of the steel factory and buy some steel for shipbuilding during this period.
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"Sun Qing, with the advanced steam turbine provided by Zhen, to what extent will the power of this ship be increased?”
At the West Coast Shipyard, Zhu Shengkai looked at Sun Qian, who was checking the blueprints, and asked.
"Your Majesty, with the advanced steam turbine technology you provided, I will modify it. He was certain that the power of this ship would be more than twice that of the original!”
"In this way, even if the technology of this ship is purchased from the British Empire, the combat power of this ship built by our Ming Dynasty will far exceed the original British ship.”
Hearing this answer, Zhu Shengkai nodded slightly, somewhat satisfied.
"What if the original wooden hull that was wrapped in iron sheets was replaced with a pure steel hull?”
Zhu Shengkai asked again.
"In this case, although the power and speed will be greatly reduced, I estimate that its speed will still be 1.5 times that of ships with sails.”
Sun Qian thought for a moment and replied.
"Since that's the case, I'll leave it to Sun Qing.”
Zhu Shengkai nodded slightly.
Zhu Shengkai felt that he still had 50,000 cultural points left, which was not enough to meet the system's requirement of 100,000 cultural points.
However, he could not rely on the system for everything.
He would let Sun Qian try to modify it first.
He wanted to see if he could get the system's approval.
It had to be said that Sun Qian, who came from the system shipyard, was definitely a genius.
In the next few days, he proposed various ideas to Zhu Shengkai.
He had completely modified the warship technology he had purchased from the United Kingdom.
The original blueprint of the Warrior that the British Empire sold to Zhu Shengkai.
Sun Qian modified some of the designs that he felt were unreasonable.
Then, after Sun Qian's modification, the original body of the " Warrior " was made of wood and covered with iron sheets. The power system was a steam boiler, and the design was complemented by masts and sails. It was also completely replaced with a steel hull structure.
Coupled with the power of the improved steam turbine.
Soon, Zhu Shengkai took out Sun Qian's modified " Warrior " blueprint and let the system scan it.
This time, the system gave a notification.
The blueprint design is not perfect. Do you want to spend 30,000 cultural points to modify it? Completely perfect it?
"Hah!"
Zhu Shengkai laughed out loud.
Sun Qian was really a genius!
After he made the changes, the original price of 100,000 cultural points was reduced to 30,000.
"Change!"
Zhu Chengkai waved his hand, and the 50,000 cultural points he had accumulated during this period of time was reduced by 30,000, becoming 20,000.
With a flash of light, the thick stack of shipbuilding design drawings in front of Zhu Shengkai, which was as tall as a person, was added to the pile!
The original design was modified and new designs were added. All the shipbuilding blueprints were placed in front of Zhu Shengkai. There were four to five rows of paper stacked in front of him.
It looked scary.
After modification, the new warship was made of steel.
Fifteen steam turbines for its power system
There was no need for sails.
It had a displacement of 15,000 tons, a total length of 130 meters, a width of 19 meters, and a draft of 12 meters. With full horsepower, it could reach a maximum speed of 25 knots!
"Fuck!"
Zhu Shengkai couldn't help but curse.
What kind of modification was this?
It was simply a magical modification!
The original " Warrior " ironclad warship had a displacement of more than 9,000 tons, a total length of 128 meters, and a top speed of 14 knots.
After the system modification, the new ship's hull was made of steel. The total length did not change much, but the displacement reached an astonishing 15,000 tons!
Moreover, this speed had reached an astonishing 25 knots!
In this era, the most advanced warships were ironclads with wooden hulls and steel armors like the Warrior.
Now that the system had been modified, the strength of this warship had been directly raised to the level of the twentieth century.
It had been advanced for so many years!
Instantly, this made Zhu Shengkai's eyes turn red.
To purchase a warship blueprint designed during the First World War from the system, one would need more than one million cultural points.
However, he had only spent 100,000 cultural points to buy the technology to improve the steam turbine. After Sun Qian had modified it, he spent another 30,000 cultural points to modify the system.
Just directly save this one million cultural points?!
This made Zhu Shengkai feel that it was worth it!
Please name the new ship design!
Zhu Shengkai thought for a moment and said,"Temporarily named: Hongwu class battleship!"
Hongwu!
The year name used by Zhu Shengkai's ancestor, Emperor Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Shengkai named the battleship Hongwu without any disrespect.
Now was a new era. He hoped that his ancestors and emperors of Great Ming could bless the future Great Ming and have smooth sailing on the sea! Conquer the world!
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