A system main keel that is 108 meters long is laid on the ground, and ribs are laid on this basis. As the ribs rise, two secondary keels that are 100 rice-long are also mounted.

With the main keel, ribs and secondary keels, four dragon tendons were strengthened on the ribs. The dragon tendons were also made of iron. Like the keel, a long iron plate that was 110 meters long, ten centimeters wide and one millimeter thick was rolled out. The iron plate was bent and turned into a shape of several shapes, and then installed on the two wings of the ribs to strengthen the hull.

A main keel, two secondary keels, four dragon tendons and fifty-two ribs form the skeleton of a large ship. From the skeleton, it can be seen that this large ship is 112 meters long and 16 meters wide. However, the long ship has a not high sideways. There are only three layers under the main deck, one layer of artillery deck, one layer of lower deck and one layer of bottom cabin.

When laying the skeleton, the New Year of Shaowu three years has arrived. During the Chinese New Year, the shipyard has temporarily suspended work.

During the New Year, Zhao Peng had a lot of things. On the one hand, he wanted to let his Jinyiwei and the new army have a good New Year, and on the other hand, he had to deal with things in the court. The New Year's Eve dinner was eaten in the palace.

As the income increased, the annual profit of the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty alone reached 6 million taels of silver, which was higher than the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty in the past. Of course, there was also a competitor of the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty, which was the Jiangnan Bank of the Donglin Party. In addition to the lack of the power to issue currency, the Jiangnan Bank of the Jiangnan Bank of the Ming Dynasty had other businesses, such as savings, loans, and bills of exchange, which formed a competitive relationship with the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Shaowu Zhu Cilang was naturally furious about the appearance of the Jiangnan Silver House: "I promised them all, I will not compete for profit with the people, I will win profits with them, but they are better off. Seeing that opening a silver house is profitable, they come to compete for profits with me!"

"Your Majesty, don't worry," Zhao Peng advised, "Your Majesty, our Ming Dynasty Royal Bank is the last positioning of the Central Bank. In the end, we will no longer handle savings and loan business. All savings and loan business will be handed over to the commercial bank below. Our Central Bank will find currency in the future, minting coins and printing paper money. This is the main way we control them."

But Zhu Cixuan raised a question: "But if our Central Bank will no longer handle savings and loan business in the future, what should we do if those customers have the money from our bank account and the money that they owe us outside?"

Zhao Peng smiled and said, "Your Majesty, that's the future. When our Ming Dynasty Royal Bank no longer handles specific business, we can open another Jinyi Industrial and Commercial Bank and transfer all the savings and loan business of the Ming Dynasty Royal Bank."

After Zhao Peng's patient explanation, Zhu Cilang smiled again on his face.

Because of the money, Zhu Cixuan invited court officials in the palace this year, and the show was spread out, and there were more dishes at the banquet.

With the arrival of the New Year, the marriage between Zhao Peng and Princess Kunxing has gradually been on the agenda. In a few months, Zhu Cilang should get married. The three-year mourning period has arrived, and there is no queen in the palace.

There are actually already candidates for the queen. The queen is Shi Yuting, the daughter of Shi Kefa. In order to balance Ma Shiying and the Donglin Party, Zhu Cixuan also chose Ma Shiying's daughter Ma Lianer as the imperial concubine.

The Lantern Festival in Shaowu has just passed, and shipbuilders have begun to lay wooden boards on the skeletons.

A long boat could naturally not be built with whole wooden boards, but with relatively short wooden boards. The workers ordered the boat boards along the skeleton, and each boat board was spliced ​​with four wooden boards. The two adjacent boat boards were interlaced at the connections, which could increase the hull's strength.

The workers set their sights on the skeletons layer by layer, and as the slabs gradually increased, the hull gradually took shape.

After the hull was formed, workers began to install decks in the cabin, first installing partitions in the bottom cabin, then laying a lower deck on the bottom cabin, and then partitioning a cabin on the lower deck. Then installing a staircase directly from the storage compartment of the bottom cabin to the upper level.

The bottom cabin has a cargo compartment, a ballast compartment, a freshwater compartment and a storage compartment, which is divided into seven compartments. The front bow compartment is behind the bow compartment, the front ammunition compartment is behind the freshwater compartment, the ballast compartment is behind the freshwater compartment, the ballast compartment is behind the ballast compartment, the rear ammunition compartment is behind the ballast compartment, the storage compartment is finally at the stern compartment.

There are no stairs for the freshwater compartment, ballast compartment and ammunition compartment, but there are holes on the deck above these compartments, which can be lowered into the freshwater compartment with a bucket to get water. The gunner who transports the ammunition can enter the ammunition compartment through ropes and put the ammunition in the hanging basket. The people above use ropes to lift the ammunition into the artillery deck.

The upper floor of the bottom cabin is the lower deck, which is the living area of ​​sailors. There are no windows, but there are three ventilation ducts that reach the upper deck. There are sailors' cabins in the lower deck, which are covered with hanging shops inside. There are sailors' cabins outside, and there are sailors' toilets outside. Walking to the stern of the boat is the stairway, with storage cabins below the stairway, and kitchens behind the stairway.

Go up the stairs and arrive at the artillery deck.

The tail of the artillery deck is the captain's room. Because this ship is much larger than the first Clipper, the captain's room is also larger. The total area of ​​the captain's room reaches 160 square meters, which is much more comfortable than the captain's room of Princess Kunxing. The tail of the captain's room is a bedroom in the middle, the living room on the left, and the study on the right. The three rooms at the stern all have windows facing the stern, and there is also a bathroom with the captain's room next to the study.

In the bathroom, there is a washbasin and a squat pit that leads directly to the sea. The five grains and reincarnation objects are directly discharged into the sea at the stern. However, the hole connecting the sea in the squat pit is usually closed to prevent the items from falling accidentally and falling into the pit and falling into the sea. After going to the toilet, press the switch on the side, and the cover plate is opened. At the same time, flush the water and flush the dirt on the cover plate into the sea.

In the middle of the bedroom, living room and study is a meeting room and dining room, on both sides are guest rooms, both with windows opening towards the side of the ship. The function of the guest room is that once an officer with a higher level than the captain comes to take the ship, the official lives in the captain's bedroom, and the captain lives in the guest room.

The senior crew cabin in front of the captain's room, and there are senior crew cabins on both sides of the corridor, with a total of six cabins, each cabin with four upper and lower bunks, which can accommodate four to eight people.

In front of the senior crew cabin is the stairway, and there are toilets on both sides of the stairway. After passing the stairway, there is the artillery cabin in front.

Since the displacement of this ship reached more than 1,500 tons, larger cannons can be installed on the artillery deck. When you walked into the artillery cabin, there were gun doors on both sides. No artillery was installed yet. The artillery deck was empty, and only hanging hanging shops were hung between the artillery position and the artillery position.

According to Zhao Peng's plan, the ship's artillery deck was equipped with 24-pound heavy naval guns. Because the ship was long and there were twenty-eight artillery guns installed on each side, there were fifty-six twenty-four-pound naval guns in the entire artillery deck.

Follow the stairs to enter the upper deck. Naval guns are also installed in the upper deck, with sixteen thirty-two-pound short-barrel cannons on both sides. Because the short-barrel cannons have low recoil, the lighter upper deck can withstand it. The upper deck is all placed in the open air, and the cannon jackets are usually covered on the cannons to prevent wind and rain. When fighting, you can open the cannon jackets to fight.

If fighting on rainy days, you can set up a cannon on the upper cannon position to prevent the gunpowder from getting wet.
Chapter completed!