The Western-style ceiling rope is soft sail. Although the sail surface is large and the wind is enough, it can be equipped with a full sail layout and has a fast speed.

However, the disadvantages of this soft sail are also very obvious, that is, the operation is very complicated. When pulling the anchor and setting sail, multiple sailors need to climb up the mast, untie the rope, put the soft sails down from above, and then the bottom rope is tied to the mast.

Similarly, when returning to the sail, it is very troublesome to retract the sails. Several sailors need to climb up the mast, untie the ropes of the soft sails, then pull them up, and tie them tightly.

Therefore, a Western-style soft sailboat requires at least fifty sailors to operate the sails. A larger boat even requires more than one hundred sailors.

However, although this scissor ship also uses soft sails, it uses Chinese-style pull-up sail cables. Sailors do not need to climb up the mast, and stand on the deck to operate the lifting of the sails. Only four sailors are needed under each mast, and there are twelve sailors in total, plus the front masts, and three sailors are used. In total, only fifteen sailors are needed to operate the sails.

Reducing the sailor's pull-up sails requires a larger soft sail. It is possible to create a larger soft sail, which is due to the sewing machine "invented" by Zhao Peng before.

The sewing machine specially used for sewing sails is much thicker than the sewing machine used for producing clothes. It uses very thick needles and various accessories are also "silly, big, black and thick". Just like the things of later generations, it is simple and rough. Therefore, the sewing machine used by the sail factory is actually cheaper and more powerful and durable than the sewing machine used by the Donglin Garment Factory.

After producing large areas of soft sails, workers hang the sails on the mast, then hang the pulley sets on the cross-mast, and then connect the ropes of the sails with the pulley sets. In this way, as long as the sailors stand on the deck, they can lift or land the sails.

The production of this ship is produced in sectional assembly line. In addition to shipbuilders, there are also carpenters, blacksmiths, rope builders, sewing garments, gun casting workers, etc. Shipbuilders specialize in producing hulls; carpenters process wood, install partitions, masts, and deck laying, etc.; blacksmiths are responsible for producing accessories such as cats, anchor chains, pulley sets, and sewing garments produce sails, and cable builders specialize in producing ropes for lifting sails, ship cables, etc., and gun casting workers produce artillery.

Due to the production of part-time production line, this fly-scissor ship, which was originally planned to take three months to complete, can be launched in just two months.

In fact, the division of labor assembly line production is not a novel technology. As early as the Qin Dynasty, the Qin people's weapons were produced in division of labor assembly line production. Therefore, the Qin Dynasty's weapons are reliable in quality and uniform in accessories. Once weapons are damaged, repair and replacement are also easy. The Qin Dynasty's weapons are the best in the seven countries, especially the Qin crossbow, which has great power and long range.

During the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, the assembly line production methods of the Qin Dynasty were passed down. The armor, weapons of the Wei army's tiger and leopard cavalry, the powerful crossbows of the Wei army and the Shu army, the wooden ox and horses of the Shu army, and the Wu army's ships were all produced in a division-of-work assembly line.

However, after the Eastern Jin Dynasty, from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the division-type assembly line production method was lost. Perhaps it was the consequence of the Five Barbarians' invasion of China.

Fortunately, although the assembly line production method was lost during the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Sui and Tang dynasties were still martial. However, after the Fighting and Coward, it was really when the feudal society in China began to decline. Fighting and cowarding was ravaged by the Hu people again and again, and they were afraid of it, and finally the world was destroyed.

The day when the fly-scissors were completed and they were about to be launched, Zhao Peng and Zheng Sen stood by the dock. He looked at the ship that combines Chinese and Western styles, just like looking at his own children.

This true Chinese and Western ship looks like a Western-style soft sailing boat, but the sails are Western-style soft sails and Chinese-style pull-up sail cables; the hull is a Western-style ship, but there are Chinese-style compartments inside.

It can be said that this fly-scissor, which looks almost no different from a Western soft sailboat. However, it has Chinese bloodlines in its inner bones, like a beautiful yellow and white mixed-race child.

This ship was named Kunxing Princess by Zhao Peng.

Zheng Sen gave an order: "Open the gate and release the water!"

Workers at the shipyard used a winch to slowly open the valve at the bottom of the dock gate, and the river water slowly poured into the dock from the bottom of the lock. After a while, the river water was filled with river water.

"Back the ship!" Zhao Peng waved his hand.

Zhao Peng, Zheng Sen, Shi Fu, Shi Lang and others boarded the flying scissors surrounded by a group of sailors and gunners from the Jinyiwei.

The workers slowly turned the winch, the lock gate slowly opened, and the dock and the passage between the Yangtze River outside opened. With Zheng Sen's order to "open the ship", the sailors held the bamboo poles and slowly pushed the ship out of the lock, entering the vast Yangtze River.

The ship entered the Yangtze River and under the action of inertia, it slowly slid towards the center of the river, and slowly sailed downstream under the push of the river. Then Zheng Sen gave an order: "Rise the sail!"

The sailors pulled the ropes, pulled the pulley sets, and slowly rose with the sails.

On each main mast are six-sided soft main sails and one top-mast soft sail. There are four-sided support cable triangular valves and two-sided wing sails between the support mast and the foremast. Each soft sail is equipped with a pulley set, with a total of twenty-eight pulley sets, and fifteen sails operated in turn.

After the sail was raised, although the area of ​​wind was very large, the boat was very stable because of the low hull and the center of gravity.

As the sailors slowly turned the angle of the mast, the ship sailed rapidly downstream like lightning.

"Oh my God, it's so fast! It's like flying, no wonder it's called a flying boat!" Shi Lang exclaimed.

The bow of the ship split the surging river water, pushing away the waves on the two wings of the ship, leaving a milky white trail at the tail of the ship, extending very, very far away.

A large number of white seagulls flew over and followed closely at the stern of the ship. Because the boat passed by at high speed, it would affect the fish under the river, making the fish dizzy and lose a certain degree of alertness, which just turned into the seagull's food.

In addition to following the ship, the seagulls can fish better, another reason is that the ship plows the water surface. After the ship passes, the river water will return, squeezing the space left by the ship, which creates an ascending airflow at the stern, which also makes the seagulls more labor-saving to fly with the ship.

"The ship is too fast. After all, it is not in the sea in the river. Please reduce the speed appropriately." Zheng Sen said.

The ship speed is indeed too fast. Zhao Peng just roughly estimated that the sails and water flow have probably exceeded twenty knots! This speed is faster than the cruise speed of later destroyers. It is too dangerous to run so fast in the Yangtze River. After all, the Yangtze River is not a sea, there are many shallows and reefs, and the ship is too fast and difficult to control.

After receiving Zheng Sen's order, the sailors untied some of the sails and lowered several of them, and the speed of the ship also slowed down a little.

Although the speed slowed down a little, it was still very fast. Zhao Peng estimated that the speed was above twelve knots.

"We have to go out to sea to try it, otherwise how can we know the performance of this ship?" Zhao Peng suggested to Zheng Sen.

Zheng Sen nodded: "Of course we have to go to sea."

Shi Fu and Shi Lang both agreed: "A new ship with such a good nature will naturally have to go to sea to show its strength."

The flying scissors sailed downstream at lightning speed, and all the ships passing by along the river were stunned by the ship.

"Oh my God, why did the Red Maverick Yi's ship come to Nanjing?" On a cargo ship that was about to sail to the Yangzhou Canal, the people on the ship pointed at the fast ship with white soft sails hanging.

"Red-Fao Yi's ship is so fast!" The sailors on the cargo ship praised.
Chapter completed!