Watching Joseph and his party leave, Lucien breathed a long sigh. He patted his chest and said, "Fortunately, Joseph is in a hurry. OK, it's time to have a holiday, it's dawn!"

After saying this, he suddenly turned to Napoleon and asked, "Napoleon, you said that Joseph had arrived at Toulon Polina in Toulon, and there was almost no Toulonian people who didn't know, would it be?"

Polina became nervous when she heard this.

"It's okay," said Napoleon, "Joseph is a cautious and obedient person. He is responsible for highly confidential matters, which means he cannot communicate with local people casually. Usually, he is the researchers in the institute and the soldiers responsible for safety. Those researchers are outsiders, and they don't know about this. As for the soldiers, I have ordered that they should not talk to anyone who works in research. In addition, I have also told Joseph that in Toulon, because Kudong is not doing well, there are many hidden dangers in safety. Therefore, it is best not to leave the institute without any care. You know how cautious Joseph is, so there is an additional layer of insurance. Moreover, his institute is not even in the real Toulon city."

"Napoleon, you are so awesome!" Lucien gave Napoleon sincerely, "I can sleep with peace of mind now."

"So too," said Napoleon, "but Lucien, don't relax too much. According to the current system, every ten days, Joseph will rest for a day. Toulon is so close to Marseille, maybe when he will suddenly come back to check your homework."

Lucien shuddered and said, "At least not today, ah, I'm going to go back to bed."

As Napoleon expected, Joseph actually had almost no chance of dealing with the locals in Toulon. He did not even enter the city, but went directly to a manor on the outskirts of the city.

The original owner of this manor was sent to see God by Kudong, so his manor was naturally confiscated by the Republic government. There are many such manors in Toulon. When the "Naval Institute" needed a place, the manor was selected because of the most suitable conditions.

The so-called conditions are appropriate, including these points.

First of all, this manor has not much output, so it will not damage production if it is used as a laboratory. Moreover, this manor is not only close to the sea, but also has a nearly closed cove next to it. A small wharf is built there, which is convenient for experimentation and confidentiality.

After determining this location, the rest was to renovate this kind of manor, enclose high walls outside, and prepare various supplies. These things were prepared before Joseph arrived. Joseph's current task is to get the institution running as soon as possible and quickly take out one or two easy-to-use smuggling ships.

As soon as Joseph took office, he immediately devoted himself to work. In just one week, he completed the first model of the world's first fly-scissor ship. After the pool experiment, this model was unanimously praised by naval engineers.

This model is only obviously different from other ships in this era. The first difference is that this ship is extremely slender. The length-width ratio of ships in this era is generally around 4. For example, the aspect ratio of the "Victory" battleship of the British Royal Navy is only about 4.3. If the aspect ratio of the waterline part is calculated, it is even only 3.8. Even cruisers that pursue high-speed speed generally have an aspect ratio of only about 4.6. However, the aspect ratio of the waterline part of the model of Joseph's ship has reached an astonishing 6.5.

Because based on the empirical formula obtained by Joseph in his experiment, such aspect ratio can greatly reduce the resistance; at the same time, a longer length means that the ship can accommodate more masts and hang more sails, and more sails means greater power.

Smaller resistance, coupled with greater power, naturally means higher speed. If Joseph's calculations were not problematic, the ship should be at least one-third faster than the British cruiser under the same wind, which makes it almost impossible to capture such a ship at sea.

Of course, to achieve such performance, the boat did a very extreme job and paid a huge price in many other aspects.

The first is volume. Anyone who has learned a little geometry knows that the longer the hull, the smaller the ratio of its volume to surface area, that is, under the same displacement, such a ship has much smaller volume and much less cargo.

This kind of ship has more masts and more sails, which will make the ship's center of gravity rise and its stability decrease. To put it more clearly, it is easy to overturn. In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to reduce the height of other parts of the ship and use a deep v bottom. This will make the draft deeper, and on the other hand, it will definitely make this ship seriously waves. Its deck must be the wettest of all ships. At the same time, it also needs to add an extra-large swing fin to the ship, and this thing will also bring about another extreme deterioration of performance, that is, the flexibility of the ship.

The large aspect ratio of this ship would have caused steering difficulties. Coupled with the huge swing reduction fins, its steering performance would be reduced a little bit, so the ship would appear particularly clumsy when steering. These defects have also been verified in the pool experiment. In short, this is an extreme design, with obvious advantages and disadvantages.

But, "Anyway, this thing is not for war, and it's nothing if it's not good to turn. As long as it can run at a high speed, can those things one-third slower than it still stop it?"

So, at least today, if this ship can really achieve the performance that the model shows in the pool, it is the ship that France needs the most. Because it can easily get rid of the interception of the British and Spanish and quickly smuggle what the Republic needs most.

The ship's model was completed, and then the real shipbuilding was built. Of course, the first ship would not be too big, only about 200 tons. The carrying capacity was even more pitiful, only a mere hundred tons. Considering that there were people and daily necessities on it, the actual available load capacity would be smaller.

In order to test and finalize as soon as possible, the boat was inevitably a bit shoddy when it was built. But even so, the boat was not well built in less than a month.

Joseph really didn't understand the matter of shipbuilding. So at this time, Joseph got idle.

Although there are many rebellious things about hiding around Toulon, Joseph was a little scared and did not dare to go into the city to relax.

On this day, the weather suddenly became clear. In the rainy moon, especially near the Mediterranean, such a sunny day was quite rare. Looking at the rising sun, Joseph suddenly thought of going out for a walk. He thought that if he couldn't go to the city, it would be nice to just walk around the place where the army was stationed. So he remembered that when he and Napoleon came to France, they took a boat to the sea near the Margrave Fortress together. The scenery there was very good, and now it was a military restricted area, and no one else could enter. Isn't it good to take a break there and fish in the bay with reefs?

Thinking of this, Joseph couldn't stay there. He had a pass signed by Fouche, Napoleon and Davu, and could go anywhere in the Toulon area. So he took a few people, using the excuse of investigating the terrain, and took a carriage and fished at the Fortress of Malgrave under the escort of a team of cavalry.

It is very close to the "Naval Institute" to the Fortress of Malgrave, only about half an hour away. When Joseph came to the vicinity of the Fortress of Malgrave, he encountered a flag-raising ceremony there.

The flag-raising ceremony of the Malgrave Fortress was different from other places. At the highest point of the fortress, a high flagpole, and then a soldier wearing a civilian male clothing and wearing a long lady's wig, raised a tricolor flag under the gaze of the soldiers.

"Hey? Why do you raise the flag like this here?" Looking at this scene from afar, Joseph couldn't help but feel a little surprised. But now, no one around him could give him an answer.

When the carriage arrived outside the fortress, Joseph's orderlyman looked at his pass to the soldiers guarding the gate. After a while, the horse was moved away, and then a major greeted him.

Joseph got out of the car and walked inside with the major named Andrey. While walking, he asked casually: "Ah, Major, I just saw your flag-raising ceremony. It seems to be different from other places. Can you tell me why there is such a flag-raising ceremony here?"

The major was stunned for a moment, and then replied, "Mr. Brigadier General Bonaparte has given an order, saying that all your work is the highest secret, and for the sake of confidentiality, we are not allowed to talk to you. I can only bring you in and then shut up."

When Joseph heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and a thought suddenly popped up in his heart: "Napoleon's order is very wrong, it is full of fake public service for personal gain. What is he doing?"

But he knew that he couldn't ask anything directly, so he stopped talking.
Chapter completed!