At noon, everyone was eating rice on the boat.

Ye Chunqiu sat down in the dining room with everyone. Someone came to eat some fish, but Ye Chunqiu was not in a hurry to move his chopsticks and suddenly said to a ship craftsman: "What will happen if the cannons of the ship increase their power?"

"How much does it increase?" The Folang Jiman struggled to understand Ye Chunqiu's words, and then looked at Ye Chunqiu with awe.

Ye Chunqiu was silent for a moment before saying, "Use my Ming Dynasty's latest gunpowder."

The Folang Jiren's eyes opened slightly and he was stunned.

He immediately thought of the grenade. The little thing was amazing. He even saw researchers from other institutes experimenting with their own power in the research institute. Every time it was earth shaking.

But... this guy named Mourinho and Ye Mu had a little short-circuit at this time.

He looked at Ye Chunqiu carefully, feeling that the 'father' who loves 'science' had too big ideas. He almost said to Ye Chunqiu without hesitation, "It's absolutely impossible."

In desperation, he used Portuguese.

It seems that I can't go back to my hometown. Now I'm hired by the Han people. In fact, life is quite comfortable. Ye Mu has gradually begun to adapt to this stability from his initial fear.

In this era, at least in Flangji, nationalism did not prevail. There, you may be a Portuguese today, and your king may have no descendants tomorrow. Maybe a Spaniard or the heir of the Habsburg family in Austria will become your king. Since Ye Chunqiu is willing to pay enough salary to give them a stable life in the Ming Dynasty, then the wisest choice now is to forget the past and work here happily. Ye Mu no longer intends to go back to Flangji. After all, he is not a nobleman, and he was just a boatman in the past. Even if he goes back, his life will be very bad because of the disastrous defeat of this expedition.

Ye Mu continued to explain to Ye Chunqiu: "This is completely unfeasible. Once such a powerful gunpowder is used on the ship, the power it produces is enough to......" He wanted to say "Prince Enrique" casually, but he thought that the ship had a new owner, so he tried hard to recall the new ship name and said: "It is enough to blow up the Qinhuang gun cabin, so this is the best solution at the moment, and it has been verified countless times..."

The greater the power, the faster you die.

This is what Ye Mu tried to express.

He felt that the "father" was taking risks and felt that he knew nothing about ships. If he could install powerful cannons on the ship, in fact, there were also some "big guys" in the Kingdom of Portugal, such as the cannons on the forts, which often weighed thousands of pounds, and the amount of gunpowder they loaded was also amazing, so there was no need to mention the power.

In his concept, the ship can only use light ship cannons, otherwise the consequences will be very serious. He does not want the ship to be bombed into the sky by his own gunpowder, especially the amazingly powerful Han gunpowder.

Ye Chunqiu couldn't help but smile. Seeing that Ye Mu wanted to continue to explain, Ye Chunqiu said, "Is what you want to say recoil?"

Although Ye Mu could not accurately understand the meaning in Ye Chunqiu's vocabulary, he could guess the general meaning. He nodded quickly and said, "Yes, otherwise...bang..." He raised his hand to the void exaggeratedly and made an exaggerated action.

Ye Chunqiu nodded, then picked up the chopsticks, ate a bite of braised sea fish, and the taste...it felt strange, so he put down the chopsticks again.

But the others stopped moving their chopsticks, all watching Ye Chunqiu and listening to the "controversy" between Ye Chunqiu and Ye Mu.

At this time, Ye Chunqiu said again: "What if there is no recoil? Or, what if the recoil is reduced to the lowest?"

Ye Mu couldn't help but frown, looking puzzled, and said, "What did you say?"

He really didn't understand. How could the cannon have no recoil? This is simply a joke.

Ye Chunqiu knew what he was thinking from his face, smiled, and then said, "If there is no recoil, or if the recoil is reduced, it is enough for the hull to bear it. How much impact will it have on naval battles?"

Ye Mu saw that Ye Chunqiu was serious, and what Ye Chunqiu said was just a hypothetical problem, so he hurriedly said: "If this is the case, it would be really great." He scraped his heart and thought about the words, and continued: "If you can use a new type of gunpowder, it is powerful and the range is enough to increase many times. This is in a naval battle, and naturally... I want to eliminate recoil..."

Ye Mu didn't say what he followed, but Ye Chunqiu understood and did not continue asking.

In the era of wooden warships, artillery is indeed subject to recoil. The stronger the power and the longer the range, it means that the greater the impact of the ship itself. If this problem can be solved, it means that the ship will truly enter the era of strong ships and giant cannons. In this era of still using gunpowder to fire iron balls, it is completely crushing.

In fact, there was indeed a weapon in later generations called recoilless artillery, which mainly adopted the single-soldier shoulder-bearing method. That is to say, if a soldier carries it, he can fire it. This recoil can be carried by a soldier, indicating that the recoil has been so small that it is very small.

Ye Chunqiu naturally had no interest in creating any shoulder-mounted recoilless artillery. In fact, Ye Chunqiu was afraid that he would not be able to build existing technology and technology, but this did not mean that Ye Chunqiu gave up the idea of ​​using new gunpowder on ships.

In Ye Chunqiu's view, this standard of recoil-free can be relaxed a little, and try to eliminate recoil and then use the latest artillery shell technology.

The kind of bullets loaded with gunpowder are difficult to manufacture, but it is much easier to manufacture shells that are ten times and twenty times larger than their huge ones.

Ye Chunqiu roughly understood the structure of the recoilless cannon. The structure was quite simple and not complicated, which made him feel much more relieved.

So after lunch, he got off the boat and took people to stay in Tianjin. That night, Ye Chunqiu drew a rough structure without recoil and handed it over to the accompanying researchers for research and discussion.
Chapter completed!