The anxious Stone Bear led a group of people out of the engine room. At the back of the engine room, they saw the propeller shaft that was leaking water into it.

　　 Carlos is propelled by twin shafts and twin propellers. Two steam boilers correspond to one propeller shaft.

　　 It is the No. 1 propeller shaft that seeps water in, and the No. 2 propeller shaft has no water seepage. The situation is normal.

　　 However, the water seepage of the No. 1 propeller shaft is not serious, which somewhat relieved Shi Xiong.

In fact, this situation is a normal situation. After all, this is a new ship, and it is also the world’s first steel battleship. The technologies used are technologies that have never been before, and problems are normal. It's not normal if something goes wrong.

　　 It's just that Ishikuma paid too much on this ship, so he felt anxious after hearing the problem just now.

　　 Seeing that this situation is not serious now, Shi Xiong's mentality quickly recovered.

　　 "Ade, stop the test for now, first dock the ship to the dock of the shipyard, let's discuss how to solve the problem of propeller shaft seepage, and then start the test." Shixiong quickly made a decision.

　　 Adrian Carlos nodded and said, "Master Chief, I think so too. Actually, I can guess why this happened now. It's because we don't have better lubricants."

　　 Shi Xiong nodded, why didn't he know the problem?

To say that other mechanical equipment can be used to point the R&D team with gold fingers to make R&D, but the lubricant is not something that can be made out of it, even if it is the most primitive mineral oil motor oil, it must first be made out of petroleum. The fractional distillation equipment is available.

　　 As for calcium-based lubricating grease, which is also known as "butter", it is more difficult to deal with than mineral oil motor oil...

"Well, let's use the current method for the time being. I am arranging people to develop better lubricants, but this is not an emergency. I need you to see how we can make our propeller shafts longer on the existing basis. Time does not leak."

　　 Ishikuma has nothing to do. Although he knows a little bit about the principles and knowledge of petroleum fractionation, he only knows roughly. Everything needs to be done various experiments, which takes time.

　　 But fortunately, it is only now in 776, and there are still several years before the stone bear project will work on Europeans and Americans. Taking advantage of this period of time, it is the right thing to work out what should be done.

　　 Now Bill Gates has taken his team to Northeast Pennsylvania to search for oil.

　　 Oil is not hard to find. Youxi is not for nothing, but there, the oil comes out by itself.

　　 Find oil and conduct various experiments. Sooner or later, you can get diesel, gasoline, motor oil, kerosene and so on.

　　 Although I encountered such a small unpleasantness in the final stage of the test, in general today's test is still very good.

　　 The happiest thing is undoubtedly the speed of this ship.

It should be understood that although the Carlos was designed based on the Caldwell-class destroyer, because of the use of thicker marine steel plates, even if the size of the Carlos is similar to the Caldwell-class destroyer, its displacement is better than that of the previous model. The Dwyer-class destroyers are nearly double the size.

　　 No way, the weight of the steel plate used by Carlos is much heavier than the Caldwell-class destroyer. Coupled with the weight of the keel, deck, bridge, artillery, etc., it is inevitable that the Carlos's displacement exceeds the Caldwell-class destroyer.

　　 But even with so much overweight, the Carlos could still run at a speed of 13 or 4 knots, which is definitely a big surprise.

　　 Although the Carlos's speed will decrease due to the waves in the open sea, it is estimated that if the ship moves at full speed in the open sea, it is estimated to be able to run at a speed of twelve knots. With this speed, Carlos is not afraid of any sailing battleship in the world!

　　 This is the result of the first launch test, which is beyond Shixiong's expectation.

　　 Carlos is an experimental ship, and similar tests need to be carried out at least several times or even dozens or dozens of tests before sea trials can be carried out. Once the sea trial is successful, the Carlos-class ironclad ship will be completely finalized.

　　 Still the same sentence, it takes time.

　　 This is an inevitable process.

　　Any new theory is introduced, any new thing is invented, in fact, it is a process of continuous accumulation.

　　 Carlos is a platform that continues to accumulate.

　　 It’s not terrible to have a problem. The terrible thing is that you don’t know how to solve the problem or can’t think of a solution. Once all the problems on the Carlos are resolved, then this accumulation process will eventually evolve into a final explosion—accumulation.

　　In the original historical time and space, the evolution process from sailing battleship to ironclad ship took hundreds of years.

　　 Therefore, Shi Xiong is not anxious now. Test slowly, find the problem slowly, and solve the problem slowly.

　　 Many things are not enough to be impatient.

　　 Once a truly qualified Carlos-class ironclad ship is launched into the sea and can fight~lightnovelpub.net~, then the experience accumulated in the process of building this level of ironclad ship will become extremely precious.

　　The experience accumulated during the construction of this level of ironclad ships can be reversed to drive the improvement of the entire industrial level of the tribe.

　　 From materials to machinery, from power to communications, and other aspects, there will be a great improvement due to the success of the Carlos-class ironclad ships!

　　 This kind of improvement is also the improvement of the Yanhuang tribe’s overall strength, the process of the Yanhuang tribe’s catching up with the European powers, and the process of the Yanhuang tribe’s overall transformation!

　　 But Shixiong knows very well that this process is destined to be a very difficult process. Even with the existence of his own golden finger, this process will be extremely difficult! An ironclad ship with a displacement of no more than two thousand tons is enough to prove how difficult this process is and how high the threshold is!

　　 But the same, as long as the Yanhuang tribe can resolutely cross this threshold, then the Yanhuang tribe is destined to stand at the pinnacle of this world!

　　 Ishikuma has no doubt about this.

　　 This is why he is willing to consume so much manpower, material resources, financial resources, and energy to build the Carlos.

　　 It is the same as the reason why the grandfather of the later generations said that he would have to do two bombs and one star!

　　 This is a complete process that continues to accumulate and finally erupts to complete the transformation.

　　Only after completing such a process can a country truly stand up.

　　 The previous life of China has completed this process with the power of the whole country in just a few decades, so Shixiong is also confident to lead the Yanhuang tribe to complete such a gorgeous transformation!