Inuit's words reminded Liszt that horizontal sails and longitudinal sails were both types of sails. A large ship could have two or three masts, so why couldn't it hang horizontal sails and longitudinal sails at the same time?
When the wind was favorable, the horizontal sails would be raised and the ship would roar; when the wind was adverse, the longitudinal sails would be raised and the ship would move like a snake.
In this way, a sailboat could move freely on the sea at any time, which would greatly shorten the sailing time. Moreover, Liszt seemed to have some impression of the Age of Great Navigation on Earth. There were many sailboats with triangular longitudinal sails at the bow and stern, and horizontal sails in the middle.
It was after listening to Inuit's suggestion that Liszt immediately ordered the shipyards' shipbuilders to work hard on a hybrid sailboat.
However, Liszt didn't care much about Inuit's suggestion to use wood to fix the sails because it was rejected by several old shipbuilders at the time and considered unrealistic.
"Now it seems that I have to have a good talk with this creative magician. To be able to get the recognition of the smoke mission and involve the power of fate, this person should be a talented person."
The power of fate represented by the smoke mission was very mysterious and mysterious. So far, Liszt had not figured out the root cause.
But it was undeniable that the people who could be selected by the smoke mission would always have something unusual and special. In plain words, these people were probably equivalent to the "children of fate", surrounded by the "protagonist aura" … Of course, no matter how strong their aura was, it was not as strong as Liszt's "cheat".
Emily was talented in qi, Lucy and Ruth were talented in magic, Paris was a Light Magic Swordsman … A Qi was a rare siren in the world and became a Magic Shooter with the body of a siren.
Inuit's talent was still unclear.
Liszt needed to pay serious attention to it.
Soon, Inuit Truth was led by a retainer Knight. He was not a magician who followed the rules. The magic cloak seemed to have been modified by him into a set of tights: "Your Royal Highness, you were looking for me?"
"Inuit, do you like sailing?" Liszt motioned for the other party to sit down and then asked casually.
"Yes, Your Highness. I grew up by the sea and have yearned for the blue sea since I was young."
Information about Inuit had already been presented to Liszt. It was transferred directly from the Guild of Magic. Every mage would provide detailed identity information when they joined the guild. Finally, they would be issued an identity card similar to an ID card. Each Black Horse Island citizen had one.
Inuit was a Sapphire person, but he was a magician from the outer island. He followed his teacher to Black Horse Island.
His teacher was just an ordinary mage who was currently studying nature magic with the great mage Lars Truth, which was the Druid's farming and transformation. He did not like to study magic that was too theoretical. Instead, he was passionate about sailing.
Liszt knocked on the table and asked, "Do you have any other inspirations for improving the sailboat?"
Inuit replied with slight excitement: "Your Royal Highness, I have been studying sailboats for a long time, and I have a lot of designs that I want to show off. I've communicated with the shipbuilders at the shipyard before, but they are too inflexible. They don't let go of the rigid shipbuilding techniques and don't understand my design at all! "
"Then tell me now."
"Yes, Your Royal Highness!"
Once he started talking, Inuit couldn't stop and told him all about his sailboat design. These designs ranged from sails, masts, suspension ropes to hull structure. Many of the contents were really whimsical, and even Liszt found it a little difficult to understand.
There were also some designs that, in Liszt's opinion, were pure nonsense.
For example, Inuit felt that the work of retracting the sails was very heavy and heavy. He simply designed the mast to be foldable so that when a storm came, the mast could be directly lowered to both sides. It could also be used as a hull support to keep the ship stable on the sea and never sink.
Strictly speaking, this idea was very interesting. However, the mast itself was the most important part of a sailboat. It was necessary to select ironwood of the same quality as the keel as the mast, so that the mast would not break.
Once the foldable mast encountered a storm, the mast itself would probably be the first to break. Moreover, the sails were very heavy. Once the mast was folded, it would definitely be more tiring to erect it than to raise the sails. Moreover, how to ensure the stability of the hull when the mast was raised and folded was also a huge problem.
In short, it was unreliable.
Most of Inuit's designs were similarly unreliable.
However, from his creative design, Liszt found an interesting content – Inuit actually proposed to use a huge rotating wheel to drive the ship forward.
This was simply the design of a "ship"!
On Earth, the era of sailing boats was replaced by steam-powered ships and gradually reduced to a kind of sailing competition.
"Have you ever thought about how much strength would be needed to move a ship with a huge wheel that propels it forward? And how much strength would it take to turn such a wheel?" Liszt asked with great interest.
Inuit seemed that he already had a plan in mind: "Your Royal Highness, although manpower can't push such a big wheel to rotate, but the power of magic can. We can use a magic array to drive the wheel to rotate."
"Use a magic array to drive?" This was a very good solution, but Liszt was not satisfied, "The magic array is indeed widely used, it is not impossible to drive the wheel to rotate. But the production and consumption of the magic array is huge, it is not suitable to use it on a ship. "
This idea of combining magic and technology, he had thought about it a long time ago. However, with the shrinking of the magic network, it was difficult for the magic array to absorb magic through the magic network, it all needed to consume the magic of the magic array materials themselves. To maintain such a magic array operation, the consumption was huge.
In this world, there was no such thing as a spirit stone to store magic power.
Even a small magic platform often needed to change the magic rune operation materials, and the cost of communication was not small, not to mention driving the huge wheel to rotate.
"This …" Inuit suddenly became embarrassed, as a magician, he was very clear about the value of magic materials, his idea was indeed very creative, which made him feel proud of himself. But according to his design, it was possible that a single magic array could buy several three-masted sailboats.
Coupled with the materials needed to maintain the magic array, he was afraid that such a ship would make a loss for one trip.
Only a fool would design such a thing.
Looking at the embarrassed Inuit, Liszt did not show any disappointment, on the contrary, he valued Inuit very much. Not only because of the smoke mission, but also because of Inuit's idea. If you want to develop technology, you are not afraid of the idea being difficult to realize, but afraid of not having the idea.
"Inuit, the power of magic is difficult to apply to the people, but this does not mean that there is no power that can replace magic. There is a power I call steam, you can study this direction … In addition, I can't judge the value of some of your ideas on the sailboat, but I can let you participate in the design of the new sailboat, are you willing?"
Inuit immediately replied: "Thank you Your Royal Highness for your recognition, of course I am willing to participate in the design of the new sailboat!"
Personally designing a sailboat to sail the sea, Inuit was more than happy, but he still had doubts in his heart: "Your Royal Highness, what does the power of steam mean?"
"You go back and boil a pot of water, you will understand the power of steam." Liszt pretended to be mysterious.
In fact, he did not know much about the steam engine, the killing machine that set off the Industrial Revolution. He only knew that it used coal, oil and other raw materials to burn, and then pushed the piston to do work, driving the machine to operate.
"Boil water, I will go back and boil water!"
Inuit hurriedly left.
Looking at his back, Liszt shook his head. The steam engine probably could not set off the Industrial Revolution in this world. The reason was very simple, so far, he had never heard of coal, oil and other fossil fuels. Without this fuel, burning wood alone would not provide much of a source of power.
The lack of metal would also seriously limit the manufacture of the steam engine.
Of course, the steam engine did not have no development potential, the reason was also very simple – Liszt had a fire dragon!
When the small fire dragon grew up, the fire dragon could be released at will, at that time, there would be a steady stream of magic for the small fire dragon as fuel.
Then he could go to the legendary continent and rob a few iron mines.
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