1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 236 Victory Port Shipyard ([-])

Li Nai and He Qiang believed that no matter how close the commercial warehouse they set up in Shengli Port to the wharf, it was nothing more than foreign sea merchants, seamen and sailors who could eat and stay in the hotel in the future. The purpose of enclosing land is not very consistent—whether it is a business store, restaurant or brothel, all of these are for the purpose of closer cooperation with the Haihan people, not just for making money.Based on this consideration, they chose the land adjacent to the gate of No. [-] base.

The Crossing Group has recently put a considerable amount of labor into the Iron Furnace Port project, so the number of labor assigned by the relevant departments to "Fu Ruifeng" to build the storehouse is not many, only about [-] people.It would take at least months to build a large house with an area of ​​about five mu with such a small amount of manpower.However, Li Nai was not in a hurry, because the Haihan people had already spoken at dinner yesterday, and the store would be put into use within two months at the latest.Compared with the time Li Nai knew it took for his family to build commercial warehouses in other places, the two-month construction period is already extremely short.

Of course, being able to shorten the construction period to such a short time is also related to the preparations made by "Furuifeng" in advance. Not only have the drawings and craftsmen prepared, but even many building materials and materials with more complicated processes are shipped directly from Guangzhou. Here, such as carved doors and windows, flat floor tiles, mahogany tables and chairs furniture, and even prefabricated beams of good size and so on.The Time Travel Group mainly provided labor, bricks and tiles, as well as cement, which in Li Nai's view, was miraculous for this project.

While watching, Li Nai did not forget to remind the foreman to leave a place for laying the sewer pipe when dealing with the foundation.After the major transformation of the Guangzhou Office was completed, Li Nai was invited to visit what Schneider called "advanced living environment". Various black technology equipment left a deep impression on Li Nai.In particular, the boiler that can conveniently provide hot water for bathing for a long time, the flush toilet that perfectly solves the sanitary problems in the bedroom, and the biogas equipment that Li Nai doesn't understand but feels powerful, all of which made Li Nai very interested.

Li Nai quickly experienced the beauty of these things after trying them out, and asked Schneider to provide him with the same set of living facilities, so Li Nai's residence in the Li family compound became the Haihan Sanitary Ware System The first successfully promoted object of .However, because the construction of the biogas equipment was too complicated, it was inconvenient for Li's house to go to war, so this set of equipment with the highest technical content was reluctantly abandoned.

To install sanitary equipment for Li Nai, the Guangzhou Office did not take the opportunity to rip off Li Nai, but only charged a symbolic "production fee" of 100 taels.Following this opportunity, Schneider proposed that "Fu Ruifeng" could find better local ceramic craftsmen to participate in the production of ceramic sanitary equipment.For example, ceramic basins for washing hands and faces, ceramic bathtubs for bathing, and so on.When these more complex ceramic sanitary equipment are successfully developed, then "Furuifeng" can naturally become the regional agent of new products.

Li Jifeng immediately decided to agree with Schneider's suggestion after trying out these equipments, and asked his firm to start looking for ceramic craftsmen with outstanding craftsmanship in various places.Among the group of artisans brought by Li Nai's southward trip this time, there are several ceramic artisans recruited by "Fu Ruifeng".As for the promotion work to the outside world, the Guangzhou Office has long been in the forefront - the Guangzhou Office has remodeled several rooms facing the street and turned it into a shop facing the street, and one of them will be dedicated to displaying These brand new bathroom fixtures.Schneider believes that as long as a few upper-class people drive this thing, it will soon form a new trend of use in Guangzhou, just like the previous glass stationery.

When Li Nai got the task of going south to supervise the work, he already thought that the commercial warehouse he built in Shengli Harbor must use Haihan's bathroom equipment. Although doing so would increase a lot of initial investment, in Li Nai's opinion, this kind of The one-step action is very worthwhile, after all, the return on investment for Haihan has always been quite high, and the safety is also guaranteed - when Li Nai entered the port yesterday, he saw that the fortresses on both sides of the gorge had been repaired in sevens and eighties , Several artillery positions have been equipped with black artillery.Although he couldn't see it clearly from the ship, Li Nai could still tell that the cannons erected on the fort were much larger than those he handled at home. In other words, these coastal defense cannons must be more powerful than those sold abroad.

However, what Li Nai didn't know was that although the construction of the first phase of the coastal defense artillery fortification has been completed, and the military industry department has also produced several 24-pound heavy artillery and delivered them to the military and police department, the training of gunners is still progressing slowly. .This is also impossible. The existing naturalized population is generally low-educated, and most of them don’t even recognize their own names. Artillery is a very technical arm, whether it’s sighting or shooting. , all need to use a lot of mathematical calculations, and the quality of the existing military resources is obviously impossible to meet such requirements.

At present, the military and police department can only take the next best thing, let the artillerymen memorize the relationship between the firing angle, charge amount and range by rote, and rely on a lot of live ammunition training to strengthen and consolidate the skills of these rookie artillerymen.But even so, there are still very few indigenous artillerymen who can be regarded as qualified at present. The few who have outstanding performance are basically gifted and flexible, and it cannot be said that they really understand the meaning of artillery operations .The military and police department really has no better way now. Many things cannot be taught by hand. Maybe they can only wait until when they go to the battlefield and get in touch with actual combat, so that these artillery can grow faster.

Of course, although the quality and quantity of the current artillery are still very limited, the completion of the coastal artillery fortifications still gives the crossing group a long-lost sense of security.The Military and Police Department also announced that with these heavy artillery fortifications, the chances of foreign forces wanting to attack Victory Port from the sea will be greatly reduced. If you want to defeat the coastal defense fortifications of Victory Port, you will also have to pay a very heavy price.

This is not bragging of the military and police department. Although the gunboats of the Western colonists are difficult to find opponents on the seas of the Far East, they rely on the number of artillery equipped on board to gain a firepower advantage in battle, not on range or accuracy.Compared with the 2000-pound heavy artillery with a range of up to 24 meters in the coastal fortifications of Shengli Port, the clumsy artillery with an effective range of only 200 meters on the Western gunboat is really difficult to play a role.If there is such a ship that dares to charge forward against the artillery fire of the coastal defense artillery, it must first withstand about ten rounds of coastal defense artillery bombardment before entering the range of its own artillery.Even if the current coastal defense guns still use solid ammunition instead of bursting ammunition, the firepower density that can be achieved by more than [-] coastal defense guns in the plan is enough to defeat the maritime opponents of this era in ten rounds of attacks.

However, to achieve such combat effectiveness, the Military and Police Department also admits that it will take at least one to two years to train gunners, practice defensive tactics, improve fortifications, and so on.Moreover, the current plan to form the navy has also been put on the agenda of the Executive Committee. At that time, the navy, which uses artillery as its main firepower output, will also need a large number of gunners, which will also greatly delay the coastal defense fortifications from reaching their strongest combat effectiveness. time.

After staying on the construction site for a while, Li Nai felt that something was wrong. The last time he came to Shengli Port, he was accompanied by the leader of the Haihan people all the time, but this time he seemed to have no such treatment, except for a local young man He was sent to follow him to wait for his orders, and there was no sign of those Haihan leaders in the middle of the morning.

Li Nai felt that the person following him looked familiar, so he waved his hand and called him over: "Have you met me before, Your Excellency?"

The man replied respectfully: "Back to Mr. Li, we met once when you visited the Salt Field Commune last time."

Li Nai suddenly said: "Yes, yes! You are that Jiang... Jiang..."

"The little one used to be called Jiang San." The man straightened his back as he spoke, and he couldn't help showing a proud look on his face: "Later, Mr. Anxi gave him the name, and now he's named Jiang Kaishen, the triumphant Kai, Shen Youxuhai's Shen."

"Kaishen? Hmm...that's a good name." Of course Li Nai didn't understand Coach Anxi's bad taste, but he did remember this man named Jiang San.When Li Nai visited the Salt Field Commune last time, he had a conversation with Jiang San that left a deep impression on him. It was from that time that Li Nai realized the difference between the Haihan civil administration system and the Ming Dynasty.Li Nai can clearly feel the awe and gratitude of the local people for the Haihan Executive Committee from people like Jiang San, and will therefore show extremely high obedience to the decisions of the Executive Committee, from the perspective of ordinary people Look, the civil administration effect of the Haihan people seems to be better than that of the local government of Ming Dynasty.

And Jiang San was also appreciated for his "tact" in front of Tao Donglai that time. After Li Nai left, Anxi promoted his labor grade from primary to secondary, and transferred him from the production line. The management committee of the Salt Farm Commune held a small civil affairs post.For the sake of decency, Anxi specially gave him a new name—although Anxi may not have chosen this name out of good intentions, but for Jiang San and Jiang Kaishen, it was a great honor in his life.

Jiang San has been performing well after being promoted and getting a salary increase. After the typhoon disaster in August, because of his active participation in disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction, he was awarded by the commune management committee—a 20-yuan circulation coupon.After the start of the Iron Furnace Port project, part of the staff of the existing Saltworks Commune, especially the management, will be transferred to the Iron Furnace Port when the project reaches the immigration stage, and Jiang San is among them.And he has already received Anxi's guidance, as long as he doesn't make any mistakes in the future, when the Iron Furnace Port project enters the operation stage, Anxi will recommend him to be the civil affairs assistant of the local commune management committee, and the labor level will also change. Move up one level and become one of the few third-level laborers currently in existence.

Jiang San had been transferred to Base No. [-] a few days ago to be responsible for the acceptance and pre-training of new immigrants in Iron Furnace Port.This group of new immigrants arrived in Hong Kong in early October. Vietnamese and Hainan natives each accounted for about half. They have basically completed the isolation and observation period, and they will be arranged to live in the newly opened Iron Furnace Port. Ground, Jiang San's task is to let this group of people understand their next whereabouts and work and life arrangements.And just last night, Jiang San received a new notice from the civil affairs department, asking him to accompany the distinguished guests from Guangzhou personally from today - of course, there is also the nature of surveillance.

It's not that the management committee doesn't pay attention to Li Nai's existence, but that the executive committee members are currently busy, and everyone has a lot of things to do on hand, so they don't have time to accompany Li Nai to travel around.Anyway, after this period of contact, several veterans of the executive committee thought that Li Nai was a harmless type to humans and animals, and there was no need to take special precautions against him, so they simply asked the civil affairs department to transfer a local person to Li Nai. Nai should be his entourage, and it is enough to ensure that he has someone to coordinate and arrange accommodation for him at any time during his stay in Victory Port.

Jiang Sandao: "If Mr. Li has anything to do, just ask. The chiefs have said that they will try their best to meet any reasonable requests made by Mr. Li."

"The shipyard to the west looks very lively, can I go and have a look?" Li Nai didn't pay attention to what Jiang San's "reasonable request" meant, but he also understood that the Haihan people put such a small man like Jiang San in his The side is not just for the role of running errands, I am afraid that Jiang San will report every move he does in Shengli Port to the Haihan people afterwards.

"Of course we can go to the shipyard." Jiang San nodded repeatedly.The Civil Affairs Department had indeed pointed out to him which places to go and which places not to go. Except for the barracks and Yulin outpost in the whole Shengli Port area, he could go to other places, including the shipyard in the west of the harbor.

So Li Nai called the foreman and gave some instructions, then walked towards the shipyard to the west.Li Nai thinks that everything else in Shengli Port is good, but there is no sedan chair, so he can only walk on two legs.Haihan people often ride around on that kind of two-wheeled vehicle, but Li Nai thinks that it is as fast as a galloping horse, and it seems really unsafe, so he has no intention of learning it.

Just two steps away, Jiang San said: "Mr. Li, if you want to visit a production unit like a shipyard, you can't bring your entourage in."

Li Nai nodded, and told the two followers to stay with a blank expression.For this request, Li Nai is not at all unhappy. There are also some workshops under the name of "Fu Ruifeng". It's not easy to be a craftsman in this line of work.Some unique secret skills in craftsmanship are fine for laymen to see, but if they are seen by experts once, they may be stolen.With the ability of Haihan people to build so many giant steel ships, Li Nai believes that they must have some special means in shipbuilding, and these things must be inconvenient for outsiders to know.

The area where the Shengli Port Shipyard is located is actually near the Yulin fishing village where Yu Xiaobao's family lived, and it is located at the junction of the Yulin Peninsula and the mainland.The dense mangrove forest near the shore has been cut down completely, and it has lost its original appearance.Contiguous work sheds were built on the shore. In the north work sheds are stacked a large amount of marine timber that has been dried and treated, while in the south the work sheds are where the technicians of the Ministry of Shipping work and carry out fine processing operations.

There are five or six berths, large and small, standing on the shore. At present, there are ships of all sizes under construction or repair on each berth.There is a wooden slideway directly leading to the sea surface under the berth, and the boats completed on the berth are directly launched into the water through the slideway.

At present, the Shengli Port Shipyard has more than 200 technicians and nearly 5 ordinary workers. Except for the No. 10 test ship, which is relatively slow in progress, the shipyard has not been idle at all in the past few months. All sea-going ships are basically here to receive regular hull maintenance operations, which is not an easy task at all.If the attachments on the bottom of the ship are not removed regularly, it will have a significant impact on the sailing ability of the ship.According to the information held by the Ministry of Shipping, if there are too many growths on the bottom of the ship, such as oysters and sea anemones, the power of the ship will be lost by [-]%-[-]%, which is an unforgivable sin for the existing low-speed sailing ships. .In addition, the anti-corrosion and anti-leakage of the underwater part of the hull must also be re-treated on a regular basis, otherwise, if there is a problem during the voyage, it may cause a major accident of ship destruction and death.In addition, a considerable part of the ships of the Ministry of Shipping are second-hand goods, so the related maintenance work has always been very tight, and they dare not relax at all.

In addition to maintenance and repair work, the shipyard has actually launched many small boats in the past few months, some of which are trial products to verify whether some new technical solutions proposed by the Ministry of Shipping can be combined with existing ones. Among the advanced shipbuilding techniques, especially the hull structure and sailing system, it is the focus of technical exploration of these trial ships.

In fact, if the requirements of the executive committee were not too high, it is estimated that the No. [-] test ship could have been launched long ago.The Executive Committee requires that the main ships in the future must have good seaworthiness, convenient sailing system, and faster speeds while not lower than the loading capacity of existing ships. It can be equipped with several newly released naval artillery, or can be transformed into a maritime firepower output unit through relatively simple modification for future naval use.If possible, enough room for changes should be left for future steam engine boarding, so as not to spend a lot of time redesigning the ship when the time comes.

Although the request of the Executive Committee sounds excessive, it is also a request based on the existing objective environment.Since the Time Travel Group chose Sanya as the main base in the early stage, the control of sea control has become the main development goal in the future.

(End of this chapter)