Lord Moyu was forced to open

"Hi! Chris! Are you in Song Country too?"

Tiangongyuan, Southeast Shipyard.

Spear, who had just arrived here, saw a friend he hadn't seen for a long time as soon as he got off the train. He immediately waved excitedly and rushed up to him.

Chris saw a smile on his friend's face.

"Hey! Spear, I didn't expect that a conservative guy like you would come to the Far East?"

In Chris's impression, this playmate who grew up in the same village is a conservative and unadventurous guy.

They were admitted to university together to study shipbuilding, but after graduation they insisted on staying in a small river boat factory in the countryside and were unwilling to go to Victoria Shipyard with me. The reason was that they didn't want to go so far away!
Logically speaking, the Far East is hundreds of times farther away from the Victoria Shipyard than from my hometown. How did this guy get here?
The two playmates who hadn't seen each other for a long time hugged each other tightly.

After a while, Spier explained with a smile, "I got married last year. My wife is Dina from the same village. I wanted to send you an invitation, but I couldn't find where you were, and I didn't have an address to write to."

"Dina?"

Chris was stunned for a moment, and his mind immediately recalled the lovely girl with golden hair and freckles on her face. She was the most beautiful girl in the village and the white moonlight in the hearts of boys of the same age as their generation.

Did she marry Spier?

Chris's smile suddenly became a little forced, and he couldn't explain what was going on. Suddenly, he seemed to understand why Spear was unwilling to leave his hometown.

If it were him...

Before Chris could continue to recall, he heard Spier continue:

“Not long after Dina and I got married, she became pregnant. Dina’s father accidentally offended a nobleman while working for him and had his leg broken.

That noble even targeted Dina. Just when I was at a loss, they showed up. They promised to help me solve the noble's troubles, and Dina would get a considerable sum of money every month. In order for them and her son to live a better life, and to solve the troubles brought by those nobles, I agreed to their request and came to the Far East.

Before I left my hometown, I heard that the noble family had died at the banquet the night before, and the fire engulfed the entire castle, and nothing was burned down. "

When he said this, Spear had already stopped smiling, and a hint of fear emerged uncontrollably in the depths of his eyes.

What exactly is he afraid of?
Chris knew it very well, and also knew that the smiling face of his childhood friend was probably just a cover-up for his inner fear.

But, who among them is not one of them who came to the Far East?
He also thought of his supervisor who was as fat as a 300-pound British white pig.

He will never forget the look of death.

Patting Spear's shoulder gently, Chris put aside the messy thoughts in his mind and comforted him, "Okay, now that you are here, don't think too much. Work hard. Those people are trustworthy. Only if you work hard can Dina and the others live a good life."

Spear took a deep breath, nodded heavily, and then followed his childhood playmate into the shipyard as instructed.

There were many Europeans like them who came to the Song Dynasty for various reasons, and the two of them were just the most insignificant microcosm of the people who came from the East.

……

With the addition of more and more workers with mature skills, both the Southeast Shipyard of Tiangong Institute and the Southeast Branch of the Bingzhangsi accelerated the speed of launching warships.

One after another, ironclad ships were quickly commissioned and joined the big family of the East China Sea Fleet.

The original East China Sea Fleet's 3,000-ton small boats and 5,000-ton medium ships gradually withdrew from the East China Sea Fleet's combat sequence with the addition of new ironclad ships.

It is worth mentioning that with the passage of time, although European countries have gradually resumed production in their own shipyards due to restrictions, the previous damage has made it impossible for the production scale of European countries to return to its previous state for a while. Coupled with the loss of a large number of skilled workers, they are even short of manpower.

Shipbuilding capacity across Europe has hit a low point.

For example, during the heyday of the Victoria Shipyard, when it was operating at full capacity, it could launch at least five level 3 battleships every month.

But now, it takes three months to build one ship. It’s not that they have lost the technology, but there are only so many people who can build ships, and the remaining people are only enough to build one ship at a time.

As for those students who are still in the academy, they are just rookies. Even if they have entered major shipyards for training in advance, it will take at least two years to truly become a qualified shipbuilding worker.

That is to say, after at least that attack, if the shipbuilding industry in Europe wants to recover to its peak, it will take at least two years for the newest apprentices to finish their studies. And it only took the National Defense Department a few months to destroy all of this.

Fortunately, some of the warships of European countries in their colonies were finally recalled.

Finally, at the end of June in the eleventh year of Xingwu, they headed from Victoria Harbor to Wa Island, which is now the territory of the Song Dynasty renamed Yingzhou County.

Half a month later, the National Guard received the news, and then the news spread throughout the Song Dynasty.

At that time, the Song Dynasty had 700 ironclad battleships in service, and only the last 100 8,000-ton ships were still being retired.

The Southeast Shipyard of Tiangong Institute and the Southeast Branch of the Armament Bureau produced sixty ironclad warships in the second half of July like dumplings.

The number of Song army's ironclad ships was directly reduced to a terrifying number of 760.

Moreover, the two major shipyards are still launching ships desperately.

The workers at the two major shipyards have been exhausted during the past six months.

Today, the number of people in each shipyard has reached a terrifying 100,000.

Among them, half are experienced workers, and the rest are half working and half learning.

Chris is now the leader of one of the teams, managing ten people.

Everyone looked exhausted. The workload at the shipyard was already heavy, and it was even more so in the past month, with three shifts. After returning to the dormitory, the workers wanted to fall asleep on the floor, but no one complained, including the European workers who came here from thousands of miles away.

Because the money was in place, although they were busy, they were paid. This month, each person was offered a high salary of at least three times and at most five times.

This salary directly made all the complaints that people might have started to bear the burden, and they started to work overtime without complaint.

Today, the production task that seemed to be endless is finally coming to an end. Seeing that the number of unfinished tasks that originally numbered hundreds at their own shipyard has been reduced to only 20, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally, it's almost over.

Although we made very little money this month, we were really exhausted and we were almost unable to hold on any longer.

However, when people thought about the amount of this month's salary, they started working a lot faster, because it was really a lot!

Spier was full of energy after receiving a letter from his hometown in Europe yesterday.

Dina received her salary and now lives a good life. She even eats honey bread, which was a delicacy that only nobles could afford before.

How could they afford to buy it?

But now with his salary, Dina can buy it without any pressure, which makes him feel that it is worth coming to the Far East.

But Dina said in the letter that Great Britain seemed to be going to war with another country, and the nobles in the town had been discussing this matter recently.

Spear did not care about this. Since he was a child, he had always heard that Great Britain was developing with other places in order to obtain more colonies. He thought that this time Great Britain had discovered a colony that no one had ever discovered before and was attacking the indigenous people. It would probably not be long before Great Britain's territory would increase again.

This has become routine operation.

So he didn't care much about this matter, but he didn't know that the Great Britain that he didn't care about was not targeting some uninhabited places this time, but was targeting the land where he was now, wanting to be greedy and swallow an elephant.

But they are building ironclad warships for this country to fight against their own country!

These warships built by him personally will throw every shell hard at the British sailing battleships.

……

(End of this chapter)