The big man has a living father

Chapter 216 (Big Chapter) Ironclad Ship!
In the shipyard, a large number of workers are performing various operations.

In recent months, these workers who joined the shipyard have become the most respected people in Qiancheng County and even within a thousand miles of the surrounding area.

Although the new era came suddenly, a large number of people became workers.

But whether they are transport workers, ordinary seafarers, loading workers, coal miners, or workers in steel plants and building materials factories, none of them are as direct as shipyard workers.

Because everyone knows that the reason why Qiancheng was chosen by the times and became a rich place was because of the shipyard.

These factories are needed because there is a need for shipyards.

If the shipyard is gone, everything else will be gone.

If the shipyard is there, then everything else is there.

This is called a leading enterprise, a leader.

Therefore, a large number of people who can enter the shipyard are local people who have learned new subjects and studied science in the past two years.

These people are very receptive to new things and can change very quickly.

Moreover, with the current population structure of the Han Dynasty, it is impossible to be old-fashioned. Excluding those infants who die at birth, the average life expectancy is only about 40 years old, which means that the vast majority of the population is not at risk of having rigid ideas.

Among them, those who were highly receptive and motivated became skilled workers within half a year after entering the shipyard.

Nearly 30% of them even continue their studies while working under high-intensity jobs.

It is really not accurate to say that they are shipyard workers. To be precise, these 30 percent of people are mechanics.

Since Huo Hai arrived in Qiancheng, the shipyard began to mass-produce 400-ton cargo ships.

Before, Erkuan did not have enough authority and funds, so he did not dare to scale up the production and invested all his money into research.

But now that Huo Hai is here, things are not managed that way anymore.

The 400-ton ships were launched from the dock one by one and sold.

All the workers accumulated rich production experience in the frantic process of manufacturing 400-ton steamships.

It was this experience, coupled with the huge scale of the shipyard, that allowed a large number of new technologies to be reported quickly.

Today the worker discovered a defect in the tightening of the bolt and suggested drilling a hole at the tail of the screw and then clamping it with an elastic steel clip.

Tomorrow another worker will point out that triangular steel is too easy to deform, and that the same material can be made into I-beams for higher strength.

When the I-beams were just starting to be produced, a worker suggested that although the I-beams were stronger, the strength of the connection would decrease after drilling holes. The I-beams should be made into Gang-shaped ones, and the bolts should be directly connected to the other steel parts on both sides at the X position. This would increase the strength whether in tension or compression.

Various technologies are being reported crazily.

At the same time, orders were pouring in to the shipyard.

A large number of shipping companies need ships.

Even though a 400-ton ship is difficult to sail in Chang'an, it can be sailed easily in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

The major shipping companies used to suffer from the fact that it took too much manpower to sail upstream, but now with sails and steam engines, new ships of various models can sail freely in the lower reaches of the Yellow River.

The profit from each transport trip is so huge.

The ship investment can be recovered in less than a year, including the cost of inspecting and repairing the steam engine.

This is equivalent to buying a boat and running it for one year, then you will get your money back, and then you will make money for as many years as it runs next.

Under this narrative, not to mention the big shipping companies, a large number of ordinary wealthy families along the Yellow River began to pool their money to buy ships.

If you still can't see any business opportunities here, then you deserve not to be able to eat the rice of the new era.

Qiancheng Shipyard suddenly looked like a Thousand Sails City. More precisely, it should be called Thousand Machines City, because most of the ships here were powered by steam engines instead of sails.

Since coming to Huo Hai, a boat was sold every day in the first month.

In the second month, three ships were sold every two days. In the third month, two ships were sold every day!
Even so, the orders have been scheduled until the year after next!
Huo Hai raised his eyebrows: Am I like Lei Jun? I owe a lot of money?
However, the good news is that in the first month after Huo Hai arrived, he raised enough money to build another shipyard of the same size.

In the second month, he raised enough funds, ten times the amount that Erkuan used for research and development.

In the third month, the newly built shipyard was completed and started recruiting workers, accelerated by the Huo family's IOU.

In these three months, various new technologies have emerged one after another.

Not only the technology used on ships, but also the technology used in shipbuilding is being updated rapidly.

Steel scaffolding was invented!

Once the scaffolding was put in place, the shipbuilding efficiency increased dramatically! This is also the reason why two ships could be built a day starting from the third month.

Even the craziest shipyard in later generations would not launch a ship like this.

However, this can only be regarded as a small boat for future generations. Secondly, in the entire industrial chain, tens of millions of people nearby are serving this matter.

The combination of the two created such a miracle.

In the third month, the prototype of the iron boat finally began to be launched.

At this point, the iron boat could barely be called an ironclad ship. It still retained the wooden structure, but the wooden boards were covered with iron sheets using riveting methods.

But these technologies accumulated technology for the real ironclad ships that came later.

At the same time, there are no longer paddle wheels on its sides.

The propeller has been conquered!

In this world, the speed of light has become a thing of the past.

No, to be precise, we still need to mass-produce paddle steamers for use on rivers.

Anyway, since it won't go to sea, the paddle wheel won't have the problem of one side of the wheel not touching the water, causing the efficiency to be halved. The transport capacity of 400 tons is more than enough for use in this era.

Not every ship has to carry a thousand tons of cargo.

Such a boat is perfect for use on rivers, and most importantly, it is cheap.

They are unwilling to switch immediately to the latest technology but more expensive iron boats.

……

In Chang'an, Liu Che looked at the report.

"Still in Qiancheng."

Originally, Liu Che thought that no matter how much Huo Hai valued Qiancheng's shipyard, three months of stay in Qiancheng would be enough.

In the third month of Huo Hai's stay in Qiancheng, Liu Che saw a report that a large number of transportation companies in the Yellow River Basin began to purchase steamships.

The steamer quickly started on board.

And the speed of the steamship...if you burn charcoal to start the steamship, it will only take two days to travel from Qiancheng to Luoyang!!!
You know, in the past, when salt was transported from Qiancheng to Luoyang, it would take half a year after departure to arrive!

Two days!

This efficiency is really terrifying.

Even the King of Lu, who was the first to build a ship, got a batch of seafood and transported it to Luoyang in two days. He then rushed from Luoyang to the canal in three days, and then changed to a steamer from the canal and arrived in Chang'an in one day.

It took six days to transport a batch of seafood to Chang'an!

Although 90% of them were dead when they were transported here, 10% were still alive!

This immediately alarmed the people of Chang'an and they all came to watch.

The people of Chang'an City soon learned that a railway would be built at the port in Luoyang, connecting directly to Chang'an, and there would also be special freight buses for grain transport.

In this way, delivery from Qiancheng to Chang'an will be fixed at one week in the future.

This time is enough for many wealthy people in Chang'an to eat seafood!

Even the second-tier rich people can at least eat frozen and chilled food.

Of course, it won’t work later on because it won’t be cheap.

At present, most ships still set sail when the wind and current are favorable most of the time, and only use steam engines to sail when there is headwind and upstream.

So generally speaking, it actually takes most ships more than ten days to transport goods from Qiancheng to Luoyang.

This makes it unlikely to deliver something alive.

However, the act of transportation is an act of protecting profits. If the price of Chang'an seafood can be kept stable and there are always people who want the goods, then there will definitely be people who will use steam engines at full capacity for transportation for a long time. The only difference is that the transportation fee will be much higher.

That day, the live seafood was delivered to Chang'an, causing a sensation.

Everyone in Chang'an saw the live seafood, although it was no longer very active.

At that time, Liu Che was still very satisfied with Huo Hai's progress.

After all, Er Kuan and his men did not have enough courage and were afraid to use the power they had. After being in Qiancheng for half a year, they made little research progress and the shipyard did not make any profit. Although Qiancheng developed rapidly, it was far from what Liu Che had imagined.

As soon as Huo Hai arrived at Qiancheng, it produced six times as many ships as in the previous six months in just three months.

With so many orders coming in, the shipyard doubled in size and the prototype of a new ship was ready.

Liu Che also clearly remembered that Huo Hai said that as long as the propeller structure was realized, the ship could truly break away from the influence of the sails, and could use steam engines to sail all the time, whether on the river or on the sea.

Even though Alaska is thousands of miles away from the Han Dynasty, it can be reached in three weeks.

Liu Che was a man who knew how to enjoy life the most. He certainly knew that as long as the propeller came out and the Anluo Railway was successfully built, he would be able to eat live seafood every day.

Qin Shi Huang was so awesome, but he just went to the beach to eat seafood. Did he eat live seafood in Chang'an?
He has never eaten it!

Liu Che was very satisfied with Huo Hai's progress, and also approved of Huo Hai's decision to stay in Qiancheng for three months.

But after that, Huo Hai still had no plans to move.

Huo Hai was like a super heart in Qiancheng. Although he didn't do anything actively, his heartbeat all the time made the blood circulate around crazily, nutrients were delivered to all directions, and all kinds of necessary resources were transported from all directions to Qiancheng crazily.

In Huo Hai's fourth month in Qiancheng, the area of ​​Qiancheng County had expanded twice as much, and the houses in the new residential area had almost been sold out as soon as it was built.

The products of the surrounding coastlines were sent to Qiancheng frantically.

The people of Qiancheng also began to live an "upper class" life, and the rich began to raise cattle and sheep and drink milk.

The consumption of pigs, dogs, chickens and ducks in Qiancheng has also increased seven or eight times.

Farmers in many nearby areas also began to raise pigs, dogs, chickens and ducks themselves, either for their own consumption or to sell for money.

In Huo Hai's third month in Qiancheng, there were a total of eight companies qualified to be listed on the Chang'an Stock Exchange Center.

In Huo Hai's fifth month in Qiancheng, this number soared to fifty-eight!

In the sixth month of Huo Hai's stay in Qiancheng, the registered population counted by Tian Jue had exceeded 700,000.

In fact, half a year ago, there were more than 700,000 people working around Qiancheng, but the registered population was less than 80,000.

In such a short period of time, more than 400,000 people made up their minds to stay in Qiancheng for development and started buying houses and moving their household registration.

Tian Jue's registration office hired 15 people to register new household registrations every day, but they were still too busy to handle it. Rich people who wanted to take their property to Chang'an to live had to use their connections to find someone to help them pick up their files and issue certificates after get off work.

In the sixth month of Huo Hai's tenure at Qiancheng, the number of the Han Dynasty's official 400-ton seagoing ships increased to 131.

Originally, all the production in the first half of the year was given to the navy, which was only a few dozen ships.

In the past six months, most of the production has been sold to transportation companies, but as a result, the number of ships in service has increased.

On Tian Jue's side, the number of sailors recruited from good families has exceeded 25,000. Together with those from Kuaiji County and the Kingdom of Nanyue, the Han navy has reached 40,000.

These are good family members, not the total number of navy personnel. Good family members are here to make contributions. There are also a large number of people who were hired with money, and the number has reached 200,000.

Huo Hai's arrival seemed to be telling everyone around him that Qiancheng's status was very important!
Qianchao is to the coastal areas as Chang'an is to the Han Dynasty.

Countless people received this information and came to Qiancheng to work.

In the sixth month, the Han Dynasty's seventh fleet set out to explore the north.

Logically, this kind of large-scale and crazy exploration should result in a loss, and the national treasury should at least spend a lot of money to do this.

But in fact, all this money came from Qiancheng’s finances. The profits from selling ships alone were enough to support seven fleets, as well as the logistical support needed to maintain the seven fleets, with more than half left!
This crazy development trend also made Liu Che react.

Huo Hai wrote to the emperor every day saying that the princess was seasick and needed to adapt herself before going south. It was all nonsense.

Huo Hai deliberately stayed in Qiancheng to provide impetus for Qiancheng's development, just like what he did in Chang'an.

But, isn’t the rapid development in the past six months enough?

Why does Huo Hai value the ocean so much?
Just because the name contains the word "hai"?
In Liu Che's view, he should quickly deal with the Kingdom of Nanyue, then return to Chang'an, let Huo Hai continue to stay in Chang'an, and increase the efforts to explore the southwest.

What should we do now that Huo Hai hasn’t come back?
Liu Che immediately found Wei Qing and asked the Wei family for the person.

Wei Guang, the younger brother of Wei Qing, the youngest son of the Wei family, entered the officialdom.

When Wei Guang entered the officialdom, he was appointed General Zhennan and went directly to the frontier of Shu County.

Liu Che couldn't help but take action against the Kingdom of Dian.

The Dian Kingdom, to be more precise, is currently officially called the Kunming Kingdom by the Han Dynasty. The king of Kunming is clueless. Now, a large number of people in Kunming have begun to study Chinese studies, and a large number of people have flocked to Shu County to seek official positions.

The king of Kunming had no intention of surrendering.

Therefore, Su Wu, the captain, was officially promoted to the general of conquering the barbarians.

At the same time, Liu Che appointed Ren An, a very talented young man under Wei Qing, as the fake Sima this time.

The so-called fake Sima means an acting Sima. His rank is not yet high enough to be a Sima, but there is a need for such a person to do things, so he is allowed to act as an agent. If he does a good job, he will become a Sima.

Ren An was a good friend of Sima Qian. When the army set out on the expedition, Sima Qian went to see them off in person.

As this army set off, funds in the Chang'an financial market also poured into Tianzhu Company frantically.

After the money reached the Tianzhu Company, Chang'an Daily published the news "Li Guang Defeated the 50,000-strong Army of Youguli King".

Suddenly the market exploded.

Shares of Xiyu Company soared again.

You know, the first cotton harvest in the Western Region is coming soon.

The cotton in the Western Regions grew so well that even the researchers in Chang'an City were amazed.

They have published research reports in scientific journals many times, describing the encouraging growth conditions of cotton in the Western Regions.

The backbone of today's industrial sector is the textile industry. No one needs to tell us how important cotton is to the textile industry; everyone knows it clearly.

Now that it has been confirmed that the Western Region is suitable for growing cotton, the share price of the Western Region Company was about to start rising.

After all, if you hold a large stake at the end of the year, you will also receive dividends.

However, the company could not resist the temptation of the imperial court to take action against Kunming State, and a large amount of funds went to Tianzhu Company.

Now, the news of great victory has come!

Xiyu Company's cotton planting area is about to double!
It can be said that once the King of Youguli is captured, the entire Western Region will fall into the hands of the Han Dynasty.

This means that all of Xiyu Company’s initial ideas have been realized!
At this juncture, how much will the price of Xiyu Company's shares rise? !

Stock prices soared.

Liu Che made some adjustments, sold some of the shares he had acquired some time ago, and added the shares he originally held, and he raised enough funds to build a railway from Luoyang to Wancheng.

The money soon arrived in Xiang Xu's account.

Xiang Xu has been building the railway for more than half a year. Although the Anluo Railway is difficult and mileage-long, and requires the deployment of millions of workers throughout the process, its difficulty is no less than that of a large-scale military operation.

But Xiang Xu pushed forward everything in an orderly manner. Now Liu Che had another job, to build a Wanluo railway, and it must be opened to traffic at the same time as the Anluo railway.

This job put a lot of pressure on Xiang Xu.

However, Xiang Xu still accepted the job. He had no choice but to accept Liu Che's job.

This new railway had already been explored and the land had already been purchased.

It's about recruiting people, transporting materials, and then starting construction.

While building a railway, a highway can also be built next to it.

It doesn't matter if you let go of one sheep or two sheep, so just let them go.

The railway company was established, but Xiang Xu originally wanted to complete the Anluo Railway before the end of the year. Now there is more work to do, and the railways are also required to be connected in parallel, which is not so easy.

It is said that a short railway line, the Wanluo Railway, will be added to the Anluo Railway.

Actually, that’s not the case.

The Anluo Railway runs from Chang'an to Luoyang, and then the railway does not go to Luoyang City, but extends to the port on the Yellow River.

And now the Wanluo Railway does not run from Luoyang to Wancheng City. Instead, it extends to the Hanjiang Ferry, which is relatively close to Wancheng!
To put it simply, this is equivalent to directly building a railway through the geographical basin areas of Guanzhong and Wancheng, connecting the Yellow River to the Yangtze River.

Although this section of the railway is short, the manpower and material resources consumed are much greater than the average of the Anluo Railway.

However, almost all the capable workers on this road have been attracted to the railway, and it is impossible to spare them.

In order to continue construction, Xiang Xu could only cut manpower and then put a table for recruiting workers for the Wanluo Railway next to the table of dismissed workers.

There are many young people in the railway industry who have hot tempers. When they saw Xiang Xu actually arranged such a thing, they got angry and wanted to report Xiang Xu.

Then, after they found out that the Wanluo Railway belonged to Liu Che and Huo Hai privately, they kept silent.

Report your own dean and vice dean? The key is to report to your own emperor and the leader of the new business reform, and the emperor and the leader of the new business reform are these two.

Isn't that 'Who in the hall is suing me for what?'

After this matter has been dealt with.

Liu Che turned his gaze to the south.

The direction of Kunming State can almost be said to be smooth sailing. Not only the citizens, but other local nobles also voted.

To be precise, they all expressed to Su Wu their strong desire not to fight, and they wanted to try their best to persuade the king to surrender.

The King of Kunming, Chang Qiang, was also going crazy.

"Hasn't the Han army dispatched yet?"

"What's wrong with the Han? Why haven't they sent out their troops yet?"

"Ah? Surrender? No, he won't send troops, how can I surrender?!!!"

It turns out that in the minds of the people of Kunming or Dian, there was no possibility of surrendering without a fight.

That is, if we cannot win the battle, as long as the enemy army is dispatched, even if it is just out of the city gate, it will trigger the conditions for surrender.

Just like you cannot surrender in the first fourteen minutes of a League of Legends game, there is no such thing as surrendering without a fight for the Dian Kingdom.

However, in LOL, players are not allowed to shoot in the first fourteen minutes.

The Dian Kingdom is... their local language does not allow the possibility of surrendering without a fight. In their language system, surrender is clearly stated as "surrendering to the army."

In other words, the cognitive system expressed by their language system only considers that the only people they can surrender to are soldiers.

Even if the Han people were causing trouble here, the King of Dian wanted to surrender two years ago.

But the army never came, and not a single soldier crossed the border into the area ruled by the King of Dian, so the King of Dian could not surrender!
And what about the big man?

The Han side is now promoting the kingly way.

In other words, there must be a reason to send troops.

Without a reason, troops cannot be sent.

Therefore, the King of Dian knew that he could not win and had long wanted to surrender. Su Wu knew that he now had more power in the Dian region than the King of Dian himself, but he had no reason to send troops.

The two sides were caught in a vicious circle.

Neither side knows what the other is thinking.

Language barriers can kill people!

Although the Dian people like Uncle Zhang were learning the Han language, they were also accepting the Han ideas.

After they accepted the Han Dynasty's ideas, they completely denied their previous primitive thinking.

Therefore, they did not realize that the king did not surrender because he did not know that he could surrender directly.

In the Han people's thinking system, this is called "resistance to the last" or "toughness".

Both sides were spinning in circles like crazy in this huge blunder.

Finally, Chang Qiang heard the great news.

The army sent by the Han Dynasty arrived in Shu County from Chang'an and was about to reach Dian Kingdom.

As long as they leave the edge of Shu County of the Han Dynasty, the war will begin. Once the war begins, you can surrender!
Chang Qiang wanted to cry. Damn it, he was essentially just a town mayor, but people from thousands of miles away were willing to swear allegiance to him and make me their king.

They don't pay taxes to me, and they nominally recognize me as their king. What can I do?
A huge Han army consisting of the population of a thousand towns was squatting on the border.

They didn't beat me, they just scared me. I was scared for two years!
"You tortured me for three days and three nights to make me answer questions honestly, but you guys should ask them now!! Ask them now!!!"

Chang Qiang was so impatient that he asked the envoy to wait at the border.

As long as the Han army crossed the border one meter, the envoy would immediately surrender.

Then Chang Qiang immediately rushed from the rear to the front line and personally delivered the letter of surrender in accordance with the Han rules.

After Wei Guang led the army to the scene, he chose a location that was more suitable for attacking the Kingdom of Dian and began to cross the river from a tributary on the west side of the Jinsha River.

Su Wu's men began to cross the river from another tributary at the southern end of the Jinsha River.

Heading from northern Yunnan to central Yunnan.

As the fleet set out for the other side, Su Wu saw through the telescope that someone on the other side was raising a white flag.

Su Wu's face turned dark.

When he reached the shore, Su Wu received the letter of surrender.

The letter of surrender clearly stated the origin of the Dian Kingdom.

More than 150 years ago, the Chu general Zhuang Qiao led his army to the Dianchi Lake area with the aim of conquering the local Dian people and making them submit to the Chu State. However, as his way back was cut off by the Qin State, he stayed in the Dianchi Lake area and established the Dian Kingdom in accordance with local customs.

After that, all the Dian people recognized the King of Dian as their leader.

However, the King of Dian did not maintain the army. Instead, he integrated into the living habits of Dian and lived like a town mayor.

One hundred and fifty years later, the Han army, which defeated the Qin army, finally arrived here.

So the King of Dian chose to surrender.

Su Wu immediately asked: "Since you surrender, why didn't you surrender before?"

The messenger said: "General, you haven't sent any troops to attack us, how can we surrender?"

Su Wu realized something was wrong and continued to ask questions, only then did he find out what was going on.

Su Wu thought for a long time and said, "When the army led by Zhang Qian to explore the south was blocked by you, why didn't you surrender?"

The messenger's eyes widened: "General, what a joke you are talking about. Even if our Yunnan army is small, it has more than 2,000 troops. If you send two people, we will surrender???"

Su Wu: "So now I have brought 20,000 men with me, and you will surrender?"

The messenger said, "Yes! My king is on his way. In a few days, my king will personally hand over the letter of surrender to the emperor of the Han Dynasty. My king is willing to be loyal to the emperor of the Han Dynasty. He does not ask for a title of nobility, but a title of ten or so levels will be enough."

Su Wu: “…”

When the information about this incredible event was on the way to Chang'an.

Liu Che was still watching Qiancheng.

Huo Hai! Still in Qiancheng!
Qiancheng's framework system had been fully built, but Huo Hai still did not go south.

It was not that Liu Che questioned Huo Hai. It was simply impossible for Huo Hai to stay in Qiancheng and not leave.

Could it be that the people of Qiancheng could follow Huo Hai to rebel against the Han Dynasty?
impossible.

But why is Huo Hai still in Qiancheng?
At this time, Liu Che finally reacted.

Huo Hai stayed in Qiancheng definitely not for the purpose of developing Qiancheng itself.

But for the new ships!

My analysis was wrong!

At the beginning, Liu Che believed that the great economic development of Qiancheng, coupled with Qiancheng's ability to absorb nutrients from the surrounding areas and form a cycle, would enable the economy to develop, industry to be scaled up, products to increase, the population to grow, and more people to participate in navigation.

This is the only way to stimulate the development of the shipping industry.

Therefore, Huo Hai's purpose of staying in Qiancheng was to develop Qiancheng's economy.

But Huo Hai didn't mean that.

Indeed, Liu Che's analysis was correct. The development of Qiancha was the foundation for the development of the Han Dynasty's shipping industry, and it was also the key to the Han Dynasty's large-scale expansion into and mastery of the New World.

But! Qiancheng's development actually does not require Huo Hai to speed up or increase his aura.

The allocation of capital power in the market will actively enable Qiancheng to develop into a developed region.

Huo Hai's stay here did accelerate the process, but this was not the purpose of Huo Hai's stay. It was just the changes caused by Huo Hai's stay here.

What Huo Hai was interested in was precisely the propeller ironclad ship itself!
People of this era were amazed at the power of paddlewheel ships, which were truly epoch-making compared to previous ships.

But Huo Hai knew that paddle wheel ships were not stable enough and could easily be copied by other countries.

But propeller ships will be something that people from other countries will simply not understand.

As long as he doesn't have the design drawings, no matter how smart a person is, he won't be able to imagine the power system of a ship when he sees it, and he will have no way of imitating it.

This is the only way to eliminate the possibility of other countries learning from it technically.

Only with propeller ships did the Han Dynasty truly become a god to other countries of the era.

Finally, the Mid-Autumn Festival is over and it is already September.

The new steel-framed ironclad ship was finally launched.

The new steel frame incorporates a large number of new technologies that have only been developed this year. The entire ship is ninety meters long and thirty-two meters wide.

The entire boat is still this wide even after the paddle wheels were removed.

Excluding the coal to be burned within a straight-line range of 3,000 kilometers, as well as the crew and their daily necessities, this ship has a carrying capacity of 700 tons!
If the steel riveting technology can be further improved, the real thousand-ton ironclad ship will come!

Huo Hai finally breathed a sigh of relief!

"Eight. We need eight of these ships, three for the north, three for the south, one for the Yangtze River and one for the Yellow River."

"Don't develop more than that, and focus on attacking the next difficulty, all ironclad ships!"

Erkuan also breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Huo Hai's order.

The propeller boat finally succeeded in its water test.

However, Lord Wu Hou actually does not allow large-scale production of this type of ship?

Huo Hai gave Er Kuan a deep look and said, "Private individuals are temporarily prohibited from owning vessels of this level."

If a ship of this level could get the latest cannons developed in Chengdu, he would be able to block the Yellow River and capture Luoyang City on the Yellow River.

How can this be privately owned?
That’s why we have to limit the quantity.

Moreover, for the time being, only official means were allowed to travel to the New World, so for coastal and inland river transportation companies, 400-ton paddle steamers would be enough.

Once we have fully ironclad ships, it will not be too late to sell the ironclad ships to transportation companies.

Er Kuan was a little worried after accepting the task: "Wu Hou, I didn't understand management before, and I was managing blindly, but now after learning from you, I understand, and I found that there are many problems in the shipyard."

Huo Hai: “What’s the problem?”

Er Kuan: "I found that the employees in the shipyard quickly became one and formed a new group. The intimacy between them was much greater than the relationship between the dock workers in other industries or even the steel company."

"This means that if the people recruited by the shipyard in the future also join in, then perhaps in ten or twenty years, all the new employees in the shipyard will be the children of the current old employees."

Huo Hai shook his head.

There is nothing we can do about it. It cannot be avoided.

Er Kuan: "In this way, people with ability can't get in, and people without ability can get the position by relying on connections. This will be a big problem."

Huo Hai shook his head: "This phenomenon is unavoidable. If we want to avoid it, we need to build a few more branches and be ready to change the site at any time, but it still cannot be completely avoided."

Er Kuan: "Does this possibility exist?"

Huo Hai: "For those who have made contributions, allow their sons to inherit their father's business."

"But in the future, if workers have several children in their family, we will only take the best one, rather than asking them to leave the worst one in the shipyard and let the best one fend for himself."

"Do you understand what I'm saying?"

Erkuan suddenly understood.

Huo Hai: "Times are changing. In the future, the shipyards will not be as profitable. The wages may not be so high, and the jobs may not be so popular. So the phenomenon of sons inheriting their fathers' businesses will not be so common, but it will still exist."

“But if this industry is still necessary, the court will continue to build shipyards.”

"What will disappear then is not the shipbuilding industry, but only the Qiancheng Shipyard."

“You need to let every worker know about this possibility and let them know it themselves.”

There is actually no solution to this problem. If development stagnates, then this problem will be very serious.

But if it continues to develop, this problem will not be a serious problem.

Huo Hai had to take charge of the overall situation and had no way of offering advice on such small issues.

……

When Ge San's deputy reached the shore, he knelt down and thanked God.

Seeing how excited he was, Tian Jue waited for him to finish expressing his gratitude.

After he finished thanking, he immediately stood up and said, "General Tian, ​​I heard that Lord Wu Hou is at the port! Is he still there? I brought the latest news. We have found a new continent! I sent back a batch of seeds! A bunch of seeds of magical plants!"

Tian Jue: "..."

"You should have arrived a day earlier. Wu Hou's ship just left the port yesterday and headed south to the Kingdom of Nanyue."

Ge San's deputy: "Can we send a ship to chase them?"

Tian Jue: "The iron ship that Wu Hou is riding on is twice as fast as the current ships. How can we catch up?"

Ge San's deputy was shocked: "What? Another new ship?!"

(End of this chapter)