Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 810

[Chapter 810 Shipbuilding Industry]

“It will definitely.” Looking at the blue ocean, Zhao Xu’s eyes are like lightning.

Along the way, he defeated the rich family of Yan County, the Yuan family, and Beidi.

During the civil strife, he defeated the Jiangbei clan, occupied Koryo, and blocked Dongying.

Now it is about to wipe out the Jiangnan clan.

But at this time, the western land powers showed their fangs.

If you want to strangle him through civil strife, in the near future, you may even end up in person, blocking him and putting him to death just like the contemporary formation of an anti-French alliance to attack Napoleon.

But he just refused to let their wishful thinking succeed.

They thought they had won for hundreds of years and would continue to win.

And he will give them a harsh reality with guns and blood.

Da Song will rise under his leadership, and will surely rise.

“Yes, it will.” Zhou Yi echoed at this time, and then added to Chen Shou, “I guarantee it with my Zhou Yi head.”

Then he suddenly smiled, “Mr. For the sake of guaranteeing your brains, you should deliver the warships to the navy as soon as possible with high quality and quantity.”

Chen Shou was a little moved at first, and couldn’t help but roll his eyes when he heard this.

Zhao Xu smiled.

Since the two are always stationed in Jinghai, Zhou Yi often treats Chen Shou to dinner and drinks for the navy’s warships. It can be said that they are very familiar with each other, and they often joke around.

At this time, he suddenly thought of something, and asked, “How is the situation in other shipyards?”

Chen Shou didn’t bother to pay attention to Zhou Yi, and after thinking about it, he said, “According to His Highness’s instructions, there are still shipyards along the coast. Cities with good harbor conditions are all preparing for shipbuilding workshops, outside of which are the banks of the Jin River and the spacious inland river areas, among which the coastal shipbuilding workshops are mainly used for building warships, and the inland shipbuilding workshops are mainly used for building commercial steamships.”

Zhao Xu nodded.

Chen Shou’s plan is very reasonable. Large ships must naturally be built along the coast, otherwise they will be stranded.

The length of commercial steamships ranges from ten meters to thirty meters, and internal shipyards can be built without competing with military shipyards for excellent harbors.

Most importantly, the number of shipbuilding workshops can be increased by utilizing both the inland river and the coast.

“However, due to the shortage of shipbuilders, I can only focus on the shipyards in Qizhou so that they can build warships as soon as possible.” Chen Shou continued, “At present, there are Pingyuan Shipyards and Leling Shipyards on the Jin River. There are also three shipbuilding workshops in Lai County, Yan County, and Qing County of Qizhou.”

“The shipbuilding workshop in Qing County belongs to the military shipbuilding workshop, which is twice the size of Jinghai, and the others belong to civilian use. Among them, Qing County Shipbuilding Fang Chen ordered the construction to be prioritized, and if there is no accident, it will be completed in two months, and the hull of the iron-clad ship will also be built in Qingxian County.”

This Qingxian County is the contemporary Qingdao.

It will be June in two months. If it can be put into operation, another batch of steamships will be launched in February next year.

In this way, the navy’s fleet can be continuously replenished.

“Temporarily convert the civilian shipyard to military use, and then convert it to civilian use when the sea is safe.” Zhao Xu said.

Occupying Yizhou, the governor of Franchi, Fei Wen, designed to kill him, and now there are Frank, Ross, and British snake rats, trying to exterminate him and make Dasong their colony.

All these things forced him to let the shipyard make dumplings.

However, although he imagined owning hundreds of galleys and steamships, this is not realistic.

As Chen Shou said, the construction of the shipyard takes time to recruit and train craftsmen, and the steam engine workshop also takes time to produce steam engines for the shipyard.

Putting five shipyards into operation at the same time is the limit of Jiangbei industry.

Otherwise, the dry dock of the shipyard, the house is built, and there are not enough craftsmen and steam engines are empty shells.

So, only step by step.

But he believes that as the states and counties replicate Yancheng’s workshop district model, industries will blossom everywhere in Jiangbei.

The speed at which the shipyard will be put into use will be faster and faster.

Before long, Dasong’s shipbuilding industry will stand on top of the world.

“Yes, Your Highness.” Chen Shou replied yes.

Zhou Yi laughed. The two shipyards in Jinhe also built warships, so the navy’s warships were more secure.

After learning about the latest situation of the warship and the construction of the shipyard, Zhao Xu chatted with the two for a while before returning to Jinghai County.

At this time, Zhao Heng and the others had already had dinner, and under the guidance of Jinghai County Magistrate, they went to the beach to play.

Zhao Xu didn’t alarm them, but paid for it himself, and invited Chen Shou and Zhou Yi to drink at the restaurant in Jinghai County.

In the evening, when everyone returned, he went to Jinghai Station and returned by steam locomotive.

Unlike when it came, Zou Rong ordered the steam locomotive to increase its speed to 50 kilometers per hour due to the good results of the trial run.

In just an hour, they returned to Yancheng.

When they got off the carriage and looked at the familiar Yancheng buildings, everyone felt unreal.

As if in a dream.

In one day, they went from Yancheng to Jinghai, and then from Jinghai to Yancheng, and they still played in Jinghai for a long time.

If someone had said this to them before, they would definitely think this person was crazy.

But now, they really experienced it once.

“It’s amazing, it’s really amazing.” Zhao Heng was still thinking, “Xu’er, where will this railway go?”

Zhao Xu said: “From the north of the Dasong River to the south of the Yangtze River, from the coast to the desert, every county in Dasong will have railways in the future. When the railway passes by, there will always be a station.”

Zou Rong nodded in cooperation after hearing this.

Zhao Heng was stunned for a moment, looked at Zhao Xu with complicated eyes, and said for a long time, “Very good, very good.”

As he spoke, he walked towards the Wuji Palace with Concubine Mi.

Zhao Xu felt that Zhao Heng was a little strange, but he didn’t think deeply about it.

Just as he was about to return to the palace, Zou Rong said at this moment: “Your Highness, the railway going south is in trouble.”

“You mean Jinhe, right?” Zhao Xu figured it out after a little thought.

When encountering small rivers and ditches, the Ministry of Industry can also build bridges and pave roads.

But the narrowest part of the Jin River is 500 meters, and the river is deep and fast, so there is currently no ability to build a bridge across the river.

In this way, the railway was interrupted at Jinhe.

In the contemporary 19th century, it was precisely because of this problem encountered in the construction of railways that bridge technology advanced by leaps and bounds, which also led to the great development of the construction industry, enabling humans to have the ability to build 100-meter-high buildings for the first time.

Next, he will also focus on training talents in bridge construction.

Even the category of architecture was specifically extracted from the School of Government Affairs, and a separate school was established.

In addition, there are agriculture, economy, transportation, law, etc.

But before that, there must be a way to solve this problem.

So he said: “It’s not difficult, just use a boat to cross it.”

“Go across it by boat?” Zou Rong was dumbfounded.

(end of this chapter)