Steel Dynasty - Chapter 80

[Chapter 80 Small Leap Forward]

“We have long heard that the land of Wei is rich, but now it seems that we have seriously underestimated the King of Wei.”

Pang Yukun stood beside Xiao Ming, with the shadow of the sailing warship flashing in his eyes, revealing a faint concern.

“Not just the King of Wei, no vassal king will be as depressed as I am, but we don’t have to belittle ourselves. As long as we keep our feet on the ground, it is only a matter of time before we surpass them.” Xiao Ming said confidently.

One hundred thousand slaves and three million stones of food were another catalyst for him, enough to advance his plan quickly.

Pang Yukun opened his mouth. He wanted to say that the most lacking thing now is time, but he stopped talking. The future is unpredictable, and who can say anything.

If God bless King Qi, everything will go smoothly in the future.

This time Chen Qi and Chen Wenlong came over, as well as Zhang Liang. At this time Zhang Liang said: “These warships are all built by the Ding family shipyard in Jinling City. When my father passed away, we went there to see them. However, it is indeed larger than our shipyard, and there are many craftsmen who are proficient in warship construction. “

“Don’t let others’ ambitions destroy your own prestige, the warship blueprints I gave you are not weak,” Xiao Ming said.

“Your Highness is right.” Zhang Liang is still marveling at Xiao Ming’s warship drawings. “This time, Your Highness allocated 10,000 slaves to the shipyard. We really have enough manpower. I guarantee that we can launch five ships this year.” “A Galen ship.”

Xiao Ming nodded, “That’s good.”

When the shipyard was restored, Xiao Ming did not provide too much labor to the shipyard, but gave a large number of slaves to the workshop area. In his opinion, only when the production capacity of the workshop area is improved can sufficient spare parts be provided for the shipbuilding workshop.

Now that 100,000 slaves have entered Qingzhou, there is enough labor in their hands. He immediately allocated it to the shipyard. During this period, Zhang Liang’s development of the Galen ship was basically completed. With the technical backbone in place, the next step was the construction stage.

Ten thousand people build five galenic ships a year, and with the cooperation of the workshop area, there is basically no problem.

After receiving the first batch of supplies and slaves, Xiao Ming and Zhang Liang went to the shipyard. For such a long time, Zhang Liang and others have been restoring the facilities in the shipyard, and now they have been fully restored.

Arriving at the shipyard downstream of the Tuojiang River, Xiao Ming saw some craftsmen making the keel of the Galen ship. This was the main supporting structure of the Galen ship, similar to the beams of a house.

Seeing the craftsmen busy running on the river bank, Xiao Ming suddenly remembered something. He said, “I forgot something. Our shipbuilding workshop is still missing something?”

“Your Highness, please clarify.” Zhang Liang puzzled.

Xiao Ming said slowly: “Dry dock.”

“Dry dock?” Zhang Liang was startled.

Xiao Ming didn’t expect Zhang Liang to understand, so he explained that this dry dock was actually a building structure similar to a production workshop.

It’s just that this structure is used to produce sail warships, with three sides closed and one side facing the water. The ships are built in dry dock and can also be used for future repairs.

Placing various construction equipment on both sides of the dry dock allows for convenient construction. Even in modern times, dry docks are still an indispensable facility for building ships.

Xiao Ming naturally does not expect to be able to build a modern-level dry dock, but a simple one is fine. He is also doing this to standardize the shipbuilding industry in Dayu, which can greatly speed up the production of Galen ships.

The Zhang Liang family has been building ships for generations. When this concept was mentioned, he immediately understood it and said excitedly: “Your Highness, if this kind of dry dock is built, it can be standardized and mass-produced Galen ships.”

“Yes, sails of each tonnage Battleships need different dry docks, so come to me when you have free time, and I will teach you some shipbuilding knowledge.” Xiao Ming said.

Zhang Liang nodded, looking excited. Xiao Ming showed him unprecedented shipbuilding technology. For him, this was a new page in the history of shipbuilding.

The shipyard in Dayu was actually just a simple shed with some woodworking equipment inside. Xiao Ming was really not interested in such a shipyard.

After a brief look, he left, and asked Zhang Liang to go to Bowen Hall to study. Now that he had enough manpower, his various plans could be implemented, otherwise he would be delayed again like the Galen ship.

When he arrived at the palace, Xiao Ming did not sit idle. Instead, he wrote down the knowledge in his mind and turned it into textbooks one after another.

These textbooks include mathematics, chemistry, physics, and various technical materials.

He wants to use these technical data to build Bowen Hall into the first modern comprehensive university in Chongqing and provide Qingzhou with a steady stream of talents.

Xiao Ming wrote all these materials in vernacular characters. Students in Bowen Hall must understand not only Dayu characters but also vernacular characters. In fact, as long as they can understand vernacular characters, traditional Chinese characters are naturally not a problem. Therefore, Xiao Ming mainly Teaching vernacular words.

In the next few days, the slaves that King Wei promised to Xiao Ming arrived one after another. Xiao Ming divided these slaves into 70,000 people and gave them to the workshop area, and the remaining 20,000 people gave them to the mines.

With the arrival of one hundred thousand slaves, coupled with Liang Dahai’s continuous selling of slaves, the workshop area, which received a large amount of labor, began to expand under Xiao Ming’s instructions.

First, the steel workshop expanded its production scale. Xiao Ming increased the number of workers in the steel workshop to 30,000, which is already the number of workers in a large steel factory in modern times.

But here, the production capacity formed by the number of 30,000 people is only equivalent to that of a small steel factory, but for Xiao Ming, this is enough for the time being.

Most of the remaining 40,000 people were given to lathe workshops, and the rest were given to breweries, perfume shops, cement workshops and other workshops.

After the allocation of 100,000 people, the industrial park was immediately expanded under the leadership of Chen Wenlong. A large industrial zone will slowly rise in the north of Qingzhou.

“Your Highness, these slaves are a mixed bag, and they were sent by King Wei. I’m afraid there will inevitably be restless people among them.” It is very rare for a hundred thousand people to build a workshop area in full swing.

There was a lot of movement this time, and Pang Yukun, who had never been interested in the workshop area, also came over.

“Of course I know this.” Xiao Ming looked at the slaves pushing sand and cement to build the factory building and said: “The secret guards on the left and right have arranged people to monitor these slaves. Anyone who is restless will be killed to ensure that he cannot leave the workshop. District.”

Pang Yukun nodded, Xiao Ming’s methods became more and more ruthless, but this is the quality that a hero should have, he must be generous to his own people and cruel to his enemies.

“By the way, Your Highness, I have already thought about the location of Bowen Hall. The only place in Qingzhou City that is suitable for building Bowen Hall is Liuyunfang in the west of the city. There are only a few ordinary households in that place. Just give them some money to relocate them. .”

(End of this chapter)