Iron Dynasty

Chapter 80: Small leap forward

   "We have long heard that Wei is rich, but now it seems that we have seriously underestimated the king of Wei."

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

  "More than King Wei, no vassal prince will be as frustrated as this king, but we don’t have to belittle ourselves, as long as we keep our feet on the ground, surpassing them is only a matter of time." Xiao Ming said confidently.

   Hundred thousand slaves, three million shi of food, this is another catalyst for him, enough to make his plan move forward quickly.

   Pang Yukun opened his mouth. He wanted to say that the most lacking thing now is time, but the words stopped when he reached his lips. The future is unpredictable. Who can say anything.

   If God Bless King Qi, then it will be smooth sailing.

This time both Chen Qi and Chen Wenlong came, as well as Zhang Liang. At this time, Zhang Liang said: "These warships are all the warships built by the Ding's Shipyard in Jinling City. When my father was reborn, we went there to see. However, it is indeed larger than our shipyard, and there are many craftsmen who are proficient in shipbuilding."

   "Don't be aspiring to others and destroy yourself. The drawing of the warship this king gives you is not weak." Xiao Ming said.

"His Royal Highness is right." Zhang Liang is still marveling at Xiao Ming's warship drawings. "This time, His Royal Highness has allocated 10,000 slaves to the shipyard. Our manpower is really enough. I promise that we can launch five times 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 the production capacity of the workshop area can be improved. The shipyard provides sufficient spare parts.

   Now that one hundred thousand slaves have entered Qingzhou, and the labor in his hands is sufficient, he immediately allocated it to the shipbuilding workshop. During this time, Zhang Liang's development of the Galen ship was basically completed, and the technical backbone was established. The following is the construction phase.

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

   After receiving the first batch of supplies and slaves, Xiao Ming and Zhang Liang went to the shipyard. For so long, Zhang Liang and others have been restoring the facilities in the shipyard, and now they have been restored seven or eighty-eight.

   When he arrived at the shipyard in the lower reaches of the Tuojiang River, Xiao Ming saw some craftsmen making the keel of the Galen ship. This is the main supporting structure of the Galen ship, similar to the beams of houses.

   Seeing the craftsmen busy running on the river bank, Xiao Ming suddenly remembered something. He said: "Is there something that the king has forgotten. Our shipyard still lacks something?"

  "His Royal Highness, please express it." Zhang Liang asked puzzledly.

   Xiao Ming slowly said, "Dry dock."

   "Dry dock?" Zhang Liang was startled.

   Xiao Ming did not expect Zhang Liang to understand, so he explained that this dry dock is actually a building structure similar to a production workshop.

   It’s just that this structure is used to produce sailing warships. It is closed on three sides and adjacent to the water. The ships are built in dry docks and can also be used for future maintenance.

   By placing various construction equipment on both sides of the dry dock, the construction can be facilitated. Even in modern times, the dry dock is still an indispensable facility for ship building.

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

   Zhang Liang’s family built ships for generations. When this concept was said, he immediately understood and said excitedly: "Your Highness, if this dry dock is built, it can be standardized and mass-produced Galen ships."

   "That's right, each tonnage sailing warship needs different dry docks, so let's come to me when you are free, and I will teach you some shipbuilding knowledge." Xiao Ming said.

   Zhang Liang nodded, looking excited, Xiao Ming showed him unprecedented shipbuilding technology, which for him was a new page in shipbuilding history.

   Dayu’s shipyard is actually a rudimentary shed with some woodworking equipment. Xiao Ming is really not interested in such a shipyard.

   After a brief look, he left, and asked Zhang Liang to go to the Bo Wenxue Tang to study. Now that he has sufficient manpower in his hand, his various plans can be implemented, otherwise, like a Galen ship, he will have to delay.

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

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

   He wants to use these technical materials to build Bo Wenxue Tang into the first modern comprehensive university in the country of Da Yu, and provide a steady stream of talents for Qingzhou.

And these materials Xiao Ming are all written in vernacular characters. Students of Bo Wenxue Tang not only need to understand Dayu characters, but also vernacular characters. In fact, as long as they understand the vernacular characters, traditional characters are naturally not a problem. Therefore, Xiao Ming mainly still Professor vernacular.

   In the next few days, the slaves that King Wei promised to Xiao Ming arrived one after another. Xiao Ming divided these slaves out of 70,000 to the workshop area, and the remaining 20,000 to the mine.

   Hundreds of thousands of slaves arrived, coupled with Liang Dahai's continuous sale of slaves ~www.ltnovel.com~ The workshop area, which received a lot of labor, began to expand under the sign of Xiao Ming.

   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 plant in modern times.

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

   Most of the remaining 40,000 people went to the lathe workshop, and the rest went to the brewery, perfume workshop, cement workshop and other workshops.

   The distribution of 100,000 people ended, and the industrial park was immediately expanded under the leadership of Chen Wenlong. A large industrial park will slowly stand up in the north of Qingzhou.

   "His Royal Highness, these slaves were mixed with dragons and fish, and they were also sent by the King of Wei. I am afraid that there will be restless people among them." The grand occasion of 100,000 people building the workshop area is very rare.

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

"I know this naturally." Xiao Ming looked at the slave who was pushing the sand and cementing the factory building and said: "The secret guards on the left and right have arranged for someone to monitor these slaves. Anyone who is restless will be killed to ensure that he cannot leave the workshop. Area."

   Pang Yukun nodded, Xiao Ming's methods are getting more and more fierce, 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 of the location of the Bo Wenxue Tang. The only place in Qingzhou City that is suitable for building the Bo Wenxue Tang is Liuyunfang in the west of the city. There are only a few households in that place. Just give some money to resettlement. ~www.ltnovel.com~ Book friends are welcome to visit and read. The latest, fastest and hottest serial works are all at ~www.ltnovel.com~ mobile phone users, please go to read.

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