Lu Ming

Chapter 138 Saltworks and Shipyards ([-])
The shipyard is located in the northeast corner of the Taijiang River, across the sea from the Luer Gate at the top of the Weidao Island on the Northern Line, and belongs to the most remote corner of the Taijiang River.

Whether it is an antique wooden boat of later generations, a racing sailboat or a steel-hulled fishing boat, no one has ever traveled through it.No way, the current population base is still too small: Dong Cao will send a few to a dozen newcomers from time to time every month, and sometimes there is none, so as of March 1628, the first year of Chongzhen, the cross-country The total number is only 3 people.

The only person here whose previous work has something to do with shipbuilding is a man who installed pipelines for oil tankers in a [-]-ton shipyard. Now he is doing well in the kiln area. When he heard about shipbuilding, he shook his head and said he didn't like it.

Well, money can’t buy happiness, and the most important thing in doing work is interest, so in the second round of online recruitment, Qiao Zhengtai, who has the most "theoretical research" on wooden sailboats, was elected.

Qiao Zhengtai, a former mountain bike factory technician, successfully demonstrated his understanding of the era of sailing warships in front of everyone through the keyboard and tongue battle.In a local area network without a search engine, most people are completely exposed, and Qiao Zhengtai, who can tell the parameters of various sailing warships in the 17th century at any time, has thus become the director of the shipyard.

After Qiao Zhengtai took office, it was very convenient to mobilize various resources due to the relatively high attention of the shipyard.

First of all, people: Now that the big guns have been selected, the small guns don't have to fight anymore. Five or six people who usually like sailing warships came to the shipyard to live together.

All the laborers currently under the jurisdiction of the crossing, regardless of race or occupation, as long as they have something to do with shipbuilding, they will all be dispatched to the shipyard. Among them is a Dutch carpenter who is the key point: Old Kohler.

Old Kohler was a prisoner in the Battle of the Commercial Hall. At that time, only he and another carpenter were assigned to work in the carpentry shed in the kiln area, and the other prisoners went to repair the earth.Later, all the surviving captives followed Peter Nuiz back to Batavia, while the old Kohler and another Dutch carpenter were kept secret by the crossing because they were more important.

In fact, the old Kohler didn't want to leave here either.

Old Kohler is not Dutch, he has pale blond hair and a tough face.The old Kohler, who was born in a family of chefs in the Bavarian countryside, is already wrinkled, but he is only 34 years old.Of course, in this era, a 34-year-old with wrinkled faces is the norm for people below the middle class, regardless of nationality.

The old Kohler saw too many incredible things in the kiln area: omnipotent machines, measuring tools accurate to millimeters, finished products without a trace of difference, 50 people who suffered fatal injuries (in his eyes), and came back to work in a few days .

The other Dutch captives thought it was hell, but Kohler the Elder, a 17th-century craftsman, firmly believed that it was heaven.

Being able to repair plywood boats at sea naturally has two brushes. After the old Kohler was assigned to the carpentry shed, he soon became a squad leader, swearing at apprentices in half-baked Chinese every day—that’s how he learned it back then.

One day when the old Kohler finally figured out that the mysterious power that makes the table saw move came from the strange machine called "generator", he calmly made a request to the director of the lumber factory: naturalization.

"I am already old, so old that I may die of illness on the next voyage, and then be thrown into the sea. Therefore, I hereby solemnly request to join your kingdom. I know that only in this way can I have the opportunity to learn those mysterious knowledge. "

Zeng Rong, the director of the timber factory, couldn't laugh or cry after listening to the old Kohler's request—everything was a start-up, and there are too many departments that are lacking now.

So Zeng Rong could only make a promise to his subordinate, General Huang Mao: You have good qualifications. If you work hard, you will definitely be able to get the title of engineer in the future. Well, when you can be naturalized in the future, you will be the first to apply for it.

Now, you can feel wronged for a while, you can study and work at the same time, but the price of learning knowledge is that you are prohibited from contacting your compatriots from now on. Can you hold on now?
Old Kohler solemnly swore an oath in the name of God on the spot, vowing to be in the heart of Cao Ying. After Cao then Zeng Rong went to the newly opened intelligence bureau to report to Old Kohler, the old Kohler with a green card will officially defect to the light. .

The old Kohler who was summoned to the shipyard by a paper transfer order is still very good - another Dutch carpenter died of illness a few days ago, and the old Kohler is now the only child.

Of course, Qiao Zhengtai also paid more attention to the old Kohler: No matter how many detailed information on the ship in the hands of the people in the crossing, it is still necessary to integrate theory with practice, starting with a ship plank and an iron nail, and accumulate experience, learn and improve bit by bit.Kohler, who worked as a boatman for ten years in the world's most prosperous port of Amsterdam in the 17th century, was undoubtedly the backbone of Taijiang Shipyard in its early days.

Except for the old Kohler, there are no master craftsmen among the Ming people's boatmen, only a few small workers, and there is no one who can carry a Chinese-style sand ship project alone.Fortunately, the shipyard is only newly built, and there will be enough time in the future to recruit craftsmen and train newcomers.

The most important project at present is the wharf, and there will be one or two small docks in the future. As for shipbuilding, small boats are the only option.A small boat that can be operated by two or three people does not even need a dock, and it can be set up directly on the beach. Set a small goal and build [-] to [-] boats to practice first.

Qiao Zhengtai's step-by-step planning made the navy members who wanted to go around in battleships all day long anxious.These self-proclaimed shipyard supervisors have been running around lately when they have nothing to do, pointing fingers and tirelessly, and the pretenders headed by Mu Longcheng frequently want to discuss with Qiao Zhengtai the necessity of giant naval battleships.
The shipyards across the public were hatched in this situation: most people were digging sand to build docks on the slippery tidal flats, while a small number of people clumsily built fences for new sampans under the roar of a yellow hair.
Looking at the busy scene in front of him, Qiao Zhengtai couldn't help shaking his head—there is a long way to go, even if he has prepared N types of tall ships that are suitable for crossing forces, now look at the gap between reality and dreams of these boatmen who can't even set up the fencing smoothly. So big, it's frustrating.

All in all, the newly opened construction sites near Dayuan are not only civil engineering, but also civil engineering, digging mud and sand, and there is no technical content.

And what really has technical content is the newly imported electric furnace in the kiln area.

As the highlight of the new year in 1628, the electric furnace system used up the 2 boxes of import quota for the entire February only for the equipment accessories in the early stage. After that, another box of consumables was accidentally added.
Although steelmaking is an overwhelming BOSS-level project, such a high import quota, the big office has to bite the bullet and make a decision, which makes the electric furnace system undoubtedly become the project with the largest import volume in the history of Chuanzhong, which is undoubtedly It hurts the heart of some people who have been waiting for the quota.

(End of this chapter)