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Chapter 369 The Ambition of a Powerful Battleship (Second Update, Please Subscribe)
The news of the victory came quickly, and the news reached Nanhua almost on the same day that the Nanhua army captured Buenos Aires.

"Extra, extra, the official army conquered Buenos Aires, and Sarnto fled to Uruguay..."

"Outside the number, outside the number, the official army won a big victory!"

Even in the design room of the shipyard, Luanda could still hear the howls of newsboys coming from outside the window. Those newsboys who sold newspapers in their spare time were all very excited.

After all, those newsboys who have the strongest sense of belonging to Nanhua are the newspaper boys. Although they were not born here, most of them grew up here. It is precisely because of this that they are even more excited by the victory.

This kind of excitement is more because they regard themselves as Nanhua people from the bottom of their bones. As a member of Nanhua, they will naturally be excited and proud of Nanhua's victory.

"The army has won a big victory!"

Luanda was stunned for a moment, and for a moment, he was even a little absent-minded.Then he said to himself.

"Why so fast?"

While speaking, he looked at the blueprint of the warship being drawn on the table, and his tone seemed a little disappointed.

Luanda, who returned from studying in the UK last year, entered the Nanhua Shipyard. He has participated in the construction of many ships and is designing a new type of warship. Originally, he hoped to take advantage of the special situation of war to let him design this kind of warship. The warships won the favor of the Navy, but the war was never over so quickly.

"The war is over, will this warship be accepted by the Navy?"

Talking to himself, Luanda looked out the window. The sound of forging iron beams and hammering rivets in the shipyard was like a concerto, echoing in the shipyard. In the shipyard, there were workers on the scaffolding next to several giant ships. They were busy around the giant wheel like ants one by one. They swung their hammers to hammer the rivets, and the fiery red rivets were thrown back and forth in the air, drawing streamers of light.

The six giant ships being built there are all [-]-ton giant ships, four of which are ore carriers with a displacement of more than [-] tons, and the other two are two [-]-ton immigration ships, although their specifications are far less than " Great Eastern", but the [-]-ton giant ship is an unprecedented breakthrough for Nanhua's shipbuilding industry. Even now, few countries in the world have built such a huge merchant ship. Of course, Britain, France, Italy and other countries The warship has already broken through the [-]-ton mark.

"With the experience of building [-]-ton merchant ships, our shipbuilding technology will have a breakthrough, and then we will be able to build larger-tonnage warships, from [-] tons to [-] tons, and then to [-] tons?"

Once again, Cao Anda thought of what Liang Mingwei, the chief ship engineer of the shipyard, told them. The construction of these giant ships was just for practice and to accumulate shipbuilding skills.

Of course, it’s not just for practice. Take the [-]-ton ore carrier. Compared with ordinary bulk carriers, the advantage of the ore carrier is that it can be loaded and unloaded quickly, and it can also withstand the load when transporting goods such as coal and ore. Roughly handled, its bilge steel plate is thicker to withstand chain shovel loading and unloading cargo.

The ore carrier is a merchant ship that Nanhua urgently needs, because now Nanhua needs to import hundreds of thousands of tons of high-quality coal every year. When Luanda first arrived at the shipyard, he heard that the reason why Nanhua imported high-quality coking coal from the Cape Colony Due to the tonnage of the ships, the transportation volume is limited and the cost is relatively high.

Otherwise, coal can be transported from Alaska. There are large coal mines in Alaska, but limited by the distance, large-tonnage ore carriers must be transported to reduce transportation costs.

As for the [-]-ton immigrant ship, its importance is self-evident. Nanhua needs the human resources of Tangshan to enrich its own population. To Nanhua, but even so, it still cannot meet Nanhua's demand for population.

Building an immigrant ship with stronger transport capacity has become an inevitable choice. These two immigrant ships have just begun. Even in the design room led by the chief engineer of the shipyard, Li Weier, there is already an immigrant ship with a displacement not inferior to the Great Eastern.

The market demand has stimulated Nanhua's shipbuilding capabilities, but in Luanda's view, this speed of progress is still a bit too slow. When he was studying in the UK, he had witnessed the huge size of the Royal Navy and personally participated in the construction From there, he had a desire in his heart - to build a warship capable of defending Nanhua.

After returning to Nanhua, Luanda has been studying the direction of future warships in his spare time. While drawing sketches of many warships, he is also trying to explore the boundaries of Nanhua's shipbuilding industry, or the potential of Nanhua's shipbuilding industry.

"Actually, Nanhua's shipbuilding technology is still very strong..."

Luanda said to herself.

"It is absolutely possible to take a bigger step, and we can definitely build a larger warship, just like Brunel built the "Great Orient"."

Staring at the giant ship in the distance, although with the completion of the Pacific Railway, the home port of the "Great Eastern" has changed from Nanhua to Linhai, but Luanda can still remember the surprise when he saw the giant ship for the first time. It seems that it was the "Great Eastern" that pushed British shipbuilding to an unprecedented height.

And now?

"Will they be Nan Hua's "Great Eastern"?"

Staring at the six giant ships under construction in the dock, although their tonnage is high and they will be completed next year, in Luanda's view, it is difficult for them to become the driving force for the development of the shipbuilding industry like the "Great Orient" .

Returning to the drawing table, Luanda looked at the drawings drawn on the table, and he said to himself.

"There is no need to follow the rules. If you want to develop quickly, you must break the rules!"

After making up her mind, Luanda pursed her lips, picked up the pen again, and said.

"The Navy will definitely need larger warships..."

As if he had made up his mind, Luanda tore off the blueprint, then narrowed his eyes slightly, and said to himself.

"What the Navy needs is their Great Eastern, just like the shipbuilding community at Nam Hwa."

Perhaps the war is over now, when he believed it wasn't really over because expansion would cause international tensions.

This may even lead to the decision of the Navy to expand the navy, which also means his warships.

No, it means the Navy needs more powerful warships.

And this is also his opportunity, his opportunity to sell a powerful warship to the navy.

All he needs is to convince the Navy with a stronger warship!

(End of this chapter)