Become a feudal king from today

"I will definitely do it. Looking at the blue ocean, Zhao Xu's eyes were like lightning.

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

During the civil strife, they defeated the Jiangbei tribe, occupied Goryeo, and blocked Japan.

Now we are about to wipe out the powerful clans in Jiangnan.

But at this time, the Western and Turkish powers showed their fangs.

If you want to strangle him through civil strife, you may even end up personally in the near future, just like the contemporary anti-French alliance formed to attack Napoleon, stop him and put him to death.

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 cruel reality with guns and blood.

The Great Song Society has risen and will rise under his leadership.

"Yes, it will definitely happen." Zhou Yi agreed at this time, and then added to Chen Shou, "I guarantee it with my Zhou Yi head."

Then he suddenly smiled playfully and said, "Mr. Chen, for the sake of my guarantee, you must deliver warships to the Navy as soon as possible, with high quality and quantity."

Chen Shou was a little moved at first, but he couldn't help but roll his eyes after hearing this.

Zhao Xu smiled.

Since both of them were stationed in Jinghai, Zhou Yi often invited Chen Shou to dinner and drinks because of the navy's warships. It can be said that they were very familiar with each other, and they often joked with each other.

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

Chen Shou was too lazy to pay attention to Zhou Yi anymore, and replied, after thinking for a while, he said: "According to His Highness's instructions, cities along the coast with good harbor conditions are currently preparing shipbuilding yards. Beyond that, there are spacious towns on both sides of the Jin River and inland. In the inland river area, the coastal shipyards are mainly used to build warships, and the inland shipyards are mainly used to build commercial steamships.”

Zhao Xu nodded.

Chen Shou's plan was very reasonable. Large ships must be built along the coast, otherwise they would be stranded.

The length of commercial steamships ranges from ten to thirty meters and can be built by internal shipyards. There is no need to compete with military shipyards for good seaports.

The most important thing is that by utilizing both inland rivers and coastal areas, the number of shipyards can be increased.

"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, "Currently, there are Pingyuan Shipyard and Leling Shipyard in Jinhe. There are also three shipyards under construction in Laixian, Yanxian and Qingxian of Qizhou."

"Among them, the shipyard in Qingxian County is a military shipyard, twice the size of Jinghai, and the others are for civilian use. Among them, the Qingxian Shipyard was ordered to give priority to construction. As expected, it will be completed in two months, and the armored ship hull will also be built. It will be built in Chengfang, Qingxian County.”

This Qing County is the contemporary Qingdao. After hearing this, Zhao Xu had a plan in mind.

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

In this way, the navy's fleet can continue to be replenished.

"Temporarily convert the civilian shipbuilding yards to military use, and then convert them to civilian use when the sea is safe." Zhao Xu said.

After occupying Yizhou, Franco Governor Fei Wen planned to kill him. Now there are Franks, Rus and British snakes and rats trying to annihilate him and make Dasong become their colony.

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

However, even though he imagined having hundreds of sailing battleships and steamships, this was not realistic.

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

Putting five shipyards into operation at the same time has reached the limit of Jiangbei Industry.

Otherwise, the dry docks and houses of the shipyard would be empty shells without sufficient craftsmen and steam engines.

So, we can only do it step by step.

But he believes that as states and counties copy Yancheng's workshop district model, industry will blossom everywhere in Jiangbei.

Shipyards will be put into use faster and faster.

It won’t be long before Dasong’s shipbuilding industry will be on top of the world.

"Yes, Your Highness." Chen Shou responded.

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

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

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

Zhao Xu did not alarm them, but instead spent his own money to treat Chen Shou and Zhou Yi to drinks at a Jinghai County restaurant.

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

Different from when it came, due to the good test run results, Zou Rongli increased the speed of the steam locomotive, reaching 50 kilometers per hour.

In just an hour, they returned to Yancheng.

After getting off the carriage, looking at the familiar buildings in Yancheng, everyone felt an unreal feeling.

It's like being in a dream.

In one day, they traveled from Yancheng to Jinghai, and then from Jinghai to Yancheng. They also spent a long time playing in Jinghai.

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

But now, they have experienced it for real.

"It's amazing, it's really amazing." Zhao Heng said, "Xu'er, how far will this railway be built?"

Zhao Xu said: "From the north of the Yangtze River to the south of the Yangtze River in Dasong, from the coast to the desert, in the future, every county in Dasong will have railways passing through it and there will also be stations."

Zou Rong heard the words and nodded in cooperation.

Zhao Heng was startled for a moment, looked at Zhao Xu with complicated eyes, and after a long time he said: "Very good, very good."

As he spoke, he and Concubine Mi walked towards Wuji Palace.

Zhao Xu and Zhao Heng were a little surprised, but they didn't think about it deeply.

Just as he was about to return to the palace, Zou Rong said: "Your Highness, the southbound railway is in trouble."

"You're talking about Jinhe, right?" Zhao Xu guessed it after a little thought.

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

However, the narrowest point of the Jin River is 500 meters, and the river is deep and fast. Currently, there is no ability to build a bridge across the river.

In this way, the railway was interrupted at Jinhe.

In the contemporary nineteenth century, it was precisely because of this problem when building railways that bridge technology advanced by leaps and bounds, which also led to the great development of the construction industry, giving mankind the ability to build 100-meter-tall buildings for the first time.

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

The category of architecture was even taken out of the School of Government Affairs and established as a separate school.

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

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

So he said: "This is not difficult, just use a boat to cross it."

"The boat will cross over?" Zou Rong was dumbfounded.