Looking at the map of Qinhuangdao with detailed marks drawn in front of him, Ye Chunqiu looked at it very carefully, and did not dare to be a little lazy, and even thought about it while looking at it.
Because next, the 400,000 taels of silver prepared by the Zhenguo Government were used to purchase ferries and carry various materials to the island, and began to repair the island's mountains and forests, as well as the cost of building various water villages. 400,000 is definitely an unprecedented amount of money, not to mention an additional budget of 100,000 per month, that is to say, in the next year, the construction of Qinhuangdao alone will be around 1.5 million taels, such an astronomical amount, but it is only used to build an island, which is absolutely rare in this era.
Now what we need to do is to make a good plan, and then sprinkle countless money and food, and start to build the basic facilities one by one.
Roads, docks, warehouses, military ports, houses, and even bridges, as well as shipbuilding docks, watchtowers, lighthouses, and even battery batteries, all count.
I am afraid that tens of thousands of people will be needed for the requisitioned manpower, and in addition, there are countless materials that need to be transferred.
In response to these problems, Ye Chunqiu decided to adopt the most time-saving and labor-saving method to attract foreign investment.
That's right, it's investment Qinhuangdao is very large, with a radius of 100 miles, fortunately, it is close to the mainland, so there is no worry about any difficulties in transportation, and next, since so many buildings are to be built, cement, coal, and steel are all necessary, and the Zhenguo Government will open a new workshop there.
In addition, since the trade concession has been obtained, then in the future, porcelain, silk and many other commodities will be directly transferred from Qinhuangdao to all parts of the world, which means that many businessmen can use the platform of the town government to carry out marine trade, of course, the town government is not just an intermediary agency, the interest rate difference earned must be amazing, but even so, the goods can be sent to Qinhuangdao for transshipment, it is also a profitable thing.
Ye Chunqiu ordered people to release the news first, and prepared to sell some land to private individuals for development, in addition to the necessary buildings and some reserved land, for merchants to open their own workshops, or to establish a transshipment warehouse, or to open shops.
Ye Chunqiu understands very well that the planning is not achieved overnight, and naturally has to start with some of the most basic facilities.
Ye Chunqiu asked people to continue the survey, and then first built the dock connected to the mainland.
The next thing is to wait patiently.
Now, the research institute has become the place that Ye Chunqiu goes to most often.
Thirty Franc ships are indeed leading, but Ye Chunqiu still feels that there are many things that can be improved, and the newly established Ship Research Institute of the Research Institute has now recruited a group of researchers, most of whom are interested in reading.
Then, their first step was to study the structure of the entire Franc machine, so in this shipyard, in addition to the Han Chinese, there were also a few captured Franc machines.
In the past, these Franc machine people used to be shipwrights, because they were not satisfied with the life at that time, so they became sailors with the ship to adventure, and now they have roughly understood some simple Chinese, under the high salary of Ye Chunqiu, they have begun to teach the structure of the Franc machine ship.
Ye Chunqiu's idea was that the Franc machine ship must be retained, and it was impossible to build a steel ship for the time being, on the one hand, the steam engine had not yet appeared, and the bulky ironclad ship would be as slow as a snail at sea if it was not propelled by a steam engine.
In addition, the cost of steel is amazing, with the productivity of the current steel workshop, it is far inferior, in the welding, rivet craftsman skills, there are too many places, this can only come slowly, through some people's livelihood workshops, not only to earn silver, but also to train more skilled craftsmen.
So obviously, wooden warships are the best choice at the moment, and they are completely sufficient, but wooden warships have a great demand for wood, and they also need to be processed, at least in the next two years, it is obvious that the Francophone will be the main fleet of the naval division.
Their role is to patrol the nearby seas, and in addition to that, to train sailors.
It's just that when he arrived in Tianjin again and boarded these warships, Ye Chunqiu also found many things that could be improved, such as the rudder system of this era was not light enough, for example, the sails could also be adjusted, with the help of wind dynamics, appropriate modifications should be made, but the most important thing to improve was the force on the ship.
Ye Chunqiu stood on the ship under the salty and wet sea breeze, and the ship under his feet was originally the Prince Enrique.
Prince Enrique was a pioneering navigator in Portugal, who spent a lot of financial, material and manpower to promote the Portuguese navigation career, and devoted his life to laying the foundation for Portugal to become a rich and powerful maritime empire in one fell swoop.
It's just that now, things are not people, and this ship has become the flagship of the Zhenguo Mansion's naval division, and the name of the ship has also been changed to Qinhuang.
The Qinhuang is a huge ship, although it is huge, but it has a narrow body, whether it is in terms of speed or firepower, it is also one of the best in the whole world, it has set up a full thirty-two cannons, in this era, it is very rare, but this kind of Franc cannon is not satisfied with Ye Chunqiu, its power is very small.
To what extent is it small, it only fires a few fist-sized iron balls, and the range is not too far, even if it is a water battle, it can only be used to attack the opponent's hull after approaching, and after firing dozens of hundreds of iron balls, whether the opponent can be sunk or not depends entirely on luck.
In fact, this is very easy to understand, on the one hand, the Franc cannon in this era is not very powerful, but it is more clever than the tiger squat cannon of the Ming Dynasty in terms of technology, in terms of structure and technology, there is no generation difference, but the most important thing is that once the power is increased, the gun body will inevitably be huge, and the gunpowder will be increased, which will produce greater recoil, think about it, on a wooden ship, a giant cannon is loaded with more than a dozen catties of gunpowder, a cannon blasted out, what will be the result I'm afraid that the opponent's ship has not yet blown up, and the artillery fixed on the wooden structure is already unbearable, and the strong recoil directly shatters the deck of the bottom warehouse, which is completely the rhythm of killing a thousand people and destroying eight hundred.
Therefore, in this era, the guns on ships are often small, and the gunpowder loading is also pitifully small.
Following Ye Chunqiu, there were many craftsmen, except for the shipwright, who were researchers in steel and metallurgy, and everyone visited the ship separately, all of them were amazed. aa2705221: