Winter is coming, and the continuous snow has been falling for two days in a row, and there are not many pedestrians on Chang'an Avenue, and the snow covers the road.
The snowy weather is a little cloudy, and a little dry and cold, the streets of Lantian County are full of people in the early morning, and Guo Shouyi personally led the team to clear the snow.
The snow clearing team in the economic development zone is already busy, and the main team is composed of students from the medical center and the talent school, and thousands of people come out to clear the snow This number is nothing for such a large place.
The task of the Yuan family manor and the surrounding people is very light, because they only need to clear the snow from the street in front of the door.
As for the cleaning of the concrete road, there have been people maintaining it since the snow.
At this time, Yuanshan's family had already gone to Suzhou, and it took a long time to stop and stop along the way before taking a boat from Cangzhou.
This time, Yuan Shan did not have a very serious motion sickness, from Cangzhou to the south by the Satisfaction, first to Suzhou out of Dugu Ruolan and others in addition to more than 100 people from the Economic Development Department, as well as 500 people of the engineering team, now this engineering team temporarily acts as a porter and.
At the Suzhou wharf, the dock is underway, and the people from the Economic Development Department who have been sent over a long time ago to supervise the construction of the treasure ship are only now at the stage of making keels, and it is still too early.
All this Yuanshan has been prepared for a long time, Cangzhou Shipyard has not invested money in vain in its surrounding workshops after such a long period of development, and large blacksmith workshops have long been able to produce large steam boilers, otherwise how did the steam power of the steam ship come from.
The Li brothers' steam power has been realized on a medium-sized cargo ship, and it has been tested very stable, but it is still difficult to improve, but they did not give up, and they are responsible for building treasure ships while carrying out research.
Because the idea of multiple docks has been prepared for a long time, steam-powered table saws are a necessity for each dock, and the starting specifications are even larger, so under the research of Cangzhou blacksmith workshop, large-scale steam-powered band saws were produced.
These table saws are capable of cutting wood from ship planks, and three have been produced so far.
When Yuanshan set off from Cangzhou, two large steam band saws were loaded onto the ship, accompanied by the Li brothers, the steamship project was progressing slowly, so they followed Yuanshan south to first carry out the construction of the shipyard and the production of treasure ships, because these ships are all money, a ship of 300,000 yuan, Li Shimin, who picked the door, did not pay for the treasure ship.
These are all paid in advance with the funds of Cangzhou Shipyard, and the Economic Development Department is still waiting to share it, but at the moment this speed is too slow, and only one of the ten treasure ships has been completed now, and how long will it take for the money to return to its original cost if it continues like this.
In the Suzhou dock, a large table saw has just been assembled.
The huge steam boiler is made up of four large boilers, which appear to be responsible for actually driving a large cylinder with multiple pipes.
The production of the "boom boom" machine is almost the same as that of the locomotive.
The huge cylinder will be the real core of the technology, the huge flywheel turns the band saw, the speed of rotation is not very fast, and a huge wood is placed on the cutting track of the band saw and is slowly pushed by the staff.
The rail-type conveyor device allows the staff not to use too much effort, and then repeatedly push to see that a piece of wood is cut, the length is still the same as the length of the wood, the large planks are cut out, and then these planks are cut into wooden strips using a large steam table saw, and the process is as smooth as flowing water.
The craftsmen in the Suzhou dockyard cheered when they saw this, the wooden ship structure was not complicated, and with such equipment they could increase the amount of work by at least two-thirds.
Because the steam table saw is not only a piece of equipment, but also needs planed boards, an automatic planer was developed on the basis of the power of the whole machine, and the sanding of wooden strips can be completed by putting the planks on it and pushing it twice repeatedly.
Don't think that these steam equipment are easy to make, it would not have been possible to complete them without the efforts of thousands of blacksmiths on the Cangzhou ship.
"Yuan Servant Shooting, with such equipment, the manufacturing speed of the treasure ship will be much faster."
Shen Wanjun, the person in charge of the Suzhou cabin, said.
"Let's hope so, the dockyard is still too understaffed, try to recruit as many people as possible."
Yuan Shan said.
"The lower officials will continue to search for shipwrights for the cabin."
The history of Suzhou Thorn who spoke this time, Zhang Anzhi.
There are only 300 real shipwrights, and there are at least 800 people working in the shipyard now, and the rest are carpenters and blacksmiths who were transferred from Suzhou through the craftsman at this time, and the wages are naturally paid by the Ministry of Economic Development.
However, 800 people in Yuanshan's opinion are not enough, if it is a place like Lingnan, he does not have too much hope, and there are not many shipbuilders who can be found, even if the waterway is developed.
Yuan Shan knew that this Suzhou was the fastest progress among several shipyards along the coast, a large number of workers were being recruited, and the keel of the treasure ship was basically completed, plus the use of steam band saws now, their speed could be faster.
In addition, the use of square iron nails can be improved by the speed of construction, Suzhou does not have much steam power, so large iron nails need to be purchased from Cangzhou, and now the supply of tung oil is relatively tight, but it also makes the collection of tung oil more people.
"Then there is a history of Lao Zhang's assassination."
Yuan Shan spoke very politely, but he only said a few words, after all, he was thinking about the level no matter what he said, don't care if the real or false grades are placed there, it is not good to be too modest.
Coming out of the shipyard full of wooden shelves, Yuan Shan was in a good mood, at this rate, Suzhou Shipyard will be able to complete the construction of a treasure ship in the first half of next year, plus the other docks, although a little slower, within three years, there should be no problem with ten treasure ships.
Look at the more than 10 million guan raised by Cangzhou Shipyard at the beginning, and now there is more than 2 million guan left, and the rest of the money has to be paid wages and continue to build equipment.
Two million guan seems like a lot of money, but the consumption of iron is very huge, and now that the supply of iron increases, the capital consumption will be much faster than before.
Yuan Shan and his entourage came out of the shipyard, this is the third time Yuan Shan inspected the shipyard after arriving in Suzhou, so far very satisfied, the next thing to do is to let the people of the Ministry of Economic Development in Suzhou have a good investigation, and strive to understand more about the local economic situation, to see if there is a project worth developing.
Su Zhennan waited outside the shipyard, because after the inspection of the shipyard, the two of them had made an appointment to participate in the activities of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce.
As the chief official in charge of commerce, Suzhou Thorn Shi got Yuan Shan's consent and immediately told the news to the richest businessman in Suzhou, Su Zhennan was very happy to hear that Yuan Shan came, and it happened that the businessmen in Suzhou were preparing to establish the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce, so Yuan Shan became a guest.
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