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Chapter 1127 Jiangnan Shipyard

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    Yang Fan was summoned by a letter from Zhao Hao, saying that he wanted him to see with his own eyes how far behind Ming Dynasty¡¯s shipbuilding technology had fallen.

    It¡¯s not easy for Yang Fan to admit this. After all, he was promoted by Longjiang Factory, which produced Zheng He¡¯s treasure ship.  So even though he knew it was a provocation, he still came.

    Yesterday, as soon as the Oriental Beauty, which was as huge as a castle but looked like a work of art, entered the shipyard, he was stunned.  As a shipbuilding expert, he could see at a glance how difficult it was to build the ship.  When the Oriental Beauty was docked in Zuotang, he couldn't wait to go up and visit it, and studied it for a whole day.

    In the end, Yang Fan had to admit that the shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty, which was proud of the world at that time, was really lagging behind the Westerners. How could this make the proud craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty feel embarrassed?

    Therefore, when he met Zhao Hao, his previous arrogance that was unique to technical talents was gone, and he was listless.  It seems that it is still difficult to accept the fact that Ming's shipbuilding technology is no longer the best in the world.

    There is no other way, the Celestial Empire has been in the country for a long time, and I want to be the first in everything, and even being the second is uncomfortable.

    "This is called sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. We have stopped moving forward for a hundred and fifty years. It is normal for others to catch up and surpass us." Zhao Hao patted Yang Fan on the shoulder. This was the effect he wanted.  "This is a good thing. If you don't realize the gap, how can you catch up?"

    "Yes." Yang Fan nodded heavily.

    "Come on, let's go take a look." Zhao Hao patted Sloppy again and walked into the shipyard surrounded by everyone.

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    The shipyard covers an area of ??more than 600 acres and is a first-level security unit of the group. An entire security brigade is responsible for its security work.

    After Tamna Security District became independent from Jiangnan Security Company, Zhao Hao reorganized the security company in accordance with the principle of "emphasis on externality and deemphasis on internal security", changing the original vertical management model to a flat management model.  There is no special captain, only corresponding security teams are dispatched to specific company factories according to the needs of the group.

    The first-level security unit sends a security team of 500 people; the second-level security unit sends a security squadron of 100 people; the third-level security unit sends a security team of 20 people.  The security teams are not subordinate to each other, and the company is directly responsible for daily training and logistics support.

    This will obviously weaken the combat effectiveness of the security team and turn them into security guards, but Mr. Zhao must use this method to make it clear to the group that he has no disobedience to prevent them from having any inappropriate thoughts in the future.

    The entire factory area is very spacious. The quantitative management that Mr. Zhao has always advocated is implemented in the factory area, and everything appears to be in order.

    The first thing they entered was the huge lumber yard. In the era of wooden sailing ships, wood naturally played the leading role.

    The lumber yard has a separate dock.  Next to the trestle, a fleet transporting logs is unloading.  The Popeye crane lifted the lightly trimmed logs ashore and loaded them onto flatbed oxcarts.

    There are also rails on the ground, and the wheels slide on the rails, allowing a cow to easily pull up a whole cart of logs and send them to the lumber yard not far away.

    This section of railway track is exactly one kilometer long and is made of wrought iron.  The railway that Mr. Zhao promised to build for Lao Xi'er was just this kind of thing.  But firstly, Lao Xier offended him, and secondly, Wuhu didn't have that much production capacity, so he could only let Lao Xier wait.

    Zhao Hao took a ride on the ¡®ox-pulled train¡¯ with great interest and entered the lumber yard, where he saw various types of lumber neatly stacked.  There are fir, elm, camphor, locust, cypress There are more than ten kinds of wood in the forest, which fills most of the lumber yard.

    "Are there tens of thousands of them?" Zhao Hao climbed up to the observation deck and overlooked the entire lumber yard.

    "The total number of all kinds of wood is almost 23,000." Ma Hu replied hurriedly.

    "How many kinds?"

    "Eighteen kinds." Ma Hu explained: "The masts of thousands of ships are made of straight fir, and the beams and rafters are made of camphor and locust wood. The shallow boards are made of any wood; the rudder stock is made of elm and walnut; and the closing rod is made of  Use thick wood and locust wood; use fir and cypress wood for the oars"

    "With so many different types of wood, won't it affect the performance of the ship over time?" Zhao Hao asked curiously.

    "It will affect it. It would be great if we could only use two or three kinds of wood." Ma Hu smiled bitterly and said: "But there is nothing we can do about it. There is very little wood produced in the south of the Yangtze River. The wood for our shipbuilding is all from Huguang,  They are purchased from Sichuan and even Yunnan, Guizhou and Fujian, and the cost is astonishingly high. You can only use what you want, and you can¡¯t be picky about your food.¡±

    "Don't worry, this problem will be solved in the next year." Zhao Hao said with a smile.  According to the "Treaty of Oita", the Japanese Lao Wang has organized people to start cutting down trees to pay off debts.

    "That's great!" Ma Hu suddenly smiled from ear to ear.  Since last year, Jiangnan Group has purchased wood for shipbuilding on a large scale, which has directly led to??Mainly.  Experienced shipbuilders will first build a prototype ship using lightweight plates such as pine wood and then dismantle it. Each part will be numbered and used as a mold for official production.

    The workshop director divided the carpenters into several groups, and each group only needs to be responsible for copying and producing part of the molds. This greatly simplifies the work of the carpenters and makes production skilled and efficient.

    And with molds and accurate specifications, it is easy to check whether the processed wood is qualified. With strict quantitative management, the scrap rate can be controlled below one percent.  The scrap rate of European shipyards at the same time was more than one tenth!

    ps. It¡¯s the eldest brother¡¯s birthday today, so I¡¯ll try to write another chapter (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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