Urban Sims

Chapter 105 Shipping Type I

The [-]st year of Tiansheng, November.

After leaving Wenyuan Academy, Zhou Ming returned to his hometown in Haiping County with more than 30 classmates (some of them went home).

When so many guests came, the parents were a little surprised and didn't know how to arrange it.

Fortunately, a few years ago, Zhou Ming personally designed a bastion for the family treasury, which was half completed. The base is made of reinforced concrete, with a circumference of one mile and a height of nearly 40 meters. It is less than five meters away from Wubao. Li, near the Beijiang River, well-defended, under the protection of matchlock guns and cannons (the world has sufficient raw materials for gunpowder, matchlock guns have been developed, and cannons are currently only a few experimental products due to lack of copper), coupled with supporting port facilities, war Under such circumstances, even if it is besieged by millions of land troops, it will not fall easily.

In the tall bastion, there are hundreds of rooms with complete supporting facilities. At night, you can enjoy the river breeze and see the sea view in the distance. Therefore, after consulting more than 30 students, Zhou Ming placed most of these students in the In the bastion guest room, a servant and a maid are arranged beside each person to serve them personally and provide them with good treatment.

These students, of course, Zhou Ming didn’t live and support them for nothing, they were all high-level intellectuals, some of them could be incorporated into the “Literature Group” to help with literary creation, and some could be incorporated into the “Cartoon Group” Help him draw comics, and some can be incorporated into the "entertainment group" to help him develop his entertainment career.

Even if some good-for-nothings can't help at all, it is very useful to stand aside and be responsible for raising the momentum and yelling.

In short, make the best use of everything, and don't let a classmate live here for nothing.

The students were all settled, and when they returned to Tianjiazhuang Wubao, Zhou Ming asked his father, Tian Feng, about the development of the family's various industries in the past four years when he was away most of the time.

His father Tian Feng, who has darker skin and is obviously much older, has devoted himself to completing all the development plans formulated by Zhou Ming in the past four years. Temperament, he took out more than a dozen ledgers and introduced to Zhou Ming the current development status of the family's various industries in recent years.

The first is the large farm plan. There is nothing to say about it. The current Tianjiazhuang is not only self-sufficient in food, but also has more than 4000 cows, more than 2000 horses, tens of thousands of pigs and sheep in the farm. Unclear chickens and ducks, and the meat, eggs and milk produced every year, have enabled the farmers in Tianjiazhuang to live a well-off life with meat and eggs every day. In recent years, the average height of children in Tianjiazhuang is higher than that of other counties. People of the same age are all three to five centimeters taller, and the older they are, the bigger the gap.

The second is the large salt field plan. The current Haiping Salt Field has been developed for nearly ten years. The area of ​​the salt field has expanded from the original [-] mu, [-] mu, and [-] mu to [-] mu, with an annual output of more than one million sea salt. Shi, this output is close to one-third of the sea salt in Changlu Salt Field in Yangzhou, but because of the shortage of manpower and the annual salt tax paid to governments at all levels, it has risen to [-]%. Father Tian Feng no longer has such a strong motivation. We must continue to expand the area of ​​the salt field, otherwise the government will raise the salt tax again. This hard work is tantamount to making a wedding dress for the court.

Finally, the plan of the ocean fishing company. At the beginning of this plan, when the investment was greater than the return every year, his father Tian Feng was not particularly concerned. Instead, a large number of ships and boats were damaged every year due to storms, hidden reefs, ocean currents and other reasons. Fishermen feel very heartbroken, and sometimes feel that this plan is stagnant and has no meaning for development. However, under the insistence of his son, this plan still persists, organizing training for fishermen, building shipyards, purchasing high-quality wood, and building Larger, stronger, and more scientific fishing boats have been produced, and continuous investment for nearly ten years has finally yielded fruitful results and brought many unexpected surprises.

For example, the catch of marine fish. In the first few years, small boats and small nets can only catch some small fish and shrimps in the offshore. The annual catch is five to six hundred tons, which is not bad. Dried fish, I can consume most of it myself.However, since the 19th year of Tiansheng, Tianjia Shipyard has adopted a standardized construction model and built a batch of "Sea Fishing Type I" fishing boats with waterproof compartments and a displacement of 550 materials, and put them into mass production. The ocean fishing company's catch has nearly doubled in one year, reaching 20 tons.

In addition, some marine fish preservation techniques invented by the fishermen (such as stocking in wooden barrels, artificial oxygen supply, etc.) can ensure that most of the marine fish are still fresh before landing. , brought a large amount of raw materials, which made a special product called "Dried Haiping Fish" in Haiping County quickly become popular in surrounding counties and counties.

Even the newly appointed Magistrate Du of Haiping County (the former Magistrate Chen and County Magistrate Sun were promoted because of their outstanding political achievements) found that the "Dried Haiping Fish" tastes good and tastes delicious. Special feature, in order to please the central government, this kind of dried fish was listed as a tribute and dedicated to His Majesty Ming Emperor and the Empress Dowager, and was soon rewarded, and asked to offer a hundred stones of dried fish every year, so that the royal family, civil and military officials could taste it .

If the dried fish industry is a well-regulated and profitable industry, then Tianjia Ocean Fishing Company, the whale fishing industry that has developed wildly in the past two years, is a complete profiteering industry. Only relying on whale fishing, two years In time, Tianjia Ocean Fishing Company earned back all the huge sum of money invested in the previous ten years, not to mention a huge profit of nearly 20 yuan.

Why is it said that whale fishing is a profiteering industry?
Because, whales are full of treasures!

Whale skin, after tanning, is firm and durable, waterproof and corrosion-resistant, and has strong defensive power. It can be made into leather armor, belts, waterproof clothing, whale skin umbrellas, hiking shoes, backpack straps, etc.... like ancient industrial plastics , is extremely versatile.

Whale blubber, the extracted whale oil, has a special fragrance after burning, refreshing and refreshing, and is worth a thousand dollars. Moreover, whale oil is also an excellent industrial lubricant. In the future, it will be necessary to manufacture steam engines.

Whale meat is edible. It tastes similar to beef. It has a delicate taste and is rich in protein. It is not easy to cause obesity, and the price is not expensive.

Whale tendons are tougher than beef tendons and mutton tendons, and are comparable to crocodile tendons. Bows and arrows, crossbows, and various siege devices, after using whale tendons, their power will increase a lot. Whale tendons, it can be said, are a A military strategic material.

Whale bone, after being ground into powder, is a high-grade "composite fertilizer" containing a variety of mineral elements, which can increase agricultural output by 10% when sprinkled on the fields.

Whale viscera, some can be used as medicine, some are delicious ingredients, in short, they have many functions.

Whale poo...throw it away.

How did Tianjia Marine Fishing Company catch the first whale?It is also a coincidence. After fighting with a group of fierce sharks, this whale was seriously injured and fled to the sea in a hurry. It happened to be the ebb tide of the sea. Unfortunately, this whale, which is 18 meters long and weighs 50 tons I ran aground in the shoal, and happened to be picked up by a "Sea Fishing Type I" fishing boat returning from fishing...

After tasting a lot of sweetness from this stranded whale (this whale is equal to the company's annual income in previous years), the ocean fishing company, out of control, specially refitted several whaling ships for whaling Come out, form a whaling fleet, and cooperate in whaling. In two years, they have caught hundreds of small and medium-sized whales and returned (the big ones are not to be provoked), and they only rely on selling the whale oil extracted from these whales. , earned hundreds of thousands of guan.

And there are countless whales in the sea, just like cattle and horses on land. For example, there are tens of thousands of whales living in an ocean current convergence zone more than 300 miles east of Haiping County. Catching [-] whales is just to speed up the population renewal speed of these whales a little bit.

……

a few days later.

Thirty miles northeast of Tianjiazhuang by the sea, a shipyard covering an area of ​​hundreds of acres is holding a launching ceremony for a new ship.

Zhou Ming and his father Tian Feng both came here.

The person in charge of the shipyard is Tian Guang, a middle-aged man in his forties, with rough and dark skin, like an old farmer. He is an uncle of the Tian family. He is quite good at building sea ships. After Zhou Ming recruited him, he handed over all the affairs of the shipyard to him.

In the center of the shipyard, on the largest berth, sits a ship with a relatively large side width (about 7.5mm). There are rows of oar windows, and 80 paddlers can be arranged to operate the oars; there are two rows of fins at the bottom of the boat, which are used to reduce the roll of the hull during sea navigation.

Before the new ship was about to be launched, Tian Guang, the person in charge of the shipyard, said with flying eyebrows: "This 'Sea Transport Type I' cargo ship uses 1155 materials, has three decks, and has 68 waterproof compartments inside. Large, can load 2000 shi (= 100 tons) of materials, fixed crew of 150 people, operating sails and oars, sailing thousands of miles a day under smooth conditions, it is no problem! With this type of cargo ship, ocean fishing companies, In the future, when going out to sea during the fishing season, the fishing boats will not have to go back and forth, and the transportation work will be handled exclusively by a Type [-] cargo ship, and the efficiency of fishing will definitely increase several times!"

In any industry, in order to improve efficiency, it is necessary to pay attention to the division of labor and cooperation, and the same is true for marine fishing: "Sea Fishing Type I" fishing boats are dedicated to fishing, and the more they catch, the better; ", responsible for transportation... In this way, in the three or four months of the year when the sea has the least storms, the catch of ocean fishing companies will increase dramatically under this division of labor.

Zhou Ming nodded, and asked him: "Uncle Guang, let's mass-produce 2000 ships first, and the next research focus should be on the 'Sea Fishing Type [-]' fishing boats. This new type of fishing boat uses It is expected to be more than [-] materials, go to sea once, and at least two or more large whales can be caught back... You should strive to develop the 'sea fishing type II' fishing boat within two years."

two years?

Tian Guang was taken aback. This is too urgent. Doubling the materials used in shipbuilding means that the workload is not as simple as doubling, but three to four times!In addition, in order to maintain the stability of the ship's navigation, the structural design of the internal cabin also needs to be calculated with a large amount of data. Therefore, it is an axiom in the shipbuilding industry that the larger the ship, the more difficult it is to build.

"Then it will be about three years, preferably not more than four years! The company will also find ways to recruit more manpower and craftsmen, including talents in ship design...Uncle Guang, you can, in just two years, Building the 'Sea Transport One' from scratch shows that you can do better than you imagined in the face of greater challenges!"

Seeing that he was a little embarrassed, Zhou Ming cheered him up.

Tian Guang nodded, with a firm and confident look on his face.

"here we go!"

"Let the water go, let the water go!"

Accompanied by the cheers of his father Tian Feng and the workers, the lock gate slowly opened, and after the seawater poured into the dock, this brand-new cargo ship, slender as a bow and coated with yellow tung oil, slowly floated from the water surface. It is also like a man-made miracle, bringing people endless reverie...

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