The next day is the Little New Year, but the Lantern Festival that is most valued in this era is the Lantern Festival. The Little New Year is not very important. Therefore, the Special Economic Zone will have a half-day holiday on this day, work as usual in the morning or work, and have a rest in the afternoon.

Mao Geng sat in a carriage and headed straight to the Duke's headquarters. The carriage was halfway through. When he saw that it was still early, he explained to the driver and the carriage turned straight to the yard.

Mao Geng climbed onto the "iron ship" and walked back and forth. All the iron sheets were nailed, and the deck was shining with an iron gray luster, which made Mao Geng suddenly have an illusion, as if he was on the deck of a ship in later generations, and then he realized that this was just a fantasy, and he was a little confused for a moment.

Looking back at the special zone that I am proud of, there are no tall buildings or cars, and such a situation is not even comparable to a small town in later generations.

Looking into the distance, the blue sea extends to the sky, waves hitting the coast, and then retreating from the beach.

This is an era of green and environmental protection. There is no exhaust gas, no carbon emissions, no toxic foods, and almost no pollution. The only pollution here is the emission of soap making, which is almost negligible.

However, Mao Geng has never been an environmentalist. On the contrary, Mao Geng advocates industrialization.

Mao Geng, who knew the power of industrialization, came to the Song Dynasty and came to this era, and was destined to be lonely. No one around him could understand himself.

This was a primitive era. Even though the Song Dynasty was technically ranked first in the world, with impressive water transport instruments, large hydraulic textile machines, etc., there was still a long way to go before industrialization.

But it doesn’t matter, everything will be there. With small buildings, there will be high buildings, and then there will be skyscrapers; with small boats, there will be big ships, and then there will be giant steel ships--------.

This seems to be a dream, and this is the place where my dream begins.

Mao Geng laughed as he thought about it. Well, Zhao Yan is a young man who is very good. He is an ideal and ambitious young man. It is actually not an unattainable thing for him to build an iron ship. In less than three to five years, he can help him realize his dream.

Mao Geng walked around the deck again and felt the iron sheet under his feet. Well, it looked beautiful, but when he stepped on it, he felt that the iron sheet was sank. When he raised his foot, he rebounded. Oh! His feet were still very weak! No, we have to hurry up and make steel!

After getting off the boat, Mao Geng jumped onto the carriage and shouted:

"Quick! Go to the Duke's Headquarters."

The next moment, the Duke was in the spacious reception room.

On the sofa in the middle was Zhao Yan, Mao Geng was sitting with his left hand and Han Tuozhou was sitting with his right hand.

The three of them are old partners. The first Xiaobai group is now a golden combination that is highly anticipated by the Song Dynasty, and it only takes more than half a year to count.

"Please come and explain the plan for shipbuilding in the year."

Zhao Han had an ambitious shipbuilding plan. One of the plans was to build two new large dry docks in Kaohsiung Port and prepare to build large ships with great fanfare. The second plan was to take control of two private shipyards in Quanzhou. In this era, Quanzhou's shipbuilding industry was the world's leading shipbuilding industry and the speed of shipbuilding was also the world's largest. Originally, Zhao Han wanted to place the official shipyard in Quanzhou under his command, but the Quanzhou shipyard was the main shipyard for the imperial court to build warships. Some well-established and polite ministers in the court believed that Zhao Han could not make things difficult, so Zhao Han had to not seek second place and had to turn to the acquisition of private shipyards.

Han Tuozhou was worried about the ship and immediately said:

"The Duke of the Nationalist shipbuilding plan is fully supported by the subordinates! You don't know, the people below have long been looking forward to the launch of the Clippers. It's just too slow! I don't know how fast the Clippers can be. If it's true that the speed can double, our Taiwan Songhai Trade will order three ships at a time. One ship from Hokkaido and two ships on Annan route in Chameng. In addition, Mao Geng, whaling ships, have to build two large ships. Jinding sent a message saying that a whaling ship almost overturned the whales and killed more than a dozen people. This time, a new whaling ship must build a large ship, and it must withstand the giant whales to be completed."

Mao Geng is not very professional about shipbuilding, especially sailing boats, and he knows only limited knowledge about soft sail designs. However, he knows more than people of this era, so he comforts:

"Mr. Han, even if the speed of the fly-scissor ship does not double, it will always be much faster. I think it should be no problem to save one-third of the time on sea navigation. As for whaling ships, if they are too large, the speed will slow down. Another way to increase steam power, but I don't advocate this. I have a new design here, which was originally thought of after this typhoon, but it might as well be used for whaling."

When Zhao Yan heard this, he became interested and asked quickly:

"It's He Xin's design, come and listen to me."

Mao Geng took out a wooden model from his bag and put it on the coffee table. Zhao Yan looked at it and could this thing be called a boat? At first glance, it looks like an egg, no, it looks like a big goose egg, but the proportion is wrong. To be precise, this is an ellipsoid, and the thickest part is only less than a quarter of the length. This is not a boat! However, it is said that it is not like a boat, but it has wings and propellers, haha, it looks like a monster.

"What strange ship is this?"

Mao Gengxin said, you have never seen it! This is just a reference to the design of submarines in later generations. Of course, you don’t have the concept of submarines, so it is understandable that you can’t understand this model.

So Mao Geng patiently explained and told Zhao Han and Han Tuozhou that this was a new type of ship that could be completely closed, resisting wind and waves, resisting whale siege, all-weather, multi-functional, and safe performance, killing all other ships of this era in seconds.

Although this ship is similar to the design of a submarine in later generations, it is not used for diving. To put it bluntly, this is just a ship with an appearance submarine that can only sail on the water. As for a submarine that can submarine, you can only count on a future upgraded version.

Since the upper cover can also be sealed, it will not sink even if it is besieged by a group of whales.

Mao Geng designed this type of ship, which was originally designed for the navigation safety of important figures like Zhao Han, and of course, it can also be said that this is designed for his own navigation safety.

"Duke, think about it, there will be typhoons on the sea at any time, and sometimes it will come without warning. With this tumbler-like ship, no matter how deadly wind and waves you have, the ship will shake and swell in the sea and will never sink. Even if it is briefly overturned, since the center of gravity is designed at the bottom, even if it is instantly overturned, it will immediately overturn. Therefore, this ship is not afraid of wind and waves."

Zhao Han was already smart. During this period, he was immersed in shipbuilding skills and had a glimpse of the secrets. Naturally, he could understand it at a glance. Zhao Han picked up the model, thought about it and raised questions:

"Mao Geng, do you have a way to keep this ship from leaking water?"

Han Tuozhou also had questions:

"Since it's closed, how can you shoot a cannon arrow and hit a whale?"

Mao Geng smiled bitterly, thinking that these are not any problems, and there has been a mature solution for a long time, but Mao Geng is not in a hurry to explain, just said:

"Duke, after the Chinese New Year, build a sample ship and you will be able to appreciate the beauty of this ship."

"Okay! Mao Geng, I believe you won't let me down! Haha, if you succeed, isn't this the tumbler in the water? This boat is wonderful! With this boat, you will never be afraid of typhoons again."

The topic returns to Zhao Han’s grand plan to build a ship.

On the shipbuilding list of Zhao Han, in addition to the No. 1 iron ship completed after the New Year, three iron ships of the same model will be built next year, which are 300-ton warships. In addition to the three flying shear ships that Taiwan Song Haimao may order, as well as whaling ships, which are already enough for the shipyard to be busy for a year.

That's not all. Zhao Han's plan is to build an 800-1,000-ton warship next year.

Today's Special Zone reflects the word "special" in many aspects. In the Special Zone, the metric system is gradually implemented, such as kilograms, tons, meters, kilometers, etc., and at least all technical outlets can be used. Zhao Jian was young and quickly adapted to the metric system.

Mao Geng thinks that it is not a big problem for building a thousand-ton ship. Mao Geng thinks he is quite sure to ensure the structural strength of the ship. Without experimental methods, it can improve the safety factor and leave enough room for strength.

But the bigger the ship is, the more it will cost money. Of course, it will cost more money to build a real iron-armored ship. So Mao Geng suggested that Zhao Han use the method of publicly raising part of the funds, yes! That is to say, shipbuilding also has a joint-stock system.

Mao Geng asked Zhao Han to unveil the plaque to the SAR Stock Exchange in order to facilitate the raising of shipbuilding equity in the market.

Originally, Zhao Han also applied for shipbuilding funds from the court, but Zhao Jiang has always saved money. To be disrespectful, Zhao Guo is famous for being stingy and allocated money, but the allocated money is only 100,000 chunks, which is far from satisfying Zhao Han's shipbuilding career.

It costs money to build a dry dock, and it costs money to acquire a shipyard. In short, everything costs money. The warship was originally made in Taiwan, and it was sold to Zhao Han himself.

Originally, Han Tuozhou and Song Haimao made more than 300,000 guan. However, on the one hand, Song Haimao himself also needed money turnover, and on the other hand, he had to settle accounts with the court after all, so Zhao Han also felt that public fundraising was a way.

After a discussion, the three of them decided to set the name of "Donghai Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.". The court invested 100,000 yuan, Taiwan-Song Hai Trade and the Special Zone Group each invested 50,000 yuan, and then publicly raised 100,000 yuan of share capital.

Mao Geng hopes that the exchange will continue to be prosperous, and Donghai Co., Ltd. will be able to raise capital after the New Year.

After discussing this matter, the three of them felt relieved. Han Tuozhou mentioned that the Arabian horse shipped from the Great Food had arrived. It was indeed a good horse! Zhao Yan was curious and immediately asked Qian to see what was going on.

Zhao Yan liked the excitement, so he invited Lu Ye and the other two, Wu Guoyue, including Jiang Bokui, Guo Xixian and Zhou Yi to come to admire the horses. It was lively and the atmosphere of the New Year was just right.

Everyone was amazed when they saw the tall and majestic Arab horses. These horses would be transported to Hokkaido after the New Year. As breeds/horses, they would shoulder the important task of cultivating a new generation of excellent military horses in the Song Dynasty.

Jiang Ang led the crowd to visit the iron ships and flying scissors that were about to be completed. Everyone was in a hurry and said that with the iron ships, at least water battles could be used to torture the Jin soldiers and navy.

After laughing for a while, Lu Jiuyuan reminded that Chief Executive Mao would be the groom in the future. No one should disturb Chief Executive Mao in the past two days. Chief Executive Mao must maintain a good spirit and handle the wedding.

So there was another congratulation, and the crowd dispersed.

Lu Jiuyuan pulled Mao Geng and asked:

"The cannons on the iron ship are built? Also, what kind of musket you told me last time? You said you need to improve it. How are you improving now?"

It’s hard for Lu Jiuyuan to remember this! Mao Geng smiled and said:

"Let's go, I'll take you to see my baby musket."
Chapter completed!