...... Obviously, the debate on whether to occupy a certain port after crossing is still being discussed, but the issues discussed by those people are more or less a topic that has not been skimmed out of the eight characters, and unlike there, the discussion on Gu Jin and Li Sanduo's side is much more realistic, at this time Li Sanduo suddenly remembered something, and he asked Wang Xue who was sitting next to Captain Gu in a low voice:

"Auntie, I found that there is a lot of steel in the bilge of the Nicole, all of which have been formed steel plates and various profiles, and the captain told me that it was special steel for ships, what kind of ship do you think this is for us?"

Wang Xue frowned and turned her head to Li Sanduo and said:

"I'm not old with more than three, what are you old and you old, no matter how many times you say it, you can't change it!"

"Oops, forgot ...... again"

"Those ships are precious steel!"

Wang Xue glanced back at Anna, who was sitting at the bar in a daze, and said to Li Sanduo:

"Anna and Nicole both told me that there are a total of 3,600 tons of ship steel, all of which are ready-made profiles, and Anna said that it was for us to assemble the sister ship of Pride, including all kinds of raw and auxiliary materials, and also provided the same power, weapons and communication systems as Pride, including ammunition. So, in the early days of our crossing, we didn't need to develop it ourselves, just assemble it. ”

"Oh? Anna is very generous this time! ”

"Anna's meaning is obvious, she wants us to learn shipbuilding by assembling, and finally make our own ship."

Wang Xue smiled and responded.

"Oh, that means it's equivalent to giving us several Pride Numbers!"

Li Sanduo's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"Yes, but it's not so easy to DIY these ships, Nicole also told me, because the amount of materials exchanged in time and space is very limited, and the slipways and large shipbuilding facilities and equipment for shipbuilding can't be provided to us, Nicole said, that's the maximum."

Gu Jin interjected beside him.

"Then, more than 3,600 tons of ship steel can make a few sister ships of the Pride?"

"You can build eight ships, the materials provided by Anna are numerous, I saw a total of eight sets of compressed air injection systems for external combustion engines, which happened to be for eight ships, just like Gu Jin said, strictly speaking, it should be DIY assembly, not manufacturing ......"

Wang Xue replied in a low voice.

"Yes, in the future, we will have eight Pride-class armed merchant ships, so the question is, where can we find the other eight captains?"

Sun Lao next to him was obviously also listening to the conversation between the three of them, and interjected at this time.

"It's not that you have to find it from those bear children, and we don't have to worry about outsiders......"

Gu Jin glanced at the high school students who were arguing with a group of people passionately and responded.

"Hey! That's okay, I'm confident that I can train those bear children, although they are bearish, but their essence is not bad, and they still have a certain level of education. ”

Li Sanduo also followed Gu Jin to look over there and said.

"We must hurry up and urge their cultural learning, I plan to suggest to Nicole Anna that they give them a university course, anyway, there are brainwave interference techniques, and it is not a big problem to instill some cultural and scientific knowledge, right?"

Sun Lao took a sip of tea, exhaled a breath of hot air, and said to Gu Jin.

"Support Elder Sun's suggestion, after a while, let's go and talk to Nicole about ......"

Gu Jin immediately nodded.

"Well, aunt, then we should be able to assemble a few proud-class sister ships within a year or two after the crossing, right?"

"It's hard! The reason is simple, before you build a ship, you need to have a slipway, even if it's simple, and we don't have it! Also, if you look at the floating dock facility, there is not even a hoist, so you have to build the dock facility before you can talk about the slipway......"

Wang Xue said while pulling Tao Tao to sit down, this child is very active when he encounters a crowded occasion, a girl who belongs to the crazy character of people, obviously a little girl who has just turned twelve years old, but she wants to be with her, and she ran to the table of high school students to chat with little adults, and now she was mercilessly detained by her mother, and she was feeling uncomfortable, and when she heard Li Sanduo talk about shipbuilding, she immediately came to her senses, and her eyes lit up and said that she wanted to go on board with Brother Sanduo to be trained as a seafarer, and she could go to sea as a female pirate after learning it.

This made Wang Xue anxious, and the child's mother said to Gu Jin hatefully, look at it, look at it! Is this still a girl? You don't care about being a father, you drill into the boat all day long, and you can't see a single figure all day, this kid can't let her follow those high school students, see how many days it's only been? Female pirates are out!

Gu Jin also frowned when he heard Wang Xue's chatter, but looked at Tao Tao's tone was much gentler, and said Tao Tao, you are still young, let's talk about it when you grow up, now your task is to study, and together with Brother Haidong, you will make up for the high school courses that you have left behind, and then you will take college courses, isn't your Uncle Ba giving you a financial class? Let's talk about it when we're done, hey! Shrewd! Protests are ineffective......

At this time, Li Sanduo had already slipped aside, and he was chatting with Hou Xianglin and Boss Luo's gang, and the content was still shipbuilding.

"Where is it so easy, Sanduo, you are also a nautical professional, you have never eaten pork and seen a pig run, right? I'll tell you, this labor force is a bottleneck, and the slipway needs to be built, right? Reinforced concrete, right? Just now Xiaohou said that it can produce cement, well, the question is where does the steel bar come from? Also, we're building iron ships! It's not wood, even if it's welding, don't think about it in ten years, but you also have to have hoisting and woolly tools and equipment, right? We have to build all of this from scratch. So even if it's assembly, you have to wait for the conditions to be ......."

Boss Luo's answer made Li Sanduo thoughtful, and then asked unwillingly:

"Well, if you have what it takes, then you can build a ship?"

"That's it!"

"Oh, that'...... Brother Hou, is the cement number of the cement slipway solved? ”

"Uh...... It should be no problem, after all, Anna has given us a ready-made miniature version of the equipment, anyway, let's pick up the cement factory first. ”

Hou Xianglin sat next to him and crossed his legs, answering Li Sanduo's question while picking his teeth.

"Well, it's not going to happen in a while...... Alas......"

Li Sanduo sighed.

"Actually, the bigger difficulty is the labor force, you look at those high school students, thin arms and legs, and then look at our side, the old old, the small, or the weak scholars, and build a slipway? That's hard work! ”

Boss Luo looked thoughtfully in the direction of the bar, and also responded to Li Sanduo's question a little carelessly.

"What then?"

"Count on immigrants! First, though, it's important to get out there...... In my opinion, it is only right to develop some trade goods of that era seriously, the ones that are of higher grade and more valuable, and then rely on the Nicole Pride to ship them out to earn some money, establish stable trade routes, and then introduce slow labor. ”

At this time, Gu Jin turned his head and said to his wife and apprentice.

"Captain Gu! It coincides with our thoughts! You see, can we first develop some trade goods of a certain era, such as glass products or something, and ship them out to sell, and then exchange them for raw materials, and even exchange them for some people......

Sun Lao had already sat on Gu Jin's side at this time, and solemnly suggested to Gu Jin.

"That's right! Sun Lao's suggestion is Lao Cheng's words for the country, or it is better to be realistic, first do something within your power and blow the chaff to see the rice, engage in some popular trade goods to sell for money, and by the way, abduct and sell some people, this is indeed a more secure and realistic way. As for those who build ships and cannons immediately after the crossing, and then go out to kill the Quartet, the idea is a bit too naïve, what do you say after the crossing, they will drive the Nicole to occupy a port, and this start will make enemies on all sides? Too much to take for granted, right? It's still the same sentence, honestly keep quiet, don't be shy! ”

At this time, Mr. Zhao didn't know when he also came over to express his opinion.