After visiting the two ships of the Qiao family, the brothers agreed that this kind of ship is quite good, compared to the Assassin 21, the carrying capacity is much larger, although the speed is a little slower than the Assassin, but it is more durable and durable, of course, you get what you pay for, and the price is indeed much more expensive than the Assassin.

A sailboat with a thousand-material Cantonese steeple-bottomed hard sail and a watertight cabin needs three thousand taels of silver, which is still the preferential price given by the Qiao family in the face of his uncle.

However, the second son of the Qiao family further explained that this price was appropriate, because the keels of the two boats were made of very precious iron pear wood, and in addition, according to the requirements of the uncles, the number of watertight compartments would also be increased, and the porous rudder would be made of precious and strong wood.

However, two sailing ships cost a full six thousand taels of silver, which does not include the recruitment of sailors and training costs, in short, this price once made Xia Xiaoou and Yu Hewei, who were far away in the Red Mansion, feel a pain for a long time, but at that time, Wanshan Island was facing the threat of the Qing army because of the matter of the Dayuan Mountain Fortress, so the Red Mansion also had to invest in strengthening its armed forces, so it later gritted its teeth and admitted.

Now that the alarm has been lifted, the money has been spent, and the wooden boat has been completed, so naturally it is necessary to admit it, but I heard that the Red Mansion may allocate a boat for Zixia Island, which is a wild sea, and it will definitely not work without a boat.

Of course, until now, this arrangement is still a matter that has not been left behind.

Through the investigation of the sample ship of the Qiao family, in terms of size, the brothers all understand that this ship is a large ship in this era---- with a length of more than 30 meters, a width of 7 meters, a total displacement estimated at about 600 tons, and an actual cargo weight estimated at more than 300 tons.

If we refer to similar ships of this era, probably only the medium-sized Galen galleons of the Europeans are larger than such a thousand wide ships.

Moreover, the downwind speed of this kind of Guangzhou ship should be more than six knots, which should be a very fast ship in this era.

The Canton ship uses a hard sail, although it is easy to operate, but it is not conducive to the navigation of the deep ocean, so the brothers also sent a telegram to the Red Mansion, suggesting that after the ship is bought, see if the two Canton ships can be changed to soft sails.

The Red Mansion side was also very concerned about the ship, especially Wang Xue, not long after learning about the purchase of the ship, she asked the Macao side to drive the boat back to Mornington Island for renovation as soon as she received the ship.

Wang Gong said that if this ship was powered by a 15-horsepower Stirling engine and a 600-millimeter light mortar gun, what would it be like?

For this reason, the "Engineering and Science Committee" of the Red Mansion seriously discussed Wang Gong's proposal, and the final decision was: After the ships arrived, the two ships would be driven back to the Red Wharf for renovation in accordance with Wang Gong's plan.

Doing so also allows you to train your crew by exercising.

Speaking of the crew, Gu Jin proposed to the Education Committee as early as the beginning of the Red Mansion's plan to buy a ship that a sailing training course should be set up at Zhuyuan Public School as soon as possible.

Captain Gu believes that the current bottleneck of our talent is not in the industrial sector, but in navigation.

However, Captain Gu's suggestion could not be implemented, and the problem was in two aspects: first, the bigwigs in the industrial world kept a close eye on the teenagers in Zhuyuan, and second, the parents of many tenants on the island were unwilling to let their children become seafarers.

At the beginning, Han Yu, the principal of Zhuyuan Public School, responded positively to Captain Gu's proposal, and he quickly selected more than thirty teenagers with better physical conditions among a group of twelve to fifteen-year-old teenagers, and planned to send them to the Nicole for internship after training in the school for a period of time, but this move immediately caused complaints from all parties, especially the bigwigs in various industries.

They complained that although the academic performance of these children is not very good, but after a period of training, they can be regarded as having a certain cultural foundation, and we have already booked them to the company as employees, even if the academic performance is average, we need it very much!

Because these children are a hundred times stronger than the labor force of the Han tenant slaves in any case, you have taken people away like this, which is undoubtedly a drain on the bottom of the pot in the industrial sector, and will harm everyone's interests!

However, Captain Gu refused to budge, saying that he had no choice but to do so, and if he didn't take precautions now, the entire fleet would inevitably face an extreme shortage of talents in the near future.

Captain Gu explained that at present, we cannot use those adult crew members who are readily available in the society, because the quality and character of this kind of people are worrying, and it may be difficult to control after going to sea.

Of course, the situation of the Assassin is more special, because the Qiao family personally selected and recommended it, the boss and bow of this ship are not bad, but it is only limited to the Assassin.

Therefore, the training of seafaring talents in our own schools is a must, and it is quite urgent.

The Red Mansion side attaches great importance to Captain Gu's opinion, after all, Captain Gu is a veteran driver who has been running the sea for many years, and his understanding of the crew and sailor group must be much deeper than that of us ordinary people.

So the navigation class of Zhuyuan Public School was finally retained, but in the end, it also balanced the complaints of the bigwigs, and reduced the number of people by half, only fifteen, and in the end, this navigation training class became only ten people.

The reason for this is that a considerable number of the teenagers in this class come from tenant families on the island, and their parents do not want their children to go to sea to become sailors, believing that it is dangerous and dangerous to be a seafarer, and that the children cannot stay with them.

Therefore, when these parents heard that their children had entered the navigation training class, they actually ran to Principal Han and cried to change the class, saying that they hoped that their children could learn a craft from the masters in the factory in the future, which was the way to settle down.

Han Yu had no choice but to tell these parents the truth, he told these parents, your child is not interested in learning culture, he is in a trance all day long, and he fights with his classmates, he belongs to the energetic and simple-minded type, it is actually good to be a sailor, not to mention that our iron ship is not dangerous, although he has to go out to the sea, but he also has to return to Hong Kong!

What's more, as a sailor, you have a wide vision and earn a lot of money, maybe you can bring back a little daughter-in-law to your family soon......

However, Han Yu's rhetoric could only ease the parents' emotions for a while, and later, these parents actually went to the factory to ask their intern teachers for advice, hoping that the teachers could accept their children as official apprentices, and some parents also said, simply our children will not go to school, so that the children will not be sent to the sea, right?

As a result, many science and engineering men really went to the school to find Han Yu and persuaded him not to force these children to enter the navigation class, and said that although these children are a little stupid, no matter how stupid they are, they are better than those tenant slaves......

This time it was Han Yu's turn to be embarrassed, and he had no choice but to tell the Education Committee about the situation, and Xia Xiaoou and the others also felt that it was difficult to handle, so they simply kicked the ball to the Supreme Executive Committee for discussion.

The main reason for this situation is that Bamboo Garden School has a different school system for children over the age of 12 than other children.

Nowadays, the school system of Zhuyuan Public School is divided into two categories: one is for full-time teaching for underage children, and the other is for teenagers over 12 years old when they enter the school, and the latter is part-time work and study.

After these teenagers enter the school, they only have half a year of full-time teaching, followed by half a day to learn culture and half a day to work as apprentices in factories.

Therefore, these children can earn silver during their studies, although it is not much, but the parents are extremely satisfied with this arrangement, and some parents who have fallen into the eyes of money even ask their children to drop out of school and go directly to work with the master, because then they can earn more silver.