757 Alteration of three sailing ships
Sun Lao believes that for those Han settlements and water villages, we can start with business dealings, or directly recruit reclamation households in those places, and after a period of contact and trust, when the contact conditions are ripe, they can develop into our allies on the spot, and even directly migrate these people to our territory on a large scale.
If the local indigenous kingdom comes out to intervene and destroy in this process, it will be in our hands, just like we took over the villagers of Nantian Yizhai, and we only need to win a battle, and this group of wandering Han people will willingly follow us......
Therefore, the report of the Immigration Bureau immediately triggered a heated discussion between the two ships and three places, Li Sanduo called the Red Mansion on behalf of the crew of the Pride, and agreed with this strategy, Ren Ke also sent a telegram saying that the arable land area of Zixia Island is very large, and now the preliminary exploration data is that only Zixia Island, at least 300 square kilometers of the area belongs to the tropical plain landform suitable for reclamation as arable land, and now, more than 1,000 people on the island are desperately reclaiming the wasteland, only to reclaim less than 10 square kilometers of land, attention, And that's not even counting the other elongated island next to Zixia Island, called Big Cay in the old world, which is larger than Zixia Island.
Therefore, there is a huge potential for accommodating immigrants here, and your immigration office can safely open up to send people here.
However, after the discussion, everyone gradually deviated from the topic, because everyone found that they were a little powerless in the face of a strategy that seemed to be quite good.
Because, now we have neither a ship nor a crew to carry out the action plan proposed in the report of the Immigration Bureau---- well, let alone the ship and the crew, even the chief and deputy director of the Immigration Bureau are part-time commanders of the two light poles.
As a result, the issue of talent training was once again magnified and put on the table, so the issue of student distribution at Takeyuan Public School and Sunflower Girls' Public School once again became the focus of attention.
Immediately after that, Zhu Beiguo proposed: Asking Zhuyuan and Sunflower to quickly set up a special training course for radio communicators, regardless of gender, and after passing the training, all of them will be handed over to the Federal Migration Bureau for use---- and the time is still very short.
According to Xiao Fei's plan, he plans to set up a communication equipment manufacturing company in the near future, and the high-power radio station with a communication distance of 1,500 kilometers will be manufactured at a rate of one set every three months.
To this end, Xiao Fei is writing a plan for Xia Yu and the two gods of wealth, it is estimated that the company will be officially established before the end of the year, it is said that the "North Fund" has agreed in principle, and the initial investment will not be less than 100,000 taels of silver---- which is an unprecedented record, and it is a big deal in the recent future of the "North Fund".
Of course, this investment project still needs to be discussed and approved by the general meeting of shareholders, but it can be expected that because of the successful development of high-power radio stations, everyone will definitely not have any different opinions on this project.
Therefore, the training of radio communication personnel should not be delayed, and the equipment should not be used by then, and the operators will not keep up, which will really delay things!
This time it was Han Yuxia Xiaoou's turn to be embarrassed, the two of them pulled more than 900 children in the school around, and found that all the older teenagers were booked in various ways, and the number of the original sailing training class was also in a state of shortage, according to Wang Gong's plan, by July at the latest, a new sister ship of the Pride will be completed and launched, and then another will be launched before the end of the year---- that is, it will only take a few months, Sailors had to be drawn from those three sailing ships to fill the two Pride sister ships.
Apparently, the Federal Migration Service's plan to provide radio communication personnel to the two schools in the near future is about to fall through.
Fortunately, Li Sanduo sent a telegram saying that he had just experienced a battle in Nantian Yizhai, and it was said that there were so many orphans, if Brother Zhu was willing to go to Minado to discuss with the great saint, maybe he could take those children to you as apprentices, anyway, you will soon get on the boat, and when the time comes, you will go to Minado to negotiate with the saint girl on the Feminist number, won't you be able to live together?
Zhu Beiguo specially called back for this:
"Li Sanduo's suggestion can indeed be considered!"
Soon after, Sun Lao also called back from Nicole:
"It is recommended that the Immigration Bureau find and recruit reliable personnel on its own through the relationship of Nantian Yizhai and train professionals in radio communication and immigration affairs......"
However, the various discussions exchanged by these telegrams were very commonplace, and did not make even a small wave, because the exchange of information was too common, and soon another great event caught everyone's attention.
This major event is that Wang Gong's "magic change" of the three sailing ships was completed ahead of schedule.
On 15 June, Wang Gong announced that the strengthening and renovation of the three sailing ships had been completed, and on the same day he handed over the boats to Zhu, Xu, Peng, and Hu.
After visiting the renovated sailboats, everyone thought that Engineer Wang Xue had put a lot of effort into the transformation of the three sailboats, and praised their enhanced transformation projects.
The most striking of these were the stiff sails of the three galleons that had been converted into soft sails, the aft sails of the sloops of the Assassin, and the addition of upper sails to the brigs of the Feminist and Captain Timo.
The sail control system has also been updated to make it easier to raise and lower the sail.
In fact, this is just a trivial transformation, and Zhu Beiguo and they are satisfied to see that there are three aspects of major internal transformation:
First of all, it was expected that the mechanical power system was added, a miniature and simplified version of the proud-class power system, the Stirling engine, air compressor, gas reservoir and supporting operating system were all ready-made materials from the old world, because Wang Gong had done early and sufficient preparation for this renovation project, so this most labor-intensive project was completed ahead of schedule.
In addition to the power system, the second, most striking modification was, of course, a light mortar mounted in the bow.
Considering that the recoil of the mortar when firing could cause hidden damage to the wooden hull, Wang Gong strengthened the wooden beam at the bow of the ship, and also specially designed an iron frame with a certain cushioning effect.
However, due to the addition of the above system, the payload of these three wooden sailing ships has been reduced a lot, so in order to improve the load and safety of the ship, Wang Gong consulted a lot of information, and came up with a third major modification of great significance, or quite different: she added a set of special structures to these three sailing ships that can improve the stability, speed and buoyancy of the ship: large underwater balsa double hydrofoils.
Wang Gong's design proved to be very successful, except for a slight loss of steering flexibility, this hydrofoil design not only increased buoyancy but also greatly increased the speed of the ship.
This is due to the fact that the underwater resistance of the hull is reduced due to the hydrofoils, which allows the speed to be increased, and after testing, its economic speed can reach an average of seven to eight knots, and the maximum speed when downwind is actually close to twelve knots!
In addition, because this large balsa double hydrofoil itself has considerable buoyancy, and when the ship has a certain speed, it will also produce upward lift due to the difference in the flow speed of the water on the surface of the hydrofoil, this principle can refer to the famous "Bernoulli's law", so this structure further improves the buoyancy and speed of the ship at the same time, but also greatly enhances the stability of the ship during navigation.
Later history proved that this was a technological improvement of great significance.