The location of the shipyard is in the northeast corner of the Taijiang River, opposite to the Luermen at the top of the tail island of the northern line across the sea, which belongs to the most remote corner of the Taijiang River.

Whether it is an antique wooden boat, a racing sailboat or a steel-hulled fishing boat, no one has ever made it through the crowd. There is no way, the current population base is still too small: Cao Dong will send a few to a dozen newcomers from time to time every month, and sometimes there is none, so as of March 1628, the first year of Chongzhen, the total number of people crossing the crowd is only 170.

The only one of them whose previous work had anything to do with shipbuilding was to install pipelines for oil tankers in a 100,000-ton shipyard...... People are now living well in the kiln area, and when they hear about shipbuilding, they shake their heads and say they don't like it.

Well, it is difficult to buy people with money, and the most important thing to do work is interest, so in the second round of online recruitment, Qiao Zhengtai, the person with the most "theoretical research" on wooden sailing boats, was elected.

Through the keyboard tongue battle group ugly, Qiao Zhengtai, a former mountain bike factory technician, successfully showed his understanding of the era of sail warships in front of everyone. In a LAN without a search engine, most people are exposed in their original form, and Qiao Zhengtai, who can say the parameters of various 17th-century sail warships at any time, became the shipyard director.

After Qiao Zhengtai took office, due to the high attention of the shipyard, it was still very convenient to mobilize all kinds of resources.

First of all, people: since the large mouth cannon has been selected, the small mouth cannon does not have to fight anymore, and five or six people who usually like sail battleships come to the shipyard to take shelter.

All the laborers under the current jurisdiction of the Crossing Order, regardless of race or occupation, as long as they were involved in shipbuilding, were to be sent to the shipyard, and among them there was a Dutch carpenter who was the focus: Old Kohler.

Old Kohler was a prisoner of the Battle of the Merchant House, and at that time, he and another carpenter were the only ones who were assigned to work in the carpentry shed in the kiln area, and the other captives went to repair the earth. All the surviving captives had returned to Batavia with Peter Nuiz, while Kohler the Elder and another Dutch carpenter had been secretly detained by the Travelers because of their importance.

In fact, old Kohler didn't want to leave here either.

Kohler Sr. was not Dutch, he had pale blonde hair and a tough face. Kohler Sr., who came from a family of chefs in the Bavarian countryside, is now wrinkled, but he is only 34 years old. Of course, in this day and age, wrinkles on the face at the age of 34 are the standard for those below the middle class, regardless of nationality.

Old Kohler saw so many incredible things in the kiln area: omnipotent machines, measuring tools accurate to the millimeter, finished products without the slightest difference, 50 people who were mortally wounded (in his eyes) and came to work again a few days later.

...... The other Dutch captives thought it was hell, but the elder Kohler, the 17th-century craftsman, firmly believed that it was heaven.

Naturally, there were two brushes to be able to repair a plywood ship at sea, and after the elder Kohler was assigned to the carpentry shed, he soon became a squad leader, abusing his apprentices every day in half-baked Chinese, which is how he learned it back then.

When old Kohler finally figured out that the mysterious power that made the table saw move came from the strange machine called the "generator", he calmly made a request to the director of the lumber factory: naturalization.

"I'm so old that I'll probably die of illness on my next voyage and be thrown overboard. Therefore, I hereby solemnly ask to join your Kingdom, knowing that only in this way will I have the opportunity to learn those mysterious knowledge. ”

Zeng Rong, the director of the timber factory, couldn't cry or laugh after listening to the old Kohler's request - did the emperor say anything, and the ghost only knew when the immigration bureau was established.

So Zeng Rong could only make a promise to his subordinate General Huang Mao at that time: Your conditions are good, and if you work hard, you will definitely be able to get the title of engineer in the future, well, when the Immigration Bureau is established, the first one will be declared to you. Now, you can get a green card temporarily, which is white-skinned and yellow-hearted, and you can study and work at the same time...... However, the price of learning knowledge is to avoid contact with one's compatriots from now on...... Can you hold it today?

Old Kohler solemnly swore an oath on the spot in the name of God, swearing that he was in Cao Ying's heart and in Cao...... Then Zeng Rong went to the newly opened intelligence bureau to report to the old Kohler, and the old Kohler with the green card officially defected to the light.

Old Kohler, who was now summoned to the shipyard by a paper order, is still very awesome - another Dutch carpenter died of illness a few days ago, and old Kohler is now the only seedling.

Of course, Qiao Zhengtai also attaches great importance to the old Kohler: no matter how many detailed information of the ships in the hands of the crossers, in the end, it is necessary to link theory with practice, start from a shipboard and an iron nail, and accumulate experience, learn and improve little by little. The elder Kohler, who worked as a shipwright in the port of Amsterdam, the most prosperous port in the world in the 17th century, was undoubtedly the backbone of the Taijiang shipyard in the early days.

Except for the old Kohler, there are no master craftsmen in the rest of the Ming boatmen, only a few small workers, and there are no characters who can carry a Chinese-style sand boat project alone. Fortunately, the shipyard is only in its infancy, and there will be enough time to recruit craftsmen and train new people in the future.

The most important project at the moment is the dock, and then there will be one or two small docks, and as for shipbuilding, dinghies are the only option. The dinghy that can be operated by two or three people does not even need a dock, and it is directly opened on the beach...... Set a small goal and build thirty or fifty ships to practice first.

Qiao Zhengtai's step-by-step planning made the navy people who wanted to drive the battleship out for a ride all day long. These self-appointed shipyard supervisors have been hanging around for nothing recently, pointing fingers and tirelessly, pretending to be a party leader led by Mu Longcheng, and frequently discussing the necessity of 80-gun battleships with Qiao Zhengtai......

It was in this situation that the shipyards that crossed the crowd began to hatch: most of the people on the slippery tidal flats were digging sand to build docks, and a few people were clumsily building fences for the new sampans under the roar of a yellow hair......

Looking at the hectic scene in front of him, Qiao Zhengtai couldn't help but shake his head - there is a long way to go, even if he has prepared N tall ship types suitable for crossing forces, now look at these boatmen who can't even build a fence...... It's frustrating that the gap between reality and dreams is so big.

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Generally speaking, the newly opened construction sites near Dayuan have little technical content except for civil engineering or civil construction, dredging and digging sand and digging sand.

And the real technical content is the newly imported electric furnace in the kiln area.

The electric furnace system, which was the highlight of the year in 1628, used up the import quota of 5 boxes for the entire month of February alone......

Although steelmaking is the overwhelming BOSS project, such a high import quota and the decision made by the big office are also hard-headed, which makes the electric furnace system undoubtedly the largest import project in the history of the company, which undoubtedly makes some people who have been waiting for the quota painful.