Because he couldn't figure it out, this heyday shipyard was just an underground shipyard, how could it be possible to have the technical ability to undertake the construction of a third-class cruiser with a standard displacement of 550 tons?

With puzzlement, he couldn't help but glance at the people in the Dingsheng Shipyard on the side, but after a while, he found that the people from the three government-run shipyards, Guangzhou Shipyard, Lianzhou Shipyard and even Zhaoqing Shipyard, actually congratulated them in unison, and their words were quite respectful.

He couldn't help it, and immediately asked a navy officer in front of him!

"This Dingsheng shipyard is not small, isn't it also an official shipyard?" Xu Bingfu asked.

However, the captain of the navy smiled: "Xu Yuanwai has lost his eyes, they are not a state-owned shipyard of the Ministry of Industry, but a shipyard under the Imperial Industrial Division!" ”

"Imperial property?" As soon as he heard this, Xu Bingfu couldn't help but pay more attention to this prosperous shipyard.

Imperial industry, this is a word that merchants in Liangguangli, and even the merchants under the rule of the entire Tang Dynasty will come into contact with, and even ordinary people will deal with the royal industry.

Especially the Royal Bank, whether it is Xu Bingfu or others, who doesn't have a few silver tickets from the Royal Bank.

As the name suggests, the royal property is the royal family's industry, which is unrivaled in the Tang Dynasty, and it is rumored that there are many assets, and the assets are more than the national treasury.

However, at the same time, the royal industry is rarely in direct conflict with ordinary businessmen, and in addition to the previous money industry, other traditional industries basically do not see the royal industry involved.

Because the royal industry is involved in some new industries, except for the politically significant Royal Bank, the industries involved are all emerging industries, such as textiles, daily chemicals, and the most representative are textile products, daily soap, soap, toothbrush, toothpaste and other daily necessities.

In short, the royal industry is made of some novel products, and rarely gets involved in traditional industries, so there is nothing to talk about competing with the people.

But how did this royal industry suddenly get involved in the shipbuilding industry?

But then, the captain seemed to see Xu Bingfu's worries, and said directly: "Don't worry, the ambitions of the Dingsheng shipyard are big, and the docks under construction are all starting from 1,000 tons, and there is no competition with you!" ”

The people in the navy did not boast that the reason why the Imperial Industrial Division was preparing to set up the Dingsheng Shipyard was because of Li Xuan's dictation, and the purpose was quite simple, that is, to explore and build large merchant ships and even warships of more than 1,000 tons, which had nothing to do with the ordinary civilian merchant ships of two or three hundred tons or even four or five hundred tons, which are now popular.

At present, the main purpose is not to make money from shipbuilding, but more importantly, to develop the technology of large ships, alleviate the financial and scale difficulties of the shipyards of the Ministry of Industry, and use them to undertake the construction of large warships.

As for the future, in Li Xuan's planning, it is naturally used to build those large steamships of thousands or even thousands of tons!

However, although the people in the navy said so, Xu Bingfu still felt great pressure, for Mao, because his ambition Xu Bingfu was far greater than that of ordinary shipbuilders, and he was also preparing to build a thousand-ton dock and enter the field of thousand-ton ships!

But then I thought about it, anyway, there will be only a few competitions in the future, which is better than the current competition of dozens of small and medium-sized shipyards, and the thousand-ton ship plan must still be promoted, and it must be promoted quickly.

The royal family industry is rich and there are people, but in the end it is the official background, there must be a lot of concerns behind it, where it can be the same as its own Shamian shipyard, saying that the purchase of machinery and equipment is the purchase of machinery and equipment.

As long as you hurry up, you may be able to complete the construction of a thousand-ton dock ahead of this heyday shipyard, and when the time comes, even if the other party is a royal industry, you may not be able to compete.

The reason why he had the idea of fighting was naturally because he had never heard of the royal industry relying on his background to suppress other businessmen, and business competition was basically carried out legally and reasonably, and even gave up getting involved in traditional industries in order to avoid suspicion.

After the recruitment of the cruiser ended, Xu Bingfu also stopped thinking about his 1,000-ton ship plan for the time being, but put all his attention on the bidding for the third-class frigate that was about to begin!

After all, the previous order of the cruiser has nothing to do with him, and the follow-up plan of the thousand-ton ship is also a matter of the future, and the most important thing now is to win the scheduled order!

In this tender, he paid attention to only one, that is, the order for the third-class frigate, and it was not the other ships in the third-class frigate, but the order of the fifth!

Because of this No. 5 order, the bidding requirement is to be delivered before June of the sixth year of Xuanping at the latest, that is to say, it will be delivered in June of the following year, and it cannot exceed June of the sixth year of Xuanping, otherwise it will be a breach of contract.

And his shipyard expansion plan, the 500-ton dock also needs nearly a year of construction time, and the construction will not be completed until the spring and summer of next year, and then the construction of warships will begin, and then the construction of warships will begin, and most of the time will be overtime, which is enough for them to build the hull, and then carry out outfitting tests, and it will be completed in June!

And for other orders, to be honest, his shipyard simply did not have time!

However, the fierce competition for this kind of third-class frigate order also exceeded his expectations, and the three government-run shipyards, Guangzhou Shipyard, Lianzhou Shipyard, and Zhaoqing Shipyard, as well as his old rival Guanghe Shipyard, were all competing for each other.

Although the competition was fierce, the result was very fast, Lianzhou Shipyard monopolized the order of three ships, Guangzhou Shipyard got an order, and Zhaoqing Shipyard did not grab a single order, and his old rival Guanghe Shipyard was also disappointed.

When the No. 5 order began to be tendered, Xu Bingfu personally submitted the documents to participate in the bidding, and then waited for the results like other shipyards.

The Navy's audit officials are all on the spot and announce the conditions of each party!

Looking at the conditions of all parties announced, Xu Bingfu's heart couldn't help but jump wildly!

Guangzhou shipyard, their proposal will not be able to deliver until September, because they have too many orders for warships to schedule.

Several other shipyards are in line with the delivery time, but although the cost they proposed is also less than the previous four orders, the cost of their Xujiashamian shipyard is five percentage points less than the official benchmark price, which is less than all of them.

And this price was temporarily changed before he Xu Bingfu submitted the documents!

Relying on this price, Xu Bingfu's Shamian shipyard undoubtedly received an order for the No. 5 third-class frigate.

At this time, the people from Guanghe Shipyard on the side showed an unwilling look and said: "Xu Yuanwai, taking orders at this price, I'm afraid you will not only have no profit, but also lose money!" ”

It is also reasonable for the people of Guanghe Shipyard to be unwilling, their offer is four percentage points less than the official benchmark price, and this price is already a penny for them, after all, they are also like Xu Bingfu, they want to rely on this opportunity to enter the warship market, and rely on the reputation brought by building warships to expand the civilian market.

And they don't believe that Xu Bingfu's shipbuilding cost is lower than theirs!

But Xu Bingfu is more ruthless than them, not only does he not make money, he would rather post it upside down!

Without these five points of quotation, his Xu family would directly lose two points, but he Xu Bingfu didn't care!

Lao Tzu is rich, I can afford to lose, as long as I can win this order and open this head, I am afraid that there will be no orders for warships in the future, and I am afraid that there will be no orders for large civilian ships.

Lao Tzu can even build a warship, and it is not a matter of minutes for you to build a civilian ship of three to five hundred tons.

Holding the formal contract signed with the navy, Xu Bingfu looked extremely happy, and then asked a group of craftsmen and core family technicians under his hand to hand over to the officials of the navy's ship administration department.

This order is there, but the drawings and related technologies still need to be given by the navy!

He also looked at the drawings slightly, he thought that the design of this warship was not ordinary, and if he could imitate the warship to make a merchant ship in the future, he would not have to make a profit on himself at that time.

But soon he was completely disappointed, the design of this warship was too extreme, all the design was for the pursuit of speed and firepower and protection, and the possibility of loading could be considered at all.

Especially when he knew that the slogan shouted by the designers of the Ship Administration Department was: "Never waste a ton for loading!" , even more scolded the navy for being a loser.

This is a large ship of several hundred tons, and it can't hold any cargo except for daily necessities and ammunition!

These ordinary businessmen naturally can't realize that the purpose of the navy is just to fight, and it is not their job to load goods and bring people!

When Xu Bingfu scolded the navy loser, he didn't know that the people from the Dingsheng shipyard were still in the conference room next door, and they were also participating in a meeting of a very high level.

In this meeting, there was Rear Admiral Bao Yifen!

Bao Yifen directly handed over a stack of documents to the middle-aged representative of Dingsheng Shipyard, and said at the same time: "This is the latest warship design of our navy, before meeting you, we also met people from Guangzhou Shipyard, they said that they are not capable of building such a large warship for the time being, so we found you!" ”

The person from the Dingsheng shipyard took the document and looked at it, and then frowned: "1,200 tons, fifty-four naval guns, this is a typical third-class battleship design, your navy is going to start building battleships so soon?" ”

Bao Yifen said: "It's not fast, the hull design and technology research and development and other preparations will take one or two years, the construction period will also take two years, and then the outfitting test will have to say less than half a year, even if everything goes well, we will not be able to get this battleship in three years, so this is not too fast, but too slow!" ”

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