After the Jurchens swallowed Central Siberia, it would take about ten years to completely integrate the strength of the five provinces.

In the course of ten years, it's up to who is faster.

In the steam era promoted by Zhu Shun, with the continuous increase in the thickness of talents, the process is getting faster and faster.

The cold wind howled.

Heavy snow fell on the banks of the Chaohe River.

The waterway condensed into a thick layer of ice, hindering the use of the water tower's transportation system.

It's not in the way, just break through the ice and keep the river flowing fast in the waterway.

Zhu Shun stood on the bank of the Chaohe River and watched a 400-material merchant ship leave and be transferred to Dagukou through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Go to sea from Dagu Kou and sail to Songjiang Mansion.

Zhu Sihai of Songjiang Mansion has been enjoying the technical dividends brought to him by his eldest brother, and a cement plant that is not large enough for his own use has been built.

After storing cement for several months, Zhu Sihai chose an auspicious day of the zodiac and began to build a modern dry dock with concrete and steel as the main materials.

Steel steam engine ships often weigh hundreds of tons, and how to launch them after riveting is a big problem.

The Qinghe Shipyard in the Ming Dynasty is a large shipyard that manufactures wooden Fu boats and Guangzhou ships are launched, and they are generally used to lay sleepers.

The way of sleepers going to sea can also be used on steel sea ships, but there are too many constraints and drawbacks.

The construction of modern dry docks is imperative, and it is also one of the important preconditions for the manufacture of steel steam engine ships.

On the one hand, Zhu Sihai fired cement and stockpiled all kinds of raw materials needed for the dry dock, and on the other hand, he spent a lot of money and contacted the Landong India Company and the British East India Company through the Xiangshanao Gun Factory.

Recruiting Western scholars.

Tell the Westerners that they will "invite" a Western scholar and give them 1,000 taels of silver.

Songjiang Mansion is not Shuntian Mansion, and Zhu Sihai does not have the support of the emperor, let alone the endorsement of the bureaucrats and gentry, so he does not dare to open a new school easily.

The study of steam engine ships requires a large number of Western scholars, and if you can't do it yourself, then you will 'invite' a Western scholar from Europa.

Europa has accumulated a lot of talent for many years, and the Western scholars he has cultivated have made Zhu Sihai cheaper.

Countries such as Franco, Helan, and England all started out on the slave trade, and they are familiar with this kind of thing.

The difference is that it used to be a black slave trade, but now it is a white slave to sell Europa.

These Europa people were ready to refuse at first, hearing that the sky-high price of 1,000 taels of silver was still the lowest price, and the higher the status of Western scholars, the better their knowledge, and the higher the price.

The word greed was left in the eyes of the Europa.

A Francophone businessman from the Xiangshan Ao Artillery Factory, even after looking for Zhu Sihai in private, said that he only needed to give him 10,000 taels of silver.

Galileo, Europa's greatest physicist, mathematician, and astronomer, could all be transported to Songjiang Province.

Zhu Sihai had heard the eldest brother recite the name Galileo before, saying that he was one of the greatest scientists in human history.

I don't understand what the word human means, but the eldest brother praised Galileo, this man is definitely very knowledgeable.

Zhu Sihai stretched out three fingers, as long as he brought Galileo over, he would give him 30,000 taels of silver.

The merchant made a cross on his chest, muttered a word of praise to the Lord, and rushed out of the door.

These things happened a few years ago, and Zhu Sihai had gathered a lot of Western scholars around him, both old and young.

With the help of these Western scholars, the design drawings of the dry dock were officially finalized a month ago.

One day after the selection of the beginning of winter, the dry dock began to break ground.

Zhu Sihai was inspecting the construction site, which was surrounded by wolf-like servants, saying that it was to supervise the work, but in fact it was to prevent Western scholars from escaping.

Western scholars have not been in the Far East for a long time, and they are not yet used to life here, and in a few years, Zhu Sihai will use a means to make these Western scholars unable to leave.

The dry dock is divided into three parts, the dock mouth, the dock chamber, and the dock head.

What is being done now is the excavation of the dock foundation, and after the dock foundation is excavated, the foundation and the three sides that contact the land are all poured with reinforced concrete.

Western scholars stood near the foundation, holding their glasses, they had never seen any material that, when mixed with water, could solidify harder than steel.

In particular, a teacher from the University of Padua, who was also a student of Galileo, Castelli, had recently become obsessed with the new material called concrete.

Castelli was a well-known mathematician and hydraulic engineer in Europa, who made great achievements in the field of mathematics and established a great scientific foundation for hydraulics.

As a well-known hydraulic engineer, Castelli has an unimaginable desire to learn about hydraulics.

As soon as cement appeared, it immediately attracted Cassdel's curiosity.

It is obviously a very soft powder, mixed with water and left for a period of time, it becomes a hard building, and the hardness is no less than steel.

Castelli was originally the most enthusiastic Western scholar on escape, and secretly formed an escape association.

But ever since he saw this miraculous material, Castelli had lived next to the concrete foundation, and had never said anything about running away, as had other Western scholars.

Western scholars have an unimaginable fanaticism in their bones for the search for truth, even at the cost of their lives.

Copernicus, Darwin, Kepler, one pioneer after another, died on the path of searching for the truth.

Castelli didn't want to go away until he understood the principle of cement.

More Western scholars want to see how the dry dock designed by themselves solves the problems of drainage and dock door lifting.

Zhu Sihai stood on the coast, looking at the group of Western scholars who were even more enthusiastic about the construction of the dockyard than him, knowing that they had no intention of escaping for the time being, but he still did not relax his vigilance.

At least until their families were transported, they didn't dare to let their guard down.

A few days later, more than 20 students from Beijing Normal University led a large number of workers to the small shipyard with steam engines and a lot of wrought iron parts.

This group of students and a large number of workers is just an advance team, and Zhu Shun is ready to send at least 100 students and hundreds of skilled workers to the second brother.

Zhu Sihai stood on the coast, looking at the students of Beijing Normal University who were busy building temporary residences, it was time to build a new school.

However, for the time being, it is not possible to use the influence of Westerners on the southeast coast in his name.

The name has already been decided.

Beiyang Sailor School.

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