Nearly 50 tons of steel, the accumulation of Shilu Mine for half a year, in exchange for such an immature steam train technology, in the eyes of the vast majority of people, is extremely unworthy, but in Li Tianyang's view, this is a necessary effort.

Without the existence of the first person to eat crabs, how can the technology of this era progress?

The Ming Dynasty itself has lagged behind Western countries in terms of accumulation in science and technology, and only people like Li Tianyang, who focus on the study of Western science and technology and pursue Western advanced technology, understand how outstanding the achievements of Westerners in physics, astronomy and other emerging disciplines are.

For example, the physics textbooks of Hongmen Bengang School have changed from Li Tianyang's physics enlightenment that was pieced together from East and West to Tycho. Brahe, Johannes. Kepler and other Western scientists have discovered a complete system of physical science.

And is it true that Eastern civilization has never been glorious?

Not necessarily.

Li Tianyang once thought that he could completely crush this era by bringing some mathematical knowledge from later generations, but it wasn't until they Hongmen researched and excavated the ancient books of Eastern civilization, such as stomping on accumulation, huiyuan, Tianyuanshu and other mathematical calculation methods, that Li Tianyang, a thick talent who thought he had experienced twelve years of education, felt dumbfounded.

It's just a pity that before the Song Dynasty, it still occupied the forefront of advanced mathematical research, and after the change of dynasty, these vigorous local disciplines were cut off and finally surpassed by the West.

Li Tianyang is naturally a pragmatist, but this does not prevent him from hoping that the natural sciences that have been suppressed in the past dynasties of the Chinese continent can catch up with the research level of Westerners because of his national pride, so that at least after his death, he can leave something for China.

Of course, with Li Tianyang's utilitarian nature, more investment is placed in disciplines that can have a significant effect on Hongmen and himself, and other things such as collecting Western scientific works and thoughts, although he has always insisted on it, but in comparison, the intensity is much smaller.

In Li Tianyang's opinion, the experiment of the steam train was quite successful, and then after he put forward a few opinions to Chen Cai, the rest was to watch Chen Cai and them busy collecting various experimental materials.

As for the development of steamships that Li Tianyang is also concerned about, because although the R&D Institute is located on a tributary of Bengang Creek, they can't build a ship above this tributary dam to sit on the experiment, so the cost is not small.

Therefore, in order to save costs and discuss the waterproof method of the propeller under the ship with more experienced shipbuilders, the R&D Institute sent a research team to Bengang Shipyard to cooperate with the shipyard masters led by Yang Zhi to develop.

Yang Zhi has lived a very fulfilling life in recent years, Hongmen now has three large shipbuilding factories, and at the same time is preparing to open a fourth shipyard in the city of Manila, Luzon, and the production orders of the three shipyards have now been booked until the eighth year of Chongzhen, which is indescribably busy.

However, as a person who came out of the R&D institute, Yang Zhi still has a strong interest in developing new and timely in his heart, and now he has great power, and he has not given up his research on scientific research in the shipyard.

Of course, the research direction of their shipyard is naturally much narrower, more in the study of new sea ships, as well as related marine creations, "Yang Fan" and "Jiaolong" Western warships imitated success, of which Yang Zhi has made great contributions, and now Yang Zhi is focusing on building a larger and stronger sea ship than the "Jiaolong type".

The successful research and development of the steam engine made Li Tianyang put forward the idea of building a new steam ship, and the members of the R&D Institute attached great importance to it at the same time, Yang Zhi was very attentive.

He organized a group of top craftsmen among the shipbuilders, as well as a research team built up in the shipyard, and a research team sent by the R&D Institute to carry out research and development day and night.

Hongmen's investment in steam trains is strong, and naturally the investment in steam ships is much smaller, and now Hongmen looks good, but honestly, such a major research project, supporting one has already made Hongmen unbearable, where can you support two projects at once.

However, Li Tianyang underestimated Yang Zhi's strong interest in the study of new seagoing ship power systems, even without Li Tianyang's investment from the Hongmen headquarters, Yang Zhi and their use of abandoned sea ships and cargo ships for transformation, combined with the only fifth-generation steam engine brought by the R&D team, simply reached the research progress similar to the steam train led by Chen Cai.

When he received the inspection request from Yang Zhi, Li Tianyang was a little incredulous, and the whole person was stunned by the sudden arrival of the good news, until he came to his senses, hurriedly said a few words to Chen Cai, and left.

Bengang Shipyard is built on the coastline of about ten miles northwest of Bengang, which is not far from the coastal area of Bengang's estuary, but Li Tianyang has rarely come here to inspect it for various reasons in the past few years, but he is relieved to hand it over to Yang Zhi to take care of.

Today's Bengang Shipyard can be said to be the largest shipyard around the Ming Dynasty, with as many as three large docks for building "Jiaolong-type" sea ships alone, and five relatively small medium-sized docks.

In other words, if Bengang Shipyard is at full capacity to build large and medium-sized sea vessels, they will be able to start building eight sea vessels of various sizes at the same time.

And now when Li Tianyang arrived, five of the eight docks in the shipyard were busy, and the keels, decks, armor and other things of brand-new ships could be vaguely seen in the docks.

"Boss!"

Yang Zhi and Li Tianyang are not as unfamiliar as Li Tianyang and Bengang Shipyard, Yang Zhi always has to go to the other two shipyards from time to time to walk around to understand the situation, and naturally he will always return to Keelung Town to get together with Li Tianyang.

But in Yang Zhi's heart, he still hopes that Li Tianyang can evaluate his hard work over the years, so that Li Tianyang can understand his Yang Zhi's contributions to Hongmen over the years.

"Okay, you, Yang Zhi, give me such a big surprise without making a sound, you say, what reward do you want, as long as you meet the rules, I should satisfy you!!"

Although he didn't see the steamship creation in Yang Zhi's information with his own eyes, according to Li Tianyang's understanding of Yang Zhi, he believed that Yang Zhi would not be invincible and presumptuous and deceive himself, so this time, Li Tianyang, who was surprised, took Haikou on the spot, wanting to reward Yang Zhi for being a little hairie.

(End of chapter)