"In fact, these are not the credit of me alone, and I dare not take the credit, the success of the steamship is inseparable from the brainstorming of the group of masters behind me!"

Yang Zhi was modest, and repeatedly declined Li Tianyang's words of reward, but simplified the representatives of several R&D personnel behind him, pointed at them and said.

"I naturally know this in my heart, but your credit cannot be erased. I know in my own heart that in fact, when you were developing steamships, I was still very lacking in terms of material and financial resources and attention. ”

"But even in such a situation, you can still overcome many difficulties, overcome difficulties, and achieve something, I am proud of you!"

Li Tianyang talked eloquently, but his eyes looked at Yang Zhi and the group of old or young staff behind him, full of sincerity and admiration, making them feel that all this was worth it because of Li Tianyang's affirmation.

It was rare to come to Bengang Shipyard, and after the excitement of inspecting the steam train in the R&D Institute before, Li Tianyang was not so anxious to check Yang Zhi's achievements at this time, but asked Yang Zhi and them to take themselves around the various docks.

"Of these seagoing ships under construction, two 'Jiaolong-type' are our own, one is built for Defuxuan, and the remaining two 'Yangfan-type' are booked by two other maritime merchants."

Yang Zhi took Li Tianyang around the five docks under construction, and Li Tianyang suddenly found that his shipbuilding strength was so strong.

Bengang Shipyard alone has more than 1,000 shipbuilders, of which 300 are skilled employees with formal shipwright and carpenter skill certificates, and the rest are either rough laborers or apprentices who come to intern.

With the gradual increase in the number of graduates in the Bengang Academy, under Li Tianyang's suggestion, the students of the school can be assessed according to the skills they have learned before graduation, and if the assessment is successful, they will be awarded corresponding technician certificates, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, boatmen, etc.!

In this way, Bengang students with corresponding skills have a clear goal in seeking a way to make a living after graduation, and it also allows employers to have a clearer understanding when recruiting people at first sight.

Even with it, the technician certificates of the students of Bengang School have also been recognized by the various workshops and factory owners who have emerged along the coast of Daming, and only have a qualified technician certificate issued by Hongmen, and seek work in these coastal factories and workshops, and the wages at the beginning are much higher than others.

In this way, it made Hongmen Bengang School a lot of fame, attracting many poor people in the Ming Dynasty to come to Dayuan Island to settle down, but it saved Qi San from their painstaking recruitment work, and also brought more population to Hongmen.

"How long is the construction period of a 'Jiaolong-type' sea ship, and how long is the cycle of a 'Yang Fan-type' sea ship?"

Li Tianyang nodded, with a satisfied look on his face, and at the same time asked shamelessly about the incomprehensible things.

"With the improvement of shipbuilding technology, it takes five to six months for our shipyard to build a 'Yang Fan' sea vessel, and no more than nine months for a 'Jiaolong'."

"If it's a simplified version sold to outsiders, we'll build it even faster, at least one to two months earlier!"

Yang Zhi replied proudly, he dared to guarantee that the shipbuilding speed of the three major shipyards in Hongmen under his leadership could be said to be the highest in the entire Ming Dynasty, at least as far as he knew, there were many shipyards in the eastern seas, and there was no one who could compare with them.

To have such a shipbuilding speed, naturally thanks to Yang Zhi's efforts, they have never slacked off after the successful imitation of the "Jiaolong" and "Yang Fan" seagoing ships, and still make various improvements to these two imitation Western-style seagoing ships, and look for the shortcomings from practice, and at the same time refine and divide the shipbuilding steps, and each component is as unified as possible, making the steps such as building the keel much easier.

Although the cost of raw materials is a little more and the waste of materials is more, because it can involve the laborers who are not familiar with carpentry, it reduces the work intensity of carpenters and shipmasters, and also saves a lot of labor costs, each with its own benefits.

"Then these three idle docks, is it because there is no work?"

Li Tianyang pointed to the three vacant sea boats and asked suspiciously: "If you have no work to attend the class, you can report to it, and our headquarters can place an order to continue shipbuilding!" ”

In the battle of Luzon, Hongmen drove away the Spaniards and defeated Yan Zheng and his younger brothers, but killed 10,000 enemies and lost 8,000, and Hongmen's 23 main fleets composed of "Jiaolong" and "Yang Fan" were also lost, and less than five ships were finally able to return safely to Keelung Town.

Therefore, at this time, Hongmen was actually recuperating and recuperating, purchasing a large number of warships from the three major shipyards that raised themselves to make up for the losses in the previous naval battles.

"No, the reason why these three docks are empty now is because two of the ships have just been launched for sea trials to find defects, and the other one has just been delivered to Jirentang, and I have asked the personnel of this dock to rest for two days, and then we will start to build the ships again!"

Hearing Li Tianyang's words, he was shocked when he looked good, and hurriedly refused: "Boss, don't you know, the order of our shipyard, under the condition of full load, it will take more than two years to complete the order, where can I still eat the order given by the headquarters!" ”

"Oh, well!"

Li Tianyang actually mentioned it casually, he just didn't want this great dockyard to be empty, which would make him feel a little pity. If Danshuikeng really wants him to place an order to separate Yang Zhi and them, I am afraid that the first person to cry in front of Li Tianyang will be the two sisters Erya and Sixi.

Hongmen is now tightening his belt in production, not to mention the research and development institute that eats money, the Hongtang fleet warship replenishment, artillery equipment, Qi San and their recruitment of displaced people, which is not a huge cost project.

Li Tianyang said lightly, but the investment of nearly 10,000 taels of silver for a "Yang Fan-type" sea ship and 30,000 taels of silver for a "Jiaolong-type" sea ship is afraid that with the current financial situation of Hongmen, it will be difficult to make up the pieces.

As for why Hongmen's own shipyard still charges for building ships for its own team, please refer to the military industry and state-owned enterprises in later generations, and their mode of operation, Li Tianyang does not want the workshops and factories under his command to eventually become a group of moths and uncompetitive.

(End of chapter)