In April, the spring is bright, from the mountains to the sea, from the canyon to the lake, every place exudes vitality, which makes people feel refreshed.

On this day, Nandaying Xingang unfurled flags and colorful flags fluttered, and a group of officials from Fengtianfu and officials sent by the Ministry of Industry to be responsible for the renovation of the shipyard were waiting respectfully at the No. 1 wharf, which was very conspicuous, and this was a big man who was going to come to Dongfan.

At midnight, ten super battleships arrived at Nandaying New Port in a neat formation, the scale did not seem to be very large, but the official positions of the people who came down from the battleships were not small.

This person is the current emperor's favorite minister, a member of the first rank of the dynasty, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry and the deputy prime minister of the cabinet Bi Maokang.

Behind him was a large number of officials of the Ministry of Industry, and the posture was as if he was going to move the Ministry of Industry to Dongfan!

What's going on here?

It turned out that Zhu Cijiong had arranged a task that day, ordering the Ministry of Industry to transform all the Dongda Construction Shipyard and Nandaying into a large shipyard for the production of ironclad warships within the year, and that samples of ironclad warships must be trial-produced as soon as possible.

This task is relatively heavy, the shipyard is not said to be able to change it, the ironclad battleship is even more oversized and overweight behemoth, an ironclad battleship has at least a thousand tons of weight, not just say that it can be done.

At this time, Dongda Construction Shipyard was manufacturing super battleships, and Nanda Construction Shipyard happened to be renovating, Bi Maokang decided to renovate Nanda Construction Shipyard first, make samples, and then go back to renovate Dongda Construction Shipyard.

At present, the Dongda Construction Shipyard produces 100 super battleships every six months, which means that within three months, he will renovate the Nanda Construction Shipyard and build samples, and the time is very urgent.

So, he brought all the relevant officials of the Ministry of Industry here, and for three months, he was squatting here.

The emperor has said that everything else can be put down first, because, with the ironclad battleship, the Ming Dynasty will be invincible!

Since the emperor said this, Bi Maokang's heart has become extremely hot, and he can make the great tomorrow invincible through his own efforts, even if he is tired to death, he is willing.

At this time, he only had one thought, that is: shipbuilding, shipbuilding, shipbuilding, and he must build an ironclad battleship as soon as possible!

As soon as he got off the battleship, he thought about how to start work, and he only said a few perfunctory words to the officials who greeted him at the dock, and then asked them to lead the way, and first went to the shipyard to have a look.

This master, few people in Daming can provoke it, and the officials in Nandaying naturally can't afford to provoke it, so whatever he says is what.

So, a group of people, without eating the prepared feast, went directly to the shipyard.

Bi Maokang made a draft when he came, and he still knew a lot about shipbuilding, and he also had a rough plan for how to make the ironclad battleship.

The first thing he looked at was the steel mill in Nandaying, and after some field investigation, the scale of the steel mill simply did not meet the requirements.

Originally, it was only to provide steel for the naval guns of the armed ships, and the amount was very small, and the scale of the steel mill was not large enough, which is understandable.

He had expected this, and even the professionals who built the steelmaking furnace were brought, and the scale was not enough, so it was expanded.

He directly ordered Yu Hengqing Shilangzhong of the Ministry of Industry to be responsible for the construction of a new steel-making plant, and the steel-making furnaces should be increased by at least ten, and they must be completed within two months!

Immediately afterwards, he went around the periphery of the steel mill, found a place, and with a domineering finger, he directly ordered the Ministry of Industry to build a large rolling mill here, specializing in the production of marine steel plates.

As for the rolling mill, if you don't need someone from the Tuntian Qingzhi Division to do it, he has already ordered it from Daming Royal Machinery Group, and it will be sent over in a month.

After arranging the affairs of the rolling mill, he moved to a nearby cannon foundry.

The Nandaying Artillery Foundry is just to make some howitzers for the armed Fu ship, and the scale is naturally not large, so there is no way, and it has to be expanded.

He directly ordered the Ministry of Industry to be responsible for the expansion of the cannon foundry, and according to the scale of the Dongdaying Cannon Foundry, what is there, there must be something here.

After dealing with the affairs of the steel mill, the rolling mill and the cannon foundry, Bi Maokang finally led a large group of officials to the direction of the Nanda Construction Shipyard.

However, halfway through, he could only see the shadow of the shipyard in the distance, and he stopped again.

It also had to be built with a large power plant, precision machine tools, new lifting equipment, and workshop lighting, all of which needed electricity.

The machine tools here in Nandaying are basically old-fashioned steam machine tools, and the workshop lighting needs to use some electricity, and the original steel mill and cannon foundry are finished by installing a small generator in the factory, but now it is not possible.

He stood there and looked around for a moment, then pointed to a vacant lot not far away, and ordered the Ministry of Works, the Metropolitan Water Kiyoshi Shiro, to build a large power plant here.

As for the large generator, it has to be done by Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi, two professionals, who are still developing electric hoists and electric welding machines in the capital at this time, but those two things don't take much time, and I believe that after the plant of the power plant is built, they will be able to come.

In the end, the shipyard was left, and Bi Maokang decided to go into battle himself, supervise the work here, and rebuild the shipyard.

The shipyard's original dockyard was definitely unusable and had to be rebuilt.

Of course, the original dock can't just be dismantled and thrown away, this Zhu Cijiong also explained before he came, the original dock was simply bought to a private shipyard as a whole, and the Fu Shipbuilding Department will not build it in the future, all of them will be made by the people, and the purchase and sale of the Fu Ship will also be decided by themselves, but the artillery will be produced by the Ministry of Industry.

That is to say, in the future, all the ships built by the people are ordinary lucky boats, and if they want to be converted into armed lucky ships, they must be reported to the imperial court and refitted by the Ministry of Industry.

As for the original waterway, the length and width are enough, but it must be deepened, but fortunately, the pumping equipment has been developed early in the morning, as long as the water inside is drained and dug a little deeper.

After arranging everything, it was almost time for dinner, and the already hungry officials were able to have a full meal.

Early the next morning, with Bi Maokang's order, the steel mill, the rolling mill, the cannon factory, the power plant, and the shipyard all started work, and the entire Nandaying was suddenly busy inside and outside.

There are a major member of the current dynasty, and the deputy prime minister of the cabinet is in charge here, and the progress everywhere is naturally fast.

Factories are rising from the ground, equipment is gathering one after another, huge docks are slowly taking shape, and the long waterways are digging deeper and deeper.

A month later, the construction of the first new dock was completed, and Bi Maokang moved his residence directly into the dock to personally supervise the construction of the first ironclad warship.

He chose this first ironclad battleship, because its internal structure is not very different from the original battleship, but there is a huge sealed cabin underneath, and it will be made quickly by focusing on skilled workers working overtime.

In less than half a month, a terrifying steel giant appeared in the new dock of Nanda Construction Shipyard, although it was not completed and was not equipped with artillery, but its terrifying appearance alone was enough to make people daunted.

Once such a steel giant beast appears on the surface of the sea in groups, who in this world can be defeated!