After knowing the final reason, Zhao Xin was also a little crying and laughing, he didn't expect that the method of promoting efficiency and mechanism would cause such a big oolong.

That's right, these people are very right, if a large enterprise, for example, a steel plant, a cement factory, etc., has their own wharf, their efficiency will be improved a lot, conservative estimates, saving a few days of time is no problem, the same, do not worry about the wharf has no personnel.

The production capacity of the steel plant is 2 million tons per year, and these 2 million tons are the finished steel, which requires countless raw materials.

Dingjun is an island, he almost does not produce any resources, everything, must be transported, from coal, to iron ore, to some basic trace elements, simple import and export, the throughput of this port, can easily exceed 5 million tons.

In the 21st century, a basic foundation is a 5 million tons of river ports, and can also be directly navigable ships, such river ports are absolutely the most important, but in the Dinghai Navy, this is not possible.

Zhao Xin really can't tell them that the navy is the direction of future development, if in this era, there are countless sea ships in the Dinghai Navy, what else do you want the Northern Song Dynasty to do, the whole world, large areas, undeveloped land, these lands, are waiting for the Dinghai Navy to conquer.

But what do you want to use to convince them, the overseas continent, this is simply illusory, in the perception of ordinary people, overseas, at most, there are some small islands, even if there are merchants from Arabia and India, they are also on the same continent with them.

China and India, and Arabia are far away, but in the long years, the two sides have exchanged a lot, the story of the Tang Dynasty monk Xitian learning scriptures, although has not yet formed a journey to the west, but there are already a large number of myths and legends, for ordinary people, is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Zhao Xin sighed, the current port is still not very developed, if it can popularize the container of later generations, it will be good.

Containers, this is a great invention, the actual theory is very simple, the original, bulk, or in small packages to load things, are converted into standard containers, this container, take into account, car transportation, train transportation, and ship transportation.

After the transfer, there is no longer a large number of loading and unloading personnel to load and unload, but directly use a variety of power tools, cranes and the like, to unload the container from the ship, find a dock to stack, and then according to the different places reached, the classification can be selected, you can choose a car, you can choose a train, and even an airplane and a river boat, so that the time is greatly saved.

Scattered shipments have become integral, perhaps, it is better to transport them at one time, but for a large country, how many ports can be close to the sea, most of the materials and commodities need to be unloaded and transshiped, such efficiency, compared with the original, I don't know how much it has improved.

The basis for their realization is a container, which is a large or small box that can be made of ordinary steel and stacked on a ship through a unique method that later generations.

Dinghai Navy has an annual output of 2 million tons of steel plant, but also has a variety of different steel formulas, really to produce containers, it is not impossible, but, containers are produced, what can be done.

The container of later generations, it is not as simple as a container, this is including road, rail, sea, and air transportation, all modes of transportation, integrated together, to form a transportation method, which requires the integration of the whole earth.

Now the navy is not equipped with such conditions at all, and it is not enough to build the kind of container terminals and bulk carriers with large containers in later generations.

However, under the premise that there is no way to build and popularize, Zhao Xin can implement a concept, that is, the concept of containerization, and the current Dinghai Navy is not a suitable method, but this concept can.

In the era when there were no motor vehicles, horse-drawn carriages could be used to transport about 2 tons of materials on the road, and boxes about the same size as horse-drawn carriages were built, or with fewer dots, and then some flatbed carriages were built, and cranes and other facilities were used to smoothly lift things from horse-drawn carriages or trains to ships.

Compared with the container of later generations, this loading capacity is much smaller, but it is more suitable for the current situation, but this scheme can ensure loading and unloading on land, for example, between trains and carriages, but once it reaches the ship, it will not work.

These current merchant ships, made up, are the concept of sailing ships, and it is not easy to accommodate containers.

A two-ton container, unless it is loaded with a heavier specific gravity, all metal things, or iron ingots, may be relatively small, even so, it is not easy to enter the hatch, but it is not as convenient as sacks and alleys.

If you want to get on a container ship, you must be like later generations, it is a large container bulk ship, but this kind of ship is also popular in later generations, in the era of sails, this is not suitable, and the sails everywhere make it impossible to place on the deck.

At the same time, the space on the deck is also relatively precious, in the event of wind and waves, a large number of sailors, must go up to the deck, by controlling the sails, to resist the wind and waves, if on the deck, a large number of containers are placed, also cause problems.

The theory is right, but it needs to be improved to a certain extent, as long as the shipyard completes the construction, Zhao Xin will not only build the sea ship, but also improve the sailboat, for example, through some design, let the side spin open some open layout, when loading and unloading, it can be directly loaded, which requires some theory and time, and it is not possible now.

When there is no containerization and standardization, transshipment has always been a big problem, and the Northern Song Dynasty, or other ports in the whole world, must have such and such problems when transshipment.

A very standard problem is that no matter how much you use various lifting devices, and other things, it will take a while to load and unload the goods, and the Northern Song Dynasty is already fast enough, in ordinary places, a big ship of 30,000 materials, may load and unload goods, and it will probably take a few days, or even longer.

For monsoon routes, such unloading is acceptable, after all, a longer voyage, once a year and again, is acceptable, at this time, unloading and loading, wasting a few days or even half a month, is acceptable.

All kinds of fine things in the Northern Song Dynasty, as long as they are pulled back, are a lot of money, and this is also the root of all maritime merchants who come to the Northern Song Dynasty to do business.

However, the appearance of sail warships and spinnakers proves the strength of the Dinghai Navy's maritime shipping, especially the sailboats equipped with spinnakers, which have initially overcome the impact of the monsoon.

In principle, under certain conditions, as long as there is wind, no matter which direction the wind is, the ship can gain kinetic energy.

Even if you can get an average speed of about 8 knots, you can reach more than 180 knots a day under the condition of non-stop work around the clock, which is more than 300 kilometers.

The speed of more than 300 kilometers a day is very impressive, even if you make a discount and rest half the time, you can reach 150 kilometers.

If the voyage is fixed within 6,000 nautical miles, the speed of 8 knots will take 750 hours, 375 hours, day and night, that is, 30 days, plus pauses and rests, it may be 60 days, and compared with the current shipping of two or three months, or even more, I don't know how much faster.

6,000 nautical miles, at sea, is already a very long time, that is almost through the whole of Asia, you know, from Shanghai to New York, if you go through the Suez Canal, from the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic, it is only 10,200 nautical miles, that is to cross to the other side of the world.

Taking East Asia as an example, the distance from the current Dinghai to Japan is only more than 900 kilometers in a straight line, and the distance to the hinterland of Japan, such as Osaka in later generations, which was called Nambakyo in this era, is only 1,500 kilometers.

Sailing at half the speed, 150 kilometers a day, you can reach Japan in 10 days, 20 days round trip, plus the delay in between, you can go back and forth in a month.

From Dinghai to North Korea, it will be even closer, and these countries in East Asia can go back and forth 12 times a year.

Perhaps, large-scale centralized transportation will reduce the profits of goods, but industrialized society does not require the profit of individual products, but the market, which can be dumped, of course, there is also the process of living raw materials, and Japan and North Korea already have this possibility.

Whether it was silver and gold from Japan, or iron ore and grain from Korea, these things were the raw materials needed by the navy, not to mention these two places, which were deeply influenced by China, and in the course of thousands of years of contact, they learned a lot of advanced technology, such as planting, which was more advanced than the rest of the world.

East Asia, after the expansion of China's influence, is one of the most densely populated places in the whole world, and these places are still producing inefficiently, and what Zhao Xin wants is to mobilize the initiative of the people.

For the Northern Song Dynasty and the Han people, of course, Zhao Xin couldn't do unlimited squeezing, even if he made a profit, he had a certain reservation, which actually increased the cost.

Dingjun's current technology is very advanced, and it can obtain high profits, give the Northern Song Dynasty a little benefit, and increase income, which is okay, but externally, there is no need to do this.

Plunder, both by force and by economy, is one of the fastest ways to develop itself, especially in the middle of Japan.

If other precious metals, because in the Northern Song Dynasty, there is no tradition of using precious metals, may not be able to smoothly enter the monetary system, but gold and silver are exceptions, the history of China's use of gold and silver, can even be repeated thousands of years ago, because the relationship between gold and silver is relatively small, at most in the upper circulation, but ordinary people, he is still recognized.

The small stamping machine is completed, as long as it is carved, it can form a four-level currency with gold, silver, copper and iron as the main body, in addition to the Dinghai currency, other currencies, they may not be able to obtain huge benefits, but they can stabilize the monetary system, and even gradually draw out the Dinghai currency.

Stainless steel as currency, this is just a special choice for a special period, after this stage, after stabilization, it must be withdrawn.

Stainless steel is a very good steel, and as long as the steel mill can produce it, it will definitely change the currency to make stainless steel used in more important places.

In the past, it may take several months to make a trip to and fro, but now it only takes one month at most, or even faster, not to mention, when the average speed of 12 knots to 14 knots per hour comes out, their speed can be higher than a grade, 50% more speed, and the efficiency will be improved, and the effect will also be improved.

In this case, the back and forth loading and unloading of a few days and half a month is relatively long, which affects the efficiency.

Zhao Xin didn't have a good solution, but he still made an appointment with the heads of those factories and told them that around the canal, it was planned that a shipyard must be built, and after the shipyard was built, a large number of ships would be produced, and they could also benefit.

The raw materials and commodities needed by the factory needed ships to be able to transport them, and the Dinghai Navy had already had a transportation crisis, and the Dinghai Navy at that time solved this problem by Lend-Lease.

However, most of the leased ships are maritime merchants, and there is a huge problem, that is, once the monsoon is right, they will almost certainly sail south and return to their hometowns, and the freight given by the navy will not be able to keep them at all.

The person in charge of these factories also knew that what Zhao Xin said was very reasonable, but they still thought that it was a bit of a waste to hand over all the canals to the shipyards, and maybe they would build very large ships in the future, and there was no need for this now.

In the future, the ships that fill the entire Dinghai Navy may be many years later, and it is expected to be such a waste, it is better to open new docks, for example, according to the areas where factories and other gatherings are opened, open some exclusive docks, and the raw materials transported from the Northern Song Dynasty can not be docked through the port area, but directly transported in place, and the canal has enough punishment capacity to undertake the transportation of these raw materials, and similarly, the products can also be dispersed for loading and unloading.

In this way, the biggest advantage is that whether it is raw materials or products, they are only used once when they arrive at Dinghai or leave Dinghai.

These people in charge, of course, have no extravagant hopes, each factory has an exclusive wharf, what they are looking forward to, is just on the canal dug by the Dinghai Navy, open a few wharves, used to meet the needs of most people, in this way, they can save a link of train transportation, and even increase part of the capacity, after all, train transportation, there is a limit.

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