Although the Tianjin shipyard ordered by Emperor Chongzhen to start construction is a government-run shipyard, and it is specially designed for the production and construction of ocean-going ships for the imperial court, especially for the naval governor's office, which is determined by Zhang Keda to be a naval warship of the Dafuku class, but all the assets of this Tianjin shipyard at present are from the investment of the emperor's internal carrier.

At the end of the day, this is the royal family's own property.

Although at this time, the division between the royal family and the imperial court on financial matters was not so clear, but in the future, this point must be distinguished.

Although the construction and investment of the navy mainly depends on the emperor's internal funds at present, it will also be funded by the imperial court in the future.

Therefore, the Navy Governor's Mansion is the Navy Governor's Office, and the Tianjin Shipyard is the Tianjin Shipyard, and the Daifuku-class naval warships built by the Tianjin Shipyard cannot, of course, be provided to the Navy Governor's Office free of charge, but must be purchased by the Navy Governor's Office with money.

At the moment, it doesn't seem to make much sense to do this, but it is just to take it out with the left hand and take it back with the right hand, but if you don't divide this account now, there will be a lot of trouble in the future.

As for the Red Hair Plywood ship with a standard displacement of 1,000 tons, the Commander Zhang Ke of the Navy, the Governor of the Navy, which has reached a standard displacement of 1,000 tons, is designated as the Daifuku class, of course, because its hull and load have surpassed the Fu ships in the late Ming Dynasty.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese Fuchuan could no longer see the level of 5,000 materials, and the Denglai Naval Division, Tianjin Naval Division, Dongjiang Naval Division, Juehua Island Naval Division, and Zhoushan Water Division, among which the largest Fuchuan gunboat was only 2,000 material level.

The 5,000-material fortune boat, that is, the fortune ship used by the imperial court to seal the ship of overseas vassal states, could not be built in the Wanli period.

The 5,000-material fortune ship sounds very big, and of course it looks very large, but when calculated, its full load displacement is only about 600 tons.

Material, not a unit of weight, but a unit of capacity, one material is equivalent to one stone, and the weight of one stone of rice is about one hundred and twenty catties.

Converted in this way, 5,000 materials is 5,000 stones, a total of 600,000 catties, which seems to be a lot, but when converted into tons, it is only 300 tons.

Of course, this 300 tons was the standard carrying capacity of the Fuzhou ship at that time, and when converted into a full load of displacement, it needed to be more than doubled.

However, even so, the displacement of the so-called No. 1 Fu ship of the 5,000-material class is only around 600 tons.

In the era when Zheng He went to the West, that is, in the early fifteenth century, this tonnage of lucky ships was definitely able to dominate the sea.

However, 200 years after Zheng He went to the West, that is, in the twenties and thirties of the seventeenth century, this displacement ship was no longer a big ship among the colonial powers in Western Europe.

Of course, it is said that the 5,000-material fortune ship is not the largest Zheng He treasure ship, and it is said that the largest Zheng He treasure ship has a displacement of more than 2,500 tons.

If this is the case, then when Zheng He went to the West, the superiority of the Ming Dynasty's navy was even more unprecedented.

Because, historically, until the early 17th century, when the colonial powers of Western Europe were crisscrossing the eastern and western oceans, their shipbuilding technology did not reach this level.

Until the time of Chongzhen, the Dutch, the most developed shipbuilding technology, had just exceeded 1,500 tons in terms of the maximum displacement of their wooden sail warships, that is, the largest plywood ships with six decks on the upper and lower decks.

However, no matter what scale the naval ships of the Ming Dynasty reached when Zheng He went to the West, or how unprecedented the advantages they had, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, they still declined after all.

The 5,000-material Fu ship, that is to say, the No. 1 Fu ship with a displacement of about 600 tons, could no longer be built at this time, let alone the super-large flagship that Zheng He rode in that year.

This is also the reason why, after Zhang Keda arrived at the Tianjin Shipyard, he set the future naval warship that imitated the Dutch plywood ship of the Gallion as the Daifuku-class.

Although this kind of plywood ship is no longer the most advanced and powerful ship at this time, its huge hull and huge load are more than double the scale of the 2,000 shipwrecks with a displacement of about 300 tons in the fleet of the northern and southern sailors of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Keda personally came to Tianjin with the will of Emperor Chongzhen, and in addition to personally explaining to Shen Tingyang the matter of ordering ten Dafu-class warships, he also brought a series of official documents appointed by the emperor to Tianjin Shipyard.

Huang Binqing, who was born in the hereditary thousand households of Pinghaiwei in Putian, Fujian, was deeply trusted by Shen Tingyang after following Shen Tingyang, and was recommended by Shen Tingyang to be appointed to Tianjin Dagukou Shipyard, while Shen Tingyang's nephew Huang Zhongrong and Chen Zhongguan, who was personally recruited, were respectively appointed as the left and right deputy promotions.

Van der Lie, a missionary from the Netherlands, became the general manager of the Dagukou shipyard in Tianjin.

Van Vliet, a bankrupt businessman from Rebasha, also became the captain of all the red-haired fans in the Tianjin Dagukou Shipyard, that is, the captain, that is. the captain.

At the same time, Thomas Dlaifort, from Rebasa, became a master craftsman at the Dagukou shipyard in Tianjin, while Chen Shengguan, the eldest of the Chen brothers from Quanzhou, became a master craftsman.

This so-called master craftsman and small craftsman is the engineering college presided over by Song Yingxing and others, and after it was opened, it was awarded the official status of the first batch of graduates.

The title of craftsman has existed in China since ancient times, and there are various classifications of stonemasons, carpenters, blacksmiths, etc., but in the craftsman industry, in addition to the difference between masters and apprentices, there is no hierarchy that can be progressively higher than that of children, talents, juren, and jinshi.

When the first batch of students of the College of Engineering was about to face graduation awards, Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Engineering, led Song Yingxing and other officials of the College of Engineering to meet Emperor Chongzhen and ask for instructions on how to confer officials on these graduates of the College of Engineering.

This is a big issue related to whether this engineering school can continue to operate for a long time.

If you don't give an official, it will definitely not work, first of all, the emperor's words can't be counted, and secondly, if you fool once, it will be difficult in the future.

The College of Engineering is the place where Emperor Chongzhen envisioned to play a major role, even if the first batch of students is not good, you can't be untrustworthy!

However, if the emperor had promised to confer official titles, and give them to civil or military officials, then it would inevitably attract opposition from civil or military officials.

Because other people's official bodies are obtained through hard study and imperial examinations again and again, you are a craftsman apprentice in the engineering college, and you will be given an official after graduation, and you can't say it.

In addition, civil officials have imperial examinations, and military attaches also have military examinations, neither of which came out of thin air.

Thinking about it, now the Chongzhen Emperor from later generations has thought of the technical title of the technocrats of later generations, wouldn't it be good to give it to an engineer.

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen said this idea, Bi Maokang, Song Yingxing and others immediately understood, and it didn't take long for the emperor to present the emperor with a set of official salary systems tailored for all kinds of craftsmen.

Just like officials at all levels, this set of things made by the Ministry of Industry and the College of Engineering naturally has to be divided into three, six, nine and so on, the first class is the craftsman, the second class is called the craftsman, and the third class is called the craftsman.

Each class is divided into three classes, the lowest level is the third class craftsman, and the highest level is the first class craftsman.

The first-class craftsmen are called the master craftsmen, and the second- and third-class craftsmen are called the small craftsmen.

Students of the Faculty of Engineering are awarded the status of third-class craftsman or higher according to the subjects they have studied and what they have made according to the regulations at the time of graduation.

Those who have registered with the Ministry of Industry and obtained such status will be issued a certain amount of money by the Ministry of Industry every year according to their rank.

The grading method presented by Bi Maokang and Song Yingxing was immediately approved by Emperor Chongzhen, and now it is not only used in various factories and workshops under the Armed Forces Academy, but also in various government-run factories and mines in the area of Baiye City.

At this time, it was naturally copied and appropriated by Shen Tingyang to the Dagukou Shipyard.

In addition to these appointments, as a royal property of Dagukou Shipyard, Emperor Chongzhen did not forget to let the Internal Affairs Office, which had just been established to be in charge of the royal industry, send a minister Jia Rugao next to the empress to serve as the resident supervisor of Dagukou Shipyard.