"Today is the big day for the launch of the first large transport ship designed and manufactured by our Senate itself!" With the loudspeaker emitting a high-pitched female voice, there were a large number of naturalized migrant workers wearing overalls and yellow hard hats standing neatly next to the dry dock. Unlike the usual ones with all kinds of tools in their hands, they were all empty-handed at the moment, each with a happy face, standing on both sides of the dry dock, their eyes fixed on the two large wooden freighters in the dry dock.

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"This ship represents an extension of the Senate's pioneering spirit, and from this day forward we will have the ability to sail far away, to be able to deliver the products of our port of Vostochny to any corner of the world, and to bring back from any corner of the world whatever we need. Although we are manufacturing a type of transport ship today, but with such construction experience, and at the same time with you workers with rich experience in building ships, our Senate will have more and more large ships that are getting better and better at the same time......" The voice in the tweeter continued, but the faces of the workers were full of happy expressions, you must know that they have been busy for so long, from the beginning of this dry dock to dig pits, they are busy on the front line, with the completion of the dry dock, the water retaining door is put into use, Laying the keel, laying the side deck, they were personally involved in everything. Every worker present paid their blood and youth for these two transport ships, and some even paid the price of their lives for this - during the construction of these two free ships, three workers fell and died because they were working at high altitude without wearing seat belts.

And today, the two transport ships that have been staying in the dock are finally going to be launched, how can this not make everyone feel excited and excited? Because these two ships were built at the same time, the accessories used were almost identical, and even the production of the two steam engines was basically carried out at the same time, and the parts inside were basically interchangeable.

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As the loudspeaker shouted the order to open the gate and release the water, the retaining doors in the ditches on both sides of the dry dock were slowly released, and the sea water poured into the dock along the channel from both sides of the dry dock. As the water slowly rose, the hull finally began to shake little by little.

At this moment, in addition to Xiao Jing and Yang Minghuan from the Senate, sitting on the rostrum at the same time were also the leader of the Meideno mission who was invited to participate in the launching ceremony, and Princess Jacqueline, the actual leader of the mission. The purpose of inviting the two of them to watch the launch of the Liberty Ship is clear to everyone, and it is nothing more than a signal to the Maidno Mission, which is still arguing with the Senate, that the Senate is not only capable of building large warships, but also capable of building mobile warships beyond their imagination, and can make warships as mobile and flexible as pilot ships. In fact, this is already an intimidation of the national strength of the Medeno people, and the Medeno people are organized to continue to attack the Senate to avoid retaliation from the people.

At this moment, the effect of the Senate seems to have been achieved, and Miro is staring intently at the two large ships in the dry dock at the moment, he has watched the construction of these two ships, and he has also peeked into the construction process of these two large ships throughout the whole process, so that he has always felt very regretful that he cannot observe these ships up close, and every time he tries to get close, a Chinese coast guard patrol ship will come over and drive him away. He has always been very interested in the way these two ships are driven, you must know that the hulls of these two transport ships are actually not very large, this is in the case of their sea city, but the difference between these two ships and the ships of the Medenor is that there are no masts and no sail cables, just like the steel clippers of the Chinese people, which makes them feel very strange to the Medenor people. In the past, those steel clippers were brought by the Chinese themselves from where they came from, and I don't understand how to make them. However, these two large wooden transport ships were built by the Chinese people in this world, and the materials used were also made in this world, so what skills these two ships can have, we can basically infer how far the Chinese people can move in the sea.

Jacqueline, unlike Miro, doesn't really have much idea about what these ships can be put into, as far as she knows, she doesn't know how many new ships have been launched, especially every time she goes to Yaning to see her sister, she is invited to see the new ships launched. It's just that the way she sees launching the water today seems to be a little different, the new ships that are launched on weekdays are lying on the slipway or slide, and the huge hull will automatically slide into the sea after cutting the cable. But today's Chinese people have dug a huge pit in the ground, and the size of this pit is almost the same as half of Haicheng.

Although there is something like a slide in the pit, and the hull of the ship is located on the slide, the Chinese people do not seem to have the intention of letting the hull slide into the sea, but start to slowly fill the water from both sides of the big pit. This was to allow the sea water to slowly lift the hull of the ship, and then open the retaining door to tow the boat out of the dock. But why should it be? Why don't you just slide in?

"Because it's too heavy," Miro whispered to Jacqueline a little embarrassed, "Your Royal Highness Princess, don't ask, this ship, no, the tonnage of these two ships is not comparable to our ordinary ships, it is necessary to be large, only our Haicheng can compare with them, these two ships are their Dongfeng is smaller." If you enter the water with a slide, it is likely to cause damage to the hull, so that the launch will not affect the structure of the hull. ”

Jacqueline's eyes widened, she couldn't believe that the Chinese people could surpass Medeno and Yaning in shipbuilding technology now, and hurriedly whispered to Miro, "You mean this ship is all good for us?" ”

"It's easy to say no, but at least their ship doesn't need the wind to move." Miro cautiously pointed to the propeller that was slowly being swallowed by the sea, "Why is their ship able to travel without wind energy, it must be in that thing." ”

Jacqueline nodded, looked up, and turned her head to look at Xiao Jing who was sitting on the side, "Executive Committee Xiao, can we take a look?" ”

"Huh?" Xiao Jing was stunned, he didn't expect this Princess Medeno to suddenly make such a request, which made him very difficult to answer in person. In fact, both he and the other senators of the Senate knew very well that this ship was nothing more than a trial production to verify whether the design, manufacture, transportation and construction of this kind of free wheel could be verified in this world, and in fact he didn't know whether this ship was good or not, of course, it must be good, but he didn't know what to say now. Although everyone knows that there will be no trouble in letting the Medeno people look around, even if they let the Medeno people climb the ship and map the whole area, it may not be possible to copy these machines, just like the steam engine, the related industries required are already very cumbersome and complicated. In fact, the construction of the Liberty ship is like the unfinished Varyag that Ukraine wanted to complete back then, and such a ship cannot be built without the overall planning of a huge country and the support of capital and industrial level. "Well, this matter needs to wait for the Executive Committee to discuss before deciding." Xiao Jing could only choose the most commonly used but most effective sentence to prevaricate the past.

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"Sure enough, it's the same as you think," Gu Qingqian said to Xiao Jing with a smile, "After inviting them to watch the launch of the Liberty Wheel yesterday, today's negotiation work has gone much smoother, what did you brag about with them?" ”

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Xiao Jing shrugged, "I didn't brag about anything, I just told them honestly that these two ships will need two three-month outfitting after they are launched, and we have already started producing kits for the other two ships, and when the dock is empty, we will immediately start building the two transport ships No. 3 and No. 4." They asked me how many years it would take to finish, and I said that the two ships were started at the same time, because of lack of experience, it took a full eight months to build, and there was also a need to wait for the power part to be manufactured, but now because the power part has been built and the workers have enough experience, then it should be about four to five months to be launched. ”

"Well, by the way," Gu Qingqian interrupted Xiao Jing a little anxiously, "Why are these two ships called transport ships?" Is it going to be handed over to the navy? ”

Gu Qingqian's words represent her extreme distrust of the navy, the two freeships were built at the strong request of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, and the construction of the dry dock was also advanced by the Ministry of Commerce and Trade. However, the Admiralty requested that both dry docks be requisitioned for the repair of the four Sharp Ships captured by the Navy, and after a strong protest from the Ministry of Commerce and Trade to the Executive Committee, the Executive Committee had to mediate and finally reached a compromise plan, with the Navy using the dry dock to the north for the repair work and the Ministry of Commerce and Trade to use the dry dock to the south for the construction work.

Although this compromise plan seems to be okay, the fact is still far from solving the problem, first of all, it has not been able to decide the ownership of the dry dock, because of financial problems, the navy does not have enough financial resources to build a naval dry dock, but whether it is shipbuilding or repair and maintenance of warships in the future, it is necessary to have the navy's own dry dock, it is conceivable that in the future, the executive committee will often wipe the quarrel between the navy and the Ministry of Commerce and trade; The second point is that it has not been able to decide the right to use production resources at all, whether it is the navy or the Ministry of Commerce and Trade shipbuilding and repair, it is necessary to use ship materials, and now only two transport ships are built, which has almost hollowed out Xiao Jing's timber mill, not to mention the dispute between the Navy and the Ministry of Commerce and Trade over the ship's engine, and finally the Navy took the engine and the Ministry of Commerce and Trade took the thruster, and in the end both sides failed to complete it as scheduled, and both ends collapsed.

At the beginning, the Navy repaired the Edge in order to be able to use the existing ships at hand as soon as possible and quickly complete the expansion of naval equipment. However, in the process of the construction of the free wheel, the navy continued to find the shortcomings of the sharp ship, first of all, the hull of the sharp ship is a standard sail warship, in order to ensure that the hull will not capsize in the strong wind, the width of the hull has to be widened, the length and width of the hull almost reached 4, which is very unfavorable for the need to use a steam engine for propulsion, the hull is too wide and there is no streamline, which will greatly slow down the speed of the ship, which is unfavorable for the Senate Navy that wants to dominate the sea operations; Secondly, as the main battleship, the Fengrui ship used to use smoothbore guns, and the accuracy of the smoothbore guns in this era was too low, so it had to follow the example of the infantry to use the method of intensive shooting to make up for the lack of accuracy, so the Fengrui ship was stuffed with seventy-two smoothbore guns. Although the navy dismantled all the cannons after capturing the ships, the gun decks were firmly in their place, taking up valuable space. The Navy's renovation plan is to dismantle all the layers of the ship, then build a two-story bridge on the amidships, and then install equipment such as shooting command instruments, observation instruments, and communication instruments on the surface. According to the Navy's renovation plan, it is necessary to install a double-mounted ninety mm rifled gun before and after, and use a fully enclosed metal turret for protection, but soon someone found that if the fully enclosed turret is really installed, plus the weight of the bridge, the hull will have a top-heavy problem, in addition, the hull deck structure is mainly built of wood, and it cannot carry a fully enclosed metal turret with a total weight of more than ten tons, so it has to be overhauled, and the final plan is two semi-open turrets, Anyway, the Medeno don't have shrapnels, and the top defense is not needed for the time being. The gun uses a hexagonal gun, which is loaded through the breech, which can reduce the weight of the gun itself with a certain accuracy.

With such a modification, the steering mechanism of the gun had to be improved, and the direction of the turret was driven by the power of the steam engine, and the high and low machine was carried out by manpower. In order to reduce the recoil on the deck when firing guns, these hexagonal guns use a spring cushioning mechanism, which can theoretically reduce the recoil force by about 30 percent. Another awkward issue with the use of steam engines is the need for fuel. Although the Fengrui ship has enough space to load coal, according to calculations, even if it is fully loaded, it can only keep the ship sailing within a radius of 1,000 nautical miles, otherwise it will not be able to drive back.

This situation caused the dissatisfaction of the navy, in order to meet the needs of the navy for long-distance navigation operations, it was necessary to replenish at sea, but at this moment all the transport ships of the navy were all sailing ships, and the tonnage was small, not to mention the coal that could be carried, and the speed was pitifully slow, and it was completely unable to keep up with the sailing speed of the steam warships, so the navy's eyes fell on the two free ships that had just been launched and had not had time to outfit.