Bang!

Crash!

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Everyone on the shore clenched their fists and stared at the scene that was happening in front of them, and no one made a sound, as if they were expecting something.

In the blink of an eye, the steamer Qihang, which had been tilted in its hull, slowly turned positive until it stood smoothly on the river.

This scene was like a signal, which made everyone on the shore completely explode.

"It worked, we succeeded."

"It's amazing, hooray."

There were deafening cheers from hundreds of people on the shore.

"Teacher, we succeeded." Yuan Ye, who was standing at the forefront, was excited to hug his teacher Meng Fanxuan, and Meng Fanxuan was already too excited to speak.

Meng Fanxuan had waited too long for this day.

After a while, Meng Fanxuan was the first to calm down, he raised his right hand and waved it a few times at the people behind him, and the scene suddenly quieted down.

"Don't be in a hurry to be happy, let's test the voyage first, the trial voyage is successful, I have a treat, everyone is not drunk and has no home." Meng Fanxuan pushed the eyes on the bridge of his nose and said loudly.

"Yes, yes, let's try the voyage first, the trial voyage is successful, senior brother, please the first meal, I invite the second meal." Yan Ying, the naval commander who came to visit the launch of the ship, also said.

Hearing Meng Fanxuan and Yan Ying's words, everyone began to get busy, and some of them boarded the Qihang steamer, inspected the Qihang steamer first, and after half an hour, officially began the sea trial.

Woo! Woo! Woo!

Black smoke came out of the chimney of the steamer, and the steamer, which had been lying calmly on the river, slowly moved.

One section, two sections, three sections, the speed of the ship is slowly increasing, and at the same time it is heading into the distance.

Eventually, the Voyage reached a speed of eight knots, and those who remained at the Yamashiro shipyard could no longer see the Voyage.

The people on the shore waited anxiously, waiting for the successful trial voyage of the steamer to return safely.

Woo! Woo! Woo!

The whistle of the Voyage was heard from afar, and it was getting louder and louder, indicating that the Voyage was heading this way.

After a while, the steamer Qihang, with its chimney emitting billowing black smoke, appeared in everyone's field of vision, closer, closer.

"Great, we succeeded."

"Hooray."

The cheers on the shore rang out in an instant, and even the people on board the Voyage heard the sound and waved to the shore.

Meng Fanxuan, who was at the helm of the Qihang steamer, shed two lines of tears excitedly, the Qihang steamer was successfully tested, and the happiest was of course the director of the Shancheng shipyard.

At the beginning, Meng Fanxuan built a "small point" shipyard by the source river for his ideals, and he and several students worked hard to build steel boats one by one, and tried sailing in the source river, dreaming of building steel giant ships one day.

At the beginning of 84, Meng Fanxuan finally got a dream opportunity, although it was not to build a steel giant ship as he dreamed, but to build a small shipyard in the mountain city to build ships of less than 1,000 tons, but this was a rare opportunity, an opportunity to make his dream one step closer.

On the eve of the Spring Festival in 84, Meng Fanxuan couldn't wait to take his wife and children to the mountain city, to the site where the shipyard was to be built, and looked at it over and over again, but the appearance of the shipyard had already appeared in his mind.

After the Spring Festival, Meng Fanxuan's students, as well as hundreds of skilled workers, rushed from Yuanhe City to the mountain city, and Meng Fanxuan wanted to lead them to establish the first shipyard of the Han Kingdom from scratch.

A year and a half has passed, and working day and night has made Meng Fanxuan, who was originally only 27 years old, feel as if he is a middle-aged man in his thirties.

Fortunately, Meng Fanxuan has a gentle and considerate wife, even if Meng Fanxuan often does not return home at night, he also keeps this small family in order, and the support of his wife allows Meng Fanxuan to devote himself to the shipyard.

Meng Fanxuan's efforts were not in vain, and the Shancheng Shipyard was built at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then one ship after another was launched.

One hundred tons.

Two hundred tons.

Three hundred tons.

Four hundred tons.

It was not until July 3, 85 that the 500-ton ship Qihang was successfully tested, which represented that Meng Fanxuan had achieved a certain success.

Since a five-hundred-ton ship has been built, is a thousand-ton still far away?

Meng Fanxuan personally named the first 500-ton steamship Qihang, representing the official start of the shipbuilding industry of the Han Kingdom.

Next, Meng Fanxuan will also preside over the construction of ships with larger tonnage, and even more for the construction of gunboats for the navy that has been training with civilian ships.

How can a navy without warships be called a navy? No matter how small the tonnage of a gunboat is, as long as it is equipped with cannons, it is a warship.

Building a 500-ton gunboat is not easy to say, and it is not difficult to say that it is not difficult, but building a gunboat requires more considerations than building an ordinary civilian ship, such as the placement of naval guns.

Fortunately, the Yuanhe City Arsenal has developed 120 mm cannons, 100 mm cannons and 120 mm cannons that can become naval guns for the gunboats that are about to be built, and the Shancheng Arsenal that has been established can also produce various types of artillery, and can even manufacture mines and torpedoes, so that the Shancheng Shipyard will save a lot of trouble in building gunboats.

After only two days of rest, the Shancheng Shipyard showed a busy scene again, and Meng Fanxuan led the students and workers to continue to work hard to build ships and gunboats.

Yan Xueyi, who was far away in Yuanhe City, learned about the situation of the Shancheng Shipyard and specially ordered the China Daily to send reporters to the Shancheng Shipyard for interviews, and wrote the deeds of Meng Fanxuan and others to the newspaper, so that the people under his rule knew that there was such a group of people in Shancheng who were silently dedicated.

In ten days, the name of Meng Fanxuan and others spread all over the territory, and the common people knew that there was such a group of people in the mountain city who were silently dedicating their strength, sometimes in order to rush to work, they even forgot to eat, and Meng Fanxuan ate and lived in the shipyard for many days in a row, and did not go home to take a look.

Through the newspapers, the common people knew that the Western powers used strong ships and cannons to open the gates of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and a country was passively beaten after it did not have a strong fleet, and Meng Fanxuan and others worked hard for the country to build a strong fleet.

Countless ordinary people were moved by the deeds of Meng Fanxuan and others, and the people closest to the Shancheng Shipyard came to the shipyard with all kinds of food, which made the hearts of these people far away from their hometowns warm, and before they knew it, their eyes were already rosy.

After these things, Meng Fanxuan led the students and workers to work harder, because Meng Fanxuan knew that compared with the Western powers that had already built thousands of tons of ships, they were already too far behind, and they had to work hard and not waste a little time in order to catch up.

Of course, with the support of Yan Xueyi, a person who is open, it is only a matter of time before the shipbuilding industry catches up with or even surpasses the West.