In June, Xuzhou's first steam engine ship experimented on Surabaya, the wide Surabaya River, the steam engine ship made a roaring horn, and then the soldiers lit the coal to start the steam engine. After the steam engine was started, there were bursts of white smoke, and the huge power drove the mechanical wheels, and the heavy steam engine ship began to run on the Surabaya River.

The battleship walked on its own without wind, and immediately stunned the merchants on the Surabaya River. Moreover, the speed of this battleship is indeed much faster than that of a ship that runs on the wind, and after seeing the success of the experiment, Tao Ying was even more excited!

After the success of the first steam engine ship, the warship sailed to Pengcheng, and Tao Ying gave him the name - Pengcheng! The Pengcheng stayed in Pengcheng for two days for the people to visit, and then returned to the Xiapi shipyard to continue improvements.

With the first steam engine, Tao Ying opened a steam engine factory. The steam engine factory was set up in Tancheng, which is very close to Xiapi, because Tancheng currently has a large number of people, but there is no large factory. On the other hand, Pengchengguo and Xiapi have many large-scale factories in these two places, and recruiting workers has become a big problem. As a result, workers could only be recruited in Tancheng, and Tancheng was developed into a city of heavy industry by the way.

With the establishment of the steam engine factory, the first warships also began to be produced. According to Tao Ying's plan, the first batch of warships produced five, the largest one can accommodate nearly 2,000 people, this one is called the Xuzhou ship, which is mainly stationed at sea, responsible for maintaining the maritime trade safety of Dalian, Lushun, Yingkou, Tiecheng and Qingdao County.

The ship was built by a shipyard stationed in Qingdao County, and the steam engine was built by the steam engine school stationed in Xiapi. The Xuzhou ship was additionally assigned to three frigates.

The second battleship was named Juye, which was built by the shipyard stationed in Juye, and the design drawings were designed by the Ironclad Academy, and this battleship was capable of holding 500 people. In addition, the Juye was also allocated three frigates capable of holding 100 people, which were also built by the Juye Shipyard. Tao should complete it within two years, and two years later, equip the Juye Navy to inspect the safety of the Shanyang section of the Surabaya River.

The third battleship was named Xiapi, which was built by the Xiapi shipyard, and then also equipped with three frigates, which were completed within two years, and were responsible for guarding the safety of the river from Xiapi to Guangling.

The fourth battleship was the Jiangdu, built at the Guangling Shipyard to guard the safety of the Yangtze River. The Jiangdu is also a large ship of 1,000 people, but Jiangdu needs to protect the safety of the Yangtze River, so the task is particularly important, so Tao Ying prepared to equip him with five frigates to form a Jiangdu battleship group.

The construction of these warships was started at the same time as the Jiangdu Shipyard and the Guangling Shipyard, so the time limit was also two years to complete. In the south, there is a group of Jiangdu warships to protect the Yangtze River, so Tao Ying rebuilt the Taihu Lake Naval Division Base and established a new Naval Division Base in Taihu Lake, which is not only responsible for Suzhou County, but also undertakes the security of Huiji County.

This is the fifth battleship group in Xuzhou - Hangzhou!

In order to facilitate the waterway connection between Suzhou and Huiji, Tao Ying ordered the two counties to mobilize the army and civilians to dig a river from Wucheng to the newly established city of Hangzhou. The location of Hangzhou transportation is better, and then a seaport is set up in Hangzhou, and the administrative office of Jiangji County is also moved to Hangzhou.

San'in, another seat of Huiji County, became the second largest city, both of which could be reached from the port of Hangzhou.

Jiang Qin was then tasked with taking charge of the Hangzhou, allowing it to patrol the Suzhou-Hangzhou waterway from New Suzhou to Hangzhou. The warships in these two places were also jointly manufactured by the Qianjiang Shipyard and the Taihu Shipyard.

After the establishment of the Hangzhou, Tao Ying established the sixth battleship group in Yuzhang - Jiujiang. The Jiujiang was built by the Pengzehu Shipyard, which had the weakest industrial base, and in order to be able to build the Jiujiang well, Tao Ying transferred a lot of shipwrights from Jiangdu and Taihu Lake.

There are a total of six warship groups, plus a Pengcheng, and the Pengcheng is tasked with docking outside Pengcheng and is specifically responsible for guarding the safety of Pengcheng.

After Zhang Zhao read the plan, he told Tao Ying to build a group of warships to protect the safety of the Huai River. Therefore, after nearly half a month of discussion, everyone unanimously decided to focus on the development of Suiling, and develop Suiling, the crossroads city where Huaishui and Siguang River meet, into the largest transit city in central China.

The seventh battleship group became the Huaihe battleship group, which was stationed in Suiling. The construction task was built by the Pengcheng Shipyard, because he was in charge of the golden waterway of the Huai River, so the rank was equivalent to that of the Jiangdu.

After this task was issued, the funds spent were all put into the year's finances. In this year, Tao Ying was unable to carry out expansion activities, so he could only let the head office continue to expand its business territory and began to develop into small and medium-sized cities to obtain more silver.

The expansion of commerce, coupled with the reform of agriculture, made it possible for Pengchengguo, which required huge expenditures, to offset it. Pengcheng Guoxue is all free, and this burden will drag down one percent of Xuzhou's finances. In addition, five or six long rivers have been opened and built in the past two years, which is even more costly.

What's more, there is no excavator in this era, and Tao Ying found that he had to continue to reform in order to achieve a larger round of upgrades in Pengcheng.

Now Tao Ying understands a truth, sure enough, the smaller the place, the easier it is to develop. Now Pengcheng has taken the lead in rising, and Pengcheng has led this dynasty for at least ten or even decades. However, the recovered territory could not be left alone, so the east wall could only be demolished to make up the west wall. After recovering a county, Pengcheng will have to use the funds of the entire Xuzhou for a year to develop his infrastructure and achieve common prosperity.

June was fast approaching, and Tao Ying, who had been busy upgrading his steam engine, had almost forgotten what was going on outside. Anyway, there is no need to take care of government affairs by yourself, and military affairs are naturally managed by Jia Xu. Tao Ying's daily task is to study and upgrade the steam engine with the invention geniuses Liu Ye and Zhuge Liang. After more than three years of study, Zhuge Liang didn't know how to lead the troops to fight, but at this time, Zhuge Liang was about to become a steam engine expert.

Although Tao Ying didn't let Zhuge Liang bang these things every time, and let him and Jia Xu learn to lead troops to fight, Zhuge Liang's interest in the steam engine had already far exceeded that of leading troops to fight. Not only Zhuge Liang, but also Zhuge Liang's good buddy Cao Pi was also damaged, as long as Kong Rong Academy couldn't see him well at a glance, he fled to the steam engine school to watch the steam engine.

One day in mid-June, Jia Xu, who had not been seen for a long time, suddenly came from Pengcheng and said that according to the news sent by the intelligence agency from Huainan, after Huainan Yuan Shu lost the Lujiang River, his subordinates Yang Feng and his two men took the money and ran to the mountains. Yuan Shu had no money and food in Shouchun, and he couldn't mix it anymore, so he prepared to dedicate the emperor's name to Yuan Shao, and went to the north to join his fellow Yuan Shao.