There are too many things that need to be done in this era of poverty and whiteness, even if there is a super cheat of the steel base, Lu Liang also feels a little powerless, everything has to be built from scratch, and there is no foundation to use. Talent needs to be cultivated little by little, factories, farmland, and military all need to devote energy, as well as the formulation of rules, the improvement of ideas, the popularization of education, and so on. When Lu Liang felt that he was too busy to make a come, a piece of good news finally lifted his spirits - the port and shipyard were completed and could be used for production and use.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the seas were dominated by battleships, with their large-caliber guns and strong armor protection, they dominated the seas for several centuries until the peak of World War II, when aircraft carriers took their place. A country's steel production is often used as a measure of how many battleships it is capable of producing.

A battleship is a sign of a strong country, and Lu Liang can't describe his yearning for battleships in words, but now is not the time to be ambitious. In the waters of the Far East, the slightest disturbance will attract the attention of the great powers, and it is impossible to secretly develop the navy without being discovered, and even if a 10,000-ton battleship is produced, it is impossible to guarantee that it will not be detected during training. Lü Liang's plan is to build a port and a shipyard at present, and use this shipyard to train a group of shipbuilders and train a group of skilled workers, so as to lay the foundation for the construction of warships after the regime is stable and a good port is obtained.

The Huizhou area lacks a good harbor, there is no suitable harbor on the long coastline, and the sea near Tsuen Wan is surrounded by small islands on one side and mid-mountains on the other, and the most troublesome seabed is silt. Later, modern directional blasting technology was adopted, and more than 640 tons of explosives were used to flatten a mountain to lay the foundation for the construction of the port. Under Lu Liang's arrangement, the construction materials collected by the submarine mining vehicles were excavated from the nearby islands, hills and seabed sediment, which not only laid the foundation for cleaning up the port, but also provided a large amount of materials for the large-scale infrastructure construction of the industrial base. Up to now, all obstacles such as the hills near the port have been removed, the removal of the seabed silt has also been preliminarily completed, and the rocks excavated from the small hills and islands have been used to fill in the bay, so that the construction of the pier has been accelerated in an all-round way. Unfortunately, it can only accommodate a medium-sized shipyard, and the surrounding terrain is not suitable for defending against foreign invasions.

The steel plant has been in operation for two months, and the steel produced can only meet the needs of plant construction and road construction, far from reaching the design capacity, which is normal. After the foundation of the shipyard was laid, all the machinery and raw materials came from the base, and the first batch of trained workers have entered the factory and began to learn and work under the guidance of genetic people.

It is worth mentioning that in order to maximize the work efficiency of the existing workers, the factory in Lvliang adopted a standardized, assembly-line production model from the beginning, and the screw on a steam engine may even be used on a transport ship in the future. Mass production has proven to maximize industrial capacity with standard specifications, but this model is not possible anywhere. Fortunately, Lu Liang paid attention to this aspect of the problem very early under the reminder of the genetic person, and the various workshops and management departments based on high-quality genetic people are like a whole, and an order can be carried out without reservation.

Therefore, the first steamship after the start of the shipyard, Lu Liang chose the free wheel. Known as the industrial miracle of World War II, the Liberty Wheel was a world record of 24 days in the water for Americans to mass-produce boats using prefabricated components and assembly methods. Liberty ships were used as consumables, and due to the threat of German submarines, a successful crossing of the Atlantic Ocean was considered to have completed its construction mission, and was therefore qualitatively unreliable. The Ziqiang shipyard currently has three slipways, and the base provides a variety of prefabricated parts, where workers only need to assemble them, and their quality is much stronger than that of the free wheel. Lv Liang named this kind of ship Ziqiang, because of the lack of mature workers and the lack of production capacity of the base, there is only one under construction, the purpose is to train the workers. After the completion and maturity of various factories in the mainland, they can provide various prefabricated parts for shipyards, and there is no longer a need for the base. By then, a large number of freighters will be launched, providing a strong boost to the transportation of products in the industrial area.

When the shipyard started construction of the first self-strengthening wheel, and the steel plant ran in production, the first battleship was quietly launched in the shipyard of the base. At the beginning, the base allocated five percent of its production capacity to this battleship, and after more than seven months of production, the construction was finally completed. The reason for the production of such a warship is to train naval officers and sailors, and the sailors recruited at this time are all innocent fishermen, and officers at all levels are served by genetic people, which is not normal for Lu Liang, who is determined to build a navy that dominates the world. The second reason is secrecy, the Cleveland-class light cruiser can reach a maximum speed of 32 knots, and in the Far East seas, which are full of fishing boats, cargo ships and warships from various countries, the Nanhai can use its speed to shake off all trackers during training, so that the outside world cannot judge where the warship came from. The gap of thirty years has left no warship in this era capable of threatening the Nanhai.

At the same time, Lüliang's navy was also established, headed by 100 genetic officers, and 700 ordinary soldiers had the ability to go on ships after more than five months of study and training, but in order to give full play to the power of the warship, they had to go through continuous study and training, after all, they were originally illiterate people who could not read big characters. This is also a helpless choice, the soldiers and workers recruited by Lu Liang are all civilian classes, this is to maintain loyalty and purity to the greatest extent, it is always more comfortable to sketch on a blank piece of paper, otherwise there will be internal chaos among the refugees in the future. The requirements for this newborn navy Lu Liang are very low, as long as they can come back safely when they go to sea for the first time.

Due to the proximity of the base and factory to the sea, the coastal defense work was also completed after the launch of the warship. Five reinforced concrete batteries were built near the base and port, and they were covered semi-enclosed batteries instead of open-air ones, which were highly defensive. According to the casting methods and artillery caliber adopted by the German "Atlantic Barrier", a total of 4 105mm coastal defense guns, 2 155mm guns, and 2 280mm caliber coastal defense guns were placed. For example, the iconic Sovereign-class battleships of the Dreadnought era, their 343mm guns were inferior to the standard 280mm shore defense guns of World War II in terms of range and rate of fire. The newly recruited 500 soldiers were mainly responsible for logistics and transportation, battery maintenance, etc., while the operation of artillery was handed over to the genetic soldiers.