Shanghai Port, Passenger Terminal, a steamboat slowly stopped, first-class passengers, leisurely disembarked, Yang Yuanzhao to Shanghai has been many times, from the initial curiosity, to the current usual, as one of the largest cities and financial centers in the Far East, Shanghai has a prototype of the future of Shanghai, but it depends on what it is compared with, Shanghai is one of the fastest growing places in China, and it can also enjoy the dividends of the Northwest, almost sixty percent of the Northwest foreign trade is from Shanghai.

However, compared with the speed of the northwest, the development of Shanghai is too slow, compared with 1908 four years ago, it is just that the wharf is busier, and there are more ships entering and leaving the port.

After discussing with Mu Mo for a month, he went to Germany, Yang Yuanzhao came back from Qingdao, returned to Baotou to stop vomiting for 3 days, and dealt with the affairs of the northwest.

On the choice of marine steel, Yang Yuanzhao thought for a long time, after going to Qingdao, after comparing most of the British, French and German merchant ships, and after a simple adjustment of the integrated machine, several trace elements were added, and finally formed the strongest marine steel system in Baotou.

From the keel, to the shell, to the skeleton, to the steel of the steam engine, a total of 21 grades and more than 100 different types, these steel grades, almost all of them are about 12-15 improvements in performance compared with similar products, not can not continue to improve, civilian ships, and not military ships, there is always a limit to the promotion, after taking into account the price and performance, this is already the most suitable product.

As long as these steels are produced and formed into a batch scale, they will be used in the civil ships of the future Jiangnan Shipyard, and the ships made on this basis will have great advantages in many aspects, not to mention that a world war will break out soon, even if it will not break out, with price and quality, it will be able to compete for a considerable market.

After the formula was determined, the Special Steel Research Institute, for these batches of steel, carried out trial production and industrialization improvement, at present only to ensure small batch production, Yang Yuanzhao is not in a hurry, these are the future to eat through the Jiangnan shipyard and German technology, the production of 10,000-ton ocean-going ships to use, now before the adjustment of steel, is enough.

The whistle sounded, Yang Yuanzhao walked down, a car in the distance directly entered the dock, there was a middle-aged man standing in front of the car, take a closer look, it was Nie Yuntai, under the personal greeting of Nie Yuntai, Yang Yuanzhao was introduced to the car, he didn't care about resting, and directly told Nie Yuntai to go to Jiangnan Shipyard to see.

For Yang Yuanzhao's requirements, Nie Yuntai did not say anything, from the beginning of Yang Yuanzhao's decision to inject capital, the vigorous and resolute style of the Northwest entered the Jiangnan Shipyard, even if it was a few executive directors of the Northwest Bank, they were under the supervision of their respective fields, and the fact required efficiency, coupled with the good quality of some of the workers who had been supplemented, the production efficiency of the Jiangnan Shipyard was increased several times, 3 months ahead of schedule, the cleaning of the ordinary dock was completed, and the orders were accepted and the ships were produced.

Nie Yuntai's slow narration made Yang Yuanzhao understand the current situation of Jiangnan Shipyard, the current development, mainly on the original site, after the cleanup, now Jiangnan Shipyard has a total of 7 large and small docks, the largest is only 3500 tons, his construction age, can almost be traced back to 20 years ago.

In the past 20 years, it has been 20 years of rapid development of science and technology, especially in the shipbuilding industry, with the gradual intersection of science and technology and shipbuilding, ocean-going ships, from ordinary paddle steamers, to the current large ocean-going cargo ships, from one or two thousand tons, gradually developed to 10,000 tons, and even close to 20,000 tons.

20 years ago, the 3,500-ton dock could not be called the top dock, and 20 years later, it was even more outdated.

Jiangnan Shipyard has also started a new consolidation, and the first order is a little larger than 3,500 tons, because of the massive investment and work efficiency, even if the dock itself cannot be expanded, it can be modified on this basis to make it suitable for the production of larger displacement cargo ships.

This order is a full-load displacement of 4,500 tons of ordinary freighters, the dock may be on the military warship, basically stuck, at most only a little more, but on the civilian ship, as long as you bother to research and improve, you can always increase the displacement, this is also one of the advantages of Jiangnan Shipyard.

Before the advanced dock was not in place, the 3,500-ton dock was the best dock of the Jiangnan Shipyard, walked to the dock, looked not far away, there used to be a piece of farmland, which was acquired by the Jiangnan Shipyard, as an expansion project, at this time the construction team from the northwest is beginning to start intense construction, which will be the core of the future Jiangnan Shipyard, 1 30,000-ton dock, 2 20,000-ton and 8 10,000-ton docks, a total of 11 10,000-ton docks, will fall there, In addition to some core needs to be able to be imported abroad, the remaining infrastructure projects are also the focus.

More than 10,000 tons of dock, has placed an order in Germany, and all of a sudden, is 11 orders, just this dock, as high as 50 million US dollars, hundreds of millions of silver dollars of investment, directly accounted for more than half of the total investment in Jiangnan shipyard, for the shipyard, the dock is always the largest investment, next, as long as to ensure the utilization rate of the dock, can continue to produce benefits.

Got a reminder from the northwest, from some subtle links, found the purpose of the British, Germany is now quietly turning to wartime, as a wartime economy, now most of Germany's industrial capacity is occupied by the production of munitions, a series of agreements between the northwest and Germany, such as some simple, personnel-intensive production, replaced by the northwest, the surplus special steel in the northwest can also be supplemented to Germany, in this case, Germany is also quite supportive of orders in the northwest, Priority and quality and quantity of this batch of docks were produced.

In a way, this is Germany's further goodwill with the northwest, which also has something to do with 400 million US dollars, the big head is still behind, you have to see the goods to try when you buy things, there is no better real YÀN than this order, 50 million US dollars, and then, more than 50,000 tons and 30,000 tons of orders, just the dock itself, is as high as 190 million US dollars, which is a temptation that Germany cannot refuse at all.

At this time, Germany is stepping up its work, and the order was placed a few months ago, and after a maximum of 3 months, the 10,000-ton dock will be produced, and then transported to the Jiangnan Shipyard, with about half a year of commissioning and integration, it is expected that the Jiangnan Shipyard will obtain the production capacity of 10,000-ton freighters in March-April 1913.

The rapid expansion of shipbuilding tonnage has also made the Jiangnan shipyard extremely short of people, which is directly supplemented from the northwest, and the workers from the northwest have also been helped by the investigation bureau to pour their hands and feet several times, so that the great powers, it is almost impossible to perceive anything from the middle, foreigners are foreigners, they can understand Chinese culture, but they are unwilling to really understand China in depth, many times, the understanding of China is left on the surface, not deep, Even in the Jiangnan shipyard, it was an open secret that the Northwest workers came to work, and those foreigners who worked in the shipyards, either unaware or uninterested, were still commercial.

For the Shanghai shipyard, Yang Yuanzhao still has high hopes, it is not a military shipyard, this is in Shanghai, under the noses of the great powers, any wind and grass will have problems, Yang Yuanzhao did not intend to stimulate the nerves of the great powers in Shanghai.

As one of the biggest gains of the Westernization movement, Jiangnan Shipyard will become the www.biquge.info of China's shipbuilding industry, from civilian to military, at this time in the early 20th century, far less clear than that of later generations, later generations, military is military, civilian is civilian, civilian is almost unlikely to replace the military, now, there are signs of this, but the emergence of the all-in-one machine, can make all impossible possible, plus with the full help of Germany, Yang Yuanzhao does not have any worries.

Besides, in the future, the First World War was a feast, Asia was not involved in this world war, but Japan in Asia shared this feast, busy traffic, countless material flows, during the war, everything became expensive, transportation is even more so, the British merchant ships sunk by Germany are almost millions of tons, these represent this capacity, how to replenish, the United States and Britain are almost all over the world waving orders to buy ships, especially after the United States entered the war, it is even more so, otherwise, how could China receive an order for 20,000 tons of cargo ships.

Now, the steel mills in the northwest have this foundation, laid out in advance, produced a large number of ocean-going freighters, at least trained a group of qualified seafarers for China, and created opportunities for the future ocean-going fleet, as long as the layout is reasonable, everything is possible, as long as it is willing to work hard, with the joint efforts of the all-in-one machine and Yang Yuanzhao, under the construction of the hard-working Chinese people, China will usher in the moment of rise. R1152