In March 1627, not long after the Lunar New Year, Wuchang Wharf was already busy again. Unlike in the past, the Huguang merchants mainly dealt in grain and timber, and the Jiangnan merchants mainly dealt in cloth and salt, the merchants who came to Wuchang to buy goods were all here to purchase various industrial products produced by the Baath Party's factories. Therefore, the busyness of Wuchang Wharf has long since changed from seasonal to perennial.

After several years of development by the Ba'ath Party, the Baath Party's production of hardware products, agricultural tools, cotton cloth, canned food, cigarettes, steam engines, steam ships, and other light and heavy industrial products has opened up the market in the Jiangnan region and even in most parts of the country. Nearly one-third of the ships on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal that are transported from south to north are now all kinds of products produced by the Fuxing Society.

Originally, the dock was very busy and noisy, because a lot of steam-powered machinery was used on the dock, so the human voice and mechanical noise were mixed together, making most people feel dizzy.

Because his third young master took another family's boat back to Songjiang in advance a few years ago, Wei Liu, who had nothing to do, began to hang out. I haven't been looking at my ship for a few days, and Wei Liu, who is the captain, is still a little worried.

Wei Liu came to the berthing area of the wharf, and suddenly, he found that something seemed to be happening on the wharf, because most of the people stopped what they were doing, and everyone looked at the direction of the Yangtze River with their mouths half-open.

The five boats, which are very different from ordinary boats, are now docked in a special berth area on the Wuchang pier, although they use traditional Chinese hard sails, but are as slender as a shuttle.

These five ships are the result of the work of more than 10,000 workers and technicians at the Baath shipyards from 1620 to the present. One warship imitated the "Yangwu cruiser" produced and manufactured by the Fujian Shipbuilding Bureau in the late Qing Dynasty, and four warships that imitated the "Wannian Qing" produced and manufactured by the Fujian Shipbuilding Bureau in the late Qing Dynasty.

The names of the five warships, produced by the First Baath Shipyard, are brand new. Four 1,000-ton dual-purpose warships were named Terminator 1234 by Wang Shuhui for their prototypes. As for the only 1,200-ton cruiser that was the main event, Wang Shuhui just gave a 101 ordinary number very plainly.

Excluding the problems of power and weapons, simply talking about the hull, a 1,200-ton and four 1,000-ton five-wood ships, whether in modern times or in the Ming Dynasty, are actually particularly shocking things.

In modern times, 1,000-ton ships would not be as large as the wooden ships produced by the Ba'ath. After all, in modern ships, all of them are made of steel, and the weight of the ship itself is very large.

Although in terms of size, a ship of 1,000 to 1,200 tons is at the level of an ordinary freighter in modern times, but modern ships with fully automatic steel power are common, and wooden ships with hybrid sails and steam are rare in modern times.

As for the Ming Dynasty, ships that are said to be more than 1,000 tons only appeared in the legendary Zheng He's fleet that went to the West. At this stage, the tonnage of the Daifuku ship, which was the main warship of the Ming Dynasty Navy, did not exceed 700 tons.

Of course, in terms of appearance, the five ships of the Revival Society are all in the shape of the Clipper Ship Hollywood production. This kind of ship is different from all the ships in China and the world at present. She is not the image of a wide and short bathtub, but a long, slender shuttle-shaped appearance.

It is for this reason that the five ships with low sides look as if they are not as big as ordinary ships. Because of the scissor-style boat shape, these boats look very low.

However, all those who have sailing experience on Wuchang Wharf have a feeling that such a ship must be very fast.

For the First Baath Shipyard, the trouble of producing such an early modern hybrid of steam and sail with iron-ribbed wooden hulls was not in the technology and equipment.

Because the Baath Party's machine-building factories and arsenals had accumulated a great deal of experience and workers in the production of steam engines and artillery, it was not very difficult to assemble the corresponding equipment for these ships and to produce special steam engines and 120mm Krupp rear-loading naval guns and other types of artillery for these five ships according to the drawings and models obtained by Wang Shuhui from modern times.

As for the production of specialized machinery and equipment such as the corresponding lathes used by shipyards to build these ships, there is no pressure on the Renaissance Society's own machinery production department.

By about 1623, in fact, the Baathist machine-processing factories were basically able to produce any mechanical equipment in the steam power era according to the data, materials and models provided by Wang Shuhui.

Even when it comes to timber for the construction of ships, the Baath Party is not lacking. Because the Baath Party has a close relationship with Shizhu Tusi, which has a huge influence in the southwest region, the Baath Party, which is not short of money, can easily obtain a large number of high-quality ship materials from the Yunnan-Guichuan area. What's more, the ships produced by the Baath Party's shipyards are all made of iron ribs and wooden hulls, so the shipyards' requirements for ship materials are really not very high.

In terms of external conditions, the shipbuilding conditions of the Baath Party were much better than those of the Fujian Shipbuilding Bureau in the last years of the Qing Dynasty. The Fujian Shipbuilding Bureau produced steam engines, artillery, wood, steel and other things needed to build ships, all of which needed to be purchased at out. Moreover, the level of mechanization of the Fujian Shipbuilding Bureau is quite low, and the production of many ship parts is done by hand. The corresponding lathe power and other things are also very lacking. It can almost be said that the Fujian Shipbuilding Bureau is still a handicraft industry in the production of steamships.

Conditions at Baath No. 1 Shipyard were quite different.

From the steam engine to all the steel and wooden parts of the ship, from the ship's guns to the irons. All the materials and equipment needed for shipbuilding can be easily produced by the Baath Party. According to the design and planning of the modern think tank, Wang Shuhui has long prepared a complete set of steam-powered modern advanced ship processing and production equipment for the first shipyard. In addition, the plant specializing in the production and processing of ship timber and wood processing is already fully equipped to produce high-quality ship timber.

So why did the Fujian Shipbuilding Bureau in the late Qing Dynasty, which had very backward production equipment and technology, produce the "Wan Nianqing" in only about a year, while the Baath Party, which was four or five hundred tons smaller than the prototype and used a simple Chinese hard sail, took more than eight years to complete the construction from 1620 to 1627?

In fact, there is no other reason for this, there is only one problem in the No. 1 Shipyard of the Baath Party, which has surpassed the Fujian Shipbuilding Bureau in terms of equipment, machinery, technology, materials, etc., and the personnel are not strong!

In fact, for five years, from 1620 to 1624, the work of the First Baathist Shipyard revolved around the production of low-difficulty ships such as small steamers, the training of workers and technicians, and the study and practice of a great deal of shipbuilding knowledge.

Beginning in 1620, more than 10,000 workers who had completed literacy education and hundreds of technicians who had received elementary ship knowledge education were able to produce these early modern ships until around 1624, with the help of video teaching and extensive practice.

In other words, Wang Shuhui's Baath Party spent more than five years doing nothing else in shipbuilding, and they spent all these more than five years training and educating workers and technicians.

By the end of 1624, more than 10,000 basically qualified workers and technicians, as well as 3,000 naval officers and sailors of the Yangtze River Fleet of the Fuxing Army, who had received more than three years of specialized education and practice, were all in place

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Chapter 304: Terminator 1