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Fuzhou Mawei Port is located in the southeast of Fuzhou and the confluence of the Taijiang River and the Wulong River, the two branches of the Minjiang River, and is deep in the mouth of the Minjiang River. The outlet section of the river is mostly a canyon, and there are island barriers such as Langqi, Coarse Lu, and Chuanshi outside the mouth, and the port area is surrounded by mountains and mountains, and the shelter conditions are good; There is also Fuzhou City and the vast hinterland as a backing in the rear, which is definitely a first-class port.

Moreover, the waters in Mawei Port are long and narrow, the confluence of the two rivers is about 4,000 meters wide, the channel is nearly 1,000 meters wide, and the narrowest part of the gold medal gate is only more than 300 meters, with an area of about 30 square kilometers. The water depth is generally more than three meters, and the water depth of anchorages and channels is mostly more than seven meters, of which Lantau, Zhongsha and Neibajiang Sha are shallows with a water depth of about three meters, and ships of more than 6,000 tons must wait for the tide to enter and exit. 10,000-ton ships can be berthed at Luoxingta, Tingjiang, Guantou and Hujiang anchorages, and 5,000-ton ships can be berthed at the anchorage in front of Yingqian. In particular, there are two berths of 10,000 tons and two berths of 5,000 tons, and the berths of the rest of the wharves are less than 2,000 tons.

For the battleships at this time, even the largest first-class battleship in the world did not exceed three thousand tons, and Mawei Port was definitely enough to use. Not only that, Mawei Port is the gateway to Fuzhou, and if any enemy attacks Fuzhou from the sea, it must go up the river from here to reach the city, which has always been an important place for soldiers to defend. It turned out that Zheng Chenggong's father, Zheng Zhilong, had built a port here, although the scale was not large, but it was enough to use, but unfortunately after decades of war, this place has been abandoned, and all of them have to start anew!

As soon as Geng Jingzhong returned to Fuzhou, he stayed in Mawei and commanded everyone to start preparing for the big battle, either checking the port or dealing with various materials every day.

"Shizi, all the people around here have moved away, and due to the haste of the matter, the brothers went to do their work, and it took two days longer than scheduled to complete the move. Now there will be no one else around here except the migrant workers and our soldiers! The guard Yang Jian came in from outside to report to him.

Geng Jingzhong put down the book in his hand and said, "Well, I know, it's hard to leave my homeland, it's reasonable!" Who wants to abandon their native hometown all at once! First, the moving expenses must be paid in place, and no one is allowed to deduct them! ”。 In order to build forts and prepare shipyards, the people near Mawei had to move inward, so Geng Jingzhong learned from Yao Qisheng, the future governor of Fujian. Fortunately, the surrounding population is not large, and it is not too troublesome to resettle, with the good reputation of Jingnan Wangfu and the generous conditions offered by Geng Jingzhong, the people nearby still agreed to move away. However, it took 10 days to complete the move.

"By the way, has the shipyard arrived?"

Yang Jianke replied: "It has arrived last night, and all the shipbuilders and helpers have also begun to work. Do you want to go out and have a look? ”

"Let's go, let's see!" Geng Jingzhong stood up, picked up his hat and walked out.

It's still hot in Fuzhou in September, and it's morning, and it's already sweating like rain. It is worthy of being a city known as a furnace in later generations. The birds in the trees don't know where they're hiding; The grass and trees all hung their heads; Only the one who knew it was screaming irritably from the branches, as if cheering for the scorching sun.

Standing on a high place, looking at the past from a distance, a busy scene. The shipyard in Mawei covers a very large area, and some of the original farmland has become a shipbuilding site, and the workers are busy back and forth like ants. The area around the site is densely packed with shipbuilding materials, of which wood and canvas are the most. Fujian is already mountainous, naturally there is no shortage of timber, a large number of timber merchants along the Min River down the river to transport here to make a lot of money, Geng Jingzhong began to buy timber last year. The canvas, on the other hand, was woven temporarily, and although some were bought back from Europe, there were not many of them after all, and they were not enough. A large amount of cheesecloth and linen cloth covered the river beach, and on the other side there was a large amount of tung oil, exuding a strong pungent smell. Most of the idle people in Fuzhou City have come here to work and earn some money to support their families.

It has to be said that shipbuilding is indeed a very large, systematic and cumbersome project, and it costs a lot of money. Whether it is keels, masts, sails, sails, rigging, anchors, they need to be made or purchased in large sums of silver. There must be a special person in charge of this qiē. When all these supporting facilities are in order, the installation on the ship can begin. The launch of each ship, I don't know how much sweat these workers and craftsmen have to pay!

Now the shipyard is in charge of all the dispatches by professional craftsmen hired from England with high salaries, and the leader is named Jason Byron. Speaking of Jason Byron, it is thanks to Earl Wood Charles, this guy has a crush on Jason's daughter Delia and wants Delia to be his **. However, Jason and Delia disagreed, so Wood-Charles tried all kinds of means to make it difficult for Jason, a master shipbuilder. It just so happened that Geng Da was recruiting workers with high salaries in the UK, especially skilled master craftsmen, and the salaries were even higher, so Jason took the initiative to sign up and secretly took his family and a few apprentices to the East with the fleet.

Geng Jingzhong met this master craftsman on the ship when he inspected the battleship for the first time, so he ordered that Jason be the director of the future shipyard, and Jason would be in charge of all the dispatches.

"Hi, Jason, comehere!" Geng Jingzhong entered the shipyard and saw Jason, and immediately shouted.

"Oh, Your Royal Highness the Prince. You're here, it's such a mess, let's go to the room! "After a few months of contact with Geng Da and them, coupled with the serious study of these foreigners, although the Chinese language is a little awkward, it is also decent.

Geng Jingzhong waved his hand at him: "Well, no need, I'll just come over and take a look." How's that, are you still used to it here? ”

"I like the architecture, the food, and the qiē here! It's just so hot here! Jason said funny, rubbing the sweat on his head.

"It's hot, but it's good to get used to it, but now I'm going to trouble you, this shipyard is just being built, and I need your help to watch it!"

Jason opened his mouth happily, the mountains and rivers here are good, the people are good, and more importantly, the salary is good, how can they not work hard. "This is what I should do! We are all happy to serve His Royal Highness! ”

When Geng Jingzhong came in all the way, he took a look at the current situation of the shipyard, and there were about four or five thousand people working on the shipyard site, among them, there were about 100 professional Western shipbuilders, and the others were all helpers invited from inside and outside Fuzhou. However, the preparation of raw materials is very sufficient. The drawings, craftsmen, and materials for the shipbuilding are all complete, and it should not be too long before the battleship is launched.

"Jason, with the current materials, what kind of battleship can be built?" Geng Jingzhong is very concerned about these issues.

Jason pointed to the materials in the field and said, "Your Royal Highness, with the current materials, only third-class battleships and some small frigates can be built, and large merchant ships can also be built, and these ships have a displacement of less than 1,500 tons. ”

"Well, that's not too small!" In the South China Sea, the third-class battleships are the absolute mainstream, and the large merchant ships sailing on the sea are basically armed, and they can also be used as combat ships, not to mention small ships.

"How soon will it take for a battleship to be launched?" Geng Jingzhong's biggest concern at the moment is the progress of the project, and he can't afford to wait if it takes too long. I wish there was a battleship launched one day.

"Your Royal Highness, the materials here are only enough to build five third-class warships at most, or a dozen small frigates, so that they can be launched by the end of the year. If we want to build a first-class and second-class battleship, we need more and better wood, and we need to continue to expand the dockyard to build more ships. ”

"Okay, you don't have to worry about the materials, I'll send someone to find it, this Mawei is big enough, you have the final say on how to expand the dock, you can just give me a figure on how much silver you need!"

"Xie, Prince Xie's trust, it will cost about two thousand taels of silver to expand a large dock, and I am going to expand fifteen docks first, so that at most a dozen warships can be launched by next spring." It felt so good to be trusted, and Jason was so excited that he didn't know where to put his hands.

Fifteen docks, that is, about 30,000 taels, this amount of money comes out naturally, with gold mines, plus a series of industries such as Princess Fang, there can be two or three million taels of silver every year, which can be described as wealthy. That is, all of them will build more than 200,000 taels of second-class battleships, and 20 can be built in a year. After the expansion of fifteen docks, it would be possible to start building fifteen more warships at the same time. In more than six months, there will be nearly 50 or so warships in a year. Although they are all third-class warships now, with the existing five warships, they can basically form a large ocean-going fleet.

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