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Coming out of the gunpowder workshop, the sun was still high. Geng Jingzhong is not in a hurry to go back, this horsetail is such a large territory in total, Tianma Mountain is less than three kilometers away from the shipyard on the riverbank, and it is only a short time to get on the horse.

Geng Jingzhong rode a horse and looked out towards the shipyard while still on the hillside, and the shipyard was still so busy. Geng Jingzhong didn't alarm anyone, and he took a few guards into the shipyard and walked around. The twenty dockyards along the river are nearing completion, which is a little longer than expected. It's no wonder, after all, many things in the Mawei shipyard are newly built, and the newly recruited workers are not very skilled in technology. I believe that in two months, these twenty battleships with two decks, which are similar to the third class battleships, should be able to be launched, and Geng Jingzhong is very much looking forward to this.

Geng Jingzhong was walking along the river, and suddenly a group of children about thirteen or fourteen years old ran to the riverside for a while, quickly took off their clothes, and then jumped into the river. Geng Jingzhong looked at his pocket watch and found that it was already five o'clock, when the river was at high tide, and the children were out of school. At this time, the water level of the river is relatively high, and the current is slow, and these children are so skillful in their movements that it seems that they are swimming here.

Geng Jingzhong can swim himself, and his skills are quite good, but he hasn't been in the water for a long time. In his previous life, when he was still in high school, a cousin in the family swam in the largest river in his hometown with a few classmates at noon, but unfortunately he tripped over algae in the river while diving and drowned. Since the time of the beating, the children of the whole village have been sternly warned not to enter the water, and Geng Jingzhong and other older children have also been ordered by the ear.

In my previous life, I was not from Fujian, so I was not very familiar with this side. Later, when I was in college, one of my good classmates was from Fuzhou. That classmate often told Geng Jingzhong that the Minjiang River was so good that the Yangtze River and the Yellow River could not be compared. Geng Jingzhong was very disdainful at the time, just thinking that the Minjiang River was his hometown water, and his feelings were deep. During this time in Mawei, he realized that his classmates praised Minjiang a little, and what he said was right.

There is a saying here in Fuzhou called "easy to rise and easy to retreat", in this sense, the Min River is more like a large mountain stream, and it is said that its flow is greater than that of the Yellow River. At the same time, on the way it flows, except for the Fuzhou Basin downstream, there are basically no plains, only mountains and hills, so the drop is relatively large and the flow speed is very fast. Geng Jingzhong also discovered this very early. There is a lot of rain in Fujian, and every time it rains heavily, the water volume of the Minjiang River soars and the water flow is more violent; If it rains heavily for several days in the upper reaches of the river, the Minjiang River will flood, ranging from more than a week to three or five days. Sometimes there will be flash floods, mountain collapses, mud and rock rushes, houses collapse, bridge destruction, casualties and so on in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, which are thrilling.

Geng Jingzhong decided to build various workshops here because of the water resources here. Looking up to the west, waterwheels made of hard oak wood stand by the river, constantly rotating to send a steady stream of power to the workshops to ensure that all kinds of hydraulic machinery are running at all times. This local oak wood is grayish yellow, has a delicate structure, and is very solid, making it an excellent material for making vehicles and ships.

The waterwheels are very tall, and the main structure is composed of nine three-zhang long oak wood, surrounded by thick iron nails fixed with dense wooden planks, these planks are also specially treated oak wood, not afraid of the river soaking. The entire waterwheel was nailed with rivets. The base of the center of the waterwheel is cast of solid iron, and there is a square groove in the center, a steel rod made of pure steel, as thick as one foot and two zhang long, is inserted in the groove, and the steel rod is driven by the waterwheel to rotate.

At this moment, the water flow is slow, and the waterwheel is driven by the river water, slowly rotating, making a squeak with the same frequency, and the sound is far away. On the banks of the river are stone houses, that is, places where hydraulic machinery is placed. On the riverside, you can see that the machinery in the house is connected to the waterwheel is another transmission system, which is a crown gear transmission system designed by Geng Jingzhong himself, and a small wooden cabin is specially built to cover it to prevent rust in the rain. In fact, this can't be said to be all designed by Geng Jingzhong, because in the book "Heavenly Creations", there is a graphic of crown gear, but the book is made of wood, and the teeth of the gear are also few, and the bite is not tight, and the efficiency is low, Geng Jingzhong has only improved it slightly. All the gears in this transmission system are gears, the big ones drive the small ones, and the small ones drive the big ones, so that the rotation of the waterwheel can be adjusted according to the requirements of the speed and change the direction of rotation.

Geng Jingzhong withdrew his gaze from looking at the waterwheel, and looked back at these children playing in the water, feeling a little itchy in his heart. It's been a long time since I've been swimming in the water, and I want to go down and try it, but as soon as I think of my identity at the moment, I dismiss this idea. Continuing to ride forward, there were women weaving sails everywhere on the river beach next to them, no one was chatting, their hands were moving quickly, as if they were not weaving sails, but holding silver in their arms, and they were working very seriously.

This is all due to the piecework wage management method he introduced, which calculates wages according to the number of qualified products and pre-determined piecework units, rather than directly measuring labor remuneration by working hours in the past. In this way, the enthusiasm of workers everywhere has increased greatly, and the product qualification rate has also increased greatly, for example, these workers who weave canvas, five people work together in a group of five to work on one sail, and complete the salary for one side, no longer according to the time of the money. The wages of the shipyard are also very high, and these women are all craftsmen, earning more in one day than ordinary workers in three days, which is also Geng Jingzhong's respect for technology and craftsmanship.

In any era, technical talents should be treated the best because they contribute to the development of society and promote the progress of society. In this era, craftsmen are an independent social profession, and craftsmen are responsible for the invention, research and promotion of technology, and they are the basic force to promote the development of technology and society. From ancient times to the present, every technological invention is the crystallization of the experience accumulated by craftsmen. Just like Geng Jingzhong's military industry, which is now vigorously developing, iron smelting and copper smelting, gun and cannon making, ships and ports, each of which is from the hands of craftsmen. Therefore, Geng Jingzhong greatly increased the wages of craftsmen, just to let the people of Fujian know that there is no need to take the imperial examination to learn a skill, and most of the scholars will achieve nothing. He wants to fundamentally stimulate people's love for science and technology, because Geng Jingzhong knows that the people in this land do not lack the spirit of innovation, but only lack the motivation for them to innovate.

Geng Jingzhong watched the sails with relish for a while, and then continued to the twenty battleships that were about to be completed. The twenty warships here are all British-style sail warships, because Geng Jingzhong could not find the construction drawings of the No. 1 and No. 2 Fu ships in the Ming Dynasty, so he could not build a Chinese-style large ship, and the only No. 3 Fu ship drawings found were not of much use. And Geng Da made a trip to Europe, and boxes of gold were spilled out, and he got such results in exchange for a smooth future. With plenty of manpower and complete drawings, these battleships were quickly built.

This Anglo-Dutch naval battle has been fought for almost a whole year, and it is estimated that it will be over, and it has been fought for a whole year in history. Geng Jingzhong pondered that he should be able to go to Europe again, this is a difficult thing to do, and it can be done by going to Europe for money, which is quite cost-effective. In this way, the newly formed ocean-going fleet can come in handy.

Geng Jingzhong looked at the battleship in front of him, there was no doubt that the main body was indeed British, but the cabin and the buildings on the deck had changed a lot. If the whole battleship had not been hung with sails, it would have been thought that it was Chinese at first glance. The whole battleship has added many characteristics of Chinese warships inside and outside, and the most important one is that the design concept of the watertight compartment of Chinese warships has been added to the battleship. In this way, the strength of the hull is partially supported by the partition of the watertight compartment, and the performance of the battleship in terms of sinking resistance is improved by at least two levels. Geng Jingzhong already knew this when he listened to the report of Jason, the director of the shipyard.

"More than two months to go!" Geng Jingzhong muttered silently, in more than two months, he would have the strength to enter the sea, which made him look forward to the warship even more.

"Your Royal Highness!" Geng Jingzhong heard a shout in the distance, and as soon as he heard this title, he knew that it was Jason calling him, and only these foreigners would call him 'His Royal Highness the Prince'. "Your Royal Highness, it's been a long time since you've been here! Oh, God forbid, you haven't forgotten about poor Jason yet! ”

"Hahaha!" Geng Jingzhong looked at Jason's somewhat funny words and couldn't help laughing. This foreign devil, who is in his forties, still likes to joke like this. "Jason, I've forgotten all about you, I'm here because I remembered my ship! Well! ”

"Oh. Your Royal Highness, it really hurts my heart to say that! Jason replied exaggeratedly, then shrugged his shoulders, pointed to the battleship opposite and said to Geng Jingzhong: "Even so, I am still working very seriously, you see, the battleship here is about to be completed and launched."

"Well, you've done a great job, Jason. I am very satisfied with these warships, and I hope that you will continue to work hard to build bigger and better warships! Geng Jingzhong praised Jason very seriously.

"Yes, Your Royal Highness, I will continue to work hard. I have to say, your country's warships are also very good, and I and my partners are very inspired by the drawings of many Chinese warships you have given me, and you see, these warships are the result of our efforts to improve! They combine the advantages of many Chinese warships, and their performance is much, much more powerful than before. I can say that neither in Europe nor here is a ship of its class better than ours! Speaking of these battleships, Jason's emotions were obviously raised a lot, and his body movements were greatly swayed.

"Good! Keep going, I'm going to need many, many ships. Building the most powerful navy in the world has always been my goal, so whatever the shipyard needs, I will be the first to supply. ”