On Hainan Island, the eastern coastal areas have a relatively low population density. Wenchang, Qionghai, Wanning, Lingshui and other counties here are basically dominated by agricultural population, and the residence is relatively scattered, far less than the population density on the west coast. Because the Executive Committee had arranged for another inspection team to visit various parts of the East Coast, they had already completed all the tasks of the tour when they left Haikou, and there was no need to stay on the way. After Yu Xiaobao consulted everyone, he ordered to go south directly along the east coast and return to Sanya.

The voyage from Haikou to Sanya is more than 200 nautical miles, and even if it does not dock halfway, it will not be completed in a moment and a half. Although Liu Shang was anxious and wanted to return to Sanya as soon as possible to deal with Liao Yuan's affairs, this ship was not equipped with Haihan's most advanced steam propulsion device, and he could only count on God's favor and the captain's command how fast he could run.

Regarding navigation technology, Liu Shang can only be regarded as a half-layman, at most he can roughly distinguish the direction according to the sun, and he is not qualified to participate in the ship's route planning and command. The only thing that can help is to pray silently that there will be no drastic weather changes along the way, and that the long journey around the island will take a few more days.

The other people on the ship were not as eager as Liu Shang, although this errand had allowed them to leave Sanya for more than half a month, but all the way down, almost all of them were served with good food and drink in the locality, which can be said to be much higher than the courtesy enjoyed in Sanya. Although the mission has been completed, many of them will probably use it as a talking point for a long time.

Of course, although the errand of the patrol is over, the work of the inspection team is not over, and they must also summarize the areas they are responsible for and hand over the corresponding written report. Liu Shang took a big advantage in this regard, because he was temporarily arrested as a strong man, he was only responsible for the propaganda work, and he did not need him to sort out the current economic and trade situation in various places, and he was the only one who was the most leisurely during the return trip.

The busiest person on the whole ship is probably Yu Xiaobao, who not only has to sort out and summarize the economic and trade data on behalf of Liu Shang, but also the reports written by everyone must be submitted to him for review first, and then he will report the results of this inspection and the problems found to the executive committee. The inspection team visited many cities and counties along the way, and there was really a lot of content to be recorded, even if Yu Xiaobao was very energetic, he couldn't read so many documents for a while, so Yu Xiaobao barely showed up on the ship during the return trip, and stayed in the cabin to seize the time to check and fill in the gaps in the report written by his subordinates.

Everyone is busy with their own business, and Liu Shang is not good at acting idle, and there happens to be a large number of written materials submitted by the local government at hand, which are basically some statistical data on people's livelihood, and they are not secretive, so even if Liu Shang is a temporary member of the inspection team, he can also look at the contents. Of course, he has been in the inspection team for more than ten days, and he is relatively familiar with these colleagues, and he is quite appreciated by Xiaobao, but no one treats him as an outsider anymore, and he wants to read these materials, and no one thinks there is anything wrong.

Liu Shang was most interested, of course, it was related to the steam engine and the military, after weighing it, he still took the information of the steam engine first - even if the military intelligence can be understood, it will not be of much help to the Ming Dynasty, if Haihan is really ready to declare war on the Ming Dynasty, then the officials and masters in the southeast coastal region can wash their necks and wait now.

As for the report on the use of the steam engine, each place visited by the inspection team submitted a written information, which was summarized by them and fed back to the Ministry of Industry of Haihan, and the relevant personnel will make further improvements to the existing equipment and related manufacturing technology according to the actual use. At the same time, the Executive Committee also needs to decide on the promotion and application scope of the steam engine in the next few years based on these reports.

Liu Shang is mainly interested in the operating principle and manufacturing process of the steam engine, as well as the industries that have been put into use in Haihan. However, the manufacture of steam engines was concentrated in the Tiandu Industrial Zone in Sanya, so there was little mention of his interest in these reports. However, for the application of the steam engine in actual production, the content recorded in these materials is much more detailed than the information he knew in the field.

Liu Shang roughly looked at the reports submitted by various cities and counties, and summarized the use of steam engines in several aspects, such as the use environment, actual power, water and coal consumption, maintenance cycle, and use problems. In this way, it is easy to compare the differences in the performance and material consumption of the steam engines used in different places.

Almost all the high-power steam engines are concentrated in the industrial area from Changhua to Shilu, whether it is the steam locomotive running between the two places, or the various steam mills and conveyor belts used in the mine, the steam rolling mill and steam hammer in the Changhua plant, are the big guys in the steam engine. The steam excavator that Liu Shang was particularly concerned about was also mentioned in the report submitted by the Shilu mine, and the technicians of the mine proposed a number of design details that needed to be improved, mainly focusing on the mechanical transmission, although detailed drawings were also attached to the text, but these drawings were all detailed drawings of one of the parts, and Liu Shang still did not understand where the part was located on the machine even if he looked over and over again.

In such a situation, Liu Shang can only complain that he is not knowledgeable enough, even if people hand the drawings to him, they still can't understand the content of this book from heaven. However, he also noticed that the article mentioned that the efficiency of this steam engine was "better than that of a hundred miners", so although its manufacturing and use costs are not low, it is also quite cost-effective for Haihan, after all, according to the report, only two people are needed to operate this steam engine, and two more people are responsible for coal production and water.

Four people can complete the workload of hundreds of laborers, which is far from being achieved by wind, water, animal power and other power forces. And as mentioned in the text, this steam excavator still has great room for technical improvement, and in the future, through technical improvement and the increase in the number of launches, it will be possible to further reduce operating costs and increase production capacity.

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On Hainan Island, the eastern coastal areas have a relatively low population density. Wenchang, Qionghai, Wanning, Lingshui and other counties here are basically dominated by agricultural population, and the residence is relatively scattered, far less than the population density on the west coast. Because the Executive Committee had arranged for another inspection team to visit various parts of the East Coast, they had already completed all the tasks of the tour when they left Haikou, and there was no need to stay on the way. After Yu Xiaobao consulted everyone, he ordered to go south directly along the east coast and return to Sanya.

The voyage from Haikou to Sanya is more than 200 nautical miles, and even if it does not dock halfway, it will not be completed in a moment and a half. Although Liu Shang was anxious and wanted to return to Sanya as soon as possible to deal with Liao Yuan's affairs, this ship was not equipped with Haihan's most advanced steam propulsion device, and he could only count on God's favor and the captain's command how fast he could run.

Regarding navigation technology, Liu Shang can only be regarded as a half-layman, at most he can roughly distinguish the direction according to the sun, and he is not qualified to participate in the ship's route planning and command. The only thing that can help is to pray silently that there will be no drastic weather changes along the way, and that the long journey around the island will take a few more days.

The other people on the ship were not as eager as Liu Shang, although this errand had allowed them to leave Sanya for more than half a month, but all the way down, almost all of them were served with good food and drink in the locality, which can be said to be much higher than the courtesy enjoyed in Sanya. Although the mission has been completed, many of them will probably use it as a talking point for a long time.

Of course, although the errand of the patrol is over, the work of the inspection team is not over, and they must also summarize the areas they are responsible for and hand over the corresponding written report. Liu Shang took a big advantage in this regard, because he was temporarily arrested as a strong man, he was only responsible for the propaganda work, and he did not need him to sort out the current economic and trade situation in various places, and he was the only one who was the most leisurely during the return trip.

The busiest person on the whole ship is probably Yu Xiaobao, who not only has to sort out and summarize the economic and trade data on behalf of Liu Shang, but also the reports written by everyone must be submitted to him for review first, and then he will report the results of this inspection and the problems found to the executive committee. The inspection team visited many cities and counties along the way, and there was really a lot of content to be recorded, even if Yu Xiaobao was very energetic, he couldn't read so many documents for a while, so Yu Xiaobao barely showed up on the ship during the return trip, and stayed in the cabin to seize the time to check and fill in the gaps in the report written by his subordinates.

Everyone is busy with their own business, and Liu Shang is not good at acting idle, and there happens to be a large number of written materials submitted by the local government at hand, which are basically some statistical data on people's livelihood, and they are not secretive, so even if Liu Shang is a temporary member of the inspection team, he can also look at the contents. Of course, he has been in the inspection team for more than ten days, and he is relatively familiar with these colleagues, and he is quite appreciated by Xiaobao, but no one treats him as an outsider anymore, and he wants to read these materials, and no one thinks there is anything wrong.

Liu Shang was most interested, of course, it was related to the steam engine and the military, after weighing it, he still took the information of the steam engine first - even if the military intelligence can be understood, it will not be of much help to the Ming Dynasty, if Haihan is really ready to declare war on the Ming Dynasty, then the officials and masters in the southeast coastal region can wash their necks and wait now.

As for the report on the use of the steam engine, each place visited by the inspection team submitted a written information, which was summarized by them and fed back to the Ministry of Industry of Haihan, and the relevant personnel will make further improvements to the existing equipment and related manufacturing technology according to the actual use. At the same time, the Executive Committee also needs to decide on the promotion and application scope of the steam engine in the next few years based on these reports.

Liu Shang is mainly interested in the operating principle and manufacturing process of the steam engine, as well as the industries that have been put into use in Haihan. However, the manufacture of steam engines was concentrated in the Tiandu Industrial Zone in Sanya, so there was little mention of his interest in these reports. However, for the application of the steam engine in actual production, the content recorded in these materials is much more detailed than the information he knew in the field.

Liu Shang roughly looked at the reports submitted by various cities and counties, and summarized the use of steam engines in several aspects, such as the use environment, actual power, water and coal consumption, maintenance cycle, and use problems. In this way, it is easy to compare the differences in the performance and material consumption of the steam engines used in different places.

Almost all the high-power steam engines are concentrated in the industrial area from Changhua to Shilu, whether it is the steam locomotive running between the two places, or the various steam mills and conveyor belts used in the mine, the steam rolling mill and steam hammer in the Changhua plant, are the big guys in the steam engine. The steam excavator that Liu Shang was particularly concerned about was also mentioned in the report submitted by the Shilu mine, and the technicians of the mine proposed a number of design details that needed to be improved, mainly focusing on the mechanical transmission, although detailed drawings were also attached to the text, but these drawings were all detailed drawings of one of the parts, and Liu Shang still did not understand where the part was located on the machine even if he looked over and over again.

In such a situation, Liu Shang can only complain that he is not knowledgeable enough, even if people hand the drawings to him, they still can't understand the content of this book from heaven. However, he also noticed that the article mentioned that the efficiency of this steam engine was "better than that of a hundred miners", so although its manufacturing and use costs are not low, it is also quite cost-effective for Haihan, after all, according to the report, only two people are needed to operate this steam engine, and two more people are responsible for coal production and water.

Four people can complete the workload of hundreds of laborers, which is far from being achieved by wind, water, animal power and other power forces. And as mentioned in the text, this steam excavator still has great room for technical improvement, and in the future, through technical improvement and the increase in the number of launches, it will be possible to further reduce operating costs and increase production capacity.

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