"The amount of iron spent on this iron ship is only 100,000 catties!" After confirming that this ship was made of steel inside and out, someone finally couldn't help but sigh when he touched the anchor chain thicker than his thigh. （.）

In the past, there were also rumors that the Haihan people had outstanding shipbuilding skills, but many people did not believe that since this rumor was so powerful, why did they have to buy and rent ships outside?

But after actually boarding this steel giant, everyone no longer had the courage to question the shipbuilding technology of the Haihan people. The amount of work that can be collected to create such a large iron ship and float on the surface of the water is miraculous. It is rumored that the Haihan people came across the sea on this kind of iron ship, but this ship has no sails and no oars, and everyone does not understand what spells the Haihan people used to make this extremely heavy iron ship sail on the sea. If you look at the next few smaller iron ships parked on the shore, you can see that this kind of iron ship is not just a few or two to bluff people, but something that can really be mass-produced.

At that moment, a curious person asked Tao Donglai this question, and Tao Donglai explained with a smile: "This kind of Haihan iron ship needs to consume a special kind of oil to operate, and this kind of oil is not produced locally, so we will not use these ships for the time being." As for the principle, if you are interested in wanting to know, you can choose your own young children to come to Shengli Harbor to enroll in our school, and there are special courses that will teach the relevant content. ”

"If we also want to learn this skill, can we also sit in on it?" asked someone in the crowd who immediately had a lively mind.

"Absolutely, we don't have any restrictions on that. Tao Donglai nodded and said, "But if you want to learn this, you have to be patient enough, you must first learn the basic courses, otherwise even if we are willing to teach, the students will not understand." ”

"Dare to ask Mr. Tao, how many years does it take to learn this Haihan shipbuilding technique?" someone asked reluctantly.

"Director Yue of our Shengli Port Shipyard is also here, Xiao Yue, you can talk about it. Tao Donglai gave up the right to speak to the professionals.

Yue Zhiyun nodded and said: "I was born in shipbuilding, from enrollment to graduation, about sixteen years of study, and then two years of internship in the shipyard, I can basically get a job." ”

After Yue Zhiyun finished speaking, the few people who were in high spirits just now immediately lost their voices. If it takes two or three months, maybe someone will have the patience to learn it, after all, this thing is also a new thing, and learning it may come in handy. If it is two or three years, then you can also send your subordinates to learn and see, and it is harmless to occasionally make long-term investments. But it takes 16 years to learn before becoming a teacher, who would have such a good patience? No wonder Tao Dong said just now that students only accept young children, and such a long learning cycle really has to start from elementary school.

Tao Donglai added with a smile: "In fact, Director Yue's words are not detailed enough, the first ten years of courses are just to lay the foundation, and the real professional skills are only a matter of the last few years, as long as the basic courses are completed, in addition to shipbuilding, you can also learn other majors, such as making zuò glass products, soap, matches and other things, or learn the navigation, prospecting, and salt making that our Haihan is good at...... In short, as long as we have a skill, we can teach it, but the length of time it takes to learn is different. ”

"You can learn all this in Victory Harbor?" the crowd, which had just calmed down, immediately boiled again.

After all, even if this big iron ship has the technology, it may not be able to build it, if there is so much fine iron at hand, who will be crazy to use it to build ships. But what Tao Donglai said after coming is all secret and unpassed on techniques, people who master these techniques generally do not take apprentices lightly, and there is no place to learn them on the market, but as long as they master one of them, it is enough to prosper a family.

"You can learn it, but as I said earlier, it takes a long time to learn these skills, so it's best to send some bright kids to our school. As for the specific procedures, tomorrow we will have a special briefing, and Mr. Ning, who is in charge of education in the Executive Committee, will personally explain the details to you, so if you are interested, please come at that time. Tao Donglai unhurriedly calmed the excited crowd.

One of the purposes of the establishment of "Qiong Lianfa" is to network a group of socially influential stakeholders in Daming. The reason why the group of businessmen was chosen instead of officials and literati is that this group has a more direct appeal for interests, unlike officials who are framed by various terms and regulations, and they are not as pedantic as literati. Businessmen are far more practical about social changes and cultural differences than other groups.

As early as when the executive committee was planning the "Qiong Lianfa", it had already worked out various means to attract shareholders into the pit. In addition to keeping these people firmly on the economic side, the Executive Committee also did not forget to start from multiple points at the same time, trying to gradually exert influence on them in the field of culture and education. If these people are directly asked to send their children to Shengli Port to enroll in school, they may not have this interest, after all, if a businessman wants to change his family and improve his social status, he can only rely on the children of his family to take the examination to achieve fame, and Haihan's school obviously cannot teach them relevant exam-taking knowledge. After much deliberation, the Executive Committee finally decided to use various advanced production technologies as bait to attract these shareholders to use their family descendants as long-term investments.

If the shareholders enter this pit, the relationship between the interests of the two sides will become more and more solid, and the group can also be used as a channel to instill more Haihan culture and values into these shareholders.

As for whether this will cause the leakage of core secrets in more than a decade, the Executive Committee is really not worried at all. First of all, the implementation of this education plan is aimed at school-age children, after a long period of targeted brainwashing, the three views of these students will definitely be consistent with the interests of the crossing group, and even many of them will regard themselves as a member of the crossing group, and the possibility of taking the initiative to leak secrets.

Secondly, even if these students graduate after more than ten years and go to areas outside the control of the crossing group, it will be difficult for them to realize the skills they have learned locally. Whether it is navigation, prospecting, or salt production, it requires a lot of auxiliary technical equipment to achieve, and the production of these things can not be completed anywhere, and must rely on the technical support provided by the crossing group. As for shipbuilding or other industrial products, not to mention, the industrialized mode of production is impossible to achieve in a short period of time in the social environment where agricultural production is the dominant economy, and the crossing group can achieve this in the specific environment of Shengli Port, and its own technical and environmental conditions are difficult for the Ming merchants to imitate in other places.

Taking a step back, even if some commodities with simple craftsmanship have a copycat phenomenon due to the outflow of technology, because their industrialization process will be far lower than that of Shengli Port, which is the place of origin, its production scale and production cost will definitely not reach the level of the crossing group. Even if you can copy products of the same quality, you still have to rely on price competition to occupy the market in the end, and if you want to compete with the crossing group for price in industrial products, the scene is really unwatchable.

But the wealthy businessmen of the Ming Dynasty obviously would not think of such a long-term thing, what they saw was that the Haihan people relied on these unique skills to make money every day, and now the Haihan people are willing to teach these skills, so the fool will not learn. As for the problem that the learning cycle is too long, it seems that it is a small detail that can be ignored for the time being in the face of huge interests. Some people have even made up their minds about whether to send a few more children from the clan to Shengli Port to enroll, so that they can learn many secret techniques of the Sea Han in the future.

If it weren't for the fact that there was still a big excitement to see, maybe some people couldn't wait to get off the boat to find Mr. Ning and talk. But as the three trumpets sounded, everyone's eyes were drawn back to the nearby estuary.

As the highlight of this military parade, since 10 days ago, a river beach on the east bank of the estuary of the Tiandu River has been emptied and closed in advance to serve as a battlefield for amphibious military exercises, and simple targets such as sentry towers, fortresses, city walls, and city gates have also been specially built for this purpose, so as to achieve the best visual effect during the exercise. From the side of the Shinsegae, you can see the entire Tandoku River estuary and the east bank.

Under the gaze of many guests, Tao Donglai picked up the walkie-talkie and calmly gave an order: "I announce that the 1628 spring military exercise will start now!"

Just when the guests were still pondering what "1628" meant, they saw a fleet of ships from the west side of the harbor quickly sailing towards the landing area with the red flag planted. The first was naturally the powerful "Discovery" warship and its two sister ships, but the latter two ships could only be used as troop carriers because of the construction period. They were followed by three converted troop carriers, which were formerly used to transport North Vietnamese immigrants, carrying some of the soldiers and logistical burdenmen who had just completed the parade.

Almost all of the personnel selected to participate in this landing operation participated in the North Vietnamese Civil War two months ago, and before that, they had practiced the process of landing operations many times, and had experienced the tempering of actual combat, so this whole set of amphibious landing tactics was basically a mastery of Cheng Dù.

Under the watchful eyes of the guests, the "Discovery" at the head took the lead in approaching the river bank, turned to the side of the hull and began to bombard several simulated targets with yellow flags on the shore. The boats that followed immediately lowered their boats, some rowed to the shore with their infantry, and the other immediately built improvised pontoons in the shallow waters near the shore to unload their baggage.

Seeing that the cannonballs fired from the "Discovery" smashed a wooden fortress into pieces, the two high-ranking officials of Yazhou present couldn't help but jump their eyelids, as if they saw the scene of the cannonballs hitting the gate of Yacheng. The group of businessmen who watched the excitement were excited, and some even stood up and shouted loudly like the onlookers on the shore, completely forgetting that these soldiers participating in the exercise were not Ming officers and soldiers at all, but serious civilian private armed forces.

After several rounds of shelling, the first group of assault teams in small boats had already rushed to the beach, and the soldiers who had abandoned their ships and landed quickly assembled into three horizontal firing formations at the whistle of the officers to cover the follow-up troops to establish a beachhead. After the improvised pontoon bridge was erected, the heavy man immediately pushed a multi-functional tactical vehicle to land on the beachhead and quickly set up a fortification. The entire process of landing was basically to copy the way of the Hai Han militia when they fought in North Vietnam, using long-range firepower as a means of cover, quickly building fortifications and establishing a solid position.

As the pontoon bridges were erected one by one, a steady stream of supplies and personnel began to land. The guests were amazed to find that there were no less than 20 small Haihan artillery pieces in this landing force, which were obviously not launched for decoration.

Sure enough, after completing the erection of the beachhead, the five infantry companies that had formed a firing formation began to attack the improvised city built in front of them, and at the same time, the artillery units also completed the first calibration shot, and the debris on the city wall flew everywhere.

This simulated city is just a layer of bamboo fence tied to the outside of the wooden frame, and then a layer of loess is applied, it looks decent from a distance, and the visual effect is very good, even the lead bullet of the flintlock pistol will bring up a cloud of smoke and dust when hit at close range. Where the shells hit, even a rubbing edge will smash a big gap. Not to mention the small city gate made of thin wooden planks, after a few shots in a row, only a piece of debris remained.

More than 20 6-pounder guns and more than 400 muskets blasted at the wall, which was less than 30 meters wide and more than 3 meters high, for a full time before they stopped at the whistle of the officers. When the smoke and dust cleared, the guests saw that the original city wall was located, and there was basically only one or two feet of the city wall on the ground, although they had long known that this was just a temporary target, and the solid Cheng dù would certainly not be able to compare with the real city wall, but this momentum was enough to make everyone feel completely shocked.

Zhang Tongju and Wang Tongzhi exchanged glances, and at this time, they could finally confirm one thing, if the Haihan people really attacked Yacheng with peace of mind, it was estimated that the city wall that had not been renovated for decades would last no longer than the target just now.

Thankfully, so far, the Haihan seem to have no intention of capturing Yacheng by force, and the local officials did not have to worry about whether they would have to commit suicide when the city was broken. Zhang Tongju even had an illusion in his heart, although the Haihan people were a little bold and reckless, but they obviously had such a powerful force, but they did not use it to coerce Yacheng to agree to their various conditions, so at least these people are still very reasonable.

Wang Tongzhi's mood is relatively relaxed, even if you are capable enough to break through the sky, Lao Tzu will step down and leave immediately, and the future will have nothing to do with Lao Tzu, no matter whether you want to fight Yacheng or where you fight in the future, this black pot will not be deducted from Lao Tzu's back no matter what.

The mood of the two juniors Luo Shengdong and Wei Ping standing behind them is more complicated, on the one hand, they have already half-pushed and half-chosen to take refuge in the Haihan people, the stronger the force of the militia group, the more secure their safety is, after all, the Haihan talent is the backstage force they can really rely on now. On the other hand, as the strength of the Haihan people grows stronger and stronger, they also know that it is becoming more and more difficult for them to get out of this pit.

After interviewing with the Haihan people yesterday, Luo Shengdong had actually begun to realize that his original idea of relying on job promotion to get rid of the control of the Haihan people was not very practical, and the speed at which the Haihan people expanded their power was probably much faster than his promotion speed. It only took a year, and now the Haihan people have directly asked for the development rights of the area of nearly 100 miles east of Yacheng to Shengli Port, and although they have been able to jump two levels from the hundred generals when they were captured at that time, they have jumped two levels from the time they were captured, and they have jumped to the thousands of generals who are now beyond the establishment of Shuizhai, but if they want to be promoted to a higher garrison, general or even general army, and get the opportunity to transfer out of Yazhou, it is not a goal that can be achieved in the short term. When he rises to that height, maybe the Haihan people will even cover the entire Qiongzhou Island.

Of course, the most important thing is that Luo Shengdong knows that his promotion path is completely controlled by the Haihan people. Whether it is relying on military exploits or bribing superiors, they are now inseparable from the assistance of the Haihan people, and what kind of height they can climb depends on the needs of the Haihan people in the final analysis, and the role they can play under their command. Although it is a little sad to think about it, this is indeed a fact that Luo Shengdong can't avoid, even if he wants to regret it, there is no turning back, and now nearly half of the people in the water village have been replaced by sailors from the Haihan militia, if he has any half-hearted thoughts, I am afraid that he will be arrested and thrown back to Shengli Port and thrown into a labor camp before he starts.

Although it has been a year, the hard days spent in the labor camp are still vivid for Luo Shengdong. When he returned to Shengli Port this time, Luo Shengdong happened to talk to Ren Liang about this matter, and the number of prisoners in the current labor camp is dozens of times more than that of Luo Shengdong, but the living conditions are even worse. A large number of South Vietnamese prisoners of war were transported to Victory Port to be put into labor camps as cheap laborers, these prisoners who could not speak Chinese, and who looked more South Asian Malays, did not even have the slightest chance of sympathy, and basically used them according to the standard of consumables, and the death and casualty rate was very high, Luo Shengdong did not want to be arrested in the labor camp again because of some unrealistic thoughts, and he really did not have the confidence to be able to leave that hell alive for the second time