Li Nai and He Qiang believe that no matter how close to the wharf is to the merchant inn set up by their own family in Shengli Port, it is nothing more than a foreign merchant and sailor who can eat and live in the future and live in the hotel, which is not very consistent with the purpose of "Fu Ruifeng" to invest in the enclosure in Shengli Port, whether it is a commercial inn, a restaurant or a hotel, this qiē is to narrow the cooperative relationship with the Haihan people, not simply to make money. (.) Based on this consideration, they chose the adjacent land outside the gate of Base 1.

Recently, a considerable part of the labor force has been invested in the Iron Furnace Port project, so the number of laborers assigned by the relevant departments to the construction of the "Fu Ruifeng" business store is not large, only about 30 people. It takes at least a few months to build a large mansion with an area of about five acres. However, Li Nai was not in a hurry, because the Haihan people had already sent a message at dinner yesterday, and this merchant inn would be put into use in no more than two months at the latest. Compared to the time it took Li Nai to know that his family had spent building a merchant inn in other places before, the two-month construction period was already extremely short.

Of course, the construction period can be shortened to such a short time, which is also related to the preparation work done by "Fu Ruifeng" in advance, not only prepared drawings, craftsmen, but also many complex building materials and materials are directly transported from Guangzhou, such as carved doors and windows, flat floor tiles, mahogany tables and chairs, furniture and even prefabricated beams. The Crossing Group mainly provided labor, bricks and tiles, and cement, which Li Nai considered very magical, to the project.

While watching, Li Nai did not forget to remind the foreman to leave a place for the buried sewer pipe when dealing with the foundation. After the completion of the renovation of the Guangzhou Office, Li Nai was invited to visit the "advanced living environment" mentioned by Schneider, and Li Nai was deeply impressed by various black technology equipment. In particular, the boiler that can easily provide hot water for bathing for a long time, the flush toilet that perfectly solves the hygiene problem in the bedroom, and the biogas equipment that Li Nai does not know the reason but feels that it is powerful, all make Li Nai very interested.

After trying these things, Li Nai quickly experienced the wonders of them, and asked Schneider to provide him with the same living facilities, so Li Nai's residence in the Li family compound became the first successful promotion object of Haihan sanitary system. However, because the construction of the biogas plant was too complicated, it was inconvenient for the Li family to make a big move, so this set of equipment with the highest technical content was reluctantly abandoned.

To install bathroom equipment for Li Nai, the Guangzhou Office did not take the opportunity to knock on Li Nai's bamboo pole, but only symbolically charged a "cost of work" of 100 taels. Schneider then took this opportunity to propose that he hoped that "Frefeng" could find better ceramic craftsmen in the local area and participate in the production of ceramic bathroom equipment. For example, ceramic basins for washing hands and faces, ceramic bathtubs for bathing, and so on. When these more complex ceramic sanitary equipment are successfully developed, then "Furuifeng" can naturally become a regional agent of new products.

After trying out these equipment, Li Jifeng immediately agreed to Schneider's proposal, and asked his firm to start looking for skilled ceramic craftsmen in various places. Among the group of craftsmen brought by Li Nai to the south this time, there were several ceramic craftsmen recruited by "Fu Ruifeng". As for the promotion work, the GJO has long been ahead of the curve, and the GJO has renovated several rooms of the upside-down houses on the street into street frontages, and one of them will be dedicated to displaying these new bathroom equipment. Schneider believes that as long as this thing is driven by a few upper-class people, it will soon form a new trend of use in Guangzhou, just like the previous glass stationery.

And when Li Nai got the task of supervising the work in the south, he had already thought that the business inn he built in Shengli Harbor must use Haihan's bathroom equipment, although this will increase a lot of upfront investment, but in Li Nai's opinion, this one-step measure is very worthwhile, after all, the return on investment in Haihan has always been quite high, and the safety is also guaranteed, when Li Nai entered the port yesterday, he saw that the forts on both sides of the gorge had been repaired, and several gun emplacements had been set up with swarthy artillery. Although he could not see clearly from the ship, Li Nai could still tell that the guns erected on the fort were much larger than the ones he handled, in other words, these shore defense guns must be more powerful than those sold for export.

However, what Li Nai did not know was that although the construction of the first phase of the coastal defense artillery fortifications had been completed, and the military industry department had also made several 24-pounder guns and delivered them to the military police department, the current training of gunners was still progressing slowly. This is also a helpless thing, the existing naturalized people are generally low in culture, the vast majority of people do not even know their own names, and artillery is a very technical branch of the army, whether it is observation or shooting, it needs to use a lot of mathematical calculations, the existing soldiers are obviously impossible to meet such a requirement.

The Military Police Department is now relegated to the next best thing, making the artillerymen memorize the relationship between the angle of fire, the amount of charge and the firing range, while relying on extensive live-fire training to strengthen and consolidate the skills of these rookie artillerymen. But even so, there are still very few indigenous artillerymen who can be called qualified at present, and the limited number of people who are more prominent are basically those who are more talented and flexible, and they cannot really understand the meaning of artillery operations. The Military Police Department really has no better way now, many things can not be taught by hand-to-hand teaching, and perhaps only when they go to the battlefield and come into contact with actual combat can these artillerymen grow up faster.

Of course, although the quality and quantity of artillery are still very limited, the completion of the coastal defense artillery fortifications still gives the whole group a sense of security that has not been seen for a long time. The Military Police Department also declared that with these heavy artillery fortifications, the chances of foreign forces trying to attack Victory Harbor from the sea would be greatly reduced, and even if the armed gunboats of the Dutch East India Company or the galleon fleet of the Spaniards were sent out en masse, they would have to pay a very heavy price to defeat the shore defense fortifications of Victory Port.

This is not to brag about the military and police department, although the gunboats of the Western colonists have little to match in the current waters of the Far East, they rely on the number of guns on board to gain firepower superiority in battle, not range or accuracy. Compared with the 24-pounder guns with a range of up to 2,000 meters in the coastal fortifications of Shengli Harbor, the clumsy guns on the Western gunboats, which had an effective range of only 200 meters, were really difficult to use. If such a ship dared to rush forward against the fire of the shore defense guns, then it would have to withstand about ten rounds of shore defense artillery bombardment before it could enter the range of its own guns. Even if the current shore defense artillery still uses solid shells instead of flowering shells, the firepower density that can be achieved by more than 30 shore defense guns in the plan is enough to defeat the naval opponent of this era in ten rounds.

However, the Military Police Department also admits that it will take at least one to two years to train gunners, practice defensive tactics, improve fortifications, and so on. Moreover, the current plan for the formation of the navy has also been put on the agenda of the executive committee, and the navy, which uses artillery warfare as its main firepower output, will also need a large number of gunners, which will also greatly delay the time for the coastal defense artillery fortifications to reach their maximum combat strength.

Li Nai stayed on the construction site for a while, and felt that something was wrong, the last time he came to Shengli Port, he was accompanied by the leaders of the Haihan people all the time, but this time he seemed to have no such treatment, except for a local young man who was sent to follow him to listen to the dispatch, and he didn't see the figures of the Haihan leaders at all in the morning.

Li Nai felt that the person following him was a little familiar, so he waved his hand and called him over: "Have you seen me anywhere?"

The man replied respectfully, "Mr. Hui, the last time you visited the Yanchang Commune, we met once. ”

Li Nai suddenly said: "Yes, yes, yes, you are that Jiang ...... Jiang ......"

"The little one used to be called Jiang San. The man's waist straightened up as he spoke, and he couldn't help but show a smug look on his face: "Later, Mr. Anxi gave him a name, and now he has changed his name to Jiang Kaishen, the Kai of Triumph, and the Shen of Shen Youxuhai." ”

"Kaishen? huh...... That's a good name. Of course, Li Nai didn't understand Coach Anxi's bad taste, but he did remember this man named Jiang San. The last time Li Nai visited Yanchang Commune, he had a very impressive conversation with Jiang San, and it was from that time that Li Nai realized the difference between the Haihan civil affairs system and the Ming Dynasty. Li Nai can clearly feel the awe and gratitude of the local people for the Haihan Executive Committee from people like Jiang San, and will show a high degree of obedience to the decisions of the Executive Committee, and from the perspective of ordinary people, the civil administration of the Haihan people seems to be better than that of the local government of the Ming Dynasty.

And Jiang San was also appreciated for his "wit" in front of Tao Donglai, and after Li Nai left, Anxi promoted his labor rank from junior to second, and transferred him from the production line to a small civil affairs position in the management committee of Yanchang Commune. For the sake of decency, Anxi also specially gave him a new name, although Anxi's name may not be completely out of good intentions, but for Jiang San and Jiang Kaishen, this is a great honor in his life.

Jiang San has been doing well after his promotion and salary increase, and after the typhoon disaster in August, he was awarded a 20 yuan circulation coupon by the commune management committee for actively participating in disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction. After the start of the Iron Furnace Port project, some of the personnel of the existing Yanchang Commune, especially the management, will be transferred to the Iron Furnace Port when the project is in the resettlement stage, and Jiang San will also be among them. And he has already received Anxi's guidance, as long as he does not make any mistakes in the future, when the iron furnace port project enters the operation stage, Anxi will recommend him to be the civil assistant of the local commune management committee, and the labor level will also be raised by one level, becoming one of the few third-level laborers at present.

Jiang San had been transferred to Base No. 1 a few days ago, responsible for the acceptance and pre-training of new immigrants in Tielu Port. These new immigrants are all immigrants who arrived in Hong Kong in early October, and about half of them are Vietnamese and Hainan natives, and they have basically completed the quarantine observation period, and then they will be arranged to live in the newly opened Iron Furnace Port. And just last night, Jiang San received a new notice from the civil affairs department, asking him to accompany the VIPs from Guangzhou from today, of course, there is also the nature of surveillance.

It's not that the management committee doesn't pay attention to Li Nai's savings, but that the executive committee members are currently busy, and everyone has a lot of things to do, so they have no time to accompany Li Nai on a tour of the mountains and rivers. Anyway, after this period of contact, several old rivers and lakes of the executive committee thought that Li Nai was a harmless type of humans and animals, and there was nothing to guard against him, so they simply asked the civil affairs department to transfer a local to Li Nai as an entourage, and ensured that someone would coordinate the surrounding arrangements for him at any time during his stay in Shengli Harbor.

Jiang San said: "If Mr. Li has any matter, despite his orders, the leaders said that they would do their best to meet any reasonable demands made by Mr. Li. ”

"The shipyard in the west looks very lively, can you go and take a look?" Li Nai didn't pay attention to what Jiang San meant by "reasonable request", but he also understood that the Haihan people put Jiang San by their side not only to be an errand character, their every move in Shengli Harbor, I am afraid that this Jiang San will be reported to the Haihan people afterwards.

"Shipyards are naturally there. Jiang San nodded in response. The civil affairs department did give him instructions in advance on where to go and where not to go, and the entire Shengli Port area could be visited in addition to the barracks and the Yulin outpost, including the shipyard located in the western part of the harbor.

So Li Nai called the foreman and gave a few more words, and then walked to the shipyard to the west. Li Nai thinks that everything else in Victory Port is good, but there is no sedan chair, so he can only walk on two legs. The Haihan people often rode around on those two-wheeled bikes, but Li Nai felt that the speed of the thing was like a galloping horse, and it seemed really unsafe, so he didn't plan to learn it at all.

As soon as he took two steps, Jiang San said loudly: "Mr. Li, if you want to visit a production unit like a shipyard, you can't bring your entourage in. ”

Li Nai nodded, and with an expressionless face, he ordered the two retinues to stay. For this requirement, Li Nai is not unhappy, there are also some workshops under the name of "Fu Ruifeng", if outsiders want to go in to visit, they will also not allow the entourage to enter I know that you are a businessman, but whether your entourage is a craftsman in this line of work, it is not easy to say. Some unique secret skills in the craft are fine when seen by laymen, but if they are seen by experts once, they may be stolen and learned. With Haihan's ability to build so many huge steel ships, Li Nai believes that they must have some special means in this aspect of shipbuilding, and these things must be inconvenient for outsiders to know.

The area where the Shengli Port Shipyard is located is actually near the Yulin fishing village where Xiaobao's family lived at the beginning, and is located at the connection between the Yulin Peninsula and the mainland. The dense mangrove forests near the shore have long since been cut down and have lost their original appearance. A series of sheds have been built on the shore, with large quantities of dried marine timber stacked in the north and a place where the technicians of the shipping department work and carry out fine processing operations.

There are five or six slipways, large and small, standing on the shore, and each slipway is currently housed with large and small ships that are under construction or repair. There is a wooden slipway under the slipway that leads directly to the sea, and boats that have completed the slipway are launched directly from the slipway.

At present, there are more than 40 technicians and nearly 200 ordinary laborers in the Shengli Port Shipyard, except for the No. 1 test ship, which is making relatively slow progress, in fact, the shipyard has not been idle at all in the past few months, and all the existing seagoing ships of the Ministry of Shipping are basically receiving regular hull maintenance operations here, which is not an easy task at all. If the build-up on the bottom of the ship is not removed regularly, it will have a significant impact on the ship's ability to sail. According to the information available to the Ministry of Shipping, if there are too many vegetations on the bottom of the ship, such as oysters and anemones, the power of the ship will be lost by 5%-10%, which is an unforgivable sin for existing low-speed sailing ships. In addition, the anti-corrosion and leakage prevention of the underwater part of the hull must also be dealt with regularly and renewally, otherwise once there is a problem during the voyage, it may cause a major accident of ship destruction and death. In addition, a considerable part of the ships of the shipping department are second-hand goods, so the related maintenance work has always been very tight, and they dare not relax at all.

In addition to maintenance and repair work, the shipyard has actually launched a lot of small boats in the past few months, some of which are used as experimental prototypes to verify whether some of the new technical solutions proposed by the Ministry of Shipping can be integrated into the existing shipbuilding process, especially the hull structure and sail rope system, which is the focus of technical exploration of these trial ships.

In fact, if it weren't for the high requirements of the Executive Committee, it is estimated that the No. 1 test ship would have been launched long ago. The Executive Committee requires that the main ships in the coming period should have good seaworthiness, convenient sail line operating system, faster speed at a speed lower than the loading capacity of existing ships, and it is best to add several newly released naval guns, or be able to be converted into a firepower output unit at sea through simple modifications for future naval use. If possible, leave enough room for future steam engines to be put on board to avoid having to spend a lot of time redesigning the ship.

Although the EC's request may sound excessive, it is also a request that is unavoidable in the light of the existing objective environment. Since the crossing group has chosen Sanya as the main base in the early stage, the control of sea control has become the main development goal in the future.