Chapter 221: Fishing Boats
Unlike warships, fishing boats are cheap to build and easy to maintain. Combined with the current characteristics, it is also necessary to be able to manufacture large quantities in a short period of time. Therefore, most of the fishing boats are about 10 to 30 tons, and in this range, the maximum benefit can be achieved. If you want to go up, a few hundred tons will be an ocean-going whaling ship. Tens of thousands of tons are either cargo ships or cruise ships.
Therefore, Wayne's original statement that hundreds or thousands of fishing boats is also a bit false, after all, if this group of businessmen come to invest here, it is not possible to draw a big and round pie.
However, the marine market can indeed reach the market of tens of millions, especially after the development of industry. These businessmen will all find that it is still beneficial to follow Wayne.
The only thing that worries Wayne is whether this world is the same as in the previous life, whether there is an undeveloped continent, or whether the place where Wayne is located is the only continent in this world. It is said that there is information about this in the Magic Tower, but it requires a certain level to view.
If there are pirates or something, Wayne can take the opportunity to develop warships or something.
But for now, let's build a fishing boat quickly. There are only about 30 small boats in all the fishing villages, which is far from enough for the fishing industry to be developed. And most of these fishing boats are old and poor. The merchants had great demands on the fishing boats, complaining every day, and Wayne had a headache all day. Wayne had to say that research and development was still ongoing, and that within three months, the first fishing boats would be built.
Now the drawings are drawn and the timber is being raised, the only question is where the dockyard is. You can't build a ship without a dockyard, and Wayne has to rebuild a dockyard. So it took a lot of time.
The dockyard was built in the fishing village of Belm, where the harbour is also well regulated. The water here is deep, there are no reefs, and there are no strong winds all year round. The traffic on the road is also convenient, and the road is smooth. It's a natural harbor.
The dock is shipbuilding, because it is a wooden ship, so the dock is not so complicated, and there are no gantry cranes and rollers. It is a large cement square, plus several large steel frames, and of course the most important thing is that this is still open-air. There are also more than a dozen people working in the sun.
Of course, Wayne has the conditions to build a dock that is covered, spacious, and preferably has a crane. But that's not practical, it's still in the early days of shipbuilding, and it's still building fishing boats, just find a random site to fool around. It can not only reduce the cost, but also convenient and fast.
Wayne's choice of fishing boat is equivalent to that of early Fujian fishermen in the previous life. One mainsail and one second-sail, with the island behind. The middle and front sections of the boat are mainly used for netting and fishing. The wood undergoes more than a dozen processes such as soaking, oiling, and drying before it can be used on the ship. Then the planks are tightly spliced together, and this process is the most important thing, so that the boat will leak and be rebuilt. In contrast, technology is less important, which is also the most primitive state of all processes, and craftsmanship is much better than technology.
Despite all the odds, Wayne was confident in the ship he had built. Otherwise, five ships would not have been built at once.
With the development of the fishing industry, many merchants have been eager to start occupying the good ports. Taverns, inns, etc. were built here. With a huge absorption of additional people from the salt industry, Wayne's plan has initially paid off.
And far away in the academy in the imperial capital, many bachelors began to accept this woman who was already a half-aged, and at the same time were impressed by her talent. Imperial College has never been a woman, but one thing that has to be admitted is that women do not compete with men in academics, plus the times. As a result, there were no women in the Imperial College for a long time, which created an illusion to the outside world that the Academy did not accept women. On the contrary, the College is very welcoming to women, and the Academy's library has several portraits of female scholars, making Imperial College much more enlightened than Nolan's Academy.
Margaery visits the college as a scholar at Nolan, and at first people are lukewarm, but this short, average-looking woman is really interesting. Coupled with Margaery's gentle personality, it always makes people think that she is still uneducated, so she always avoids arguing with others. After a few days, people quickly changed their minds. Margaery always grasps the crux of the matter and reasoning with rigorous logic. Many have fallen under her talent.
Even "Imperial Capital Documentary" reported on the third page.
Margaery - the benchmark for women in Rune.
I don't know how many people have embarked on the road of self-improvement because of Margaery, and it can be said that Margaery is the idol of all women in the imperial capital. Even Audrey met her personally.
Margaery also found a new life here, and she finally had another goal to raise her children. Become a university scholar. Although Margaery is very knowledgeable and intelligent. However, there is a very important hard condition to become a university scholar, and to have original and outstanding contributions. It can also be said to challenge the unknown.
For this reason, Margaery did not know how many times she had turned over "Mathematics", "Physics", and "Chemistry". And now these disciplines are no longer the thin books that Wayne had in the beginning. Without the revisions that Wayne later added in his spare time, there are many more published by the Nolan Institute alone.
Finally, the hard work paid off, and a breakthrough was found in a chapter of a book on the manufacture of ceramics. The author left a doubt.
In a closed and insulated environment, or in a continuously heated environment. The texture of the fired ceramics is not always there. But it is not known exactly what caused this.
The science of the right hand is all about fate, and Margaery was deeply attracted by this sentence at the first sight, and at the same time clearly felt that something was changing, something important.
Thousands of miles away, Nolan, the scholar of Muhansin finally completed the first edition of his book, "What Man Must Have." In later generations, this was revered as the origin of human rights. There are many important concepts mentioned in the book, citizenship, the right to office, the right to recommend, and so on.
After Heimei Mountain was included in the jurisdiction of Nolan, many mining caves in Heimei Mountain were vigorously developed. Thousands of laborers work inside the mines.
Coupled with the huge demand from Nolan, the research institute began to study how to improve the efficiency of the pit. The first is water pumping, and the institute decided to adopt the model of a hydraulic forging machine, using fifty horses as power. Add a long rope and draw a bucket. You can pump about 20 tons of water a day, which is far more efficient than manpower.
But at the same time, transportation has become a problem, and Heimei Mountain is nearly 100 miles away from Nolan. Most of the time and cost was spent on the road. But one researcher had the idea to put two rails side by side, and the car would roll on them much faster. It's related to friction, the researchers concluded.