Liu Hou and the ministers listened to Zhuge Liang's words, and couldn't help but be depressed, this cement ship sounds good, but if only one can be built, what use can it be?

Sima Yi was more careful and heard the mystery in Zhuge Liang's words, so he asked his own question:

"Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng, I heard you say just now that the cement output of Jingzhou Cement Plant every month is enough to build a ship, does that mean that after building a ship this month, you can build another ship next month?"

"Yes, it's enough to build one every month, but we need to stop all roads, including the Chi Road." Zhuge Liang said.

Hearing the question and answer between the two, everyone's hearts that had just sunk seemed to be lit up, it would be good if they could build one every month, there are twelve ships a year! This cement ship is different from the traditional ships before, and if this thing is built, it will definitely be more terrifying than the two super battleships before it.

The previous two super warships had already beaten the Dongwu Navy to the ground, if it weren't for the fact that the Dongwu people also came up with a targeted method, it is estimated that these two super warships would be able to defeat the huge Dongwu Navy with these two super warships.

The cement ship overcame the shortcomings of the two wooden super battleships that were afraid of fire and arrows, and the targeted tactics of the Soochow people were completely ineffective against them, and such a warship could completely rampage in the Soochow naval array as if it were in a no-man's land.

The cement boat will inevitably be like a tiger breaking into the flock, only they can beat others, and others can't hurt themselves in the slightest, what a cool thing. Moreover, in just one year, there will be twelve such tigers, and there will be twelve tigers, even if there are more sheep, what is there to be afraid of.

Everyone silently calculated in their hearts the possibility of a decisive battle with the Dongwu Navy with twelve cement warships plus the five hundred warships of the current Jingzhou Navy Army.

"I wonder how long it will take to build enough warships with the current production of steel?" Sima Yi continued to ask. Hearing Sima Yi's question, everyone was shocked, yes, this is the point, in addition to cement, the output of steel is also very important, as the so-called lonely palm is difficult to sound, it is difficult to support alone, without steel, even if there is more cement, it is useless.

"The minister said before that with the current steel production, it will not be able to meet the needs of all aspects. The supply of steel for civilian use can be suspended, but the supply of war materials cannot be stopped. If we save all the steel used for civilian use, and use all the steel wire for shipbuilding, it will take about three months to save the amount of steel wire used for a large warship. ”

"Silk"

"Ugh"

"Alas" everyone was a little deflated when they heard it, and all kinds of sighs and gasps came out of their mouths.

One every three months, four a year, what is enough? Although each cement battleship is invincible, four is too few. It's not that four cement warships can't win against the Dongwu naval army, but the territory of our Great Celestial Empire is too wide, and the territory of Dongwu is a place with a dense water network, so the enemy can run away if he can't win.

If they take advantage of their high-speed mobility and move around, the places where these four cement battleships can be guarded will be very limited, even if they add the original five hundred wooden battleships, they will not be able to use them, and the twelve cement battleships estimated before are only barely enough, and four are really not enough.

If this is the case, if you want to attack Soochow in an all-out way, you will have to wait at least four years, isn't that about the same period as the period of building wooden warships? Everyone was dumbfounded, discussions came and went, and the questions went back.

Liu Hou didn't expect that things would turn out like this, originally he thought that he proposed a new invention that could perfectly solve the current dilemma as before, but he didn't expect it to be so unsmooth this time.

But he didn't think that something like a large warship was a war artifact that should not have appeared in this era, how could such a thing be so simple to build, how could it be patted on the head and said that it could be built.

Not to mention that in the Three Kingdoms period, even if it was really in the nineteenth century, it was not intended to be built, and it often took years for those Western countries to build a large warship at that time.

With the current level of technology and production capacity, if you want to build such an artifact, where is it so simple, if you really want to build it, you will inevitably encounter all kinds of problems, but Liu Hou didn't think of it for the time being.

With the smooth operation of the Wei State, Liu Hou was too carried away these days, and he didn't think about things well enough, he didn't realize that there was a big pit waiting for him. This big pit is a power problem, this is simply a fatal problem, even if the people of my Celestial Empire are ingenious enough to build the hull of the ship, but how can such a heavy thing be driven?

If it was in the past, the situation in the world was still unclear, his life was frightening, he was trembling every day, thinking about things always looking ahead and backward, he would definitely think of this fatal problem, but now he is frivolous, the world is about to be at his fingertips, he thinks about everything simply, so he ignores such a fatal problem.

"Well, in the end, the problem comes down to the production of steel and the production of cement. The output of cement is good, and it is enough to build a few more cement plants. Second uncle, this matter will be handed over to you, you will immediately ~ recall the people sent out to cut wood and transfer them to become workers in the cement factory.

In addition, Guo Aiqing, you are responsible for transferring some technical backbones and skilled craftsmen from various cement factories in the world to Jingzhou to fully support the construction of Jingzhou Cement Plant. It is imperative to double the output of cement in Jingzhou within three months. In this way, it is possible to build ships and build roads at the same time. "Liu Hou immediately grasped the two key points of building a cement warship, and then began to issue targeted orders one after another."

After the two stood up and bowed to receive the order, Liu Hou said again: "As for the output of steel, please ask Prime Minister Zhuge to increase the investment in the prospecting team and let them explore more iron ore." In addition, the currently known iron ore should be more intensively exploited.

As for the manpower issue, let's first draw some manpower from the various construction corps engaged in agricultural production, well, agricultural production should not be delayed, then each corps should draw a little bit, and the standard is that it will not affect the agricultural production of the current season, and each corps will probably transfer a few hundred to 1,000 people. ”

Zhuge Liang got up and said: "It is true that each corps draws a few hundred to a thousand people does not affect agricultural production, but in this way, there are not many people who can be obtained, well, there are probably only a few thousand people, and the role of a few thousand people in mining iron ore is not very large, and it is far from enough to reach the steel wire consumption of one ship per month." ”

Liu Hou secretly slandered himself, Nima, how can this Zhuge Liang be calculated, thousands of people are not enough? Even if each person can only mine enough iron ore to smelt one pound of iron per day, there are thousands of catties a day, more than 100,000 catties a month, and more than a million catties a year? How is it not enough?

ps. I had a fever yesterday, and I lay in bed for a day, and I wanted to come up and make a leave declaration, but a reader said not to open a chapter to write a leave notice, and then I held back, and it became absenteeism directly from leave.