After looking at the surrounding scenery for a while, Zhou Xian and Xu Xiaosong went to each cabin to take a look, and these twenty cabins should be able to accommodate more than 200 people.

Then Zhou Xian went to the power cabin to take a look, and saw that there were two steam engines here.

A large steam engine was used to drive the propellers, and the other was used to generate electricity, and now a generator is installed on the ship, which can be used to generate electricity and light carbon arc lamps to make searchlights for sailing at night, and later to make light bulbs, which can also be used to light the cabins.

After seeing all the places of the ship, Zhou Xian was very satisfied, these were all done according to his requirements.

Xu Xiaosong asked, "Master, let's give our first steamship a name!" ”

"Let's call it Jiaozhou!" Zhou Xian thought for a while and said.

"Jiaozhou! That's a good name. Xu Xiaosong praised.

Zhou Xian planned to name every flagship steamship in the future.

Zhou Xian returned to the deck again, and said in high spirits: "Let's go and try the Jiaozhou, the first steamship on this earth." ”

Soon white smoke came out of the chimney of the Jiaozhou and began to move slowly.

The Jiaozhou moved slowly in Jiaozhou Bay, and then the speed of the Jiaozhou became faster and faster, and after half an hour, the speed of the Jiaozhou had exceeded the speed of the sailboat.

Zhou Xian felt it, and the speed of the Jiaozhou at this time was about 30 kilometers per hour.

The speed of the ship is still accelerating, and at top speed it is about 70 kilometers per hour.

This is already a very fast speed, you must know that the fastest speed of today's sailboats is only about 30 kilometers per hour, which is more than double the speed of ordinary sailboats.

After sailing for two hours, the Jiaozhou stopped at the ship next to the shipyard.

"You already have the experience of building a steamship, and then you have to speed up the manufacturing speed, now the sea is not very peaceful, there are Japanese raids in the east, and there is an invasion of Hongmaofan in the south, we can only go to sea to do trade if we have a strong fleet." Zhou Xian stepped down from the Jiaozhou and instructed Xu Xiaosong.

"Yes, Master!"

When I returned to Xingjing's mansion from Jiaozhou Bay, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.

First of all, to become a navy, you need to test whether the soldier is seriously seasick, if the soldier is seasick when he arrives on the ship, then how can he fight?

As long as the soldier does not get seasick, he can sign up for the navy team to become a naval soldier.

The officers of the Navy are mainly graduates of military academies, and some army officers.

You can also recruit some special talents, such as gunners, steam engine maintenance personnel, and so on.

The next morning, Zhou Xian came to the barracks, and after watching the recruit training for a while, Zhou Xian came to the combat command room of the barracks.

Since Daniel Zhang led the 50,000 Zhou family troops to Jiujiang Province, the current military camp is jointly managed by Zhang Guodong, Ou Jiahua, and Wu Haibin.

There are still 30,000 recruits in the barracks, and they are undergoing high-intensity training every day.

Zhang Guodong and the three of them were chatting in the combat command room, and when they saw Zhou Xian walking in, they hurriedly stood up and saluted Zhou Xian, "Good president!" ”

"It just so happens that all three of you are here, and I have something to ask you for." Zhou Xian said with a smile.

Then Zhou Xian walked to a seat and sat down, saw that Zhang Guodong and the three were still standing, and said with a smile: "Sit down!" ”

After seeing the three of them sit down, Zhou Xian asked, "How is the training of the recruits?" ”

"Report to the president, the recruits are well trained and have met the basic requirements." Zhang Guodong was the first to speak.

"Very well, you have worked hard to train the recruits." Zhou Xian said with a smile.

"This is what we should do, not hard!" The three of them said in unison.

"I'm here for you today to set up a navy." Zhou Xian nodded and changed the subject.

"The Navy is a navy?" Ou Jiahua asked.

"That's right, our navy will sail in all seas in the future, so I call it the navy, yesterday our steamship was officially launched for sea trials, I went to the steamship for a sea trial, and the effect was very good."

"Great, our Zhou family army finally has a navy." When Zhang Guodong and the others heard the news, they became excited.

Looking at the excited appearance of the three of them, Zhou Xian continued to speak: "I am going to recruit 20,000 soldiers to form a corps to become a navy, and priority will be given to selection in our barracks, which of the three of you is willing to be the commander of the navy?" ”

When the three of them heard that they could be captains of the navy, they said, "I do!" ”

"Becoming a navy requires testing, only people who don't get seasick can be navy, since all three of you want to be a navy captain, then when the time comes, let's go to the steamship to test it, and we will know who is suitable to be the navy captain." Zhou Xian said with a smile.

The three of them looked at each other when they heard that there was still a test, they didn't know how to test, they had never been on a boat, and they didn't know what seasickness was.

"Okay, now you go and ask if there are any soldiers who are willing to go to the navy, and count them, I'll wait for you here." Zhou Xian commanded.

After Zhang Guodong and the three of them saluted Zhou Xian, they walked out.

An hour later, Zhang Guodong and the three returned.

Zhou Xian saw the three of them coming in, so he asked, "How many people are willing to go to the navy?" ”

"According to statistics, there are 8,500 people who are willing to go to the navy." Zhang Guodong opened his mouth and said.

"Okay, then you take these soldiers and go to Jiaozhou Bay for testing now." Zhou Xian didn't ink and ordered directly.

When more than 8,000 soldiers of the Zhou family army walked out of the barracks and walked towards Jiaozhou Bay.

The people of Xingjing saw that the Zhou family army had sent troops again, and they all asked if there was another war there? I was worried.

This is Zhou Xian standing in front of the people and explaining loudly: "The people of Xingjing, you don't have to worry, the Zhou family army is not going to fight, this is going to Jiaozhou Bay to test and participate in the navy." ”

"Navy? What is the Navy? ”

"Haven't heard of the Navy?"

"The army of the sea?"

Immediately the people began to talk about it.

"The navy is the sailor, we in Xingjing now have a steamship, and we will start recruiting the navy tomorrow." Zhou Xian explained.

When the people heard this exciting news, they became excited, some of them were ready to apply for the navy tomorrow, and some were full of interest in steamships.

So the mighty people of Xingjing also followed Zhou Jiajun to Jiaozhou Bay.

After Zhou Jiajun arrived in Jiaozhou Bay, Zhou Xian immediately asked Xu Xiaosong to arrange soldiers to be tested on the ship.

Since it was not to fight, the Jiaozhou was full of people, a total of 2,000 people.

Every time two thousand soldiers go up, after half an hour of sailing, if there is a particularly bad seasickness, they will be eliminated.

The people of Xingjing did not go as fast as the Zhou family's army, and they did not rush over until the first batch of 2,000 soldiers got on the steamship and slowly sailed away from the dock.

When they saw the large fortune ship sailing on the water, they were deeply shocked, only to see that it was a large ship without opening its sails, and it was sailing away in the distance with white smoke.

The people of Xingjing had never seen such a big ship without sails, and they cheered one after another.