After personally going over to knock on the side, he really took out the words of those foreigners, knowing that these people were all naval officers, combined with the training they gave to craftsmen, Zhao Dagui could guess what he wanted to do.

Originally, this matter ended here, but Yang Willy was fascinated by navigation, and wanted to learn the navigation skills of Westerners, and after discovering that these foreigners were naval officers, he felt that these people were ready-made objects for consultation, so he often went to chat with these foreigners, asking for advice on what they should learn and what kind of way to go if they wanted to be captains.

Yang Willy also knew English for the first time, and he was also good at mathematics and other knowledge, and he quickly became acquainted with those officers, especially the three lieutenants, who were very impressed by Yang Willy's mathematical ability and became quite good friends.

Through the guidance of these officers, Yang Weili realized that navigation also requires a lot of knowledge, so he found a large number of navigation books from the library of the Oriental College and read them by himself.

There is a lot of knowledge involved in sailing, and to be a captain, in addition to being excellent in navigation, you must also be proficient in the use of artillery and firearms, otherwise you will have to deliver food to pirates.

Then, one of the biggest problems is that if you want to be a captain, you must have a ship, that is, you have to start from the bottom sailors, and you must also have a ship willing to take it in.

Those British naval officers thought that no Western merchant ships would be willing to let a Chinese be the captain of the ship, and it would be okay to accept them as ordinary sailors, but then there would be no room for improvement, so they were not very optimistic about Yang Willy's ambitions.

However, what kind of character is Willy Yang, can become friends with Sheldon, and can also learn calculus with him, at least he is also a hegemonic mind, and after thinking about it, he suddenly found that this is actually the easiest to satisfy:

Zhao Dagui has acquired so many shipyards, brought in so many shipbuilders, and spent a lot of effort to train them, which must be not small.

Moreover, even if he guessed Zhao Dagui's idea wrong, Zhao Dagui now has a lot of ships in his hands, and it should not be difficult for him to introduce himself to study.

Zhao Dagui has always treated the scholars of the Oriental Academy preferentially, so Yang Weili found an opportunity to talk to Zhao Dagui, talked about his ambitions, and asked Zhao Dagui to give him guidance on how to realize his dream of being a captain.

Zhao Dagui made a promise that as long as Yang Willy had the necessary ability, the shipyard would build a good ship in the future, and the firm would also need this aspect, so Yang Willy could try it.

Even if he can't build a ship for a while, it is not so difficult to let Yang Willy go to the iron-hulled steamship Orient as a sailor, or even directly work with Captain Chris of the Oriental, as an apprentice, and learn the necessary skills.

However, the prerequisite for Zhao Dagui to help Yang Willy is that he must first pass the training of those British officers, which can be regarded as a test.

For his own ambition, Yang Willy can only go to the concession area for training.

However, his training was much more complex than that of ordinary craftsmen, and was in fact an authentic British naval reserve officer's training, which included almost everything from discipline and organization to seamanship knowledge, engineer skills, and the mathematical skills required of artillery.

"That's why you went out of the city and went to the mud with those craftsmen?" Sheldon opened his mouth wide, not knowing what to say: "By the way, since you are like this, do those scholars from the Oriental Academy who went over with you have similar thoughts?"

"Yes, yes.

Zhao Dagui once said that the theoretical knowledge required for navigation can be learned through books, but the organization, discipline and practical skills required to be a sailor or captain can only be cultivated by training under naval officers.

The scholars who trained with me all wanted to go to sea as captains as I did.

We made an agreement with Zhao Dagui that as long as the three months of training were done well, and the British officers thought that we had the potential to become officers, Zhao Dagui would introduce us to the Vostok as sailors and entrust Captain Chris to train us, so that we could avoid many detours. Yang Willy nodded and said.

Of course, things are not so simple, Yang Willy vaguely felt that Zhao Dagui actually wanted to train a group of Chinese crews to replace the Western crews of the Dongfang.

From Zhao Dagui's point of view, it is certainly in his own interests to hire Chinese sailors who are more obedient and more demanding in salary.

Therefore, Yang Weili can be very sure that Zhao Dagui attaches great importance to the above agreement, and it is by no means just talking, but this matter is just a tacit understanding between the two parties, and it is inconvenient to talk about it everywhere.

Sheldon is good at everything, but he doesn't understand what to say and what not to say, this kind of thing is just an invisible tacit understanding, or don't say it directly.

"This ambition of yours is really strange. Sheldon shook his head, not knowing what to say about his friend's behavior.

To be honest, Sheldon was also interested in steamboats, but he was really interested in the construction of steamships, not driving them himself, so he felt that Willy Young's choice was difficult to understand.

"I will be the man who will conquer the sea of stars in the future, and a mortal like you cannot understand it. Yang Willy was very unimpressed, and said a domineering and calm word to Sheldon, which made the corners of Sheldon's mouth twitch.

The two talked for a while, both trying to pull each other to their side and go on the same track, but they found that neither could convince anyone, and in the end they had to give up.

While Shelton and Yang Willy were talking about their respective futures, in another teahouse in another place, the other two important figures of the raw silk reeling project, Wang Zichao and Chen Fan, were also drinking tea and chatting together.

"Brother Chen, am I particularly useless, until now I haven't been able to learn all the 'Introduction to Mechanical Drawing' thoroughly, and I can't even draw a valve?" Wang Zichao said to Chen Fan with a wry smile.

"That's not true, I studied with foreigners in Macao, and it took me three or four years to master the basic mapping skills.

Brother Wang has reached this level in less than a month, and he has learned seven, seven, eight, eight, seven, eight, seven, eight, seven, eight Chen Fan comforted.

"But you see Shelton and Zhao Dagui, now that they have learned a good way, they have begun to think about making silk reeling machines, compared to me, I am a mediocre person. ”

"Those two are monsters, so let's not compare them better. ”

Speaking of Sheldon, Chen Fan could only shake his head and smile bitterly.

Sheldon doesn't understand the world, but he is a real scholar, and his mathematical foundation is relatively good, much stronger than the science students of the 21st century.

However, Sheldon has a very high level of geometry and can understand the diorama very well, so he is also very quick to make and understand the design drawings, and has already read books about silk reeling equipment on his own, preparing for the imitation of a steam engine-driven silk reeling machine.

As for Zhao Dagui, the progress in mechanical design during this period can only be described as terrifying, and it seems that it is much faster than Sheldon.