Monkey directly placed an order for bicycle frames, flywheel chains and other components, and they were quickly delivered.
Song Yingxing put down his work at the dam and came here to direct the assembly of these human propellers.
Now that the dam is on track, the technicians and foremen can carry out the work in an orderly manner according to the established plan. There is a dedicated person responsible for everything, and Song Yingxing does not need to do everything personally.
Ten large tankers have been dragged over, and the I-beam structure is being installed transversely on the deck, and then propellers are installed on both sides.
Twenty units on one side, and a total of forty units on both sides, plus the five units at the rear and the rudder. It's basically been renovated.
Installation is very convenient.
Originally, Yang Fan thought that he could just use bolts to fix it directly to the ship's plate. At first, Yang Fan wanted to install it directly on the wooden planks on the side of the ship, but Song Yingxing thought it would not work after some research.
The strength of the ship's plate is too low, so it won't take long before it is cracked by the force of constantly changing directions, and the bolts will come out. The ship's plate is made of wood, and if the ship's plate leaks, the ship will be scrapped.
The best way is to place a steel frame horizontally on the deck and install the propeller on the steel frame, which is safe.
Yang Fan listened to Song Yingxing's advice and first used ten canal boats to transform a batch.
The installation was quick and almost completed by dark.
Early the next morning, these ten ships obtained enough boatmen from the transportation department and began to launch the trials.
It was tested with both forward and reverse flow, full load and no load.
I ran in the river for a whole day.
The final statistics found that the downstream speed can reach seven or eight knots, while the minimum speed with full load against the current is only two and a half knots, and the fastest speed can reach four knots. On average, three quarters are about the same.
Although it is slower, it solves a big problem if it can be used.
Each of these boats can carry about 800 tons of cargo. The transportation capacity far exceeds that of horse-drawn carriages.
One load in the Ming Dynasty weighed 120 kilograms today, and eight hundred loads was about 48 tons.
Because the installation of propulsion equipment and fixing steel consumes some weight, it can carry approximately 45 tons of cargo.
This transport capacity is already amazing.
It's just that in the past, these ships were propelled by rocking the oars, or by sailors using poles.
Now it has been changed to forty-five people, driven by pedaling the flywheel of bicycles. The operating staff has increased a lot. The original canoe could be operated by only ten people, and trackers were used when rowing against the current.
Although the number of personnel has now increased to fifty, it is still an autonomous powered voyage. Trackers are no longer needed, and the flexibility of use is greater. In theory, you can go anywhere.
When going downstream, there are no need for so many people, and you can take turns to rest. When going upstream, you need to all go out and pedal together to drive. If people are tired, they can anchor close to the river bank, stop for a while, and then continue to set off.
Or use two shifts, using half the people at each time. In this way, the speed will drop to less than two knots, which is about 3.4 kilometers per hour.
After the sea trial was successful, the ten renovated human-powered watercrafts were handed over to the water transport brigade for operation. From now on, you no longer need to deal with trackers, and you can freely sail up and down the Ji Canal and Haihe River basins.
Yang Fan will then modify some and put them into use as needed, which will basically meet the needs.
The next day, Huang San boarded the ten ships with 500 soldiers and baggage.
Yang Fan has begun to expand the army, using regiment training veterans as officers and recruiting new soldiers.
Fifteen hundred veterans were collectively promoted to corps commanders. Each man brought four new soldiers, and with the addition of the original officer Yang Fan, the army expanded to 9,000 people.
Reorganized into three regiments. Each regiment has 3,000 men and consists of five battalions or brigades. The organization is the same as before, with 500 people in a brigade or battalion.
Each battalion was divided into five squadrons of one hundred men. Three small flags are still set up below. Each small flag is divided into three groups, and each group is divided into two groups.
These three groups must have a reasonable name externally.
A group is called Jia Ding group to the outside world, and the leader is Mo table.
The second regiment is called Xinghe Tuanlian, and the Tuanlian envoy is Zhang Geda.
The third regiment is known to the outside world as the regiment directly under the Luanshitan Guards Qianhu Station. Hanging under the headquarters of Guarding Qianhu Station, the head of the group is Donkey Dan.
To guard Qianhu Station, Yang Fan used the original personnel and the more than 300 military attachés recently sent by the Northern Zhili Dusi to set up a stand.
They recruited refugees to divide the land, use water trucks to pump water for irrigation, develop wasteland, and basically renovated the three thousand-household settlements. But Yang Fan didn't expect them to fight. The officers of the original Baihu Station in Rock Beach were all promoted to Baihu and Xiaoqi. Placed in the new Thousand Household Office.
Although the emperor did not allocate to Yang Fan the Qianhu Station under the original Zunhua Guard, the Beizhili Dusi still gave Yang Fan the wasteland west of Zunhua up to the border with Jizhou.
This place was also renamed Shahe Guards House for Thousand Households.
Shahe Qianhu is located on the north bank of Shahe River near Zunhua, across the river from Yang Fan's land. Yang Fan, the guard soldier, made them self-sufficient and turned over the grain for farming in accordance with the rules of the Ming Dynasty.
The training and equipment are all based on the Ming Dynasty. In the early days, Yang Fan was a bit subversive. He opened his own iron factory, and weapons and other things were nothing. From now on, just lay down food to supply Yang Fan.
The land here belonged to the two previous Qianhu Offices, but they had long since been abandoned and abandoned. This time the land was allocated to the newly established Shouyu Qianhu Office, and Zunhua had no objections.
After this division was completed, Yang Fan had basically nothing to do with Zunhua. Although the guard of Qianhu was half a level lower than the guard, Yang Fan was the commander of the Zunhua guard, but he was directly under the guard of Qianhu. It belongs to the Capital Command and Envoy Division, one of the three divisions of Beizhili.
There is no subordinate relationship with Zunhua Guard. To put it bluntly, the two families are in charge of their own affairs.
Mr. Yang has recruited more than 300,000 refugees in the Zunhua area within half a year. His official positions are also rising like a rocket. His holy family is prosperous and he has a great reputation in the local area.
As soon as Yang Fan started recruiting troops, he immediately attracted a large number of young people of suitable age to sign up.
But this time the treatment is not as high as before.
Those who received three taels of silver a month became officers, while the newly recruited soldiers only received three taels of silver a month. There is another two cents in performance bonus. A total of five silver coins per month.
The performance part depends on your performance, and there are strict rules on how much you can get. There is money associated with achieving each item.
Although the salary has been reduced, it is still much higher than that of the guards and camp soldiers at this time. On the surface, the soldiers in the camp were paid three denarii a month, but in fact they could not get it at all, only about half. They were often in arrears of pay, causing mutinies and the like.
This treatment is at least three times that of camp soldiers.
After the transformation of these ten ships was completed, the Shipping Department established a grassland route department to be responsible for future transportation to the grassland.
The herdsmen on the grasslands actually have a huge demand for trade with the inland, and they do so through government-run forays at the border or through tribute trade.
There is a serious shortage of supplies on the grassland. If Yang Fan can open a route on his own, it will be a hugely profitable deal.
Those Shanxi merchants and the like used camels to transport them, and they were extremely weak.
Yang Fan's ability to compete in terms of cost made them lose their pants.
Yang Fan is determined to hold this land firmly. Next year, the Qing army will break through Da'ankou and other passes of the Great Wall and invade the pass. This land is on the west flank of the Qing army's invasion route and can threaten the Qing army's retreat. great strategic value.
Yang Fan will then transport the three thousand newly recruited cavalry to where they will be, form cavalry on the grassland, and then expand westward.
Because there are some weak tribes in the western part of Monan Mongolia, it is just suitable for Yang Fan's current power to gradually encroach.
Huang San has now been promoted to battalion commander through meritorious deeds. This time he took his battalion to this grassland to stabilize the situation first.
The fort was then built using cement and local stones that were later shipped. Hold this land firmly in your hands.
From now on, Yang Fan's cavalry troops will be formed and trained here. Only the cavalry that dominates the grasslands are the cavalry that can truly fight.
