"Can we build a loach ship now?" Qin Ge looked at the giant ship assembled in front of him in shock. This was a gold-grade warship.
Zheng He shook his head and said: "This ship is just a test ship! We can generally build a test ship now, but many key technologies of the loach ship have not yet been broken through. The cost of building this ship is too high. Taking into account the material and labor costs, he The cost is as high as sixty thousand taels of gold!”
Qin Ge was stunned when he heard this. It was too expensive. The cost of a Feilang stern ship was only a few thousand taels of gold, but the cost of a loach ship was equivalent to dozens of Feilang stern ships. This was simply not worth the gain.
Zheng He pointed to the hull and said: "We have used the repairs of six severely damaged loach ships to figure out the various structures of the warships. We can basically perfectly copy the loach ships. However, regardless of the materials used to make the hulls, Or the power system. Many technical reproductions require very sophisticated technology. Ordinary workers cannot participate at all. It can only be completed by the two craftsmen and Tieniu. This results in high labor costs. The keel of the hull alone is To obtain dark wood that is more than three hundred years old, it needs to be harvested from the depths of the Taishan Mountains. Not only do you have to avoid all kinds of ferocious beasts and spiritual beasts, but also because the transportation channel has not been fully established, transporting it to the dock requires at least ten thousand taels of gold! Now! We can only make experimental ships, and we can only wait to break through the technical bottleneck, improve the quality of craftsmen, and significantly reduce the cost of warships before we can mass-produce warships!"
Accompanied by Zheng He, Qin Ge walked towards the shipyard. Zheng He said as he walked: "In addition to the mass production of Feilang stern ships, we have also begun to produce three other iron warships. This is more than a year ago." A few months ago, we held a Youlong Shipyard Exhibition. At the exhibition, we acquired from the evolution forces a turtle boat with a large carrying capacity, a grasshopper boat with flexible operation, and a simplified version of the stern boat. These boats are cheap. The price of one vessel is only a few hundred taels to several thousand taels of gold, but the advantage is that it is produced in large quantities and has a huge market among many small forces of evolvers!"
"Secondly, large-scale production of three types of civilian boats, large, medium and small, is specially provided for the official and private fishing factories established in Le'an County. Of course, it is also provided for the evolutionist seafood development forces in Jizhou, Xuzhou and other places outside Le'an County, and even Providing private boat customization business can not only expand the dock's profits, but also quickly cultivate the skills of boat workers, laying a solid foundation for the future high-end development of the dock!"
Listening to Zheng He's introduction, Zheng He was very knowledgeable and had clear goals for the overall development of the entire shipyard.
Qin Ge had a deeper understanding of Zheng He's value. No wonder Guan Zhong persuaded him to give up Zheng Chenggong, Liu Rengui and other famous naval commanders in history, and choose Zheng He, who was relatively weak, and Li Baolai was asked to supplement him. shortcomings.
Now think about Zheng He's seven ocean voyages, which were originally intended to open trade routes for the Ming Dynasty. He was not only a navigator and naval commander, but also a craftsman, diplomat, businessman and other multiple identities. He presided over the production and operation of the shipyard. It was simply Make the best use of your talents.
Youlong Shipyard has gone from a gold-swallowing monster to a cornucopia of daily income, which has injected a boost into the long-depleted finances. It has also promoted the development of various industries in Le'an and provided relevant jobs for hundreds of thousands of people. Employment, as well as promoting the prosperity of Le'an and even Huaxia fisheries, has an immeasurable role!
This was also the reason why Manchong dared to attract another five million refugees from Taishan County.
Under the leadership of Zheng He, everyone came to the shipyard. They saw that the craftsman servant was commanding more than ten mechanical arms, and there were huge wood planers, lathes, grinding, oil-immersed polishing and other large-scale lathe processes. The craftsman servant led Wearing goggles, he not only makes wood by himself, but also directs the carpenters to work forward and backward.
Seeing Qin Ge's arrival, he commanded the mechanical arm to fly him over like a spiritual ape. At this time, the craftsman's servant was covered in sawdust and looked a little slovenly. He took off his goggles and looked a little tired.
However, his eyes are very bright. Qin Ge just heard what Zheng He said. In the past six months and more, Youlong Shipyard has worked overtime to make various technical breakthroughs in order to rush to build the Feilang stern ship. People hold on.
The craftsman servant was shamelessly poached by Qin Ge from the chief craftsman of the Mo family at Snow Wolf Castle. Since the shipyard can operate so smoothly, the craftsman servant can be said to be one of the most important and soulful figures!
Although the craftsman's servant was tired, he was full of energy. The large workshop in the shipyard, with various lathes and machinery, was now controlled by him alone. This guy nagged a lot of ideas that Qin Ge couldn't understand, and pulled him Qin Ge watched his various innovations in the machinery factory.
Qin Ge was speechless. He looked at the various exquisitely processed parts. Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden and was dazzled. However, he had maintained mechas in his previous life and could still tell a lot about many mechanical structures, so he told this guy to take a good rest. Take care of yourself.
After leaving the craftsman's servant's workshop, he came to the foundry run by Tieniu. He saw the entire foundry bursting with flames and blacksmiths swinging hammers everywhere.
Because there are many casting workshops in the shipyard, many hull parts are first cast and then finished by blacksmiths for crystal inlaying, energy array forging, etc.
At this time, on the forging platform in the center of the foundry, a huge man was wielding a forging hammer. The forging hammer was very fast. When the hammer was swung, it could even blow out strong air waves to form a wind whirlpool, and the flying sparks were like fireworks. Blooming, the overall casting is flowing and flowing, which is pleasing to the eye.
Moreover, the man stood in front of the blazing fire. Against the background of the fire, spots on his body shone like money-like light marks, looking extremely majestic and majestic.
Qin Ge walked to the central forging platform and took a hook-and-scythe gun next to him. The blade of the gun shone with cold light in his hand. The gun body was full of toughness and danced like a spiritual snake.
Qin Ge couldn't help but praise: "What a gun!"
After Iron Bull swung for a moment, the fire tongs picked up a fiery red scale from the forging table, put it into the water to quench, and picked up a cyan scale like a dragon scale from the water, which exuded a strange halo in the firelight.
This kind of scales is the standard armor of the Blue Scale Soldiers - the Blue Scale Armor Set!
It is a gold-grade armor set. It is molded in a workshop and forged from three layers of scale armor. The blue-scale armor set is a light armor. However, it can resonate with the water flow in the water, which is beneficial to the green-scale soldiers to control the water element energy in the river and sea. Let the Blue Scale Soldiers' combat effectiveness increase dramatically.
However, the forging process of this armor is too cumbersome and the cost is too high. Currently, there are only plans to build 20,000 sets of equipment for the Blue Scale Guard.
Tieniu was concentrating on forging the blue scale armor set at this time, and the forging workshop was already noisy, so he didn't even notice Qin Ge and others coming to inspect.
"Armor plates!" Tieniu frowned when he saw several craftsmen stopped delivering armor plates to him. His voice was deep and deep, and several craftsmen pointed at him.
Tieniu turned around in surprise, and saw a face with a beard and a face as black as iron appearing against the firelight, looking exactly like a black bear.
Even though Tieniu looks like he is in his forties, in fact he is only in his mid-twenties and is still a young man.
"Lord!" Seeing Qin Ge, Tieniu ran over excitedly and grabbed Qin Ge's arm with his hands covered with iron filings.
Tieniu followed Qin Ge when Qin Ge was the village chief. From the time he joined the territory, he followed Qin Fuhuo and became the pillar of the military industry. Now he independently supports Youlong Shipyard.
This time during the bloody battle in Jinan County, Zhao Yun beheaded the Liangshan bandit leader Tang Long. This was one of the few master-level blacksmiths in Liangshan. His general soul was a special general soul that specialized in changing professions as a blacksmith. It was extremely valuable. The Five Tigers of Liangshan who are at the level of divine generals.
Qin Ge had people bring the Earth Demon Soul and Blackbird Essence and Blood to Tieniu overnight. Due to his limited qualifications, Tieniu had been stuck in the master-level blacksmith realm and could not break through.
However, Tieniu's craftsmanship skills that have been honed over many years have long been comparable to those of many master-level blacksmiths, and can even create the armor that a master-level blacksmith can produce.
After merging the general soul of Di Lone Star from the Golden Leopard Tang Long, Tieniu inherited Tang Long's general soul and forging skills, and his forging level directly exceeded the master level.
Now that Tieniu has no qualification restrictions, it is not impossible to become a grand master or even a master craftsman in the future.
Tieniu is not good at talking and has no hobbies on weekdays. He just likes to spend all his time in the forging workshop. Of course, even Qin Fuhuo admires his talent and talent in casting.
Having not seen Qin Ge for many years, Tieniu was so excited that he pulled Qin Ge to giggle.
"Take care of your beard from now on! You don't have a wife now!" Qin Ge said with emotion when he saw Tieniu and thought of the hard years in the past.
"It doesn't matter...it doesn't matter..." Tieniu reluctantly shook his head and waved his hands at a loss.
"It doesn't matter! I promised my aunt back then that I would find you a beautiful and virtuous wife. Now I have broken my promise! Boning! I give you an instruction, you must find a good wife for Tieniu. Be beautiful and virtuous! This is a task that must be completed!" Qin Ge did not care about the thick iron filings on Tieniu's body and put his arm around Tieniu's shoulders.
Man Chong's iron-faced face was also amused, and he covered his mouth and said: "Accept the order! I am willing to issue a military order!"
Tieniu dragged Qin Ge around the forging workshop, like a child, constantly talking about the situation in the foundry, and finally sighed: "I plan to use steel to forge the keel and other parts of the hull, which can greatly reduce the stress of the loach ship. The construction cost and cost, and the ship is stronger and more durable, but it’s a pity that a lot of steel has been tested and the process has made breakthroughs, but the hardness, strength, stiffness and other properties of the material are not up to standard!”
Zheng He also came over and said, "I have talked with many Evolver craftsmen, and they mentioned casting solutions for alloys and special steels. Master Tieniu has tried many methods of casting steel molds, but they have basically failed!"
Jinmaohu, who was following Qin Ge, touched his chin and said: "I heard that Yanhuang Foundry seems to have mastered a technology for making alloys and special steels using modern technology. It was also reported on the forum some time ago, but this kind of Technology is a monopoly technology and can even improve the quality of raw materials!”
Qin Ge was silent for a moment and looked back at Ye Huang and said: "Uncle, didn't you say that the Fire Blue Blade of Yanhuang City wanted to learn the shipbuilding technology of our Feilang Stern Ship?"
The Night Emperor nodded and said: "They want to learn from each other, but there is really nothing to learn from their shipyard in Yanhuang City, so I rejected them!"
Qin Ge directly ordered Jinmaohu to send the video to the Iron-Blooded Army Soul. Soon Jinmaohu connected to the video of the Iron-Blooded Army Soul and directly turned on the screencasting function.
The Iron-blooded Army Soul seemed to be attending a meeting at the venue at this time. He was really surprised when he saw Qin Ge appearing on the screen. This guy didn't usually play video connection at all. This was the first time he had a video match with Qin Ge.
