Zhu Jingyuan planned to set off for Xintianfu in March of the third year of Ankang.
But just after the first day, Zhu Jingyuan himself and the people around him had already entered the new Tianfu state.
Pan Shien came to Mengxian County early and began to hand over to Lin Zexu during the holiday.
Zhu Jingyuan also began to think seriously about what he should do first after arriving at Xintianfu.
And based on their own plans, they began to make requirements for relevant manufacturers and personnel.
In February of the third year of Ankang, all preparations were in place.
Liusha City has prepared a batch of crude oil and refined fuel oil.
The petrochemical base has prepared a batch of various plastic materials, rayon, and elastic yarn.
Mengxian County has prepared a large amount of rayon, elastic silk fabrics and various types of products.
Daming Airlines has prepared a batch of agricultural aircraft and supplied a large number of radial engines for agricultural aircraft.
A batch of popular cars produced on the assembly line, as well as a batch of gasoline engines and gearboxes for cars, have been prepared.
The Ministry of Industry factory completed the trial production of plunger injection pumps for diesel engines and modified a batch of small and medium-sized diesel engines.
The Royal Agricultural Machinery Xintianfu factory produced large-pattern tires for modern tractors in accordance with Zhu Jingyuan's latest requirements.
Other manufacturers in the royal consortium also prepared their own materials, machinery and equipment, craftsmen, and skilled workers in accordance with the requirements.
All the things that need to be transported to Xintianfu will not be transported all at once. First, they will be too late, and second, they will not be digested.
However, the number of materials and personnel that will accompany Zhu Jingyuan is still large.
All cargo and passenger ships arrived at the Mengxian Terminal at the end of February.
On March 8, the third year of Ankang, all transit ships were resupplied and completed.
Zhu Jingyuan took his whole family, followed his grandfather and grandmother aboard the Fearless, and officially set sail for Xintianfu.
The accompanying large fleet set off from Meng County, went south along the east coast of Mozhou, skirted the western capes, and crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the west.
On March 28, the third year of Ankang, the fleet, which had been sailing at sea for twenty days, finally approached the Nanyinzhou continent.
The Milky Way (Rio de la Plata) estuary is more than 200 kilometers wide and can be regarded as the widest estuary in the world.
If they looked at the surrounding scenery and the boundless water, the people on the boat would not even realize that they were entering an estuary.
However, the fleet pilot knew it, so he immediately began to coordinate the fleet formation and carefully identify the channel.
After entering the river mouth, the water depth has dropped directly to less than twenty meters.
The fleet continued to sail about 70 kilometers westward from the northern part of the river mouth. In the waters 40 kilometers away from Sanqing City, the pilot boat raised the warning level again.
The water depth in the entire water area has dropped to less than ten meters. All large ships must be guided and sail along the dedicated channel several hundred meters wide created by artificial dredging.
At noon that day, the first ship sailed into Sanqing City Pier.
The Fearless that Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Zhongliang were riding finally stopped at the dock at around three o'clock in the afternoon.
The family got out of the cabin, transferred to a river boat with a shallower draft, and continued to Xintianfu City.
After changing boats, Zhu Jingyuan did not enter the cabin immediately. Instead, he and his family watched the scenery on the deck of the river boat.
Looking at the surrounding docks, large ships from the mainland of Ming Dynasty and Meng County are docking one after another.
A large number of people and materials gradually began to be converted into river boats.
Zhu Jingyuan looked at this busy scene and said to Zhu Zhongliang with a very serious expression:
“Grandpa, I think we must continue dredging the channel.
“It is best to dredge to a water depth of 16 meters, at least 12 meters.
“Let large-scale sea vessels dock directly at Xintianfu.
"Now Sanqing City is only more than 200 kilometers away from Xintianfu by water, but we need to change boats here again.
“The shipping and handling costs add up and it’s going to be really ugly.
“And the Milky Way estuary is so wide, and the estuary delta is a swamp.
“It’s also very difficult to build railways and roads to bypass it.
"The most ideal solution is to dredge the channel..."
Zhu Zhongliang looked at the surrounding ships and felt that it was normal for Zhu Jingyuan to have such thoughts, but the problem was:
"The water is sixteen meters deep... Do you want to take the 100,000-ton ship directly?"
Zhu Jingyuan nodded naturally:
“There are already 80,000-ton passenger ships and oil tankers, and sea-going ships will become larger and larger in the future.
“Xintianfu’s status determines that its cargo throughput will be very large.
“And according to my understanding, the mouth of the Milky Way River is too wide, so the water is so shallow.
“After entering the inland waterway, the water of the Milky Way becomes deeper.
“I read the package and it said that the water was more than ten meters deep in many places, and even more than twenty meters deep in many places.
“Because the amount of water in the Milky Way is very large, there is not much difference with the Yangtze River.
“If the entire channel is dredged to 16 meters, ships with a weight of less than 100,000 tons can directly go thousands of kilometers inland.
"The entire core area of Xintianfu will be more closely connected."
Zhu Zhongliang also nodded:
“It makes sense, but the amount of this project is not small.
“The water depth outside Xintianfu City is only two to three meters, while the previous channel was dredged to eight meters.
“You have to deepen it to 16 meters, which is definitely not something that can be completed in a few years.
"The key is to have enough manpower and equipment..."
Zhu Jingyuan immediately said:
“Xintianfu has enough manpower, we just need to free them from tedious agricultural production.
“And this is what Xintianfu must do for industrialization, and dredging the waterway is also serving industrialization.
"While dredging the waterway, we can also find suitable places to build hydropower stations to supply electricity."
Zhu Zhongliang asked naturally:
"How do you liberate the population? Farming already requires people, and land reclamation requires more people."
Xintianfu is currently a huge rural area, with less than 30% of the urban population.
More than 70% of the remaining population are agricultural people directly engaged in agricultural and animal husbandry production activities.
If the population in agricultural products processing industries such as brewing and canning is included, the agricultural population in Xintianfu may exceed 80%.
Zhu Jingyuan also said of course:
"Mechanization, the only way out for agriculture is mechanization."
Zhu Jingyuan had already carefully considered the matter of Xintianfu at the end of last year and the beginning of this year.
He and the royal consortium have prepared many large projects, including various high-tech, cutting-edge technologies and large-scale industrialization projects.
Zhu Jingyuan originally wanted to prioritize these projects and consider which ones could be carried out simultaneously.
But after thinking about it, Zhu Jingyuan slowly discovered that he should first consider how to farm efficiently.
If he and the imperial consortium wanted to industrialize Xintianfu, they would need to liberate enough of the population from agricultural production.
Agriculture is the foundation of the entire society. Industrialization should first serve agriculture and liberate the population bound by agricultural production.
Now when I see the transfer of ships on rivers and seas, when I think about the dredging of the Milky Way Channel, and when I talk about the manpower required, I think of this again.
In Zhu Jingyuan's last life, when the countries in Europe and the West were industrializing, the local land was not sufficient relative to the population.
It is impossible for farmers to become rich by farming, unless they are landowners who own large amounts of land.
If factory wages are enough to make farmers rich, it will be easier to absorb people from agriculture.
But Xintianfu is different. Xintianfu has vast cultivated land and pastures, as well as even more extensive land to be developed.
The total population of Xintianfu is estimated at 60 million, which is equivalent to the population of Germany during World War I.
However, the land area controlled by New Tianfu was more than 30 times that of Germany at that time.
Xintianfu can still be considered a vast area with few people.
Even if all the 60 million people engaged in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery in a broad sense, they would still be able to live quite a prosperous life.
At the same time, Xintianfu was also the most important agricultural and animal husbandry product supply base in the Ming Dynasty.
While liberating the population from agricultural production, it cannot reduce the agricultural production capacity of Xintianfu and cannot affect the supply of agricultural products throughout the Ming Dynasty.
To achieve both goals at the same time, the only way is through mechanization.
The river boat Zhu Jingyuan and his family took, escorted by surrounding small warships, left Sanqing City for Xintianfu City.
After the ship left the city, Zhu Jingyuan looked up at the outside of Sanqing City.
From the end of February to the beginning of March in the Ming Dynasty, it is the autumn harvest season in Xintianfu.
The area around Sanqing City north of the Milky Way has an annual rainfall of more than 1,000 millimeters, making it a suitable place for growing rice.
Now on the land outside Sanqing City is an endless golden sea of rice.
A large number of people and horses came and went in the sea of rice, harvesting and carrying this summer's harvest.
In this era, agricultural production still mainly relies on human and animal power.
Horses are used on large farms, and cattle are used on small farms.
The number of horses and cattle in Xintianfu may be greater than the local population.
It is often seen that farmers use two or even four horses to transport harvested grain and plow the farmland with large iron plows.
The emperor drives six horses, and the princes drive four horses. Many peasant cart drivers in Xintianfu can ride four horses, which is as good as the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period.
The reason for using such a large number of livestock is the lack of suitable power machinery.
At this time, there were actually gasoline-powered and steam-powered agricultural tractors.
However, the gasoline engine was not powerful, the steam engine was too bulky, and the early tractor design was immature, so its application range was relatively limited.
According to the experience of later generations, the most suitable engine for agricultural tractors is small and medium-sized diesel engines.
It is more powerful than a gasoline engine, lighter than a steam engine, simple, safe, sturdy and durable.
However, until the fuel injection problem of diesel engines is solved and the scale of the petroleum industry is large enough, there will be no way to popularize it on a large scale.
None of this should be a problem now, or it won't be a problem soon.
When Zhu Jingyuan was planning a diesel-electric submarine last year, he informed the Ministry of Industry of the design ideas for the plunger fuel injection pump, the most critical component of the diesel engine.
The Ministry of Industry has completed trial production, and the fleet accompanying this year includes a batch of modified diesel engines with plunger injection pumps replaced.
From the Chinese New Year last year to the beginning of this year, Zhu Jingyuan specially planned and designed commonly used agricultural machinery.
At the heart of this is the universal diesel-powered tractor.
Modern people have become accustomed to the form of tractors, but this form was also formed after a long period of exploration and is an almost complete design.
Steam-powered tractors appeared in 1868 and became popular after the diesel engine matured in the 1920s.
The key design on modern tractors, the two huge tread tires, were designed in 1932.
There are not many technical reasons for this. The main reason is that after tractors are widely used, users gradually confirm that this design is most suitable for tractors through long-term use.
Therefore, as before, Zhu Jingyuan directly skipped the experience accumulation process and copied the typical complete optimal design.
In addition to the tractor itself, there must also be supporting, tractor-driven, combined agricultural machinery.
Including dump trucks, mounted plows, mounted rakes, planters, transplanters, harvesters, water pumps, etc...
Many of these equipments already exist, and they only need to be driven very differently. Now they can be used after targeted adjustments based on the design of new agricultural tractors.
Zhu Jingyuan’s plan is to first design and produce a general-purpose tractor in this way, and then add supporting combined agricultural equipment for use.
This small-scale general-purpose agricultural machinery should be completed first, and complete localized production of Xintianfu should be realized as soon as possible.
After Xintianfu's machinery industry system matures, it will gradually develop large-scale special agricultural machinery.
The tractor project is much simpler than various military projects, even the automobile project is much simpler.
The Ministry of Industry quickly completed the basic design of the tractor in accordance with Zhu Jingyuan's requirements.
The agricultural machinery factory in Xintianfu has also made matching tires and prepared the chassis in advance, and is now waiting for assembly and testing.
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Royal Agricultural Machinery Company also has a factory in Xintianfu, but the scale of the previous factory was not very large.
Mainly responsible for the production of various agricultural machinery used with animal power.
The original crawler tractors with gasoline engines were not easy to use, so the production scale of power machines was not expanded.
Zhu Jingyuan sent them a message after the Chinese New Year, asking them to start preparations for the construction of a diesel tractor factory in advance.
They were also asked to directly interface with the Ministry of Industry to jointly complete the design of the new diesel tractor and the preparations before production.
In other words, the first thing Zhu Jingyuan should do after arriving in Xintianfu, and the first industry to be activated during the industrialization of Xintianfu, should be the tractor factory.
Then there is the agricultural aircraft factory that should be built simultaneously.
Compared with diesel tractors, agricultural aircraft are completely mature technology.
When Zhu Jingyuan invented the airplane, he directly prepared the design of the agricultural airplane in advance.
Daming Aviation Company has already completed production line production locally, and then it will just build a new production line in Xintianfu.
It can be expected that with the gradual application of these agricultural machinery, Xintianfu's agricultural production efficiency will subsequently increase rapidly.
The population required for agricultural production has naturally been greatly reduced.
Then Huangzhuang can bring more people into the factory to work as workers.
Xintianfu is all Huangzhuang, and both workers and farmers are theoretically employees of Huangzhuang.
In theory, converting farmers into workers is just a job adjustment.
Although there will definitely be various problems in actual operation, it should be much more convenient and easier than the passive adjustments in the industrialization process of various countries in history.
