Chapter 586: An iron ship cannot float on water?

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The existence of these time-traversing people determines that the industry, medical care and military of Xinghai Kingdom are in the hands of the Senate.

Therefore, to enrich the management personnel of these places, we can only draw from the finance, construction, agriculture and other departments.

It can be said that this transfer has removed all the ordinary time travelers who had no practical skills and little chance to perform.

For example, many of the time-travelers who had been dawdling in the construction team, agriculture team, and logistics team before, after the Xinghai Kingdom was officially established, were doing the same work as those naturalized civilian clerks, which made them very dissatisfied.

As time goes by, this dissatisfaction will definitely affect the stability of the Xinghai Kingdom Senate.

After all, everyone is a time-traveling member and a veteran. Why can you be an affairs committee member, a minister, and a consul, while I can only work as a miscellaneous person in the department with those naturalized citizens?

This can be said to be human ambition, or it can be said to be a kind of jealousy.

In addition to these time-travelers being mobilized to familiarize themselves with local affairs and prepare for the future, Xinghai Kingdom also mobilized more than 500 naturalized citizens to enrich various departments.

These naturalized people have basically been trained for more than half a year. When Zheng Xiangdong transferred them out, he still felt a little sad.

After all, it takes a lot of effort to train these naturalized people just to be literate. Those newly recruited indigenous people are not actually naturalized people. They need to be trained for a period of time to become familiar with the rules and regulations of Xinghai Kingdom. Only those who know a certain amount of Chinese characters are truly naturalized.

But having said that, with the arrival of these time-traversing people and naturalized people, the entire South China Sea Island has officially entered the stage of Xinghai Kingdom's rule.

At this time, Sun Xuebin also selected a team of expatriate instructors to go to Nanming.

There are twenty expatriate instructors in total, consisting of two time-traveling officers and eighteen first-class privates.

They will go to Guangzhou Prefecture on a thousand-ton cargo ship with the two thousand Thunderbolt 1646 rifles, ten Napoleon infantry cannons and some ammunition that Xinghai Kingdom sold to the Southern Ming Dynasty Zhaowu regime for the first time.

There, the Zhaowu regime had prepared the first batch of troops to be equipped with new firearms.

Well, if the previous Governor Biao camp had not been completely destroyed, this time the change of clothes should have been carried out first by the Governor Biao camp.

After all, despite the fact that the governor is not in the imperial court and serves as a minister or minister, in fact, in the world of Guangdong, the governor has great real power.

However, the entire army of Governor Biaoying was destroyed. Emperor Zhaowu took the opportunity to regain some real power. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Xinghai Kingdom to sell new firearms, he recruited a group of new troops and prepared to form an army loyal to him.

No way, Emperor Zhaowu was basically driven to the throne by his ministers.

After all, officials in Guangdong and other places had to push Emperor Zhaowu out in order to fight against Emperor Yongli.

Therefore, Emperor Zhaowu was almost half a puppet before.

But whether he ascends the throne willingly or is forced to become emperor, after enjoying the power of the emperor, who can give up?

Therefore, it is normal for Emperor Zhaowu to want to seize power and build an army loyal to him.

Fortunately, the governor, Mr. Liu, was still loyal to Emperor Zhaowu, otherwise, it would have been possible to stage an unbearable drama.

To say that when this thousand-ton cargo ship arrived at Baekryongtan outside Gwangju Prefecture, the shock and sensation it caused was actually greater than that of the Breaking Wave, which was modified from a steel fishing boat.

The reason is very simple. Although the steel fishing boat has naval guns and is invincible, its tonnage is only 500 tons.

The tonnage of this thousand-ton cargo ship is not only one thousand tons, but thirteen hundred tons!

In later generations, many modern frigates only had a tonnage of about 1,000 tons. The 1,300-ton cargo ship looked scary in this era.

Let's put it this way, the treasure ship Zheng Sanbao took when he sailed to the West was definitely larger than a thousand-ton freighter. But the problem was that at this time, Nanming no longer had the ability to build such a huge ship.

In fact, not to mention the current Nanming Dynasty, even in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, even Fengzhou and ordinary treasure ships could not be built. The reason was simply that the scholar-bureaucrats felt that building large ships was a waste of money and people, so they burned the shipbuilding blueprints. Lost.

The so-called Fengzhou is actually a large ship used by Ming Dynasty envoys to represent His Majesty the Emperor on overseas missions to ennoble and tributary countries.

According to historical records, this sealing boat contained about 4,000 materials. According to the displacement tonnage of each material equal to 0.24, the sealing boat should have a tonnage of more than 950.

An ordinary treasure ship carries three thousand materials and has a displacement tonnage of 720 tons.

To put it simply, most of the Nanming ships currently sailing on the sea are thousand-material ships, that is, the 240-ton type.

After counting the thousands of tons of cargo, it is a giant ship with a cargo of 5,400 tons!

Not to mention the senior officials of the Zhaowu regime, even the merchants who have been wandering on the sea all year round have never seen such a large ship!

In addition, knowing that this huge ship was for trading with the imperial court, many brave merchants came to take a closer look in small boats.

Since the draft of Bailongtan's wharf is a bit shallow, the thousand-ton cargo ship had to berth more than thirty meters away from the wharf, and then the governor's office would come forward to borrow other merchant ships to transport firearms, artillery, and ammunition.

In this process, labor will naturally come on board to carry the goods.

As soon as these laborers landed, shocking news spread.

That sailless, automatic giant ship was actually made of steel!

"It's incredible! It's actually a big ship made of iron!"

A coolie squatted at the door of the teahouse, talking so hard that his saliva flew everywhere, but the people around him didn't care at all, and instead urged him to continue talking.

After all, for the people in Guangzhou Prefecture, the previous series of achievements of the Kun Thieves from overseas were really amazing and made them very curious.

"Let me tell you, those Kun thieves' cannons are so big that they can fit my entire body into them!"

At this moment, the coolie felt like he was like the bright moon surrounded by stars, and he was so excited that he began to exaggerate.

"Absurd! How could a boat be made of iron! Wouldn't a boat made of iron sink on water? It's strange power that confuses the gods and deceives the public with its monstrous words!"

An old master in scholar's uniform was a little dissatisfied and began to scold him.

A group of coolies left one after another, not daring to confront the old master. After all, he was also a scholar. Although scholars are not valuable in this era, people at the bottom of society still respect scholars.

However, when these coolies left, due to the psychological atmosphere, they did not stop talking and chattering about the steel ship, which made the old master so angry that the beard on his chin almost blew away.

No matter how ridiculous those decadent and old-fashioned scholars think it is to make a ship out of iron, the fact is the fact. There are such rumors circulating in the streets and alleys of Gwangju Prefecture, and in the following time, more people will flock to Watching the fun at the pier.