I have tried my best to choose when it is late at night, and there are few people watching it at this time. At the fastest, it usually takes at least half an hour to modify it to the correct content. It is okay to read it on a computer, and it is also okay to use the mobile app to automatically subscribe. As long as I don’t click on the chapter when I haven’t modified it yet. Once I click on it, the wrong chapter content will be downloaded and entered into the mobile phone cache. At this time, even if I modify the mobile client, it is still the wrong content and will never change.

At this time, you can only download this chapter again. If it doesn’t work, you can only delete the book and remove it, and then add it again and put it on the shelves.

There are few people reading niche books and are rampant. There is no way to do so. If you don’t do this, you can’t make it. I’m sorry.

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After more than a year of development, the modern special ship factory has now begun to take shape. At this stage, the factory has a total of several engineers, more than ten technicians, more than 60 craftsmen of various types, more than 150 apprentices, and a total of more than 200 people. Although this scale is not as large as the two traditional shipyards of Dayuhe Naval Shipyard and Zhenhai Shipyard, compared with the dozens of people when they were first established, the cold scale of seven or eight guns is definitely one in the sky and one underground.

With the further development of domestic industry, higher requirements have been put forward for inland river transportation capacity. In particular, Changshan Iron Mine expansion, Ping'an Coal Mine expansion, and the construction of a large brick kiln factory have been launched one after another. The demand for inland river transportation capacity has surged. The more than 40 inland river transport ships in service are completely inadequate, and many cargoes often need to be stacked on the dock for a long time before they can be transported away. In view of this situation, the Ministry of Transport ordered the Hyundai Special Ship Factory to start using Paranazon to manufacture the newly designed 72-ton inland river steam transport ships - this kind of wood has a rich domestic reserves and is quite cheap, not to occupy those precious hardwood resources; while it began to squeeze out a sum of money from the United Industrial Credit Bank to lend it to the Hyundai Factory, allowing them to purchase machines and recruit workers.

After expanding manpower, the modern special ship factory began to gradually turn its attention to the domestic inland transport market with vast demand. Of course, before this, they had to find a way to make the multi-functional expedition ship of the "Zhubo" clear. Because according to the plan of the Navy, next month (February), the "Zhubo" and the "Bolang" that have been maintained will leave their homeland and go to the New China Colony, and then use it as a base to explore the various feasibility of the Far East route.

Of course, modern special ship factories dare not neglect this. You must know that this is a political task and cannot tolerate any sloppy. Soon, on January 28, the "Zhubo" sailed nearly 200 kilometers in Yazi Lake, with an average speed of about 5-5.5 knots. This is still the case when sails are not used. If they had opened all the sails at that time, it would probably be possible to sail directly from Hekou Fort to Ping'an Town in less than a day. This speed is far from comparable to those ordinary sailboats.

The "Polang" also underwent some maintenance and transformation in the modern factory this time. The technicians made major changes to the steam engine power system of the ship, which further strengthened the air tightness of the cylinder, which meant that the output power of the steam engine was strengthened in disguise. After testing, the speed of the modified "Polang" in Yazihu ​​reached about 3.5-4 knots, which was directly increased by more than 20% compared to the original, which means that the endurance of the ship has been further strengthened.

"Does the Second Machine Factory have no steam engines with higher output power now?" Li Yi stood on the deck, rubbing his chin with his hands, and asked with some greed. The Second Machine Factory's full name is the Second Machine Factory. It has just been established for only two or three months. It was established by the boiler workshop of the former First Machine Factory. The factory director is Li Hongxing, the former deputy director of the First Machine Factory and the director of the boiler workshop. As the only professional steam power system supplier in China, the Second Machine Factory had nearly 300 technicians of all sizes and sizes as soon as it was established, and the technical strength is extremely strong.

At present, their main R&D tasks are the marine steam engine "Popeye-1" and its subsequent improved models, as well as the high-power steam engine "Barma-5" and the steel rolling "Barma-4" model developed for railway locomotives. In addition to these, their work is basically the only way to integrate existing steam engine models, minor repairs, etc. Overall, their tasks are not light, but considering that they have trained a large number of technical personnel, including several high-school technical experts, it is not as difficult as imagined to complete these tasks.

"Haha, you are really greedy." Wei Hua turned to Li Yi and smiled, saying, "There is no more than 30 kW of steam engines. To be honest, in the era of mixed use of machine sails, you can use them well. You don't see how big our ship is. Let's talk about it when there are larger ships in the future. Even if you don't say it, the officials from the Ministry of Transport will urge Li Hongxing to board the marine steam engine project with a larger horsepower. It's really not possible, the current 48.3 horsepower is now available.

The steam engine can also be improved. Well, don’t we always say that there is steam leakage in the cylinder? Then we use a re-swelling steam engine, that is, we string two steam engines together, and the steam in the previous cylinder leaks into the next cylinder to continue to push the piston to do work, which reduces a large part of the heat energy loss caused by steam leakage and should increase a lot of output power. However, this re-swelling steam engine is generally used on large ships. Your ships are still too small, and a single cylinder is enough."

"What is a re-swelling steam engine? Why haven't I heard of it? Let me give me some popular science." Li Yihao asked shamelessly.

Wei Hua looked at Li Yi with contempt and said unhappily: "Have you heard of the three-swell steam engine? That is, three cylinders are stringed together! Of course, if two cylinders are stringed together, it is called the re-swell steam engine. Xiao Li, when you are fine, don't always get entangled with the devastating European noble ladies who come here, and be the same as Chang Kaisheng. You have a wife and are still raising illegitimate children outside. What's this like? I think it's better to spend more time on your studies! This is good for you, really, listen to me."

"Hehe." Li Yi smiled embarrassedly and did not speak anymore. Instead, he stood on the stern deck and watched the busy sailors on the ship. The shortage of sailors now is also a major bottleneck restricting the development of the maritime industry in the East Coast of China. Although the naval school located on the south bank of Dayu Lake has been expanded several times, it can only provide about one hundred graduates every year. These people are "people" to the Navy Department and are subordinates who can be used with confidence. Naval officers who travel through the Navy generally like to promote them to be non-commissioned officers on the ship to better implement their will.

In addition to these, the United Front Work Department only relied on the United Front Work Department to use some pirate officers and soldiers from the East Coast Navy to fool some pirates in the Caribbean, but the number was limited. Moreover, as the East Coast went to the Caribbean to recruit down-and-out pirates every year, this trick became increasingly useless over the years, because most of the pirates who wanted to become good were recruited by the East Coast people. The pirates recruited every year basically went to the Navy, and the Ministry of Transport spent a lot of effort to identify them. The hundreds of Malay slave sailors trained could only be assigned to the transport ships of the Inland Transport Company and the South China Sea Transport Company.

Li Yi's "Zhubo" has a crew of 105 people (including gunners), the same as the "Balang". It was really a big problem to fill up these 100 sailors, because the navy's demand for sailors this year is too big. According to the Navy's plan and the progress of the shipyard, two new warships will be put into service in almost two months - the high-speed cruiser "Jingwu" and the guard gunboat "Shishouyu". Not to mention the "August 10" class battleship that Wang Qien boasted was still missing in the "Four Fourth Fleet" plan. Although the construction of this battleship is still being debated, there is no doubt that the navy's demand for sailors has become increasingly large in the past two years, and normal sailor training methods cannot meet the navy's rapidly growing appetite.

Therefore, it is conceivable how much effort Li Yi took to gather the number of sailors of the "Zhenbo". He didn't know how many favors he had asked his grandfather for his grandmother, so he barely gathered most of the people on the ship. But even so, a considerable number of the gunners were still from shore defense artillery, and many people had never left the sea at all. It seems that it still takes a certain amount of time to get them into the rhythm of the sea. Moreover, the "Zhenbo" is a sailboat with a steam engine on the ship, which is also a new thing for sailors. They also need time to familiarize themselves with the equipment, learn how to use, maintain and maintain the equipment, which all take time.

"The cabin of each ship is filled with 400 tons of refined coal, and they are placed in the bottom cabin, just use it as a ballast." Wei Hua suddenly said, "These coals are theoretically enough for the 'Zhunbo' to sail for 3,200 hours. Of course, the lifespan of many equipment may not be so high, which is not enough to support you to sail for so long. Well, after this rectification of the 'Borang', the coal consumption has also been reduced. It consumes about 135-140 kilograms of coal per hour. 400 tons of refined coal is enough for her to sail for about 3,000 hours. In addition, there are sails, in short, your endurance seems to be infinite. In addition, there are fishing trawls and small seawater desalination devices on the ship. Your survivability at sea is definitely better than all the existing ships on this earth."

"It's almost the limit to installing 400 tons of refined coal. What a pity. Let's take a look when I arrived at New China. A while ago, they wrote a report and found a high-quality coal mine. I hope they have already produced coal by now. The higher the combustion calorific value of coal, the higher my endurance." Li Yi said with a sigh.
Chapter completed!