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Lianyungang is made up of ports and roads. Between the mainland and the East-West and East-West Islands is the Yingyoumen Strait. The East-West and East-West Islands are natural protection for Lianyun Island Port, and Lianyun Island Port almost occupies the entire Yingyoumen Strait.

The Yingyou Shipyard is located above the Yingyou Gate. Although it finally built a dam and Tsukiji became the foundation of most of the shipyard, fortunately, most of the Tsukiji are docks, and the construction progress was very fast. At the beginning of the year, the Yingyou Shipyard had built four docks, including one that was extremely rare in the domestic and even the Far East at this time. The other three docks were built without exception with iron beam awnings. The construction of the awnings made the Yingyou Shipyard able to construct ships without any rain.

As early as March of the second year of the Republic of China, the "China Ocean Shipping Company" was established in Lianyun. Since its establishment, China Ocean Shipping Company has purchased more than 60 old ships of about 20 years from the UK, the United States and Germany at an extremely low price, and most of them were purchased at the price of "scrap iron".

With the purchase of these "scrap iron", China Ocean Shipping Company has become the largest shipping company in Asia, with a merchant ship of 230,000 dwt, which is twice the number of merchant ships in Japan. The tonnage of merchant ships in China has made China the fifth "mass shipping power" in the world, second only to the four countries of Britain, the United States, Germany and France. Most of these "scrap iron" are under maintenance at the Eagle Shipyard.

It can be said that to a certain extent, ZhongCOSCO and Eagle Shipyard, which belong to Liuhe, are simply complementary. Although ZhongCOSCO has only opened Eurasian ocean routes such as Vladivostok, San Francisco, Lyon, etc., and while a large number of merchant ships are still purchasing merchant ships from abroad when a large number of merchant ships are idle, Eagle Shipyard still receives orders for as many as ten merchant ships.

Today is the day when the "Yangyang No. 136" was launched. This is the 136th China Ocean Ship, a large ship with a displacement of 3,500 tons, and it is also the largest merchant ship built by the Eagle Shipyard. At this time, on the Jiawu ship platform, Ocean Ship 136 was decorated with red color and was dressed up, as if the groom was about to enter the bridal chamber.

Dozens of workers wearing uniforms of Eagle Tourist Dock, under the command of Director Wei Pingtao, were dismantling the hull support step by step. At present, the brackets used to support Ocean No. 136 have been removed. The huge body of No. 136 was parked on the tilted boat platform, all pulled by a special thick hemp cable. The supervisors from Liuhe Company, Zhongyuan Ocean, and Eagle Tourist Dockyard lined up, standing on the side of the boat platform, each taking their own eyes, staring at No. 136; workers from all over the factory stood tall and low, staggered outside the dock, staring silently at No. 136.

At this time, Li Zicheng attended the launch ceremony of No. 136 as the chairman of Liuhe Company. The plundering sea breeze gently brushed his face and stood there facing the bow of the boat. Li Zicheng had a smile on his face. When he looked around, the eyes of everyone were still puzzled. How could they understand?

China COSCO Ocean's "overcapacity" is that more than 100,000 tons of merchant ships were berthed on the Yingyou Strait Bodian Field alone. Most merchant ships bought a 10,000-ton ship from 1890 to 1900, and the average price per ton is only 1.5 pounds. This price is even 30% cheaper than buying scrap iron. Although the capacity is now surplus, it is soon, maybe in two months, everything will change.

First, ships from Germany and Austro-Hungarian Empire, as the other side of the belligerent country, left China one after another, or were moored in ports. Affected by the war, merchant ships from Europe will also be greatly reduced. In addition, as the governments of Britain, France, Belgium and other countries will requisition a large number of merchant ships to serve their own wars, the business of ship companies in Asian countries, especially ocean-going transportation business, was basically at a standstill. At that time, China Ocean Shipping can take the opportunity to grab the shipping business left by various countries.

It was a transportation business of up to 50 million tons per year. In history, World War I was a period when Japan's shipping industry grew rapidly. Due to the funding of the Japanese government and the vacuum caused by the European war, the number of Japanese merchant ships entering and leaving Chinese and Asian ports increased year by year during this period. Japan's two major ship companies, Japan's Naimai Co., Ltd. and Osaka Merchant Co., Ltd., grew rapidly during this period and became an internationally renowned merchant ship company.

Now, China COSCO, founded by itself, has been prepared in advance. In the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, there are still as many as 100 merchant ships with nearly 500,000 tons returning to China. Perhaps the Asian maritime market is not enough to feed these nearly one million tons of merchant ships. However, after the submarine war begins, various countries will withdraw merchant ships one after another, and at the same time, they can overturn the nearly 700,000 tons per ton of pounds at hand, and sell them to Britain or France.

As for China COSCO, as long as it maintains 1 million tons of merchant ships, it will be enough to meet the needs of the next few years. In the first two years, it will first open a route and build a new ship. While the new ship is in service, it will sell the old ship to British and French ship merchants. The money from selling the old ships will be used to build a new ship, and then use the new ship order to further improve Lianyun's shipbuilding level.

Use foreign capital to build a huge merchant fleet, and then use this merchant fleet to squeeze out the Asia-Pacific shipping market, and at the same time, it can continuously transport Chinese manufacturing to the world. In this process, it is a cycle, a cycle that is beneficial to the development of Lianyun.

"How great would it be if we could have tens of millions of dollars."

He sighed that Li Zicheng was full of annoyance. Although the merchant ships ordered from various countries were ordered with loans from banks of various countries, he still did not have enough funds to buy more old ships. Now the old ships are scrap iron, but within a few months, the scrap iron will turn into gold lumps.

"A 700,000 tons of old ship can earn tens of millions of pounds, so be content..."

"It's him"

Among the crowd watching, Lu Qiyu, holding a camera in her hand, looked at the man standing on the stage, and her eyes suddenly opened. It was his hateful man. He worked in the shipyard? It seemed that his status in the shipyard was not low, otherwise he would not have been asked to beat champagne.

If you just go back and draw him in circles and curse him, you must know his name first.

"Hello, sir, who is that person?"

"you do not know?"

The person asked was stunned by the words of the girl dressed in Western style around her.

"Our Lianyungang is his, the current Huaihai Strategic Envoy"

What?

This, this hateful man is Li Zicheng. This person is so vulgar and almost subconscious. She once admired her and her image plummeted in Lu Qiyu's mind. There was still a trace of the girl's longing. Some of them were afraid that they would only be disgusted.

"This dead head"

Seeing the man on the bow stage laughing, Lu Qiyu spat in her heart, but she couldn't help but take a photo at him with the camera.

Li Zicheng, who was standing on the bow of the boat, saw the thin rope on the bottleneck of the champagne wine tightly connected to the high bow of the boat. At this time, a craftsman leader approached the shipyard director Wei Pingtao.

"Director, the auspicious time has come"

Wei Pingtao raised his hand at a worker holding a plan.

"Preparation - launching"

Hearing the sound, Li Zicheng threw the champagne bottle in his hand towards the bow of the boat. With a bang, the champagne bottle smashed and then, a stream of yellow liquid soared into the sky, multiplying countless white foam, splashing everywhere... Immediately, the worker raised his shiny axe, took the axe and cut off the thick hemp cables laid on a wooden pier incline... In an instant, a colorful ball hanging on the bow of the boat suddenly turned into an upside-down lotus, drifting out of the flower core, countless dazzling sequins floated into the air, and drifted into the sea...

Ocean No. 136 seemed to be attracted by this novel and enthusiastic scene. It paused for a moment before the stern of the boat slowly slid towards the dock entrance - slid away - Ocean No. 136 went into the water, splashing a wave, and cheers suddenly sounded up and down the dock.

Amid this cheers, Ocean 136 slid from slow to fast, and kept sliding towards the sea...

"We want to build such a ship"

In the office of the director of the Eagle Shipyard, Li Zicheng showed his concept to Wei Pingtao, a top student who graduated from the shipbuilding department of the University of Glasgow and the youngest son of Wei Han, China's first shipbuilding expert. To be precise, it was the concept of the "free wheel" in World War II. The Germans had never built the free wheel, but they used segmented construction when making submarines at the end of the war.

"...It's actually very simple, it's just to use prefabricated components and assembly methods to produce ships like cars."

Li Zicheng showed his "freedom wheel" in a carton, and a smile on his face was the foundation for the future Eagle Shipyards to compete for British and legal orders. During World War I, German submarines sank thousands of merchant ships from Allied countries, with a total tonnage of more than 10 million tons. This means that in the next four years, there will be at least ten million tons of merchant ships waiting for it to develop. There is a principle that seizes the market during the war - speed and output.

When the shipyards in Britain, the United States, France, and Japan built a 1,500-ton ship a year and a half, in China, it only takes one month to build a 1,000-ton ship, and millions of tons of merchant ships can be built every year. This will prompt British, American, French and even Japanese companies to order merchant ships from Yingyou. The profits brought by orders for millions of tons of merchant ships during the war were amazing.

To get these orders, you must solve the limitations of speed and output, and the free wheel is the easiest and most effective method.

Looking at the merchant ship made of more than a dozen paper boxes in front of him, Wei Pingtao could hardly believe his eyes. In his opinion, if this method of shipbuilding is successful, it will be no less than a battle for the shipbuilding industry. The use of ship platforms and docks is more efficient, and the production efficiency is naturally greater, but there are still some problems that need to be...

"Now we can produce electric welding machines and high-quality welding rods, so we need to use a lot of welding instead of riveting in shipbuilding. There are two reasons for this. One is that welding can greatly speed up the construction of ships. The other is that we lack experienced shipbuilders. Of course, welding has another not unimportant benefit. A 10,000 tons of steel can be saved by welding compared to riveting. This means that every fifty ships can save the steel required for a 10,000 tons of wheel...

At this time, Wei Pingtao devoted all his attention to the dozen or so paper boxes. It was thought that this was the chairman's own idea. From the perspective of shipbuilding, these segments were not reasonable, but this gave him a revelation that ships could be built in segments like cars, and only needed to be properly decomposed.

Although shipbuilding in various countries has not used welding, Yingyou has already applied welding technology when building inland boats. There is no problem in terms of equipment or technology, but there is still one problem.

"Chairman, do we need to build so many ships?"

As the shipbuilding director of Ying Cruise Shipyard, Wei Pingtao will have a headache every day whenever he sees merchant ships parked in the Bodian yard. Those ships occupy the company's funds. The most important thing is that if the company has a large amount of idle transportation capacity, will he still order merchant ships? Although they are still ordering merchant ships, Wei Pingtao knew that it was requested by the chairman. If one day the chairman changes his mind, perhaps Ying Cruise will be the second ship government bureau.

"You don't have to worry about orders. As long as you can design this kind of ship, at least in the next few years, we don't need to worry about orders at all."

Perhaps because he was afraid that he would suspect him, Li Zicheng immediately added.

"Now the European war is about to set off. Once the European war begins, the spring of the shipping industry will come. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of tons, even millions of tons of merchant ships will be absorbed by the huge market. By then, the most important thing is not the market, but whether we can build merchant ships that can meet market demand."

It is still the buyer's market now, but by the end of the year, it will enter the seller's market.

"Chairman, now there are mediations among countries. We cannot bet on this. This business is not a battlefield..."

Before Wei Pingtao finished speaking, Li Zicheng waved his hand.

"This business field is a battlefield, a casino. Now I am betting. How about it? Tell me if I can design such a merchant ship?"

Free wheel, free wheel

Staring at the paper model he made, Li Zicheng secretly complained that it was a pity that if there were drawings of the free wheel in the submarine, it would have been saved. With the drawings, the shipyard could continuously create free wheels. As it is now, not only designing the drawings, but also planning the process.

Looking at the model, I repeatedly conceived the process of using this shipbuilding method in my mind. I had to agree to it first when I overcome all difficulties. When I thought about this in my mind, Wei Pingtao nodded.

"This one can be tried"

"Okay, just try it. Funds, machinery, and equipment are all priority. In short, no matter what, we have to find a way to improve our shipbuilding capabilities. We have not caught the riveting shipbuilding trench, so we must give full play to our welding technology."

Li Zicheng was proud of his words. If we talk about electric welding technology, we were afraid that the world's welding technology would not be able to catch up with Lianyungang. As early as November 1912, Lianyungang copied the first welding machine and made the first batch of welding rods. Subsequently, electric welding was widely used in construction and construction machinery production. The first steel caisson built at Yingyoumen Shipyard also used electric welding instead of riveting, and later built inland river boats. The welding process of the shipyard had already been perfectly used.

"Would you like to provide Germany with a submarine drawing?"

When leaving the shipyard, Li Zicheng couldn't help but mutter in his heart. Although he had already decided to provide some drawings to Germany in exchange for other benefits, at the shipyard, when he looked at the freewheel, he couldn't help but think of the submarine that changed his destiny. The submarine only had power equipment such as diesel engines. As for the others, it had been blown up long ago, but it didn't matter if the submarine was blown up. There must be submarine drawings among those steel barrels.

If Germany is provided with a submarine drawing, it may allow the German unlimited submarines to achieve greater results. Then they can sell more ships to the UK. Selling a 10,000-ton ship can earn at least three to four million taels of silver. If the Germans can sink 20 to 30 million tons of merchant ships, it will be developed.

This idea just flashed, but Li Zicheng realized the other impacts that might have caused by providing submarines to Germany.

"Wait, wait, at least wait until you solve the construction problem of the freewheel, otherwise the Germans won't really win."

History, China's history can be changed. As for world history, it is best to develop according to the old general trend. If Germany really wins, what the future will look like will become a truly unpredictable future, and this is definitely not in one's own interests. The reason why one can achieve the current achievements is, after all, based on the foresight of the future. If it destroys the foresight of the future, it will not be compensated by more than a dozen billions.

What should I do if I want to do so far? Do what I see first

Li Zicheng, who came to his senses, turned his head and looked out the window, but looked at the sidewalk on the roadside, a girl in a short suit was walking there. Perhaps she didn't see clearly, but in Lianyungang, the girl in such a female suit was afraid that she would not be able to find a second one, and she happened to know one of them.

"It's her"

That's right, it's the girl who forced herself to kiss on Yuntai Mountain and then gave herself a slap in the face. Just like last time, she still carried the 120mm camera. It seems that this little girl is a photography enthusiast. This hobby is really luxurious in this era.

"parking"

As soon as the car stopped, Li Zicheng opened the car door and jumped out of the car, and walked towards the girl.

The person who suddenly walked over the road made Lu Qiyu's eyes slightly widen. Looking at the handsome but annoying face, she had a fire surged from the bottom of her heart.

After laughing twice, Li Zicheng said hello to the girl standing in front of him in awkward manner.

"Hello, I'm really embarrassed a few days ago, please..."

Before Li Zicheng could finish his apology, Lu Qiyu, who looked like a frosty face, said coldly.

"A good dog doesn't block the way"

The girl's words almost choked Li Zicheng to death, and the following words were naturally blocked in her throat. Looking at the girl who was shaking her head, staring at her back, but the corners of her lips couldn't help but tilt.

"This girl...well, it's so bad"...

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