Shipyards have also begun to be built here at Yokohama Port, with various furnaces, furnaces, and corresponding steelmaking, ironmaking, steam cylinders, ship platforms and other branches, which are prosperous.

The demand for ships in Japan has increased significantly due to open trade and gradually developed fishery resources! The Kyushu military officials and Chinese merchants jointly established the Yokohama Shipyard, which specializes in producing fishing boats and transport ships on site, and can also utilize local iron ore resources.

Zheng Zhilong stood on the boat platform and looked at a fishing boat under construction below. It was a fishing boat with a displacement of 300 tons. It was already exaggerated in this era.

The fishing resources of Hokkaido fishing grounds in the Japanese region are very rich, and such ocean-going fishing boats are suitable for fishing in Hokkaido fishing grounds.

However, compared with the shipyard in southern Liaoning, this place can only be said to be a civilian shipyard. The Jiuzhou Army was worried about putting the talents who could build large warships here and the machines were placed here to ensure an absolute monopoly on technology.

Even so, the ships started to manufacture at Yokohama Shipyard have already met civilian needs.

"We have received orders from Japanese merchants and three fishing boats, but we have been busy recently. As soon as our shipyard started construction, business continued. The reason is that the ships we produce are strong and have lower costs. Their Anzai ships are simply incomparable to large sailing boats." The captain of Yokohama Shipyard said to Zheng Zhilong who came to check.

"I am not in charge of your shipyard affairs, but I heard that the Yokohama Shipyard Port was more lively just now, so I came here to take a look." Zheng Zhilong said.

As a naval general, he was quite interested in shipbuilding.

"Hey, I think if the Ministry of Works delegates power, our Yokohama Shipyard can monopolize all shipbuilding business in Japan." said the factory director.

"Monopoly is not conducive to the development of technology. With the Yokohama Shipyard, there is an extra transfer station and repair station here. Boats damaged on the ocean can come here for repairs." Zheng Zhilong's expectation for Yokohama Shipyard is to be a repair station.

In the future, the damaged ships of the Beiyang Fleet will not have to return to southern Liaoning for repair, but can be maintained on the spot.

"Oh, our shipyard is to produce these small and medium-sized ships and repair warships. I heard that a factory in Liaonan has built a giant ship after several years, and will come here soon. It is a giant ship with a displacement of 10,000 tons at full load, which is 30 times the displacement of this fishing boat. I wonder if one day Yokohama Shipyard will have the opportunity to produce such a giant ship." The director of the Yokohama Shipyard pointed to the fishing boat on the platform and said.

"The 10,000-ton giant ship... I saw its keel bones when I was in southern Liaoning. It was quite amazing. It is estimated that the entire ship would need one million rivets and about ten thousand iron plates. I am not very clear about the specific number." Zheng Zhilong not only sighed when he mentioned the 10,000 rivet.

"One million rivets are probably even more exaggerated than this number. They are already the ultimate of our current industry... There is no second ship like this, and it may be recorded in history. When I was an engineer apprentice at the Liaonan Shipyard, the military department proposed the idea of ​​building a giant steam ship. The purpose of this giant ship is not to fight a war, but to lay submarine cables and transport goods. At that time, I thought, the Yongchang has not been built yet, can this ten-ton iron ship be built? At that time, people in the entire shipyard thought this was an impossible task, except for the top few engineers who had built large steam ships, who thought it was feasible. Unexpectedly, after a few years of polishing, they finally came out." The director of the Yokohama Shipyard told Zheng Zhilong about his experience.

"The things proposed by the military leader are basically feasible, but they only take time and constant trial and error. In a few days, the 10,000-ton giant ship will arrive with submarine cables. I can't wait to see what this giant ship named "Oriental" looks like." Zheng Zhilong looked at the calm sea surface inside Yokohama Port.

When the Oriental 10,000 tons giant ship arrives at Edo Bay, it may shock the Shogunate even more.

After all, the Anzai ship on the shogunate side only had a few hundred tons to die, and the smallest was only a few dozen tons, in front of the ten thousand tons of Dongfang... Even if the Dongfang is not a warship, it only needs to drive at full speed to hit the Shogunate naval forces to sink all the Shogunate... and the muskets and cannons on the Anzai ship may not be able to cause damage to the Dongfang's iron armored hull.

"Has the 10,000-ton giant ship been named 'Oriental'?" asked the director of Yokohama Shipyard.

"Yes, this is the name given by the military leader himself." Zheng Zhilong said.

"It's great. The broken fishing boats here are not available to be named by the military leader himself." The director of Yokohama Shipyard was frowning.

In the arrangement of the Jiuzhou Army, the shipyard in southern Liaoning was the most important shipyard and the only shipyard that produced the most cutting-edge steamships and warships, while other shipyards mostly only produced civilian ships such as passenger ships, cargo ships and fishing boats.

"The ships are getting bigger and bigger now. Maybe when large steam ships become popular in the future, large steam ships will be opened here," said Zheng Zhilong.

"General Zheng, you don't know about this. For the sake of cost and practicality, it is estimated that only the Oriental ship will be a 10,000-ton ship within ten years. At present, sailing ships are cheap and practical, and even steam ships are still of thousands of tons. For example, a 10,000-ton ship that can carry 10 million people is not very practical. How many passengers are there every year between Japan and Beijing?" said the factory manager.

"You are right. Now the Dachu and Daqi drainage of more than 1,000 tons is enough for us to control the entire sea area. What steamships can do now can also do. If there is no additional benefit, the military headquarters will probably not replace it easily. The reason why we spend money to smash the Dongfang is mainly to lay the submarine cables." Zheng Zhilong said.

"Laying submarine cables is a good thing for us. We can send telegrams from Japan to our homes in the future." The factory manager was quite looking forward to it.

"After the line is laid, there is basically no problem sending telegrams from Japan to the mainland, but the cost of sending the newspaper is high." Zheng Zhilong stretched out seven fingers, "I heard that sending a few words from here to the capital will cost the workers' salary about seven days."

"So many!" the factory manager couldn't help but exclaim. Although he was familiar with the cost of the ship, he was not clear about the price of sending the telegram.
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