The food issue is Jin Feng's biggest concern at the moment.
To solve this problem, Jin Feng can only think of three ways at present.
The first is to cultivate improved seeds ourselves, and the second is to achieve high-efficiency planting and develop wasteland on a large scale.
The third is to go overseas to search for seeds of high-yielding crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes.
The first method took too long. It took Mr. Yuan almost a lifetime to improve hybrid rice.
Now Wei Wuya is doing the same thing.
However, his knowledge and skills are simply not comparable to those of Mr. Yuan, and he is too old. Even with Jin Feng's full support, it is not certain whether he will be able to produce hybrid rice in his lifetime.
The second method is also difficult to implement in the short term.
If you want to achieve large-scale land reclamation and high-efficiency planting, it is definitely not possible to rely on traditional cattle. At the very least, you need tractors to achieve the most basic mechanized farming.
If you want to build a tractor, you must first develop the internal combustion engine.
This in turn involves the upgrading and iteration of machine tools and other related industries, which cannot be completed in a day or two.
After all this calculation, there is only the third option left - sailing away to find good seeds.
Although the time required for this plan also takes years, it is already the fastest compared to the first two options.
Hearing that the armored ship was completed ahead of schedule, Jin Feng couldn't sit still.
After Hong Taoping left, he first asked about Bei Qianxun's situation, and then rushed to the No. 1 dock with the hammer.
Entering the dock, Jin Feng went straight to the deck, and then followed the ladder into the cabin.
The armored ship was designed by Jin Feng. During the construction process, Jin Feng did not know how many times he had been here, and he was already very familiar with the interior of the ship's cabin.
After entering the cabin, go straight to the power cabin.
Hong Taoping had conducted several tests before, and the steam engine had been running all morning. When he opened the heavy door of the power cabin, a wave of heat hit his face.
This is the heat generated by the combustion of boilers and the operation of steam engines.
The workers inside all wore only a pair of shorts and a towel hanging around their necks.
Everyone's towels were wet. I don't know if they were soaked in water to cool down on purpose or if they were soaked by sweat.
Seeing Jin Feng come in, everyone was in a hurry to find clothes.
"Okay, okay, what are men afraid of?" Jin Feng shouted to stop the workers.
There are boilers and steam engines in the power cabin. Although windows are designed on the bulkhead and the windows are open, because the ironclad ship is in the dock, there is a wall not far outside the windows, which cannot provide ventilation at all, so the inside of the cabin
The temperature is very high.
Workers are dressed like this and have to go out and soak in cold water every half hour. If they cover themselves up tightly, they may suffer from heat stroke if they don't last even half an hour.
Jin Feng knew this would happen before he came, so the female members of the Guards stayed outside.
During the construction of the ironclad ship, Jin Feng lived and ate at the shipyard for a period of time. He became quite familiar with the workers, and the workers all understood Jin Feng's character.
Seeing that he didn't bring his female bodyguard, they all stopped and greeted Jin Feng with a smile.
"Sir, why are you here now?" the foreman squeezed over and asked.
"I heard Mr. Hong said that the armored ship has been built. Let me take a look." Jin Feng asked: "How is the power running?"
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"This steam engine is the most advanced one in our steel plant, so of course it's no problem!"
The foreman patted his chest and then asked: "The boiler has just been stopped a while ago, and the water is not cold yet. Sir, do you want to test it?"
Hearing is believing, seeing is believing. Jin Feng came here just to test the steam engine, so he nodded and said: "Then I'll work harder for you all!"
"It's not hard work, it's all what we should do!" The foreman immediately called to the workers: "Brothers, Mr. wants to test the iron-clad ship, everyone, get moving!"
"okay!"
The workers agreed and rushed to their posts.
Soon, the temperature in the power cabin rose a few degrees again, and sweat beads appeared on Jin Feng's face, and then fell down.
Ten minutes later, a puffing exhaust sound came from the boiler, and then the steam engine slowly started to rotate, faster and faster.
As more and more steam engines are manufactured, machine tools and other related equipment are also constantly upgraded. Today, the technology for manufacturing steam engines in steel plants has become very mature.
Ironclad ships are used for long voyages, so this steam engine was designed and controlled by Jin Feng himself. It is considered the most advanced steam engine in the steel plant today, and the materials used are also the best.
After a few more minutes, the speed of the steam engine gradually stabilized, driving the flywheel to rotate rapidly.
At this time, Jin Feng's clothes were soaked with sweat. He might suffer from heat stroke if he stayed any longer. Moreover, the test could not only be done in the power cabin. After confirming that the steam engine was operating normally, Jin Feng took the hammer and others out of the power cabin.
After staying in the power cabin for less than half an hour, Jin Feng felt chest tightness, shortness of breath, and his head was slightly dizzy.
Entering the corridor, Jin Feng immediately held on to the bulkhead and took a few breaths.
In fact, the air circulation in the cabin corridor is not good and the temperature is very high, but compared with the power cabin, it is already very comfortable.
The personal guards such as Iron Hammer wearing soft armor were even worse than Jin Feng. Almost everyone's hair was dripping with water, as if they had just been washed.
If it weren't for the duty and had to persist, the hammer would have been stripped off just now.
There is a pool not far from the door of the power cabin. A water pipe on the top continuously injects cold water, and there is a drainage pipe on the bottom that continuously drains water to keep the pool clean and warm.
This pool is specially used to cool down the workers in the power cabin. Tie Hammer often worked in the cabin with Jin Feng before, so he knew this place.
Say hello to Jin Feng, then go straight to the pool, jump in without taking off your clothes.
The other guards followed suit and ran towards the pool.
In fact, it didn't matter whether I took off my clothes or not, since I was already soaked with sweat anyway.
Jin Feng didn't wear inner armor, was stronger than Tie Hammer and the others, and didn't want to be crowded in a pool with a group of men, so he went to the water pipe, took a basin of cold water from a wooden basin, and poured it over his head.
After pouring four basins of cold water in succession, Jin Feng recovered.
Then he didn't bother to change his clothes, so he called Iron Hammer and others over, and led them to start checking the power system of the armored ship.
Although it was very hot in the cabin, Jin Feng inspected it very carefully.
Start from the power cabin in the middle of the cabin and check all the way to the transmission cabin at the stern.
The power of the steam engine in the power cabin is transmitted through a series of gears and connecting rods, and finally transmitted here, and then connected to the external propeller through a thigh-thick steel shaft.
After checking the propeller drive shaft in the cabin and confirming that there was no problem, Jin Feng left the cabin and went down the ladder to the deck.
Come to the stern of the boat and look up at the propeller.
At this time, the armored ship was on the ground, and the propeller was positioned at a height of two people, spinning powerfully and making a whirring sound.