Jin Feng pointed to the big ship and said: "This ship is called Zhenyuan No. 3!"
"Thank you sir!" Hong Taoping thanked him again.
"Why are you thanking me for this little thing?" Jin Feng patted Hong Taoping on the shoulder: "Which way to go up?"
"Sir, follow me!"
Hong Taoping quickly led the way.
The group of people walked along the right side of the ship to a staircase and boarded the Zhenyuan No. 3 along the stairs.
Under the leadership of Hong Taoping, Jin Feng visited the control room, cabin and power cabin of Zhenyuan 3.
The workers who debugged the steam engines had basically participated in the construction of Zhenyuan No. 1 and Zhenyuan No. 2 before and had some experience. Jin Feng took a look and found that there were no major problems, so he stopped caring about them.
After visiting Zhenyuan No. 3, it was already evening.
Knowing that Jin Feng was coming, Hong Taoping built a courtyard in the dock as Jin Feng's residence.
Although the courtyard cannot be said to be exquisite, considering Jin Feng's security issues, the courtyard is very large and has many rooms. The guards led by Iron Hammer and the musketeers led by Zuo Feifei can all live in the courtyard and there is room.
That night, Jin Feng entertained senior officials of the shipyard and navy in the yard.
Runniang directed the chefs brought from the village to cook dinner. Many of the dishes were new to Hong Taoping and Zheng Chiyuan. The guests and hosts enjoyed the meal thoroughly.
After dinner, Jin Feng sent the others away, but kept Hong Taoping behind and took him into the study.
"Sir, do you have anything to do with me?" Hong Taoping asked.
"Something happened," Jin Feng went straight to the point: "I want to build a batch of steam engine ships as soon as possible. Can you think of a way?"
With the development of various industries in Sichuan and Sichuan, the requirements for transportation capacity are getting higher and higher.
Especially after a trip from Jiangnan, Jin Feng felt even more urgent.
The mountains are high and the emperor is far away. Dakang's transportation and transportation industry is too backward. Jin Feng and Ninth Princess did not pay enough attention to Jiangnan before, and their control was too weak. It may take them a long time to know what happened in the hinterland of Jiangnan.
So when Jin Feng was in Jiangnan, he began to think about how to improve his control over Jiangnan.
Developing the transportation industry is a good way.
If the transportation industry was strong enough, escorts could quickly reach various places, and the situation in Jiangnan would not be like this.
Although many official roads have been built with work-for-relief, the carrying capacity of land transportation is still too weak compared to water transportation, and the speed is also slow.
After comprehensive consideration, Jin Feng feels that developing water transportation is the best solution at present.
If you want to develop water transportation, you will definitely not be able to rely on trackers. You must develop powered ships.
Hong Taoping is from a shipbuilding family. After last year's development, he not only reunited the Hong family's former team, but also recruited many new talents, making the Hong family's shipbuilding fleet stronger than before.
Today, the shipyard alone has more than a thousand shipbuilders.
If you want to mass-produce power-driven boats, the best way is to find Hong Taoping.
"Build a batch of steam engine ships as soon as possible?" Hong Taoping asked: "How fast do you want sir?"
"The faster, the better!" Jin Feng said.
"Sir, your answer is equivalent to no answer."
Hong Taoping smiled bitterly and said: "To tell you the truth, sir, Zhenyuan No. 3 is already the fastest ship I have built so far...
I am not complaining to my husband, nor am I asking for credit. In order to build Zhenyuan No. 3, all the workers in our shipyard worked in two shifts, working day and night, to rush the work!
Besides, even if I can build a ship, can you, sir, build so many large steam engines?"
Wan Heming, Zuo Zhiyuan and others built a steam engine production line in Jinchuan last year, but they could only produce small steam engines, not large ones.
"Mr. Hong, you misunderstood. I'm not talking about a ship as big as Zhenyuan No. 3, but a smaller one."
Jin Feng explained: "It's just one size bigger than a speedboat and about the same size as a building boat."
There is a lot of water in the south of the Yangtze River, and various natural rivers are scattered all over the place. Many canals have also been built in Sichuan and Shu, which are very suitable for ship navigation.
However, the canals built with work-for-work relief and most natural rivers are relatively narrow. Zhenyuan No. 3 cannot enter at all, and the transportation capacity of speedboats is too poor. Jin Feng plans to compromise and build a batch of water canals suitable for use in canals and inner rivers.
Ships traveling on land and rivers.
"It turns out that Mr. wants to build a building boat," Hong Taoping said with relief. "That's easy to say. As long as Mr. provides enough materials, building a building boat is easy!"
"You don't have to worry about materials," Jin Feng asked: "If there are enough materials, how many ships can you build in a month?"
Hong Taoping did not answer in a hurry. He thought for a moment before saying: "With the space of the new dock, four flat ships can be put down at the same time, and the old dock can also put one... If production is at full capacity, I can divide a thousand people into five
Teams, each team building one ship a month should have no problem."
"So, you can only build five ships a month?" Jin Feng was very dissatisfied with this answer.
"Sir, that's a building boat!" Hong Taoping glared: "Sir, do you know how many parts a building boat consists of?
In the past, when my father was building ships, it would take more than a hundred people several months to build a single building ship. Now that we have the gantry crane and the new shipyard is large enough, we can produce one ship a month!"
"Mr. Hong, have you ever thought about carrying out assembly line operations?" Jin Feng asked.
"Can shipbuilding also be done on an assembly line?" Hong Tao asked rhetorically.
Mancang had been to the shipyard several times last year, and Hong Taoping had naturally heard him talk about assembly line operations, but Hong Taoping had never thought that assembly line operations could also be used in shipbuilding.
"It's definitely not possible to build a big ship, but it shouldn't be a big problem to build a large ship."
Jin Feng pulled out a few drawings from the box and handed them to Hong Taoping: "This is the building ship I designed. Mr. Hong, take a look!"
Hong Taoping quickly took the drawings and looked at them carefully.
After a moment, he said with a wry smile: "Sir, your boat is really simple."
The flat boats before Dakang had many decorative structures. The flat boats designed by Jin Feng were mainly used to carry cargo and passengers. The decorative structures were removed, which saved a lot of unnecessary parts.
"Time is urgent, everything is practical."
Jin Feng said: "Many parts of the building ship can be mass-produced, you just need to assemble it!
Moreover, these mass-produced parts have unified standards, so even if they break in the future, they will be easier to repair and replace!"
"Sir, you are going to destroy our jobs!"
Hong Taoping smiled bitterly and shook his head.
According to Jin Feng, in the future, master craftsmen will no longer be needed for shipbuilding. All that is required is to produce the parts and find someone to assemble them.