Chapter 659 The upgrade of shipbuilding industry
"Oh, this is Lugang!"
Frederick and Maria passed by Lugang on the way to Le Havre. Frederick came over to take a look, and by the way, he could see if there were any problems that he had to solve them himself.
That day, the two of them came to the embankment, with the turbulent sea on one side and the land where they were working on the other.
The dam was built to surround this swamp and was filled with silt after two flood periods, but the reeds inside grew faster than everyone expected, and the small amount of swamp deer caught could not be eaten.
These swamp deer are too clever. It is easy to kill, but it is difficult to capture alive. The speed of the deer caught eating reeds is not as fast as the growth rate.
On the contrary, the swamp slimes that eat aquatic and rotten plants and small insects in the swamp are easy to catch. The smell of fertilizing plants can be attracted by digging a hole. They can grab it with a pair of tongs and grab it.
The farmers lit the reeds not long ago and burned the parts on the ground. Now the roots in the soil have grown reed seedlings.
Then it was the tractor's turn to start the stage, ploughing the land deep into breathable, and destroying the roots of the reeds and turning the roots out of the soil.
But the land here is wet, and even if the cut root system is not processed, it will sprout within half a month.
The person who appeared later made Frederick speechless.
Students from the Necromancer College of Wesenburg University come out to work, and large areas of low-intensity life withered are enough to kill the reed roots on the ground and will not harm bacteria deep in the soil.
The fish that misses the net is easy to deal with, and the number is not large. After it sprouts, let the children pick it up and burn it.
Adults were spilling something in the field. Maria looked over curiously, but her legs turned out to be a little weak.
"So many earthworms!"
Frederick held her and said with a wicked smile, "Go and get a few, I'll go fishing."
Maria reached out and pinched him hard.
The two of them walked around for a while and then returned to the high platform where the village was located. There were new houses for villagers to live in, including churches, taverns, schools, hospitals, etc.
They brought only a few servants and guards and lived in the rooms of the church and the tavern.
The servant informed that someone had been waiting for Frederick in the tavern for a long time.
Frederick came to the tavern and was not surprised to see the person coming.
He and the owners of the thirteen shipyards in Amster City jointly built a new large shipyard in Lugang, which is expected to be put into production in the first phase next year.
The factory director was Nelis Drell, who had met Frederick at the time. When he saw Frederick, he immediately asked, "Sir, you will no longer build a wooden keel boat in the future?"
Frederick did not answer immediately, but found a table to sit down, and asked someone to bring beer and drinks, and then said to him, "You are very informed."
Dreell said, "We heard the wind, you are building two steel keel boats."
Frederick nodded, thinking that this may be the communication between their shipyards, or Lilu mentioned it to them.
He didn't care in his heart, but he was going to make a lot of publicity anyway. "This is indeed the case." Frederick said after taking a sip of beer, "I know what you are worried about, please rest assured that the shipyards in Lugang will also use this technology."
Dreil breathed a sigh of relief.
They calculated that for ship owners, the steel keel's ship has only an overwhelming advantage over traditional ships in terms of capacity, strength and service life.
If the shipyard in Lugang still produces old-fashioned ships in the future, it will lose all its pants.
Now Lugang Shipyard Frederick accounts for 30% of the shares, thirteen shipyards account for 40%, and three are held by a large number of people in the lowland areas.
Although a few years ago, the lowlands planted a fight on tulips, the commerce here is booming and soon came back.
People have money, but the land has been divided up and a stable investment channel is needed. At this time, the shipyard began to recruit shares, so private money rushed in. If the shipyard is finished again, I don't know what will happen.
Frederick continued: "You also know some reasons that military ships are impossible to be produced in Lugang, so only civilian ships are produced here."
"In the foreseeable future, the meat market will continue to expand, the demand for fish will increase, and the demand for fishing boats will also increase."
"I have a suggestion that the shipyards in Lugang work harder on fishing boats."
Drell heard the meaning.
In the future, there will be two large shipyards supported by Frederick in the North Sea, Lugang and Hanma City.
Among them, Hanma City is naturally Frederick's own son, while Lugang is not so close. He also needs to consider the attitude of the Kingdom of Gaul, and it is inevitable to be restricted.
The profits of warships are high, but due to this restriction, this piece of meat cannot be put into Lugang's bowl.
The fishing boat is also good. Although the profit is not high, the market is large and you can make a lot of money.
Frederick saw that he did not object, but was thinking, so he said, "The power and volume of the ship have been developed, and the fishing methods must also be developed. You must study them carefully."
Dreil nodded and said, "We will start researching the fishing boat."
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"Sir, I heard you are preparing to promote a transport box called container?"
Frederick nodded and said, "Yes, tell me what you think."
Dreil said seriously, "Sir, we have done simulation tests and found that container transportation will be a transformative invention like a steam engine replacing sails."
"The most time-consuming thing in shipping is cargo transfer. In the past, using sacks and wooden boxes of different sizes made it very troublesome to transport. If you are not careful, you will break the packaging, which is even more troublesome to catch rainy days."
"If you use steel to make standard boxes, first of all, it is very strong. Secondly, it is easy to lift and place, and you are not afraid of easily crushing the lower cargo. You can even be lifted directly from the ship to trucks and trains. You are not afraid of raining, so you can save transfer to the warehouse." "We expect that future cargo ships will be special container ships." Frederick was a little surprised. He just had a vision and asked Lilu to ask other ship owners and captains about their opinions, but he didn't expect that they would have such a deep research.
But there may be a deviation in the spread of the news. He said: "The container I expected was just steel as the pillars and frames, and wood panels and waterproof coatings as shells, and it is probably not that strong."
He thought about all-metal containers, but steel production did not allow it.
Drell immediately said: "It doesn't matter. The stacking of goods is mainly subject to the weight above. As long as the bracket and bottom plate are solid, it is enough. The box only needs ordinary anti-collision."
Frederick nodded. At present, the conditions are limited, so just use it. At worst, the wood shell is replaced often.
Then Dreyer felt like he was missing: "Sir, the shipyard is idle anyway, so why not study the size, materials and how to make this container first."
Frederick raised his eyebrows and did not answer immediately, but smiled and took a sip of beer, forked the two shrimps with a fork and ate them.
Drell was a little anxious. They realized the advantages of containers and planned to take over the industry of manufacturing containers.
Frederick thought it was a good choice to build a container factory here, but there was no steel plant here, and the transportation cost of main materials was high.
Lugang is indeed a good place to build steel mills, with grouse forests and iron ore from the Kingdom of Gaul, and coal from the Kingdom of Angland and the Rhine Alliance, which is extremely convenient to transport here.
The Principality of Weisen has no place to build a smelter, so it can upgrade the industry. The steel is refined here and transported to Weisenburg City for various refining to increase profits.
The problem is that this is the territory of the Kingdom of Gaul.
Frederick finally said, "You can study it first, and I will see if I can build a steel factory here, which will be more convenient in the future."
(This chapter ends)