Chapter 761 Flute-shaped ship and industrial complex
In the night, the bloated cargo ship broke through the waves and marched towards Fort Joan of Arc.
San's ship is still under repair, and Horn is in a hurry to Fort Joan of Arc.
So he simply mobilized a new cargo ship on the dock and set off with nearly a hundred guards.
Cann light shook with the ups and downs of the ship, Horn sat by the window, allowing the river breeze wrapped in the smell of fish and shrimp to blow across his face.
Although it was not until the second half of the night to Fort Joan of Arc, Horn still couldn't sleep.
The preparation time was originally one and a half years, but then it shrank into one year, but now it is only half a year.
Who can sleep if this is there?
At present, the Holy Union's crisis is in internal and external relations, and he must stabilize the situation while preparing for the war.
Leave Madland to preside over the daily government affairs, and Horn gave him two instructions:
First, print three types of propaganda materials at full speed: the investigation report of the flood system Lea people’s conspiracy, the collection of bond dividend cases, and the secret order of the Duke of Yichao to dig dams.
They have one common feature, they are all fake, or half true and half false.
Second, expand the number of deeds - four years ago, the soldiers of the Zhongsi Academy were only 13 or 14 years old, and were also sixteen to eighteen years old.
These orphans who have witnessed the cruelty of the church and the nobles have received four or five years of pious education in a completely closed and harsh environment. It is time to release them.
Entering a state of war, society must move from openness and inclusiveness to restrained and closedness.
Especially in the face of such a huge enemy of Lea and such an unfavorable situation in the country, extreme means must be used.
Then the Royal Cardinal Meeting will summarize a completed plan based on the information of all parties.
However, before everything begins, there is one thing that needs to be done urgently.
That is recruiting troops and mobilizing manpower.
At present, Meliati has lost a large amount of troops, so Horn has to recruit troops in advance to fill the gap.
It is just that if too many young and strong people are mobilized to engage in military, flood control and transportation, it will inevitably have a significant impact on the local economy.
Horn's army is a gold-swalking beast again, so how to balance it is a big problem.
In order to get rid of his messy thoughts, he simply turned his attention to the ship under his seat.
This ship is a new type of ship just released by Xiaochicheng Shipyard in recent years, called Flute Ship.
As the removal of a large number of tax cards and river barriers, coupled with the prosperous various trades, the original single-deck barges could no longer meet the shipping needs of Thousand River Valleys.
Therefore, with the efforts of boatmen, this new type of barge was developed.
Its upper deck is extremely narrow, its hull is similar to a pear-shaped body, and its stern is spherical.
Its length is about 25 meters, its width is about 6 meters, it has a three-layer deck, and a load of about 250 tons, but only 12 people need to control it.
And since hundreds of households have been built in various places, the township security officers' control over the region has increased significantly.
These military retreated or local tyrants cracked down on the water bandits and robbers, reducing the number of armed personnel on the ship.
Such a ship can only be won by 260 gold pounds.
If it is to transport grain, the freight per ton is about 5 dinars, and it will cost 12.5 gold pounds per ton.
Because only 12 people are needed, 200 kilometers per way is only one week, and the average daily salary of crew members can reach about 4 dinars.
But in this way, among other costs, ship owners still have at least 7 gold pounds to make.
If you transport sugar and spices, you will make more money.
Basically, I will make a profit after two years, and I will make a profit in the future.
It is with these new cargo ships that Horn's Holy Union market was barely established.
The 23 shipyards in Xiaochicheng and Rapids can be launched almost every year by nearly 100 ships.
From this year, more than half are flute-shaped ships.
Of course, this is as humble as an ant compared to the peak of the Netherlands in Horn's hometown history.
People launch 500 ocean-going ships every year, and Horn is still a near-shore inland river ship.
But compared with other shipbuilding areas during the same period, it is already quite efficient.
It is not that the boat craftsmen in Lower Vor and Kasha are outstanding in their craftsmanship, but that they have used hydraulic machinery and modularity in large quantities.
Taking wood as an example, shipyards in other parts of the empire came to order and then bought the wood, dried for six months, and slowly made sawwood. Not just the hull, but also the bow, rudder, mast, etc., you need to build and adapt it yourself.
It's fast, and it takes 8 to 9 months to make a flute-shaped boat.
In the Shenglian area, although it has not yet developed to the point of using clockwork machinery, there are completely hydraulic machinery.
Under the design and transformation of the team of engineers of the Shengzhi Court, the boatmen used a large number of pulleys, ropes, and hydraulic saw machines to replace various labor-intensive machinery in the old days.
Horn generously allowed them to pay in installments for the renovation.
The boatmen are now building ships with full strength, looking forward to the day when the ship loan is paid.
After the Holy Union unified the weights and measures and broke the traditional master-apprentice system, Horn instructed Catherine to develop a modular supply chain system.
Simply put, boatmen only need to design and build the hull in accordance with the industry standards promulgated by the state-owned guild.
Components such as masts and rudder plates are made in advance in a special workshop and can be installed at that time.
As long as the boatman and component workshop are built strictly in accordance with weights and measures and industry standards, it will be absolutely perfect when installed.
Even the wood for making the hull is bought by a special timber dealer and dried, and the shipyard can just go to buy it.
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In shipyards everywhere, there is even a wonder of building it first and then selling it.
The Holy League is full of citizens and young people who want to make a fortune. It is not uncommon to buy ships and transport goods in the fields of their hometown.
Katherine said that they even attracted a group of shipwrecks from Lea, which can be expanded to 27 shipyards by the end of this year, leading to a large number of other small workshops.
Not just the shipbuilding industry, the cannon and gun machinery industries in Huilu Town have also taken shape.
The cannon stand, buttstock, gears, straps... surround the central Huilu Town gun factory, and the parts workshops of various sizes are large and small, guarding Huilu Town like satellites.
There are even workshops that specialize in making tools for making parts, and workshops that make lathes that make tools for making parts.
Boe Joan of Arc is a consortium of construction, printing and publishing industries, and the Cialis is a consortium of textile industry, alchemy industry, machinery manufacturing industry, and academic industry.
The small workshop hand-soft parts, and the central large factory is only responsible for assembling, purchasing, supplying and making core parts.
This trend is not only in Xiaochi City, but also in various places.
But they failed to develop like the shipbuilding industry, the main reason is that they lack craftsmen, secondly, customers, and thirdly, materials.
The construction and printing industries in Fort Joan of Arc are a little better.
The gun industry in Huilu Town relies on market demand.
Shengchi Ting's textile industry faces the problem of insufficient supply of raw materials.
And generally, they all lack craftsmen.
Several manufacturing entities under Horn have almost absorbed the elite craftsmen of Thousand River Valley.
It still cannot meet the needs of Black Snake Bay and Flange Trading Company, and even the needs within Thousand River Valley are sometimes met but sometimes unable to meet them.
As for the reason, Horn knew in his heart that they were just not optimistic about the future of the Holy League.
In their hearts, the Holy Coalition is a shaky regime.
Under the public opinion offensive between the church and the lords, the empire's craftsmen believed that joining the Qianhe Valley now basically means joining the Qin army in 1949.
This leads to Horn's industrial system being stuck here and cannot go down, and will soon reach the ceiling of incremental volume.
The solution to this problem is very simple, it is nothing more than to win the Lea people once.
Give the empire a loud battle so that it will not ignore your existence.
So the Holy Couplet actually needs this war?
Horn didn't know what to think for a moment, and as he thought about it, he actually thought of the war again.
Fortunately, during this period, the ship had already sailed through the dark river and docked at the port of the canal outside Fort Joan of Arc.
Walking from the plank road to the dock, a carriage with thin iron plates inlaid inside had long been parked on the side of the road.
Nearly a hundred officers from the Suntanji Military Academy were batting torches and hammering their breastplate loudly.
They were temporarily transferred to serve as Horn's guard, and the short-haired Thromis was the leader.
Horn got on the carriage without any delay: "Where is Jeona? Okay, then go to the Holy Land Hall."
(This chapter ends)