The big man has a living father

Chapter 188 (Large Chapter) The Scale of Terror
Liu Che boarded the ship.

A group of people followed and boarded the ship.

This time, we boarded the ship not by a small sampan but by a special suspended ladder.

Because it is made of steel frames, there are iron stairs on the side of the ship that are directly built on the steel frames and are also covered with wooden boards.

Liu Che stepped on the boat and didn't feel any shaking at all. It felt as stable as standing on the ground, so he walked forward.

In fact, this type of ship should be designed with an outward-opening door at a higher position in the water for people to leave.

However, at this stage, everything is still based on being able to open it, and not much research is done.

Halfway up the ladder, there was an entrance and exit, and the ladder could continue to go up. Liu Che pointed to the front.

Luo Lie: "Inside is the steam engine, and up above is the deck."

Liu Che raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Go and have a look, and see how it is different from the steam engine of a steam train."

Liu Che vaguely felt that the two things were different.

After Liu Che entered and passed by the first window, he was dumbfounded.

There is something inside that looks like a drive shaft from a paper mill.

The only difference is that this transmission shaft is rotating, and it is connected to a rod below and another rod above.

And this drive shaft is made entirely of steel and is thicker than a person!
Such a transmission rod is symmetrical, one in front of you and one on the opposite side.

Looking back from the window, I couldn't tell if there were eight or ten in total.

This!
But it is much, much larger than the steam engine of a steam locomotive.

This made Liu Che confused.

You know, the carrying capacity of a steam locomotive is more than 200 or 400 tons.

This is using water power!

Isn’t it said that water transportation is much more efficient than steam locomotives?
It seems that the speed of this ship is not as fast as that of a steam locomotive!
Because this place needs to dissipate heat, there are huge windows on both sides.

Also, because of fire prevention, the wall where the window is located is separated from the outer cabin.

In this way, a huge corridor was formed, and people boarding the ship all went to the windows to watch.

Liu Che was puzzled: "Huo Hai, why is this steam engine so much bigger than the steam engine of the train, but its speed is not as fast as the steam train, and its carrying capacity is not as good?"

Really not!

Huo Hai waved forward.

Er Kuan, who had been waiting in the queue on the boat, hurried forward.

"You come and tell His Majesty."

When Er Kuan heard what Huo Hai said, he said, "Your Majesty, actually..."

Huo Hai put his foot on his son's broad buttocks: "Hmm?"

Er Kuan then bowed and saluted: "Your Majesty, I am a successful candidate in your Majesty's first university examination and serve as a section chief of the Royal Academy."

“Now he serves as one of the key leaders of the initial research team for the ship project.”

Liu Che only knew Tang Si'er and others, and had no idea who Er Kuan was.

After hearing that Er Kuan was one of the main persons in charge, he looked at the team again and wondered, "Where is Tang Si? Didn't I just make him Iron Man? Did he quit?"

Huo Hai whispered: "The Tang family master and apprentice are going to study guns and cannons. Now they are going to Qiancheng Shipyard. They are led by Erkuan, and the manager is Guannei Hou from Yulin Guard."

In fact, the more suitable candidate should be Tian Jue.

Tian Jue was a captain before the war, and he had worked in the Chang'an Lieutenant's Office for a long time. Now he went to the battlefield and followed Huo Qubing to make meritorious services, so he was also a Marquis of Guannei.

His management experience is much stronger than that of those from the Yulin Guard.

However, Huo Hai did not want to get too involved in the matter of strong ships and powerful guns.

You just need to participate in the design and project initiation, and don't need to get involved in the management.

Liu Che nodded and said, "It seems that Marquis Huo Wu is very optimistic about you. Then you can speak."

Erkuan then began to explain the internal combustion engine to Liu Che.

Talking about pulleys.

If we talk about saving effort, we cannot save distance, and if we save distance, we cannot save effort.

Talking about torque and speed.

While talking, Er Kuan took Liu Che to see the real thing.

The people behind also followed along, listening and watching.

Sometimes I suddenly understand, and sometimes I am completely confused.

At the end of the speech, Liu Che began to think. Although he understood some of the content and some of it not, he roughly understood the main idea.

That is to say, if the steam engine outputs a power of ten and is output to a wheel rotating at a speed of five, then the torque is two.

If the power output is ten and it is output to a wheel rotating at one speed, then the torque is ten.

If the former gets water in it, it will not make the paddle wheel rotate rapidly, but will only cause the paddle wheel gear interface to get stuck or even slip wildly.

The latter, although slow, has great power, which allows the paddle wheel to row steadily and move the boat forward.

The effect of a steam engine on a ship is different from that on a train.

There is another crucial issue.

The main train currently in operation is the Anwu Line from Chang'an North Station to Tongguan, Shenmu and Wuyuan.

There are many small stations on this road that do not unload passengers or goods.

The platforms of these stations were piled high with coal.

Once the train runs out of coal, it stops and loads coal to the front of the train so it can continue moving.

This is the only way to ensure the carrying capacity of the rear compartment.

This is not the case with ships.

The ship is destined to not be able to replenish coal from the start to the end. If it is on an inland river, it can still replenish a little.

If you go to the sea, you won't get any supplies for the round trip.

Therefore, the ship's carrying capacity is the pure cargo volume after deducting the weight of the coal and steam engine required for its own combustion.

So in fact, the coal consumed by the ship for each kilometer it travels is less than one-tenth of that of a train with the same load.

Even lower if you're not going at full power.

Only then did Liu Che realize that this was where the cost savings lay.

However, it seems that this is not cost-effective: "What the big man doesn't have is coal?"

Is it possible to finish digging it out?
Indeed, from Liu Che's perspective, the coal mines in Tongguan alone were enough to last the Han Dynasty until the next century, not to mention that several coal mines that were discovered at random were each larger than Tongguan.

Huo Hai whispered, "Your Majesty, at the end of last year, there were a total of 37 steam engines in operation in the entire Han Dynasty."

The train started running for the first time in July last year. There were only 24 steam engines running on the Chang'an City Line and the Anshen Line.

Liu Che was puzzled: "A lot now?"

"Three hundred and seventy?"

Liu Che usually only counts money. If you give him time, and work backwards from how much money a factory makes, he will definitely be able to calculate how much the factory produces.

For example, if he knew the output quantity of a steam engine factory, he would be able to calculate how much was produced.

But now when asked, he really didn't know.

Huo Hai: “Less.”

Liu Che thought for a moment and was a little surprised: "Three thousand seven hundred so soon?"

Huo Hai: "Add... a little more."

Liu Che: “???”

Huo Hai also had doubts. When he came back and saw the report, he was dumbfounded.

In just one and a half years, the Han people completed what took the British people fifteen years.

Not only have we finished the journey, but we have also gone far beyond it.

"Six thousand eight hundred."

There are four types of steam engines currently in production.

One is for train locomotives and the other is for ships.

One is to replace the manpower of thirty workers, and the other is to replace the manpower of one hundred workers.

In this year and a half, a total of 6,800 of the four types of steam engines were produced!

If the steel mill had not been equipped with steam engines first, all the workers in the steel mill would have been worked to death and these steam engines would not have been produced.

What Huo Hai was even more afraid of was that it took Britain fifteen years to produce 5,000 improved steam engines from the first one, and fifty years to produce 100,000 from 5,000.

It took Dahan one and a half years to increase the number of units from one to over 6,000. If we calculate the ratio, it won’t take three to five years to reach 100,000 units, right? !

But it's not impossible.

You must know that this situation can be said to have been deliberately caused by Huo Hai.

But Huo Hai himself didn't expect all this to happen so quickly.

Logically speaking, after the emergence of industry, a large number of workers should have entered textile light industrial factories at the beginning. Then, as labor became increasingly expensive and textile products became increasingly cheaper, the merchants in textile factories were forced to use steam engines instead of manpower.

But in Dahan, Huo Hai hired workers at prices far exceeding the market price from the beginning, which led to an increase in the overall labor price.

On the one hand, this is to quickly stimulate inflation growth, and on the other hand, it is to rapidly increase per capita assets and increase economic vitality.

This meant that, from the very beginning, the textile factory would lose money by hiring workers.

If we were to invite some female workers, especially Hun female workers and refugee female workers, that would be feasible, but the problem was that business was developing so fast that there was a shortage of people everywhere, and the thing that was least lacking was jobs.

Therefore, others are willing to do jobs that pay more.

It's just a little tiring. I didn't get paid at all when I worked like a slave before.

Therefore, textile and garment factories were unable to hire workers from the very beginning.

So, people who opened textile mills started using steam engines directly.

These 6,000 units are not the limit of market demand.

These six thousand were the limit of the speed at which steam engines could be manufactured.

You should know that the cotton produced last year was only enough for the people in Chang'an, but the cotton produced this year is enough for all the Han people in the world to have three sets of cotton clothes.

Although less than one-sixth of it is actually used for textile production, it is still an astonishing number.

There were 6,000 steam engines, but only more than 2,000 were in textile factories, which was not enough.

Let alone 2,000, even if it was 20,000 units, with overtime production now, working non-stop, the old cotton would not be used up by the time the new cotton is produced next year.

After all, on average, one steam engine is equivalent to the manpower of sixty workers.

Even if 1.8 million people were to do the weaving work manually, they would not be able to make clothes for 70 million people in a year.

Because Huo Hai has mobilized too many workers for large-scale infrastructure investments, there is now a shortage of manpower.

Now, with the addition of Qiang workers, the number of workers in Dahan has reached five million.

The manpower withdrawn by these five million people has made it difficult for light industry to hire people.

The demand for steam engines is a huge number.

Production capacity must be expanded at least thirty times to keep up with market demand.

You should know that currently steam engines have to stop for major repairs every 2,000 hours of operation, and have to stop for a major inspection every 1,000 hours.

This is completely different from the electrification era where you could just plug in the wires and start working.

When Liu Che knew the number, he was also shocked. He calculated it carefully and then stared.

"That would require five thousand..."

Huo Hai: "Ahem~!!!"

Huo Hai signaled Liu Che not to say it.

Who is Liu Che? He did the math in his head and got the answer in three seconds. If 6,800 steam engines were running continuously, they would burn 50 million tons of coal a year!

The coal production of Tongguan Coal Mine in the first quarter of the previous year was about 290 tons.

Last year, production increased significantly due to a significant increase in transportation capacity, but the increase was only slight, reaching 5 million tons per quarter and 20 million tons per year.

And this year… not to mention private coal burning, not to mention coal used in construction, not to mention anything else, just steam engines alone consumed 50 million tons! !
Liu Che didn't even dare to imagine what horrific data would be in this year's Tongguan Coal Mine financial report.

In fact, Liu Che is considered an exaggeration, because not every steam engine eats, eats, and spits out smoke like a locomotive.

However, Huo Hai could not let Liu Che reveal this data.

If Liu Che said it out, the share price of Tongguan Coal Mine would soar to the sky in the stock trading center in fifteen minutes.

Liu Che became serious.

He used to think that the surface coal from the Tongguan Coal Mine could be used for decades.

Now Liu Che understood.

If the Tongguan Coal Mine continues to dig for a few more years, the surface will be completely mined!

Then it’s time to dig underground!

The output of underground coal mines will surely drop quickly back to the level of tens of millions of tons per year.

This is the calculation assuming that all coal miners are still on duty.

No wonder the sacred tree is being developed now.

“Where are there surface coal mines at present?”

Huo Hai whispered: "Shh, that's good news about the Anluo Railway, how can we release it now?"

Liu Che reacted.

Anyway, we have to build a railway from Luoyang to the railway station. If we encounter a coal mine on the way, we have to take a detour to get close to it.

Liu Che calculated and felt something was wrong.

These thousands of steam engines are so terrifying. If there were 100,000 or 1 million of them, wouldn't all the coal be burned up?!
“What if the coal runs out?”

Huo Hai: "Your Majesty, don't forget the electricity."

The energy utilization efficiency of a steam engine is really too low, only 5%, while an internal combustion engine can reach 40%.

Steam turbines are about as efficient as internal combustion engines.

This alone can save a lot of coal.

This year, Liu Che was dazzled by the Xiongnu Company and the Western Regions Company and had not paid much attention to the Tongguan Coal Mine. Now Liu Che realized that the Tongguan Coal Mine must be making a lot of money.

Also, the steel mill is making a lot of money.

As for the steam engine manufacturing under the institute, it is time to build an independent factory and no longer be affiliated with the institute.

How much profit would this be if the steam engines were produced at full capacity? How much money would it make if they were packaged and listed? How many jobs would it create?
But thinking back, this hull is very important.

Just imagine, how much coal would be burned to run so many steam engines in Chang'an? How was it transported to Chang'an? Was it transported by train?
The price of coal will rise to the point where ordinary people cannot afford it.

It still takes ships and trains.

Just go whichever side is closer.

Trains can go to cities that have no way to replenish coal mines but have excellent other conditions.

In a place like Chang'an, there would be a constant stream of ships.

Now that I think about it, the idea of ​​two canals, the ancient river channel and the Caoqu canal, is really brilliant.

Focus on a cycle.

Since it is not easy for a large ship to turn around in the river after entering Chang'an, it is better not to turn around and just go in and out at the same time.

Speed ​​up the cargo transportation process. Liu Che thought and turned back: "Supervise and open two more docks on both sides of the Caoqu and the ancient canal to separate the ships carrying coal and iron from those carrying ordinary goods."

"There are no houses on the south side now, so we can open a big lake. But in the future, we won't be able to open one even if we want to, so we can dig another Ba Ming Lake based on the Kunming Lake."

This new lake was undoubtedly intended to avoid ship jams.

If one day an extremely large ship enters the river and accidentally capsizes, it will not cause a complete blockage of ships, because there will be a place on both sides of the ancient canal and the canal for turning around.

Huo Hai had not thought of this before, but now he thinks that Liu Che is smart.

This person is really smart. In the future, things like ship capsizing in inland waterways will be very troublesome. If this problem can be solved in advance when planning the city, then it should be solved first.

In another thousand or eight hundred years, when young people see the design drawings, they will all praise it for being so clever.

Erkuan has already taken the group to visit the real boiler.

It's too hot here.

However, no matter how hot the autumn is now, after all, it has been more than ten days since the Mid-Autumn Festival. Although it is hot, it is fine as long as you don't get too hot.

Liu Che put his hands on his hips and looked up at the big boiler, and suddenly felt proud.

"Huo Hai, what do you think is the weight of the largest ship that our Han people can build? A hundred meters long and a thousand tons?"

Huo Hai: "Your Majesty, I just mentioned that after the paddle wheel structure of this ship is changed to a propeller, a ship of this length can reach a load capacity of 1,000 tons."

Liu Che suddenly realized: "Oh, yes."

"Your ship is a hundred meters long?"

Huo Hai: "I don't know about that either. Logically speaking, a ship that long should be much wider than this one, and it should be able to carry at least three to five thousand tons."

Even without taking into account the space for steam ships and coal mines, it would have to carry more than 2,000 tons.

Liu Ju imagined the scale of that ship and became excited: "Brother-in-law, give me one!"

Liu Che turned around and asked: "Why do you always ask for it?"

"Can't you pay for someone to build a bigger ship? The Prince's Mansion has a lot of money. If you don't spend it and invest in technology, where will you get the money for the future?"

Liu Ju was a little confused, because he heard that half of the money in the world was in his father's hands, and he still started a business. Wasn't that too greedy?

However, when Liu Ju heard Liu Che ask him to invest, he became even more excited: "Okay!"

Huo Hai tactically retreats.

Liu Che even deceived children!

It was obvious that Liu Che was optimistic about the prospects of seagoing ships, but now there were too many railways being built and he had no money, so he planned to cheat the profits of the Prince's Mansion and use them to invest in the manufacture of seagoing ships and in maritime business.

This silly boy Liu Ju hasn't realized it yet.

Liu Che looked at Huo Hai and stroked his beard: Didn’t I learn that from you?

Huo Hai looked at him with doubt: When did I do this?
Liu Che tapped the ground with his toes, signaling Huo Hai to recall the past carefully.

Huo Hai remembered the last time he tricked the prince into burying money in the ground and then dug it out and was caught by Emperor Liu Che. He laughed awkwardly: "Hahaha~"

Liu Ju: "Brother-in-law, do you also think I should invest?"

Huo Hai: "Invest, investing in sea vessels is a sure win. If you invest, you will get your share of the profits first when they come back in the future."

Princess Wei Chang beside her laughed secretly.

Liu Che turned around and glared at Huo Hai.

Then he said, "Of course the ownership of Juer's investment belongs to Juer, but the money returned in the future still needs to be managed in a unified way. He still has a lot to learn now, including various scientific and technological skills. How can he have the time to manage money?"

Liu Ju also thought it was right. What’s the point of managing money? It would be better to take one more mechanics class.

Even though Liu Ju is only ten years old, researchers at the institute often talk to him about cutting-edge technology.

Of course, when it comes to actual operations and experiments, they are still relatively low-level experiments, and I am still learning step by step.

But growing up in such an environment, no matter how dumb he is, his knowledge is more than one or two levels higher than that of an ordinary mechanic, not to mention that Liu Ju is quite talented in this area.

Seeing that Liu Ju had been fooled, Liu Che asked: "Did you understand what Er Kuan just said?"

Liu Ju was excited: "Of course I understand."

Liu Che glanced at the many nobles behind him and said, "They don't seem to understand."

Liu Ju: "Then let me demonstrate to you the relationship between saving effort and saving distance."

This is on a ship, and the steam engine needs maintenance and repair at all times. There are all kinds of freight carts and trailers everywhere, so there is no shortage of pulleys.

Soon Liu Ju assembled a pair of fixed pulleys, a pair of movable pulleys, and then assembled a pulley system.

"Brother Cao, you should be more than 100 pounds strong, right? Come and try."

Cao Xiang patted his chest and turned around to brag to the other nobles: "I'm kidding, I can kill two Xiongnu kings on the grassland!"

Gao Bushi Hunxie and his men at the back of the crowd: "..."

Can we change the unit of measurement?
Cao Xiang came to the pulley set, took the rope handed to him by Liu Ju, and pulled back with both hands.

The rope was pulled about fifty to sixty centimeters thick, and the box hanging on the hook at the other end was pulled off the ground.

Cao Xiang continued to pull, and after another meter or more, the box was pulled up more than twenty centimeters from the ground.

Liu Ju: “You can let go now.”

After Cao Xiang let go, Liu Ju took off the hook and hung the hook on the fixed pulley on the box: "Next."

Cao Xiang pretended: "I can pull it with one hand!"

Cao Xiang pulled hard with one hand, but the box didn't move at all.

The rope didn't move at all, not even an inch.

Cao Xiang was stunned, he grabbed it with his right hand and continued to pull.

Although Cao Xiang was really stupid, he had three advantages.

First, be obedient.

Second, good memory.

Third, great strength.

Wow, something that can be pulled up with four times the effort of the movable pulley group can be pulled up with just the fixed pulley and both hands.

But it really didn't get up.

Cao Xiang leaned forward and was stunned for a moment, then spat into his palm: "Hey, I still don't believe it today!"

"Ah hey! Get up!"

This time I just pulled it a little, but couldn't pull it up.

Cao Xiang scratched his head: "Huh? Why can't I pull it up again?"

Liu Ju: "If you pull up Brother Cao, you are no longer Brother Cao, you are the Overlord of Chu."

Liu Che: "If I pull him up, he is not the Overlord of Chu, but the King of Qin, Yingdang. I might get myself crushed to death."

"Er Kuan just talked for a long time, but you were in the second row and didn't hear anything at all."

Cao Xiang laughed awkwardly and whispered in a voice that only the people in the front row could hear: "Uncle, please save some face. All the dignitaries are here..."

Liu Che: "Juer, go and explain the principle to everyone."

Now some old officials in the court are like Cao Xiang, enjoying the benefits of the new era but knowing nothing about the new era.

Erkuan immediately asked someone to bring the blackboard with the schedule over.

Liu Ju drew a picture on it: "Science previously published the three laws of mechanics, which are Niu Dong's three laws of mechanics. This principle of saving effort but not distance requires these three laws to be calculated."

As Liu Chen spoke, Dong Zhongshu in the crowd stepped back.

Shi Kuan and Shi Qing watched Dong Zhongshu retreat in confusion: "Master Dong? Where are you going?"

Dong Zhongshu: "I... don't want to hear these things."

Shi Qing agreed: "It's better not to listen to Mohist things..."

Shi Kuan: "We can buy some of these boats for business purposes."

Shi Qing: "You decide."

Earlier, Liu Ju had already explained the three laws of classical mechanics, and the ministers also understood one thing.

That is, dragging a heavy box on a smooth surface only requires a tiny bit of force.

Now, when dragging the box, you have to fight against the friction of the material.

This is also why some places are easy to mop, but some places are difficult to mop.

The wheels have little friction, so they are easy to drag.

And pulling upwards is fighting against gravity, which is almost equal to the specific weight of the object.

After understanding this, many smart people can understand Liu Ju's drawing of the movable pulley system that saves energy.

It turns out that a large amount of gravity is divided into two lines by the pulley and borne together.

With an additional pulley, only half the force is needed to pull the same 10 centimeters, but actually pulling that end requires a distance of 20 centimeters, twice as much, to compensate.

In theory, as long as there are enough pulleys, anything can be pulled.

Of course, this is also in theory. In reality, when there are too many pulleys, what is being resisted is not the gravity of the heavy object, but the friction of the pulley, which tests the manufacturing precision of the bearing.

Soon, everyone understood what saving effort meant.

Then, Liu Ju began to draw gears.

If we regard the circumference of gears of different diameters as the distance of force movement and correspond it to the line, everyone will understand.

To put it simply, once a steam engine starts turning, it will make one circle within a fixed period of time.

But if a large gear is used, the steam engine rotates one circle and the gear also rotates one circle, so the speed is low, and the paddle wheel also rotates one circle, so the explosive force is great, but the distance of movement is short.

The paddle wheel is still the same paddle wheel. If the transmission gear is only one-sixth of the distance, then for every rotation of the steam engine, the gear will rotate six times, and the paddle wheel of the ship connected to the gear will also rotate six times.

Isn't this speed six times faster than the big gear?
But correspondingly, the sustained force is smaller, only one-sixth.

This is the torque and speed.

Liu Ju: "After understanding this principle, it will be enough to debug a helicopter, not to mention a steam ship."

Anyway, that's the truth.

Cao Xiang: "I just figured out the meaning of torque, torque, and speed. So... what is a helicopter?"

Liu Ju looked at Cao Xiang and said, "This is the imaginary machine that Brother Hai told me about. Brother Cao, don't think about it. Thinking too much is not conducive to happiness."

Cao Xiang knew that he was despised, but the prince cared about him, so what if he was despised? "It seems that I have to try to give birth to a son who can understand science and technology, otherwise I will eventually be eliminated by the times."

At this time, the princes and nobles behind were also thinking about this problem.

Three years ago, everyone was considering the legal provisions, but now they are considering the springs that exert force on the steel bars.

In the past, everyone was thinking about equipment to kill the enemy, but now they are thinking about equipment to kill the enemy.

Seeing that everyone was thinking about the problem, Huo Hai said, "The research institute has recently developed a machine that can tell time. It's called a watch. As long as you wind it up, you can figure out the time. It's the same as the clock tower that's being built at the dock."

"The movement inside is filled with all kinds of gears. If you are interested, you can buy one. It is the highest achievement of mechanics at present!"

“It’s only this big, so I can carry it with me at all times.”

Liu Che became interested: "Time?"

Huo Hai: "In one day, the error should not exceed one minute."

Liu Che was stunned for a moment and then asked in surprise: "How much?"

One minute? Weapons of war!

Huo Hai: "Moreover, with the clock tower, people who use watches can adjust the time every day."

When Liu Che saw Huo Hai's expression, he knew that this thing must be very expensive now, and the reason he said it was clearly for advertising.

The eyes of other princes and nobles also lit up.

In this day and age, if you don't claim to respect science and have novel ideas, do you still want to make money?

Just like the King of Zhongshan and the Marquis of Pingyang, who lowered themselves to chat with a few wealthy businessmen who were just commoners at the dock today.

This is actually because those two wealthy businessmen made their fortunes from new technologies.

He is a popular and famous person in society recently.

By chatting with them, it would seem that Liu Sheng and Cao Xiang had kept up with the times, and that the Liu Sheng family and the Pingyang Marquis family were full of vitality and still at the forefront of the times.

What can show that you respect technology? Is it respectful enough to wear the most cutting-edge mechanical technology on your body?

Even if I go to discuss cooperation with researchers myself, others will know that I understand technology as soon as they see my watch.

Isn’t this something that is essential to show your noble status and technological knowledge?

Moreover, Huo Haidu only described it but did not produce the product, which means that no one has this watch yet.

If you can buy one like this ship, you will be a trendsetter of the times.

A group of people went up to the deck from the middle cabin and saw that more and more people were on the dock.

More and more people heard about it and came to see the behemoth coming.

The ship started and moved forward for a while to let everyone feel it.

When the big ship passed under the bridge, everyone realized that Huo Hai had already calculated the outcome for today.

The boat still has room to spare when passing under the bridge, which is clearly designed this way on purpose.

This means that when the bridge was being built, the plan for the ship must have already been made, but it just hadn't been successful at that time.

Looking at Huo Hai and Liu Che enjoying the wind at the bow of the boat, it was unknown how many things they had hidden.

On the shore, everyone watched Liu Che stand at the bow of the boat and wave excitedly.

Because it was cold, many people were wearing silk scarves and took them off and waved them.

Liu Che at the bow of the ship also waved in response to his people.

Liu Che: "If one day I can ride on a 3,000-ton ship and tour the four seas, my life will be worthwhile."

When Ying Zheng went on inspection, he shouldn't have been in such a posture, right?

He, Ying Zheng, put two small sampans to go in search of immortals? How could it be faster than my three thousand ton ship?
Huo Hai didn’t know whether the search for the immortals would be quick or not, but he would definitely find the person who was sent by Ying Zheng to search for the immortals and who didn’t come back quickly.

Today's sea trial was a success, and a large number of orders were sent to Huaishuo Shipyard. The money here and the money contributed by the prince were sent to Qiancheng. First, a fleet of 40-ton steel-framed ships will be built. Then, while building the steel-framed ships, we will head south to keep an eye on Baiyue, cross the sea to the island, and study the iron fleet at the same time!

At the bow, Liu Che saw that no one else was there, so he turned to look at Huo Hai and asked, "Are you ready for the remodeling of the education ladder and the imperial examinations and national exams?"

Huo Hai nodded seriously: "The plan is ready."

Liu Che: "Such a complicated matter, and you have completed it without even moving a muscle?"

Huo Hai: "The plan in mind."

Liu Che looked Huo Hai up and down and said, "Secret plan? Is that possible? Since you have a secret plan, is it possible that you can also criticize me in your heart?"

Huo Hai stared: This is not my story? This is not someone else's story?
"Ah? Your Majesty, you are also capable of mental arithmetic. Can't you figure out my sincerity?"

Liu Che smiled and said, "No need to calculate. I know you are a loyal minister even without calculating."

Huo Hai: "You can't slander him. Your Majesty is so heroic. Who in their right mind would slander him?"

Liu Che and Huo Hai looked at each other and burst into laughter.

The people on the shore looked at the happy faces of Liu Che and Huo Hai and said, "Your Majesty and Lord Huo have been really worried about the Han Dynasty. Now that they have a ship, they can finally relax and laugh. I feel sorry for Your Majesty and Lord Huo!"

"Long live His Majesty, Lord Huo is mighty!"

Suddenly someone on the shore shouted.

Liu Che also heard the sudden shouts from the shore and thought, if the 400-ton ship is a long live, then the 4,000-ton ship should also be a long live, right?

What about 40,000 tons?

By the way, are there so many goods on the sea? Never mind, what if I can pick up silver on the sea? Who can say for sure?
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