After the Jurchens swallowed Central and Siberia, it would take about ten years to completely integrate the strength of the five provinces.

In these ten years, it depends on who is faster.

The steam era promoted by Zhu Shun is getting faster and faster as the talent thickness continues to increase.

The cold wind whistles.

It started to snow heavily on the banks of Chaohe River.

The waterway condenses into thick and solid ice, hindering the use of the water tower transportation system.

It's not a problem. Just smash the ice and keep the river water in the waterway flowing quickly.

Zhu Shun stood on the bank of Chaohe River and watched a large merchant ship with 400 materials leave and transported to Dagukou through the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou.

Go out from Dagukou and head to Songjiang Prefecture.

Zhu Sihai from Songjiang Prefecture has been enjoying the technical dividends brought to him by his elder brother. A cement factory that is small in scale is only enough to use for himself has been built.

After storing cement for several months, Zhu Sihai chose a zodiac auspicious day and began to build a modern dry dock with concrete and steel bars as the main materials.

Steel steam boats weigh hundreds of tons at a weight, and how to get into the water after the riveting is a big problem.

The large shipyards such as Qinghe Shipyard in the Ming Dynasty, the wood of the Fu Shipbuilding and Guang Shipbuilding were generally laid with sleepers.

The way of sleepers going into the sea can be used on steel sea boats, but there are too many constraints and disadvantages.

The construction of dry docks in modern times is imperative and is also one of the important prerequisites for the manufacture of steel steam engines.

On the one hand, Zhu Sihai burned cement and stored various raw materials needed for the dry dock. On the other hand, he spent a lot of money to contact Helandong India Company and British East India Company through the Xiangshan Ao Artillery Factory.

Recruiting Western scholars.

The clearly marked price told the Westerners that he would ‘invite’ a Western scholar and give him one thousand taels of silver.

Songjiang Prefecture is not Shuntian Prefecture. Zhu Sihai did not have the support of the emperor, nor did he endorse the bureaucratic and gentry, so he did not dare to start a new school easily.

Researching steam engines requires a large number of Western scholars. If you can't do it yourself, then you'll "invite" Western scholars from Europa.

Europa has accumulated a lot of talent for countless years, and the Western scholars he has cultivated have made Zhu Sihai get a bargain.

Countries like Florence, Lan, and England all started their business by selling slaves, and they were familiar with this kind of thing.

The difference is that in the past, they used to sell black slaves, but now they want to sell white slaves from Europa.

These Europa people were ready to refuse at the beginning, but when they heard that the sky-high price of 1,000 taels of silver was still the lowest. The higher the status of Western scholars, the better their knowledge, the higher the price.

The words greed were left in the Europa's eyes.

A Flang machine businessman from Xiangshan Ao Artillery Factory even privately asked Zhu Sihai and said, "Just give him 10,000 taels of silver."

Europa's greatest physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Galileo could all be transported to Songjiang Prefecture.

Zhu Sihai used to hear his elder brother say the name Galileo, saying that he was one of the greatest scientists in human history.

I don’t understand what the word human is meant, but my elder brother praised Galileo, and this person is definitely very knowledgeable.

Zhu Sihai stretched out three fingers and just transported Galileo to him and gave him 30,000 taels of silver.

The merchant of Folangji drew a cross on his chest, muttered a word to praise the Lord, and rushed out of the door.

These things happened before the New Year. There were already many Western scholars gathered around Zhu Sihai, both of whom were old and young.

With the help of these Western scholars, the design drawings for the dry dock were officially finalized a month ago.

The day after the beginning of winter was chosen, the dry dock began to make ground.

Zhu Sihai was patrolling the construction site. The construction site was surrounded by evil servants who looked like wolves and tigers. He said it was for supervisors, but in fact it was to prevent Western scholars from escaping.

Western scholars have just come to the Far East for not long and are not used to life here. In a few years, Zhu Sihai will use a means to prevent these Western scholars from being chased away.

The dry dock is divided into three parts: the dock entrance, the dock room, and the dock head.

What is being carried out now is the excavation of the docking room foundation. After the docking room foundation is excavated, the foundation and the three sides that touch the land will be poured with reinforced concrete.

Western scholars stood near the foundation and kept holding their glasses. They had never seen any material. After being mixed with water, they could solidify even harder than steel.

Especially a teacher from the University of Padua, Castellie, also a student of Galileo, has been obsessed with this new material called concrete recently.

Castellie is a very famous mathematician and hydraulic engineer in Europa. He has made great achievements in the field of mathematics and has also established a great scientific foundation for hydraulics.

As a famous hydraulic engineer, Castellie has an unimaginable desire to learn about hydraulics.

After the appearance of cement, Castellie's desire for knowledge was immediately attracted.

It was obviously a pile of very soft powder, but it was mixed with water and left for a while, and then it turned into a hard building, with hardness no less than steel.

Castellie was originally the most keen Western scholar who was keen on escape, and privately formed an escape association.

But since seeing this magical material, Castellie has almost lived next to the concrete foundation and never mentioned the word escape again. The same is true for other Western scholars.

Western scholars have an unimaginable fanaticism from the bottom of their bones when exploring the truth, and they even sacrifice their lives.

Copernicus, Darwin, Kepler, one pioneer after another, died one after another on the road to seeking the truth.

Castellie won't leave until he understood what cement is.

More Western scholars want to see how to solve the problems of drainage and dock door lifting by themselves.

Zhu Sihai stood on the coast and looked at the group of Western scholars who were more enthusiastic about building docks than him. He knew that they had no intention of escaping for the time being, but he still did not relax his vigilance.

At least they dare not relax their vigilance before their families were transported.

A few days later, more than 20 students from the Beijing University led a large number of workers, pulling steam engines and many cooked iron parts, to this small boat yard.

This group of students and a large number of workers in the capital were just an advance team. Zhu Shun was preparing to send at least 100 students and hundreds of experienced workers to his second brother.

Zhu Sihai stood on the coast and watched the students of the Jingshi University who were busy building temporary residences. It was time to build a new school.

However, in his name, we cannot rely on the influence of Westerners on the southeast coast.

The name has been thought of.

Beiyang Navy School.

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Chapter completed!