Jinghai County.

When the Ross mission came to the Great Song, Zhao Xu was watching the launch of a new batch of ironclad ships here.

Compared with the first batch of ironclad ships, the construction period of the second batch of ironclad ships was shortened by about two months.

First of all, this is because after the construction of the first batch of ironclad ships, mature supporting construction facilities were available.

Secondly, it is because after Dasong mastered the power generation technology, the shipbuilding workshop also carried out related power transformations, and now uses a lot of power equipment.

However, since the thermal power plant in Jinghai is under construction, the shipbuilding workshop uses its own steam engine power generation unit.

"Including Jinghai Shipbuilding House, a total of 48 ironclad ships can be delivered to the Navy by the end of this year, and the navy's sail warships will be eliminated soon." On the coast, Chen Shou looked at the twelve ironclad ships sailing from the dry dock to the sea, smiling.

After pausing, he showed a look of regret, "It's just that our sail warship is about to be eliminated in just a few years."

Even though he said so, he was happy.

Because this means that Dasong's shipbuilding industry is changing with each passing day.

At present, in addition to the ironclad ships replacing sail warships, Dasong's steam merchant ships are also replacing traditional sail merchant ships.

If you look around the banks of the Jin River, you can see steam merchant ships coming and going.

In addition to the inland rivers, steam merchant ships are also everywhere on the sea.

They kept transporting Dasong's industrial products to other countries and brought back cheap raw materials.

"Hahaha..." Chen Shou's words made Zhao Xu laugh, and he said, "This is called "The old ones don't go, and the new ones don't come. Besides, these sail warships have already bought them before they have retreated. We have used them for a few years and sold them at the original price, so we can make a profit."

The sail warships replaced by ironclad ships were naturally snapped up by vassal states such as Goryeo and Japan.

Although, these countries are all vassal states of Dasong.

But there is not a harmony between them, but a conflict between them.

Therefore, in order not to suffer losses in conflict, they are all trying their best to arm themselves.

The muskets, cannons and warships eliminated by Dasong are naturally popular for them.

At the same time, from the perspective of Da Song, it is not a good thing for the vassal states to unite in private.

Dasong only needs to mediate when they are having trouble, just turn a blind eye on weekdays and close it.

"Master Chen, our emperor has never suffered a loss." Zhou Yi was also there at this time.

Hearing this, he also laughed.

The three of them joking for a while, and when the ironclad ship disappeared from their sight, Zhao Xu said to Zhou Yi, "By the way, what's the cooperation plan between you and the Qinglong Army of Qinshan?"

Last time, after he made the next three strategies of Dasong, he asked Zhou Yi and Qin Shan to plan the second strategy that was handed over to them, the Indian Restoration Plan.

"Back to the emperor, we have finalized the next action plan." Zhou Yi was ready and took out the map from his arms to unfold.

After sorting out his thoughts, he said, "We are preparing to approach North America from two directions at the same time. The first is the Hawaiian Islands mentioned by the Emperor, and the second is here."

Zhao Xu looked over and nodded.

The location Zhou Yi refers to is not elsewhere, but the contemporary location of the Alaska Peninsula.

"According to information, the current North America is divided into two parts. The north is called Quebec, which is currently a colony of Britain, and the south of Quebec is the country of Sam, which is independent from Britain." Zhou Yi said slowly.

Clearing his throat, he continued, "Since we support the Indian Restoration Movement, this movement will inevitably spread throughout North America and even South America. Therefore, we will discuss with Qinshan to establish two strongholds in Hawaii and here to provide shelter for the Indians and attack from north to south."

"Yes." Zhao Xu did not deny the results of Zhou Yi's discussion with Qin Shan.

The Indian Restoration Plan was a general plan.

Since he gave it to the two of them, they can just come as they feel comfortable and feel comfortable.

"In those six days, the last general will allocate six ironclad ships to cooperate with steam troop transport ships to capture Hawaii." Zhao Xu agreed to his plan, and Zhou Yi couldn't help but become excited.

The next forty-eight ironclad ships were enrolled, which made him extremely confident.

For him, the sea is now the back garden of the Dasong Navy.

In the future, their navy will completely change from defensive to offensive.

They will seize this island on the sea that was occupied by the Western Turkish countries one by one.

For example, the islands between Dasong and Hawaii are now under the control of the Dasong Navy, not only have supply points but also garrisons.

In the future, there will be more and more such islands, spread throughout the ocean, providing support for the long-term voyage of Dasong's naval warships.

After talking about this, Zhao Xu ordered Chen Shou to continue the next batch of shipbuilding plans.

According to his idea, the number of these ironclad ships must reach about 360.

Because for a long time, these ironclad ships will not be eliminated and will be the only main battleship of Dasong.

As for the next generation of warships, they are the giant cannon ships from World War I and World War II, and they can no longer be brought up by traditional steam engines.

What is needed is a steam turbine.

This thing has a very complicated process and is afraid it won’t be able to do it without years of technical accumulation.

But as long as it is done, it will be revolutionary for both warships and power plants.

Even contemporary warships and thermal power plants are powered by steam turbines, and the other uses steam turbines to generate electricity.

As for why so many ironclad ships were built? The reason is also very simple.

He judged that the Western Turkish countries that had lost their naval advantage would soon pick up their pirate skills and threaten Dasong's maritime trade routes.

These ironclad ships are designed to protect the route.

After all, in the next few years, Dasong's trade will expand to North America, South America, Central China and the Black Continent. The wider the scope of Dasong's merchant ship activities, the more warships will need to cruise.

After staying in Jinghai for a whole morning, Zhao Xu took a steam locomotive back.

On the way to Yancheng, he passed the car window and looked at the snow-covered wheat fields on both sides and the passing people.

Although these people's food, clothing, housing and transportation are not a little better than before, they are far from reaching their ideal goals.

He once told Liu Fu that everyone in Dasong's family should receive a good education, eat eggs and milk in the morning, and have meat on weekdays.

Now, only the people in Yancheng have reached half of this goal, and most of the people in Dasong have not yet achieved it.

The reason is that although Da Song has developed, it has not yet developed in all aspects.

Now, Dasong has no enemies that can threaten the local area.
Chapter completed!