The news of the victory came very quickly. The news reached Nanhua almost on the same day that the Nanhua army conquered Buenos Aires.
"Extra, extra, the army captured Buenos Aires, Sarento was defeated and fled to Uruguay..."
"Extraordinary number, extra number, the officers and soldiers are victorious!"
Even in the design room of the shipyard, Ruanda could still hear the shouts of the newsboys coming from the window. Those newsboys who used their extracurricular time to sell newspapers all seemed particularly excited.
After all, those who have the strongest sense of belonging to Nanhua are the newspaper boys. Although they were not born here, most of them grew up here. Because of this, they will be even more excited about winning.
This excitement is more because they regard themselves as Nanhua people from the bottom of their hearts. As a member of Nanhua, they will naturally be excited about Nanhua's victory and proud of Nanhua's victory.
"The army has won a great victory!"
Luanda was stunned for a moment. For a moment, he was even a little absent-minded. Then he said to himself.
"Why so fast?"
As he spoke, he looked at the warship drawings being drawn on the desk, and his tone seemed a little disappointed.
Ruanda, who returned from studying in the UK last year, entered the Nanhua Shipyard. He has already participated in the construction of many ships and is designing a new type of warship. Originally, he hoped to take advantage of the special situation of war to allow him to design this kind of warship.
The warships won the favor of the navy, but the war never ended so quickly.
"The war is over, will this warship still be accepted by the navy?"
While talking to himself, Ruanda cast his gaze towards the window. The sound of forging iron beams, hammering and riveting in the shipyard was like a concerto, echoing in the shipyard. In the shipyard, workers stood beside the scaffolding next to several giant ships.
They were like ants, busy beside the giant ship. They swung their hammers to hammer the rivets, and the flaming red rivets were tossed in the air, creating streaks of light.
The six giant ships being built there are all 10,000-ton giant ships. Four of them are ore ships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, and the other two are two 10,000-ton immigration ships, although their specifications are far less than "
"Great Eastern", but the 10,000-ton giant ship is an unprecedented breakthrough for Nanhua's shipbuilding industry. Even now, few countries in the world have built such huge merchant ships. Of course, those from the United Kingdom, France, Italy and other countries
Warships have already exceeded the 10,000-ton mark.
"With the experience of building 10,000-ton merchant ships, our shipbuilding technology will make breakthrough progress, and then we can build warships with larger tonnage, from 5,000 tons to 10,000 tons, and then to 20,000 tons?"
Once again, Cao Anda thought of what Liang Mingwei, the chief naval engineer of the shipyard, told them. These giant ships were built just for practice and to accumulate shipbuilding technology.
Of course, it’s not just for practice. Take the 10,000-ton ore ship as an example. Compared with ordinary bulk ships, the advantage of the ore ship is that it can be loaded and unloaded quickly, and it can also withstand the transportation of coal, ore and other goods.
For rough operation, its bilge steel plate is thicker and can withstand the chain shovel loading and unloading cargo.
Ore transport ships are urgently needed merchant ships for Nanhua, because now Nanhua needs to import hundreds of thousands of tons of high-quality coal every year. Ruanda had heard when he first arrived at the shipyard that the reason why Nanhua imported high-quality coking coal from the Cape Colony was because of restrictions
Due to the tonnage of the ship, the shipping volume is limited and the cost is relatively high.
Otherwise, coal can be transported from Alaska. There are large coal mines in Alaska. However, due to the distance, large-tonnage ore ships must be used to transport coal to reduce transportation costs.
As for the 10,000-ton immigration ship, its importance is self-evident. Nanhua needs Tangshan’s human resources to enrich its own population. Although Nanhua has as many as fifty registered immigration ships, transporting hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year.
To Nanhua, but even so, it still cannot meet Nanhua's demand for population.
Building immigration ships with stronger transportation capabilities has become an inevitable choice. These two immigration ships have just begun. Even in the design room led by the shipyard's chief engineer Li Will, there are already immigration ships with a displacement that is not inferior to the Great Eastern.
Market demand has stimulated Nanhua's shipbuilding capabilities, but in Ruanda's view, this rate of progress is still a bit too slow. When he was studying in the UK, he had witnessed the size of the British Royal Navy and personally participated in its construction.
A giant battleship of 10,000 tons. From there, he had a desire in his heart - to build a battleship that could defend Nanhua.
After returning to Nanhua, Ruanda has been studying the direction of future warships in his spare time. While drawing many sketches of warships, he is also trying to explore the boundaries of Nanhua's shipbuilding industry, or the potential of Nanhua's shipbuilding industry.
"Actually, Nanhua's shipbuilding technology is still very strong..."
Ruanda said to himself.
"We can definitely take bigger steps and build bigger warships, just like Brunel built the Great Eastern."
Staring at the giant ship in the distance, although with the construction of the Pacific Railway, the home port of the "Great Eastern" has been changed from Nanhua to Linhai, Ruanda can still remember the surprise when he saw the giant ship for the first time.
It seems that it was the "Great Eastern" that pushed the British shipbuilding industry to an unprecedented height.
And now?
"Are they going to be Nanhua's Great Eastern?"
Staring at the six giant ships under construction in the dock, although they are of considerable tonnage and will be completed next year, in Ruanda's view, it is difficult for them to become a driving force for the development of the shipbuilding industry like the "Great Eastern".
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Returning to the drawing table, Ruanda looked at the drawings drawn on the table and said to himself.
"You don't need to follow the rules. If you want to develop quickly, you have to break the rules!"
After making up his mind, Luanda pursed his lips, picked up the pen again, and said.
"The Navy will definitely need warships with larger tonnage..."
As if he had made up his mind, Luanda tore off the drawing, then his eyes narrowed slightly and he muttered to himself.
"What the navy needs is their Great Eastern, just like the shipbuilding community in South China."
Perhaps now that the war is over, he believed at the time that the war was not really over because expansion would lead to tensions in international relations.
This may even lead to the Navy making a decision to expand its navy, which also means its warships.
No, this means that the navy needs more powerful warships.
And this is also his opportunity, an opportunity for him to sell a powerful warship to the navy.
All he needed was to convince the navy with a more powerful warship!
This chapter has been completed!