After the rather strong warship docked at the dock, workers at the shipyard immediately began outfitting it.
Rotating turret bases, naval guns, rotary machine guns, communication copper pipes, semi-mechanical shell handling equipment and a series of other things that can be considered black technology in this era were installed one by one.
The only regret that Wang Haitao has is that there is no shipborne radar.
"Even the simplest gun control radar is good!"
Just after the launching ceremony, Wang Haitao turned around and blocked the door of Fang Xiaoyue's office, pleading hard.
In his eyes, Fang Xiaoyue seemed to have become an omnipotent and omniscient God, who could do whatever he thought.
To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that there were many people around, Fang Xiaoyue would have really wanted to scold him, saying he was eating shit and dreaming.
The Ministry of Industrial Affairs is now considered the busiest department under the Senate.
If nothing else, just a series of projects to restore modern technology is enough to give people a huge headache.
In this era, everything is lacking, lack of resources, lack of technical reserves, lack of supporting factories, lack of skilled workers...
"Think about it, isn't it difficult to deal with the lack of resources? Let's help you grab it. Well, can't we just go and find it for you?"
Sun Xuebin came to the Ministry of Industrial Affairs at some unknown time and said these words while licking his face.
Find it?
Fang Xiaoyue looked at Sun Xuebin with some disdain. He didn't want to say anything, although the Xinghai Kingdom's army was now almost doubled in size compared to before.
But the problem is, there are only about 5,900 people.
Among them, five regiments of the Army, plus a general training team established in Xinghai City, are prepared to train first-class non-commissioned officers promoted from first-class privates.
In addition, the navy has a total of more than 900 people.
With such a small number of people, no matter how good the weapons are, if a fight breaks out, how far can you hit the land to the north?
Of course, despite being disdainful, Fang Xiaoyue also understood what Sun Xuebin said.
The resources on the South China Sea Island are not enough to support a nearly modern industry.
To put it bluntly, resources are too scarce, and what is needed is what is lacking.
If there are no pursuits, the resources on Nanhai Island can barely support a regional hegemon.
But the question is, are the many time travel members of the Senate just satisfied with being the hegemons in one area?
It has been so long since I traveled through time, and none of the time travellers complained about being tired or complained about their treatment. Why?
Isn’t it just to work hard and be a young model on the sunny island and beach in the future?
In fact, for the current Xinghai Kingdom, the development of military power and the development of national power are in a mutually reinforcing relationship.
Only when the military is strong can it obtain more resources, and with more resources can it support a series of powerful weapons and equipment required by senior officers such as Sun Xuebin.
Radar! Do you really think radar is that easy to make?
Anyway, no matter how hard Sun Xuebin and Wang Haitao tried, Fang Xiaoyue had no intention of launching the radar project immediately.
No way, this thing is not necessary for the time being.
With the written combat power of the Lingao, if one warship is fighting at sea, it should be no problem to deal with six or seven of the Folangji warships.
What's more, with the launch of the Lingao, steel keels have been set up in the three newly built dry docks at the shipyard, and three second-level battleships are being built simultaneously.
In other words, in five months at most, three more second-level battleships will be launched.
At the same time, with the launch of these four second-level battleships, a large number of skilled shipbuilding workers will inevitably be created.
This will virtually enhance the shipyard's technical capabilities and shipbuilding speed.
In fact, if it were not considered that the construction of dry docks at the shipyard would involve too much manpower for the Xinghai Kingdom, the shipyard would be planning to build six more dry docks in one go, increasing the number of dry docks to ten.
In fact, the shipbuilding efficiency of dry docks is naturally higher than that of other types of docks, and there are not many technical difficulties in construction. The main reason is that it consumes too much manpower.
"The population of Nanhai Island is still too small."
At a Senate meeting, Chief Consul Zheng Xiangdong expressed his feelings.
During this period, various departments have been at odds with him many times over manpower issues. Everyone has asked the Ministry of National Development to give their departments more power to recruit manpower.
In fact, Zheng Xiangdong knew that Nanhai Island's existing human resources, except for students who had not yet grown up in school, were basically drained.
In some places, newly built farms have even violated the employment regulations set by the Ministry of National Development and recruited people over 60 years old.
You know, in this era, sixty is the age when you are over sixty, and in future generations, in a few years, it will be the age to have grandchildren and retire.
However, with the development of Xinghai Kingdom in the past half year, a large number of human resources have been recruited into various departments, local management committees, factories, and farms, causing human resources to be quickly depleted.
Of course, in this era, there is no such thing as retirement for ordinary people. There are people who are still working in the fields, let alone those over sixty years old, even those over eighty years old.
Under such circumstances, the Ministry of National Development has introduced temporary provisions to allow the recruitment of elderly people who are still able to work despite their age.
This is only a short-term thirst quencher.
To truly solve the problem of lack of human resources, the key issue lies in recruiting immigrants northward.
For this reason, after Zheng Xiangdong personally proposed the motion, many senators in the Senate seized the time and discussed for eighteen hours before officially deciding to advance the northward immigration plan.
After the immigration plan was formulated, the Ministry of National Development immediately made detailed arrangements for the plan, including a request to Zhang Sanxu, the envoy of the Zhaowu regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty, to recruit refugees.
Zhang Sanxu, who had lived comfortably in Xinghai City for half a year, felt a little uneasy about the summons from the Ministry of National Development of Xinghai Kingdom.
You know, the treatment of being an envoy in Xinghai City is really comfortable.
Living in a modern hotel every day, and receiving a monthly entertainment fee of 50 yuan from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he can easily live a life here that he has never imagined before.
Well, actually during this time, he has quietly started doing business.
During his time in Xinghai City, he discovered that there were too many business opportunities here.
A glass half-length silver mirror that sells for 200 taels of silver over there in Guangdong can be bought for only 5 yuan in the supermarket here.
This is a huge profit of forty times!
And here, there are too many hugely profitable products like this.
Perfumes in exquisite glass bottles, exquisite hanging clocks, soaps, wooden music boxes that can continuously produce pleasant sounds after a few turns, etc.
In addition, the noodles, potato chips and other food here are also quite good.