Hurriedly entered the shipbuilding workshop, and the road was full of Dengzhou guards in charge of guarding, and craftsmen in blue overalls.

On the way, Li Yuanba pointed to the busy ship-making workshop and asked, "Su'er, what do you think of here?" If I say that in the future this place will be more prosperous than the steelmaking workshops in Chang'an, do you believe it or not? ”

Hearing Li Yuanba's words with obvious confidence, Li Zhuo was a little stunned and said: "Fourth Emperor Uncle, the steelmaking workshop in Dengzhou is already much more prosperous than Chang'an. However, if you vigorously develop the steelmaking industry, won't Dengzhou become the heavily polluted city you used to talk about before? ”

Indeed, smelting steel requires a large amount of coal, and the use of coal will inevitably cause environmental pollution.

Although Li Yuanba has been careful to control pollution, the problem still exists.

Just like Li Yuanba in his previous life, hasn't the problem of environmental pollution always existed?

Therefore, when Li Yuanba heard Li Su's words, he did not refute them, but sighed uncharacteristically and said:

"As far as the current situation is concerned, it will take more than ten years to reach the level of heavy pollution of the city. In the past ten years, the advent of the steam engine has opened a new era! And the existence of the steamship will also expand the territory of my Datang infinitely, at least more than ten times. With the buffer of more than ten years, our Datang will surely enter a period of rapid development, and when the time comes, ......"

When he said this, Li Yuanba stopped, now Datang's industrial technology has just started, and it is a little early for him to say this to a child, especially since this bear child is still a heartless master.

Just as Li Yuanba thought, Li Su was stunned for a moment after hearing Li Yuanba's words, but then he showed an expression of disbelief.

Thinking about it, anyone who hears Li Yuanba's words will think that he is joking.

For more than ten years, I wanted to let Datang's territory expand without limit. Are you kidding?

Thinking that his grandfather, Emperor Taishang and his father Emperor Li Shimin, who had been fighting horses for half his life, had only conquered such a large territory, and even those states and a few small countries that he swallowed were all defeated by Li Yuanba.

In more than ten years, I want to lay a territory equivalent to more than ten times the territory of the Tang Dynasty, not to mention whether there is such a large territory in this world, just thinking about it is considered a fool's dream!

But how did this kid know that Li Yuanba's words were not exaggerated at all.

Compared with those who have seen the world, such a large territory of Datang does make Li Yuanba a little dissatisfied.

And now the Tang Dynasty is strong and strong. If you want firearms to have firearms, and you want to innovate and innovate, why can't you let "the Tang Dynasty's Datang's, the world's Datang's"?

Seeing that Li Su was in disbelief, Li Yuanba simply didn't say more. After all, no matter how much you try to explain, it is useless, and practice can prove everything.

……

Li Yuanba pulled Li Su to watch as he walked, and the Chang brothers, who followed closely behind the two, kept explaining to the two.

In Li Yuanba's view, this ship-making workshop already has the prototype of a later mechanical processing factory.

Not to mention that all kinds of lathes are complete, and even the processing equipment is very complete.

In fact. These processing equipment were all pulled by Li Yuanba from Chang'an City, because the previous ones were only made of iron, and they were only transformed into stainless steel after coming to Dengzhou.

And, right now, the power system of this shipbuilding workshop. It has also been changed from water vapor to steam engine, and compared with water supply, the work efficiency has been improved by more than ten times compared with before, and the manufacturing process has also been changed from single manufacturing to assembly line process.

Efficiency is further improved. Everything has the breath of Li Yuanba's previous life.

After a few more small workshops, Li Yuanba and Li Su went straight to an independent workshop, which was connected to the waterway. It is much larger than other workshops in terms of area.

This workshop is more like a small pier, not a workshop, and it looks a bit imposing.

At the front of the waterway, two huge white tin boats are moored.

The iron ship looks more than 30 zhang long and more than 4 zhang wide, and such a large iron steamer, even if it was stranded until Li Yuanba had just developed a steamship in his previous life, it was not capable of making such a large wooden steamer.

As for Li Yuanba, who was ambitious, when the steam engine was just developed, he stepped up his manpower to build two iron steamers, and he was successful!

It's so crazy!

At present, this iron ship is a medium-to-upper ship, and the shape is similar to that of ordinary building ships, but the layers are much less, the hull seems to be thinner and narrower, and the draft is relatively deep.

And, most surprisingly, there were no masts on either ship, which meant that there were no sails on board, only a chimney-like structure, and black smoke was still rising from the inside of the chimney.

Fortunately, two skylights were opened in the workshop, and the black smoke drifted into the sky along the skylight, otherwise, it would really make the workshop smoky.

Chang Baisheng led Li Yuanba and Li Su to these two steamships, and said with a somewhat proud expression: "Your Highness, this is the steam iron ship made by us, according to Lord Mo's opinion, the ship in front of it has been specially equipped with ten new Shenwu cannons!" ”

"Where are Zihan and Heijin?"

Yesterday, I heard that this Mozi had installed a Shenwu cannon on the ship, and Li Yuanba was still thinking that this guy was a war maniac, and now when he saw the steamship, Li Yuanba was really a little excited.

Chang Baisheng smiled and said, "The two Mo masters left after building this ship, and now they should have arrived at the Artifact Bureau, right?" ”

"They're both running fast!" Li Yuanba shook his head and said, "Quick, take this king to have a look!" ”

Chang Baisheng made a gesture of please and said, "Your Highness, please come with me!" ”

……

The people on the two steamships were already ready after receiving the news that Li Su was going to test the ship.

When Li Yuanba took Li Su and got on the steam iron steamer loaded with the new Shenwu cannon in front, all the shipwrights took action and stayed at their posts.

Chang Baisheng was a good guide, he took Li Yuanba and Li Su to visit the entire ship, the most critical is responsible for the power generation of the supply furnace and weapons depot, Li Yuanba is even more focused on inspection.

After some visits, Li Yuanba immediately ordered someone to set sail.

In fact, he didn't necessarily want to go anywhere, Li Yuanba simply wanted to try the power of the steamship and the speed.

Chang Baisheng waved his hand violently in the direction of the mouth of the waterway and shouted, "Open the gate in front!" ”

"Open the floodgates!"

The intensity of the echo in the workshop was very high, and Chang Baisheng's command echoed throughout the workshop.

"Click-la-la-......"

There was a sound of gear clattering, and the two gates that stood in front of the two steam-iron steamers slowly opened to both sides, and a dazzling sunlight shone in, illuminating the workshop.

"Anchor!"

"Whew!"

With Li Yuanba's order, the supply furnace had already been ignited, and the steamship suddenly emitting black smoke suddenly let out a piercing flute sound.

For a moment, the boatmen working in this workshop heard this sound and turned their heads to look this way, and their eyes were full of excitement.

After all, these two steam iron wheels were built and polished by them one by one, and they had poured too much effort into this ship, and now they can see this ship set sail with their own eyes, and these boatmen are naturally excited.

"Woo woo woo ......"

In the sound of a higher whistle, this epoch-making steam iron ship finally started slowly.

Li Yuanba, who stayed in the cockpit, first felt a burst under his feet, and then the roar of the steam engine when it was turning sounded, and the whole ship suddenly began to move forward slowly after a tremble.

The boatmen in the workshop all stared at the scene in disbelief.

It's a miracle, I thought it was impossible for the iron sheet to float on the water, but now it's a reality.

And the most amazing thing is that this ship has no sails, no oars, and can still start, and slowly move forward, it is incredible!

In fact, not only those boatmen felt amazing, but even Li Su in the cabin felt very incredible, this thing made of iron sheet really floated on the water......

Li Yuanba couldn't help laughing when he saw the surprised look on Li Su's face beside him: "Hahaha, you kid is so surprised!" ”

"Uncle Four Emperors, it's moving, it's moving! This thing is really moving! Li Su stepped on the solid bottom of the boat and said, "I'm not dreaming, am I?" ”

"Do you want the fourth uncle to wake you up?" Li Yuanba looked at Li Su's little head very maliciously and said.

Seeing Li Yuanba's malicious eyes, Li Su couldn't help but shiver excitedly, and quickly shook his head.

"You kid......" Li Yuanba shook his head and laughed: "Let's go, Chang Supervisor, accompany me to the bow of the ship to have a look!" ”

Coming to the bow of the ship with Chang Baisheng, he felt the speed of the steamship under his feet getting faster and faster, and went straight out of the narrow waterway into the sea, although the speed was not fast at that time, but at least it reached the pleasure of fifty miles, which made Li Yuanba's heart excited.

This is just a steamship built in the early days, if the development and construction of the ship are stepped up, does it mean that a larger ship can also be built?

When the time comes, if Datang forms a fleet of steamship warships, won't it be able to sweep the world?

The more he thought about it, the more excited Li Yuanba became, he couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and suddenly turned his head to Chang Baisheng and asked:

"Supervisor Chang, if you are asked to design a larger iron ship, with the current capacity of the Dengzhou Shipyard, can you build it?" (To be continued.) )