In addition to the factories that are constantly exporting all kinds of advanced weapons and various light industrial products to him, the scale of the freshwater shipyard here has also been greatly developed, there were originally five slipways here, and now the number of slipways has increased to more than a dozen, and the number of craftsmen in the shipyard has also reached the scale of thousands.

Moreover, the products of Chuanliao are also much richer than in the past, not only can only build small and medium-sized ships, or are as simple as the surprise construction of Feizi clippers.

Nowadays, the shipyard can already build thousands of large ships, and whether it is a Western-style sailing ship or a Chinese-style sailing ship, it can already be built here.

Almost every month, there are ships launched, and there is more than one, the application of the pass and stop regulations, so that standardized production has become possible, and has been put into practice, so that the shipbuilding efficiency here is much higher than that of the land shipyard many times, many ship parts, are in advance in the shore in the large shed, prefabricated in advance, and finally directly transported to the slipway for assembly, so the shipbuilding speed here is naturally far more than the land shipyard many times.

And because of the standardized production, as well as the perfect management system, as well as the strict quality requirements, the quality of the ships built here is far more than that of the ships built by the shipyard on land.

In addition, considering that the wharf facilities on the Tamsui side are limited, it is not a natural harbor, so when Yu Xiaotian was developing Kaohsiung, he had already decided to take advantage of the superior conditions of Gaoping Creek and follow the method of developing the upper reaches of the Tamsui River to open another large shipyard in Kaohsiung.

In the upper reaches of Gaoping Creek, a large amount of timber is harvested, and it floats down the river to the estuary, where it is fished up to dry, or directly dried, and used for shipbuilding.

Now the Kaohsiung Shipyard has already been put into production, and the Tamsui Shipyard has divided out a part of the shipwrights and moved to the Kaohsiung Shipyard to work, so that the two major shipyards can start construction at the same time, and dozens of ships of various types can be built every year, which is very amazing, in addition to replacing the eliminated ships, it also greatly enhances their strength at sea.

When Yu Xiaotian arrived in Tamsui City, two large ships with more than 1,000 materials were being built on the two large slipways here, and these two ships were Western-style Galen ships, with smooth hull lines, sharp bows, and a solid angle of attack, but the deck was straight, the bow tower was canceled, and the stern tower was also relatively reduced in height, making this type of ship better suitable for ocean voyages and withstand greater wind and waves.

When it comes to a thousand large ships, many people will probably be confused, but when converted into tonnage, the full load displacement of these two ships can basically reach six or seven hundred tons without any problem.

Such a big ship is probably nothing in Europe at present, at best, it can only be ranked in the third and fourth class warship sequence in the British Navy's sail warship classification, but it is the British Navy decades later, the official promulgation of the classification, the British Navy has not yet been systematically divided, but such a ship is at least their most main warship.

Europe may already have a larger sail warship than this at this time, with a displacement of nearly two thousand tons at the highest, but such huge ships are not only in Europe, but also a few, and most of the main warships are currently ships of about five or six hundred tons, and the armed merchant ships are basically ships of this size.

Although there were only two upper and lower gun decks, the Galen ship still had a capacity of nearly 60 guns, 24 24-pounder cannons on the lower deck, 12 on the left and right sides, 22 12-pounder guns on the left and right sides of the upper deck, 7 12-pounder cannons on the stern deck, and 3 32-pounder Caron guns on the bow position.

This kind of firepower density is now almost enough for Yu Xiaotian to walk sideways on the Asian sea, even if the Dutch drove their East India Company's strongest warship over, now Yu Xiaotian will not be afraid of them.

If it weren't for Yu Xiaotian's current inability to take care of them, he would want to drive these big ships and go to them to demonstrate, so that they can also see and understand, this kind of Galen ship is not only built by you Europeans, but now Lao Tzu is also like playing.

If it weren't for the fact that Yu Xiaotian didn't have enough funds to build hundreds casually, he would want to build a lot of them now, directly bomb these Europeans back to Europe, and completely control the trade routes from Asia to Europe, in that case, he would be much more profitable.

It's a pity that for the time being, he has to focus on the Central Plains, and the construction of the army has taken up a lot of his funds and energy, so although he has successfully built three or four such high-end Western-style warships, he can't go all out to build this kind of ships.

Generally speaking, although there are still many problems in the current industrialization process of Tamsui City, it has been put on track as a whole, and there is a blacksmith Zhang who is almost buggy here, and now he has changed from an iron idiot to a mechanical maniac, and he has been trying to make something new all day long.

The mechanical notebook that Yu Xiaotian gave him opened up a whole new field for Blacksmith Zhang, which made Blacksmith Zhang addicted, and now Yu Xiaotian has also assigned more than ten students to Blacksmith Zhang, these students are only fourteen or fifteen years old, but they have completed their primary studies in the school of the sea wolf.

In addition, through the missionaries provided by the church, these students also systematically received a lot of professional education in mathematics and physics, so that when they learned the principles of mechanics, they would be much easier to accept and understand, and much faster than ordinary people.

There is also Yu Xiaotian re-standardized weights and measures, whether it is length or weight, all made standard weighing tools, to re-standardize the current chaotic weights and measures units in the Ming Dynasty, and made a more accurate micrometer, that is, vernier caliper, which further improved the accuracy of industrially produced parts, and also made it more convenient to formulate various production specifications.

In short, although the current industrialization process has not yet made Yu Xiaotian feel satisfied, but after all, it is already at a point before a take-off, and as long as he persists in development, he believes that the industrial revolution will definitely come earlier in China than the West.

It is precisely because of the industrialization process here that Yu Jiajun can continuously obtain a variety of advanced weapons, in addition to the ordinary machinery industry, he also tried his best to use the chemical knowledge he knows a long time ago to test various chemical raw materials.

In particular, the basic chemical raw materials of three acids and two alkalis are things that he diligently pursues, and only by solving these things can he truly promote the industrial revolution.

Of course, this kind of thing is not achieved overnight, and now Yu Xiaotian can only obtain a small amount of hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid through the guò real yàn room, and he can also get a small amount of nitric acid through the guò real yàn room, but if you want to produce it in large quantities, it is not realistic at present, and you can only find a way to solve it step by step.

But this is a good thing after all, it is estimated that after he comes back this time, it will not be long before he can produce several acids and alkalis in small batches, as long as these kinds of things can be produced, then his industry will completely enter the stage of take-off.

Not to mention anything else, as long as he makes soda ash and caustic soda, then the glass industry will go to a higher level, and the quality of the glass products manufactured will be much better than before, and his soap industry will also further expand the scale of production because of the necessary raw materials.

Nowadays, these two fist products, the output is still a little too low, and only the most high-end people can afford to consume, and can not be open to consumption, once the soda ash and caustic soda are solved, soap and soap can greatly expand the production capacity, and then the price can be depressed, so that more people can afford to enjoy, in addition to a large number of exports to Europe dumping, to obtain greater profits.

Sour, not to mention, just nitric acid, as long as the nitric acid trial production is successful, the next step is to find a way to try to produce high explosives, even if he is not in a hurry to make a large number of high explosives now, at least he can try to produce mercury nitrate, that is, thunder mercury, with thunder mercury, he can make a fire cap.

After making the fire cap, he can improve the flintlock pistol into a fire cap gun, so that the firing rate of the musket has been greatly improved again, and after the gun is replaced with a fire cap, it has a stronger all-weather combat cap, especially under the influence of windy days and rainy days, it will be greatly reduced.

In short, the chemical industry must also keep up with the development of the machinery industry, otherwise it is like a person walking on two legs, one leg is short, and he will always be unable to walk smoothly and quickly.

This time, when Yu Xiaotian came back, he planned to make a breakthrough in this area first, try to produce industrialized nitric acid, and then try to produce thunder mercury in the first step, so as to completely solve the problem of fire caps.

As long as the problem of the fire cap is solved, he can export weapons, especially muskets, and sell them to those in need, no matter who buys his fire cap gun, he must buy a fire cap from him, and he will not dare to be an enemy of him, otherwise he will cut off the supply of fire caps at any time, so those who buy his fire cap guns will have the muskets in their hands become burning sticks, and there is no use at all.

In addition, the fire cap can completely change many things, such as their current clumsy grenade, with the fire cap, the firing mechanism can be improved, and there is no need to let the operator ignite the fuse every time and throw it out.

In addition, he can create a firing mechanism for firing a gun, a serious mine, or a shell fuse with a spring-fired mechanism, and the next step can be to try to produce a rifled gun to create a safer and more practical explosive grenade......

During this period of time, Yu Xiaotian has also been in his free time to fight, constantly pondering this matter, and has already had a few preliminary ideas, just after he came back, he sent someone to test according to his ideas, once the test is successful, he can produce nitric acid in small batches, then it is not far from making such a thing as thundermercury.

(I won't say much about this, one is that it may be violated, and the other is that there is a suspicion of water injection, if you are interested, go check it yourself, in short, there will always be a way!) Huh)