Amidst the cheers and admiration of tens of thousands of citizens on both sides of the strait, the cutting-edge magic warship made of steel blew its whistle. It slowly sailed across the river and entered a full-power sailing state after crossing the gate on the north bank.
Reports from various controllers sounded in the bridge: "The base layer of the magic net is in normal condition!" "The power ridge is working normally!" "The mechanical cabin is working normally!" "Ready to deploy the magic wings—the engine output is up!"" Steady attitude, power group - forward three!"
On both sides of the magical battleship, wing-like devices composed of a large number of long and narrow metal plates and mechanical devices slowly unfolded. The shining magic shield rose first, covering all possible weak points on the ship, and the three The dense runes and magic lines on the surface of the "wings" complement the shimmer of the shield. This wing-like structure is one of the most important structures on the magic warship—and possibly on all kinds of super large magic vehicles in the future. It can provide the power ridge with an extra supply of magic energy, and it can also release a large amount of waste energy in time To the outside of the magic guide mechanism, only by opening these wings can the magic guide warship operate at full power.
Amidst the roar of the three sets of magic engines, the speed of the warship gradually increased, and it began to sail in the direction of Tanzan Town.
On the river bank, someone shouted first, and gradually, the shouts became one voice:
"Bon voyage!!" "Bon voyage!!" "Long live Cecil!!"
Godwin Orlando stood on the high ground on the south bank and pressed the shooting button of the magic energy terminal with his own hands. Then he lowered his head and wrote down his feelings for a while in the shorthand notebook:
"...the water fortresses of iron lifted the spirits of all, and people of all births and ranks stood on the banks, cheering excitedly, blessing the voyage—the lord once said, to build the pride of the Cecilians , and now this pride has begun to build - a powerful industrial artifact, and an industrial artifact created by 'us', enough to make every citizen proud... ”
The still slightly chilly spring breeze blew from the river, making this old scholar from Wangdu tighten his clothes. Then he raised his head and looked at the misty north bank. His eyes seemed to cross the river and the river. The plain, crossing the mountains in the south, has reached the northern part of the Holy Spirit Plain, and arrived at his hometown in San Sunil...
When will such a ship be able to navigate the vast rivers of the Holy Spirit Plain
A student noticed the old scholar's trance, and couldn't help asking: "Teacher? What's wrong with you?"
"It's nothing, people are getting old... it's easy to be distracted."
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The Pioneer will continue to sail, and its engine group and control mechanism will undergo actual testing in the next few hours of the voyage. It will not stop temporarily until it reaches Tanzania Town—in fact, it should be renamed Tanzania New City.
At that time, the technicians will start to check the working condition of the engine and the state of the power ridge. Gao Wen and others will disembark at the port of Tanzania, and then return to Cecil City in a magic vehicle. Some sailors on standby in Tanzania New City will Boarding will take place in rotation, and after that, the Pioneer will continue to set sail to complete its next half-month cruise.
——With the speed of this ship, it certainly won't take that long to make a tour, but in order to show the effect, the ship is definitely not moving at full speed, and it also needs to stop many times in the middle to make necessary mechanical inspections and adjustments.
Gawain left the front platform of the bridge, and in the rest area at the back of the bridge, he called Knight Byron.
"How do you feel about the ship?" he asked with a smile.
"Exciting, very exciting," Byron said with a bright smile on his face. "I have never been exposed to such a powerful thing in my life—the previous Aurora and Morning Star are far behind it."
"Actually, I was worried at the beginning. I was worried that you would not be happy to let a knight like you who fought on land go to be the commander of the navy." He was also quite straightforward when talking to the other party, "I guess most traditional nobles will think this is a kind of downgrade and suppression—after all, no one has paid attention to battles on the water."
Byron spread his hands: "Let them say this to the six naval guns. I don't believe that after seeing a water fortress with a length of more than 100 meters, a whole body of steel, six heavy guns, and two layers of shields, they would still To be able to stiffen my neck and say this thing doesn't work—if there is one, I'd serve him wine and food, take a bath and change clothes, pay my respects, and stuff it in a railgun and fire it."
Obviously, Byron, who was born as a mercenary, seldom thought about the issue of "whether it is an honor to sit on a ship and fight a war". What he valued was that the ship was capable of fighting, very capable of fighting—and that was enough.
But then again, Byron can think so simply and directly, but Gawain can't just think about the issue of "warships can fight".
He raised his head, looked at several control platforms not far away, and the "mechanical soldiers" busy between the platforms, listening to the faint mechanical roar coming from the lower cabin, what he thought in his heart was It is how much derivative value this ship can bring.
The Pioneer is just the beginning. It is a technological aggregate that has been piled up after the fusion of Cecil's most cutting-edge magic technology and Kraken technology. The value of this aggregate is not only to create a A powerful warship lies in every technological achievement gained in the process of building this warship.
For the current Principality of Cecil, the Pioneer can be said to be "parameter overflow".
As an inland warship, its various values far exceed the category of inland warships, and also exceed the current military needs of Cecil, from firepower to armor to power. It can be said that the Pioneer is in On the basis of ensuring the ability to navigate inland rivers, all advanced technologies have been piled up regardless of cost. If it is used as a finalized production warship, this technology accumulation can be described as waste.
But this is exactly the meaning of building an "experimental ship". The process of building the Pioneer itself is equivalent to trying all the currently feasible technologies, and these technologies can be used in the future after a certain downgrading or modification. other fields, especially civilian fields.
According to the plan, after the ship goes offline, the relevant technology accumulation will immediately enter the application and expansion stage.
First of all, the mature power technology will be applied to the Aurora and the Morning Star—the two semi-finished magical warships will not be dismantled because the cutting-edge ships are off the assembly line. Based on the principle of making the best use of everything, Gao Wen It was decided to complete their transformation and reconstruction, and put them into the Cecil fleet after installing the engine group and new outer armor.
Subsequently, all civilian ships under the Cecil Shipyard and the ship management department will also enter the transformation stage. The old cargo ships can be modified as soon as they can be modified, and they will be gradually scrapped and rebuilt if they cannot be modified. After being downgraded, it can be used to build large-capacity, high-speed civilian cargo ships, thereby greatly improving the material transportation capacity in the southern border and relieving the transportation pressure faced by various parts of the Principality during the period of large-scale construction.
At the same time, Pioneer's highly integrated power ridge, magic wing, and shipboard shield technology can also be used on roadbed bunkers, large vehicles, engineering facilities, and other types of warships.
He called Hetty and talked about his plans, and after hearing that the transportation problem was expected to be alleviated, Hetty, who had been worrying about this matter for a long time, was relieved: "This would be great... If the development The power technology on the Zerg is used on civilian ships, at least in areas covered by rivers, and more than half of the transportation problems can be solved."
But then she frowned: "But in this way, the new mechanical boats will soon monopolize the river transportation, and those traditional boat owners should go bankrupt quickly... Most of them can't afford to buy a magic guide Mechanical ship…”
Gawain looked at Heidi with some surprise.
"What's wrong?" Hetty didn't know why, so she touched her face, "Is there something on my face?"
Butler Cecil was confused. She clearly remembered that she didn't wear smoky makeup today... Could it be that she forgot to take off the makeup she put on yesterday to cheat a half-day vacation
Gao Wen didn't know what this eldest granddaughter was muttering in his heart. He just suddenly thought of the beginning, and Hetty's bewilderment after hearing the concept of "labor reward" system and "personnel management" at that time.
At that time, Hetty didn't know the life of common people at all. Although she had some honest and compassionate thoughts, she was still a noble girl who never left the castle and manor and only relied on fantasy to conceive the suffering of the people. At that time She doesn't even know why the common people can only eat two meals a day, and why the common people pick up the food scraps thrown out of the castle...
Today, she has been able to think about what to do when the shipowners go bankrupt for the first time—although a large part of this is due to the nature of the work of the government affairs department, it is also enough to explain the change in her way of thinking.
"We won't sit back and watch shipowners go bankrupt in large numbers. Since we want to promote the technology on warships to the civilian field, we need to make it truly and thoroughly popularized to the civilian population, so that it can serve the people instead of causing everyone to go bankrupt," Gao Wen laughed. Get up, "I have three preliminary plans..."
Speaking of which, he thought for a while, and then said one by one: "The first is to open up the sales and leasing channels of mechanical ships. When the time is right, we can even assist powerful private capital to establish small shipyards, and put the magical mechanical ships as soon as possible. The cost of the ship is reduced to a level acceptable to the people, so that some big ship owners or wealthy businessmen have the ability to buy and lease ships, just like the commercial use of magic vehicles;
"Secondly, for some ship owners, the government affairs department will subsidize them to renovate their old cargo ships, or let them use the old cargo ships to buy new ships. If they are not economically strong enough, they can borrow interest-free loans to buy new ships for them—don't worry about this part of the cost. Well, as long as the new cargo ships run on the river, the economic benefits they can bring far exceed the subsidy.
"Finally, smaller ship owners can jointly set up a transportation company, raise funds to buy ships, or transfer jobs to enter the dock freight system, each with subsidies. Now that new cities are being built in various places, there will always be job vacancies, as long as they are well settled. Work, there is always a way out.
"As for the control during the specific implementation of these plans... that's up to you."
Seeing Hetty taking notes seriously, Gawain let out a sigh of relief.
The plan is very good, but after the specific implementation, there will definitely be many problems. Industrialization is a good thing, but the impact in the process of transforming agriculture into industry will always be unavoidable. The new magic vehicles also caused panic in the carriage dealers, and the current mechanical ships... will definitely impact the ship owners who rely on the old inland river cargo ships for a living.
In the past, more than 90% of the land in the southern border was controlled by other lords. A large number of alchemists and pharmacists went bankrupt. They are all under the rule of the Cecil family, and everyone is a citizen of Cecil, so there are many issues for him to consider.
He can only rely on his own knowledge and experience to make these shocks go through as smoothly as possible.
While Gao Wen and Hetty were thinking about the civilianization of the new technology, there was another person on the bridge who also fell into deep thinking.
Next to the chief control seat, Rebecca was looking at the flashing runes and silver-white levers on the platform, and Tyre beside her was carefully laying himself on the ground. Seriously stuffing the tip of his tail into the "snake ball", he couldn't help but look up at Rebecca: "Hey, what are you thinking?"
Rebecca woke up from her contemplation. She looked at Tyre, who was playing with her tail, with a look of frustration on her face: "Your magic ship has been built, but my magic train is blowing up twice a day..."
——Since using the origin laboratory and no longer fearing the cost and potential explosion hazards, the number of experimental explosions of this girl has increased significantly.
Till tilted his head, and said casually: "What's there for you to be depressed about? I've been working on this ship with a few hundred people since last year. Isn't it normal that the results are earlier than yours?"
"Although this is the truth..." Rebecca still seemed very frustrated, "but if the train problem is not resolved, the mines on the side of the White Sand Hills will not be transported back..."
Tyre thought for a while, and retracted a little bit into the ball he wove with his tail: "Then I can't help you - we sea monsters are not good at making vehicles that can run on land, magic warships The engine unit plan of the company will certainly not be able to be used on your train."
Rebecca looked helplessly at Tyre, who had completely turned into a ball of snakes. The Marquis of the Cecil family became more depressed than ever...