For the Lushan, this naval battle not only received several million taels of silver, but more importantly, the Prince itself. Now Australia's shipbuilding capacity is basically zero.

With such a thousand-ton Prince, Youth City will be very convenient for fishing or offshore transportation.

More than fifty iron-cast bronze-cast naval guns on the Prince's ship also have a new purpose, that is, to return the furnace.

Of course, before boarding the ship to sort out the property of the Kingdom of Spain, it is correct to clean it up with high-efficiency pesticides. For the people of the Lushan, the ship is too dirty and there is no way. For the 17th century ship, fresh water is the source of life during the journey. Drinking water is supplied in limited quantities, not to mention that the Lushan supply hot water 24 hours a day.

After the Prince was towed to the port of Youth City, it was repainted, and the ship became the property of the Australian Republic. It took only four years after the Prince was launched, and it was still a new ship in this era. When the ship was moved in the port of Youth City, everyone also understood why robbery and privateing were so respected in this era, and even treated as a national act. When the gold and silver were moved out in boxes, many people were blinded by the eyes of the titanium dog.

Of course, people who were blinded by the titanium dog eyes rolling on the ground, and they would be safe in two days. Jin Sanduo returned to Youth City for the second time and was very interested in the black asphalt pavement here.

"We've found a natural asphalt lake? I haven't heard of this good thing in Australia."

"Although it is not a natural asphalt lake, it is almost the same. The coal mine has been found and is being mined. This is the oil shale dug from the coal mine. Each ton of oil shale ore can extract more than 100 liters of oil. With diesel, our lifeboat doesn't need to be used." Zhang Nan, a young sister of Aying, who was the guide this time, went to train his baby soldiers. The first group of Ming soldiers trained did not become formal soldiers after all, but each gave a wooden stick to do some work that should have been done by the police.

"It's good news. How is the progress of the steel plant?" Jin Sanduo also knew something about the oil shale. Originally, the coal yard in Fushun, Liaoning was dug out as a stone and threw it away. Later, after people extracted oil from this fossil, there were many small refineries in Fushun overnight. In order to obtain the stones, people from nearby villages fought hard.

The oil-poor country cannot afford to be injured, is it actually that the large companies that control oil prices deliberately control the price of oil to avoid waste. The Middle East, which has the most oil storage, has not stopped in the decades after World War II due to the sectarian and ethnic issues, and no one dares to develop oil resources there. The Sino-German Union Empire used the most oil from the Caspian Sea and oil from Mexico or South America. As for oil from the domestic and colonial areas, it is left for its descendants after exploration. There is an unavoidable problem in oil extraction, which is the cost. How useful is the oil produced?

"It's still under construction..." Zhang Nan said: "I heard that the refractory bricks for small blast furnaces are being trial-made. Also, it is said that building small blast furnaces is also a technical job. At least no one can do it on the Lushan number, although we have drawings."

Well, there are a lot of information and technical personnel on the Lushan University, but once it involves relevant industry personnel, there is a little scarcity. In ancient times, such things must have been passed on to children but not girls. Even building houses and tiles was considered a technical job.

Jin Sanduo also nodded: "It is safe first to build small blast furnaces. Maybe it will explode. However, as long as you can make steel, you can burn glass. As long as that day comes, our industrialization process will be greatly accelerated."

Zhang Nan asked back: "As long as you can make steel, you can burn glass?"

Jin Sanduo nodded: "Yes, it all requires a high temperature of 1,600 degrees in the kiln. There is no difference, it is just that the raw materials used are different. My father said a few casually when I was a child."

Jin Sanduo remembered that when he was a child, he passed by a steel factory with his father. He saw some black things from outside. He asked his father what this was, and his father said that it was fiberglass, which can be regarded as a residue of iron smelting. Because the high temperature was vitrified, the residue of fiberglass was a little high, so it turned black.

Finally, my father said to himself, remember, if you can make steel, the temperature can definitely burn glass.

From this point of view, does my father know that he would travel through time to make steel and burn glass? This is too evil. Jin Sanduo shook his head and drove this idea out of his mind.

"Wow, is your father the king of steel or the king of glass?" Zhang Nan's eyes were filled with little stars.

Jin Sanduo thought for a while and said, "I am a peace enthusiast who is committed to world peace."

“Wow, so great.”

Jin Sanduo said in his heart: "It's true that this is true. He sold hot weapons to neighboring countries and peoples that hated each other, and used ultimate violence to reduce disputes between human beings. He made people accustomed to using guns to solve problems instead of finding lawyers who are known as vampires. Of course, if people and countries have the power to check and balance, the problem will still be resolved peacefully."

"What are the industrial group busy with recently?"

"Although the road to the coal mine is less than 100 kilometers, this section of the road is only manpower, and there are really some repairs. More coking plants are being built on the coal mine. Iron mines are also building mineral processing plants."

"How to say, everyone is really enthusiastic about steelmaking. They are both coking and ore dressing."

Zhang Nan said mysteriously: "Tell you good news. Australia can produce iron now. What kind of iron-smelting furnace was made by craftsmen from Guangdong. It is said that one furnace produces tens of thousands of kilograms of iron."

“Just go and have a look.”

"I'll take you there."

This ironworks are also built by the river. It can be seen that the iron-smelting open furnace was transformed by the travelers, and the livestock blower and the high chimney can greatly increase the furnace temperature. No travelers here are working on the site, perhaps because no one knows how to do it, and those who know a little metallurgy are now doing metal processing on the Lushan.

Because the timing came unexpectedly, it took two hours for the furnace to open the furnace, but there were already many results of the furnace smelting of the furnace. Just look at the iron blocks.

The disadvantage of this open furnace is that it cannot continuously feed and iron out like blast furnace steelmaking, even small blast furnaces. Once the blast furnace is ignited, it is rare to turn off the blast furnace unless it encounters major problems.

For those who are determined to make steel, the iron furnace here is better than nothing. In addition to being able to produce some iron and iron products, the most important thing is to cultivate the first batch of skilled steel workers in the Australian Republic.

After reading some iron bars, Jin Sanduo asked a master and said, "Master, what kind of iron is this?"

This sentence angered the master: "Look at it, it's not iron. This is the steel bar formed by the iron being removed from the slag and mixed with the pig iron material. Although the poured steel is fake steel, the fake steel is also steel, not iron."

Jin Sanduo looked at these steel bars carefully again, which was even worse than the crude steel that was 100 yuan per meal in the next life. Perhaps it was because of the fact that the hundreds of refining methods or other methods were used to remove all the impurities in it.

Jin Sanduo asked: "Master, are you a blacksmith from Guangdong?"

The master nodded and said, "Old man, I am forty, and I have been eating this bowl of rice for more than 30 years."

"I really can't tell it. But why does Guangdong only produce iron and not produce steel. Many people should know this method." Jin Sanduo meant that he thought this was a senior expert in his sixties or seventies.

The master said, "There are too many reasons. I can't explain it clearly. Just say that we craftsmen are not enough to eat enough food, who still has the heart to make steel. Even if you make steel, the government will just make pig iron, so why bother to do it? The official servants, the servants, and the taxes and grains of the court must not be reduced. Besides, the furnace temperature must be reached. The government deducts money and grains from the bottom of the road. Even if the coal money for iron is used, we craftsmen will save grain from their mouths to make up for it. Whoever goes to simmer is looking for death."

Jin Sanduo asked, "Isn't anyone here to deduct the money and food for iron smelting?"

"It's not that there are two foremen at the beginning. At the beginning, I wanted to follow the Ming Dynasty. After the Australians found out, they sent them to the iron mine to mine. They appointed an old man as the foreman. Although I am illiterate, I still understand the principle of repaying kindness. Australians give us food, clothing, housing and supplies. If we can't achieve some results, it would be a waste of this daily white rice. That's what I mean is going back and forth."

The process of opening the furnace is still dangerous for those who don’t know how to know, so Jin Sanduo and others left here before opening the furnace and went to a further refining workshop. Why do you say that the workshop is? Because no petrochemical company has such a small factory, it is also the kind of civilized refining workshop that needs to be rectified and dealt with in the future.

But from here, Australians got the urgently needed gasoline, kerosene, diesel and asphalt, as well as lubricants that are indispensable to even Lushan. If they really can't get lubricants, Lushan can only go to whales. Whale oil was a very important source of lubricants in the early stages of industrialization.

Because there are only diesel engines in the lifeboat and equipment carried by Lushan, the gasoline and kerosene produced in Australia are only used for lighting lamps. Kerosene can be used for civil use, and gasoline is still a bit dangerous, so it is only used as street lamps. Before dark every day, people filled the gasoline lamps with gasoline and lit them on the reserve poles on the roadside. Immigration finally understood what the wooden poles that stood on both sides of the road were used for when the road was first built. It was not complete. Youth City and Australians finally ended the original pure ecological lifestyle of sunrise and sunset.

This time, the Lushan City did not create a large number of steel daily necessities for the Youth City, because according to the Qingnan City, those pseudo-steels have become amazing daily necessities after carburizing. The Lushan City's alloy production should be kept for making guns and cannons, after all, the intensity of thermal weapons is higher.

Youth City has been built from scratch and has shown vitality after more than half a year of construction. Although it was over the farming season when I arrived here last year, only a season of potatoes, rice and some green vegetables were planted, this year's winter wheat has sprouted and off-season vegetables grown in the greenhouse made the winter table here not monotonous.

Because the climate is suitable, although it is in the Little Ice Age, it has not reached zero degrees during the coldest winter. For Australia, it is basically a thousand years to wait. It is foreseeable that rice is planted here and there will be at least two seasons a year. It is expected that next summer, the food here will be basically self-sufficient. This is under the premise that there is no large number of immigrants, but this is basically impossible. If Australia wants to develop, it needs to immigrate more.

According to the lunar calendar, it was almost the New Year of this year. So the Lushan City, which had unloaded its supplies, was not in a hurry to leave, and it was not a day or two to transport immigrants. Everyone unanimously decided to travel through the crowd and spend the New Year on the Lushan City before setting off.

Because of the news, those who had work at hand stopped before the New Year. On New Year's Eve, five hundred travelers gathered again on the Lushan Cast to eat dumplings for the New Year. There were endless movies in the classroom. Everyone was drinking wine and eating pork dumplings, talking about the changes everywhere over the past six months. This may be the atmosphere of the New Year.

For the people of Youth City, the time travelers were on a long 18-day holiday. Although they did not go to work after the first lunar month, they could go to work after the 15th Lantern Festival. As for the New Year, they naturally paid for one month of money and food. According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the time travelers who earned thirteen months of salary a year also followed the customs here.

Today, the Australian Youth City is no longer the place where you can’t spend money with silver. It was born in a place where the newly built hypermarket commonly known as supermarkets were newly built before the New Year.

Because every time I send you firewood, rice, grain, oil, sauce, vinegar and tea is too complicated, and if the time travelers don’t come to do it and supervise it personally, there may be someone taking advantage of it. This time travelers are really a headache. If they were not all compatriots, they would have thrown a few to the sea to feed sharks. But the habits of the Ming Dynasty have always been like this. As long as you have the opportunity, it will harm the public and private or benefit others for your own benefit, and it will not be a matter of change overnight. Therefore, it is reasonable to form the supermarket controlled by the time travelers. As long as the basic money is given to the workers, they will go to the supermarket to buy things by themselves. In the later stage, the money will be credited, and each unit will only pay wages.

In the past, because there was no coining technology, people still gave discounted silver according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty. This was too cumbersome in the transaction. Later, after the hydraulic stamping machine in Youth City was created, the currency problem was finally solved. The currency used by Australians was not essentially different from the current ocean. It was just that on one side was the flag of the Australian sickle and axe. On the other side was a large iron ship, which was naturally the Lushan. The grandfather of former Prime Minister Mr. Sun had not been born in this era. Everyone thought it was meaningless to print his avatar.

Silver coins range from one cent to one yuan outside. In order to prevent someone from scraping silver, there are serrated copper coins of one cent to five cents. Judging from the auxiliary coins used in the Ming Dynasty, Australians' copper coins are naturally not worth enough, but this does not affect the use of copper coins, because copper coins can be exchanged for silver coins if they have enough money to make up a dime. Besides, there is a bad currency in the market that drives out good coins, which is not to prepare for entering the Ming Dynasty market in the future. It is said that gold coins of ten yuan and twenty yuan will be developed in the future, but now there is no mold available, because the gold price in Europe is much higher than that in the Ming Dynasty. Once gold coins are created, it is most likely that Westerners will exchange silver coins for silver coins. However, if they follow the exchange rate of Westerners against gold, they are afraid that the Ming Dynasty will not admit it.

Many people were talking enthusiastically that the people in the Economic Group were preparing to establish a state-owned bank after the New Year, that is, the Australian Central Bank, and it is a bit unclear to issue currencies like this. In the future, the minting institutions will naturally transfer them to the Australian Central Bank.

One of the functions of Australian banks is naturally to recover money. Australians are preparing to give high wages to front-line workers, but they do not want them to bury silver coins or bring them to their graves like rich people. It is of course the best way to pass on them to their descendants. The effect of bank money making money is still something that many people like, and modern banks can be said to be an incubator of enterprises. Through the role of credit, those who immigrate to Australia will eventually establish their own industries.

This time when the Lushan number left in the third year of the Chinese New Year, everyone brought Australian currency. Looking at the Lushan number and sickle and axe on the silver coins, everyone realized for the first time that Australia finally looked like a country. All this was just what everyone did in just over half a year, and a sense of pride couldn't help but feel aroused. Yes, we are here, we have done it.

"There has never been any savior, nor any ghosts, gods..."

The forbidden song that everyone sang before going to sea also became the national anthem for Australians.

The Lushan went out to sea again. This time, it went to the estuary of the Pearl River in Guangdong to see if anyone placed an order here. Because the Pi Island on Mao Wenlong needed some food, the Lushan River took a few orders and left from the estuary of the Pearl River and went straight to Vietnam to collect food. Because of the war, there was a huge demand for arms here, but the war did not affect Vietnam's agricultural production. These things in the farmland were done by women for thousands of years.

If you want to talk about Vietnamese women, it is actually quite good. At least in terms of hard work, it is comparable to the child brides of the Ming Dynasty. After the colonial rule of France and other countries, the mixed-race descendants produced were not as dark as those of the indigenous people, and they were mainly sunk. After all, this place has a tropical and subtropical climate, and they often do farm work in the fields. If it weren't for the language, people wouldn't mind buying a batch of people who have been fed and warm since ancient times. Is it inevitable that the Lushan boat is a ship that has more men and fewer women. Jin Sanduo occupied one at the first time, but there are still a large number of bachelors who are above the top who are very thirsty.
Chapter completed!