On March 5, 1648, moderate rain.

In the old dock of Zhenhai Shipyard, the harsh sound of machine sawing wood sounded one after another. In the processing workshops on both sides of the dock, dozens of woodworking machine tools lined up, constantly processing the ship materials transported from the top into standard parts of various sizes. The processed standard parts were then pulled into the dock through horse-drawn trucks, and the shipbuilders were assembled.

At this time, five large ships were lined up on the ship platform, and more than 600 workers were fighting ten times. In December last year, they shared the orders for ten flute-shaped ships ordered by the Ottoman Empire with the Dayuhe Factory, with five ships in each factory. The five ships built by the Zhenhai Factory will be able to be launched in one or two months. At that time, a sea trial will be carried out - transporting a batch of supplies from Zhenhai Port to Blanca Port. After the sea trial is no problem, these ships will wait until July and August of the second half of the year to set off for the Mediterranean with the naval escort fleet, and can also pull more things when you go.

The orders for five flute-shaped ships made Zhenhai Factory suddenly enter a full-load operation from the dilemma of half-stop work. The workers who received a basic salary for half a year showed unprecedented enthusiasm. They did not use foreman, team leader, squad leader, workshop director, etc. to emphasize labor discipline. They worked extremely seriously, without any laziness, and their work was also very meticulous, which effectively guaranteed the quality of these ships.

They were really scared by the days of no orders! Since building several naval supply ships, the three major shipbuilding companies in the East Coast Republic have collectively fallen into the Great Depression. The domestic manpower is tight, and many sailors have been recruited to serve on the naval supply ships. Therefore, the South China Sea Transportation Company has also adjusted its investment plan - in fact, the Ministry of Transportation has no money to allocate downwards - since October 1646, except for placing orders for three flute-type transport ships, there has been no plan to build new ships.

The South China Sea Transportation Company has no orders. The Navy has no plans for new ships. In addition to orders for supply ships, medical ships and other orders in 1946, no new ship was built in the entire 1947 years. It is logical that the East Coast is in the period of the war with Spain. The Navy should increase its efforts in shipbuilding, but unfortunately, the domestic manpower is short of labor, and experienced sailors are even short of financial difficulties. Therefore, the Navy did not have any plans for new ships in 1947. Some sailors trained or recruited urgently supplemented the damage to naval combat. Therefore, even if the new warships are built, there are not enough sailors to control them. It is better not to build them!

After silently completing the orders at hand, the three major ships of the South China Sea Transportation Company were divided into one piece and there was nothing to do. During this period, they might have taken on some small tasks such as ship repair and steam transformation, but they could not change the general trend. By the end of February and early March, the three major ships that completed the orders at hand had fallen into a state of complete suspension!

Among them, modern special ship factories may have a better life. Because the whaling ships, dredgers, lighthouse ships, squid fishing ships, immigration special ships, etc. at hand are all highly professional ships, with a long construction cycle and high profit margins, so they can still hold on in a short period of time. Moreover, their factory director Wei Hua is also more capable, and actually used his relationship to grab orders for two sail-powered whaling ships from Brazil, which almost made the management of the other two factories look glaring.

The days of modern factories can still be mixed. But the Zhenhai Factory and Dayuhe Factory are deserted. All workers are depressed because everyone understands that if there is no order, you can only get a basic salary: five yuan per month - this is the income of the state-owned enterprise after the State Council raised the minimum wage standard. In the past, it was only a pitiful four yuan. In this era when currency was over-issued due to the war and prices soared, could five yuan be used to be?

The management of the two shipyards was also anxious. The large number of industrial workers who had been trained in the factory for more than ten years gradually declined every month, and their lives were tight, which made them lack the confidence to speak loudly in the factory. While they went to Brazil to sell their ships, they either organized workers to plant trees (all ship materials such as oak trees) or organized workers to repair docks and roads, allowing everyone to earn some hard-earned money to subsidize their household income.

It is always a bad feeling for the workers who have been trained at a high price to build roads and plant trees. Moreover, these large shipyards have fallen into a depression, and the small factories that provide them with supporting facilities have suffered a catastrophe. The anchor chain factories, machine canvas factories, and wood drying factories invested by the state are not a big deal. After all, their family has a big business, and their anchor chains, canvas, and wood products are not only used in shipbuilding, but other industries will also use these things from time to time. Therefore, although these two factories are not in sufficient construction, they can barely support them.

However, it is difficult for those privately invested barrel making workshops, rope making workshops, leather workshops, blacksmith workshops and even some ships to have decoration workshops. They have no source of income at all. Employee income has dropped drastically, and business owners have fallen into huge losses. These small businesses are the worst financial strength and the weakest risk resistance in the entire shipbuilding industry chain. Therefore, many workshops have introduced new investors or simply changed their owners during the Great Depression. The original workshop-style enterprises have also merged and reorganized in this crisis. The number of enterprises has decreased, expanded in scale, and reduced costs a lot. However, in the days when there are no new orders, they can only rely on some meager subsidies issued by the Ministry of Transport to survive. To achieve the recovery of the entire industry, the three major shipyards still need to receive production tasks first.

After a full year of hard work, in the second half of 47 years, the trade fleet returned from Europe brought exciting news: the Ottoman government ordered ten 600-ton flute-type transport ships, each ship contracted for 40,000 yuan! This news was like a shot of a cardiac injected into the hearts of every shipbuilder. Everyone immediately threw away the road construction and tree planting work at hand, and then happily returned to the factory to prepare for construction of a new ship.

If the east is not bright, the west is bright, so it should be like this! New ships were stopped in China due to the serious shortage of sailors and financial difficulties (the immigrant ships from modern factories are still being built), so building ships for foreigners has become the only way out! This big order is really time!

Long-lost thick smoke came out of the chimneys in the wood drying factory, and a large number of large-leaf red sandalwood transported from New China and red sandalwood were sent to the kiln for drying; the machine canvas factory also began to weave fine and thick canvas, and the canvas woven was extremely heavy, and some Ottoman-designated patterns were weaved on the sail surface with dyed cloth; the anchor chain factory was even more jingling at this time, and the five large and thick workers were casting anchor chains with red iron. As for the business owners of the small supporting factories, they even jumped up and called back the workers who went home to help their families farm or do odd jobs, notifying everyone to start construction immediately, preparing to make supporting equipment for Zhenhai Factory and Dayuhe Factory.

The old dock, which has been integrated into seven ship platforms, was immediately crowded. Everyone was ready to complete these ships with quality and quantity! The flute-shaped transport ship is a classic ocean-going cargo ship of the East Coast Republic. Everyone has built dozens of them over the years, and they have extremely rich experience. It can be said that they can be made with their eyes closed.

This time, five of the seven major ship platforms were laid with keels (the other two ships were repaired or steamed. The machines roared in the wood processing workshop because the hardwoods were cut from Xinhuaxia, so many high-carbon steel blades were scrapped in the afternoon, but everyone didn't care, because there was nothing more reassuring than listening to the roar of machines in the factory - this meant that everyone's income began to rise sharply.

After these five ships were built, there were still orders from five Ottoman civil transport merchants. These were all ships ordered by merchants who specialized in Black Sea transportation. They were really fed up with the previous Isak ships that were backward in technology, small and extremely unsafe. They now need some efficient and safe large ships. If the five ships built by the East Coast people can satisfy them, then there will probably be a second and third batch of orders in the next row. This is undoubtedly extremely important for the shipbuilding industry of the East Coast Republic of China, because their current domestic demand is seriously insufficient.

However, in any case, the large orders from overseas will finally regain the vitality of the East Coast shipbuilding industry, which has been trapped in the quagmire due to war factors. They have maintained the technical team of these shipyards and more than a thousand skilled industrial workers, which is the most important thing for East Coast people who are aspiring to industrialize.

Zhenhai Shipyard and Dayuhe Naval Shipyard have embarked on the road of recovery after a year of terrible depression, which is actually a microcosm of some outward-oriented industries in the East Coast Republic of China. After experiencing a stage of rapid expansion of production scale, the sudden war and foreign markets have put them in a dilemma. For example, the textile industry has been insufficient to start construction, and the demand for the leather goods industry is also declining. In short, it is time for the export-oriented industries on the East Coast to adjust their production structure and optimize product quality.

Next, as the European war gradually subsided, the industrial and agricultural production order in England, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany will be restored and enter a period of rapid development. At that time, any tariff barriers, trade frictions, and industry protection in the continental countries that are prevalent in mercantilism will make the sales of East Coast products difficult. How to adjust the industrial production structure and continue to compete with the Europeans so that the industrialization of the East Coast will not be still in the womb is actually a very test of the wisdom of the ruling people.

The industry is gradually recovering, while more far-reaching crises are also coming! (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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