Edo Traveler

v10 Chapter 54: Yokohama Shipyard is happy

The 1,200 immigrants in the first phase were so fooled and sent to the steamer to Hakodate and Langley. Thousands of immigrants in the second batch are also being fooled into Edo.

After    Tademon learned about the situation from Keito Kurokawa, he went to Yokohama in person to prevent overestimation of the ethics of the feudal bureaucracy. As long as you look at the grain and cotton clothes received by the immigrants when you board the ship, you will feel at ease.

   After all, Hakodate is practising Hori Toshi, crying every day to send girls to Ezo. He did a good job of resettlement before, and he is quite famous in Ezo. Now that so many families with girls have sent it over, he is sure of his heart.

   As for the Langley Concession, the supervisor is a British, and the shogunate officials are all assisting. If there is something dirty, the British will not give him a good face unless the shogunate does not let him go.

  I expected that it was just a little bit of trouble on the account, and this kind of thing Zhongemon really couldn't help it. For people, the system can only make regulations, and it is impossible to control the mind. It would be good if it can be maintained at a level that is not too obtrusive. Everyone is a saint, serving the people wholeheartedly, that only exists in the myth.

   Yes, come to Yokohama to send it off.

  Because there is no such big ship that can carry thousands of people at once, the Postal Service can only transfer them as quickly as possible, mobilize all kinds of ships, and go north in batches. You just let the British pull five or six thousand people in one boat, but he can't do it. It's normal. A few decades later, on the Titanic, more than two thousand people would be carried by one ship, which is a lot.

   Now that we talked about ships, Tadaoemon simply went to the Yokohama Shipyard to see. The Yokohama Shipyard, which has been able to independently build hundreds of tons of steamships, is in full swing. The skilled craftsmen trained by Saga, John Manjiro who returned from the United States, and the designer Katsukaishu who studied in the United Kingdom, this shipyard is not a grass-roots team.

   is just that the marine steam engine technology mastered by the shogunate is so-so, and certainly not comparable to the British technology, so the merchant ships manufactured are all several hundred tons, and there are only two ships on the berth that are more conspicuous.

One is the "Haiten Wan" purchased from Prussia. It is the Prussia that everyone knows. Yes, Suga Qiyu, who has been buying ships from foreign countries in Nagasaki, didn’t know if he had eaten Prussian ecstasy soup. Huitian pills were bought back. By the way, if nothing else, this Huiten pill is the one from Ezo Republic in history.

   steam paddle wheel, and wooden frigate with sail auxiliary power. It has a displacement of 1,920 tons, a length of 75.66 meters, a width of 16.5 meters, and a speed of 11.6 knots. It normally carries 153 crew members and has 10 68-pounder guns.

   It is estimated that the main reason why Suga Qiyu bought this ship is called 2,000 tons...

   After all, the shogunate still can touch the side of two thousand tons on this ship, and the others are more than one thousand tons. The Kasuga pill that Queen Victoria gave to the Tokugawa family was only 1,289 tons. With the shogunate's own construction, it is temporarily impossible to build a large ship of two to three thousand tons. I heard that someone was selling it, but I just bought it happily.

   is this thing produced by Prussia, it feels a little unspeakable.

   Huitian, formerly known as the Danzig (SMSDanzig), was the first steam-powered warship of the Prussian Navy. Designed by British engineer John Scott Russell (), it was originally planned to be manufactured in the UK, but Prince Adalbert of Prussia decided to build it in Danzig Port. The design of the ship was finalized in 1850 and officially entered service in the Prussian Navy in 1853.

   In 1856, as the flagship of the Danzig, at the invitation of Napoleon III, it visited France with several other pure sailing ships. It just happened to run into the battleship "Komaru" sold by the Netherlands to the shogunate. Takeshi Enomoto, who ordered a battleship for the shogunate in Europe, also saw this ship at that time.

   asked, do you sell it? Valley

Sell!

   Yes, so the ship was sold to the Shogunate by the Prussians at a very low price of 23,000 pounds. The Dutch drove him to Yokohama and he is currently undergoing extensive maintenance.

   As for why the Prussians sell it, the reason is very simple. This is a Prussian test product, and Prussia is not a naval power. It is only recently that his national power has been increasing day by day, and at the same time, in order to declare that he still has some cards in the Baltic Sea, and by the way, to fight against pirates, this has begun the construction of the navy.

  The focus is on accumulating experience, followed by shipbuilding and selling money. Therefore, when countries in the world have gradually begun to phase out paddle-wheeled warships, Prussia sold this ship very happily.

  I was behind the times when I arrived in Japan. This is the real situation of naval ships in the second half of the 19th century!

It can lag further behind, and it is also a good ship in East Asia. It is easy to have the opportunity to actually repair and maintain a two thousand-ton warship. It is not only the marine technicians from the Yokohama Shipyard, but also the students from the Yokohama Merchant Marine School and the Yokohama Naval Training Institute. They were all brought over to learn on the spot.

   Sheng Haizhou, who was giving lectures on the side, was very enthusiastic, UU reading www.uukanshu. It's easy for the shogunate to have such a big boat, and the students are also very serious in learning. No one cared about the arrival of Chuemon. These people were the pillars of the future navy of the shogunate. They were full of vigor and even infected Chuemon.

   It wasn't until the explanation of the hull was over that Katsukaishu and John Manjiro, whose throats were a little dumb, discovered that Chuemon was standing next to the slipway and looked at them with a smile.

   "If your Royal Highness is coming, please let me know earlier." Sheng Haizhou hurried over.

  The students of the Naval Drilling Center knew Chuemonto. After all, this school was also established with the support of Chuemon. Many students bow their heads and salute when they pass by Chuemon Gate. As the first-term students of the Navy, except for some students from other princes, most of them are motivated children recruited from the Qiben imperial family, and they all look delightful.

   "It happened to be there to send the immigrants to Ezo, and if there is nothing to do, come over and take a look." Chungemon and the students also smiled.

   "His Royal Highness came to see that ship, right?" John Manjiro asked Chuemon as if he had thought of something.

   "How's it going?" It was said, but he guessed it.

   When the British and American forces came fiercely, there was no warship in the shogunate. At the Tademon Gate guarded by Uraga, he was sad when he heard that his friend Egawa Hideryu died in battle. I only hate that the shogunate has no ships, so after the founding of the country, he was determined to run the Yokohama Shipyard.

  In addition to building normal steamships and accumulating experience in building ships, Chuemon also specifically asked Katsu Kaishu, John Manjiro and others...