More Profitable Than Fishing Boats?

More Profitable Than Fishing Boats?

Tian Caihua asked in shock, "How big is this ship?"

Two shipworkers were making preparations. One of them answered, "The ship is 175 meters in overall length, 162 meters between perpendiculars, 22.3 meters in molded breadth, 13.2 meters in molded depth, and has a designed draft of 9.5 meters."

175 meters!

Tian Caihua was stunned. "This is a 175-meter ship?"

It was a hundred meters longer than the fishing boat they had jointly ordered!

The shipworker said proudly, "You can measure it. The error is less than two millimeters!!!"

When it came to dimensions, their shipyard could already control the error to within two millimeters! There was practically no error at all!

That level of precision had shocked the foreigners.

Not to mention the innovations and breakthroughs in other technical areas.

That was why their shipyard's export orders increased year after year.

Their shipyard's technology was advancing by leaps and bounds, improving every year.

Tian Caihua naturally did not go measure it. It was not her family's ship, after all. If it were her family's ship, she would have measured it. "A ship this big must eat a lot, right?"

The shipworker understood what she meant and replied proudly, "Its fuel consumption is roughly thirty-two tons a day."

Tian Caihua looked at Jiang Xia. "How many jin is thirty-two tons?"

Her son recited every day that one ton equaled one thousand kilograms.

One kilogram equaled one kilogram!

One kilogram equaled two jin!

So...

Jiang Xia said, "Sixty-four thousand jin."

Tian Caihua: "...Your husband ordered such a big eater to haul what? Gold?"

It burned sixty-four thousand jin of fuel a day. They would have to haul a gold mine to earn that back, wouldn't they?

Everyone was amused by her words.

Father Zhou laughed. "That's