That night, Zhao Hao tried to persuade Yang Fan again to jump ship to Jiangnan Shipyard as a captain.

For this reason, Zhao Hao offered the chairman of Jiangnan Shipbuilding Corporation, with an annual salary of 3,000 taels and a generous treatment of a female secretary with performance shares.

also promised that if he still wanted to be an official, he would try to make him a Chongming County Cheng. Although they are all eight grades, the county is a serious civil official, and it is comparable to the non-treasure shipyard to promote this kind of miscellaneous official.

Yang Fan was obviously very moved, but he was reluctant to live in the treasure shipyard where he had lived for generations. Zhao Hao can understand his feelings, just like the director of the state-owned factory in the eighties and nineties in the later generations, he has true feelings for the factory, and he will never leave until the factory is finished.

What's more, with its own orders, the small days of Longjiang factory are moisturizing. He was even more reluctant to leave.

Everyone has their own ambitions, and Zhao Gongzi can't afford to spend money and humiliate him anymore, so he can only respect Yang Fan's choice.

However, in addition to sticking to the Longjiang factory, Yang Fan is still very flexible in other aspects. Otherwise, he would not be able to open a coffin shop to make up for his life.

In addition to promising Zhao Hao before, he would help him train 500 shipbuilding craftsmen such as carpenters, ironworkers, tin workers, carvers, carpenters, penggongs, rope workers, cable workers, and painters.

This time, he also promised Zhao Hao to recruit 1,000 skilled craftsmen for Zhao Hao from the 2,000 craftsmen under the jurisdiction of the Longjiang Lifting Division to enrich the shipbuilding strength of the Jiangnan Factory.

The reason why Yang Fan has this confidence to help Zhao Hao recruit so many craftsmen is that Zhao Gongzi gave too much. Second, since the 41st year of Jiajing, the imperial court was forced to implement the 'law of substitution of silver for service' due to the increasingly serious phenomenon of craftsmen slacking off, hiding and fleeing. The craftsmen could pay silver instead of labor, and the government hired silver instead.

In this way, the craftsmen only had to pay five pieces of silver per month to the lifting priest, and they were free to work without constraints.

Zhao Hao promised to give the craftsmen at least two or five per month, so that if they are handed over to the lifting division, the craftsmen can still have two or two months of money, so naturally they don't have to worry about not being in the house.

As for Yang Fan's side. First of all, the five coins of silver paid by the craftsmen included five points of filial piety for the promotion. A thousand craftsmen are fifty taels of silver a month.

In addition, only one member of the artisan family needs to serve, and not all the family has to work for the government. In this way, Lao Tzu worked as a craftsman for the imperial court, and his sons who learned the craft could go out to work. Therefore, among the two thousand craftsmen, there is at least one three or four thousand skilled craftsmen, and less than one thousand will not affect the normal operation of the shipyard, and it can also reduce his burden.

Two thousand families followed him all day long to eat and drink, and the taste was really sad.

~~

Although he did not say that Yang Fan would go out of the mountain, Zhao Hao's trip to Longjiang Factory was also full of harvest.

That night, he stayed overnight at the Lifting Office. The place in the government office is small, and Zhao Gongzi can only sleep in a room with Sister Ma and Qiaoqiao, and there is only one bed......

Don't think about it, it's a bed!

One night was innocent, nothing happened. Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway.

Early the next morning, because he was too excited, Zhao Gongzi, who had not slept all night, got on the Science at the Longjiangguan Wharf with a pair of dark circles under his eyes and went straight to Chongming.

According to the original plan, he will go to Jinling City to continue to be friendly and prosperous. But now, everything that has nothing to do with going to sea has to be put back!

~~

A day later, the Science arrived in Sansha, Chongming.

Zhao Hao stood on the deck, and saw from a distance that there was a high stone embankment and sea pond on the entire south bank of Sansha, which was like a winding dragon in the morning light, protecting the entire Sansha.

It was the 'Chongming Pond Building and Collapse Protection Project', which started in October last year, and it has lasted for four months, and the first phase of the project is finally nearing completion.

The Science Ship was walking around Sansha along the sea pond, intending to find a newly built county wharf to dock, but on the way, it heard many people shouting 'Master' and 'Master'......

Zhao Hao followed the prestige, and saw a group of people waving and shouting there on the Haitang construction site. took the telescope and looked at it, and it was his two living treasure apprentices who were the leader.

In front of the sea pond is a large tidal flat, and although the Science is a flat-bottomed sand boat, it does not dare to rush to it.

At this time, Ma Yinglong, who was patrolling nearby, came over to greet him in a small boat.

Zhao Gongzi left Sister Ma on the Science and let the big boat go to the county government first, and he stepped on the ladder to go down to the boat and took the boat to the sea pond.

~~

"Meet the Master!" As soon as Zhao Hao came ashore, Jin Xuezeng and Yu Shensi hurriedly kowtowed to him.

Seeing that the old parents knelt for the young man, the people who repaired the embankment also hurriedly knelt on the ground.

"Get up, get up." Zhao Hao hurriedly kicked Jin Xuezeng, if this battle was seen, he couldn't tell a few mouths.

"Hehe, Master deserves to kneel down as Father Chongming," Jin Xuezeng stood up with a smile, turned to the people of Chongming and said, "This is the old teacher that this official often tells you, and our sea pond is all thanks to his old man." and our county seat, which was also given to us by his old man! ”

When the people heard this, they naturally thanked them and kowtowed. Although I think that this young son is not an old man......

"Alright, let's get to work." Jin Xuezeng sent the people away, turned his head and asked with a smile: "What kind of wind blew the master?" ”

"Don't you read the newspaper?" Zhao Hao asked him rhetorically.

"Hey, I haven't seen it for a long time. Now the apprentice only wants to build the sea pond and hurry up to finish the grain planting. Jin Xuezeng smiled, he was now dark and thin, and he looked more and more like a monkey.

"Yes, Master, seeing that it is more than half of February, the sea pond is still not finished, and this year's spring plowing will be delayed." Yu Shen thought anxiously and said: "If you plant late, you have to harvest late, if you delay it until the wind and flood have not harvested, it will be troublesome." ”

The sea pond is mainly used to prevent the collapse of the sandbar, and it is not yet known whether it can prevent the tide. What's more, even if the tide can be prevented, the typhoon can still blow the rice to the ground, and the losses are also heavy.

"Hmm." Zhao Hao nodded, he didn't count Chongming's earthen embankment into this year's harvest at all. I didn't expect the sun to be so strong.

came to the ground, but Zhao Gongzi couldn't resist the strong invitation of his disciples, so he could only visit the construction of the sea pond.

Chongming's father and elder were extremely concerned about this project to protect the family and prevent the collapse. In order to be able to stabilize the golden soup forever, they dug a deep foundation for the sea pond, and also picked up soil to build a slope protection outside the rough stone concrete sea pond with a height of several feet, raked it layer by layer, and sprinkled water to tamp it. Then the cone hole is grouting in sections to make it more fleshy and firm, and not afraid of floods.

In addition to slope protection, the people also built many protective barriers and dams with concrete at key places. At the same time, the tidal flat in front of the embankment is planted with green roots, which are deeply rooted and connected, and are not afraid of wind and water and flooding waves, which can protect the tidal flat and promote silt.

Barriers, slopes, dams, tidal flats, and reeds are connected to form a barrier, which together protect the sea pond that they regard as their life.

This situation made Zhao Gongzi once again convinced that the people of the Ming Dynasty were by no means as ignorant and insensitive as some people said. It's just that the gentlemen, ministers, and doctors of the Ming Dynasty can't mobilize their enthusiasm.

You see, how conscientious and responsible they are when it comes to defending their homeland, and how they take the initiative to use their ingenuity.