After Su Qinglian and Cai Yu left Yunzhou, Guo Jia left the matter at hand and took his men all the way to Bohai Kingdom.

Because he's going to build a naval base here.

Sailing has always been Guo Jia's most desirable thing, and he has also studied this aspect in many aspects in his previous life.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and Guo Jiakong has ambitions but no boats.

However, Guo Jia's luck is really good, and there are people who come to deliver pillows when he dozes off, and Yuan Shao doesn't know that the tendon is wrong, so he spent a lot of money to entangle more than 100 building ships to attack the rear of Jizhou.

These 100 ships were the last savings of the Han Dynasty, and they were all sent to Jizhou by Yuan Shao.

In the first battle of the Yellow River estuary, most of the 100 building ships were sunk, and the remaining coefficient was accepted by Guo Jiaxiao.

That's a lot of money.

Not only that, but with the support of Guo Jia, Gu Yue had already moved his clan to the Bohai Kingdom, and their family was born in shipbuilding. These craftsmen dragged out the wreck at the bottom of the river and repaired it, and actually gathered more than 30 building boats.

A building ship can carry more than 300 people, and 30 building ships can carry more than 10,000 people.

If you want to ask which navy is stronger, it should be Yunzhou now.

"Subordinates meet the lord!"

Cheng Yu was supervising the work in the shipyard, and when he saw Guo Jia coming, he immediately led his subordinates to meet him.

"Zhongde has worked hard!"

Guo Jia hurriedly helped Cheng Yu up and said with a smile: "What's going on in the shipyard?" ”

Cheng Yu hurriedly took out a scroll.

After receiving the order of the lord, his subordinates did not dare to slack off and immediately began to build the shipyard. Now the shipyard has been preliminarily completed, covering an area of 20 acres, with three ports, one deep sea port and two inland rivers. Now General Gu has repaired 33 building ships, more than 300 ge, bridge ships, fighting ships, and ships, and only needs to recruit a sufficient number of sailors, and he will soon be able to form a fleet of 10,000 people. ”

Not bad, not bad!

Guo Jia nodded with satisfaction.

Cheng Yu was a little embarrassed.

Guo Jia is very concerned about this shipyard, asking for money for money, people for people, and materials for materials, if Cheng Yu can't get it, then it will be too incompetent.

"Let's go to the boat!"

Guo Jia waved his hand and led his hand down to the port, although he had heard of this kind of big ship, he really had never seen it in person.

Lord, please!

Cheng Yu hurriedly led Guo Jia to the port.

There are many rivers in Jizhou, which is suitable for mooring large ships, and Cheng Yu soon took Guo Jia to the nearest port.

There are already three intact ships moored here, and another six or seven are being corrected.

"Hurry up, the sail board should be reinforced, so as not to break into the sea, over there, add hemp rope to the board and pour tung oil with skin gum, and it must not leak."

Gu Yue is like a high-ranking general, directing his craftsmen to work.

I have to say that this guy is still professional, and what he says is also the head.

"General, you're here!"

Seeing Guo Jia coming, Gu Yue ran over in a hurry.

"How's the ship?"

Guo Jia looked at the building ship that the craftsmen were repairing and asked.

Rest assured!

Gu Yue said with confidence: "Our clan is a shipbuilder, even if the worst ship is repaired by us, it will definitely be able to launch and sail away." ”

It's not that this is blowing, their family is a hereditary shipbuilder.

Very good!

Guo Jia nodded with satisfaction and boarded the hull under the leadership of Gu Yue.

The ship was destroyed in the battle of the estuary, and the upper part of the hull was burned, but after some repairs by craftsmen, it was restored to a new look.

Guo Jia went down to the lower level and found the craftsmen filling in the cracks of the boat.

"What is this for?"

Guo Jia asked puzzled.

Back to the Great General!

Gu Yue said loudly: "This is glue filling to prevent the bottom hull from leaking." With hemp rope and some trivial things as the main body, supplemented by lime animal skin glue and other adhesives, and then coated with tung oil. In this way, the seams of the boat do not leak. ”

I see!

Guo Jia nodded.

In this era, shipbuilding was made of wooden planks, and wooden plank ships had to solve the problem of water leakage first, but there was no glue in the Han Dynasty, but the clever ancients thought of other methods, using quicklime, boiling animal skins and barrels of oil to make simple waterproof materials. Able to keep the hull watertight and sail in the water for a long time.

"Get ready, change the building ship, let's go to sea and see!"

Guo Jia suddenly became interested.

He also wanted to see how well the ship could run.

Great generals!

Hearing the news, Cheng Yu was taken aback.

For Guo Jia's arrival, this Taishou Lord is still very welcome, but welcome to welcome, he will never dare to let Guo Jia take risks.

In case this master has a whim, and he also learns to go to Penglai Immortal Mountain, then Cheng Yu will be finished.

If something goes wrong with Guo Jia, Cheng Yu will not be eaten alive by the ladies in the backyard.

The sea is stormy, and if you can't say it, the boat will capsize, but you still stay on the shore.

"General, this storm is impermanent, if something goes wrong, your subordinates will die and will not be able to forgive their sins."

Hehe!

Guo Jia smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, we are just going around the offshore and will not stay away." ”

Hearing Guo Jia say this, Cheng Yu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

It's good not to go far, and you can take care of it if there are many ships near the sea.

"Taishou-sama don't worry!"

Gu Yue said proudly: "With General Ben here, I will definitely be able to ensure that the general is worry-free." ”

He is also a person who has been to Fusang Country no matter how he says, and he has never seen any strong winds and waves, and this offshore voyage is more familiar than walking in his own backyard.

Good!

Cheng Yu gritted his teeth and said, "Immediately select a sturdy building ship, allocate a hundred sailors, and let General Gu personally drive the boat." ”

He can't believe others!

No problem!

Gu Yue left in a hurry, and soon the other building ship parked in the harbor was already ready.

Guo Jia boarded the building ship with three hundred tiger guards.

This is a five-story building ship, and it is also the largest and strongest ship among all building ships, which was originally intended for Guo Jia.

The top floor of the building ship is where the handsome flag is located. Cheng Yu and others prepared a Hu bed for Guo Jia, with a tiger skin on it.

Guo Jia sat in the center, Cheng Yu and Gu Yue were on the left and right, and the Tiger Guards were all over the deck to stand guard.

Gu Yue picked up the pennant, saw the direction of the wind, and shouted.

"The wind is rising, the anchorage is rising!"

The boat is a sailor turning a winch, and two baskets of heavy stones are raised from the water.

At that time, iron was still a relatively luxurious thing, and it was not enough to build weapons and armor, so naturally there was no ability to make iron anchors.

The craftsmen had to replace it with heavy stones, which they called the Bunkatsu.

The ship's anchor was pulled up, and the ship was free.

"Southwest wind, mainsail raised, rudder turned!"

"Starboard paddle paddling."

Although the boat capsized, it was still powered by oars.

Dozens of sailors began paddling with a thick oar.

Gu Yue picked up the pennant and commanded, and the big ship sailed out of the port and slowly entered the sea along the sea.

(End of chapter)