Qin Feng grabbed the old boatwright's hands covered with hard calluses with both hands and personally helped him up. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Master Yu, hard work." Qin Feng smiled.

Yu Cong, the old master who was grabbed by the emperor's hands, trembled uncontrollably with excitement, in Dachu, he was just a lowly craftsman, not to mention the emperor, as long as he was an official, he could drink to him, in his eyes, the county official was already a very big official.

Changing the environment and coming to a strange area, what he got was unimaginable. His lips trembled, and he could barely speak.

Holding these big hands with their muscles exposed, Qin Feng raised his voice and said, "Get up, be courteous, and be flat." ”

Gonggong Le behind him raised his voice and repeated Qin Feng's words again, and the boatmen who were kneeling on the ground under the black pressure almost got up, most of them stared at the young emperor who was holding Yu Cong in front of him.

This is the Emperor!

"Master Yu, you came to Daming, are you still used to it?" Qin Feng gently patted Yu Cong's hand and asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, get used to it, get used to it, it's just too used to it, it's so good here." Yu Cong nodded again and again, his mood finally calmed down, and his body was no longer trembling.

"It's really embarrassing for you to leave your homeland, far from your homeland, and come to this unfamiliar place." Qin Feng sighed lightly.

"No, no, no!" Yu Cong hurriedly said: "Back to Your Majesty, the grass people, these people, are just lowly craftsmen in Dachu, they have nothing, they work hard every day, and it is difficult to even wrap their stomachs, but when they come to Daming, they not only become officials, but also get a share of land and have their own houses, and now everyone is very happy to be here." ”

Yu Cong's group of people did feel very lucky, at the beginning, they had no way and no money, so they were forced to go to Baoqing, but no one thought that this fall fell into the honey pot.

With a house, land, and money, is there a more comfortable life than this?

"Your Majesty, you have prepared a rest room for you in the shipyard, and when the auspicious time comes, the new ship can cut the ribbon and be launched." Yu Congdao.

"Well, don't go to the lounge, I'll go to the public hall where you usually do things." Qin Feng said with a smile.

Yu Cong was stupid all of a sudden, "Your Majesty, there's a lot of chaos there." ”

"Don't be afraid, not afraid." Qin Feng waved his hand, raised his foot and walked inside, "Lead the way." ”

Yu Cong's usual office for official business is in the dock of the shipbuilding, a house erected in the air with wood, it is really very simple, standing outside, Qin Feng only glanced at it, and was extremely surprised, the head of the shipyard is also a six-rank official, this is where he usually handles official business.

"Your Majesty, the grass people are illiterate." Yu Cong's face was red and black, "Ordinary paperwork and other things are handled by specialized people, and the grass people only know how to build ships, here, as soon as the grass people look up, they can see the progress of the ship, and they can find problems at any time, so they let people set up a room here." ”

Qin Feng nodded and said with a smile: "Come to the front line in person and supervise at any time, not bad, but Master Yu, your title is going to be changed, you are a Ming Liupin official, but you are no longer a grass citizen." ”

"Grass people, grass people are used to it." Yu Cong's face turned a little redder.

"In the future, in front of me, you will call yourself a minister." Qin Feng laughed, climbed up the wooden ladder, and pushed the door open, but he was shocked again, Yu Cong was right, the house was indeed chaotic, and the chaos was beyond measure.

All kinds of tools almost filled the entire room, and on the only table, there was a model of a battleship, one meter long, extremely exquisitely done, what surprised Qin Feng the most was that this model seemed to be neatly dissected from it, from his side, it was a complete ship, turned to the other side, but it was gone, and the internal structure of the ship could be seen clearly.

Walking to the table, Qin Feng carefully picked up the model and held it up in front of him to look at it carefully.

"This is the ship you're building?" Qin Feng asked.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Yu Cong said: "This model is exactly the same as the battleship that will be launched, but it is much smaller. ”

Putting the model down, Qin Feng stood in front of the window, looking down at the red battleship in the dock under his feet, which was much smaller than the battleship that Chu State had stayed in Baoqing Harbor back then.

"Master Yu, I heard that it is very difficult to build a ship, but I don't understand, what is the biggest difficulty in your shipbuilding process?" Qin Feng asked.

"Your Majesty, there is no difficulty." Yu Cong shook his head violently.

Qin Feng frowned slightly: "Since there is no difficulty, can I understand that you have more than a thousand shipwrights here, and there are more auxiliary workers, and you can only build one ship a year?" ”

"Your Majesty, it's not like that." Yu Cong shook his head and said: "Now it is not manpower or technology that restricts shipbuilding in the shipyard, manpower is enough to support us to build three warships at the same time, and technology, there are thousands of skilled craftsmen here, and there is no problem." The most important issue in construction is the reserve of timber for shipbuilding. ”

"Wood?" Qin Feng was puzzled, "Changyang County is full of lofty mountains and mountains, there are not many others, and there are not many trees, what kind of things do you want, why is there a lack of this?" ”

Yu Cong's face was a little embarrassed, and he snorted for a while before he said: "After that, those newly cut timbers cannot be used to build ships, and the battleships built in this way can last for three or two years at most, and they will fall apart." In particular, the keel of the ship has higher requirements for wood. The Taiping Shipyard didn't have this reserve before, and last year, after the grass people, oh, the ministers and other people came here, they immediately selected some suitable materials, processed them and stored them, but they could only be used at least next year. ”

Qin Feng suddenly realized, "So that's the case, haha, Master Yu, I'm a layman, I made you laugh." But what's going on with this ship? ”

"Your Majesty, the Taiping Shipyard has no reserves of wood, this battleship, its practical use is the previous Chu army warships, they have two of them from Chu to our Ming Dynasty, at sea with Qi State, with pirates, the damage is extremely serious, there is no repair value, so they are discarded here. The minister dismantled it, but fortunately, the keel of the ship was not seriously damaged, so the minister used these old materials to renovate and build this new ship. Yu Cong explained.

"Refurbishing old materials? And the quality of this ship? Qin Feng was a little skeptical.

Yu Cong's face flushed, "Your Majesty, it's not a minister's boast, even if it's just the old materials used, but this ship is definitely stronger and more durable than Chu Qi's current warships of the same kind." The ministers are deeply favored by the country, how dare they be contemptuous in the face of such a major event? ”

"Okay, great!" Qin Feng clapped his hands and laughed: "Master Yu, I don't know much about shipbuilding, so if you ask so casually, you will listen to it casually, I believe in your technology." You just said that starting next year, you can build ships on a large scale? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Yu Cong nodded and said: "Now we have been dividing people to go to the mountains to select materials, and the reserves will increase every day, as Your Majesty said, here in Changyang County, there are a lot of wood suitable for making, which is much better than Da Chu Ke, select materials nearby, store nearby, and next year, the minister can start building three warships at the same time." ”

"Wonderful!" Qin Feng looked at Ma Xiangnan happily, "Master Ma, did you hear that?" Your Changyang County should vigorously support the Taiping Shipyard, which is not only related to the interests of the country, but also a great thing for your Changyang County, at least it will bring you a lot of job opportunities, right? And in the future, there will be more ships and more people in this port, and business will improve, won't your taxes also rise? ”

Ma Xiangnan stretched out his hands: "Your Majesty, if you have a boat, you must have someone who can drive a boat and a sailor who can support a boat." Now, it's as if we have nothing. ”

"Mm-hmm, it's your business, I've left it to you." Qin Feng said cheekily: "You go to find someone, and the person you find asks for money for money, and for officials to officials." ”

Ma Xiangnan smiled helplessly, this is not a difficult job to complete.

"Your Majesty, in fact, where do you know a few such people in your hometown in Chu State, but they are all prisoners of crime and are assigned to do hard labor in the local shipyard, I don't know if Your Majesty will want them?" Yu Cong understood the meaning next to him and accosted.

"Well, you have such friends?" Qin Feng asked.

"Not friends!" Yu Cong shook his head again and again: "There are two people, who used to be generals of the navy, and for some reason they were arrested and thrown into the shipyard to do hard labor, wearing iron shackles every day, but the ministers look and listen to them on weekdays, and feel that they are also capable people. They really know how to ship. ”

"The general of the Sailor? Or a prisoner? Qin Feng's eyes lit up suddenly. Father-in-law Le, go back and write down the names of these two people, and then explain to Guo Jiuling and them, and get the people for me, oh, by the way, see if they have any family members, and get them together. ”

"The minion remembers." Grandpa Le nodded.

"Your Majesty, the auspicious time is coming!" Ma Xiangnan looked at the sky and reminded Qin Fengdao.

"Okay, let's go cut the ribbon and watch our first battleship of the Ming Dynasty go into the water." Qin Feng walked out with great interest, walked a few steps, turned around, looked at Yu Cong and said, "Master Yu, is it okay for you to give me this model?" ”

"Your Majesty can take a fancy to this ship model, which is a glory for the minister." Yu Cong picked up the boat model in a panic, and Father-in-law Le on the side took it over.

"When I go back, I'll put it in my study." Qin Feng looked at this exquisite ship model with a smile: "By the way, engrave a line of words on it, and Yu Cong, the first director of Taiping Shipyard, supervised it." ”

Yu Cong on the side heard Qin Feng's words, his eyes were red with gratitude, if he hadn't held back, the tears would have flowed down.