Compared with ordinary wooden merchant ships, the oak structure of the deck is thick, strong and sturdy, and the oak structure of the hull is not only not easy to be pierced by cannonballs, but also after being shot, the oak plank is not easy to break like ordinary wooden planks, and the fragments fly sideways, causing secondary damage to the crew. However www.biquge.info the most fatal weakness of Western-style warships is that they do not have a compartment structure, and once a hole is pierced below the waterline, if the water leakage cannot be controlled, the ship will sink.

The Nanyang Navy not only built its own battleships to increase the compartment structure, but even the captured and salvaged battleships were also modified to increase the compartment structure.

On the beach, Japanese shipbuilders, under the supervision of the shipbuilders of the Nanyang Company, were dismantling the badly damaged Dutch warship and dismantling it into planks. Some of the planks were used to repair the ships that were still working and to increase the structure of the compartments; Most of the oak planks are loaded onto the transport ship and sent to the shipyards in Singapore.

The wooden planks removed from the damaged warship are all treasures, and these oak woods are wood that has been dried for more than five years, and it is not necessary to waste any more time, and new ships can be built directly.

The water in Edo Bay is not very deep, and there are still a number of ships on the surface of the sea salvaging the sunken ships that have not yet been salvaged.

The method of salvaging the shipwreck has been invented in the Song Dynasty, which is the method of using buoyancy salvage in the inland river, loading the sediment into the salvage ship, driving to the top of the sunken ship, fixing the sunken ship with a rope, and then throwing the sediment in the salvage ship out of the boat with a shovel, the weight of the ship is reduced, and the shipwreck can gradually surface due to the buoyancy of the water.

The Ming army used the method of salvage with the help of tidal forces, using four ships to salvage a cruiser, first sailing the ship above the sunken ship, and when the tide was low, the rope was fixed on the sunken ship. When the tide rises, the wreck is pulled up by buoyancy. After that, the salvage ship pulls the wreck to the shallow water, loosens the rope, waits for the low tide, and then ties the wreck, and waits for the next high tide, and the wreck is basically out of the water.

Generally speaking, the difference between high and low tide can reach four to five meters, and the water depth in Edo Bay is only about 10 meters, and it only takes two buoyancy salvages to expose the wreck. When the wreck is exposed, you can pull the wreck to the shore.

Sunken Dutch ships were salvaged and brought to the beach, where they were dismantled.

"It's all good oak, loaded onto ships and delivered to the shipyards in Singapore." Khadedi instructed the workers to load the dismantled planks onto merchant ships.

"There are really a lot of sunken ships salvaged, so many planks, enough for us to build several battleships." Zhang Yukun looked at the Japanese workers who were working and said.

Hu Dedi laughed and said: "Now we already have five battleships, train the crew, and next year five giant ships will enter from the Yangtze River!" I wonder how the Tartars will react when they see these giant ships! ”

The battleship entered the Yangtze River, that was next year, and the current battle in Huguang did not need battleships, but inland warships with a relatively large tonnage, which required the completion of the Lingqu.

Thousands of miles away, the Ling Canal is now in the dry season in winter, and the water volume of the Ling Canal has dropped a lot.

Guo Zhiqi, Fang Yizhi and Ma Xiong commanded the people and were building aqueducts.

"Divert the water from here and bring it over there, and we'll be able to dig at the bottom of the river." Fang Yizhi pointed to the people who were under construction and said to Guo Zhiqi.

In order to allow the Ling Canal to be navigable in the spring of next year, the Ming army accelerated the progress of construction. Ma Xiong recruited more than 20,000 migrant workers in Guangxi. And Liu Qi also recruited more than 30,000 migrant workers from Annan, plus more than 10,000 people brought by Liu Guoxuan, and Qing army prisoners sent one after another, a total of 70,000 people are under construction.

Yu Chenglong, dressed as an old farmer, stood barefoot in the muddy water, Guangxi in winter was not very cold, he sweated like rain, shoveling and digging dirt. The water here has been diverted away, revealing the bottom of the Lingqu River.

Tens of thousands of people stood at the bottom of the exposed river to deepen and widen the Ling Canal.

On the shore, someone pushed the cart over, and the people standing in the river shoveled the dirt into the cart, and the people who pushed the cart went to the vicinity to dump the dirt in an open field.

"This sludge is a great fertilizer! Farmers pour dirt into their fields, and the following year can be a bumper harvest. Yu Chenglong wiped his sweat and said.

"Yu Shan, I didn't expect you to care about the farmers here." A Minzhuang from Guangdong said.

Yu Chenglong smiled: "The old man is a local, of course he cares about the farmers here." ”

The Minzhuang smiled and said, "Yu Shan, your accent doesn't look like a local, but like a northerner." ”

"The old man was originally from the north, but because of the chaos, the family came to Guangxi." Yu Chenglong replied.

The people said, "They are all hateful tartars! If they hadn't entered the customs, the people would not have been displaced and fled in all directions! The Tartars entered the customs and killed how many Han people I had! ”

Yu Chenglong sighed: "In fact, the crime is not in the Qing court, they are all homeless people in the north, if they hadn't rebelled, would this good Ming country become like this?" They killed Lord Chongzhen! The Qing court entered the customs to avenge Lord Chongzhen. ”

"Hahaha!" The man laughed, "What is to avenge Lord Chongzhen, it is all the poisonous plan of Hong Chengchou, a big traitor!" When the Ming Dynasty was about to destroy the Liukou, the Emperor Taiji entered the customs, and the Ming had to pull the army of thieves to the capital Qinwang, which gave the Liukou a chance to breathe! Back then, it was the emperor Taiji and the Liukou who took turns to make trouble, and the first emperor was also difficult to do. ”

Another Minzhuang said: "If it weren't for the Tartars forcing the first emperor to increase Liao's salary, how could they make trouble?" ”

Yu Chenglong has been on the construction site for several months, originally he thought that the Ming army's large-scale construction and repair of the Ling Canal would definitely lead to complaints and people's misery, who knew that the recruited people were very supportive of the Ming army.

In fact, the life of the common people at that time was not very good, in the early Qing Dynasty, it only took advantage of the introduction of high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, so that the grain output increased, and the people had a bite to eat, so that they would not starve to death, but the quality of life was not very good. And after they came to the construction site, the food here was actually quite good.

The daily meal, breakfast and lunch are dry, and the staple food is brown rice mixed with multigrains, which are sweet potatoes, sorghum rice, or corn kernels, which are steamed together with brown rice to make rice. Dinner was porridge with baked sweet potatoes.

The dishes are mainly green vegetables and soy products, as well as potatoes, chili peppers, lotus root slices, eggplant, etc., the taste is not bad, especially the potato roasted eggplant, fried tofu, etc., put a little chili, the taste is particularly fragrant, very good to eat. And it seems that sugar and soy sauce are not luxuries here, and braised dishes can often be eaten.

At that time, because the price of refined salt was expensive, and the price of sugar was also very expensive, refined salt and soy sauce were not luxuries that ordinary people could afford, and vegetable oil was also a luxury.

However, in Nanyang and Dongfan, sugar cane was cultivated in large quantities and sugar factories were built, so that white sugar and brown sugar were no longer a luxury. The new method of making salt has also caused the price of salt to fall, and the salt tax of Nanyang Company is not high, refined salt is not a luxury, and the price of soy sauce has also dropped a lot.

Because peanuts and rape are grown in large quantities, the price of vegetable oil has also fallen, making it affordable for the common people to eat oily.

The food standards of the people working on the construction site were slightly lower than those of the Ming army's auxiliaries, and they could still eat meat every few days, and such food conditions were not even comparable to ordinary small landlords in the Qing court-controlled areas.

The high yield of sweet potatoes and sugarcane in Nanyang made the farming industry particularly developed by the farmers under the Nanyang Company, and the leaves and vines of sweet potatoes could be used to raise pigs, and the annual output of pork was enough to supply the army. And Minzhuang, in fact, is also a kind of paramilitary personnel, and it is not bad in terms of treatment.

In addition to the live pigs brought in by transport boats for on-site slaughter, there are also fish and shrimp caught by fishermen, which are dried and sent to the construction site of Lingqu.

"It's time to eat!" Someone shouted.

Yu Chengchan put down the tools at hand, went up the embankment, and came to the table paved with stone slabs in the shade of the trees.

Lunch has already been served, and today's meal is quite hearty, and the rice bowl is full of rice made from polished rice! Grains of rice oil shine brightly, giving off the aroma of rice, and on the table are large pots of braised pork, bone stewed radish soup, fried tofu and other dishes. After Yu Chenglong came to the table, he saw someone coming over with clay pots and placing them on the table.

"Braised canned fish, there are few river fish here, and fresh sea fish can't be delivered, so I eat this." The soldier said, placing the can on the table.

During the construction of the Lingqu, the river fish here have long been eaten up by the people, and all they eat on weekdays are dried fish and shrimp.

At that time, the traffic speed was slow, and ice cubes were a luxury, so it was impossible to have frozen fish and shrimp, so the fish and shrimp sent to the mainland were dried and delivered. However, dried shrimp and dried fish are used to make dishes, and the taste is still very good.

Of course, there are still ice cubes, Zheng Xi controlled the area around the Outer Khing'an Mountains, and a little further north, where the route to the Americas passed, ice cubes could be collected even in summer. But the cost of transporting ice is so high that only a few high-ranking officials can enjoy ice and seafood that is kept fresh by ice, except for beer.

"Canned?" Yu Jackie Chan was very surprised.

A Minzhuang from Guangdong picked up the canned food: "This is a good thing!" As he spoke, he pulled out his waist knife and pried the cork off the can.

Yu Chenglong took a look, and saw that the clay pot was filled with braised fish pieces, he took a piece and tasted it, and felt that it tasted good, there was a special deliciousness, and it was stewed very badly, and the fish melted in his mouth.

"Today is the winter solstice, and it's time to open your teeth! Add a meal. The man said.

"Time flies! It's still summer when I came, and it's the winter solstice in a blink of an eye! Yu Jackie Chan said to himself. Although his life here was good, he still wanted to run away if he had the chance, after all, he was the imperial court official of the Qing Dynasty. (To be continued.) )