Along the way, Li Hao told Lu Yun about his demotion to Qiongnan, Lu Yun was not worried about Li Hao, he believed Li Hao, because Li Hao could survive every time, and being demoted to Qiongnan was nothing.

While chatting, the two rode over a hill, only to see a small natural lake four or five miles ahead, and a very tall canopy-type factory building was built around the lake, almost covering a small half of the lake, Li Hao frowned when he saw this: "Such a factory, if it encounters strong winds, I am afraid it will be dangerous." ”

Lu Yun shook his head with a smile when he heard this: "No, you will know when you wait for it to get closer." ”

The two rode down the hills, and soon came to the lake, where they were spotted and immediately informed of the chief artisan, Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi hurriedly came out to greet them, Li Hao and Lu Yun just turned over and dismounted, and Lu Zhi stepped forward to salute: "Meet Master Hou!" ”

Lu Yun on the side said with a smile: "Now the young master is not the Hou Ye, but the king of Qiongnan!" ”

"Ahh Lu Zhi was pleasantly surprised when he heard this, and hurriedly saluted again, "Meet the prince!" He only knew that the prince was much more powerful than the Hou Ye, and as for where the prince was, it was not within his consideration.

Li Hao waved his hand and said, "Don't be formal, Lu Zhi, if this factory encounters strong winds, will it be dangerous?" ”

Lu Zhiyan smiled confidently when he heard this, and said, "The prince will know when he gets closer." ”

Li Hao nodded, and entered the shipyard under the leadership of Lu Zhi, after entering and looking, he was stunned, only to see that the pillars of these factories turned out to be huge and straight cedar trees, using these fir trees as pillars, naturally very strong.

At this time, Lu Zhi introduced: "Lord Wang, please see, these pillars are all based on live fir trees as pillars, these fir trees have grown here for hundreds of years, deep-rooted, steady, with them as pillars, natural and stable, and the prince looks at the terrain within ten miles of this surrounding, it can be said that it is surrounded by mountains, and it is in the lowest depression, so it can be confluent into a lake, surrounded by mountains, no matter how strong the wind is here, it will be damaged by most of it, and it will not pose any threat to the shipyard, and, Lord Wang, the river villain of this lake leading to the ocean has been measured along the way, If the riverbed is too high, then the water flow can only be cut off and people will be sent to dig the river, but the manpower and material resources will be too great, and I hope it will not be so. ”

After listening to his introduction, Li Hao nodded and smiled with satisfaction: "Sure enough, he is a professional, and he has taken all the factors into account, so I can rest assured, Lu Zhi, where is the ship, take this king to see." ”

Lu Zhi spread his hands and said, "Lord Wang, please come with the villain." He said that he took Li Hao along the edge of the lake and walked forward, in the deepest part of the lake, he finally saw a ship under construction, although it was not yet completed, but the general shape of the ship had come out, Li Hao looked at it, the length was more than forty meters, four masts, it belonged to a small Galen ship, and it was estimated that the draft would not exceed 300 tons, but even so, it was far more than Li Hao The boats they are using now.

Looking at the Galen sailboat that is still under construction, Li Hao sighed in his heart, in fact, ancient Chinese navigation technology is very awesome, because according to historical records, Zheng He, the eunuch of the Ming Dynasty's three treasures, went to the Western Ocean, and used the largest treasure ship with a length of 138 meters and a draft of 20,000 tons, what is this concept, Li Hao can't imagine how to build such a big ship in the Ming Dynasty, you know, China's second aircraft carrier draft is only 6.5 tons.

It's a pity that in order to strengthen the policy of banning the sea, the corrupt ministers of the Ming Dynasty actually burned all the ship materials and construction drawings of Zheng He's voyage to the Western Ocean, and not a single one was left.

Galen ship is the first step, next, Li Hao will also build a flying clipper, the flying clipper is known as the fastest ship in the wind, the historical "Great Republic" flying clipper, displacement of 3400 tons, mainmast height of 61 meters, speed of 12 to 14 nautical miles per hour (1 nautical mile = 1.852 kilometers), across the Atlantic Ocean only 13 days, before the appearance of steam engine ships, clippers are definitely the fastest ships in the world.

Li Hao has a dream, that is, to drive the invincible fleet of Datang, sail to other countries around the world to proclaim prestige, with a good attitude, trade with it, communicate with each other, have a bad attitude, intimidate, for those who are disobedient and more arrogant, directly beaten! Beat you until you're afraid! He wants to spread the language of Datang to every country in the world, so that people all over the world can speak Chinese. Always the best microphone.

Just when Li Hao was looking forward to the future, Lu Zhi suddenly said beside him: "Lord Wang, do you want to go to the boat to have a look?" ”

Li Hao came back to his senses and asked, "Can I go up?" ”

"Yes." Lu Zhidao, "The cabin has been almost repaired, but the boat is a bit high, you have to be careful when Hou Ye goes up and down, ah, the villain has a lot of mouths, Hou Ye's skills, naturally there is no need to worry." ”

Lu Yun scolded with a smile: "Old Lu, when did you learn to pat on the back." ”

Li Hao laughed and said: "He has had more contact with you during this time, who did you say you learned from?" Haha, come, let's go up and have a look. ”

The three of them climbed up the Galen ship through the long ladder, Li Hao walked around the ship's side, deck, cabin, and bow, nodded with satisfaction: "Well, okay, Lu Zhi, you are really good, what I gave is just a rough shape of the ship, and it is just a text description, I didn't expect you to be able to really build it, you are really a god craftsman!" ”

Lu Zhi hurriedly said modestly: "The prince has won the award, the villain's biggest wish in this life is to create something that others have not built, before it was to help the prince build a wind-powered waterwheel, this time it was to build such a big boat, it was the prince who made the villain achieve his wish, but the prince can not be happy too early, the boat is more harsh, only after the water can you know whether the ship can sail, although the villain has also built a boat before, but this kind of ship is built for the first time after all, the villain is not yet fully sure." ”

Li Hao patted him on the shoulder and said, "You can do your best, don't have too much psychological burden, even if you fail, it's okay, and then reinvent it, anyway, this king has money, haha......"

Coming out of the shipyard, Li Hao was very happy, on the way back to the city, Li Hao talked to Lu Yun about the aborigines, and when it came to the aborigines, he naturally had to mention the leader of the aborigines-Huang Shang.

From here, Li Hao got a bad message, that is, Huang Shang seemed to regret it a little, Huang Shang warmly welcomed Lu Yun and them to come here to engage in development at first, because Lu Yun and they could bring a lot of materials, but gradually, he found that after some of his people were spread by the Tang people, they began to forget their roots, and they didn't want to return to their previous tribal life, so they naturally no longer trusted him as a leader, which made Huang Shang very unhappy, if this went on for a long time, his position would definitely not be guaranteed, So when Lu Yun went to Huang Shang a few times and asked him to send some more indigenous people to work, Huang Shang refused.

Li Hao thought about it when he heard this, and said with a light smile: "His reaction is reasonable, don't worry, I will meet him tomorrow and promise to make him obedient." ”

Lu Yun laughed happily when he heard this, Li Hao has always said that he can do it, and never does things that he is not sure of, since Li Hao said so, then tomorrow will definitely make Huang Shang obedient.

Soon, Li Hao and Lu Yun rode to a small city, Li Hao looked at the city wall more than five meters high, and praised with a smile: "Your city is very good, although the city is not big, but the wall is very high." ”

Lu Yun smiled: "It's indispensable to guard against people, after all, this is the territory of the indigenous people, so you still have to be on guard." ”

"Well, that's good!" Li Hao said, "This city can also develop in the future, you can expand outside the city wall, and then build a city wall, which is divided into an inner city and an outer city." ”

Lu Yun thought for a while, nodded and said, "That's a good idea. ”

Li Hao pointed to the city and asked, "Why is there no city name on the city gate?" ”

Lu Yun said: "Isn't this waiting for you to choose a name?" ”

Li Hao smiled when he heard this, nodded and thought about it, and said: "This city is ten miles away from the harbor, and you can just see the harbor when you stand here, so let's call it Wanggang City." ”

Lu Yun said happily: "This name is good, what about the harbor?" Let's give it a name, too. ”

Li Hao thought about it again and said, "It's called Pearl Port, I believe that this harbor will become a bright pearl on Liuqiu Island in the future." ”

While talking, the two entered the city, Lu Yun conveyed the order, from then on, the harbor is called Pearl Port, the city is called Wanggang City, the people of the city cheered, all came out of their homes, to the street to welcome Li Hao's arrival, Li Hao saw so many residents in the city, turned his head and asked Lu Yun: "There are so many people here, it shouldn't be native." ”

Lu Yun smiled and nodded: "That's right, there are a total of 17,000 people in the city now, all of whom were sent by Jinli." ”

Li Hao nodded, he knew about this matter, Feiying had reported to him, and he also ordered Jinli to send these people to Liuqiu from thousands of miles away, these people were originally the people of Yizhou and Xizhou, because the Western Turks captured Yizhou and Tubo captured Xizhou, many people in these two states fled.

Jin Li took the opportunity to gather these people and raise them in the base camp first, but the more and more people were collected, there were nearly 20,000 people, and he really couldn't raise them, so he asked Li Hao, Li Hao originally planned to let Jin Li send these people back to Xizhou, but he thought that this might expose Jin Li and Feiying's base, so they asked them to send these people thousands of miles away.

There is no Thorn History Mansion in Wanggang City, only the City Guard Mansion, and at present, Lu Yun is temporarily serving as the City Guard, but the actual managers are the deputy City Guards Lin Dingkun and Chen Haijin.

Li Hao and Xue Rengui's family were arranged in the City Shou Mansion, and when they entered the City Shou Mansion, they saw all familiar faces, and Li Hao actually had a feeling of returning to the Lantian Hou Mansion.

It was getting late, everyone sat down together around the big table and had a happy dinner, after dinner, Li Hao was just about to ask Lu Yun where his room was, Li Ping suddenly stepped forward, grabbed Li Hao's belt and dragged it to her room, Li Hao immediately understood what she meant, she was going to plow the field by herself again.

However, Li Hao knew that there was a problem with Li Ping's field, and he had sown so many kinds of seeds, and it had not yet sprouted, so he didn't mind continuing to sow it, but Li Ping was too obsessed with it, so that it was better many times every night, Li Hao was really a little unbearable, fortunately, he practiced internal skills, if he changed to someone else, it is estimated that he would have withered a long time ago.

Li Hao stood in place and refused to move, Li Ping naturally couldn't pull him, it's okay, Li Ping raised his hand, grabbed Li Hao's ear and dragged it back, Li Hao immediately took pain and walked with her, and at the same time glanced at Lu Yun, only his mouth couldn't move: "Help me!" Save me! ”

"Alas, the moonlight is so beautiful tonight......" Lu Yun looked up at the sky and said nonsense to the dark clouds in the sky.