Death row prisoners in the cave, and temporarily sucked them out. The opium made by Xia Hongsheng was enough for the three of them to become addicted.

While waiting for them to become addicted, to prove the poisoning of opium, so that Li Shimin could realize the horror of this kind of thing, and take measures to firmly hold the cultivation, import and export of this crop in the hands of the imperial court. Xia Hongsheng rejoined the military aircraft workshop and continued to do half of what he did a year ago.

"Master Hou, the old man has broken his promise! The old man boasted about Haikou at the beginning, but he failed to complete it on time, and begged the Hou Ye to punish him. The old shipwright lowered his head very embarrassed, rubbed his hands, and was a little ashamed to face Xia Hongsheng.

At the beginning, he patted his chest and said that he could make a large ship for the test in a month, but it took almost three or four months to complete. So I feel very ashamed.

"We've changed so many things on that boat, and it's not at the same level as the previous big ships, and we're trying to do it while groping, and we're correcting it while trying, of course it's slow!" Xia Hongsheng shook his head: "You don't want to be like this, it is already beyond my expectations to be able to do it so quickly!" ”

It is said to be a big ship, but in fact it is not really a big ship. Because if you want to make a big ship, first of all, the wood here will not work, and then there is no such big place to test the water.

However, if the ship is tested and there is no problem, then it proves that there is no problem with those technologies. In this way, it is only necessary to go to the beach and use these techniques to make sea boats.

If this ship can be built, then Datang's shipbuilding technology will improve by hundreds of years, becoming the most advanced ship in the world today, and can carry out ocean voyages. So it's very significant.

The ship was to be launched from the dock of the military aircraft workshop, and sailed along the canal to the Wei River, where it was to conduct a trial voyage. The ship is not only powered by new sails, but also has a place for people to pedal at the bottom, which can accommodate nearly 100 people to step on the pedals, drive the propeller at the stern, and push the boat to quickly turn and accelerate forward with manpower.

Wind power plus manpower, at the moment, is the most feasible way to provide power.

Unless you can make a steam engine. Xia Hongsheng sighed, why isn't he an engineering student? I know that there is a machine that can provide great power, but I can't do it, and this feels like suffocating people!

"Childe, Childe!" The old shipwright saw that Xia Hongsheng suddenly started to be stunned, so he shouted and said, "The time has come, it's time to go into the water!" ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded.

The old shipwright immediately waved his hand excitedly and shouted: "All ready, go into the water!" ”

As soon as the other boatmen heard that they had all gone, they immediately took up their thick ropes, coiled them over their shoulders, and wrapped them around their waists—rest assured, they were not trying to pull the boat into the water, even though they had been launched in this way before.

When Xia Hongsheng made this dock, he planned that when the ship was launched, they only needed to loosen the wooden pillars that supported the bottom of the ship, and then pull away the wooden planks at the bottom of the boat. It is not difficult to pull, and when a layer of planks is pulled away, the boat descends a little until it goes down into the water.

In this way, it is much less effort than pulling the boat into the water.

The boat descended into the water, and waves were one man high, and the people were all wet.

In March, these people didn't seem to feel cold, and shouted excitedly: "Go into the water!" ”

The shipwrights immediately ascended to the deck and returned to their positions, and the young men who had already been prepared entered the bottom of the ship to be propelled by manpower.

"Let's go! - The bow of the ship shouted, and someone in the middle gradually passed until it reached the bottom of the ship. The young soldiers stepped on their feet in unison. The big boat got up and went out slowly along the canal.

The sun shines on the ship, reflecting the brilliance of the metal, and it makes people unable to open their eyes.

"The wind is positive! Set sail! Sometimes, with a shout, I saw a shout and a roar from the ship, and when I pulled the rope and fell hard, the huge sail immediately took off, and quickly adjusted to the position of the wind.

The speed of the boat suddenly increased, and it quickly sailed along the canal towards the Wei River.

Xia Hongsheng was also on the deck, looking down, even the deck was covered with a layer of iron sheets.

Soon, the boat entered the Wei River.

Immediately, the people on the side of the Wei River began to exclaim one after another, some were scared away, and some pointed to the boat and exclaimed.

The tin boat cruised along the river, sometimes with a sharp and rapid speed, sometimes with a nimble U-turn. The sails of the ship turn with the wind and maintain thrust at all times.

Xia Hongsheng stood at the bow of the boat, enjoying the shock and exclamation of the people on both sides of the Wei River, and couldn't help laughing.

Kindness? Why did so many people suddenly pour out?

Xia Hongsheng looked over, and after a careful look, he found that it was a large number of Jin Wuwei's people running over. It must have been the people by the Wei River who saw the sudden appearance of the iron boat, and they didn't know what it was, so they went to report to the official.

When the soldiers of Jin Wuwei arrived at the river, they were also dumbfounded.

It was floating on the river, and it looked like that, and the sails, it must have been a boat. But where is the ship made of iron? Isn't the ship made of iron sinking to the bottom at once?

For a while, Jin Wuwei's soldiers didn't know what to do.

"Come on, go and report to the general!" The leading soldier immediately commanded to his side: "Let's just say that a big iron boat has appeared on the Wei River!" ”

Of course, Xia Hongsheng didn't know about the entanglement of the Jinwuwei soldiers, and he still stood on the bow of the boat and waved to them.

"Look! There are people on board! There are living people! The guards of the Golden Guard saw that someone had recruited them, but they could not see who was on the iron ship.

There are living people...... It's also far away, Xia Hongsheng can't hear it, if he hears it, I'm afraid that he will be angry again, and you think that my son's iron boat is a ghost ship?!

After a while, I saw a red dust on the bank of the river rushing over, and when I reached the front of a group of Jinwu guards, I didn't stop, I continued to rush forward, rushed to the shore closest to the boat, and shouted: "Which bastard is pretending to be a ghost here, don't let me Lao Cheng hurry up!" ”

This roar exploded like a cannonball, and even Xia Hongsheng on the ship heard it.

"Dock! Dock! Xia Hongsheng's scalp was numb, and he was so proud that he forgot that Jin Wuwei was in the hands of this old rascal.

The tin boat lowered its sails, slowed down, and slowly approached the shore.

Xia Hongsheng walked down from the boat, and when Cheng Yanjin saw it, he immediately grinned: "Old Cheng was napping, and I heard a panicked report that a boat made of iron appeared on the Wei River, which not only sank, but also ran fast. Lao Cheng guessed at that time that it was you, a little yin person, who was doing it again! Wowha, it seems that this time your kid has done a great job again! (To be continued.) )