With the shipwright in place, the next step is to build the shipyard and dock. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

With the silver to open the way, the efficiency of the Lingao County Government was unprecedentedly high, and the notice of conscription and conscription was quickly posted.

Lingao County has a registered population of nearly 10,000, and this time the levy and conscription required one person from each household, excluding the old and weak, women and children, as well as those who have meritorious service and those who are exempted from military service with money, and about 1,000 young and strong people are actually in place.

According to the efficiency of weekdays, more than 1,000 people have to gather all to go to the designated place, and no month cannot do it. Master Qian worked very hard this time, and after asking for instructions from Wu County, he sent a police officer to the villages, and sent cruel words to the village chiefs, not rushing to Bofu within ten days, and this year's grain payment will be charged three yuan for "fire consumption".

"Fire consumption" originated in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and originally referred to the loss of broken silver when it was melted and recast into silver ingots. Zhang Juzheng implemented the "One Whip Law", all taxes were levied and handed over to the state treasury, and the broken silver handed over by the people was melted and recast into silver ingots. The additional "fire consumption" at the time of taxation is greater than the actual "fire consumption", and the difference goes to the officials. Moreover, the "fire consumption" continues to increase: the fire consumption of ordinary states and counties reaches two or three yuan, or even four or five yuan per two. Remote states and counties pay less taxes, and fire consumption is several times higher than that of regular taxes.

Lingao County is not high, fire consumption is the biggest burden of the villages, now the fire consumption quota every two or three dollars, plus three dollars is every two or six dollars, then it is really going to be old.

Although in fact, it is still doubtful whether Wu County Commander and Master Qian really dare to do this--because it is easy to provoke a popular uprising--but no one dares to gamble that the county government will not dare to do this, and the best choice is to obediently send people to the designated place, anyway, it is already June, and the farming is coming to an end, and the young and strong people can also reduce the consumption of food rations at home by serving in the conscription, and the place where they go is not far, in the territory of this county.

Under the unprecedentedly efficient operation of the county government, more than 1,000 young men arrived one after another within 10 days, and rushed to Bofu under the escort of the government officials -- all of them lived in wooden houses without exception. In the summer, the road was opened in Minamigin, and the craftsmen worked day and night, and the speed of building the wooden houses was still very fast, and the entire Hakusuke became a huge construction site, and there was felled wood everywhere.

At this time, Charles, the "chief technical director" of Bofu Shipyard, carried out the preliminary survey work of the factory. When he came to Hirosuke, he was shocked by the sight of a sea of people, and he was impressed by Xia Nan's generosity and efficiency.

Under his planning, the first phase of the construction of the Bofu shipyard was officially launched, and five docks are expected to be built. The dock of this period is not the same as the modern dock of the old time and space, in fact, it is to dig a big pit on the shore, connect the land on three sides and face the water, build a ship in it, after the ship is built, the water is drawn into the pit, and the ship floats out.

Of course, the dockyard built by Charles from the Royal Dockyards of Great Britain was not so rudimentary. The shipyard he supervised was a typical dry dock: its basic components were the dock mouth, the dock chamber and the dock head. The dock port is used for entering and exiting the ship, and is equipped with a simple retaining dock door for the drainage and irrigation of the dock; The dock chamber is used for placing the ship, and the keel pier and the side pier supporting the ship are arranged on the bottom plate of the dock; The bow of the dock is the end opposite the dock mouth, and its plan shape is semicircular, which is connected to the dock chamber, where the tail rudder is installed and repaired.

When building a ship, the water in the dock is first drained and the hull is built on the keel pier. When the completed ship is undocked, the dock is first filled with water, and when the water level inside and outside the dock door is level, the dock door is opened and the ship is undocked.

The most important work in the construction of the dock is to dig pits, the amount of earthwork is very large, and the most technical content is the keel pier in the dock room, which must be made of hard and solid wood in order to support the huge hull, and because it is often soaked in water, it must also have good corrosion resistance.

These things were entrusted to Charles, and he was paid handsomely—a thousand taels a year. The reason why it is an annual salary and agreed to pay it at the end of the year is a small abacus in the summer, and he can only get paid if he does it for a year, lest he be homesick and pat his ass and leave one day.

Charles was pleased with the offer, and if he had promised to help with the shipbuilding a little reluctantly, he was now entrusted with a heavy task, and the pay was several times that of the country - the Royal Dockyard was bluffing, but his salary was only twenty pounds a month, and he quickly entered the role, and devoted himself to the construction of the shipyard.

What is the essential difference between working for Her Majesty the Queen and working for Xia Nan? At this price, you can return to China to buy a manor and become a master after a few years.

The only problem is that Charles does not speak Chinese, cannot communicate with shipwrights and people, the selection of dock locations, the size of the pit must be controlled by him, and must also communicate with Chinese shipwrights during the period, after all, there is still a difference between Eastern shipbuilding and European shipbuilding, and the advice of local technicians must be fully listened to.

The only people who can speak Chinese and English at the same time are Xia Nan and Lin Weiye, who have crossed over, and Xia Nan pushed the glorious task of acting as a translator to Lin Weiye on the grounds of commanding the overall work, and Lin Weiye had an unusual interest in the sail warship, but did not talk about the conditions, and moved into the construction site with a smile.

The construction of Bofu Shipyard was officially launched at the end of June of the third year of Chongzhen, and the entire Lingao County was involved in this project. In order to solve the problem of feeding more than 1,000 people, Xia Nan brandished silver and began a county-wide grain purchase.

The Hu family's more than 100 acres of land have not yet been harvested, and even if it is the season of grain harvesting, it will not be able to meet the needs, plus the 1,000 female workers in the textile factory, and now the south has to feed more than 2,000 people in the summer. He had no food, and he was poor and had only silver left.

Lingao County is not a large grain producing county, fortunately there is no cold winter in Qiongzhou in all seasons, the climate is very suitable for rice survival throughout the year, rice is three crops a year, there are still a lot of grain stocks in various places, the market price of grain is two taels of silver per stone, in the summer the south directly buys three taels, and buys most of the grain in Lingao County, the side effect is that the price of rice rises, and the people who want to buy grain to eat are lamenting that the price of rice is expensive, and life is hard.

The Wu County Order in the county government was shocked and sent Master Qian to inquire. As a parent official, he must pay attention to the sensitive issue of people's livelihood in the price of rice, and if it is in a densely populated area in the interior, it is common for rice prices to cause riots, and even become the fuse for many peasant uprisings.

In the summer, Nan promised that after the construction of the shipyard was completed, he would send the people home, and the large-scale grain purchase would be terminated, and the increase in the price of rice would only be temporary.

With Xia Nan's promise and a hundred taels of silver, Master Qian went back satisfied. Of course, Wu Xianling was also very satisfied with this result, and as for the silver, it did not go into the official treasury and went into his old man's pocket.