Chapter 39: Longjiang Shipyard

This time, the large contingent of honor guards belonging to the crown prince was still behind, but Zhu Cihong was the first to rush to Nanjing in a small boat.

The people under his hands began to arrange to dock and disembark, and the dock was full of people coming and going, and it was noisy, taking advantage of this gap, Zhu Cihong chatted with Yang Wenyue.

"Many people are looking forward to forming a cabinet in Nanjing. The military advisor doesn't have anything to say about this? Zhu Cihong said.

Yang Wenyue was slightly stunned, very surprised by Zhu Cihong's openness to this topic.

Looking at Zhu Cihong's encouraging gaze, Yang Wenyue also let go of some restraints and said, "If the old minister doesn't want to enter the cabinet, then His Royal Highness will definitely slander the old minister for hypocrisy." The old minister wants to enter the cabinet! ”

"Then please ask the military advisor to talk to Li Meng, the chief constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate who came from Beijing, later." Zhu Cihong pondered for a while, and then said: "Donglin, Fushe...... It's time to get it out. ”

After speaking, Zhu Cihong no longer opened his mouth, but looked at Zhu Zhengse, who was standing on the dock with joy, and waved his hand.

Later, Yang Wenyue was thoughtful.

On the shore, Zhu Zhengse immediately bowed down: "Weichen Zhu Zhengse, meet His Royal Highness the Prison State Chitose Chitose!" ”

"No courtesy, no courtesy." Zhu Cihong stepped forward to help Zhu Zhengse, looked at the simple ceremony on the dock and said, "Lone is not a person who wants to be famous. Let's take a look at this Longjiang Shipyard! I've been looking forward to it for a long time, I can't do without a sailor who doesn't meet the national strength, and in the future, there must be a navy that meets the **** country! ”

Zhu Cihong said a word, which immediately made Zhu Zhengse feel extremely excited. The continued and stronger support of the Ocean's strategy also means that his future is very bright!

"Your Royal Highness is ambitious, and Weichen will die with his life!" Zhu Zhengse shouted.

Zhu Cihong waved his hand. looked at the Longjiang Shipyard: "This is the starting point of Zheng He's voyage to the West." ”

At the beginning of the Hongwu Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty opened a shipbuilding factory in the northwest corner of the capital. Its land reaches Chenghao in the east and Qinhuai Weijun and civilian ponds in the west. Northwest to Yifengmen first compartment of the official corridor base (138 zhang wide), south to the base of the right guard barracks, north to Nanjing military headquarters alfalfa and Pengcheng Zhangtian (354 zhang deep). It's a huge place, and it's amazing.

In the fifth year of Yongle, Longjiang Shipyard renovated 249 seagoing ships to prepare for Western countries. During the Yongle period, Longjiang Shipyard renovated a total of 24 seagoing vessels, with a total of 2,832 ships except for one without a specific number.

And that's not all. The Longjiang Shipyard also has 8,000 sailors and 400 warships. Except for Zheng He's main treasure ships in the Western Ocean, which were built in the treasure shipyard, most of the warships and ships were built in the Longjiang Shipyard.

Of course, compared to the treasure shipyard, which is particularly brilliant and historical, the Longjiang shipyard is actually more important.

Because the treasure shipyard has been abandoned after Zheng He went to the West, and then even the drawings of the treasure ship were burned.

The Longjiang Shipyard, on the other hand, has been preserved to this day because of intermittent demand, and although the government-run workshops are very loose, they are at least a fortune.

After Zhu Cihong arrived in Nanjing, he disappeared. There are a lot of small movements. Among them, there was the movement of Longjiang Shipyard, Zhu Cihong transferred all the bureaucrats to Kaifeng and found a name for him, and then let Zhu Zhengse take over with a group of pure craftsmen.

Immediately afterwards, under Zhu Cihong's budget for the first batch of 300,000 taels of silver. Zhu Zhengse began to recruit people in large quantities.

Speaking of which, the manpower and division of labor in a shipyard are extremely complex and huge, and in just two months, Zhu Zhengse can be equipped with manpower to prepare for the start of construction, and Zhu Cihong has already admired the rarity of talents.

The shipyard has a stream mouth leading to the Longjiang River. There is also a stone gate that can be opened and closed to control the amount of water. Water is drained when building a ship. Close the gates and work in the dock; After the ship is built. Open the gate and enter the water, float the hull of the boat, and release the boat into the river.

In addition to the lifting department, the helper command hall and a tent factory specializing in building sea ship canopies, there are also seven workshops in the shipyard, including a joinery workshop, a painting workshop, a twisting workshop, an iron workshop, a tent workshop, a rope workshop, a cable workshop, and a material care shop. Among them, the tent factory located in the northeast of the factory has 10 rows of 60 houses.

The supervising officials of the shipyard, in addition to the Ministry of Labor, who are ranked in the fifth grade, also have staff members, directors, promotions, helpers and commanders.

At the beginning of the country, these officials were quite capable. By now, Zhu Cihong knew that these people must have been rotten, and they all rushed to Kaifeng to raise them, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one.

However, Zhu Cihong, the head of the subordinate compartment and the first-class low-level team, asked Zhu Zhengse to screen and select the useful ones.

As for the shipbuilders and craftsmen, Zhu Cihong asked the Military Affairs Department, the Sheren Division, and the Nanjing Military Department and the Ministry of Industry to go to the government-run workshops in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, Fujian, Jiangsu, and other provinces to recruit them. With sufficient funding, these officials can still do something.

The craftsmen of the shipyard have a meticulous division of labor, and they are divided into four compartments, each compartment is divided into ten compartments, and each compartment is set up with a length to manage ten households. The carriage is divided into ship wood, shuttle, oar, and rope maker; The second compartment is divided into shipwood, iron, and cableman; The sedan is a craftsman; The four compartments are divided into brown and tent makers.

In addition, there are also internal officials and supervisors, horse supervisors, watchmen, changers, bridgemen and other personnel.

Zhu Cihong was still only a prince, and he really didn't like these so-called eunuchs, so he sent them over in a swarm and gave them some silver to open a hotel.

Not to mention anything else, the eunuchs' kung fu in serving people is still good.

After such an inspection, Zhu Cihong had already discovered a fortune ship under construction.

"Lucky boat!" Zhu Cihong looked at it steadily, a little distracted.

The head is pointed, the tail is wide, the two heads are upturned, and the head and tail are high. Such an obvious feature is obviously a fortune boat.

"Your Highness, it's the Lucky Boat." Zhu Zhengse said: "The craftsmen recruited are mainly from Fujian. This ship has a deep draft, and the shallow sea and deep sea can advance and retreat freely, which is a sharp weapon for me to sail in the ocean! ”

Zhu Cihong nodded: "The lucky boat is to build more." ”

Zhu Zhengse's face was happy.

But Zhu Cihong's words suddenly changed: "But the design still needs to be changed, and the artillery that can be loaded is too small, which can only be regarded as an armed merchant ship, and cannot be regarded as the main naval force of the court." Moreover, Fukubune is too slow. It's too slow...... It will affect the overall situation. ”

Zhu Zhengse's face suddenly turned embarrassed, and his heart was even tighter.

Zhu Cihong didn't say much, clapped his hands, and asked Gu Jiang to take out a stack of drafts.

It is a very slender drawing of a sailing ship, with a length-to-width ratio of 7:1 and a sharp and hollow bow tip.

It looked very weird, but Zhu Cihong looked at it with burning eyes.

In his previous life, Qin Xia's most difficult pickle girl was chasing a Swede who was obsessed with sailing and loved collecting ship models. To this end, he spent half a year building a model of a clipper ship by hand. Of course, he also understands the sharpness of the clipper.

"Practical clippers with a speed of more than 10 knots are in hand...... That's my trump card! Zhu Cihong clenched his fists heavily.

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