"General Yan, are you still used to it?" Zhang Guozi asked.

The ship's gang is the captain, and the various people on the ship of the general people will be divided into the leader, the deputy leader, the direct warehouse, the miscellaneous officer, the leader, the helmsman, the fire captain, the anchor, and the cableman. If it is an official ship, there are all kinds of officials, sacrificial officials, and officers and soldiers in charge of weapons.

This situation is the result of a merger.

There are several owners of a ship, and everyone has to divide the tasks clearly, otherwise it will cause confusion.

However, there is no such clear division of labor on these ships, only the outline and the helmsman, these two tasks are too important to be neglected. The others are sailors, and the cablemen who do not necessarily tie the cable must only be tethered, and they also have other duties, and even take up weapons, they are warriors.

But this one Yanda is not very clear.

He bowed his forehead.

"When northerners first went on the sea, most of them vomited and diarrhea, and they usually drank some millet porridge and endured it."

"Some of his men are all Southerners."

"They are people from the mountains, they have never been on a boat, and they are also not used to it."

Yanda Moran.

On this ship of the sea, he had no room to speak, and he himself was not very good.

So he changed the subject: "You don't seem to be from Quang Nam, right?" ”

"General Yan, the smaller one is the Jiangnan West Passerby clan."

"Hey, so what did you do with the ship?"

"The small family was poor, and I heard that the people were migrating from Quanzhou, so I was desperate, ran to Quanzhou, and was recruited as a water worker. Later, I did the ship outline and found out that there was an order on it. All kinds of craftsmen. According to the situation of all walks of life. It is necessary to bring one to five apprentices, and to ensure that they are out quickly. However, the more apprentices you bring, the more rewards you will have. After the little one left the school, he made a ship outline, and now he also has two apprentices, that is, the little fat man and the little monkey. He pointed to two young men not far away, and said, "Now I will take my family over there, and I will divide two hectares of high-quality fertile land on it." Some supplies, the small ones are very satisfied. ”

Zhang Guozi said several things.

Yan Da knew that most of this was the order issued by Wang Ju, or the servant who assisted Wang Ju. There may be many of these ship owners, but most of them will obey Wang Ju's command and arrangement, otherwise the overseas stall will be completely chaotic.

It was because they obeyed Wang Ju's command, and then everyone made more money, so they obeyed Wang Ju's orders, did good deeds, and transported millions of stone grains to the imperial court.

But sooner or later it won't matter. Suddenly, he thought of Wang Ju's careful conversation with him after returning from Yongzhou Wharf. It can't be said that Wang Ju is wrong, the population is too dense, the rich are afraid of people, the poor can't cover their bodies, and they can't eat enough. If this continues to develop, the actual country is very dangerous. Therefore, the evacuation of some of the people living in extreme poverty is also beneficial to the country. But this stall is getting bigger and bigger, what will I do in the future?

Looking at this boundless sea, Yan Da shook his head in his heart, can the imperial court really manage it overseas?

However, I also have to admire Wang Ju's carefulness, thinking long-term, most of the people who migrate are desperate people, who have no craftsmanship, and want to settle down, in addition to buying all kinds of goods from the inland, the settlement point must also have its own production.

In this way, the imposition of apprentices on individual artisans will lead to the production of more artisans in these settlements overseas.

Of course, this is also a product of special circumstances.

If you want to learn a craft, you need to be apprenticed for at least three years, and make money for the master for free, and after three years of apprenticeship, the master will not have to teach you the real craft. lest he teach his apprentices and starve his masters.

"On this day, the boat has been rowing due south."

"General Yan, look at the wind direction, it is a southwest wind, if the wind is small, you can adjust it with a side sail. The wind is still relatively strong, so you have to use a large oar to row due south. But the wind blew the hull to the northwest. The two phases are neutralized, and the ship will head southeast. Jia Liang walked out of the cabin and said.

"This sea is boundless, how to identify the direction?"

"Then rely on them," Zhang Guozi said, pointing to a few things in the cockpit, one was a compass, the other was a sextant, and a thick stack of nautical charts. Zhang Guozi also taught Yanda how to use a sextant.

Yan Da listened to it for a long time before he understood.

"However, there are many drawbacks, the time difference is different in different places, and it cannot be used on rainy days. I heard that Shaobao sent people to study a very accurate timekeeping instrument, if it is developed, with a sextant, in the future, on the sea, will never lose its way. Jia Liang explained.

"Is the earth really round?" Yanda asked strangely.

If this thing works in your hand, then the earth is round, otherwise it won't be accurate.

"It should be......" Jia Liang muttered, after all, there is no one who has sailed around the world at this time, but if the earth is round, that direction is up, and that direction is down, in this era, this idea is too advanced, and the more you think about it, the more dizzy it becomes.

"What if it's a southeast wind?"

"The southeast wind is not afraid, drop all the sails, and send more people to row the big oars."

This is the eight oared ships, six oars and other warships, regardless of size, in fact, at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the tonnage of sea ships was also very small, even if Wang Ju launched the voyage, most of them were sea ships under 2,000 materials. There are many reasons for this, not because the technology is underdeveloped, but because of the high cost of shipbuilding and the high risk at sea, which somewhat restricts the development of extra-large ships. It wasn't until the end of the Northern Song Dynasty that the ships officially became bigger and bigger.

Wang Ju is equivalent to pushing this time forward by 100 years, directly reaching the level of the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty. However, Wang Ju also has this confidence, one is a clear understanding of overseas, and the other is that he now has a telescope, a compass, and a sextant in his hands, and at the same time he has launched a rough kayak and lifebuoy. As a result, large ships are often launched.

As long as it is a cargo ship, even a small cargo ship of less than 1,000 materials, it must wait for the monsoon. But it is a warship of a thousand materials, just like the eight-oared ship that Yanda is riding now, it can still sail against the wind.

The secret lies in its design. It is not aimed at carrying cargo. Therefore, the shape of the boat is relatively narrow and long. It is used to break the waves, and at the same time it is used as a sail, of course, if you want to swing, the side setting is very short, not like a cargo ship, the draft is relatively deep.

However, it has a limited cargo capacity, and if it does not join forces with cargo ships to form a fleet. Sail alone with limited distances. This crossing was carried out with the help of some southwesterly winds, and the voyage was carried out by warships, and it took several days to reach the opposite shore, which was also the largest crossing.

Meng Jin entered the port with a fleet, and within a few days, another fleet entered the port, all of which were loaded with "servants", and Gao Wenxiu didn't see it. These ships arrived with the second inbound fleet.

Then Wang Ju raised 10,000 soldiers and let Yan Da lead them. Mosquito nets, tents, armor, and all kinds of medicinal herbs, especially those to prevent malaria. Set out with 10,000 soldiers first, first, to find out the situation, and second, to occupy and expand the base area first.

But Yan Da still had some resistance in his heart, and it was only after Wang Ju agreed to several of his requests that he reluctantly accepted his order......

For the sake of the future of the Great Song Dynasty, let's fight.

Yanda is also about to be brainwashed by Wang Ju.

"In fact, the most feared thing is a large crosswind, at that time, you have to turn the bow of the ship and go against the waves, otherwise there will be a risk of the ship capsizing. But then, the storm lasts for a long time, and it is easy to get lost at sea. However, now with these things invented by Shaobao, coupled with strict requirements for the quality of ships, the risk is infinitely reduced. ”

But there are still risks, especially if the crosswind is forced to cross, and the fear is that the southwest wind is strong but small, or the headwind, the speed of the ship will be slower, which means that the delay at sea is longer, and the risk is greater for longer.

And on the third day, they encountered a typhoon in this line, fortunately the typhoon level was not big, Yanda was upside down by the wind and waves, and when the wind stopped, Yanda stood up as if he had a nightmare, counted the number of ships in the fleet, and actually did not break up.

Yanda couldn't help but join in, and asked the Buddha for blessing again and again.

A few days later, the trip finally arrived on the other side.

Yan Da staggered down from the boat and sighed: "I wish I would only take the boat once again in my life." ”

I have to go back, so I have to take a boat back. However, when he returned, he was not seated on this eight-oared boat, but a real cargo ship, which would also return with the monsoon, faster and more stable than this time.

Anyway, in this line, Yanda has suffered.

Yanda began to assemble an army.

Jia Liang instructed his subordinates: "Go back to Guangzhou immediately and report to Shaobao." ”

When I went back, it was not a crosswind, but a side headwind, and the speed was slower. However, this is tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the rear is worried about their safety, and they must notify the rear when it is difficult to travel.

The two smaller but nimble four-oared boats turned around again.

Ten days later, the news was delivered to Wang Ju, and Wang Ju also breathed a sigh of relief.

Although I knew that the failure of the two expeditions of the Yuan and Mongolia to the Japanese was because the Han craftsmen were dissatisfied with the Mongolian people and cut corners to build ships, and they transported so many people to the other side, so many ships and so many voyages, and there were only about 20 ships that had accidents. But this is a warship, a warship, a loaded soldier, and it is a crosswind, an unjust war, and Wang Ju is also a little suspicious.

After receiving the news, Wang Ju said: "Zichuan, you immediately go to Quanzhou, in the name of the maritime merchants, let Ge Zhizhou write to the imperial court, and ask the three divisions to transfer one million stone of grain from Bashu to help the victims, and the cost will be borne by the maritime merchants." ”

Huang Hua said on the side: "Zi'an, the money is insufficient." ”

"As before, there is a commitment to repay the following year. As for the name, let the son think deeply about a name. ”

Huang Hua didn't figure out Wang Ju's thoughts, and thought that Wang Ju was kind, so he didn't make a sound.

"Mellow, draft another order, let the following management, please be kind to those captives, and affirm to these people, as long as they work honestly until next year, the government will find a way to settle them in a rich land."

"This ......"

"It's also my promise to Yanda." Wang Ju laughed self-deprecatingly and said that Confucian books may have also washed his mind, otherwise he would have softened his heart towards these monkeys.

"It's hard for so many people to want to be resettled."

"It's okay, I'll ask Tao Bi to impeach me when the time comes."

"Huh."

"Officials like to mix different opinions...... Next year, the army will be used, and at that time, the officials may have some ideas, the court will be more active, and there will be many peace-loving ministers. Tao Bi wrote to impeach me, maybe the court will be more at ease with me, after all, there are important ministers who have restrained me. ”

Huang Hua smiled bitterly when he heard Wang Ju's crooked reasoning.

However, although it is a fallacy, it is a fact!

"There will be people who will make a fuss about this, and I will place these people in the future...... In addition, there are many people who have migrated, and many of the main households have no tenant farmers to use, and they will reject me. Let's change it. As for the bloodline, if you put it inland, you can wash them down. ”

Huang Hua still doesn't understand this bloodline now, Wang Ju is more lenient with the migrants, but there are a few forcible orders, that is, those who marry with different races or have children will be fined 100 rods and 200 salaries! Those who claim to be Chinese will be killed!

As for the reason, it is the fear of countless crossings.

Wang Ju's idea Huang Hua is not very repulsive, but Huang Hua thinks that Wang Ju thinks too idealistic, the general trend of the world, together for a long time, it must be divided, and it must be divided for a long time, and it is overseas. However, Huang Hua couldn't figure out where to go in the future of the overseas stall.

Let's get by first, at least with overseas financial resources, Wang Ju can do a lot of things.

Wang Zichuan rode to Quanzhou.

Wang Ju continued to preside over government affairs, and the messenger came. (To be continued......)