September 18 was an ordinary day, but the people of Chongzhou were quite festive. First, today is the day when the eldest daughter of Huaidong is on the full moon, and secondly, it is the day when the first super-large sea ship in the Guanyintan Shipyard was launched for sea trials.

In the world, patriarchs are favored over daughters, giving birth to men is like treasures, giving birth to daughters is grass, and whether the eldest daughter who does not control the envoy is not born to the Gu family of the main room, is an insignificant matter for the people of Chongzhou.

There are some idlers in the streets and alleys, gathered in the tea shop, and helped the system to worry about family affairs: "The young lady of the Gu family looks weak and weak, and she doesn't look like a woman who can give birth, she has been married for so long, and she finally got pregnant with her first child, but she gave birth to a daughter. It just so happens that the Liu family gave birth to the eldest boy, and I see, the system will make things at home troublesome! ”

"No, I heard that the little lady is also a powerful master."

"That is, the little lady is from a prostitute, how can it be a fuel-efficient lamp?"

"I think you guys are really idle and broken-hearted, adults are prosperous in the Spring and Autumn Period, and I don't know how many years will it take to fight for the family business. Besides, Miss Gu is the first child, so hurry up and give birth to a son! If you want to talk about family history, the Gu family is the family heirloom of the prime minister, Lord Gu may take over the phase one day and become the grandfather of the prime minister, how can the Liu family and the little lady be qualified to compete with Miss Gu for favor? ”

This tea shop is called Tingfeng Building, which is plain in Chongzhou City, a two-story brick building facing the street, with a carved door face, and it has only been half a month since it opened. Upstairs there is a tea pavilion with good tea; Downstairs miscellaneous table, tea foam brewed in a large-mouth pot, two coppers can drink half full. Two more rice balls with green onion cakes or cabbage and meat fillings will also cost less than ten coppers. Traffickers, pawns, and even villagers who went to the city liked to come in and rest.

If there is anything special about it, it is that in the downstairs table lobby, the northwest corner is separated separately to form an independent small tea pavilion. It's just that you can't see the entrance from the lobby, and if you want to enter this small tea pavilion, you have to go around from the backyard.

The wing of the backyard is the residence of the host, where can ordinary guests go into the backyard, even if the owner of the teahouse has a distinguished reception, why do you need to come to such a small private room in the lobby full of people?

It's really weird!

Of course, what hobbies the owner of the teahouse has, the tea guests are not easy to discuss. Some people asked the guy in the store, and they only said that it was a utility room, and in the past few days, no one has paid attention to this matter anymore.

The peddlers and pawns in the lobby were talking, but in this special elegant room, some people gritted their teeth and scolded in a low voice: "I am really full of food and support, and the days are really too comfortable, and I have the leisure to go to the teahouse to chew the root of my tongue!" Let them tear their broken mouths! ”

Xiaoman was very taboo for others to mention her origin, and listened to the peddler's pawn openly discussing in the teahouse, how could she stand this anger, and she couldn't wait to jump out and pull out the two tongue-chewing people and beat them with thirty military sticks to relieve her hatred.

Lin Jian sipped the fragrant tea slowly, ignoring Xiaoman's impatience, and said with a smile: "This peddler and pawn have worked hard for a day, and this gossip and gossip in the market is the most satisfying. I said I don't need you to accompany me to drink tea, you want to come, and when you come, you sulk, why bother? ”

"It's just that you have a good temper," Su Meiyan, the owner of the Tingfeng Teahouse, smiled and poured tea for Lin Xuan, "In other places, where could it be possible to condone such gossip from the peddlers' pawns?" ”

"The Yuan clan set up the Metropolitan Procuratorate in the middle of the country, and the county department set up the Inspectorate Division, but they wanted to observe the people's feelings, correct the evil and help the crooked. However, the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is an official, and the eunuchs and servants in the Inspectorate are officials, and the officials and officials defend each other, which is a stubborn disease that has escaped through the ages. It may be effective at first, but after a long time, the interests are deeply entangled, and it is not necessary to unite to fool the head? Lin Jian said.

"What good plan do you have to break the knot of this official's death?" Xiaoman asked, still angry at the discussion outside.

Song Jia, who came over to drink tea with Lin Lian, also looked at him sideways, not knowing what else Lin Lian had in addition to the inspection system.

"How can this thousand-year-old stubborn disease be so easy to solve?" Lin Jian smiled and said, "If it can be easily solved, I will take you to a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to drink tea, which is always quieter than here!" ”

The supervision system of later generations was built on a certain material foundation, and Lin Jian would not have a headache for these things at this time.

Su Mei came to Chongzhou, and some old people who had served her for many years followed. Su Mei set up this small building in Xicheng and ran a teahouse, so she didn't have to be bored in Beishan Yaju all day long.

Lin Jian asked Su Mei to set up an independent pavilion in the corner of the lobby of the teahouse, so that he could occasionally come over to sit and drink tea, and he could hear the street talk between the peddlers and pawns, so that he could more truly grasp the situation of the people under the rule of Huaidong.

The street talk of the peddler's pawn was naturally vulgar, and Xiao Man held back his anger and vowed not to come to Lin Jian again, but Lin Jian felt kind. As for the difference between the concubines and concubines discussed outside, Lin Jian didn't take it to heart at all.

At this time, the guard officer Chen Huamian knocked on the door and came in to say, "My lord, I'm going to Nanya Wharf at some point!" ”

"Good!" Lin Jian drank all the tea in his arms and stood up. Xiaoman was used to spending time on Su Mei's side, so Lin Jian and Song Jia left in a carriage from the backyard alley surrounded by guards and headed for the South Cliff Wharf.

More than 100 years ago, when shipping was booming, Longjiang Shipyard had built a large-scale 10,000-stone ship, and even had a record of building a huge ship with a load of 30,000 stones.

After the ban on Haicao was abolished, coastal areas such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangzhou were mostly harassed by Haikou forces in recent decades, and there was no record of building huge ships of 10,000 stones in the shipyards of the southeastern counties.

Jiangdong County was still because of the rise of the Jinhai Grain Road, and it was only in the past three or four years that large-scale construction of thousand-stone ships began.

The larger the load of the seagoing vessel, the more efficient it can be and the more it can save transportation costs. Of course, the advantage of large warships at sea is also very obvious.

After two years of technology accumulation, Chongzhou's first super-large sea ship with a load of more than 10,000 stone and an actual load of 18,000 stone was finally completed and launched today. This is a big deal for Huaidong.

Lin Jian walked to the South Cliff Wharf and took a boat to the Guanyintan Boat Yard on Xisha Island.

Sun Jingxuan, Hu Zhiyong, Ge Siyu, Ge Fu and others were already waiting there, and there were many crowds of people watching the excitement inside and outside the special wharf of the shipyard. The riverside on the other side was still crowded with people, waiting to see the big ship launch.

If the carrying capacity is converted to the displacement of later generations, the displacement of a sea ship of 18,000 stone is about 2,000 tons, which is considered a super ship in the present world, and it is quite inconspicuous in later generations.

Of course, there is an upper limit to the carrying capacity of a wooden sailboat, and maybe 30,000 stone is really a limit that is very difficult to break. If you want to build a larger load of sea ships, you need to use a lot of steel to strengthen the hull structure, and you are about to enter the age of steam and steel.

Lin Jian looked at the sky, and didn't know when he would see the steam steel warship rampant across the four seas, how magnificent and magnificent it would be! Of course, guns were also erected on the side sides.

It is a pity that because there was a great deviation between the history of the world and the history remembered by Lin Jian after the Wuhu Rebellion, gunpowder technology did not flourish. Taoism has a recipe called Liuhuang Fuhuo Dan handed down, using Liuhuang, medicine and horsetail bell to mix three kinds of Dan, court jugglers often use this to please the emperor's relatives, celebrities and ladies, but it is not a top secret.

The price of medicine in the world is higher than that of silver; Due to the purity of the medicinal nitrate, the power of the Liuhuang Fuhuo Pill is also relatively limited, more like a kind of ignition that can emit colored smoke, and no one in the world has seen its military value.

Some wall nitrate can be scraped from the foot of the wall of a century-old house, but purification is a problem; Once purchased from the private sector on a large scale, there was no effective means to distinguish wall nitrate from other white powdered salts.

Of course, until the recipe is further improved, the Liuhuang Fire Pill also doesn't have much military value. More importantly, it is necessary to find a stable saltpeter mine that can produce large quantities.

If the cost of a shot is tens of taels of silver, it is better to honestly use a scorpion crossbow.

Saltpeter is very soluble in water, Huaidong climate is humid, even if the roots of the wall of a century-old house are not easy to grow nitrate, Lin Tie does not expect Huaidong to find natural saltpeter mines.

Lin Jian looked up at the sky and thought wildly, and others only thought about something else.

Song Jia stood beside Lin Lian, but he was seriously observing the sea ship erected on the giant rails.

Compared with ordinary Jinhai-class sea vessels, the whole ship is particularly narrow and long, with a length of nearly 278 zhang and a concave bow - this design is to obtain a higher speed.

Although this ship shape has been trial-produced several times on smaller seagoing vessels in order to finalize the shape, Lin Jian requires a significant increase in load capacity and speed at the same time, and the craftsmen of Guanyinshan Shipyard are still under great pressure, and they are excited and nervous at this time.

At this time, the ship had not yet been launched, and they were standing on the dock, and the side of the ship would be four feet high from the ground, and the people were standing on the dock, like ants.

The seaworthiness period in the East China Sea is only more than eight months, and in the same time, if you want to increase the traffic volume, one is to build bigger ships, and the other is to make ships faster! Lin Jian knew that the long and narrow hull and the concave design of the hull were more conducive to breaking the waves, but how to improve the stability of the long and narrow hull in the waves was a matter for the master craftsmen in the shipyard.

"Is there no name?" Lin Jian looked at the bow side of the ship, which was still blank, and did not brush the name of the ship.

Sun Jingxuan also served as the ship's envoy, and he rubbed his hands, but he was also quite nervous. Whether the ship was built in half a year, but it is still unknown whether it can go to sea.

In order to prevent corrosion, the draft of the entire ship was covered with copper. In addition to the extensive use of iron nails, many parts of the entire ship are cast in fine iron in order to strengthen the structure.

Chongzhou produces only more than 50,000 catties of refined iron every month, and this ship alone uses more than 70,000 catties of refined iron. If he couldn't go to the sea in the end, Sun Jingxuan would be so hateful that he would slap himself a few times.

Sun Jingxuan thought so in his heart, and pretended to be relaxed in his mouth: "Isn't it that you have to follow the old rules, wait for your lord to give you a name." ”

"Do you have to worry about me?" Lin Lian said, looking up at Zilang Mountain on the north bank, others only thought that he would take the name of "Zilang", Lin Lian said leisurely, "How about calling it 'Little Princess'?" ”

Sun Jingxuan, Hu Zhiyong and others were all stunned, and they couldn't keep up with Lin Bin's train of thought for a while, and they didn't know whether to say it well or badly. Whether it's good or not, it's somewhat taboo to use this as the name of the ship.

"Will it cause people to gossip?" Hu Zhiyong said next to him.

"Oh, too," Lin Yan scratched his head and asked, "What's that called?" ”

Song Jia thought to herself: When Lin Jian thought of the little princess as the name of the ship, did he think of his eldest daughter who had just completed the moon, or the princess Yuanyan who accepted Emperor Chongguan as a righteous daughter after meeting him in Yannan?

Song Jia was thinking wildly, and Lin Jian opened his mouth and said, "Then call Lin Zhengjun!" ”

Sun Jingxuan and Hu Zhiyong glanced at each other meaningfully, and said in unison: "This name is very good!" ”

The name of the woman in the world is not revealed, but Sun Jingxuan, Hu Zhiyong and others certainly know that the name of Lin Lian's newborn daughter is Lin Zhengjun, and then they think that Lin Lian just wanted to name this ship the Little Princess, is it not enough for them to associate Pianpian?

Lin Jian didn't expect too much, how many fathers in later generations would not raise their daughters as little princesses?