Wang San saw such a good-looking little woman for the first time in his life, still at such a close distance.

He wanted to take a closer look, but the little woman met his gaze first.

Wang San immediately panicked, his heart beat violently, and he immediately turned his head and pretended to carefully check the few linen cloths on the small stall.

He casually reached out and touched it, and felt that the quality of the linen cloth was very good, so he asked the price, but he never dared to meet the little woman's gaze.

The little woman's voice was very good, and the price of this kind of Beizhen linen cloth was also very fair, Wang San impulsively stretched out his hand and waved it, and said, "I'll buy it all-"

There were only a few horses on the small stall, not much.

"Guest, count these?" The little woman asked happily as she put a few horses in her arms on the stall.

Wang San still didn't dare to look at her, only glanced at the cloth that had just been put on, it was the same type as the original linen.

He swallowed and generously said, "Exactly." ”

A child is a child, and the boy jumped for joy.

"Do you want a silver tael or a horse ticket?" Wang San asked as he sorted out the sackcloth.

The boy hurriedly said, "I want a horse ticket...... It's cheaper to buy rice......"

Wang San found a problem, he bought too much and couldn't take it...... It's not the weight, it's the volume......

The boy said, "Guest officer, I have a wheelbarrow at home, I'll help you deliver ......."

"My house is in Akai."

"Guest officer, I often go there alone...... The road is very safe and easy to walk. ”

"Okay."

The boy pushed the cart, a type of unicycle common in the area...... He looked a little clumsy when he pushed the cart, but he was okay to push on the way to the market.

The pavement of the market is mostly paved with red bricks, which is smooth and easy to drive.

But after getting on Rechi Avenue, it is different, and the surface of the Sanhe land is not as good as the red brick road.

Wang San immediately took the wheelbarrow, and then asked him to push it, and he could push it into the ditch.

As soon as Wang San pushed it himself, he really felt how heavy the original wheelbarrow was...... It's far less light than the Red Star unicycle, but fortunately, the items you bought are not heavy.

Along the way, Wang San learned about the boy's family history...... and his sister's affair.

His name is Liu Guoliang, his father was the big shopkeeper of the Liu family's business, and he had a good life, he went to private school, and his sister Liu's family was to be married...... After the city of Quanzhou was broken, the Liu family was copied up and down...... also suffered with his family, and they were all exiled to Taiwan...... Daddy is now helping the Liu family take care of their business in the Chichi area, which is where his family rents a market, which is a little more remote but cheaper...... His mother was not in good health, so he and his sister had to take care of the business...... Luckily, Daddy used to have a friend who could give him credit to his family.

Wang San said: "Your father actually threw the family's business to the two of you, and he went to help the Liu family himself?" ”

"The guest officer doesn't know, the main family is now short of people, how can he take care of his own family first?"

"That's right, it's a pity that you brothers and sisters have worked hard......"

"It's not hard, it's just tired."

Wang San put down the car, picked him up, put him in the car, and said with a smile: "Don't call me a guest officer in the future, the third brother is fine...... In this time of chaos, small people have to do business......"

Along the way, the two asked and answered, and soon became closer. After arriving at Wang's house, Wang San said: "Liu Guoliang, you know where my house is now, and when I pass by Relanza City, I will send the car back to your ......."

"Third brother, that's too hard for you, why don't I push the empty car back by myself......"

"Be polite to the third brother! It's already noon, I'll go back after lunch......"

At this time, Wang Si had already taken winter vacation, and when he heard his brother coming back, he ran out of the house first, but saw Liu Guoliang first.

Liu Guoliang was stunned at first, he saw a person of the same age as himself, but he had the hair of a member of the Hantang Group, and remembered his younger brother Wang Si who was introduced by the third brother on the road...... Liu Guoliang introduced himself first.

Wang Si also said generously: "My name is Wang Siguang, and I am the name given to me by Teacher Fan. ”

During the entire Chinese New Year, Wu Jie, the director of Anjiang Shipyard, has not been idle.

After he and several technicians from the shipyard hurriedly finished their Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, one person went to the estuary base to send the wooden components - in fact, when they were delivered, they were all measured, but Director Wu Jie liked to measure again. It's not that he doesn't trust other technicians, he just likes to take everything into his own hands, or he likes to be a person who likes to do it himself.

The two Taiwan-class sailing ships finalized by the Anjiang Shipyard this time were quite difficult in the final finalization, and they were completely produced in a quarrel, but in fact, Director Wu Jie, the final implementer, did not know.

The quarrel was initiated by a number of intellectuals and amateurs.

The quarrel began as early as when the Anjiang shipyard was still busy with sailing ships and had not decided to start building sailboats. It's just that it all happens in the ship forum, and people who are not interested in the ship don't know about it, or they just quit after looking at it.

The first to argue is about ordinary sailboats and clippers.

The advantages of ordinary sailing ships are obvious, they are easy to build, they are simple to maneuver, and they have been in existence for a long time in history - according to the reasonable theory, this stage should not be crossed.

There are also plenty of reasons to get on the horse and clipping the boat.

In that side of the world, the birthplace of clippers should be in North America.

The origin of the clipper ship is set to be in 1843 in New York, Boston, North America, the flying shear bow brig, but the real high-masted flying shear cargo ship running around the ocean was actually only active in 1850~1856.

Around 1850, gold mines were discovered in the vicinity of San Francisco and Melbourne. At that time, the west coast of North America and the east coast of Australia were semi-wild and undeveloped areas that were inaccessible to people, and Melbourne was only established for more than 10 years.

So the sudden influx of people from all over the world has left the local productivity at a loss - plus the new immigrants are basically here to pan for gold, but not to increase local productivity, and even the captains and sailors of the migrant ships will leave their ships in the harbor and rot when they arrive there, and they will not return to the gold mines.

Therefore, it became necessary to import ordinary daily necessities and consumables from nearby premises, and the local gold miners had hard currency. At that time, the world's major exporters of manufactured goods were Western Europe and the east coast of North America, but in the era when railroads were not very extensive, the nearest route from the east coast of North America to San Francisco was the very dangerous road around Cape Horn in the south.

Nevertheless, the lure of hard currency made transoceanic freight not only greatly profitable - freight rates rose to 5~10 times that of ordinary freight (at that time freight was calculated by volume rather than weight) - but also the faster the ship was transported, the higher the freight costs: because no one knew when the gold mines would be mined, the prices of various commodities could only be linked to the amount of gold mined that day, and no matter when the gold was mined, it was inevitable that the price would be depleted day by day, and with such an expectation that natural prices would increasingly fall back to the average price.

In this way, the high prices and prices of gold are decreasing day by day, and the shape of urgency has given birth to the North American clipper ship - a qiē in order to be fast, even if the volume of goods is insufficient, so that it is expensive to sell! So the ship is slender and long, but the depth is very large, otherwise it is worrying to be stable in bad weather, and the mast is very high, often hanging five layers of sails, and there are "sky sails" above the top mast, and the wing sail is indispensable, the best thing is that the wing sail is not generally used only in calm weather, and many quoted logbooks can be seen to hang the wing sail when bypassing Cape Horn!

Of course, in addition to the fact that every second counts, it is also helpless, the number of sailors on the ship is pitiful in order to keep costs down, and many of them are still shabby, homeless and fugitives who are running to dig gold, and they are not sailors at all.

In this way, not only were the sails seldom collected during the voyage - it was common to break the upper and top masts when circumnavigating Cape Horn - but also did not enter the harbor to lower the anchor in the middle of the voyage, because there were not enough people to lift the anchor: after all, there were no auxiliary small steam engines at that time, and the port staff were responsible for lifting and lowering the anchor during departure and arrival.

In the 5~6 years of the Nugget fever, New York and Boston built more than 50 flying shear cargo ships, and finally soared from about 1,000 tons to more than 2,500 tons, and the largest was more than 4,000 tons. Most of them are more than 70 meters long and 10 meters wide, and the aspect ratio of 1:7 seems to be short and fat today, but at that time it was a representative of thinness, built entirely of wood, but to be able to build such a long hull must be done by using diagonal elbow plates to strengthen the inside of the hull.

Because of the five years that the North American clipper has been active, the iron-wood hybrid construction has not yet been developed.

Generally, the speed of the clipper ship can reach an average of 15~17 knots in one day, so as to travel more than 300 nautical miles a day, and the peak can exceed 20 knots. Later, larger clippers were built, and their wind resistance was further improved, and their speed surpassed that of early boats.

After the technician of the flying clipper ship gave the above information, he said triumphantly: "What more information do you want?" Don't we need to find some more - facts speak louder than words, our CNC woodworking machine tools are better than the Yankees at that time, right? Even ordinary woodworking equipment is far beyond that time, right? ”

After reading these materials, the technicians of ordinary sailing boats just asked a few questions lightly: "How do you play when the wind is calm?" What should you do if the clipper ship itself has a cramped cabin, the supply and living environment are extremely restricted, and the endurance is extremely weak? If we can play the large tonnage now, of course, there is no need to fight - it has a strong ability to raise waves, and it also causes a large wave loss, how can you solve it? If it's a small tonnage, we don't have to fight, it's natural to be a fast communication ship or a communication ship, but we're talking about merchant ships now-"

The mentioners of the ordinary sailing ships won, but they were immediately divided into the Heng Sailing Party and the Shun Sailing Party, and the quarrel became even more violent.

But Wu Jie, the director of the Anjiang Shipyard, didn't know this, and he was leading people to build a test pool at that time.

The test pool is five meters long, three meters wide and one meter two deep, and is made entirely of concrete.

In the walls of the pool, there are several holes, which are prepared to imitate ocean currents. Wind preparation was very simple, he went to Ye Chuang and directly asked for two electric fans that were removed from the Ziyun.

At that time, Ye Chuang asked: "I understand the imitation of wind direction and wind force, but can I use two?" ”

Director Wu Jie said seriously: "Yes, where is there only one wind direction on the sea?" That's only in the game, you haven't played Age of Discovery, have you? ”

"Haven't played-"

"Ah, then you'll have a lot less fun in life—"

"Heh, heh, not necessarily, Director Wu, don't you know that there is a lot of noise in the forum?"

"I don't know—"

"Ah, Director Wu, now that you know, you're going to have a lot of trouble in the future—"

I apologize to everyone for writing too late last night, and after I finished posting, I forgot to cancel the automatic posting - for the sake of my usual 3,8900-word posting, forgive me. The online article is less than 1,000 words, and you don't need money.