I'm in a minor repair, I'll see it later tomorrow.

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On the second day, Mi Huang followed Cheng Jia to the wharf under construction on the river side of the eastern suburbs early in the morning, which was located in the shallow water area on the northeast edge of the eastern suburbs near the riverside of Yunmengze.

After getting out of the car, Mi Huang saw two wooden wharves stretched out along the river beach from a distance, hundreds of craftsmen were driving piles in the river to stabilize the wharf, and Su Cong, who was standing on the bank of the river and commanding the construction, commanded everyone and said, "Okay, Qing'er, you can follow Aunt Li to the kitchen to help, prepare more mung bean soup, the weather is hot, don't let everyone suffer from heat stroke." ”

"Yes, Lord Su. ”

A pretty-looking young woman wearing a cotton skirt shuttled between a group of rough old men and peasant women, heard Su Cong's order, smiled very goodly and nodded in agreement, and then picked up a large basket of mung beans and followed Aunt Li to a makeshift kitchen behind the construction site.

"The rest of the people are stepping up, and the dock needs to be completed and accepted by August!"

Su Cong took a few scholars from the poor family with bamboo slips, recording the progress of the project and the problems found one by one, and when he saw Cheng Jia coming, he waved to him happily.

But as soon as he saw the Mihuang behind him, his neck shrank, the joy on his face disappeared immediately, and he hid in the crowd in fear, looking like he was afraid of being caught by Mihuang.

Seeing this, Cheng Jia raised his eyebrows at Mi Huang, and smiled at her, "What, are you making things as difficult as you are for me?"

"When did I make things difficult for you?"

Mi Huang snorted lightly and did not accept this accusation, "That's why we had a hostile relationship at the beginning, and we have our own positions." ”

Cheng Jia nodded, "Well, then may I ask if our position is the same now?"

"For the time being, it will depend on your performance in the future, who ?......knows" Mi Huang raised his eyebrows, said with a slight tuck at the corner of his lips, and then walked to the several huge three-story boats that were docked by the river, "This is your Cheng clan's big ship?"

"Hmm!"

Cheng Jia nodded, communicating with several craftsmen in Vietnamese.

Although Mi Huang has also learned the dialects of several large countries such as Qi, Jin, Qin, Bashu, but he has not learned the dialect of a small country like Yuedi, and he has not learned it in the study, only to see Cheng Jia using a fluent Vietnamese language and a few dark-skinned and short-skinned Yue craftsmen to draw ** flowing.

Mi Huang bracked her ears and wanted to know what they were talking about, but she couldn't understand it in frustration, and at this moment, a dull female voice sounded in her ears, "This young lady, the lord is telling the craftsmen that this dock needs to be able to berth twenty building ships, so it must be made of giant wood as a pile for long-term use." ”

Mi Huang turned his head, his eyebrows were almost invisible, looked at the woman who went to help the cook just now, and said casually, "Are you?"

"The slave maid is called Qing'er, and Aunt Li asked me to bring water to the adults and the young lady. The woman picked up two bowls of tea and replied calmly.

"Qing'er, do you know the Vietnamese dialect?"

Mi Huang took the tea cup in her hand, looked at her hospital, and instead of drinking tea, she asked.

"Yes, Qing'er's mother is Yue Ji, so she can understand Yue language. Qing'er nodded and replied, "That's why Lord Su transferred me to the dock to help." ”

"Then you translate for me what they say. ”

"Okay," Qing'er nodded and said, "Your Excellency said: in addition to mooring the ships, the port he wants also has a large dock manufacturing plant, a warehouse, a post station, a wine shop, an inn, a small market, as well as cranes and large trucks, so the river beach must be repaired very smoothly to facilitate the transportation of grain." But the Vietnamese craftsmen said: the house is fine, if you want to level the road, you need to provide more green brick paving, and the crane and truck they don't understand what. The lord said, "He will draw these drawings and give them them, and tell them to build a dock first......"

"I heard that your Cheng clan's dock is the largest in the Chu State, and it can build the largest building ship in the Chu State, which is four stories high, carrying thousands of people, and galloping across the rivers. ”

"As we all know, the Yue Kingdom is the southern prince with the most advanced shipbuilding technology among the countries, and the dock of my Cheng clan was built by the shipbuilders I imported from the Yue Kingdom. Cheng Jia pointed to a few dark-skinned and distinctive Yue craftsmen,

The building ship, a kind of deck building in ancient China, is particularly huge, the ship is high and wide, and the appearance is like a building, so it is called "building ship". Because the ancient water warfare was mostly based on bow and arrow shooting, ship collision and jumping gang hand-to-hand combat, the size of the ship directly determined the number of sailors and warriors that a single ship could accommodate and the impact force of the ship, so the building ship served as the main ship of water warfare to a large extent in ancient times. However, due to the high height of the ships and the unstable center of gravity, they mostly served as the main force in inland water warfare.

Pictured: Restoration of the building ship

The building ship is a kind of large warship with multi-storey buildings and offensive and defensive facilities, and the appearance looks like a building, so it is called a building ship. The large warship "Lou Ship" of the Han Dynasty is more than ten zhang high. During the Three Kingdoms, Soochow built a five-story warship that could carry 3,000 soldiers. The building ship not only has a majestic appearance, but also a spear on the ship, a tree flag, a strict guard, and a strong attack and defense, just like a water fortress.

Process features

China's navigation technology and shipbuilding technology have developed greatly in the Han Dynasty. Among them, in terms of shipbuilding, the most famous ship in the Han Dynasty was the Lou ship. The name of Lou Chuan first began in the Yue Kingdom in the south during the Warring States Period, and there was a Lou Chuan Army, and the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty had military commanders with the official title of "Lou Chuan General". The Han Dynasty was able to build such large ships because China's shipbuilding technology had gradually matured by the Han Dynasty. First of all, it is manifested in the use of sails. Whether there was a sail before the Han Dynasty is not clearly recorded in the history books, but there is an explanation of the sail in the "Release of the Boat" part of the book "Interpretation of the Name" by Liu Xi of the Han Dynasty: "The sail is said to be open with the wind, so that the boat is wide and widespread." Obviously, by the beginning of the Han Dynasty, China's ship sail technology had already appeared. Along with the sail came one of the most significant inventions in the history of shipbuilding, the invention of the stern rudder. It is located at the stern of the boat, and has the function of making the rudder pull out the correct course without yaw.

In 1955, a Han Dynasty pottery ship model unearthed in Guangzhou has a stern rudder on it. Documentary records corroborate with unearthed cultural relics, proving that the aft rudder of the Han Dynasty did exist. And it was not until 1242 that rudders appeared in the history of Western shipbuilding. The invention and use of sails and rudders made China's shipbuilding technology reach a very high level during the Qin and Han dynasties. The emergence and construction of building ships can be said to be the culmination of shipbuilding and navigation technology in the Han Dynasty.

Heritage

A large warship that was equipped with the ancient Chinese navy. The ship was built with a heavy building, hence the name. Some serve as command ships. During the Spring and Autumn Period, with the development of warship construction technology and operational needs, warships with heavy floor-type superstructures appeared, collectively referred to as building ships.

In 525 B.C., in the Battle of Wu and Chu Chang'an, the Wu army used the Wu throne ship, the large building ship Yu Huang, as the command ship. In 522 B.C., Wu Zixu, a doctor of the state of Chu, went from Chu to Wu, and in a question with the king of Wu, Wu said: "Those who build ships should be the building chariots of the army." This shows that the Wu and Chu Zhou divisions have been equipped with building boats. In the Han Dynasty, the building ship entered a stage of great development. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was preparing to conquer South Vietnam, so he built a large building ship, with a superstructure of 3-4 weights, 10 zhang (6 meters) high, and could carry 1,000 people. Each heavy superstructure is equipped with cabins, women's walls, and battle grids, which serve as the support and protective facilities for soldiers and soldiers. There are many flags on the ship to make a strong reputation. The building boat became the main warship of the boat division, and thus also became the name of the boat division, so the Han Dynasty boat division became the Lou Boat Army, referred to as the Lou Boat, or the ship army; the non-commissioned officer was called the Lou Boat Soldier, and the leading officer was called the Lou Boat General. The person who oversees the building is called the building officer.

Pictured: A giant ship with 4 cabins

During the Three Kingdoms period, the Wu Navy was equipped with 5-story building ships, such as "Feiyun" and "Gaihai" and other large building ships, which could carry 3,000 soldiers. Since then, successive naval armies have used building ships as the main warships.

Cheng Jia sat in the carriage and pointed to the port under construction and said, "In fact, my positioning of the eastern suburbs, in the future, I hope that this place will develop into a granary and a military port in Yingdu. ”

"The eastern suburbs will become the granary and gateway to the east of Yingdu", basically as long as the grain is harvested, it can be transported here, and then through the shallow water wharf, and the tonnage is very small, about 1,000 tons, only able to dock and unload some fishing boats of several hundred tons, and larger cargo ships will not work.

Mi Huang saw the contrast between Su Cong's front and back through the semi-transparent light veil, and smiled, he hid.

The pier is made of wood, with stakes driven into the water, and then planks are laid on top of it, extending to the surface of the water, about ten meters long, and there are two such piers, which can accommodate four or five fishing boats at the same time.

If Cheng Jia buys it, it is estimated that it will need to be overhauled, and this tonnage is too small, and it will definitely need to be re-approved at that time.

Another point is that this place is not remote enough, and Cheng Jia just hopes that the dock will be more private.

Cheng Jia finally rejected this place, and while it was still early, he simply let Wu An drive along the coast and go outside.

After walking like this for about half an hour, Cheng Jia saw that the terrain in front of him suddenly lit up, it was a U-shaped reflux bay, and the waves in the sea could be well offset here, and this itself was a good dock address, which only needed a little transformation.

However, another bad thing is that because a large amount of sediment carried by seawater accumulates here, so that over time, a thick layer of silt is accumulated on the seabed, which is not conducive to ship docking at all, and if you want to build a wharf again, you need to invest a lot of money in advance to remove the silt underneath, and it is still every year, which will directly increase the cost of wharf construction, which may be the reason why this place has been abandoned.

Another point that Chengjia is more satisfied with, because the terrain here is low, and it will directly hide from the coast at high tide, so this area is not inhabited at all, and it can be regarded as really remote.

Seeing that Cheng Jia had stayed here for a while, and he was still interested, Su Cong frowned and asked, "Boss, you're not going to build a dock here, are you?"

Cheng Jia smiled and said, "Why not?"

"Boss, this place has been seen by many people before, because the terrain is too low, it will be flooded as soon as the tide rises, and the silt inside is too thick, just to remove the silt will require a lot of funds, which is completely undrawable", Su Cong is not in favor of building a dock here at all, and this place is too remote, who will come here to dock.

Su never knew much about the construction of the wharf, but he also knew that if he wanted to dock thousands of tons of freighters, the wharf should be at least close to 10,000 tons, such a wharf would not work without millions, thinking of this, he felt that Cheng Jia was completely crazy, and invested so much money to build a wharf, there was no need to be arrogant The latest chapter of the baby's chief daddy. But he is just an employee, and the boss doesn't need to discuss with him at all about what he wants to do, well, since people have money, just be happy, why bother about how much money is spent.

Cheng Jia does have a lot of money, 20 million US dollars has barely moved, so much money is easy to be exposed when deposited in the bank, so it is simply spent, as for spending money in the future, please, it's not a matter of minutes.

Cheng Jia took a look, this U-shaped bay is not too big, the horizontal distance is about two hundred meters, and it is not a problem to dock a few freighters of thousands of tons in it, even if the giant ship of 10,000 tons should be able to stop two

The more Cheng Jia looked at it, the more he liked it, as for the silt they were worried about, with Xiao Er here, this was not a problem at all.

After this period of free hunting and preying on large sea creatures, Xiao Er's body has grown to about twenty-eight meters, and the thick tentacles are two or three meters thick, such tentacles can directly reach under the ground and stir a few times, you can get the silt to the shore, and you can also fill in the coast, so that you can avoid the dilemma of being flooded at high tide.

This kind of thing that doesn't cost a penny and can kill two birds with one stone is simply not too good.

"I think so, let's build a dock here", Cheng Jia waved his hand and decided directly.

Su Cong rolled his eyes speechlessly, well, he could only accept it.

"How much money is the boss going to pay?" Su Cong asked a very practical question.

"When the time comes, please ask the engineering team to come to explore and then talk about it, by the way, you can contact this", Cheng Jia said directly.

Su Cong's face changed, and he said with some embarrassment: "Boss, do you really want to hand it over to me?"

Su Cong's expression surprised Cheng Jia, is there anything unspeakable about this kid.

"You don't want to?" asked Cheng Jia.

Su Cong hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Oh, no, no, of course I do, but I don't know if the boss wants to know something?"

"Say it," Cheng Jia said with a smile.

"That's right, my second uncle is an expert in this area, their company is a wharf, if the boss is looking for someone, I will recommend my second uncle, really, he has been doing this business for 20 years, absolutely reliable, and the price will definitely be able to give the most preferential price, but I'm afraid that the boss will say what I do", Su Cong scratched his head with a rare embarrassed look.

Cheng Jia nodded and asked, "Then what is the name of your second uncle's company?"

"Jiangning Wharf Construction Co., Ltd., if the boss is not at ease, you can check it, there is absolutely no problem in terms of qualifications", Su Cong hurriedly assured.

"Okay, I promise you, if there is no problem, I will definitely give priority to your second uncle's company", Cheng Jia smiled and patted Su Cong's shoulder and said.

Although he got Cheng Jia's preferred choice, Su Cong still didn't feel at ease, this was a multimillion-dollar project, he thought Cheng Jia was just playing, but now it seems to be true, in this case, it can't be cheap for others, Su Cong has decided to call the second uncle after a while, and strive to win the first opportunity.