Ten days passed in a flash, and in the hearts of the shipwrights, a race that would determine the fate of the shipyard was about to begin.

In this competition, the two sides built their own ships independently within ten days, and there was no contact with each other, and Xu Chen did a very good job of confidentiality work, which ensured the fairness of the game to the greatest extent.

Although the Yangtze River is wide, Xu Chen wants a sea boat, and if he wants to test the performance of a sea boat, he naturally has to go to the sea. Shengzhou in the Tang Dynasty was still some distance from the sea. If you let both sides sail the ship to the sea together, you will inevitably be looked at by the other party on the way. For a high-level boatwright, there are many things that can be seen just by looking at the appearance, and once the opponent has a way to deal with it, the game is not fair.

In order to continue this fairness, Xu Chen decided to stop the work of the two sides as soon as the ten days passed, and then wait until late at night, and then let the two sides stagger the time to drive the boat to the designated competition venue and hide it, just waiting for the moment of the game.

At this point, Liu Jin and Jiang Liu naturally readily agreed.

The venue of this competition, Xu Chen chose a small island hundreds of miles away from the mouth of the Yangtze River.

At three poles in the morning, Xu Chen came to this small island on the turtle boat guarded by Zheng Tai.

After spending almost three months in the farm, although he now has many playmates of the same age, the same scenery is naturally boring and tight for the naughty boy. So when she heard that there was a lively scene to see this time, Lu Ying clamored to come, and Xu Chen had no choice but to bring the little girl over.

"Brother Chen, I heard that there is a big boat race today, right?" the little girl's silver bell-like laughter rang out.

Xu Chen smiled and nodded, "That's right!"

Lu Ying cheered and said: "Great! I'm about to suffocate to death after staying in the farm all day, and today is finally lively!"

The little girl ran and jumped on the soft sand with her bare white feet. Caught off guard, he heard a vague but neutral voice from behind: "What's so lively about the game where the outcome has been decided!"

The little girl's laughter stopped abruptly, turned around, and stared at Shi Lei, who was struggling with a fat chicken leg in one hand, with a pair of small hands on her waist, and said: "You know the stinky stones you eat! Look at you, you're going to become a big fat pig!"

As soon as Lao Liu drove out the boat designed by his eldest brother, the old man Jiang would have to pee his pants in fright, what ...... else" Shi Lei concentrated on nibbling the chicken leg in his hand, and said to himself, but suddenly heard a very harsh word.

"What do you say, what do you say I am?" Shi Lei raised his head and glared at Lu Ying.

How could the little girl care about this "little brat", and still said proudly: "What else can it be?

"You, you ......" Shi Lei's weight has risen sharply recently, and more and more people have used this word to describe him, but Xiao Shi will resolutely fight back against every "provocation".

As this guy's weight rises, his strength is becoming more and more amazing, and now none of the more than three hundred sailors can withstand him, and even Chai Lao, a master of the Grandmaster Realm, is inferior in strength.

Treat a few brothers, he didn't dare to do anything, so he responded with silence and didn't speak, once Xu Chen said a word to him, he would ignore people all day long, and Xu Chen's head was as big as a fight, so he had to apologize angrily.

And dealing with other people is naturally simpler and rude......

As a result, after several strong "suppressions", no one dares to say this word in front of him now, however, Lu Ying is an exception!

"I, what's wrong with me?" Lu Ying stretched out her tender fingers and pointed at herself, like a proud little peacock, and questioned Shi Lei.

Seeing that Shi Lei still looked like he was going to eat people, the little girl's face immediately became bitter, and at the same time, her body began to tremble slightly, and she sobbed and said loudly to Xu Chen: "Brother Chen, the little stone bullied me!

Xu Chen, who was walking in front, heard this, turned his head, glanced at Lu Ying, and then looked at Shi Lei coldly.

Shi Lei was already stunned in place, and he didn't pay attention to the chicken leg in his hand when it fell into the sand, but in an instant, Shi Lei reacted, raised his thick thigh, his face was hideous, and he stepped on the fat chicken leg viciously, and scolded angrily while stepping on it: "Damn chicken leg, you dare to drop it without permission, so that our family Yingying can't eat it! See if I don't kill you!"

After stepping on it for a long time, the little stone walked proudly towards Lu Ying, and only then did he say: "Yingying, don't cry, when you go home, Brother Shi will buy you ten big chicken legs! Let you eat a full meal! Don't cry! If you cry again, it won't be beautiful!"

After saying that, Xiaoshi put his hands behind his back and swaggered towards the island.

Lu Ying, who had been shocked by his actions and words, and Xu Chen, who looked at Lu Ying's thin belly with strange eyes, were left behind.

"Ten big chicken legs! Can you eat it?"

Lu Ying felt that what his brother Chen was thinking about at the moment must be this matter!

"Stinky stone! You big fat pig!"

At this moment, Lu Ying no longer cared about whether Brother Chen thought she was not a lady, and after roaring loudly, she raised her white feet and rushed towards Shi Lei, who had already walked away, like a deer, still a crazy deer!

And Shi Lei, long before the little girl moved, spread his steps and ran away......

This island is not big, and before coming, Xu Chen sent someone to thoroughly investigate it, and there was no danger. For this reason, he didn't care about these two naughty boys.

"Dongjia!" Seeing Xu Chen on the island, Liu Jin and Jiang Liu, who had arrived first last night, hurriedly greeted him.

Xu Chen nodded and said, "Everyone has arrived, so let's start!"

"No problem!" Jiang Liu said confidently, and after finishing speaking, he turned his head and glanced at Liu Jin, his face full of pride.

Liu Jin's face was expressionless, but his heart was already as calm as water, in the face of Jiang Liu's contempt, Liu Jin only felt a little funny, if Liu Jin was only confident out of trust in Xu Chen before, then now he, after last night's sea trial, his heart has long been without today's game.

Because, a qiē, there is no need for this!

"Then please ask Master Jiang to come first!" Liu Jin smiled.

Jiang Liu glanced at him and replied cheerfully: "Okay!" but he was sneering in his heart: "Hmph! Come first first, I'm afraid that when the time comes, you, the carpenter, won't even have a chance to appear!"

Then, Jiang Liu waved his hand at a boatman behind him, who hurriedly took out a conch from his arms, took a deep breath, and blew it.

As the sound of the snail spread, a moment later, a tall sea ship drove directly east of the island, and at a cursory glance, it was actually four floors!

"This is the sea ship designed by the old man! The total length of the front and back is 18 zhang 9 feet, the width is 3 zhang 3 feet, and the height is ...... It's ten feet!" Jiang Liu explained to Xu Chen and the others with a smug face.

"This ship was designed by the old man with a lifetime of painstaking efforts, and compared to her, those double-decker ships in the Hongzhou shipyard are simply waste! This ship can be filled with a full 6,000 stone of cargo, and even when it is fully loaded with cargo, it can still have a speed of 80 miles per hour, and if you travel empty, it will be a piece of cake for thousands of miles a day!"

Jiang Liu is indeed an excellent shipwright, even in the Hongzhou shipyard is one of the best, he designed this sea ship, abandoning the Hongzhou shipyard has always followed the ingot-shaped structure, bold innovation, the bow of the ship is retracted, the stern is used in the square.

At the same time, the ship's building, which was originally located in the center of the ship, was relocated to the stern, so that the center of gravity of the whole ship was moved backwards, but the position of the sail was moved forward accordingly, and the design of the three-masted sail was adopted, which made the ship more powerful and faster.

In addition, the previous power mode of the combined use of pulp and sail was abandoned, and the original power room on the bottom floor of the ship was changed to the cargo hold, which naturally greatly increased the load capacity.

Not to mention the streamlining of the entire hull is even more perfect!

All in all, the ship of Jiangliu can be described as an epoch-making work, the shape of this ship is not much different from the shape of the Ming treasure ship seven hundred years later, it can appear in this era, it is enough to see the shipbuilding level of Jiangliu!

However......

After Xu Chen finished reading it, he just smiled and nodded.

Jiang Liu thought that the proprietor was not very satisfied, and his heart was very angry, so he said loudly to the boatman behind him: "Is the ship full of sand? If it is full, let them quickly hoist the sails and run! Let the proprietor see how our ship is!"

"Okay!" After the boatman behind him received the order, he hurriedly blew the conch again, and after the sound of the snail of different lengths, the boat on the sea in the distance moved.

First of all, he turned around flexibly, and it took less than a moment of effort, which was more than twice as fast as the sea ship in Hongzhou Shipyard!

After that, the huge sails on three sides are raised, and the sea ship moves forward against the wind and waves.

"Boss, give it, you have to take a good look at it!" Jiang Liu handed over a telescope and said to Xu Chen angrily.

Xu Chen shook his head helplessly, knowing that the other party had misunderstood him, but he didn't bother to explain, and looked into the distance after taking the binoculars.

I saw that the boat designed by the river was really speeding away like an arrow from the string, and after a while, the sea ship in the telescope became smaller and smaller, and only the white ripples splashed at the stern could not be seen for a long time.

For this competition, Xu Chen chose the small island at his feet as the starting point, and there was another small island hundreds of miles away from the island as the end point. There are two turtle boats moored in front of the starting island, and the straight line formed between the two boats to the island at the end is exactly a hundred miles.

It took 200 miles to calculate the speed of the ship, and when the ship reached the end island, a sailor would shoot a pre-marked iron arrow with a crossbow and bow into the hull of the ship, and the ship would only have to bring the arrow back to the starting point to prove that it had indeed completed the whole race.

And in order to ensure fairness, in addition to the sailors on the island at the end of the island, there is also a subordinate sent by Liu Jin and Jiang Liu, and the iron arrow that has been marked is also in the hands of these two people, and the mark on the iron arrow is also specially made by the two sides for each other, which is extremely cumbersome, and it is impossible to copy and fake it on the empty end island!

"Shopkeeper Liu, take a look! You made the mark on this iron arrow?" The sea boat returned, and after Jiang Liu asked people to take off the iron arrow on the ship, he sent it to Liu Jin.