"Dare to ask if this iron arrow belongs to Master Jiang?" Facing the voice of doubt, Liu Jin replied with the same words as Fang Cai Jiangliu.

"As for whether the ship is carrying goods, Master Jiang can send someone on the ship to check it!" Liu Jin said with a smile.

"Go, go!" As the saying goes, you can't lose if you lose, and the boatman who stood up to question just now heard this, and hurriedly strode forward and was eager to try.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Liu stretched out his hand to stop him: "No need!"

"But...... Jiangtou!" said the boatman anxiously.

Jiang Liu glared at him: "Have you forgotten everything you were taught? You can't even tell the difference between an empty ship and a full ship?"

After the reprimand, Jiang Liu walked up to Xu Chen and bowed down: "Boss, this is my old Jiangtou who lost, according to what I said before, let Shopkeeper Liu dispose of it!"

Xu Chen quietly looked at the river that bent down, silent, and everyone on the field also held their breath, waiting for the fate of the river.

Jiang Liu didn't seem to notice this atmosphere, and said again: "Before the owner disposes of Lao Jiangtou, I still have a reluctant request, I hope the owner can agree!"

"Say!" Xu Chen said quietly.

"I beg the proprietor to let me go to the shopkeeper Liu's boat to take a look! That way, the old man will be blind even if he dies!" Jiang Liu raised his head and looked directly at Xu Chen when he said this.

Xu Chen looked at him for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "If you didn't say this, I would never keep you today!"

Jiang Liu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then he reacted and bowed: "Thank you for the kindness of the owner!"

The boatmen of the river also came back to their senses and saluted and thanked them.

Xu Chen smiled and said, "Go and see!"

"Okay!"

The river quickly got up, and his body seemed to be much lighter, and after a moment he ran to the seashore, set up a small boat, and sailed out on the sea......

After a long time, the sailboat started again, but it was the river that was trying. Once again, the sailboat disappeared from sight at a rapid pace, and only returned after half an hour.

"Fast! It's fast!

When the river came ashore, it limped towards the crowd, and some of them could not stand, and when they got closer, the boatmen were surprised to find that the head of the river, who had dealt with the sea ships all his life, was seasick!

"Haha! The owner, Shopkeeper Liu is really talented! This ship is simply invincible in the world!" Jiang Liu ran in front of Xu Chen, he couldn't support it anymore, and he sat on the ground, but he still danced with his hands.

Liu Jin took a step forward and smiled at Jiang Liu: "Master Jiang has misunderstood! This boat is not something that Lao Liu, a carpenter, can make up! This ship, from design to construction, is all the credit of the owner! Liu does not dare to take credit!"

"Huh?" Jiang Liu was obviously stunned for a moment, and then looked at Xu Chen inquiringly, only to see that Xu Chen was just smiling and silent.

In a flash of inspiration, Jiang Liu hammered his head and said: "Damn! I should have thought of it a long time ago! Haha! Then I won't lose to your shopkeeper Liu? Haha! Lose to the owner, no shame!"

After Xu Chen laughed, he said loudly: "Lao Jiang, the boat has finished reading, right?"

Jiang Liu nodded hurriedly and said, "I've finished reading it!"

"Did you find any problems?" Xu Chen asked again.

When Jiang Liu heard this, he immediately shook his head desperately and said, "No! No! This ship deserves to be the best in the world, how can there be a problem!"

Who knows, his words made Xu Chen frown, and said with some displeasure: "There may be no shortcomings in the world!

After Jiang Liu listened, he looked at Xu Chen in confusion, and saw that the expression on the owner's face did not seem to be fake, so he pondered in his heart for a moment, and suddenly moved: "The owner is testing me! If I can't mention anything I want, then what's the use of the owner asking for me?"

Thinking of this, Jiang Liu lowered his head and thought carefully.

Xu Chen didn't urge, and waited quietly on the side.

This ship was completely built out of thin air by his own memory, although some problems were also consulted by professional shipwrights, but at that time the finished product was not out, many problems can only stay on paper, and there is still a big gap with reality!

And Jiang Liu's ability to independently build a sea ship that is hundreds of years ahead of others and explore many unknown things shows that he has a high talent and professionalism in shipbuilding, which is much stronger than Xu Chen, a halfway monk. Let him look at the ship again with a critical gaze, so that Xu Chen can really put his mind at ease and put it into production.

Jiang Liu thought for a full quarter of an hour, then raised his head, looked at Xu Chen, with a hint of hesitation, and even lowered his voice a lot: "Dare to ask the owner, what is the purpose of building this ship? Is it a merchant ship? or a ...... Warship?"

Xu Chen smiled knowingly and asked, "What about merchant ships, and what about warships?"

Jiang Liu replied: "If it is a merchant ship, then this ship in front of you is enough to deal with it! The small merchant ship has checked it, and the cargo capacity of this ship is as high as a full 30,000 stones, which is ten times higher than the current highest 3,000 stone ship of the Hongzhou Shipyard! In addition, this ship uses a variety of sails, plus a balanced rudder, which is enough to cope with sea navigation in various environments, and it is also equipped with a sealed cabin that plays the role of water barrier, and the small one can be guaranteed, and this ship will never have a problem if it is used as a merchant ship! On a long voyage, as long as the sailors are not stupid, the ship will be damaged by less than 10 percent! It is far lower than the 80 percent damage that is common at present. ”

"And then?" Xu Chen still smiled faintly.

Jiang Liu glanced at Xu Chen again, as if he had made up his mind, and then said: "However, as a warship, there are still many shortcomings!"

"What's the shortcoming?" asked Xu Chen.

"First of all, the speed of the ship is too fast! With this speed, I am afraid that the sails can drop a large part of the enemy in a moment, and it is useful to escape, but it is not suitable to defeat the enemy. If you use high speed to ram, the hollow bow of the ship will collapse at a moment, and if you want to attack the enemy ship, the speed will not be conducive to the sailors to maneuver the ship, so that the fighter will be delayed. ”

"In addition, this ship is not equipped with any offensive weapons, clappers, trebuchets, bed crossbows, etc., and if the owner wants to install these things, whether they are installed on the deck of the bow or in the side compartments of the middle level, the planks used in the hull are too weak to withstand the tremendous force of these heavy long-range weapons. ”

"And ......"

Jiang Liu said little by little, and the more Xu Chen listened, the more satisfied he became, and nodded frequently.

This river is indeed not small!

The emergence of the flying scissor sailing ship was due to the need for the rise of trade between the Americans and Asia in later generations, in order to travel to and from the Pacific Ocean more quickly, the Chinese tea, silk, porcelain were shipped to the western United States, and the merchants would increase their investment in the technological innovation of sailing ships, which led to the glorious miracle in the history of sailing - the flying scissor sailing ship.

However, the scissor sailing ship was clearly not the first choice as a warship. As Jiang Liu said, neither the speed nor the light and thin hull chosen for the pursuit of high speed are suitable for combat at sea.

As an ancient, Jiang Liu can point out these problems after reading them once, and the level is not ordinarily high!

"Lao Jiang, you know water warfare very well!" Xu Chen said with a smile.

Jiang Liu smiled reservedly: "Hongzhou Shipyard is not only building merchant ships, besides, Xiao Lao'er only knows how to build ships, and water warfare is a sailor's business!"

Xu Chen nodded with satisfaction and asked, "Then if you are allowed to do it, can the problems you said just now be solved?"

Jiang Liu said without thinking: "As long as you give the small time, the small one can build the boat that the owner wants!"

"Okay!" Xu Chen laughed and said, "Haha! The shipyard will be handed over to you in the future! I don't care about other things, as long as you can build the ship I want!"

"In addition, I don't just want boats on the sea, rivers and lakes and even swamps and wetlands, I want boats that can pass in all kinds of environments!"

"Oh my God, what is the owner trying to do? This is clearly to create a whole water division!"

After the development of maritime trade in the past few decades, the technology of water warfare has also made a breakthrough with the development of shipbuilding technology, and the sailor is no longer a tool for transporting soldiers and horses! At least in the eyes of the southern maritime merchants, it has long become an indispensable force for escorting.

For this reason, there will be ships used in different environments in the naval division, and the division of labor and cooperation of various ships can greatly strengthen the combat effectiveness of the naval division. This is the same reason as the division of labor among the various arms of the army.

When he got the owner's idea, Jiang Liu was naturally shocked! According to the owner's method, he simply wanted to form a sailor!

Although this kind of thing has long been tacitly understood among the maritime merchants in the south, after seeing the high performance of the flying scissor sailboat, Jiang Liu can predict that after the successful formation of such a naval division, its combat effectiveness will be the best in the world!

It should be said that even if all the rest of the water forces in the world are added together, it will never be comparable to this water division!

That's what Jiang Liu thinks!

Jiang Liu had already known a lot about the guards of Hongzhou Shipyard and Wuyue Town before this, but now looking back, the navy known as the world's first sailor was afraid that it would also be completely defeated in front of the owner.

So, here's the problem!

The owner has nothing to do to make such a powerful sailor, what does he want to do?

Jiang Liu was not one of the dozens of teenagers, and he didn't participate in the discussion of the little black house that day, and he didn't know anything about the threat Xu Chen was facing, so it was inevitable that he would have thoughts like Lu Hao at the beginning.

The proprietor is only afraid that the plan is very big!

"Lao Jiang, Lao Jiang, have you done it?" Xu Chen saw that Jiang Liu had been in a daze, and hurriedly called out.

"Huh, what?" Jiang Liu was still immersed in reverie for a moment, and was suddenly woken up by Xu Chen, and he was a little confused for a while.

After a while, he reacted, heard the owner's question, and hurriedly nodded and replied: "No problem! Those boats are all trivial! It's not that I haven't built them before, and most of the ships of the escort team in Wuyue Town are from me!"

Looking at Jiang Liu's confident appearance, Xu Chen was very satisfied: "Do a good job! I won't treat you badly!"

"Oh oh oh!" Jiang Liu nodded stupidly, but he was thinking in his heart: "Is this a promise? Could it be that my old Jiangtou also has a day to pay homage to the marquis?"

Xu Chen naturally didn't pay attention to the thoughts in Jiang Liu's heart, and in fact, he didn't have time for him to think about these things!

"Report! Big brother, Chang'an urgent letter!"

A young man was rushing towards Xu Chen......