Chapter 7 Xu Chen of Shengzhou
In 589 AD, Sui destroyed Chen. Emperor Wen of Sui then ordered to build Kangcheng in Dangping, and took Stone City as the seat of Jiangzhou, and changed it to Danyang County when Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty.
After that, the Sui and Tang dynasties successively adopted the strategy of suppressing Nanjing, moving the Yangzhou administrative office from Jinling to Guangling, and once canceled the establishment of Nanjing Prefecture. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Du Fuwei and Fugong Yi's righteous army occupied Danyang County and returned to the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty changed Danyang to naturalization. Du Fuwei was detained and did not return, and Fu Gongyi rebelled and established the Song regime. Later, Tang Ping Jiangnan, placed in Shengzhou.
During the reign of Xuanzong, Shengzhou did not have the heritage of the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and the limelight was covered by Yangzhou, and there was no topography of the tiger standing on the dragon plate, but there was no crown of prosperity in the world.
Longzangpu, also known as Huaishui in general, the poet Du Mu's "Bo Qinhuai" has to wait for nearly a hundred years, and the intoxicating ten-mile Qinhuai is now just a moat outside Shengzhou City.
There are no painting boats, no beautiful women, just the long aquatic plants on the shore and the waterfowl in the water and in the air, playing and flipping, although there is also a different kind of wild interest, but in Xu Chen's view, it is indeed full of desolation and endless loss......
"Alas, why didn't you wear it back to the Ming Dynasty......?
Outside the city of Shengzhou, on the edge of Longzangpu, a huge farm has risen from the ground in the past few months, and at this moment, all kinds of workers in the farm are busy in full swing.
Outside Zhuangzi, on the spacious dock, Xu Chen was sitting alone on the edge of the wooden bridge, his legs dangling, tearing off a piece of aquatic grass casually, and sighing at the empty Longzangpu.
On Xu Chen's body, the two guards heard the sigh of the eldest brother and looked at each other in confusion.
"What did the eldest brother just say?feelings???" A young man asked as he looked at his companion and was puzzled.
The other companion bowed his head and pondered for a while, and after a moment raised his head, with a look of knowing in his heart, and said: "Of course it is the feeling of composing poetry! You don't know that the eldest brother is a genius!"
"Really, what kind of poetry?" asked the man in front of him, blinking his eyes.
The companion stretched out his hand and scratched the back of his head, trying to recall: "It seems to be smoke and water, what kind of restaurant is feelings, and the last two sentences seem to have a dead country and a woman or something! Oh! The poems made by the eldest brother are all the best, how can I remember them clearly!"
But he saw that the man before glanced at him, and said with a face full of disbelief: "You just blow it! What kind of country has died! This has been hundreds of years since the previous dynasty, what kind of country has died!"
Seeing that he didn't believe it, his companion hurriedly said angrily: "What do you know?
"Remember, remember, what?" the man asked earlier.
Speaking of this, the companion looked left and right, although he knew that there were no outsiders around here, but he still lowered his voice and asked mysteriously, "Do you think the eldest brother looks like an ordinary person?"
"If the eldest brother is an ordinary person, then are we still human?" said the man from before.
"Isn't that right?" said his companion proudly.
"Right for what?" asked the man from earlier.
The companion hurriedly lowered his voice and explained: "The eldest brother is not a mortal at first glance, and the poem he is writing now is probably reminiscing about the past!"
"What past?" The previous person didn't react at first, but under the mysterious eyes of his companion, he suddenly remembered and hurriedly exclaimed: "The past of the country?"
"Be quiet!" his companion hurriedly covered his mouth, and at the same time whispered, "Just know!
The previous man's mouth was covered by his companion, and he was speechless, so he had to nod vigorously, accompanied by frequent blinking.
"What the hell are you two doing!" Just as the two hugged each other, a soft scolding suddenly came from behind them.
The two hurriedly separated, and when they saw the visitor, they hurriedly bowed down and saluted, "Second brother!"
"What were you doing just now?" the person who came was Lu Hao.
"We're talking......" The man was about to say it out loud, but he felt his companion tugging at the corner of his coat, so he turned back and asked, "Why are you pulling me?"
The companion rolled his eyes, directly ignored the other party, and then hurriedly replied to Lu Hao: "Second brother, just now there was a bug in his back, and I was helping him catch it!"
Lu Hao glanced at the two of them suspiciously, shook his head, and said with a straight face: "You have to stand guard well, you can't move when the insects come, how do you stand in the queue!"
"Yes, yes, yes, the second brother taught you a lesson!" the two nodded hurriedly.
Lu Hao came here to have an urgent matter, but after saying a few words, he ignored it, walked quickly to Xu Chen's side, bent down and called, "Big brother!
After calling several times, Xu Chen didn't respond, but he heard the eldest brother muttering in a low voice: "Why is there no girl on this river?"
"Girl?" As soon as he heard the eldest brother's question, Lu Hao replied in a ghostly manner: "Girl, there are so many in the Qinglou restaurant!"
When Xu Chen heard this, a thick disdain suddenly appeared on his face, and he said, "Can the girl there compare with the one on the boat?"
"Huh, on the boat?" When Lu Hao heard this, his mind suddenly opened, but he suddenly said in his heart: "No wonder the eldest brother never looks for a girl!
So, in the spirit of sharing the worries of his eldest brother, Lu Hao blurted out: "That's not easy! Just find a few girls to put them on the boat! We can have whatever boat our family wants!"
Xu Chen came back to his senses this time, turned his head, looked at Lu Hao, and said with a meaningful smile: "Okay! I just said the girl, and you can immediately think of the wine shop and the green building." How many times have you been there?"
When Lu Hao heard this, his old face turned red, and he quickly coughed twice, and then said with a stern face: "Speaking of ships, there is something wrong with our new ship!"
"What?" Xu Chen didn't care about ridicule when he heard this, so he quickly stood up and asked, "What's wrong?" Isn't the drying room already built?
Lu Hao replied: "It's not a problem with the drying room, most of the wood transported has been dried, and the tung oil has been brushed several times!"
"Now that the wood is ready, let's start work!" Xu Chen shouted with a calm face.
Since he came to Shengzhou, Xu Chen has been busy with his feet and has not been free for a day.
At the beginning, the people who left Yuzhang with the teenagers, a few of them were the families of the teenagers, and most of the villagers of Peng Ze chose to follow except for those who were too old to travel far, plus half of the shipwrights of Hongzhou Shipyard and the families who followed, Lin Lin finally had more than 5,000 people.
As soon as there are many people, there will be many troubles! Although Xu Chen has a lot of management experience in his head, it still takes time to run in between theory and practice. He was still like that, not to mention the rest of the teenagers.
At the beginning, for more than 300 years, almost a qiē drill was put down and all mobilized.
Realistically level the land, then plan the functional areas, and then build houses, factories, and docks. Fortunately, when I bought the land, this piece was already a ready-made farmstead, and the houses were complete, otherwise these 5,000 people would not even have a place to sleep at night.
After a difficult beginning, today's farm finally has a look, once it is settled, Xu Chen immediately put the shipyard on the agenda, after all, this is directly related to the improvement of his own strength, how dare Xu Chen be sloppy.
Although there are half of the craftsmen of the Hongzhou Shipyard, there are many shipbuilding processes, and the problem of timber alone has troubled Xu Chen for a long time.
Jiangnan Dongdao has many plains and hills, lack of deep mountains and old forests, and it is difficult to find wood suitable for building sea ships nearby, so Xu Chen had to spend a lot of money to transport it from other places.
But after the timber arrived, the next processing was a problem. The timber that can be used to build seagoing ships does not need to be naturally dried for more than a year, and at the same time, it needs to be processed in multiple processes.
But this wood drying is a time-consuming job, and it happens to meet the rainy season of Jianghuai, and there are nine days out of ten days when the sun is not seen, how can there be effort to let this wood air dry!
In desperation, Xu Chen had to spend a huge amount of money to build a huge indoor drying place near the shipyard, with a slip of fire kang underground, burning day and night, just the coal consumed has to be a whole ship every day, as for these coals, Xu Chen naturally asked Peng Ze to find the warehouse firm.
Unexpectedly, the problem of wood drying was finally solved, and at this moment there was trouble again!
"What's wrong with this time?" Even with Xu Chen's calmness, the troubles of more than two months in a row were enough to make his head big.
"Foreman Jiang...... It's a strike!" Lu Hao glanced at Xu Chen's face, and then said cautiously.
"Sure enough, it's him again!" Xu Chen said through gritted teeth.
"I don't know how the third child and Zheng Tai recruited people to invite such an ancestor back, is this to ask Lao Tzu to be a bodhisattva?" Xu Chen shouted angrily.
The person who can make Xu Chen lose so much is naturally not an ordinary person, this foreman surnamed Jiang Mingliu, when he was in Hongzhou Shipyard, he was an old man in charge of a dock, and even those old craftsmen with transcendent status in the shipyard had to call him "senior brother" in terms of qualifications.
It's just that this middle-aged Jiangliu lost his son, and since then his temperament has changed greatly, and he has gotten along worse and worse with his colleagues in Hongzhou Shipyard.
Such a person was naturally not treated well by his colleagues, and it did not take long for the craftsmen to complain and react to the shipyard owner. The proprietors had no choice but to transfer him out, and remembered his age, and had made a lot of contributions to the shipyard, and could not bear to see him old and helpless, living on the streets, so they sent him to the dock to be a foreman, supervising the construction of a worker, and the design of the matter was not to think about it, from then on, the river became more and more negative, borrowing wine all day to kill his sorrows, and did not pay much attention to the things in the dock.
On that day, Wang Ce and Zheng Tai went to Hongzhou Shipyard to pick people, the two kept in mind the teachings of the eldest brother, and only selected those young skilled workers, as for those who were old and had design talents, none of them were wanted, and the Wan family who went with them was naturally happy to do so, after all, compared to those skilled workers, these craftsmen who can design drawings are the real treasures of the shipyard.
In the end, when it was Jiangliu's turn, Wang Ce and Zheng Tai were reluctant to ask for his age, but when the workers heard that they were going to take them away, they were inevitably uncertain, thinking, once something happened, they didn't even have a person to take the idea, so they had to be bullied to death by the owner?
So, everyone threatened to bring Jiangliu, Wang Ce and Zheng Tai saw it, and after hearing what happened to Jiangliu from the Wan family, they were moved with compassion, so they brought it back.
I didn't know that I brought back an uncle!
Xu Chen immediately waved his hand in annoyance and said, "Let's go!"