The men sent to the shipyards returned with a large number of them, and these were the results of them—a group of craftsmen who were familiar with building shipyards and building ships, numbering in the thousands.

One of them was eloquent, and daring, and even eliminated the people of a small shipyard who were obviously fools, and brought back all the capable and useful people, including not only those who knew how to build ships, but also those who had participated in the construction of shipyards and managers.

Later, when they were asked to find professionals who knew how to build ports, they really found a few experts in this field - although they were basically only at the level of building docks on inland rivers, they were still much more experienced than others.

After the men were handed over to Electrolux, Izumi went with him to see them, and asked some questions about them by the way, which was generally satisfactory to them.

The current plan is to develop the bay of Shangro first, which is large enough to be built into a seaport, and another nearby bay, which is smaller and is the site of a shipyard.

In view of the fact that the sea guard has not yet been formed, the sea beasts in the two bays need to be cleaned up by them.

Although it was a little embarrassing to expel these sea beasts from their original home, their existence could easily cause casualties, Quan still agreed to the expulsion, and the Monarch Snake took the Jiao Snake to the town of Xiangluo Bay, as long as the Jiao Snake released its breath, no other sea beast dared to move in that area, and in the same way, Shanaiduo and Brand went to the site of the shipyard.

However, in view of the fact that only two past springs were sent on one side, and Brand didn't like water and couldn't go to the sea, Quan also sent a group of sea king whales to help Shanaiduo, and the monarch snake sent the sea snake that he caught before, and there was also the leader of the sea snake group, so it was very convenient to control his little brother not to bite indiscriminately.

Although these sea king whales and sea snakes have been captured, they are still ownerless, and only the Shanaiduo monarch snake can watch them.

With these large sea beasts, workers can help transport large items while they build harbors and shipyards.

Now that the clearance personnel have been arranged, it is now necessary to recruit enough people to participate in the construction work.

This was not an easy task, and the local people had a deep fear of the sea, and even if the city lord's mansion offered twice the price of ordinary workers, few people were willing to work.

In the end, Electrolux, who could not find enough manpower, issued a conscription order to all the people of Clay, requiring every household that met the conditions for conscription to send a prime-aged man to participate in the construction.

As soon as this conscription order came out, no one had anything to say, after all, this was the lord's power, and as long as he wanted to, he didn't even have to pay the lords any salary, because no adult was required to serve as a servant.

It's just that in the past, everyone was usually asked to build roads, build rivers, or join the army, etc., but this time they were just asked to go to the beach.

The whole Clay was in a sad mood, and the eligible people wept bitterly, as if they would never come back.

For a time, Electrolux became a terrible dictator in the eyes of all the Clayians, who did not care about the lives of his people, and was even more resentful than his title of son of black.

Izumi, who had heard some gossip from his subordinates, smiled happily and asked Electrolux teasingly, "Your Excellency the Dictator, what do you think?" ”

Electrolux: ...... What did he think? The original salary was still too high, so it would be nice to follow the usual one.

So, after learning that the wages of these recruits were only half of what had been set, the workers who had taken the risk for money in advance rejoiced, and fortunately they agreed earlier.

And the later workers just regretted it, knowing that they would have to come sooner or later, they might as well join the recruitment at the beginning, so that they could get a little more wages.

With a certain mood similar to death, he followed the soldiers sent by the city guard to the two bays, and thought that what he saw would be the hideous face of the sea beast, but in fact it was not.

The bay, which used to be full of sea beasts, is now full of people and full of merchants and mercenaries who transported goods, which were bought in the name of the castle lord's mansion and used to build the necessities of the harbor and the shipyard, and the experts who had been brought back from the various shipyards earlier had been escorted over to investigate and discuss the construction plan before the workers arrived, and the drawings were really drawn, and Izumi and Electrolux looked at it, and with a stroke of the pen, they contacted many merchants from all over the country to use all kinds of materials and equipment they needed.

By the time the conscripted workers arrived, the reef had been cleared of the sands of the bay and the temporary shelters had been built, and when they arrived, they saw a large area of neat tents on the beach, and the cove with people coming and going, and the shadows of the former sea beasts were not visible at all.

No, it's not that you can't see it, if you look closely, aren't there the sea snakes and sea crocodiles that they talked about in the past among the demonic beasts that helped transport the goods.

Now they are docile and do not look like ferocious sea beasts at all, but like domestic pets that have been domesticated for a long time.

The people in charge of arranging the newcomers have not been found for a long time than the newcomers, but they already know the rules here, so they are assigned to do this kind of work.

When a newcomer who didn't understand asked them what was going on here, these people would proudly tell them that it was because their little prince, His Royal Highness the Good Duke, sent his own ninth-order demonic beast to clean up the bay, so this was already a very safe place.

"Look, the ones over there are the demonic beasts of His Highness, they are all very powerful ninth-order demonic beasts, wasn't there a legend of ninth-order demonic beasts here in Xiangluowan before? That white snake is the legendary existence. ”

The people looked in the direction, and sure enough, they saw two snakes of similar size, one green and one white, lying on the only large reef left on the beach, lazily basking in the sun.

"With them here, other sea beasts won't dare to approach Xiangluo Bay, so it's very safe here."

After knowing that their lives were safe, the newcomers all relaxed, and regretted that they had lost half of their wages because they had not come earlier.

Later, however, when the overseer said that if they performed well and worked diligently, they could still increase their salaries, and everyone burst into enthusiasm and participated in the work, hoping that they would be able to get a high salary as soon as possible so that they could be sent home to support their families.

The construction of the two bays was in full swing, and Izumi was not idle, and the shipwrights who had been invited back were now arranged in the lord's palace of Clayy, and Izumi would discuss with them every day about the new ships, and try to study the steamship one day sooner.

Most of these shipwrights are veterans who have worked in the shipyard for more than ten years, and they have a good set of shipbuilding, but in the past, they were limited by the environment, and they had no motivation or money to study new ships, but now they are different here, His Royal Highness the Little Prince personally drew drawings - but the style was not marked with specific data - and asked them to help with detailed research, and there were so many experts in the industry discussing together, without worrying about funding and other problems, the creative desire in their hearts was mobilized.

Although everyone didn't believe that steel could run on the water, the person who jumped out of this plan was His Royal Highness the Little Prince, and the application of the steam engine also opened their eyes, that is, in the end, it could not be used on a steel ship, and it could be used on a mast ship made of wood to greatly increase the speed of the ship and save manpower.

Therefore, although they felt that steel shipbuilding was impractical, no one said it, but when they were researching, they subconsciously changed the appearance of steel ships to the current mast ships, and in this way, they could not get satisfactory results for Izumi.

Izumi quickly noticed that something was wrong with these people, and after figuring out what these people were thinking, he didn't say anything, but instead asked Electrolux to help him make a small model boat after a few days.

The model boat is modeled after the most common fishing boats nowadays, and is only more than a meter long, but it can allow a child under the age of 10 to sit on the boat and float on the water without sinking, just like a real fishing boat.

And this model boat, it is all made of metal, even a nail on it.

But when Izumi showed the model boat to the boatmen, and when he saw such a simple, but indeed floating steel ship, everyone's preconceived notions were shattered, and for the first time, they really realized that the heavy metal could really be used to make boats, and not only that, but it would be stronger and safer than ordinary wooden boats.

After realizing this, everyone no longer doubted Izumi's plan, and they began to devote themselves to the drawings in public, making sure to understand and understand it thoroughly, and then come up with the most reasonable plan.

Many of these boatmen had little education, and some of them didn't even know a few words other than their own names, making it difficult for them to study drawings.

But if they can't figure it out, they can do it themselves, and the physical ship can't do it, but the same ship as the model Izumi made can always do it, right? Together, they experimented with various materials provided by Izumi, and after dozens of failed models, they finally succeeded in making a model of a steamship.

As the model steamship roared through the waters of the castle, everyone erupted in cheers of excitement.