The next morning, Fang Zi'an rode to Wantou Village. Although he knew that there would not be any news of the Dream going to sea, Fang Zi'an still wanted to find out some news. In addition, the old man is waiting for the work, and he has to look for another broken ship for the old man to repair.

Fang Zi'an first arrived at the big wharf of the Qiantang River along the avenue, and when he arrived there, Fang Zi'an was surprised to find that dozens of large sea ships that were originally leaning on the deep-water wharf in the middle of the wharf had disappeared. Although there were other vessels docked to load and unload cargo, they were clearly vessels sailing in inland rivers. The sea ships of several major ships in Lin'an City have disappeared.

Near the left side of the wharf, Fang Zi'an saw the colorful shed that had not yet been dismantled, the huge statue of the god enshrined, and the incense case and tribute that the monk had placed on the open space of the wharf. There were many ashes from burning lanterns and debris from firecrackers and fireworks all over the ground. Fang Zi'an realized that those big ships should have gone to sea.

Fang Zi'an asked the people on the dock about it, and sure enough, the answer was just as Fang Zi'an thought. The Lin'an merchant fleet assembled here the morning before yesterday and set sail, and a huge fleet of dozens of large ships had already headed for various countries. Officials of the Municipal Department of Shipping and the proprietors of major shipping companies held a ceremony here to worship the Sea Dragon King, the Sea Dragon Mother, and various sea gods, and pray for the blessings of the big ships that sail. The sheds, statues, offerings and firecrackers are the traces of the grand scene the day before.

Once a year, the winter monsoon begins at the end of October, and merchant ships go to sea to take advantage of this monsoon to sail with the wind and go straight to the major countries in the southeast. In five or six months, they will come back on the southeast monsoon. It's almost the end of October, and it's time for them to go to sea.

In this way, the Dream set off more than 20 days earlier than these big ships. For more than twenty days, I don't know where the Dream has arrived. It should be on the vast sea thousands of miles away from the Great Song Dynasty. It is not known that they may have arrived at the first stop, the country of Cochin.

Fang Zi'an came to the dock where the ship was dismantled in the east, climbed up and climbed for more than an hour, and fell in love with a broken big ship. Fang Zi'an has already gained experience from the old leader, and the key to buying these broken ships is to choose those ships with good rudders, basically intact masts, and no particularly large overall damage to the overall structure, so that the repaired ships will not have structural damage. So according to this principle, this time I spent one hundred and fifty taels of silver to buy a broken ship of unknown year, and the whole ship looked like it had been bombarded with cannons for more than a dozen cannons, and it was full of holes. Half of the ship was sunk, but only a few major parts were intact.

The ship-splitters were very happy, they didn't even want to dismantle the ship, because it was already half-sunk in the water, and it would take a lot of effort to dismantle the ship, and the wood obtained in the end was estimated to not be sold for dozens of taels of silver. Now someone bought it for a hundred and fifty taels of silver, and of course he couldn't ask for it.

Fang Zi'an hired two tugboats and asked the boat breakers to tie a dozen pontoons next to the big boat, and then lifted the boat slightly away from the silt at the bottom of the river. The two tugboats clamped the big boat on the left and the right and pushed hard to make the big boat move. With the help of the power of the ebbing tide, the big ship was finally allowed to make its way. Fang Zi'an asked them to tow the big boat to Wantou Village, and he rushed to Wantou Village by land.

When I arrived at Wantou Village, it was already late afternoon, and the old boss and his apprentices were expanding the wharf of the river bay during this time, using small boats to clean up the silt at the bottom of the river, widening the river channel, and strengthening the wharf on the bank of the river bay. Seeing Fang Zi'an coming, the old man rushed over at a happy trot, but the first thing he said when he met was to complain.

"Oh, Fang Gongzi, do you still know to come here? How many days have you not seen each other? I suspect that you are a hammer deal, and any words about repairing ships are nonsense. You've been waiting for you here for almost twenty days, and you're dying. ”

Fang Zi'an hurriedly dismounted and saluted, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I went to another place recently, so I couldn't come." What's your old man's urgency? Wouldn't it be nice to take a break for a while? The last ship has been busy for a month, so why don't you have to rest and rest. ”

The old man rolled his head and said, "Rest? We are all working hard, and after a few days of rest, my body and bones began to wreak again. No, I took my apprentices to dig the river to widen the wharf and strengthen the tire frame. Actually, I don't have anything, but since my apprentices are with me, I can't leave them here, they have a big family to support. It's going to be the end of the year soon, so they can rest? You can say it. ”

Fang Zi'an and the old boss walked to the side of the river bay wharf, which had indeed widened a lot, and the old boss was obviously thinking about making a big move. The tire frame in the river was exposed after the low tide, and stretched for two hundred paces, which was already a chassis that could be repaired by three ships at the same time.

"Oh, old man, you are such a big hand." Fang Zi'an praised.

"Either you don't do it, or you can do it. Didn't you say you were going to keep adding more ships? I thought about being prepared, and the ship repair had to be a big deal, and it would be a big deal. If you really want to make a big splash, these can come in handy. If you just say it, then I don't say it. The old man said.

Fang Zi'an laughed and said, ", of course you have to do a big job." Why not? As long as this trip to sea is successful, I will put all the money I have into it. When the time comes, we will build a dock or something by the river. ”

The old boss was very happy, but frowned again: "You say a good thing, but I always feel that you are bragging." ”

Fang Zi'an laughed and said: "The old boss is nothing more than a lack of work, thinking that I am just talking." Don't worry, the ship to be repaired is on the way, and it will arrive tonight. That's enough for you to do. I guess that's enough for you to keep you busy for a few months. In addition, tell everyone that whether there is work or not, the salary is paid. Even if they are idle and sleep a lot every day, I pay them. Can you still tell them that they can't eat without food? ”

The old man was overjoyed and nodded his head again and again. Fang Zi'an said this, and the old man finally fell to the ground with a stone in his heart. The previous words actually carried some angry words, and after a period of contact, the old boss still recognized Fang Zi'an.

At that moment, I walked around the river bay wharf and sat down in the simple resting shed built next to it. Fang Zi'an asked about the situation of the Dream. As expected, there was no news at all, which is actually reasonable. After the big ship goes out to sea, it sails on the vast sea, and naturally there is no news. However, in order to alleviate Fang Zi'an's worries, the old man also drew a simple nautical chart to predict the location of the big ship's arrival. It is estimated that at this moment, the big ship is already close to the left of the Boni country. According to the route that Wan Dahai told Fang Zi'an before, they were going to sail along the coast of the southern part of the Great Song Dynasty to Jiaozhi, and then go south to Zhancheng, Boni, and Hepo. If possible, go west to Tianzhu and other countries in the south of Dashi, and then return to the country. The entire route is designed to be an intensive three-month voyage with no respite in between. Because Fang Zi'an hopes to be able to sell the goods before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and make huge profits.

If according to the old leader's chart, the Dream is about to arrive in the Boni country, then in fact, it has already gone a third of the ship. It is possible to catch up with the progress. This was much faster than Fang Zi'an expected. But Fang Zi'an knew that at this moment, he was following the winter monsoon, and the voyage back would not be so fast, in that case, he would have to rely on the ability of the eight-masted ship to borrow the wind. When thinking of this problem, Fang Zi'an was extremely eager to solve the power problem of the ship. Fang Zi'an thought that if he was not constrained by the wind, if there was a steam engine, it would be a earth-shaking change.

Despite his mental preparations, when the big ship slowly arrived down the river in the evening, the old man almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood. Where is a ship, it's just a pile of garbage. The ship was in disarray, and the bottom of the ship was more than half a person deep. Everywhere there were collapsed** damaged mast ship planks, and there was little left of the whole ship intact. The old boss finally understood what Fang Zi'an meant when he said that the ship would be repaired for a few months. To repair this ship is almost equivalent to building another one.

"Can it be repaired? It doesn't matter if you can't fix it, it's just a waste of a few hundred taels of silver, which is a pity. It cost three hundred taels to buy a ship plus the freight for haulage. Fang Zi'an looked at the old man's frowning brow and asked with a smile.

The old man sighed, asked someone to get on the boat and quickly checked it, and after listening to the reports of the apprentices, he said angrily: "I suspect that you are deliberately teaching the old man to embarrass me, one is more broken than the other, you are embarrassing me." It's to find out whether my old man has real skills. ”

Fang Zi'an hurriedly swore to the sky to explain, and the old man frowned and said, "No matter what, how can I make you look down on you." You are the owner, whatever you call to do, I will do it for you. This ship has a shell here, but it has all collapsed, and I will repair it for you, old man, so that you can see what I can do. ”

Fang Zi'an laughed and said: "It seems that the old boss is really angry with me, so let's do it, the old boss can repair this ship, and the power to select the ship for repair in the future will be handed over to you, and you will not interfere if you are satisfied with the selection." You can repair it as you say, and whichever ship you say to repair is which. How is it? ”

The old man glared at Fang Zi'an, turned his head and waved his hand and shouted, "Let the boat enter the river bay and get on the tire rack." Apprentices, starting tomorrow, some of us are busy. "Please keep in mind: Lily, the website mobile version of the computer version, the lily free fastest update no anti-theft, no anti-theft, error chapter Ask for a book, please add the lily book friend group QQ group number 548944127