Xiao Ding came forward to be a matchmaker and set up a family affair for Fan Sanpang and the hammer girl in person. Xiao Ding was very happy, Fan San was overjoyed, and Tie Guanyin was even more happy.

Only Hammer Girl was a little careless, as if nothing had happened to her. However, Fan Sanpang gave her the love token - the bag of spices, she liked it quite much. After all, it's still a girl, although her appearance is a little unsatisfactory. But there is still a daughter's heart in her bones. She naturally likes this fragrant good thing.

At this time, the civet cat had also come to Xiao Ding's room from another room. In the past few days, she and Xiao Ding have both been concentrating on cultivation. During the day, in order not to disturb each other, they each chose a room to cultivate. Therefore, the two did not stay together all the time during the day.

I heard that Fan Sanpang and the Iron Hammer Girl's family affair was decided, and the civet cat was also happy for them, and saw that the iron official seal had been acquitted, so the civet cat proposed on the spot to call everyone together and go out to find a place to celebrate, this is a double happiness!

When Xiao Ding heard it, he thought it was a very good idea, one was to celebrate Fan Sanpang and the hammer girl getting married; the second is to celebrate Tie Guanyin's acquittal and the conclusion of the lawsuit; The third can also take this opportunity to resign for Tieguanyin's father and daughter, who have decided to leave Yangzhou City and return to their hometown in the near future.

The others naturally agreed with both hands, so Xiao Ding asked Fan Sanpang to call the other people in the courtyard and leave the Zhizhou Mansion together. At the same time, Xiao Ding did not forget to let his subordinates inform Kuang Wenbin, and also invited him to join everyone's party. It's just that Kuang Wenbin didn't have time to come out to drink with everyone because he was busy with official business, so Xiao Ding gave up.

Everyone came to the street, found a high-grade restaurant, ordered a large table of delicacies, and then pushed the cup to change the lamp, and ate and drank lively.

Hearing that the marriage between Fan Sanpang and Hammer Girl had been decided, everyone frequently toasted the two. drunk Fan Sanfat. Hammer Girl gave him many disdainful looks.

On the contrary, the amount of alcohol that the hammer girl drinks is much stronger than Fan Sanfat, everyone toasts, she is the one who comes, she does not refuse, a few catties of wine in her stomach, and her face does not change.

This amount of wine, even Xiao Ding admired. Although he knows that the alcohol content of the wine in this era is not high, but if he drinks a few catties in a row, the cumulative amount is also a lot!

After everyone had a lively time, they all returned to the governor's mansion to rest.

Early the next morning, Tieguanyin's father and daughter resigned to everyone and prepared to return to Majiatuozi Town. Because their families are still at home waiting for news, they are no longer being retained.

After sending off Tieguanyin's father and daughter, Xiao Ding also went to Kuang Wenbin to resign, and he was going to go to the shipbuilding workshops on the edge of Jingkou City and Taihu Lake to check and see the specific situation of shipbuilding.

At the same time, Xiao Ding also entrusted Kuang Wenbin to recruit a naval army in Yangzhou. As for the required expenses, Xiao Ding promised Kuang Wenbin that he would send them later. For the time being, let's use the money allocated by the imperial court last time.

Although most of the money allocated by the imperial court has been spent on shipbuilding, and the local finance of Yangzhou has also allocated a part of the silver for shipbuilding and material preparation, but now the money left is not much, and it can barely last for a month or two for the time being.

That is to say, if within two months, if the imperial court does not allocate silver, Xiaoding must get enough silver, so that Yangzhou can go to shipbuilding and conscription normally, otherwise it will not be able to continue later.

This should have been a problem that the imperial court should solve, but Xiao Ding is now on his head. In fact, Xiao Ding knew in his heart that the treasury of the imperial court was empty, and he had come up with a few ways to enrich the treasury for Song Yinzi before, but most of the methods were very slow to work, and they all took time to achieve slowly.

Only one trick to copy an official's house has the fastest effect, but this kind of thing can only be done once or twice once in a while, and a few typical examples can be caught. These officials of the imperial court, all of them are old fritters in the officialdom, and when they see that the situation is not good, no one dares to come out and be the first bird again, and the emperor naturally has no way to take these officials again. Therefore, this method that works quickly cannot be used all the time.

Xiao Ding had already thought that instead of asking the court for money, it would be more direct to think of a way by himself. So he took care of the money himself.

Kuang Wenbin doesn't mind, no matter who it is, as long as he has money, it will be easy to do things, and he only needs to hand over the soldiers and horses in Yangzhou to the command to carry out the specific implementation, he only needs to be in charge of logistics.

Therefore, for Xiao Ding's entrustment, he naturally agreed and promised to do it seriously.

Because Xiao Ding was going to work, Kuang Wenbin did not keep Xiao Ding.

So, Xiao Ding and his entourage, packed up their things, left the Zhizhou Mansion, still carrying two carriages, and galloped in the direction of Jingkou City.

Before leaving the city, Xiao Ding's carriage met the carriage of Yuan Caiyi and her disciples of Jinxiufang on the way.

It turned out that they were planning to go to the Lingjian Villa on the edge of Taihu Lake to assist Li Jianhao, the owner of the Lingjian Villa, in fighting.

The acquaintances met, and after greetings, they each said the destination of the hurry, so they went on the road together and galloped towards the Yangtze River.

There were not many people on this trip to Jinxiufang, and only one carriage was sitting. Everyone was not in a hurry on the road, so the carriage did not go too fast.

Two days later, three carriages came to the Yangtze River slowly.

Crossing the Yangtze River, Xiao Ding and his party were going to enter Jingkou City, while Yuan Ziyi and her disciples were going to Taihu Lingjian Villa.

So everyone broke up, but Xiao Ding said with a smile: "In a few days, we will also go to the shipbuilding workshop on the other side of Taihu Lake to have a look, maybe we will have the opportunity to meet on the other side of Taihu Lake." ”

Yuan Caiyi also smiled and said, "That's great, let's take the first step and wait for Brother Xiao Ding to come in Lingjian Villa." ”

Although Yuan Caiyi looks like she is only in her thirties, she is actually over fifty years old, but she is just well maintained. In the rivers and lakes, she can be regarded as a senior in the rivers and lakes, she calls Xiao Ding a brother, in fact, she gives Xiao Ding a lot of face.

After Xiao Ding and the others entered Jingkou City, they first found an inn to settle down, and then went to find out the specific location of the house called "Hongyun Boat Workshop". The workshop arranged by Kuang Wenbin to build an official ship is this shipyard.

As a result, after inquiry, I learned that the location of this Hongyun shipyard was not in Jingkou City, but on the edge of the Yangtze River outside the city.

So Xiao Ding and the others had no choice but to walk out of the city and walk towards the river.

On the edge of the Yangtze River, in addition to the shops doing other business near the wharf, on the east shore of the wharf, one by one, basically all of them are shipbuilding and ship repair workshops.

Xiao Ding and the others looked east along the riverbank, and finally found the largest workshop and shop. The banner at the door reads "Hongyun" in two big characters.

There is a small home-built wharf on the river bank directly opposite the entrance, and there are many semi-finished boats being built on the side of the river.

Looking inside from the gate of the courtyard, I saw that the courtyard was full of wood. There are round logs, and there are also processed wooden squares.

Xiao Ding and his party have a large number of people, and they have attracted a lot of attention along the way.

Unlike other shops, there are not many customers who come to the shipyard. Most of the people who came here were also fishermen from both sides of the Yangtze River, and most of them came to repair their boats.

Although the price of boats in this era was not too expensive, it was very laborious for ordinary fishermen to buy their own boats. Therefore, ordinary fishermen want to have their own fishing boat, they usually prepare their own wood, send it to the shipbuilding workshop, and spend a manual fee to build their own boat. This will save a lot of money than buying a finished ship.

As a result, the main customers for the shipyard are not ordinary fishermen, but merchants. Merchants were not short of money, especially now that the Great Song Kingdom had opened up international trade, the ocean-going ships used to carry goods were essential trade tools for merchants.

Moreover, even if you do not do international business, only do business in the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, it is inseparable from merchant ships. Transporting the goods from the downstream to the upstream cities to sell, and then transporting the goods from the upstream cities to the downstream cities to sell, and making the difference between the two sides, the merchant ship is the foundation for the merchants to get rich.

In addition to merchants who come to order cargo ships in large numbers, shipbuilders also sell them to certain groups or organizations. For example, a certain Jianghu sect needs ships, or the court in a certain place needs to use ships, and so on. Similar to this, the general order volume is not too small, and shipbuilding workshops can make a lot of money.

After Xiao Ding and the others walked into the Hongyun Shipyard, they saw the boss. Xiao Ding looked at the boss, and saw that he was not tall, but he was in good shape, with bronzed skin, slightly reddened face, and he was wearing coarse cloth clothes and pants that ordinary sailors often wear, and he did not wear very thick clothes in winter.

Looking at his appearance and dress, he doesn't have the frame to be a boss at all. Xiao Ding guessed that he should have started from the grassroots level and started to do it little by little, so he has always maintained his previous style, and he did not immediately change and become corrupt because he became the boss.

After talking, Xiao Ding knew that the boss's name was Hong Langtao, and when he saw this name, he knew that it must be related to water. Hong Langtao also made a fortune because of the craftsmanship of shipbuilding.

Xiao Ding revealed his identity and explained his intention, and Hong Langtao also truthfully reported to Xiao Ding the specific situation of the current shipbuilding. And also took out the drawings of various ship styles for Xiao Ding to see.

Xiao Ding looked at the drawings for a while, and suddenly said: "I think the style of these warships can be improved." ”