Back to Liangxiang,

Cheng Minzheng paced in front of the grass hut, anxiously looking at the crossing of the trail, and after a while, Liang Xiaoyi and Liang Xiaoer came back.

"Sir!"

Liang Xiaoyi and Liang Xiaoer bowed.

Although they are homeless, after being taught by Cheng Minzheng, the two children are polite and polite like the scholars in the private school.

Cheng Minzheng squatted down and looked kindly: "Mingzhao, Ying Ning, you two tell Mr., are you willing to take the test?" ”

Liang Xiaoyi and Liang Xiaoer glanced at each other and nodded.

"Okay, then the gentleman will tell your father."

At night, Cheng Minzheng was in the house, waiting for Liang Zhong to deliver food, and after coming to Liangxiang, his food was provided by the Liang family and never fired.

As usual, Liang Zhong came in with dinner with a smile: "Qingshan, I bought some wine today, it's cold, you warm up, it's just warm." ”

"From tomorrow, Ming Zhao and Ying Ning will not go to the shipyard."

Liang Zhong was puzzled: "Who is Ming Zhao and Ying Ning?" ”

Cheng Minzheng's face turned slightly red, and he hadn't yet obtained Lao Liang's consent to take the words for the two.

"It's the first and second children, the two of them are extremely smart and will be the first."

Liang Zhong was a little embarrassed, he never expected these two little rabbit cubs to be successful.

"This ......"

"In the next disciple all over the world, how can I lie to you."

The science department in Liangxiang was opened, and Song Jing alone lectured on "Song's Heavenly Work", "Mechanics", and "Mathematics", and Professor Yan Chengjin gave it to him, and he gave lectures here.

"Lord Yan, why don't you tell it yourself?" Song Jing asked ashamedly.

"There are a lot of inconveniences."

Most of the people who came to attend the lectures were the children of good country officials, craftsmen and untouchables, and there was no one who read them.

Xie Yu, as the president of the Liangxiang Chamber of Commerce, came to listen to a lesson on mathematics and was very interested.

Yan Chengjin listened to it, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and spoke quite well.

After the class, the craftsmen dispersed, and the children of the officials went home.

"It's easy to build sheds, but it's the materials for shipbuilding that are difficult, and the transportation has stopped, and the timber from the south can't be transported to the north." Song Jing was embarrassed.

Shipbuilding needs nanmu as the main body, as well as iron, nails, tung oil, jute, coal, brown hair, lime, reed mats and other necessary things.

Nanmu is produced in Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi.

Wood is usually transported by water, but now in winter, all the canals in the north are frozen, making the waterways impassable.

Zhang Xian hesitated: "My lord, is it too eager to start preparing wood now, why don't you start spring tomorrow?" ”

"It's not early, the time it takes to transport timber is half a month as fast as it is a month, and it is more than a month when it is slow." Transporting giant timber is time-consuming, so it's time to start preparing the timber.

The material of the hull is Nanmu is the first-class, and the chestnut wood is secondary.

Nanmu is only available in the southern area,

Wang Busui was embarrassed: "The weather is cold and the ground is freezing, where does the wood come from?" ”

"There is wood in the capital."

Yan Chengjin knew where there was wood.

Ministry of Industry!

The Ministry of Industry repaired the palace in the palace, and the load-bearing pillars were made of nan wood, as well as the wooden frames on the roof, the tables, chairs, benches, beds and cabinets in the palace, which were not bought on the spot, and a certain amount of wood was hoarded in the treasury of the Ministry of Industry.

Returning to Beijing from Liangxiang,

Yan Chengjin came to the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry to find Zeng Jian, and Zeng Jian said: "There is wood, how much do you want for a virtuous nephew?" ”

"All."

Zeng Jian squirted out a mouthful of tea.

"The wood is ready to repair the palace, you want it all, how can the old man give instructions to those eunuchs!"

It was the Ministry of Works that repaired the palace in the Ming Dynasty, but the supervisors were often eunuchs.

In this way, the emperor knew how much silver was spent on the repair.

"Make it clear to Your Majesty that the supervising eunuchs don't dare to stop it."

"Your Majesty has always been frugal, and he will not agree." Zeng Jian looked at Yan Chengjin directly: "Opening the treasury is not a simple matter, the virtuous nephew is cautious!" ”

Dongnuan Pavilion,

The weather was cold, Emperor Hongzhi rarely summoned the cabinet and the six ministries, the world was stable, and there were fewer sparse performances from the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and more tribute matters were dealt with.

At the end of the year, Duoyi paid tribute, and as soon as the Korean envoys left, the Ryukyu envoys entered Beijing.

"Your Majesty, the Ryukyu envoys have also brought a large number of merchants to the capital, and if they want to trade with our dynasty, they must not be allowed to go to Liangxiang." Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the ministry, looked worried.

finally recovered a few books, and Yan Chengjin's guy was put in the library again.

Zhang Sheng stepped forward: "The old case, after the Yiren tributary arrives at the pavilion, it will be released once in five days, so it is better to send them back within these five days." ”

Emperor Hongzhi nodded: "Zhuyi tribute is taking the opportunity to trade, how can I not know, just turn a blind eye." ”

At the door, the two little eunuchs were shivering with cold, and when they saw Yan Chengjin coming, they smiled and said, "Lord Yan wants to face the saint?" ”

"Well, I'm tired of my father-in-law."

The little eunuch went in with a smile and reported: "Your Majesty, Yan Chengjin asks to see you." ”

"Let him in."

The cabinet and several ministers of the six ministries rushed out and met Yan Chengjin at the door.

"Hello princesses!"

Li Dongyang nodded and strode away.

Ma Wensheng saw Yan Chengjin, and his old face smiled like a twisted dough, "It's cold, wear a few more clothes." ”

"So is Master Ma."

As the secretary of the ministry, Ma Wensheng's temper became extremely good.

Yan Chengjin stepped into the main hall, His Majesty is diligent day and night, and he will not be lazy on such a cold day.

"I still think about keeping the silver from the new commercial tax as military salary, and the heavy snow will seal the land, and the Shuntian Mansion and Hejian Mansion will come to me again to ask for waste." Emperor Hongzhi sighed.

Your Majesty, there will be many days like this in the future, so it's good to get used to it.

Emperor Hongzhi glanced at him, "What are you doing here for me?" ’

"Your Majesty, the minister has come to ask for timber from the Ministry of Works." Yan Chengjin bowed.

"What are you going to do with it?" Emperor Hongzhi asked lazily.

"Build a boat."

Built a boat for you?

Emperor Hongzhi raised his eyelids and glanced at him, his gaze fell on the book again, carelessly: "The wood of the Ministry of Works is used to repair the palace, and it is not allowed." ”

"But Your Majesty...... According to the timber that the Ministry of Industry has hoarded now, if it is made into a boat, it can be worth 13,000 taels of silver. ”

Emperor Hongji was sitting up.

Half an hour later,

Yan Chengjin came out of the palace and went straight to Zeng's mansion, "Your Majesty has already obtained an edict from Your Majesty, please ask Lord Zeng to send someone to transport the wood to Liangxiang." ”

Zeng Jian's eyes widened and he looked at him deeply, this kid must have a deal with His Majesty.

"The old man knows."

Early the next morning, the Ministry of Industry sent the hoarded timber to Liangxiang one after another.

Song Jing asked the craftsman to drag him into the workshop of the factory.

To build a ship, you should first start from the bottom of the ship, and the walls of the ship should be erected on both sides of the bottom, and the walls of the ship should support the pallets above, so that the upper layers of construction should be built.

The beams and walls of the ship are made of nanmu and camphor wood, and the bottom and deck of the ship can be made of any wood.

But the mast must be made of straight cedar.

This necessitates the distribution of various types of wood to the craftsmen.

Han Simen sat in front of the gate of the shipyard with a bitter face.

There is a wooden pavilion here, as a hostage, you can't eat rice for nothing, in view of his poor carpentry skills, Wang Busui asked him to watch the gate.

Yan Chengjin wrote a letter and asked him to send it to Qiongzhou, Hainan, where there is Nanmu, and the snow will melt in spring next year, just in time for Li Kang and Xu Jinzhong to come back.

Counting the days, the corn should bud.