"Brother, how's the trawl going?"

After arranging Han Wen and the others, Li Zhaotong returned to the New Oriental School and found Li Yuan, who was studying the model of a sea ship.

Li Yuan replied: "It has been done, the sand boat has been launched, and the trawl is placed on the deck of the sand boat." ”

Li Zhaotong asked Li Yuan to make a trawl net, which was used for fishing by a large sea boat, and the design of this trawl took Li Zhaotong 360 days of life.

Some of these trawls are made of hemp rope and then soaked in tung oil to prevent corrosion, which will be more durable.

There is also a part of the production of cotton thread, these trawls made of cotton thread, Li Zhaotong asked all of them to be steamed with pig blood, this is the blood net that left a name in the history of fishery development, before the fishing net made of modern chemical products such as polyethylene and nylon rope came out, the blood net once occupied a dominant position.

Because the blood net can not only prevent corrosion, but also play a certain role as a bait.

"And how's the sailor recruiting?" Li Zhaotong asked again.

Time waits for no one, before Li Zhaotong left Tianjin Wei, he asked Li Yuan to help him do a lot of things, the production of trawl nets is one thing, and the recruitment of sailors is also one thing.

"According to your request, a hundred sailors have been recruited, and all of them are currently on board."

Li Yuan did not stop what he was doing, continued to carve the wooden model of the sea ship in his hand, and then replied very casually, as if the matter of recruiting sailors was very simple for him.

In fact, it's really simple.

Because Tianjin Wei is an important node of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, there are many people engaged in the sailor industry, and if you want to recruit sailors, you don't have to worry at all, as long as you let out the word, someone will come to the door.

Li Yuan helped Li Zhaotong recruit sailors, and it was so simple, as soon as he released his words, applicants gathered.

Of course, these sailors are all sailors in the inland domain, and none of them can be found in the nautical field.

But it doesn't matter, Li Zhaotong is not going to go on an ocean-going voyage right away, and these sailors should be enough.

"Brother Xian, I have fulfilled all your requests, people and things are currently on the ship, and you will naturally be able to see them when you go to the boat. Brother Fool still has important things to do here, so I won't accompany you. ”

Li Yuan was obviously at a critical juncture in studying the model sailboat in his hand, and he didn't have extra time to accompany Li Zhaotong out, otherwise he wouldn't be so impatient.

"Okay, where does the ship dock?"

"In front of the Nanhai Temple at the mouth of Dagu."

"Okay."

Nanhai Temple, Li Zhaotong knows, this is the famous Chaoyin Temple in his "memory".

Nanhai Temple is its original name, or Shuangshan Temple, Chaoyin Temple is Li Zhaotong's "memory" in Zhu Houxi when he became the emperor to change the imperial pen.

At present, the incense of the Nanhai Temple is not luxuriant, it is very desolate here, there are only a few monks in the temple, and many halls have closed down, so Li Yuan will arrange for the sand boat to dock here, otherwise, docking in a place where there are many people and mouths, it will inevitably attract criticism and even criticism.

After all, the current sea ban has not been opened, and this five-masted sand ship is illegal.

The sand boat can stop here in the Nanhai Temple, this is the result of the Li family's huge power in Tianjin, otherwise it really can't be "hidden".

……

Dagukou, Nanhai Temple.

Li Zhaotong came here with a hundred guards carefully selected for him by Hangul, and as soon as he arrived, Li Zhaotong saw his sand boat training on the sea very close to the Nanhai Temple.

Obviously, Li Yuan did a good job of preparing for him.

"Li Gongzi, you're here."

A plainly dressed young man came down from a boulder and quickly ran over to salute.

Li Zhaotong recognized this person, this was a member of the Li shipyard, Li Yuan's brother, named Li Yang, and he was a very clever young man.

"You're in charge of communicating with the sand ship here?"

Li Zhaotong clearly saw it just now that Li Yang was holding a red and white flag in his hand and waving it towards the sand boat in the distance.

This is the flag language, which Li Zhaotong taught to Li Yuan a long time ago.

Obviously, Li Yuan taught it to Li Yang and these people.

"Hmm."

Li Yuan nodded and said:

"I was telling them to come back quickly."

"How many days have you been training? Can these sailors adapt to the sea? Li Zhaotong asked.

"Today is the second day, everyone is quite adaptable, and no one feels bad."

Speaking of this, Li Yang scratched his head and said embarrassedly:

"The main thing is that Li Gongzi, your Daming Maritime Merchant House offers good treatment, and you have white rice and white noodles to eat, and these sailors are afraid of being eliminated, so they are all full of energy."

This sand ship was bought by Li Zhaotong in the name of Daming Marine, so it is naturally attached to the name of Daming Marine, and these recruited sailors are, of course, employees of Daming Marine.

Li Zhaotong also spared no expense on them.

"You said I'll let them go out to sea to fish early tomorrow morning, do you think it can be done?"

"As long as you don't go far, you should be able to." Li Yang thought for a moment and answered.

"It's just, Li Gongzi, can you make money if you buy the sea boats of our Li shipyard and just fish?"

Li Yang has always had doubts in his heart, how can this fishing go to sea as simple as Li Zhaotong said, just use a boat to drag the trawl forward.

Li Yang felt that it was too exaggerated.

Even if there are a lot of fish in the sea, the sea is boundless, and the fish in the sea are not dead, and you can have a big catch by dragging the fishing net with a boat, which is really unbelievable.

"I have my own way, the boat is back, let's go, let's go!"

……

"By the way, Li Yang, this ship hasn't been named yet, right?"

Walking onto the deck, Li Zhaotong suddenly realized that the sand boat didn't seem to have a name yet.

"Nope."

"From then on, this ship will be called 'Little Zhu Xiucai Dog'." Li Zhaotong immediately decided.

In his "memory", Zhu Houzhao is mentioned in a novel called "Ming Song", and in that book, there are two legendary sea ships, namely "The Scum of the World" and "Xiao Zhu Xiu is the Bad Guy", these two sea ships have made immortal contributions to the opening of the sea in that novel.

Therefore, Li Zhaotong felt that this kind of non-mainstream ship name may be very suitable for opening up the Age of Discovery.

Therefore, he also imitated the "Little Zhu Xiucai Dog" to pray for the blessing of this sand boat, and he hoped that the sand boat under his feet could cleave the waves and establish immortal feats on top of this boundless sea.

also made "Little Zhu Xiucai a dog" a legendary flagship.

As for the name of the ship scolding Zhu Houzhao, Li Zhaotong didn't care, anyway, the dog forced the prince to be thick-skinned, and he was not afraid of others scolding him at all.

And perhaps, the prince will be excited because of this, because the first ship of the Ming Maritime Merchant House is named after his nickname.