Li Chen's side is obsessed with the opening of the sea ban, but if he really wants to open the sea ban, it is not a matter of moving his upper and lower lips a few times. According to Du Bishu's report, the shipyards in Qu County have now mastered the manufacturing technology of Fu ships, and have even built a sail battleship. The sail battleship is a product of the Age of Exploration in the previous life, and it is simply a giant beast in the era of Great Qin.

Li Chen, who was thinking about the opening of the sea, decided to go to Qu County after tossing and turning and finding it difficult to fall asleep for a few days. Since the establishment of the Maritime Safety Administration in Qu County, because of Xiang Yu and Zhang Liang's rebellion, Li Chen has not paid attention to Qu County for a long time. But even if Li Chen didn't put much effort into the affairs of the Maritime Safety Administration, the sea salt and seafood produced by the Quxian factory had begun to be exported to the whole of Daqin.

After a lapse of several decades or two, Li Chen came to Qu County for the first time. Two years later, Qu County is completely different from Qu County two years ago, which is a dilapidated county town that relies on the sea to eat the sea, not so much a county seat, but a collection of small fishing villages.

Thanks to the establishment of shipyards and wharves in Qu County, as well as the establishment of salt farms and large-scale factories, Qu County has changed from a small fishing village to a semi-fishing and semi-industrial city. Two years ago, the population of Qu County was only 120,000, and two years later, the population of Qu County has begun to develop towards the 500,000 mark. The original Qu County was too close to the sea and the salinity content in the land was too high, so the grain yield was very low, which also led to almost all the people in Qu County relying on fishing for a living. However, since the establishment of the Daqin Maritime Safety Administration, the economy of Qu County has developed rapidly, driven by many factories. The economy of Qu County has improved, and it has also attracted a large number of immigrants from the surrounding counties that are also poor.

Li Chen entered the county seat of Qu County, and the current Qu County has been regarded as a good county seat after repair. The streets and alleys of Qu County were originally loess roads, but now they have been paved with gravel. Naturally, it can't be compared with the bluestone road in Xianyang City, but it is much stronger than the original muddy loess road. Due to the heavy rain in Qu County, drainage ditches are also laid on both sides of the stone road, which can avoid water accumulation in the city during the rainy season.

Qu County, Donghai County, that is, Lianyungang in the previous life. Lianyungang in the previous life is also a typical good card to play the sparse city, as the only port city in Jiangsu, the economy has the support of Jiangsu, a major economic province, the location of the Bohai Sea in the east, and North Korea, South Korea, Japan across the sea, but in this case, Lianyungang is perennial and Suqian for who is the penultimate in Jiangsu disputes. In this life, when Li Chen established the Maritime Safety Administration in Qu County, he wanted to develop this place into the first port city in Daqin.

"Master Hou, it's finally time for you." Li Chen had just entered Qu County, and Du Bishu's thin figure appeared in front of Li Chen.

Du Bishu was exhausted from running the Nuoda Maritime Administration alone, and as the population of Qu County grew, factories in Qu County were established one after another. Except for the time when the Marine Department was just established, Li Chen imported a group of talents for the Marine Department, and he did not manage the Marine Department anymore. Naturally, this small county can't provide any talent for the Maritime Administration, and now the Maritime Administration is about to split people in half.

Looking at the sick man in front of him, Du Bishu's dark circles became heavier and heavier, the mustache on his chin was also messy, and there were a few pimples on his forehead. At first glance, I thought it was overindulgence.

"How is the progress of the Maritime Administration, you take me to see." Li Chen asked.

"Master Hou, let's go to the dock first." Du Bishu said.

Following behind Du Bishu, Li Chen looked at the wharf in front of him, there were several lucky boats of more than ten zhang parked on the wharf, and one or two horse-drawn carriages pulled the goods produced from the factory to the wharf, and the wharf was full of open-air stacking yards and some simple shed-like warehouses. The coolies on the docks move like ants, moving goods to the ship. There was nothing to cover the pier, and the people were all exposed to the sun, and the coolies were as red as boiled lobsters.

"Do you travel too much by sea?" Li Chen looked at the Fu ship that was loading goods and asked.

"Most of the ships go south, and the loss by sea is more than half less than that of land transportation. We take the land route for business in the north, and we still go by sea more in the south. Du Bishu explained.

"What are they?" Li Chen asked.

"The most is salt, our salt factory in Qu County can now produce tens of thousands of tons a year, and now not only our Daqin, but also Feifusang and Goguryeo on the other side often have caravans to buy salt from us. In addition to salt, which is some seafood, the fish in the sea are much more delicious than those in inland rivers. Du Bishu said, pointing to the piles of goods on the dock.

"Master Hou, there is no name for this dock so far, so it's better for Master Hou to give this dock a name." Du Bishu then said.

"This shouldn't be said to be a wharf, the inland river connection is called a wharf, this should be called a port, our first port in Daqin." Li Chen's words were full of pride and ambition, this is the first wharf in Daqin, and it will also become the largest wharf in Daqin, this is his industry.

"Standing here and looking at it, this sea seems to be connected with the clouds on the horizon, so it is better to call this port Lianyungang." Li Chen thought for a moment and spoke.

"Lianyungang, good name, good name." Du Bishu immediately patted his ass.

"Let's go, let's go see the shipyard." After walking around the port, Li Chen said to Du Bishu.

The shipyard in Qu County is already the largest shipyard in Daqin, after two years of training, the shipyard in Qu County has been like a bag to make a lucky ship, according to the drawings provided by Li Chen, the skilled craftsmen of the shipyard in Qu County have tried to produce a sail battleship.

The shipyards in Qu County gathered almost the entire Great Qin craftsmen who were accomplished in shipbuilding, and with these people and Li Chen providing the drawings, it was naturally not a strange thing to build a sail battleship belonging to the Age of Discovery in the seventeenth century. Sail battleships, like Fukubunes that shipyards have been able to mass-produce, are powered by sails. Unlike inland lakes and rivers, the sea is full of waves, and manpower is almost worthless under the power of the sea, which is why it is not feasible to paddle on the sea with manpower.

"Lord Hou, look, this is our latest sail battleship." Du Bishu pointed to the tallest person in the shipyard and said.

(End of chapter)