To say that this good thing comes in pairs, it is not false at all, when the last brick of the city wall was sealed, there was also good news from Cheng Zhou, the first ship in the shipyard was about to be launched!

Cheng Hong took everyone to watch! Cheng Zhou looked at the pointed bottom boat held to the slope by ropes and wooden wedges, and his heart was apprehensive.

I don't know if this culet-bottomed thing will be able to float on the water! If it really falls into the water, then the fun will be great. Although Hou Ye is not the kind of person who gets angry, so many people are watching!

If you really can't float, you will inevitably be laughed at, and the lord will humiliate the ministers to death, no matter how you say it, there will be your own mistakes in it, if you really fall into the water, then you will have no face to stay in the Cheng family!

Cheng Hong looked at this ship, his eyes lit up, although he had built various ship models many times, but it was a model after all!

This is the first time I've seen this really big ship in front of me, after all, this thing can only be played by rich people in later generations!

The sailboat appeared in Datang for the first time! The appearance of this thing will spread the prestige of Datang to the sea!

Cheng Hong took the axe, knocked off the wooden wedge with the back of the axe, and then cut the rope with a "boom", and the sailboat rushed to the water port below the slope from slow to fast!

The "boom" sailboat rose and fell in the water several times in the eyes of everyone, swaying left and right, and finally floated steadily on the water!

"Stand, stop, stop?!" Cheng Zhou's eyes were as wide as copper bells, and everyone who was not optimistic about this ship was dumbfounded! The pointed bottom can really stand!

Cheng Hong gave an order, and the first batch of Datang's sailors began to board the ship! Everyone, including Cheng Hong, rowed a small boat close to the sailboat, and boarded the boat along the rope ladder that had long been hanging down next to it!

Cheng Hong first held the rudder, and the people who came up one after another got out of the bilge according to the prior arrangement, checked whether there was any water seepage, and then pulled out the cross block of the water wheel, and pushed the cross block in a group of four.

The huge water wheels on both sides rotated slowly, Cheng Hong hit the rudder, and the huge sailboat drew a beautiful arc in the harbor and sailed towards the small pier next to it!

In the eyes of everyone, this behemoth slid lightly on the surface of the water, and the splash brought by the water wheel was like broken jade stirring the water surface!

"Stop pushing!"

"Stop pushing!"

An order was given, and the ship lost power and slowly drifted to the small dock by inertia.

"Drop anchor and get ready to jump!"

The one responsible for anchoring in the back chiseled off the wedge and the chain flowed down the stern.

After a meal, the anchored sailor moved the iron handle on the side and "squeaked" the iron mill straight to spark, and the fast-turning anchor chain slowed down, and everyone stepped forward to help stop the anchor chain and hang the fixed iron chain.

Finally, the big ship stopped! Whether on the shore or on the boat, everyone cheered!

The boat threw down the cable, and the people on the dock came to follow Cheng Hong's teachings and wound the rope around the wooden stake, and someone on the shore had already prepared a gangplank and put it on it.

The shore quickly loaded the boat with water, rice, canned food, soybeans, and wine......

Li Lizhi and Wu Erya ran around curiously, although they came by boat, but it was the first time they had seen such a pointed boat, and this boat was designed by Cheng Hong, and the two of them were even more curious!

After a while, he ran back and asked, "What's the cloth hanging on it?"

"Sail!"

"Then why is the bottom of the boat pointed, but the bottom of the boat is not pointed when it comes to the ship?"

"There's a watertight cabin!"

"What do you mean by a watertight cabin?"

"It's to prevent the ship from colliding, and the compartment to keep the ship stable, and there is water inside!"

"Oh, so you can say that your boat looks like a pointed bottom on the outside, but it's actually flat-bottomed on the inside, right?"

Cheng Hong......

When all the things were loaded onto the ship, all the irrelevant people went down, but the two little girls didn't leave! Say anything, go to the sea and see it!

Cheng Hong thought about it, he wouldn't go to the open sea anyway, just take it with him!

After all the supplies were loaded, Cheng Hong looked at the sailors with high spirits: "Anchor!"

The anchor chain was pulled up and fixed, and the sailor pushed the steamer to slowly retreat, sailing down the Jinjiang River into Quanzhou Bay and heading for the vast sea!

In the sea breeze, the sails began to open, the water wheel stopped, and all the sailors were in place, nervously busy! Cheng Zhou looked around, collected first-hand information, and saw what needed to be improved!

I have to say that Cheng Zhou's craftsmanship is absolutely solid, and this craftsmanship is really leaky! The sails are blown by the sea breeze, and the big ship is like a big fish, leaping in the waves, breaking through the water and drawing a white line!

But if you think this ship is fast, you're wrong! There are two eight-ox crossbows directly in front of the ship, two in the back, and four on the left and right!

And behind the eight-bull crossbow is a small trebuchet designed by Cheng Hong! This thing is specially designed for small explosives packs!

Originally, Cheng Hong was going to install a small cannon! But I don't know what Li Tai has designed there.

Chang'an, unconsciously Cheng Hong has regarded himself as a Chang'an person, every time he thinks of it, he misses it a little, but he doesn't miss much about the future when he grew up!

Looking at the seagulls flying on the sea, from time to time there are seagulls stopping on the mast to rest. From time to time, the dolphins chirp and jump at the bow of the boat, everything is so fresh!

Cheng Hong's main purpose this time is to collect the data of the new ship, otherwise where can he fight with a scale of more than 200 people and less than 300 people?

Although he is armed to the teeth and sharp, what can these few people do? When people throw a bow and arrow and throw a spear, you can be stabbed and injured if you can't be killed, you must know that at this time, those natives are poisonous!

Therefore, Cheng Hong came out this time without purpose, just to go around the sea for two days, so that the sailors can adapt to the scenery at sea and collect data on the new ship.

As for going to sea, in Cheng Hong's mind, he has to save at least 50 ships before he can go to sea!

You must know that when you go to sea at this time, there is no positioning. Second, there is no fairway. These are all filled in with human lives, and when you get to the island, the sniping of the natives, as well as the water and soil adaptation, these are all deadly things!

These fifty ships can only be strolled around the sea, and when Cheng Hong pulls back the huge profits, let those black-eyed families see that when the time comes, the sons of those families and the house slaves are the best pathfinders in Cheng Hong's heart!

They are educated, learned, courageous, and selfish! Going to sea is definitely their way out!

And the more children of this group of families die, the more beneficial it is for Datang, and the more they die, the county-level officials can return to Datang!

So that the decree can reach the people! Now it can be said that if Li Er's decree is issued, if it is harmful to the family, it will definitely be distorted when it reaches the state and county level!

It can be said that from Emperor Yang of Sui to Li Er, they can see this problem! But for the solution, it is a headache!

There is no way, although an imperial examination can make a poor family get ahead, but it can't vacate so many official positions, if you don't hang up to the family, it is estimated that you can only be an official until you are old!

Unless they have extraordinary talents, such as Ma Zhou, they can only come out if they enter the eyes of His Majesty!

But as soon as this sea port is opened, whether it is a ship or a person who goes to sea, you want to go to sea without knowledge? Then Cheng Hong will be hehe!