Zhoushan Islands because extremely close to the mainland, the nearest location is only ten miles apart, the coastal people can see the situation on the island with the naked eye on weekdays, so since ancient times there are people living on it, the original Yi people, the later Yue people, boated out to sea and boarded the Zhoushan Islands, on which to fish and farm for a living, and gradually multiplied out of the scale of tens of thousands of people, plus some ancient books record the legend of Shenshan Xiandao overseas, Zhoushan has also been guessed by countless Fangjia warlocks as Penglai Xiandao, As a result, a large number of Fangjia warlocks take fishing boats to find immortal fate in Zhoushan all year round, and even build Taoist temples on them, among which Daishan and Baihua Mountain are the two most famous places.

In ancient times, it was rumored that there were three immortal islands and five sacred mountains overseas, and Daishan Mountain was one of them.

In fact, the Zhoushan Islands, like Langya in the north, form the most famous gathering place for immortals in the south, and a large number of Taoist disciples gather here.

Hearing that Chen Xu, a disciple of the Immortal Family, Qinghe Hou, arrived in Juzhang, hundreds of disciples and Fang family warlocks gathered nearby, and hundreds of people came to visit, and within a few days, Daoists wearing Taoist robes and monks in Ge Yi and bastard shoes could be seen everywhere in Juzhang County.

And when it came to the sentence, Chen Xu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

First, I went to the beach to inspect the Juzhang harbor wharf under construction.

Although the project only started planning in April, and the news reached Juzhang in early June, and only two months have passed, but the scene in full swing still amazed Chen Xu and Yu Wuya.

The long-term planning length of this harbor is ten miles, the length of the first phase of the project is two miles, 20 wharves that can dock large sea vessels, and the port is planned to have logistics warehouses, joint office areas, ship repair shops, supply living areas, health centers, money villages, inns, restaurants and other ancillary facilities, which are planned and built together with the harbor wharf, and subcontracted and invested in accordance with the amount of work, with a total investment of more than 60 million yuan, and because of this unprecedented huge investment, it has attracted dozens of engineering contractors from all over the country to contract projects here. As a result, a large number of people gathered in the population, and the number of convicts and servants deployed by the imperial court alone reached more than 30,000, as well as the labor slaves purchased by the contractor and the migrant workers recruited, and the number of people involved in the construction of the entire project reached more than 50,000.

Hordes of wagons creaked and carried goods back and forth.

Building materials such as cement, stone, steel, sand, bamboo, and wood are piled up along the coast, and countless police officers patrol back and forth on horseback, as well as countless contractor supervisors and project commanders who inspect the project, and court officials also travel back and forth on the mile-long beach.

"Hey, hey~~"

Countless ragged convicts and slaves carried huge steel logs back and forth, using crowbars to pry huge stones into fixed positions, and the sound of boulders falling into the water came and went, and in just two months, this two-mile-long harbor had already shown a little rudimentary form, but it would take at least two years to completely repair it.

However, according to the engineering design and schedule, it is enough to repair only three or five wharves in advance to provide temporary docking, loading and unloading of cargo and supplies.

Ten miles northwest of the bustling harbor, a huge fleet of seagoing ships docked in a natural peninsula harbor.

This fleet consisted of ten large ships, the smallest of which was twenty zhang long and five zhang high, and the largest one had five huge masts, the hull was thirty zhang long and eight zhang high, with a draft of nearly two zhang, and the bow rudder was three feet in diameter and ten zhang long, and it was like a huge cannon barrel in front of it, full of terrifying momentum, and the cables with the thickness of the calf were connected to several huge winchs.

All of these ships lowered their sails at this time.

With the gentle turbulence of the waves, even if they are more than 200 zhang away from the coast, they can still clearly see the ship numbers and large characters scribbled on the sides of these sea ships.

001 Liaoning, 007 Taishan, 021 Izumo, 022 Xiangyun, 23 Wuyun, 027 Storm, ......

Without exception, these big ships are hung with the black Great Qin Dragon Flag and the blue flag of the Qinghe Marquis Mansion, as well as team flags to distinguish different identities, and on the main mast of the largest five-masted sailing ship, there are also ten team flags and command flags of various colors hanging in turn, which is obviously the command ship of this fleet.

These ten big ships came from the northwest five days ago, all the way through the southeast counties, causing the warm cheers of the people and fishermen along the coast, many fishermen recognized that this is the fleet of the Qinghe Hou, so there are countless coastal fishermen who drive boats out to sea to follow the big boats to catch up, but how can the small fishing boats without sails be compared with the big boats, under the gentle northwest autumn wind, the ten big sails of the big sails form a huge fleet, the sturdy bow plows the rolling sea, and it has gone far away in an instant, Therefore, those fishermen who followed could only look at the ocean and sigh, and many young fishermen were full of envy and irrepressible impulses.

If you can join the fleet of Qinghehou's sea-going ships in this life, just like those seafarers who wave to them and cheer loudly on the sea-going ships, it will definitely be the most bragging rights life experience in this life.

It is said that these sea-going ships will continue to sail to the South China Sea, and one day they will be able to reach the extreme western country tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of miles away.

"Erlang, according to the time, it is estimated that Hou Ye and Hou Concubine should have arrived, right?"

On the highest observation deck of the largest flagship building, Han Xin, Cao Shen and a few stewards were holding binoculars to observe the hot harbor project several miles away, and two observers were swinging back and forth through the huge lookout glasses to observe the entire beach.

"Well, according to my brother's arrangement, we should have arrived at least three days ago, and we were five days ahead of schedule, I wonder if something went wrong on the road?" Han Xin nodded while observing.

"Hou Ye has always had no last resort, how could it go wrong, maybe there are too many places to patrol on the road and delay, according to the speculation of the ginseng, Hou Ye must have arrived in Hangzhou......"

"Squeak~~" Just as Cao Shen was speaking, suddenly a brown monkey quickly climbed down from the high mast, jumped onto Han Xin's shoulder, grabbed his hair and kept pointing to the southeast.

Han Xin turned his binoculars and saw a long procession of carriages and horses coming from the construction site of the wharf, and the luxurious carriage was clearly visible, it was the convoy of the Qinghe Marquis Mansion.

"Haha, brother is here!" Han Xin smiled and put down the binoculars.

"Master Hou is here, raise anchor, raise the flag, raise the flag, raise the flagship with half sail and dock, and other ships line up to greet ......" Cao Shen jumped up and yelled excitedly.

"Woo~~" With the sound of several horns, soon a red Venus flag was raised from the flagship, and at the same time the captain's roar was heard: "Raise the anchor, raise the main sail to half sail, turn the rudder right and dock at 30 degrees, be careful to hit the dock!" ”

"Anchor~"

"Mainsail to half-sail~"

"Thirty degrees to the shore of the right-turn rudder~"

In an instant, the fleet, which had been docked in the harbor for five days and barely moved, was moving in an instant, and as one command after another sounded, the huge sails slowly rose and began to slowly turn the bow of the ship, drawing a huge arc more than a hundred zhang long in the calm blue bay, and then slowly approaching a simple pier on the shore.

This pier is where local fishermen usually dock, but now that it has been renovated, there are still many fishing boats docked near the pier, and local fishermen gather here every day to observe these ten huge sea boats that have never been seen before.

Sea ships are very common in Langya, but the southeast counties have basically not seen them, and the ten big ships that came this time also opened the eyes of local fishermen and people.

These sea ships were much larger than those taken by the original emperor when he sailed to Zhejiang, and there was basically no feeling of jolting and shaking when they stopped on the sea.

I heard that this new type of large sailing ship was invented by Qinghe Hou, which can sail hundreds of thousands of miles in the ocean, and the largest sea boat can carry more than 500 people at a time, but the cost can also scare a bunch of bitter fishermen, each cost is as high as more than 1.3 million yuan, and at present, the hundreds of fish boats in the harbor that watch the excitement together cannot catch up with the value of this big ship.

In addition to this giant ship, the remaining nine slightly smaller ships have heard that the cost of each ship is as high as more than 700,000 yuan, which can carry more than 300 people, and this fleet alone can transport more than 3,000 people at a time, and the comprehensive cost is close to 10 million.

But the most surprising thing is not this fleet, many fishermen have to send the fish they catch every day to the harbor wharf under construction to sell to those engineering team canteens, and they are familiar with it, and I heard that some people in the engineering command said that the Langya Shipyard has received an order of more than 70 million yuan from Qinghe Hou to build a total of more than 100 sea-going ships, and then rent these sea-going ships to those caravans who want to go to sea to explore and make a fortune.

After this news came out, the whole southeast has been restless, and several big businessmen in Huiji County have gone to Langya, and hundreds of young and strong fishermen have been recruited from the vicinity several times, so most of the fishermen gathered in the harbor are either old and frail, or some thirteen or fourteen-year-old teenagers, and most of the sturdy fishermen have gone out to make a fortune.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and the sea to eat the sea, Daqin is mainly agricultural, but the southeast coastal agriculture is underdeveloped, and the fishery and salt industry is the main industry.

"Woo~~"

In the sound of horns one after another, hundreds of fishing boats scattered to vacate the space for the flagship to dock, and at the same time there were enthusiastic fishermen driving the boat to guide, and in less than two moments, the huge flagship docked steadily on the simple dock, anchored and lowered the cable, and fixed the big ship with the enthusiastic help of countless fishermen.

With the movement of the flagship, the nine large ships behind also slowly raised their side sails and began to rudder and line up, and soon lined up in two rows on the sea, and each mast raised a red gold star flag to welcome the arrival of Qinghe Hou.

"Not bad, not bad~" Still a few miles away, Chen Xu rode on horseback and held a telescope to watch the movements of ten sea ships, full of praise.

"It's still decent, Cao Shen has been training these boatmen and sailors in Langya Bay, all kinds of flags and orders have unified rules, much better than at the beginning, Engong has not been to Langya for a few years, this time to go must be frightened, the entire shipyard stretches more than ten miles, more than 40 docks, just for training there are more than 20 sea ships, and after the completion of the sea ships invested by Engong next year, hundreds of sea ships go to sea together to look more spectacular......" Yu Wuya rode a horse and walked beside Chen Xu, It's an understatement.

In the past few years, Yu Wuya has been coming and going on the sea, and the big sea ships are almost tired of watching, but for Chen Xu, these big sea ships are the vanguard of Daqin's future overseas colonial expansion.

Chen Xu has also seen the scene of more than ten big ships acting together, and he had personally experienced the pursuit of Huang Shigong at the beginning, but there was a world of difference between the sea ship at that time and the sea ship he saw in front of him, both in terms of appearance and size.

In particular, the largest flagship, thirty zhang long, is five stories high, even if it is a few miles away, you can feel the powerful visual impact, because the fishing boats that surround the big ship look like toys, but in fact these fishing boats are not small, the smallest is also three or five zhang long, there is no problem with seven or eight people, otherwise you can't resist even a small wind and waves when you go to sea.

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