When she arrived at the city gate, Wang Dai had already stopped her horse. Yang Er and the others also stopped their horses beside her after catching up, Yang Er followed Wang Dai's eyes and looked at the city gate, he didn't understand why this Wang Dai suddenly stopped, there was no soldier guarding the city gate, and the city gate was also wide open.

"The county guard recruits talents every day, I don't know what kind of people to recruit today?" Wang Dai looked at the few officials at the gate of the city who were putting up notices on the wall, and couldn't help whispering to Yang Er, who had caught up.

"Oh? Is there a shortage of talent here? What kind of human resources are needed? Yang Er asked casually.

"Alas! A few days ago, the account room that urgently needed to manage the accounts accumulated a lot of accounts, and it was too late to deal with them. I don't know who I need to recruit today? Let's check it out! With that, Wang Dai turned over and dismounted, gave the reins to the servant, and walked to the official who was posting a recruitment notice.

"Hello Miss!" An official suddenly saw Wang Dai in men's clothes appear, and he didn't have time to react, so he directly pointed out Wang Dai's identity. Wang Dai didn't care about him, so she stepped forward to read the content of the notice.

Yang Er also walked to the front of the notice at this time, he only saw that the official who posted the list gave a salute to this person named Wang Dai and did not hear what he said, but he already felt that this Wang Dai's identity was not low.

"It turned out that I was going to recruit sea-going ship-builders, and I don't have many such professionals!" Yang Er saw the content of the notice clearly, and couldn't help whispering to Wang Dai.

"Yes! If there are no people here, then the Great Sui Dynasty will have no shipbuilders, so they will have to go to Goryeo or Fusang to recruit. Wang Dai also felt that it was not easy to recruit manufacturing craftsmen, and it was more difficult than recruiting the head of the bookkeeper.

"Huh! Ben Gongzi is quite familiar with this sea ship, and the large sea ship of 3 or 5,000 stone is built. Yang Er couldn't help but think in his heart when he saw this notice, isn't this a big opportunity for him to get close to that Wang Bo? Today's sea vessels are all in the style of inland river cargo ships, with small tonnage and easy to capsize when sailing in the sea. Although I don't know how to make it myself, I know a lot about designing large sea vessels! I have seen more patterns of various ships in military magazines such as "Ship Knowledge" and "Weapons", which I ordered in later generations, and it is very simple to draw a large wooden sailing ship. Even the lucky ship of Zheng He in the Ming Dynasty who went to the West was also seen in magazines.

"Brother Yang is true, can you understand shipbuilding?" Wang Dai was startled when she heard this, and couldn't help but ask urgently.

"Huh! In fact, Wang Junshou wants to recruit not ordinary boatmen, but craftsmen who know how to design large-scale ocean-going ships, and it just so happens that this son knows a little bit about it. Yang Er shook the paper fan and said smugly.

"Then please Brother Yang follow me into the palace to meet the king." Wang Dai grabbed Yang Er's arm and pulled him into the city, as if he was afraid that he would run away.

Yang Er didn't resist either, of course, the premise was that a beautiful girl pulled herself. The group led their horses into the city on foot, and soon arrived at an official residence.

Seeing that Wang Dai led the way into the house, the guards at the door did not dare to stop them, so Wang Dai and his party went directly to the living room of the house to sit. The accompanying maid was busy beckoning her subordinates to serve tea and snacks for everyone.

After Wang Dai confessed a few words, she turned around and went to the inner house, and Yang Er and a few others drank tea and waited. I also roughly guessed the identity of this Wang Dai in my heart, and it must be someone close to Wang Bo, the county guard of Laizhou.

After a while, I saw a person walking out of the inner house, and Wang Dai followed closely behind. When Yang Er saw someone coming out, he knew that it should be Wang Bo who was right, and hurriedly got up to greet this person.

"The contemptible person is Wang Bo, the county guard of Laizhou, I heard the little sister say that Mr. Yang can build sea boats, please talk to a certain study, please!" Sure enough, this person is the Donglai King Wang Bo he wants to see, a heroic hero. Seeing that he was invited, he stopped being polite, and motioned to the accompanying few people to wait in the hall with tea, and he followed the brother and sister into the study.

"Mr. Yang is not very old, how can he know about this shipbuilding?" After taking a seat in the study, Wang Bo asked. Among the shipwrights and shipwrights he had, he had never seen anyone as young as Yang Er.

"Wang Fujun, Yang's family is a Chang'an family, and he often corresponds with Hu merchants from various countries in the Western Regions, so he has seen the sea ship graphics made by them, and his large wooden sailing boats can go down to the deep sea, and they are not afraid of wind and waves. You are only using a boat to go to Goryeo and Dongying Fuso, which are not far from here, and it is enough to build a sea ship of 3,000 stones. If you are far away, you can build a large sea ship of more than 5,000 stones. Yang Er talked eloquently, hoping to leave a good impression on Wang Bo, so that he could carry out the next step.

"Merchants of the Western Regions? It is said that the Western Regions are all next door to yellow sand, how can there be a sea? Didn't Mr. Yang trick me? Unexpectedly, this Wang Bo reacted like this after listening to Yang Er's words, and Yang Er felt funny in his heart.

Busy explained: "Hehe! Your Excellency, you don't know that the countries of the Western Regions are indeed desert barren walls, and there is a great country named Anxi in the west of the Western Regions, and there is a sea in the country of Anxi, and there is a big empire in the west of the Anxi country, which is more powerful than my Great Sui, called the Roman Empire, and his country will rely on large sea ships to conquer the surrounding lands. The younger brother wants to build a sea ship in the style of his place. ”

"Oh? Is there a country bigger than my Great Sui World? It's unimaginable. This king thinks that Dongying Fusang is already the farthest country, but he doesn't know how big the world is? Wang Bo couldn't help but widen his eyes when he looked at his little sister, and he couldn't believe Yang Er's words.

"Lord Fujun, Nagoryeo and Fusang are only small countries around our country, and most of the people are uncivilized natives on the island. If you build a big ship of 3,000 stones, you can ride the wind and waves all the way to the south, and there are many countries across the sea from Nanchen, and the maritime trade is done well, and the gold earned will be more than the entire Laizhou Mansion can not be loaded, and it is easy to reach the rich rival country. Yang Er shook the paper fan and said with a smile. He wants this brother and sister to open their horizons a little more and not be limited to this Laizhou place.

"How about Ben Wang hire Mr. Yang as the steward of my Laizhou shipyard?" Wang Bo asked Yang Er with some excitement.

"No, no! The younger brother is only willing to be a shipyard technical consultant, responsible for drawing sea ship graphics and supervising the construction, and please find someone else for the position of steward. ”

"That's it! I asked Mr. Yang to rest in my house, and after drawing a map of the sea boat, the king handed it over to others to make it, and Mr. Yang guided him. If it is built, the king will be rewarded. Wang Bo stood up and bowed deeply.

"The little brother can draw the picture of the sea ship in two days at most, please wait for the good news." Seeing this, Yang Er also hurriedly got up and saluted back.

Wang Dai, who was behind Wang Bo, kept looking at Yang Er and didn't speak, with bursts of joy in her heart, and her face showed a blush little by little.

Yang Er came to the hall again, and asked Hualong to go out of the mansion to inform the guards to come to Hu'er and other guards, and let them stay in the inn near the palace, and he and the four people including Chuchen, Zhong Jian, and Abeiyi rested in the guest room in this palace.

In the next two days, Yang Er locked himself in his room and drew a boat map according to the appearance of the large loach three-masted sailboat in his mind, including the size and proportion of various accessories, and even designed the gun holes on the left and right sides of the ship's side and the oars on the left and right rows of the lower deck. This is thanks to the model of this kind of ship that he once mail-ordered, this ship model has been placed on his desk after he got it, very exquisite shape, Yang Er is therefore very impressed by every part of this ship, but some sizes may have some differences in proportion, but this has little impact, anyway, it needs to be tested at sea, and then I feel that something is wrong there is changing.

In the past two days, in addition to Abeyi and Chuchen accompanying in the room at all times, Wang Dai also kept coming to see, often looking at it for more than an hour, Yang Er's drawing on the paper of this ship she had never seen before, made her eyes dull, sometimes looking at Yang Er is a foolish look, provoking Abeyi on the side to stare at her.

In the meantime, Wang Bo also came to see it once, but after watching it, he couldn't stop applauding.

Two days later, Yang Er handed over two kinds of ship samples on the drawings, one is a warship with a displacement of 3,000 stones, that is, the kind of gunboat in the hands of Zheng Chenggong in the later Ming Dynasty, specially designed to disperse pirates and conquer other countries, in later words, this kind of gunboat is a frigate with a displacement of 1,500 tons. Another type of ship is a 5,000-stone cargo ship, which can carry 2,000 soldiers for landing operations in wartime. When these two sea ship patterns were placed in front of Wang Bo, Wang Bo was very happy, and his eyes looked at Yang Er as if he were looking at a god in the sky, and he admired the five bodies to the ground. Wang Dai also rushed to watch it on the side, and she was also very happy.

"Wangfujun, these two ships have different uses, one is used for naval warfare, and it can also be used for conquering countries on the sea; One is used to load goods, and in wartime, it can also transport soldiers and horses for landing. Steel is used for each keel and the best wood for the rest, and you can be sure that the craftsmen in your shipyard know what kind of wood to use. No matter how crazy this brother and sister are now, Yang Er still said what he requested. It also relieved the two of them from the surprise.

"Mr. Yang, I have boatmen and blacksmiths here, if the fine iron is not enough, this king will send someone to buy it. As for the details, Mr. Yang and Benwang need to go to the shipyard to discuss with the shipbuilders. Wang Bo put away the drawings and said calmly to Yang Er. Yang Er didn't say much when he heard this, just nodded.

Soon, they followed the Wang brothers and sisters to the Laizhou shipyard on the seaside. The shipyard is quite large, and there are one or two small flat-bottomed boats under construction on the slipway, and two or three hundred shipwrights are busy here.

Enter the shipyard workshop, which is the steward's office. More than a dozen people who had been waiting here stood up to greet Wang Bo's arrival, because they had heard that two large ships that had never been seen before would be built here, and today they could finally see the pattern, and these dozen shipwrights were all happy.

Soon, the two boat samples drawn by Yang Er were carefully pasted on a vertical wooden board by Wang Bo. More than a dozen people rushed forward to check, and from where the group stood, it was easy to distinguish their class. The two people who were looking at the pattern at the front were a little older, and they must be the master craftsmen in charge of shipbuilding here, and the ten people behind them were ordinary craftsmen who built ships, and they didn't dare to squeeze to the front. Yang Er and Wang Bo didn't care about them, they just sat down at the table and waited for them to finish reading. It's just that he kept hearing a few cheers, which made Wang Bo also excited, but Yang Er looked calm.

"Lord Wang, this is the best and largest ship diagram that the old man has seen in his life, all kinds of details are drawn clearly, most of the old man can see it, and the difficulty of manufacturing is not too big, but the old man still has a few problems that are not very clear, and he wants to vomit it quickly." An old shipwright, who was about 50 years old, trembled excitedly and said that this person must be the oldest shipwright master here.

"Old man Meng, if you have something to say, just talk to this Mr. Yang! This boat is all made by him, and Mr. Yang will also guide you in the construction of the ship in the future. Wang Bo got up and introduced Yang Er to the boatmen, highlighting Yang Er's noble status.

"Mr. Yang, what the old man wants to ask is, why are your boats all pointed-bottomed boats, isn't this going to roll over in the water, isn't the flat-bottomed boat more stable?" This is known as the master boatsmith of Old Man Meng, who asked on behalf of this group. The people behind him also echoed, not knowing what was going on.

"Old man Meng, if the small flat-bottomed boat you built here goes to sea, if it encounters a strong wind, is it very easy to capsize after setting off a huge wave?" Yang Er got up and came to the ship-like drawings and asked everyone. When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but nod their heads again and again, saying yes.

"If you sail on the inland rivers of our country, the wind and waves are not big, and the flat-bottomed boat should not worry, and it will rarely capsize. But what we want to build is a sea boat that goes out to sea, and the sea is endless, the sea is deep, the wind is strong, and the waves are strong, and the flat-bottomed boat is very easy to be overturned by the wind and waves. Due to the lack of deep draft at the bottom of the ship, the ability to resist wind and waves is insufficient, this pointed bottom boat is made to resist larger wind and waves, in case of strong winds, it will lower a few sails, reduce the wind surface, you can fight the general wind and waves. Of course, in the event of a typhoon or other strong wind, it is extremely dangerous for any ship to be on the sea, so it is also very important to choose the route and season when going to sea. Still have questions? ”

"Mr. Yang, what do you mean by the holes on the sides of your smaller boat?" Another older shipwright asked, pointing to the frigate.

"Oh! There were window openings on each side of the ship, which were used for the ship's iron cannons to fire cannonballs against the invaders, and they could be closed when not in use, and 200 soldiers and horses could be stored in the cabin. The lower two rows of people should know that it is used by paddlers to paddle in the boat, and there is no need to paddle when the wind is strong, and when the wind is small, you have to use paddlers to row, and there are 20 paddlers on each side. Still have questions? Everyone looked at each other at this time, and couldn't find any other questions for a while, or maybe there were too many problems, and they didn't know where to start. It is the sails on this mast that they are rare to see, completely different from the sails of flat-bottomed boats for inland navigation, but it is not easy to ask the question of this sail now, and it is not too late to ask when the time comes.

"If there is no problem for the time being, I have a list of materials here, Lord Fujun, please send someone to prepare according to the quantity and type in the table!" Yang Er took out another bill of materials and handed it to Wang Bo and asked him to arrange it. This should be all ready, and if it goes well, it will take at least 3 days.

"Alright, everyone is scattered, and when the king has prepared all the materials, the construction will begin. Mr. Yang, I'll go home first! Wang Bo said to Yang Er, Yang Er thought about it, and went back to the house first.

I thought, this king is not here to build a ship for you, this king is here to take you in, including your shipyards here, all of them are Lao Tzu. When will you identify yourself with this Wang Bo?