Yang Cong caught the relevant officials of the Nantai Shipyard to rectify it, and the craftsmen of the shipyard came, but the vendors selling wood, canvas and other materials were still not seen.

Why is this happening, aren't these vendors afraid that Yang Cong will clean them up?

They are naturally afraid that once they are caught by Yang Cong, they will indeed have no good fruit to eat, but they are even more afraid of the revenge of the maritime giants.

It is true that Yang Cong rectified the relevant officials of the Nantai Shipyard miserably, but this does not prove that Yang Cong can clean up the maritime giants, and the previous governor Zhu Kun also pulled all the maritime merchants to cut down, so what is the result, Zhu Kun was not forced to commit suicide.

After Zhu Kun committed suicide, it was not over, the officials in Zhejiang and Fujian who had helped Zhu Kun at the beginning were all retaliated against by the maritime giants, and none of them escaped!

In short, in Zhejiang and Fujian, the maritime giants are basically the existence that no one dares to provoke, even if the governors sent by the imperial court are not as deterrent as them, everyone thinks that Yang Cong will eventually be planted in the hands of the maritime giants, so no one dares to provide him with any help, even if they sell materials to him.

If it is a foreign official who comes to serve as the governor of Zhejiang, it is estimated that he should be blind, fortunately, Yang Cong is not a foreign official, he is also a local snake, no one supplies materials, it doesn't matter, his family sells timber, and it is enough for his Yang family to supply timber from a Nantai shipyard, and there is no need to ask for others at all.

As for canvas, nails or something, it is not only sold in Fujian or Zhejiang, Nanzhili also has it, but the distance is a little farther, which is not difficult for him, anyway, the amount of these things is not much, let Wang Zhi send a boat to pull it, it is estimated that it will not be used up in a year.

The Yang family was originally a big timber merchant in Quanzhou, not far from Fuzhou, and the Yang family also had a semicolon in Fuzhou City, so it didn't take much time for this timber to be mobilized.

In the afternoon of the next day, the shopkeeper of the Yang family came to report that the first batch of timber had arrived, and the Cangshan ship and the centipede ship could finally start production.

In fact, he had long wanted to see how the ship was built in the past few years, but he had been busy cleaning up the relevant officials in the past two days, and he had no time to organize the supply of materials.

According to Wang Xuan's statistics, there are five large docks and ten medium-sized docks in the Nantai Shipyard, which can start building fifteen warships at the same time, and these docks are built according to the size of the Dafu ship and the Fu ship, and there is no problem at all in building the Cangshan ship, which is one size smaller than the Fu ship.

So, what does a shipyard look like in those days?

Yang Cong led the group out of the lifting yamen and soon came to the nearest dock entrance.

When he walked in, he saw not a building, but a long waterway, or a canal.

Both sides of this waterway are very regular, at first glance it is dug out by hand, and there are a lot of wooden frames built on one side of the waterway, at this time, there is an unfinished Daifuku boat parked in the waterway, and this Daifuku boat is quietly leaning on the wooden frame.

Seeing this, Yang Cong couldn't help but be curious: "Sir, are there still many unfinished Daifuku ships in the shipyard?" ”

Wang Xuan nodded again and again: "Yes, there are more than ten unfinished large and small fortune ships in the shipyard." ”

Yang Cong thought for a while, and then asked, "Do these lucky ships have owners?" ”

When Wang Xuan heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then said embarrassedly: "Maybe there is a master, this subordinate has not carefully investigated, but if there is a master, he will not dare to come to pick it up, and we don't have time to build these lucky ships." ”

More than ten large and small fortune ships, that is more than 20,000 taels of silver, take it, no one must dare to come to take it, at this time the imperial court is implementing a sea ban, you have nothing to do with building large sea ships, doesn't this make it clear that you want to ban smuggling?

A fool would run over and hit the muzzle of the gun.

However, it seems a bit of a pity to put it here and let it be scrapped.

Yang Cong didn't care about the more than 20,000 taels of silver, the main thing, he had other ideas.

He pondered for a while, and suddenly said to the cronies behind him, "Which of you will do business?" ”

When he asked this, all the cronies and guards were stunned.

Most of them are military households and peasant households, and they are really stumped by doing business or something.

Everyone was stunned for a while, and Hong Tiezhu said cautiously: "The small one should be a little better, after all, the small family was originally made of iron, and any hoes, rakes or something were all sold out." ”

Yang Cong looked him up and down, and then asked with interest: "Well, are you interested in running the maritime business?" ”

When Hong Tiezhu heard this, he was stunned again, isn't this running a sea business just to be a pirate, these days, there is not much difference between a maritime merchant and a pirate.

He hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "If the adults need the small ones to go, the small ones will go." ”

When Yang Cong heard this, he nodded with satisfaction and said: "Okay, then send you to be a guerrilla general under Wang Zhi, and tomorrow you will go to Quanzhou to recruit some reliable manpower, and prepare to go to Wang Zhi's command as an errand boy, remember, it is best to recruit someone who can drive a boat." ”

Yes!

Although this guerrilla general has no rank, he is also a general, as long as he rises again, he will be a general of the third grade.

When Hong Tiezhu heard this, he was excited for a long time, and then asked embarrassedly: "My lord, how many people do you need to recruit?" ”

I don't know about that.

When Yang Cong heard this, he turned to Yu Dayou and said, "Zhifu, how many people does it take for a Dafu ship to move?" ”

Yu Dayou said without thinking: "The Fu boat is equipped with nine boatmen and fifty-five sailors. ”

Yang Cong nodded slightly, and then said to Hong Tiezhu: "Then recruit three hundred people first, remember, it must be reliable, preferably the children of the Yongning Weijun household." ”

This!

Hong Tiezhu said embarrassedly: "Adult, the small one can't afford to raise so many people." ”

When Yang Cong heard this, he couldn't help but smile dumbly: "Of course you don't need to pay this money, so let's wait for me to write a letter to my grandfather, you can go to his old man's house to pay the money, as for the future income, you can share it with you for the time being." ”

Of course, Hong Tiezhu didn't know how much one percent was, but he had heard that those maritime merchants made money in the tens of thousands of taels, and one percent was at least hundreds of taels.

This guy, a trip is a few hundred taels, developed, developed, he hurriedly said, "Thank you, my lord." ”

Yang Cong waved his hand, signaling him not to be polite, and then said to Wang Xuan: "Sir, if this is not the case, you will order someone to drive out these more than ten lucky ships first, anyway, the Cangshan ship is not in a hurry at this time." ”

Wang Xuanzi responded without hesitation, and the group continued to move forward, and soon came to the innermost dock scaffolding.

This is a bit similar to the steel structure workshop of later generations, but there is no such thing as a steel structure at this time, and the entire scaffolding is built with wood.

Yang Cong listened to the craftsmen inside introduce the process of shipbuilding with great interest, and went to several nearby docks to take a turn, and then returned to the yamen with satisfaction.

At this time, the entire shipyard was almost on the right track, and it seemed a bit overkill to let Wang Xuan manage it, so he consulted Xue Nantang and Li Du's opinions, and finally decided to invite Xue Nantang to raise the shipyard and let him command here.

This shipyard promotion is not a promotion of the city ship, the promotion of the city ship division is a member of the five products, and it is generally served by the eunuchs in the palace, and the shipyard promotion is a small official of the seven products, with Xue Nantang's status as a person, it is enough to be competent.

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