In order to protect the secrets of armaments, Liu Xia gathered some ordinary people as special craftsmen, and they were responsible for building things for Liu Xia's special institutions, such as shipyards, arsenals, etc. The treatment is directly managed by the Logistics Department, and their families have also been specially moved to a fixed place, and basically have little contact with the outside world, even if the children of the family marry wives, it is between them. Of course, there are not a few people like them, there are tens of thousands of people, and they are still increasing.

works for Liu Xia, and his treatment is also very good, and he doesn't have to worry about food and clothing. There are also special schools in their congregations to educate their children. So I don't have to worry about education. There is one thing, they need to carry out confidentiality work, so they can't go out at will and deal with outsiders.

In other words, personal freedom is restricted.

Yu Mingjun came to the shipyard with the drawings for a while, and the person who came out of the shipyard to greet Yu Mingjun was still the director of the shipyard, Yang Wuxiao Qian Taiduo. He had already received the news from the Logistics Department and knew that it was Yu Mingjun who sent him shipbuilding drawings this time. As a craftsman, he was very interested in creation, so when he heard that Yu Mingjun had found the blueprint of the ship used by Zheng He to go to the West, he laughed happily for a long time.

"I've seen the general."

Although Bai Menghu is now promoted to the deputy governor of the navy, his military rank is only a cavalry school, which is not enough to be called a general. Bai Menghu was overjoyed when he learned that he had been promoted to deputy governor. According to Liu Xia's division. The Governor belongs to the Cavalry General, so the Vice-Governor should be at the rank of Cavalry General. But in fact, he Bai Menghu is just around the riding school level. After thinking about it for a while, he understood Liu Xia's intentions, as long as he made new contributions, he would definitely be able to be called the second general of the navy.

So Bai Menghu secretly swore in his heart that he must build a good naval army, be able to fight, and win battles.

Qian Taiduo saluted Yu Mingjun, who also belonged to the army sequence. However, it is directly under the Logistics Division. Most of the personnel of the Logistics Department are some technical personnel, or some people who have retired from the front line and are injured and can no longer go to the battlefield, but have made relatively large contributions and want to stay in the army.

He was a technician and a highly skilled craftsman.

Yu Mingjun smiled and said to Qian Taiduo: "Lord Qian is very polite." ”、

"No wonder I heard the magpie cry early this morning, but I didn't expect a noble person to come today."

"Hahaha, General Ben can't afford this nobleman. If you want to talk about a nobleman, it can only be the prince. Today, General Ben was ordered by the prince to send a gift to Lord Qian. Saying that, Yu Mingjun waved his hand to the two guards behind him, and the two guards walked over with a small wooden box painted with red lacquer.

Chantaido glanced at it, and knew in his heart that it contained the legendary shipbuilding blueprints. This is a baby!

A long-lost treasure.

Qian Taiduo hurriedly said to Yu Mingjun: "General Yu is invited to the house, and the house is sitting." ”

As he spoke, he led Yu Mingjun to the stone house behind him. Inside the room was a small living room, and Qian Taiduo invited Yu Mingjun to take a seat. Then several shipyard personnel brought a few cups of hot tea.

"The general sent you the shipbuilding drawings?" Although Qian Taiduo already knew it in his heart, he still asked, and he wanted to hear it from Yu Mingjun's mouth.

Yu Mingjun said: "Lord Qian guessed correctly, it is the drawings of shipbuilding." I found this when I went to catch pirates a few days ago, and I really didn't expect such a valuable thing to be taken away by pirates. If you're not careful, you'll be ruined. Fortunately, he was touched by General Ben. Otherwise, it would be a great loss for us. ”

Yu Mingjun took a sip of the fragrant Cha, looked at Qian Taiduo, and only heard Qian Taiduo smile and said: "What the general said is exactly, where do these pirates understand the preciousness of these drawings." If you give it to him, they'll be just a pile of waste paper. But in our hands, it's really a treasure. As he spoke, Chantaido moved his gaze to the wooden box not far away, his eyes burning with eagerness.

Yu Mingjun smiled slightly and said, "Lord Qian, do you want to take a look?" After that, I saw that Qian Taiduo nodded awkwardly and said, "Exactly." Who wouldn't want to see such a treasure? Yu Mingjun said: "This is indeed a treasure, but it can only be called a treasure after it is given to Lord Qian, this thing is just a pile of paper in the hands of people like this general who do not move the skills of craftsmen." Even if you look at it, you can only look at it as a picture. ”

"Someone brought the box over and opened it."

After that, the two guards carried the box to the coffee table between Yu Mingjun and Qian Taiduo, and one of the guards took out a copper key and opened the copper lock on the box.

Yu Mingjun stood up, lifted it lightly, and lifted the lid of the box. I saw a thick pile of drawings lying quietly inside. These drawings are really incomprehensible to ordinary people. There is a lot of data on it, and the drawings are very fine, and every piece of wood used is clearly drawn.

However, these ships cannot be directly referenced, and Chantaido needs to be remodeled. Equip these ships with steam engines and propellers. Then wrap a layer of iron armor on the outside. Such an ironclad giant ship is ready.

Qian Taiduo stood up excitedly, reached out and picked up a drawing, looked at it carefully, and said eagerly: "This kind of craftsmanship is really ingenious, and the predecessors of the year are really amazing." No wonder we couldn't build such a big warship, it turned out that there was a problem here. Chantaido watched and commented.

Yu Mingjun is not familiar with shipbuilding, but listening to Qian Taiduo's words, it seems that those craftsmen from hundreds of years ago are very powerful.

The shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty was so developed, and it was inseparable from the attention of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, who were in power at that time. When Zhu Yuanzhang had not yet established the Ming Dynasty, he once fought for Chen Youliang in the south, and Chen Youliang was a person who attached great importance to warships. After all, the place where he is located is mostly waterways, so he naturally pays attention to battleships.

Chen Youliang often dispatched hundreds of warships to attack Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang suffered a big loss for this. At that time, Chen Youliang's battleship was even wrapped with iron sheets, which shows that it was not Liu Xia's first initiative to wrap a layer of iron armor around the outside of the battleship. However, Chen Youliang's era has passed a long time, and after Chen Youliang died in battle, these techniques for laying iron armor have also been lost. So many craftsmen don't know that ships were equipped with iron armor hundreds of years ago.

The more Qian Taiduo looked at it, the more excited he became, and in the end he became obsessed with it, and directly threw Yu Mingjun next to him there, which made Yu Mingjun sigh with emotion.

After a while, Qian Taiduo came to his senses after reading the drawings, and at this moment Yu Mingjun was already sitting on the chair and tasting the best tea and tea.

Qian Taiduo smiled awkwardly and said, "Let the general see the smile, the general will see the smile." ”

"That's right, General. Our shipyard is almost ready to build an ironclad ship. Qian Taiduo suddenly remembered what he was going to say to Yu Mingjun today. Originally, today he was going to talk to Yu Mingjun about the shipyard and another ironclad ship. But because Yu Mingjun gave him this box of drawings made him forget, and now because of the embarrassment, he summed up some ways to get rid of the embarrassment in his mind, and suddenly remembered it again.

When Yu Mingjun heard this, he immediately got up happily again, he may not care about other Yu Mingjun, but he is very concerned about the ship Yu Mingjun now. He hurriedly said, "Really? Ironclad? How big. It's good to be able to form another fleet. ”

Chantaiduo said: "It's an ironclad ship, but it's half smaller than the [Zhenyuan] that was delivered to your navy last time, only thirteen zhang in size." ”

Yu Mingjun obviously did not lose his happiness because he was seven feet smaller. I just heard him say: "Then when is the fastest time to get out of the water?" "As the governor of the navy, he needs to develop and expand the navy, and the fundamental reason for the development and growth of the navy is the number of ships.

Chantaido said: "It only takes five days for the ironclad ship to be launched." When the time comes, someone will be sent to inform the general to send someone to receive the warship. There is also an order from the Logistics Department that several wooden warships the size of treasure ships need to be built according to the drawings, so the other ironclad ships of your army will need to be delayed for some days. ”