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"Mingsheng, this time, you have made a great contribution, I respect you for this cup!"

Lei Mingsheng never dreamed that in his lifetime, he would sit and drink with Master Li in the study of the General's Mansion. If someone had told him half a year ago, he would have thought that this person was a charlatan, or he had lost his mind.

But today is different!

He had a reason and a right to sit openly in front of the general and drink and chat with him. Because, he is now the majority shareholder of the Han Yuan firm second only to Li Shouhan.

After developing the unearthed cement, Lei Mingsheng came into contact with Li Shouhan's core trade secret, salt production.

At the salt processing workshop in Taiping Cave, he was supposed to go to build a new processing workshop there that day. Around a few cauldrons, Lei Mingsheng pondered repeatedly, and then told his apprentices not to start building a house for the time being.

That night, a new workshop construction drawing, or a new technological process, was placed in front of Li Shouhan.

The pond was dug on a site, built with bricks, painted with cement, and the bottom of the pool was laid with ceramic culverts. In the lower position, a large shallow pool was also dug and connected to the higher pool with a ceramic culvert. The outlet of the culvert is equipped with a cotton filter plate and a charcoal filter pipe. Put the coarse salt into the pool at a high place, and then put in the clear water after the precipitation of the deep well, the salt Ding uses a wooden shovel to stir vigorously in the pool to dissolve the coarse salt, and then open the drain pipe, the salt water will flow down the pipe, and the water pressure caused by the drop will automatically filter the salt water, and then, the salt water in the shallow pool below is the filter salt, and if it is boiled or dried slightly, it is refined salt.

"Depending on your process, the output can be sent and received by heart, and the Yuhetai Salt can accept orders from those salt dealers in the future, and determine the output according to demand. Conservative calculation, a group of salt ponds, in a month, can process 50,000 stones of coarse salt, this number, how much refined salt or filter salt can be obtained, I don't need to say, right?! ”

"Congratulations, sir!"

"Huh! It should be us congratulating each other! According to your request, I asked Fu Bo and Lin Huofeng to calculate that you will have three ten-thousandths of the shares in the Han Yuan firm in the future, which can be inherited, which is different from other people's shares. In addition, you have a dividend of 1/10,000 of the income of the salt number. However, in order to keep the refined salt processing process a secret, I can't announce why you were given so many shares, but I can only say that cement contributed to it. ”

Lei Mingsheng was drunk that day.

After waking up, Lei Mingsheng rubbed his dazed head and pinched his thigh hard, well, it hurts, I'm not in a dream. But why do I remember drinking with the general last night?

His wife brought a bowl of sour and hot sobering soup, "When you and the general were eating wine in the evening, Manager Fu brought people here, as well as several shopkeepers of the Han Yuan firm, and left a few contract documents, saying that they asked you to sign and draw the pledge, and. My wife looked around vigilantly, "There are dozens of big ingots, saying that they are our dividends." ”

Staring at the filigree official treasure of fifty taels and one ingots, Lei Mingsheng confirmed that what happened last night was true.

At the same moment, Shouhan was looking at another drawing in his hand.

Nowadays, thanks to the blessing of ductile iron under the pseudonym of Jiuzhuangang, the construction of waterwheels has also been greatly accelerated, and many workshops have begun to use water power as a new power to replace animal power and manpower.

The drawing in front of me is another masterpiece of Shouhan, the sugar extraction process made according to the salt processing technology proposed by Lei Mingsheng.

"With fine salt and white sugar, I don't believe it, I'll still be short of money!" Shouhan looked at the expense ledger and said secretly through gritted teeth.

On the territory of Shouhan, there are also several nearby major power areas, as well as the Leizhou Peninsula across the sea, which are rich in sugar cane. However, in this era, sugarcane still adopts Song Yingxing's so-called yellow mud water drenching method, and some even adopt the four-fold Kong Mingding boiling method.

That is, the harvested sugarcane is chopped and rolled, and the juice is pressed out to remove impurities such as soil, bacteria, fiber, etc., and then boiled over low heat for 5-6 hours, constantly stirring, so that the water slowly evaporates, so that the concentration of sugar gradually increases, and the high-concentration syrup will solidify into solid lumpy jaery after cooling.

Even such sugar can be sold for a few taels of silver (20 kilograms) in various treaty ports. Moreover, if it is sold to the capital, the price will increase several times. And sugar is all over the world, and the British people, for example, have grown from a teaspoon to a pound of sucrose per capita per year. The market prospect is very broad!

Shouhan decided to replace the yellow mud water drenching method with the activated carbon adsorption method, and changed the operation process that originally required "cow pulling wooden roller to squeeze cane, pot stove to boil sugar, and pottery to separate honey" to a process that uses a waterwheel as a power source.

On the other side of the Leizhou Peninsula, the yellow mud water drenching method is adopted, and the output is more than 100,000 bags in good years, and more than 70,000 bags in general years, and each bag is pulled with five taels of silver, which is also hundreds of thousands of taels.

However, there is something more important than squeezing sugar to make money.

"Young Master, no, General. My lord," Zuo Tianpeng said with some excitement. "This is a ship for our sailors?" As he spoke, the drawings in his hand kept shaking.

"My lord," Xu Huanshan was calmer in comparison, "I don't know how much material this ship needs?" How much drainage? How many guns can be loaded? ”

In the past few months, when the two formed the water division, they went from happiness and excitement at the beginning to helplessness and frustration.

Several sand boats launched in the early years of Wanli, the copper cannons on them are rusty, I don't know how long they have not been launched, sailors, gunners, sailors, none of them are complete. Get on the ship, sails, ropes, anchors, lack of this and that. According to the idea in the minds of the two, five or six ships may not be able to cobble together four decent warships.

Soon, the whining and strange words spread among the water masters, "Xuanwu Battalion, it's really not bad!" The grass snake is coiled in the king eight covers! ”

Listen up! Listen up! Originally, the adults used Xuanwu, a northern divine beast that belongs to water in the Five Elements, as the camp number of the water master, but I didn't expect to be seen by this group of boys as a grass snake coiled on the back of a turtle?!

Li Shouhan stretched his waist, am I easy?! After exchanging the design concepts and plans of the ship with several masters of the shipyard, they came up with the drawings again, and I went back to my old job as the design director and technical director.

Looking at the drawing tablets, T-rulers, triangles, and compasses stacked everywhere in the study, Li Shouhan seemed to have returned to the era before the time travel, when there was no drawing software. Well, at that time, it seemed that everyone was designing with these things!

Fortunately, these craftsmen are now at a good level of technology, and in Annam, you can often see Spain, Portugal and other Hongmaoyi here, so everyone has seen more of all kinds of strange-shaped ships. Shouhan talked about his requirements for the ship, and Wang Quan, the director of the shipyard, took out the drawings a few days later and asked Li Shouhan to review them.

"That drawing in your hand is called a schooner. It's not for you, it's not a warship, it's a civilian ship, and it can be used to transport people, goods, and fish. Of course, it can also be used as a reserve. ”

Zuo Tianpeng looked at the drawings in his hand, if this is a civilian ship, then what does the warship look like?! From the design point of view, the longer aspect ratio and the lower stern make it have a larger tail draft, which not only improves the longitudinal stability and speed of the ship, but also greatly moves the transverse hydrodynamic center of the underwater hull backward, so that it can be better balanced with the sail pressure center, which is conducive to sailing in the wind and reducing the drift, and it is definitely amazing and flexible at sea. The sails were made of the oblique truss sails commonly used by the Hongmaoyi, rather than the crosssails commonly used by oriental ships, so it would not have a large number of sails and a large number of sailors as with the use of a crosssail.

The oblique truss sail mainly relies on the rapid rotation of the direction of the sail to change the wind angle and area, and then change the thrust, because of the use of two trusses fixed, so the sail rope required for the operation of the sail is very small, the operation is particularly convenient and simple, and can greatly save the number of sailors and the body.

Xu Huanshan carefully looked at the drawings of the ship in his hand, this ship, like the so-called schooner, adopts a large aspect ratio, which makes the hull line extremely beautiful, and is set with three super-high masts; The bow of the ship is sharp, like a ferocious shark at sea. The waterline surface is slightly concave, which can be lifted up when sailing and split the waves; The sloping waterline at the rear gradually changes to a narrow round tail in perfect harmony and together with the bow and the middle of the hull form a minimum drag. Along the forward bow of the ship, a mast is extended in the direction of the upward direction directly in front of the ship, and four sail ropes are drawn between the mast and the foremast, and a spinnaker is hung; The foremast, mainmast, and aftermast are hung with full sails, the width of the sail greatly exceeds the width of the hull, the transom extends beyond the hull, and each mast uses the mainsail, top mast and other large and small square sails, as well as the support sails, wing sails and other spinnakers. The complete sail outfit is capable of receiving wind in all directions and, like the schooner, the rigging system has been optimised so that up to twenty sailors can handle it very well.

It looks like it is somewhat similar to the ship of Hongmaoyi, but from some of the technical configurations of the ship, Xu Huanshan can confirm that this is not a ship.

The unique watertight compartment of Chinese ships can improve the safety factor of ships during navigation; It can be retracted and released to balance the rudder, which can not only adapt to ocean navigation, but also be flexible and comfortable in the complex sea conditions of the strait. The ropes and pulleys worn in large bamboo tubes allow the captain to stand in the bow with an open line of sight and turn the rudder plate to control the rudder plate at the stern.

Yes, this is the pinnacle of human exploitation of sailboats in the history of sailboats – scissor sailboats.

However, this should be the Chinese plus money version of the scissor sailboat. That's right! Either I made a mistake, or the added money version, because, in some key positions such as deck, keel, etc., it is a piece higher than the so-called pure scissor sailboat. Why? The keel was to be reinforced with steel nails, as was the deck. Also, judging by the design, it's a double-deck gun deck!

"The schooner is made of 200 tons, and this scissor sailing ship will be made into 600 tons first, and then there will be a large dock, and then a bigger one will be built!"

After drawing a beautiful long-range rendering of the two ambitious guys, Shouhan sank his face.

"If, in the future, there are fishermen who say that they have been harassed by those small broken boats of the Zheng family in the north and the Ruan family in the south, you sailor battalion will stop talking nonsense! Directly give me a backyard toilet to soak to death! ”

The entire territory of Annam is bordered by the sea, and to the east of the river is the Beibu Gulf, which is extremely rich in fishery resources, and is now called Tokyo Bay. In the General's Mansion, dozens of boats, large and small, fish and shrimp here every day.

The Zheng family in the north also fell down, because they still had the remnants of the Mo family behind their butts to be defeated, and the Ruan family in the south on the line of Hue Quang Binh was as annoying as a fly.

Relying on the help of the Portuguese, the artillery of the Nguyen army was also heavily equipped, specifically in the navy, which claimed to have more than 200 warships, each warship was equipped with 64 personnel of various types, and each ship was equipped with at least 4 to 8 pounds of firing devices and 2 guns. The large ships were equipped with as many as six guns.

In order to deal with these guys who constantly disturb the normal operation of fishermen at sea to make a living, Li Shouhan had to equip the fishermen with cloud-piercing crossbows and desperate knives on the fishing boats, so that the fishermen could protect themselves. And, let the sailors patrol the seas day and night to prevent the southern sailors from committing the kind of banditry, just as they did hundreds of years later.

"Young Master! You can rest assured! As long as we have such a ship, those small broken ships of Nanruan, we will send them to the Dragon Palace to meet the Dragon King one by one! ”

"My lord, how many cannons does this ship have?" Or Xu returned to the mountain.

"Preliminary equipping, two layers of gun decks, easy to load thirty guns! In the future, if there are more guns, you can add them! ”

"Ahh Rao is Xu Huanshan is more serious, and when he heard this, he was also speechless.

Thirty gates! Or is it because of the lack of production capacity of the arsenal, if there is one in the future, there will be more!

Looking at the keel and mast that were gradually taking shape in the dock, the two guys grinned with their teeth.

In order to let the sailors under them get familiar with the new ships, the two guys unreasonably transferred the sailors to the shipyard in the month of Layue, and in fact, according to the sailors' private discussions, "Let us work for the shipyard and let the ship be built faster!" ”

However, having said that, any sailor can laugh out loud in his dreams when he sees a huge ship of his own, gradually taking shape, showing a domineering silhouette that crisscrosses the seas.

"This is our sail?" Several sailors were holding a bundle of cloth with some curiosity. "There is no bamboo frame, no keel, just the cloth is brushed with tung oil?!"

Chen Lian'an, a sewing craftsman who was busy with his feet on the pedals, was a little unhappy, "That's what the adults asked, if you have any questions, go and ask the adults that is, don't want to be here with me!" ”

Several sailors closed their mouths and began to carefully examine the machine that Chen Lian'an was using. As the feet rise and fall, a crankshaft connected to the pedal drives the wheels to spin continuously, and the wheels are transmitted to a thick pillow on the top of the panel through the guò buffalo belt, on which a large needle keeps moving.

"Look stupid, huh?! This is the sewing machine invented by Huang Quangui under the guidance of the young master! The young master said that in the future, all the tailors in the town will use this thing to make clothes! ”

Bronze gears appeared in China very early, and by the time of the Tang Dynasty, workers could make iron bearings with an accuracy of millimeters. Li Shouhan's vernier calipers improve the accuracy by a hundredfold. Not long ago, a blacksmith had successfully copied a vernier caliper and obtained a patent. With these, Li Shouhan had no problem building a sewing machine.

A few sailors looked at the huge sails that were about to be completed, and they were a little fascinated, wondering when our artillery would be completed?

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