"The green mountains are hidden in the water, the grass in the south of the Yangtze River has not withered in autumn, the bright moon night of the twenty-four bridges, where the jade people teach," Han Qian Zhuo stood on the bow of the boat, chanted poetry lightly, and said to his father Han Daoxun, "The dish made by the child in the afternoon has a history, and it is based on the poet Du Mu of the previous dynasty This sentence of the twenty-four bridges and the bright moon night ......"

"You dig a large piece of bacon out of twenty-four small holes, stuff it into tofu and steam, and call it the Twenty-Four Bridge Bright Moon Night?" Han Daoxun said with a smile, "The artistic conception of this dish is beautiful, but the taste, I think it's average!" ”

"The child still doesn't have time to study." Han Qian spread his hands and said.

On the moonlit night of the 24th Bridge, you have to use the cooked ham meat to gouge out the eyes and simmer the tofu, and simmer the essence of the ham meat into the tender tofu, the taste is beautiful, but there is no ready-made high-quality ham meat in the world, Han Qian can only use ordinary bacon instead, and the taste is much worse.

However, even if it was not difficult in theory, no matter how idle Han Qian was, he didn't have the time to figure out the curing method of ham before.

"The master is really picky, the young master's craftsmanship, I don't know how much better it is than my mother-in-law, I'm afraid it's better than the imperial chef in the palace." Han Laoshan missed the taste of the lunch meal very much, thinking that the young master was really omnipotent, but he was still a little worried that the young master would indulge in these strange skills and would not be able to achieve great things.

After the appointment of the ministry, Han Daoxun still had to wait until Emperor Tianyou summoned him before he officially embarked on the trip to Xuzhou, which was already mid-May.

Han Qian also accompanied the third prince Yang Yuanpu on leave, leaving Lin Haizheng, Fan Dahei, and Chun Shisanniang in Jinling to deal with the daily affairs of the villa and the secretary Cao Zuosi.

From Jinling to Xuzhou, first go up along the river, take the waterway for more than 1,5600 miles to enter the territory of Yueyang County, Yuezhou, and then pass through Chisha, Dongting and other lakes, enter the Yuan River and go upstream, and then arrive in Xuzhou, the whole journey is 26,700 miles.

There is a lack of giant trees near Jinling, and although there are many official and private ship yards, the cost of sand-control sailing ships of about 2,000 stone is already very expensive.

Although the mountains and roads in Xuzhou are dangerous, but there are rivers and rivers all the way to Jinling, Han Qian simply took out 800,000 yuan, invested in the purchase of an old ship of 2,000 stones, and brought the six newly recruited shipwrights of Zuo Si on board the ship as boatmen, and sailed all the way west, and entered the territory of Chizhou in four days.

This ship, together with the rebuilt warehouse, the loading dock, and the rouge shop of the Ningxiang Building under the plate, as well as the reward for settling in with 200 new recruits from Zuo Si, spent all the one million money temporarily allocated by the General's Mansion and the private money that Han Qian had saved in the past six months.

In the end, Han Qian borrowed 200,000 yuan from Feng Yi and Kong Xirong for usury, purchased silk pens, inkstones and other items from Jinling, loaded them on ships, and shipped them to Xuzhou for sale.

In the past few days, Han Laoshan's old wife has been seasick and unable to handle chores, and the cooking skills of other family members and relatives are really unsightly.

It's not that other family members are lazy and don't do chores, it's really an ordinary family in the world, the meals are less salt and less oil, and it's good to cook, where will there be so much attention?

And Chef Han Qian, in addition to the high-quality green salt, also uses wine, pepper and ginger to remove the smell, soybean sauce to clear the color, bee, cane syrup, pepper and other things to season, in Han Qian's opinion, these can only be regarded as very ordinary skills, but in the eyes of Han Laoshan, they can really be called the imperial chef in the palace.

In particular, the soybean sauce is actually a simplified version of soy sauce, which is mainly used to mix cold dishes to accompany meals, but Han Qian further uses gauze to filter the residue and then fry it with cane syrup, which is used to cook fish and meat, and the color is also good-looking, and the taste can be said to be absolutely fresh.

Han Laoshan was worried that if he ate along the way, everyone's appetite would be raised, and when the young master stepped into Xuzhou, they couldn't enjoy such a delicious taste, and he specially called his wife to support the body that was seasick and dizzy, and together with Qingyun and two servants, he gave the young master a hand and learned the craft secretly.

The sailboat under Han Qian's feet could carry 2,000 stone of cargo, which was already a big ship in the world, but the actual ship was only more than four zhang long and one zhang and two feet wide.

In addition to the cargo compartment at the bottom, there are only eight very small cabins on the first floor, Han Daoxun, Han Qian and his son live in one room, six boatmen squeeze one, the kitchen is counted as one, and the remaining five rooms are Fan Xicheng, Zhao Kuo, Han Laoshan and other family soldiers with their dependents A total of 37 people are crowded, and Zhao Tinger also has to squeeze in a closed cabin with Qingyun and other female dependents, and the conditions are very difficult.

Although it is early summer and the weather is not very hot, but when you go to Ezhou, Yuezhou, and even enter Dongting Lake, it is midsummer, and the days are not so pleasant.

The sailing boats built in the world have a flat bottom and a wide body, and the ability to break the waves is very weak, and the hard sails made of bamboo reeds have a small windy area, even if they go upwind and upstream, they can only go more than 100 miles a day.

After nightfall, there is no particularly bright star and moon to illuminate the river, and they can only choose the shallows to dock, and several boatmen dare not sail at night easily.

After entering the territory of Chizhou, the breeze from the southeast is blowing, the river waves are also just right, one person is in charge of the tail rudder, two people are staring at the sails, and the boat is slowly moving forward against the south bank, which is very stable.

The cabin was too cramped, so Han Qian called Ji Fu, an old shipwright with experience in building large river boats, and his son Ji Xiyao to the bow of the ship to study the construction of fast sailing ships together.

"The young master's method of creation, Ji Fu has never heard of it, walking the river with rapid waves and deep waters, I'm afraid it is not so ......stable," Ji Fu said hesitantly.

Ji Fu didn't think that Han Qian, who didn't have a long hair on his mouth, really knew much about shipbuilding, but he heard that this time, with him, he was recruited by the Qiuhu Mountain Courtyard to recruit the small two hundred people, and four of them did not listen to the call, and asked the young master Han Qian to call people to kill them directly, and also gave him a charge of cowardice in battle, but the military government of the cantonment camp not only ignored this matter, but also sold the wives of these four people into slavery, Ji Fu was deeply shocked in his heart, knowing that the young master, the little overlord, was not something that he and others could easily provoke.

Ji Fu didn't dare to disobey Han Qian at this time, but he was afraid that he would not be silent at this time, and when he heard Han Qian's methods, he would flip when the shipbuilding ship was launched, and he would not be able to bear the responsibility.

When he said this, his heart struggled.

Han Qian glanced up at Ji Fu and saw that his skin was dark, and his face was full of folds, like the roots of an old tree, it was hard to imagine that he could age like this at the age of forty.

In Han Qian's list, Ji Fu, who was a master craftsman in Chaozhou's government-run shipyard, was one of the few people he focused on, in the seventh year of Tianyou, Chaozhou was broken through by the elite soldiers and horses of Liang State, although the city was defended, but the government-run shipyard outside the city was burned down by enemy soldiers, and Ji Fu fled south with his wife.

After Chaozhou has not been the intention of collecting craftsmen and rebuilding the shipyard, Ji Fu and his wife looked for work in the shipyard near Jinling, and then because his wife and young son ate raw snails and crabs to satisfy their hunger, they were infected with water cup plague, and the family was driven out of the shipyard and became a starving person until they were absorbed by the cantonment military government.

Ji Fu's life is full of too many ups and downs, and he is careful in everything he does, for fear of offending someone, but his eldest son Ji Xiyao is just in his early twenties, he is thin but bright, and he still has great expectations for the future.

Maybe I learned the shipbuilding craft from my father since I was a child, but I am not very skilled at this time, but I am very good at water, and I can do some superficial fist and foot work, and I also learned how to operate a large sailing ship from my father.

Han Qian smiled faintly, and didn't explain anything to Ji Fuduo, but just asked Ji Xiyao to describe the traditional sailing ship structure that his father talked about, one by one.

Han Qian currently doesn't know what kind of structure a real fast sailing ship should be, and the only way he can use it at present is to explore and adjust the traditional sailing structure.

This trip to Xuzhou, if it goes well, it will take a month, there is nothing to do, Han Qian has to pull his father Han Daoxun to do something, otherwise, people will not be idle?

Great Chu is different from the Liang and Jin countries, the Ma Bu army is weak, but the water army is unique.

Han Daoxun is well-read, and has served in the Chuzhou Army for many years, and has dabbled in the construction methods of many warships in the world.

Of course, Han Daoxun has served in the government and the opposition for many years, and at this time, he released the history of Xuzhou, in the eyes of Ji Fu and others, he is a real great figure.

Ji Fu saw the least important people in the Chaozhou government-run ship yard back then, that is, people like Chaozhou Thorn History and Chaozhou Cantonment Military Envoy, and they could only be seen from afar back then, and they didn't have the opportunity to come forward and say a word.

It was also seeing that Han Daoxun was very interested in studying the structure of the sailboat, so Ji Fu dared to interject and put forward a few words of his own opinion.

Han Qian was also quite helpless about this, and let him know that the establishment of popularity was not a simple matter, although he knew better than his father in his heart that the bottom of the sailing ship built in the world was flat, in addition to the pursuit of stability, the main reason was that it was convenient to dock on the shallows at any time.

However, Han Qian thought that in the future, if he could establish a stable connection between Xuzhou and Jinling through waterways, speed would be the first thing to consider; Sailboats with large cargo capacity must be equipped with special loading docks.

If you stop at the shoal, a large quantity of materials will have to be carried to the river embankment by manpower, and the inefficiency can be imagined.

In addition to the shape of the bottom and bow of the ship, which is more conducive to breaking the waves, the sails used in the world are mainly made of bamboo reeds, in addition to the inconvenience of lifting, not being able to hold the wind, and being easy to break, the biggest inconvenience is that it is bulky and difficult to make the sail surface bigger, which also directly limits the windy area and limits the speed of the ship.

No matter how high the cost was, Han Qian thought that he should also try to weave a thick cloth for sails with coarse cotton yarn or twine directly in the future.

With the craftsmanship of the world, it is not very difficult to achieve this.

However, shipbuilding is a much more complex system project than building a lime kiln or a brick kiln.

First of all, the wood must be cellared and dried for a long time, and the wood can be used for shipbuilding only after the wood is stable and will not be soaked and deformed in water, which alone requires a long preparation period, not to mention the trial production of new ships.

Han Qian thought to himself, no matter how smooth the whole process was, it might take three or four years to build the first fast sailing ship he was looking forward to.

Even if the historical trajectory does not change, Emperor Tianyou will die of illness at the beginning of the seventeenth year of Tianyou, and Han Qian does not know how chaotic the situation will be at that time.

Han Qian would not consider building a shipyard that would take a lot of time to build, thinking that when the shipyard was prepared to the point where it could build ships, Jinling would be turned upside down, who would he cry to?

Han Qian thought that this matter would be placed in Xuzhou, and his father would organize people to promote it.

In this way, his father has just arrived in Xuzhou, and he has a few urgent and complicated things to do, so he will not be in a hurry to implement the new policy and offend the local tycoons.

In the evening, I saw a sandbar with bleak grass across the river.

The spring water is rising, the river water in this place is nearly ten miles open, you can see the Zhenjiang Gate in the northwest of Chizhou City to the south, you can see a fast boat in the distance, row over from the fast pulp under the city of Chizhou, when approaching, a military academy stands at the head of the boat, shouts to this side: "The front is the ship of the third master to go to Xuzhou." ”