Liu Renliang couldn't have imagined that just supervising shipbuilding, which basically didn't make much contribution, could be mixed with the official position of a third-grade officer, although his temperament was very upright and calm, but when he heard the seal from Jia Yi's mouth, he couldn't help but tremble with excitement.

In these years, if you want to become an important minister around the emperor, you must either follow the emperor to fight the world, or you are recommended by people who are bigger than the emperor in the world.

Liu Renliang was originally a small master book, but he was later dug up by Jia Yi, according to his plan, he was able to mix with an official when he stayed by Jia Yi's side for a while, but he didn't expect to really get an official, but this official was a little big.

"Thank you, Lord Long."

There is no obstacle to Liu Renliang's kneeling to Jia Yi this time, because this kneeling is not for him at all, but for His Majesty Li Er of the Tang Dynasty, and Jia Yi has no right to let the family kneel at all.

After watching the trembling Liu Renliang receive the holy decree, Jia Yi pulled Liu Renliang to sit on the chair again.

"Now that the general of this sea fleet is you, how this fleet should develop in the future is up to you, I will no longer interfere, and my focus will be on building cities for the next period of time, as well as renovating and installing weapons on the existing giant ships."

Jia Yi said that is the real purpose of his coming here, as long as the current giant ship is not floating on the sea, it will always be anchored in the Yangtze River, although the current Yangtze River is not as prosperous and lively as the future generations, but with the passage of time, when the maritime trade is completely formed, the Yangtze River will become an important transportation channel, and if the giant ship is still anchored at the mouth of the Yangtze River, it will inevitably seriously affect the passage of ships.

In order to facilitate maintenance and management, Jia Yi decided to build a seaport near the mouth of the sea, specifically for the berthing of these ten giant ships to create a huge range, in addition, this can also effectively prevent the huge waves from the sea from introducing the giant ships into the deep sea, whether it is from the convenience or safety point of view, it is very necessary to build this seaport.

Liu Renliang didn't know what a harbor was, and it was impossible to know what a harbor was called, so he listened to Jia Yi talk here for a long time, and finally only understood one word, that is, Zhucheng.

Since ancient times, there are many exquisitenesses, but it is not that who has the money and who wants to build can help the assistant to start building, that requires the emperor's consent, and you have to play a very important role by the emperor's side, the most important thing is that when building the city, there must be someone who the emperor can rest assured to supervise the work here, these three things are indispensable, as long as one of them is missing, as long as you dare to build a city, then the emperor dares to send troops to attack at the same time as your city has just been built.

That's right, building a city without permission is a signal of rebellion in the eyes of the emperor, it is necessary to fight, and the explanation is not to be heard, and everything will be said after the fight.

Therefore, when Liu Renliang heard Jia Yi say that he was going to build a city, his buttocks were just next to the chair, and he stood up again.

"Jia Hou, by all means."

Looking at Liu Renliang with a frightened face, Jia Yi was full of inexplicability, and he didn't know what Liu Renliang was referring to.

"Since ancient times, building a city without permission will be regarded as a harbinger of rebellion, if you dare to build a city here, when the construction is completed, His Majesty the Emperor will inevitably send troops to attack, and at that time you will also become a rebellious minister and thief and be included in the list of must-kill, I hope Jiahou will think twice."

Liu Renliang said that Jia Yi really didn't know, at the beginning when Jia Yi had the idea of building a city, he wanted to build this place into Shanghai like the later generations, and later after contacting more cities, Jia Yi artificially added a high wall in his mind, and had already thought about what should be installed on the wall for city defense. Not long after it had just been filled, the city wall was quickly erased from his mind again.

Compared with building a city, Jia Yi cares more about his own life, and he can't take his own life for a city, Liu Renliang's reminder is very timely, otherwise Jia Yi is really likely to plan the upcoming Shanghai according to the style of a city.

"Brother Liu, thank you for the reminder."

Jia Yi's solemnity made Liu Renliang a little overwhelmed, but when he saw the brightness on Jia Yi's face, he immediately understood, and calmly accepted Jia Yi's salute, and after Jia Yi stood up straight again, the two looked at each other and laughed loudly.

Sometimes friendship is so simple, mutual kindness can make two people have the initial friendship, as for whether this friendship will change over time, it depends on how the two get along in the future, but in terms of Liu Renliang's character, there is no big problem when Jia is a best friend in his life.

The construction drawings of the Great Shanghai Jia Yi have been in the stomach for a long time, and it took three days to present these on the drawings, and the rest is to choose a favorable position, although the current coastline will not have any pirates and bandits to come here to disturb the nuisance, but it is still necessary to guard against the rebels who have not appeared on the land, therefore, the tall city wall Jia Yi is not ready to build, but the low fortress is very necessary.

According to Jia Yi's plan, the entire urban area was placed five miles away from the seaside, and in the future, the seaside will be built into a harbor by him, and the entire seaside will be built into a material yard to place various materials transported by giant ships, and the surrounding areas of the city will be divided into various functional areas, according to Jia Yi's estimates, in the near future, it will become another economic center of Datang.

With money and people in demand, the project soon began to move, and a huge city would soon be in front of the world in the hands of these workers.

Building a city is just a task for Jia Yi to come here, he has other ideas here, that is, to make more hot air balloons, the nobles of Chang'an City may not know the importance of hot air balloons on the battlefield, but Jia Yi is very clear, whether it is to explore the surrounding terrain, or to suppress high-altitude firepower, hot air balloons can come in handy, of course, this requires a lot of hot air balloons, if you have been using snake skin to make it, soon all snakes around Shanghai will become history.

In this regard, Jia Yi also has no effective way, but the order he issued is to find as thin fur as possible, and only such fur can meet the characteristics of lightness and high temperature resistance, take out the design drawings of the flamethrower, find a few people among the craftsmen who build the ship, and let them start manufacturing the flamethrower, the more the better, this thing is a consumable, it won't take many times to change it to a new one, in this era when steel is very valuable, so use steel, In fact, there is not much difference from the loser.

Before coming to Shanghai, Jia Yi had promised Chai Lingwu that he would inform him after he found a profitable deal, although making a hot air balloon could not bring huge benefits at the moment, but when the next war began, the hot air balloon would inevitably show his extraordinary effect, and after the war ended, the gains obtained on the battlefield would be the real benefits.

Of course, if there is only one profitable business, Jia Yi will not pull all the gentlemen in Chang'an City, and now the giant ship is about to undergo a huge transformation, and when the transformation is completed, the huge giant ship will be able to sail on the sea, although the safety is still not 100% guaranteed, but Jia Yi dares to guarantee that this kind of sea ship will definitely be able to be used for a thousand years and will not be eliminated, and after the sea ship appears, and then go to other countries to collect materials, the profit can simply make the richest businessman in Datang red-eyed.

The first thing he needs to do now is to complete the construction of the harbor first, so that the ten giant ships will always face the threat of huge waves, which is definitely the most important problem to be solved at the moment.

It's just that the construction of the harbor requires a lot of stone, so there is no problem in allowing the giant ship to transport it, but the question is where to find the stone?

After thinking about it for a long time, there are basically no stone mountains around Shanghai, and it is simply unrealistic to find a large number of stones, so Jia Yi still set his sights on the mainland, as long as he let the giant ship go up the Yangtze River and reach the Sichuan-Shu area, how many stones he wants is basically a matter of his words.

Just do it, it just so happened that now there was a giant ship moored in the Yangtze River, and after telling Liu Renliang about this matter, the giant ship that was originally moored at the mouth of the Yangtze River began to form a long fleet under the order of the flag, and slowly moved towards the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

The Sifang grocery store also has a lot of branches around Sichuan and Shu, when the giant ships are heading inland, many letters are also scattered from Jia Yi's hands at this time, and the content of each letter is basically the same, that is, let the shopkeepers in charge of the grocery store buy a large number of boulders, and then load them on the giant ship, and some giant ships are brought back to the mouth of the Yangtze River.

The shopkeepers who received Jia Yi's letter were all very inexplicable about Jia Yi's instructions, but they were the bosses, and they did what they said, anyway, the money was stored in the grocery store, and it was just replaced with a boulder, and it could also make some room for their grocery store.