The best way is to unload all the materials transported by the merchants at the port, check and deliver them first, and then classify and store them in a centralized manner, and then load them on the ship after all the materials are shipped.

As a result, warehouses and freight yards must be built in the three ports, otherwise it will definitely be a mess and it will be difficult to deliver clearly.

After looking at the three ports, Yang Congyi found that there were many things to do, there were no freight yards in the three ports, let alone warehouses, everything had to be done by themselves.

Hui Yi did not have so much spare money to build a port in Quanzhou, so he once again found Lord Yan of the city to discuss the construction of the port's freight yard and warehouse. Yang Congyi analyzed the pros and cons of building a freight yard and a unified management warehouse with Lord Yan, although Lord Yan understood that this was good for the subsequent development of the port, but the construction of the three ports together would cost a lot of money, and the city department could not come up with the money.

What's more, the construction of the port is not the city of the Department of construction can be built, need to be examined and approved at all levels, first reported to the Quanzhou Prefecture, then reported to the Fujian Road Transit Division, and then reported to the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, after the approval of the imperial court can only allocate money, and then can be requisitioned to start work, such as Quanzhou, a large coastal port, when necessary, the Ministry of Industry needs to send personnel to survey and supervise, and have to go through another complicated procedure.

In short, a set of declaration process has come down, and it cannot be completed without three or five months, the imperial court has agreed to the construction, and when the government issues an announcement to levy labor, it depends on the season, and it cannot be levied in spring, and it cannot be levied in autumn, and only when the farm is slack can it be conscripted and transferred. In this way, these three ports will be built, and I don't know how to wait for the government to build them in the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse, and the Huiyi fleet will be used in a few months.

As a last resort, Yang Congyi proposed that the Hui Yi Supervision Office should clean up the three ports by himself, so that merchant ships could enter the port and deliver commodities and materials.

Go back to the Yi Supervision Office to clean up the port by yourself, of course, the city shipping department is happy to see it, this is their business, since someone took the initiative to help do it, how can there be no reason to disagree.

Clean-up and construction are two words, two very different things, port construction is a project of the imperial court, but the port clean-up is the business of the local supervisor of the yamen, which can be the yamen organization clean-up, or hired people to clean up.

Yang Congyi discussed with Lord Yan, the city shipping department, and took over the cleaning project of the three ports, and the city shipping department also symbolically gave 100 yuan for the cleaning cost.

There is no power to requisition labor in the Hui Yi Supervision Office, and Yang Congyi will not do such a thing, it doesn't matter if there is no one, as long as he is willing to give money, he has to be a person.

The construction of the port is also imminent, and after Yang Congyi made a rough plan, he issued a notice for recruiting foremen throughout the city.

The content is very simple, recruit a foreman who can level the ground and build a storehouse, and pay a consistent amount of money every day.

On the day the recruitment notice was posted, many people came to apply, and everyone who came to sign up for the recruitment, Yang Congyi had to chat carefully and ask them three questions, what they had done, what they would do, and what they were doing now. The first day left one behind.

In the next few days, even several counties and towns near Quanzhou also came to sign up for the recruitment. After asking the same three questions, they should be left behind immediately if they are clear and clear, and they are related to the construction of the project.

In four days, a total of six foremen were recruited. After the recruitment was completed, Yang Congyi also revealed his identity to them, what kind of person he was, what yamen he came from, and he made it clear to the six foremen, the point was to tell them that he was an official and the foreman was a citizen.

After that, I took them to see the three ports together, had a small meeting, and immediately assigned errands, three of them were responsible for clearing the debris near the port and leveling the ground, and the other three were responsible for building warehouses in the port. After clarifying the errand, Yang Congyi put forward the construction requirements and construction period of each port. After the errand was assigned, the six of them went back to recruit people and prepared to start work.

On the issue of wages, Yang Congyi also made it clear to them that the foreman's salary is consistent every day, once every ten days, and the worker's salary is 30 wen a day, once every five days, and the workers are recruited and managed by themselves, and each foreman cannot recruit more than 100 workers. In addition to wages, Yang Congyi also set up incentives, the first foreman who leveled the port ground or built a warehouse as required, was rewarded with 30 times, and the second was rewarded with 10 times. The problem of eating, Hui Yi Supervision Office also helped them solve half of it, sent three loads of grain to each port every day, and solved the rest by themselves.

Six days later, the port clean-up work began one after another.

Before the start of construction, Yang Congyi deliberately emphasized that no debris and soil should be dumped into the port water, and once found, the foreman would be fined a consistent amount of money.

After the start of construction, Ge Sanzai was responsible for the grain transportation at the three ports. Yang Congyi walked back and forth in the three ports every day, and when he found a problem, he asked the foreman to adjust and rectify it, and went to each port at least once a day and stayed for an hour at a time.

Yang Congyi asked the shipyard to help contact the timber merchants, and some timber merchants shipped them directly to the port one by one, and the foreman went to buy other bits and pieces.

After ten days, the port gradually changed, the reeds and weeds were cleared, the trees were cleared, and then the ground was leveled, the stones were cleared, and the port road was built. The builder of the storehouse also leveled the foundation of the house and buried the pillars and beams.

Everything in the port is carried out in an orderly manner, for the foreman who withholds grain, of course, there must be criticism and education, the first time the workers are more excited, the scene is more chaotic, because there is no roster, some people are found to be expelled on the spot, cancel their qualifications to work in the port, fine the foreman 100 yuan, and wait until the second payment, the scene is much quieter, the foreman is also staring at the side.

During the construction of the port, Yang Congyi was not idle, and every other day he would go to the shipyard to inspect the progress of the construction of sea ships and warships, and the sea ships were built very quickly. By the beginning of August, fifty seagoing vessels had been built, a dozen old ships were putting the finishing touches on them, ten new ones were being decked, and the keels of the last ten seagoing vessels had been laid.

The progress of the construction of ten warships is also very fast, four of which have been built with a thousand materials, and the iron wheels have been installed as required, Yang Congyi went on the ship to see, the iron wheels are still relatively exquisite, and the installation on the ship is also very good, very firm, and the operation is also very convenient, the three of them can turn the iron wheels together, and there are two iron wheels on the left and right sides of the car and ship, and the twelve people urge together, and the car and ship can be carried out quickly when the wind is blowing. The other six 2,000-material warships have also reached the stage of installing the deck and mast at the end, and after the installation, the whole is brushed with tung oil three times, and the warship will be built, and if there is no rainy day, it will definitely be all built before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

As for the big ship with a length of more than 20 zhang, the construction was also the smoothest, and a lot of rich manpower was invested in it, and the construction speed was also accelerating.

In short, Yang Congyi is more satisfied with the shipbuilding, and he has repeatedly told Lord Fei that now is a good time to train craftsmen who build large sea ships, as long as the imperial court's Huiyi fleet comes back in two years, it will definitely become a trend to go to sea and return to Yi, and there must be orders to build hundreds of seagoing ships a year.

Lord Fei is an understanding person, Yang Congyi also heard about the construction of the port, the imperial court built sea ships again, and built the port of Quanzhou Bay, to make such a move, the picture must be not small, the rich and rich usually have a close relationship with the imperial court, the imperial court's fleet of Hui Yi went to sea and came back, once they saw the benefits, they must follow the trend to go to sea. Now the most built ships belong to his Quanzhou shipyard, when the time comes, to build ships to the sea, who else can you find if you don't look for him.

When he figured it out, he would often go to the shipyard to walk around, and when he saw some young craftsmen who were willing to do things and had superb skills, he paid special attention to them, these were the talents who would help him build ships and make a fortune in the future, and they were all written down one by one, and when the wages were paid, they were rewarded with some extra to envelop them.

At the beginning of Yang Congyi's return to Quanzhou, he wrote a letter to Tang Xun, telling him that if Lin'an was fine, please come to Quanzhou as soon as possible, he was too busy to be alone.

At the beginning of August, Tang Xun hurried to Quanzhou.

After the two met, Yang Congyi made it clear to him all the things about the construction of the Quanzhou shipyard and port, and the preparations were almost completed, and the most urgent thing at the moment was to recruit all kinds of talents.

These recruitment work was assigned to Yang Congyi at the beginning of the year, but he didn't expect that there would be more and more things in the back, and he couldn't take care of it alone, so he had to call Tang Xun, and it just so happened that he was also going to come to Quanzhou to continue to be responsible for the delivery of goods and materials.

In order to facilitate the recruitment of all kinds of talents, after discussing with the two, they decided to temporarily rent a courtyard in the city as a temporary Huiyi Supervision Office, and then bring all of them to the port when the personnel were almost recruited.

On the same day, he rented a courtyard and hung a plaque at the door to return to the Yi Supervision Office.

The leaflets and documents for recruiting all kinds of talents printed in advance, as well as the recruitment slogans and notices written in advance, began to be spread in Quanzhou City. At the same time, some people were hired to carry leaflets and notices to the surrounding towns to spread them.

The leaflet states the position, qualifications, job description and salary of the recruit. There are many kinds of recruited talents, such as langzhong, Taoists, monks, helmsmen, sailors, boatmen, blacksmiths, carpenters, and Jianghu strangers.

In addition to the helmsman and sailors, the recruitment of other talents can be done slowly, and the recruitment of all talents can be completed before the fleet sets sail. Now that most of the seagoing ships have been built, and the port is almost built, the finished seagoing ships can leave the shipyard and enter the port at any time, so that the sailors and helmsmen can first familiarize themselves with the seagoing ships.

The built warship also needs a large number of helmsmen and sailors, and they are sent to Changguo, and by the way, the helmsmen and sailors are required to teach Xuanwei Jun to learn to operate sails and tail rudders. As a result, the recruitment of helmsmen and sailors is particularly urgent and urgent.