"What about sea vessels? If this ...... If I want to build a bigger ship, can you build it? Xiao Tianjian didn't care about Liu Erbao's attitude, on the contrary, he was even more happy, people who really have some ability will be more or less arrogant, Liu Erbao can be so angry, it also shows that this person should be a person with some ability, otherwise, he wouldn't dare to say so.

"Sea vessels? But I don't know what kind of sea ship the adults want to build, whether it is an ordinary square ship, a wide ship or a lucky ship? This Liu Erbao is really unkind, and he listed these types of ships at once.

After Xiao Tianjian thought for a while, he immediately said: "You can use the Guangchuan Fu Boat!" As far as I know, these two types of sea ships are very suitable for sailing on the sea, and I just want to ask you, can you build the kind of treasure ship that your ancestors built for the Three Treasures Eunuch Zheng Gonggong? ”

As soon as Liu Erbao heard this, his mouth suddenly widened, and even his eyes that were a little gray widened, but then his face collapsed, and he shook his head with a wry smile and said, "My lord said that he was laughing!" If it is an ordinary sea ship, although the small one does not dare to say that it must be built well, but at least he dares to say that it can be built, but if this adult wants to say that he wants to build the kind of treasure ship that Zheng Gonggong did back then, the small one does not dare to say that it can be built! Not to mention that there is not enough wood to build such a large ship in this place now, and many crafts in the early years have been lost until now! If you want to rebuild a big ship like that, it's simply impossible! Unless you can recruit the skilled craftsmen in the Liangguang and Fujian areas, otherwise, with the craftsmen in this area at present, even if they give enough wood, I am afraid they will not be able to build such a big ship! ”

Xiao Tianjian was greatly discouraged when he heard this, the reason why he was so eager to find this Liu Erbao was still a little fantasical, hoping to find a craftsman who would inherit the craftsmanship of building Zheng He's treasure ship first, but now it seems that he is still too careful, more than two hundred years have passed, after Zheng He, the Ming Dynasty once again pursued the policy of sealing the sea, so that many craftsmen of the year have lost the soil they rely on for their livelihood, and can only change careers to do other things, so that the shipbuilding technology of the year gradually began to be lost, In this era, more than 200 years later, it will be impossible to restore the level of shipbuilding that was in the past, without a considerable period of time and re-training craftsmen.

Although Zheng Zhilong in Guangdong and Fujian still controls a large fleet, in essence, China is far behind some of the newly rising countries in the West in this era.

Xiao Tianjian sighed, stood up and slowly walked back and forth in Liu Erbao's small courtyard a few times, looked at the surrounding shack areas, turned his head to Liu Erbao and asked, "Now a craftsman like you who can build ships, how many people are there in the surrounding area?" ”

Liu Erbao shook his head after thinking for a while: "It's not much!" The small ones are not talented, like the small craftsmen of this kind of craft, I am afraid that there are only a dozen people left in Nanjing nowadays, and the small ones are not boasting, they can be regarded as some of the people who have some ability, and the rest of the so-called craftsmen are mostly for us to help! There are only about two or three hundred craftsmen who can be recruited!

Some time ago, Lord Ding ordered us to build warships for the government, because of the shortage of craftsmen, and in the end there were not a few, more often, we just relied on tinkering with other people's ships to live, not hiding from Lord Xiao, the little ones have thought about it, in the future, let this craft not be, it is better to let the sons do something else, it is better than begging here! ”

When Xiao Tianjian heard this, he immediately said: "Don't! Your craftsmanship can be said to have been passed down hard, how can you just throw it away, so be it! I can see that you people are having a hard time, but this is all in the past! From now on, Xiao wants to let you all live a good life, what can not be lost in this shipbuilding technology, you contact the craftsmen who can be found around, and the shipyard will be restored in the near future, and the wages can be preferential, so start with a small sea ship first, and gradually rebuild a large sea ship in the future! A person may have limited skills, but Xiao believes that if there are many people, he can always gradually recreate a big ship that can sail the ocean! I'll give you the money you need! ”

After hearing this, Liu Erbao immediately showed a look of ecstasy, his hunchback seemed to be much straighter, and he knelt on the ground with wide eyes and looked at Xiao Tianjian and asked urgently, "Is this true?" Did the adult do it? ”

Xiao Tianjian looked up to the sky and laughed, turned around and said with a smile as he walked: "I, Xiao Tianjian, have always counted when I speak, is it possible that such a thing is not possible, Xiao Mou still can't be the master?" ”

Leaving the surnamed Huang and Liu Erbao kneeling at the door, Xiao Tianjian turned around and left the area with the iron head Yu Linwei.

Liu Erbao knelt on the ground in a daze, and muttered in his mouth: "Xiao Tianjian? I seem to have heard this name, why is it so familiar? ”

The man surnamed Huang slapped him and scolded in shame: "You stupid! How dare you call Xiao Dashuai's name like that? He is the current Xiao Dashuai of the Xingtian Army! ”

When Liu Erbao heard this, he was so frightened that he almost fell to the ground, and after being stunned for a long time, he smashed his mouth and said, "It turns out that this is Xiao Dashuai!" Helper! The little one has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, why didn't he see it just now? Damn, damn it! The little one kowtows to you! ”

After saying that, Liu Erbao showed a pious look, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Xiao Tianjian's distant back again and again, and it was a bang, and he raised his head for a while, and then saw that his forehead was already red and swollen, and his eyes were shining with tears.

Liu Erbao said that Xiao Tianjian is their life-saving benefactor, in fact, it is not false at all, when the Xingtian army besieged Nanjing City, they were useless, they were poor to death, the government ordered them to shipbuilders not to think about the money, at most it was for stuttering, as soon as the Xingtian army arrived, the boat on the river ran away, and they also completely ran out of food, but after the Xingtian army came, they temporarily moved away from this place and settled in the west of the city, and gave them porridge, so that they did not starve to death, after the city was broken, Each family gave some food to let them live, and now after returning here, it can be said that they have survived only thanks to the continuous relief of the Xingtian Army.

Now Xiao Tianjian, a god-like person, suddenly came to his house, sat in front of him and talked to him very kindly, and said that he wanted to let them craftsmen return to work, start building big ships again, and said that they would be given money to start construction, so that their future days would be equal to settled, Liu Erbao was grateful to Xiao Tianjian, that was gratitude in his heart, not adulterated at all.

Many years later, because Liu Erbao was too old, when he retired from the Nanjing Shipyard in China as the technical director of the shipyard and went home to recuperate, he still sat at the door of his house every day, telling people about this incident back then, he was very proud, and at the same time envious of many people.