The only thing that is different from his sloppy appearance is his eyes, Cao Jian's eyes are clear, and he seems to always have a kind of expectation.

Li Zicheng's heart moved, thinking of Einstein's messy and gray hair in the middle school English textbooks of later generations, as well as the famous mathematician Chen Jingrun, could it be that Cao Jian also saw these textbooks and deliberately posed this kind of "poss" to attract his own attention?

Impossible, he couldn't see these characters, Einstein and Chen Jingrun, they were still far from being born!

Could it be that he studied warships to the point of forgetting to sleep and eat? Or is there a lack of manpower to take care of life?

It just so happened that Zhou Kun, accompanied by his personal guards, hurried over, "Subordinate Zhou Kun, see the Metropolitan Governor!" ”

Li Zicheng jumped off the war horse, handed the reins of the horse to his own soldiers, and smiled, "Zhou Kun doesn't need to be polite, get up!" ”

He swept his eyes and saw the two of them standing respectfully in front of him like elementary school students, pointed forward with his hand, and said, "Zhou Kun, yes, this has become a village!" ”

"Back to the Grand Governor, this is the barracks of the brothers, and the brothers live here when the sea freezes in winter, or when they don't go to sea, and the brothers of the fishing team also make this their home!"

"And Cao Jian," Li Zicheng said with a smile: "Since you all take this as your home, let's call it Sanhe Town, and if you move in some people in the future, it will be a really lively town." ”

Zhou Kun reacted very quickly, and hurriedly bowed and saluted, "Thank you for the name!" ”

Li Zicheng asked about the training of the naval army, and knew that the sergeants had practiced all kinds of tactics very skillfully, so he said: "Zhou Kun, these days, you can ensure the quality of the training without any opponents, which is very rare, from now on, you will be promoted to a thousand households of the navy, and the navy will be expanded to five hundred!" ”

"Ah...... Thank you, Governor! Zhou Kun bowed to the ground again, he drilled the navy, he has always had no opponent to refer to, he can only train alone in the West Sea, but he didn't expect that as soon as the governor came, he was promoted to his position, and he also carried out a large-scale expansion of the army.

The Metropolitan Governor has not forgotten this naval army in the West Sea......

"Haha, get up!" Li Zicheng said with a smile: "This new soldier must step up training, and don't relax your requirements for yourself just because there is no opponent in the West Sea, you must know that raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while ......"

"Thank you, subordinates, for the teachings of the Metropolitan Governor!" After Zhou Kun got up, he stared at Li Zicheng, "Metropolitan Governor, are you going to fight?" ”

"War? The navy has not yet expanded, can such a soldier still fight? Li Zicheng patted Zhou Kun on the shoulder, "First step up the drills, there is always a time for war, and contact Haibei and Hainan on weekdays, once there is an enemy situation, the navy can rush to reinforcements." ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!" Hearing that it was still training, Zhou Kun was slightly disappointed in his eyes.

Li Zicheng felt that the current navy, even if it has warships, if there are no rifles and artillery, it still belongs to the old-style navy, and can only scare and scare the nomads.

"When I return to Xining, I will tell the Firearms Bureau that as long as the conditions permit, I will equip you with some rifles, and in addition, I will develop large artillery specifically for warships, and the Xihai Army...... Ao, now renamed the Qinghai Naval Army, will be a modern naval army with advanced equipment, more powerful than the imperial court's naval divisions......"

"A modern troll?" Zhou Kun's eyes were bright at first, but they were extinguished in an instant, "Dadu Governor, no matter how powerful the Qinghai Navy is, it is impossible to meet the sailors of the imperial court......"

"It is true that it is impossible for the sailors of the imperial court to come to the West Sea, and the Qinghai Navy will not rush to Denglai and Jinxia, but," Li Zicheng said leisurely: "We are mainly training soldiers now, as long as the conditions are met, the warships cannot leave Qinghai, but the soldiers can ......."

"Ah......" Zhou Kun was taken aback, and nodded vigorously, "The subordinates understand, the Metropolitan Governor can rest assured, the subordinates will strictly require the soldiers to ......"

"It's good to know," Li Zicheng gradually walked towards Sanhe Town with Zhou Kun's pace, "Zhou Kun, the navy is different from the infantry, it takes a lot of time to train and train, it is extremely difficult to become an army, and the elimination rate will be very high!" ”

"The Governor said yes, and his subordinates knew."

Unconsciously, I have come to Sanhe Town, and now Sanhe Town is just a prototype, basically there are no ordinary people to settle in, the houses are all earthen walls and thatched houses, but the implementation is militarized management, even the fishing team is the identity of auxiliary soldiers, and the houses are extremely neat.

On both sides of the estuary, the west side is the fishing team station, and the east side is the barracks of the sailors.

Zhou Kun had already prepared a boat, carrying Li Zicheng and his soldiers across the Daochuan River and coming to the east bank, although the thatched hut was a little messy, but there was no strong fishy smell.

Li Zicheng did not enter Zhou Kun's barracks, but under the leadership of Zhou Kun, he entered the thatched hut where Cao Jian lived, he wanted to see on the spot, what Cao Jian did on weekdays, and entrusted him with such an important task of designing battleships, so as not to let down his painstaking efforts.

It was a three-room thatched hut with earthen walls, and the thatch on the roof had dried up, with several obvious depressions, and I don't know if it was leaking.

Li Zicheng frowned slightly, just walked to the gate, smelled a faint fishy smell, and was about to speak, but saw a few young people walking out of the room, saw Li Zicheng, turned over and bowed, "The grass people knock on the governor!" ”

"They are ......" Li Zicheng pointed at these people and looked at Cao Jian.

"Back to the Metropolitan Governor, they are all subordinates of the grass people, assisting the grass people in researching the warship," Cao Jian said: "Originally, there were still some production workers, but the warship was temporarily suspended, and the workers went back......"

"Ao," Li Zicheng lowered his head and counted carefully, there were five people in total, "Get up, don't be polite, you guys are busy with yours!" ”

"Thank you, Governor!" The men got up and went back to the back room.

Cao Jian took the wooden bench and wiped it carefully with his sleeve, "The Metropolitan Governor, the cold house is shabby, so I can only settle for it......"

Li Zicheng glanced at it, except for a few wooden stools and a half-new large square table, the hall seemed empty, he sat down on the wooden stool, and said, "Cao Jian, how has the battleship improved during this time?" Is there any progress? ”

"Dadu Governor, his subordinates have made some modifications according to the actual situation of the battleship," Cao Jian ran into the inner room on the other side, and after a while, he took out a large pile of blank paper, "Dadu Governor, this is the improvement blueprint of his subordinates, because there is no new warship for the time being, so it can only be left on the drawing......"

Li Zicheng asked Cao Jian to see these drawings on the square table, got up and flipped through a few, the white paper was all the battleship compositions designed with a brush, each drawing was marked with a size, and suddenly a little big, these drawings, he couldn't understand them at all, so he said: "Cao Jian, there are too many drawings, I can't finish reading them for a while, you just talk about it briefly orally!" ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!" Speaking of battleships, Cao Jian's eyes became brighter and more focused, "...... The subordinates basically understood the principle of the Xining battleship, and the goal of improvement was to increase the speed and increase the load of the battleship......"

Li Zicheng interjected: "How did you increase the speed of the battleship?" ”

"Mast and sail," Cao Jian said: "The grass people changed the three-masted sail to a four-masted four-corner sail, which not only increased the speed of the battleship, but also increased the maneuverability of the battleship, and the current Xining battleship has been changed......

Li Zicheng looked at Zhou Kun, Zhou Kun nodded hurriedly: "Governor, Cao Jian is not bad, after the Xining modified the four-masted quadrangular sail, although the quadrangular sail is smaller than the original fence sail, the number has increased, with the help of the wind, the speed has increased, because the quadrangular sail is smaller than the fence sail, and it is more convenient to control, that is, to turn, the angle required is also smaller than the original......

Li Zicheng nodded, it seems that these days, Cao Jian has worked the battleship, his sloppy appearance, is there no time to clean up?

However, this is just a simple improvement, the Xining is already a battleship eliminated by Westerners, the starting point is too low, no matter how it is improved, it will not reach the level of the latest Western warship, the key is to create, greatly increase the hull.

"Cao Jian, just now you said that you want to increase the load of the battleship - it should be called displacement, what is the way?"

"This is a little difficult," Cao Jian took out three from the drawings, unfolded them and put them in front of Li Zicheng, "Dadu Dudu, in addition to increasing the length and thickness of the keel, the key is good materials, the grass people have been looking for many days in the mountains and mountains, there are very few big trees suitable for building ships, and the hardness of the keel is difficult to guarantee...... During this time, the subordinates only accumulated timber and carried out technical improvements, because there were no ships, and the subordinates could not determine the quality of the battleships......"

There are so many mountains in Xining and Longyou, can't they find suitable trees, so if the Dutch get a lot of qualified materials? It's a big deal to increase the manpower and go to the dense forest to find it according to Cao Jian's requirements.

Cao Jian has a point, if you don't build a ship, no matter how good the design is, you can only stay on a blank sheet of paper, and you will never know the actual effect!

It happened that the Qinghai Navy was expanding its army, and the original warships were definitely not enough, so he said: "Cao Jian, build another Xining-class warship, and a larger warship, as big as possible, not afraid of poor quality, only when it is used, can problems be found and improved in ......the future."

Battleships cannot forever dominate in a closed sea area like Qinghai, they must go to the real sea, and now is the experimental stage, allowing mistakes to be made Once they reach the real sea, if they make mistakes again, it will be the destruction of the ship and the death of people......

"Yes, Grand Duke!" Cao Jian was overjoyed, and his craftsmanship had a place to use again, "grass people will be ...... tomorrow No, the grass people will gather their men today and start building battleships......"

"Okay, good," Li Zicheng likes Cao Jian's temperament of doing what he says, although he has passed the age of standing, he still has a tiger spirit like a young man, and such a character will maintain a strong desire to create, "Cao Jian, building a battleship is not feasible by one person, what technology there is, there is no need to hide it, everyone can discuss it together, in order to promote the progress of technology!" ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!" Cao Jian was originally not ready to share the technology he had obtained so hard, but the Metropolitan Governor said it, how could he dare to disobey?

"Also," Li Zicheng pointed to Cao Jian's tattered jacket and unwashed face, and said with a smile: "Cao Jian, no matter how busy you are, you should wash your face, right?" ”

"The grass people made a big mistake...... But not only did the Governor not punish him, but he also trusted the grass people so much...... "Cao Jian's eyes instantly became dull, and he was the same as the two of them just now, "The only wish of the grass people is to seize the day and build warships for the Governor of the Metropolis......"

"This is all in the past, and I will not mention it again in the future," Li Zicheng laughed, "Cao Jian has reached the point of forgetting to sleep and eat for the sake of the battleship, and we can't treat it badly, the Heavenly Mandate Army has always been rewarded for meritorious service!" ”

"Grass Folk ......"

Li Zicheng stretched out his hand to stop, but said to Zhou Kun: "This house will be used as a temporary research place, and a living room of no less than three rooms will be arranged for Cao Jian nearby, and Cao Jian doesn't have an aunt now, right?" Everything falls on you, immediately find a mother-in-law for Cao Jian to take care of the diet and daily life! ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!" Zhou Kun hurriedly agreed.

Cao Jian said: "Governor Dadu, the grass people plan to use the rest of their lives on battleships, and my aunt will not need ......."

Li Zicheng walked over and patted him on the shoulder, "Cao Jian, if you take good care of your body, you can build more warships for the governor of Pontus, and," he said to He Xiaomi: "When you arrive in Xining, buy a batch of pencils from the market and send them over for drawing, if Xining doesn't have them, then go to Lanzhou to buy them!" ”

"Yes, Grand Governor, keep in mind your subordinates!"

Cao Jian's eyes were already moist, and he couldn't say a word, so he had to wipe his tears and say, "The Governor of the Metropolitan ......"