The four people who came were very familiar with Rahman and Sada, especially Sada, who had already been to Fuzhou three times.

Therefore, after Li Zhi let everyone up, they automatically did it to the side of the two.

Li Zhi's words began from this, and he smiled and said: "Cai Dongjia, I know you, it is said that you have taken very good care of Rahman and Sada, so that they have not felt a little uncomfortable in their lives here due to religious reasons!" ”

Cai Zhenghao hurriedly replied: "Coming from afar is a guest, making us a tradition of the Min people, and they are still our important merchants!" ”

Li Zhi nodded, "This is true, but your local business atmosphere is not very strong." As far as I know, as early as the Han and Wei dynasties, there were already frequent traffic exchanges with the South China Sea, and the exchange of ships should have been prosperous. ”

"Mr. Hui, Guangzhou is the largest port in the southeast, because Quanzhou is closer to Guangzhou Port, so that our Fuzhou Port, which was developed earlier than Quanzhou Port, is gradually losing, and in recent years, it has become more and more scarce to berth here, and now the shipbuilding industry can barely make a living!"

"Fuzhou's shipbuilding industry is known as developed, and during the period of Sun Wu Yongan of the Three Kingdoms, he was a captain in Dongye, and the people who were the main migrants built here. It was through the introduction of Guangzhou Port that I came here to repair the ship, and I had another plan to discuss it with the Fuzhou Governor's Office! ”

Li Zhi has faced Huang Chengli to see if this person has development ambitions when he is in office, otherwise his plan is good, but if the magistrate does not sincerely cooperate, the effect will not be obvious.

Huang Chengli smiled and asked carefully, "Mr. Li, I wonder if I can guess in advance?" ”

This person knows in his heart that Li Zhi is about to take up the post of city envoy, and he will definitely make a drastic development and improvement plan.

If you take the initiative to bring it up, it will be more positive than Li Zhi saying it, otherwise this appointment will be considered a corpse vegetarian meal, and it will inevitably be kicked out of the game early, so as not to get in the way.

Li Zhi smiled slightly, waiting for elaboration.

Huang Chengli said: "Since Mr. Li passed through Quanzhou and did not enter, and came directly to Fuzhou City, he naturally put Quanzhou Port in the second place, otherwise the itinerary is cheap, and he will save a big circle in the future." In this way, the establishment of the first city envoy of our Datang Dynasty will definitely put Fuzhou Port into a commercial circle, so as to echo Guangzhou Port from afar, and completely open up the traffic arteries between the north and the south by sea. ”

"Oh? Huang Thorn Shi said the reason, why is it so determined? ”

"In the eyes of the imperial court, Fuzhou City is located near the sea and is deserted, and it can only be reached by wading through the mountains and the Baiyue Road. If there is a convenient sea post station between Guangzhou Port and Chang'an City, it will not only save the feudal guests from all over the world from the pain of detouring, but also make the traffic between the East China Sea and the South China Sea smooth, and then play a vital geographical advantage for monitoring and governing Yizhou! ”

"I want to unite Fuzhou Port with Quanzhou Port, Quanzhou Port is stronger than Fuzhou Port in domestic trade, and foreign trade will be slightly stronger than Fuzhou Port because of its geographical location, but Quanzhou Port is more famous, and the economy is more developed than Fuzhou, with a lot of foreign trade and domestic trade, and it is stronger than Fuzhou in terms of throughput! But Fuzhou also has advantages, deep-water harbors on the north and south flanks of the Minjiang River estuary, and shipbuilding. ”

"Of course we will raise our hands in favor, but what will Quanzhou think? Do you think that we have robbed them of their overseas vassals? ”

"The seven counties of the old Jiaozhi (now Vietnam) contributed to the transshipment, all from Dongye (Fuzhou), across the sea, this saying has existed for hundreds of years, why don't you say that Quanzhou stole your feudal guests? To build Fuzhou Port into one of the four major ports in the future is a far-sighted and oriented to the overall situation, how can it be affected by local emotions? ”

"Mr. Li, the envoy of the city really has this

Planning? ”

"Who dares to joke about Datang Sheji? What you said is true, the reason why I came here first is to investigate the determination of the Fuzhou Local Government Office in advance, if you still have the inherent idea of being content in a corner, the officials will come here to handle court affairs before the city envoys! ”

When Huang Chengli heard this, his hair stood up all over his body, but he knew that the emperor of the dynasty valued Li Zhi, otherwise he would not have handed over the establishment of the first city envoy of the Tang Dynasty to him.

Moreover, Li Zhi's first-class title is almost the existence of the top sky, and his words almost represent the original intention of the imperial court.

He knew the meaning of the ministry coming before the envoy of the city, and he dared to hesitate a little.

"As long as Mr. Li sends a message, and there is no need for Mr. Li to go to Quanzhou again, I will arrange all the contact matters properly and report the specific plan in the shortest possible time, so as to quickly respond to the various deployments of the imperial court!"

Huang Chengli had already stood up, resolute and resolute.

Li Zhihan nodded with a smile, "Since we have such a deep understanding, the city envoy will also work hard to reconcile the interests between Fu and Quan. At present, I initially plan to start with Fuzhou Shipyard to know why Zhengqing Wenqitang's customized ships did not choose Hongzhou or Yangzhou, where the shipbuilding industry is more developed. It is to let Fuzhou master the most advanced technology earlier. However, considering the local situation, the first research and development will be placed in Ezhou, and then you can go there to learn the most complete process and develop it in the shortest possible time. ”

After that, he turned to Cai Zhenghao and said: "But Zhengqing Wenqitang belongs to my private property, and it can't be used for personal gain!" I will provide you with the relevant shipbuilding process free of charge, but the first ship in price? ”

Cai Zhenghao got up and said urgently: "I have also talked about this matter with Mr. Rahman and Mr. Sada before, and the first one of each ship type will only charge the cost price. ”

Li Zhi nodded, and looked at Huang Chengli again: "I'll go to the shipyard with Cai Dong's family to find out, you will contact Quanzhou as soon as possible, and then send it to the Guangzhou city envoy, and I will discuss this matter with the two of you!" It is best for you to take into account all your ideas, form a specific implementation plan, if there are additions or subtractions, we will meet and discuss again! ”

In the history of Fuzhou Port, overseas transportation and trade developed rapidly, and Guangzhou and Yangzhou were both Arab, Persian and South China Sea merchants, one of the most important business and trade areas to China by sea, and also became the shipbuilding center of Fujian at that time.

The city of Fuzhou is bound to become a busy place for goods and trade with abundant goods, developed trade, prosperous market and noisy market, and is a developed area for overseas transportation and trade.

There will even be a large number of merchants, monks, envoys, tourists from Japan, Silla, Sriwijaya, India, Arabia, Persia and other places, that is, the so-called "people from the ten states of the market", temporarily or settled down for various reasons, so the Tang Dynasty government also set up a special post of "Dufan Chief" to manage them.

Because of the prophetic foresight of rebirth advantage, Li Zhi was already planning to give up going to Quanzhou, because he needed to test the attitude and ability of the Quanzhou magistrate.

Otherwise, no matter how meticulous the planning is, the people below will not actively cooperate, and it will be a waste of time.

If there is a strong local resistance in Quanzhou, he plans to give up there for the time being, and concentrate on the development of Fuzhou Port, and then Quanzhou will take the initiative to come to the door to ask for cooperation.

Fuzhou Shipyard is located in the Dongzhi Lane of Kaiyuan Temple, which is the Duwei camp of Wu Shi.

The raw materials for shipbuilding in the Tang Dynasty mainly relied on wood, because Fujian was rich in wood, so when Li Yixing came, he could see all kinds of square wood piled up in mountains from afar.

According to reports, Yangzhou, another shipbuilding resort, is not a timber production area, and shipbuilding timber mainly comes from Jiangxi, which is the biggest advantage of Fuzhou shipyard.

Wide river

The repair ship Shengjing Zero on the surface needs to turn a river bay to be seen, but Li Zhi's insight has already been clear a few miles away.

At this time, standing in front of the ship that is about ten feet high, you can still feel its grandeur.

The ladies were the most pleased, and without Li Zhi's nod, they climbed up the pontoon on their own, and Armin Sasher followed and guarded them.

Only Yu Ran stayed on the embankment, accompanied by Fu Chen to look around.

Li Zhi led Rahman, Sada and others to carefully inspect the connection between the skeleton and the plate of the hull.

Because the length of the timber is limited, shipbuilding requires many smaller and shorter timbers to be connected, and the connection between the hull and the superstructure is technically demanding, and the connection is not strong if the connection is not good.

So in the structural strength of that era, the connection was extremely important.

Fortunately, there are related processes brought by Rahman, Sada and others, and the connection method of Shengjing Zero is to use tenon joint combined with iron nails.

Iron nails are much stronger and more reliable than wooden nails and bamboo nails, although the Sui Dynasty has widely adopted this advanced method, but mostly rely on wooden nails and bamboo nails, and iron nails are extremely rare.

After getting on the ship, Li Zhicai felt that it had changed greatly from before, and it had been completely transformed into a semi-military ship.

There are three floors of buildings on the deck, and a half-height protective wall is set around each floor, and the first floor is surrounded by wooden planks to form a "battle grid", and there are a number of arrow holes and spear holes on the protective wall and the battle grid, which can attack from a distance and can be defended at close range.

There are also large spaces and passages around the deck building, which is convenient for soldiers to travel and even drive and ride horses.

The whole ship is not only taller and majestic in appearance, but also lined with spears and rolling stones, heavily guarded, suitable for attack and defense, and is already a water fortress that has begun to take shape.

Pang Qi shouted to Li Zhiyao at the highest place, and Li Zhi climbed high to watch, but it was because she liked the semi-open pavilion-style design there.

There are ten pavilions arranged on both sides of the wide flat plank, carved with Xiangluan flying birds, decorated with colorful and gorgeous scenery.

Apparently for the guests and relatives of the guests on board, the red carpet, red columns, and fine wood carved balustrades make the entire third floor quite luxurious.

In the pavilion, only the ground, actually spread white jade, embedded imitation gold beads, chiseled the ground for the lotus, the flowers become the appearance of a five-stemmed lotus, the petals are fresh and exquisite, even the stamens are delicate and recognizable.

Barefoot stepped on it and only felt warm, it was actually chiseled with Lantian warm jade, so poor and beautiful, Li Zhi was the first time to see it.

Without waiting for his brow to furrow, Rahman explained in a low voice:

"Mr. Li, this is my idea, the ten pavilions are all set up temporarily, just to make Mr. win the smile of the ladies. Didn't you say that you would take a boat and take the waterway when you returned from here? I also provided the materials here, and when the ladies got off the boat, the third floor would be dismantled and restored to its original state! ”

Li Zhi's face relaxed, and he said with a smile: "It's really difficult for you, but don't discard the dismantled ones, Zhengqing Wenqitang will specially build a passenger ship that is only used to travel to and from Guangzhou and Fuzhou, and it can be used in the future!" ”

After saying that, he looked back at Huang Chengli and the other four: "Zhengqing Wenqitang will hand you an order for at least three boats, and you will immediately send someone to Ezhou City, where someone will provide the craftsman with detailed craftsmanship and size drawings." ”

Huang Chengli and the others were overjoyed for a while, and Sada whispered to Li Zhi: "I have been here for half a month, and the level of relevant craftsmen is not to be said, but there is a lack of forging masters of special steel, and they must have craftsmen in this area to accompany them!" ”(https:)

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