"Lumberyards, sawmills, drying kilns, anchor mills, ship nail mills, sail mills, ship cable workshops and assembly rooms, etc., and then there are ...... such as assembly docks", Ke Ming was already speechless in surprise, he didn't expect that a shipyard would be broken down into more than a dozen workshops, and there were different people working in each workshop.

As soon as you hear it, you know it's incredible!

Ke Ming was still complaining at the beginning that he was uncomfortable living on the Wufeng Islands, the tent was low and cramped, and he couldn't even stretch his legs, and he had to be careful to be heard by others when he was with the widow Dunlun, but he didn't expect Zhen Qian to spend more than a month here to build a large shipyard .......

Zhen Qian said with high spirits: "In the future, warships and merchant ships of a thousand stones will be built here, and we will strive to build twenty ships within a year to establish a maritime trade route between the Tang Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom?" ”

"Twenty thousand-stone merchant ships, I'm afraid the largest maritime merchant in Datang doesn't have so many thousand-stone merchant ships! The total cargo capacity alone can enter the top 10 maritime merchants! Ke Ming was shocked.

"This is just my first step, and when large-scale shipbuilding begins here, I hope to build 200 thousand-stone merchant ships within three years, and monopolize all the maritime trade between the Wa Kingdom, the Silla Kingdom, and the Balhae Kingdom!"

Ke Ming couldn't help but be in awe when he heard Zhen Qian's grand goal, just thinking about the appearance of 200 merchant ships covering the harbor can make people's blood boil!

What a boldness it takes!

Of course, Ke Ming didn't know, this is still Zhen Qian's preliminary plan, there will be ten large docks on the island, each dock currently seems to be only a thousand stones, but the space set aside can be expanded into a 3,000 stone dock in the future, a dock builds ships according to the assembly line, one can be built in a month, and ten docks are one hundred and twenty ships a year, this is still said in the calculation of productivity and the proficiency of ship construction, once shipbuilding becomes a skilled worker, a dock will definitely not build only one ship a month.

At present, there are only brick houses on the shipyard on the Wufeng Islands, and especially considering the climate here, all the houses were built from the beginning with storms and weather taken into account, and the appearance of these houses is very sturdy.

"Oh my God! It's all brick houses? ”

Under the leadership of Zhen Jiu, Zhen Qian and Ke Ming came to the front of the three rows of bungalows, Ke Ming did not see tents, nor did he see grass huts, only these brick houses that looked very rough and sturdy on the outside.

Zhen Jiu smiled and said, "Hehe! Mr. Ke, are you a little surprised, these are all temporary residences, and the real houses have not yet been built? You will be surprised by the fact that after three months, a better house will be given to you! ”

Ke Ming didn't know what to say anymore, this was still a temporary residence, he wouldn't believe these words before, but after getting along with Zhen Qian for almost two months, he knew that Zhen Qian would not laugh about these things.

Now Ke Ming is the temporary person in charge of the shipyard, it's not that Zhen Qian doesn't want Ke Ming to be in charge of the shipyard, but Ke Ming is self-aware, and it is already reluctant to let him manage the shipyard, mainly because there is no best candidate around Zhen Qian now, otherwise Ke Ming would not agree.

Ke Ming took out his treasure, which was a few drawings of sea boats, drawn on lambskins, and he knew that it was some years old at a glance.

"Mulan boat drawings?"

This ship has nothing to do with Mulan, but is a giant ocean-going vessel made of a trunk called a magnolia. Such boats are quite large and can carry six or seven hundred people at a time.

The sturdy and resistant ships were known in both the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and even sailed in the Persian Gulf, but because of their large size, they had to rely on the ports of southern Iran in later years, and their cargo had to be exchanged for smaller boats to continue westward to the mouth of the Euphrates.

The data marked on the drawings is very detailed, this kind of ship was already very advanced in the Tang Dynasty, although the Mulan boat is far inferior to the treasure ships, Galen ships and other galleons of later generations, many maritime merchants still rely on such ships, and can sail all the way to the Persian Gulf.

Such a ship has already surprised Zhen Qian very much!

"This kind of giant boat is very troublesome to build, the largest Mulan boat is almost 2,000 stones, but unfortunately it is very rare now, if it can be built, it will definitely be able to sail thousands of miles away?"

Amazed! Zhen Qian carefully looked at the drawings of the Mulan Boat and found that the Mulan Boat was actually not that good, and the navigation technology did not exceed the limits of this era.

The navigation of this era was actually not the kind of navigation that Li Chao originally imagined directly from the southeast coast to the Persian Gulf. Rather, it is a segmented route, such as the Mulan boat from Guangzhou, which may only sail to Jiaozhou. The ship enters the port, the goods disembark, and then transfer to the ship of Jiaozhou Port to load the cargo to the south, sail to Linyi, change to Linyi's ship to Pearl Island, etc., such a relay voyage one by one, and finally arrive in Persia.

The owner and cargo have not changed, but the ship and the owner and crew have actually changed many batches.

Again, this is due to a number of technical limitations. For example, from Guangzhou to Persia, it is too far away, and few shipowners can fully grasp such a long route. And when a ship runs for a while, the route must be mastered in much detail.

Even most of the ships on the Yangtze River do not run the entire section of the Yangtze River, but are divided into downstream, midstream, and upstream sections, and many ships only run a fixed section.

In this way, of course, it is more familiar with the hydrological environment and safer!

Another reason is that the segmented shipping is also related to the local countries on the route. For example, in the Persian Gulf, it is safer and more reliable to use Arab ships.

Although the Mulan boat is very large, it also has many shortcomings, for example, there is no tail rudder, there is no watertight compartment, and it is also a hard sail, and secondly, the Mulan boat has no navigation compass, only a very simple compass, which is very inaccurate, so at sea, the requirements for experienced old captains are extremely high.

Without these experienced captains, even if there are nautical charts, it is useless.

In Zhen Qian's view, the seafaring trade in this era is simply joking with his own life. It was so insecure that these people dared to sail along the coast, which was full of reefs and turbulence, and it was impossible not to admire it.

Since Zhen Qian wants to build a ship, he must directly build the best ship, even if he explores for a while, there is no problem in building a smaller ship, what is needed must be the highest safety.

In this era, it was more time-consuming and laborious to train a ship's sailors than to train a ship's cavalry, and even if he built more ships by himself, it would be in vain to drive them without sailors, so Zhen Qian never relaxed the matter of training sailors from the beginning, and even prepared to open a navigation school on the Wufeng Islands to train experienced sailors.

At that time, there were countless ships and countless experienced sailors, and that was the beginning of the era of real navigation.

(End of chapter)