Chao Gai said to Meng Kang: "Don't get in the way, you can install the big water wheel on the Fu boat according to your ideas, just one on each side." The sails are also installed as usual. ”

"The water wheel is powered by human power?" Zhu Wu asked.

Chao Gai said: "Recently, I have been working on a powerful machine, and the drawings have been drawn, but there has been no suitable craftsman to develop it. However, I recently found a descendant of Ma Jun in the late Han Dynasty overseas, called Ma Hua, who is the best at mechanical manufacturing, and I plan to let this person take the lead and mobilize carpenters and blacksmiths to develop this machine together. ”

"Can this machine have such a huge power to drive hundreds of thousands of catties of lucky ships?" Meng Kang asked.

"Yes, this machine is called a steam engine, and it uses the power generated by steam to propel a ship, and it has been proved that it is very feasible after repeated deductions." Chao Gai didn't keep it, and said it directly.

Meng Kang didn't know much about mechanical principles, so he just listened to it.

Meng Kang said: "Okay, as long as my brother can have a way to drive the big water wheels on both sides, I can install a water wheel on the Fu boat." ”

Meng Kang stayed in the shipyard until midnight before returning to the Tianya Inn, and Jiao Ting had already mobilized thirty sheepskin jackets and some cowhide boots, all of which were of the best breeds.

Chao Gai, Zhu Wu and others did not return to the barracks, Tianya Inn has a single room, and temporary accommodation is still very feasible.

Chao Gai was happy and didn't feel sleepy, and asked Zhu Wudao: "Mr. Zhu, are you sleepy?" ”

Zhu Wudao: "It's past the time of the child, and I'm too sleepy." ”

"Then let's stop two whole glasses and celebrate." Chao Gai said happily.

Zhu Wu smiled: "This Meng Kang is really so powerful, and my brother is so happy?" ”

Chao Gai said: "There are endless treasures in the ocean, countless islands, all kinds of fish, and so on. If you want to develop the oceans, you need ships. The establishment of Yuncheng Shipyard is very difficult, although it is claimed to be a scale of several hundred people, in fact, there are only a few dozen people who have experience in building large ships. The rest can only be regarded as apprentices or miscellaneous workers, and today they have recruited a master like Meng Kang who is as famous as Ye Chun, and there are thirty skilled craftsmen who can not be happy. ”

"Okay, I won't sleep anymore, let's sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman." Zhu Wudao.

In the middle of the night, the kitchen went to bed early, but it was hard to be scorched, there was cooked meat in the kitchen, and I just cut two plates of cooked food and made a jar of wine.

Chao Gai and Zhu Wu drank until the early hours of the morning, and then fell asleep groggyly.

Although there are countless craftsmen in the entire Great Song Dynasty, and there are many skilled craftsmen, most of them are in Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they all serve the official family. Being able to find Meng Kang has added chips to Chao Gai's ocean plan.

On the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the entire Yuncheng County was boiling, and the streets were full of people wearing new clothes, everyone met and hugged each other's fists to congratulate the upcoming New Year.

Although I slept late at night, Chao Gai still got up at dawn and boxed in the backyard. Meng Kang was in a hurry to urinate, and when he got up, he saw Chao Gai boxing, and said in surprise: "I have heard that my brother is in the town of Jingdong with Iron Fist, if it is true, this set of boxing methods can completely open a sect." ”

Chao Gai said with a smile: "Brother Meng Kang's boasting skills are also first-class, my boxing method can only be regarded as reasonable, and it is too early to say that the sect was established." ”

Meng Kang said: "My brother is humble. ”

"Brother Meng Kang, how come the shipyard arrangement has been made out of the New Year, why don't you take everyone back to live in the village with me?" Chao Gai said.

Meng Kang said: "It's good for me to look at the Tianya Inn, let's rest here for a few days, and when the weather is clear, we will rush home, and turn back after settling down." ”

Chao Gai said: "Okay, then you can live in peace, eat and drink are on my account, and I will arrange the shopkeeper in the store in a while." ”

Meng Kang was very grateful, and lived in the Tianya Inn with all the craftsmen, and the inn arranged carefully, wrapped dumplings, and made all kinds of food.

Zhu Wu drank a lot of wine in the middle of the night, and he didn't have Chao Gai's amount of alcohol, so he got up very late, and Chao Gai didn't wait for him, and went out on horseback with Jiao Ting.

Jiao Ting said, "Brother, it's Chinese New Year's Eve today, you don't want to go back to the village to rest." ”

"I'm going to see an elementary school."

Chao Gai and the others walked to a beautifully built school in the city, which said Salesian Primary School.

This school is different from the ordinary school, this is an adoptive primary school, which is dedicated to housing homeless children to go to school, and the children of the ordinary school go back early from the holidays, but they are all homeless people.

Because it was the Chinese New Year, the children did not go to class, and hundreds of people were playing and building snowmen on the playground one by one, all of them were happy. Wang Lun, who happened to be in charge of the county's school, also came, and when he saw Chao Gai, he said, "Chao Tuanlian has also come over." ”

Chao Gai said: "Other schools are on holiday, I'll come to see how the students here celebrate the New Year." ”

"Chao Tuanlian rest assured, I had already checked it when I came here a few days ago, and rice, noodles, vegetables, meat, and fish were prepared in the canteen. Make sure the children have steamed buns and dumplings to eat. ”

"Hehe, okay. Let's take a look. Chao Gai said.

The two came to the kitchen together, the chef in the kitchen was making noodles, and two middle-aged women were making celery. The kitchen master knew Wang Lun and knew that he was an official who was bigger than the principal, so he hurried over.

"Director Wang, you're here." The chef said. This director was not the director of later generations, because there was no official position in charge of education at the county level in the Great Song Dynasty, so Chao Gai naturally could not be set up indiscriminately. However, Wang Lun is in charge of education, and Chao Gai called him the Education Department, and he is naturally the director, of course, he is a bit nondescript.

"Yes, come and see, why are you three busy?" Wang Lun asked.

The chef said: "There is also Teacher Pang Qiuxia Pang, she will come over to give physical education lessons to the children in a while." ”

Chao Gai was also a little surprised, Pang Qiuxia was none other than Pang Wanchun's sister, Pang Qiuxia had good martial arts skills, and originally planned to join the female soldiers. It's just that Pang Wanchun is such a sister, worried about her sister's safety, Chao Gai arranged for Pang Qiuxia to be a physical education teacher, but she didn't expect to be so conscientious and conscientious, and she would come to give physical education classes to the children during the Chinese New Year.

Chao Gai went over to carefully inspect the food in the kitchen, looking at the flour, fish, etc., and found that it was still sufficient, but it was not very well stored.

Chao Gai said to Wang Lun: "Food piled on the ground is easy to be spoiled by rats, and a food storage system should be formulated to prevent children from eating food contaminated by rats and getting sick." ”

Wang Lun said: "Okay, I was negligent. ”

Chao Gai went to classrooms, dormitories and other places to wander around, and found that all aspects were okay, the conditions were better than ordinary private schools, and the children's overall mental outlook was also good.

"Wang Lun, after the New Year, these dozens of primary schools in Yuncheng have opened, and there are more things to manage, it may be very hard at first, you have to manage it well, children are the future." Chao Gai said earnestly.