The Wuya warship has always been the largest main warship of the Sui Dynasty, each ship can accommodate 900 soldiers, and it was originally built and built by Yang Su in the Sichuan region. The battleship has a five-story structure, more than 100 feet high, and six shooting rods are set up on the left and right, front and rear, and 50 feet high. Each mast is topped with a boulder, and a roller is set underneath, so that during battle and when an enemy ship is approaching, you can quickly use the roller to lower the boulder and smash the enemy ship. In addition, the Sui army also had second-class Yellow Dragon ships, which could carry more than 100 soldiers, as well as warships with different functions such as Pingcheng and Gongmeng.

The Sui army attacked Chen, and the navy led by Yang Su sailed from Yong'an and went down the river out of the Three Gorges, which was unstoppable; In the decisive battle of Yanzhou, the Sui army attacked the enemy position with four Wuya warships, sank more than ten enemy ships with slap rods, and captured more than 2,000 enemies. As a result, the Chen army lost the courage of the Sui army in water warfare, until the final destruction of Nan Chen; Yang Guangdong's expedition to Goguryeo, the Wuya warship is still the main warship in the hands of Laihu'er, but I didn't expect that now the sailors have changed.

"Of course." Zhou Shaoji nodded and said: "Ten ships with Greek fire, fifteen ships with bed crossbows, and five five-tooth warships are the equipment of the first batch of warships." The Greek fire was the main ship of the warship, and Yang Xuangan defeated the Great Sui Navy Division with a group of rabble, and everyone will not forget it. ”

Zhou Shaoji didn't say anything more about what equipment he wanted from Yang Chong, and everyone understood that it must be something that needed to be kept secret; What Zhou Shaoji wanted was a compass, which was also discovered by Zhou Shaoji when he went back later, the kind of Sinan compass used for Kanyu, which was used by Yang Chong's own caravan to identify the direction in the Kunming Pool. The people of Mozhuang invited Zhou Shaoji to visit a subject, that is, how to determine the direction of the ship's navigation in a closed environment; Zhou Shaoji understood at that time that Mozhuang simulated the scene when there was no land in sight on the sea.

Yang Chong smiled bitterly and said to Zhou Shaoji: "We have only trained more than fifty people in total, I have already transferred twenty sets of equipment, forty people to Huating, they are practicing sea subjects, and you will add sixty novices trained by Li Junxian." ”

"Okay." Zhou Shaoji happily agreed: "Forty skilled hands are enough, now is not the time to fight." ”

Zhou Shaoji took advantage of the fact that people were not paying attention, walked to Yang Chong's side, toasted and apologized: "The sixth brother is stubborn, he only pays attention to the word righteousness since he was a child, and he kills himself in the river, and he hopes that the prince will not be strange." ”

"Hey, Shaoji, what are you talking about?" Yang Chong stopped and said: "Shao Fan is Li Yuan's son-in-law, Li Tang's general, although it is against the will of heaven, but he is loyal and filial, and he also died well, I just feel pity for him." I heard that Shao Kuang and Shao Cheng are interested in becoming a leader, you should enlighten a lot, don't have a knot. ”

Zhou Shaoji thanked: "Thank you Lord Wang, Shao Kuang, Shao Cheng and my second brother Shao Yi have already arrived in Huating, my second brother is interested in doing business, he said that the prince must have a big move on the beach, and he wants to learn something from the prince." ”

Yang Chong said with a smile: "I understand, to tell you the truth, I am preparing to produce salt, a total of ten salt fields, if you are interested, you can ask the Salt and Iron Division to give you a license to participate in the bidding, the family does not speak two words, I am confident that making sea salt will not be worse than doing it in Qinghai and Hedong." ”

Zhou Shaoji was overjoyed, drank another glass of wine and retreated; Duhu Hong, who was sitting next to Yang Chong, could only shake his head, in Dasui, at least a dozen people could fight Yang Chong, but when it came to business, Yang Chong was a real invincible general. Ten pieces of salt fields, the interior is actually divided, Jiang Fei has one piece for each of the four people, Lou Guandao, Duhu family, Hongnong Yang family, and Yuan family have secretly set a piece, give Zhou Shaoji a piece, and there is still a piece of salt field left.

Yang Chong was not worried, and after getting drunk overnight, he accompanied Duhu Hong to play in Jiangdu for two days before going all the way to Huating County; Yuan Wuji and Kou Jiuhui got the message from the fast horse, and they all arrived a day early. When he arrived at Huating, Yang Chong first looked at the shipyard and the wharf facilities along the coast in charge of Cui Hongdan, and was quite satisfied, after all, the East China Sea is not Hexi Guanzhong, and it is good to be able to do this.

Yang Chongshun said his consideration of the paddle wheel, the paddle wheel is installed on the side or stern of the boat with a paddle wheel, relying on manpower to step on the paddle wheel shaft, so that the paddle blades on the wheel circumference to move the hull forward, the lower half of the paddle wheel is immersed in water, the upper half is exposed to the water, which is different from the wooden boat with artificial oars and the sailboat pushed by the wind.

What Yang Chong said about the pulp ship was just an idea, but it was enough for Cui Hongdan, Cui Hongdan was in charge of the Kunming Chi Shipyard for a period of time, and his practical experience in these aspects far exceeded Yang Chong's, plus helping Zhang Bojian and Jiangdu Shipyard to transform weapons, Cui Hongdan was already very familiar with sea ships. As soon as Cui Hongdan heard Yang Chong talk about it, he had a rough plan in his heart, and immediately agreed to start the experiment.

Yang Chong remembered the size of the loach boats in the story of "Water Margin", so he said to Cui Hongdan: "You can build a smaller one first, or you can build a cargo ship first, and then build a large military ship when the technology is mature." It doesn't matter if it fails once or twice, there can be no casualties among key personnel. ”

Cui Hongdan smiled and said: "I understand, but you should still build a shipyard in Dengzhou, Yuan Hongzhao knows how to build ships, and his younger cousin Yuan Hongshan is more intelligent." ”

There are only a few shipbuilding masters in the Great Sui, and in this small circle in the industry, they all know very well that when Yuan Hongsi was building ships in Dengzhou, Yuan Hongshan was specifically responsible for technology, and Yuan Hongsi was just leading the army and blackmailing the people. However, Yuan Hongzhao was born as a concubine and had no status in the clan, so he relied on following Yang Chongcai to rise.

After Yuan Hongshan defected to Yang Chong, he has been very taken care of by Yang Chong, and Yang Chong heard what Cui Hongdan said, and immediately ordered Yuan Hongshan to be transferred to Dengzhou as the deputy supervisor of shipbuilding. No matter what happens in the end, Dengzhou still arranges his own people first, at least according to his own ideas, and can ensure that those students in the college will not be rejected.

Dengju is actually a complicated place, so far there is no county, only Wendeng and Hwangxian two counties, by the sea is Penglai City, the ancient city of Daren, Penglai City is the royal court, the ancient city of Daren is the place of shipbuilding, now the ships of Baekje and Silla are leaning on the ancient city of Daren. Yuan Hongshan went to Dengzhou, it is impossible to rely on a city to build a ship, the local government, army, and shipping all need to be coordinated, in a word, Yuan Hongshan's official position is small, and he may not be able to direct all aspects.

However, Yang Chong and Cui Hongdan are not worried, if the Yuan family can't even do this kind of thing, it will really decline; For Yang Chong, the big deal is to ask people to give people to people and officials to officials. Yang Chong's current mind is still on the Yantian auction in Huating, and Yang Chong has hosted a banquet to entertain the representatives of various families in the evening, and directly asked Yang Qu to start the auction of Yantian the next day.

(End of chapter)