Yuan Yun looked at the shipyard in front of him, his face was full of surprise, he had only heard Xu Yi say that the scale was very large, but he didn't expect it to be so big.

A coast for several miles is almost surrounded, and on the docks of a dozen ship bridges, there are neatly arranged large ships being built, among which there are as many busy craftsmen as ants, and they need to maintain such a large shipyard, and they don't know how much money Diao Chan will invest.

Diao Chan looked at Yuan Yun's face with surprise, and instantly felt a little proud in his heart, he was always surprised by Yuan Yun and couldn't speak, but now it can be regarded as a small revenge.

"Brother Yun said before, it may not be easy for the Wang clan to develop on land, no matter what force will let us grow, but it is different at sea, and everyone really does not pay attention to things on the water, so I am determined to develop the strength on the water, which is why we have such a scale."

Speaking of this, Diao Chan paused slightly, and then sorted out the hair that was blown by the sea breeze, and then continued: "Almost all of the money and food that the Wang family earns now is invested in these shipyards, but after opening up the shipping lanes of South Vietnam, I can really sleep peacefully, there is really a huge treasure trove over there, and some of the precious wood we are missing, but there are countless over there, and these are thanks to Brother Yun's foresight." ”

Yuan Yun was a little embarrassed in an instant, he was going to dump the matter on the South Vietnamese side, but in fact, he was really just holding the mentality of taking advantage, but he didn't expect that just by giving a plan, the Wang family would make it so huge.

Thinking of this, Yuan Yun was shocked again, since the Wang family had earned so much, wouldn't her own caravan be even more exaggerated, but these things were handed over to Liu Yiyi to take care of, but she didn't say a word.

Looking at the scale of Wang's shipyard, the Yuan family's gains can probably be estimated, and they must be fat, Liu Yiyi deliberately concealed it, but he didn't want him Yuan Yun to take the money and grain he earned to supplement Luoyang, this stingy mother-in-law, she must clean up well when she goes back.

"The Sun family has now won the battle of Jiangxia, almost all the assets there have been swept away, and the number of households has been forcibly relocated to hundreds of thousands, and now Yangzhou is very rich, and those soldiers who surrendered have been forcibly incorporated into Stone Town, which is the largest shipyard of the Sun family." After Diao Chan finished saying this, he looked at Yuan Yun strangely, because his junior brother seemed to be a little absent-minded.

Yuan Yun shook his head embarrassedly, and threw Liu Yiyi's demeanor out of his head, and then answered: "No wonder the Sun family is building ships so fast now, it turns out that they have received a lot of free labor, but this population is large, how did they solve their food problem?" ”

Diao Chan immediately replied: "Sun Ce followed Zhou Yu's advice, changed his previous strategy of conquest, and instead cooperated with the local clans, allowing them to keep their lands and provide strong military protection, so that those local clans would no longer be harmed by the mountains.

In such an environment, those clans are just paying grain taxes, which is not the same thing at all for the high-yield grain in the south.

Now the Sun family not only does not lack food, but also sells all the food that cannot be eaten, and now the Beihai and Xuzhou wharves are loaded with all kinds of grains, and the Sun family has gained a lot of benefits for this, so as to ensure the continuous operation of their shipyard.

Now the Sun family's general is getting bigger and bigger, and the number is also increasing, such as the Ship Chong Fighting Ship, the Lou Ship, the Feiyun, the Gaihai, the Red Dragon, the Chima, the Chang'an, the Big Boat, the Zhoubian, the Qinglong Battleship, and the Chenjia, just by listening to these names, you know that they have so many ship models, and they are already the biggest threat to our Wang family. ”

Yuan Yun felt a headache when he listened to Diao Chan's introduction, the Sun family was indeed the strongest in the waterway during the Three Kingdoms period, and there was no one, so it was not surprising that they had so many types of warships.

"Does the Sun family have a warship equipped with long-range weapons?" Yuan Yun asked a question of concern.

Diao Chan thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Although they have also learned that we have installed crossbow arrows on the deck, they are not as good as those ballistae sent by Brother Yun in terms of range and power, so they still focus on ramming and boarding the ship in close combat. ”

Yuan Yun's heart is a little wider, as long as there is no powerful long-range weapon, then the Sun family's warships are not enough, although there are few warships in the palace now, but each ship is equipped with a ballista that can fire gunpowder shells, and even a trebuchet that can throw gasoline bombs.

"The artillery will soon be transported from Luoyang, and when the time comes, as long as the senior sister's warship is equipped with such sharp weapons, the wooden ships of the Sun family will just be targets." After Yuan Yun finished explaining this, he pointed to the shipyard and continued: "Let's go and discuss with those shipwrights, I'm afraid that the warships to be built next will be adjusted very much, and I will always feel uneasy if I don't explain it clearly in person." ”

Diao Chan nodded immediately when she heard this, and then ordered her subordinates to hurry up and inform the boatwright, and she herself stepped onto the frame, and then turned back and smiled at Yuan Yunyan leisurely.

This smile made Yuan Yun's heart beat, and he kept secretly exclaiming in his heart, no wonder Diao Chan's name would circulate for so long, it was really this woman who was simply a gift from God, whether it was a smile or a move, it was so pleasing to the eye and dizzying.

After Yuan Yun sat in the carriage, Diao Chan casually sent a blanket, and then smiled: "The cold winter will come in two months, and many of the rivers on the other side of the river will be closed, and I don't know what artillery sent by Luoyang can catch up?" ”

Yuan Yun immediately smiled and said: "Naturally, it's just in time, I just released the news yesterday, let them hurry, I think it will not be delayed." ”

"The news was only released yesterday? Even if it takes more than half a month to walk by water, where is it too late to come and go, Brother Yun has miscalculated the time? After Diao Chan asked, his face was confused.

Yuan Yun then remembered that the carrier pigeon he had just made had not yet informed Diao Chan, so he told the many benefits of carrier pigeons in detail, and only listened to Diao Chan in amazement.

"I've only heard of Hongyan's biography before, and I feel very surprised, Brother Yun's is even more magical than Su Wu's Hongyan biography." When Diao Chan spoke, his face was full of innocent smiles, which made Yuan Yun really have the illusion that he didn't dare to look directly.

After a long time, Yuan Yuncai smiled and said: "Even if the Hongyan book is true, it is just a kind of luck, and there will be no privacy in using the Hongyan to pass the documents, but my carrier pigeon is different, it will only fly back to the owner who raised it, so it is the safest and fastest to use it to transmit information." ”

"This kind of carrier pigeon also prepares some for the palace, every time I write to Brother Yun, I always have to wait for ten days and a half months, so it is really delaying things, and it is much more convenient to have carrier pigeons in the future." After learning about the benefits of carrier pigeons, Diao Chan immediately began to ask Yuan Yun for it.

Yuan Yun smiled slightly, nodded and said: "This time I brought a retinue specializing in raising carrier pigeons, with them naturally soon the palace will master this technology, in the future our letters have carrier pigeons, it will be faster and safer, if there is anything secret, even if the carrier pigeon is sent to me." ”

After Yuan Yun finished speaking, he was suddenly stunned, no matter how this sentence sounded, it was a big language problem, and when it came to the word 'secret', it always felt like it was alluding to the private relationship between men and women, and it sounded very ambiguous.

Looking back, he suddenly found that Diao Chan actually blushed a little, but it was fleeting, Yuan Yun only thought that he was wrong, but he didn't dare to stare at it anymore.

After a short time, the frame finally drove into the shipyard, where the craftsmen had cleaned up a large room, and Yuan Yun found that it was supposed to be a drawing room, with a large square table in the middle of the room, and a large number of bookcases around the walls, on which many rolled-up drawings were piled up.

Approaching and opening a few bamboo tubes where the drawings were stored, Yuan Yun was suddenly happy, these were all drawn by himself before, and then the craftsmen here began to gradually decompose, because they had seen too much, they had finally learned this way of drawing three views.

Uncle Wang is the one who manages the shipyard, and he never dares to hand over such a crucial matter to others, so introducing the environment here has also become his current task.

Soon, Yuan Yun unfolded his design on that big wooden table, which was the largest and best warship currently designed, and the Dingyuan was completed with this design, the only disadvantage was that the weapons were ballistas and trebuchets.

After slightly modifying the drawings, Yuan Yun beckoned Uncle Wang, and then prepared to start explaining.

It's just that Uncle Wang was stunned at first, and then smiled bitterly in an instant: "Yuan waits slowly, wait for the old man to call an old shipwright, the old man really can't understand these drawings of yours." ”

After speaking, Uncle Wang walked out of this house, Yuan Yun could only sit down and wait, if he did not explain the changes just now, even if the artillery was installed, it would be of little use, the main reason is that the output of artillery is really not in batches, so it is impossible to equip ships on a large scale, like the warships of medieval Europe, it is impossible to pile up artillery on both sides of the hull.

In order to be able to play a greater role in the artillery, it was necessary to add a turret that could be rotated, so that the muzzle of the gun could face more directions, so that the hull of the ship did not have to be turned around all the time.

When Yuan Yun was still working on the design on the drawings, Uncle Wang had already returned, but his face was full of unhappiness, and he didn't know what bad luck he had encountered.

Yuan Yun glanced at his uncle, then looked out the window, and found that an hour had passed, what kind of craftsman was so difficult to invite?

Without waiting for Yuan Yun to ask, I saw Uncle Wang smile helplessly, and then arched his hand and said: "Mr. Gongyi is very angry, because Yuan Hou originally said that he would arrive in the morning, but he didn't expect to show up until the afternoon, so Mr. Gongyi took his children and nephews to lunch, saying that he would come back in the afternoon." ”

Yuan Yun was stunned, this shipwright is really not an ordinary arrogance, if someone else hears the name of his marquis, even if he doesn't eat for a few days, he has to stay here honestly, this duke is a hard bone.

Wait, public lose?

This surname is not ordinary, it won't be a descendant of Lu Ban, although the world thinks that Lu Ban's surname is Lu, in fact, this legendary master is surnamed Ji Gongyi, and his descendants directly used Gongyi as a surname.

"The promise has not been done, it is indeed Ben Hou's should not be, or good, then Ben Hou just sat here and waited for a while." Yuan Yun smiled heartily after speaking, and began to look forward to it in his heart, eager to see what Lu Ban's descendants looked like.