Donghae-gun, Haizhou, that is, the port of Lianyun in later generations.

A small city by the sea.

It is said to be a city, but in fact, it is a slightly larger village, with a hint of fishy smell in the humid air blowing in the face, and most of the people nearby make a living from fishing, so no matter where you go here, there is a fishy smell.

It is difficult for newcomers to adapt to the environment.

Every household here has dried dried fish, and then it is purchased by merchants or the government.

The advantage of this is that the people don't have to worry about no one buying the dried fish after they are done, and the disadvantage is that the government has to tax them according to these.

But it was not the miscellaneous taxes of the past, but a tax called the commercial tax, which only appeared with merchants.

The tax is the same as before, 30 taxes and 1.

For the people, this tax rate is actually not unacceptable.

After all, the fish is brought from the sea, in addition to the labor cost and a small amount of ship costs, the rest is the cost of buying salt, anyway, after a trip, after removing taxes, each catty of dried fish can earn about five yuan.

Nothing more, nothing less, but fishing is not about selling things, you have to sell them piece by piece.

Often a net is cast, and dozens of catties can be fished out, to say the least.

In addition, the coastal ecology has not been destroyed, and fishermen do not need to run too far to fish, if they are lucky, they can go back and forth three times a day, and catch thousands of catties of live fish back.

In recent years, dried fish has become the main economic source of these coastal areas in Donghai County, although Haizhou is still dilapidated, but it is undeniable that this remote small place has now surpassed many originally good counties, and the people's pockets have also bulged.

Even if you can't afford to buy a boat and can't go out to sea to fish by yourself, you can still work for others, or a few people pool money to buy a boat, although the income is less, but it is better to be stable.

But half a year ago, Haizhou, which was originally smooth sailing and the people's lives were getting better and better, ushered in a group of uninvited guests.

First the army was stationed, and then a huge pier was excavated, so large that it was hard to imagine.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of craftsmen arrived, and at the same time, some local craftsmen who could build ships or repair ships in Haizhou were also recruited.

Then, now, far away, you can see the huge ships towering high on the other side of the pier.

Wang Xuance lasted a month, and finally came to Haizhou from Chang'an, not caring about the fatigue of the journey, and not caring about taking a look at the dilapidated Haizhou City.

Wang Xuance went straight to the dock by the sea, saying that it was a dock, but it was actually a combination of a dock and a shipyard.

The people's small fishing boats can't dock here, and they don't need to dock, they can just find a place to stop.

But occasionally, a lot of fishing boats come here to repair.

"Those are all fishermen's fishing boats, since the imperial court decided to build ships here, the envoy has requisitioned almost all the shipbuilders in the surrounding area, so after the discussion of the Chen County Order, it was decided that the fishermen's boats needed to be repaired, and they could only go here." Shipbuilder Tang Song pointed to the small fishing boats not far away and explained.

Tang Song, the shipbuilding envoy, is a bit amazing, he is not an official, but because his ancestors are engaged in ship construction, he is quite experienced in this area, and he is also one of the most experienced in Datang, so he was appointed as a shipbuilding envoy and is only responsible for shipbuilding work in the shipyard.

Of course, Li Yuanji was also very uneasy to let a person who had never been an official be in charge of such a big mess all of a sudden.

So he transferred a capable man from the Ministry of Industry to serve as a deputy envoy, and also sent an overseer.

The Tang Dynasty had an advantage over other dynasties that it was a particularly thin-skinned person, a particularly serious sense of shame, and a comparatively more important place to its own reputation.

It's not that the Tang people are inferior to people from other dynasties, but in comparison, there were not many Tang Dynasty officials in this period, and most of the officials were working in a discreet manner.

And the Haizhou County Order is also like this, he doesn't have any thoughts, and he is old, so he has to retire after a few years, and there is no possibility of further progress.

The rise of the dried fish industry has given Haizhou a glimmer of vitality.

But with the advent of the shipyard and the arrival of the Overseers, the prefectural order here is on thin ice.

Although the Overseer only supervised the shipyard and had nothing to do with Haizhou County, he was also afraid that he had made some mistake here, and the Overseer would take him to a copy.

"Well, human life is no trivial matter, and the process of delaying a little is not tight, but it is not possible for the people to risk going to sea." Wang Xuance nodded, although it was not his job, he still expressed his affirmation.

He is the governor of the Tang Dynasty Naval Division, although he is still the commander of the light pole, but even so, the level is not half a star higher than Tang Song.

It is not easy to build a ship, a small boat is far easier to build than a large ship, and an inland ship is much easier than a sea ship.

Wang Xuance is not a person with a soft child, some things can be simply understood, or he can ignore them, but he will not have any slack in his duties.

"Tang Envoy, I wonder when these ships will be able to go to sea?" Within three sentences, Wang Xuance asked directly.

"It's a fast month, it's slow two or three months, but that's just a launch, you can really sail, it will take four or five months, but it's not sure, if the weather is good, maybe two months can sail." Tang Song sighed secretly in his heart, he had never been an official, and he didn't know what this sailor from the imperial court wanted to do, but he still responded seriously.

"Oh? How does it have to do with the weather? Wang Xuance was stunned, obviously he couldn't understand the relationship between building a boat and the weather? And can the weather directly affect the construction period of several months?

"The governor doesn't know, this sea ship and inland ship are not the same thing, and to put it more directly, that is, inland ships do not need to consider any wind and wave resistance, but sea ships must consider this, which is why once the inland ship enters the sea, the weather changes slightly and it is easy to capsize. After the ship is launched, it will have to be debugged several times, and if the weather is good, and if it cannot be tested even if this point cannot be tested, the ship will go out, and no one knows when it will capsize. Tang Song briefly talked about it, and didn't talk about professional things, because it was in vain, anyway, he just told him that if he didn't do this, the ship would easily capsize.

"There's a Lao Tang envoy!" Wang Xuance felt as if he had lost an adult, and he couldn't even figure out the boat, and he even became the governor of the sailor.

But fortunately, he, the governor, is actually such a type who seems to be literate and martial, in other words, Li Yuanji's positioning for himself is not to lead the soldiers to fight many battles, and he does not need to be personally responsible for these things.

The deputy governor is solely responsible for the war, how should it be fought? Who's going to fight? These are the things of the vice-governor.

All Wang Xuance needed to do was decide where he wanted to fight, then set a logical goal, and then hand it over to the deputy governor.

In fact, it is not much different from his previous cooperation with Su Dingfang in the Western Regions, but the difference is that this time, his status as a civil servant is higher than that of a military general.

"It doesn't matter, the governor is not from this line, and it is normal not to know about these things, just like the lower officials do not know about other things besides shipbuilding." Tang Song smiled and complimented, and he was relieved in his heart.

The order given above was to cooperate with Wang Xuance, and Tang Song was afraid that Wang Xuance would command indiscriminately after he came, which would affect the normal progress or bring some hidden dangers.

And if something goes wrong with these ships, you're going to be out of luck.

Wang Xuance's attitude reassured Tang Song a lot, although he felt a little strong, he was not such an unreasonable person.

"Tang Envoy, why don't you see Ning Dudu? Aren't they here? After looking around, after waiting for so long, he didn't see Tang Song mention where his deputy governor was, Wang Xuance said in a hurry.

Li Yuanji's army is naturally not those landlubbers in the inland, and the soldiers of the water division can't water, that's not good.

Especially those who grew up in the interior, some of them are born afraid of water, and such people can only drag people back when they come to the water master.

Therefore, these 5,000 troops have been recruited as early as half a year ago, led by Ning Kang to train here, and at the same time responsible for the safety of the shipyard.

The soldiers were all recruited from the coastal areas, and there was only one requirement, knowing water, and for children growing up on the seaside, almost everyone knew how to water, so the five thousand people were quickly recruited.

"The Governor of Ningdu is training two miles to the south, and the camp of the sailors is there." Tang Song stretched out his hand to guide the side, and was even more amazed.

This Wang Xuance came here without notifying anyone?

Anyway, he didn't receive the news in advance, or the shipyard guards came to inform him, and now it seems that Ning Kang doesn't know about it.

I don't understand, I really don't understand.

Shivered a few words, said some words of encouragement, and then asked Tang Song to send someone to take him to the sailor camp.

Because I have a huge ambition in my heart, and I have never seen the sea before, I don't know what the situation on the sea is like at all, although I have been working hard along the way, but the result is not visible, no one knows what the sea is like?

Therefore, Wang Xuance wanted to go to the camp as soon as possible, at least to figure out some things about the sea as soon as possible.

As for how to train these soldiers not to get seasick, Wang Xuance could only express that he was confused, but the basic ideas were still there.

First ask Ning Kang and the soldiers if there is any good way, if there is no answer, then visit the surrounding fishermen, they go to sea a lot, naturally there is a way to deal with it.

The shipyard is located on the north side of a protrusion, and the camp is chosen to the south of the protrusion, although they can't see each other, but in fact the distance is really not far, plus this area is a camp, the north side is close to the shipyard side, is the craftsman's dormitory, and on the other side, only a wooden fence separates, is the camp of the sailor.

A few people rode horses, and in less than half a cup of tea, they came to the other side.

Someone led the way, and it was naturally unimpeded, but when he came to the beach and saw the soldiers who were training, Wang Xuance was confused......