After the shipowner came over, he learned that Jiang Sheng was Qingzhou Mu, so he quickly knelt on the ground and said in fear: "The little one has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, please forgive me!" ”

Jiang Sheng said: "The boat family doesn't have to be polite, I'm here to take a look, get up quickly!" ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to help the shipowner up, and the shipowner was flattered and hurriedly stood up and saluted. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Jiang Sheng asked, "Is this ship your own?" ”

The shipowner said, "Although this ship is a small building, it is built for adults. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Jiang Shengqi said.

"The state pastoral government issued a notice to mobilize the people to build a big boat, and we knew that adults were of great use, so we organized the villagers to build this ship, and it has been built for more than half a year."

"Although I intend to build a big boat, I must first ensure that the people use it for fishing, and then consider building a big boat.

"We entrusted the Hongfu of the adults, and we all got the land, and you made us live a good life, and now every family has surplus grain, and the wood cut down when the wasteland is hoarded a lot, we are thinking about serving the adults, and we don't talk about any expenses."

"Well, if the problem of food and clothing is solved, you can support the construction of Qingzhou, so let's do it, the state pastoral government orders your ship, and after the construction is completed, you can report to the government and receive payment."

Chen Jidao: "Boat family, I am the Taishou of Donglai County, and I will report to Huang County after the ship is built." ”

The shipowner said happily: "My lord loves the people like sons, which is really a blessing to our people!" ”

Jiang Sheng said: "Chen Ji, the shipbuilding base has not yet been built, so what about you, send soldiers to guard here to prevent suspicious people from spying on intelligence." ”

"No!"

"Boatman, this ship has a lot to improve."

"Your Excellency, please command."

"It's not enough to use only wood in the cabin, if you go to the sea, encounter strong winds and waves or reefs, the wooden cabin will easily break, I can have someone send some iron plates over, you wrap the cabin with iron plates, then it will be foolproof."

"Adults don't know, the wood is light, so that the boat can float in the water, if you add iron, I'm afraid it will sink."

"Haha, don't worry, such a big ship, it won't sink if it is changed to an iron cabin, but the iron plate must be thin, and ah, don't use this kind of oars in the bottom cabin, use propellers, and don't put anything else, ensure the space inside, and you can build a rudder tower with mahogany boards."

"Propellers?" The boatman was very unfamiliar with this time.

Jiang Sheng briefly drew a sketch of the propeller on the ground with a tree branch, and then explained the working principle of the propeller.

The boatman felt incredible when he heard that a propeller could drive such a large ship, but when he saw Jiang Sheng's serious appearance, he was convinced, and Jiang Sheng drew a sketch of the ship on the ground.

The boatman looked at it carefully, and listened to Jiang Sheng's explanation very carefully, Jiang Sheng had seen the appearance of medium and large fishing boats before crossing, and made a detailed explanation with his memory, and the boatman couldn't stop nodding, basically understanding Jiang Sheng's explanation.

Jiang Sheng said again: "What I am talking about is only the general appearance of the ship, as for the stable balance and other parts of the ship, I don't know much about it, and you need to explore it in the test." You can stop building a big ship and try to build a small boat until you understand the principle before building a big ship. ”

Jiang Sheng relied on the gear structure recorded in the "Taiping Yaoshu" to conceive the power system of the ship, in the power of the ship to the stern propeller is the main, the sail is the auxiliary, with the help of gears, the human drive propeller is more labor-saving, and the rudder is also directly connected to the operation panel of the helm tower through gears and connecting rods.

The boatman admired Jiang Sheng's explanation very much, and said: "The whimsy of adults is really great wisdom, with many years of experience, the boat built in this way will be able to sail far." The little ones will go back and think about it, and build a small boat first. It's just that these gears and propellers are not easy to build. ”

"You can try to make it of wood first, the ship doesn't need to be big, just make all the structural parts, and after the test is successful, I will arrange for the smelting workshop to make these parts, the bottom compartment of the ship will be made of iron as much as possible, and the deck and rudder can be made of fine wood."

After Jiang Sheng explained all this, it was getting late, so Chen Ji led Jiang Sheng back to Muping County to rest.

Xun You was also like the boatman, and wrote down Jiang Sheng's idea in detail, and the saying that iron can also float on the water gave Xun You a bold idea, that is, an ironclad ship!

In fact, the Chinese people are extremely smart, but they can't think of some things due to the limitations of the times, and now Jiang Sheng, a traverser, mentioned it, Xun You immediately had an idea, this is the power of science and technology.

Jiang Sheng rested in Muping for the night, and the next morning he continued to ride horses with Xun You, walking along the coastal areas of Donglai County, and everywhere he went, he went to visit the old fishermen to understand the hydrological data of the ocean, and after nearly two months of travel, Jiang Sheng returned to Linzi.

Xun Yu accompanied the whole process, and also had a general idea of the location of the shipbuilding base, and the next step was the study of the ship's drawings and the manufacture of the test ship.

During this time, Xun You pestered Jiang Sheng every day, he could see that Jiang Sheng had a lot of ideas about shipbuilding, and they were all things that ordinary people didn't dare to think, so he wanted to be lazy and let Jiang Sheng say his thoughts, and then he was specifically studying the details, Zhang Shu, who built Linzi New Town, also became a frequent visitor to Xun You's mansion, shipbuilding is inseparable from machinery and carpentry, and Zhang Shu happens to be good at machinery and civil engineering.

In order to implement Jiang Sheng's secrecy requirements, Chen Ji transferred 1,000 people from the Donglai County City Defense Army to Muping, and built a camp on the periphery of the shipbuilding site, he originally thought that Jiang Sheng was going to build a ship base here, but Jiang Sheng felt that the water here was shallow and could not build a larger ship, so he gave up.

Bohai County in Jizhou originally had a shipbuilding workshop, but it could only build small fishing boats, Xun Yu heard that Qingzhou vigorously developed fishing, and also wanted to make a name for himself in this regard, but Jiang Sheng did not give him the drawings, so the boat built was limited to fishing, and it was difficult to turn it into a military.

Jiang Sheng saw a good harbor in the coastal area of Qingzhou and placed the shipbuilding industry in Qingzhou, while Jizhou mainly developed agriculture and iron smelting to provide backup for the construction of Qingzhou.

Jiang Sheng said to the outside world that he wanted the people to eat fish and improve their lives, but Xi Zhicai had already seen Jiang Sheng's purpose, Liaodong Gongsun Du's troops were gathered in the west to defend against Jiang Sheng's eastward advance, and the coastal areas in the rear did not have any defense, Jiang Sheng built a big ship probably planned to attack Gongsun Du from the sea.

In the casual chat with Jiang Sheng, Xi Zhicai said his judgment, Jiang Sheng greatly appreciated, but Xi Zhicai thought that this matter was very important, and it must not attract the attention of Gongsun Du.

When Qingzhou was in full swing to develop shipbuilding, Jiang Sheng turned his attention to Chang'an, and the information sent back by Pan Zhang these days made Jiang Sheng feel that the opportunity had come.