Zhang Yi only dealt with some more important official business for half a month, and spent the rest of the time accompanying Da Qiao.

Fan Lihua often brings Hong'er over, born in such a family, these children are destined to not get too much father's love since they were young. Zhang Yi was also very guilty in his heart, so he could only give them fatherly love as much as possible.

Seeing that Fan Lihua and Da Qiao were alone with a child, Sun said very tastefully: "Husband, why do the two sisters have children, but I don't." ”

When Fan Lihua and Da Qiao heard it, they both chuckled in low voices. Zhang Yi also has some worries, Sun is still too young, he is only fifteen years old this year, Zhang Yi has not touched her, why wait until she is sixteen years old, her menstrual cycle is fully developed before she can start.

Of course, let the Sun family have a child, how can it take a few more years, although you don't have to wait until you are in your twenties, but how to do it is eighteen or nineteen!

Zhang Yi still can't explain these words clearly to the Sun family, but Zhang Yi has raised the minimum age for a woman to fifteen years old, and it will be raised again in a few years, and it will be raised to eighteen years old.

After staying at home for half a month, Zhang Yi received a letter from Meng Kang, and the sea vessel has entered the test stage.

Zhang Yi saw this book, and immediately took himself Wei Wentong, Liu Muzhi, and Baiqi to set off for Misukou. When we arrived at the mouth of the water, we took a boat to Dantu, and then went straight to Shanghai City.

In Shanghai City, there have been many officials gathered here, not to mention Meng Kang, Gan Ning, Pan Zhang, as well as Zhu Zhi, Han Shizhong, Gu Shao, Zhang Dun, Bu Jing and others.

Gu Shao is Gu Yong's son, and the Gu family has risen since Gu Yong served as the lord of Wu County. Many people in his family work in Wu County, Gu Hui is Gu Yong's younger brother, and now he is Haiyan Ling. Gu Yi is Gu Yong's younger brother, and now he is the minister of Wucheng, and Wucheng is now the marquis of Sun Quan. And Gu Shao is now the commander of Lou County, and he is very helpful in the construction of Shanghai City.

As for Zhang Dun and Bu Jing, they are characters named after Lu Xun. Although the three of them are ranked behind Gu Shao and Lu Ji, they are also handsome for a while. Zhang Dun is known as Deliang Yuanyi and is good at writing, while Bu Jing is famous for his extensive reading, as Youquan and Yu Hangling.

"Gu Shao, Force: 42, Strategy: 63, Strategy: 76, Internal Affairs: 89, Education: 91, Diplomacy: 83. Trait: Promotion. ”

"Promotion: Good at discovering talents, and able to be a corporal."

"Gu Hui, Force: 43, War Strategy: 74, Strategy: 76, Internal Affairs: 87, Education: 93, Diplomacy: 92. Characteristic: Reasonable. ”

"Reason: Talented, knowledgeable."

"Gu Yi: Force: 46, Strategy: 53, Strategy: 66, Internal Affairs: 81, Education: 87, Diplomacy: 76. Trait: Guard. ”

"Shouyi: Stick to filial piety, but the etiquette of husband and wife is too much."

Zhang Yi didn't understand very well, and after inquiring, he found out that Gu Yi was basically half of Liu Xia Hui, and he left before dawn after having sex with his wife, and when his wife came to visit him, he had to wear a formal dress and greet him politely.

"Zhang Dun, Force: 62, Strategy: 63, Strategy: 71, Internal Affairs: 75, Education: 68, Diplomacy: 73. Characteristic: High knot. ”

"Bu Jing, Force: 56, Strategy: 57, Strategy: 68, Internal Affairs: 73, Education: 74, Diplomacy: 71. Feature: Expo. ”

These talents are all the most up-and-coming in Wu County at present, and they were all activated after Zhu Zhi arrived in Wu County.

After meeting these people, Zhang Yi asked Meng Kang to take him to the sea ship to have a look.

Meng Kang took Zhang Yi and the others to the sea ship, and said while introducing: "This ship is twenty-eight zhang long, nine zhang wide, three zhang high, has three masts, and hangs hard sails. With a load of 200,000 catties (equivalent to 100 tons today, the displacement of this ship is about 250-300 tons. Generally, the load of ships is about the same as their own weight, but Meng Kang's sea ships have ballast stones, and they are not counted in them. ), which can carry 2,000 fighters. ”

Meng Kang led everyone to the cabin, "There are storage rooms, galleys, armament rooms, bedrooms, and stone rooms (watertight cabins). ”

"This big ship is the biggest ship we've ever built. We have built a total of three types of sea vessels, which are one mast ship with a load of 50,000 catties (displacement 60-80 tons). A two-mast ship with a load of 100,000 jin (displacement 120-150 tons). ”

"At present, only one of the three ship types has been built, and all of them have undergone simple navigation tests, and the problems found are not very big."

Zhang Yi looked at the hard sail on the mast and asked, "Is this sail too slow to rise?" ”

Meng Kang said: "It is true, but it is very fast when the sail is lowered. In the event of a storm, you can quickly lower the sails to avoid being blown over. ”

Zhang Yi thought about it, it seemed like this. It seems that it is not unreasonable that ancient China preferred to use hard sails. The West likes to use soft sails, which may also have something to do with the fact that there are no typhoons and hurricanes in Europe, but later because I got used to it, I couldn't change it.

But Zhang Yi still said: "In the future, you can try a combination of soft and hard sails, maybe you can get good results." ”

Meng Kang nodded and asked people to write it down.

Zhang Yi asked, "Is there any weapon on this ship?" I won't use a bow and arrow again! ”

Meng Kang said: "The minister can only build ships, not weapons. ”

Zhang Yi thought for a while and said: "In this way, you can make a few collision angles at the bow of the ship, and if you encounter the enemy's ship, it will be good to directly knock them over." When I return to Shouchun, I will send you some craftsmen who can make large ballistas, and let them install large ballistas on their ships to increase the attack capabilities of your ships. ”

For the time being, there were no artillery, so large ballistas could only be used instead. Of course, maybe a trebuchet can also be used. However, Zhang Yi always felt that the trebuchet was completely unreliable, and its own target was not fixed, and after the bump in the water, the target was even more gone, so did he want to launch a fire bomb? Directly throw out more than a dozen canisters of fire oil and burn the enemy's ships?

This is obviously not shown, the oil itself is expensive, and in the absence of natural oil, Zhang Yi simply cannot afford this kind of attack.

However, after finding natural oil, Zhang Yi can be invincible in naval warfare. No, now he can basically be sure of invincibility in naval warfare, because now only he has the navy.

The smallest sea ship was similar to the previous big ship, and in order to distinguish them, Zhang Yi named the big ship Jiangchuan. A small sea vessel is called a sea fish ship, which means that it is a big fish in the sea; Medium-sized sea vessels are called reef ships, which means reefs in the sea; A large sea vessel is called an island ship, which means that it is an island in the sea.

Zhang Yi asked Meng Kang to hurry up the construction of ships, and then let Gan Ning go north, and at the same time asked Gu Shao to speed up the construction of the harbor.

Not only here, Zhang Yi also ordered the construction of seaports in Haiyan, Juzhang (Ningbo), Huipu (Taizhou), Yexian (Fuzhou), and Yandu (Yancheng) respectively, and attacked the navy to dock.