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The servant who had gone to the Hongshuixi industrial area soon returned, bringing back tobacco and peppers grown in the fields there.

Zhang Guoan looked at the chili peppers, and sure enough, they were all dried, and it seemed that the two village women were still very obedient.

He looked at the leaf again, and sure enough, it was yellow-green, and it seemed that he was very obedient, and when he went there was a four-wheeled/big donkey cart, and when he came back, he took a river boat down the river.

The people of the Great Song Dynasty were really smart, and soon those who pulled their feet outside the city learned to use this.

Zhang Guoan asked him: "How do you pick tobacco leaves?" ”

The servant said, "Listen to the master of the house, and pluck the yellow-green ones in the upper and middle layers, and be careful not to hurt the stalks, and then he will come back quickly." ”

"Then you told those two village women that tobacco will be pollinated by hand in the future?"

"Tell them, let them hold a brush and poke each flower lightly repeatedly------"

Zhang Guoan thought about the scene, this is a simple and crude artificial pollination------ but in terms of probability, it will definitely be effective.

As long as it is successful once, a tobacco plant can hang about 160 fruits after pollination, and there are about 3,000 seeds in each tobacco fruit, so that each tobacco plant can produce more than 320,000 seeds.

Zhang Guoan thought of his friend again, and his heart hurt a little, are you okay in that world?

He asked the servant to find a charcoal basin, light a charcoal fire, and teach him to roast slowly.

Liu Qian Xingshou once asked Zhang Guoan if he still had that kind of cigarette, and he was so anxious that he couldn't do it, and the blacksmith Hu squatted in the tobacco garden for a while almost every day.

These are done. It is estimated that there will be more than a dozen catties of original cigarettes, and it will be re-roasted again.

The tooth man also returned, and he also brought an old craftsman with a bulging pocket.

There is no need to speak first, Zhang Guoan knew from looking at the hands of the old craftsman that he must have done rough work all his life. His hands were thick and seemed to be calloused, his fingers were like pine roots, his face was wrinkled like a knife, and his eyes were bloodshot.

The tooth lang said a little about the old craftsman.

It turned out that his hometown was from Mizhou, Shandong, and when his grandfather was a child, their family fled south to Lin'an City. He started a small shipyard and maintained it, and later turned it into a shipyard, taking over some jobs that the local shipyards did not look up to, repairing and repairing for others, and hearing that a big businessman was interested in recruiting shipbuilders, so he came to give it a try.

After Zhang Guoan heard this, he frowned a little in his heart. It seems that this old craftsman has never actually built a ship.

He asked politely, "This great craftsman, can you build a sea ship?" ”

The old craftsman said humbly: "Little old man is in those big shipyards when there is a shortage of manpower. I'm often asked to help, yes, yes! ”

Then he slowly said, it turned out that in his grandfather's generation, there were no drawings or ship models that were as popular as they are now. All the data of shipbuilding must be well known, and a master craftsman of shipbuilding can write down the materials used for a whole ship.

Often, after the ship is built, the wood prepared in advance can basically be used up, and at most there are only a few large planks and a few large wooden pillars left!

Zhang Guoan sighed in his heart. This can only be the experience that can be accumulated by people who have been fighting in the front-line work of shipbuilding all year round!

Zhang Guoan asked: "How many kinds of materials do you generally use for a ten-zhang sea boat------?" ”

The old craftsman said humbly: "If you don't count the types of wood and iron nails, there must be three hundred and twelve kinds of ------."

Zhang Guoan nodded, this is the master craftsman he needs.

He asked, "Don't you still use drawings and ship models?" ”

The old craftsman said humbly: "Yes." ”

He casually took out a boat model from his pocket and handed it to Zhang Guoan to see.

"This is the most commonly used type of ship in Minnesota right now," he said. I heard that one such boat was stuck between several reefs because the boatman did not lower the sails in time, and only after a few hours did it take advantage of the high tide to retreat.

Because of its excellent wood and solid structure, although it has been beaten by waves and undercurrents for a long time, no leakage has been found, and the bottom of the ship is only a few unimportant bottom plates on both sides of the reef have been polished, and other components are not damaged, and there are no cracks and leaks in the outer panels, so this type of ship is famous.

Xiao Lao'er went on this kind of ship many times to check it, and made this model------"

Zhang Guoan repeatedly fiddled with this ship model, thinking while looking at it.

He saw that the bottom of the ship was V-shaped, which was used to facilitate ocean navigation; Its bow is pointed, a shape that may be conducive to splitting the waves; The stern is square, and a three-storey cabin has been built on it, so that the stern can have a large use space.

Moreover, the square stern structure ensures that most of the planks are not deformed, and the service life of the planks may be increased, because most of the curved planks are bent and the wood becomes brittle, although the shipbuilder has a way to make the planks not break, but can not ensure that the wood fibers are not damaged, and the resistance of the curved planks will be greatly reduced.

Zhang Guoan asked again: "Then what do you think of the wood used?" ”

The old craftsman said humbly:

"The rib materials of the beams on both sides of the transverse interior of this ship should all be made of camphor wood, and the other planks of the hull should be made of fir and camphor wood, and pine wood can be used in a few uncritical places.

It should be coarse and coarse, and it should be thin, and the transverse side seams of the hull are all connected by the tenon and tenon of the mother and son, and then coated with the twisted material made of tung oil, lime and hemp silk, so that it can be waterproof. ”

This is a qualified shipbuilder!

Zhang Guoan immediately offered him a high salary of 1,000 yuan a year.

This old craftsman was stunned for a moment, and the best craftsman was no more than four hundred a year------

Zhang Guoan said again: "Liuqiu Island is by no means as hard as you imagined now, of course, it is far less comfortable than Lin'an City, so it is nothing if the salary is higher, your small factory will also sell me at a discount, come with me, I guarantee that you have a field, a big house, and money!" ”

The old craftsman waved his hands again and again: "The salary is too high, the little old man can't afford it!" ”

The tooth man said with red eyes: "Zhang Honest, the temper of the master family has always been the same, you can bear it." ”

In this way, he accepted it with trepidation.

Zhang Guoan now asked him to start preparing for the purchase of materials needed for shipbuilding, and recruit more craftsmen.

The old craftsman said humbly: "I don't know how many materials the master wants to prepare for the big ship?" How many ships do you want to build a year? ”

Zhang Guoan thought for a while and said, "Let's buy enough for five first------

He felt that when he got to Liuqiu Island, he would definitely find some replacements, and he didn't have to rely on Lin'an City for everything.

After Zhang Guoan solved this task, he felt relaxed.

As for getting some tea seeds, it's simple.

Most of the famous teas of the Great Song Dynasty are produced in the mountains and rivers.

In addition to the cloudy fog in the high mountains, the basis of "good tea in the high mountains" is that due to the large temperature difference, more diffuse light, short sunshine time, high humidity, and strong tenderness of buds and leaves, it is conducive to improving the aroma of tea leaves, and has good taste and tenderness.

In the mountainous areas of Liuqiu Oshima, there are slopes with a slope of no more than 30 degrees, and it is possible to find a suitable place.

Zhang Guoan thought a little obscenely, if he didn't get it right, in the future, the whole Song Dynasty would be popular to drink Liuqiu green tea. (To be continued.) )