"Giggles, husband, do you think Qi Niang is young, so her shipbuilding workshop is just for herself?" Seeing that Shangguan Yi doubted Qi Niang's shipbuilding ability, Ha'er couldn't help but ask a little funny at the moment. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"This ......" Shangguan Yi is not easy to admit directly, after all, he also knows that Qi Niang and Ha'er are the best friends, and the two of them stick together every day along the way, and he can't find a chance to whisper to Ha'er.

"I know that my husband thinks so, but I can tell my husband that Qi Niang's shipbuilding workshop is not a small fight, not to mention other places, just the newly built shipbuilding workshop in Suzhou, there are hundreds of craftsmen, who can build hundreds of big ships, and Qi Niang is very good at designing ships, and now a considerable number of sea ships running on the sea are from her hands!" Ha'er explained with a smile at this time.

Since Qi Niang has the first shipbuilding workshop, and got the help of Zhang Shiyi, so that her shipbuilding workshop has developed rapidly, and even led the shipbuilding trend in the coastal area, after all, the ships she designed are fast and stable, and for different uses, there are also various subdivisions of ship types, which also makes various maritime merchants rush to buy, other shipbuilding workshops see this situation, and also compete to imitate the ship designed by Qi Niang, after all, there is no patent concept at this time.

"Qi Niang is so powerful?" Shangguan Yi couldn't help but be very surprised after hearing Ha'er's explanation, Qi Niang's workshop can even build large merchant ships, let alone ordinary fishing boats, but then he was a little worried, "Lady, although Qi Niang and you have a good relationship, but now the county government can't take out a penny at all, so we can't let Qi Niang give us the boat for nothing, right?" ”

"Who said that it was going to be given away for nothing, my brother still has to settle the account, and it should naturally be the same between our sisters, but I have already thought about it, we can exchange the fishing boat with Qi Niang on terms, I believe she will definitely be very willing to do this business!" Ha'er said with a smile again at this time.

"Swap? Trade? What kind of business do you do? Shangguan Yi couldn't help but ask in more surprise when he heard Qi Niang's words.

"It's very simple, aren't we going to build a canned food workshop, canned food made of these seafood is naturally not uncommon at the seaside, but if it is transported to Chang'an, as long as the sales channel is opened, it must also be a profitable business, so we can discuss with Qi Niang and let her give us a batch of fishing boats, and when the canned seafood is made, you can give priority to her caravan to purchase, it is estimated that she will definitely be willing!" When Qi Niang said the end, she also showed a touch of the shrewdness of a little woman.

"Qi Niang still has a caravan, isn't she building a ship?" Shangguan Yi asked again in surprise when he heard Ha'er's words.

"Giggle~, I said that the husband should not underestimate Qi Niang, she was only interested in shipbuilding, but then the eldest brother of the Zhang family saw the business opportunity and partnered with Qi Niang to do business, now they not only build ships, but also have their own caravan, specializing in running waterways, anyway, our canned seafood will be shipped out after it is made, it is better to contract it directly to Qi Niang, so that we can be more assured!" Ha'er said with a smile at this time.

"Great, then do it, but why haven't you seen Qi Niang these days?" Shangguan Yi also shouted excitedly when he heard this, but he didn't expect that he had been thinking about it for a few days without results, but it was solved by Qi Niang in a few words, but then he suddenly thought that he didn't seem to have seen Qi Niang in the past few days.

"Husband is really true, you are busy with the affairs of the county, and you don't even know that Qi Niang is gone." When she heard Shangguan Yi ask about Qi Niang, she was also a little unhappy at the moment, in fact, Shangguan Yi has been busy with county affairs in the past few days, and even she is a little cold, although she understands Shangguan Yi's difficulties, but she also has some complaints in her heart.

"Qi Niang is gone? Where did she go? Shangguan Yi was also shocked when she heard Ha'er's words, after all, Qi Niang came with them, so Shangguan Yi felt that she also had the obligation to protect Qi Niang's safety, in case something happened to Qi Niang, I am afraid that Li Xiu would tear him apart.

"Where else can Qi Niang go, naturally I went to Suzhou to see her shipbuilding workshop, I also wanted to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Suzhou, but I was worried that my husband would not be able to take care of himself alone, so I could only let her go alone, fortunately, Mr. sent a lot of guards before, but I don't have to worry about her safety." Ha'er said with a smile again.

Hearing that Ha'er deliberately stayed to take care of himself, this made Shangguan Yi even more moved, but at this time, Ha'er urged him to eat quickly, otherwise the meal would be cold, which made Shangguan Yi smile embarrassedly, and then gobbled up the supper, and then went back to rest with Ha'er.

In the northeast of Suzhou near the south bank of the Yangtze River, a number of shipbuilding workshops are arranged on the riverside, and Yangzhou, Suzhou's shipbuilding workshops are also distributed on the bank of the Yangtze River, speaking of which Suzhou and Yangzhou are located on both sides of the Yangtze River, which makes their economic structure is also very similar, are mainly based on ports and shipbuilding, in addition to the developed textile and agriculture to match, so that the two states are very rich.

It is also in this shipbuilding workshop on the south bank of the Yangtze River, among which there is one of the largest shipbuilding workshops, the name is very peculiar, it is called the American Shipbuilding Workshop, and the name can be given by Qi Niang's shipbuilding workshop, but this name is not given by her, but by Zhang Shiyi, because the construction of this workshop is completely handled by Zhang Shiyi, and Zhang Shiyi's parents and brothers also went to the Americas, so he gave such a name.

A few days ago, Qi Niang finally came to the American shipbuilding workshop, the first time she saw the shipbuilding workshop under her name, and also saw the construction process of the ship she designed, which made her also excited for several days and couldn't sleep, every day in the workshop to watch the craftsmen build ships, watching the ships she designed on the drawings be realized by the craftsmen little by little, which made her also have an indescribable sense of achievement.

"Little lady, we've seen the workshop too, shouldn't we go back?" In the shipbuilding workshop, a tall and fat female guard came to Yi Niang, and then asked cautiously, this female guard is the first batch of guards to follow Li Xiu's fat sister, as Li Xiu's family business is getting bigger and bigger, she is also rising, becoming one of the leaders of the guards in Li Xiu's family, this time she was sent to protect Qi Niang, which shows Li Xiu's trust in her.

"Fat sister, don't persuade me, we're all here, so naturally we have to stay for a few more days, and don't you think the scenery in Suzhou is much more beautiful than Chang'an?" Qi Niang asked with a smile at this time, the fat sister watched her grow up, so she also has a lot of respect for the fat sister, but respect is respect, this time she finally ran out, naturally she will not go back easily.

"But the old man ...... there"

The fat sister said worriedly at this time, but before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Qi Niang again: "Okay, fat sister, I found that there are many things in the workshop that are not very reasonable, and there is still a lot of room for improvement, even if I want to go back, I have to wait until I finish the workshop transformation!" ”

After Qi Niang finished speaking, she no longer listened to what the fat sister said, and ran directly to a big ship under construction, and then commanded the craftsman to add a tall shelf to the side of the ship, and there were many wheels hanging from the rope on the shelf, which was actually a pulley group, because when building a ship, a lot of wood needed to be transported to the ship, which used to be carried by people, and the efficiency was very low, so Qi Niang decided to use pulleys to lift the wood, which was much easier.

There are many improvements like pulleys, although Qi Niang used to manage the affairs of the shipbuilding workshop through the steward who was sent, but after all, she did not witness the internal affairs of the shipbuilding workshop, so there are many places that she can't notice at all, and now she finally has the opportunity to participate in the process of shipbuilding, and naturally found many problems, and she has been studying how to solve these problems and increase the efficiency of the shipbuilding workshop in the past few days.

Seeing the busy Qi Niang, the fat sister behind couldn't help sighing, in fact, she had already received the news that Li Xiu was coming, but she didn't plan to tell Qi Niang, because she was worried that Qi Niang would run away if she knew, so she still let her stay in Suzhou honestly, and when Li Xiu and they came, she would be able to make a difference.

At the same time that Qi Niang is busy in the shipbuilding workshop, Quanzhou Port, which is thousands of miles away from Suzhou, is also a busy scene, Quanzhou Port is also a port with the same name as Yangzhou and Guangzhou, and because Quanzhou is directly adjacent to the sea like Guangzhou, and there is Taiwan opposite, which is called Liuqiu Island by the Tang people, so that Quanzhou Port can be well resisted by wind and waves, and the port draft is deeper, so Quanzhou Port has also become one of the most famous seaports in Datang.

The ships in Quanzhou Port are endless, the ships in and out are specially guided by small boats, and the waterways in and out are separated, but there is no need to worry about congestion, and among these ships entering the port, there are several ships of a somewhat peculiar shape, which look like sea ships made by the Tang Dynasty, but the subtleties are a little different, and the hull is very shabby, the bottom of the ship is close to the water surface, all of which are covered with all kinds of shells, and at a glance you know that it is a long voyage to arrive here, but Quanzhou Port is originally a gathering of ships from all over the world, Therefore, these dilapidated sea vessels are not very noticeable.

After these ships entered the harbor and anchored at the designated berth, I saw a group of people walking down from the largest of them, the leader of which was a young man, with some dark skin, but his facial features were upright and delicate, and he looked very sunny and handsome, and behind him, there were several tall men who followed closely, these men looked murderous one by one, and seemed to draw knives and kill people if they didn't say a word, but most of the people who ran the boat licked their lives on the knife edge, and it was common to kill people and seize money, as long as they didn't make trouble in the portand no one will pay attention to them.

I saw that the young man led by him got off the boat, but suddenly stood there motionless, his eyes looked at the Quanzhou Port in front of him, and the expression on his face was also very complicated, after a while, I saw him exhale softly, and then said in an inaudible voice: "Datang, I'm back!" ”