Chapter 288: News from the capital

After getting rid of Lao Mo, Zhang San began to ask Le He and Uncle Hei to drive their own sea boats to the Yangtze River to recruit shipwrights, saying that they were looking for someone from the shipyard in Ningbo, and each person who was willing to come would give 20 yuan to settle in, and they could also bring their families. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The hired boatwright was pulled directly to Sea Shark Island, and then paid twice the salary, so that he could write letters to his family, and of course he could bring his family to live, but he was forbidden to leave for ten years. Ten years later, it is estimated that even if Zhang San drives them away, they are unwilling to go.

Three 2,000-stone boats only required more than a hundred shipwrights, and the rest of the handymen could be done by the women of the island. Just trick a boatload of people into going. By the way, I will engage in two Langzhong and buy all the things that the island needs.

As for why not buy it from Hangzhou, because someone in Hangzhou knows Lehe, if more than 100 people disappear in Hangzhou for no reason, I'm afraid someone will find Zhang San here, for the sake of unnecessary trouble, Zhang San still decided not to care about these.

Zhang San is arranging, Zhou Feng brought a person over, Zhang San knew this guy, and they drank together during the New Year, and he was one of the outstanding people who were rewarded, and it seemed that his name was Wen Zhonglai.

Wen Zhonglai was also very excited to get this position, after all, he was in charge of Jiangnan's intelligence, and he would brag to those companions in the future that he was also a person who could call Zhang Sansan, listening to Zhou Feng and the monkey arrange things every day, opening his mouth to let the third brother ......, and closing his mouth The third brother said .......

What is this this is the identity, of course, there is an increase in income, this is a personal feeling of benefits, it is said that Zhou Feng's monthly money has two hundred, what is the concept of two hundred, hard work for a year to buy a house in the capital. It's twice as big as my current self.

Zhang San looked at this guy and said, "Wen Zhonglai, it's very good that you will be in charge of Jiangnan's work in the future, do it well, I am optimistic about you!" ”

Zhang San's ordinary clichΓ© made Wen Zhonglai's face flush with excitement, the third brother is optimistic about me! The third brother values me! Wen Zhonglai took a deep breath and said, "Third brother, don't worry, I will definitely be optimistic about the information here." ”

Zhang San said with a smile: "Well, Zhou Feng will arrange you for specific things." If there is anything, report it to me as soon as possible. Ask me any questions, do you know? ”

Wen Zhonglai nodded and said, "I know the third brother." ”

Zhang San looked at Zhou Feng, Zhou Feng handed an envelope to Zhang San and said, "This is news from the capital." ”

Zhang San took the envelope, saw the fire paint on it and the seal of the monkey, opened it, and in addition to reporting the problems of each workshop, he also mentioned that the palace had once again summoned a famous doctor in the capital.

Zhang San couldn't help but tighten in his heart, it seemed that it was almost there.

This time when he returned to Hangzhou, in addition to arranging these things, Zhang San also wanted to open up the trade routes on the sea, but in addition to those giant businessmen, newcomers like Zhang San didn't know how many pirates and how many government exploits they had to face along the way.

Moreover, he had to recruit seafarers, train sailors, and arrange goods, Zhang San was blind to the goods needed by the south, and Zhang San had no channels to sell the goods shipped from the south.

Therefore, Zhang San wants to do maritime trade, either find a maritime joint operation, or join the maritime association, but no matter which of these two roads is not easy to take, borrowing the momentum of other maritime merchants, people are not related to you, why should they take you. Unless you're willing to pay the price.

As for the Maritime Federation, it is a loose organization, everyone goes to sea together to gain momentum, but if they really encounter a large number of pirates, they should still pay money and be robbed.

As for the running gang, every year, there are businessmen who dream of making a fortune to buy one or two small sea boats and go south along the coastline, but often half of them will disappear into the sea, and the remaining half of them will make money, and some will be looted by pirates on the road as pants.

Half of them disappeared, some of them encountered wind and waves, and some were robbed by immoral pirates and their ships, but every year there are new stories of making a fortune, and every year there are people willing to take risks.

Zhou Feng took Wen Zhonglai to arrange the handover, Lao Mo came to Zhang San's side with the guy, Zhang San reported the specific parameters according to the type of the lucky ship, these things were in Zhang San's mind, and he came as soon as he opened his mouth.

And Master Mo, who has rich experience in shipbuilding, also understood what Zhang San meant after listening to it, and immediately started to make it, because now it is just a large sample, which is the approximate appearance, so Master Mo made it quickly, Zhang San pointed out from time to time on the side, and at the end of the day, the ship sample was almost done.

Based on Lao Mo's experience, this kind of ship is indeed stronger than the current sand boat, but it is also complicated, Zhang San is sure that there is no problem, Lao Mo is going to make a real ship sample, Zhang San hurriedly stopped. This is the ship model of the merchant ship in the future, so I am not in a hurry to do it.

Zhang San then changed according to the warship model he envisioned, first the flat bottom was changed to a pointed bottom, in order to increase stability, the bottom bin will be used as a water tank to store fresh water, and the top is the ballast stone warehouse, the ballast stone is generally used for heavy goods, if there is no stone.

Watertight compartments are indispensable, because it is a warship, so Zhang San changed the eight compartments to twelve, increased the number of keels, reinforced keels, iron-clad ramming, and wall-walled high ship sides. A mainsail has been added. Raising and lowering the sail also increased the use of pulley blocks and winches.

In order to lower the center of gravity of the ship, the upper part of the Fukubune was basically removed, except for the rear wheelhouse, and the rudder was also changed from the original rocking type to the Western turntable type. In order to be afraid that the center of gravity would be too high, the V-shaped shape that goes up is not adopted, but the design of the U-shaped and V-shaped middle dialect with a curved curve.

Zhang San while depicting, while recording, sketching, a lucky boat has been changed beyond recognition by him, although Lao Mo has never seen such a ship, but through experience can be judged that this kind of boat is estimated to run fast.

But Lao Mo also said that this kind of ship is estimated to not be able to carry much cargo, and the ability to resist wind and waves is estimated to be not as good as the previous kind of ship, Zhang San smiled, this kind of ship is not a cargo ship in the first place, he was born for fighting.

These are only the hardware design of the ship, Zhang San also plans to install ballistas and bed crossbows on the deck, and when the time comes, it will mainly fire stone bullets and fire oil bombs, as long as this kind of ship is finally finalized, then Zhang San's naval battles will bid farewell to the era of gang jumping.

And only he hits others and no one else beats him, if he wins, he fights, and if he can't win, he is thousands of miles away, no one can catch up, and Zhang San in the cabin on the lower floor also reserves room for improvement in the running design.

As Zhang San, who had seen countless European sail battleships, he was very confident that he could rely on this kind of ship until the eighteenth century. Zhang San told Lao Mo to make a large sample tomorrow, and after confirming that there was no problem, he began to make a small sample, and the first batch of three ships was built first, and then improved while building.

The ship sample of the lucky ship will be handed over to the master of the shipyard here to make the ship sample, this kind of ship will be used as the signboard of the Zhangjia shipyard, and the batch of ships will be built when they are launched, and this batch of ships will be used for a period of time, and when the lucky ship is built, they will sell this batch of ships to the Guan family, and they will definitely be willing to ask for it. No one knows the quality of these ships better than they do.