Without seeing the majestic sailors of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhang San paid to go ashore and began to go downstream along the river embankment to see the shipyards in Yangzhou. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yangzhou is close to the Grand Canal and the Yangtze River, so in this era when the forest has not been cut down, it is more convenient to obtain timber here than in Hangzhou, and both river and sea boats can be built here, and it is very convenient to get into the water.

It is also an important transit port for goods from the north and the Yangtze River, and the goods on the river boat are generally exchanged for sea ships from here, and then sail out to sea, so there are no less than hundreds of large and small shipbuilding and repair yards here, the big ones can build ten thousand stone sea boats, and the small ones are just some fishing boat workshops.

In addition to the huge shipyard, there are thousands of supporting workshops here, from sailing, ropes, fishing nets, palm oil, fish glue to freshwater barrels and Sinan have special business workshops.

Zhang San can be seen everywhere along the river embankment, with all kinds of workshops hanging high flags, and there are large completed and unfinished ships supported by giant logs on the shore. Of course, larger ships need docks and slipways.

For example, Zhang San is now standing at the door of this shipyard called 'Wang's century-old Jiangbei shipyard', and someone like Xiao Er immediately greeted him inside, shouting: "Hey, big official, are you here to order a ship or pick up a ship?" ”

Zhang San nodded and asked, "I want to see if your slipway can meet my needs." ”

The guy said with a smile: "Look at what you said, you can inquire in Yangzhou, our Wangjia Jiangbei boat is the first-class Dafang in Yangzhou, if my family can't make a boat, you can't do it even if you run all over Yangzhou." You inside please, I'll show you. ”

The man pointed to a place where smoke was coming from and said, "Look over there, the big official, it's our shipyard's own blacksmith shop, there's the glue boiling place, there's the material room, and there's the carving ....... ”

Zhang San looked down with the place where the guy pointed out, there were no less than twenty supporting workshops, Zhang San nodded and really dared to call Jiangbei the first, and there were almost all shipbuilding workshops here. In terms of scale, I'm afraid that the shipyard in the capital is about the same size as his supporting workshop.

The guy took Zhang San to the shipbuilding place and said: "Look, big official, here are cargo ships on the Yangtze River, and there are big sea ships. ”

The guy said proudly: "Look at the keel there, it is the 5,000-stone sea ship ordered by the Wu family in Wu Bancheng, Yangzhou." The Wu family has its own shipyard, but it can only build a sea ship of 2,000 stones, and if you really want to build this kind of big ship to Persia, you don't have to ask our Wang family. There are two docks that can build 5,000 stone sea ships alone, and our Wang family has two. ”

The man stood on tiptoe and pointed to the place where the ships were lined up in the distance and said, "Look again, guest officer, where is the dock where two thousand-stone ships are being built side by side, and that is our Wang's Wanshi dock." There are only three such docks in Yangzhou. ”

Zhang San nodded, he was indeed shocked by the strong strength of the Wang family, and the guy saw Zhang San nodding and said, "How about it, do you want to book a ship with us?" Shall I take you to the bookkeeper for the price? We guarantee good quality and good price, fast and good! ”

Zhang San asked, "Since you can build a big ship with ten thousand stones, why do you use which dock to build a small boat?" ”

The guy said: "The big official said that it was funny, we must build a ship, we must be as big as the guests want, although this 10,000-stone cargo ship carries a lot of cargo, but it is troublesome to dock, the general wharf can not stop at all, and it is not possible to fill a ship of goods without a wealthy businessman." ”

The guy saw that Zhang San was a little puzzled and said: "There are some small countries to the south, so a shipload of goods often has to go through several countries to be sold, and the trouble of control is far less convenient than that of five thousand stones." And there is a backhand in case there are two ships of 5,000 stones. ”

Zhang San nodded and understood, the bigger the ship, the better, with the ancient infrastructure situation, the big ship of Wanshi is really troublesome in other places except for some natural harbors, and no matter how much the goods are loaded, what is the use, at this time, the market consumption capacity of other countries is limited.

Zhang San remembered that it was said in the book that in ancient times, cities with tens of thousands of people in other countries were considered super cities, so except for some big trading ports, other places could not digest this ship of goods at all.

Zhang San asked: "I want to build a sea boat, about a thousand stones, how long will it take?" ”

The guy laughed, "You just have to wait four months." ”

Zhang San was surprised that it was fast enough, Zhang San said goodbye to his buddy, and went to other shipyards to see, almost the larger ones can be built in four or five months, and the smaller ones will take six or seven months, although it is fast enough, but Zhang San really can't wait, Zhang San plans to go to Hangzhou and simply buy a second-hand one.

One night back on the boat, Zhang San asked everyone if they had fun, Du Bai and Yu Tai were the first time to this kind of big city, they were simply dazzled, and they didn't even get out of the dock after a day, so they were hooked.

Shi Wengong has been with Zhou Tong for many years and has been to Yangzhou, so he didn't go out and guarded the boat. Today, Pang Wanchun's brothers and sisters and Xie Chunhua were wandering around for a while, especially Pang Qiuxia, who kept drilling into the crowds, looking for all kinds of snacks.

Pang Wanchun accompanied Xie Chunhua today to buy some daily necessities, rouge, gouache and the like, of course the money was given by Zhang San, but it was not given in vain, but the salary paid in advance, Pang Wanchun is also a special talent, although his kung fu is only second-rate, but Zhang San still rated him as first-class and enjoyed the treatment of 200 yuan per month.

In order to be afraid that the three new brothers would not have enough money, Zhang San deliberately sent them a month's salary in advance, and when Du Bai and Yutai were five hundred yuan, they were so shocked that they couldn't speak, and they all felt that they were with the right person.

Pang Qiuxia was next to her when she sent the money, looking at the big gap between the wages of her brother and the two strong men, she felt angry, Zhang San smiled and asked Pang Wanchun if she could be convinced, Pang Wanchun stopped her sister's nonsense and said, "Convincing." ”

In the end, Zhang San said with a smile: "Although your brother's archery skills are good now, but the Du Bai brothers and the Xutai brothers are also from Orion, although they are not as good as your brother, but there is not much difference, but your brother's martial arts are much worse than the Du brothers and the Yu brothers, in the future, I will let everyone teach your brother a few sets of martial arts, and if you practice it well or have merit in the future, you will definitely improve." ”

After Zhang San finished talking at that time, Pang Qiuxia asked herself if she could also shoot arrows, why she didn't have her own salary, Zhang San smiled and asked her if she would like to listen to her command? She held her head high and said, "Listen to it, give money." ”

Zhang San thought about it and ordered her a monthly money of 100 guan a month, Pang Qiuxia didn't make trouble anymore after taking the money, and went to count the money happily, Zhang San shook his head with a smile, and didn't care, but Pang Wanchun made a big red face.