Su You listened to Lu County's words, frowned and asked, "You mean to let me help you suppress the bandits?" How many of them are there? ”

"There are about thirty or fifty people, and you know that there are only fifteen officials in Jimo County." Lu Xianling replied with an embarrassed face, obviously, he didn't know how many people there were.

"Thirty or fifty?" Su You pondered, he didn't expect that there would be such a large group of pirates outside this bay.

Before this port was put into use, Su You was of course obliged to clean them up, but now the people he brought were not officers and soldiers, but only boatmen and sailors; If you use these people to fight pirates, how is it different from a sheep in the mouth of a tiger?

After thinking about it, Su You still asked, "Didn't you report the harassment of this thief to Gaomi County?" ”

Lu Xian Ling replied curtly, "It's not time yet."

Su You already knew from Lu Zhixian's previous words that he had been troubled by this matter for a long time, and now that he heard him twist and turn, he naturally knew the twists and turns, and the truth was obviously not because it was too late in time, probably because the frequency of this thief was not hit, so it had not been a crisis to his official position, so he kept concealing it

Now that Su You is here, he is obviously overwhelmed, so he hurriedly came to find Su You.

Su You learned that the little Jiujiu in his heart didn't deliberately break it, but just nodded and comforted, "Let them live happily for a few more days, the day the dock is built, it will be the time for the sea route to be cleared." ”

When Lu Zhixian heard Su You's words, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and seeing that it was getting late, he opened his mouth and invited Su You to Jimo City for the night.

Su You knew that there was still more than an hour to go from Jimo here, and he didn't want to toss, so Lu County Ling retreated and immediately called the old patriarch of Maijialing and asked him to arrange food and lodging for Su You.

Su You couldn't refuse, so he had to settle down in Maijialing.

Before dark, Lu Sheng and Xia Ziteng went to the dock that Su You had circled at noon today, and came back to report that those people had already settled down, so Su You didn't need to worry about them being frozen.

On this night, Su You and Wang Bodang stayed at the house of the old patriarch of Maijialing, and there were also men from the village who came to visit the door at night, so Su You naturally entertained him with a lustful face; After one night, Su You became acquainted with several men in this village.

On the morning of the second day, after Su swam up, he left Maijialing and returned to the dock with Wang Bodang and others.

Unexpectedly, the two hundred workers brought by Su You from Hangzhou were quite efficient, and under the leadership of Shi Man and Zheng Yi, one hundred people began to dig up brick kilns and lime kilns on two hills next to the dock; Another 100 people, led by Zhai Rang, began to collect limestone and brick soil in the vicinity

Lü Zhongsu led several apprentices to make brick molds out of wooden planks

It would take them about four or five days to burn the first bricks, followed by the construction of the dockyard walls and the construction of the staff's quarters.

Su You naturally didn't come here to see the excitement, under his inspiration, Lu Sheng began to draw a model of a crane and a fixed pulley and a movable pulley on paper, of course, these small inventions are not the end, but only the beginning

Circular saws have obviously appeared in ancient murals, and Su You actually wants to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, but the power of the circular saw is obviously a problem, although the river water next to the dock can be used by a water wheel, the sum of kinetic energy and potential energy brought by the river water is obviously unable to sawn the wood

In this day and age, it is not easy to turn wood into planks.

When it was time to eat again, Su You had already made a big pot of rice with the help of Xia Ziwei's brothers and sisters, naturally, there were also seaside specialties - fish, and vegetables that they hadn't eaten for a few days - woad vegetables.

One by one, they lined up to receive their meals.

Although the workers don't know why Su You emphasizes queuing, how can he not bow his head when he is under the eaves?

"Do you know why I keep saying I want them to get into the habit of standing in line?" Looking at the well-behaved team, Su You nodded with satisfaction, and then asked Xia Ziwei beside him.

Xia Ziwei, who flocked to the scene when she saw too many good things, how could she understand the meaning of queuing?

"I want to tell them that everyone is equal in front of opportunities, as long as you wait patiently, it will always be your turn, instead of having food when you have great strength, you can eat spicy food if you have a hard fist, and drink thin if you are weak."

Xia Ziwei nodded, which seemed to make some sense.

"The queue is" Su You wanted to explain again, and then he saw Zhai Rang covered in dirt, and he couldn't help but feel a little guilty in his heart. - Zhai Rang, that was the leader of Wagangzhai later, and now he has been reduced to being my Su You's little brother, and he is doing this mud leg work.

Su You took Zhai Rang's job and nodded appreciatively to him, "Mr. Xu, it's hard work." ”

Zhai Rang is a wanted criminal by the government, and now he is known as Xuxingzhi, which is the tacit understanding of everyone around Su You, and he is naturally no exception.

"It's nothing, that's what I used to do at the docks." Zhai Rang shook his head, this kind of work is not very tiring, he believes that Su You will not let him be buried here.

Su You handed the spoon to Xia Ziwei, and then accompanied Zhai Rang to make it, and asked him while eating, "How is it, what do you think?" ”

Zhai Rang was a little dazed, he didn't know what Su You meant, so he had to smirk.

"I also said yesterday that with such a good thing as cement, it has become possible to dry salt on this beach, are you interested in getting hundreds of acres of salt farms, facing the sea, and the spring flowers are blooming?"

"Can you get a salt guide, sir?" Zhai Rang responded sharply.

Su You heard him point out the crux of the problem, and then changed the topic and said, "This is a thing, or you still burn lime here and sell cement, the future house, the mainstream will eventually be a cement house, there is a natural port, and it is not a matter to transport cement to Hangzhou or Silla Baekje." ”

Zhai Rang nodded, Su You said this, obviously wanting to hand over the cement formula to himself.

"The premise is that you have to help Lu Xianling build the wharf first, not only to provide cement support, but also to help him coordinate the arrangements in his hands, I am not sure that he can really shake such a big scene, and you are different."

Zhai Rang smiled bitterly, of course he knew what Su You was referring to, wasn't it the matter of bringing people to surround Jixian County to find Zhang's boat last time?

The point is that in the end, things got out of control, and if you have to be more serious, Zhai Rang's leadership failed that time.

"I promised my husband, then I would burn his lime here for two years, and when the news of my case passed, I would return to my husband." Zhai Rang listened to Su You's words and talked about this, how can there be any reason to refuse?

Although, he was a little unwilling.

After all, this is really not a prosperous place, and in the days to come, it will definitely be as white as snow

Jurisdiction is Jimo, naturally lonely.

In the evening of the same day, Lu Xianling came to the beach unexpectedly, and he brought good news to Su You this time, saying that he had already moved the two big families in Jimo City, and they were willing to pay for the construction of this wharf, of course, the return was the tax revenue in the next few years.

Su You can't scold Lu Xianling for being short-sighted, no matter what, the things he ordered have already been done, isn't it?

Lu Xianling was naturally overjoyed when he heard Su You's praise, in fact, in addition to bringing good news to Su You today, he also had a purpose to ask Su You for advice.

The content of the question is naturally related to the construction of the wharf; At this time, Su You recommended to him in a timely manner, that is, Zhai Rang.

After Su You nodded and agreed to sell cement here, he explained to him the general direction of the construction of the wharf and the relevant details, which allowed him to sit on an equal footing with Lu Xianling as Su You's agent.

On the third day of Su You's arrival on Qindao, the wharf finally began to be officially built amid the sound of gongs and drums, and Lu Zhixian brought nearly 1,000 laborers that day.

Zhai Rang became the chief engineer for the construction of the wharf, but it was obvious that there were not so many people when the wharf was first started, so he used part of the manpower to build the dock wall.

In the consistent caliber of Su You and others, this dock is also marked with the flag of the state, so although Lu Zhixian saw Zhai Rang deploying manpower in this way, he had no objections.

Someone joined in with Jimo's labor, and the construction of the dock was obviously speeding up.

At this time, Lu Zhongsu had already led his brothers to transport back the keel of the first ship, Su You looked at the keel that was nearly twenty meters long, and then looked at the design in his hand, and his excitement was overflowing.

Looking at the first ship that really belonged to him, Su You asked with interest, "How long will it take for our Flying Fish to be built?" ”

"It is estimated that after 20 days, I never thought that it would be so difficult to find bamboo in this place, especially Nanzhu and Maozhu"

Su You knew what the reason Lu Zhongsu was talking about these bamboos, the ships at this time were all bamboo nails! But why not use iron nails?

"Why? I didn't know that it might be afraid of rusting. Lu Zhongsu spread his hands and said.

In ancient times, there was no need to explain any truth in the oral transmission between masters and apprentices, such as the inheritance of the Analects, in which the aphorisms were always just the experience of the sages or the words of speculation; Whether you understand it or not, as an apprentice, you just need to remember it and pass it on.

Fear of rust is obviously a reason, but it will take at least three or five years for these nails to come loose because of rust, right?

Can these ships live for so long?

"Use iron nails, if you're just afraid of rust, why don't you just paint it? Moreover, isn't our ship going to be sold? What do you care about its longevity? After Su You said this, seeing that Lu Zhongsu seemed to be about to refute, he immediately raised his hand to stop him and said, "Besides, now that the business is developing, and the ships are being replaced quickly, our current ship can carry two hundred tons of cargo, which is considered a big ship, but in a few years, maybe we will be able to build a ship with a cargo capacity of three or four hundred tons." ”

"Then use iron nails?"

"With iron nails!"

Lu Zhongsu didn't know that the boat he built opened a precedent for using iron nails to strengthen the ship's side