The mouth of the Ishoroku River is wide and gentle, but there are not many water surfaces that can be used as a port, and on the north bank of the estuary, there is a 1,000-meter-square enclosed water surface formed by a river bank and a sand bank perpendicular to the direction of the river, which is an ideal berth. The ship-repair dock of Ishroku Port in the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info is located in this location. Liu Yao asked Wei to come forward and buy a piece of land next to the dock in the name of Freedom Mountain, which was actually all the borderland. This aroused the jealousy of the shipyard owner, Li Fanma. But he had to deal with Liu Yao, because Liu Yao planned to hand over the ship to himself for repair.

"You dock, do you want to change it? Make it the kind that can get water. In the future, I may build you a big ship, and this kind of slipway dock is probably not very suitable for building a big ship. Liu Yao discussed with Lao Li.

Li Fanma responded lightly: "No." I've always used slides. "This is a lean and swarthy man, who looks thin and weak, but who moves quickly and accurately.

"The dock must be flooded, not a slipway to slide the boat down. It's not because of anything else, we're going to build a boat that's too big, and the slipway is very unsafe. Liu Yao sat firmly on his beach, ignoring the coldness, and said undoubtedly.

"How big are you going to build? I've handled a lot of boats, and they've all gone down the slipway. Your dockyard has been repaired, and several of my boats have been built. Li Fanma became excited, waving his hands and retorting.

"It's as wide as this length." Zhong Laosi always remembered the statement of this image, that was the warship he was going to command, of course, he hoped that the bigger the better. It's just that he can't say how long it is.

The thin man pondered for a moment, he couldn't quite understand such a large size. Although history records how developed shipbuilding was in ancient China, the wreckage of the unearthed ships is not very large. The skinny shipbuilder was so confident in his own experience that he was reluctant to understand more than he could have imagined.

"You haven't seen the ship I'm going to build, so it's normal that you don't understand. So be it. I'll repair this ship with you, according to your method, and you can repair it as you want. After repairing, you build a pair of cargo ships according to the old method. As for me, I'll pull a bunch of men and horses to build a dock next to me, and a bunch of carpenters to build a big ship. Because they are all carpenters, if there is anything you need help with when building a ship, you have to bring someone to help, do you think that's good? ”

The thin man has no objections, which means that the big order to repair a ship and build a pair of ships is nothing more than a promise to help when necessary. Nodding and walking away. Liu Yao shouted behind him: "Master, your surname is Li, right?" Remember that my surname is Liu, and I will have to deal with it often in the future. ”

With a smile on his face, he watched the thin man walk away proudly, ignoring his greetings at all, Liu Yao said to Zhong Laosi, "Is Mr. Zhao invited?" "Here, I'm checking the terrain with Jiao Huang." "Very well, go to them. You send another letter to Mr. Qian Er, and I will go to him tomorrow morning and tell him not to leave. "The traffic in this time and space is still not fast enough, and when you come to Shilu Port in the morning, you basically have to be here all day, and if you want to go back to Liberty Mountain to do the second thing, the half day spent on the road is not cost-effective.

Lao Zhao saw Liu Yao coming over, and said happily: "This place is good, according to your size, you can just put down five docks." Able to meet your requirements. "Since the arrival of the Li people in large quantities, there is no shortage of manpower on Lao Zhao's thousand-acre field construction site, and it is about to be completed, and there is also room to do some other projects.

"Then let's get started. I visually think you can build three on the sand bank and two on the north bank, right? Repair the three docks on the sand bank first, and put one on the north bank. Liu Yao said excitedly, restraining his desire to wave his hand.

"Sir, are we going to have so many dockyards like this?" Jiao Huang may have a sufficient understanding of size, so he does not worry about raising doubts. Zhong Laosi glared at him, but also looked at Liu Yao suspiciously.

"The shipyard takes time. Slowly we will use so many dockyards. Liu Yao dispelled these doubts in one sentence, and then said to Lao Zhao: "Lao Zhao, the sandbags that were originally planned to be used on the river embankment, you can move here and enclose an open space in the sea, and our dock is half in the water and half on the shore." You don't put too many people into it, the docks are built one by one, and I fill in the workload one by one. ”

Lao Zhao nodded, and asked again: "We have also selected a few locations for the fort, you can see how to decide." Liu Yao looked at the map handed over by Jiao Huang, made a compass with his fingers, roughly measured the distance, and chose the location of the three forts.

Over the next month, Li Fanma's attitude became more and more respectful. He saw with his own eyes the upper reaches of the Shilu River—a secluded place that he could not afford to look up to, and who spent all day dealing with the Li people except ploughing the land—and the people who came with a large amount of supplies and worked with great efficiency. A large number of pockets were filled with sand and made into heavy sandbags, which were carried by groups of Li people and thrown into the sea to form a dam. Two windmills were erected as the dam was about to be built, swirling with the sea breeze, draining the water inside the dam at a speed visible to the naked eye. While the windmills were working, the people who built the dam were not idle, and they built rafts out of logs that drifted down the river – all chained and seemed to be for the long term. These rafts are also chained to the bottom of the sea, and the tripods are propped up on the rafts, which hold up a trough: fresh water from the Shiroku River far from the mouth of the sea flows into the dam, continues to add to the workload of the windmills, and is carried back into the sea.

Li Fanma noticed that the reason why the bracket was built quickly was because there was an iron piece that had been prepared long ago, and it was something that looked like three iron glands were welded together. Some of the wood that floated down the river still had a few green leaves, but all of them were fixed to a fixed size. The end of the three wooden carts was inserted into the iron ring, and a bracket was erected. It seems that these people have been prepared for everything. Li Fanma couldn't help but find the fat man who looked like the leader, and when he heard people call him General Manager Zhao, Li Fanma also called: "May I ask General Manager Zhao, what is this sink for?" Fei Lao tried his best to attract water and throw it away? “

"Diluted. Where we want to put cement, we have to reduce the salt content. Lao Zhao replied without concealment. Although I don't understand what this cement is, I finally understand the reason for dilution.

Li Fanma watched as the land inside the dam was finally diluted after three days, and one by one the trenches were excavated. The people in the upper reaches of the Shiroku River put a lot of iron bars in the ditch and poured some mud-like things into it. The mud was made of a gray powder mixed with water and sand, which was also brought from upstream, and was carried in a large bamboo basket by a brother, and it was probably diluted without the sea sand that was everywhere in front of him.

The mud quickly solidified, harder than stone, forming three straight dams, enclosing a huge square space. It seems that these people really want to build a big ship here. Li Fanma noticed that the two waterwheels were placed at exactly the two corners of the dock, and they had not moved their positions since they were erected—these people from the upstream were really good at doing things.

As soon as the dockyard was built, a large number of planks were brought in. Of course, these planks are not usable yet, they must be dried in the shade for more than half a year, otherwise they will be deformed when they go into the water, and now these planks are placed in a shed on the beach, and when they are dry, they will be sent to their own warehouse, at least part of it. His warehouse is now almost empty, and all the planks that have been prepared have been purchased, and it is said that he is going to build a big ship. Along with the plank, there was also a group of guys who looked like upstream people. They built a huge cement factory and a couple of windmills, and it looked like they were going to do a big job. Li Fanma noticed that these factories and windmills were not aligned with the docks that had already been built, and it seemed that this dock must be planning to build more than one, and the factories were placed in the middle of several docks.

Up to now, Li Fanma was only surprised, but he still maintained his pride: Your shipbuilding dock is very powerful, and shipbuilding is always my specialty. However, he began to worry vaguely that he didn't know how long it would last.

When the windmill began to turn, it was no longer sawn planks that floated downstream, but whole trees. The people upstream stopped an iron chain on the seashore to stop all the driftwood and carried them to the factory. Soon the sound of rattling sawing could be heard in the factory. In the workshop, the upstream people quickly sawed the logs into planks of various specifications and stacked them along a long brick kiln. The silent Li people quickly built the kiln, and soon built a tall chimney.

That morning, everyone left their posts, some standing on the beach, some going down into the water early, wearing vests that would float people. It was something like a cotton vest sewn from thick canvas and filled with driftwood, a particularly light kind of wood. There were many more people sitting in small boats, all looking up the river. Each boat was equipped with paddlers, and one by one the short paddles paddled briskly across the water.

Those upstream people hid in the mountains upstream and made a lot of strange and practical things. Li Fanma looked at the crowd waiting for him, not knowing what they were waiting for.

Soon, a small boat appeared in the river, galloping down with a red flag. Behind the boat was a long raft, which, on closer inspection, was nothing more than a pile of huge logs bundled together.

"These upstream people, who transport some wood as if they are facing a great enemy, have they never seen so much wood?" A chunky subordinate said with a grin. His colleague, a fellow who was also stocky but had a birthmark on his face, replied, "It's more wood upstream." They just hadn't seen so many pieces of wood lying on their backs. ”

The people in the dockyard laughed. Only Li Fanma kept a straight face and didn't speak. The raft in front of him was long and unusually straight, and it looked like it was carrying something huge, longer than the largest ship he had ever seen. This made Li Fanma vigilant.

Sure enough, under the operation of the oarsmen, the raft was guided to the dock. Ropes were thrown on all sides of the dock to tie to the raft, and the raft was pulled and placed exactly in the middle of the dock. Li Fanma's eyes narrowed, that was a reaction to seeing danger. The apprentices stopped laughing anymore, and came over one after another and asked, "Master, what's in there?" "A keel." Li Fanma dropped a sentence and turned back to his dock. During this time, people built a dock from a white field, and the keel was put on the shelf, and the repair of a ship by themselves was not finished.

Liu Yao didn't care about urging Li Fanma's progress, he went all out to catch up with this huge keel. Now that the dark cylindrical keel has been placed on top of the bracket, and the tethers around it are also fixed, as long as the waterwheel is dried, the keel will stay firmly in the predetermined position. In addition to this big guy, there are more artifacts that are being made in the factories upstream. Liu Yu thought with satisfaction that in three months, when the ship was built and equipped with those high-tech that could not be imagined in this time and space, there would be no factor that could threaten the safety of Freedom Mountain—except that there would not be enough navy to recruit.

"Master! That keel is iron! The apprentice with the birthmark on his face rushed into the room and shouted, knocking over a pile of tools.

"Black Dragon, how many times have I told you, can you be calm?" Li Fanma scolded unhappily, and then reacted: "What? Iron keel? ”

The sea water has just been lowered to the bottom of the keel to reveal its full form. It is a 120-meter-long hollow steel pillar with short branches sticking out horizontally on both sides, giving it the shape of a fishbone. This huge thing was cast in one piece, so it had to be transported in one piece. The logs that had been bundled together had been untied, and workers were removing the seals at the ends of the steel columns, a measure taken to increase buoyancy by using the air inside the columns.

Li Fanma looked at this huge keel in amazement, and it was indeed as wide as the length of an ordinary ship.

"Black Dragon, go and ask them if they are still recruiting, let's all go there to work." Li Fanma's mind turned quickly, this group of mountain people must have learned the ability to build a big ship from somewhere, and now that they are short of people, they just went in and followed suit. Otherwise, there will be no chance when the hand is smooth.

"Master, what about our dockyard?" The black dragon asked uneasily.

"Is there still a chance to live in our dockyard? If people want to pinch us to death, aren't we the same as pinching an ant? If my parents had buried it well, they would have bought my little dock, or the dogs wouldn't have come to bite it! ”

Li Fanma ran to the edge of the dock and was stopped by a group of soldiers carrying muskets on their backs. Li Fanma hurriedly said, "I'm from the dockyard next door." I have something to report to Mr. Liu. ”

The soldier rolled his eyes and said, "Are you sure so many people are going, report?" ”

Li Fanma stiffened his neck and said, "Yes, how many people are still in the report?" ”

The soldier smiled and said, "You say they're going to dance." It's just that when I find out that one of them has nothing to report, I'll coax you all out. With us, you can do anything, just don't lie. ”

Li Fanma swallowed his saliva with difficulty and said softly: "We are here to find a job." ”

The soldier immediately changed his expression: "Welcome, welcome, this way, please." You said you were looking for a job, and you didn't have anything to do. Are there any brothers left behind? (To be continued.) )