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Of course, Zhang Chu didn't expect the officials of the Ming Dynasty to be the selfless living Lei Feng, these materials were all bought with real money, but it was also rare to get so many good materials for building sea ships in time.

Today, the construction of the new ship in the shipyard officially started, and Xie Lian spoke in his capacity as the governor, encouraging everyone to work hard and strive for an early completion. After listening to the craftsmen below, they applauded the governor's speech desperately, Xie Lian knew that his words were not really so popular, and most of the enthusiasm of the workers came from Zhang Chu's previous announcement of doubling the wages of the workers, and also announced the implementation of various reward systems in the work, as long as the workers worked hard, they would have a good income.

Xie Lian didn't understand at first that Zhang Chu had raised the wages of the craftsmen by a large margin under such a tight budget, until Zhang Chu took him into the craftsmen's homes, Xie Lian understood that the life of the people in this world is different from the life of his governor, the life of the people of the Ming Dynasty is already very difficult, and the living standards of the craftsmen are still below the ordinary people. Zhang Chu not only raised the wages of the craftsmen, but also cleared out a piece of land in the shipyard and began to build houses, saying that after the houses were completed, the craftsmen would conduct a competition, and the group of people with the best technology and the greatest contribution to the shipyard would get housing, and the houses would be built in batches, and everyone would have the opportunity to fight for them.

Building houses for the craftsmen was not a heavy burden for Zhang Chu, and the land was not very tight in this era, so Zhang Chu did not need to build high-rise buildings for the craftsmen, as long as he built rows of adobe houses. At this time, Zhang Chu also did not care about environmental protection, took out food and hired many people, went to the mountains to cut down trees to make adobe, and burned bricks and white ash.

Most of the walls of the house are made of adobe, with only a few key parts made of bricks, and then plastered with plaster roof tiles on the exterior walls to keep them strong and warm. Looking at the white walls and green tiles from a distance, it is very beautiful. The craftsmen go to the construction site when they have time, and here is their hope for the future.

Xie Lian couldn't help but praise Zhang Chu a few words when he saw that the workers were full of energy, and after improving the lives of the craftsmen, the work efficiency of the craftsmen had increased a lot, and the shipyard was full of laughter, no longer the lifeless appearance before. In this way, the things produced are much faster and much better than the previous ones that were not worked out before.

Zhang Chu accompanied Xie Lian to visit, while thinking about the production progress of the shipyard, the scale of this shipyard is still too small, it is okay to produce some lucky ships or something, and it is impossible to produce large warships. It seems that it is still necessary to hurry up the construction of a new shipyard, which Zhang Chu has decided to build in Weihai, where there is a natural harbor, and at the same time, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Now that the emperor has issued a holy decree and ordered Zhang Chu to manage Weihaiwei on his behalf, the time has come to take over Weihai.

Weihaiwei is one of the famous four Davids of the Ming Dynasty, which played an important role in resisting the attack of the Japanese invaders, but it inevitably declined like the Ming Dynasty, degraded from a military unit to a farm controlled by officials, and the soldiers of the guard were much more skilled with hoes than with weapons. The strict household registration management system of the Ming Dynasty made the soldiers of the guard neither leave nor dare to resist, the officials took the land of the guard as their own, and even some landlords around the guard dared to encroach on the land of the guard, most of the grain produced in the guard was plundered by the officials, and the life of the soldiers became more and more difficult. It turned out that the commander of Weihaiwei was very happy after receiving the news that he was transferred away from Weihaiwei by Zhang Chu on behalf of Weihaiwei, and packed up his things overnight, took away everything that could be taken away, and did not even hand over the handover, and ordered his five thousand households to wait for Zhang Chu to receive it, and he ran to the household department to carry out activities, and was assigned to any place that was better than this bird that did not.

The soldiers in the guard are indifferent to the change of the chief, although the new officials will loot it fiercely, but now the guard has nothing left, and it is the ability of officials to scrape out the silver from here.

Zhang Chu finally came to the prestige this time, took a lot of effort to put on the official uniform of the general soldier, and took two thousand soldiers of the security army, playing a full set of honor guards of the general soldier, and came to the Weihai receiving guard in high spirits.

Weihaiwei has a special significance for Zhang Chu, who likes military affairs, not only because of its dangerous terrain, but more importantly, it is closely related to the rise and fall of China, a name related to the rise and fall of China, the Chinese carried out the final struggle, the Beiyang Naval Division, the most powerful fleet in Asia at that time, was established on Liugong Island in Weihai, and then destroyed there, and the century-old shame of the Chinese began there. Many people have traveled to that period to change that period of history, the grief in the hearts of the Chinese is difficult to soothe in words, Zhang Chu got the opportunity to travel to Daming this time, completely able to change history, greatly advance the appearance of China's powerful navy, eliminate the disaster early, and the tragedy will not appear.

The team of the security army is neat, and the honor guard of the chief soldier is brand new and beautiful, which has never been used before, but the soldiers of the guard station who greeted Zhang Chu suddenly pulled Zhang Chu back to reality from the clouds, just like the lively peasants in the countryside, the old and weak people of the hundred and ten gathered at the gate of the guard station, and when they saw Zhang Chu coming, they understood the rules, and knelt on the ground to salute Zhang Chu who was riding on a horse.

Only then did Zhang Chu see clearly that these people were indeed wearing official and military uniforms, and the clothes were not only washed and colored, but also had patches on them. Even the five people who took the lead and knelt at the front of the line had patches on their clothes.

"This group of people will not pretend to be poor in front of me to show that they are incorruptible." The first thing that flashed in Zhang Chu's mind was the bridge break in the braid scene.

"Weihaiwei Qianhu Zhong Xiu led the Weihaiwei officials to see the chief soldier." Among the five people kneeling in the front row, an old man with white hair said loudly.

Seeing this, Zhang Chu hurriedly jumped off the ride and said, "Everyone, please get up." Zhang Chu was not used to others bowing down to him, let alone an old man of such an age.

The people on the opposite side listened to Zhang Chu's words and stood up one after another, and Zhang Chu saw clearly that this group of so-called officials, not only with tattered clothes, but also hungry with skin and bones, and their faces were full of vegetables, and they were really not showing him integrity.

"Who are you?" Although the old man had already shouted, Zhang Chu didn't dare to confirm it, so he opened his mouth and asked again.

"We are Weihaiwei's thousands of households, hundreds of households and other officials, here to welcome the general soldier." The old man had to repeat it again when he heard Zhang Chu's question.

Zhang Chu secretly complained in his heart: "It's over, even the officials in this guard station are so poor, what kind of soldiers do they have to be." (To be continued.) )