There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, Zhu Houwei and the little girl got up as usual to practice boxing, and after a while, Zhu Yuan ran over, the expression on his face was to laugh and hold back, and when he arrived, Zhu Houwei asked, "What's wrong, what's the matter with your expression?" ”

Zhu Yuan then gloated and said with a smile, "Second young master, the kid who was cleaned up yesterday is now kneeling bare-chested at the gate of the Zhongjun Mansion, this kid is so cold that his eyes are full of tears and snot, and he is shaking badly, young master, do you want to take a look." ”

Zhu Houwei said to the little girl, "You stay here, I'll take a look." Then he took Zhu Yuan and walked out of the door, and the little girl crept to follow.

After a while, when he arrived at the door, he found that Wu Yiheng was also there, and he looked at the kneeling ball with a smile. Zhu Houwei fixed his eyes and saw a person, naked, kneeling on the concrete floor, his head against the ground, and the whole person kept shaking.

Wu Yiheng saw Zhu Houwei coming, hurriedly stepped forward and said, "I've been kneeling for half an hour." "Now that it has entered the middle of winter, Zhu Houwei estimates that the temperature should be in the minus 20s, which is really no joke to stay topless for an hour.

Zhu Houwei stepped forward and said, "Okay, get up quickly, Yiheng, take a piece of clothing for him to wear." At this time, the man on the ground slowly raised his head, still with that unpleasant face, and now his face was full of snot and tears, Zhu Houwei took a look and found that Shi Xiang's eyes were red, this was crying.

Zhu Houwei said, "Don't kneel here, come in." Shi Xiang wanted to stand up, but he knelt numb, and the whole person was so cold that he was inflexible, and he fell down all of a sudden. Wu Yiheng and Zhu Yuan saw him like this, shook their heads slightly, put a down jacket on him, and then set him up. Shi Xiang is not tall, his legs are frozen now, his calves are bent, and the whole person has become vacant.

Zhu Yuan and Wu Yiheng had no choice but to move him directly to the dining room, where the fireplace was lit, which was very warm. When he arrived at the dining room, Zhu Houwei sat on the main seat, Shi Xiang reluctantly stood in confusion, then glanced at Zhu Houwei, and fell to his knees again.

Zhu Houwei sighed, seeing him like this, the anger in his heart was seventy-seven-eighty-eight. So he said, "All right, it's all over, get up and speak." Shi Xiang got up slowly, but he lowered his head and couldn't see his expression.

Zhu Houwei saw that he lowered his head and was silent, and he didn't have time to spend with him, he still had something to do today, so he said a little coldly, "Okay, I received your apology, this matter is over, you can do it yourself in the future, okay, you go back." At this time, Shi Xiang lowered his head and seemed to say calmly, "I can't go back." ”

Zhu Houwei noticed that Shi Xiangsu Anran lowered his head, but two drops of water fell to the carpet, and the kid cried. Zhu Houwei asked, "What's going on?" Shi Xiang raised his head, tears flowed uncontrollably, and he laughed self-deprecatingly on his face, "I have no home, my father kicked me out of the house, so that I don't come back if I can't mix up my appearance." I'm here today to plead guilty and join the army. ”

Zhu Houwei was also taken aback, thinking that this Shi Langzhong was so ruthless, and after thinking about it again, he thought that this old fox had asked Shi Xiang to have a relationship with him and Zhu Houzhao, so he said, "In the army?" Your uncle is the commander of the Tianjin Guard, so you don't need to be here if you want to join the army, and besides, if you want to join the army, your father is willing to join the army? ”

Shi Xiang said slowly and expressionlessly: "Reluctant? My father expelled me from the clan and transferred me to the military household, and as for my uncle, like my father, he never had anything to do with me again. ”

Zhu Houwei listened and said with a smile: "What if the water and land camp doesn't accept you?" Shi Xiang's eyes became confused again, "I don't know, where else can I go?" "What else can I do, without my family background, without fine clothes and food, I am just a waste, just waiting to die." ”

Zhu Houwei looked at his expression, Shi Xiang is only in his 20s this year, if it is a tragedy, he doesn't believe that he killed Zhu Houwei, he has always thought that at his age, he is the highest acting skill of a young actor, and other people's acting skills are flawed, and they can't escape his eyes.

Zhu Houwei asked, "Do you hate your father?" Shi Xiang calmed down and said, "Hate? I don't know if to hate him or myself. ”

Zhu Houwei nodded, "It's okay to come in the water and land camp, but it's not easy to stay inside, you have to train hard every day, and you will often go to the battlefield, it's normal for you to be injured or die, you can do it yourself, send you a word, life for decades, how to live, you choose." ”

Then he turned his head to Zhu Yuan next to him and said, "This kid is handed over to you, just train according to the current intensity, if he wants to go, he will be left by him, don't stop him." ”

Then he walked out of the door, stopped when he walked to the door, turned his back to the inside, and said, "You ask yourself, are you still not a man, and after crying, hurry up." Then he walked away on his own.

Shi Xiang looked at Zhu Houwei standing at the door, the sun shone on Zhu Houwei's "petite" body, his back stinged his eyes brightly, Shi Xiang wiped his eyes, and then knelt down to Zhu Yuan and said, "Little Shi Xiang, I've seen adults." Zhu Yuan nodded, then helped him up and said, "We don't need to kneel when we see our superiors in the water and land camps. ”

Zhu Houwei arrived at the gate, and the little girl and her party were already waiting there. The place where they are going today is the dockyard, because today the craftsmen and laborers were divided into two groups and began to build the Daifuku ship.

When I arrived at the construction site, there was a team of local craftsmen, shouting everywhere, not a craftsman commanding everyone loudly, and from time to time adding a "cordial greeting". The materials for shipbuilding are stacked neatly, and when building some of the small parts on the ship, they are basically crammed into an open space. Zhu Houwei just looked at it, and then continued to walk north, where was the Longjiang shipbuilding team.

When I arrived here, I found that the construction site was much quieter, basically asking a few words next to each other, and rarely shouting loudly. Li Ruqing, Yang Tie, and Qiu Run are even more leisurely, the three of them sit in the open space on the side with a purple clay pot to bask in the sun, sit in a rocking chair under their buttocks, shake it from time to time, and take a sip on the teapot, which looks very comfortable.

The little girl seemed very interested in doing carpentry work here, and was about to go up to help, but was stopped by Zhu Houwei. The same craftsmen under his command, as a leader, cannot prematurely express their preferences until the results are out.

At this time, the little girl saw the old man who was basking in the sun, and walked over a little angrily, crossed her waist with one hand, pointed at the three of them with her index finger in the other hand and said, "Everyone else is working, why are you three lazy, be careful, I tell my second brother that I won't pay you." When the three old men saw the brother and sister, they hurriedly got up to salute, but were stopped by Zhu Houwei, "The three of them don't need to be polite, the sister is rude, don't take it to heart." The three old men hurriedly shook their hands, "No, no." Zhu Houwei came over and asked, "I just came from the south, and I found that your management methods are a little different from theirs, I don't know if the three of you can talk about it." ”

Old man Li Ruqing bowed at this time and said, "The prince is too modest. The current method is the same as the previous method of Longjiang Shipyard. Now all the craftsmen are divided into four compartments, with a compartment chief, and then each compartment is divided into ten compartments, with a chief, and the first chief leads 10 people. The three of us are the team leaders. The carriage is divided into ship wood, shuttle, oar, and rope maker; The second compartment is divided into shipwood, iron, and cableman; The sedan is a craftsman; The four compartments are divided into brown and tent makers. ”

Zhu Houwei nodded, and then asked, "How long do you expect it will take for the three of you to build this Great Fortune Ship?" Yang Tie frowned and said, "With the current manpower, about 3 months." However, if it is rebuilt in the future, the time will be shortened, after all, the current ones are basically new. Zhu Houwei replied, "That's good, if you think it's good here, write a letter to the shipwright you know in the future." I've got too few boatmen, not too many of them. The three old men all nodded.

Qiu Run said at this time, "Lord Wang, since the shipyard is preparing to build more ships, then these timbers in Zhuangzi are not enough, and besides, the timber can't be used directly when it is just taken." The shipyard also needs to build a steaming house so that the wood can be removed from moisture, so that the life of the ship can be greatly increased in the future. ”

Zhu Houwei immediately said, "If you want money, even if you want people, there will be no shortage." I only need to look at the ships that have been built, and I have also put some pictures of the ships I have drawn in the Chinese Military Mansion, and when the ships are built, I will start to study and try to build them. The three old men immediately replied: "Old decay must do his best." ”

Today, Zhu Houwei and others basically walked around the construction site to see if there were any major problems. Because when the sailing ship comes back, Zhu Houwei will also return to Beijing, and it is impossible for him to stay in Tianjin all the time.