Su Song had been waiting for Zhao Yan's arrival on the dock for a long time, when Zhao Yan's boat had just stopped at the berth, he hurriedly walked a few steps forward to prepare to greet him, and Zhao Yan on the bow of the ship had already seen Su Song, and hurriedly stepped off the ship at the moment, but Su Song said: "Your Highness, follow me to the shipyard to see, our newly designed ship has been tested and found to have excellent balance, if maritime merchants use this kind of ship, even if they encounter strong storms and waves at sea in the future, they don't have to worry!" ”

Seeing Su Song's excited appearance, Zhao Yan and the others were also stunned, because they had been on the boat for such a long time, it was supposed that they should take a break, and at least they should have a reception banquet before talking about business, but Su Song was too anxious? However, Su Song didn't care so much, he took Zhao Yan's hand and walked to the shipyard, Zhao Yan saw this situation, and it was really not good to mention the matter of resting, anyway, the shipyard was by the dock, and he was also very concerned about the situation in the shipyard, so he simply went to take a look.

Su Song usually looks more like an official in front of Zhao Yan, but now when he takes over the shipyard and begins to study the design of new ships, he shows his character in scientific research, and now he is more like a scholar, so he didn't care about whether Zhao Yan and they needed to take a break, but were anxious to show Zhao Yan his research results.

Soon Zhao Yan and they followed Su Song to the newly built shipyard, although this shipyard has not officially opened, but in fact, the internal facilities have been built, and the internal craftsmen have already been sent over by Zhao Yan, and they have been following Su Song to study the design of the new ship during this time, and now they are just waiting for Zhao Yan to attend the opening ceremony, and the entire shipyard can officially start.

Zhao Yan came to the gate of the shipyard and looked at it, only to see that the top of the shipyard was written with five big characters "Qiongzhou Shipyard", and as soon as he entered the door, he saw piles of wood placed in the open space on both sides, which were not native to Qiongzhou. It was transported from Guangzhou and other places, because the wood for shipbuilding needs to be cut down and dried for a long time, and there was no shipyard in Qiongzhou before, let alone this kind of timber reserves, so for the time being, wood can only be transported from the outside world, but Su Song has asked people to cut down local timber for reserves. It is estimated that it will be used next year, and the cost of shipbuilding can also be reduced by then.

Passing through the front of the timber stacking area, followed by a timber area, there are many craftsmen working in this area, their task is to process the previously stacked timber into planks, beams and other materials needed for shipbuilding, and then send them to the dock in front of them for backup, in fact, this is a timber workshop, in addition to the cable area, sail area, iron area, etc., there are special craftsmen working.

After passing through these areas. Zhao Yan and the others finally came to the core area of the shipyard, that is, the dock of shipbuilding, only to see that this Qiongzhou shipyard has already built three docks, and there is still a lot of open space on the west side, it seems that there will be a few more docks in the future, and in front of the dock there are several large houses, and there are many craftsmen in and out of the houses.

Su Song led Zhao Yan and them to a house in the middle, and the surrounding craftsmen also saluted when they saw Su Song. Su Song also smiled and asked them to step back and wait to enter the house. Zhao Yan saw that there was a large pool dug in the middle of the whole house, and several wooden ship models were placed in the pool, and on the other side, there were several craftsmen shaking a device similar to a waterwheel, and the large and small waves appeared on the surface of the pool, which seemed to be simulating the wind and waves on the sea, making the boat models undulating in the waves. In this way, the stability of these vessels is tested.

Seeing this big pool, Zhao Yan couldn't help but smile at Su Song next to him: "You guys will find a way, but there are only waves and no wind in the pool, and there are no boats to manipulate the boat model, so I'm afraid the test results are not very accurate, right?" ”

"Haha. Or His Royal Highness is powerful, at a glance to see the disadvantages of this test method, but this is also a helpless thing, we can only do this step, the boat models in the pool are made according to the design size of the reduced zuò, and the real ship is almost no different, although the results of the test in this pool are not accurate, but at least can give us a reference, so as not to make the boat flashy. Su Song also explained with a smile when he heard this.

Zhao Yan also felt justified when he heard it, after all, the current conditions are limited, and it is already the limit for Su Song and them to be able to do this, unless he can invent a super strong fan to create wind and waves now, but even if there is a fan, it will not work, because there is no electricity at all, he used to make a small hand-cranked generator in Tokyo City, but that can only charge the mobile phone, and it is also a manpower generation, which has no practical value at all.

After crossing this pool, I saw a lot of ship models placed on the shelves on the wall, most of them were brand new, it seemed that they should be newly made by Su Song during this time, I saw Su Song walk in front of these ship models, and then picked up the top ship model and said to Zhao Yan: "Your Highness, please see, this ship is our newly designed sea ship, although it has not yet been built, but after our tests, we found that this kind of ship has a low center of gravity in the sea, and has a very high stability, and the space in the cabin is also very large. It can be loaded with more cargo, making it ideal for sea voyages! ”

Zhao Yan listened to Su Song's introduction while taking the model of this sea ship, and then looked at it seriously, the sea ships of the Chinese dynasties have a common feature, that is, the use of hard sails, which is obviously different from the soft sailing ships of later Europeans, the ship in Zhao Yan's hands is naturally also a hard sailing ship, the shape of the ship is similar to the classic sea ship that Zhao Yan has seen in later generations, that is, the Fu ship, on the whole, the head is pointed, the tail is wide, the two heads are upturned, the head and tail are high, there are guard plates on both sides, and the front can be equipped with a collision angle, that is, it can be used as a merchant ship. It is also very suitable for warships.

I saw Zhao Yan look at the ship model in his hand a few times, and then strode to the edge of the pool, put the ship model into the water, and found that this ship model really has a deep draft, and it is very stable in the waves, if it is a wave from the bow of the ship, it will hardly have any impact on it, if it is a wave from one side, although it will make the hull shake, but the impact is limited.

"Yes, yes, it's really very stable, and I think the resistance to wind and waves is also very good, but I don't know how fast it is?" Zhao Yan couldn't help but admire when he saw this, but finally raised a question about the speed, after all, there is no steam engine now, and only wind power can be used, so the quality of a ship, speed is also an extremely important aspect.

"Please rest assured, Your Highness, the sail layout of the whole ship is very reasonable, which can make full use of the wind in all directions, and you can see that the bow is relatively sharp, so that this ship has less resistance in the waves, so the speed will definitely not be slower than the current ship!" Su Song patted his chest and assured that during this time, he had done a lot of communication with Zhao Yan through his son Su Chong, and he also knew some physical terms easily, which also made the communication between him and Zhao Yan very smooth.

"In that case, let's prepare to build a prototype ship, this time this king is not only here to attend the opening ceremony of the shipyard, but also to bring you some shipbuilding orders, and when these ships are delivered, if they are excellent, they will definitely bring you more orders!" Zhao Yan immediately clapped his hand and said, the order he brought this time was actually the boat he bought privately, because the profits brought by the sea trade are getting more and more lucrative, although Zhao Yan is not bad for money, but Cao Ying insists on taking a share of the sea trade, in her words, there are more children in the family, and there may be a loser in the future, so she has to earn more family business, and even if the child is a loser, she can lose a few more years.

"Great, Xiaguan is worried that he can't find an order after the establishment of the shipyard, but he didn't expect His Highness to send charcoal in the snow, and Xiaguan will definitely urge the craftsmen to do their best to make the ship a good one!" Su Song was also overjoyed when he heard this, originally he wanted to go to the deep-water port or other ports to pull some orders in person, but he didn't expect Zhao Yan to even think of this for him.

Next, Zhao Yan visited the completed shipyard under the leadership of Su Song, the last time he came here, it was just a wasteland, but now the entire shipyard has been built, and all the workshops have also started operation, just waiting for the official start of shipbuilding after the opening.

It wasn't until after visiting the shipyard that Su Song's excitement passed, and then he finally remembered that Zhao Yan and they had just disembarked from the ship, and it was time to rest, such as Su Shi and others had already shown a tired look on their faces, which made him feel a little guilty, and hurriedly invited Zhao Yan and them to come to the Zhizhou Mansion in Qiongzhou City, and set up a banquet to entertain Zhao Yan and others.

When he entered the city just now, Zhao Yan deliberately paid attention to the changes in Qiongzhou City, and found that although the city wall of Qiongzhou is still so low and dilapidated, there are more pedestrians on the street, and the main trunk of the street has also undergone some repairs, which looks much cleaner and tidy, all thanks to the construction of the shipyard and the mining of iron ore in Qiongzhou, which has brought a lot of popularity to Qiongzhou, but the time is still too short, so the impact is not big, but it has increased some population, but I believe that it will wait until a few years later, The entire city of Qiongzhou will definitely change dramatically.

"Your Highness, try this bamboo rice, last time I saw that His Royal Highness and Brother Zizhan both like to eat, so I specially sent someone to learn from the old man of Zhaoqu, and after the improvement of the cook, the taste is better than before!" At the banquet, Su Song pointed to the newly delivered bamboo rice and said with a smile, in fact, he also felt very delicious after tasting the bamboo rice last time, so he let people learn it, and now he just used it to entertain Zhao Yan and them.

Zhao Yan tasted this improved bamboo tube rice, and immediately praised: "The taste is really much better than before, it seems that Zirong is also a person who loves food!" When he said this, Zhao Yan suddenly changed the topic and spoke again, "By the way, what's going on with the iron mine, there are no more dead people, right?" (To be continued......)