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Sun Changhao was stunned for a while, and as soon as he came, he entrusted himself with such a heavy task, a gunpowder workshop with 2,000 cannons and 20,000 guns, how big is that? Is the ratio of 1 tael and 5 coins of nitrate, 2 coins of sulfur, and 3 coins of willow charcoal better than mine?

Yinzhen shouted outward, "Haifeng." ”

Da Chun replied outside: "Master, Young Master Wanyan has gone to Zhang's house." ”

Yinzhen patted his forehead and said with a self-deprecating smile, "I'm busy, Da Chun, you inform Lord Xu and ask him to accompany Sun Changhao to choose a place to build a gunpowder workshop, and find a place for Sun Changhao to settle down, and the monthly allowance will be issued at ten taels, and three months of silver will be sent to him as a settling-in fee, and he will be assigned two retinues, and then Ma Ming will be his deputy." ”

Ma Ming was dug by Yinzhen from the Ministry of Industry, and he is a talent in firearms, a Han man, less than 30 years old, and if he hones it more, he is not a one-sided talent.

The monthly salary is ten taels of silver! Sun Changhao was taken aback, he only had 800 wen a month in the firecracker workshop, and he didn't expect Yinzhen to be so thoughtful for him, and his heart was hot, "The fourteenth master is so loving, Zi'an can't repay it, and he will do his best to do his job well." ”

"Of course, the errand must be done well, but you must also pay attention to your body, and in the future, the master will still point to you to make great efforts." Yinzhen said warmly, "The gunpowder workshop should be far away from the crowd gathering place, and if you want money, you just have to open your mouth, in addition, it is better to settle down at home, and it is better to move to Shanghai, so as not to run at both ends, you don't care about the money of the family, and the master will arrange it for you." ”

Looking at Sun Changhao, who was flushed, followed Da Chun and retreated. Yinzhen secretly examined, why didn't he think of building a gunpowder workshop in the first place? Is there anything missing that isn't? Don't think about letting Xu Shizhen go to conquer the land again, it will be a joke.

Two shipyards, foundries, firearms factories, ironworks, gunpowder workshops, naval colleges, well, it would be good to have a quilt factory, planning to recruit 20,000 navy, now Bingyong's coat is not suitable for wearing on warships, each person has several sets of clothes, hats, shoes, socks and quilts per year, yes, this quilt factory really has to have one, what is the difference?

was thinking about it, so I listened to the report outside, "Master, Miss Zhang has arrived." ”

Yinzhen was overjoyed, stepped to the door in a few steps, and saw Zhang Mengjiao walking over with a smile on her face, so she said with a smile: "The ancients, if you don't see each other for a day, it's really not an exaggeration at all." ”

Zhang Mengjiao said with a slight annoyance, "Don't be poor, have something to say, on this snowy day, tossing back and forth, do you want to exhaust me?" ”

Yinzhen didn't care at all, "Hehe, I'm not in a hurry, I'm about to ask for advice on something, come in, don't freeze." ”

When Zhang Mengjiao entered the house, Yinzhen said: "Although I am sitting in Shanghai shipbuilding, but in this regard is a complete layman, the shipbuilders invited from all over the country, I am afraid that it will not be in place until the beginning of the year, but I can't sit and wait now, some things have to be planned in advance, don't look at the number of people in my hands, but in the matter of shipbuilding, no one can really say a meridian Yinmao, no, I have to invite you to this god, I want to figure out what are the timber for shipbuilding?" Where do they generally come from? ”

Zhang Mengjiao casually looked at the layout of the study, and after Yinzhen finished speaking, she laughed and said, "What?" The Fourteenth Master also had a day when someone got stuck in his neck? ”

This woman's mind is too cautious, and she knows the meaning of the song when she hears the strings, and Yinzhen has already understood, "Can you tell me what you think?" ”

"It's not simple, just separate and call someone to invite, ask the wood when you open your mouth, isn't it strange that you're worried about being stuck in the wood?" Zhang Mengjiao showed a look of disdain, and asked curiously after speaking, "Didn't you offend all the offshore fleets in the Reading Pavilion?" ”

"I just want to offend, and I have to have this ability." Yinzhen pretended to be impatient, "It's okay to call your aunt and grandmother, don't sell it, say it quickly." ”

"Go, who loves to be your aunt." Zhang Mengjiao sighed lightly, and then Zhengrong said: "Shipbuilding is generally made of local materials, the most important thing in our south is the fir wood, fir wood has the characteristics of easy processing, corrosion resistance, light and soft texture, moisture resistance, etc., itself is an excellent ship material, and the most important thing is lattice wood, also called ironwood, lattice wood is hard and heavy, strong and insect resistant, since the Ming Dynasty, large fortune ships, battleship hull keel, ribs, rudder rods and other important parts are made of lattice wood, you are building large warships, followed by teak and pine, teak weight is medium, Not easy to deform, not easy to wear, corrosion resistance, is the most ideal wood for deck, pine is also known as '10,000-year-old sea pine', high strength, wear-resistant, not afraid of water immersion, but also suitable for deck or structural board. Nanmu, oak, elm, locust wood is generally used as beams and fangs, elm, nut, oak, Zhoumu, can also be used as rudder rods and door closing sticks, cypress, catalpa wood as oars, masts with straight fir, the rest does not matter. ”

My obedient, listening to her report the characteristics and uses of various woods, Yinzhen couldn't help but secretly speak, worthy of being a child of a big ship merchant, such detailed information came immediately, can not be delayed any longer, tomorrow let people come to the door to propose, first occupy the name and then say.

Zhang Mengjiao knew the dirty thoughts in his heart, and said to himself, "Fir is good to say, inland rivers, open seas can come, Gemu is mainly produced in Guangzhou, Fujian, Zhejiang and Taiwan, teak is from Siam, Burma, pine is good in Zhili and Kanto, as for cypress, catalpa, nanmu, oak, elm, locust wood, etc., in the two rivers and lakes, there are two rivers and lakes, you want to build an ocean-going fleet, hundreds of large and small ships, the cost of wood is quite amazing, as long as the inland river and the open sea are cut off, your ship-building plan may be stillborn." ”

Stillborn? It was not easy for the Lord to see a glimmer of light in the Ocean Empire, how could he let it be stillborn? There is no problem with the inland river, after all, there are so many clans and royal families to greet them, and those slaves who are released are not all vegetarians, the problem is the open sea, but Yinzhen does not know anything about the situation of the sea fleet, "There is no problem with the inland river, the question is the open sea, what is the situation of the trade fleet in the open sea?" ”

"Sea navigation is not as good as inland rivers, small fleets are generally attached to large fleets, sailing at sea, basically in groups, small fleets go to sea alone, it is tantamount to sending money to pirates, your bulk timber transportation, can only rely on large fleets. In fact, each large fleet is composed of countless small fleets with backgrounds, and the relationships inside are also intertwined and complex, they have their own spheres of influence, trade routes, objects and trade commodities, and they are also mutually excluded, suppressed and embezzled, but externally, they are absolutely consistent, so the large fleets are all behemoths with deep backgrounds. Because she didn't know where Yinzhen's worries came from, and she didn't know the specific situation, Zhang Mengjiao stopped here.