Chapter IX Government-run shipyards
When he woke up in the morning, he only felt that his whole body was sore, his body seemed to be torn apart, and it was very difficult to even walk, and he thought that his innocent body was handed over to Li Su in such a hurry, which made Xijun angry and aggrieved, and crawled into Li Su's arms to scratch and bite, like a hurt little wild cat. In the end, Li Su swore that he would be responsible for her, and with a meal of sweet words and coaxing, he temporarily calmed down Xijun.
But after appeasing Xijun, Wenxin was in trouble again. Now Li Su's inner house is Wenxin's master, and the maid and wife who married Xiao Mansion occupy half of the country, so what happened in the inner house can't be hidden from Wenxin's ears at all. However, Wen Xin, as a wife, naturally will not do things that hurt women's morals such as 'good jealousy'.
As soon as Li Su appeased Xijun to her, before they could get dressed, Wen Xin led someone into the study, brought Li Su ginseng soup to replenish his body, and fed Li Su very virtuously to drink, and then affectionately commensurate with the Xijun sisters, and it seemed that he didn't mind Xijun and robbing her husband with herself.
However, just before Li Su came and sighed that ancient men were really happy, he suddenly found that he got up and had no one to serve, and the food was cold when he ate, and the medicine that Aunt Tiger gave him seemed to be several times more bitter than usual. What's even more excessive is that he wanted to go back to the bedroom to sleep at night, but was rejected by Wen Xin, on the grounds that he was young and growing his body, so he asked Li Su to find Xijun!
After this series of encounters, Li Su finally understood that women are also human beings, whether in ancient or modern times, they are the same as men, and they have a kind of monopoly on their other half. Although they were taught that their future husbands would have other women, when the day came, the instinct in their nature would still make them feel very sad.
Knowing Wen Xin's psychology, Li Su naturally wouldn't really run to Xijun, otherwise this matter would be endless. For Xiao Wenxin, Li Su still has a very good way, seeing that she doesn't let her enter the door, she simply plays a scoundrel. begging loudly at the door, and screaming like 'little kiss, be careful', the maids led by Wen'er covered their mouths and snickered in the room.
Li Su is thick-skinned and doesn't care at all. But Wen Xin was very thin-skinned, and he was defeated after not holding out for two minutes, and finally his face turned red and let Li Su in. As long as he can see people, Li Su has a way, and he keeps bombarding sweet words day and night, and finally he is sincere and open, so that Wen Xin can recover a little smile, and Li Su can finally eat a hot meal. However, Wen Xin has not let go of Wang Xijun's widow title. It's not that she deliberately made things difficult, but she felt that Wen Xin's background was too low, and if she was canonized as a widow, it would make Li Su's face dull, so she had to think about it. Fortunately, Wang Xijun was not in a hurry at all, after recuperating his body. What to do every day or what to do, it seems that it has not been affected in the slightest.
In fact, the reason why Wenxin forgave Li Su so easily is mainly related to his usual good performance, for example, when Xiao Wenxin got married, the Xiao family originally prepared two girls to marry. And the status is not low, they are all sisters of the same generation as Wenxin, but they were rejected by Li Su. And after the wedding, Wen Xin also found that even Wen'er and Hua'er, the two personal beauties who were grinding with Li Yu'er's sideburns, were still virgins.
It can be seen that Li Su is not a lustful person, although the matter with Wang Xijun this time is a little sudden, but Xiao Wenxin has already had a premonition about Wang Xijun before, so he is not very surprised, but he thinks that after he married Li Su, he has been unable to round the house because of his age, and now he is being driven by Wang Xijun in front, Wenxin, who is a wife, will inevitably have pantothenic acid in his heart, which deliberately made Li Su suffer for a few days.
After finally calming down the affairs at home temporarily, Li Su secretly went to see Wu Meiniang again, this big trouble also made Li Su extremely headache, a Wang Xijun has made Xiao Wenxin eat vinegar for so many days, if he sees Wu Meiniang again, I don't know how big a thing to cause, Li Su remembers that when he was in Chang'an, the two met, and even after Wu Meiniang was taken away, Wen Xin also specially told Li Su to pay more attention to the news about Wu Meiniang, after all, Wu's mother and daughter have been living in Li Meiniang's mansion, Wen Xin, the hostess, naturally has to care about it. Now if Xiao Wenxin sees Wu Meiniang in his hands, Li Su really can't guess what will happen? Therefore, for the time being, it is better to hide it from the other party.
On this day, Li Su called Shangyanbei, and Zhao Fu, who was not driven by Dengzhou, drove the carriage to the shipyard in the northeast outside the city. Dengzhou's shipbuilding industry is very prosperous, and there are four or five shipyards with more than 500 employees, and the two largest of them have reached the scale of more than 1,000 people.
After Li Su and the others arrived at the shipyard, Zhao Fu immediately asked the directors of the two shipyards to call over, one of them was surnamed Gu, an old man in his sixties, who was in charge of the military shipyard that manufactured warships, and the other was a middle-aged man surnamed Xu, who was responsible for manufacturing the civilian shipyard for foreign sales.
Li Su first went to the shipyard where civilian ships were manufactured to take a look, and found that all the ships made here were some cargo ships such as sand boats, most of which were ships of four or five hundred tons, and the largest was only 800 tons. Although these ships are not big in Li Su's opinion, in the era of the Tang Dynasty, these ships were extremely advanced and huge ships in East Asia and even in the whole world.
After that, Li Su went to the military shipyard with the old man surnamed Gu, and some warships such as Mengchong, Fighting Ships, and Walking Boats were built in it, and two huge building ships were also under construction. After the introduction of the ancient head, Li Su learned that the two building ships under construction were called Wuya ships, which were warships that had been finalized in the former Sui Dynasty, with a height of five floors, which could accommodate 500 soldiers, more than 40 long oars, and huge slapsticks in the front and back, which could be used to attack approaching boats.
Li Su felt very painful about the ship that was much more ornamental than practical, and when he came to Dengzhou, he took the boat building. The buildings of this kind of ship are all on the water, the center of gravity is extremely unstable, and the slightest wind and waves will swing back and forth.
"Chief Gu, Chief Xu, there should be a lot of shipwrights in your shipyard who are proficient in shipbuilding, right?" Li Su walked around the two shipyards, and then came to the place where the ancient director usually worked, sat down and asked the two with a smile.
Gu is relatively old, and his qualifications are naturally higher than that of Xu Shi, and when he heard Li Yu's question, he stood up and replied a little nervously: "Your Royal Highness, although there are many shipwrights in the shipyard, there are only thirteen or fourteen who can be called proficient in shipbuilding, and the two shipyards together are only thirteen or fourteen, after all, shipbuilding is a big project, and there are not many people who can fully know it." ”
"Well, a dozen is not a lot, so let's find all these people, I have something to explain." Li Su nodded, he didn't just come to visit the shipyard today, but had a big deal to do.
Hearing the orders of His Royal Highness the King of Qi, Gu and Xu naturally did not dare to delay, and quickly ran out to call someone, Zhao Fu didn't know what Li Su was going to do, and he didn't dare to ask if he wanted to ask, and Yanbei didn't have so many scruples, and just wanted to ask Li Su, but at this time, Li Su said a few words to the people he brought, and someone immediately ran out, and after a while, a black-faced official in his thirties came in, and there were several people carrying two large boxes behind him. This black-faced man was brought by Li Su from Chang'an, surnamed Wei Minggong, because he was black, so everyone called him Wei Heizi.
"Your Highness, everything has been brought!" Wei Heizi said to Li Su deeply, he was originally a technical junior official of the Ministry of Industry of Chang'an, the ancestors of the three generations were shipbuilding for a living, and in his generation, it was carried forward by him, whether it was a river boat or a sea boat, Wei Heizi was very proficient, so he was promoted to an official by the Ministry of Industry, but later he was valued by Li Su, grinding Duan Lun for a few days to get his hands, and now he is the cavalry of the Qi Palace, and he is an official of the seventh grade, nominally in charge of the palace's equipment, riding, etc., but in fact he is a shipbuilding talent reserved by Li Su.
"Well, Wei Gong, you will discuss with the shipwrights of the two shipyards in a while, if there are any difficulties, just raise them in person, and I will have someone help you solve them." Li Su nodded and said, although everyone called him Wei Heizi, but Li Su liked to call each other's names, and it was a coincidence that Wei Heizi's name was quite like the name of engineers in later generations. Although the Tang Dynasty attaches great importance to craftsmen, the status of craftsmen is still not as good as that of scholars and farmers, so Wei Gong, a shipbuilder, is only commensurate with shipwrights, which is really inconsistent with the ability of the other party.
After waiting for a while, Director Gu and Director Xu came back with people one after another, and most of the dozen or so people they brought were old, and occasionally a few young ones were about the same age as Wei Heizi. When these people heard that they were coming to see His Royal Highness King Qi, they were all frightened, and they all seemed to be in a hurry when they gave the salute, and even their movements were a little cringe, and they didn't have the demeanor of a shipbuilder at all.
"Hehe, don't be nervous!" Li Su showed a smile that he thought was kind, and wanted to make everyone relax, but unfortunately the effect was not good, after all, the difference in identity was too great, and these people couldn't let go at all. In desperation, Li Su could only cut directly to the point, and after asking Wei Heizi to open the box, he pointed to the contents and asked, "Everyone, please see, how about these two things?" (To be continued)