"Has the sloop number two been launched?" Yu Xiaotian suddenly asked a question that had nothing to do with this matter.

Li Gouzi was stunned for a moment and quickly nodded: "It's in the water!" In order to vacate the dock as soon as possible, as soon as they built the boat, they hurriedly launched it and moved it out of the dock, and now it is being parked on the shore to install the sail rope and the most rear-end inspection! ”

Yu Xiaotian gently patted the arm of the chair, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he got up and said, "Today's matter will be discussed here first, and I will consider making another decision!" I'll go see the boat first! You don't have to speculate, I must get this face back for us! But it doesn't necessarily have to be a teacher to move the crowd to find Chu Cai's boss to fight! Hey! ”

After everyone heard this, they all immediately got up and said goodbye, and some people followed Yu Xiaotian out of the stockade and headed in the direction of Chuanliao.

On the pier outside the shipyard, a brand new sloop had been launched and was docked next to a trestle, and some shipwrights were busy on board, fitting the ship with sail lines and other parts so that the ship would soon be ready for sea trials.

In terms of shape, this No. 2 ship is almost exactly the same as the previous Exocet, and there is no difference in size, both are 150 ships, but the details are somewhat different from the previous Exocet, when the shipwright built this ship, the Exocet has been on sea trials many times.

According to some problems found during the sea trial, Guo Fu and other shipwrights in the shipwreak have made a certain degree of modification on this No. 2 ship, such as the ribs on both sides of the ship's side have been thickened to enhance the longitudinal strength of the hull, and at the same time, it has also played a certain role in reducing the roll, so that the hull can be more stable when turning at sea and encountering strong wind and waves.

The bow position was to carry a twelve-pounder howitzer, which was strengthened to a certain extent in order to ensure load-bearing capacity and avoid damaging the hull by recoil.

The stern rudder has also been enlarged to make the boat more flexible, and six additional places on both sides of the stern can be used to place the oars, which can be used to power the boat and speed up the ship if the sails are damaged beyond repair, or when there is no wind at sea or offshore.

In short, this ship has been improved in detail compared to the No. 1 ship, the Exocet, making it stronger and more perfect, and it will be ready for use immediately.

As soon as Yu Xiaotian arrived at Chuanliao, he carefully inspected the situation of the No. 2 ship, and greatly praised Chuanliao for completing and launching the No. 2 ship so quickly.

And Guo Fu and others are now very proud, after all, after they have the experience of building the No. 1 ship, the No. 2 ship has basically changed little, some tooling is also in place, and the experience of the shipwright has also been accumulated, so when building the No. 2 ship, there is a lot less trouble, and the overall construction process is quite smooth.

Therefore, not long after the Flying Fish was completed and delivered for trial, they also built the second ship, and hurriedly sent it out of the dock, vacating the dock to start building the fourth ship, that is, the enlarged type of schooner requested by Yu Xiaotian.

After Yu Xiaotian looked at the No. 2 ship, he turned his head and went to the dock of the shipyard to take a look, the dock where the Flying Fish was built before had already been drained again at this time, and the dock door was sealed, the rack in the dock had already been repaired, and the keel of a new sloop schooner had been placed on the rack of the dock at this time, and part of the ribs were in the hands of the shipwrights at this time, which was installed on the keel, combined with the keel, and the overall progress was faster than Yu Xiaotian thought.

It is no wonder that there must be brave men under the heavy reward, Yu Xiaotian has never been stingy with rewards for these craftsmen, as long as they do a good job, the reward will be more, and the craftsmen will not be stingy with more work and work faster in order to get more rewards.

And Yu Xiaotian set a price for the ship, according to the size of the hull construction, in the future, the council hall will settle the ship according to the ship, the faster they build, the more wages they get, if it exceeds the established construction period, it is necessary to deduct the money, if it is in advance, another bounty will be given.

Of course, all the premise is that the ship they build must be done in accordance with the process, not to cut corners, it must be a qualified ship, if the quality of the ship is not up to standard, the shipwrights not only can not get paid, on the contrary, I am afraid that they will have to pay for the material of the ship.

Therefore, this system must be down, and the craftsmen of the shipyard are naturally full of energy, so the speed of the shipyard's engineering has increased rapidly, which makes Yu Xiaotian a little surprised by the enthusiasm of these guys.

"When will this boat be able to test the waters?" Yu Xiaotian pointed to the No. 2 boat docked next to the trestle and asked Guo Fu.

Guo Fu hurriedly replied: "Qi Yu master, the ballast stone of this ship has been installed, and the sail rope and reels are being installed today, and the anchor can be installed tomorrow morning, and the ship will be able to test the water the day after tomorrow at the latest!" ”

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said: "Yes, this time this ship can be simpler to test the water, with the experience of the Flying Fish, this ship should not be a big problem, I want you to use the fastest speed to continue to build this kind of ship, before the end of the year, strive to build four or five usable for me!" ”

Guo Fu nodded in agreement, his face was embarrassed, and he said to Xiaotian: "Big boss, the dock here is just preparing to build a big ship of 300 materials, if you want to build four or five such ships before the end of the year, I am afraid that this big ship of 300 materials will not be able to be built!" In addition, we can't make room for these two docks! ”

Yu Xiaotian touched the beard on his chin, thought about it and said, "What's so difficult about this? This kind of 150-material ship is not big in itself, so it doesn't necessarily have to be docked!

In the past, when you built ships in other places, most of them also made slipways, and then put them into the water with slipways, and then put them on the frame of the boat and then build them!

You're probably worried about manpower! This is easy to do, I will let them go and 'recruit' a group of craftsmen for you! ”

Guo Fu nodded when he heard this: "What the big boss said is very true, this is also a way, and it can be done with a boat frame!" One hundred and fifty boat slipways can be launched! If we can add forty or fifty more craftsmen, as long as the timber can keep up, the small ones can be guaranteed by the end of the year, and two more such boats will be built for the big bosses, and the other three hundred ships can be built before the end of the year! ”

Yu Xiaotian didn't say anything more, returned home and rested for two days, and ordered the council hall to organize a few boats of materials needed by Tamsui Village, and asked the ministries to find a way to continue to recruit immigrants and transport them to Jilong Bay and Tamsui Village.

Now that Yan Siqi and the others have landed in the south and began to recruit immigrants from the Zhangquan area, they can't move too slowly, they must increase the number of immigrants in Jilong Bay and Tamsui Village as soon as possible, so that they can gradually occupy an advantage in the competition for territory with the local natives in the future.

In short, if he wants to run Taiyuan Island, no one can't do it, and he must find a way to attract more immigrants to settle there.

But it is not enough to recruit immigrants, who have to settle and cultivate the land when they get there, which requires a lot of tools and tools and a large number of cattle.

Although he had prepared a batch of cattle in Nanri Island in advance, the number was still far from satisfying the needs, and he had promised the migrant villages along the Tamsui River that after returning this time, he would send three to five cattle to each migrant village as his first investment to these migrant villages to enhance their cultivation capacity.

This matter involves the problem of winning the trust of the people in the future, so he did not dare to be careless, and after he returned, while organizing the existing idle farming cattle on Nanri Island, he sent people to inform the merchants in Fuzhou and Funing, so that they could find a way to buy farming cattle for the sea wolf on land through various ways, transport them to Nanri Island first, and then transfer them to Tamsui Village.

Just when Yu Xiaotian was busy raising all kinds of materials needed for Tamsui Village, Yu Xiaotian got a report that the patrol ship blocked a fleet in the Minjiang River estuary, and this fleet did not pay tolls in accordance with the rules of the sea wolf, but they said that they had a friendship with the big boss and hoped that we would raise our noble hands once, but the brother who did the work did not agree, and took them back to Nanri Island, which had been detained at the East Wharf.

According to the brothers who escorted them back, it seems that they are also doing our business, and their steward said that he was a friend of Zheng Yiguan and wanted to meet the big boss once!

Yu Xiaotian felt strange when he heard it, of course Zheng Yiguan knew what he said, but what did this group of people do? Unconsciously, he suddenly remembered the fleet he encountered on the way back from the Tamsui River, and he didn't stop to inquire about the fleet at that time, but it was roughly clear that they were also sailing in the direction of Fuzhou.

Could it be that this fleet has been detained by his own men? If so, where did they come from, given where they were at that time?

"What is the name of the steward of that fleet?" Yu Xiaotian immediately opened his mouth and asked his subordinates who came to report the news.

"This person claims to be surnamed Yan, and his name is Siqi! ……”

Yu Xiaotianteng stood up suddenly, and suddenly laughed.

(Two updates today, another chapter in the afternoon!) ）