"How much is that?"

"A few hundred......" Hou Zhi said uncertainly.

"You are going to die, this is the money and silk materials in the army," Pan Li'er said with a shy stomach. Hou Zhi is not a senior, don't talk about Pan Mei, even Song Jiu, Hou Zhi doesn't dare to show up. Song Jiu is idle at home, which cannot be regarded as completely idle, and is engaged in research and development. Once appointed, it is also at least the governor of the big state.

"It's not much, less than a thousand dollars."

Song Jiu and Pan Li'er didn't believe that corrupt officials like them could find out a thousand yuan, so at least they were greedy for five thousand yuan. Although he knew Yangzhou, he led his troops south, captured Xuanhua Town, and stationed in Xuanhua Town (Liuhe) to prevent the Southern Tang Dynasty from crossing the river desperately.

It is not only military salaries that are embezzled, but also some local money and taxes. The number is not much, and it is precisely because it is not much, so it cannot be distributed to subordinates, and the subordinates are angry and denounced. This is the front line, Jinling has not yet been taken, if the three armies are shaken, the consequences will be serious, Zhao Kuangyin was angry and transferred Hou Zhi back to the capital to question.

Therefore, as soon as he arrived in the capital, he first looked for a relationship, the first one was Song Jiu, and then he planned to find Chu Zhaofu and Lu Duoxun.

Pan Li'er said: "You have a big matter, Yang Kerang has not returned to the capital yet." ”

Hou Zhi was even more frustrated. Song Jiu didn't let Pan Li'er say any more, this is the grudge between the three divisions and Zhao Pu, Yang Kerang is a good minister, once served as the deputy envoy of Xichuan Transport, and later recalled to the capital, the people miss his good governance, and send them all the way, and some people cry loudly. And several of his sons are also amazing, especially his eldest son Yang Ximin, who was born blind, and then asked his younger brother Yang Xifu to read the scriptures to him and help him write. Later, after Zhao Pu arrived in Luoyang. All the notes in the house are written by Yang Ximin. Don't think you're blind, read poetry and books. Write well-written words and articles. Although he is a political enemy, when it comes to this Yang Ximin, Song Jiu also respects him very much. This is the real disability and incapacitation.

Zhao Kuangyin previously used Yang Kerang as the Langzhong of the Criminal Department, and after hearing about his political achievements in Xichuan, he talked to him and prepared to use it greatly. After Hou Zhi heard it, he intentionally or unintentionally led Yang Kerang to Yang Kerang during a performance, and Zhao Kuangyin asked Zhi if he knew Yang Kerang. Hou Zhi said that the minister was very friendly with Yang Kerang, and knew that he was knowledgeable. It was a talent, and recently he said that His Majesty had promised to reuse him, and had bought many platinum drinking utensils for his own enjoyment, which made him feel strange.

This slander is very clever, if even the drinking utensils are made of gold, and Yang Kerang has no other financial resources, it means that his hands and feet are not clean. Zhao Kuangyin was complacent before he was reused, indicating that he was unstable. It was changed from a county guard to a county guard. It's just that gold will shine sooner or later, and this expedition to the Southern Tang Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin took Yang Kerang as the governor of Shengzhou, and Shengzhou was Jinling, and Zhao Kuangyin changed the name of Jinling.

But through the appearance of Hou Zhijin's slander, this matter is actually Zhao Pu. The old officials of the three divisions were because of Zhao Wei's incident. and Zhao Pu was dissatisfied with the excessive difficulties of the three divisions. Yang Kerang is Zhao Pu's cronies, so Hou Zhi can't get Zhao Pu down. Instead, he dealt with Zhao Pu's cronies.

It cannot be simply described as slander.

It cannot even be said to be slander, but a product of political struggle.

Pan Li'er doesn't know much about the festival. Song Jiu didn't let her say anything more, but got down to business: "What ability do I have to help you?" ”

"Kuro. I'm afraid that Chu Xianggong and Lu Xianggong won't agree, you have a good relationship with them, for the sake of your colleagues......" Hou Zhi bowed down all of a sudden.

Regardless of whether it is really only a few hundred dollars, this is committed on the front line, and if you don't get it right, you will really be unlucky, at least you will be exiled and guarded, and at worst you can abandon the market to show the public.

Song Jiu helped him up and said, "In that case, let's go to the Lu Mansion together." ”

"Ah," Hou Zhi didn't expect Song Jiu to be so easy to speak.

Song Jiu said again: "You misunderstood, we have the same disease." ”

"Kurou ......"

"You'll know when you go."

The two came to Lu Duoxun's house, Lu Duosun was polite, opened the middle door ajar, personally greeted the door, welcomed them into the house, and sat down one after another. It's not to look at Hou Zhi's face, Lu Duoxun also knows that Hou Zhi is sad, this is to see Song Jiu's face.

Hou Zhi was about to plead, but Lu Duosun waved his hand: "Brother Hou, don't say it, I know what to do." ”

looked at Song Jiu again and asked, "Why is Jiulang here too?" ”

"Lu Xianggong, I also came to ask Lu Xianggong to say good things for me."

"Are you greedy for ink?" Lu Duosun made a little joke about Song Jiu.

"Hou Zhizhou has no other source of income, he is greedy for ink, why should I be greedy for ink, I am here for an accident at sea."

Often drifting on the sea, fishing in the water in the morning and evening.

In fact, Song Jiu was very careful, he cared about the size of the ship, and the reason was for safety. The larger the ship, the higher the quality requirements, but on the premise of keeping up with the quality, the bigger the ship is on the rivers and lakes, the safer it is. The river boat asked, the big ship may not be beneficial, first of all, the problem of pulling fiber can not be solved, the best ship in the water is about 2,000 stones, that is, a 100-ton ship, when encountering the reverse water, you can pull the fiber, the boat is too big, it can also be navigable, that can only rely on the wind to blow the sail, there will be many constraints.

This is the experience that ordinary people have spontaneously explored for a long time. But it didn't matter if it was on the sea, so I asked the boatsmith again, and the boatsmith replied as well.

They didn't explain it mechanically, they didn't understand it, they just explained it from the material.

Each part of the ship has different requirements for the elasticity, strength, straightness, lightness, anti-corrosion, anti-insect, anti-drying, and anti-chalking of the wood.

Therefore, a good sea ship, each part of the use of different wood, the bottom plate, the side plate, because of the Song Jiu push the partition board, the bilge plate is generally made of cedar, ribs, stern pillar, bow post, and the winch wood with camphor wood, beams and walls with nan, storage, camphor, elm and camphor, acacia, rudder with elm, nut, oak, door rod with lin, nut, oar with cedar, cypress, catalpa, only the pallet requirements are loose, and the various wood parts are particular, the time is also particular, such as camphor wood summer and spring fellers, long then powder moth, the most critical of which is the rudder, In particular, the rudder material requirements for sea ships are stricter, and the Guangzhou dock mostly uses Qinzhou's special ebony wood as the rudder. The second is the keel of the ship.

Why was the quality of the Great Food and the South China Sea Sea ships good in the early Tang Dynasty, and they were moved down soon, it was this keel technique.

It is very complex and includes the main keel, as well as the longitudinal members on both sides of the main keel. That is, the side keel, which is used to bear part of the bending force distance. The shipwright didn't understand, only knew that Lu Dao used it to increase the strength of the hull to withstand external forces. Strengthens wave resistance. There are also transverse members, which withstand transverse water pressure and keep the boat from deforming, that is, ribs. The longitudinal members on both sides of the hull form a network with the ribs, which act to fix the side panels of the ship and increase the strength, which is called dragon tendons. It is also made of copper or iron sheets, which are installed on the side and bottom of the ship. It is used to weaken the swaying phenomenon of the ship sailing in the waves and stabilize the navigation, it is called the keel. It is also equipped with bow post and stern post, which is connected with the keel to increase the ship's ability to resist waves and water pressure, and at the same time can withstand the vibration of collision and propeller work.

One of the most important is the main keel, which requires the wood to be strong, straight, and preferably made of a single piece of wood. But it is impossible for a large ship, just as Wang Ming wrote in the melodrama, the big ship is like a huge room, and the sail is like a cloud hanging from the sky. The rudder is several zhang long, hundreds of people in a boat, and a year's worth of food is accumulated. Raising pigs and making wine among them, putting life and death outside the degree. Pigs can be raised inside. It is possible to make wine. In fact, it is not only pigs, but also fish. Grow some vegetables in it, or what else? It is impossible to say that it is impossible to say that it is a year, but in some seas, there is no supply for many days, and you can only raise something in it as a source of food.

It is not possible to use one piece of wood as the main keel, so it is generally inlaid with two or three pieces of wood, or at most four pieces of wood, but the more inlays, the quality of the hull will also decrease. Therefore, the limit of large sea ships and river ships is 6,000 materials and 20,000 stones.

The safe load of 6,000 materials is 600 tons, and 20,000 stones is nearly 1,000 tons, of course, if loaded, 6,000 materials can also be loaded with 1,000 tons, and 20,000 stones can also be loaded with 30,000 stones, but there are not many people who do that. It can be overloaded, no one cares, and there is no port supervisor to fine the stuck oil, but if something happens, you will be responsible.

In fact, both boats are about the same length and width, but the river boat is flatter and wider, so the carrying capacity is a little more.

They are the limits of sea and river boats.

Can it be bigger, the boatwright doesn't know the way, but they say it's best not to be too big, even if it's a sea ship, the technique keeps up, it can be big, the torque force increases, and it must be very dangerous when there are strong winds and waves, the torque force is not what the boatwright said, but that's what it means, and the ship is big, raising the sail, turning the rudder, turning around, mooring, entering and leaving the port, and sailing without wind will encounter great problems.

The shipwright didn't know Song Jiu's lofty thoughts, and said again: "Just for business, don't use 6,000 materials, even 4,000 materials are not small." Moreover, the conditions of 4,000 material ships in Mizhou Port are also the limit. ”

Song Jiu was at a loss, he thought of the legendary treasure ship.

However, the Song Dynasty technique is not good compared with the Ming Dynasty technique, maybe the treasure ship does not have the legendary displacement of forty or fifty thousand tons, but the displacement can exceed three thousand tons, after all, the ship technique was more developed at that time.

Song Jiu didn't ask again, but repeatedly told the craftsman, how much silk should be used when building a ship, I only seek quality, regardless of the cost, it is very dangerous to go to sea without a good ship, just like the Yuan and Mongolia conquest of the Wa Kingdom, with a leather whip to build a ship, can you build a good ship, when the typhoon comes, the whole army goes to the sea together to be accompanied by the Sea Dragon King.

And he made a lot of instructions, including setting up rafts, lifebuoys made of animal skins, and asking everyone to go everywhere, observe the weather, record the terrain and ports, and if there is any change, immediately evacuate to the relevant port or shelter, and so on.

While the other Yanai continued to run Goryeo and the Wa Kingdom, Song Jiu's ships began to move towards the South China Sea. One is the South China Sea, and the other is Tianzhu Food and East Africa.

The South China Sea is also the center of gravity.

It didn't take long to start, mainly to open up Bai Puyan (Babuyan Islands), Sanyu, Pulilu (Philippine Island), Mayi (Mindoro Island), Baji Lane (Busuanga Island), Gamayan (Kalamiman Island), Bo Ni, Lan Wuli (eastern Kaliman Island). That is, I ran half a circle around the South China Sea.

Most of these countries had ties to the Central Plains during the Tang Dynasty, and in a few areas there were people who did not speak fluent Chinese.

The two sides were easy to communicate and the business went relatively smoothly.

Last winter, Song Pan two three ships, as well as a ship of the Shi family, and one ship of each of the two Gao Fu families, united to form a fleet, went deep into the south, first went to the Bo Ni country to hire a few guides, to the south of the language is also not good, the island is equal to a country, but they are all people in the South China Sea, the same use of gestures, they communicate a little easier, and then go south, to Java (Java), Sujdan, Pu Jia Long (central Java), Xintuo (western Java), Daban (eastern Java), Rongyashui (Java Surabaya), Ma Li (Bali), the Tang Dynasty also recorded here, but there are not many mutual contacts, even if you bring a guide, the communication is not convenient, and the local people are also very backward, and even two conflicts, but at this time the fleet went, the ships of the five magnates were hundreds of people, with countless weapons, and the people of the two tribes were repulsed if they were enemies. Although it is very troublesome, the harvest is huge, and the people in some areas actually use spices as straw to burn pots, which makes the people on the boat feel cold.

After trading from the country of Ma Li, the ships sailed east to the island of Sandalwood (Sumba), but there were many mosquitoes here, and although there was precious sandalwood growing everywhere, several people fell, and six ships fled in disarray, and then galloped east to the country of Wat (Timor Island), and it was already far away, and on their way back, they encountered a sudden and terrible typhoon.

The fleet hurried back to Dihut, but there was no time.

The wind was very strong, and the fleet was quickly scattered, if something happened here before, something would have happened, but now with the telescope, Guo Chengyi, and the compass, the emergence of these three sharp weapons has provided conditions for navigation.

Although it was scattered, it was finally returned to the port of Diwat.

But only three ships sailed back.

I had to go back to look for it, but fortunately this is not the Pacific Ocean, there are islands and reefs everywhere, although it brings inconvenience to the voyage, but it gives the crew in the accident hope to save their lives. As for the crew of the ship, they jumped on the raft and brought a lifebuoy, and after they got to the island, they tried to make a big cross on the seashore, and after looking for more than two months, the fourth boat found them. It is said that it was scraped on a very large island, and I am afraid that it is the Ocean Island that Jiuro said, but I am afraid that everyone will be worried, so I looked at it for a few days, and immediately set sail to find them. At this time, more than 30 crew members were also rescued, and it was confirmed that the two ships really had accidents.

If you don't go back, you will miss the monsoon, so one of the smallest ships is left to continue the search, and the other three ships return to Michigan.

This time it will make money, and when it comes to these flood places, even if a hundred ships can come back three or five, they will not lose money. It also brought back a good news, that is, mahogany and sandalwood are abundant here, and the local aborigines do not know the preciousness of the road, so they all split the pot to burn, but more than 100 lives may be buried in the sea.

If you want to make money at sea, it is inevitable.

But in this era, big things can be made into big articles, like Haizhu, the government does not extort the people, but I heard that picking sea pearls will kill people, Zhao Kuangyin issued an edict prohibiting the people from picking sea pearls, and it is not possible to make money for themselves, which led to the price of sea pearls skyrocketing.

The news has just been sent to the capital, and the four don't know what to do. Not to mention the significance of the Great Voyage, China has been a landlocked country since ancient times, and the crisis is one in the north and the other in the country. By the time the Song Dynasty allowed the people to go to sea, it was already a remarkable progress.

The more expensive the five, the easier it is to make a fuss for others.

Song Jiu was also at a loss, so he wanted to ask Lu Duoxun to say a few good words when the incident happened.

"Jiulang, your business is more difficult to do than Biaodong, Your Majesty is because of the dampness in the south of the Yangtze River, it is autumn and summer, and there are many epidemics in the army, and I am ready to strike the army, and I can't fight repeatedly. Why, some soldiers died due to the epidemic, and His Majesty couldn't bear it. ”

"Your Majesty's dismissal?" Hou Zhi and Song Jiu were surprised. (To be continued......)