On an ordinary morning, Zhou Fu took his many days of results out of the city of Gelanza, Taiwan. This time, a total of three Cantonese merchant ships of 2,000 materials came out together. He thought he had found a way to make money, but in the end, he found a new way to live.

After Zhou Fu got on the merchant ship, he counted the number of people in his entourage, a total of two hundred and twelve, and the remaining six hundred were on the other two ships.

The three Cantonese merchant ships slowly sailed out of the wharf, down the Pearl River, and easily reached the sea.

The sea breeze suddenly hit the face, carrying the familiar smell of the sea - it was expected that in about ten days, they would reach the city of Geranza, if a qiē shun lì.

Zhou Fu stood on the bow of the boat at this time, and his heart was surging, and the experience of these days was like a dream...... Although the bow of the ship was undulating, he stood steady, like a man who often goes to sea.

The sea breeze blew the hem of his dark gray coat fluttering around, but it didn't have the grace of a jade tree...... The real leader is Pan Feng Gongzi, who is dressed in a straight jacket of silver and white lake satin at this time, with a right collar, narrow sleeves, a convergent waist, a vertical pleat down the waist, and a loose pleat, like a skirt. The shoulders and chest are embroidered with ruyi cloud patterns.

On the bun, a silver-edged scholar scarf was casually tied, but it was even more free.

What a peerless son!

With the support of the little scholar, he carefully walked to Zhou Fu's side, and at the same time signaled that Zhou Fu did not need to be polite.

Pan Gongzi said: "The Pan family labor service company but ask Zhou Da to take care of it, don't have any scruples, you don't have to discuss matters with me......

Zhou Fu, who is the chief shopkeeper of the Pan family labor company, said happily: "Please rest assured that Mr. Pan, I, Zhou Fu, will not disappoint Mr. Pan!" ”

Pan Gongzi smiled slightly, did not answer, and set his eyes on the distance on the sea...... At this time, the southwest monsoon has just risen, and the waves in the distance are turbulent, and it is spectacular.

That time, when Zhou Fu came to explain all kinds of novelties in Taiwan, in the main house of the Pan family, Pan Zechen was listening to the big housekeeper explain Zhou Fu.

Soon, all kinds of situations in Zhou Fu were clearly understood by Pan Zechen.

In the city of Guangzhou in this era, in addition to the rich Pan family, the other three major families such as Lu, Wu, and Ye can be compared, and the rest of the merchants cannot compare with them. They are known as the Four Great Families of Guangzhou.

In this delicate situation, they didn't do anything on the surface, but secretly they were all making plans.

Big businessmen have a natural sensitivity and premonition to the current situation, and they are more often like rats on a broken ship, always able to escape with sensitivity and premonition when the broken ship is about to sink.

Of course, this only refers to a small part - most of them are still fools, and they are all sacrifices, joint ventures, and sooner or later they are all dishes on the plates of the former Qing and others.

Pan Zechen, the patriarch of the Pan family, listened quietly to the explanation of the big housekeeper, with no expression on his face, and easily tied the peeled and pitted lychee with his long nails, and gently sent it to his mouth.

At this time, people of high status liked to have long nails on their right hands, and they could even use them as chopsticks. Of course, they have someone to clean their nails every day. In a wealthy family like the Pan family, there are five people who are specifically responsible for cleaning their nails.

"What have they done these days?"

After listening to Zhou Fu's report, Pan Zechen ignored the topic, but slowly asked about other things.

The chief steward replied earnestly that the Ye family had sent a caravan to the north, saying that it was going to Jiangxi to receive the goods, but it was more than a month earlier than last year -- the Wu family and the Lu family were still trading raw silk with Manila and Batavia, but a few days ago they suddenly intervened in the pig iron trade that they had not done before.

The chief butler hurriedly took out a piece of paper from his bosom, opened it and said, "They ate 3,500 quintals of pig iron at once, which increased the price of pig iron by 10%!" Tung oil and cotton were also added - I heard that it was transported to the city of Geranza, Taiwan. ”

Pan Zechen smiled and whispered, "The old guys are fast enough - it seems that we are slow-"

The butler hung his hands down, waiting for his next sentence.

Sure enough, Pan Zechen said: "Let's start too, you arrange for the people on my second brother's side, let them put their energy on the business in Manila, and move the business in Haizhu to Manila - on the third brother's side, you send someone to sue him, let him stay in Batavia, and don't come back for three years!" You send his family over—"

The chief butler of the Pan family still didn't move, he knew that the patriarch Pan Zechen hadn't finished speaking.

"That Zhou Fu has a low status, so greedy for a small bargain - usually has no bad deeds - he is forming that-"

The chief butler took a step further and said, "Labor company—"

"Feng'er, interested?"

The grand butler nodded silently.

"Hehe, let him do it, you arrange it, are you sure what those batches of merchants say?"

"For it should be true, the gang in Geranza are not pirates, and do business fairly - and there is stability. Merchants who don't know each other say so. ”

"Hmm." Pan Zechen only said one word, and then closed his eyes.

How many years have passed, how to operate a business of less than 100,000 taels, the patriarch of the Pan family didn't even ask.

In this way, this labor service company was finally changed to a model in which the Pan family was the main and everyone became a shareholder, and it was named the Pan family labor service company.

Everyone was delighted, and they finally hugged the tree.

During the ten-day sea journey, everyone said that there was no pressure, but Pan Gongzi was also indifferent, people didn't look at their age, they had also gone to sea. In fact, this time the business really didn't need to be Pan Gongzi's head, but he really wanted to see those rumored things with his own eyes-

As soon as they reached the ocean near the city of Geranza, the crowd froze. What's coming from afar?

A strange boat with two paddle wheels rolled towards them from a distance, quite fast, and as it approached, everyone heard a loud noise, and could see that there was a tall chimney on the ship, which was spewing green smoke outward......

Paddle steamers, there are them on the Pearl River now, but where are they so fast and so big? What is the chimney used for? Pan Gongzi's eyes widened excitedly, and he was surprised before he arrived...... Interesting.

Zhou Fu has never seen this kind of wooden boat, they are all iron ships, when did they also have wooden boats? It doesn't look like a Cantonese merchant ship, and it doesn't look like a fortune ship, but it is a big class of their iron ships......

This is the third time I've been here, and although it's the first time I've seen it, I've learned to see it for a long time. He glanced back at the small flag hanging from the mast and relaxed. This small flag is the sign of the payment of taxes at the customs office of the city of Geranza.

When the strange ship approached, a man in strange clothes held up something like an iron funnel and shouted, "Captain, is there something abnormal!?" ”

The owner arched his hand and said: "Safe and sound, thank you for your concern!" ”

Zhou Fu looked at the person's clothes, although he couldn't tell where he was similar to the people of the Hantang Group, he knew that they were the people of the Hantang Group.

Pan Gongzi looked at the shouter carefully, and saw that he was wearing a rattan helmet, and there was a belt around the helmet inexplicably, and some things were hung and couldn't be seen clearly. The crimson top is relatively structured, with a vertical row of buttons on the upper body, and several belts crossed diagonally across the chest, and a short sword hanging from the belt around the waist...... The lower body is in black pants, and you can't see what kind of shoes you are wearing. He carried a delicate firearm behind him...... Although the whole person was strange, there was a faint hint of murder...... Listening to his accent, he is from the Fuzhou area.

There were five people behind him who were dressed in the same costume - it was strange, I had never seen such a strange costume -

The strange ship rumbled around the merchant ship, and as if nothing unusual was there, it sailed for the next one.

The people on the merchant ship invariably breathed a sigh of relief, although the ship was not as big as theirs, but just now it gave them the feeling of being stared at by a wolf, and it circled around them...... It's a little scary.

Their feelings were right. The boat was small, but it could blast them to slag at any time.

This ship is the product of Anjiang Inland Sea Shipyard in the past four months...... It took a lot of work for the traversers.

Before the crossing, the traversers used CAD to build a three-dimensional model of the sailboat, and the numbers were accurate. The sailboat is still specially designed by the old experts.

They thought that when the time came, the materials would be ready and processed with a CNC woodworking machine, and everything would be ok. In practice, they did not expect it......

First of all, there was a problem with the assembly of the hull.

The keel of the first sailing ship is not a problem, there are ready-made oak in the timber warehouse of the Dutch, the sailing ship is not large, according to the design requirements, but a hundred tons, not as large as the ordinary merchant ships of this period, people are still 2,000 materials, nearly 150 tons.

It is not as good as the Dutchman's nearly 1,000-ton plywood ship.

Boat ribs are also easy to do, whether they are shaped or cut, they are very smooth. The key is the hull shell sheet...... The traversers forgot that different hardwoods have different expansion rates! At that time, the traversers looked at the hull that had been carefully assembled, and wanted to cry without tears...... There are all kinds of hull plates...... Pine, camphor, oak, elm, acacia.

What's even more annoying is that this point was brought up by a carpenter who helped.

At that time, the carpenter saw that the traversers used a strange thing to easily process wood into the exact same shape, and the iron object could cut itself?!

Then they put together the various plates according to a large piece of paper.

And such a strange way to build a ship?! His eyes were about to pop out......

But when he was about to get to the end, he now had all kinds of wood in the board, and even installed the camphor and acacia side by side!

In the end, he couldn't help it, he put down the work in his hand and found Director Li Ziqiang, who was directing on the spot. The director usually treats them well......

He boldly stepped forward, pointed to the two plates on the hull plate in front of the many traversers, and said, "Not here." Camphor is yang, Huai is yin, and the two must be mutually restrictive! ”

Some traversers laughed, these ancients are superstitious......

Director Li Ziqiang suddenly reacted and said, ", what kind of restraint, it's the expansion rate is different!" ”

For a moment, the entire shipyard was quiet. , yes, how did Lao Tzu forget this?!

Director Li Ziqiang smiled bitterly and said to the Mingren carpenter: "What are your Mingren shipbuilding requirements for wood?" ”

When the carpenter saw that everyone was looking at him, he lost the momentum he had just now, and he was a little scared, so he didn't dare to say anything.

Director Li Ziqiang squeezed out a smile that was more ugly than crying and said to him: "Don't be afraid, there is a reward for saying it......"

The man trembled and said, "Build a thousand-material sea ship, camphor 3o2, cedar 149, pine 2o, elm rudder 2o, chestnut oar, a total of 5o3 main materials." Camphor wood for the ship, cedar for mast and support...... Only the pallet is not limited to the species of wood......"

The ancients may not have understood some scientific terms and scientific principles, but they have also accumulated quite important experience in their long-term life and work, although they can only explain it in a way that they can understand and look ridiculous, but the travelers must not ignore it!

Traditional Chinese medicine is a convincing example. There are many prescriptions that can indeed cure diseases, but they cannot be explained by modern technology...... I can only listen to all kinds of strange Chinese medicine explanations, and I can't accept it.

Director Li Ziqiang waved his hand, asked the Mingren carpenter to walk away, and said: "When you turn back your salary, you will have an extra hundred horse tickets, and if there is anything to build in the future, bring it up more, and propose to reward more ...... early."

The traversers have stopped working. What to do? Some traversers said that they had never heard of wooden fishing boats before that there were requirements for the type of wood. They immediately checked the information, why not, the information is clearly written, and the different expansion rates of the wood must be considered...... It's the traversers themselves who take it for granted. If it is treated with modern waterproof oil, it can also be used, but what about next time, and next time?

Let's tear it down.

This was postponed for more than two weeks.

The second blow was about the issue of spiral pulp. It's not that I didn't bring the original, but I did, but I couldn't install it. Fortunately, the experiment was done in advance, and there was no internal structure involved.

The power take-off system of the propeller is lower than the water surface, so a question arises, how to prevent water seepage?

If the rotation is low, the water seepage is not a big problem, but as soon as it is increased, as the natural vibration of the equipment increases, the water seeps to the ground - the solution requires the addition of a cast iron kit, but the Red Star Industrial Zone has not yet been opened at that time - why did it not be brought beforehand? Because I thought I could solve it in this way - but now -

Any product under industrial socialization is a product under a system. The traversers felt this deeply.

Let's change it to a paddle wheel, it's not a hassle. Its power take-off port was above the water, and the wheels were not too difficult to build – but again delayed.

For a long time, the directors are now proud of the top science and engineering students, and Director Li Ziqiang has begun to be humble, and everyone is still a little unhappy!

In this way, the two sailing ships were completed and launched two months later than originally planned. The traversers were embarrassed to make any launching ceremony, and directly marked machine O 1 and machine O 2, and let them go into the water.

Fortunately, the equipment configuration on it has not changed.

The expansion steam engine engine that has been tested before crossing can provide 13o horsepower of the original force, if the propeller technology is used as the propulsion, it can theoretically reach up to 12 knots, and the paddle wheel can be used, the degree will definitely be damaged, because not only the friction is increased, but also because the paddle wheel rotates in the air, and a part of the propulsion is wasted.

The sail is directly on the Chinese hard sail, and the traversers find the soft sail troublesome and use the power of the steam engine to lift it.

Sure enough, after sea trials, the downwind was paired with a hard sail, and the maximum height was eight knots, which was enough.

The traversers equipped the first and second planes with two recoilless guns, and of course set up a support frame - the sailboat was equipped with six security guards, and it could be said that it was invincible within a kilometer.

It's not good to get close, it can't withstand the heavy artillery at this time.

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