Chapter 1237: Rescue
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Long Zhengning and Zhuang Mingyue had already made an appointment yesterday to go to the shipyard by the sea today to see how the new warships were built.
"Qian'er, change my clothes for me, let's go to the shipyard."
Zhuang Mingyue sat in front of her dresser, looking at the woman in the mirror, with bright eyes, picturesque eyebrows, and a smile like a flower.
"Miss, why are you so happy today? Is there something happy about to happen? Qian'er was very skillful in curling Zhuang Mingyue's hair, and her voice revealed a bit of joy.
"It's not a happy event, but I'm very interested in shipbuilding, and I can just go to the factory today to see the ship's equipment."
In modern society, Zhuang Mingyue herself is a big name in the academic world, especially interested in machinery, and now she has a rare opportunity to see the wisdom of ancient craftsmen, she naturally can't wait.
"But this shipyard should be considered a very confidential place, although you are a princess, miss, you are also a woman above the court, how can you be allowed to go there?" Qian'er couldn't believe it.
"Don't worry, naturally the eldest prince led me there, so it's no big deal."
Long Zhengning, like himself, had a deep interest in mechanical mechanics before the crossing, and now that he is accompanied, the two of them can also be companions.
"Since that's the case, the young lady is wearing some relatively small and delicate beads today, and those hairpin ornaments such as step shaking are too complicated." Qian'er carefully took out a pair of butterfly hairpins made by her former daycare person from the box.
This is a pair of hairpins inlaid with jade beads a few days ago the prince specially ordered someone to send, jade beads are rare treasures from Xiliang.
She pinned the hairpin to Zhuang Mingyue's hair, and praised sincerely: "Miss, you are so beautiful, this pair of butterfly hairpins is too suitable for you." ”
When Zhuang Mingyue heard this, she immediately smiled, and deliberately pretended to reprimand, "You girl knows how to be poor, hurry up and help me get it right, maybe the eldest prince is already waiting outside." ”
"Miss, don't worry, if the eldest prince really comes, he will definitely send someone in to report it."
"That's exactly what you said."
When Zhuang Mingyue and Qian'er cleaned up everything, they found that Long Zhengning was already sitting in her living room, and her father Zhuang Ruhai was talking with her.
Zhuang Ruhai saw her come out, and pretended to teach her with a straight face: "Mingyue, why did you only come out now, the eldest prince has been waiting for you for a while." ”
Zhuang Mingyue and Qian'er glanced at each other, then stepped forward and made a bow and apologize, "Just now, Mingyue packed some things in the house, delayed for some time, and I hope the eldest prince will understand." ”
Long Zhengning waved his hand and said with a smile: "Master Zhuang, don't be too harsh, today this prince wants to go to the shipyard with Miss Zhuang, and Miss Zhuang should clean up for a while." ”
Zhuang Ruhai saw that the eldest prince did not take this matter to heart, so he was relieved, and then sent someone to prepare a carriage to send Zhuang Mingyue and Long Zhengning on the road together.
Before leaving, he also specially told his daughter: "When I go to the shipyard this time, I must not lose my courtesy, so that others will laugh at our Shen family for not having a tutor." ”
"Daddy, don't worry, my daughter must remember her father's teachings."
When she came to the shipyard, Zhuang Mingyue found an excuse, saying that she was hungry and sent Qian'er to buy some pastries, while she and Long Zhengning entered the factory together.
"This is a shipyard? Why does it look so shabby? ”
Zhuang Mingyue looked at the small factory in front of him that was only made of wood, and no matter how she looked at it, it couldn't be compared with the magnificent shipyard.
"This is in ancient times, and it is good to be able to build it like this in a short period of time, do you still think it is the same as modern times?"
Long Zhengning felt that it was already remarkable to be able to build a shipbuilding factory in such a short period of time.
He had specially asked someone to ask for not only the design drawings of the ship, but also the construction drawings of the factory, and he was simply amazed after reading it.
The ingenuity of this ancient man amazed even a highly educated man from the modern era. It is no wonder that during the reign of Qin Shi Huang, the seventh wonder of the world, the Great Wall was built.
"The eldest prince, if you come here today, I'm afraid it's not just as simple as watching the workers build ships!" Zhuang Mingyue turned her head and looked at him meaningfully.
"You guessed it right, since we came here from modern times together and are proficient in machinery, why don't we also come here to help the craftsmen improve some shipbuilding techniques?"
Long Zhengning called her over, naturally it would not be as simple as just letting her see, how could Zhuang Mingyue's knowledge be wasted.
"I knew it wasn't that simple, and now the fox's tail can't be hidden."
Long Zhengning just smiled, didn't say anything, he took Zhuang Mingyue to tour the entire factory, and finally the two stopped in front of the design room specializing in ship design.
"This room is dedicated to the design of ships for the design studios, let's go in and have a look."
"Okay."
As soon as the two of them entered, the crowd in the entire room, which was already extremely busy, immediately stopped what they were doing, and everyone knelt on the ground: "Weichen, see the eldest prince." ”
Long Zhengning raised his hand and said, "You all get up, this prince is just here to visit today, everyone continues to be busy with the things at hand, don't worry too much." ”
Zhuang Mingyue roughly looked around the whole room, the room was filled with a strong smell of confetti, and there was a smell mixed with ink.
She walked over to a nearby table and picked up a drawing that happened to be the shape of an entire ship.
In this painting, the parts and parts of the ship are accurately depicted in every detail, and all kinds of objects are drawn vividly, and the corresponding text is attached to the introduction.
She took the painting, walked to Long Zhengning's side, and handed it to him, "Look at it, this warship is so well painted, even modern professional shipbuilding designers may not be able to draw this effect by hand, it's like a modern art student painting." ”
"These people have all signed military orders, and all their net worth and lives are gambling on this, can you not worry?"
Zhuang Mingyue didn't understand what he said, and Long Zhengning explained to her that this time the island country was a cooperation between the Chu State and the Tiansheng Dynasty, although the two were cooperative.
But there is naturally a win-loss comparison between each other, Tiansheng's emperor has ordered that this time shipbuilding Tiansheng must win over Chu State, so this group of design studios naturally worked hard to do it!
"I see, I'll just say why they are so desperate."
"I've asked someone to sort out the latest ship design drawings, and I'll send them to your house in a moment, and you can revise and revise them more, time is pressing, you need more snacks."
Long Zhengning asked people to pack two copies, one for himself and one for Zhuang Mingyue, and they were each responsible for a type of ship design modification, which could increase efficiency.
"Don't worry, it's on me." Zhuang Mingyue said confidently.
On the third day after the drawings were delivered, Zhuang Mingyue had already revised them, and the revised ships had added many flexible and maneuverable designs in many places, which was breathtaking.
In addition to this, she also paid attention to the addition of many offensive devices to the ships, which greatly improved the ability of the soldiers of the Chu and Tiansheng dynasties to fight on the water, and the emperors of the two countries were very satisfied with this.
"Hahaha, Yuan Xiu couldn't imagine that this daughter-in-law you married still has such skills, the ships that have been modified by her have greatly improved their combat capabilities, and even the craftsmen who have studied ships for many years are amazed." Emperor Tiansheng was happy, and in front of the civil and military officials, he directly praised Zhuang Mingyue.
Long Yuanxiu listened to Emperor Tiansheng's praise, and the whole person showed a state of sincere fear, not only happy that his daughter-in-law could be praised by the saint, but also worried that Zhuang Mingyue would not be able to afford such a big honor.
After all, now that Zhuang Mingyue is married and pregnant, if she gets too much grace, she will inevitably be jealous.
Although he knew that Zhuang Mingyue had been proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since she was a child, when did she learn this shipbuilding skill?
Long Yuanxiu, who was thinking like this, suddenly recalled that Zhuang Mingyue was not the same as Zhuang Mingyue before, and he suddenly woke up.
At this time, the sky outside seemed to be washed by water, and from time to time a few free birds flew by, and the sun shone hotly across the land, but only a few rays of bright sunlight shone through a very narrow window into the gloomy dungeon.
The dark nothingness of the dungeon was mixed with a hint of rotten stench, and the sunlight that came in was soon swallowed up by the boundless darkness.
There was not a single ripple on the broken mud wall, and the whole environment was full of oppression, except for a few oil seals on either side that shone faintly.
There is no daylight all year round, even the air is dirty, and there is constantly the sound of rats squeaking and gnawing things, and antbeasts such as cockroaches and centipedes crawling.
Xue Jingqing is now locked up in this kind of place.
She lay on all fours, not knowing how long it had been.
It wasn't until a glare of sunlight shone on her face that she gradually regained her consciousness.
She opened her eyes with great difficulty, and she could see nothing but darkness all around, the only light was a small window high above her, through which the light could only shine.
Xue Jingqing slowly got up from the ground, and it took a lot of effort to stand up, and she found that she was locked back in the dungeon she had before, and it seemed that she had indeed fallen into the hands of the islanders.
At that moment, loss and despair hung over her heart like an indispersible cloud, and she looked up at that window, as if the free air outside would never belong to her again.
Xue Jingqing showed an extremely miserable smile: "I still haven't been able to escape, little majesty...... When will you come and rescue me? ”