Zhu Yuan received various news from Jinling one after another, and the opening of Zhiyongzhai was a little too popular, although it was a little surprising, but it did not completely exceed expectations.

After all, I started to give away fountain pens very early, and they were all the spires of Jinling City.

That's what celebrity marketing is.

His Majesty the Emperor is using fountain pens, and this alone is enough to stimulate too many people to compete to buy them. What's more, there is also the trademark of the word 'Zhiyong' written by Lao Zhu, which is also the style. Therefore, even if there is no other factor that wants to indirectly curry favor with him, the emperor's favored minister, the pen of Zhiyongzhai will not be sold.

Compared with the excitement of Jinling City because of this, Zhu Yuan didn't have much time to care about these.

As more and more people arrive in Mingzhou, there are more than 40,000 soldiers and soldiers gathered around Dinghai County, not counting the Zhangcun Dao Department that will arrive soon.

More than 40,000 people are nothing in the future generations, and at present, it is said that in the entire Dinghai County, the previous registered population was only 34,000.

Not to mention anything else, it's just that the more than 40,000 people are eating, drinking, and Lazar, and Zhu Yuan is almost too busy.

It's really eating, drinking, and lazing.

Zhu Yuan had to take care of some hygiene-related problems before, and designed public toilets for various guard barracks, civilian stations, shipyards, docks, etc. And it's not enough to just build a public toilet, there are also various rules and regulations, and even a follow-up cleaning team around the public toilet.

These are no small things.

Tens of thousands of people gathered together, and it was a spring day that was gradually getting warmer, and if we didn't pay attention to it, it would be a disaster if any epidemic spread.

The ancients were not without measures in this regard, but they were really full of loopholes. And, more importantly, the question of 'knowing what is happening and not knowing why' is the problem.

If you don't know why you're doing this, it's hard to follow it from the bottom of your heart.

Therefore, Zhu Yuan held a special class to let everyone understand why we should pay attention to hygiene.

He also deliberately selected some of Dai Sanchun's recent 'bacteria' images to show to everyone. If you don't do it, these things will burrow into your body, and even if you don't get sick, they will continue to deplete your vitality and lifespan.

It's faster than 'kneeling'!

Are you afraid?

Anyway, with the on-the-spot verification of the microscope, many people were frightened, and the matter spread quickly, and even spread a little evil. Anyway, no one questions Zhu Yuan's various arrangements.

In addition to these, the most important thing is, of course, grain transportation.

Ships that have been inspected and maintained and ready for use have recently been heading to various silos along the coast to load grain, and have begun to return in the past few days.

Among them, Zhu Yuan also has to personally inquire about all kinds of cumbersomeness.

In addition, there has been a recent incident.

When Wu Zhen arrived in Mingzhou, the Navy Governor's Office also increased its oppression on the various pirates entrenched on the coastal islands, and more pirates either voluntarily or forced to land on the shore and surrender themselves, and at the same time, there was naturally no shortage of some diehards.

On the fifth day of the first month of March, a group of Haikou led by Zhao Dingxi of Huaidong led people to attack Taicang Wei at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Coincidentally, the data shows that Zhao Dingxi, who is more than Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, happened to be the origin of the shipowner who was responsible for transporting grain in the Yuan Court.

In the early years, Zhang Shicheng also recruited Zhao Dingxi's father and son, but it was not negotiated.

Zhao Dingxi's father was killed by a rebellious shipwreck five years ago during a sea raid, and Zhao Dingxi slaughtered more than 200 people in the fleet to sacrifice his father's blood, and then took over, nicknamed 'Zhendongyang', and has been entrenched in the Shengsi Islands area far from the coast with his deployment.

With the establishment of the Navy Governor's Palace, Zhao Dingxi also felt that the food along the coast of Daming was not very delicious, and he was unwilling to surrender ashore, so he united with some other Haikou who were also unwilling to surrender, gathered more than 1,600 people, and attacked Taicang Wei in the name of surrender.

Taicang Wei was also just established last year, which is worse than Mingzhou Wei, with only more than 1,300 officers and soldiers, and the highest commander is Zhu Yu, the deputy commander of Zheng Sipin.

The war came suddenly.

However, although the incident happened suddenly, Zhao Dingxi also lied about the number of people, resulting in the Taicang guard only preparing less than 700 officers and soldiers to be responsible for receiving them, but they were all veterans who had experienced the battle formation, and they did not break up because they were caught off guard.

In the final result, Zhu Yu, the deputy commander of the Taicang Guard, was killed in battle, Pu Zhongheng, the commander, was seriously wounded, and more than 300 Ming troops were killed and wounded. Correspondingly, more than 500 corpses were left behind on the side of the pirates, as well as more than 100 prisoners.

And didn't take advantage of it.

Unsatisfactory, Zhao Dingxi and several other pirate leaders escaped, and in the end, there was a lack of preparation, and more than 30 large and small sea ships were robbed of Taicang Wei and the surrounding ports, and the pirates also set fire to dozens of private houses and warehouses around Taicang.

Hearing the news in the afternoon of the same day, the naval governor Hua Gao was furious, dressed in a draped drum to summon the generals, and sent the deputy naval governor Wu Zhen to go to sea overnight, and the 6,000 naval army divided the troops into three routes to pursue and suppress Zhao Dingxi's department.

An open-air shipyard in the west of Dinghai City.

In the blink of an eye, it is the eighth day of the first month of March.

Zhu Yuan hurried here without taking a nap after lunch today to personally inspect the newly completed repair dock for thousands of seagoing ships.

Mainly among them is the gantry crane system.

As more and more new logging materials were shipped to Dinghai, Zhu Yuan selected about 10 zhang of large materials, with the support of the masonry structure, as well as the pulley technology that had just been taught to the craftsmen, and built six maintenance docks in the shipyard area at one time, three for 500 material ships, and three for 1,000 material ships.

No matter how big it is, it's not cost-effective for the time being.

The three special maintenance docks for 500-material ships have been completed, and today it is a further 1,000-material ship maintenance dock.

The dock in front of you is first of all a rectangular berth dug out near the shore, which is 20 zhang long and 8 zhang wide.

On either side is a row of erected wooden frames.

Ten zhang of wood, three zhang buried in the ground, seven zhang high on the ground, about 23 meters of conversion, and a little more image, about seven or eight stories as high as later.

As spectacular as can be imagined.

Zhu Yuan is most moved by the abundance of giant trees that are often one or two hundred years old in this era, and after a few hundred years, the hundred-year-old giant trees that exceed ten zhang will either be enclosed for protection in China or in the deep mountains and forests. The corresponding level of wood can only rely on imports, which is frighteningly expensive.

Therefore, if there is a choice, Zhu Yuan still hopes to build an iron crane, which is stronger and can save these materials.

After all, a little bit is a little less.

Zhu Yuan is a practical environmentalist who will do what he can.

Speaking of the maintenance dock, the rectangular berth extends further in, extending sixty zhang to the shore, which can accommodate three thousand shippers. On both sides are also tall wooden frames, which lift the ship from the berth by a pulley system, move inward, and place it in a pre-erected bottom bracket.

Zhu Yuan stayed here for an afternoon with a group of subordinate officials of the Yinghai Division, and watched with his own eyes that the three large ships of thousands of materials were successfully hoisted ashore one by one.

The efficiency is actually very low.

It takes more than half an hour for each ship to be tied to settled, but compared with the nearby 500-material gantry crane system, the visual shock of the 1,000-material level sea vessel being hoisted ashore is stronger. As a result, all the other onlookers at the scene watched the whole process with their mouths open, and every time a ship was successfully placed, involuntary cheers erupted in the surroundings.

All three ships have settled, and the sun is already setting.

Zhu Yuan, Liu Lian, Yao Feng and other subordinates of the battalion discussed for a while in the temporary wooden house next to the dock, determined various details of the revision, out of the wooden house, saw Hua Gao, who was dressed in regular clothes, with several subordinates standing nearby, looking at the three big ships on the shore with amazement.

It's just a thousand sea boats, staying in the water is not obvious, on the shore, not to mention how wide and high, nearly 18 zhang in length, equivalent to about 50 meters later, think about the five buses end to end, what will it look like?

Zhu Yuan walked over, and before he could speak, Hua Gao had already praised: "Skillful." ”

Zhu Yuan stood beside Hua Gao with his hands in his sleeves, looked up, and actually liked the heavy industry atmosphere brought by this kind of large machinery in his heart, and said on his lips: "The most basic pulley transmission system is simply primitive, and it is far from ingenious." Actually, I would like to build an iron frame and use steel cables for the cables, but unfortunately I can't do it now. In a few more years, I will show you what it means to be truly ingenious. ”

"Then I'll wait," Hua Gao smiled and nodded, took out a few pages of documents from his arms and handed them over: "The lord's handling of the matter of Taicang." ”

Zhu Yuan took the paperwork and asked, "Has the grain ship in Hangzhou arrived?" ”

"When I arrived, I saw them one by one, full of food. You're also busy all day, go back early and rest, and you'll pay attention to this tomorrow. ”

Zhu Yuan hummed, thinking a little in his heart.

The grain ships in Hangzhou have arrived, and when the last batch of grain loading fleets to Wenzhou also returns, the first batch of 200,000 stone grain will be collected.

Further.

Then he turned to the document in front of him.