Wang Qi is gone, but Zhang Jun is still there. Seeing that the two young men were looking at him, he explained with a smile: "What you said, our craftsman also brought it up. ”

What's the point of showing yourself a model ship?

Liu Yifeng was about to ask about this, when Wang Qi came back, but he brought in a few people who followed him and left.

Zhang Jun greeted him: "Everyone, now be convinced." ”

These people are basically around 40 years old, and their eyes are all focused on Liu Yifeng, and they all sigh at Liu Yifeng's youth.

Liu Yifeng was stared at and frightened, so he quickly got up and saluted and asked, "Lord Zhang, is this ......?"

"Alright, sit down. They are our craftsmen. ”

It turned out that when Wang Qi and Zhang Jun showed the three-masted Zhenghe-class ship model to Liu Yifeng, this craftsman was in the next room, watching Liu Yifeng and them through the crack in the door.

Because they are not convinced.

After Zhang Jun came back with the characteristics of the clipper given by Liu Yifeng, Wang Qi was very interested and immediately gathered the craftsmen.

These craftsmen are basically the descendants of Zheng He's fleet. To tell the truth, in the more than 100 years before the Wanli Dynasty, these shipwrights who had mastered shipbuilding technology generally lived miserably.

The social status of craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty was neither high nor low, and there were also deeds of middle and low-level technical officials who became the Ministry of Industry by handicraft, and the upward channel existed, except for shipwrights.

The 7 emperors after the Xuande Dynasty generally spent more time on the sea ban. During the Zheng He period, the private shipbuilding industry developed, but with the shackles of the sea ban, the demand for smuggling ships was not large, and the private shipbuilding industry could meet it. As a result, these officially supported craftsmen became moths, and over time, the imperial court simply barely satisfied them with food and clothing, and the treatment was very similar to that of the military households of the border army in the late Ming Dynasty.

The peak period was the Jiaqing Dynasty, and the sea was so forbidden that it was not even allowed to fish. Moreover, there were pirates on the outside and smugglers on the inside, and these shipwrights did not even have the job of maintaining the imperial court branches.

At that time, the shipwrights fried the pot and sold iron to give their daughters, begging their next generation not to be shipwrights. The craftsman system of the Ming Dynasty is hereditary, and it is not allowed to leave the nationality and change careers. Of course, there are no absolutes in everything, and those officials have enough money to get you out of the country.

But no one expected that in the first year of the Wanli Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng's reform completely opened the sea ban initially opened by the Longqing Dynasty. Not only that, after the fall of Zhang Juzheng, Emperor Wanli not only did not cancel his policy of fully opening up the sea ban, but also continued and developed. The identity of the shipwright suddenly became hot, and he was so busy that he used to run when he walked.

The pinnacle was when the Maritime Safety Bureau cooperated with the Ministry of War to establish a navy, and these shabby households, who were once called "beggars raised by the imperial court", turned over and became high-ranking people with high social status.

The old people who came from the Jiaqing Dynasty are very grateful to Emperor Wanli and Zhang Juzheng, and cherish the happy life now. And most of their descendants were born in the Longqing Dynasty and the Wanli Dynasty, and they had only heard of the miserable life of their own people before. In particular, this group of people who are less than 40 years old on average is the mainstay of the shipwright, who was already a master when they were born, and was also supported by others when they grew up, so they naturally developed some bad problems.

After Zhang Jun returned to the Navy Headquarters, he found Wang Qi as soon as possible, and Wang Qi was also full of interest in the ship that Liu Yifeng said, and gathered these craftsmen, including the other two Captain Breaking Waves who stayed in the headquarters, and everyone listened to Zhang Jun's explanation together.

At the beginning, out of respect for Zhang Jun's official position, these shipwrights listened with a more modest attitude, and nodded when they heard the wonders, discussing that this ship might really be faster than Zheng He's class. But soon they knew that this was a young shopkeeper of a trading house, and they immediately felt uncomfortable, and began to question the ship, using the reason that the shopkeeper of a trading house was not a shipwright, what did he know?

But everyone here is an expert in this field, and Wang Qi also intends to kill these boatwrights who are becoming more and more difficult to discipline, so he uses the method of agitation to make these shipwrights make a prototype of the flying clipper boat in one day. Even if it was a model ship, in the eyes of these people, it was possible to see whether it was feasible or not, and the shipwrights were silent.

The next day, two of the shipwrights were from the Zheng family, and they remembered the Zheng department's agent in Dongshan Prefecture: Qiu Qilin happened to build the fleet trading house in Jinshan City, and they thought that it must have been someone from the fleet chamber of commerce who invented the ship, and then the system surnamed Liu relayed his words.

In short, they don't admit that a shopkeeper in his early 20s can design a ship that is faster than Zheng He's class that none of his gang can design!

Seeing this, Wang Qi knew that the time was ripe, and immediately asked Zhang Jun to find a way to bring Liu Yifeng, and then there was this one, just to suppress the strange arrogance of those shipwrights.

"Now you know what it means that there are mountains outside the mountains and there are people outside the people, right?" Zhang Jun said to these boatwrights with a smile on his face: "You pride yourself day by day on building Zheng He-class and Nanyang-class shipwrights, in fact, you can only sit down and maintain these two ships, and quietly this shopkeeper Liu can design a ship that is faster than Zheng He-class at a young age." ”

"Lord Zhang! That's just in theory, not necessarily in practice! ”

This is very unlevel, if you are facing a layman like Yang Changbai, it's okay to say this, but Yang Changbai doesn't understand. But Zhang Jun understands, Wang Qi, who is not present, also understands, and even Liu Yifeng has the confidence of later generations to support him, and he also understands, and on the surface, it is still the design concept of the clipper he proposed.

Zhang Jun's face immediately became a little unsightly, thinking that these shipwrights were a little too arrogant. The good times of these years have spoiled them, and they are developing more and more in the direction of learning valves.

"Lord Zhang, what this adult said is also reasonable, after all, I just put forward a conjecture, and it really needs to be verified whether it works or not."

Liu Yifeng saw that Zhang Jun had a complexion, and hurriedly played a round. With his vision and emotional intelligence, he has already seen that he has become a tool for Wang Qi and Zhang Jun to beat this group of arrogant craftsmen.

He also had his own emotions, but he quickly controlled them: he was soft-spoken, and becoming a tool for others was to some extent that others identified with him.

While driving to himself like this, Liu Yifeng began to play a round: "You should be the craftsman who forged my Ming Invincible Navy, my ship is actually a reference to the soft sails of the Francois and the Dutch, as well as the hull of our Canton ship, and the idea of synthesizing." ”

The hull of the clipper ship is indeed somewhat similar to that of the Guangzhou ship, although Liu Yifeng is playing a round, but his position on his side still has to stand. You arrogant shipwrights look down on your designs, and you don't have any past qualifications to back you up, so you're going to slap you in the face with the facts that are already there.

Sure enough, as soon as Liu Yifeng said that the soft sail referred to the Karak ship and the hull referred to the Guangzhou ship, these boatwrights found that the clipper boat designed by Liu Yifeng was indeed very shadowy, and it was immediately difficult to say that the clipper boat was not good.

Zhang Jun was watching Zhile from the sidelines, Liu Yifeng pretended to be a junior and asked the elders to discuss all kinds of clippers with the boatmen, and the boatwrights must have answered seriously out of professional habits, but when they answered, they found that they seemed to be helping Liu Yifeng prove that the design of the clippers was reliable.

I want to change my words and feel ashamed, I don't want to say it and it's hard to refute Liu Yifeng's face, after all, I don't want to hit the smiling person.

Liu Yifeng also felt that it was enough to bully these technical nerds, and after discussing that Zhang Jun and Wang Qi were not suitable for him, he turned his head to look at Zhang Jun: "Lord Zhang, it's not too early, do you have anything else to do when you call me?" ”

Zhang Jun ignored him and walked in front of the few boatwrights who were obviously a little embarrassed by Liu Yifeng: "Next year is the last year that Lord Wang will stay in Dongshan Prefecture, and he wants to do something for Dongshan Prefecture before he leaves." ”

He pointed to Liu Yifeng without looking back: "The ship designed by this young man, you and I both know that it is feasible, Dongshan Prefecture really has a merchant ship that is faster than Zheng He's class, which is a great good thing for personnel exchanges and goods trade between the mainland and Dongshan Prefecture." ”

Yang Changbai didn't speak, he remembered that after Zhang Jun found Song Yingxing, he talked a few words, and Song Yingxing found himself to fully cooperate with Zhang Jun. Now it seems that Zhang Jun may have said that the navy intended to build a ship that was faster than Zheng He's class in Liu Yifeng's mouth. And this ship is really as Liu Yifeng said, it is indeed too helpful to Dongshan Prefecture.

"Originally, my original idea was that the Navy and the Maritime Administration would cooperate to raise funds to build one ship in the private sector. But Lord Wang is willing to use the budget of the Dongshan Prefecture Navy to build one directly, so I hope you will communicate well with this young man, and we will officially start construction after New Year's Day, and I hope to see it launched before the end of the year! ”