'Woo~~Woo~~' With the sound of the steam engine, Zhu Yuanzhang's team set off back to Nanjing.

This time, taking the Huangchi River into the Yangtze River and going down the river, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to see the scenery on the other side.

The other twenty-one villagers, including Xihe Village, waved goodbye, they had just arrived, and after coming to greet His Majesty, they had returned to harvest soybeans and other crops.

The land in Xiaqiu Village was more well-raked, and a large number of small steam engine equipment was thrown in the village, and twenty-one villages drove large wagons to pull some away.

After going back, I ploughed the land for my village, and changed the component to a small harvester, which was not as good as the big one, but it was easy to operate.

Okay, Xuancheng County wants to mechanize agriculture, and they put four horses on the car, afraid that they won't be able to pull it.

Then prepare a large number of empty cars to follow, and once the wheels are broken, change the car immediately.

As soon as the fleet entered the Yangtze River, Zhu Yuanzhang stood at the bow of the ship and raised a telescope to look.

At this time, the Yangtze River is very lively, and large and small ships sail on the river according to the rules.

There are many boats, and there will be queues on the wide river, small boats let big boats, counter-current let go downstream, and there is no boat on the river surface that no boat goes.

Boats would rather line up and walk slowly than go to the vacant places, of course, the lines are not so accurate, but there are places where there are no boats to go.

This is an emergency shipping route, and there is no need for government regulations, and all sailors know how to abide by it.

Once there is a problem with the ship, those who have the ability to rescue will go to the rescue, and those who have no way will immediately enter the emergency channel to take refuge.

The boat crossing the Yangtze River is not a casual crossing, the wharves or ferries on both sides should correspond, and whoever dares to manipulate the boat to jump around on the Yangtze River is guaranteed to be beaten.

Zhu Yuanzhang's fleet took the emergency channel, and the other ships avoided it as much as possible, and then made a small emergency channel.

At present, the envoys of the autumn harvest have grain in their hands, and the merchants transport the goods to sell everywhere, and then collect the grain and sell it in another place.

The rice in Sichuan is harvested a month earlier than that in Xiaqiu Village, and the merchants go to harvest the aged rice, and Sichuan grows indica rice, and when the new rice comes out, the old rice can be sold, and the merchants make rice noodles and rice noodles after harvesting.

"Yichang, have you ever seen a ship with a load of 10,000 stones?" Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the ships passing by, put down the binoculars and turned his head to ask the lieutenant.

"I've seen it on the picture, but I haven't seen it in real thing." Li Chang shook his head, and when he went back, he could see a big ship of ten thousand stones parked in Nanjing.

The 10,000-stone ship made of steel was built and awaited sea trials.

There were two steam engines on it, two on four wheels at the front and two on the front, and there were sails.

This is the first real steel sea ship of the Ming Dynasty, and its weight is lighter than that of a wooden ship of the same volume.

Don't look at the fact that iron is heavier than wood, the wood used for shipbuilding is good solid wood, and the wooden ship of early ten thousand stones, in order to stabilize the structure, it has to use large wood to make the keel.

Just like when building a house, the beams made of wood are heavier or the beams are made of steel, and with the same strength, wood is several times heavier than iron.

Wooden ships need to be repaired, generally once a year, and a layer of wood is added once repaired, usually after six years, they are no longer repaired, either dangling in the offshore sea, or dismantled to make something else.

Even if you smear layers of tung oil, there are still insects and rats that will destroy it.

The key is that the wind and waves at sea have damaged the structure, so when repairing, only wood can be added, and the previous wood can not be removed and re-wooden.

Today's wooden sea ships and large ships have good technology and watertight cabins, which are still inferior to iron ships.

"We haven't seen it, if it succeeds, the wood will be saved to build a palace, and in the future, the inland river ships and sea ships of the Ming Dynasty will all be made of steel.

Well...... You should bring a gourd and a dried bamboo tube, otherwise there will be no use for it if it turns over, and the wooden boat can still float.

Now there are also floating rings, which have been handed down from the previous dynasties, and all the ships have been fully equipped in the future. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang has not forgotten to stop Zhongdu Construction to use wood to build ships, and will use steel ships in the future, and wooden ships will not be built again.

The wooden boats that had been built continued to be used, at least they helped to resist the attack of the pirates and catch a lot of fish, and the fishermen along the coast did not smuggle them when they had a livelihood.

The chief looked admiring: "Your Majesty is thoughtful and loves the people like a son." ”

Officials around: "......"

They can't figure it out, you Zhu Yichang need to think about praising Your Majesty all day long? Is your status based on praise?

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say!" Zhu Yuanzhang, the horse, received it: "The ship carrying ten thousand stones will be in Jiulian City this winter...... Is Jiulian City frozen in winter? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to let a ship go out, he felt lonely, don't look at it carrying 10,000 stones.

I was about to wander around Daming, and suddenly forgot that Jiulian City was not frozen.

"Not necessarily, sometimes it's cold, Dagu is frozen, Jiulian City is also frozen, even the Yangtze River may be frozen.

In fact, the ship can also sail in the Yangtze River, and it can save a lot of manpower by helping to transport it.

Especially when the temperature drops, when the temperature is below 10 degrees, the hands and feet are very painful, and the cold is numb. ”

The lieutenant proposed that the ship be transferred to the Yangtze River to help transport goods, which could transport 500 tons at a time, at a fast speed, and had lights at night.

Find someone who is familiar with the channel as a pilot, not afraid of hitting the rocks, and the four wheels are easy to adjust.

"Let's see if it can be done, if it's easy to use, we will build more, some craftsmen's families have come to Yingtianfu, where factories are being built, and the dock by the Yangtze River is expanding.

In the past two years, we have to hold back, don't worry, wait for things to be made before we can develop outward.

Beiyuan couldn't fight back for a while, and Yunnan ...... Yunnan...... Wait for us, we've already sent someone over. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang comforted himself, he was anxious, he didn't have so much assistance before, he was used to the thinking and life mode of normal people.

There are so many good things coming out now, and he can't wait to make them all tomorrow.

He had a strong leap in thinking, and the topic changed and he talked about the Liang Wang of Yunnan who was only a Jin and a Zaravarmi.

He sent people to surrender again and again, especially after fighting Sichuan.

Last year, I sent someone again, just like in history, the person sent was called Wang Yi, and I arrived last year, waiting for King Liang to agree, after all, the previous Xia rebels were all knighted, and there was no danger to life.

Zhu Wentian listened with a silly smile on his face, and he was also thinking about the problem of Yunnan, because Yunnan can grow tropical crops.

According to history, that Wang Yi was going to hang up in the winter, because the envoy of the Northern Yuan Dynasty had escaped to Yunnan, and King Liang was waiting and hesitating.

In history, Xu Da's Northern Expedition was lost, so as soon as Tokhtar forced King Liang, King Liang felt that the Northern Yuan could still win, so he killed Wang Yi.

Zhu Yuanzhang in history knew where the mistake was, endured it, waited for eight years, beat the Northern Yuan side, stabilized the situation, and turned around to clean up the Liang King in Yunnan.

Zhu Wentian's understanding is that Wang Yi will not die today, unless King Liang lacks a heart, the Northern Yuan is beaten away, and He Lin is lost.

If it weren't for the fact that the army would learn to read and write, get rid of poverty for the entire Ming Dynasty, and train to shoot at the same time, the army would have been overwhelmed a long time ago.

(End of chapter)