"The green mountains are faintly drifting, the autumn is over, the grass in the south of the Yangtze River has not withered, the bright moonlit night of the twenty-four bridges, where can the jade man teaches to play the flute?" Han Qian stood on the bow of the boat, chanting a poem lightly, and said to his father Han Daoxun, "The dish made at noon has its origin, which is in line with the previous dynasty poet Du Mu..."

"You dug out a large piece of bacon and stuffed it into tofu and steamed it. It's called the Twenty-Four Bridge Moon Night?" Han Daoxun said with a smile, "The artistic conception of this dish is beautiful, but the taste is average when I taste it!"

"I still lack time to study," Han Qian said with his hands spreading out.

On the moonlit night of the Twenty-Four Bridge, you have to use the ingredients to dig your eyes to simmer the tofu and simmer the essence of the ham meat into the tender and smooth tofu. The taste is so beautiful. However, the high-quality ham meat that can't be found in the world, so Han Qian can only use ordinary bacon instead, and the taste is much worse.

However, even though it is not difficult in theory, Han Qian was so idle that he didn't have time to think about the pickling method of ham.

"The master is really picky. I don't know how much better the young master's craft is than my wife. I'm afraid he won't give in to the imperial chefs in the palace." Han Laoshan missed the taste of the delicious lunch at noon and thought that the young master was really omnipotent, but he was worried about gains and losses, and was still a little worried that the young master would be addicted to these strange tricks and tricks, and it would be difficult to achieve great things.

After the appointment of the Ministry of Personnel, Han Daoxun had to wait until Emperor Tianyou summoned him before officially embarking on his itinerary to take office in Xuzhou. It was already mid-May.

Han Qian also took leave with the third prince Yang Yuanpu and accompanied him, leaving Lin Haizheng, Fan Dahei, and Chun Shisanniang in Jinling to deal with the daily affairs of the villa and the secret Cao Zuosi.

From Jinling to Xuzhou, we first go up the river and walk up the waterway, and walk over 1,5600 miles into Yueyang County, Yuezhou, and then pass through Chisha, Dongting and other lakes, and then flow up the Yuan River. We then arrive in Xuzhou. The total journey is 2,670 miles.

There are a lack of giant trees near Jinling. Although there are many official and private boat yards, the cost of sand-proof sailing ships of about 2,000 stones is already quite expensive.

Although Xuzhou has high mountains and dangerous roads, there are rivers and waters all the way to Jinling. Han Qian simply took out 800,000 yuan to buy an old ship of 2,000 stone, and took the six newly recruited boatmen from Zuosi onto the ship as boatmen. He set sail all the way west and entered Chizhou in four days.

This ship, plus the renovated cargo warehouse, the cargo dock, the rouge shop in Ningxianglou, and the Anjia reward of the newly recruited 200 people in Zuosi, was completely exhausted by the one million yuan temporarily allocated by the General's Mansion and the private money that Han Qian had saved in the past six months.

Han Qian finally borrowed 200,000 yuan of usury from Feng Yi and Kong Xirong, purchased silk, pens, inkstones and other items from Jinling to ship, and transported them to Xuzhou for sale.

These days, Han Laoshan's wife was extremely seasick and could not handle chores. The cooking skills of other families and soldiers were really unbearable. After Han Qian had two meals like pig food, he could no longer bear it and could only become a chef himself.

This is not because other families are lazy and do not do chores. It is really an ordinary family in the world. The food is less salt and less oily. It is good to cook it. How can there be so many things to pay attention to?

In addition to the high-quality green salt, chef Han Qian also used wine, pepper, ginger and other things to remove the smell of smell, and used bean paste to clean the color, bee, sugarcane paste, pepper and other things to season. In Han Qian's opinion, these can only be regarded as very ordinary skills, but in the eyes of Han Laoshan and others, they can be called the imperial chef in the palace.

The special bean paste is actually a simplified version of soy sauce. It is mainly used to shake cold dishes and serve with meals in the world. However, Han Qian further used gauze to clean the residue and then fry it with cane paste to cook fish and meat. The color is good and the taste can be said to be very fresh.

Han Laoshan was worried that if he continued to eat along the way, everyone's appetite would be harsh. When the young master stepped back in Xuzhou, they could no longer enjoy such delicious food. They even asked his old woman to force her to hold on to her seasick body, and together with Qingyun and two servants, they helped the young master and learned his skills secretly.

The sailboat under Han Qian's feet can carry two thousand stones of cargo and is already a big ship in the world, but the actual ship is only more than four meters long and one or two feet wide.

In addition to the cargo warehouse at the bottom, there are only eight extremely small rooms on the first floor. Han Daoxun, Han Qian and his son lived in one room together. Six boatmen squeezed one room, and the kitchen was counted as one room. The remaining five were Fan Xicheng, Zhao Kuo, Han Laoshan and other family soldiers and their families, with 37 people. Zhao Tinger also had to squeeze in a closed room with Qingyun and other female relatives. The conditions were very difficult.

Although it is early summer and the weather is not very hot, it is even less pleasant to go to Ezhou, Yuezhou, and even to Dongting Lake in midsummer.

The sailboats built in the world have a flat bottom, square head and wide body, and have weak ability to break waves. In addition, the hard sails made of bamboo and reeds are small in area to receive wind. Even if they go up against the wind, they can only walk more than a hundred miles a day.

After nightfall, there was no particularly bright star and moon illuminating the river, so I could only choose shallows to dock, and several boatmen dared not sail at night easily.

After entering Chizhou, the breeze from the southeast was blowing, and the waves of the river were just right. One man held the rudder, two of them stared at the sails, and the boat slowly moved forward against the south bank, very smoothly.

The cabin was too narrow, and Han Qian called Ji Fu, an old ship craftsman who had experience in building large river ships, and his son Ji Xiyao, to the bow of the ship to study the method of making fast sailing.

"Ji Fu has never heard of the young master's method. I'm afraid I'm not that stable when walking in the rivers with rapid waves and deep waters..." Ji Fu said hesitantly.

Ji Fu didn't think that Han Qian, who had no hair on his lips, really knew much about shipbuilding, but he heard that he had been recruited by the Qiuhushan Villa this time with him, four of them were disobedient and asked the young master Han Qian to call for someone to kill him directly. He also gave him a charge of being afraid of the enemy at the fortress. However, the Tunying Military Palace not only ignored this matter, but also sold all the wives of the four people as slaves. Ji Fu was deeply shocked and knew that the young master was not easily provoked by someone like him.

Ji Fu did not dare to disobey Han Qian at this time, but he was afraid that he would not say anything at this time. He would overturn his ship after hearing Han Qian's random way of building ships and would not be able to bear the responsibility.

When he said this, he was struggling very much.

Han Qian looked up at Ji Fu and saw that his dark skin and his face were full of wrinkles, like an old tree root. It was hard to imagine that he could be so old when he was just in his forties.

On Han Qian's list, Ji Fu, who was once a master of Chaozhou's official shipyard, was one of the few people he focused on. In the seventh year of Tianyou, Chaozhou was broken through by elite troops of Liang Kingdom. Although the city was guarded, the official shipyard outside the city was burned by enemy soldiers, and Ji Fu and his wife fled south.

After that, Chaozhou had never collected craftsmen and rebuilt the boat yard. Ji Fu took his wife to find a job in the boat yard near Jinling. Later, because his wife and young son had raw snail crabs to satisfy hunger, he was infected with the water plague. The family was driven out of the boat yard and became hungry and became hungry until they were incorporated by the Tunying Military Mansion.

Ji Fu's life was full of ups and downs, and he was cautious in everything he did, for fear of offending someone. However, his eldest son Ji Xiyao was just over 20 years old. He was thin but bright in spirit and had great expectations for the future.

Maybe I learned the skills of shipbuilding from my parents since I was a child, but I was not very skilled at this time, but I had excellent water quality and had some superficial skills. I also learned how to operate large sailboats from my parents. It was even more rare. I read books with my husband in the boatyard for several years in my childhood.

Han Qian smiled faintly and did not explain anything to Ji Fu. He just asked Ji Xiyao to describe the traditional sailing structure that his father talked about.

Han Qian doesn’t know what kind of structure the real fast sailboat should be. The method he can use at present is just to explore and adjust the traditional sailboat structure.

If this trip to Xuzhou is smooth, it will take a month. There is nothing to do. Han Qian has to pull his father Han Daoxun to do something, otherwise he will not get sick if he is idle?

The Great Chu was different from Liang and Jin, and the cavalry and infantry were weak, but the navy was unique.

Han Daoxun was well-read and worked in the Chuzhou Army for many years. He had been involved in the construction of many warships in the world. At this time, Han Qian was trying to consider the structure of the fast sailing ship, and he also had a lot of experience.

Of course, Han Daoxun served in the government and the opposition for many years, and was released from the governor of Xuzhou at this time. In the eyes of Ji Fu and others, he was a truly remarkable person.

The most incredible person Ji Fu saw at the Chaozhou official shipyard, namely the Chaozhou Governor and Chaozhou Tunying Army Commander, could only see him from afar and had no chance to come forward and say something.

It was also when he saw that Han Daoxun was very interested in studying the structure of the sailboat that Ji Fu dared to interrupt and express his own opinions.

Han Qian was also quite helpless about this, and even told him that the establishment of people's expectations was not a simple matter. Although he had to know more from his father that the bottom of the sailboat built in the world was flat, in addition to pursuing stability, the more important reason was that it was convenient to dock on the shallows at any time.

However, Han Qian thought that in the future, speed was the first thing to consider when establishing a stable connection between Xuzhou and Jinling through waterways; and sailboats with large cargo volumes must be equipped with special loading terminals.

If you stop on the shallows, you have to carry the bulk materials to the river bank with manpower. The efficiency is conceivable.

In addition to the shape of the bottom and bow of the ship, which is more conducive to breaking the waves, the sails used in the world are mainly made of bamboo and reeds. In addition to the inconvenience of lifting and lowering, the wind cannot be covered, and it is easy to break, the biggest inconvenience is that they are bulky and difficult to make the sail surface bigger, which also directly limits the area of ​​the wind and the speed of the ship.

No matter how expensive it is, Han Qian thought that he should try to use coarse cotton yarn or directly weave thick cloth for sails in the future.

With the skills of the world's craftsmen, it is not very difficult to achieve these things.

However, shipbuilding is a systematic project that is much more complicated than building lime kilns or brick kilns.

First of all, the wood must be stored in a long period of time and can only be used for shipbuilding when the wood is stable and will not be soaked and deformed in water. This step alone requires a long preparation period, let alone the trial production of a new ship.

Han Qian thought to himself that no matter how smooth the whole process went, it might take three or four years to build the first fast sailing ship he was looking forward to.

Even if the historical trajectory does not change, Emperor Tianyou will die of illness at the beginning of the 17th year of Tianyou. Han Qian doesn't know how chaotic the situation will be.

Han Qian would not consider building a boat yard that took a lot of time to build it. He thought that when the boat yard was just ready to build a ship, Jinling would be inverted. Who would he cry?

Han Qian thought about putting this matter in Xuzhou and his father organized people to promote it.

In this way, his father had just arrived in Xuzhou and had several urgent and complicated things to do, so he would not rush to implement the new policy and offend local tyrants.

In the evening, I saw a sandbank with desolate grass lying across the middle of the river.

The spring water is rising, and the river water is nearly ten miles wide. To the south, you can see Zhenjiangmen in the northwest of Chizhou City. From a distance, you can see a fast boat that paddled over from under Chizhou City. When you approach, a military academy stood at the head of the boat and shouted to this side: "The third master is the boat that is heading to Xuzhou to take his post."
Chapter completed!