"After leaving the kiln, the curved sheets and long branches will appear. Clamps, counterweights, or suspended materials will be added to smooth the wood. Finally, it will be placed in a sunny warehouse to continue to return water."

Qi Xingyun felt dizzy after hearing this. He didn't understand the professional shipbuilding process very well. Hu Hao was also a little helpless. It was difficult to explain such technical matters clearly.

Don't look at these few sentences, they are the most important achievements of their wood processing workshop in the past two years.

"Although I don't quite understand why this is, of course I know that there is no possibility of laziness in this craft. It is all done step by step through trial and error. I understand your hard work." Qi Xingyun said with a smile.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand. It’s enough to know that they are still striving for excellence.

"This is the lacquering workshop, and that is the assembly workshop." Hu Hao continued to take Qi Xingyun to visit the lacquerware workshop and the small parts assembly workshop.

The long branches and boards that had been dried in the shade were combined together using a method that Qi Xingyun couldn't understand. There was not a single nail in the whole process, and they fit together completely, as if these woods were originally long.

like this.

"There are also rivets, but they are all riveted on the inside and cannot be seen from the outside. These are just small tricks. Even if they are rusted, they can be used for decades and then replaced. But because iron will rust, we rarely

I know how to use nails." Hu Hao said with a hint of pride on his face.

Qi Xingyun actually wanted to ask, if there are no nails, would it be loose? If this thing gets bumped...

Qi Xingyun picked up a three-jointed piece of wood and put it together. With a slight click, it was put together. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't separate it.

"This is a double-tenon corner mortise, specially used for making corners. This is a high waist and shoulder mortise, which can be used to make patterns. There are many more. The few displayed here by the emperor are all very simple things." Hu Hao disagreed.

Explain the key points again.

After all, the emperor doesn't know much about this.

Qi Xingyun told Wang Yun his thoughts.

Wang Yun asked hesitantly: "Can this be sold? If a bunch of wood is put together, will anyone buy it?"

Qi Xingyun nodded firmly, assembling is a man's romance.

"Try it first and make a batch. If it sells, sell it. If it doesn't, just make it for me." Qi Xingyun confessed and looked at the huge keel lying quietly in the dock.

This is the starting point of Daqi’s dream. Without giant ships, where would sea trade come from?

The keel, which is more than one hundred meters long and spliced ​​together with a mortise and tenon structure, is quietly placed at the bottom of the workshop. Craftsmen ride on hanging baskets and go up and down in the workshop to assemble this huge ocean-going ship.

The fresh aroma of vegetation and the fishy smell of the sea always tell Qi Xingyun that this is where Da Qi will go in the future.

The boundless sea.

"A boat made of magnolia trees, a Mulan boat..."

"Mulan Zhou's five-thousand-material ship is the 10,000-material ship. There are also dozens of three-thousand-material ships under construction. Three five-thousand-material ships of the same level as Mulan Zhou are also planned."

"It is expected that in the spring of next year, there will be one large ship with 10,000 materials, four large ships with 5,000 materials, and eighteen large ships with 3,000 materials. That's about it, Your Majesty." Hu Hao pointed to the endless shipyard and said with emotion.

.

Qi Xingyun did a little calculation and found that one thousand materials was about sixty tons. The tonnage of this large ship with ten thousand materials was as high as five thousand tons.

Qi Xingyun nodded, pointed to the dozens of workshops in front of him, and said: "Every year, we must make a plan and report it to the court. Don't forget to build bigger and bigger ships, the bigger the better! Use the wooden keel as the

When you can’t support it, try building a giant ship with an iron keel, a steel keel!”

"Won't it rust?" Hu Hao asked absently.

"Then just find a way to make it rust-free." Qi Xingyun said with a smile. There are so many ways to prevent rust, but I have never heard of anyone using stainless steel to build the hull.

Encounter a problem, overcome a problem, and one day Daqi's ships will reach every corner of the world!

"Wang Yun, write this into the regulations, and the maritime administration shall not be abolished." Qi Xingyun asked Wang Yun to write down this matter.

Daqi needs sea trade, because sea trade brings huge profits and tariffs, and both national and internal funds require this money.

When this money becomes more and more important and becomes more and more abundant, no matter who is in charge of the Central Plains Dynasty, they cannot underestimate this benefit.

Then sea trade will not be blocked.

However, Qi Xingyun's emotion was quickly interrupted by a burst of noise.

Life is like this, not only poetry and distance, but also all kinds of nastiness.

"I want to see the emperor, why are you stopping me! Let me go, I want to see the emperor!" A man was stopped from the crowd by a strong official. He was held up in the air, dancing, but still not

Be willing to give up this opportunity.

"Thankfully, we are in Daqi." Qi Xingyun shook his head and said, "Let him come over."

If this were placed in the late Southern Dynasty, it would not be the hands of the official, but a cold weapon. With a single stroke of the knife, the head fell to the ground.

Qi Xingyun looked at the man in front of him curiously and asked, "What do you want from me?"

"Fan Shan! Don't make trouble here!" Hu Hao shouted with a change of expression when he saw the person coming.

"Your Majesty, the common people are unjustly accused. There are seniors and juniors among the common people. If they are kicked out of the dock, the common people will have no choice but to jump into the sea." The man named Fan Shan shouted loudly.

"Why were you kicked out of the dock?" Qi Xingyun asked doubtfully.

It was just the time for Da Qi to employ people, so how could he be kicked out of the shipyard without incident?

Fan Shan said with a bitter look on his face: "The common people are sick."

"If you are sick, go to the hospital to find a doctor. Even if you look for me, I don't know how to treat you." Qi Xingyun looked at Fan Shan and said with a meaningful smile.

Hu Hao's face changed greatly when he heard this and said: "Your Majesty, when he was working, he would arrive late and leave early every day. He would ask for leave at every turn, which delayed all the work and was unable to work hard. So I approved the official's document and put it in

He kicked him out of the dock!"

Fan Shan gritted his teeth and stared at Hu Hao, and said angrily: "You are talking nonsense! When did I arrive late and leave early?! Your Majesty, when I was working in the shipyard, I never came late and left early for a day, and I never missed a day!"

Hu Hao said with a hint of helplessness: "You have personally sketched and fingerprinted these Mao books and inspection books. You were late twelve times, left early seven times, and missed work sixteen times in three months. You still say you didn't? This

Didn't you press the fingerprint? Didn't you write the name yourself?"

"You've called me so many times, but your mouth is empty. If you ask me to believe you, how can I believe you?"

Fan Shan's eyes were splitting and he roared: "You tricked me into signing those words! You said you would give me thirteen months' salary as compensation, but I signed it and you refused to acknowledge it. From a workshop
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