"Isn't this a good thing?"

Li Chao looked at the chest and abdomen exposed, wearing a short-term battle, like a sailor who had a boat. .

"You are a dignified Duke, and you are from the second-rank army general. You can take a few boats to Goguryeo to enjoy it. It would be fine if there is no accident. But if there is any accident, then your dignified general will fall into Liaodong, but you will not even have the chance to save him."

It sounds refreshing to take a few boats to the coast of Goguryeo. But the risks are also great. After all, from such a distance, there are only a few people running to the territory of Goguryeo. When you encounter any accidents, there are not even people who can save your life. If you really want Lao Cheng to fall into Goguryeo, this will be awesome.

One of the eight nobles in Zhenguan, and Lao Cheng has such a good relationship with the Li family, Li Chao called him Uncle, and his wife Cui is also Li Chao's wife's aunt.

"You don't have to worry about that. I, old Cheng, have been in and out of the enemy camp for half my life. I can just go to Goguryeo to fight a disaster. What else can they do to me? Going to Goguryeo is like visiting a brothel, just to have fun. Have you ever seen anyone go to a brothel and make himself fall into trouble?"

Li Chao nodded, "Yes, if you feel too good, you will be on the rise."

"Get out!" Old Cheng cursed with laughter.

"I am a scattered person now. I am free and I am almost moldy when I stay here. Don't worry, I will definitely not mess around when I go to Liaodong, just stroll around the beach. Don't worry, I haven't seen any big winds and waves before."

Li Chao was helpless.

It seems that Lao Cheng has been really stuck in Dengzhou during this period.

"Well, the weather has been good recently and there are no wind and waves on the sea. Why not just accompany you to go shopping?"

"Okay, I'll just go, you'd better stay. If I meet some tough guys in Liaodong, I'm not afraid, but you can't. If you lose hair there, I can't afford it."

Li Chaobai glanced at him, "If you want to go, go, don't want to go down, I'll go by myself."

Originally, Li Chao was unwilling to take risks, but after Cheng Yaojin said a few words, he really planned to go for a walk. It was considered as a test to get off the ship, check the route, etc. Of course, when you get there, you will also log in or something.

Depend on the situation in detail.

Normally, nothing will happen. After all, their sea boats are so advanced and they are well equipped.

"Well, we can disguise ourselves as merchant ships and rob in secret in trade openly. How about it?"

Lao Cheng touched his chin.

There is light in my eyes.

"This idea is very sinister, but I, Old Cheng, like it, when will I leave?"

"Just these few days!" Li Chao was also excited. In fact, he was also an adventurous person at heart.

"Wenyuan, I have something to tell you. I plan to call my family over and send it to your Dengzhou College to study."

Cheng Chucun, Cheng Chuli, the second and third sons of the Cheng family. They are two illegitimate sons, who are younger than Chumo, but they are both 16 or 17 years old.

Lao Cheng's ex-wife gave birth to two legitimate sons of Chu Mo Chuliang, and Cui, who had been married again, gave birth to Chu Bi for him, and the family was prosperous.

The eldest son Chumo followed Li Chao for several years. With Li Chao's relationship, the family background of the Cheng family, and his own abilities, he earned himself a real marquis and a fiefdom of 100 miles. Lao Cheng was not worried about his son's future.

The second son Chu Liang was taken to be his son-in-law by the emperor early, and he would not have to worry about food and drink in the future.

Although the third brother Chu Bi is still young, I am from the Cui family in Qinghe. With the reputation of Cheng and Cui families, there is definitely no need to worry.

As for my daughter, Lao Cheng is not worried.

He was just worried that his family had three concubines, Cheng Yaojin, three concubines, and Chu Cun, and Chu Li had one. The three concubines had a humble mother and had no power in their family.

Lao Cheng wanted to buy them a lord, but they were not qualified. This time in Dengzhou, Lao Cheng saw the prospect of sailing, and wanted to let two eldest concubines come here to learn sailing. In the future, the Cheng family's business could be managed by the concubines. As for the legitimate son, he naturally focused on the official career.

"The court is preparing to build a naval school. Uncle Cheng, please arrange for them to go in." Li Chao said.

"I'm not interested in the Navy School." Cheng Yaojin shook his head.

The Navy School was run by the court and prepared for the Navy, which is considered professional training. The students recruited are actually equivalent to those of the Navy. When you go in to study, you will be considered as soldiers of the Navy.

Although Cheng Yaojin was optimistic about the sea trade, he looked down on the navy. He thought that in war, he had to be the infantry and cavalry on the land. Even the musketeers of the Shenji Army were better than the navy.

If he wants to arrange his son to enter the military, he can send them to the martial arts lecture hall directly.

"It's not that I look down on the navy, but they are really the ones who make the ships by you. Even the instructors of the navy are still crew members of our South China Sea commercial fleet. They know nothing about navigation. Following the monk Waizui, there can be no good scriptures. To learn sailing, you have to go there, whether you learn sailing or sailing."

Li Chao smiled, this is right.

The merchant fleet of South China Sea trade is the richest sailing experience in this era. The crew members in the fleet are the old crew members of the Kuangyan and the generations of maritime merchants. In addition, the new seaship technology and new navigation inventions provided by Li Chao later made this maritime merchant fleet even more exciting.

"It doesn't matter if you go to the college by the climax, but running to the sea is very hard."

"It's okay, they are not good at carrying the fetus. When they are in the belly of their concubines, they will not be as quiet as they are born. There is no powerful uncle's family. If you don't want to endure hardship and learn some real skills, you will not have a foothold in the future. It is also a good place to endure hardship. You will have a good life in the future."

After choosing a good day, Li Chao and Cheng Yaojin, two lawless guys, quietly left Dengzhou Port.

There are not many ships, there are a total of ten ships.

They are all three-masted sailing ships with a displacement of about 500 tons. In this era, sea ships carrying 100 people were considered large ships, but those ships were only equivalent to small ships, with a displacement of about 200 tons.

In fact, the Gashi Sailing Ship is not very suitable as a merchant ship, because its design is speed and tends to fight. However, when Li Chao first chose this ship, he went to arm the merchant ship from the beginning.

In the Age of Discovery, sailboats with a displacement of less than 500 tons were called small sailboats. However, in this era, five hundred tons were already large ships.

Li Ji Shipyard uses the unit of material as the unit of ship size.

One material is one foot cubic cube. A ship with a displacement of 500 tons is about 800 materials.

Ten large ships with eight hundred materials are formed by Li Chao, Cheng Yaojin, and Cui Zhenglu's three families. Cui Zhenglu's three families are both Li Chao's in-laws, and they are all Li Chao's brother-in-law and brother-in-law, so he is not easy to refuse.

Five families, two boats in one family.

Although there are few ships, there are quite a few people. Each ship carries more than 100 people, a total of 1,500 people. Even if the people driving the ship are excluded, this fleet actually carries a total of 1,200 armed sailors.

Standing on the deck, Lao Cheng was very satisfied with the ship. The only thing he was dissatisfied with was the number. In his words, he was the dignified general of the army and Duke Lu, and he had only two ships.

No matter how you do it, you have to have a hundred or eighty boats.

"One hundred thousand guan per person, you can do as much as you want, but you just have to queue up."

Li Chao was reluctant to sell more boats.

Cheng Yaojin despises Li Chao very much. He is also a partner in the shipyard. Although there are more than 100 such partners, but as a partner, he naturally knows the cost and profit of shipbuilding.

Such a boat costs less than 50,000 guan, and Li Chao sells 100,000 guan. In fact, if you want to buy a boat now, you have to queue up, or you have to add money in advance. If you want to get it immediately, you will actually get 120,000 guan.

"We have to build some more factories." Cheng Yaojin lamented the huge profits of the shipyard, but was dissatisfied with the shipyard's production being too low. In fact, what restricts the shipyard's production now is still in terms of materials.

Li Ji Shipyard implements standardized parts production, and the shipyards in Dengzhou and several other ports are actually assembly plants.

A three-mast of 800 materials can actually be assembled in just ten days.

Therefore, what really limits production capacity is the production of various components, such as keels, masts, slabs, sails, anchors, etc. Under this production model, the production capacity and efficiency have been greatly improved, but there are too many people buying ships now, which still leads to overwhelming and insufficient supply of materials.

"It's still insufficient labor. Those parts factories lack people." Li Chao was helpless.

Ships are indeed assembled quickly, but it takes time to process the raw materials into semi-finished products. For example, wood can be calculated from harvesting to processing in years. After all, wood needs to be harvested and transported, and cables and sails have to be harvested and then processed and produced.

The shipyard is not short of funds, but what is lacking is people. No matter how much capital is, no one is. No matter how many new factories are built, it is useless.

If there are enough accessories, assembly is actually very simple. A shipyard can load a large ship of 800 materials in ten days. Li Ji now has two assembly shipyards, and in the other four major ports, new shipyards are also being built at the same time.

After the new factory was completed, Li Ji would have six assembly shipyards by then. At that time, eighteen large ships could be assembled in one month. This was just that when the shipyard had only one assembly line, the shipyard was now expanding its scale. One shipyard could form several ships at the same time. After the expansion was completed, one shipyard could even assemble ten ships at the same time.

A shipyard can build thirty boats in a month, which is equivalent to one boat a day. A shipyard can produce six large boats in a day. It is quite terrifying to start the production capacity with all its strength.

"Damn it, when we go out this time, we must catch more people to return to our careers." Lao Cheng said hatefully.

"Hurry load the goods, load them early, set sail early and go out to sea."

Ten ships, with the banner of trade, will leave the port with full load of commercial goods.

The bottom of the valley is filled with porcelain from Jingdezhen and rock sugar and frosted sugar transported from Lingnan. These commodities are heavier and are used as baits. Then the ones are light but valuable items, silk, tea, books, etc.

These are all considered specialties of the Tang Dynasty, and there are no other places, and each one can be sold at a high price.

Cheng Yaojin watched the crew members help loading the goods and smashed his mouth, "We really have no one else?"

Li Chao looked at the crew members and was helpless.

Li Cheng, Cui, Zheng Lu, and the five families had only pieced together 1,500 people. In addition to the necessary personnel to drive the ship, there were also 1,200 armed sailors. However, these sailors were really not very good at taking action.

A small number of men, almost all the rest are teenagers.
Chapter completed!