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Chapter 237 The old man in the mountains

Later, Song Chen would regret what he said about "Madam Xu". It was not because he hurt the girl's heart, but why did he become a charlatan?

Although he has always been a model worker in the Song Dynasty and as one of the many time traveling armies, although he is not a model in his achievements, he can still enter the ranks of the lower-middle ranks.

So he didn't want to fall into being a charlatan for cheating for the time being, because in the future, many people would line up to find him and find "Song Shensuan" to calculate marriage, which made him very distressed.

"Chenzi, you don't know if this move is effective. If it is exposed, the 'fishing line' will be broken, and the consequences will not be very good!" Qiu Yingying was talking to Song Chen and herself, but in fact, she was the initiator.

"I can only look at the sky," Song Chen replied helplessly, but he immediately added, "But I am a person favored by God."

The boat yard is chosen as Ponywei, which is the Ponywei Harbour of later generations, which carries the glorious and humiliating memories of modern times.

This is a natural harbor, with ship locks easy to build and calm all seasons.

When building a ship, water can be discharged into the sea so that shipbuilders can build the ship without having to be in the water. After the construction is done, open the lock and pour the sea water in. Then the water rises and the ship sails up and sails smoothly to the sea.

With current technical level, the ships built by Song Chen are essentially wooden sailboats, so they are no different from other shipbuilding yards. However, as a time traveler, even sailboats will have many innovations.

A three-masted sailboat can travel against the wind. The shape of the ship is only very different from the current mainstream ships in the Song Dynasty. This is innovation.

There are also various new tools in the boat yard, and there are dozens of hammers alone, with various subdivided uses.

The most important innovation is driving. Of course, there is still a big difference between this kind of driving and modern driving because it is driven by human power.

The driving is mainly composed of iron components. The iron smelting level in Fujian is far from meeting Song Chen's requirements, so it can only be ordered from Lin'an Military Equipment Supervision.

These components are large in size, heavy in weight, and transport is a big problem and originally required a huge amount of manpower to complete it.

However, with pulley devices now, more than ten people can load and unload them in one day, and they can also transport them from Lin'an to Quanzhou by sea through the newly opened route.

I ordered 4,000 guan of iron parts from the Military Equipment Supervisor and sent the drawings over. If the backer saw this order, he would have to be happy for a long time.

I don’t know how he is in the north now, and whether he has arrived in Dadu, but what will happen.

According to what Song Chen found out, these coastal mudflats belonged to the court. It was not a waste to ask the court for this piece of land, so they were quickly criticized.

Today is the day of breaking ground, and a small groundbreaking ceremony was held.

Due to the shortage of funds, there was no way to recruit more than 20 locals when working, and only asked them to do some basic and simple work.

The start-up banquet was held without any ambiguity, and everything went smoothly. Not to mention that Shang Yidao is doing well at present, all personnel and materials are arranged properly.

However, there is always a big problem hanging on the Mawei Shipyard, that is, the shortage of labor, and to be precise, the lack of talents.

Logically speaking, Song Chen was still satisfied with the three large ships made in the Mingzhou Shipyard (now Mingzhou). They drove fast and steadily.

These craftsmen in the boat are all scarce talents, but when Song Chen proposed to recruit them, these people politely declined.

It’s not that he paid a low salary and was not well paid, but they all had already taken root in Mingzhou and did not want to leave their hometown. Besides, they were living a superior life with their shipbuilding skills and extremely high salaries, and it was difficult for them to be attractive to them in terms of treatment.

Besides, Song Chen gave them the drawings of the new sailing ship. The performance of these three new ships is obvious to all. These craftsmen also went from disdain to believing that this new ship with good performance and low cost will gradually replace the old sailing ship.

So they can also build it in the old shipyard. Song Chen had no complaints about this. He also revealed some precautions and improvement measures to them.

Song Chen is not like other time travelers. He is obviously rich in the world, but he is so stingy that he even makes the method of making a candied haws a top secret.

Of course, he is so open and willing to share it is not because he is great.

But he knew that the more ships there were like the Song Dynasty, the stronger it was, and his own interests were tied to the broken ship of the Song Dynasty. He was happy to do things that could be beneficial to it.

The shipyard was officially started.

In the Western Regions, there is an oasis on the desert that cannot be seen at first sight.

On this vast land, there is another project that can be called a miracle of mankind, that is, the waterway project that penetrates hundreds of meters underground. After thousands of years, it is still nourishing the people on the land.

There is a mysterious place at the deepest point of the oasis. There is a stone castle here. The architectural style is a bit different from the surrounding ones. It is very tall, easy to defend and difficult to attack. This is also the main throat to the Central Plains.

Ordinary people around him will feel the same way when talking about this place. The people living inside are so terrible. The people inside are engaged in an ancient profession - a killer.

As long as the price is affordable, anyone can be targeted, and since the decades since that group of people came here, the feelings of mutual suspicion and hatred have spread among the originally kind people.

This place is no longer a place full of happiness, but full of death, and is called a "ghost town".

In fact, that mysterious place is not as terrifying as the legend is most of the time. On the contrary, it can even be said to be a paradise for men. Those people often have a little yearning in their fearful expressions.

However, when the terrifying side of this house is revealed, even the evil ghosts in hell will be frightened.

The assassin who failed to perform the assassination mission returned to this stone house. He wanted to meet the owner of the house, the old man in the mountains.

This is a title, the title of the leader of their sect.

Although he is called the old man in the mountains, the person in front of him is a young man in his thirties. He listened to the report of the assassin who came back to report his life expressionlessly. Don't think of any useful information from his face, unless it is what he wants to give it to you.

The assassin, who had dozens of lives, was very scared. In the mission of assassin, the task of assassinating a craftsman, had sent three assassins. The lineup was so strong that it failed. Not only that, two assassins were also damaged.

He didn't know what kind of punishment he would face.

"I'll ask you again, are the other two dead?" the old man in the mountain asked faintly.

"It's certain that he's dead!" The assassin didn't lie on this point, so he answered without a trace of anxiety.

"good!"
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