Time passes easily in the idle place. Since Li San went to Chang'an, half a month has passed in a blink of an eye.

For half a month, the snow in Qingzhou was intermittent, and the snow in the city was enough to reach people's knees. The sun came out and turned into snow, and the road was very muddy.

As a result, the people in Qingzhou City were even more reluctant to come out and walk around.

Xiao Ming, like the people, had the same thoughts as the people. In addition to going to the Equipment Department to supervise, he usually drew pictures in the royal palace. Today, the structural diagram, overall renderings, and node diagrams of the Galen ship were all out.

"Luckily, I still have some artistic skills." Xiao Ming was proud. In modern times, his only hobby was drawing cartoons, so he was a bit involved in drawing.

Although he only uses a brush, he draws this picture in a very stylish way and has clear lines that are not inferior to computer production.

"Why is Your Highness so happy?" Luluo brought the breakfast over at this time.

After winter, the food is even more monotonous. Breakfast is just two pieces of bread, dumpling soup, etc., but there are more people hunting this season because there are some venison, wild birds and so on on the market.

Now that the Qi Palace has money, I can eat meat every now and then.

"The boat I painted has finally finished." Xiao Ming happily took the dough cake and slid his fingers on Green Ivy's little hand.

Luluo angrily glanced at Xiao Ming and got used to Xiao Ming's character.

Looking at the dozen pictures on the chopping board, Green Ivy stuck out her tongue, "Your Highness is so amazing. If this is Green Ivy, I don't know when or when I can draw so many."

Xiao Ming was in a state of excitement, and the drawings came out, so it was time for Zhang Liang to move.

He believes that in terms of shipbuilding technology, the Great Yu Kingdom has not lagged behind at this stage, and only solidified thinking and technology are lagging behind.

"What's the difficulty? There's nothing wrong with it at night. Come here. I'll give you some advice and ensure you can make rapid progress." Xiao Ming said while eating the cake.

Luluo said with a blushing face: "Your Highness must be teasing Luluo again, so I won't be fooled." After that, Luluo pouted and came out of Xiao Ming's bedroom.

Xiao Ming smiled wickedly and watched Luluo go back. After having breakfast in a hurry, he took the drawings to the Equipment Department.

In this cold winter, I can’t go to other places, so I can only travel between the Equipment Department and the Royal Palace.

And while he was slack in the winter, he also wanted to build some simple workshops so that he could use them after spring.

"Your Highness." Chen Qi bowed and said when he saw Xiao Ming coming.

Unlike other places, the Equipment Department was still in a hot scene at this time. The craftsmen and servants were in a hurry. In the backyard of the Equipment Department, two blast furnaces more than three meters high rose from the ground.

On both sides of the blast furnace are tamped with earth, so as to be able to feed, at the bottom, each blast furnace is connected to a huge bellows for blowing the air.

In front of the blast furnace, there were some dark things piled up, not coal, but coke burned by Xiao Ming.

"How is this blast furnace iron smelting test?" Xiao Ming asked.

The mature techniques taught by Xiao Ming have prevented Chen Qi from taking many detours, but the specific process still requires down-to-earth experiments.

"Back to Your Highness, the coke was not successful at first, and the iron residue was trained. Later, we adjusted the temperature and made the carbon tighter, so we obtained qualified coke. When we smelted, we adjusted the wind power many times, and the amount of coke was used to refine qualified cooked iron." Chen Qi said.

Since Xiao Ming asked him to use blast furnace to smelify iron, he has been pounced on it, and now he has finally successfully smelted the cooked iron.

Xiao Ming nodded, "Yes, once the crucible is produced, these cooked iron can be refined into qualified steel, and the strength of our machine tool tools can also be strengthened."

"We are just waiting for Butler Qian to come back? Logically speaking, Butler Qian has been out for more than 20 days, why haven't he come back?" Chen Qi was almost obsessed with technology and couldn't help but feel anxious at this time.

Xiao Ming frowned, and he was also a little worried. It was a heavy snow to block the road and a thief again. Don’t have any more trouble.

After scanning the cooked discus made, Xiao Ming said, "No hurry, the equipment department has a lot of work. You can do other things first. By the way, how are Zhang Liang and others performing during this period?"

Chen Qi seemed to have forgotten Zhang Liang and others. At this time, Xiao Ming mentioned it and said, "Your Highness, these people have been responsible for some hard work, but they are diligent. What should you do to them?"

Xiao Mingliang put the drawings in Liang's hand, "For this, the Equipment Department may have to help produce some parts at that time."

"Your Highness, can you let me see?" Chen Qi immediately looked like he was scratching his head.

Xiao Ming didn't tease him with Chen Qi's nature in his heart, and handed him the drawings.

"Is this a ship?" Chen Qi glanced briefly and exclaimed, "But I have never seen such a ship before."

"This kind of ship is called Garen Ship. After many improvements from this king, I am now calling him Qingzhou Ship." Xiao Ming said.

Chen Qi probably flipped over and returned it to Chen Qi, scratching his head and said, "Your Highness, I'm afraid I can't do anything about shipbuilding. I've never learned it before."

"I'm not asking you to build a ship, I just want you to cooperate in producing some parts." Xiao Ming smiled.

Chen Qi breathed a sigh of relief and then remembered, "I asked why your highness looked for Zhang Liang? Didn't his family run a shipbuilding workshop before? I'll call him over now."

After a while, Chen Qi brought Zhang Liang over, and Zhang Liang bowed and said, "I have seen Your Highness."

"No gifts." Xiao Ming helped Zhang Liang up and said, "This time I asked you to come here, I have something to ask you to be a great man. It is a waste to let your Zhang family be a coolie. Come on, look at this and weigh whether it can be created."

Zhang Liang was stunned for a moment, took Xiao Ming's drawings, and then looked at them and was stunned. After a long time, he quickly turned over every page of the drawings. In the end, Zhang Liang's hands couldn't stop trembling.

"Your Highness, how did Your Highness get this drawing? This kind of ship is unheard of by old slaves, but with the experience of the old slaves, this ship is very suitable for sailing on the sea." Zhang Liang said.

Xiao Ming nodded. Just this sentence shows that Zhang Liang is still capable and can see the technical content. He said, "Don't ask this. I will only ask you if you are willing to build this ship for me?"

"Will!" Zhang Liang said without hesitation: "It's much better than being with ore cinder all day here."

"Well, since that's the case, I will restore your shipbuilding workshop. But from now on, your shipbuilding workshop will be the official business. I have no contact with you anymore. Are you willing?"

Zhang Liang sighed and said, "I am now a sinful slave and a slave, just to live up to the learning that will last a lifetime."

"Well, in those days, you and your tribe members will go back to the shipbuilding workshop. I will deal with the Qin family's affairs." Xiao Ming said.

Zhang Liang's shipbuilding workshop was always detained by the Qin family, and Xiao Ming had to ask for it back. After making up the matter, the Equipment Department had nothing else to do, so he returned to the royal palace.

At this moment, the Qin family's merchant ships slowly docked on the dock of Chang'an, the country of the Great Yu Kingdom.
Chapter completed!