Building a ship sounds simple, but the more you understand the process, the more you know the difficulties. Not to mention that there are very few craftsmen who can build ships, even if there are, a large part of them belong to the Ministry of Works, followed by the places and wood needed for shipbuilding. In both of these, Fujian has unique conditions. In addition to the unremitting efforts of several generations of marquis of the Jinghai Marquis Mansion, the ships built by the Jinghai Marquis Mansion have their current reputation, which is not something that can be done overnight.

It took Li Qian only three years to build a ship.

Zhao Xiao remembered the drawings he sent someone to get from the Ministry of Works before, and felt a sense of ingenuity in his heart. He said to the staff: "Who was responsible for the drawing at that time? After I took them back, I remember that my father once asked me that my fifth uncle personally supervised and made two lucky ships according to the drawings. Because the craftsmanship is more complicated than our own, the small boat can only walk inland, and the large boat can only be transported by sea, which is not as convenient as our own boats. Later, it was abandoned and unused. What about the drawings?"

The staff immediately understood what he meant.

I am afraid that the drawing will be taken out by someone who is interested.

"I'll get it now!" He said, and stood up, took Zhao Xiao's order talisman and went out in person.

Zhao Xiao asked several other staff members: "How big is the ship on Li Qian's side? Have you ever tried the waters? Has it been successful?"

The ship is not something that can be used just by making it. It also needs to be tested and improved.

The other staff members looked a little unfavorable. One of the older representatives said, "The ship is not built large, and it can only hold 50,000 harbors of grain at most. It has been tried with water. It is said that it will be tried at Tongzhou Wharf in the beginning of the spring of the year."

Otherwise, they would not have told Zhao Xiao this news at this time, and it would have caused trouble for Zhao Xiao for nothing.

Only then did you tell him!

Zhao Xiao was so angry that he lost his temper.

He took a deep breath and waited for his staff who were holding the drawings.

If the drawings in his hand are really lost, it will be troublesome!

The Zhao family must have joined Li Qian's spy.

Li Qian started building ships three years ago, which means that since then, Li Qian's people have been around him, and he is also a person who is very close to him. Otherwise, he would not have obtained the shipbuilding drawings.

He felt that breathing was a little difficult, so he pulled the collar.

The staff member who went to get the drawings ran in with joy, holding a bunch of scrolls in his hand, and said, "Mr. Marquis, those drawings are still there, including seals."

In other words, no one has touched these drawings.

Then how did Li Qian build the ship?

Zhao Xiao's face turned darker than before, and he said in a deep voice: "Check! Check it hard for me! See if there are any of the boat craftsmen in Rongyang who are related to Li Qian."

Only they can reveal the secrets of shipbuilding.

Zhao Xiao's eyebrows and eyes were full of murderous aura.

The aide knew that it was of great importance, and he was shocked and hurriedly lowered his head to respond to "yes".

Li Qian did not take the success of shipbuilding too seriously. At this time, he didn't know what these ships would do for him. He just felt that Jiang Xian had spent so much effort to cut off the drawing and should have found a way to build a boat, so that he would not have to buy it with Zhao Xiao one day when he wanted to use the boat. Just like when he needed war horses back then, he would rather spend a few more years raising horses by himself than sell horses directly from the Tartars.

Some resources have to be pinched in your palm.

It happened that the weather has been good in recent years. Whether it was the business he did with the Dong family or the business he did with Guo Yonggu, he had a lot of money. He had the ability to satisfy Jiang Xian's small wish, so he sent someone to Tianjin Wei and built the dock.

However, what he did not expect was that the first business of the dock actually came from Guo Yonggu.

He heard the news from somewhere and sent his staff to order thirty large ships and twenty small ships.

Li Qian was shocked and smiled and said, "I have only built a ship in the past three years. Your adults ordered fifty ships from me in one breath. I want to go until the Year of the Monkey and Horse Month! No, at most, I will build five or six ships for you. If he wants it, don't pull it down!"

Li Qian is not the Li Qian of the past. Although Guo Yonggu manages well in Sichuan, he seems to have become a country. Whether it is the court or Li Qian, he has lost control of him, but he dare not offend Li Qian.

Guo Yonggu's aide dared not say anything, so he could only greet Guo with a smile, saying that he was entrusted by Mrs. Guo Yonggu before leaving and brought a lot of things to Guo and his three unseen grandsons.

Not long ago, Guo gave birth to his third son.

Guo was a little disappointed.

She hopes to have a daughter.

Li Ju was very happy.

Because Li Qian and Li Ji both have one son, the more he gave birth, the less pressure Li Qian will be.

Li Qian knew that the Guo family was going to play the card of family affection, but he really couldn't build many ships, but he didn't want the Guo family to know. He made an excuse to smile and said, "You know, I grew up in Fujian when I was a child, and I especially wanted to build a navy. It just so happened that the ship could be built in Tianjin. I was going to try building a small navy to see if it could be suppressed by the water bandits at that time."

Some time ago, they went to suppress the bandits, but then they found that there were more water bandits than bandits, and they were more harmful than bandits. Most of them stabbed the cold knife in the back when they were fighting the Tartars. However, there were not many people in Li Qian's army who knew the water. Not to mention suppressing the water bandits, it would be better not to be suppressed by the water bandits.

Li Qian was not a person who surrendered. After knowing it, he was furious and decided to suppress all these water bandits, otherwise he would be a long-term victory.

His decision won the unanimous recognition of the generals, and everyone was ready to learn to swim and prepare to form a team to suppress the water bandits.

This matter has not spread yet, but Guo Yonggu has been staring at Li Qian in the past few years, and Li Qian has not intentionally concealed it. Guo Yonggu knew so quickly that Li Qian could build a ship. Li Qian had a ship and wanted to build a navy, which was reasonable.

The staff had to go back and ask Guo Yonggu to give in so that he could continue to talk to Li Qian about buying a boat.

It took at least two or three months for the letter to come to Sichuan, so the staff went to Taiyuan to visit Guo.

Li Changqing has been raising the best and honored people in recent years. In addition, as he grows older, he has become much fatter. He heard that Li Qian has built an official boat. The first thing he thought about was to ask Li Qian to send him a boat. He also drove to the lake to show off, but Li Ju said to him like a broken ball: "Even if the eldest brother gave you a boat, where are you going to park? I heard that the Guo family spent tens of thousands of gold to buy a boat. Do you think it is important to gold and silver or your face is important!"

He never mentioned the ship again.

However, Guo was a little worried that the two families would have a gap.

She has lived in the Li family for almost ten years and has three sons. And in the summer, her eldest son and second son will be taken to the capital by her father-in-law, study and practice martial arts in the capital, and follow Li Qian to pursue a future.

At this time, she was most afraid of any twists and turns.

She simply wrote a letter to Jiang Xian.

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Chapter completed!