Qu Shishi was furious and pointed at Lin Chunhong and cursed: "Twelve centipede ships can surround the Yangtze River? You'll underestimate the court too much! As long as someone Qu sends a letter, officers and soldiers along the Yangtze River will surround him. Qu wants to see if the one-eyed scorpion will turn into a dead scorpion!"

Lin Chunhong also stood up, stared at Qu Shisi in a tit-for-tat way, and said almost word by word: "The Yangtze River is Bang Tai. Without Bang Tai's permission, no one is allowed to sail on the Yangtze River!"

"You...you...dream!"

Lin Chunhong sneered: "Without a diamond, how dare you take the job of that porcelain? What's the point of destroying a one-eyed scorpion? In less than a few months, two-eyed scorpion, three-eyed scorpion, and four-eyed scorpion will appear again... To tell Mr. Tian, ​​we can currently launch two centipede ships in January. After half a year, it's common for four ships to be launched in January!"

"Want to scare me? Humph, you will break if you brag too much!"

"Don't believe it? You can't afford to wait for Mr. Tian to take a break, and you'll know it when you follow someone Lin in the afternoon!"

After saying that, he picked up the teacup and kept slashing the cup with the lid. When Qu Shizi looked at it, he was furious and left only one sentence, "Look at it, please prepare well, don't let someone Qu see the flaws", and then left.

Seeing Qu Shisi leaving angrily, Lin Chunhong sneered. The Yangtze River Navy and the Navy were the most secret matters of Bangtai. In fact, Lin Chunhong has always positioned the Yangtze River Navy above the navy. He believed that controlling the Yangtze River was equivalent to controlling the most exquisite fertile land of the Ming Dynasty, and no one would be able to shake this position. Over the years, Lin Chunhong has been persistent in developing the shipbuilding industry, which is the most intuitive embodiment of this concept.

After Shen, the weather was still extremely hot. Before Lin Chunhong could invite Qu Shisi, Qu Shisi came to the governor's office and asked in a voice: "Deputy General Lin, I wonder if he is ready? Can you take Qu to watch now?"

Without saying a word, Lin Chunhong took Qu Shizi to the Yangtze River.

There is still a long way from the towering Yangtze River embankment. Qin Bangding, who received the news, came to greet him and acted as a guide. When Qu Shixi saw Qin Bangding sweating, he sneered in his heart. Sure enough, he had been preparing for a long time and immediately said sarcastically: "Master Qin, the sun at noon is still sour, right? He is busy with his scorching sun, beware of heat sores on his head!"

Qin Bangding didn't know what Qu Shishi meant, so he smiled and said, "Return to Mr. Qu, my business timber department rests at noon and not at noon, so how can I work under the scorching sun? Even if people can bear it, ship timber can't stand it!"

Lin Chunhong heard this and laughed secretly, without saying anything, pointing at the mountains of wood in the distance, and said to Qu Shisi: "Please look at Mr. Qitian, there is the shipbuilding material. Mr. Lin had nowhere to live, so he risked his life to go to the deep mountains to log wood, and then earned some money as the foundation of Bangtai. For so many years, Mr. Lin has always regarded wood as a treasure, so he inevitably saved some more wood!"

Qu Shisi looked along Lin Chunhong's finger and was startled. The wood was stacked according to its thickness, thinness, length and length, reaching ten feet high, piled up in piles, almost no end. In the middle of the pile of wood, patrol personnel were vaguely seen, obviously to prevent theft and fire. Qu Shisisi was excited and couldn't help but pour cold water on it: "I heard that the wood as a ship timber needs to be processed intricately and needs to be stored for more than three years. How can these wood be used?"

Qin Bangding smiled and said, "Mr. Qu doesn't know that these woods have been processed, and more than 60% of them have been stored for more than three years. Only 60% of the wood can be used to build hundreds of three-masted sailboats!"

Qu Shixi took a breath. He also knew the cost of a three-masted sailboat, about 200,000 taels of silver, and hundreds of ships were 20 million taels of silver!

Lin Chunhong added: "This 60% of the wood can make more than 500 centipede ships." After saying that, he deliberately exaggeratedly: "Oh my god, 500 centipede ships! Isn't the Yangtze River covered with centipedes..."

Qu Shisi's face was gloomy, and as Lin Chunhong and Qin Bangding entered the wood piled ground. Qu Shisi felt that he had entered the maze all of a sudden. Both sides were covered with three-foot-sized wood, some even more than six feet, and the road ahead suddenly could not see the end. He couldn't help but feel a little panic and was worried: I scolded Lin Chunhong today, will this guy bear to bear himself here today, right?

Qu Shisi's concern did not last long, and was attracted by an iron arm hanging: the iron arm hanging was seven feet high, wrapped with ropes, and an iron hook was hanging under the rope. The iron hook hooked a giant tree with a breast diameter of five feet and was slowly rising. Qu Shisi opened his mouth wide and watched the giant tree being easily lifted up, revealing an incredible expression.

Qin Bangding smiled and said, "There is a sawing workshop over there. The iron arm crane sends the wood to the giant wood workshop! Only eight workers are needed to complete this work!"

"Eight workers?" Qu Shixi asked in surprise as if he was listening to a myth.

Qin Bangding nodded and said, "That's right, they used a winch to lift the wood and there were pulley sets on the iron arms, which was quite labor-saving."

Qu Shisi was as if possessed by a demon and couldn't help but walk towards the iron arm hanging. Lin Chunhong and Qin Bangding followed closely behind and looked at each other and smiled. This effect was exactly what they wanted to see.

Before I could walk out of the wood pile, I heard a harsh sound of sawing wood, and the sawing workshop was already in front of me.

Qu Shisi had not seen the foundation of the iron arm crane, and his eyes were attracted by the water trucks by the Yangtze River. On the waterway to Bailizhou, he had also seen such a giant water truck on the boat, but he had never seen it closely. Now, when he was watching from close, he couldn't help but be amazed again.

Qin Bangding said: "It is not possible to saw the giant wood without such a large water truck. Mr. Qu might as well follow the young man to enter the sawing workshop to see it."

Qu Shisi had almost forgot to verify the so-called cowhide, and kept looking around and entered the workshop under the leadership of Lin Chunhong and Qin Bangding.

In the workshop, the iron arm crane slowly lowered the giant tree. The workers below led the giant tree with a rope, placed the giant tree on an iron car and fixed it with a steel ring. Below the car was a long guide rail. With a shout, a worker pressed a iron rod, and a sharp metal friction sound came, and a large wheel at the end of the guide rail drove the huge iron saw to rotate.

Five workers pushed the car on the guide rails hard, and the giant wood was getting closer and closer to the iron saw. As we got closer, a sour sound came, and the wood chips flew up and down, and the huge iron saw instantly cut into the giant wood. With the push of the workers, the giant wood was cut in half in less than a quarter of an hour.

Immediately afterwards, the workers pulled out the car and directed the iron arm to lift half a giant tree. The workers moved the car on the guide rail half a foot horizontally and pushed it towards the iron saw. This time, the half-foot-thick wooden board had been formed and was carried to the east by the workers to accumulate.

Qin Bangding said happily: "Another piece of deck wood has been formed..."

Qu Shisi was unable to speak anymore. He was completely shocked by the power of nature. To put it more thoroughly, he should be shocked by the ability of humans to use the power of nature!

Qu Shisi could hardly move his footsteps in the sawing workshop. If Lin Chunhong and Qin Bangding hadn't pulled him, he wouldn't know when he would have stayed. Immediately afterwards, the group went to the rope workshop, paint workshop, sail workshop, iron nail workshop... After seeing the power of water trucks and iron arm cranes, Qu Shisi saw that these workshops were boring.

Lin Chunhong laughed secretly. As the saying goes, an expert looks at the tricks and an outsider watches the excitement. Qu Shisi is a complete layman. He only sees the power of the iron arm crane and sawing workshop. How could he know that the technical content of shipbuilding is all in the workshop behind.

Finally, the group came to the dock, where the workers outfitted the wooden boats and finally put them in the Yangtze River for trial sailing.

There are eight waterways connected to the Yangtze River in eight boats. The docks are crowded and busy. Lin Chunhong pointed to the basically formed three-masted sailboat and said proudly: "There are eight boat docks in Bailizhou. Now the shipbuilding workshop in Jingzhou is under construction. When it is completed in half a year, there are ten boat docks there, which means that Bangtai can build 18 large sailboats at the same time. In addition, Bangtai is also building ship workshops in Guangzhou, but there are only three docks there, specializing in sea ships with more than three masts. Now only merchant ships can be built there."

Qu Shizi felt bitter in his heart. Until now, he finally believed Lin Chunhong's words. On the Yangtze River, no one would be able to sail without Lin Chunhong's permission!

He clasped his fists and asked, "In the second year of Chongzhen, Deputy General Lin went to the deep mountains to log wood. Is it to build a ship to control the Yangtze River waterway?"

Lin Chunhong laughed and said, "At that time, I was forced by bandits and livelihoods, how could I think so much?"

Qu Shixi sneered: "It's a pity that ambitions have increased with strength. In the next step, is Vice General Lin planning to rely on the Yangtze River Navy to disrupt the Jiangnan and the two places in the Huai River?"

Lin Chunhong was very displeased and frowned and said, "Kid Qi Tian's words are always so ugly! I want to rebel, and I still wait until today? I still lead the archers to the north to suppress bandits? Lin just felt that many policies of the Ming Dynasty court were inappropriate, and it was not necessary to put the big Yangtze River, and transport goods on a small boat every day was simply a waste of resources! Lin was not talented, just wanted to change the habits and ideas of the court and even the entire Ming people!"

Qu Shisi looked disbelief and said coldly: "The right time, place and people are harmonious, and there is no one. What's the use of Deputy General Lin just building a ship?"

Lin Chunhong smiled and said, "I wonder if Mr. Qi Tian has heard of the Ministry of Transport of Bangtai Business? The shipkeeper, sailor and helmsman there are nearly 10,000. Mr. Qi Tian also thinks that Mr. Lin will be short of sailors? Besides, the rivers are crisscrossing in Huguang and lakes are everywhere. People who can handle boats can carry traffic. As long as they pay wages every month, how can they not recruit people?"

"Do you let these people fight with each other naked?"

"Haha, it's getting late today. I'll take Mr. Tian to see our forging workshop, gunpowder workshop and artillery workshop! Our Bangtai Navy's bow and arrows have little effect, and the one that we rely most on for combat is artillery!"

Qu Shizi is mixed with all kinds of feelings, and I don’t know if it’s anticipation or annoyance about the cannon casting that will be watched tomorrow…

...

Early the next morning, just dawn, Lin Chunhong took Qin Wuchao and Qu Shisi to the Gunpowder Workshop. The Gunpowder Workshop is far away from Bamu Beach and it takes half an hour to ride a horse. Qu Shisi can't ride a horse, so the three of them had to ride a four-wheeled carriage and winding to the east corner of Bailizhou.

Along the way, Qu Shisi kept looking out of the car and found that the fields on the roadside were covered with cotton, and green cotton bouquets were hanging on the cotton trees, swaying. Apart from cotton, there was alfalfa. Qu Shisi was a big stranger and couldn't help asking: "The land in the north of the Ming Dynasty is thousands of miles away, and food is short of food everywhere. Why did the Deputy General of the Forest plant plant cotton and alfalfa everywhere?"

Lin Chunhong spread his hands and said helplessly: "Although the land here belongs to my name, I cannot interfere with what they plant after renting it to the farmers. Now cotton is more valuable than wheat, and it is common to plant cotton. As for alfalfa, it may be because of the newly cultivated places and lacking fertility, so I can only grow alfalfa and raise animals."

Qu Shixiu was very dissatisfied and said, "How can the farmers let the farmer plant blindly? The farmers have shallow knowledge and how can they look far? The deputy general of the forest should stipulate the planting area of ​​wheat and cotton. Otherwise, what should we do if we lack food? Food is the foundation. If you have food in your hands, you will not panic in your heart."

Lin Chunhong replied indifferently: "When there is shortage of food, the price of grain rises, and growing wheat is more valuable than cotton. The farmers will adjust it themselves, so I don't need to take care of it."

Qu Shixi was angry and almost vomited blood. He persuaded Lin Chunhong with kind words, but he didn't expect that this kid was unhappy. Is this kid a fool or extremely smart?

Qu Shiqiu was in a bad mood and remained silent all the way. The three of them were thinking about their thoughts and slowly headed towards the gunpowder workshop.

In fact, in Bailizhou, winter wheat was sown in a piece of land in winter. After spring, cotton seedlings were planted in the wheat field. After the wheat was harvested, the cotton seedlings had grown taller. After picking cotton in August, then wheat was planted. Qu Shixi was not involved in Jiaxuan, how could he understand this? Lin Chunhong was too lazy to pay attention to him, let alone explain why he did not grow grain, but just used a few words to perfunctory him.

When he arrived at the Gunpowder Workshop, it was almost three o'clock. Qu Shizi was surprised to find that the Gunpowder Workshop was located on the edge of Bamutan Ju Lake, divided into countless small pieces by many small islands. A huge water truck was erected on the edge of the Hunpowder Lake.

Qu Shixi, regardless of Lin Chunhong and Qin Wuchao's indifference, asked: "Does gunpowder also need to be driven by water wheels? Why do the workshops are divided into so many small pieces? It's too inconvenient to interact with each other!"

Lin Chunhong replied: "The water truck is used to drain water. The rainwater in all Bailizhou is concentrated here, and then it is discharged into the Yangtze River with a water truck. The gunpowder workshop is divided into several pieces, mainly to prevent fires and explosions. If one piece explodes, it will not affect other places."

Qu Shili suddenly realized and followed Lin Chunhong and Qin Wuchao to the workshop. As he got closer and closer to the workshop, a pungent smell invaded his nose. Qu Shili couldn't help but sneeze.

Lin Chunhong smiled and said, "Mr. Qi Tian is tolerant and after entering the workshop, it will be fine if you put on a mask."

Qu Shisi nodded, held his breath, and quickly marched to an island. When Lin Chunhong handed over the mask filled with carbon powder, his face was flushed. Qu Shisi hurriedly imitated Lin Chunhong's appearance, put on the mask, took a deep breath, and the smell disappeared without a trace.

The three of them were getting farther and farther away from the source of the odor. In the end, the odor disappeared completely. The three of them quickly took off their masks and were placed inside the workshop by the guards after their identity verification.

When Qu Shixi saw that the workshop was almost full of old people and women. Qu Shixi almost turned his mouth aloof and cursed: "Lin Chunhong! How could you bear to drive them to do such dangerous things!"
Chapter completed!