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Chapter 639 Eight scull boats

"General Yan, are you still used to it now?" asked Zhang Guozi, the ship.

The ship is the captain. Generally, all kinds of people on the civil ship will be divided into the head of the guild, the deputy head of the guild, the direct warehouse, the miscellaneous worker, the helmman, the fire chief, the anchor, the cable craftsman, and the other. If it is an official ship, there are also various officers, sacrificial officials, and the officers and soldiers in charge of weapons.

This situation is the result of the formation of ship concurrently.

There are several owners of a ship, and everyone must distinguish the tasks clearly, otherwise it will cause chaos.

However, there is not such a clear division of labor on these ships, only the ship's plan and the helmsman. These two tasks are too important and cannot be neglected. The others are sailors. The cable workers who do not necessarily tie cables must be able to tie cables. They also hold other positions, and even take weapons, they are soldiers.

But Yan Da didn't know much about this one.

He put his forehead on his head.

"Northern people first started to ship in Shanghai, and they mostly vomited and had diarrhea. They usually drink some millet porridge, and they will pass after they endured it."

"Someone is from the south."

"They are people in the mountains, and they have never been on the boat, and they are not used to it."

Yan Damoran.

On this sea boat, he had no room for words, and he did not perform well himself.

So I changed the topic: "It seems that you are not from Guangnan, right?"

"General Yan, the youngest one is from Jiangnan West Road."

"Hey, then why did you make the Shipbook?"

"I was poor in my family. When I heard that the people migrated from Quanzhou were in desperate situation, I ran to Quanzhou and was recruited to work as a watercraft. The old boat guide saw that the young man was smart and accepted me as an apprentice. Later, when I started the boat guide, I realized that there were orders on it. All craftsmen of all kinds must bring one to five apprentices, and they must ensure that they quickly go out. However, the more apprentices they brought, the more rewards they received. After the young man started his journey, he made his boat guide, and now he brought two apprentices, the fat man and the little monkey." He pointed to the two young men not far away and said, "Now I have brought my family there, and there are two hectares of high-quality fertile land on it. A few supplies are the small ones very satisfied."

Zhang Guozi talked about it a few times.

Yan Da knew that most of the above was Wang Ju, or assisting Wang Ju's customers, and the orders issued by him. Perhaps these ship owners had many families, but most of them would obey Wang Ju's command and arrangement, otherwise the overseas stall would be in chaos.

It was because they obeyed Wang Ju's command that everyone made more money. Then they obeyed Wang Ju's orders, did good deeds, and transported millions of stones of grain to the court.

But sooner or later, this is not a matter of the same thing. Suddenly, he thought about Wang Ju's careful conversation with him after returning from the Yongzhou Wharf. It is impossible to say that Wang Ju's words are wrong. The population is too dense. The rich are so rich that they are afraid of people. The poor clothes cannot cover their bodies and food cannot fill their stomachs. If they continue to develop like this, the country will actually be very dangerous. Therefore, evacuating some of the extremely poor people is also beneficial to the country. However, the stall is getting bigger and bigger, what should I do in the future?

Looking at the boundless sea, Yan Da shook his head in his heart. Can the imperial court really manage it overseas?

However, I have to admire Wang Ju's carefulness. He thinks for the long term. Most of the people who migrate are poor and have no skills. If you want to settle down, in addition to purchasing various goods from the inland, your settlement must also have its own production.

This will force each craftsman to lead his apprentices, and more craftsmen will be produced in these overseas settlements.

Of course, this is also a product of a special environment.

It’s not possible to be in the inland world. If you want to learn a craft, you can be an apprentice for at least three years and make money for the master free of charge. After being an apprentice for three years, the master may not teach you the real craftsmanship, so as not to teach you the apprenticeship and starve the master to death.

"I saw that this day, the boat has been rowing south."

"General Yan, look at the wind direction, it is the southwest wind. If the wind power is small, you can adjust it with a side sail. The wind power is still relatively strong now, so you must use a large oar to row southward. However, the wind direction blows the hull to the northwest. If the two phases are neutralized, the ship will sail southeast." Jia Liang walked out of the cabin and said.

"This sea is vast, how to identify the direction?"

"Then it depends on them," Zhang Guozi pointed to several things in the cabin and said, one was a compass, the other was a sextant, and a thick stack of navigation charts. Zhang Guozi also taught Yan Da how to use a sextant.

Yan Da listened for a long time before he understood.

"But there are many shortcomings. The time difference varies from place to place, and it cannot be used on rainy days. I heard that the Shaobao people are working on a very accurate timing instrument. If it is developed and combined with the sextant, they will never lose their direction on the sea in the future." Jia Liang explained.

"Is the earth really round?" Yan Da asked strangely.

If the thing in your hand works, then the earth is round, otherwise it will not be accurate.

"It should be..." Jia Liang murmured. After all, there was not a week before that person sailing around the world at this time, but if the earth was round, that direction was up and that direction was down. In this era, this idea was too advanced, and the more you thought about it, the more dizzy it became.

"What if it's southeast wind?"

"The southeast wind is not afraid. I will fall all the sails and send additional personnel to row large oars."

This is the eight oar boats, six oar boats and other warships, which have nothing to do with size. In fact, the tonnage of sea ships at the beginning of the Song Dynasty was also very small. Even when Wang Ju made a sea, they were mostly sea ships with less than 2,000 materials. There are many reasons for this, not because of underdeveloped technology, but because of the high cost of shipbuilding and high risk at sea, which somewhat restricted the development of super-large ships. It was not until the end of the Northern Song Dynasty that ships officially became larger and larger.

Wang Ju pushed this time one hundred years ago and directly reached the level of the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty. However, Wang Ju also had this confidence. First, he had a clear understanding of overseas, and now he had a telescope, compass, sextant in his hand. At the same time, he also launched a rough kayak and lifebuoy. After making a profit, he secretly hired a large number of skilled craftsmen and the knowledge he brought with him. The two cooperated to improve the technology of the ship. Therefore, most of the people who were launched were large ships.

As long as it is a cargo ship, even a small cargo ship with less than one thousand materials must wait for the monsoon. But a warship of a thousand materials, just like the eight oar boats that Yanda is now riding, it can still sail against the wind.

In fact, the secret lies in its design. It is not aimed at cargo. Therefore, the boat is narrow and long. It is used to break waves, and it is also used to use sails and oars. Of course, if you want to swing oars, the seaboard setting is very short, rather than like a cargo ship, which has a deep draft.

However, its cargo capacity is limited, and if it does not join forces with the cargo ship to form a fleet. If it sails alone, the distance is limited. This time, the span is leveraging some southwest wind. It is sailing with warships. It will take several days to reach the other side of the shore, which is also the largest span.

Meng Jin brought the fleet into the port. A few days later, another fleet entered the port, all of which were loaded with "managers". Gao Wenxiu pretended not to see it. These warships arrived with the second fleet entering the port.

Then Wang Ju recruited 10,000 soldiers and asked Yan Da to lead him. He brought mosquito nets, tents, armor, various medicinal materials, especially medicinal materials to prevent malaria. He set out first with 10,000 soldiers, first to find out the situation, and first to occupy the expanded base.

But Yan Da was somewhat resistant, and it was Wang Ju who agreed to his several requests before he could barely accept the order...

For the future of the Song Dynasty, fight.

Yan Da is also about to be successfully brainwashed by Wang Ju.

"In fact, what I fear most is the large crosswind. At that time, you must turn the bow of the ship and walk with the waves, otherwise there will be a risk of capsizing and dying. But in that case, the storm lasts for a long time and you will easily lose your direction at sea. However, with these things that Shaobao invented, and the strict requirements on the quality of the ship, the risk will be reduced infinitely."

But there are still risks, especially if the crosswind is forcibly crossing, and you are worried that the southwest wind will be too small, or if the ship speed will be slower when facing the wind, which means that the delay will be longer at sea and the risk will be greater.

And on the third day, their voyage encountered a typhoon. Fortunately, the typhoon level was not very large. Yan Da was turned upside down by the wind and waves. When the wind stopped, Yan Da stood up as if he had a nightmare and counted the number of ships in the fleet, but one of them was not dispersed.

Yan Da couldn't help but join the Buddha and asked for blessings.

A few days later, the journey finally arrived on the other side.

Yan Da walked down the boat swayingly and sighed: "I wish I could only take the boat once again in my life."

He still has to go back, so he has to take a boat again. However, when he goes back, he is not a type of eight oar boat, but a real cargo ship, which will return with the monsoon, faster than this time and more stable than this time.

Anyway, Yan Da suffered in this industry.

Yanda began to assemble the army.

Jia Liang ordered his men: "Go back to Guangzhou immediately and report to the Shaobao."

When I went back, I didn’t have to go back, but I was facing the wind on the side, so the speed was even slower. However, these were tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. I was worried about safety and could not move back and notify the rear.

Two smaller but flexible four-oar boats turned around and went back.

More than ten days later, the news was delivered to Wang Ju, and Wang Ju also breathed a sigh of relief.

Although I knew that the two Yuan and Mongolian expeditions to Japan failed because Han craftsmen were dissatisfied with the Mongolian people and cut corners to build ships. They also transported so many people to the other side, so many ships, so many voyages, and only more than twenty ships were in trouble. But these were warships, warships, and those who were loaded, and they were walking in the wind. Injustice, Wang Ju was also a little suspicious.

After receiving the news, Wang Ju said: "Zichuan, go to Quanzhou immediately and use the name of a maritime merchant to ask Ge Zhizhou to write a letter to the court, requesting the three departments to allocate one million stones of grain from Bashu to provide relief to the victims, and the cost will be borne by the maritime merchants."

Huang Hua said on the side: "Zi'an, there is not enough money."

"As before, I promise to repay it in the next year. As for the name, let Zishen think of a name."

Huang Hua did not understand Wang Ju’s thoughts, and thought Wang Ju was kind-hearted, so he didn’t say anything.

"My mother, I will give you another order to let everyone in charge of the management. Please treat the captured people a little well and declare to these people that as long as you work honestly until next year, the government will find a way to resettle them in a prosperous place."

"this……"

"It's also my promise to Yan Da." Wang Ju smiled self-deprecatingly and said that Confucian books might have washed their minds, otherwise he would have softened his heart to these monkeys.

"It's very difficult for so many people to settle."

"It's okay, I will ask Tao Bi to write a letter to impeach me."

"Huh."

"The officials like to disturb each other... They will use troops next year. At that time, the officials may have some ideas, and the court will continue to move, and there are many ministers who love peace. Tao Bi wrote a letter to impeach me, and maybe the court will feel more at ease with me. After all, there are important officials who will restrain me."

Huang Hua smiled bitterly when he heard Wang Ju's fallacy.

However, although it is a fallacy, it is a fact!

"There will be someone who uses this to make a fuss. I will be able to place these people... and there are more people migrating, and many of the main households and powerful people are not available to them. They will also be repulsive to me. Change it. As for the bloodline, put it in the inland, they can be washed away."

Huang Hua still doesn't understand this bloodline now. Wang Ju is relatively relaxed in the migration of people, but he has several forced orders, that is, those who intermarry or have children with alien races will be beaten to 100 pounds and pay a salary of 200 chunks! Those who say that they are not Chinese will be killed without mercy!

As for the reason, I am worried about countless jungle toes.

Huang Hua was not very repulsive of Wang Ju's idea, but Huang Hua believed that Wang Ju was too idealistic. The world's general trend would be divided after a long time of unity, and long time of division would be combined, and even more so, it was overseas. However, Huang Hua couldn't understand what to do in the future of overseas stalls.

Let’s just live by now. At least with overseas wealth, Wang Ju can do a lot.

Wang Zichuan rode a horse to Quanzhou.

Wang Ju continued to preside over the government affairs, and the Jiaozhi Envoy arrived. (To be continued...)
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