Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 199, ashamed ashamed
"Twenty thousand and two ships?"

When Zhang Mao heard this, his eyes widened like a bull's-eye, and then he shook his head and said.

"It's too expensive. As far as I know, the price of a lucky boat is only a few thousand taels of silver. Your fishing boat costs [-] taels. It's really too expensive."

Liu Jin smiled and said: "This is a professional ocean fishing boat. All of its designs are for ocean fishing. It can catch [-] catties of sea fish in one day. Is it expensive?"

"And the shipbuilders and shipbuilders in this shipyard start with at least five taels of silver per month. In addition, as long as they can reach the master level, I will allocate houses to them. All of these have to be counted. of."

"Shipbuilding is a technical job, but not all ships can go to sea."

"The salary of five taels of silver per month, and the house is divided..."

When Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, and Zhang Mao heard this, they were immediately speechless. The wages are too high, and the treatment is too good. In the inherent concept, these scholars, farmers, businessmen, skilled carpenters, blacksmiths, etc. The status is lower than that of farmers, and now the wages start at five taels of silver, and the house is even divided. This kind of treatment is unheard of.

"These types of ships are multi-masted sailing ships. Its characteristic is that it has multiple masts and can have multiple canvases at the same time. The more masts and canvases, the better its flexibility and maneuverability, and its speed. very fast."

"The multi-masted sailing ship has a very low building, and its draft is very deep. It is safer when encountering strong winds and waves, and it is very suitable for ocean-going sailing."

Liu Jin looked at the expressions of the three of them, smiled slightly, and pointed to a few strange ships and said that these ships were designed by Liu Jin after the European Galen ships.

The Galen ship is considered to be the most famous ship in the age of great navigation, and it is also the most suitable ship for ocean sailing in this era.

However, the Galen ships in the shipyard are very small, and they are just the works of the workers and masters in the shipyard for practice, and cannot be used for ocean sailing.

"Multi-masted sailboat, ocean sailing~"

Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, and Zhang Mao listened carefully. They knew too little about ships and oceans.

Li Dongyang and Zhou Jing are serious officials who have taken the imperial examination. They have read the Four Books and Five Classics, and learned the Tao of Confucius and Mencius. They have too little contact with this ocean matter, so that they don't know how to ask.

Soon, several people left the shipyard. The shipyard and Tianjin Port were very close, so they naturally walked towards Tianjin Port.

At this time, the port of Tianjin was still very lively, and there were recruited victims everywhere. These victims were very organized to build ports, docks, docks, docks, etc.

Because there are enough people recruited and the existence of the artifact of cement, a large area of ​​the port has already been built.

Walking on the flat concrete road, I looked at the port buildings that are completely different from this era. Most of the buildings here in the port adopt the architectural style of later generations, especially because of the artifact of cement, this house can be built relatively high.

Therefore, many buildings in the port area are built with four or five floors, and the tallest lighthouse is tens of meters high. In addition, the port is the first to use cement, basically everything is made of cement The construction is neat and tidy, and it looks very shocking.

Looking at the huge army busy not far away, Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, Zhang Mao and others all stopped their steps, feeling a lot of emotion in their hearts.

"It's unbelievable. Such a huge project was built in such a short period of time. What's even more rare is that it just happened to help the victims. It has multiple purposes. Maybe this is what you call relief with work?"

Li Dongyang seemed to have a feeling. The port in front of him had a huge project volume. The huge port area was more than ten kilometers long, plus the shipyard not far away, the family community of the shipyard, etc.

If such a huge project is done by the court, it will not only require a lot of labor, but also a lot of financial and material resources, and it will take a long time to complete.

"Yes, because of the famine, the labor is very cheap. As long as they have something to eat, they are willing to work hard. If it is normal, I will definitely not be able to recruit so many people, and the cost of labor will be very high. .”

Liu Jin nodded and replied.

"It's good to use work as relief. Without you, Liu Jin, I don't know how many people would starve to death."

Li Dongyang looked at the busy scene of tens of thousands of people in front of him. Tens of thousands of people gathered together to work. When he looked at it, it was a sea of ​​people. The scene was extremely spectacular and lively.

A large number of people came here carrying stones, sand and gravel, etc., and some people brought truckloads of cement, some were in charge of mixing, some were in charge of pouring, and some were in charge of leveling the land.....
Everything has a clear division of labor. There is a team responsible for building the wharf, a team responsible for building houses, and a team responsible for road repair. Everything is in order, and the huge crowd completes their tasks very quickly under the leadership of each steward. Work.

Seeing this, and then thinking of the busy scene on the official road when I came here, it is hard to imagine that these people who are sweating profusely and working hard with their shirts off are disaster victims.

But on the way to Tianjin, he saw too many, too many hungry crowds, and there was a stark and strong contrast between the two, which made Li Dongyang couldn't help expressing his own sighs.

"Ashamed, ashamed~"

"Your Majesty is sage above, and all the princes in the court are virtuous, and below me, the people of the court are hard-working, smart and hardworking, and no matter how difficult the difficulties are, they can overcome them. What I have done is simply insignificant, and I even took advantage of it. "

Upon hearing this, Liu Jin shook his head repeatedly and said.

"Don't be humble, you boy. We see your ability. It's ashamed to say that we, the important ministers of the court, although we keep saying that we are loyal to the king and serve the country, share the worries for the king, do our best for the society, and work for the well-being of the common people in the world. Facing this famine but being helpless, what a shame!"

Zhou Jing patted Liu Jin on the shoulder, and the name has changed. He is obviously very satisfied with Liu Jin, otherwise he would not have called him that way.

"Duke Zhou is humble. Duke Zhou is upright and upright. He dares to speak out directly. He has the virtuous name of Tang Weizheng. The boy has been like thunder for a long time, and he admires him very much."

As soon as Liu Jin heard this, he immediately said to Zhou Jing that Liu Jin's flattery was obviously on the spot, which made Zhou Jing very useful. He stroked his mustache and narrowed his eyes slightly.

He has always followed Wei Zheng as a role model, so Liu Jin compared him to Wei Zheng, which naturally made him very happy.

"Clang~clang~"

Just as the few people were chatting happily, the bell on the lighthouse in the port area rang.

"There is a ship back to port, there is a ship back to port~"

On the high lighthouse, the person in charge of the watch shouted loudly with a loudspeaker made of iron, and immediately let everyone know what happened.

"Is there a ship coming back?"

As soon as Liu Jin heard this, he quickly looked at the sea outside the port. Where the sea meets the sky, several ships were looming, and they were heading towards Tianjin Port.

　sleep~~sleep~ so sleepy~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)