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Chapter 496 Li Huan went to Jiangnan again
Looking at the yamen of Nanjing's left-behind mansion, Li Huan looked at Xu Yu, Feng Tai and other officials, and rejected the proposal of a group of people to hold a banquet to clean up the dust, and said directly: "Everyone, the purpose of my visit here is to come to the court It has been clearly stated in the official document that His Majesty intends to greatly promote maritime trade, and specially aims to build all the ships needed by the fleet, such as treasure ships that can cross the sea."

Xu Yu stroked his beard and nodded slightly when he heard the words: "Don't worry, Duke Qin. Since we received His Majesty's order, we have ordered someone to supervise the matter in person. We will certainly not disappoint the emperor's grace and His Majesty's expectations."

While speaking, Xu Yu's eyes fell on one of the officials and said: "Su Wang, you are a doctor of the Ministry of Industry, and you are in charge of shipbuilding at Longjiang Shipyard. Let you introduce it to Duke Qin."

The official who was named by Xu Yu stood up immediately, first saluted Li Huan and other officials, and then slowly said: "Qin Guogong and your lords, the next official, Su Wang, is in charge of the Longjiang Shipyard... "

A chubby, red-faced official saluted Li Huan respectfully. Li Huan interrupted him before he finished speaking, "So Mr. Su should know all the matters of Longjiang Shipyard like the back of his hand?"

Su Wang's complexion tightened, and he said hastily when he heard the words: "Your official will know everything and say everything!"

Li Huan glanced at Su Wang, got up slowly, and then said to Xu Chu, Feng Tai and the others: "I wonder if you would like to accompany Li to the Longjiang Shipyard and see the situation of the shipyard with your own eyes! "

Obviously, they didn't expect that Li Huan would go to the shipyard as soon as he arrived in Nanjing. Everyone couldn't help being stunned, but Xu Chu, Feng Tai and others soon realized that they got up and laughed, "Since Qin Guogong is so interested , then I will follow Qin Guogong to the end."

longjiang shipyard

Since the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang established his capital in Nanjing, surrounded by the Capital River, and the water transportation was developed. Therefore, since the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Daming has established the largest scale on the basis of the Longwandu Shipyard in the Song Dynasty. Complete and scientifically managed Longjiang Shipyard.

The imperial court gathered all the skilled craftsmen from all over the world in the shipyard, and built an astonishing treasure ship of the Ming Dynasty. With the Longjiang Shipyard and shipyards all over the world, the Yongle Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty was able to build the Zheng He fleet that galloped across the sea and traveled thousands of miles across the blue waves.

However, this is the glorious past of Longjiang Shipyard. Daming has not paid much attention to maritime affairs for many years, and no one knows what the current situation of Longjiang Shipyard is.

Regardless of the fact that the Longjiang Shipyard was well-equipped in the past, whether it was craftsmen or materials needed for shipbuilding, it was fully prepared, but what is going on now, if Li Huan didn't go there and see it with his own eyes , to be honest, he was really worried.

At least as far as he knew, in recent years, due to the lax management of the imperial court, a large number of skilled craftsmen were lost, and even the large materials needed for shipbuilding were taken up and down for private use.

Especially in the southeast coast, many powerful families who are privately engaged in maritime trade have not let go of such a shipyard. Li Huan also does not know how much of the Longjiang Shipyard, which is known as the world's largest shipyard, is still left. heritage.

When Li Huan and his party arrived at the location of the Longjiang Shipyard, Li Huan saw a large building complex stretching for several miles at a glance.

The docks, the ships that are still under construction in the docks, and the many craftsmen coming and going show a busy scene.

Seeing Li Huan staring at the shipyard in a daze, Xu Yu took a step forward and smiled at Li Huan and said, "Since we received the order from the imperial court, we have recruited craftsmen to start building ships on the dock. Small and medium-sized ships such as grain ships have almost reached the final stage, and they can be launched for sea trials in a long time."

No matter what the inside is like, at least for now, Longjiang Shipyard is a busy scene with people coming and going.

Li Huan and his party walked into the shipyard, and before reaching a dock, they saw that a medium-sized ship was more than half built, and dozens of craftsmen were concentrating on laying the deck.

However, just looking at the size of the boat, one could tell that the boat was an ordinary boat. Li Huan just casually glanced at this small boat and walked towards a dock in the distance.

That dockyard is huge in scale, especially the rebuilt treasure ship that already looks like a giant ship on the dockyard, which makes people feel an overwhelming momentum at first glance.

Walking closer, Li Huan looked at the huge ship in front of him and said, "Could this be the treasured ship of the Ming Dynasty that the eunuch of the Three Treasures sailed to the west in the past?"

Su Wang, who followed at the side, hastily said at this moment: "When you return to the country, this is the Zheng He treasure ship that Longjiang Shipyard started building immediately after receiving the imperial court's order. This ship is 38 feet long, [-] feet wide, and tall Four floors, once completed, can carry [-] materials."

Hearing this, Li Huan showed some satisfaction on his face. Military weapons such as giant ships and cannons are the most appetizing for men. It can be said that as long as a normal person sees this huge ship that is more than ten meters high, his blood will boil and his heart will boil. Unlimited pride.

After taking a closer look, Li Huan looked around at the shipyards. Wherever he looked, there were at least a dozen shipyards under construction.

But soon Li Huan couldn't help frowning, his eyes fell on Su Wang and said: "Like this kind of treasure ship, how many ships have been built by Longjiang Shipyard?"

Su Wang was taken aback for a moment, and after realizing it, he quickly said: "Mr. Hui, the only treasure ship in the shipyard is currently under construction!"

Li Huan narrowed his eyes and said, "Don't you know how many treasure ships the imperial court plans to build this time? Why is it that only one treasure ship has been built after two months?"

A wave of power naturally came towards Su Wang and other shipyard officials, and there was a thud, Su Wang and others kowtowed to Li Huan on their knees and said, "Forgive me, forgive me! "

Looking down at Su Wang and the others, Li Huan said coldly: "My lord, let me ask you, how many treasure ships can be built by Longjiang Shipyard at most at one time, why do you only start building one?"

Su Wang opened his mouth, gritted his teeth and said in a trembling voice: "My Lord, Longjiang Shipyard has more than forty docks, of which there are six docks suitable for building treasure ships, and six treasure ships can be built at the same time."

Li Huan sneered and said: "In this case, why did you only build one? Could it be that you didn't take the imperial court's will to heart?"

Su Wang and the others were so frightened that they collapsed to the ground. Faced with Li Huan's questioning, they subconsciously looked at Xu Yu, Feng Tai and other officials at the side.

But at this moment, Xu Chu and Feng Tai looked at each other, and Xu Chu sighed softly, stepped forward to Li Huan and explained: "The Duke of the state doesn't know, it's not that the Longjiang Shipyard didn't respect the court's will, it's really the Longjiang shipyard. Jiang Shipyard can only raise the master craftsmen and huge materials needed to build a treasure ship."

As he said that, Xu Yu pointed to the huge big materials not far away that were several feet long and said: "Look, Duke, only this kind of big materials that have been dried in the shade can be used to build treasure ships. Now the shipyard has only enough big materials There is also a serious loss of craftsmen who are needed to build a treasure ship and who are capable enough to build a treasure ship, and the Longjiang Shipyard has spent all its efforts but can only gather a group of craftsmen."

Li Huan looked at Xu Yu and said slowly: "As far as Li knows, the Longjiang Shipyard is the No. Who will tell me the materials needed to build a treasure ship, where have all the materials gone?"

When he said this, Li Huan looked at the officials present like lightning, as if he wanted to see through these people.

Su Wang and the others, who were already limp on the ground, were even more startled and frightened when they were stared at by Li Huan.

Any fool knows where the big ingredients that were dried in the shade in the Longjiang Shipyard went. You must know that the big ingredients that can be used to build ships are all really high-quality ingredients. Can't find such good material.

Every piece of wood that can be selected as a shipbuilding material can be said to be selected from thousands of choices. It comes from the deep mountains and the Daze, and it takes a lot of effort to transport it to Nanjing.

Originally, these large materials were used for shipbuilding, but the court did not care about Longjiang Shipyard at all, so that many of the large materials used for shipbuilding were resold by shipyard officials under various names, either It was sold to powerful local officials, and was used by these people as materials for their own coffins in the future, or it was directly resold to maritime merchants in the southeast, and used by those people for shipbuilding.

Now that Longjiang Shipyard can still have so much big material left, it is quite difficult to be honest.

Before coming here, Li Huan knew about these situations to some extent. Although Li Huan said he looked furious, in his heart, Li Huan was not as angry as he showed.

Such things have already happened, no matter how angry they are, they cannot change the situation.

But the others didn't know what was going on in Li Huan's mind. They only knew that Li Huan killed people like crazy. Once Li Huan caught the handle, it would be commonplace for Li Huan to raid and exterminate the family with Li Huan's temperament.

Just when everyone thought that Li Huan and Li Huan were definitely going to take this opportunity to clean up and set off a bloody storm in the south of the Yangtze River again, they heard Li Huan sneer and said: "Where are those shipbuilding materials going?" Where did I go, I also know a little bit in my heart. Originally, before I went to Jiangnan, I was going to clean up a group of moths. For Your Majesty's face, I will give everyone a face today, as long as you can make up for me the shipbuilding materials that have been missing over the years, then I can forget about the past. Otherwise, don't blame me for turning your back on it people."

Many people couldn't help being stunned for a moment when they heard Li Huan's words. It seemed that they didn't expect Li Huan to be so easy to talk, and they didn't react for a while.

However, after an official reacted, he hurriedly said to Li Huan: "Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely make up for the missing ingredients."

Some people subconsciously wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads, but at this moment a white-haired official looked at Li Huan and said, "My lord, I don't know if I should say something or not."

Li Huan glanced at him and saw that this person was dressed, if nothing else, he should be a master craftsman of Longjiang Shipyard.

Li Huan slightly nodded and said: "If you have something to say, just speak it out."

The old man said slowly: "It's not impossible to make up for the lack of large materials in the factory, but many craftsmen in Longjiang Shipyard are either getting old or have left the shipyard, and some of them still have the technology to manufacture treasure ships." There are very few master craftsmen, and without enough craftsmen, no matter how abundant the materials are, it is impossible to build too many treasure ships."

Li Huan raised his brows. The old man was obviously talking about the root cause. There are not enough craftsmen, so it is obviously unrealistic to want to build a ship.

However, since Li Huan went south, he naturally considered these issues, so he said: "This time, my lord has brought hundreds of master craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and I will also send orders to the southeast coast. Looking for outstanding master craftsmen in private shipyards in this place, and gathering my great Ming's strength, I don't believe that I can't build a big ship."

Hearing this, the old man couldn't help showing joy on his face, bowed to Li Huan and said: "My lord is wise."

At this time, many officials were obviously more relaxed. After all, compared with the previous fears, now that Li Huan had explained everything, everyone felt much more at ease.

Next, Li Huan inspected many material storage warehouses and craftsmen's residences in the Longjiang Shipyard. It took only half a day to get a general overview of the huge Longjiang Shipyard.

After leaving the Longjiang Shipyard, Li Huan ordered to repair the living environment of the craftsmen in the shipyard, increase the food wages of the craftsmen, and at the same time issued an order to search for skilled folk craftsmen.

Li Huan personally summoned the large and small shipyard officials in the Liushou Mansion in Nanjing. According to Li Huan's request, the Longjiang Shipyard, supplemented by more than a dozen other large and small shipyards in the Ming Dynasty, must build [-] treasure ships within three years, and the rest of the auxiliary ships. More than a thousand ships.

I have to say that Li Huan's request is really not ordinary. Don't look at the three years Li Huan gave, but you must know that things like shipbuilding can't be built in one or two months, especially the level of the Daming Treasure Ship. It can be said that the construction time of a treasure ship, even if there are enough craftsmen and sufficient raw materials, will take at least half a year.

With the capacity of Longjiang Shipyard, if the scale of the shipyard is not expanded, it will be able to build more than ten treasure ships in a year at most.

Even very few local shipyards can build treasure ships with the support of Longjiang Shipyard, but it is certain that even if the local shipyards are added, twenty treasure ships can be built a year. Daming's limit has been reached.

However, Li Huan asked to build a hundred treasure ships in three years, so both the Longjiang Shipyard and the large and small shipyards controlled by the Ming government must expand immediately, otherwise Li Huan's request will never be fulfilled.

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