open sea

Chapter 216 Building a Port
Yang Yinglong is a very interesting person. After Pinto brought back the news of Malacca's permission to trade, he lived in Xiangshan for a few days. When he had nothing to do, he went to Haojing, which had just lifted the ban on Hong Kong. When he came back, he always sat under the eaves Seriously thinking, I don't know what I'm thinking.

Chen Mu has been busy thinking about the allocation of merchant ships, plus he was busy running to the Ordnance Bureau, and wanted to confirm the airtight shape of the Fran cannon as soon as possible, so he ignored him until ten days later. The guy just came to the door and asked Chen Mu a question very seriously and puzzled.

"General Chen, Franji people, they only give birth to men, they can't give birth to women... Can a woman give birth to babies?"

Chen Mu didn't know how to answer this question.

You are Yang Yinglong!
There are still more than 20 years left to rebel, time is tight and tasks are heavy, you say you don’t have much interest in military politics, you just want to enjoy yourself every day, drink a pot of tea and kill a few horses, let’s just run away from my rich second generation in Nanyang Guard , Why are you still studying philosophy and biology here?

What's wrong with you!

"Of course there are women, it's just that Haojing doesn't have that's all. They have to cross the sea by boat from far away, and people on the sea will get sick, let alone far away from the countryside." Chen Mu smiled and said: "There are no barbarian women here, Malacca may Yes. Why, do you want to meet a Fanyi woman?"

"Ah."

Yang Yinglong nodded seriously, tilting his head with doubts on his face: "I heard people say that they are called Hongmao Fan, but some of them are very white, some are very black, and I don't see red hair. Is it because women have That's why the red hair is called that?"

Yang Yinglong made Chen Mu feel like a foreigner.

Some Portuguese were the first to see human beings as other species, or animals; and when Yang Yinglong saw foreigners, he was completely looking at other animals.

"Do you want to go to Malacca? Let my son explore the road this year, and if you know the road well, you can go if you want to go next year."

Chen Mu's ten boats have already been allocated, one for each of the five thousand households, one for Li Dan Huayu, one for Chen Lin Bai Yuanjie, and the last two for Li Dan to take with him.

Each ship will send their own manpower, and Chen Mu will get [-]% of the proceeds from selling the goods.

"Do you have a son?"

Yang Yinglong was still full of surprise just now, and squinted his eyes to look at Chen Mu, who was full of danger, as if he was annoyed by being teased: "Your son, who knows how to sail, still wants to marry my woman from the Yang family?"

What do you mean I want to marry your Yang family's woman, obviously you jumped over to be my brother-in-law, okay?

"Do you think I can give birth to a son who can sail a boat?" Yang Yinglong's aura is very dangerous, but in Chen Mu's view, this is completely an orange cat pretending to be a tiger, which can't scare him. , smart and down-to-earth, I have three sons, one adopted son and two adopted sons."

Chen Mu knew very well that the daughter of the Yang family in Bozhou could not be married, so he weighed many things in his heart, and he had to wait for Yan Bo's reply before deciding whether to enter into this marriage.

It is of course a good thing to be able to strengthen ties with the Yang family of Banzhou through marriage. As he said to Yan Qingyao, it is certainly not a bad thing that Banzhou can provide extraordinary support to the Nanyang shipbuilding industry.On the other hand, judging from Yang Yinglong's demeanor, although this kid is domineering, his heart is just as fragile—would it be considered an insult to refuse?
"I won't be able to go out next year. Next year I will go to the capital and study in the Imperial College like my ancestors." Yang Yinglong waved his hand, it seemed that he was still very curious about going to Malacca, as much as he was curious, he was disappointed at the moment, "Then go back Bozhou, inherited Bozhou Propaganda envoy."

As he said that, Yang Yinglong pulled out a volume of illustrations and handed it to Chen Mu and said, "This is a picture drawn by the builder of the city. If you think it's okay, you can build the city according to this after my house is built. You can start building mountains from now on, and the city will be built." Over there--"

mountain city.

Facing the south, it is built with the Ordnance Bureau in the east, the shipyard in the south, and the Xiangshan Qianhusuo near the foot of the mountain.

The Bozhou craftsman is an expert in building mountain cities. Chen Mu is very satisfied with this composition. Of course, he will not forget the advantages of the bastions in the defensive battle. If the enemy's artillery stations are spread widely, no matter which side faces the enemy, they will suffer from two sides and three sides, and even the artillery from above."

"The wood, earthwork, and stone materials needed to build the city can be taken from the mountains. If not enough, Haojing has granite, and it is also possible to dismantle the abandoned Guanghaiwei." Chen Mu waved: "It is not difficult to ship to the river bank How long will it take for this city to be built?"

Yang Yinglong spread his hands, looked at the blueprint carefully and imagined the concave wall that Chen Mu said, and said casually: "How do I know that even if the material is sufficient, it will not be enough without levying corvee. The craftsmen I brought can only draw and teach, and the actual building of the city is still difficult." It depends on the servants. Guangdong will send you [-] corvees, and it can be built in half a year. [-] will take one year, and [-] will take two to three years. Make more contributions."

"When your son becomes the commander of the Nanyang Guard, the two cities will probably be built."

"I've heard that it's not easy to recruit corvees in Guangdong. If you conscript corvees today, you'll go to the sea to become Japanese pirates tomorrow. This is not as good as ours in Bozhou." Yang Yinglong smiled very easily, "Even if corvees come, the court may not have enough The money takes into account work and food, Nanyang Wei can afford it?"

It is really difficult to build a city.

Being poured with cold water by Yang Yinglong, Chen Mu couldn't help thinking whether it was worthwhile to continue building the Nanyang Acropolis, but if he didn't build it, wouldn't the craftsmen brought by Yang Yinglong be in vain?
"Then don't build the city anymore. In the next life, help me build a port fortress." Chen Mu shook his head. Although building a city is too difficult, it is not difficult to build a port fortress, and it will also take a year or two of energy. In Chen Mu's view, building a giant water village would be more effective. "I want to build another shipyard. In the future, Lingdingyangxi will use Xiangshan Shipyard to build small ships, and Lingdingyangdong will use Xingang to build large ships."

"Lingding Yangdong, where is that?"

Chen Mu saw that Bozhou craftsmen built a three-story wall of earth, wood and stone using ancient and modern methods. They wanted to build a large port in Xin'an. Today's Nanyangwei is building a deep-water port. The location is ready to be revealed: "There is a place in the southernmost part of Xin'an. It is so deep that even the largest giant ship can enter the port directly, and the wood generously donated by Banzhou can be turned into Chen's first thousand-material giant ship there."

In later generations, that place was called Victoria Harbour, but this world will no longer call it by that name.

"I have nothing to do in the past two days or so, let's go, call the two craftsmen, and I will take you there to have a look." Chen Mu became happier as he said that, clapping his hands and saying: "By the way, take a look at the blueprint of my new boat, which I bought from Puyi last year. I dismantled a big black ship, and the craftsmen are planning to build a new one!"

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)