Late Ming Dynasty: Conquering the world starting from riding and cutting

The Tamsui River serves as a moat to the west of Keelung City. The Tamsui River forms an angle with Dajia River, another nearby river, and the vast plain area within the angle is called Zhugang Pass.

Keelung Shipyard is located at Zhugangguan, adjacent to Tamsui River to the east and Dajia River to the west.

If you leave the city from the west gate of Keelung City, you will come to the huge Keelung Shipyard not far after crossing the Tamsui River.

Ge Yihan, the former master shipbuilder of Jinling Longguan in the Ming Dynasty, was rushed out of the city. Qin Hao poached him from Jinling City. He has always been conscientious and devoted to his duties.

When Li Chun was building naval ships, many technical information was provided by Ge Yihan, and he naturally knew the Keelung Shipyard very well.

This time he left the city in such a hurry to meet Qin Hao. After the war against the Zheng family in Taiwan, Qin Hao led his army back north from Hsinchu City. He happened to pass by the Keelung Shipyard. Thinking of the battle at sea, he wanted to come and take a peek. .

After paying homage, Ge Yihan led Qin Hao and hundreds of people into the Keelung Shipyard. As he walked, he said: "My lord, the Keelung Shipyard is 138 feet (480 meters) wide from east to west and 354 feet (1100 meters) long from north to south. ).

There are seven ponds dug on the west side of the shipyard leading to the strait and Beibu Gulf.

In addition to the lifting department and the help and command department, which specializes in building sailing awnings, the shipyard also has seven workshops including a joinery workshop, a paint workshop, a twisting workshop, an iron workshop, a canopy workshop, a cable workshop, and a cable workshop. and inspecting material stores, etc.;

Among them, the tent factory located in the northeast of the factory area alone has ten rows of sixty houses.

The shipyard's supervisory personnel include, in addition to the captain and general manager, supervisors, supervisors, assistant workers, and other personnel. There are nearly 100 junior team leaders such as compartment captains and first class leaders;

Shipbuilding craftsmen built four compartments in total, each compartment was divided into ten armors, and each armor had a commander to oversee ten households.

The first compartment is divided into ship wood, shuttle, oar, and cable craftsmen; the second compartment is divided into ship wood, iron, and cable craftsmen; the third compartment is divided into boat craftsmen; and the fourth compartment is divided into palm and tent craftsmen.

Every craftsman household in the four compartments has permanent property, and those who have land have at least 5 acres of land. They all assign dedicated people to cultivate it to solve their worries.

It was originally stipulated that those who had ships should sign up for divisions according to their size, and set up registration records to listen to the orders of the headquarters, and other yamen were not allowed to allocate them without authorization.

In addition, there are also internal officials, supervisors, horse supervisors, watchmen, watchmen, bridgemen and other personnel. "

When Ge Yihan said this, he found that Qin Hao frowned slightly, and his heart skipped a beat. He didn't know what he said wrong. He couldn't help but be extremely anxious, "Lord!"

The reason why Qin Hao frowned was because he heard that the shipyard has a lot of work, a large number of people, and the investment must be very huge, and it is all in accordance with Ming Dynasty rules and regulations. "It's okay, you continue."

"On one side of Jiangzi Mountain, there are large sumac trees, tung trees, and palm trees, arranged in rows and lush, with tens of thousands of trees in total.

These trees have their own uses. The lacquer tree is used to cut raw lacquer, the tung tree is used to extract tung seeds to squeeze tung oil, and the palm tree is used to extract brown hair to make brown cables. Raw lacquer, tung oil, and palm rope are all essential items for shipbuilding.

In addition, a large number of fir trees, pine trees, pomelo trees, grid trees, salas trees, cone trees, cupii trees, persimmon trees, etc. are planted in the Lumen Mountain area. The total number of trees is not less than one million by visual inspection.

These trees are all original species and have not been cut down for more than a hundred years. Some are even thousands of years old, towering into the sky and blocking out the sun. "

Qin Hao estimated that he would not have to worry about tree species for decades, and he was very happy to see it. He immediately said to Ge Yihan: "These trees must be taken good care of, and some forest rangers are recruited to inspect them on weekdays to strictly check the source of fire.

Also, starting from next year, we will expand the scale of tree planting, planting fir trees, pine trees, checkered trees, etc. at the foot of Jiangzi Mountain and within three miles of the foot of Lumen Mountain to prepare for the needs of the shipyard. We cannot just sit back and have nothing, and we must learn to develop sustainably. . "

Although Ge Yihan didn't understand "sustainable development", it didn't stop him from hearing the joy in Qin Hao's tone. He immediately beamed and agreed repeatedly: "Yes!"

Anyway, you don’t have to plant trees yourself. Anyway, as long as you can please your lord, that is your ultimate goal. Ge Yihan is worried about having nothing to do.

Qin Hao laughed and said: "I won't let you grow white trees. These trees will be state-owned assets from now on. Even if they are an industry, they can always be sold to shipyards for a lot of money in the future."

"Sell for money?"

Ge Yihan's mind was a little confused. Aren't these trees supposed to belong to the shipyard? How could they be sold for money? Not only Ge Yihan couldn't figure it out, but Chen Hu, Li Yi, A Jin and others who were accompanying him were also baffled.

Qin Hao rode along the foot of the mountain and said to his subordinates: "Let's go back to the city."

After walking around outside Keelung City, Qin Hao was finally willing to enter the city.

"Zhuge Xuan, Ge Yihan, sit down." Qin Hao said harmoniously.

"Thank you, Lord, for sitting down."

After the two of them sat down, Zhuge Xuan asked first, "My lord just returned to the city, what's the matter?"

It's okay if he didn't say that. Qin Hao couldn't help but feel angry when he said that. I just returned to the city and before I could catch my breath, you sent a large basket of memorials. Now you know that I just returned to the city?

But seeing as you are busy handling affairs for yourself, I will let you go first.

"Cough!" Qin Hao coughed twice calmly and said, "I asked you to come here mainly to talk about the Keelung Shipyard in Keelung."

Qin Hao ran around outside the city, went to see the shipyard, and went to the woods. Zhuge Xuan had already guessed that he might be talking about the shipyard, and he had a suspicion in his heart, so he immediately said: "My lord, Nowadays, the war at sea is only temporarily suspended, and there may be another war in the future. The war in Hsinchu City has just ended. Many soldiers need awards, and salt production must also be carried out one after another. This"

Zhuge Xuan's meaning is very obvious, that is, things are complicated and complicated now, so don't make any mistakes.

"I know all this, so I came to discuss it with you."

"My lord, do you have other plans?" Ge Yihan asked earnestly.

"Yes, I have other ideas. Zheng Zhilong is still eyeing Xiamen, but our navy can't do anything about it. And if we want to pacify Zheng Zhilong's navy, a powerful naval fleet is indispensable. In addition, in the future, Lord Ming, we cannot avoid sending troops from the sea. If we have a strong fleet, we can get twice the result with half the effort. We can only fight!"

Zhuge Xuan also thought what Qin Hao said was very reasonable, but now was really not the time, so he began to frown.

Qin Hao didn't wait for his refutation, and then said: "Now that there are wars everywhere, there is no money in the warehouse. I know this, so I plan to find another way and let the Keelung Shipyard be built by wealthy businessmen."

When Zhuge Xuan and Ge Yihan heard this, they were a little stunned. Throughout the past dynasties, the shipbuilding business was set up by the official family, and the ships used by the official family were built by the official shipyard. They had never heard of leaving the shipping business to the merchants. Come and do it.

"I have thought about it. It would not only cost a lot of money for us to build a shipyard, but also the investment of large sums of money into the shipyard would easily lead to corruption and the efficiency would be extremely low.

It would be better to hand over the shipyards to businessmen, and the officials only need to place shipbuilding orders with the shipyards. This would not only save worry and effort, but also save a lot of expenses.

This happened so suddenly that Zhuge Xuan had a lot of thoughts in his mind. He pondered for a while and said: "My lord, there may be something wrong with this matter. Businessmen pursue profit. Shipbuilding is a major national event, so how can we leave it to businessmen."

"Hahaha!"

Qin Hao interrupted Zhuge Xuan and said: "Don't talk about things like this. It's not profitable. It's not just businessmen who pursue profit. Who in the world doesn't pursue profit? There are many shortcomings in government-run shipyards. You must also know that. I am too lazy to say more, but leaving it to businessmen can avoid many disadvantages;

Okay, you can think about this first, but the Keelung Shipyard must be rebuilt as soon as possible. If you can't find sufficient reasons to object, I will implement it accordingly;

Ge Yihan, please spread the word first and see if any wealthy businessmen are willing to run the shipyard. Tell them that they don’t have to worry about running out of ships to build. Once the Keelung shipyard is handed over to private individuals, the government will no longer have an official shipyard in the future. All the ships needed by the officials will be ordered from them. "

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