“How much is this?”

"A few hundred pieces..." Hou Zhi said indecisively.

"You are willing to die. This is money and materials in the army," Pan Lian'er said with a shy stomach. Hou Zhi is not a senior. Not to mention Pan Mei, even Song Jiu, Hou Zhi dared not make a big deal. Song Jiu is idle at home, so he cannot be considered completely idle at work. He is engaged in research and development. Once appointed, he will be at least the governor of the Dazhou.

"It's really not much, less than a thousand dollars."

Song Jiu and Pan Lian'er didn't believe it. Like these corrupt officials, who could find a thousand scoundrels, they would at least be greedy for five thousand scoundrels. Although he was the master of Yangzhou, he led his troops south to capture Xuanhua Town and stationed in Xuanhua Town (**) to prevent the Southern Tang from crossing the river and fighting desperately.

The amount of corruption is not only military pay, but also some local money and taxes. The amount is not large. It is precisely because it is not large that it cannot be distributed to its subordinates. The subordinates are angry and report it. This is the front line, and Jinling has not been taken down. If the three armies are shaken, the consequences will be serious. Zhao Kuangyin is angry and transfers Hou Zhi back to the capital to question it.

Therefore, as soon as he arrived in the capital, he first looked for contacts. The first one was Song Jiu, and then planned to find Chu Zhaofu and Lu Duosun.

Pan Lian'er said: "You're in trouble, Yang Kerang hasn't returned to the capital yet."

Hou Zhi was even more depressed. Song Jiu did not let Pan Lian'er talk about it any more. This was the hatred between the three officials and Zhao Pu. Yang Kerang was a good minister. He was once the deputy envoy of Xichuan Transportation. Later, he recalled the capital. The people missed his good governance and sent him all the way. Some people cried. Moreover, his sons were also amazing, especially his eldest son Yang Ximin, who was blind when he was born. Then he asked his younger brother Yang Xifu and others to read the scriptures to him and help him write. Later, after Zhao Pu arrived in Luoyang, all the notes and memorials in the mansion were written by Yang Ximin. Don't think they were blind. They read poetry and books, and wrote good writing and good articles. Although they were political enemies, when they mentioned Yang Ximin, Song Jiu respected them very much. This is the real body and ambition.

Zhao Kuangyin used Yang Kerang as a doctor in the Ministry of Justice. After hearing his political achievements in Xichuan, he talked to him and prepared for great use. After hearing this, Hou Zhi led him to Yang Kerang intentionally or unintentionally when he reported it. Zhao Kuangyin greeted Zhi if he knew Yang Kerang. Hou Zhi said that he had a good relationship with Yang Kerang and knew that he was knowledgeable and was a talented person. Recently, he said that His Majesty promised to use him more and bought many platinum drinks for his own enjoyment. I was surprised.

This slander was very clever. If even the drinkware was made of gold, Yang Kerang had no other source of wealth, which meant his hands and feet were not clean. Zhao Kuangyin was complacent before he was used, which meant he was unstable. Therefore, he was changed to a county magistrate. However, gold would shine sooner or later. During this expedition to the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin used Yang Kerang as the prefecture of Shengzhou, and Shengzhou was Jinling. Zhao Kuangyin changed the name of Jinling.

But this incident was actually Zhao Pu's appearance of Hou Zhi's slander. The old officials of the Sansi were dissatisfied with Zhao Pu's case and Zhao Pu's excessive stigma against Sansi. Yang Kerang was Zhao Pu's confidant, so Hou Zhi could not defeat Zhao Pu and instead dealt with Zhao Pu's confidant.

It cannot be simply described as slander.

It cannot even be said that it is a slander, but a product of political struggle.

Pan Lian'er didn't understand the festival, so Song Jiu did not ask her to say it again, but said the important thing: "What ability do I have to help you?"

"Jiulang, I'm afraid that Mr. Chu and Mr. Lu will not agree. You have a good relationship with them. For the sake of the same situation as his colleagues..." Hou Zhi bowed down suddenly.

Whether it is really only a few hundred yuan in money, it is a crime on the front line. If it is not done well, it will be a big problem. At the very least, it will be exiled to the market and show it to the public.

Song Jiu helped him up and said, "Since that's the case, let's go to Lu Mansion together."

"Ah," Hou Zhi didn't expect Song Jiu to be so easy to talk to.

Song Jiu said again: "You misunderstood, how can we share the same tragedy?"

"Kyuro..."

"You'll know when you go."

The two of them came to Lu Duoxun's house. Lu Duoxun was very polite, half open the middle door, and personally welcomed them to the door, and sat in the house one after another. It was not about Hou Zhi's face, but Lu Duoxun also knew that Hou Zhi was sad, but this was about Song Jiu's face.

Hou Zhi wanted to beg, and Lu Duoxun waved his hand: "Brother Hou, don't say it, I know."

He looked at Song Jiu again and asked, "Why is Jiulang here too?"

"Mr. Lu, I'll also ask Mr. Lu to say good things for me."

"Are you greedy for me?" Lu Duosun made a joke about Song Jiu.

"The governor Hou has no other source of income, so he is more greedy. Why do I want to be greedy? This is for an accident at sea."

I often float on the sea, fishing in the water in the morning and evening.

In fact, Song Jiu was very careful. He was concerned about the size of the ship because of safety. The larger the ship, the higher the quality requirements, but on the premise that the quality was kept up, the safer the bigger the ship, the safer it was on the rivers and lakes. After asking about the river boat, it may not be beneficial to large ships. First of all, the problem of fibre pulling cannot be solved. The best ship in the Bian River is about 2,000 stones, that is, a hundred tons of ships. When they encounter a reverse water, they can pull the fibers. If the ship is too big, it can also be navigated. Then they can only rely entirely on wind and sails, and there will be many obstacles.

This is an experience that ordinary people have explored through self-driving for a long time. But it doesn’t matter on the sea, so I asked the boatman again, and the boatman also answered.

They did not explain it from a mechanics, nor did they understand it, but only explained it from a material perspective.

Each part of the ship has different requirements for the elasticity, strength, straightness, lightness, corrosion resistance, insect resistance, dryness and crack resistance, and powder resistance of the wood.

Therefore, a good sea boat uses different woods, boat bottom plates and side plates in each part. Because the partition boards promoted by Song Jiu, the bilge is generally made of fir, ribs, stern columns, bows, and camphor wood for twisted wood. Nan, storage, camphor, elm and camphor, locust, and rudders are used for elm, betel, pine, cypress, and elm. Only the pallets are required to be loose, and the various wood parts used are also given, and time is also given. For example, camphor wood cutters in summer and spring, if it is long, it will be eaten. The most important thing is the rudder, especially the rudder material requirements for sea boats are stricter. Guangzhou docks mostly use Qinzhou specialty raven wood as the rudder. The second is the boat keel.

Why did Dashi and the South China Sea ships have good quality in the early Tang Dynasty? They moved down soon? It was this keel technique.

It is very complex, including the main keel and the longitudinal members on both sides of the main keel, that is, the lateral keel. The function is to withstand part of the bending force distance. The boatman does not know it, but only knows to use it to improve the strength of the hull to withstand external forces and strengthen wave resistance. There are also transverse components that bear transverse water pressure and keep the ship undeformed, that is, ribs. The longitudinal members on both sides of the hull form a mesh with the ribs, and act to fix the side plate of the ship and increase the strength. This is called dragon tendons. Copper or iron sheets are also used to make components, installed on the side of the ship and the bottom of the ship, and used it to weaken the swaying phenomenon of the ship sailing in the waves and stabilize navigation. It is called a keel. There is also a bow column and a stern column, which is connected to the keel, which increases the ship's wave resistance and water pressure resistance, and at the same time it can withstand vibrations during collision and propeller work.

The most important thing is the main keel, which requires the wood to be strong and straight. It is best to make a piece of wood, but it is impossible for large ships. Just as Wang Ming wrote in his memorial, a large ship is like a huge room, a sail is like a cloud in the sky, a rudder is several feet long, a boat is hundreds of people, a year of grain, and a pig is raised to make wine, and life and death are placed outside the distance. Pigs can be raised inside, and wine can be made. In fact, it is not only to raise pigs, but also fish, and plant some vegetables in it, otherwise what should I do? It is impossible to say that a year is not possible, but once sailing on some seas, it is impossible to get supplies for many days, so I can only raise some things in it as a source of food.

It is impossible to use one wood as the main keel, so it is usually made of two to three woods, and at most four woods are inlaid, but if it is inlaid, the quality of the hull will also decrease accordingly. Therefore, the limits of large sea boats and river boats are 6,000 materials and 20,000 stones.

The safe load capacity of six thousand materials is 600 tons, and 20,000 stones is nearly 1,000 tons. Of course, if loaded, six thousand materials can be loaded, and 20,000 stones can be loaded 30,000 stones. However, not many people do that. Most of these big river boats are shipped on the Yangtze River, which also has strict restrictions on the load capacity, let alone sea boats. They can be overloaded, no one cares, and no port supervisor comes to fine the oil card, but if something happens, they are responsible for it.

In fact, the lengths and widths of these two boats are similar, but the river boat is flatter and wider, so the load capacity is a little more.

They are the limits of sea boats and river boats.

The boatman didn't know whether it could be bigger, but they said it would be better not too big. Even if the sea boat keeps up with its technology, it can be large, and the torque force will increase. It will inevitably be very dangerous when there is strong winds and waves. The torque force is not what the boatman said, but that's what it means. Moreover, if the boatman is big, it will encounter great difficulties when raising the sail, turning the rudder, turning around, mooring, entering and leaving the port, and sailing without wind.

The ship craftsman did not know Song Jiuyuanda’s idea and said again: “For commerce alone, don’t use six thousand materials, even four thousand materials are not small. Moreover, the conditions of the 4 thousand materials are also the limit of the Mizhou Port.”

Song Jiu was confused, the legendary treasure ship he thought of.

However, the Song Dynasty's technology is not good compared with the Ming Dynasty's technology. Perhaps the treasure ship does not have the legendary displacement of 40,000 tonnes, but the displacement can exceed 3,000 tons. After all, the ship technology was more developed at that time.

Song Jiu did not ask again, but repeatedly told the craftsmen that they would use the silk to use when building ships. I only seek quality, regardless of cost. It is very dangerous to go to sea without a good ship. Just like Yuan Meng conquered Japan and used a whip to slaughter the husband to build a ship. Can a good ship be built? When the typhoon came, the whole army went into the sea to accompany the Dragon King.

He also made many reminders, including setting up leather rafts and lifebuoys made of animal skins. He also required that he observe the weather, record the terrain and ports whenever he went, and immediately retreat to the relevant ports or shelter, as well as other things.

Other yamen continued to travel to Goryeo and Japan, but Song Jiu's ships began to move to the South China Sea. One was the South China Sea, the other was the Tianzhu Dashi and East Africa.

The South China Sea is also the center of gravity.

The beginning was not long, mainly to open up Baipuyan (Babuyan Island), Sanyu, Pulilu (Philippine Island), Mayi (Minduluo Island), Bajilan (Busanga Island), Jiamayan (Kala Mian Island), Boni, and Lanwuli (East of Kariman Island). That is to say, run around the South China Sea for half a circle.

Most of these countries were associated with the Central Plains people during the Tang Dynasty, and some people in a few areas could speak Chinese that was not fluent.

It is easy for both parties to communicate and trade goes smoothly.

Last winter, Song Pan and the two families had three ships, as well as Shi families, and Gao Fu families had one ship, and they formed a fleet and went south. They first went to Boni and hired several guides. They went south and spoke in a country. The other island was equal to a country, but they were all people in the South China Sea. They used gestures to communicate more easily, and then went south to Japa (Jia), Sujidan, Putao (Central Java), Xinto (Western Java), Taban (Eastern Java), Rongya

Water (Jia Sishui), Mali (Bali), and the Tang Dynasty also recorded it here, but they did not have much contact with each other. Even with guides, it was not convenient to communicate. The local people were also very backward, and there were even two conflicts. However, the fleet went there at this time, hundreds of ships from five powerful families, carrying countless weapons. The two tribes were defeated by the enemy. Although it was very troublesome, the harvest was huge. In some areas, the people of some areas actually used spices as straw to burn the pot, making the people on the boat feel so heartbroken.

After trading from Mali Country, the ships sailed eastward to Sandalwood Island (Songba Island). However, there were dense mosquitoes. Although there were precious sandalwood everywhere, several people fell down. Six ships fled in a panic and rushed eastward to Dihun Kingdom (Timmor-Island). It was already far away here. On the way back, they encountered a sudden and massive typhoon.

The fleet retreated back to Tihuo quickly, but it was not too late.

The wind was very strong, and the fleet was quickly blown away. If something happened here in the past, something big would happen. However, now the emergence of these three powerful tools, such as telescopes, Guo Chengyi, and compass, has provided conditions for navigation.

Although it was scraped, it finally returned to Dihu Port.

But only three ships came back.

I had to go back and search. Fortunately, there were not the Pacific Ocean, and there were islands and reefs everywhere. Although it caused inconvenience to navigation, it gave the crew members the accident to save their lives. This was also in advance. If something happened, everyone must find the crew members. As for the crew members of the ship who had the accident jumped on the raft and brought a lifebuoy. After getting on the island, they found a way to set up a large cross on the beach. After searching for more than two months, the fourth ship found them again. It was said that they had scraped a large island, which was probably what Kyuro mentioned. However, they were afraid that everyone would worry, so they looked on it for a few days and set sail immediately to find them. At this time, more than thirty crew members were rescued and confirmed that something had happened to the two ships.

If you don’t go back, you will miss the monsoon, so you will leave a smallest boat to continue searching, and the other three boats will return to Mizhou.

This time I will make money. When I arrive at these prehistoric places, even if a hundred ships can come back three or five, I will not lose money. I will also bring back a good news, that is, the local natives are rich in mahogany and sandalwood. They don’t know how precious they are, so they all cook the pot, but more than one hundred lives may be ruined by the sea.

It is inevitable to seek wealth at sea.

But in this era, nothing big can be done. Like Haizhu, the government can do nothing to extort the people. However, when it comes to hearing that Haizhu will die, Zhao Kuangyin issued an edict to prohibit the people from picking Haizhu, and it is not enough to make money for himself, which has led to a surge in the price of Haizhu.

The news has just been sent to the capital, and the four families don’t know what to do. Not to mention the significance of the great voyage, China has been a landlocked country since ancient times, with the crisis one being the north and the other being the country. By the time the Song Dynasty allowed the people to go to sea, it was an amazing progress.

The more expensive the five families, the easier it is to make money for others.

Song Jiu was also worried, so he wanted to ask Lu Duosun to say a few nice things when the incident happened.

"Jiulang, your affairs are more difficult than bending the east. Your Majesty is humid in the south of the Yangtze River. It is the autumn summer. The soldiers in the army are sick and are ready to stop the army. I can't fight again and again. Why did some soldiers die due to the epidemic? Your Majesty can't bear it."
Chapter completed!