Qin Feng grabbed the old shipmaker's hands with both hands, covered with hard calluses, and helped him up personally. . The fastest update

"Master Yu, thank you for your hard work." Qin Feng smiled.

Yu Cong, the old commander who was caught by the emperor, trembled uncontrollably with excitement. In Dachu, he was just a lowly craftsman. Not to mention the emperor, as long as he was an official, he could drink and shout at him. In his eyes, the county magistrate was already an extremely big official.

After changing the environment and coming to a strange area, what he got was unimaginable. His lips trembled and he could hardly speak.

Holding these big hands with their muscles and bones exposed, Qin Feng sang: "All up, don't give me a gift, and keep my body flat."

Eunuch Le, behind him, opened his voice and repeated Qin Feng's words. The dark boatman kneeling on the ground was climbing up unevenly, mostly with wide eyes in surprise, looking at the young emperor holding Yu Cong in front of him.

This is the emperor!

"Master Yu, are you still used to your life when you come to the Ming Dynasty?" Qin Feng asked gently patted Yu Cong's hand.

"I'm used to your Majesty's words, I'm used to it, my heart is so used to it. It's so good here." Yu Cong nodded repeatedly, his mood finally calmed down a little, and his body was no longer trembling.

"It's really hard for you to leave your hometown and stay away from your hometown to come to this unfamiliar place." Qin Feng sighed softly.

"No, no!" Yu Cong said quickly: "Your Majesty, the grass-roots people are just lowly craftsmen in Da Chu, with nothing, and their daily hard work is difficult to even wrap their belly. However, in the Ming Dynasty, they not only became officials, but also had land and their own houses. Now everyone is very glad to be here."

Yu Cong and his group of people were indeed very grateful. At that time, they had no choice but to have no money and were forced to arrive in Baoqing, but no one expected that this fall would fall into a honeypot.

Are there any more comfortable days than this if you have a house, land and salary?

"Your Majesty, you have prepared a lounge for you in the shipyard. When the auspicious time comes, the new ship can be cut into the water." Yu Cong said.

"Well, I won't go to the lounge, I'll go to the General Office where you usually do business." Qin Feng said with a smile.

Yu Cong suddenly became dumbfounded, "Your Majesty, there is a lot of chaos."

"No, no, no, no," Qin Feng waved his hand, raised his foot and walked in, "Let's lead the way."

The General Office of Yu Cong who usually handles official business was in the shipbuilding dock. A house built with wood in the air was really simple. Standing outside, Qin Feng only took a look and was extremely surprised. The head of the shipyard was also a sixth-rank official, and this is where he usually handles official business.

"Your Majesty, the grass people are illiterate." Yu Cong's face was red and black. "Often things like documents are handled by specialists. The grass people only know how to build a ship. Here, when the grass people look up, they can see the progress of the ship and find problems at any time, so they let people build a room here."

Qin Feng nodded and smiled and said, "It's good to visit the front line and supervise at any time. But Master Yu, your name needs to be changed. You are a sixth-rank official in the Ming Dynasty, but you are no longer a gangster."

"The grass people, the grass people are used to it." Yu Cong's face turned redder.

"In the future, I will call myself a minister in front of me." Qin Feng laughed loudly, climbed up the wooden ladder, and pushed open the door, and was shocked again. Yu Cong was right. The house was indeed in chaos, and it was so chaotic that it was beyond replenishment.

Various tools almost filled the entire room. On the only table, there was a model of a warship, about one meter long and extremely exquisitely made. What surprised Qin Feng the most was that the model seemed to be neatly cut through it. From his side, it was a complete ship. It turned to the other side, but it was gone. The structure of the ship could be clearly seen.

Walking to the table, Qin Feng carefully held up the model and looked at it carefully.

"Is this the ship you are building?" Qin Feng asked.

"Yes, your majesty." Yu Cong said: "This model is exactly the same as the warship that is about to be launched, but it is much smaller."

Putting down the model, Qin Feng stood in front of the window and looked down at the battleship in the dock under his feet with red color. It was much smaller than the battleship that Chu State stayed in Baoqing Port.

"Master Yu, I heard that building a ship is difficult, but I don't understand. What is the biggest difficulty in the process of building a ship?" Qin Feng asked.

"Your Majesty, there is no difficulty." Yu Cong shook his head.

Qin Feng frowned slightly: "Since there is no difficulty, can I understand that there are more than a thousand boatmen and more auxiliary workers here, and you can only build one ship in a year?"

"Your Majesty, this is not the case." Yu Cong shook his head and said, "The people who restrict shipbuilding in shipyards now are not manpower or technology. Manpower is enough to support us in building three warships at the same time. There are thousands of skilled craftsmen here, and there is no problem with the technology. The most important problem is the reserve of shipbuilding wood."

"Wood?" Qin Feng was puzzled. "Changyang County is full of mountains and steep mountains. There are not many other ones. Are there not many trees? What kind of things are needed and what kind of things are there? Why is this missing?"

Yu Cong looked a little embarrassed and stumbled for a while, saying, "After all, the newly cut wood cannot be used for shipbuilding. If the warships built like this can last for three years or two, they will fall apart. Especially the keels of the ship have higher requirements for wood. Taiping Shipyard had no reserves in this area before. Last year, Caomin, Oh, after these people came here, he immediately chose some suitable materials and stored them after processing, but it can only be used next year."

Qin Feng suddenly realized, "So that's it, haha, Master Yu, I am an outsider, you are laughing at me. But what's going on with this ship?"

"Your Majesty, Taiping Shipyard has no reserve of wood. This warship is actually used by the previous Chu army warships. They had two of them fighting Qi at sea and pirates at the sea. The damage was extremely serious and there was no value for repair. So I threw it away. I broke it apart. Fortunately, the keel bones of this ship were not damaged. I used these old materials to renovate this new ship," Yu Cong explained.

"The old material is renovated? Then the quality of this ship?" Qin Feng was a little suspicious.

Yu Cong blushed, "Your Majesty, I'm not boasting about it. Even if it's used old materials, this ship is definitely stronger and more durable than similar warships of Chu Qi. I'm deeply grateful to the country, so how dare I be slightly despised in the face of such a major event?"

"Okay, that's great!" Qin Feng clapped his hands and laughed: "Master Yu, I don't know much about building ships. When I ask this casually, you will just listen to it. I believe in your technology. You just said that starting next year, you can build ships on a large scale?"

"Yes, Your Majesty." Yu Cong nodded and said, "Now we have been splitting people to select materials in the mountains, and the reserves will increase every day. As Your Majesty said, there are a lot of wood suitable for building in Changyang County, which is much better than Da Chu. Choose materials nearby and store them nearby. Next year, I can start construction of three warships at the same time."

"Miaoji!" Qin Feng looked at Ma Xiangnan happily, "Sir Ma, did you hear it? Changyang County wants to strongly support Taiping Shipyard. This is not only related to national interests, but also a great thing for Changyang County. At least it will bring you a lot of job opportunities, right? Moreover, there will be more ships and more people in this port in the future, and your taxes will also rise step by step?"

Ma Xiangnan spread his hands: "Your Majesty, if you have a boat, you still have to have people who can drive and sailors who can hold the boat. Now, it seems like we have nothing."

"Yeah, this is your business. I have handed over this matter to you." Qin Feng said with shamelessness: "You go find someone, and the person you find is to ask for money and the official."

Ma Xiangnan smiled helplessly. This was a difficult task.

"Your Majesty, I actually know a few such people in my hometown of Chu. However, they are all prisoners of crime and were sent to work hard in a local shipyard. I wonder if Your Majesty would want them?" Yu Cong understood the meaning from the side and spoke.

"Well, do you have such friends?" Qin Feng asked.

"I can't be a friend!" Yu Cong shook his head repeatedly: "There are two people, who used to be generals of the navy. They were caught and threw them into the shipyard for some reason. They wore iron shackles every day. But when I watched and listened, I felt that they were also capable people. They often pointed at us when building warships. Those officials sniffed at them, but sometimes these shipbuilders were very inspired. They really understood ships."

"The general of the navy? He has become a prisoner of crime?" Qin Feng's eyes suddenly lit up. "Eunuch Le, turn around and write down the names of these two people, and then tell Guo Jiuling and the others to bring the people over. Oh, by the way, let's see if they have any family members, get them over together."

"I remember it." Eunuch Le nodded.

"Your Majesty, the auspicious time is coming!" Ma Xiangnan looked at the sky and reminded Qin Fengdao.

"Okay, let's go and cut the ribbon now and see our first warship in the Ming Dynasty launch." Qin Feng walked out excitedly, took a few steps, turned around and looked at Yu Cong and said, "Master Yu, can you give me this model?"

"Your Majesty can like this ship model, it is my honor." Yu Cong hurriedly brought the ship model over, and Eunuch Le, who was on the side, took it over.

"After going back, I put it in my study." Qin Feng looked at the exquisite ship model with a smile: "By the way, engrave a line of words on it, Yu Cong, the first director of Taiping Shipyard, was supervised by Yu Cong."
Chapter completed!