Cheng Wenying took a look at it and said, oh, children have such smart brains! It’s useless for me to ask for this, but I can give it to my son! There is a folding fan with inscriptions from the central government to the local government. When I take it out to play with, I feel cool.

The style is blowing in the wind!

Well, I'll go home and ask my master to do the math and see how much silver can be exchanged for one of the fans of the current prime minister...

As a result, playing with folding fans became popular in Meishan. For a long time, the first thing literati said when they met was: "Have you written today?"

Then someone responded: "Although I haven't written a word yet, there is a mysterious calmness..."

…

But the pear blossoms in the dragon bloomed and faded, and Su You was eight years old.

Today he bid farewell to Chen Zhen and Chao Gu at the pier.

Chaogu was going to join the Western Army, and Chen Zhen was once again sued by his uncle: The boy ran away from home and went to Dali, where he was almost caught by Nong Zhigao!

However, Chen Xiliang applauded him this time, believing that his fourth child was still a talent that could be developed, and he would personally train him by his side.

Don't underestimate Chen Xiliang's training. Su You was so envious. In history, almost all the people who were close to Chen Xiliang, except Su Xun, got Jinshi!

Su You maliciously believed that this was Chen Xiliang's revenge on his brother for not allowing him to study.

Aren't you not allowed to study? I asked the whole family to study and become Jinshi, making you a vulnerable group in the family!

Just asking you if you are afraid!

But Chen Zhen doesn't think so. According to him, he will probably be forced to get married this time.

Back then, his father was captured by the Liu family in Hedong. In order to protect himself, Lao Chen sold the children. It was impossible for a son-in-law to be a son-in-law. I was already married and the children were eldest.

However, our children are doing well in school, and I passed the Jinshi exam. I don’t think it’s that difficult. I estimate that in a few years our whole family will become Jinshi. Thanks to the Liu family, let’s get married!

The chosen one is so willful.

Su You handed Chen Zhen three folding fans: "You missed three key figures in Meishan, so I'll fill them in for you. Enjoy the little article about my cousin and Su Su."

Chen Zhen disagreed: "Your cousin is nothing more than my brother Su... Hehehe, I am not as famous as Chen Jichang..."

Oh, how arrogant?!

Forget it, I won't argue with you. Su You tried his best to stand up on tiptoes and patted Chen Zhen on the shoulder: "Brother Ji Chang, remember to make friends with Zizhan when you meet him in the future. I believe he will be famous all over the world in the future.

Maybe when the time comes, I can even make a name for you."

Hahaha, I suddenly heard the roar of a lion in the east of the river, and I leaned on my stick and dropped my hand in confusion. Your reputation is destined to be passed down through the ages along with Da Su's poem.

Chaogu's gift was a four-and-a-half-foot fine-covered long sword, but Su You didn't give it to him, but asked him to give it to Shangguan.

Chaogu's literary talent was not well-respected among literati, but among martial artists, especially among low-level warriors, he was still outstanding. Su You himself was not familiar with martial arts, so he had to ask Shi Fu to find some connections and write a few letters to them.

Bring it to him as a token of your devotion.

After seeing the two of them off, Su You couldn't help but sigh as he thought about the current military situation of the Song Dynasty. It took a day to freeze three feet, and reversing this decline would not happen overnight.

Shi Wei received a letter, admitting his mistake without any hesitation, and then turned the topic to the White Ape.

The white ape has a deep connection with Taoism, which is recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Later, there were also many legends about the white ape preaching in the Chu State and teaching swords in the Yue State. Taoism itself also has a "Tai Shang Dong Xuan White Ape Sutra", and it is said that the white ape is the white ape.

The Book of Heaven handed down by the Monkey King.

Shi Wei felt that Muke was getting fatter and fatter, and that he couldn't hold him anymore, so he should control his diet.

The sky-gazing mirror caused a sensation. Nowadays, a group of Taoist priests crowd into the Yuju Star Observation Deck at night, citing scriptures to study the stars.

The white-bearded father-in-law and his master were angry and added a large iron gate to the observatory, and then began the examination. Only the Taoist uncles who passed the examination were qualified to obtain stargazing qualifications.

Su You excerpted several stories about the white ape and told some interesting things that happened recently. Then he asked Shi Wei to help find out. If there is an observatory, there should be star maps and records of solar and lunar eclipses in the past.

, if there is, he will go to the Jade Bureau to watch it when he has the opportunity.

…

When Zi Yan returned, the city was filled with flowers, and Su You felt that her life was so beautiful.

The number of salt wells increased to ten, and the emergence of new wells made Jiang Qing discover a big problem, traffic bottleneck.

The four ships of the Erlin Department alone were not enough. Then everyone remembered that Su You had reminded them about shipbuilding, but they had all focused on building roads and accumulating reputation at that time.

Now that the road has not even reached Yizhou, the problem has already become apparent.

Fortunately, the new sailing ship technology has initially taken shape. The round-bottomed streamlined warship technology of the Erlin Department and the shipyards along the river are also very mature. In addition, the funds are relatively strong, so the board of directors of the company decided to build a large salt warehouse to stock up on goods while recruiting

Shipbuilders build new ships.

Buying a boat is not an option. Today's river boats are mostly made of pine wood and cut corners and materials. The Sichuan people's habit is to take a boat from Yizhou to Yangzhou and then sell the boat and the goods together.

Suyou's keel boat gave boatmen a great reminder. The mortise and tenon structure is an old trick played by Chinese ancestors. Now that there are iron bolts, use a split keel.

The new ship abandons the one-time use method and uses the finest wood. The keel and ribs are made of the finest Dazhennan, a specialty of Sichuan. The rest of the ship is made of oak and elm. The bilge and deck are lined with miscellaneous materials as much as possible.

To reduce the cost of wood, elm and walnut are used for the rudder stock, and fir is used for the rudder board and mast.

The masts can also be spliced ​​together with iron hoops, but currently there is no shortage of large materials such as pine wood for shipbuilding in central Sichuan.

Iron hoops are still used, but only to strengthen the mast.

The rigging also used a variety of materials due to cost considerations. The anchor ropes and cables were steamed from green bamboo bark into bamboo filaments, which were then made using a rope-making machine. The sail ropes were made from hemp ropes made of hemp. The sails abandoned the bulky straw mats and bamboo mats.

, and switched to the Su family’s sturdy copper coin linen.

The area of ​​the sail far exceeds the size of ordinary river sails today. The length of the ship is ten feet, the widest point is four feet, the height of the main mast is eight feet, and the two secondary masts are six feet.

The whole ship is a product of the transition between the old and the new, which can be seen through the weights and measures used.

Overall, the underwater part of the new ship is almost the same as the Erlin warship, with a round bottom and streamlined shape.

The water part is closer to Suyou's scissor-type sailboat. The masts are also old models, but the sails have become new models, and the sail control system has introduced the design of the Kelongli. This is just because the number of masts has increased, and more manpower is needed.

Control separately.

Perhaps the most outrageous design is the sprit that extends from the front of the bow, which is used to pull up the three jibs together with the foremast, using as much wind power as possible.

This design has never appeared in any Chinese sailboat before, but the Kelongli has a ready-made example. The shipbuilders felt that the designer must be a calculating and calculating old fox who was too good at picking things!

The anchor weighs 500 kilograms and was cast by the Shijia Iron Works.

Su You was not involved in the design of this sailing ship. The veteran shipwrights could understand the design ideas almost immediately by looking at the drawings and objects of the Kelongli.

The difficulty with drawings is to make them clear to the viewer. That is the basic requirement.

However, Su You was not without his efforts. He proposed several concepts such as project budget, construction period evaluation, material procurement, and human resource allocation at the board meeting, requesting that this project be used as an example to figure out the regulations and rules.

This proposal was highly recognized by the board of directors. The little monkey always likes to eat all over the world with one trick. To put it bluntly, it is still a delicate and pure trio of old tunes.

In addition, Su You also earned a little pocket money.

But the bamboo wadding dug out of the arrow shafts in Longli, plus the glue mixed with tung oil and lime clam shell ash, are good materials for filling the gaps in the ship's planks.

This is unique to China, and it is also the reason why Chinese ships are made of ordinary wood and can travel everywhere. Unlike the West, they must use high-quality hardwoods such as oak, beech, and teak.

The new ship is expected to take six months to build, and its carrying capacity will reach a terrifying 3,500 stone!

In the Song Dynasty, one stone weighed 100 kilograms, which was more than 300 tons. I don’t know about Wuzhong in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but it is definitely the largest ship in Sichuan today.

If the output of ten salt wells depends entirely on this kind of ship, it will require nearly fifty ships. Fortunately, the four routes of Xueyian consume half of it themselves, and the Wu ship and the Erlin Department transport one third, leaving the remaining six.

About one or ten ships, two such large ships are enough to cope with it.
Chapter completed!