The population of Haifang Port is now mostly dominated by craftsmen. Thousands of ship craftsmen, thousands of carpenters, blacksmiths, and tens of thousands of laborers, all of them can only live in shantytowns near the docks.

These shanty towns are temporarily built, quite like official military camps. Every day, countless trucks transport fresh fruits, fruits, meat and drinking water from Haifang City.

At this time, since the people from the Nanjing Shipyard have arrived and with their "advanced experience", the dock is full of energy and blast furnaces have been built, and huge chimneys have soared straight into the sky. In addition, there are warehouses for piled up ship materials, including iron houses, cable houses, canvas houses, etc.

As the dawn began to shine, everyone came out of Penghu and took the wooden sign that proved their identity to get breakfast. After using it, they went to their respective craftsmen's workshops, or went directly to the dock to set up the Mao, and then began to divide the work.

When Hao San came here, he felt that the sky was dark and his feet were not touching the ground every day.

He had some management experience in Zijin Mountain, but soon he found that compared to the sea defense, Zijin Mountain's experience was really not worth mentioning. Shipbuilding requires a systematic project, and no link can be lost. Carpenters divide the ship and wood, blacksmiths have to make rivets, iron anchors and many metal components, sail shops have to make canvas, cable shops have to make cables, and even someone has to make paint.

What Hao San needs to do is to gather all kinds of clueless workshops, and finally form a group to create a real sea boat.

In fact, at the beginning, he had done a lot of useless work to build a ship. And at the bottom, the various workshops quarreled and shirked each other. Hao San was really worried.

The dock was in a hurry to ask for a cable, but there was no preparation on the cable yard, so the dock was constantly scolding. The cable yard was naturally full of excuses, saying that it was originally built urgently, but the cable still needed improvement, so it was delayed.

As for those Tiefangs, Hao San was speechless.

The atmosphere of Tiefang is very similar to that of Shenwuwei. In fact, most craftsmen were originally assigned by the Shenwuwei Art Bureau. These people have a characteristic, that is, they all have an obsessive-compulsive disorder.

It is obviously just a rivet. People ask you to make it, but they don’t want to make it. They have to think about it. How to improve the rivet? After thinking about it, everyone’s opinions were different, so they couldn’t help but argue. These craftsmen reflected and thought too much, and they were all serious. They immediately divided into several factions and attacked each other. In the end, the most shocking thing was that a group of craftsmen went straight to the dock with various rivets. Originally, the craftsmen in the dock were waiting for the blacksmiths to deliver the rivets. Who knew that they had sent it, a total of four or five samples. They said they wanted to experiment.

The craftsman in the dock became popular, and asked you to pick up rivets according to the drawings. You made all kinds of weird styles. What does this mean?

Unfortunately, these craftsmen are all "famous craftsmen". If they don't make a decision, the ordinary blacksmiths from the Tiefang below dare not open the furnace easily. These people have been tossing in the dock and inevitably make noise again. In the end, they reached a consensus on improvement. So they went back to think about it and came up with a drawing, and the Tiefang started construction.

Even the small rivets are like this, not to mention the anchors and other more complex structures. The craftsmen in the dock are laughing and crying. When will they be the head if they are tossing like this?

In fact, they also had difficulties. Haifanghou also sent drawings, and there were all kinds of ship sketches, asking them to reduce the ship ten times first, make a model, and then improve it according to the model.

It can be said that the entire coastal defense dock is extremely chaotic. On the one hand, it is not well-done and difficult to cooperate with each other. On the other hand, it is not unified internal opinions. Some people have raised this today, and some people will try their best to refute it tomorrow, and they will chatter continuously.

Even carpenters, originally carpenters were just sawing wood, but in theory, they really had no skills, but some carpenters in Shenwuwei were different. They had to study the degree of corrosion of various wood by sea water, and even changed the standard of wooden boards without authorization.

Hao San had a headache, and he had a severe headache. In Shenwuwei, there was nothing wrong with it. After all, everyone was busy with their own affairs and you were quarreling. That was your internal affairs, but now it was a tangle that affected the whole body. If there was a problem with one link, every step would be wrong.

Although he, the general manager of the shipbuilding, was not allowed to discuss under strict orders, the brains of all craftsmen were imprinted with Hao Fenglou. The most important feature of these people who stood out was that they like to be stubborn. Once they felt that it was inappropriate, they could not even stop them. Not to mention that it was Hao San, even if the Marquis of Haifang came in person and did not propose a plan to convince them, they would never surrender.

The craftsmen at the bottom were very convinced by these people. This blind conviction came from the exquisite skills of these people and various fantasies. In the eyes of ordinary craftsmen, these people are like Lubans, so they naturally blindly follow them. Hao San's words are not useful here. In their eyes, Hao San is the one who manages their living and transportation and provides them with food.

However, although the entire camp is chaotic, it still has some benefits. Whether it is the best among the craftsmen, ordinary craftsmen or even apprentices, they live here very peacefully. Not only are they free to eat and wear, but there are no supervisors who are randomly criticizing them. In addition to consciously slapping the money, they also pay monthly money every day, and even allow you to rest for two days every month.

Such treatment is like a paradise for those who have become craftsmen in the past.

Besides, the atmosphere is always easy to be contagious. The old craftsmen are serious, and ordinary craftsmen naturally dare not slack off, so the apprentices naturally rush to start. It is rare for everyone to see lazy people in this atmosphere.

Hao San is now hoping that Hao Fenglou will come over quickly. He feels that he can't hold on anymore. It's unreasonable. It would be strange if he is not crazy.

And at this time, Hao San's wish finally came true and the young master came.

The young master looked dirty and tired. He slept all night as soon as he entered the camp. When he got up early the next morning, Hao San came to complain and complained, but he was just to denounce those craftsmen who rely on their seniority and to add ordinary craftsmen who follow the old craftsmen. Hao San was not satisfied with all these people, and finally said with grievance: "Young master, this is not going to be able to continue like this. This shipbuilding is not a ironworking machine, and it is not a matter of letting them make trouble."

Hao Fenglou smiled and said, "They are indeed a bit too much, but... Then again, let them think about it, but they can't let them think about it. In fact, this is also simple. You strip some skilled craftsmen and old craftsmen from ordinary workshops. Since they want to think about it, let them think about it, set up a craftsman and invite good boatmen, carpenters, blacksmiths, and painters to go in. Wouldn't that be good?"

Hao San seemed to feel a little angry, and couldn't help but smile, saying, "Young Master is smart."

Hao Fenglou dared not take the word "Gao Ming" as his words, this sentence is purely flattery.

Then Hao San remembered another thing and hurriedly said, "Young Master, there is another thing that needs to be done step by step. We have collected the ship material, but the problem is that the wood is picked from the mountain and cannot be used to build ships directly after being processed by the carpenter. According to the people in the dock, if the wood is used directly to build ships, the wood will rot when it is put into the water. If the ship material is exposed to the sun and dehydrated, it will not be possible in less than two or three years. At present, some ship material is still stored, but it will not be supported for long. Young Master..."

In fact, it is not only the coastal defense that encountered this problem, but even the shipyard of the Ministry of Industry has encountered problems with ship materials.

The courts in all dynasties did not encounter this problem in building ships. After all, the court had a plan to build ships, so the shipyards would store ship materials in advance, transport wood from various places, process it, and then order people to expose it to the sun, and then move it into a dry warehouse to store after dehydration. When it is necessary to build a ship, it is just taken out and used.

But the problem is that after Emperor Taizu ascended the throne, he claimed that the sheets were not allowed to go into the sea, and even the requirements for shipbuilding by the imperial court were greatly reduced, so the shipbuilding industry naturally became abandoned. After decades, there was no reserve of ship materials? Without reserves, it would have to start over. The emperor repeatedly issued an order to urge the shipyard to build ships, and the shipyard repeatedly made perfunctory. It was not that these people were brave and dared to resist the orders. It was really a skillful woman who could not cook without rice. It would take at least two or three years to store ship materials. Without ship materials, would she use newly cut wood to build a ship? If so, I am afraid that the ship would be soaked in a few days after the water.

What Hao Fenglou is facing now is this problem. He promised to build a ship within one year. If the ship's material cannot be solved, then any promise will be fake.

Fortunately, after pondering for a while, Hao Fenglou said, "I have some solutions to call the skilled blacksmith and carpenter, but if it can be done, I have to take one step at a time."

Hao San did not dare to neglect and walked away with flying steps.

After a while, a group of carpenters and blacksmiths rushed over. Hao Fenglou asked them to sit down and ordered someone to serve tea. He did not greet them and did not greet them. He directly took a pen and drew a sketch for everyone to see. After everyone saw it, they couldn't help but talk.

"If you follow the sketch, it is easy to put things together, but the question is whether it is useful? In fact, when a villain crosses the boat, someone has indeed used this method, and it seems that it doesn't work..."
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