Villager of Daming

Chapter 104 The Ship Is Ready to Test the Waters (Fourth Change)
Zhu Yuanzhang was called to have dinner by Empress Ma at noon, and a letter came from the village about the Daming Navy.

He hurried home, took the envelope, took out a piece of paper, looked, looked, looked, and gritted his teeth after reading it: "Just that sentence? Why use such a big piece of paper?"

The meaning is easy to understand, the future sailors will go out to find food by themselves, without the court paying for it.

He just needs to find someone he can trust to lead the navy, just like Zhu Wentian, the first thing he thinks of is Fu Youde.

Fu Youde is very good at fighting. He participated in wars again and again.

"I'm afraid we need to find someone else, so we can become an army this year."

Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he should first randomly find someone who knows how to fight in water, mainly because he knows how to build ships, and to build sea ships, first build smaller sea ships, which can be built quickly.

He knows the difference between sea boats and river boats, one has a protruding bottom and the other has a flat bottom, and river boats tend to capsize in the sea.

Since trade is used to raise troops, quickly send a group of soldiers outside to exchange things, slowly exchange, and use the extra money to build larger ships and recruit more sailors.

"Biao'er is getting married, tell the other party and see what the other party plans."

Zhu Yuanzhang thought about the matter of the navy, and then thought of the marriage of Hao Daer, in the month of winter wheat harvest.

"I will write a letter when the team returns this afternoon. Since some people are arranged to form an army first, it is better to use the sea-going ships confiscated by the forbidden sea."

Zhu Biao suggested that there are still ready-made ships, but they are not big enough. During the Yuan Dynasty, there was maritime trade.

Zhang Shicheng used to make money from overseas trade to fight the war, but was caught and died.

Fang Guozhen was even more powerful. He gathered thousands of people to fight against the Yuan Dynasty, robbed the grain shipped by sea, and then surrendered, rebelled, surrendered again, and rebelled again...

They have boats outside, and they can always hide on the island. Otherwise, why did the Yuan Dynasty court accept Fang Guozhen's surrender after repeated submissions and rebellions?no way.

Fang Guozhen is still alive, and Zhu Yuanzhang will never let him command the navy. He is now an official in Guangxi Province, Zuo Cheng, so he just uses his name and stays honestly in Nanjing.

"Very good! Write a letter to ask, can the things built in the village be used to build a palace?"

Zhu Yuanzhang agreed to use the old boats first, and build larger new boats slowly, using the wood from Jianzhongdu first.

Didn't Xiaqiu Village come up with new things to build houses to save wood, and see if they can be used in Jianzhongdu.

By the way, let's test the expert to see whether the expert opposes the construction of the Central Capital, or has other thoughts. What's wrong with the Central Capital?

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Zhu Wentian didn't know that someone was going to test him. He was busy rolling steel wire, rolling it into sheets, rolling steel with a tool like squeezing sugar cane juice.

First burn the steel wire red before rolling, otherwise the small equipment will be wasted.

He wants to make a music box, he needs a clockwork spring, which is equipped with gears to turn and turn, and it will make a sound when it touches the pronunciation piece.

This thing is so complicated that you can choose songs, and there are several songs in one.

Zhu Wentian didn't have so much time to do it, it was too cumbersome, a song would do, not a cylinder, but a box with a villain.

The villain is two people in ancient costumes who raise their eyebrows and give it to the prince and princess, both of whom are poor people.

Zhu Wentian has a small converter for steelmaking, which can hold more than 100 kilograms of material at a time, and the material comes from the iron he smelted.

In conjunction with the small converter, there is a small iron furnace with a height of [-] meters, which is very small, and it is difficult to operate and useless if it is built large.

For such a small one, what is needed can be produced by the village itself, and the ore is also dug by the villagers.

There used to be no blacksmiths in the village, but now there are four people who specialize in learning to forge some farm tools and knives.

When you encounter places you don’t know how to do, go to the blacksmith shop in the county to learn. If you have enough money, people are willing to teach. When you teach, you can directly sell dry goods.

Zhu Wentian can solve the steel problem if he doesn't learn the technique of forging steel, which is passed on from others to his sons and daughters, and from inside to outside.

"Actually, it can be made into a watch. The technical requirements are high. It is easier to make a clock than a watch. Then we don't have to look at the sun and the stars to compare the time, and save the hourglass and water leak."

Zhu Wentian led his friends to handle the material as if they were playing a game, explaining the purpose of the clockwork, and just adding an escapement mechanism. This kind of design has long existed, and the ancients were very powerful.

It's just that it's not used to make a universally usable watch, otherwise daily life would be more convenient.

"Brother Hanhan, what else can you do with it?" The little girl has become carefree now, and the year before last, the family members were discussing to propose marriage to her.

Everyone got married early. The daughters of Zhu Yuanzhang, who were thirteen or fourteen years old, were all married. Zhu Biao and the princess who were going to get married were both born in [-], and this year is [-], sixteen.

Zhu Wentian has come, and he does not agree that people in the village continue to get married early, no matter if it is a man or a woman.

You are a child yourself, and if you start having children soon, you will spend your whole life in it. The key is that it is dangerous when you have children.

The village has money, so they are not so anxious about it, and they can always find something satisfactory.

Those who are not married are now working hard to learn how to read, write, and do arithmetic, not only Zhu Wentian's friends, but also the villagers who find time to learn.

Those who are single study harder, thinking of the scholarly families outside.

For example, when recruiting a son-in-law, see which one has a scholar, but is poor. If the other party is of good quality and has a good education, he is willing to give more money.

After being recruited to the village, let the other party take the imperial examination, and immediately change the door-to-door son-in-law and become a normal son-in-law.

If you can't pass the exam, you can help in the village, learn slowly, and you can continue to take the exam. Once every three years, if you have a child, you should raise your child.

If you want to marry a daughter-in-law, you should choose someone who is an official, and you should also observe the quality. If you marry and enter the door, you will give the bride price as much as possible, and the official money is not much.

Both the head of the village and the village elders felt that any kind of people in their village could match him. With Hanhan around, how could outsiders be as good as Hanhan?

The accounting method given by Hanhan, the imperial court must learn!The big business that made money in the village was sent to the palace, and the prince wrote to ask the Daming Navy how to build it.

Under such circumstances, the little girl is not in a hurry to get married, and has an extra frog in her hand, which is folded out of paper and jumps up and down with one touch.

"After finishing the music box, I will make you a stringed frog, twist it a few times, and jump and run by yourself."

Zhu Wentian knows how to use clockwork. The iron-skinned frog does not need a blacksmith to beat it slowly to make a mold. Put the iron sheet on it, and with one hammer it becomes half a frog. Put on the clockwork and other small parts, and the two pieces are closed together. Rivet with a rivet.

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In the morning of the next day, when it was time to eat, the boats returning from the upstream of Nanjing arrived at the village with two shipments of good iron ore.

The villagers went to move down, and Zhu Taiyi washed his hands and face: "The palace knew that after the village smelted iron by itself, it was afraid that the ore would be hard to find, so they sent some. In addition, Zhou Sheren came to see if there was anything that could help of."

Zhou Zong came, with ten subordinates, who had just helped move the iron ore.

(End of this chapter)