Villager of Daming

Chapter 660 Changing routes on the way home and looking forward to the iron ship
'Woo~~Woo~~' Accompanied by the roar of the steam engine, Zhu Yuanzhang's team set off back to Nanjing.

This time, Zhu Yuanzhang walked down the Huangchi River into the Yangtze River and wanted to see the scenery on the other side.

People from 21 other villages, including Xihe Village, were waving goodbye. They had just arrived. After welcoming His Majesty, they went back to harvest soybeans and other crops.

The ground in Xiaqiu Village was even better raked, and a lot of small steam engine equipment was left in the village. 21 villages drove large carriages to take some away.

After returning home, I plowed the land for my village. I changed the components to a small harvester. It was not as good as the big one, but it was easy to operate.

It was agreed that Xuancheng County would mechanize agriculture, and they hitched four horses to the cart, fearing that it would not be able to pull it.

Prepare a large number of empty trucks to follow. Once the wheel breaks, replace the truck immediately.

As soon as the fleet entered the Yangtze River, Zhu Yuanzhang stood on the bow and looked through the telescope.

The Yangtze River was very lively at this time, and ships of all sizes sailed on the river according to rules.

There are many boats, and they will line up on the wide river. Small boats give way to big boats, and upstream boats give way to downstream ones. There is a gap on the river where no boats can go.

The boats would rather line up and walk slowly than go to the free space. Of course, the line is not so accurate, but there are indeed places where no boats can go.

This is an emergency channel and does not require government regulations. All shippers know and abide by it.

Once there is a problem with a ship, those who are able to rescue it should go to the rescue, and those who have no other choice should immediately enter the emergency channel to escape.

The boat crossing the Yangtze River is not a casual crossing. The docks or ferries on both sides must correspond. Anyone who dares to control a boat to jump around on the Yangtze River is guaranteed to be beaten.

Zhu Yuanzhang's fleet took the emergency channel, and other ships tried to avoid it, and then created a small emergency channel.

It is now the time of the autumn harvest for the envoys, and the people have grain in their hands. The merchants transport goods to various places to sell, and then collect the grain and sell it in another place.

The rice in Sichuan is harvested one month earlier than that in Xiaqiu Village. Merchants harvest the old rice, while Sichuan grows indica rice. When new rice comes out, the old rice can be sold, and the merchants harvest it to make rice noodles and rice noodles.

"Yichang, have you ever seen a ship with a load of ten thousand stones?" Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the ships passing by, put down his telescope and turned to ask the captain.

"I've seen it in pictures, but I've never seen it in person." The chief shook his head. When he went back, he could see a large ship with ten thousand stones parked in Nanjing.

The thousand-stone ship made of steel has been built and is waiting for trial sailing.

There are two steam engines on it, four wheels, two at the front and one at the front, and there are sails.

This is the first real steel sea-going ship of the Ming Dynasty, which is lighter than a wooden ship of the same volume.

Regardless of the fact that iron is heavier than wood, the wood used in shipbuilding is all good solid wood, and in order to stabilize the structure of early wooden ships, large wood must be used as the keel.

Just like when building a house, the beams made of wood are heavier than the beams made of steel. At the same strength, wood is several times heavier than iron.

Wooden boats need to be repaired, usually once a year, and a layer of wood is added after each repair. Usually they are not repaired after six years, and they are either left hanging offshore or dismantled to make other things.

Even if you apply layers of tung oil, bugs and mice will still damage it.

The key is that the wind and waves at sea will damage the structure, so when repairing it, you can only add wood, but you can't dismantle the front and reinstall the wood.

Today's wooden ships and large ships have good technology and have watertight cabins, but they are still inferior to iron ships.

"We have never seen it. If it succeeds, wood will be saved to build palaces. In the future, the Ming Dynasty's river ships and sea-going ships will all be made of steel.

Hmm... You need to bring gourds and dried bamboo tubes, otherwise there will be nothing useful if they overturn, and the wooden boat can still float.

Nowadays, there are also floating rings, which were passed down from previous dynasties and were used by all ships in the future. "Zhu Yuanzhang has not forgotten to stop Zhongdu Construction to use wood to build ships. In the future, steel ships will be used, and wooden ships will not be built again.

The wooden boats that had been built continued to be used. At least they helped resist the attacks of Japanese pirates and caught a lot of fish. The fishermen along the coast had a job and stopped smuggling.

Li Chang had a look of admiration on his face: "Your Majesty is thoughtful and loves the people like a son."

Officials around: "..."

They just can't understand that you, Zhu Yichang, need to think about flattering His Majesty all day long?Is your status achieved through adulation?

"It's easy to talk!" Zhu Yuanzhang accepted the horse: "The ship carrying ten thousand stones will first arrive in Jiulian City this winter... Will Jiulian City freeze in winter?"

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to let a ship go out and feel lonely, even though it carried ten thousand stones.

I was about to wander around Daming, but suddenly I forgot whether Jiulian City was frozen or not.

“Not necessarily. Sometimes it’s cold and Daku freezes, Jiulian City freezes, and even the Yangtze River may freeze.

In fact, that ship can also sail in the Yangtze River. Using it to help transport can save a lot of manpower.

Especially when the temperature drops, when the temperature drops below ten degrees when the tracker is pulling fiber, his hands and feet will hurt and become numb from the cold. "

The chief suggested that the ship be transferred to the Yangtze River to help transport goods. It could transport [-] tons at a time, it was fast, and there were lights for lighting at night.

Find someone who is familiar with the waterway as a pilot. He will not be afraid of hitting the rocks and the four wheels will be easy to adjust.

"Let's see if it works first. If it works well, we can build more of them. Some craftsmen's families have already come to Yingtian Mansion, where factories are being built, and the docks on the Yangtze River are expanding.

In the past two years, we have to hold back, don't be anxious, and wait for things to be built before we can develop outwards.

Beiyuan was unable to call back for a while. Yunnan... Yunnan... just wait for us. We have already sent people there. "

Zhu Yuanzhang comforted himself. He was anxious. He didn't have so much help before, and he was used to normal people's thinking and life patterns.

There are a lot of good things coming out now, and he wishes he could make them all tomorrow.

He was very quick-thinking and changed the topic to talk about the Liang Wang Bo'er Jijin·Bazala Valmi in Yunnan.

He sent people again and again to recruit surrender, especially after the attack on Sichuan.

They sent someone again last year. Just like in history, the person sent was named Wang Yi. He arrived last year and was waiting for King Liang to agree. After all, the previous rebels of Xia Kingdom had been knighted and their lives were not in danger.

Zhu Wentian listened with a naive smile on his face. He was also thinking about Yunnan, because Yunnan can grow tropical crops.

According to history, Wang Yi was about to die in the winter, because the envoy from the Northern Yuan Dynasty arrived in Yunnan, and the King of Liang was waiting, hesitant.

Historically, Xu Da lost the Northern Expedition, so once Tuotuo forced King Liang, King Liang felt that Bei Yuan could still win, so he killed Wang Yi.

In history, Zhu Yuanzhang knew where his mistakes were, so he endured them, waited for eight years, defeated Beiyuan once, stabilized the situation, and then turned around and dealt with the Liang King of Yunnan.

Zhu Wentian's understanding is that Wang Yi will not die today unless King Liang is unscrupulous, Bei Yuan was beaten away, and He Lin was thrown away.

If we didn't want all the troops to learn how to read, to lift the entire Ming Dynasty out of poverty, and to train in shooting, the army would have been suppressed long ago.

(End of this chapter)