Late Ming sea owl

Chapter 11
Lin Hai entered the city from the north yesterday, but this time he chose to go south.At this time, the area of ​​the Macau Peninsula was far smaller than that of later generations. Directly south of the Nanwan area was the vast ocean, but the southwest direction extended to the famous A-Ma Temple.

Lin Hai walked southwest along the main road in the city. The people he saw along the way were still mainly Chinese, and most of them spoke Hokkien.Judging by the way they dress, the residents in this area are generally wealthier than those in the north. Of course, there are also many unkempt drunkards who wander out of the secret door early in the morning and often quarrel and fight with others.

In this era, the Chinese population in Macau was distributed in northern Guangdong and southern Fujian. The people inside and outside the northern city wall were all Cantonese who came from overland. Their main occupations were craftsmen and coolies serving the people's lives. The southern part of the Portuguese city was mostly Fujianese who came from the sea. Most of them were engaged in Translators, captains, sailors, shipwrights and other jobs related to maritime trade.

Lin Hai walked all the way to the southwest corner of the peninsula. The Portuguese city of Macau has no city wall on the west side, because almost the entire west side of the peninsula is an excellent port, which is Macau's main gateway to the world.The city walls on the north and southeast sides are divided into two sections: north and south, leaving a gap in the south bay where ocean-going ships can berth.

The west side of the peninsula faces the Wan Chai area of ​​Xiangshan County across the sea. It is a sheltered bay surrounded by the mainland and the peninsula. Not only is the water depth suitable, but the coast is flat and mountainless. It is indeed a rare natural harbor. This is the so-called Macau Inner Harbor. .

Lin Hai came not far from the coast and saw hundreds of ships of all kinds parked on the inner harbor. Most of them had no sails. Looking from a distance, the bulwarks were scattered and the masts were like a forest. It looked like a busy scene of thousands of nations. .

As the former president of the Ship Model Association, this was the first time for him to see so many ancient sailing ships, and the romantic soul of giant ships and cannons couldn't help but burn brightly.He took three steps at a time and quickly came to the shore to take a closer look.

There are Karak ships with tall bows and sterns like a city, Galen ships with low prows and slender hulls, Japanese ships with fenders that look like turtle shells, and Indian Ocean stitching ships that are said to rely entirely on ropes to sew the ship's planks together. , a Southeast Asian strapping ship that relies on tenon structure and wooden rivets.

Of course, there are more Chinese-style sea-going ships and old lock ships that combine Chinese and Western styles.Among them, Fu Chuan and Guang Chuan are difficult to distinguish. Guang Chuan's iconic porous rudder cannot be seen underwater, but Lin Hai can still see the difference from the bow. Guang Chuan has a bow post, while Fu Chuan does not.

The only regret is that one of the three major types of ocean-going ships in ancient China cannot see the sand ship. This is a flat-bottomed sea ship without a keel, which is relatively rare on the sea south of the Yangtze River.Of course, battleships did not exist. These days, Western Europe was far from having the concept of warship classification. The vast majority of battleships were armed merchant ships.

Lin Hai looked at it for a full hour before walking less than two miles.Suddenly, he discovered that there were many large and small shipyards scattered along the seashore to the north, so he wanted to go there and find out the cost of building sea-going ships in this era.

Even after asking several companies, they could only build sampans and galleys. Although large ocean-going ships can be repaired, they cannot be built.Lin Hai suddenly had a whim, why not build a sea-going ship that did not exist in this era?

In the past two months, he lay in a hammock and looked through the local files in the memory card of his watch. Apart from the game map, the most useful thing was probably a compressed package called "Newport Ship Model".The remaining personal files include some novels and island country action movies, which seem to have no use except killing time.

The Newport is a North American schooner launched in the 200th century. This type of ship, known as the Baltimore Clipper, is fast, easy to maneuver, and low-cost to use. It has excellent performance in light winds and headwinds. It is the Pirates of the Caribbean more than [-] years later. My favorite, it is the most suitable boat type in the starting stage.

The compressed package contains a complete set of drawings and production tutorials for the Newport ship model. The first ship model he made in high school was based on this tutorial.With these things in place, it should not be difficult to find a shipyard in Macau to build this ship. After all, almost all the major types of sea-going ships in the world are gathered here.

Lin Hai was walking while thinking about the possibility of building a Baltimore clipper ship, and gradually came to the door of a large shipyard.He looked up and saw that the gate of the shipyard was very majestic. There was a large gilt sandalwood plaque hanging on the lintel, with the five characters "Fuxing Yongchen Ji" engraved on it.

Just as he was about to go in and ask about shipbuilding, he suddenly saw a notice posted at the door of the shipyard, which read, "Accounting room, three taels of silver per month, food and lodging included."Lin Hai smiled. Didn't someone give him a pillow when he fell asleep?

Everything is expensive in Macau, but even so, the salary of three to two months of silver is really not low.I have to find something to do anyway, so why not come to this shipyard and work as an accountant?
After all, the accountant has a good understanding of the shipyard's finances and can understand the costs of every aspect of shipbuilding in this era.It should be noted that there is no Baltimore clipper ship yet, and the shipyard has no reference when it comes to the price quoted. If the Newport is really built, I am afraid that it will be miserably cheated.

While I was thinking about it, a pretty girl walked out of the gate of the shipyard. However, her walking posture was not very harmonious, and her swagger was a bit like an old man visiting a brothel.Lin Hai took a closer look and saw that although Nima was handsome, he had an Adam's apple - he turned out to be a cross-dressing man.This big man wears a water-red woven gold-embroidered Huluo shirt, applied with Zhufu powder, removes the crown and belt, has a hosta and silver flowers in his hair, holds a porcelain pipe in his hand, and has an embroidered sachet and tobacco bag tied around his waist. .As you get closer, you can smell the fragrance of orchids. I guess this guy also likes lavender hair.

Lin Hai had long heard that there was a trend of "subduing demons" in Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty, and there were even performance artists who ran naked in broad daylight, but he never expected that there were such demons in Macau.This cross-dressing boss looks to be only sixteen or seventeen years old. He must be a rebellious teenager who likes to smoke just like his peers in later generations.

It just so happened that Lin Hai was also a long-time smoker. He saw many people smoking on the street yesterday, so he couldn't help but buy a pipe and cut tobacco. After taking a few puffs, he found that the taste was different from later generations of flue-cured tobacco, so he lost interest.When he went out to look for a job today, he deliberately brought tobacco, and it came in handy.

Lin Hai took out the tobacco from the tobacco bag and handed it to the young man: "Brother, how about you try my tobacco?"

The young man glanced at it and said, "Not much."

As he spoke, he took out the tobacco from the Nanjing Yunjin tobacco bag at his waist, put it into the porcelain pipe, and started smoking. It must be that there was a fire ban in the shipyard, so he could only come out to smoke.

He blew out a smoke ring from his rouged mouth, looked at Lin Hai through the smoke and said, "You also smoke? Why didn't you see the pipe?"

"I was in a hurry this morning and forgot to bring it with me." Lin Hai thought that smokers always had more topics to talk about, so he did not deny it.This young man doesn't look like a craftsman at all. He is probably the son of the shipyard owner. You might as well have a chat with him first.

"Want to work as an accountant here?" The young man's vision is very vicious. The square scarf and sweatshirt are the standard scholar's dress. Anyone who can be an accountant has studied for several years.

Lin Hai knew that he had to keep a low profile in front of such a rebellious young man, so he said with a humble smile on his face: "That's exactly what I mean, but I have never been an accountant, and I don't know if I am qualified."

"Go back." The young man raised his chin and blew out the smoke ring. "You think you were a little dazzled and didn't see the monthly salary written there?"

Lin Hai still had a smile on his face: "In that case, everything is fine, let me do a trick for you to see."

He took the young man to the foot of a big tree and pointed to the tree tunnel on the ground: "Look at the ground carefully and let you witness the miracle later."

As he spoke, Lin Hai pointed the dial at the ground and quickly operated the buttons on the watch.After a few breaths, an operating system interface appeared on the ground. Lin Hai pressed the buttons and said, "The time has come to witness the miracle!"

As soon as he finished speaking, an island country action movie was played on the ground under the shade of a tree.

The cross-dressing boss, who had always looked calm, almost dropped his jaw: "Damn it! What kind of trick is this? It's so exciting!"

(End of this chapter)