Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 116 The Ship
The first batch of grain transport fleet finally returned on the third day of May.

There were a total of 318 large and small ships when we went, and part of the port of eight lighthouses dispersed on the way. There were inevitably large and small accidents between the round trip and some of them were eliminated. After confirming that there was not a shortage of ships in Mingzhou, they stayed in part of Jiaozhou.There are also fishing grounds off the coast of Shandong, and they plan to fish nearby to supplement their rations.

All in all, there are only 207 ships left in Mingzhou.

Zhu Yuan cared more about people.

During this trip back and forth, the grain transport fleet lost a total of 37 people. If it was a few hundred years later, this would be considered a big event, but right now, it can almost be said to be a miracle.

You must know that when they returned, the food transportation team was far from the more than 13000 people when they left Mingzhou, but a full 2.1 more people.

Worried about the chaos in Shandong and confirmed that Mingzhou can support them, Lao Zhu personally ordered to move some refugees to eastern Zhejiang, and the Yinghai Division was responsible for resettlement.

This group of people is basically going to sea for the first time. They have also experienced famine and war before, and their physical fitness is generally weak.

However, thanks to the meticulous preparations made by the Navy's Governor's Mansion and the Yinghai Division in all aspects, the grain transport fleet has completed this relocation and transshipment task brilliantly.

In addition to the population, the grain transport fleet also brought back a batch of supplies.

主要是10船木柴、7船煤炭、3船铁矿、3船水晶和1.6万斤的麻料。

It seems a lot, but compared to a total of 207 ships, it is actually not many.

Among them, the firewood is something that Zhu Yuan didn't expect, but it is really useful here.

As for the 7 shipments of coal, it is estimated that there can be more than 30 catties, which sounds a lot at first glance, but don't say 'tons', even if it is replaced by a 'dan' made of 100 catties, it is actually only more than 3000 catties.

Mainly because of the lack of preparation time this time.

Kang Maocai also dispatched [-] refugees to Yizhou to dig coal and iron deposits. When the next batch of grain transport fleets returns, they should be able to bring back more.

At the same time that the first batch of grain transport fleets returned to their voyage smoothly, Mingzhou also started a larger-scale sea fishing operation.

Under the joint guidance of the Yinghai Division and the Naval Governor's Office, more than 3700 larger official and private fishing vessels have gone out to sea one after another to follow the large yellow croaker shoal.Well, to be precise, most of them are fishing, and a not-so-small part is sea fishing.

Nets are still insufficient.

After confirming through experiments that the sea fishing method is effective and the efficiency is not low, Ying Haisi Lang Zhong Yao Feng led a team of craftsmen to start making fishhooks day and night.

It's not the delicate and small fishhook that came later.

The large yellow croaker of this era is still the same sentence, the length of two or three feet is very common, so the hook is also very large, with a width of more than an inch, which is very convenient to build.Moreover, no matter how big the fishhook is, the consumption of iron material is far less than the consumption of hemp material by fishing nets. Even if it is the best refined steel, there will be no shortage of materials.

In addition to the large yellow croaker hooks, after confirming that there were a lot of sharks off the coast of Mingzhou in this era, Zhu Yuan also specially ordered to build a batch of shark hooks and organized a special shark fishing team.

Not to mention other things, a shark that is more than ten feet long is six to seven hundred catties of fish.

All rations.

As for protecting animals...

In this day and age, human beings don't have the ability to exterminate any kind of creature. Those that fly in the sky, run underground, swim in the sea, and all kinds of floods will only be protected if they have a brain twitch.

Referring to the relevant data of the previous southward sea fishing, the Yinghai Division predicts that until the end of the large yellow croaker flood in mid-June, the official and private fleets are expected to harvest a minimum of 30 tons. If there are fewer storms and waves in the next one and a half months, It is not impossible to reach 50 tons.

Among them, the official and private fish catches are roughly evenly divided.

Zhu Yuan still intends to let go of the acquisition, and according to the previously announced price per load.According to the estimate of the minimum catch of 30 dan fish, half of it comes from the private sector, and fishermen sell two-thirds of it, and the Ying Hai Division will spend 10 taels of silver.

not much.

It still depends on the situation. It is definitely no problem to increase the third batch of grain transport fleet by 10 tons of fish. If the harvest is good, for example, if the total amount reaches 50 tons, the official will take 40 tons. It can send 10 tons to the north.

Meat contains more calories than rice grains.

At that time, 30 dans of dried salted fish will be worth 30 shi of grain.

What is this concept?
According to the Ming army's daily supply standard of 2 liters of rice grain, there was an extra 30 dan of fish meat, enough to feed 50 troops for a month.

Regardless of any era, fighting a war is a logistics.

Zhu Yuan didn't remember very clearly how it used to be.However, this time, Zhu Yuan also believed that it was he who successfully opened up the sea food road that made Lao Zhu change his deployment to the north. As long as the situation is guaranteed, I plan to wipe out the foundation of Yuan Ting completely in one go.

What the outcome will be remains to be seen.

However, in any case, history must have changed a lot compared to before.

The time came to the sixth day of May.

Entering May, Zhu Yuan, who had been a little relaxed before, has fallen into a more continuous state. In addition to the ongoing large-scale sea fishing and the return of the first batch of grain transport fleets, how to accommodate the newly arrived 2.1 refugees is also a big problem. .

It has entered the rainy season, at least, let people have a place to stay.

In fact, there are.

These people are basically living on the boat at the moment, even if they are not used to it, at least they can shelter from the wind and rain.However, the returning grain ship needs to be maintained as soon as possible, and it is impossible for people to occupy it all the time, and these people are not used to life on board after all. accidents like this.

That being the case, Zhu Yuan planned to advance the previous city-building plan.

West of Dinghai City, south bank of Yongjiang River.

Because of Zhu Yuan's decision, the northern foot of Chenshan Mountain has quickly entered the construction state in recent days. When Zhu Yuan arrived, the scene here was full of enthusiasm.

According to statistics, the specific number of refugees who arrived in Mingzhou was 21926, divided into 5113 households. Therefore, the Yinghai Division set aside 1022 mu of land here, and each household divided the land into two. The placement of the kitchen and the west toilet, building a house.

Of course, only mud thatched houses can be built for the time being.

The cost of masonry is too high, and even if Yinghai Division can supply it, it will not take so much time.

What's more, the hilly terrain here, leveling the high places, the mud material is enough, which is much simpler and easier than opening a mountain. The Yinghai Division will uniformly purchase and supply timber, thatch, felt cloth, etc. for building the roof.

At the same time, provide rations.

Back in this era, after a long time, Mr. Zhu Yuan found that, as a businessman, it was difficult for him to play a role in the field of personnel.

In the past, it was necessary to fight wits with employees for wages, to arrange overtime work, and to fight for promotion and scheduling. In this era, there is no need!
As long as you take care of your food, you can do anything!
Just take care of the food!

Arranging more than 2 people to build their own homes, the biggest thing that Yinghai Division needs to provide is rations.As a result, Zhu Yuan occasionally wondered in private, whether to charge more and get a mortgage agreement for each household. After all, land, materials, etc. can’t be given for nothing, right?

Forget it after all.

Accumulate virtue.

After all, as long as they settle down and settle down, this group of people will all be employees of Mingzhou Ocean Development Group, a subsidiary of Yinghai Division, and they are still employees of this era. It is Thanksgiving.

like the moment.

Zhu Yuan came here early this morning, and wanted to take a deeper look, but he didn't walk for long, and all kinds of family members came to kneel and thank him along the way, which made him unable to continue.

Walking like this once, my health bar will be wiped out in about one morning.

Xue Shu came here earlier, followed Zhu Yuan to the edge of the designated gathering area, and suddenly smiled and said: "The common people are still discerning, Hanlin, you said you didn't care, but you really do. no?"

Zhu Yuan looked at the somewhat gloomy sky, hoping that it would not rain, but still shook his head when he heard this: "I don't care."

Xue Shu: "..."

Zhu Yuan put up his sleeves again, glanced at Xue Shu next to him, and said, "Actually, I advise you not to pay too much attention to it, because you can do more things instead."

Xue Shu paused, and blurted out a sentence: "The sage is not benevolent, and treats the common people as straw dogs."

Zhu Yuan smiled and said, "You have a very high understanding, but it's not suitable to say this sentence, unless you want to harm me."

The "sage" in this sentence in "Tao Te Ching" often refers to the one on the dragon chair.

Xue Shu watched Zhu Yuan finish speaking and got into the sedan chair next to him. He had grown accustomed to it from the initial disgust, so he leaned over and waited for someone to lift up the sedan chair. The curtain was lifted, and he looked at the boy in the sedan chair: "Hanlin, I've become more and more curious recently, where did you come from?"

Zhu Yuangang held the waist of the sack girl who came in with him, and let go temporarily when he saw this, and said with a smile: "Do you want to hear 'Where I came from', or 'I won't tell you', or, 'I shouldn't ask Don't ask '?"

Xue Shu: "..."

Are these three not the same?

Seeing his appearance, Zhu Yuan gestured to his back: "Go to work. If you do well this year, you will be able to directly rise from the rank-[-] county magistrate to rank-[-]."

Xue Shu said: "Your subordinate...in fact, I don't care about these things."

Zhu Yuan raised his finger and shook it: "You have to care, since you have the world in mind, you should think about climbing higher, so as to benefit more people."

Xue Shu paused, before, I really didn't think of this.He is not a stubborn person like Liu Lian, he was enlightened by Zhu Yuan, and he cupped his hands as he walked: "I remember, Hanlin, I will not send you off."

Zhu Yuan put down the curtain.

He took his own small sack and buried his head in it.

It's early summer, although Lin Xiaoyu still wears a loose robe to hide her body inside, but the clothes are much thinner.

Comfortable.

Sensing the movements of her own petty official, Lin Xiaoyu carefully put his arms around the man's shoulders, tickled it, and even smiled.

The sound is crunchy.

Lin Xiaoyu knew that his petty officials liked to hear him laugh.

Back to the north bank of the Yongjiang River.

Zhu Yuan saw the newly built hydraulic saw table, and then turned to the forging area, where a large number of fishhooks are still being manufactured.

Yao Feng greeted him and said that the workshop had just made a new set of net lifting equipment.

The kind that uses bearings.

The key reason why bearings were later called "industrial joints" is that they can minimize friction and greatly save the force required for the operation of various types of machinery.

Haizhuo, the most important part of starting the net, the biggest matchmaking at the moment, often requires 20 people to operate it manually, which is actually a waste. Therefore, Zhu Yuan specially ordered Yao Feng to be responsible for developing better related equipment.

Whether it is from the net, or other.

So I went to look again.

They also demonstrated it on the spot. Sure enough, the same large pair of nets suitable for 500-material sea-going ships, if two similar net-lifting equipment can be installed on each ship, the manpower requirement for net-lifting can be reduced to less than 10 people. .

Typical productivity boost.

Instruct Yao Feng to arrange to produce more finished products as soon as possible. There is not much time in the summer flood this year, so the main focus will be on the level of experimentation and improvement, and do the best as possible.Then, mass adoption will begin next year.

While chatting, Zhu Yuan also had an idea.

Is it possible to use bearings to make a brand new ship.

A ship, as the name suggests, is a ship with wheels.

At first glance, it seems to be quite high-end, but in fact, there were ships in ancient China very early, just because it was not so convenient to operate, and it was not as popular as sailing ships.

Zhu Yuan believes that if the paddle wheel, the key running part of the ship, can be replaced with more labor-saving and wear-resistant bearings, it will be more efficient than traditional ships that use copper or tile shafts like vehicles as their rotating shafts.

Since it was the command of the Yinghai Envoy, Yao Feng found some master shipbuilders on the spot, and after some discussion, they decided to build a 200-material boat for a try.

At present, there is no shortage of manpower and materials, so it is not a big problem to make these small attempts.

The 200 material boat was also determined by Zhu Yuan.

It's not that no craftsman proposed to build a 500-material ship directly, Zhu Yuan felt that it was unnecessary. There is no steam engine at the moment, and the ship is too big, which is not practical.

Two hundred materials, if successful, can actually be promoted as a naval patrol ship.

After all, compared with the traditional oars, it is conceivable that a ship using bearings will be easier to operate, save labor, and the speed will be faster, and it will not be limited by the wind.

Ideal as a patrol boat.

Furthermore, Zhu Yuan made further associations, accumulating some experience in the construction of mechanical ships in advance, which can be regarded as preparation for the future.

steam ship.

Zhu Yuan has been sorting out the knowledge in his memory during this time, because the textbooks that Lao Zhu ordered him to write should not be promoted for the time being, which instead made Zhu Yuan let go and do whatever he thought of, not limited to the knowledge of any grade.

Even the "Pinyin Dictionary" has been made.

Zhu Yuan intends to lobby Lao Zhu to promote Pinyin to lower the threshold for literacy.

This is something.

In short, after sorting out his memory, Zhu Yuan felt more and more that the steam engine, it seemed, was not that difficult to manufacture.

Of course, large-scale batch industrial manufacturing has a long way to go.

However, if you want to make a steam engine model, after all, the principle is very simple, coupled with the countless manpower and material resources that can be used, it is not difficult to do this.

(End of this chapter)