Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 87 The Change of Taicang
Zhu Yuan received various news from Jinling one after another. The opening of Zhiyongzhai was a bit too popular. Although it was a little surprising, it did not completely exceed expectations.

After all, fountain pens have been given away very early, and they are all the pinnacles of Jinling City.

This is a kind of celebrity marketing.

His Majesty the Emperor is using fountain pens, and this one alone is enough to stimulate too many people to buy it.What's more, there is also the two-character "Zhiyong" trademark written by Lao Zhu himself, which is also a style.Therefore, even if there are no other factors that want to indirectly please him, the emperor's favorite minister, Zhiyongzhai's pens will not worry about selling.

Compared with the bustling Jinling City caused by this, Zhu Yuan didn't have much time to care about these.

As more and more people arrived in Mingzhou, more than 4 soldiers and civilians gathered around Dinghai County, not counting Zhang Cundao's troops who will arrive soon.

More than 4 people are nothing in future generations. At present, the entire Dinghai County has a registered population of only 3.4 people.

Not to mention anything else, but Zhu Yuan was almost overwhelmed with the eating and drinking of the more than 4 people.

It's really eating and drinking.

When some health-related problems were discovered before, Zhu Yuan had to take care of it himself, designing public toilets for various guard barracks, civilian garrisons, and even shipyards and docks.Moreover, it is not enough to build public toilets. Various rules and regulations must be established, and even follow-up cleaning teams around public toilets.

These are no small matters.

Tens of thousands of people gathered together, and it was gradually warming up in the spring. If you don't pay attention, if any disease spreads, it will be a disaster.

In fact, the ancients were not without solutions in this regard, but they were full of loopholes.Moreover, the more important issue lies in 'knowing why but not knowing why'.

If you don't know why you want to do it, it's hard to follow it from the bottom of your heart.

Therefore, Zhu Yuan held a special class to let everyone understand why they should pay attention to hygiene issues.

They also deliberately selected some images of 'bacteria' painted by Dai Sanchun recently and showed them to everyone.If you are not clean, these things will get into your body, even if you don’t get sick, it will continue to consume your vitality and life span.

Faster than 'Kneeling'!
Are you scared?
Anyway, with the on-the-spot verification with the microscope, many people were frightened, and the matter spread quickly, even a little weirdly.Anyway, no one questioned Zhu Yuan's various arrangements.

In addition to these, the most important thing is of course the transportation of food.

Ships that can be put into use after inspection and maintenance have recently gone to various warehouses along the coast to load grain, and have begun to return in the past few days.

Among them, Zhu Yuan also had to personally take care of all the tedious matters.

Furthermore, there has been an accident recently.

When Wu Zhen arrived in Mingzhou, the Navy Commander-in-Chief's Office also intensified its oppression on the various pirates entrenched on the coastal islands. More pirates either voluntarily or forced to surrender to the shore, and naturally there is no shortage of some diehards.

Among them, a group of pirates headed by Zhao Dingxi in Huaidong led an attack on Taicangwei at the mouth of the Yangtze River on the fifth day of March.

Coincidentally, the data shows that Zhao Dingxi, who is in his thirties this year, happened to be from a boatman who was in charge of transporting grain in Yuanting. Before Zhang Shicheng rose to prominence, Zhao Dingxi’s father could not bear Yuanting’s oppression on the boatman, so he took a group of fellow villagers to the sea to fight against the bandits. .

In the early years, Zhang Shicheng once recruited Zhao Dingxi and his son, but the negotiation failed.

Zhao Dingxi's father was killed by rebel boatmen during a sea raid five years ago. Zhao Dingxi slaughtered more than 200 people in the fleet to sacrifice his father, and then took over. He was nicknamed "Zhen Dongyang" and brought The deployment has been entrenched in the Shengsi Islands area far from the coast.

With the establishment of the Naval Governor's Mansion, Zhao Dingxi also felt that the food on the coast of Daming was not very tasty, and he was unwilling to go ashore and surrender, so he united with other pirates who were also unwilling to surrender, and gathered more than 1600 people in the name of surrender. , Attacked Taicang Guard.

The Taicang Guard was also just established last year, which is worse than the Mingzhou Guard. There are only more than 1300 officers, soldiers and soldiers in total.

The war came suddenly.

However, although the incident happened suddenly, Zhao Dingxi also lied a lot about the number of people. As a result, the Taicang Guard only prepared less than 700 officers and soldiers to receive them.

In the end, Zhu Yu, the deputy commander of the Taicang Guard, died in battle, Pu Zhongheng, the commander, was seriously injured, and more than 300 Ming soldiers were killed or injured.Correspondingly, the pirates left more than 500 corpses and more than 100 captives.

Didn't take advantage.

Unsatisfactorily, several pirate leaders including Zhao Dingxi escaped. Moreover, due to lack of preparation, Taicang Guard and the surrounding ports were robbed of more than [-] large and small seagoing ships. The pirates even set fire to the houses around Taicang. Dozens of warehouses.

Hearing the news that afternoon, Naval Commander Hua Gao was furious. He put on a suit and beat drums to call for generals, and dispatched Navy Deputy Commander Wu Zhen to go to sea overnight.

The open-air shipyard in the west of Dinghai City.

In a blink of an eye, it was the eighth day of March.

Zhu Yuan came here in a hurry after lunch today without taking a nap to inspect the newly completed repair dock for a thousand-material ship.

Mainly the gantry crane system.

As more and more new logging materials are transported to Dinghai, Zhu Yuan selects large materials of about ten feet in size, supports masonry structures, and the pulley technology that has just been taught to craftsmen recently, and starts construction at the same time in the shipyard area. There are six maintenance docks, three for ships with [-] materials, and three for ships with [-] materials.

No matter how big it is, it is not worthwhile for the time being.

Three repair docks dedicated to ships with [-] materials have been completed, and today is a further repair dock for [-] materials.

The dock in front of me is first of all a rectangular sea-going berth dug near the shore, twenty feet long and eight feet wide.

On both sides are a row of vertical wooden frames.

Thirty feet of wood, three feet buried in the ground, seven feet above the ground, converted to about 23 meters, and more vividly, about the height of the seven or eight-story building later.

Imaginably spectacular.

Zhu Yuan is most moved by the abundance of giant trees that are often 200 to [-] years old. After a few hundred years, giant trees that exceed [-] feet will either be enclosed and protected in China, or they will be in deep mountains and wild forests.The corresponding level of wood can only be imported, which is frighteningly expensive.

Therefore, if there is a choice, Zhu Yuan still hopes to build an iron crane, which is stronger and can save these materials.

After all, use a little less.

Zhu Yuan is a practical environmentalist who will do what he can.

Let’s talk about the repair dock, the rectangular berth extends sixty feet to the shore, and can accommodate three sea-going ships.There are also towering wooden frames on both sides. The big ship is hoisted from the berth through the pulley system, moved inward, and placed in the bottom support set up in advance.

Zhu Yuan stayed here for an afternoon with a group of battalion officers, and watched with his own eyes that the three large ships with thousands of materials were successfully hoisted ashore one by one.

The efficiency is actually very low.

It takes more than half an hour for each ship to be tied up and landed. However, compared with the nearby [-]-material gantry crane system, the visual shock of a thousand-material-level sea-going ship being hoisted ashore is stronger.As a result, all the onlookers except Zhu Yuan watched the whole process with their mouths open. Whenever a ship was successfully placed, cheers erupted involuntarily.

All three ships were settled, and the sun was already setting.

Zhu Yuan discussed with Liu Lian, Yao Feng and other subordinates in the temporary wooden house next to the dock for a while, and confirmed various amendments on the details. The subordinate stood nearby, looking at the three big ships on the shore with wonder.

It’s just that a sea-going ship with thousands of materials does not show up in the water. When it goes ashore, not to mention its width and height, it is nearly 50 feet long, which is equivalent to about [-] meters later. Think about five buses connected end to end. What does it look like?

Zhu Yuan walked over, but before he could open his mouth, Hua Gao praised: "It's a wonderful workmanship."

Zhu Yuan stood beside Huagao with his arms folded and looked up. In fact, he really liked the heavy industry atmosphere brought by this large-scale machinery, and he still said: "The most basic pulley transmission system is simply primitive, and it is far from being ingenious. .In fact, I would like to build an iron frame, and use steel cables for the cables, but unfortunately I can’t do it now. In a few years, I will let you see what is truly ingenious.”

"Then I'll wait," Hua Gao nodded with a smile, took out a few pages of documents from his arms and handed them over: "My lord's handling of the Taicang matter."

While receiving the documents, Zhu Yuan asked again, "Has the grain ship from Hangzhou arrived?"

"It's here. I've seen it one by one. It's full of food. You've been busy all day, so I went back to rest earlier, and I'll take care of this tomorrow."

Zhu Yuan hummed, making some calculations in his heart.

The Hangzhou grain ship has arrived, and when the last batch of grain-loading fleet bound for Wenzhou also returns, the first batch of 20 shi of grain will be collected.

Go one step further.

Then he turned to the document in front of him.

(End of this chapter)