Dragon Sea Empire

The pale-faced man was the nameless man who had sneaked up on Yin Feng several times in the alleys of Yazhou and tried every means to beat Yin Feng with a sap.

Yin Feng has been running at sea for nearly two years, and has already forgotten the incidents of being attacked several times.At this time, I suddenly saw this person again, and I couldn't help being angry and funny.

"Brother, what are you trying to do? You want to hit me with a stick?"

The man in black suddenly knelt down, bowed his head and said, "Master Yin, your lord has a lot, please take me in!"

Yin Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly. This person first chased him to beat him up, and now he suddenly wanted to join him. Could it be that he really had a "bad spirit" after crossing?

He bypassed the kneeling man, pushed open the door and walked into the yard, saw that guy was still kneeling on the ground, smiled and shook his head: "Why are you still kneeling on the ground, come in."

This guy's name is Lin Xiao, and his name is Guangguang. He was originally a son of a military household in the Yazhou Defense Thousand Households Office. He has been in the army for eight generations since the early years of this dynasty.In his generation, his family has become tenants of Lord Qianhu, and apart from being a member of the military, everything else has nothing to do with the army.Of the three brothers in his family, he was the only one who was restless and farming. He was brave and ruthless since he was a child, and he grew up among a group of government officials and officials running rampant in the countryside.At least Lin Xiao still has a conscience. Yazhou is a small place, and the folks in the village are too embarrassed to harm others, so they have a bad reputation, and they belong to the first-class unscrupulous young people who can be saved.The only problem is his good face; on the day when he was picking pearls in Danhu, he and other government servants drove and beat up a group of Dan people on the beach. it's him.He decided to take revenge and save face.

Originally, Lin Xiao wanted to send Yin Feng to the prison in the state capital to suffer.Unexpectedly, Yin Feng suddenly became a celebrity in front of the state judge Zeng Qi and even Zhizhou adults. The head of the yamen servants also warned Lin Xiao not to take revenge on Yin Feng because Zeng Yue gave gifts to Yin Feng.Feeling ashamed, Lin Xiao failed to attack Yin Feng twice, and he came alone the last time because his accomplices also refused to help.

The attack on Yin Feng was somehow known to the yamen servants.In the past two years, Yin Feng's overseas business always carried the shares of the yamen servants. They didn't want to offend the God of Wealth, so they kicked Lin Xiao out of the yamen servants a year ago.Lin Xiao, who didn't want to go home to farm, wandered around Yazhou City for a year, and was scolded bloody by his family every day.

So, now he came to plead guilty to Yin Feng and asked to go abroad with Yin Feng.

Since he was a bad young man who could be saved, Yin Feng accepted him.On the second day, Yin Feng had an extra follower behind him.

The reason for accepting the refuge of such a former government official was soon known to everyone, at least those recruited Danmin sailors had personal experience.

A few days later, the Dan people, who were planning to go abroad for five consecutive years, were summoned on the beach. Their employer, Yin Feng, stood on the reef and reiterated the issue of treatment to them, and distributed 5 taels of silver on the spot as a settling allowance.Just as the sailors were in high spirits, Yin Feng announced that they would be trained—military training.

Mai Dahai listened to Yin Feng's yelling in the crowd, but he couldn't understand what "military training" was.

In order to be able to adapt to the group cooperation on the big ship, and to deal with pirates and pirates at that time, everyone has to conduct drills—military training.So, in the next few days, Mai Dahai and more than 100 Danmin sailors began to walk in unison, turn, stand still, turn left, turn right, and turn in all directions under the sun. More than 100 people were killed. Divided into 10 teams, with Yin Feng personally supervising the battle.The two most capable men under Lu Shitou and Lin Xiao, the former Yazhou government servant, plus the terrifying black Magaro, are responsible for supervising all the details.Beforehand, Yin Feng had already conducted temporary emergency training for Lin Xiao and others.

Lin Xiao was enthusiastic in the supervision and guidance work, took the lead and did not care about himself, and took the trouble to correct the wrong actions of the villagers with the wooden stick in his hand.

Although it is almost December, Sanya, Hainan is a tropical place. Standing in the sun for two hours without moving is not something everyone can bear.

The Dan people looked at Yin Feng who was standing upright on the reef just like them. For the 40 taels of silver per year for food and silver, and for their family to live a good life, they tried their best to stand up straight.

Today's standing time was so long that Lin Xiao couldn't stand it anymore. He peeked at Yin Feng, but saw that he was still standing motionless on the rock, and his sharp eyes shot right at him.Lin Xiao shivered, straightened up immediately, and continued to fight the sun with incomparable courage.

Some people fainted one after another, but no one dared to give up.Through these days of rigorous training, Yin Feng successfully established authority among these young Dan people sailors.However, Yin Feng knew that it would not be enough to train these sloppy fishermen into disciplined and orderly sailors.

In the end, only one-third of the sailors were still standing there when Yin Feng issued the "disband" order.

Although the training is almost cruel, but Yin Feng absolutely guarantees that the food for everyone is rich, in order to ensure their physical strength.In the past few days, the largest restaurant in Yazhou has to prepare 150 servings of food and send them to the seaside every day.

No one understood why Yin Feng did this. Lu Shitou's idea was that Yin Feng wanted to show his prestige, while Lin Xiao muttered in private that this "military training" had nothing to do with the drills of the Ming army.He is a child of a military family. Although he no longer serves as a soldier, he still watched the drills and inspections of the local guard army when he was a child.In his memory, the most elite frontier soldiers drilled for only half a day in the words of the elders, and the Beijing camp drills every spring and autumn for half a year, with a meeting every 10 days.It is unheard of for Yin Feng to train these Danmin sailors for more than ten consecutive days.Moreover, what kind of drills are these! !

What is walking in unison, the legs must be stretched into a straight line; all actions follow the command, and it is even too much to require everyone to stand upright under the sun for most of the day...and so on.In the last few days, Yin Feng even asked everyone to lie down immediately when they heard the order while marching in unison. Whether it was on the beach, reef, sea water or stone road, they must lie down immediately.For those who hesitate, Yin Feng will immediately signal the former yamen servant Lin Xiao to come forward with a stick and correct the wrong action on the spot.No one could complain, because Yin Feng was right in front of them, taking the lead and acting according to the password.During the rest time, Yin Feng also personally bandaged the wounds of the injured and applied medicine, so during the drill, the Dan people regarded him as a devil and hated him; but when the drill was over, they were thick-skinned and pretended to The guy like nothing happened, lost his temper again.

Lu Shitou looked at Yin Feng who had suddenly turned into a devil, and couldn't help but asked, "Brother, what are you doing? Is this kind of practice useful?"

Yin Feng smiled faintly: "Look, these drills will save their lives."

Lu Shitou shook his head, expressing his disbelief.

During the training process, many Tanmin sailors quit midway, but Yin Feng still gave them 5 taels of silver to settle down.In the end, 90 young people from Danhu persisted, and Mai Dahai gritted his teeth and persisted.His father said to him: You can follow what Yin Feng says.

During the 20-day crash training process, Yin Feng took out all his experience in filming military-themed TV series.He did not forget to do ideological work, and visited the homes of the sailors every night to tell them the meaning of drills.Although few people understood what he was talking about, at least those Danhus understood; Yin Feng was really thinking about them and preparing for the difficulties they might encounter in the future on the big ship.

90 sailors are too few. According to the estimates of Yin Feng and those old shipwrights, only 10 people are required to turn the rudder when the wind and waves are small to operate the rudder designed by Yin Feng; rudder.No way, China at that time did not have the design of the rudder wheel; Yin Feng drew the same diagram, and could not design a set of runners to control the tail rudder, so he had to adopt the common rudder design scheme at that time.

The traditional shipbuilding method of this dynasty is to dig a dock on the river bank, then seal the outlet to pump out the water, and build a ship on this river beach.Several old shipbuilders in Fuzhou were old craftsmen who participated in the construction of Fengzhou; although there is no written formula for drawing data, all ship models, hull structure proportions and so on are in their minds. From the 16th century to the 17th century, the skills of shipbuilders all over the world basically came from the know-how passed down from generation to generation and some tried-and-tested designs, and they were all inherited by the shipbuilder and his family.The first comprehensive textbook on shipbuilding was not published until the end of the seventeenth century in England.

Shipbuilders at that time generally seldom made calculations. It was not until the first ship designer in the late 17th century, Sir Anthony Dean of England, that he could know in advance the weight of the materials needed for shipbuilding, the volume of the ship, and the displacement. and draft depth etc.Yin Feng himself didn't have this kind of skill, he just used the advantage of the traverser to open the golden finger.When they saw Yin Feng's drawings, their first reaction was impossible!However, Yin Feng couldn't explain how to do it, he actually knew what it was but didn't know why.He had no choice but to say that he had indeed seen this type of ship in the West.

After some research by several old people and some drawing on the sand, they had the confidence to build a ship.However, the structure of the hull makes the mortise and tenon structure of traditional Chinese ships unsuitable, especially when the cannons are to be used as weapons, and a large number of iron nails must be used to fix the structure.Timber must be found in Beigang, Dongfan; Beigang is the official name of Taiwan in the Ming Dynasty. Only Taiwan’s deep mountain virgin forests have good millennium wood; some supporting parts use iron wood from Guangdong.Since there are gunhole portholes on the side of the ship, a large number of iron bars must be used to fix the hull.

As a result, the cost of the boat soared to 4000 taels of silver, which was more expensive than the court's "sealing boat".

Yin Feng gritted his teeth, set the price and paid a 6% deposit.This year, he only visited the shipyard in Fuzhou twice. About half a year later, he still found that the ship was built surprisingly slowly.There are more and more shipwrights, and almost all the shipwrights in Fujian have visited this site. In June, the Zeng family's boat had already been built, so it was named "Haozihao", but Yin Feng's own boat was still a keel lying on the river beach.

The Zengjiahao brand ship has gone to the government to apply for permission to go abroad. Zeng Yue is the owner of the ship, Yin Feng is the steward, and the sailors are all recruited from Quanzhou.

After Yin Feng's marriage was settled at the beginning of the year, Yin Feng claimed that his parents died in May of the 27th year of Wanli, and he came to Yazhou in August.According to the rules of Ming Dynasty, one should keep filial piety for one's parents for three years, and then one can get married after three years.Therefore, he can only start a family next year, the 30th year of Wanli (1602).Uncle Zeng Ke praised him for his filial piety, and announced on the first day of the Lunar New Year that the marriage will be held in May next year.To this day, apart from knowing the name of the Second Miss of the Zeng family, Yin Feng doesn't even know what she looks like.

After he returned to Quanzhou with 90 sailors, he was stopped by Li Huayu, Li Dan's brother, who had just arranged for the sailors to live.Because he was responsible for collecting goods for Li Dan in the mainland and lived in Quanzhou all year round, Yin Feng entrusted him to take care of the shipbuilding.

"Your ship is ready."

Yin Feng jumped up and danced. Li Huayu hurriedly held him down and said, "Don't be too happy. Lord Wang said that this boat is too heavy. When I dug the dock, I didn't expect it to be so heavy and have so much water. Now it will probably sail." Out of the dock."

Wang Ye is the leader of the shipbuilder, the boss of the shipbuilder responsible for Yin Feng's shipbuilding.

Yin Feng's dream of being a captain has been poured with cold water.

He didn't even return home, so he sent the black Magaro back to report, and hurried to the coast of Fuzhou by himself.I was anxious all the way, but when I arrived at the scene, I found that the problem was not that serious.

Because the structure and shape of the boat he wants to build is beyond the experience of the local shipbuilder, the dock was too shallow when the boat was first built. Now the water depth is not enough, and the boat cannot float and cannot get out of the dock.However, the wisdom of the people is infinite. The shipbuilders dismantled the mast, temporarily dismantled the superstructure of the deck, removed some ballast, reduced the overall weight of the hull, and hired several fishing boats to tow it in front. Finally got it out of the dock.

After all the parts were installed, the three masts were erected, and the first large ship with a combination of Chinese and Western elements in the history of the local shipbuilding industry officially started sailing.Yin Feng stood proudly on the bow of the boat, feeling the urge to roar in his heart.This was his first ship, and he devoted all his heart and soul to it, costing one-fifth of his family property, and it was also the official beginning of his sea adventure history.

He named the ship "Xinxing" and became the owner of course.

A few years later, Yin Feng found out about the problem with the boat.Xinxing is designed for both military and civilian purposes; as a cargo ship, its cabin wastes a lot of storage space due to the gun positions on the side of the ship; as a warship, its hull structure is not suitable for continuous bombardment by naval guns .The design of this combination of Chinese and Western ships should have failed. At that time, the Western shipbuilding industry had already clearly distinguished the different manufacturing processes of military and civilian ships in the design and manufacture.

Fortunately, this boat is big enough, and its load capacity is also big enough compared to ordinary lucky boats, so Yin Feng is still very satisfied.