Lin Yueru and Xiao Niangpi knew that they were pregnant, so they stopped letting Yang Fan touch them for fear of affecting the baby.
He also arranged for Yang Fan to have a maid to sleep with him.
Yang Fan refused, feeling as if he couldn't live without a woman.
It was late at night, and the three of them were too excited to fall asleep. Yang Fan hugged them and whispered the things he should pay attention to when raising a baby. These were all checked by Yang Fan on the Internet.
Early the next morning, Yang Fan got up quietly, covered the two ladies who were sleeping in with quilts, and then had a simple breakfast. He took the light European-style four-wheel carriage that had been waiting in the yard and set off for Beitangkou.
Because there is often a need to transport goods, Yang Fan asked the engineering corps during this period to simply renovate the official road from the capital to Beitangkou. Four-wheeled carriages were used to pull soil, sand, and lime. Along the way, he saw potholes.
The places were filled up and then flattened with huge stone rollers.
This road is 400 miles long. Although the workload is not as high as the reconstruction, it still required the engineering corps to work for two full months. Now the lime and sand on the road have been crushed by dozens of huge ox-laden stone rollers, making it extremely hard and smooth.
.The carriage rides very smoothly on it.
After changing horses at several intermediate relay stations along the way, it always maintained a very high speed. These relay stations were all set up by Yang Fan to facilitate communication and material transportation between Beitangkou and Beijing and New Town.
Before dark, Yang Fan's carriage and cavalry escort entered the Beitangkou Shipyard.
The current Beitangkou Shipyard is no longer what it used to be. The area has expanded to two square kilometers. In addition to the old bluestone dock from the Yongle period, more than a dozen new dry docks of different sizes have been built to manufacture different types of ships.
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In the future, in addition to warships, there will also be fishing boats, communication speedboats, merchant ships, yachts, etc. After this construction is completed, it will be a major base in the next few years.
But starting next year, Yang Fan will gradually start building the Jeju Island base. It is too close to the Ming Dynasty and is not suitable for keeping secrets. In the future, civilian ships will be used here. Warships will be transferred to the Jeju Island Shipyard for construction.
These dry docks will be put into use after they open to sea next year. The current dock is still the oldest bluestone dock.
Yang Fan went directly to the dock and got off the bus. Ming Yan and the shipyard's managers and technicians were already waiting here.
"Greetings to the master" "Greetings to the proprietor" "Greetings to your lord"
"Okay, everyone, excuse me. You are all lucky. The shipyard has developed rapidly in the past two years, which is the result of your hard work and hard work. I know the situation. Mingyan, all management and technical staff of the shipyard, send me ten
Two taels of silver for the festival. Ordinary workers will receive two taels of silver. We will pay it today."
I heard that the master would give out rewards when he came, and there was a burst of joy.
Now there are tens of thousands of people in the shipyard. In addition to front-end shipbuilding, there are also various supporting workshops.
Various workshops and workshops are operating at full capacity to produce marine components in large quantities. After production, they are stored in warehouses. When the newly built docks are put into use next year, large-scale batch construction of new cruisers will begin.
These craftsmen were all bought by Mingyan from health offices in various places, and even from the craftsman camps in Beijing and Nanjing. Yes, they were bought. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, these craftsmen were almost like slaves.
The whole family was hungry and cold, and there was still endless work to do. Most of them did private work for the officers, and they didn't get any wages. They were given some miscellaneous grains at most. Mingyan was willing to pay, and these officers were naturally willing to help the craftsmen and their entire family.
Sold it to him. Then he died of a sudden illness and had his military status revoked.
Back then, when they were escorted here, each of them had blank eyes and looked at the trembling stewards here, not knowing what kind of fate was waiting for them.
Unexpectedly, arriving here is just like being in Fuwozi.
The wages here are very high, children go to school for free, and family members receive free medical treatment. They also provide dormitories and houses, and are given two sets of unlined clothes and one set of cotton-padded clothes a year. If you do a good job, you will get a bonus. As long as you have the skills, you can get it right away.
They will be transferred to relevant positions in various workshops.
The good environment here respects technology and talents, and the fair and orderly atmosphere makes everyone burst out with a long-lost enthusiasm for work.
Although the work here is non-stop for 24 hours and operates in three shifts.
But no one complained.
Not to mention that the night shift salary is 30% higher, but there are also free meals in the cafeteria, six meals a day, and meals are served every two hours. No matter which shift you work, you will get two free meals.
In the small supermarket in the factory, you can enjoy ultra-low prices for grain and fat purchases, and daily necessities and other items are much cheaper than outside.
The children in the family who can work are arranged to work in factories, and the younger ones go to school.
Those who have no skills work as construction workers. The factory is constantly expanding and requires a lot of labor. Whether it is dormitories or workshops, they are constantly being built. They are too stupid to even do it. After all, shipbuilding and construction
They are all skilled workers, so they go to the brick kiln to bake bricks.
Now, inside the three-meter-high red brick wall, the largest shipyard in Ming Dynasty has almost become a small society.
At this time, Yang Fan stood on this ancient bluestone dock and looked down at the biting sea breeze. Two huge clipper boats were parked quietly inside.
This dock built during the Yongle period is 83 meters long and 45 meters wide. Because the dock is in the shape of a bucket, with a small bottom and extending outward on all sides, shipbuilding can build ships with a maximum waterline length of less than 80 meters.
Both ships are 90 meters in length, 80 meters in waterline, and 12 meters in maximum width. The displacement is about 1,500 tons.
These two ships have completed outfitting and artillery installation in the dry dock and can be directly launched into the water for trial sea trials.
Both boats are mixed sailboats, that is, boats with both horizontal and longitudinal sails. The horizontal sail is most efficient when going downwind, and the longitudinal sail is most efficient when going upwind. Simply install them, and use whichever one you need.
Pull that one up.
Both ships are flat-deck shaped and do not have the tall bow and stern of European carrack ships.
Both boats are painted white, and the masts and sails are all white. Coupled with the streamlined and beautiful hulls, they are very pleasing to the eye.
Below the waterline of the ship, it is golden yellow.
This is because, in order to prevent water leakage, prevent seawater from corroding the ship's plates, and prevent shipworms from chewing the wood and causing water leakage, the bottom of the ship's hull is smeared with asphalt to drain the water below the waterline, and then rivets are used to wrap the bottom of the ship with copper-tin alloy plates on the outside.
This is a very expensive solution, but it can effectively prevent seawater corrosion and the adhesion of barnacles and other organisms, which is especially beneficial for ocean navigation.
Yang Fan then surrounded him and boarded one of the ships.
The workmanship of the boats is very detailed, and it can be seen that through practicing on several boats, and with the historical materials on the development of sailing ships provided by Yang Fan, these workers have made rapid progress. The shipbuilding technology is getting better and better.
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