Chapter 412: Seeing Bao Shipyard Again, Why Do You Say Again?
After hearing the good news from the prince, Lao Liu couldn't hold himself back and went to Longjiang Bao Shipyard on the spot to see how much inventory there was.
"I know you are in a hurry, but don't be so anxious yet." The prince held him back. "Do you know what's going on there? How many ships are there in the dock? How many big trees are there in the warehouse, and what year are they?"
"..." Lao Liu shook his head blankly.
"You don't even know what to go see?"
"Let's go see the big ship." Lao Liu said naively.
"You can blind people with just two eyes, and they don't even know it." The prince imparted his inspection experience: "You have to arrive prepared so that you can ask for ideas and see the key points so that no one can fool you.
you."
"Oh..." Lao Liu nodded with admiration. "You are indeed a big brother!"
"Don't come here. When I get back, I will have someone send you the accounting files of Bao Shipyard. You can look at them all night, and then go there with my order tomorrow morning to inspect Bao Shipyard for me." The prince laughed and scolded.
"Okay!" Zhu Zhen now regained his energy, and under the banner of executive deputy emperor, he was much more effective than the empty-handed prince himself.
"And I can remind you that the Bao Shipyard is under the control of the Governor-General of Jiangfang. The Governor-General Wu Liang is the brother of Marquis Jinghai." The prince said solemnly: "Only when you know yourself and the enemy can you survive a hundred battles."
"I understand, I will take a good look at it." After hearing this name, Zhu Zhen finally became serious.
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The next day, Lao Liu got up early and asked Wang Ma to prepare the "Limbaugini". After a hasty breakfast, he happily rushed out of the palace and rushed to the Longjiang Bao Shipyard at the foot of Lion Rock in the northwest of the capital.
His Royal Highness the King of Chu was riding on the back of an ox, looking high-spirited and high-spirited, singing a tuneless song:
"Today is a good day, everything you want can come true..."
"Your Highness is in a good mood today." Wang Ma asked with a smile.
"Yes, I have a good fortune. If I want to sleep, someone will give me a pillow. If I need a boat, my big brother will give me a boat!" Lao Liu said in high spirits.
Last night he looked at the accounts of the treasure shipyard, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the shipyard currently has two treasure ships with 4,000 materials; and 18 sea-going ships with 2,000 materials, all of which were completed three years ago. It has only been three years, and the condition of the ships should still be good.
In addition, there are several unfinished ships and countless large trees that have been drying for several years...
If you can take this shipyard as your own, your own fleet will become the strongest navy in the world!
Fang Guozhen, Chen Youding's old troops, and the Japanese navy are all insignificant in front of this king's invincible navy!
"Oh, hahaha..." Lao Liu was on the back of the cow, letting out a strange convulsive laugh. It attracted passers-by's side glances. After seeing clearly that it was the 'Panda King', everyone was no longer surprised.
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Half an hour later, the King of Chu's honor guard arrived at the northwest corner from the southeast of Nanjing City. After passing through Yifeng Gate, the treasure shipyard was in sight.
In the early years of Hongwu, Boss Zhu opened a shipbuilding factory in the open space in the northwest corner of the capital and established Longjiang Bao Shipyard.
Because the shipyard was to be built along the river, it could only be located outside the city. In order to protect the shipyard and the expensive warships in the shipyard, the Bao Shipyard was built into a well-defended city. There were originally troops stationed there.
However, now that the world is at peace, there is no enemy threat to the capital anymore. After the emperor canceled the attack on Japan, the status of the treasure shipyard was not as good as before. The imperial court also withdrew the garrison, and the shipyard's office was responsible for security matters.
Several elderly boat owners were guarding the door of the shipyard. They were all dumbfounded when they saw the King of Chu's arrogant ceremony.
"What are you doing standing still? Why don't you go and report it quickly?" Wang Defa said in a long voice, angrily. "His Royal Highness the King of Chu has arrived! Let you officials come out to pick him up as soon as possible!"
"Hey..." The little leader quickly pissed himself off.
After a while, the middle door of the shipyard opened wide, and a fat-headed, blue-robed official, surrounded by a group of green-robed junior officials, came out in a panic.
When he saw that it was really a prince's honor guard, the fat man was so frightened that his cheeks trembled. He quickly led the crowd to kneel down and salute as expected. He even said that he had missed the mark and asked for your forgiveness.
"Get up, are you the boss here?" Lao Liu held out his chest and belly, looking at people with his belly button.
"Yes, I am the promotion manager of Bao Shipyard to promote Yang Wei." The fat man's name is quite majestic. "I wonder what your highness is doing here?"
"I came to the shipyard in the name of the prince to inspect." Zhu Zhen said arrogantly.
"Ah? I didn't hear the meeting from the summit, and I didn't see the documents arranging the inspection..." Yang Tiju was almost frightened and stopped moving.
"Can I still trick you?" Zhu Zhen raised his chin angrily, and Wang Ma showed the prince's handwriting.
"Ah? This..." Yang Tiju held the oracle with the bright red seal like a hot potato. "So sudden?"
"What? I have to ask you for permission before I inspect the shipyard?" Lao Liu said with a arrogant look: "Do you understand the surprise inspection? The main thing is to be sudden!"
"Yes, it's just that the shipyard hasn't been cleaned yet, and the construction site is messy. I'm afraid it will stain His Highness's eyes." Yang Wei explained while wiping his sweat.
"I just want to see the truth before I can go back and tell His Highness the truth truthfully!" Zhu Zhen said with a serious face: "Is there something evil inside?!"
"No, no..." Yang Ti raised his head and shook it like a rattle: "Absolutely not!"
"Then why don't you hurry up and lead the way!"
"Hey." Yang Wei had no choice but to turn aside and respectfully invite His Highness to enter.
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As soon as you enter Bao Shipyard, you are greeted by a row of government offices.
Yang Wei introduced to His Highness that this is the shipyard's lifting department, assistant command hall, accounting room, cabinet warehouse and other government offices.
Zhu Zhen had no interest in these government offices. He just asked his eldest cousin to lead people to guard the accounting room and the cabinet, while he went straight to the backyard.
The backyard is equipped with seven workshops including joinery workshop, paint workshop, twisting workshop, iron workshop, canopy workshop, rope workshop, cable workshop and material shop, etc., which is the production workshop of the shipyard.
The scale of the production workshops is astonishing. Among them, the canopy factory located in the northeast of the factory area alone has ten rows and sixty houses.
Zhu Zhen was stunned by the sight, so he skipped this step and asked Fatty Yang: "Where are the big logs for shipbuilding stored?"
"Go back to your highness, it's in the lumber warehouse. But the lumber warehouse is not here. It is located in the northwest corner of the shipyard. It has the best ventilation and is also close to the working pond." Yang Tiju said hurriedly.
"Then first go to Zuotang to take a look at the boat, and then go to the lumber warehouse to take a look." King Chu ordered.
"Yes, Your Highness, please come this way." Yang Wei led King Chu and his entourage through the production workshop to Zuotang District.
The pond is a shipyard for shipbuilding. It is connected to the Yangtze River water system and is separated by a lock gate. When the craftsmen build the ship, the gate is lowered and the pond is dry. After the ship is built, the gate is raised and the pond is filled with water, so that the big ship can sail directly in
Yangtze.
Zhu Zhen saw that there were eight such ponds in the Bao Shipyard, each of which was more than a hundred feet long and ten feet wide. Yang Wei told him that each pond could build three large ships at the same time, and the entire shipyard could build twenty-four ships at the same time.
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"Wow, that's amazing..." Zhu Zhen was full of praise while counting the completed ships in the dock.
"One, two, three...nine, ten." After counting to ten, he couldn't count anymore.
Counting again, there were still ten ships. Zhu Zhen pointed to the pond in front of him and asked Fatty Yang: "Are all the built ships here?"
"Ah, there is no place for such a big ship." Fatty Yang nodded without knowing why.
"Get him!" Lao Liu shouted loudly, turning his face faster than flipping a book.
The guards rushed forward and pushed Yang Wei hard to the ground.
