September 18th, this is an ordinary day, but the people of Chongzhou are quite happy! Firstly, today is the day when the eldest daughter of the Huaidong Zhizhi Envoy is one month old, and secondly, it is the first super-large marine ship at Guanyintan Shipyard.
The day when the ship is launched into the water for sea trials.
At that time, boys were valued over girls, and boys were treated like treasures, and girls were treated like grass. Regardless of whether the eldest daughter of the governor was born to the royal family, Gu, to the people of Chongzhou, it was an insignificant matter.
On the other hand, some idle people in the streets gathered in the tea shop to help the governor worry about household affairs: "The young lady of the Gu family looks delicate and weak, and she doesn't look like a woman who can have children. She has been married for so long, and it's not easy to get pregnant."
She gave birth to her first child, but she gave birth to a daughter. It just so happened that Liu gave birth to the eldest son. I think this arrangement will cause a lot of trouble for the family in the future!"
"No, I heard that the young lady is also a powerful master."
"Well, the little lady is a prostitute, how can she be a fuel-efficient lamp?"
"I see that you are really careless and careless. Your Majesty is in your prime. I don't know how many years it will take to fight for the family business. Besides, this is Miss Gu's first childbirth. She can give birth to a son as soon as possible! Let's talk about it!
Family background, the Gu family is the ancestral lineage of the prime minister, Mr. Gu may one day take over the position and become the prime minister of the day, how can Mrs. Liu and the young lady have the qualifications to compete with Miss Gu's favor?"
This tea shop is called Tingfeng Tower. It is an ordinary two-story brick building facing the street in Chongzhou City, with a carved facade. It has only been open for half a month. There is a tea pavilion upstairs with good tea; downstairs there are tables and tea tables.
A large-mouthed pot of foam brewed with foam will cost you half a full drink for two coppers. Two green onion pancakes or rice balls stuffed with cabbage and meat will cost less than ten coppers. Traffickers, footmen and even villagers entering the city like to come in to rest.
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If there is anything special about it, it is that in the lobby with scattered tables downstairs, the northwest corner is separated to form an independent small tea pavilion. It’s just that you can’t see the courtyard from the lobby, so I want to go into this small tea pavilion.
The pavilion can only be accessed from the backyard.
The wing in the backyard is the owner's residence. How can ordinary guests enter the backyard? Even if the owner of the tea house has distinguished guests, why would he need such a small private room in the bustling lobby?
It’s really strange!
Of course, it is not easy for the teahouse guests to discuss the hobbies of the teahouse owner. Some people asked the waiters in the shop, and they only said that it was the utility room. In the past few days, no one paid any attention to this matter.
In the lobby, the peddlers were talking loudly, but in this special elegant room, someone was gnashing his teeth and cursing in a low voice: "I'm so full, I'm so full, my life is so comfortable, I don't want to go to the teahouse to chew my tongue!"
Let’s tear their mouths apart!”
Xiaoman was very taboo about others mentioning her origins. When she heard the traffickers and lackeys discussing openly in the teahouse, she couldn't bear the anger. She wanted to jump out and catch the two gossips and beat them with thirty army sticks to relieve their hatred.
Lin Fu slowly sipped the fragrant tea, ignoring Xiao Man's annoyance, and said with a smile: "This peddler and lackey has been working hard all day, so he just talks like this. The gossip in the market is the best way to relieve fatigue. I said I don't need you to accompany me to drink tea."
, you insist on coming over, and you get sulky when you come over, why bother coming?"
"It's just that you have a good temper." Su Meiyan, the owner of Tingfeng Tea House, smiled and poured tea for Lin Fu. "In other places, how could you possibly condone such gossipy remarks by traffickers and lackeys?"
"When the Yuan Dynasty founded the country, it set up the Metropolitan Procuratorate in the court, and the county magistrates set up the Inspector General's Department. They wanted to understand the people's sentiments and correct evil. However, the censors of the Metropolitan Inspector's Yuan were officials, and the governors in the Inspector General's Department were the same.
Things depend on officials, and officials guard each other, which is a chronic disease that has escaped through the ages. It may be effective at first, but as time goes by, the interests become more entangled, so why not join forces to fool the superiors?" Lin Fu said.
"Do you have any good ideas to break the tight knot between officials and officials?" Xiaoman asked, still angry about the discussions outside.
Song Jia, who had come to drink tea with Lin Fu, also looked sideways at him, wondering if Lin Fu had any other ideas besides the inspection system.
"How can this thousand-year-old disease be so easily cured?" Lin Fu smiled and said, "If it could be cured easily, I would take you to a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters to drink tea. It will always be quieter than here!"
The supervision system of later generations is based on a certain material basis, and Lin Fu will not have a headache about these things at this time.
When Su Mei came to Chongzhou, some old people who had served her for many years followed her. Su Mei built this small building in Xicheng and started running a teahouse. She no longer had to be bored in Beishan Yaju all day long.
Lin Fu asked Su Mei to set up an independent pavilion in a corner of the teahouse lobby, so that he could come over occasionally to sit and drink tea, and could hear the street talk among the merchants and footmen, so that he could have a more realistic understanding of the rule of Huaidong.
the state of the people.
The street talk of the traffickers and lackeys was naturally vulgar. Xiao Man held back his anger and vowed not to come to find trouble with Lin Fu, but Lin Fu felt friendly. As for the difference between legitimate concubines and concubines discussed outside, Lin Fu didn't take it to heart at all.
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At this moment, the guard officer Chen Hua-face knocked on the door and came in to report: "Sir, we have to go to Nanya Pier soon!"
"Okay!" Lin Fu drank all the tea in his arms and stood up. Xiaoman was used to spending time with Su Mei, so Lin Fu and Song Jia, surrounded by guards, left in a carriage from the backyard alley to the south cliff.
Go to the pier.
More than a hundred years ago, when maritime transport was booming, Longjiang Shipyard built huge ships of ten thousand stone on a large scale, and there was even a record of building a giant ship with a load capacity of thirty thousand stone.
After the ban on sea canals, coastal areas such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangzhou have been invaded by pirate forces in recent decades. The shipyards in the southeastern counties have no record of building huge ships worth ten thousand stones.
It was only after the rise of the Tianjin-Hai Grain Road that Jiangdong County began to build large-scale ships of thousands of stones in the past three or four years.
The greater the load capacity of a seagoing ship, the more efficient it can be and the more it can save transportation costs. Of course, the advantages of large warships at sea are also very obvious.
Lin Fu has always asked Guanyintan Shipyard to try to build a larger and faster sailing ship. After two years of technological accumulation, Chongzhou's first super-large ship with a load of over 10,000 shi was built, and the actual load capacity reached 18,000 shi.
The sea-going ship was finally completed and launched for sea trials today. This is a big event for Huaidong.
Lin Fu walked to Nanya Pier and took a boat to Guanyin Beach Shipyard on Xisha Island.
Sun Jingxuan, Hu Zhiyong, Ge Siyu, Ge Fu and others had been waiting there for a long time. There were also many people watching the excitement inside and outside the dedicated dock of the shipyard. When they saw the builder coming, they cheered; on the other side of the river,
There were still a lot of people standing around, waiting to see the big boat launch.
If the load capacity is converted to the displacement of later generations, the displacement of an 18,000-stone sea-going ship is about 2,000 tons. It was considered a super ship in the current world, but it would be quite inconspicuous in later generations.
Of course, there is an upper limit to the load capacity of a wooden sailboat. Maybe 30,000 stone is really a hard limit to break through. If you want to build a sea-going ship with a larger load capacity, you will need to use a large amount of steel to strengthen the hull structure, which is about the same.
Entering the age of steam and steel.
Lin Fu looked at the sky, wondering when he would see steam steel battleships traveling across the sea. How spectacular and magnificent it would be! Of course, artillery would also be installed on the sides.
It is a pity that because the history of the current world and the history remembered by Lin Fu have greatly deviated from the Wuhu Luanhua period, gunpowder technology did not develop vigorously. There is a Taoist prescription called Liuhuang Fuhuo Dan.
Come down, use the three kinds of mixture of Liuhuang, Yaoshan and Maji bell to make elixir. Palace jugglers often use this to please the royal family, nobles, celebrities and ladies. It is not a top secret.
At that time, the price of medicine and saltpeter was higher than that of silver; and due to the purity of the medicine and saltpeter, the power of Liuhuang Fuhuo Dan was relatively limited. It was more like a kind of fire starter that could emit colorful smoke. No one in the world could see the military significance of it.
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It is possible to scrape some wall salt from the base of a century-old house, but purification is a problem; once it is purchased from the private sector on a large scale, there is no effective way to distinguish wall salt from other white powdery salts.
Of course, until the formula is further improved, Liuhuan Fuhuo Dan will not have much military value. The more important point is to find a saltpeter mine that is stable and capable of producing large amounts.
If the cost of one shot is dozens of taels of silver, it would be better to just use the scorpion crossbow.
Saltpeter is easily soluble in water, and the climate in Huaidong is humid. Even if saltpeter grows on the base of a century-old house, it will not be easy. Lin Fu does not expect to find natural saltpeter mines in Huaidong.
Lin Fu looked up at the sky and thought wildly, but others just thought he was thinking about something else.
Song Jia stood beside Lin Fu, but she was carefully observing the ship standing on the giant ship track.
Compared with ordinary Jinhai-class ships, the entire ship is particularly long and narrow, with a total length of nearly 27 or 8 feet, and a concave bow - this design is to achieve higher speeds.
Although this ship shape was trial-produced several times on smaller-capacity seagoing ships in order to finalize it, Lin Fu required that the load capacity and speed be greatly increased at the same time. The craftsmen at Guanyinshan Shipyard were still under great pressure.
Excited and nervous at the same time.
At this time, the boat had not yet been launched into the water. They were standing on the dock. The sides of the boat were about four feet high from the ground. People standing on the dock looked like ants.
The seaworthiness period in the East China Sea is only more than eight months. If you want to increase the transportation volume in the same time, you need to build a bigger ship, and the ship must travel faster! Lin Fu knows that the long and narrow hull and the concave shape of the hull
The design is more conducive to breaking waves, but how to improve the stability of the long and narrow hull in waves is a matter for the shipyard masters.
"Have you not decided on a name yet?" Lin Fu looked at the bow and sides of the ship, which were still blank, with no name written on it.
Sun Jingxuan, who also serves as the shipmaster, rubbed his hands and was quite nervous. The ship was built in half a year, but it was still unknown whether it could travel far to sea.
In order to prevent corrosion, the draft of the entire ship was covered with copper. In addition to the extensive use of iron nails, many parts of the entire ship were cast with fine iron in order to enhance the structural strength.
Chongzhou only produces more than 50,000 kilograms of refined iron every month, but this ship alone uses more than 70,000 kilograms of refined iron. If he could not go to the sea in the end, Sun Jingxuan would be so angry that he would slap himself in the face.
Sun Jingxuan thought so in his heart, and he pretended to be relaxed and said: "Don't we have to follow the old rules and wait for you to give me a name?"
"Do you still have to think hard?" Lin Fu said, looking up at the Zilang Mountain on the north bank. Others only thought that he would be named "Zilang Hao". Lin Fu said leisurely, "Then call it 'Little
How about the Princess?"
Sun Jingxuan, Hu Zhiyong and others were all stunned. They couldn't follow Lin Fu's train of thought for a while. They didn't know whether to say yes or not. Regardless of whether it was a good idea or not, it was somewhat taboo to use this as a ship name.
"Will it cause others to gossip?" Hu Zhiyong said next to him.
"Oh, that's right," Lin Fu scratched his forehead and asked, "What should I call it?"
Song Jia secretly thought: When Lin Fu thought of the name Little Princess, did he think of his eldest daughter who had just turned one month old, or Princess Yuan Yan, whom he met in Yannan and was adopted as an adopted daughter by Emperor Chongguan?
Song Jiazheng was thinking wildly when Lin Fu opened his mouth and said, "Then call me Lin Zhengjun!"
Sun Jingxuan and Hu Zhiyong looked at each other meaningfully and said in unison: "This is a very good name!"
The secret of a woman's maiden name was not disclosed at that time, but Sun Jingxuan, Hu Zhiyong and others certainly knew that the name of Lin Fu's eldest daughter was Lin Zhengjun. Thinking that Lin Fu had just wanted to name the ship the Little Princess, it was not enough for them to imagine it.
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Lin Fu didn't expect too much. How many fathers in future generations would not raise their daughters as little princesses?