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Chapter 17 Shipbuilding is not difficult (Second update, please recommend, please collect)
Compared to Yan Ruyu's troubles, Shi Yiwen lived a comfortable life and just walked around every day, but most of the time, he was passively accompanying him.

"Brother Shitou, let's go, I'll take you to the village..."

Obviously, Yan Ruxue didn't mean to ask for his opinion.

It is said to be a den of pirates, but in fact, the village is more like a village.

This town with one roof connected.Although most of the houses are wooden houses and wooden roofs, they can be arranged neatly, and the streets are spacious. Although the ground is muddy, it is still relatively clean.There are actually many shops on both sides of the street, and even a few pubs.

Walking on the street, there will always be curious eyes on him.

"I've met Second Miss, I've met Young Master Shi."

Whether he knows him or not, there will always be someone who will take the initiative to greet him. In fact, Shi Yiwen is also quite curious about the stockade. Looking at the shops on both sides of the street, if he didn't know that this is a pirate's den, he would be more willing to believe that it is a small town.

"Brother Shitou, look over there. When my father and the others escaped from Nagasaki, they spent eight days and nights on the sea before landing here. My father saw that the land here is rich and beautiful, and there is a large wilderness. So I decided to stay here. It seems that this street is designated by my father. The camp is in the shape of a well, and the big platform in the middle is the "Juyi Hall". The people are all immigrants recruited by my father who asked Uncle Yang and the others to lead a fleet to Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other places. They recruited 1 households, nearly [-] people. My father arranged them around the main village. Our side It is the main fortress, and there are Zuozhai, Youzhai, Liangcaozhai, Haifangzhai, Shaochuanzhai, Qianzhai, Houzhai, Fufanzhai, Beizhai..."

Listening to Ruxue's narration, Shi Yiwen can deduce from the names and general layout of these villages that when Yan Siqi and the others fled here to settle here, they built this village from the perspective of military fortification, not simply a temporary settlement .

From Xiaoxue's mouth, he learned how Yan Siqi started this business here, and how he negotiated with Shifan to agree on the border and not to invade each other, so that the immigrants can reclaim the wasteland with peace of mind.

No wonder he is called the "King of Taiwan" in the history books. Just because of his achievements in the mountains and forests, he can indeed be called the King of Taiwan.

It's a pity that such a character died young!

Wandering on Beigang Street, Shi Yiwen found that there were not only immigrants from the Ming Dynasty in the village, but even Japanese. In fact, the Japanese in this era are really not much different from the Ming Dynasty. Someone in the shop spoke Japanese, Shi Yiwen really didn't expect that there would be Japanese here.

"The blacksmith here is Japanese?"

"They are not ordinary blacksmiths, but swordsmiths and gunsmiths, who specialize in making knives and iron cannons."

Xiaoxue explained.

"They all came from Japan with my father. Brother Shitou, you don't know. In Japan, artisans have a very low status and can't make much money. Here they make money by their skills. How much is a knife? How much is an iron cannon, and they are never short of a penny, and it is because of this that they followed my father here, my father said, you have to pay for things, this is the most basic fairness..."

Staring at the Japanese craftsmen in the blacksmith shop, looking at the Japanese knives and iron cannons hanging in the shop, Shi Yiwen's mood was complicated.

You need money to buy something!

For such a simple reason, these Japanese craftsmen did not hesitate to flee to sea with foreigners like Yan Siqi.What kind of life these people live in Japan can naturally be seen a little bit, and they must be doing their best.

That's it, is this the so-called Japanese craftsman spirit inheritance that some people talk about?

Walking all the way to the port, looking at the dozen or so large ships in the river, looking at those Chinese-style sailboats, Shi Yiwen asked.

"Ru Xue, does this boat belong to your family?"

"My father only left two boats. The rest of the boats belonged to my uncles. The Zheng family had the most boats. There were three. Among these people, the Zheng family had the most boats. That's why he dared to force my sister of."

Yan Ruxue pouted and said.

For pirates, the most important thing is of course the ship.

What can these unremarkable ships do?
In addition to being able to rob, you can also sail far!
Maritime trade in this era is very, very profitable, especially in Da Ming. Pirates in Da Ming are often customers. They are both pirates and merchants. The former is often just a disguise. Robbery, they are more willing to sail and trade.With a ship, they can go back and forth between various places, and sell Ming's goods in exchange for several times or even ten times the profit. The profit of being a sea merchant is definitely more than that of being a pirate.Of course, the navigation technology of this era is backward. You can only use the monsoon to run once a year, and you have to use a fixed route. Pioneering is the accumulation of experience of generations, and it is all at the cost of life.

Staring at the ships at sea, Shi Yiwen couldn't help thinking, if he could open up a new route, then ocean trade would not be a dream.As long as you can run more times than others and at a faster speed, then it is not a dream to be a big businessman. At that time, even if you can't eat soft food.You can still taste delicious and drink spicy food.

However, this thing is still a bit far away. If you want to be a maritime merchant, you must first have a ship. How to buy or build this ship is a matter of nowhere. Even if you want to do this, you have to plan slowly.

Looking at the sun in the sky, Shi Yiwen narrowed his eyes into a slit, and said to himself in his heart.

"Anyway, if you're idle, you're idle. Why don't you think about it first?"

Staring at the boat in the river, Shi Yiwen asked.

"Xue'er, where do we buy our boats?"

"Buy a boat?"

Xue'er was taken aback for a moment, then said again.

"If you want to buy a boat, you will naturally go to places like Fuzhou to buy a boat. A bird boat ten feet long and two feet wide, like the one over there, costs about 800 taels of silver (1). If you build it yourself If so, it can be cheaper for two or three hundred taels of materials. After all, there are big trees all over the mountain on Zhuluo Mountain. Brother Shitou, look at the lumber yard over there. They are all trees that were cut down when Dad first came here. , The wood has been dried in the shed for more than a year, according to Uncle Yang, it is suitable for boat building."

"Then why doesn't your sister build a ship? Since your sister has few ships, if you build a few more ships, you can overwhelm Zheng Yiguan."

Shi Yiwen asked back, never thought that what he asked in return would be the little girl's eyes.

"Brother Shitou, do you think boats are so easy to build? We have boat builders here, and carpenters are not fake, but they have only built small boats, and there are not many craftsmen who have built big ships. Iron nails, these nails must be punched out one by one. Otherwise, you have to buy them from others, but the wind direction is not right now. You have to wait at least a few months until the northeast wind blows before you can return to the mainland. Wait until It's too late then."

"Building a ship is actually not difficult..."

Shi Yiwen said to himself.

"It's nothing rare? Could it be that Brother Stone, can you build a boat?"

In an instant, Xiaoxue turned into a fan girl again, looking at him with bright eyes, as if in her opinion, her brother Shitou was omnipotent.

(1) Data source: the distribution and influence of the Hongyi cannon in the southeast coast during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

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