Daming One Piece

Chapter 48 (Second update, please recommend, please collect)
Send it to the tiger's mouth?
Whether Zheng Yiguan wanted to send Zheng Zhihu into the tiger's mouth, others don't know, but for Zheng Zhifeng, he felt that he was cheated.

I was tricked by my elder brother!

What read a lot.

Will you cook salt if you read a lot?

Cooking salt is a job, even raw food can do it, do you have to be a scholar?
Standing by the sea, accompanied by the sea breeze, there is a strong smell of smoke, and smoke columns rise in the distance.

That's the plume of boiling salt.

Under the smoke columns, there are simple thatched huts filled with firewood, and there are tall thatch and small trees everywhere on the beach, but the thatch and small trees near the huts have been cut down. It's over, in order to cook salt, the minions can only go further to mow the grass.

Staring at those minions who were busy in front of the stove, Zheng Zhifeng's face looked rather ugly.

Fifteen days!

For half a month, he has been staying in this place where no shit, burning fire and boiling salt, what is the reason for being exposed to the wind and sun all day long?
"If you read a lot, you will cook salt, and in the eyes of the eldest brother, reading is such a useful thing!"

Zheng Zhifeng begged in his heart, he was very upset!
It's not because the work of cooking salt is tiring. In fact, no matter how hard and tiring it is, he doesn't need to do it. What do you need these minions for?Isn't it just work.

The only thing that bothered him was that Yan Ruyu forced his elder brother to cook salt.That woman is clearly using this matter to gain prestige.

What about big brother?
But I have to accept it!

Everyone was watching!
Staring at those salt stoves, it took him a long while before the three words popped out between his teeth:
"Shi Yiwen!"

If it wasn't for that kid who appeared out of nowhere, Miss Yan would probably have married her elder brother long ago, so how could there be so many incidents?
In fact, he also knows that even if the young lady marries the big brother, other things will happen, but the problem is, at least he doesn't have to be sent by the big brother to cook salt like now!
I am a scholar!
Once again, Zheng Zhifeng felt all kinds of grievances in his heart. Originally, he only needed to send a leader to come over for this kind of thing, but let him come here. It's really... a big talent with little use!

Thinking that I am a dignified scholar, I have become a coolie who cooks salt...

Just when Zheng Zhifeng felt various grievances mixed with dissatisfaction, someone reported it over there.

"Third Master, Third Master, one hundred thousand catties, a full hundred thousand catties of salt!"

One hundred thousand catties of salt!
As the shouts came from the beach, the minions who boiled salt and cut grass all howled loudly with excitement.

One hundred thousand pounds!
Isn't this the number that the master asked them to make?

"Pack up your things and let the brothers go back to the village!"

Zheng Zhifeng spat on the ground and cursed bitterly.

"I've had enough of this place where the birds don't shit!"

When the minions were happily packing up the clay pots for boiling salt and loading the salt onto the boat, Zheng Zhifeng gave special instructions.

"Put the salt on the first few ships and let the big guys see how much salt we've made these days!"

Saying this in his mouth, Zheng Zhifeng even thought about it, if he didn't want to make a big noise when he returned to the village, he would show off well.

One hundred thousand catties of salt!
Will the people in the village be surprised and speechless when they see so much salt?

……

When Zheng Zhifeng was packing up his things and preparing to go back to the village, the water village in the north of the village was very lively, and many people were watching the excitement near the shipyard.

Building ships?
Just them?
After an eight-foot-long piece of juniper wood was processed into a keel, many people murmured.

Cypress!

That's softwood, shouldn't the keel be made of hardwood?
Not to mention the murmurs from the onlookers, even the people who built the ship were also murmured.

"Master, these materials are all used to make the keel? Why not use a piece of material?"

Fang Dayang looked at the pieces of wood sawed out according to the drawings.

"That's right, master. Wouldn't it be easier to bend the bow keel with fire first, and then connect it with nails?"

Li Fuxing looked at the drawing, the fixing method of the bow and the faucet looked like a picture that made the scalp tingle, all kinds of spliced ​​wood were outlined with solid lines, and many large strips pierced through several layers of wood, so that Fixing the wood is simply superfluous, of course he dare not say that.

"It took a lot of work, but it's stronger this way. You can see that these materials are fixed in a direction roughly perpendicular to the direction of the wood, as long as they are fixed with nails. Of course, these nails are such large cleaning strips. First, use an auger to drill through. Then call in..."

Master's explanation made them all dumbfounded. Li Fuxing's son, Li Gang even picked up the material and made gestures before asking.

"Master, this, is this nail going to pierce the bow?"

"That's right, these big tongs must be pierced through the bow keel."

As soon as Shi Yiwen's words fell, the craftsmen around were whispering.

"How many nails would that take!"

"That's right, it's so thick and so long. This cleaning rod weighs at least a few kilograms. These hundreds of pieces are equivalent to thousands of kilograms of iron..."

"A thousand catties? These are not ordinary nails. Each of them is about two feet long and one inch thick. These nails must be at least two thousand catties smaller!"

"Two thousand catties!"

All the craftsmen gasped suddenly, and the sound of "two thousand catties!" made them all stunned, and they were even speechless for a while.

"This, this is the bow of the ship made of wood, it is clearly made of latte..."

Shi Yiwen didn't think it was a big deal when everyone's words fell on Shi Yiwen's ears. This was at most more than 1000 catties of iron. What's the big deal?
For anyone from Hyundai, that's...not even enough for a security window.

But it's different for people in this era.

Fang Dayang and Li Fuxing looked at each other, and they both understood each other's thoughts from each other's eyes. As apprentices, they must remind the master.

"Master, our place is not as big as Fuzhou. Although it is no problem for the blacksmith to drive such long nails, so much iron is used for the bow of the ship. Wouldn't there be more for the body of the ship? The disciple estimated that, We don’t have that much iron in our village.”

"Yes, yes, master, the iron is all brought from Fujian, and the ship owners keep it for themselves. I think it's unnecessary for our ship's bow to be so strong. We can save the iron. , used on the hull, after all, whether it is the rib or the plank, a lot of nails are needed!"

Li Fuxing also echoed.

It's just to build a ship, so why use so much iron?Good steel is used on the blade, and good nails are used on the hull of the ship. This is the principle of shipbuilding...

Seeing the sincerity of these two older apprentices, Shi Yiwen pursed his lips and said.

"Actually, you don't have to use iron nails to build a ship!"

(End of this chapter)