The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

The dry dock is a closed boat pool where the water is pumped out so that the ship can carry out water inspection and repair. It is connected to the land on three sides and faces the water.The dock is used to enter and leave the ship, and it is equipped with a water-retaining dock door. The drainage and irrigation equipment of the dock is often built in the piers on both sides of the dock; the dock is used to place the ship, and the bottom of the dock is provided with a keel to support the ship. Piers and side piers; the dock head is the end opposite to the dock mouth, and its plane shape can be rectangular, semicircular and rhombus. The space of the dock head is a part of the dock chamber, where the propeller and tail shaft are disassembled.The dry dock is equipped with various power pipelines and ancillary equipment such as lifting, derusting, painting and pulling the boat.

When a ship enters a dry dock for repairs, first fill the dock with water using irrigation and drainage facilities, and when the water level inside the dock is equal to that outside the dock, open the dock door, use traction equipment to slowly pull the ship into the dock, and then pull the ship into the dock. The body of water is drained, allowing the ship to sit on keel piers.When the repaired or built ship is out of the dock, water is poured into the dock first, and when the water level inside and outside the dock gate is equal, the dock gate is opened and the ship is led out of the dock.

This idea of ​​dry dock technology is also one of the things that Yan Song proposed to Hu Xueyan and entrusted him to do it.The emergence of this technology can greatly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of shipbuilding.

Hu Xueyan, Qian Guangjin and the others were discussing loudly on a slipway where the cement hadn't fully dried. When they saw Yan Song and the others coming, they rushed up to meet them.

".〃Mr. Yan Ge, you came to inspect? Why didn't you notify me?" Hu Xueyan looked surprised.

"Let me see what good things you have been tinkering with during this time?" Yan Song stared at the shipyard in the distance.

"We have made a lot of progress." Hu Xueyan said with a smile: "Both are civilian shipyards, that is, shipyards that manufacture Spanish galleons. We negotiated the investment ratio. Shanxi merchants accounted for 2%, Zhejiang merchants accounted for 1%, and Huizhou merchants accounted for 2000%. Shangjia (Wang Zhaohao) Chushang, a total of [-]%, I account for [-]% here! The total investment is [-] million taels of silver."

This ratio was approved by Yan Song with a nod.

First of all, Yan Song of this shipyard must take the lead, there is no doubt about this, um, there is also Jiajing.

Because Yan Song knew that in the future, the shipyard would surely make a lot of money every day.

With the opening of the sea in the Ming Dynasty, the flat-headed boats widely used in the rivers and seas in the past will become less and less suitable for long-distance voyages. After centuries of technology polishing by the Spaniards, the Spanish galleons with very mature and reliable technology, because of their reliability , carrying capacity, military refitability, and long-distance voyage capabilities, it will inevitably become the main merchant ship of the next generation of Ming Dynasty caravans.

The demand of the entire Ming Dynasty, what a terrifying supermarket.

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Chapter 648 Shortage of boatmen [5]

According to historical statistics, around 1550 A.D., there were more than 3000 Spanish galleons sailing in various seas around the world.

And with Ming's national strength, once it decides to form an ocean-going fleet, the number will definitely be much larger than that of Spain.

5 thousand ships!

This is calculated by Yan Song, the conservative demand for this Spanish galleon.

A shipyard is not enough.

Therefore, Yan Song planned two advanced shipyards beyond this era at once, and started construction together to meet the future blowout demand for merchant ships.

As for military warships, Yan Song thought about it and decided to invest in civilian shipyards for the time being.

For one thing, now that the Ming treasury has no money, even the naval forces to exterminate the Japanese pirates need Hu Zongxian's nomination method to pluck the money from the wealthy businessmen in the southeast, let alone scrape the money from the iron rooster in Jiajing for him to form a navy.

Secondly, the construction of a military fleet involves the national military, which is more sensitive. It is better to wait for Jiajing to make a decision in person.

The reason why Yan Song can cooperate well with Jiajing, occupy a high position and not be suspected is because he knows very well what can and cannot be done. 570

Now, looking at the two shipyards rising from the ground and extending into the sea, Yan Song is quite satisfied.

"How is the recruitment of craftsmen?" Yan Song was very concerned about this specific issue.

No matter how good the drawings are, no matter how advanced the technology is, without skilled and superb shipbuilders, it is impossible to build excellent warships.

When this question was mentioned, Hu Xueyan began to frown: "We searched all the shipyards in the southeast. They were either closed or abandoned long ago. Those skilled old boatmen either changed their careers to farming or disappeared. Now there is a shortage of shipbuilders. It's a big heart attack."

Yan Song couldn't help being surprised.People like Hu Xueyan, Qian Guangjin, and Liu Cunshan are almost the group with the most energy in Daming.Although Daming is big, there are really not many people they can't find.

Now, these people joined forces, but couldn't find a skilled boatman?

This is a big problem.

Yan Song's face also darkened.

He knew that if this problem was not resolved, the quality of the Deming Fleet would not be able to improve, and crossing the seven seas would be a joke.

"Old Yan Ge, my Ming Dynasty has been in seclusion for more than a hundred years, and those old boatmen have often passed away, and many of their descendants have never seen a boat." Qian Guangjin was also quite helpless: "This is something we didn't consider before. difficulty."

"Then recruit foreign boatmen." Wang Jiaping interjected, "It's a high-paying recruitment, so don't worry if they don't come."

"This kind of highly skilled boatman is a treasure to any country, and it is impossible to let him go." Hu Xueyan said with a sad face: "I found those missionaries, and they said that the boatmen from all European countries are treasures of the country. It’s not for sale at all, so I won’t come anyway.”

This made Yan Song a little worried.

The old boatmen are all national treasure-level craftsmen, can't they be bought?

How to do?

This is not difficult for Yan Song.

"If it doesn't work, let's draw!" Yan Song secretly made up his mind: "Get a few top-level boatmen and pass them on, and you will always be able to cultivate a group of good craftsmen. After the success of Daming's opening of the sea this time, Daming will never rest on his laurels. , back to the old days of working behind closed doors."

With the powerful interest groups of Shanxi Merchants, Hui Merchants, Chu Merchants, and Zhe Merchants, and the top ten merchant groups cultivated by Yan Song himself, they will grow stronger and stronger in Kaihai, and their voice and weight in the political arena of Ming Dynasty will become stronger and stronger in the future. As it gets bigger and bigger, even if the conservative forces inside Daming turn back the wheel of history, they will never think of shutting Daming back to the land and becoming a dead house.

Once the wheel of history turns, it will roll forward and never stop.

Yan Song asked these (bfde) people to find skilled boatmen again, racked their brains, cheated and abducted them, and did everything they could.

He returned to the Yan Mansion by himself, thinking about the technical problems of Daming Shipbuilding.

At this time, the Japanese envoys came together.

It turns out that Hashiba Hideyoshi, Mori Terumoto, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Tachibana Michiyuki and others have lived very comfortably in Daming during this period, and they hardly want to go back to China.

They live in the Nancheng area of ​​Tianjin.

Nancheng is the entertainment district of Tianjin, the red-light district. There are hundreds of restaurants, teahouses, theaters and Goulan courtyards here. It can be said to be the entertainment center of the northern part of the Ming Dynasty.