Chapter 413: The Flow of Development
Along the way, Li Hao told Lu Yun about his demotion to Qiongnan. Lu Yun was not worried about Li Hao. He believed in Li Hao because Li Hao was able to survive every time and was demoted to Qiongnan. It was nothing to Li Hao. X23US.
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While chatting, the two rode their horses over a hill, and saw a small natural lake four or five miles ahead. A very tall canopy-style factory building was built around the lake, almost covering half of the lake. Li Hao frowned and said, "If such a factory is in danger when there is a strong wind."
Lu Yun smiled and shook his head: "No, you will know after you'll get closer."
The two rode down the hills and soon arrived in front of the lake. When someone found them coming, they immediately notified the craftsman leader Lu Zhi.
Lu Zhi hurried out to greet them. As soon as Li Hao and Lu Yun turned over and got off the horse, Lu Zhi stepped forward and saluted: "Greetings to the Marquis!"
Lu Yun, who was standing beside him, smiled and said, "Now the young master is no longer the marquis, but the King of Qiongnan!"
"Ah!" Lu Zhi was surprised when he heard this and hurriedly saluted again, "Greetings to the prince!" He only knew that the prince was much better than the prince, and as for which prince was, it was not within his consideration.
Li Hao waved his hand and said, "No need to be rude, Lu Zhi, will this factory be in danger if it encounters strong winds?"
When Lu Zhi heard this, he smiled confidently and said, "Your Majesty will tell when you get close."
Li Hao nodded and entered the factory area of the shipyard under Lu Zhi's leadership. After going in and looking at it, he was stunned. He saw that the piles of these factories were actually huge and straight fir trees. Using these fir trees as pillars was naturally extremely solid.
At this time, Lu Zhi introduced: "Prince, please see, these pillars are all live fir trees. These fir trees have grown here for hundreds of years. They are deeply rooted and extremely stable. Taking them as pillars, they are naturally safe. When the prince looks at the terrain within ten miles of this area, it can be said to be surrounded by mountains and is at the lowest point, so it can form a lake. It is covered by mountains around it. No matter how strong the wind is, it will be damaged by most of it and will not pose any threat to the shipyard. Moreover, Prince, the river channel leading to the ocean of this lake has been measured along the way, and the depth is sufficient for a boat. If the riverbed is really too high, then you can only cut off the water flow and send someone to dig the river. However, the manpower and material resources are too great, and I hope this will not be the case."
After hearing his introduction, Li Hao nodded and smiled with satisfaction: "It turns out that he is a professional. He has taken all the factors into consideration. In this way, I feel relieved. Lu Zhi, where is the ship? Take me to see it."
Lu Zhi spread his hands and said, "Prince, please come with the villain." After saying that, he led Li Hao forward along the edge of the lake. At the deepest part of the lake, he finally saw a ship under construction. Although it had not been completed, the shape of the ship had already emerged. Li Hao looked at it and found that it was more than 40 meters long and four masts belonged to small Garen ships. Its estimated that the draft will not exceed 300 tons. However, even so, it is far more than the ships Li Hao and the others use now.
Looking at the Galen sailboat that was still under construction, Li Hao felt quite moved. In fact, ancient Chinese nautical technology was very awesome, because according to historical records, the largest treasure ship used by Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures of the Ming Dynasty, used a length of 138 meters and a draft of 20,000 tons. What is this? Li Hao could not imagine how such a large ship was built in the Ming Dynasty. You must know that China's second aircraft carrier had a draft of only 6.5 tons.
Unfortunately, in order to firmly ban the sea, the corrupt scholars of the Ming Dynasty actually burned all the ship information and construction drawings of Zheng He's voyage to the West, without leaving a single one. What does corrupt scholars mean to ruin the country? This is it!
The Garen ship is just the first step. Next, Li Hao will also build a flying shear ship. The flying shear ship is known as the fastest wind-driven ship. The "Great Republic" flying shear ship in history has a displacement of 3,400 tons, a main mast height of 61 meters, a speed of 12 to 14 nautical miles per hour (1 nautical mile = 1.852 kilometers), and it only takes 13 days across the Atlantic Ocean. Before the steam engine ship appeared, the flying shear ship was definitely the fastest ship in the world.
Li Hao had a dream, that is, to drive the invincible fleet of the Tang Dynasty to sail to other countries around the world, to Xuanwei, to have a good attitude, trade with it, and to have a bad attitude, to threaten it, to those who are disobedient and arrogant, just beat it! Beat it until you are afraid! He wants to spread the language of the Tang Dynasty to every country around the world, so that people all over the world can speak Chinese. This world is originally the most powerful fist that speaks hard, and the force is always the most awesome microphone.
Just as Li Hao was looking forward to the future, Lu Zhi suddenly said beside him: "Prince, do you want to go to the boat to take a look?"
Li Hao came to his senses and asked, "Can you go up?"
"Yes." Lu said straight, "The cabin has been almost done, but the ship is a bit high. The marquis must be careful when they are going up and down. Ah, the villain is talking too much, so naturally there is no need to worry about the marquis' skills."
Lu Yun laughed and scolded: "Lao Lu, when did you learn to flatter?"
Li Hao laughed and said, "He has been in contact with you a lot during this period. Who did you think he learned from? Haha, come on, let's go up and take a look."
The three of them climbed onto the Garen ship through the long ladder. Li Hao walked around the side, deck, cabin, and bow of the ship. He nodded with satisfaction and said, "Well, okay, Lu Zhi, you are so good. What I gave is just a rough shape of a ship, and described it in words. I didn't expect you to be able to create it. You are indeed a magic craftsman!"
Lu Zhi hurriedly said modestly: "The prince has been awarded. The villain's greatest wish in his life is to create something that others have never built. He used to build a wind turbine for the prince. This time he built such a big ship. It was the prince who made the villain fulfill his wish. However, the prince cannot be happy too early. The ship is quite harsh. Only after it is launched, can we know whether the ship can sail. Although the villain has built a ship before, this kind of ship is the first time to build it, and the villain is not sure."
Li Hao patted his shoulder and said, "You can do your best and don't have too much psychological burden. Even if you fail, it's okay. Just rebuild it. Anyway, I have money, haha..."
Li Hao was very happy after leaving the shipyard. On the way back to the city, Li Hao talked to Lu Yun about the matter of the indigenous people. When it comes to the indigenous people, he naturally mentioned the leader of the indigenous people - Huang Shang.
From here, Li Hao got a bad message, that is, Huang Shang seemed to regret it a little. Huang Shang warmly welcomed Lu Yun and the others to come here for development at the beginning because Lu Yun and the others could bring a lot of supplies. But gradually, he found that after some of his people were spread by the Tang people, they began to forget their roots and did not want to return to their previous tribal life. Naturally, they no longer trusted him as the leader. This made Huang Shang very unhappy. If this continues, his status will definitely be unsecured. So when Lu Yun went to Huang Shang several times to ask him to send some indigenous people to work, Huang Shang refused.
Li Hao thought about it after hearing this and smiled faintly: "He has such a reasonable reaction. Don't worry, I will meet him tomorrow and I will make sure he is obedient."
Lu Yun smiled happily when he heard this. Li Hao always said that he could do it and never did something he was unsure. Since Li Hao said that, he would definitely make Huang Shang obedient tomorrow.
Soon, Li Hao and Lu Yun rode a horse to outside a small town. Li Hao looked at the city wall more than five meters high and praised, "Your city is very good. Although the city is not big, the wall is very high."
Lu Yun smiled and said, "It is necessary to be aware of others. After all, this is the territory of natives, so you still have to be careful."
"Yeah, it's not bad!" Li Hao said, "This city can be developed in the future. It can be expanded outside the city wall and added the city wall to divide the inner city and the outer city."
Lu Yun thought for a while and nodded, "This is a good idea."
Li Hao pointed to the city and asked, "Why is there no city name on the city gate?"
Lu Yun said: "Isn't this waiting for you to name it?"
Li Hao smiled when he heard this, nodded and thought for a while, and said, "This city is ten miles away from the harbor. Standing here, you can see the harbor. Just call it Wanggang City."
Lu Yun said happily: "This name is good, what about the harbor? Give it a name too."
Li Hao thought about it again and said, "It's called Pearl Harbor. I believe that this harbor will become a shining pearl on Liuqiu Island in the future."
While speaking, the two entered the city. Lu Yun sent an order. From then on, the harbor was called Mingzhu Harbor and the city was called Wanggang City. The people of the city cheered and all came out of their homes to welcome Li Hao's arrival on the street. Li Hao saw so many residents in the city and turned to ask Lu Yun: "There are so many people here, so they should not be natives."
Lu Yun smiled and nodded: "That's right, there are a total of 17,000 people in the city now, all sent by Gionee."
Li Hao nodded. He knew about this matter that Feiying had reported to him, and he ordered Gionee to travel thousands of miles to send these people to Liuke. These people were originally from Yizhou and Xizhou. Because the Western Turks captured Yizhou and Tubo captured Xizhou, many of the people from these two states fled.
Gionee took the opportunity to gather these people and raise them in the base camp first, but the more people they received, the more they were nearly 20,000 people. He really couldn't support them and asked Li Hao for instructions. Li Hao originally planned to ask Gionee to send these people back to Xizhou, but he thought that this might expose Gionee and Feiying's base, so he asked them to send these people from thousands of miles to Liu Qiu.
There is no governor's mansion in Wanggang City, only the city guard's mansion. Currently, Lu Yun is temporarily appointed as the city guard, but the actual person in charge is Lin Dingkun and Chen Haijin.
Li Hao and Xue Rengui's family were arranged to be in the City Guardian. When they entered the City Guardian, they all saw familiar faces. Li Hao actually felt like he was returning to the Lantian Marquis Mansion.
It was getting late, and everyone sat down and had a happy dinner around the big table. After dinner, Li Hao was about to ask Lu Yun where his room was, but Li Ping suddenly walked up, grabbed Li Hao's belt and dragged it to her room. Li Hao immediately understood what she meant, and she wanted to plow the fields by herself again.
However, Li Hao knew that there was a problem with Li Ping's field. It had so many kinds of sprouting and had not sprouted yet, so he didn't mind continuing to sow. However, Li Ping was too obsessed with it, so he had to do it many times every night. Li Hao was really a little overwhelmed. Fortunately, he had internal skills. If it were someone else, he would have been too old to withstand.
Li Hao stood there and refused to move, so Li Ping could not pull him. It was okay. Li Ping raised his hand and grabbed Li Hao's ear and dragged it back. Li Hao immediately followed her in pain. At the same time, he also winked at Lu Yun, and his mouth was silent: "Save me! Save me!"
Chapter completed!