Chapter 2084: Those who are willing to fight, those who are willing to suffer
"The ship is broken, can you Gongsun family sailors know how to sail the ship?" Yuan Shu stood at the port west of Donglai like a drowned rat, pointing at several family members and yelling angrily...
"There is no one who can sail a boat better than our Gongsun family boatmen, at least not on this ship." Gongsun Xu pointed at Yuan Shu and cursed angrily, "If it weren't for you, Yuan Gongdao, you bastard, would this ship have hit the rocks? And?
If you hadn't acted randomly after hitting the rocks, the ship wouldn't have capsized!"
"Isn't that because you were driving too fast? You were blowing it so hard at the time. The structural materials are definitely the best in the world. They are not even as good as the fifth-generation Lu family ships. They at least have airtight cabins and isolation layers. This ship of yours is garbage.
!" Yuan Shu also pointed at Gongsun Xu and cursed with a dissatisfied look on his face.
"Go away, if I had known I should not have let you board our Gongsun family's ship!" Gongsun Xu cursed Yuan Shu for being a bastard, "If you hadn't turned the rudder carelessly, would we have hit the rocks? Would the ship have capsized? The airtight cabin would have been broken.
After that, the boat capsized before it had time to drain the water, and it was not your fault!"
"Didn't you scream in excitement at that time?" Yuan Shu roared at Gongsun Xu without any excuse, "Besides, even if it hit the rocks, it shouldn't have sunk so fast."
"I want you to stop messing around on rocks and undercurrents!" Gongsun Xu said angrily, "You almost completely destroyed the port side. How can I save you?"
"Anyway, what should we do now?" Yuan Shu pointed at Gongsun Xu and asked. The ship sank, and naturally all the gifts were gone. "The Gongsun family's ship sank, and my ship's worth of gifts also fell into the sea. Your family's ship sank.
Do you want to compensate for the gift?"
"I'm sorry to you, sister, get out of here and let you Yuan Gongsun board the ship of my Gongsun family. My Gongsun family has suffered eight lifetimes of bad luck. From today on, the Gongsun family will not accept anyone with the surname Yuan on board!" Gongsun Xu angrily faced Yuan Shu.
roared.
Gongsun Xu's original plan was to take a boat from Liaodong to Donglai and then go to Yecheng by land.
By the way, in order to promote the Gongsun family's shipbuilding technology, they specially pulled out the latest large ship in the dock to use it as a ride, and announced in a very high-profile manner that they would take this ship, and anyone willing to go with them would ride for free.
Yuan Shu also received an invitation to the military parade at that time, so he naturally took Ji Ling to go with him. It was originally planned to go by land, but he learned about Gongsun Xu's high-profile declaration on the way.
There was a profound second-hand nature in Yuan Shu's nature. With a free boat trip, Yuan Shu decisively changed course.
Gongsun Xu knew Yuan Shu and was the actual coordinator of the Family Relations Coordination Committee. Yuan Shu wanted to take the boat, but Gongsun Xu would not refuse. This was a good opportunity to bring the two parties closer.
A large ship picked up dozens of aristocratic families who were traveling with them, and then they set off on the road. Yuan Shu, who was riding on a large ship for the first time, was a little excited. He fumbled around and tried to control the rudder.
After all, Yuan Shu is the boss, and no one in the group will stop him, and they all think that everyone is in the same boat, and Yuan Shu will not mess around. But it turns out that they thought too much, and Yuan Shu caused this big ship to hit the rocks and capsize.
After everyone was thrown into the sea, watching Ji Ling flying here and there with Yuan Shu, and the others holding the sampan and drifting with the current, everyone realized that Yuan Shu was not on the same boat as them from the beginning.
The moment the ship hit the rocks and capsized, the most devastated person was actually Gongsun Xu. The reason why his big ship wanted to take a group of people for free was actually to demonstrate the superiority of their Gongsun family ship.
After all, we had a fierce fight with the Huns and barbarians in the past two years and had no time to improve the warships. I heard that the Lu family had surpassed them in shipbuilding technology. Of course, Gongsun Xu didn't believe this, but he didn't believe it, but there were other things.
If people believe it, then they also need to explain.
To put it simply, Gongsun Xu's big ship was launched just to cheer up people's hearts and prove that their ships were not surpassed by the Lu family as rumored. The Gongsun family still has the top shipbuilding technology in the world.
However, the current situation has simply made Gongsun Xu collapse. His top-notch ship hit the rocks, took in water, and capsized. This is the ship used by the new head of the Gongsun family, and it is of such quality!
People who buy a boat will definitely not care about what happens on the boat. They will only know that the boat with their own characteristics driven by Gongsun Xu, the head of the Gongsun family, is like this. How dare they buy it?
Come on, with what happened today, all major ship dealers who need ships in the future will definitely not be grateful for the shipbuilding technology of the Gongsun family. What they did today is, to put it bluntly, they are destroying their brand!
So Gongsun Xu now wants to swallow up Yuan Shu, and the sign of their Gongsun family shipyard has been smashed.
"Hu Lai, go and get me a money order of 10,000 yuan from the bank, and then go to the Zhenjia Carriage and Horse Company to rent a carriage. Let's go to Yecheng first." The wet Yuan Shu found an inn and took a shower, then changed his body.
Qi Ling sent Ji Ling to do some errands.
When Yuan Shu changed his clothes and came out, Ji Ling had prepared the carriage and was waiting for Yuan Shu at the door.
"The quality of the Gongsun family's ship is really bad. It hit a rock and sank. It's really too bad. Look at the Lu family's big ship. The Gongsun family's broken ship even has such a bad quality of sealed cabins." Ji Ling drove a car.
The relatively passable carriage listened to Yuan Shu's endless complaints and remained silent.
After all, this carriage was only rented from a horse and carriage company, so the quality was naturally not very good. However, Yuan Shu was not a very particular person, so he casually laid out a blanket and sat in it.
"Lord, are we going there like this?" Ji Ling asked hesitantly.
"Although the gift has sunk in the sea, the sincerity has not." Yuan Shu laughed and said, "Besides, I am also helpless. Who made the Gongsun family's ship so bad? The Gongsun family should compensate." Gongsun Xu said to Yuan Jiujiu
Get away from me.
When Yuan Shu was complaining about the Gongsun family's quasi-sixth-generation ship, Gongsun Xu and Liang Mao were staring at the Xingba parked in the port on the east side of Donglai with their mouths open. Even Gongsun Xu, who had always thought that the Lu family was bragging before,
I also felt the huge gap in shipbuilding technology for a moment.
"Bo Fang, although Yuan Jiujiu is a bastard, the Lu family's shipbuilding technology is really terrible." Gongsun Xu looked at the huge Xingba and swallowed his saliva silently. Compared with this ship, the Lu family's propaganda was not only not exaggerated, but also
Still a little conservative.
"I think so too, can we build it?" Liang Mao looked up at the side of the ship and said with envy. The ship looked very powerful.
"It will probably take another five or six years." After all, Gongsun Xu had managed a shipyard, so he naturally knew how long it would take for such a large ship to fully develop the technology and understand it thoroughly without any external help.
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"Is there any other way?" Liang Mao took a deep breath and looked at Gongsun Xu. He asked this question, but his eyes already showed a clear meaning.
"If the technology and craftsmen are directly available, it should be enough in more than one to two years. This is already the seventh-generation battleship that was discussed internally by the family when my father was still alive." Gongsun Xu thought for a while and said, "Find a way
Let’s see if we can buy it from the Lu family.”
"Do you have money?" Liang Mao asked.
"If you don't have money, you can borrow it. You don't have to worry about selling this thing. If the government doesn't want it, the merchants will want it. The displacement using the new weights and measures is probably upwards of 6,000 tons, and the load capacity is probably around 4,000 tons." Gongsun Xu looked solemn.
said.
"Bofang, you don't understand the shipbuilding industry or the value of this kind of thing. Shipping is a very valuable method of transportation with a huge volume. If there are enough large ships like this, it will have a huge advantage in balancing prices in various places. This
The supplies carried by the ship are enough to drive down the price of goods in an area." Gongsun Xu said with desire on his face.
"No matter what, let's go back and talk to the Lu family. Even if we give up the military market and only build merchant ships, it's fine." Gongsun Xu said decisively. Compared with the Lu family's warships, his own small sampan would have been lost.
On the other side, Lu Jun was already on the road. He was holding a business plan with detailed research data and was ready to fool people. Looking at the detailed research report, he was a little moved.
If Lu Jun hadn't known very well that the core of this so-called shipping plan report was actually to prepare for the seventh-generation ship to defraud money, even he would have been tempted. The above data looked too attractive.
On the other side, Yuan Shu was now driving slowly towards Yecheng. There was a very long carriage in front of him, and beside him were fifty armored soldiers on horseback.
"The tiger is coming, overtake it!" Yuan Shu guessed whose carriage it was when he saw the flag on the carriage, and decisively ordered Ji Lingchao to go over.
Ji Ling's frame rushed over quickly, and then the frame blocked the opponent's front. If the opponent hadn't been slow and leisurely all the way, and the driver's skill was high enough, he would have hit him in this wave.
However, despite this, the guard of the opponent's carriage was also shocked and drew his sword, pointing at Yuan Shu's carriage, which looked like an ordinary garbage-level carriage.
Yuan Shu slowly put his hand on the car door, leaned out and stood on the car frame, "Liu Jiyu is not surprised, please come out and see him."
Liu Zhang came out of the carriage with a bad look on his face. He looked at Yuan Shu, who stood in front of his carriage and stood proudly on the carriage. He shook his hands casually. The elite soldiers from Yizhou quickly formed a team and looked like sculptures.
Just like riding on a horse.
Liu Zhang didn't like Yuan Shu very much before, but after the court meeting in Chang'an, Liu Zhang had a slight liking for Yuan Shu. At least Yuan Shu was brave and not someone he couldn't afford to play with.
However, such a small amount of goodwill was not enough for Liu Zhang to agree with Yuan Shu's behavior of intercepting his bicycle frame at will. What's more, Liu Zhang, who was born in the royal family, at least paid attention to some grace and bearing, and Yuan Shu's bicycle frame looked like a trick.
"Yuan Gongli, why are you blocking my carriage?" Liu Zhang shook his soap-colored robe.
"I just happened to meet you and want to say hello." Yuan Shu whistled with a smile, looking a bit like a gangster teasing a little girl.
"Now that I've said hello, is it time to give way?" Liu Zhang looked at Yuan Shu without fear.
"I heard that you are building roads." Yuan Shu stopped his smile and looked at Liu Zhang and said.