There are now more than 3,000 craftsmen in Weiyang Palace, who are repairing various palaces under the supervision of the Qimen Army.
The queen took out her own body and repaired the palace city. This matter spread throughout Chang'an, regardless of the officials, how the people talked about Liu Xiang, Zhen Jiang really gained the reputation of a virtuous queen.
Most of the courtiers just mentioned it as a fun after-dinner thing. No matter who paid to build the palace, it was not their turn to participate in it.
Some people who know how to work in the camp have already been praised and appeared in Liu Xiang's memorial.
It’s easy to flatter someone with a few flattery words, and maybe Jian will be in the emperor’s heart. It’s a favor without any trouble!
But some people are not so calm.
Cao Cao shamelessly sent a thousand gold coins to help his daughter fight for favor in the harem.
He is serious about being a relative!
Cao Ji has been granted the title of concubine, who wouldn't want to take it a step further?
Mi Shi, who also made a concubine, also had this intention, but Mi Zhu was still "making friends" in the Western Regions, so her second brother Mi Fang pulled three carts and knelt outside the palace gate.
Liu Xiang never appointed Mi Fang to the official position because this guy had a bad reputation in official history. During the Battle of Xiangfan, he surrendered to Soochow and cut off Guan Yu's retreat.
Shu Han lost Jingzhou, and he had a great responsibility.
Not welcome!
So, I haven't seen anyone, but I have received the money, three thousand gold, don't give it for free.
"Won't Zhao Ji express her gratitude? Both Cao and Mi are very active." Liu Xiang asked Cai Yan with a teasing smile.
"I have no money, so don't worry about it, Your Majesty." Miss Zhaoji had a calm attitude, not interested in fighting for favor at all.
She is currently transcribing books.
The production of jade-button paper increased greatly, and a batch was sent to the palace. Liu Xiang was preparing to promote paper-based offices in the central government offices. Reading those bamboo slips every day was too laborious.
Cai Yan begged for some and wanted to copy them into paper books to enrich the collections of Shiqu Pavilion and Tianlu Pavilion.
The bookstore is also doing this. From now on, the Han Dynasty's collection of books will be mainly paper.
The amount of work is huge, so take your time, jade paper, or better quality paper will appear in the future, and bamboo slips will be completely eliminated.
According to Cai Yong's words, for this reason alone, His Majesty can be called Emperor Wen.
Liu Xiang doesn't care about his posthumous title. He's already dead. What's the difference between praising and slandering him? Why should he live in other people's mouths?
Just focus on the present. He has no control over what happens after death, and he doesn't want to bother with that.
Just after I had been intimate with Miss Zhaoji for a while, a female envoy came to report the success of the Liaodong Shipyard, and Wang Shizhong asked to see her.
Liaodong Shipyard reports victory?
Liu Xiang read the above list from the General Supervising Liaodong Works Officer, and his excitement was indescribable. The construction of the 30-foot-long ocean ship was finally completed, and the water entry test was fully qualified. The next step is the ocean trial.
This is the first step for the Han navy to go to the open sea. With ships of this type, it can finally leave the coastline.
Thirty feet long, eight feet wide, nine feet high, mast twelve feet high, four masts and six sails, one oar and one rudder, sixteen oars, one bottom storey, three storeys, and eighteen watertight compartments
, three-story poop, double-story forecastle, a sharp-bottomed seagoing ship with a load of 3,400 stone.
According to modern standards, this is a wooden four-masted sea-going ship with a length of 70 meters, a width of 18 meters, a load capacity of 100 tons, and a full load displacement of about 120 tons.
There was no concept of drainage in the Han Dynasty. Liu Xiang only made a rough estimate, but he didn't know whether it was accurate.
It took more than four years to build this boat, which was really not easy.
According to what the Liaodong engineer officer said in the table above, the ship is made of iron birch for the main ship, two auxiliaries, and three keels. The rest of the ship is made of oak wood. Work is started at full strength, and one ship can be built a year.
Liu Xiang understood that the main reason for the inability to increase the construction speed was the lack of skilled shipwrights. After nearly ten years of accumulation of ship materials, there was more than enough shipbuilding. Even though the other two types of galley warships had been under construction, the dried wood was still available.
Enough to use.
There is an abundance of good timber in the mountains and forests of Bingzhou and Youzhou, and there are countless timber resources on the Korean Peninsula. After being harvested and dried for three years, they were piled up all over Liaodong and Haiyang shipyards.
What he lacks is craftsmen and technology.
It all takes time to accumulate.
When can we build the kind of two-thousand-material treasure ship that Zheng He used for his voyages to the West? The even larger five-thousand-material treasure ship is a giant ship that he can't even imagine.
The concept of "material" should have only appeared after the Song Dynasty, and became a universal standard in the Ming Dynasty.
But in modern times, there are many opinions on what the standard of "material" is, because the shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty was discontinued by the Qing Dynasty.
Some say it is a unit of volume, some say it is a unit of shipbuilding materials, and some say it is a unit of buoyancy. There are different opinions on how to measure it.
If calculated based on drainage, it is generally believed that two to three materials are equivalent to one ton.
Thinking about the thousand-ton ships built in the early Ming Dynasty, it seems that the newly built 100-ton sea-going ships produced by Liaodong Shipyard suddenly lost their appeal.
Liu Xiang quickly threw this idea out of his mind. He had just learned to walk, so he couldn't aim too high.
The food must be eaten one bite at a time, the road must be walked step by step, and the technological tree must be climbed bit by bit.
After bidding farewell to Miss Zhaoji, he excitedly rushed back to Weiyang Palace, not meeting the ministers at Gui Palace.
"Your Majesty, Holy Ann."
Wang Xing bowed and saluted, his face full of excitement and honor. This was a big ship built during his term of office.
It is a larger ship than the dragon boat used by the emperor.
In all historical records, no ship larger than this ship has ever been seen.
He was so excited that he wanted to give his master a blow!
Liu Xiang waved his hand: "No need to be polite. This is not a court meeting. There is no need to be so formal. Send someone to keep an eye on the sea trials. All conditions must be recorded by a dedicated person to accumulate experience for subsequent shipbuilding."
"Follow the order!"
"Wang Xing, we can only build one big ship a year. The speed is a bit slow. We need to speed up the training of shipwrights. At least within five years, we can meet the demand for craftsmen to build twelve ships at the same time."
Wang Xing swallowed, this must be too difficult.
He was very worried: "Your Majesty, to build a big ship, at least a thousand shipwrights are needed to work at the same time. A skilled shipwright will not be able to build a ship in three to five years."
Liu Xiang was also worried. The Han Dynasty already had preliminary assembly line operations, and he could not think of a better manufacturing process to improve efficiency.
The accuracy of measurement and processing tools determines the degree of detail in the division of labor. This kind of foundation cannot be broken through by patting the head and having a flash of inspiration. He really has no good way.
I can only act rogue: "I just make demands. How to do it and whether you can do it or not is your business. If you do it, you will be rewarded heavily! Let the craftsmen think about it carefully."
Wang Xing replied with a grimace: "I obey the order."
Afraid that the emperor would propose another difficult task, he quickly changed the topic: "The new ship doesn't have a name yet, please give me a name by your majesty!"
It’s time to come up with a name again? Liu Xiang, a novice at naming, feels like my brain is hurting. What should I call it?
Before he could scratch his head and think hard, Su He, the female official next to Zhen Jiang, asked to see him, saying that the Queen had extremely important matters to discuss with His Majesty.
Su Ho ran out of breath and looked very anxious, but looking at his face, it didn't look like he was doing anything bad. He seemed to be suppressing his joy?