Other places have already taken a break, but here they are still working in full swing.
No one is forced, everyone is voluntary.
Nowadays, the shipyard recruits 1,500 people from trackers as shipbuilders. In addition to the more than 70 workers in the original shipyard, as well as the craftsmen and apprentices who were later recruited from various places, the number reaches 2,000.
In this era, it can be said to be a large shipyard.
During this period, 5,000 people were temporarily hired to clean up the silt from the hundreds of thousands of square meters of soil. 7,000 people worked in three shifts day and night.
Today is New Year's Eve, and the mud has finally been completely cleaned up.
The entire shipyard is in excitement. The master said that as long as this shipyard is cleaned up and repaired, an order for a ship will be placed every month every year.
As long as there are orders, the shipyard will be revitalized.
The livelihood of my family is guaranteed. I am a shipwright, and my descendants will all be shipwrights. This is the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
This shipyard is everyone’s lifeblood.
Mingyan was retained by Yang Fan as the factory director, taking charge of the shipyard expansion work.
Yang Fan attaches great importance to this shipyard. After much deliberation, he can rest assured that Mingyan is the only one who is literate, has been around him for a long time, and is familiar with his own way of doing things.
Master craftsman Chen Liang was appointed as chief engineer. The shipyard is still short of a chief designer and chief accountant. Let’s wait until Yang Fan’s students train them. There are no such talents now.
Because Chen Guzi works hard, although he is a bit old, he is clever and handy. He did not show it in fiber drawing before. Now that he has arrived at the shipyard, it is quickly discovered that he is suitable for the job of maintaining the shipyard. He has been recruited as a full-time employee and is responsible for managing the shipyard.
maintenance work.
Ming Yan and Chen Liang looked at the excavated dock and were very excited. Chen Liang gently stroked the wet bluestone strips with his rough pine bark-like hands, as excited as he was stroking his young wife on their wedding night.
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"It's such a good thing. It's been buried in the mud for more than two hundred years, and it's not damaged at all. It's perfect. I heard my grandfather say that when the eunuch Qibao went to the West, the ship he built was so big!" Chen Liang said infatuatedly.
Mingyan looked at a stone tablet in front of her and remained silent.
"Director, what is written here?" Chen Liang couldn't read.
"This is the inscription on the dock built by the Yongle Dynasty. It has been more than two hundred years, and today it has finally been seen again." Ming Yan also said with emotion.
More than two thousand people were carrying buckets and scrubbing the stones as carefully as they were scrubbing the furniture in their own homes.
The master said that as long as this shipyard builds one large warship, it will be enough for the entire factory to feed the people for a year.
More than 5,000 trackers stood around the shipyard, watching the final cleaning. They were both happy and worried. They had worked in the shipyard for two months, and tomorrow the shipyard would pay everyone their wages.
This year was a bad year, and the Ji Canal was no longer able to sail. Many people would have starved to death. Unexpectedly, there were actually shipyards recruiting workers this year. Although it was harder, they earned more than three qian, and the family was able to survive.
Moreover, the shipyard said that if no money is required, food can be provided. Food is so expensive now.
The shipyard gave three kilograms of a grain called cornmeal for one penny. The money earned from digging the soil during this period was enough to exchange for two thousand kilograms of cornmeal. This cornmeal was enough to feed the family for two years.
In the past two months, they have been working on something called Fa Gao, which is made from cornmeal. Although the texture is a bit rough, it is very sweet and the quantity is sufficient. You can eat as much as you want, including cabbage soup.
, there is also a lot of salt in the soup, it is really enjoyable to drink.
Now that the dock has been dug, they have become accustomed to working in three shifts to dig day and night. Although digging in muddy water in winter is hard work, it is easier than pulling fibers.
Everyone is at a loss, and some are reluctant to leave here.
At midnight, as the New Year was approaching, the shipyard bought two hundred sheep, killed them all, and stewed mutton soup as the shipyard's New Year's Eve dinner, which was also the break-up meal for the five thousand temporary workers.
Early tomorrow morning, they will go home after receiving their wages or food, and continue their career of pulling fibers in the cold river.
During this period of working in the shipyard, they were not beaten, scolded or mistreated. For the first time, they were fed and clothed. The shipyard issued cotton clothes and pants and waterproof boots. They were fed and fed every day.
Unknowingly, they have already developed a sense of identification with the shipyard.
It wasn't until today that they realized that they didn't belong here. They were called temporary workers. The name they loved so much at the beginning has become so annoying at this moment.
Many people cried silently.
Mingyan also felt a little heavy. During these days, he also developed feelings for these trackers. These people were all very good workers, obeyed the management, and worked hard.
They can do their jobs well without any supervision, and they cherish getting this job in winter.
A few days ago, he wrote a letter to his master. He proposed that the best wood for shipbuilding at present is teak and oak. The best teak is in Myanmar. Oak is distributed in Hunan and Hubei, but the best quality is in Liaodong and Geng
Grows in northern places.
Unfortunately, that was the territory of the slaves.
In Liaodong, oak is called oak wood, and the fungus produced from this thing is very delicious, much more delicious than the fungus produced from basswood.
People in the Northeast eat oak fungus, and fungus are sold to outsiders.
Mingyan considered that a large number of warships would be built in the future, and it would be impossible without good wood. According to the information Yang Fan left for him, the white oak production area is in the Vladivostok area. It is relatively close to Tianjin, and a large number of loggers can be recruited.
The workers cut the wood wherever they go and dry it in the local shade.
It was also a distant rear area for the Jiannu, a place that was difficult to reach and was inhabited by the savage Jurchen tribe.
If a settlement can be built somewhere and large quantities of high-quality white oak can be harvested, it will be a century-old project for the Yang Fan Group.
Yang Fan and Ming Yan had said that one of the important reasons why the Francois in Western Europe now have hegemony is that their land has a large amount of mountainous land, where oak trees suitable for shipbuilding grow.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! When the continuous wars consume all their oak, their sea power will come to an end.
In the era of sailing warships, warships had sea power, and warships could be built only with wood. The quantity of centuries-old wood determined the quality of warships.
If you want to participate in this feast, you must start stocking up on wood as soon as possible. Yang Fan will be unable to do without warships made of wood for at least twenty years.
The more oak and teak you can store, the better, because it takes several years to dry naturally, so the earlier you prepare, the better.
If a huge inventory is accumulated in Vladivostok, it can be shipped to Tianjin at some time, and even shipbuilders can be sent to build a shipyard to manufacture large quantities of warships.
Many things must be prepared for a rainy day, and you cannot wait until you need to use it to find shade-dried wood.
Mingyan's letter was sent, but he never got a reply from the master. He was also a little worried. After the money and food were distributed tomorrow morning, these people would disperse and go home.
It's hard to call them together when they're down.
Mingyan stayed awake the whole time, thinking about this matter. Not only did he really like these workers and wanted to find a way out for them, he also wanted to make long-term plans for the shipyard.
In many cases, people in the past planted trees and people in the future took advantage of the shade.
When daybreak was about to break, a messenger quickly ran into the shipyard, shouting as he ran, "Letter from the capital, this is Ming Yan."
Mingyan was so happy that she quickly ran out and took the envelope from the courier's hand.
I couldn't wait to open it and read it. When I saw the new content, Mingyan's heart dropped into her stomach, and the master agreed.
And arranged a large army of troops to go to Vladivostok to establish a colony with the lumberjacks Mingyan could recruit.
Colony, Mingyan thought about the meaning of this word. It probably means going to a wild land to develop.
This will be the Yang Fan Group's first colony in this time and space.