Yin Feng hurriedly flipped through books and pens, hiding his embarrassment and looking for appropriate words to say. After thinking about it, he smiled bitterly and said, "You really don't want to go home?"
The girl lowered her head and whispered for a long time: "There is a legend in the village that I was captured by pirates, and that..."
Yin Feng sighed and said: "Okay. You can stay here for the time being. You don't have to do any work, just clean it a little. Where will you sleep?"
After saying this question, Yin Feng felt even more embarrassed. Wan'er lowered her head again, and both of them blushed a little. Yin Feng was no longer the first brother, but facing this simple and innocent fisherman girl, he still couldn't help but feel embarrassed.
. On the pirate ship, Yin Feng knocked over a Malay sailor to save her. He hugged and pulled her. Yin Feng had no feeling at all and always treated her as a younger sister. Now, this fisherman girl who is good at diving is
Now that she had become his maid, Yin Feng felt that she had become a stranger. He couldn't help but think of his marriage, and sighed and said: "There are piles of debris in the east wing. I asked Uncle Li to send someone to clean it up tonight. You
Just rest there."
During the Chinese New Year, Yin Feng, Boss Li and the Zeng family all returned to Quanzhou.
The courtyard of the Zeng family in the northern suburbs of Quanzhou was decorated with lights and colorful, and it was very lively. Since Zeng Shan, the son of the third brother of the Zeng family, passed the rural examination and officially became the first person in the history of the Zeng family to be elected, the Zeng family was extra grand and lively during the New Year this year. Yin
When Feng and others arrived at the Zeng family compound, the threshold at the gate had been raised, and the servants at the door held their heads high. There were still houses in the compound where windows were being repaired. Fatty Li told Yin Feng that this was a report after he passed the provincial examination.
It was a custom of the Ming Dynasty that after a student was elected, the person who reported the news would use a stick to smash all the windows in the hall of his house, and then a group of craftsmen would follow and immediately repair it. This is called "changing the courtyard."
These craftsmen will always be the patrons of the Tseng family, and different craftsmen often compete for their patronage.
This dynasty values literature over martial arts, and the most important thing is the imperial examination. Once someone wins the civil service examination, his status is the same as that of a county magistrate even if he does not hold an official position. Rich men from various families come to seek relatives, some come to recruit sons-in-law, and some come to worship teachers. As long as he opens his mouth,
Thousands of taels of silver were sent to them. These were looking for backers. The Zeng family was originally a family of officials, but Zeng Qi was born and paid tribute. His reputation was very bad, and he was often looked down upon by the officials and gentry who were on the right path to the imperial examination. Now they can finally feel proud.
, straightened up to meet people, everyone in the Zeng family, old and young, master and servants, all looked beaming with joy.
Yin Feng's small courtyard is in the northeast of the Zeng family's compound. It was originally the land of the Zeng family. Now it has a small courtyard with two entrances. Yin Feng placed Ma Jialuo and Mai Wan'er in his courtyard, and then followed Li
The boss went to visit Zeng Ke, the uncle of the Zeng family. This visit was endless. The uncle’s brothers also wanted to meet him one by one. The uncle of the Zeng family went to sea for trade in his early years and lived a hard life. Now he has rheumatoid arthritis and cannot
He is walking. Of his three sons, only Zeng Yue is more capable. The other two are old boys and are still working hard for the endless imperial examination career.
The second master, Zeng Qi, had never returned to his hometown, and his wife met with Yin Feng, who might become his mother-in-law. Yin Feng did not dare to slack off in front of her, and performed all the etiquette.
The third master, Zeng Bai, had been ill. Although his son Zeng Shan passed the imperial examination, he could not get up to see people. Therefore, Yin Feng only met Zeng Shan, the new imperial examination candidate. Zeng Shan and Zeng Yue were not the same kind of people at all.
Shan had taken off the green shirt of a student and put on the Confucian robe of a scholar. He looked very steady in his manner. He did not have Zeng Yue's sincerity and casualness in treating others. He just followed the rules and simply bowed his hands to Yin Feng and said indifferently.
After a few words, his eyes were high and his eyes were high.
When Yin Feng had bent down and bowed and saluted countless times, and his waist was a little sore, a large number of clerks from the business firm, led by Zeng Jingshan, came to visit him. Finally, the servants invited him to attend the Zeng family's family banquet. This kind of family banquet is exquisite.
The elders and younger ones are in order, the hierarchy is strict, and the gestures must not be disrespectful. Fatty Li has explained and taught him repeatedly beforehand. Yin Feng's food is tasteless, and he is really not used to such slow and stereotyped banquet scenes.
Zeng Ke asked about his overseas experiences and talked about his various overseas miracles; such as the "flying back and forth" of the Australian aboriginals, the mystery of the black Africans, the magnificence of the Taj Mahal in India, the golden mountains in the Americas... Listen
Everyone at the table was confused and doubtful.
In Yin Feng's original time and space, he would only be so talkative when he drank too much. This time, he was really impatient with the dull atmosphere, so he was so talkative.
Afterwards, Zeng Ke said: I am a firewood!
Fatty Li explained that it means: "He is very stupid!"
Most of the three brothers of the Zeng family still speak Chaozhou dialect, and many of their younger brothers have adopted the local Quanzhou dialect or learned to speak Mandarin. Yin Feng smiled and didn't care.
On this day, the day before New Year's Eve, Li Dan and several people came to the door, which made Yin Feng overjoyed.
Just after Li Dan returned from Manila, the northwest monsoon caused his ship to suffer some hardships and had to detour along the coast of northern Zhejiang before he could return. After hearing about Yin Feng's deeds, he was surprised and felt that Yin Feng was worth making friends with. Li Dan
Introducing the partners behind him: they are all very young "sea runners", including his two sworn brothers: Xu Xinsu and Li Huayu. Xu Xinsu later became Zheng Zhilong's competitor in Yin Feng's original time and space; and Li Huayu
, and later the Chinese Kapitan from Hirado, Japan, who was among the top names on the patron lists of the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company.
Now, these two capable young men are not famous yet, but they seem to admire Li Dan very much and are loyal to him.
Li Dan took the initiative and proposed that Yin Feng would be responsible for supplying the raw silk for the coming year, and Li Dan would be responsible for transporting it to Manila for sale, and then sharing the shares with Yin Feng. Yin Feng immediately agreed on behalf of the Zeng family, as he had originally planned to do business in Manila.
Of course, Yin Feng's most important plan was to "connect Japan". He launched his own shipbuilding plan: build two ships to sail on the Yuegang-Manila and Yuegang-Japan trade routes.
Originally, his plan was to contact the Dutch to break the Portuguese monopoly on Macao's external shipping routes, and gradually increase the number of ships sailing. He would use Dongfanjing Port as a base to go to ports in the East and West, and later develop his own ships based on actual conditions.
But these cannot be fully revealed, because Yin Feng does not want to turn Li Dan into his competitor. This is the advantage of a time traveler, who can grasp the general direction of changes in the situation. At the same time, conducting overseas trade on these routes is exactly
What Li Dan will do later in history, but now Yin Feng has made the same plan nearly twenty years in advance; in the plan, Li Dan is to be his collaborator. In case he also appears in advance
It is definitely not a good thing for Yin Feng to lose his ambition to become the king of the sea.
The shipbuilding plan shocked Li Dan. Not because building ships privately might offend the government. Li Dan himself was a typical example of secretly building ships to go overseas. What surprised him was Yin Feng’s ship design drawings. He was very knowledgeable and familiar with the Spanish carrack ship type.
Li Dan, who was waiting for various Western boats, saw at a glance that this was a sailing ship that combined Chinese and Western styles:
The overall ship shape lowers the ship floor and the center of gravity of the ship. The length-to-width ratio of the ship is 4:1. It has a round ship-shaped hull with a small head and a large tail. It is a combination of the typical European popular Galen ship type and the Chinese Fu ship type; the deck is equipped with
The three-mast structure is made of canvas and sail bamboo; the horizontally densely spread horizontal poles are called sail bamboo. The cloth sail supported by many sail bamboos maintains the characteristics of a hard sail. This kind of cloth sail with sail bamboo and the canopy woven from plant leaves
The same as the sail, the sail area can be increased or decreased according to the strength of the wind. When encountering a big storm, the cloth sail supported by the sail bamboo can also use its own gravity to quickly lower the sail, which is easy to operate. The inner cabin is equipped with a beam and
The wooden planks are divided into three layers and have more beams than traditional Chinese ships; the first layer below the deck is a steerage cabin without transverse compartments, which is planned to be used to store cannon or cargo; the bottom tank retains the watertight compartment design of Chinese ships.
Li Dan, who has been working hard at sea all year round, can easily understand this design drawing, but he does not understand the cross-section part at all; Yin Feng drew it with a homemade charcoal pen based on the information on the original laptop (the brush is really not suitable for drawing drawings)
), it took three days to draw. The dimensions marked above are all converted from metric to Chinese sizes, and come from the shipbuilding history part of "Cambridge History of Technology". This is also something that makes Yin Feng painful: he was a child.
I was forced to learn abacus by my parents, and it has already come in handy in promoting double-entry bookkeeping for commercial banks; this time, it also came in handy for drawing design drawings.
At this time, the world's shipbuilding industry was still dominated by empiricism. Although mathematics and physics had already come in handy in the Western shipbuilding industry, the appearance of ship design drawings had to wait until the early 18th century in England. Strictly speaking, Yin Feng's design drawings
It's more like a sketch, and the dimensional data are not realistic; but Yin Feng can't make it more detailed and better: there are no geometric drawing tools, so it would be nice to be able to draw it like this.
Li Dan murmured: "I'm afraid this kind of ship cannot be built in Fujian."
Yin Feng asked quickly: "Fujian can even build a five-masted "Fengzhou" to go to Ryukyu. The maximum load of my ship is about 16,000 kilograms."
Li Dan shook his head: "Only the Spanish and Portuguese can build this type of ship. The shipbuilders in Fujian have never built such a type of ship. They don't know the proportions of each part of the ship, so they can't build it."
Yin Feng pointed carefully at the cross-sectional view on the drawing: "I wrote down the dimensions."
Li Dan took a closer look and said doubtfully: "The size of this ship is a secret kept by shipbuilders. How do you know it? This size comes from actual ships?"
Yin Feng smiled and pretended to be mysterious: "Brother Li, don't be suspicious. Help me find an old shipwright to take a look at it, and you will know the clues in this drawing."
Li Dan looked at Yin Feng, shook his head and said: "If I had just met you Yin brother today, I would definitely not believe you. However, this year, oh, it's almost last year, you have proven that you are not a big talker. Haha,
I'll find someone for you to see if such a ship can be built."
Li Dan has his own considerations; now he is just an inconspicuous private businessman, and his adventurous spirit in overseas trade is much higher than that of the Zeng family. He also intends to slowly increase his strength, but he has not yet thought of having his own
Armed fleet to challenge the maritime power of Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and Britain. So he unsuspectingly helped Yin Feng build ships and promote business.
This made Yin Feng feel uneasy at times, as if he was deliberately taking advantage of Li Dan.
After Li Dan and others left, Yin Feng carefully put away the drawings and started calculating the equipment that needed to be placed on the ship. Wan'er's beautiful figure floated in and brought him tea.
"Be careful about the manuscripts I asked you to keep, lest they be bitten by insects and rats." He said while writing without raising his head.
"Yeah." Wan'er hummed obediently and walked away. The villagers were not allowed to read and write, so she couldn't read. Yin Feng safely let her keep the ghost-like script he copied from his mobile phone.
In the past few days, he had been writing and drawing until late every night, which left a good impression on the Zeng family. The Zeng family also sent him a few servants to clean the house early every morning. Then, a certain
A servant went to the inner house of the Zeng family compound and reported to a group of senior members of the Zeng family: "This Young Master Yin doesn't go out every day. He spends the whole day reading and writing in the study, and he also makes calculations."
"How does he treat others?" Zeng Ke, the eldest son of the Zeng family, asked.
"I treat the little ones very politely. I don't need anyone to wait on me when I'm washing or washing. I even say 'thank you' to the little ones..."
"Chai Chai!" (Stupid) Zeng Qi's wife said: "To say thank you to your slave, you are really a barbarian from overseas!"
"I think stupid people are blessed by stupid things. This kid is eager to learn and make progress, and his business skills are not bad. The most important thing is to be honest and reliable." The boss of the Zeng family nodded: "Although he behaves erratically and is a bit reckless, he is still a good guy.
"The son-in-law." (The son-in-law is the son-in-law)
Mrs. Zeng Qi hurriedly said: "You have the final say regarding pretty children."
In fact, Zeng Qi wanted to betroth their daughter from a common concubine to Yin Feng, and the Zeng family did not have many opponents. After all, they were also businessmen, and they were also the sons of a common concubine. The only opponent was Zeng Shan, a new scholar.
He said: "Why should my daughter of an official marry a businessman?"
Zeng Ke immediately blocked him back with one sentence: "Your father and I are both businessmen."