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Chapter 136 Model

When the people sent to various shipyards returned, they brought back a large group of people, and these were their achievements—a group of craftsmen who were familiar with building shipyards and making ships, a total of thousands of people.

One of them was eloquent and courageous, and even eliminated the people from a small shipyard who were obviously fooling around, and brought back all the capable and useful ones. Among them were not only those who could build ships, but also those who had participated in the construction and management of shipyards. personnel.

And when they received a request to find professionals who knew how to build ports, they really found a few experts in this field—although they were basically only at the level of building wharfs in inland rivers, they were more experienced than others. up.

After these people were handed over to Electrolux, Quan went to see them together, and asked some related questions by the way, which generally satisfied them.

The current plan is to develop Xiangluo Bay and another nearby bay first. The former is large and suitable for building a seaport, while the latter is smaller and suitable for shipyards.

In view of the fact that the sea guards have not yet been formed, the sea beasts in the two bays need to be cleaned up by another person.

Although it was embarrassing to expel these sea beasts from their original homeland, their existence could easily cause casualties, so Quan agreed to expel them. The Monarch Snake led the Jiao Snake to town the place in Xiangluo Bay. As long as the Jiao Snake released its breath, no Other sea beasts dared to move there, and in the same way, Xanadu and Brand went to the site of the shipyard.

However, given that only two of them were sent to Quan, and Brand didn't like water and couldn't go into the sea, Quan also sent another group of Neptune Whales to help Xanadu, while the Monarch Snake sent the previous captured There are many sea snakes, including the leader of the sea snake group, it is very convenient to control the younger brothers not to bite people randomly.

Although these Neptune whales and sea snakes were captured, they were still unowned, and only Xanadu Monarch Snake could watch them.

With these big sea beasts, workers can also help transport some large items when building harbors and shipyards.

The clearing personnel have been arranged, and the next step is to recruit enough people to participate in the construction work.

This is not an easy task. The local people have a deep fear of the sea. Even if the city lord's mansion offers twice the price of ordinary workers, few people are willing to work.

In the end, Electrolux, unable to find enough manpower, directly issued a call-up order to all the people in Clay, requiring every household that meets the conditions of corvee service to send a middle-aged person to participate in this construction.

As soon as the conscription order came out, no one said anything. After all, it was the power of the lord. As long as he wanted, he didn't even need to pay the lords any wages, because no adult was required to serve corvee.

It's just that in the past, everyone was usually asked to build roads, build rivers or join the army, but this time they were asked to go to the seaside.

Everyone in Clay was filled with distress, and everyone who met the conditions was crying bitterly, as if they would never come back after this trip.

For a moment, in the eyes of all Clay people, Electrolux became a terrible autocratic lord who didn't care about the life and death of his subjects. He was even more resentful than his title of Black Son.

And Quan, who heard some gossip from his subordinates, was overjoyed, and asked Electrolux teasingly, "Your Excellency, dictatorial lord, what do you think?"

Electrolux: ... what does he think?It turned out that the fixed salary was still too high, so it would be fine as usual.

So after knowing that the wages of these recruits were only half of the original set, the workers who took the risk to apply for the money in the early stage were very lucky, and fortunately they agreed earlier.

The later workers just regretted it. If they knew that they would come sooner or later, they might as well join the recruitment at the beginning, so as to get a little more wages.

With a mood similar to going to death, he followed the soldiers sent by the city guards to the two bays. He thought he would see the ferocious faces of sea beasts, but it was not.

The bay that used to be filled with sea beasts is now full of people, and it is full of merchants and mercenaries transporting goods. These goods were bought in the name of the city lord's mansion, and were used to build seaports and shipyards. Experts invited back from various shipyards earlier Before the arrival of the workers, they had been escorted over to investigate on the spot and discussed the construction plan. The blueprints were drawn. After Quan and Electrolux looked at them, they contacted many businessmen with a swipe of a pen. Materials and equipment needed.

Before the subsequent conscripted workers arrived, the reefs on the sand in the bay had been cleaned up, and the temporary shelters had been built. When they arrived, they saw a large area of ​​neat tents on the beach, and people came and went In the bay, the shadows of the sea beasts in the past are no longer visible.

No, it's not that I can't see it. If you look carefully, there are sea snakes and sea crocodiles among the magical beasts that help transport the goods.

Now they are docile one by one, not like ferocious sea beasts at all, but like domestic pets that have been domesticated for a long time.

The person in charge of arranging the newcomers hadn't been found much longer than the newcomers, but they already understood the rules here, so they were assigned such a job.

When newcomers who don't understand ask them what's going on here, these people will proudly tell them that it's because their little prince, the good Duke, sent his ninth-level monster to clean up the bay, so this place is already Very safe place.

"Look, those over there are His Highness's monsters. They are all very powerful ninth-level monsters. Didn't there used to be legends about ninth-level monsters here in Xiangluo Bay? That white snake is the existence in that legend."

Everyone looked in the direction, and sure enough, they saw two snakes of about the same size lying on the only large reef left on the beach, one green and one white, lazily basking in the sun.

"With them here, other sea beasts will not dare to approach Xiangluo Bay, so this side is very safe."

Knowing that their lives are safe, the newcomers all relaxed, and even regretted that they didn't come earlier and lost half of their wages.

But later, the supervisory officials said that if they performed well and worked diligently, their wages could be increased back. Everyone burst out with enthusiasm and participated in the work, looking forward to getting a high salary early. Sent home to support the family.

The construction of the two bays is in full swing, and Quan has not been idle. The boatmen who have been invited back are now arranged in Clay’s City Lord’s Mansion. Quan will discuss with them about new ships every day, and try to study them one day earlier. Get out of the steamboat.

Most of these boatmen are veterans who have worked in the shipyard for more than ten years, and they are very good at building ships. It’s just that they were limited by the environment in the past, and they had no motivation or money to research new ships. Now they are different here, Xiao His Royal Highness personally drew the blueprints - but the style did not mark the specific data - asked them to help with detailed research, and there are so many experts in the industry to discuss with you, don't worry about funding and other issues, the creative desire in their hearts is just like that. Mobilized up.

Although everyone does not believe that steel can run on water, the person who jumped out of this plan is His Royal Highness, and the application of steam engines has also opened their eyes, but in the end it cannot be used on steel ships, but on wooden mast ships It can also greatly increase the speed of the ship and save manpower.

So although they felt that it was impractical to build a steel ship, no one said it out. They just subconsciously changed the appearance of the steel ship to the current masted ship when they were researching. Quan was satisfied with the result.

Quan quickly noticed that something was wrong with these people. After knowing what these people were thinking, he didn't say anything. Instead, he asked Electrolux to help him make a small model ship.

This model boat is modeled after the most common fishing boats. It is only one meter long, but it can let a child under ten years old sit on the boat and float on the water without sinking, just like a real boat. Same as fishing boats.

As for this model ship, its entire structure is made of metal, even a nail on it.

But when Quan showed this model boat to the boatmen, when they saw such a simple steel boat that could really float on the water, everyone's inherent ideas were broken, and they really did it for the first time. Realize that the original heavy metal can really be used to make a boat, not only that, it will be stronger and safer than ordinary wooden boats.

After realizing this, everyone no longer doubted Quan's plan. They began to devote themselves to the blueprint in public, and must understand and thoroughly understand it before coming up with the most reasonable plan.

Many of these boatmen have no education, and some of them don't even know a few words except their own names. It is actually very difficult for them to study the blueprints.

But if they can't figure it out, they make it by themselves. The real big ship is not good, but the model ship made by Izumi is always okay, right?They worked together and tried various materials provided by Quan. After making dozens of failed models, they finally succeeded in making a model of a steamship.

When the model steamboat roared and ran fast in the sea water of the castle, everyone burst into cheers of excitement.