Chapter 36

Leisure time is easy. Since Li San went to Chang'an, half a month has passed.

For half a month, the snow in Qingzhou was intermittent. The snow in the city was enough to reach people's knees. The sun came out to melt the snow, and the road was very muddy.

In this way, the people in Qingzhou City are even more reluctant to walk around.

Xiao Ming's mind is the same as that of the common people. Apart from going to the equipment department for supervision, he usually draws pictures in the palace. Today, the structural drawings, overall renderings and node drawings of the Galleon are all out.

"Fortunately, I have some art skills." Xiao Ming is very proud. In modern times, his only hobby is drawing comics, so he dabbles in drawing.

Although he only uses a brush, his drawing is patterned and has clear lines, which is not inferior to that made by computer.

"Why is your highness so happy?" Lvluo brought her breakfast.

After winter, the food is more monotonous. Breakfast is just two pieces of flour cake and pimple soup. However, there are more people hunting this season, so there are some deer meat and wild birds on the market.

Now that Prince Qi's house has money, he can eat meat every other day.

"The boat I painted is finished at last." Xiao Ming happily took the cake and slipped his finger on lvluo's little hand.

Lu Luo takes a look at Xiao Ming and gets used to his character.

Looking at more than ten pictures on the chopping board, lvluo spat out her tongue, "Your Highness is really powerful. If it is lvluo, I don't know when she can draw so many pictures."

Xiao Ming is in the mood. The drawing has come out. It's time to let Zhang Liang move.

He believes that in terms of shipbuilding technology, Dayu is still not backward at this stage. What is backward is only the solidified thinking and technology.

"What's the difficulty? There's nothing wrong at night. If you come here, I'll give you some advice to ensure that you can make rapid progress." Xiao Ming said as he ate the cake.

Lu Luo said with a red face: "Your Highness must have to play tricks on Lu Luo, so I won't be fooled." With that, lvluo pursed out of Xiao Ming's bedroom.

Xiao Ming, with a smile, watches lvluo go back and has a quick breakfast. He goes to the equipment department with the drawings.

In this cold winter, I can't go to other places, and I can only go back and forth between the instrument department and the palace.

He also wants to set up some simple workshops in the slack season of winter, so that they can be used after spring.

"Your Highness." Chen Qi saw Xiao Ming come over and said with a bow.

Different from other places, at this time, the equipment department was still very hot. The craftsmen and servants were very busy. In the backyard of the equipment department, two three meter high blast furnaces rose up.

On both sides of the blast furnace are soil tamping steps for feeding. At the bottom, each blast furnace is connected with a huge bellows for blowing.

In front of the blast furnace, there are some dark things, not coal, but coke that Xiao Ming asked Chen Qi to burn.

"What's the matter? What's the matter with the blast furnace ironmaking experiment?" Xiao Ming asked.

The mature technology taught by Xiao Ming made Chen Qi less detours, but the specific process still needs practical experiments.

"Back to your highness, the coke was not successfully fired at the beginning. There were too many iron dross. Later, we adjusted the temperature to make the carbon more tight, and then we got qualified coke. During ironmaking, we adjusted the amount of wind and coke many times, and then we made qualified cooked iron." Chen Qi said.

Since Xiao Ming asked him to use blast furnace ironmaking, he has been working on it, and now he has finally succeeded in refining the cooked iron.

Xiao Ming nodded, "yes, once the crucible is produced, these wrought iron can be refined into qualified steel, and the strength of our machine tool tools can also be strengthened."

"We're waiting for housekeeper Qian to come back. Normally, housekeeper Qian has been out for more than 20 days. Why hasn't he come back yet?" Chen Qi is almost obsessed with the process technology, and can't help but feel anxious at this time.

Xiao Ming frowned. He was also worried. It was snowing and thieves. Don't let it happen again.

Glancing at the cooked discus, Xiao Ming said, "it's not urgent. The equipment department has a lot of work. You can do other things first. By the way, what's the performance of Zhang Liang and others in this period?"

Chen Qi seems to have forgotten Zhang Liang and others. At this time, Xiao Ming said, "Your Highness, these people have been responsible for some hard work, but they are diligent. What can I do for them?"

Xiao Ming Liang Liang in the hands of the drawings, "for this, I'm afraid the equipment department will also help to produce some parts."

"Your Highness, can you show me?" Chen Qi was scratching her ears.

Knowing Chen Qi's nature, Xiao Mingxin doesn't tease him and hands him the drawing.

"This is the boat?" Chen Qi looked a little and exclaimed, "but I've never seen such a boat before."

"This kind of ship was originally called Galen ship. After many improvements, the king now calls it Qingzhou ship." Xiao Ming said.

Chen Qi probably turned it over and gave it back to Chen Qi, scratching his head and saying, "Your Highness, I'm afraid I can't do anything about shipbuilding. I've never learned it before.""I'm not asking you to build a ship, I'm just asking you to produce some parts." Xiao Ming said with a smile.

Chen Qi breathed a sigh of relief, and then remembered, "I said, why did your highness look for Zhang Liang? Didn't his family open a shipbuilding workshop before? I'm going to call him here

After a while, Chen Qi brought Zhang Liang over. Zhang Liang bowed and said, "I've seen your highness."

"No gift." Xiao Ming helped Zhang Liang up and said, "this time I want you to come here. I have something to appoint you. It's a waste to let you Zhang Jia be a coolie. Come on, have a look at this and weigh whether it can be made."

Zhang Liang was stunned for a moment and took Xiao Ming's drawing. When he looked at it, he was numb. After a long time, he turned every page of the drawing like crazy. In the end, Zhang Liang's hands could not stop shaking.

"Your Highness, how did you get this drawing? This kind of ship is unheard of by the old slaves, but with the experience of the old slaves, this ship is very suitable for sailing at sea. " Zhang Liang said.

Xiao Ming nodded, saying that Zhang Liang still had some skills. He could see the technical content. He said, "don't ask me about this. I only ask you whether you are willing to build this boat for me?"

"Yes!" Zhang Liang said without hesitation: "it's better than being here all day with ore and cinder."

"Well, in this case, I will restore your shipyard, but since then, your shipyard will be the official camp, and you will have no contact at all. Would you like to?"

Zhang Liang sighed and said: "I am a slave now, and I am a slave again. I only want to live up to my lifelong learning."

"Well, in a few days, you and your people will go back to the shipyard. I will deal with the Qin family's affairs." Xiao Ming said.

Zhang Liang's former shipyard had been detained by the Qin family. Xiao Ming had to ask for it and decided on it. The equipment department had nothing else to do, so he went back to the palace.

At this moment, the merchant ships of the Qin family docked at the wharf of Chang'an, the capital of Chongqing.

Li San came down from the boat and looked at the majestic Chang'an city not far away.

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