The boy wanted to leave after he finished speaking, but Miao Yan stopped him.

It was said that it was a rare trip and wanted to treat him to a meal.

Liu Mingqi couldn't believe this statement.

Miao Heizi invited someone to dinner. If he had nothing to do, he would definitely let him down.

But it took Liu Mingjing and his team to clean up horses and various supplies for a long time, so Liu Mingqi couldn't refuse stubbornly.

Besides, he probably thought about what Miao Yan was looking for him for.

The boy rested in the back hall.

Then not long after, he heard Miao Yan's stern scolding and Sima Chen's iconic crying voice.

No, not a crying voice.

Sima Chen really cried.

After a while, the sound outside stopped.

Then Liu Mingqi saw Sun Rui coming in to get something.

The young young man coughed, asked with his eyes, and rubbed the money sign with his hands.

Sun Rui thought about it and turned around and gestured to him two index fingers.

Damn it.

Liu Mingqi couldn't help but complain.

This Miao Heizi is so dark!

I know you will hit them hard, but I don’t know that you have such a big deal!

Two hundred thousand taels of silver are almost 120% of the Sima family’s property, right?

Apart from fixed assets, such as houses, land, ships, etc., aren’t you squeezing their small vaults?

What a talent!

Not afraid of playing a frustration at all.

Of course, I thought about it again, what are Miao Yan’s fear of falling out?

He is an imperial envoy and famous master. He is even more famous. He is also a super popular man around the emperor. Isn’t he a celebrity who can come to be the governor of the canal transportation?

Moreover, at this stage, Jiangnan is likely to be attacked by Japanese people, so Miao Yan will copy more money and send it to other places in addition to his own expenses. Wouldn't it be like the dew of a severe drought?

How could the emperor scold him?

It's too late to praise!

In other words, Miao Yan was not good at killing in Jiangnan, which embarrassed Liu Renhuai, otherwise he would not have delayed until now to deal with the collusion between businessmen of officials and businessmen related to Lin Zhenyuan.

But Liu Mingqi didn't think that the Sima family's father and son were unlucky.

In fact, they are definitely not the ones who are most unlucky.

And after they honestly paid the fine, Miao Yan would definitely benefit the Sima family.

Otherwise, if you just use ruthless means, but you don’t know that both hard and soft are combined, such officials will definitely not be able to last long in the canal transportation yamen.

Besides, with such a miserable experience from the Sima family, other businessmen would not resist so fiercely when they were fined.

Unless you want to try whether Miao Heizi’s guillotine is hard or not, what else can you resist?

A body of evil spirit?!

...

Half an hour later, Liu Mingqi and Miao Yan appeared in Qingjiangpu east of the city.

Huai'an is the most important center of the Grand Canal, and Qingjiangpu is the center of Huai'an.

Qingjiangpu directly is the sea waterway of the Yellow River, Li Canal, Grand Canal, and Huai River.

The shipyard of the Caoyun Yamen is in a concave river channel here.

Standing on a hillside with a flat platform built, Liu Mingqi looked at the shipyard below, and the figures were busy.

The outlines of dozens of small boats are clearly visible, and there are many people surrounding them.

Some masters waved various instruments in the dock and pounded together various parts needed by the ship.

Some are processing wooden boards of various sizes on the flat ground outside.

There are two large ships close to the inside of the dock, which can be clearly seen that a large group of ship workers are building and installing keels inside.

There are more than a dozen small boats wandering back and forth on the river, not knowing what homework they are doing.

Miao Yan looked at such a busy situation and felt refreshed.

When he was busy and had a headache on weekdays, he liked to come here to see the almost abandoned canal shipyard that was restored step by step, and his heart was immediately filled with energy.

But now he turned to Liu Mingqi, but found that Liu Mingqi's face was dull and not particularly shocked.

"Your Highness, don't you think this model of a large factory is very shocking?" Miao Yan asked directly if he had any questions.

"Very good." There was an unconcealed perfunctory voice in Liu Mingqi's voice.

"What kind of factory do you think is good?" Miao Yan asked again.

"At least ten such sailboats must be started at one go, so that they can be considered prosperous, right?" Liu Mingqi said: "By the way, are there any orders now?"

Miao Yan smiled bitterly when he heard this, "How is it possible? Now we haven't even made sample ships, so how could those maritime merchants place orders stupidly?"

Liu Mingqi asked: "How long does a sailboat that the masters estimate will take?"

"From the cut to the trial voyage, it will take about seven or eight months to make the first production." Miao Yan said: "But it may be shorter in the future. The most important thing is that merchants can actively buy it. Otherwise, if such a large scale and so many people keep losing money, no matter how much money I spend, it will not be enough to fill it."

Liu Mingqi shook her hand, "Don't worry about this, Lord Miao. As long as your ship is made according to my design drawings and take them out for a walk, those who don't buy it will be fools! You just wait for the shipyard to be squeezed out by orders, and then actively expand the dock and recruit new personnel!"

"You don't know how much pressure I am." Miao Yan said lightly: "I dug up more than 300 masters in total, plus the original more than 200 people, and the master alone reached 600, not including the rest of the helpers, apprentices, etc. The daily food, drink, defecation and monthly salary of these people are all mountains, and God knows when it will be turned over."

Liu Mingqi smiled and said, "Now it is a technical accumulation reserve! If they can't see the benefits of this sailing ship, then they can place an order for ten ships if they capture Haibo this year!"

Miao Yan was stunned, "Your Highness, are you helping me?"

"Definitely not." Liu Mingqi denied, "I have never done favors when it comes to doing business. I designed the sailing boat, and of course I know its benefits. If those people don't know gold and jade, then it's just right to capture Haibo's family to expand their scale and give themselves the opportunity to gain the opportunity in the sea trade business."

Miao Yan had a slight jaw, but he didn't say much.

He was actually quite grateful to Liu Mingqi in his heart.

Before making this kind of sailboat, he specially found more than a dozen of the best masters to discuss and ask if it is practical.

As a result, most people think that this kind of sailboat is very good, and it is far better than the ships on the market in terms of strength, sail design, cargo loading, storm resistance, etc.

Its biggest disadvantage is that it is very expensive and has little popularity, which may take a lot of time to be accepted by merchants.

After hearing such opinions, Miao Yan dared to devote himself to sailing.

Otherwise, no matter how much he trusts Liu Mingqi, he would not dare to joke about a big investment of more than one million taels of silver.

Speaking of which, when I got to the local level, Miao Yan knew how much other pressure was besides government affairs.

The Governor of the Grain Transportation Transportation is definitely not only responsible for the grain transport to the Gyeonggi area, the northwest, the north, and other places, but also responsible for various commercial ships on the entire Grand Canal, and responsible for tax collection, investigation and other matters.

In addition, all the repairs, sorting, etc. of the Grand Canal must be decided by the Governor of the Canal.

Think about it, how many things will be waiting to be handled in a Grand Canal with a total length of more than 3,000 miles?

No wonder a canal transportation governor's office was established to manage it specifically.

This is not over yet.

The Governor of the Canal Transportation Army also has to be responsible for finding more projects and making more money, so that he can supplement the various expenses of his yamen in addition to meeting the filial donations he has to the court from time to time every year.

For example, this is the reason why the shipyard in front of us is established.

But before, Lin Zhenyuan didn't care about such a legitimate business at all. He could already meet his needs by stolen food everywhere. How could he use it so much trouble?

Miaoyan is not good.

Miao Yan came to the Cao Transportation Office to mobilize the pie from all sides of the forces.

He had to break these ugly collusions in order to clarify the canal transportation and let this golden waterway represent the lifeline of Dakang play a greater and better role again.

But in this way, he was destined to get much less money than Lin Zhen.

In order to prepare for the court more emergencies, to make the grain transportation smoothly, and even to resettle the 20,000 grain soldiers, he must take this shipyard seriously.

Although Miao Yan waved his butcher knife this time and wanted to loot the property of these profiteers, this is a one-time income and will definitely not be much in the future, and it still has the roots in this area.

So now, before Liu Mingqi built a sailboat, she placed an order of ten ships, and immediately gave him a reassurance.

He told the masters the news, and believed that morale would be greatly encouraged.

Whether you have the motivation or not is particularly important for the people in the shipyard.

"By the way, Lord Miao, how are they doing with my dredging boat and dredger?" Liu Mingqi pointed to the bottom and said, "They are using the dredging boat and dredger on the river, right?"

“That’s right!”

When Miao Yan talked about this, he had a smile on his face: "This kind of dredging ship and dredging ship is very effective and is very good to use. Especially in some small rivers, it comes and goes freely and can be cleaned in three to five days. Therefore, the river governor ordered 100 dredging ships and 100 dredging ships with me!"

Compared with the four-mast sailboats that are not so familiar to the masters, there are many dredging ships and dredgers before, and the masters themselves have built many of them, so you can tell at a glance whether it is good or bad.

The first batch of dredging ships and dredgers that took three months to build were experimented on the tributaries of the Huai River. The efficiency was very high, the dredging effect was good, and it was not very difficult, which attracted everyone's praise.

Therefore, not only did the Cao Transport Office place an order, but the abducted river governor also readily placed a large order.

It is because of so many orders that we actively increase our morale and allow the masters who have been poached to stay down to work steadily.
Chapter completed!