After leaving Yacheng, I walked south along First Street and soon arrived at the ferry.

Next to the ferry is the floating bridge leading to Yuliangkan in the east of Xiangyang City. However, Li Chao has liked to take a ferry at the ferry recently, rather than taking a ferry directly.

The ferry is very lively.

Although there is a floating bridge passing through the other side, not everyone can walk on this bridge. The entry and exit inspection is very strict, and you must have a pass sign to walk on it. If you have no cards, you will be investigated and interrogated, and you may be arrested for a few days of labor.

Only residents on the island have pass signs.

Ordinary businessmen still take boats at the ferry. Ferries are big and small. Small ferries are actually bamboo steaks. They sway and float on them. They will wet their shoes if they are accidentally done. It doesn’t matter in summer, but wet shoes in winter is a troublesome. Especially the steak can’t sit for a few people and carry much goods.

Most people can make ferries. These boats actually have no cabins, just a bottom shell, with no gaps on them, but such boats are more stable. Especially for many northern landslides who do not know how to water, sitting on the shaking row is simply a life-threatening one, let alone sitting on it.

Li Chao has a special ferry, which is beautifully made. Among the boats at the ferry, this boat is the most conspicuous and can be seen at a glance.

This is a sailboat.

A three-masted sailboat can carry more than 100 people, and its displacement is estimated to be about 1,000 tons. In fact, this ship was completely built by Li Chao from the Mayflower sailboat that landed in North America.

The Mayflower, built by Xiangyang Shipyard, took a lot of time to carefully restore the data. The construction of this ship was actually mainly about studying shipbuilding technology, which was an experimental ship.

Later, Li Chao treated this boat as his ferry and placed it at the Yuliangzhou Ferry. Sometimes he would take this boat to fish on the Han River.

Li Chao called him Mayflower on this boat.

The Mayflower is very special here. Although there are many sailing ships like the Tang Dynasty today, sailing ships are expensive. Therefore, these ships are all running on the sea, and they are basically ships from the Sihai Company. In Xiangyang, there are very few large sailing ships.

The crew had known that Li Chao had arrived at this point, so the bridge board had been set up long ago, so Li Chao rode his horse on the deck.

"teacher."

On the deck of the ship, Prince Chengqian stood there with a smile.

Another year later, one year older, and now the prince in September has grown taller. Although his lips have not yet grown a beard, his head is indeed much higher, and his voice is changing.

Chengqian stepped forward a few steps and led the horse for Li Chao.

While walking, the prince was very steady.

Last year, the prince fell off a horse and was injured for a long time. Now, he has finally recovered completely.

"Why did you run out again today? Didn't Li Shaobao assign you homework?" Li Chao dismounted, stood in front of the prince and looked at him a few times, then smiled.

When the prince’s young master Li Gang was mentioned, Cheng Qian couldn’t help but curl his lips.

The two elders of the Eastern Palace, the young master of the prince, Li Gang, and the young master of the prince, Pei Ju.

Li Gang is in his 80s and Pei Ju is in his 70s. These two are Chengqian's teachers, but their educational methods are completely different from Li Chao.

Cheng Qian was extremely disgusted with these two ends and only knew how to talk about some great principles all day long. Pei Ju was a little better, but the one who annoyed the most was Li Gang, who read the script every day and then arranged a lot of skills.

"Teacher, I still like the time I was so happy when I followed the teacher around in the past," Cheng Qian said.

Last year, the prince fell off his horse. Although Li Chao later found a bearded guest to help him get the legs, Li Shimin and his wife no longer blamed Li Chao.

But after this year, Li Shimin became strict with the prince. He invited Li Gang and Pei Ju to be Chengqian's teacher, and invited a bunch of famous scholars to teach the prince's homework. He also often arranged ministers in the court and bachelors took turns to give lectures to the prince.

He no longer allowed him to leave the palace at will. Li Shimin occasionally asked Li Chao to give lectures to the prince, but he no longer asked the prince to go to Li Chao's mansion often, let alone live in Li Chao's mansion, and followed Li Chao everywhere.

The prince was trapped in the Eastern Palace and studied this and that every day.

Occasionally, when Li Qiao went to give him a lecture, the prince could only pull Li Chao to tell his thoughts and say that he was tired of these things. But Li Chao had no choice. In the past, the prince was young, and Li Shimin felt that the prince had not taught him well, so he asked him to change his temperament with Li Chao. But later, after falling off the horse, Li Shimin changed his attitude.

Now, the way of teaching the prince is taught according to the prince's way, but it is a bit too early and too strict. Li Chao also told Li Shimin twice, but Li Shimin ignored his opinion. Later, Li Shimin became tactful and stopped talking.

Li Chao could see that the prince was unhappy, but he couldn't say anything.

He felt that his way of education was that although the prince was happy, it was not necessarily a suitable way of education. Li Chao could only be regarded as a pretty good teacher. It was okay to teach the prince occasionally and take him to play with it. But when it comes to orthodox education, he himself was not qualified.

Although Li Gang is known as the prince's killer, he has taught several princes at least and is experienced.

Li Chao said what education should a successor of the Tang Dynasty and a future emperor need to receive, but he must learn a lot. Li Chao can teach some, but he cannot teach everything.

"You won't sneak out again, are you?" Li Chao asked.

Such things have happened more than once. Sometimes, Cheng Qian, who was tired of studying in the Eastern Palace, would throw his homework and run out of the palace.

Of course, it's not about running over the wall.

Now there are many guards around the prince, most of whom are selected by Li Shimin himself. They are always by the prince, and it is impossible for the prince to get rid of them.

However, Li Shimin also knew that he could not be too strict with the prince, and appropriate relaxation was also necessary. As long as the prince did not act randomly, the guards would not stop him and would follow him all the time.

Cheng Qian rarely runs around, and he will come to see Li Chao when he leaves the palace.

The father and the other two chatted, sometimes fished, or did some hand-designs, occasionally doing barbecue, picnics, and had enough fun. Before dark, Cheng Qian would return to the palace by himself.

After a few times, Li Shimin felt relieved.

"Teacher, Xiangyang Shipyard built another 30 three-masted sailboats last month, and it is estimated that this month can maintain this production. Now Xiangyang Shipyard has almost stabilized its production capacity day by day."

Thirty three-masted sailboats a month, which is quite amazing production capacity.

But behind a Xiangyang shipyard, there are more than a dozen supporting manufacturers. Xiangyang shipyard is actually the assembly dock, where various accessories are assembled here.

The shipyard is large and there are many craftsmen and workers. Many boats can be built at the same time, which is the result of thirty boats per month.

Think about the Dutch in later generations. In the era when they were called sea coachmen, the entire Netherlands had only a population of about 2 million, but they could build 70% of the world's sea ships at that time.

After a year of development, the original foundation of the shipbuilding industry, especially the basis of a large number of craftsmen, has achieved the glory of the Xiangyang Shipyard. This is an industry where the prince's shareholdings, and Li Xiangye is among them. Such an industry has been green light in all aspects, especially the shipbuilding craftsmen in the shipyard. If it weren't for the identities of Li Chao and Li Chengqian, how could it have dug up so many craftsmen?

There are actually more than one shipyard like Xiangyang Shipyard. There are still eight shipyards in Dengzhou, Shandong, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Jiaozhou, and Vietnam.

However, those shipyards are not that large in scale and their output is not that high.

These eight shipyards not only build ships but also repair ships.

The great sailing plan of Li Chao and the prince is slowly unfolding.

"Vietnam Hou Gang and the Zhenla people fought another battle. With our three-masted sail warships, our eight-magic crossbow and sulphur bombing chariots, we killed more than 100 Zhenla warships, killed more than 500 people, and captured more than 1,000 prisoners. It was so satisfying!" Prince Chengqian was still excited when he talked about the things mentioned in the letter Zhang Zhongjian just sent not long ago.

The three-masted sail warship, paired with eight-ox crossbow and counterweight stone throwing cart, especially the sulphur bombs made of asphalt and oil, was extremely sharp in naval battles.

Relying on the speed advantage of the three-masted sailboat, when Zhang Zhongjian fought with the Zhenla warship, he kept in mind a secret from Professor Li Chao, seized the upper hand, and then used his range advantage to shoot the Zhenla people's extremely backward small warship with sharp turbulent oil bombs and turbulent crossbow guns, and naturally he was invincible.

Although the Zhenla people are in the limelight on land recently, they have to cross the straits, but they attacked Zhang Zhongjian on Pearl Island, but they have been defeated repeatedly.

At the beginning, it was still small in scale, and only lost several ships each time. Last time, the Zhen La people dispatched more than 100 ships of all sizes, which made it quite powerful. As a result, the entire army was wiped out in front of the armed merchant ship fleet of the Sihai Trading Company led by Zhang Zhongjian.

Now Zhang Zhongjian is not only the Vietnamese Marquis of the imperial court, but also the partner of the Sihai Company of the Prince and Li Chao, and is the spokesperson of the company in the Nanyang region.

Because this year the fleet organized by Zhang Zhongjian brought back a large amount of grain to the Central Plains, Li Shimin was very satisfied. Recently, he has been considering that he would promote Zhang Zhongjian to the position of duke of the county.

"Teacher, let's go to the drill today?"

There were eight-niu crossbows and catapults on Li Chao's ship, not many, crossbows and one. Originally, Li Chao would not have installed such things on the ship. These were heavy weapons and prohibited items. But Li Chengqian wanted to install them, and he also got the things. Therefore, Li Chao's ship was equipped with eight-niu crossbows and catapults on him. Everyone knew that, but no one said anything.

Chengqian often asked Li Chao to take him on a sailboat, and would ask for exercises and other things, make a few imaginary enemies, and then directed the sailors to control the Baniu Crossbow to attack the city car and smash them against a deserted shore.

“Not today.”

Li Chao rarely refuses Cheng Qian recently because the two have fewer opportunities to meet, and he always tries to meet some of his requirements. But today, Li Chao just wants to go home early.

"The teacher seems to have something to worry about. Has something happened?"

"When I came down, didn't I hear any good news?"

"Yes, my uncle won a great victory in Shuofang, broke Yu Shecheng and recovered Henan." Cheng Qian said calmly.

Li Chao was surprised, "You don't seem to be very excited."

"What's so exciting about it? It was just that when the Turkic dog bites and both losers, they suddenly attacked and caught them off guard, especially Li Simo was mainly relying on Li Simo as an insider. In contrast, the teacher rescued Longxi, seized Longnan, and recovered Shuofang. Everyone could listen to me so excited. My uncle is not worth mentioning, and Li Simo was the inner man who was developing in Shuofang at the time."

Li Chao burst into laughter.

"Your idea is not necessarily thrilling. In fact, just by means, I admire the timing of the Duke of Wei and the strength of the attack. The words "stable, accurate and ruthless" are used. But unfortunately, he ignored the overall situation. Your Highness, the Turks are going south in a big way, and there will be a huge battle to fight soon!"

"Ah?" Cheng Qian opened his mouth unexpectedly.

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