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Chapter 74 Time flies

When Hei Xiaobao left Jinzhouwei with his caravan and came to the boundary of the later DL City, the expected desolate scene still appeared.But although Dalian is desolate, the more they go to Lushunkou, the more and more people they will find.After they arrived in Lushun, not only was it not desolate, but it was surprisingly lively. At least in the position near Lushun Port in Houshi City, a small town that could accommodate thousands of people had already appeared.

Before Hei Xiaobao arrived in Lushun, he had never figured out what the so-called "second most profitable business in the world" was.After he walked into the town with the caravan, he immediately realized it.

"Look, it's a big ship!"

Hei Xiaobao pointed to the shipyard near the sea, where several big blessing boats were laying decks parked in the open dock.There are hundreds of shipbuilders busy around the ship, shouting and yelling one after another, the scene is so lively!
It's just that Hei Xiaobao and the others don't understand that these lucky boats in the dock must be very different from the lucky boats that are common in the sea.Because their masts are not only taller, but also have four or five more beams (héng, horizontal bars used to hang sails on the mast).

In fact, not only Hei Xiaobao and the others don't understand, even the fishermen living in small towns don't understand. In their impression, three or four hard sails on this kind of big blessing boat are fast enough, and there is no need to put the mast on it. So high up.The fishermen are wondering, aren't they afraid that such a heavy sail will break the mast?
Not long after Hei Xiaobao and his caravan came to the town, someone specially came to receive them.When the receptionist learned that they were introduced by Wang Zhi, he asked them the first sentence:
"Want to make a lot of money?"

"How to make money?" Hei Xiaobao asked.

"Be a sailor, go to sea!"

"What about the money?"

"A trainee sailor for one year, food and shelter, and a salary of 3 silver dollars per month."

"Silver dollars?" Xiaobao was a little surprised.

"That's it!" The receptionist threw a piece of Yongle Yuan to Hei Xiaobao, and said, "A silver dollar weighs seven cents and two cents, and its fineness is even better than official silver! As long as you become an apprentice sailor, you can save two taels a month." What a lot of money!"

Hei Xiaobao nodded and asked, "And then?"

"The probationary period is one year, and board the ship after passing the assessment. On the ship, sailors have 8 silver dollars per month, bosun, sailor, and helmsman 12 silver dollars, second mates, surveyors, chief clerks 20, first mates 30, captains 60 yuan!"

When Hei Xiaobao heard that the captain had 60 silver dollars a month, it would be 720 dollars in one year!He couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Is it so much money?"

"Where does this go?" The receptionist continued: "After boarding the ship, each time the trade returns, the chief mate and below will share [-]% of the silver taels obtained from the trade, and the first mate and the captain will get half of it."

"How much can a boat sell for each time?"

"It can't be said for sure. When there is a sea trade, there can be thousands of vehicles when there are few, and tens of thousands of taels when there are many. If the things are more expensive, 10,000+ taels!" After finishing speaking, the receptionist said: I did not forget to explain: "A trainee sailor who is qualified to board a ship cannot be a second mate, surveyor and chief clerk, but he can directly become a bosun, sailor or helmsman. How about it, are you interested?"

Hei Xiaobao turned around and told the news to the clansmen in the team who didn't understand Chinese, so he saw the sparkle like snowflakes and silver in the eyes of the clansmen!

"We all agreed! But..." Bao'er asked tentatively again: "Are you still short of people?"

"Lack! How can there be no shortage! What?" Hearing Bao'er's tone, the receptionist knew that he might not only have this group of people, so he asked again: "Do you still have someone?"

"Yes, there are many more!"

"A lot and how much?" The receptionist laughed, and said to Hei Xiaobao: "If there are less than 5000 people, we will accept them all!"

After speaking, the receptionist brought Hei Xiaobao and his party to the admissions office of "Dongbao Navigation Vocational and Technical College", and told them everything they needed to know.And after repeated confirmation with Hei Xiaobao and his group, they were included in the academy, and the first month's salary was distributed on the spot!
"Are you not afraid of us running away?"

"If you are willing to give up a chance to make a fortune for these three silver dollars, we Dongbao Marine Merchant don't care about these three silver dollars."

Hei Xiaobao only held three silver dollars, and assured the receptionist: "You are too bright, I will go home right away, and fool all the old and young men in the village into sailors, just wait for me, I will definitely Come back!"

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The Dongbao Navigation Vocational and Technical College, located in the small town of Lushun, is of course the school founded by Boa’s partner Raphael Castell. The meaning of the word "Dongbao" is simple and clear. It naturally refers to the production of Ganshulin 30R insulin in later generations... No!The meaning of these two words of course refers to Dongchang’s Bao’er, and at the same time, it also means “Oriental Treasure”, so the name of the fleet created by Rafael is naturally Dongbao Fleet.The flag of the fleet is exactly the same as Bao'er's family crest in Dongpu today, with a crossed gold star inserted on a golden crescent, like a golden anchor.The background is lined with sea blue, which just means that the Dongbao fleet is riding the wind and waves on the blue sea, shining golden light.

Of course, after Baoer told Raphael Castelo about his idea, Raphael also specifically asked Baoer if he wanted to write "E·F·S·F" under the anchor. .

"Grass (a kind of plant), do you also see Gundam?"

After being silent for a moment, Rafael typed in the friend chat system: "How could it be possible that I haven't seen it... Also, is it really unnecessary to write EFSF?"

Bao'er also entered in the chat system: "Why write that, we are not the Earth Federation!"

"It can be regarded as the abbreviation of Eastern Fast Speed ​​Force."

"Oriental Rapid Troops? Forget it, we are already copycats, can we leave some room for Ou's bald Tomino a few hundred years later?"

(Author Popular Science: The golden cross star anchor and the abbreviation of EFSF are both from "Mobile Suit Gundam", which is Gundam 0079. This logo and abbreviation belong to the Earth Federation Space Force. So Boa stole it as his own samurai home pattern and fleet logo.)
In fact, Bao'er has been in touch with Raphael from time to time during the past three years, for example, Raphael is short of money, Rafael has something to deal with, or the shipbuilding plan has changed.And in the past few years, Bao'er has given Raphael nearly 1000 million silver dollars in total.Including the relocation and resettlement expenses of the old craftsmen of the Longjiang Bao Shipyard in Nanzhili, the construction costs of the shipyards and other technical facilities in Lushun and Incheon were all paid out of this 1000 million silver dollars.

As for Raphael's original shipbuilding plan, it was jointly rejected by Raphael and Boa when the Incheon Port and the shipbuilding plant were built.Because they found that even if they built a big ship that was ahead of the times in their minds, no one in East Asia, especially Northeast Asia, would be able to drive it.Moreover, the shipbuilders who moved from Nanzhili to Incheon have not built large ships with more than a thousand materials for several generations.

That's why the two men overturned the original decision. First, some shipwrights were placed in Lushun, and they were given the blueprints of the mast, rigging, and steering wheel of the Soft Sail, and asked them to install this set of Western things in Qianliao. On the left and right blessing boats, at the same time use the built new blessing boats to train sailors.

In Incheon Port, because it is relatively closed, and Rafael has also established contact with the tide insurance king Licang, the environment in Incheon Port is more suitable for research on new shipbuilding technologies.There are many young shipwrights with fantastic ideas gathered here. Although they can understand the drawings provided by Raphael, they don’t know the technologies needed to build these ships, such as matching wood processing technology, ship material deformation technology, multi-stage Keel splicing technology, and improved technology for high-efficiency pulley blocks, etc.

At the same time, Raphael is still trying to use the new Fuchuan to establish a short-distance trade fleet in East Asia.After all, Raphael also understands the hard truth of "blood making", so from the end of Bao'er's second year living in Japan, treasure ships with North American soft sails appeared in various ports in East Asia.And under the personal leadership of Raphael, they even reached the island of Java and bought a lot of spices on the island.When this ship of 5 taels of silver spices arrives in Dameng's Ningbo Port, their value will jump to more than 60 taels!

the second

Thanks to the book friend "Baihu Hezheng" for the reward and support
The next chapter is the final chapter of the second volume
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