I opened a tavern in Datang/Datang: My peerless talent was exposed

"And, Your Highness, it's not just because of experience. The other reason is that during the past year with His Highness, I have indeed seen many scenery that I have never seen before. In your words, my horizons are constantly being broadened!"

"Perhaps besides you, the next official knows how much impact these things will have once they are actually put into operation!

Then, when the time comes, Xiaguan, as the person who knows this best besides you, will be responsible for the construction and maintenance of the entire Tang Dynasty railway, and it will be no problem at all! "

Zhang Nuo nodded. It seems that this is Ma Zhou's ambition. He wants to jump out of the aristocratic family and the six departments in the three provinces where the competition is fiercest. The plan has not yet been established. In the case of building a railway following the trend, decisively choose the option that is most beneficial to you.

I have to say that Ma Zhou is indeed a man of great luck, and his vision is really quite long-term.

No one knows better than him how terrifying the departments responsible for a series of tasks such as the construction, manufacturing, and maintenance of railways across the country were when the industrial age was just emerging!

Chapter 556 The Shipping Plan Begins

Zhang Nuo actually supports and understands Ma Zhou's ideas. Some things are said too much and are sensitive, but in fact, this phenomenon also occurs in later generations.

When you grit your teeth and try your best to move forward towards the end point, some people have already stood at your end point when they were born.

After all, that was just the starting point for others.

There is nothing to complain about. After all, the family can have such a high starting point. It is the elders of the family who have paid the price and worked hard to benefit the children and grandchildren. What can I say?

As far as Ma Zhou is concerned today, needless to say his own talent, it can be seen that he is really talented in this area from the fact that he can manage the entire Qin Palace in an orderly manner.

Perhaps compared with the children of those aristocratic families, he did not have enough experience and knowledge at the beginning, but Ma Zhouqiang is strong in his determination to learn and his good learning talent.

The same group as Ma Zhou came in, and many people have not yet figured out how the non-own department in Lantian City operates, but Ma Zhou is already managing the entire Lantian City and the increasingly larger territory of Koryo.

This is a talent that is visible to the naked eye but not envied by others. Besides, people who are more talented than you work harder than you. What can you do?

Therefore, the rise of Ma Zhou has an element of chance, but perhaps there is also a kind of inevitability.

However, if we talk about Ma Zhou in history, it has nothing to do with Zhang Nuo, he is just a historical figure, but if Ma Zhou really goes to court today, he will be the real first person released by his side. A "direct line"!

If he loses face or something, his face will not look good.

So, should I give you a special training or something, such as a five-year college entrance examination and three-year simulation model, it seems that it should be useful for Ma Zhou.

Of course, I was joking about making papers and the like, but for now, since Ma Zhou's choice is to major in railways, then he can't understand it as easily as he is now, and he has to study hard.

After all, others don't know, but Zhang Nuo knows that just designing a multi-station train schedule can drive many people who are not good at logical thinking and mathematics into crazy.

Not to mention, as a management department, whether it is railway construction or train manufacturing, procurement, and maintenance, all of them involve an extremely large amount of mathematical calculation work. To be honest, people who have never learned it can't imagine In a super-large infrastructure project, there are so many computing tasks in the early stage.

These are naturally not the tasks of Ma Zhou alone, but he must know and have a general understanding, otherwise he will not even be able to check and review, what a management.

Well, since Ma Zhou himself has identified this road, and Zhang Nuo also feels that this road is very suitable for Ma Zhou, as his old club, he must let Ma Zhou know well, and learn from the sea without boundaries and work hard. What does it feel like to put this sentence into practice.

Zhang Nuo didn't stay at the construction site any longer. It was enough to just take a look. If there were no major problems for the time being, it would be just that if he continued to look at it.

He can't do nothing and work as a supervisor on the construction site every day.

It is better to train Ma Zhou out as soon as possible, and then let Ma Zhou train the middle and low-level managers, so that the team of the railway system can be built here first, and when he returns to China, he will just pack it all up. go back.

Zhang Nuo, who turned around and left, had nothing to do. There was still a big project waiting for him.

And this project seems to need his personal guidance, that is, the seaport and shipbuilding project near Pyongyang.

Historically, there are no large ports here, the main reason is that the hydrological conditions and economic development are not suitable.

However, if it weren't for the large ships of the [-]-ton class in the later generations, in fact, only small and medium-sized sea-going ships can actually build ports to call in many places.

After all, the draft of these small and medium-sized ships is far less than that of those ocean-going cargo ships, but how to build a sea-going ship well requires more knowledge.

Not to mention anything else, for now, in the absence of welding technology, wooden ships are the only choice, so there is a lot of knowledge in how to prepare raw materials for shipbuilding.

What's more, what he wants to build is not an ocean-going cargo ship at present, but a cargo ship that can transport materials from Korea to the customs.

The distance between the two sides is actually not that far. Even if you look at the straight-line distance, the port location he chose is only [-] kilometers away from Pyongyang City, and only [-] kilometers away from Weihai Port. There is a lot of knowledge here.

The distance of 7 kilometers, if calculated according to the information collected by Zhang Nuo, taking into account conditions such as tailwind and headwind, it is no problem to reach a cruising speed of about 8-[-] kilometers per hour.

In other words, it would have taken more than half a month or even a month to travel, but if it was shipped by sea, it would only take two days to reach the pass.

This saves more than a little time.

You must know that in this era of transportation of materials, especially long-distance transportation, in addition to the time cost and the crisis of natural disasters such as landslides and landslides on the road, the biggest consumption is the cost of people eating horses and chewing along the way.

But changing to the sea route is different. It only takes two days, and the transportation volume is dozens of tons, which is more than a small and medium-sized caravan.

Comparing the two, it is easy to know why even in later generations, with the rapid development of various technologies, sea transportation is still the most cost-effective long-distance transportation method in the whole world.

Now Zhang Nuo wants to rely on the port that is still under construction to realize the transfer of land and sea transportation, so as to transport a large amount of materials from Korea to the customs, and at the same time transport some materials that are not available here from the customs.

In addition, if Li Shimin doesn't mind, he plans to build a railway from Weihai to Chang'an!

Although I know that it will consume a lot of manpower and material resources, once the construction is completed, the fun will be great. Not only will the turbulent situation on the Shandong side calm down instantly, but the entire railway will also develop further.

Of course, if Li Shimin disagrees, this plan can be slowed down, and it would be nice to let him build a road from Luoyang to Chang'an first.

Anyway, I believe that after seeing the benefits in it, not to mention Li Shimin, it is estimated that other aristocratic families will come to repair the railway.

Therefore, the most important job at present is to quickly prepare the ports, railways, and sea ships!

Chapter 557 The Complexity of the Ship Project

Because Zhang Nuo had just been assassinated in the street a few days ago, even if he only went to the harbor fifty kilometers away to check his work, he was still forced by Ma Zhou to bring a guard of thousands of people.

Even according to what Ma Zhou said, bringing 3000 people there is not exceeding the limit!

Zhang Nuo had a headache when he heard Ma Zhou talking about the various rules of the Ministry of Rituals, such as the avant-garde and the rear guard who must accompany each other if they are more than thirty miles away, and have to bring something to open the way. Is that necessary?

He has no objection to bringing a group of personal guards away, after all, no one knows whether the gang of Japanese people have been caught or not, there are really a few who are not afraid of death, and if they use some moves to kill them all, wouldn't they suffer in vain.

But hearing Ma Zhou's meaning and guard of honor and so on, Zhang Nuo didn't bother to talk to him at all. Grandma has a leg, so it can be said that she brought guards for safety, but isn't guard of honor just for showing off?

We are such a low-key, luxurious and connotative person, how can we let those bells and whistles ruin our style?

In Zhang Nuo's eyes, he didn't feel that holding up axes, axes, hooks, signs, palace lanterns and the like was a sign.

On the contrary, in his eyes, those people are useless. They can't ride horses and can only walk. It's a waste of time. If you have that time to dawdle on the road, wouldn't it be better to go early and return early?

Therefore, Zhang Nuo ran to the port directly with his people, not caring about the guard of honor at all.

When they arrived at the port area, it was almost dusk, and the guards were already familiar with it, and those who were familiar with it began to go to the barracks that had been prepared earlier and began to prepare for the night.

Zhang Nuo brought along the core group of personal guards, intending to take a look at the construction of the port before nightfall.

The construction here has also been supported by many shareholders of the Koryo project. Although they don't know anything about railways, they still know about sea transportation.

Especially on the opposite side is Shandong Road, which belongs to the territory of Guannei. Everyone knows how much cost and time it will save by going by sea, so they are very supportive of Zhang Nuo's plan to build ports and sea ships.

The support of these people is undoubtedly very real, just two things, giving money to others.

For Zhang Nuo, with the support of these people, he undoubtedly saved a lot of effort. Now all the families in Datang have gradually understood the benefits of craftsmen.

So let alone him, even Li Shimin's search for craftsmen is not as easy as it used to be, and he has to rely on the traditional master-apprentice system to cultivate slowly while searching everywhere.

If Zhang Nuo didn't have the support of these people, he would never have found so many craftsmen to work in the port.

You know, although the port does not seem to have much technical content, there is really a lot of knowledge inside. It is not like building a cement platform like some keyboard warriors think.

Berths, loading and unloading systems, access channels, houses, dry and wet slipways for maintenance, all of these must be comprehensively considered and rationally arranged. How can ordinary people understand this?

If these craftsmen hadn't been working and studying under Zhang Nuo's guidance, they would not have known that there are so many exquisite things in the port.

At the same time, the port planning should also take into account the room for the increase in cargo throughput, so as to leave room for development in advance, so as not to have to turn around and dismantle it when the time comes.

Fortunately, Zhang Nuo was a veteran victim of this kind of repeated demolition and construction, so he naturally didn't want to make this mistake in turn.

Although he can't accurately predict the cargo throughput and the tonnage of the ships in the next few years, there is one principle that is not wrong, that is, it is definitely right to build bigger.

There are only a few aspects that can really affect the operational efficiency of a port.

One is the traffic in and out of the port. Whether the goods can be transported from the port quickly and efficiently, or transported to the port from outside, is the basic condition of a port area. In this regard, Zhang Nuo has railways and cement roads to be built as guarantees.

The second is the berthing and cargo loading and unloading capabilities of ships. Naturally, ships cannot go ashore, so they can only be docked at the dock, and then the cargo is loaded and unloaded through the dock. The more ships that can berth at the same time, the faster the loading and unloading speed. The cargo handling capacity is stronger.

And the third point is the weather. After all, the steam engine has not yet become the mainstream power source at present. Even if the ship is sail-powered, it is naturally greatly affected by the weather, not to mention the storm or heavy snow and hail. Cargo handling will also be affected.

These were sorted out by Zhang Nuo himself, so except for the third point which was out of his control at all, he planned to make the first two points as perfect as possible.

The railway in and out of the port area has already started construction, so don't worry about it, but it seems that the concrete road has not started yet, so can we deploy manpower to build one?

After all, many goods that are not in a hurry, especially personal items, must be reluctant to pay for transport by train, so they must be transported by road.

However, at present, several places such as railways, ports, and industrial areas are undergoing large-scale construction projects, and there is a shortage of manpower and materials. It is better to put the matter of roads later.

As for the issue of berths at the pier, he doesn't need to worry about it. The craftsmen have long been adhering to Zhang Nuo's principle of building bigger and bigger, and have prepared for him, and they are currently building in an orderly manner.

In fact, the main purpose of Zhang Nuo's visit this time was not the port, but the flagship ship currently lying in the dry dock.

Zhang Nuo really put in a lot of effort for this boat. Those materials alone made his head dizzy. After all, it is really not easy to get a batch of wood that can be used to build a boat.

First of all, the wood that can be used to build ships has a requirement in terms of felling time. It is best to cut it in spring and summer, so as to avoid being eaten by termites and other insects. The wooden boards might have pitted a whole boat of people by then.

Then, the felled wood has to be dried in the shade. Note that it must be dried in the shade instead of being placed in the sun. This step alone will take several years, and it must be brushed with tung oil every year, and then the tung oil will gradually penetrate into the bottom layer.

In addition to the above two points related to craftsmanship, the wood used in shipbuilding itself has requirements for materials, not all wood can be used, let alone size requirements.

It can be said that with the shipbuilding technology of this era, any ship is the crystallization of craftsmanship and sweat, and is the result of several years of continuous work by a group of craftsmen.

But with Zhang Nuo, everything is different. Although it is still very complicated and troublesome, after all, it is much better than before.

Chapter 558 Zhang Nuo Has Been Released?

Before Zhang Nuo brought it up, the concept of dry dock did not exist in the Tang Dynasty and even before. In everyone's understanding, the ship should be in the water.

When Zhang Nuo first proposed the concept of dry dock, those craftsmen naturally dared not say anything on the surface, but they kept murmuring behind their backs. After all, a ship should be in the water, which is the eternal truth.

In the end, when Zhang Nuo actually got out the dry dock and began to build the first standardized sea-going ship in it according to his arrangements and drawings, many craftsmen had to sigh, "It's really fragrant."

That's the power of insight, and dry docks are just one part of it.

The second major change that Zhang Nuo brought to everyone was the structure of the ship. In fact, there were very few explorations of the sea in this era, basically staying in the inland sea and offshore.

Even the current and future sea-going ships cannot be called professional sea-going ships. They are actually being built according to the routine of inland river ships.

After all, people in this era did not have a clear enough concept of the wind and waves on the sea, and they did not expect that a V-shaped bottom of the boat could solve so many problems.

For these craftsmen, flat-bottomed boats are their tradition, their inheritance for many years, and their...

Then they were beaten by Zhang Nuo!

What Zhang Nuo said at the time was very clear, you are here to do the work for me, not to beep, before I fail, I will do what I say, and when I fail, you will come to give me your opinion!

Then these people are honest. After all, the boss is so angry that he is talking about others. If you still want to go up to the line, it is probably not a problem of deducting wages. It is really a big deal.

Of course, Zhang Nuo belongs to the kind of people who will definitely give a sweet date to a stick. Zhang Nuo didn't force them to act recklessly, but first let them build a ship according to the blueprint given by Zhang Nuo. mold.

Then this ship model with all the details exactly the same as the real ship, the traditional ship built by the craftsmen according to the same idea was simulated in the pond, and then these craftsmen were completely speechless.

If it is just driving smoothly, there is not much difference between the two, but when all factors such as wind and waves are taken into consideration, you will find that after changing the shape of the bottom of the ship, the whole ship is much stronger against wind and waves up.

These craftsmen don't know what the center of gravity is, what fluid mechanics is, let alone buoyancy calculations, volume calculations, etc., but this doesn't mean they can't understand the results.

Obviously, the things Zhang Nuo produced are more resistant to wind and waves than what they insisted on, and at the same time, they seem to have some other advantages. For example, with the same material, Zhang Nuo's products seem to be able to carry more goods and so on.

After being slapped face to face by Zhang Nuo first, and then slapped in the face with technology, these craftsmen were completely honest and started to build ships seriously.

However, there is also a problem here, that is, the material is still not very easy to solve.

In the end, Zhang Nuo was so forced that he couldn't do anything about it. After much deliberation, he went back to his old job and scraped the ground!

After all, after all, they led troops to raid the entire territory of Koryo, and they really found a lot of processed raw materials from many places.

Of course, these alone are definitely not enough, so Zhang Nuo took out the second trick - tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall!

He basically dismantled all the official ships of the former navy and the like in Goryeo. As for why he didn’t dismantle the private ships, this is actually very simple. One reason is that they are now the people in his jurisdiction. , if you can not bully, don't bully.

Another reason is very practical. Those folk boats are all offshore fishing boats. They are really too small, and there is not much wood in all of them. It is better to let them keep them for fishing.

These things were handled by Zhang Nuoshun years ago, and now he came here just to see what the hell the seeds he sowed years ago have become.

But at least from the perspective of the construction of the port area, it is quite good. Zhang Nuo said a long time ago that a large number of warehouses are needed here. After all, there will be more and more goods entering and leaving the port area. The warehouse is estimated to be able to earn a lot of money.

Then, the use of a large amount of cement makes the entire port area completely different from the traditional port. There is no mud and sewage everywhere, and everything looks extraordinarily clean, especially the local turtles in Korea, who can't wait to lie on the ground.

Zhang Nuo originally thought that he could really see a satisfactory result when he came this time, but when he saw the sea ship in the dry dock that hadn't even finished laying the keel, and a few scattered craftsmen there After shaking and knocking, the whole person was stunned.

Is it because I am too talkative on weekdays, causing these Tie Hanhan to forget who the boss is?

Or are these idiots planning to rebel?