Nanjing, Longjiang Pass.
It was still early in the morning, and the Longjiang Bao Shipyard was already filled with people and bustling with people.
While the captains and foremen of the shipyards hurriedly ordered people to drain the accumulated water in the dock, they also assigned the newly summoned craftsmen to various workshops.
The joinery workshops, paint workshops, twisting workshops, iron workshops, canopy workshops, rope workshops, and cable workshops are all fine.
Only the canopy factory that builds sailboat awnings is slower to resume production.
According to preliminary estimates, it will take at least half a month.
Only when all craftsmen are in place can we start building the awning.
Yuan Tai, a doctor from the Maintenance Department of the Ministry of Engineering who is responsible for supervising the shipyard, has a sad look on his face.
The superior has issued a strict order to restore the shipyard to the Yongle era scale within a month, but this is not easy.
As the oldest official shipyard of the Ming Dynasty, Longjiang Bao Shipyard was connected to the Yangtze River to the west and the Qinhuai River to the east at its peak, with a width of 138 feet from east to west and a length of 354 feet from north to south.
When Zheng He, the eunuch of Sanbao, went to the Western Ocean, most of the ships were built in Longjiang Bao Shipyard, except for some ships built locally in Fujian.
The large captain built during this period was 44 feet long and 18 feet wide; the medium length was 37 feet long and 15 feet wide.
However, due to the long period of peace, Longjiang Bao Shipyard became increasingly deserted, and there were not many shipbuilding craftsmen left.
But this all changed suddenly not long ago.
The Holy Emperor issued an edict, ordering the Ministry of Industry to summon shipwrights to repair the Longjiang Bao Shipyard and resume the manufacture of river and sea ships in the shortest possible time.
After the imperial edict was issued, Gao Hongtu, Minister of Industry, immediately responded positively and dispatched personnel from the ministry to Longjiangkou to take charge of the shipyard's supervision.
As the saying goes, the Lord is concerned about the humiliation of his ministers.
Naturally, His Majesty is concerned about what his ministers need to do well.
Gao Shangshu also gave Yuan Tai a strict order to restore the Bao Shipyard to the scale it had during the Yongle period within one month.
Of course Yuan Tai would not object to the order of the Minister of the Ministry, but he also knew the difficulty of this matter, so he was too worried to think about it.
What made him somewhat gratified was that the craftsmen he had reassembled were all experienced craftsmen and could quickly get involved in making ships without having to go through the apprenticeship stage.
This is also due to the craftsman system of the Ming Dynasty.
Craftsmen have relied on their crafts for generations to make a living.
Naturally, they can't do anything without their crafts.
Most of the ancestors of these craftsmen were boatmen at the Longjiang Shipyard.
Later, when the shipyard was abandoned, they left and made a living by building watercraft.
Now that the imperial court has called them back, for them it is just another place to build ships, and there is no difference.
Longjiang Shipyard has been divided into the front factory and the back factory since Hongzhi.
Each has its own Xikou leading to Longjiang and is equipped with a stone gate.
When building the ship, the water was drained and the stone gate was closed.
After building the hull, open the stone gate, divert water into the dock, and float the boat into the river.
For Yuan Tai, the first thing to do now is to drain the water in the dock so that the craftsmen can work in the dock.
No, I still have to go to the awning factory.
Yuan Tai is also a resolute person, so he has decided to leave the lifting department immediately and go to the tent factory.
A group of outsiders, chiefs, lifters, and helpers gathered Yuan Tai in the middle, like stars holding the moon.
Before coming to Longjiang Shipyard, Yuan Tai had already had a basic understanding of the shipyard's personnel structure at the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry.
The craftsmen of the Longjiang Shipyard were organized into four compartments, each compartment was divided into ten armors, and each armor had a commander to oversee ten households.
The first compartment is divided into ship wood, shuttle, oar, and cable craftsmen; the second compartment is divided into ship wood, iron, and cable craftsmen; the third compartment is divided into boat craftsmen; and the fourth compartment is divided into palm and tent craftsmen.
In addition, there are also internal officer supervisors, royal horse supervisors, watchmen, watchmen, bridgemen, etc.
There are a total of 400 households of these craftsmen.
Although they belong to the Ministry of Industry, they are craftsmen themselves.
They are registered as craftsmen and have lived in Nanjing for generations.
This is why officials from the Ministry of Industry were able to recall the escaped craftsmen within ten days after issuing an imperial edict.
Originally, according to this model, the commander was responsible for allocating tasks within his own compartment, and everything was carried out in an orderly manner, so the superior officer did not need to worry too much.
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Yuan arrived at the tent factory, he was shocked and dumbfounded by the sight in front of him.
I saw hundreds of craftsmen making noisy noises in the tent factory, and the chaos was like a market.
"Unbridled and unbridled" Yuan Tai roared hysterically.
This reaction also frightened the boatmen in the tent factory.
They all turned their heads and stared at Yuan Tai stupidly.
"Commander A, please come out to me."
After a while, ten people reluctantly walked out of the crowd.
"I would like to ask you, since you are the captain, why don't you strictly control the boatmen under you?
Such noisy behavior has delayed the shipbuilding project.
How many of you have heads to chop off?"
Yuan Tai's eyes turned red at this moment.
Supervising the construction of warships seems easier than it is.
Especially now that the Longjiang Shipyard is in dire straits, even if it tries its best, it may not be able to restore the scale and manufacturing capacity of the shipyard within a month as required by Gao Shangshu.
Now these boatmen are so lazy and lazy, it makes people angry It took him most of his life to climb to the position of doctor in the Ministry of Industry.
Wouldn't it be a great loss if he was criticized by a superior officer and demoted because of the poor performance of supervising the construction of warships at Longjiang Shipyard?
Now Yuan Tai does not dare to covet the position of minister, he just wants to live the rest of his life in peace.
Therefore, he will never allow mistakes in this matter The ten armor commanders knelt down and kowtowed like garlic.
"My lord, please forgive me.
It's really not the villain's intention to be negligent, but the boatmen's disobedience."
One of them, a dark-skinned and short-built man in his prime, expressed his bitterness: "The villain was temporarily assigned as the captain after arriving at the shipyard, and so were the others.
I, the boatman, don't listen to the villain, and there is nothing I can do about it." " "That's unreasonable.
You're such a cunning person that you can't support the wall with mud."
Yuan Tai waved his hand and scolded: "Here comes someone, drag him and me down, and punish the twenty leaders."
Immediately, two lifting assistants came forward and dragged the armor commander down.
A moment later, the cry of the armor commander was heard, and all the armor commanders who were kneeling on the ground looked at each other, not even daring to express their anger.
In fact, Yuan Tai also knew that what the armor commander said made sense.
The Longjiang Shipyard had been abandoned for too long.
The Ministry of Works hurriedly recalled the shipwrights, but it was impossible to restore the superiority relationship within the shipyards in a short time.
In desperation, the superiors could only designate armor commanders artificially.
However, the armor commanders designated in this way had no prestige and credibility, and naturally could not restrain the armor craftsmen.
But Yuan Tai couldn't express this idea.
If he sympathizes with this armor commander, who will sympathize with him?
Since Shangfeng has put pressure on him, Yuan Tai will naturally pass on the pressure.
This is the tacit principle of officialdom.
Regardless of whether it is reasonable or not, subordinates must do their best to get things done.
"I don't care what method you use.
Not within five days, I will see at least one complete awning within three days." s: Thanks to book friend Eternal Seraph for the 1,000-coin reward: