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Chapter 1030 Great Craftsman Tang Yi

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    After the navy was formed, the fleet headed south to the Zhoushan Islands to build its own home port there.  Although Hu Douzhou is close to Wuzhou and guarding the Yangtze River, and has an advantageous geographical location, it is too close to the land and can easily be discovered by other forces and cause trouble.  The vicinity of Zhoushan Islands controls the south and north, has many islands, and has many ports, making it easier to go to the sea.  After all, the next step for the ocean-going fleet is still Liuqiu (today's Taiwan Island), which is the core strategic base of the Far East Fleet.

    Huang Mingyuan and others went to Hu Douzhou's shipyard.

    People in the north rode horses and men took boats, which were the main means of transportation in the south. At this time, there were also many private shipyards in the south of the Yangtze River.  Huang Mingyuan built a factory here without attracting attention.  As for Hu Douzhou, it is a desolate and poor place with a sparse population. Huang Mingyuan's power and status can easily turn it into private territory.

    In fact, for Huang Mingyuan, the biggest gain from recruiting the Jiangnan family this time is that the shipyard he plans to build in Wuzhou is stable.

    Building an ocean-going fleet and starting international trade is probably the dream of every time traveler.  But for most people, this idea is unrealistic.  Maritime trade is extremely risky. Although it is successful and the rewards are rich, just building such a large fleet requires a huge investment, and the core of this is shipbuilding.

    Huang Mingyuan now has two shipyards, one in Weihaiwei in later generations of Laizhou, and the other in Yuzhou Island in Haizhou (today's Lianyungang area, later became land).  However, compared with the sea-building technology and scale of sea-building in the south, the strength of the two northern shipyards is still insufficient. Not only are they relatively lacking in materials and personnel, but there is also a huge gap in the ideas and concepts of talents.  Therefore, Huang Mingyuan decided to build another large shipyard in Jiangnan as the mother shipyard of the ocean-going fleet.

    The most important shipbuilding base in this era should be Yangzhou. Yangzhou is adjacent to the river and the sea, with developed water transportation. It has been an important hub for north-south transportation since ancient times.  Historically, when Liu Yan served as salt and iron transshipment envoy, he built ten large shipbuilding yards in Yangzhou and built more than 2,000 ships in total.  However, considering that Yang Guang will be stationed in Yangzhou in the future, Huang Mingyuan does not want to place his fleet shipyard under Yang Guang's nose and annoy him.  The Wuzhou area has numerous good ports and is close to the Zhoushan Islands. Coupled with its huge influence, it is a good place to develop the shipbuilding industry.

    Huang Mingyuan captured Hu Douzhou and Liujiagang early because he saw the superior location here.

    In order to build this shipyard, Huang Mingyuan also imitated the system of later generations in the shipyard, separating management and technology. The general manager is responsible for managing the administrative affairs of the shipyard, while the chief engineer is responsible for managing shipbuilding technology.

    Huang Ren, the general manager of the shipyard, turned out to be the general manager of Haizhou Factory and a close confidant of Huang Mingyuan.

    When Huang Mingyuan was very young, he paid attention to cultivating cronies, adopted orphans, and then selected talents for his own use.  As of today, the most important Four Seas Business Group in Huang Mingyuan's hands, apart from the general manager Zheng Bo, are the twelve top managers under his subordinates.  These chief stewards are in charge of various affairs of the business group, and Huang Mingyuan uses these twelve chief stewards and the dozens of stewards he has trained to ensure that the business group will not betray.  As for other fields, manors, shipyards, mines and other places, this model is basically the same.

    Among them, the twelve chief stewards of the Sihai Merchant Group are named after the earthly branches, namely Huang Zi, Huang Chou and Huang Hai.  The ten most important stewards in other industries are named after heavenly stems, namely Huang A, Huang Yi, and Huang Gui.  The former governor of Haizhou was Huang Mingyuan's uncle, so Huang Mingyuan asked Huang Ren to build the first shipyard in Haizhou.

    And the chief designer Tang Yi is a rare shipbuilding master in this era.

    Speaking of Tang Yi, he is not well-known in later generations, but his son Tang Xun served as the shipbuilding ambassador of Yangzhou Road and built warships for Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty to conquer Goguryeo. He was a famous craftsman of his generation.

    Tang Yi is a descendant of Tang Zi, the general of Wei Anyuan during the Three Kingdoms period, and comes from a shipbuilding family.  Tang Zi was one of the few people with great luck in history. He went to Wu from Wei and was awarded General Zuo; he returned to Wei and became General Anyuan.  Because Wei treated the Soochow soldiers well, Tang Zi's family in Soochow was not executed.  Later, when Wei wanted to attack Wu, he ordered Tang Zi to build a floating ship in Qingzhou to prepare for the attack on Wu. One of his descendants lived in Qingzhou.

    Tang Yi himself came from a family of officials. His grandfather Tang Yong and his father Tang Xi were named the Duke of Pingshou County. Both of them were peripheral members of the Guanlong family from Guandong.  And Tang Yi himself also became the king of Pingyuan with a long history, and the prince Tongshi gave up others, becoming a close and direct lineage of the prince Yang Yong.

    However, Tang Yi's fate was also bad. Yang Yong rebelled and died. Tang Yi, an important minister in the East Palace, was also demoted to Huayin County Magistrate.  Later, during the rebellion between Yang Yan and Liu Shu, the court once again purged Yang Yong's old ministers, and Tang Yi was also involved, and was imprisoned and threatened with death.  Fortunately, Huang Mingyuan unexpectedly knew Tang Yi's talents, so he saved Tang Yi's life and was only dismissed from his official position.

    This Tang DynastyWith no future and fear of official duties, Tang Yi defected to Huang Mingyuan and became a retainer as soon as Huang Mingyuan recruited him, in order to seek Huang Mingyuan's protection.  Huang Mingyuan asked Tang Yi to work as a work supervisor at the Haizhou Factory, responsible for building ships.

    At this time, the development of Huang Mingyuan's shipyard in Haizhou was extremely unsatisfactory, mainly due to the lack of talents. Although the group of craftsmen recruited by Huang Mingyuan had good skills, they were not good at overseeing the overall situation and did not know how to design and modify. Therefore, Huang Mingyuan made many suggestions.  There is no way to implement it.

    And Tang Yi really lived up to Huang Mingyuan's expectations.  When he arrived in Haizhou, he saw that although the craftsmen in the shipyard were skilled, they had no idea what to do, and the entire construction process was extremely messy.  Tang Yi divided the shipyard into five parts, each performing their own duties.  At the same time, various ministries were ordered to build civilian boats first, hone the process, select talents, and cultivate skills.  After a large number of civilian ships were manufactured and sold, the work of the entire shipyard was on track, and the funds from the sale of civilian ships also made up for part of the shortfall, and the shipyard had enough vitality.

    At this time, Tang Yi transferred a large number of workers from each branch factory to form a main factory to manufacture various parts according to Huang Mingyuan's assembly line production method. The five branch factories became five assembly factories, responsible for assembling various types of ships.  As a result, in just over a year, the production capacity of Haizhou Factory was greatly improved, and Guanghai Ship built more than 20 ships.

    At this time, the emperor wanted to build dragon boats again, and tens of thousands of ships of all types were needed.  Relying on the convenience of his status, Huang Mingyuan drew a large number of orders from Wang Hong to the Haizhou Factory, and at the same time introduced a large number of craftsmen.  After this dragon boat building, the Haizhou factory finally became one of the largest factories in the north.

    At this time, the situation in Jiangnan became more complicated, and the situation in the newly built Hu Douzhou Shipyard became more severe. For the sake of his own navigation career, Huang Mingyuan transferred Tang Yi to Hu Douzhou, where he once again worked hard and overcame obstacles.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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