After seven years of fiefdom, Li Shimin asked me to return and become the crown prince.

Lingnan Port!

The port that Li Kuan set up a few years ago is located in the southernmost part of Lingnan, next to the bay.

The reason for setting up the port is to build a shipyard and build ships that can sail long distances.

He has also told the captain his design drawings and scale. He doesn't understand some of the principles, and the captain needs to discuss and study them on his own.

For this reason, he also went to various places to find the most advanced shipbuilding masters.

Fortunately, the transformation of wooden boats is not a high-precision thing. After knowing the general principles, other things are much simpler.

I wonder why they came here to find me this time? Was the ship he requested successfully built?

He gave those people three years. When he went there last year, they were still overcoming a technical difficulty. After the New Year, he has been busy with Lingnan's affairs....Forehead...As for the past month, he even forgot about the shipyard.

I thought they still had some time to study it.

Sure enough, people tend to forget when they enjoy themselves. Li Kuan couldn't help but sigh.

""Hurry, let him in!"

Li Kuan also became alert and quickly invited the man in.

He hoped that this time there would be good news.

After a while, a dark-skinned man came in. He was wearing thin clothes, but his muscles were solid. It was obvious that he had been exposed to the sun at the beach.

""Greetings, Your Majesty!"

The man came in and saw Li Kuan, and he knelt down immediately.

"Liu Er, we don't practice kneeling in the Tang Dynasty. Get up and find a place to sit!"Li Kuan knew that these were honest people, and he would not let them down.

Besides, he had seen this man before. Liu Er was a shipbuilding craftsman he recruited from other places.

When he went to the shipyard last year, Liu Er also provided a lot of suggestions for the shipbuilding technology of the shipyard. Now he is the head of the shipyard.

"king..."Your Highness, do you still remember me?" Liu Er wiped the tears from his eyes, not daring to disobey the prince's order. He stood up with a staggering step and found the nearest seat to sit down.

At this time, someone served him a cup of tea and lychees.

He was a shipbuilding coolie. When he was in other prefectures and counties, there were very few shipbuildings there. They were the coolies of the county government, and even a small official in the county government could order them around.

But when he came to the King of Chu, he actually treated him so well, which made him extremely moved. He secretly made up his mind that he would follow the orders of His Royal Highness the King of Chu all his life.

"What are you doing here? Did something happen at the shipyard?"Looking at Liu Er who hadn't spoken for a long time, Li Kuan asked first.

He didn't know what was going on.

"My Lord, yes..."When Liu Er heard Li Kuan's question, he was about to stand up and answer, but when he saw Li Kuan's gaze, he sat down again and said,"Your Highness, our ship was a success!"

"Success?"Li Kuan's eyes suddenly opened, and his eyes lit up.

He didn't expect it to be so fast.

"Yes, the main frame of the ship has been completed, and the cabin is being decorated now!"Liu Er continued seriously:"It will be launched in less than 20 days!"

"How many ships are there in total?" Li Kuan asked tentatively.

"This time we are researching two 80-meter ships and a 120-meter ship!" Liu Er's eyes were burning with admiration for Li Kuan:"We will continue to research larger and faster ships!"

In this era, the largest ship is only more than 30 meters long and has a shallow draft. Most of the buildings are on the ship, but the prince has transformed the shipbuilding process. Although there are houses on the deck, there are fewer of them. The pointed-bottom ship can also be more stable in the sea and face stronger waves.

These are the results of their experiments after building a small boat.

But the prince knew a long time ago

"There are still twenty days to complete it?"

Li Kuan pondered for a moment, then continued:"Then you go back and inform them that I will personally go to witness the ship launching in twenty days!"

""Yes, Your Highness!" Liu Er's face was full of excitement. The fact that the prince could go in person showed his importance to their shipyard.

Outside Chang'an City , in the evening!

A luxurious caravan headed towards Chang'an City from its original location. Behind them were more than a hundred neatly dressed soldiers in military green clothes, with broken blades and long swords on their waists.

Everyone had a resolute face and his eyes were always alert to all directions. At first glance, they were the guards of this caravan.

Now it was almost dark, and they planned to enter Chang'an City today and then find an inn to rest.

This team was the caravan sent by Li Kuan to Chang'an City.

"Stop!"

But when they arrived at the city gate, they were stopped by the guards:"Who are you? Where are you from? What are you doing in Chang'an?"

The soldiers guarding the city looked serious.

Although Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty promoted business, if you don't have connections, you are destined to be exploited.

"Sir, we are merchants from the Western Regions, and we have cooperation with Duke Lu's Mansion!"At this time, a young man who looked very good at dealing with people came running over and stuffed a tael of silver into each of the soldiers guarding the city.

This man was Li Shu, whose parents gave him this name so that he could study and become a scholar, but unfortunately he gave up literature and went into business.

He was the steward sent by Li Kuan to Chang'an.

"Duke Lu's Mansion? Do you have Duke Lu's token? If not, sorry, we have to check the goods as usual!" Although these people softened their tone after receiving the silver, they had no intention of letting the caravan go. In recent years, there have been many people pretending to be royal nobles to do business, and each of them is paid one or two taels of silver. This is obviously a fat sheep.

How can we not exploit them well?

Li Shu's expression also changed. The officials in the capital are greedy enough. It is obvious that they are holding him back.

However, his expression only changed for a moment, and he always had a smile on his face:"Gentlemen, please let me stay for one night. Tomorrow morning I will go to Duke Lu's Mansion to ask for the token!"

The actions of several soldiers who wanted to search the carriage also paused. Can they get the token?

The leader looked at the silver in his hand, hesitated, and then nodded:"You can go in, but the caravan must stay here!"

"good..."

Li Shu nodded, took the token given to him by the prince and walked into Chang'an City.

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