The situation encountered during the anchor collection process still made Hua Xi and others sweat all over. The reason was that the four-claw anchor was obviously very tightly, and the human lift seemed a little overwhelmed. Fortunately, Hua Xi later made the ship backward

After a while, the anchor was pulled up, but it was still a bit difficult

Fortunately, the anchor was finally put away, otherwise the reins that tied the anchor would have to be cut off. It is dangerous to dive here to half open the stone pressed on the anchor, or to pull the anchor claws out of the soil.

In ancient times, many boat people died because of this matter. Hua Xi didn't have much of a big solution to the anchor collection procedure. After all, in ancient times, when there were no machines, anchor collection was all manually.

The rough work of the sea ship has been completed. Next is to go to Hong Kong Island. However, there must be enough sea ships to carry the soldiers, otherwise dozens of people will not be able to make much trouble.

Therefore, on the second day, at the convening of the boatman and major officials at Sunset Fort, Hua Xi clearly pointed out that Sunset must vigorously develop the shipbuilding industry. Sunset Fort's development policy must have a correct positioning, shipbuilding, exploration, and system

Salt can provide strong support for the rapid development of the tribe

Now, the salt industry has developed into a one-stop service from the seawater to drain the salt, purify, package (load the sea salt into the clay pot and seal it), transportation and transactions are completed by Sunset Fort traders and caravans in cooperation with the salt industry.

The development of the Chinese tribe has also quickly circulated and promoted the currency of the Chinese tribe. Now the Chinese currency has become the only common currency on the land of Guangzhou. Because of this, the imbalance of living standards among all ethnic groups has also made the Chinese people in

In terms of currency exchange and items, you can make a big profit. Naturally, these things are too advanced for people in this era, and no one will notice them.

In order to speed up the manufacturing of sea ships, Hua Xi allocated 300 people from the iron wall to assist in the shipbuilding work. Various bronze nails and bronze items connecting the parts of sea ships were sent over and over again.

Now, Mulu and other shipwrecks and more than a hundred shipwrecks apprentices led the tribe members of Sunset Fort and more than 300 new people to build five sea boats day and night. The sound of tribe members logging in the forest is heard at the edge of the forest.

Many women and the elderly were sitting together in groups of three or five, weaving bamboo sails and reins

At present, the residents of Sunset Fort have reached more than 3,000. In addition to those who go out to make salt and other industries, people who are dedicated to shipbuilding and fishing account for more than 900 man-made shipbuilding industries. In addition to Sunset Fort's salt industry, Sunset Fort has a total of more than 900 people.

The second pillar industry is followed by fishing industry

Hua Xi's current policy has undergone major changes in the New Year's Spring Festival. It is essentially different from other tribes. Now, in each town and village, except for the annual funds allocated by the tribe, all other needs must be relied on.

The city lord and village chief solve the problem of managers with strong abilities, favored and loved by the tribe, and praised by the people, the Senate will give the operating funds and managers of the town (village) certain rewards based on actual conditions.

There are now more than 600 tribe members involved in the construction of the five sea boats, including 300 logging; more than 80 people collected bamboo, rattan, weaving bamboo sails and reins, and the remaining 200 people mainly

Responsible for building sea boats in the dock

There are many people and great power! With an average of more than 50 people building a sea ship, the construction speed has also increased significantly. Hua Xi is expected to take more than 40 days, and the hull, mast and sails of the sea ship can be installed.

All are complete, even if the test time is included, it will only take two months to complete the test.

In the future, with established fleets and shipwrecks, the ocean in the wilderness era will belong to the vast stage of the Chinese tribes.

While Hua Xi was standing by the bay, looking at the busy scene in front of him, he suddenly found that from the water outside the bay, there seemed to be a few figures stroking their hands and swimming towards the shore where they were standing.

come over

"Save, help!" Soon, when others on the shore also found the figures of those who were swimming towards the shore, the calls for help came from the water.

In this sea area, I speak Mandarin again, most of them are my own tribe members. Hua Xi quickly asked someone to take a raft and rescue the people. Not long after, the tribe members were rescued to the shore. It took a long time to breathe.

But his body was still trembling, Hua Xi immediately ordered the sailor to get some ginger soup and thick animal skins to stabilize these terrifying tribe members.

When these people gradually calmed down, Hua Xi asked softly: "What's wrong? Where is your ship?"

"Clan, patriarch, ship, sank..." After saying that, the tribe members said excitedly.

"Sinking? What's going on?" Hua Xi continued to ask

"Early this morning, we were on warships and patrol the sea as usual. Suddenly the water flow changed, knocking us to a stone exposed to the sea. The back of the boat crashed into a small hole. We

The small hole had been blocked, but the sea water still seeped in, and the warship sank like this, woo..." The sailor knew that the punishment might be serious, and said dejectedly

"Water seepage in the cabin..." Hua Xi pondered, without thinking too much, "The ship has sunk, just pay more attention in the future. It is the most important thing for you to be fine. It's a great blessing in disgrace!"

"Class leader!"

Several sailors who escaped death shouted excitedly, grabbed Hua Xi's hands with both hands, and a layer of mist appeared in the black and white eyes. Then, Hua Xi comforted her again and walked into the dock.

Reflecting on the unexpected shipwreck that just happened

It doesn't matter if these shipwrecks continue to occur in the future, it will have a great blow to the tribe's water power, and the tribe's fear of the ocean will increase greatly. What can I do to avoid or reduce it?

What about the probability and loss of a shipwreck accident?

While thinking about good plans, Hua Xi was aimlessly walking in the newly built large dock. When he walked past a sea boat that had been laid with keels and was about to connect the forged radian boards, it was suddenly reported.

A scolding sounded: "Ye, did you have no strength to scramble on the bed with your wife last night? You raised your right and pressed it a little tightly. The bite of the boat board is too far away!"

"The grass, the cabin is so big, do you think this board is very light?" The boatman called the leaves raised the right side of the board hard, and retorted to the person carrying the board on the other side of the board.

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"Cast?" The conversation between the two suddenly caused Hua Xi a strange feeling for a moment, Hua Xi suddenly laughed and said, "Haha, yes, why didn't I expect to start from the cabin?"

Watertight compartment

The so-called watertight compartment means using compartment plates to divide the compartment into disconnected compartment areas. There are 13 compartments and 8 compartments. This ship structure is a major invention in China in shipbuilding. It has many Therefore, if it weren’t for the ancient my country that only satisfied with the civil war on the land of China, when would it be the European turn to write about the pattern of the world’s great navigation?

First of all, since the cabin is closely separated, during navigation, especially during ocean voyage, even if one or two cabin areas are damaged and inlet, the water will not flow to other cabin areas. From the perspective of the ship as a whole,

Maintain considerable buoyancy and will not sink. If there is too much water inlet, the ship cannot support it. As long as the cargo is discarded and the load is reduced, it will not sink to the bottom of the sea soon. If the ship is not damaged seriously and there is not much water inlet, just put the water inlet.

The cargo in the cabin area can be removed to repair the damaged area and will not affect the ship's continued navigation. If the water inlet is serious, you can also drive to the nearby entrance or land for repair. Therefore, the watertight compartment not only improves the ship's anti-sinking resistance.

Performance, and safety performance of long-distance

Secondly, the loading and unloading of cargo on board is more convenient for cargo loading and picking up different cargo owners in individual cabin areas at the same time, which improves loading and unloading efficiency and facilitates management.

Thinking of the cabin, Hua Xi immediately found more than a dozen old boatmen including Mulu, and told the benefits and practices of the cabin very quickly. Mulu and the others understood and immediately ordered their apprentices and followers to go to the large cabin.

After the completion, use wooden boards to separate the cabin into 8 or 13. In order to resist the pressure caused by water pressure, Hua Xi specially instructed the partitions to nail the connection position between the cabins and the cabins to be nailed to death, and also use

Bronze plate compacted nailed

Because it was the first time that watertight compartment was built, Hua Xi personally took Mulu and others to renovate the cabin of one of the sea ships they had built before.

The renovation took two days, and finally the interior structure of the first sea ship was transformed. If the required bronze parts were arranged early in the morning, it would only take one day.

"Ah, patriarch, these compartments look very useful!" Shuitong, who participated in the construction, looked at the partitions under his feet and said in surprise.

"Yes, with these partitions, the ribbed boards that needed to be added in the past seem to be no longer needed!" Mulu also noticed a trace of things coming out.

"Haha, good! The cabin plate is closely connected with the hull plate, playing the role of strengthening the hull. It not only increases the overall lateral strength of the ship, but also replaces the process of adding ribs, making the shipbuilding process simplified. You see, now it is a cabin partition

It only takes one day. If you make ribs, it will take at least four or five days!" Hua Xi laughed and said with a loud laugh.

"That's great. If this happens, our shipbuilding speed will be greatly improved in the future!" Mulu and others said excitedly.

With the completion of the compartment, the shipbuilding work is still continuing, and Hua Xi is not idle. Before the five sea ships were announced to be completed, leverage was developed according to the principle of leverage, and the invention of tools such as scissors, boards and pulleys were successively invented.

It's very simple, but the productivity and daily life of the tribe have undergone earth-shaking changes.

The simplest example is the speed of construction and shipbuilding, which has greatly increased by about 20% with the assistance of tools such as pulleys and spudgers. Just now in November, five newly built sea ships were launched for trial sailing.
Chapter completed!