After several months of exploration and investigation, Taro Aso finally touched the mainland after escaping countless times. As soon as he arrived on the mainland, Aso almost died because there were several small tribes here with extremely low civilization.
When he was in the stage of drinking blood, it was just like the tribes when he first crossed over. It was easy for him to conquer such a tribe. Judging from the number of people, these small tribes had hundreds or two hundred people, but
Facing Aso's tribal warriors and those fierce arrows, he chose to escape before even having half a cup of tea. Under constant harassment by the invading army led by Aso, he quickly chose to surrender.
Relying on strong bows and arrows, Aso conquered the first hundred-man tribe with twenty warriors. After conquering the first tribe, several other small tribes conquered them with almost no effort. At the same time, he also established the mainland.
After the spring of the first tribal stronghold on the mainland, Taro Aso quickly moved half of the tribe to this stronghold on the mainland to thrive.
The stronghold established by Aso is about fifty kilometers away from Sunset Fort and is within the alliance's sphere of influence. Just because this place is covered by forests, the alliance's tentacles rarely reach this fifty kilometers distance. If you ride a horse and walk in a straight line,
, it only takes one day, but don’t ignore the obstacles of the mountains, rivers and forests. Even the Yao and She people who are closest to Aso will need three or four days to walk.
Although Aso doesn't know where the Chinese tribe is, as time goes by and with constant contact with the tribes in the alliance, the Chinese tribe will naturally emerge. A tribe led by modern people, no matter how bad it is, it won't be any worse. What Aso wants to do now
He is just doing the things of his ancestors. He first flatters the Yao people and the She people who are closest to him, and then reveals his true colors after finding out more about them.
※※※Sunset Fort
"Chief, next time you go to sea, you have to take me with you no matter what? Last time I heard from the sailors who came back from the sea, oh, yes, and the high priest, they all said that this time you went to sea, you met a man named Little Japan.
Big devil, if I were here, I would never let those evil devils insult and insult you, the patriarch—" Hua Yong, who came from China City not long ago, was standing next to Hua Xi and shouted loudly.
"Haha, okay, but before going to sea, you must learn basic things like swimming and rafting from Shui Gu Shuitong and the others first." Hua Xi laughed, patted Hua Yong on the shoulder, and instructed
"What's so difficult about swimming? I was the first one to board the raft last time!" Hua Yong patted his chest several times and shouted loudly.
"Okay! He is indeed the number one warrior of my tribe," Hua Xi said happily.
In the days that followed, Hua Yong obediently put down his arrogance and went to the section of the Bailong River where the sailors trained. He trained with the sailors. Hua Xi was very pleased with Hua Yong's behavior. With Hua Yong's arrogance and arrogance, he was willing to let go.
I went to study with Shui Gu Shuitong and the others, and trained with the sailors. It seems that the adventure stories at sea are extremely rare, but in the tribe that is passed down from generation to generation, it is extremely tempting.
While Hua Yong was training, Hua Xi was also soaking in the ferry every day. During the time when Hua Xi was building a real boat, Muru and other carpenters who had a lot of experience in building rafts were constantly surrounding Hua Xi, discussing with Hua Xi
The proposed boating method. After several months of training, Muru and his crew have become not only excellent carpenters, but also good raft builders, and also good sailors. If they want to build something better, they must experience Muru personally.
Lu and the others, like other sailors, would go to the beach or the Bailong River to swim and raft.
Therefore, when Hua Xi proposed the model of the boat, Muru and the others immediately discovered that the boat mentioned by the patriarch had more advantages than the raft, such as it would not seep water and cause the raft to sink; the hull was narrow and could sail faster than the raft;
Safety; the enclosed ship walls allow the hull to draft without fear of entering the water, and the load capacity is larger, etc.
Just like last time, this time it was Hua Xi who built the boat. The difference was that Hua Xi was the leader this time instead of working alone. There were more than a dozen expert raft builders who built the boat together.
To build a ship, you must first have a large number of wooden planks. To a certain extent, wooden ships are far better than those modern ships made of inferior steel. Since steel is far less elastic than wood, it has happened that in strong winds, wooden sailboats are safe but steel ones
The sailboat broke, so in later generations, people began to study the strength of ship steel and analyze the structural strength of steel ships. If it were not for the large amount of wood needed to build large ships, and the scarcity of wood in later generations, civilian use
Most merchant ships are still made of wood.
The carpenters have become extremely skilled in the cutting of wooden boards. The bronze saw is constantly pulling back and forth, and templates that are two to three fingers thick are cut out. What Hua Xi wants to do is a strip that is thirteen to four meters long and three to four meters wide.
A good carpenter depends on how skilled he is in shipbuilding. A shipwright is at the top of the craftsmanship among carpenters. There are so many processes and knowledge involved.
In shipbuilding, the most important thing is the hull, which refers to the quality of the structural hull in the middle of the bottom of the ship. It directly determines the strength of the ship. It is best to use a complete piece of wood for the hull. It is really difficult to find suitable wood.
You can also join several pieces of materials together, but they must be tight and strong. This is also the main reason why later generations of ships were made of steel. If you use a piece of rotten wood to build a ship, not to mention whether it is dangerous to sail on the river, if you go out to sea, you will be hit by a langur.
If you come over, it will be easy to overturn the boat or break it apart. So, building a boat is no fun at all.
In this era, it is not difficult to build a complete and strong piece of wood. Soon, a ship skeleton more than ten meters long was dragged to the seaside of the ferry by the tribesmen and their horses. The ship skeleton Hua Xi chose was old peach wood.
There is no need to doubt the elasticity of the peach wood. First, peel the peach wood, then put it in the sun and dry it for several days. Hua Xi also personally led several carpenters to bake the peach wood with fire and make peach wood boats.
The wooden boards are roasted together with the bones, as well as the divided wooden boards. The wooden boards include peach wood, pear wood, crabapple wood and other shipbuilding wood. It is naturally not difficult for Hua Xi to identify these simple trees.
What Hua Xi makes is not a flat boat, but a curved boat. Each curved boat and flat-bottomed boat has its own advantages and disadvantages. Generally, arc boats are best in places with deep water. An arc-shaped boat bottom can greatly reduce the underwater resistance and increase the number of boats.
Speed flat boats are not easily stranded in some shallow river basins or sandy waters.
To build a curved ship, the planks must of course be curved. If you want to make a straight plank into a curve, you must bake the planks or ship bones, which is what later generations of shipbuilding call the upper planks. The planks are so many in shipbuilding.
Among the processes, the most complicated and labor-intensive one is especially the boarding on the bow, which requires both bending and twisting. Such boards can only be shaped by baking with fire. The shipboard must not be baked too wet, and it cannot be baked too wet.
If it is too dry, it will not be easy to shape and fire. It cannot be too big or too small, and the twist and curvature of each ship plank are different. It is easy to say this, but to actually do it, it does not take more than ten years of basic skills.
, don’t try to build a boat
Hua Xi took the first ship plank and baked it while twisting it. After it was baked, he took it to the ship bones and put it on it for comparison. If it didn't work, he took it to the fire and baked it again. After a long time of going back and forth, Hua Xi just finished it.
After the first ship plank has passed the test and is not very close to the baking plate, many of the ship plans that have been baked to a high degree can only be put away for use on the next ship, and then baked again.
The heat of the sun and fire made everyone feel as if someone had poured a bucket of water over their heads, and they were all wet.
After a ship plank was finished, Hua Xi immediately asked the carpenter to use bronze nails to nail the ship plank to the keel of the ship. Just like this, one ship plank after another, Hua Xi and more than a dozen shipbuilding carpenters
It took half a month to bake the planks needed for the first boat. The planks were also nailed to the bones of the ship piece by piece.
The ship is basically built, but the power system has not yet been built. Hua Xi completely abandoned wood pulp this time. Wood pulp is only an extension of the hand in the history of human shipbuilding. One of my country's major contributions to human shipbuilding technology, in addition to the compass, In addition, there is also the oar. The earliest date of its appearance is not yet known. Legend has it that Lu Ban saw the fish waving their tails in the water and cut the wood into a oar.
The shape of the oar is a bit like an oar, but it is larger. It is usually supported on the oar eaves at the stern or side of the ship. The cross section of one end entering the water is arcuate, and the other end is tied to the ship. The eaves rope is shaken by hand to make the oar board extend into the water.
When the oar swings left and right, a pressure difference will be generated between the front and rear parts of the boat that are in contact with the water, forming thrust to push the boat forward, just like a fish swinging its tail forward. The ancients had a saying of "one oar and three oars". It was believed that the efficiency of an oar can be as high as that of an oar.
Three times that, because the change from oar to oar is actually from intermittent paddling to continuous paddling, which improves efficiency. In addition, the oar is not only a continuous propulsion tool, but also has the functions of steering the ship and ruddering.
Hua Xi made a ring of bronze and fixed it on the stern of the ship. In this way, the ship's power system and direction system were completed.
The carpenters were confused about the oar made by Hua Xi. Muru asked in a low voice: "Chief, what is this thing for? We can launch the boat and test it now!"
"Haha, how do you make the boat walk on the water? Do you use your hands?" Hua Xi joked.
"Chief, isn't there wood pulp? When paddling that thing, it's much faster than using your hands." Muru said even more strangely.
"Haha, wood pulp consumes too much manpower, and it is not very fast. What I want to do now is called a oar. It can not only make the speed of the boat several times faster, but also can control the direction instead of wood pulp." Hua Xi said happily
, a ship is born from one’s own hands, anyone can’t help but get excited
"Oar? This thing is called an oar..." Mulu and the others suddenly realized, but they still didn't understand the purpose of the oar.
Hua Xi looked at them and continued with a smile: "Although the rudder is a small device, it can make the huge hull operate freely. If you want to turn the ship to the left, you must turn the rudder to the left at an angle."
, the water flow generates a pressure on the rudder surface, that is, the rudder pressure itself is very small, but it is far away from the center of the ship, so the torque that makes the ship rotate is relatively large, and the bow of the ship will turn to the left accordingly, like
The wood pulp we used before is the same, but its cross-section is larger and it is farther away from the center of the ship, which can create greater pressure."
Hua Xi paused for a moment, and without waiting for them to digest what he said, he turned back and shouted to the group of eager sailors: "Come on, everyone push this ship into the water, let's try it out, haha——"
"Here!" As soon as Hua Xi's voice fell, the sailors immediately swarmed to the side of the ship and carefully pushed the ship into the sea.
With a series of clattering sounds, the wooden boat landed on the sea. It shook a few times and quickly stabilized. Hua Xi suppressed her excitement, just like stepping onto the first raft because the width of the wooden boat was four meters wide.
, so the shaking is not too severe. It is not like those one-meter-long wooden boats that shake terribly as soon as you get on. Because of the addition of Hua Xi, the center of gravity of the hull immediately changed. The stern sank a little, and then became stable again.
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"Haha, okay! Come on, all of you, come up!" Hua Xi laughed.
One, two, four, eight... More and more sailors jumped on the wooden boat, and the hull shook more and more violently. The sailors on the boat gradually couldn't stand, and fell into the sea one by one, causing trouble on the shore.
Everyone burst into laughter
Wooden boats are no better than rafts and flat-bottomed boats. Because they have curvature, they are less stable than flat-bottomed boats. The greater the curvature, the worse the stability, and the smaller the water resistance. On the contrary, it goes to the other extreme. Therefore, the size and purpose of the hull vary.
The corresponding arc of your own, this takes time to explore and gain enough experience.
After twenty people boarded the boat, the wooden boat immediately drafted thirty to forty centimeters of water, and the water rose to less than one meter from the side of the boat.
After a short period of adaptation, the sailor standing at the stern began to swing the wooden oar. Under the fiddle of the wooden oar, a series of splashing sounds were heard. Compared to a raft, the huge wooden boat began to move slowly.
, faster and faster, and finally reached a constant speed and stabilized. Hua Xi on the side continued to teach the sailors how to control the wooden oar to provide power and control direction. The sailors were very attentive, because just one person could do it.
It's not easy to row such a big boat and twenty sailors
One person and one oar moved the "big boat" with twenty people aboard. The carpenters and sailors on the shore all had the same expression. They were stunned and couldn't figure out why one person could row such a heavy boat with a piece of wood.
Because it was a trial voyage, it was natural to row out of the bay and go outside the bay for a trial voyage. The water outside the bay was much larger than inside the bay. The current and wind force suddenly increased greatly. However, Hua Xi had already been prepared and immediately ordered the sailors to divide into two rows.
Sit down and paddle with the wooden paddle in your hand to accelerate the boat. Under the new power, the hull runs extremely happily and the speed also increases a lot.
Naturally, the route for the trial voyage was to choose the familiar south direction. The wooden boat sailed at a very fast speed. In an instant, it sailed straight down the river for more than ten miles. Hua Xi and the sailors were extremely excited during the trial voyage. They were even more excited than during the trial voyage of the raft.
, worse than
Hua Xi also specially asked the sailors to drive the boat to the sea about 200 meters away from the coast to feel the sound of the sea wind and waves. The firmness of the hull is obvious. A wooden boat is more stable than a raft, but it requires the sailors to frequently
Pour the seawater into the body of the ship and use something to splash the seawater out to prevent the ship from sinking due to the weight.
Hua Xi spent a month on the trial of the wooden ship. During the trial, Hua Xi discussed some problems with the wooden ship with the carpenters and sailors, and made dozens of improvements.
Two months later, the wooden boat that had been modified dozens of times finally ran out of room for modification. Hua Xi officially announced at the celebration party at Sunset Castle that the manufacturing of rafts would be eliminated from now on, and wooden boats would be vigorously manufactured based on this wooden boat.
A unified specification was set to build three types of boats according to their uses.
Fishing boats: small fishing boats of 7*2 meters, medium fishing boats of 11*3 meters
Wooden boats used for transportation, exploration, and combat, with a uniform specification of 13.5*4 meters
Since then, the Chinese tribes have begun a true maritime age!