Chapter 44 Lighthouse

After the experiment, these glass cans can be stored for up to three to five months if they are not out of breath, so that the fruit in the bottle will not rot and deteriorate. In this way, it will more or less solve the needs of some crew members to supplement vitamins, but for vitamin C, cans Vitamin C in food has been basically destroyed, and Yu Xiaotian has no better way to do this.

As a nautical enthusiast, at least a pseudo-navigat, he knows more about this, and vitamin C is the most abundant among citrus fruits, so he often purchases a large number of citrus fruits or green vegetables from land and supplements them to the ship, so that the crew must have more every day. Eat less and buy as many citrus fruits and green vegetables as possible along the way for the crew to eat.

In addition, he occasionally heard of it in the previous time and space. It is said that sauerkraut is also rich in vitamin C, so he ordered the pickle workshop to marinate more sauerkraut and distribute it to the ship to adjust the crew's diet. In this way, it is a careless solution to the damage caused by vitamin deficiency caused by the crew. The problem of blood disease.

And the new thing of canned glass has also aroused the interest of many people. Canned fruit tastes sweet and tastes quite good. Many people are very happy to eat this thing when they go to sea. For a while, canned glass has become the love of the crew. Of course, glass is still a luxury at present, and the crew has finished eating it. After the can, the glass bottle must be carefully kept and cannot be discarded at will. It must be brought back and returned to the board of directors and refilled. Even if it is accidentally broken, it must be brought back to the glass field for re-meltling and re-production.

Later, after a merchant accidentally had the opportunity to taste this glass can with the boat, he also caught a cold and felt that it tasted good, so he went to Nanri Island to buy some at a high price and gave it to some dignitaries to taste it. Unexpectedly, it attracted more people's attention and began to * this new thing, so Simply Yu Xiaotian built another canning factory on the freshwater side, specializing in the production of canning food. In addition to meeting his own needs, he also began to transport it to the land*.

The value of the glass bottle itself far exceeds that of the fruit inside. After selling it on land, after rich people bought and ate canned food, the glass bottle was also used by them as a vase or something. Anyway, it will never be thrown away as garbage as in later generations.

These trivial things make the people of the sea wolf feel the importance their big masters attach to them, and it is naturally more reassuring to work here.

In fact, people are like this. Once they have not experienced such a good life, it doesn't matter, but once they experience such a high-quality life, most people can't accept that they want to return to their original state of life.

The quality of life provided by the Sea Wolf Group to these departments is far higher than their previous quality of life. Although the rules here are strict, some rules can even be said to be a little critical, which makes lazy people a little unbearable at first, but once the time passes, habits can be changed, most of them Several people began to adapt to such a life, especially the quality of life provided to them here, which made them unwilling to give up such a life here.

In this way, if someone wants to destroy the sea wolf now, it is equivalent to smashing their jobs. Most of these people will not agree! Therefore, giving enough good treatment to his subordinates is also invisibly a very good way to improve their loyalty and cohesion. At this point, at present, there is really no peer who can do this to his colleagues along the coast of China. This is also because he believes that his subordinates will consciously safeguard the interests of the sea wolf. Reason.

Of course, these things are just peripheral matters for the sea wolf to deal with their opponents next. Basically, if Yu Xiaotian wants to keep his territory and his current position at sea, he still has to speak by force.

After the year, Yu Xiaotian went to Danshui City again to inspect the workshops under the newly put into production of military weapons. At this time, the whole Danshui City had formed a new workshop area. After entering the mouth of Tamsui River, you can see the chimneys erected in the workshop area from afar, spraying into the sky. Black smoke rolling.

This is a standard industrial development scene. Unfortunately, most of these industries are still in the manual stage, and only a small number of machinery are put into use, and they also rely on manpower and animal power.

A large number of ships have now appeared in the waterway of the freshwater river. As ships operating at sea, ships in this era use wood. After soaking in seawater for a long time, sea maggots will gradually erode into the ship plate, gradually emptying the ship plate, reducing the service life of the ship, and even serious It may cause major events for ships to occur at sea.

But it is also easy to deal with sea maggots. You only need to regularly drive ships into some rivers and moor in fresh water for a few days. Sea maggots will die because they can't survive in fresh water, which is very important for wooden sea ships in this era.

In the past, before occupying fresh water, sea wolves could only let ships find a way to berth in the estuary of several rivers along the coast of Fujian to solve this problem, but doing so has a certain danger and will cause tension among local officials and people. But now this problem has become very Good solution, the ships of sea wolves do not need to risk mooring in the land rivers in the future, and they are ordered to dock on thedan shui river in batches.

In this way, in addition to allowing the ship to solve the problem of sea maggots, the personnel on the ship can also take a break in Tamsui City and repair their ships, which has obtained a quite good rear base for the sea wolf.

So now in the river here, a large number of sea wolf boats often come and stop for a few days, making it very lively.

When Yu Xiaotian slowly drove into the mouth of the freshwater estuary on the ship, he saw these scenes. He could see that a city was being built at the next step of his efforts, and it would soon become more and more prosperous.

After entering the estuary, he can also see several new forts built on both sides of the river. On the shore outside the estuary, a new lighthouse has also been built. This lighthouse is an important facility for providing navigation instructions for ships coming to freshwater at night. With its existence, the sea boats that come here in the future, even if At night, you can also easily find the freshwater estuary. Under the guidance of the water diversion ship, you can safely enter the estuary and moored in the anchorage of the river.

And Yu Xiaotian also made a lot of efforts in the construction of this lighthouse. He helped design the lighthouse, especially the light part above, and he personally participated in the design.

In order to improve the effective distance of the lighthouse and allow ships to see the lights emitted from the lighthouse farther away, the lighthouse uses whale oil as fuel, and more importantly, Yu Xiaotian designed a spotlight device for the lighthouse.

That is, a considerable concave surface is made behind the lamp, which reflects the light of the lamp in one direction, more like a spotlight, which can make it shine farther.

Although the sea wolf now has a glass industry, it is still difficult to make such a large spotlight. Therefore, Yu Xiaotian finally used copper as the material of the spotlight and cast a quite semi-curved concave mirror with copper. After careful polishing, it can also play the role of spotlight and make the lamp The light in the tower is projected far away and can even be used as a searchlight at night, projecting a beam of light onto the sea, so that the guards in the lighthouse can see the ships outside the estuary at night.

In order to make the light movable, Yu Xiaotian also designed a semi-circular slide around the brazier. The concave mirror can rotate about 180 degrees around the light on the slide and bet the light on the semi-circular sea. This is quite an advanced design. The personnel stationed in the lighthouse promote copper at night. The concave mirror constantly sweeps across the estuary, which can observe ships without lights at night on the sea in advance, effectively preventing enemy ships from sneaking into the estuary at night and attacking Tamsui City.

In addition, there are many winds and rain on the sea. The lighthouse will often be affected by the wind and rain, and the lights may be blown out. Even if they are not blown out, they will be greatly affected. The guards stationed on the lighthouse will also be attacked by the wind and rain, which is unspeakable. Therefore, Yu Xiaotian also installed a large arc-shaped glass for the lighthouse. The window closes the lighthouse, so that the lights of the lighthouse are no longer affected by the wind and rain, and also provide a better working environment for the guards. Open the window when the wind is sunny, and close the window when there is wind and rain, and the lighthouse can continue to work.

Although he was unable to produce large pieces of flat glass at this time, he could only produce a small area of glass panels by molding, it is enough to install the glass with more windows. It will more or less affect some lighting, but the overall impact is not too large and is basically acceptable.

However, if it is seen by outsiders, they will definitely shout that their sea wolves are too luxurious. Glass is still a luxury so far. Even large rich families dare not use a large number of glass plates to install them on their windows, and the sea wolf suddenly used dozens of such glass plates on the lighthouse. It's really too extravagant.

And as an important facility of sea wolves, the lighthouse needs adequate protection, so when the people here built the lighthouse, they built a battery directly outside the lighthouse and dug a trench outside the fortrench. There are two teams of soldiers stationed in the lighthouse at any time.

(Monthly pass, monthly pass, I want a monthly pass!)