Chapter 45 Standardized Shipbuilding

There is also a 12-pound long cannon and two light Fran machine guns on the turret. The 12-pound long gun is set up on a rotating gun rack. The muzzle can easily point in all directions, making its shooting boundary wide and flexible, which can avoid the gunner's laborious movement of the gun rack. Aiming at the target, you only need to turn the gun rack to aim the muzzle in the direction of the target relatively easily. With two light Franco cannons as a supplement, you can shoot the enemy landing nearby, so that this battery has a strong defense ability. If something happens, you can quickly get the rapid support of the freshwater City garrison.

So after seeing that the lighthouse had been built from afar this time, Yu Xiaotian had a sense of accomplishment and couldn't help but feel a little proud. Unfortunately, when he came during the day, he could not see the actual situation of the lighthouse, but at night, he still planned to come and have a look.

As for several forts on both sides of the estuary are equipped with 12-pound howitzers, which can easily block the estuary, making it impossible for the attackers to rush into the freshwater river and pose a threat to the freshwater city without occupying or destroying these forts.

So after the construction of these forts, Tamsui City has become quite safe. Even if a powerful enemy blocks the estuary, Tamsui City can completely rely on the food and materials stored here and hold on for a long time.

Yu Xiaotian's focus this visit is on the situation of the freshwater industrial zone, especially those workshops related to weapons manufacturing under the jurisdiction of weapons, and the shipyard here.

Yu Xiaotian came here a few years ago. All the workshops here have just been put into operation, and all kinds of things have not stabilized. This time he came to check the situation here to see if the industrial situation here has stabilized.

He knows very well that this year's six-year Apocalypse is a critical year for him. He is likely to deal with several big battles. If he doesn't explode the equipment quickly, he may not be able to cope with it at that time.

And last year, he recruited a considerable number of newcomers. Now some newcomers have completed the initial training. As trainees, they have been recruited into the marines and soldiers, and many new ships have been added. Now the cannons are relatively short. A few years ago, Nanri Island guns and cannons were allowed to complete an order as Yan Siqi, which took some time. Therefore, weapons production is particularly critical for him in the months after the New Year.

Otherwise, many of his ships may not be able to catch up with the suitable artillery. Many people on the side of the soldiers may return to the era of cold weapons and can only fight with knives, guns and crossbows.

It means that after Xiaotian landed in Tamsui City, he immediately began to turn around in Tamsui City according to his old habits. He went to the boat first.

The five platforms have now been completed and put into operation. The ships on the first three platforms last year have now been basically completed and can be launched for trial in half a month at the latest, and then delivered to the sailors for use.

The other two platforms have also started to build two new sloops. At present, the Nanri Island Boat House and the Freshwater Boat House are concentrating all their efforts to build this kind of fastboat. Within half a year at the latest, they will be able to have more than a dozen flying-shaped sloops and gallop on the sea.

Once such a fleet is formed, the combat effectiveness of seawolves at sea will reach a new height for a long time in the future. No matter who meets this fastchuan fleet, they will certainly be as big as fighting, and even such a fleet also has Westerners. The ability of the medium-sized Galen ship used in World War I.

This is also the top priority for Xiaotian and belongs to his greatest concern.

When he saw Guo Fu again, Guo Fu quickly began to report the situation to Yu Xiaotian about the ship's house. Now, according to Yu Xiaotian's instructions, the boat house has built a large wood drying room and began to transport the locally harvested wood into the drying room for drying.

However, so far, they have not fully mastered the performance and drying technology of the drying room. They are still in the process of exploring the experiment. The first batch of drying wood has been taken out of the drying room, but because of poor temperature control, there may be problems in the design of the drying room. The ventilation is not very good, and some wood drys too fast. There is serious cracking, and some of the wood has not been completely dried, and it is still in a semi-dry and semi-wet state.

So less than 20% of the first batch of dried wood is relatively qualified and can be used for shipbuilding. In addition, 40% of the wood is not dry enough, and it needs to continue to dry for a period of time before it can be used on the ship. In addition, 40% of the wood has become waste because the temperature is too high or too fast to dry. Materials cannot be used in shipbuilding, so they can only be used as less demanding building materials, or simply pull them to burn charcoal.

A few years ago, Guo Fu gathered craftsmen to brainstorm, adjust the stoves, vents and the way wood is placed in the drying room, and sends a batch of new wood into the drying room. At present, it is still drying. After their inspection, the drying situation of this batch of wood is better than that of the first batch of wood. It's much better. You can go out of the drying room in a few days. At that time, you can intuitively see how the effect will be.

Yu Xiaotian has nothing to say about this. He is not an expert in this field. Technically, he can only look at these professional craftsmen, and he is not an all-rounder. There are many advanced technologies in later generations. He knows little about it and can't provide better advice. He can only rely on these craftsmen to explore by step by step.

The first batch of drying wood should be regarded as a failure, but at least this road has proved to be workable. After continuous improvement, the drying room can certainly gradually improve the technology. At that time, the wood here can be supplied to their boats in large quantities.

I haven't been here for a while. Here, Yu Xiaotian saw a lot of newly harvested wood added to the material field. Guo Fu took Yu Xiaotian to look at the wood materials in the material field and patted the wood and said to Xiaotian, "These woods are all good things. There are many big trees here on Taiwan Yuan Island, which is also close to the boat house. It is convenient to harvest. At present, it is difficult to buy these big materials on land. The trees near the shore have been almost cut down in the past few hundred years. If you need big materials, sometimes you have to harvest them from Sichuan and Yunnan, and the price is very high after being transported out!

But here, there are so many big materials that we can build hundreds of large ships without any problem! Unfortunately, these materials are still wet at present and can't be used immediately, otherwise it can save a lot of money!"

"Of course! Although Taiwan Member Island cannot be regarded as a wild land, no one has come to explore it for thousands of years, so the reserves of timber resources here are naturally very large! Not to mention hundreds of big boats, the wood of thousands of big boats is enough for you to use! This is also why I don't spare a lot of money to build a fortress here and a large number of immigrants here! I just like the resources here, which are much richer than Nanri Island!" Yu Xiaotian laughed.

Guo Fu nodded repeatedly and said yes, taking the opportunity to flatter Yu Xiaotian and said a lot of good things such as foresight.

"Don't tell me these words! Ha ha! Although it sounds good, it's useless! The key depends on how many boats you craftsmen can build for me and how long it will take to build boats for me!

And it should be made not only fast, but also well! You have to think more about these things, brainstorm, and let your craftsmen come up with more ideas!

I think you can form a standard for some workpieces, and then make them uniformly according to the standards. You can do it well in advance. When you start building, you can directly use these materials such as ship ribs, shipboards, etc., which can save a lot of time, which is faster than what you do now, and it is made. Have you ever thought about the uniform shape and size of the ship? Yu Xiaotian put forward the concept of standardized production.

Guo Fu has been following Yu Xiaotian for a long time, and his mind has changed a lot from the old concept. Now his ability to absorb new things has improved a lot. Although Yu Xiaotian only said it verbally, he immediately understood what Yu Xiaotian wanted him to do.

So he quickly thought about it carefully and nodded repeatedly, "This is a good way! The big man is really talented. If you use this method, you can save a lot of work. You can specially arrange some craftsmen to do these things. You can also make fixtures uniformly and make some workpieces according to one or several sizes. In this way, as long as the keel is put away, you can directly send the ribs to the ship's platform for loading. The speed of shipbuilding must be much faster!"

After thinking about this, Guo Fu was overjoyed and almost danced. At present, the craftsmen on the land he knew had not used this method. They all built a boat and opened materials at once. In this way, they adopted this method of standardized production, which could not only save manpower. In addition to making full use of idle manpower, the shipbuilding speed can be improved a lot. As long as several platforms start a ship type, these artifacts can be directly used on the ship, so that the shipbuilding speed is not slow.

Then Guo Fu immediately stated that he immediately began to arrange this matter and immediately transferred a group of craftsmen to bring some apprentices to the ship to make these general parts for the ship and speed up the shipbuilding.

Yu Xiaotian turned to the platform and began to check these newly built ships on the platform.

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