Chapter 312 New Ship House

After several months of construction, Danshuizhai Boat House has now begun to be put into use. The scale of this boat house is much larger than that of Nanri Island Boat House, mainly due to the large number of idle land here. In addition, Xiaotian plans to build a large number of ships by himself here in the future, so he At the beginning of the construction, the shelf was quite large.

In terms of scale alone, the scale of this boathouse has exceeded that of many large boathouses along the coast of Fujian. Five platforms have been built here at once.

However, only three can be put into use now, and the other two are still under construction.

Although the dry dock was created by the Chinese. It was invented and put into use by the Chinese in the Song Dynasty, it was used less and less later. The old boathouse on Nanri Island is a relatively special situation. I don't know why the people who built the boathouse there dug two dry docks.

But in fact, in this era, in order to save costs, many shipyards do not often use dry docks to build ships, and Daming has been sealing the sea. Even if they secretly trade with sea merchants, the local government has taken a blind eye to turn a blind eye, but Daming still clearly stipulates that no one is allowed to build four without permission. More than 100 ships.

Even if Daming boatmen are fully capable of building large ships with more than 400 materials, few people dare to commit crimes against the wind, so it is not cost-effective to use dry docks. Therefore, most of the shipyards use simpler shipyards, and even many shipyards are reluctant to build slides for ships to go into the water. Just lay some mud at the beach and slide the ship from the platform into the water.

Yu Xiaotian is now eager to put the Danshui City Boat House into use, and it is too labor-intensive to build a dock, so he simply adopted a platform for shipbuilding.

However, Yu Xiaotian's boat here is not like some land boats, which saves costs and refuses to build even slides. When building the platform here, Yu Xiaotian still asked the craftsmen to build these platforms as strong as possible, and really used a lot of wood.

And he did not save the labor and cost of the slide. He built a fairly strong slide for each platform, which can ensure that the ship is safer when it goes into the water.

Fortunately, on the freshwater side, although a large number of immigrants have come here to pioneer, the surrounding forest area is still very large. There is enough wood for sea wolves to use. The construction of ship platforms is basically made from local materials. In addition, there is no problem with some wood stored here before.

When Yu Xiaotian came to the boat, he did not look at the situation on the platform at first glance, but saw a large number of logs piled up on the shore. These logs were basically newly cut down, and some of the wood was still wet, as if half of them had just been salvaged from the water.

Looking into the river, Yu Xiaotian saw a lot of wood, which was slowly floating along the freshwater river. The wood was tied into a wooden row. Some people moved on the wooden row and manipulated the wooden row down the river to avoid the wooden row being stuck on the shore along the way, until the wooden row reached the vicinity of the boat. Then someone intercepted the wooden rows, pulled them to the shore, and then used manpower and animal power to dismantle the wooden rows and drag them ashore.

In this way, the heavy transportation process of wood is eliminated, which greatly saves manpower and material resources, so that the boat can easily use a large amount of wood along the upstream coast.

Yu Xiaotian was a little surprised by this, so he asked Fang An, who followed him, how he did this, because the last time he came, Fang An also said that there were a large number of native activities along the upstream to prevent sea wolves from entering their territory to cut wood. Now why so many wood has been put down.

Fang An immediately replied with a smile, "It should be thanks to the great head!" The last time the big man went to Jilong Bay, a group of soldiers and auxiliary soldiers were transferred from Jilong Bay. After these people came here, they immediately began to use troops against the surrounding natives who often attacked us.

These brothers who came from the chicken cage village were really capable, and with the help of those native auxiliary soldiers, they immediately reversed the disadvantage that our people were not good at moving in the forest.

They first solved two fierce native tribes nearby, almost pulled them up, and captured more than 200 natives.

I saw that the Jilongzhai brothers did quite well, so I asked the local garrison to learn to fight in the mountains and forests. In addition, I also selected a group of auxiliary soldiers from some local immigrants and previously captured natives, which basically solved the problems of the natives.

In fact, the natives are not stupid. The reason why they dared not listen to disturb us in the past was to see that we did not dare to easily enter the mountains and forests to chase and kill them. Now the locals around them see that we suddenly pull out their two tribes, so they know how powerful we are. They dare not dare to harass us unscrupulously as before. The village.

And his subordinates also showed their goodwill to these natives according to the previous instructions of the big boss and gave them some small things, so the natives no longer easily harassed our immigrants.

Some time ago, our people began to go up the freshwater river. At first, they were hindered by two native tribes on both sides and competed with them several times.

The two sides began to have their own injuries. Later, their subordinates and the Meng brothers simply mobilized hundreds of brothers to go up, took away the two natives, killed a group of natives, and captured a lot of them, almost cleaning up the natives on both sides of the river about 30 miles upstream.

In this way, our people can enter the upstream area to cut wood, and no longer worry too much about the attack of the natives. Therefore, the recent upstream logging team can cut down a lot of trees every day, and then throw them directly into the river and cut them into a row down the river.

Please take a look at the area above the boat house, which is now full of wood accumulation. There is already a lot of wood. After it dries, it can be used to build ships!"

Yu Xiaotian was quite happy after hearing this and nodded repeatedly: "This should be done to treat the natives. While showing their goodwill, they should also let them understand that they can't afford to provoke us! Only in this way can we be at peace with them.

It is not a good way to blindly use strength and show weakness. Excessive use of strength will arouse serious hatred against us among the local tribes. With our current strength, we can't cope with their joint hands to deal with us!

So blindly using strong can only be counterproductive! When necessary, we should give small favors to some of their tribes so that they can get benefits from us. Naturally, they are unwilling to be our enemies.

This is quite good. You can learn more about their practices.

In addition, this group of brothers and native auxiliary soldiers transferred from the chicken cage village is to let the soldiers here learn some mountain warfare methods of battle with them, so that they can easily cope with the attacks of these surrounding natives in the future.

Now I don't know how much you have learned about the garrison!"

Fang An immediately replied, "Please rest assured that the soldiers here have not been idle after seeing the skills of the brothers in the chicken cage village. As soon as the brothers in the chicken cage village came over, they immediately learned. In the past few months, they have basically learned a lot. In addition, there are also some local The captured natives were incorporated into the auxiliary soldiers. These local natives are more familiar with the local mountain and forest situation, so there is no problem dealing with ordinary native tribes now.

Even if we want to touch them, there is basically no big problem. What's more, there is still a new camp here. If necessary, we can get the assistance of the new camp. In addition, there are more and more of us. If we are bullied by the locals again, then the big head can drive me back. "I'm home!"

Yu Xiaotian laughed after hearing this.

While talking, Guo Fu, who was transferred here to supervise the work, heard the news that Yu Xiaotian had come to the ship's house and quickly rushed over in three steps and two steps. As soon as he saw Yu Xiaotian, he quickly took his head and bowed.

"See the big head! It's a salute to the big head!" Guo Fuxian is now doing quite well here in the sea wolf. He is already one of the leading figures among the craftsmen in the sea wolf group, and his two sons have now also taken over his craftsmanship. One stayed on Nanri Island and became a steward of the Nanri Island shipyard, and the other gave up his father's shipbuilding career and transferred to Among the sea wolf's water army, he has become a formal sea wolf army and has embarked on the road of marching. Now he has become the captain of a ship, and he has done quite well. The next step is to be a first mate or even a captain.

And his two sons have also become relatives and gave birth to a grandson to Guo Fu. Guo Fu is living a good life now, which can be regarded as thanks to Xiaotian, so Guo Fu is now more determined to work for Yu Xiaotian. On the contrary, he looks much stronger than two or three years ago.

"You came just in time! I'm just looking for you to ask about the situation of the boat here! How about it? Is there anything missing from this boat? Yu Xiaotian was in a good mood and smiled to let Guo Fu get up and speak.

Guo Fu said with a smile on his face and said, "If you go back to the head of the house, the layout of the boathouse here is much larger than that of the boathouse on Nanri Island. At present, three platforms have started construction, and then two platforms can be put into materials to start shipbuilding by the latest.

All kinds of supporting things in front of the boat are basically in place, and the blacksmith's shop, hemp rope workshop, twisting, ... have all moved!

The big man also saw that the construction of these three platforms has already started, and they are also built flying fast ships, especially the third platform, which is relatively large. Two slinger flying fast ships can be started at a time. In the future, we can build at least 800 large ships here, but we haven't started yet!

Others are not lacking at present. The canvas has just sent a boat recently, which is enough to build seven or eight flying fast ships, but the jute used to make hemp rope is now slightly missing, but it is not a big problem. It is enough to send two boats later. If you can grow some jute , we don't even need to enter jute later!

I'm afraid the most missing thing at present is wood! ......”