Chapter 313 New Boat 2

"Wood?" Yu Xiaotian was stunned for a moment and said, "Why is there a shortage of wood here? Isn't there so much wood piled over there? And according to Commander Fang, there are a lot of camphor trees, pine trees and fir trees in freshwater, so there should be no shortage of wood!"

Guo Fu laughed as soon as he heard this and said, "I'm afraid the boss has forgotten one thing. There are indeed a lot of wood that can be used for shipbuilding here. The order is wood stored in the material yard, which is enough to build a lot of ships!"

However, the big master forgot that most of these wood materials have just been cut down and have been soaked in the water for a while. They have to wait until they are dry before they can be opened for shipbuilding. Otherwise, the boat made of these wet materials will be deformed and cracked in less than a few months after being launched into the water. It can only be scrapped, so we have no choice but to use these new materials to build ships!

And these flying fastships that the big man wants us to build are all used as warships, and we need to use hard materials!

Before, in Nanri Island, we mostly used hardwood in Nanyang and Guangdong. Tieli wood is the best, and we have to use lychee wood even if it is inferior!

However, there are very few dry hard materials here at present. Although a batch of wood has been sent, they are still out of stock! If you want to wait for the wood here to dry, it will take as soon as a year. Some big materials need to dry for at least two years before they can be used on the ship, so we have to transport wood from outside to build ships!"

As soon as Yu Xiaotian heard it and patted his head, he only cared about asking Guo Fu and others to build the ship quickly. He thought that the freshwater side was currently sufficient forest resources and there was definitely no shortage of wood, but he forgot that the wood used for shipbuilding must be wood after drying. He actually forgot this simple truth. It was really humiliating to say it.

So he quickly nodded and smiled, "Ha ha! So, I forgot about it! I just thought that there was a lot of wood here, but I forgot that there were all new materials here, and I couldn't use it for shipbuilding immediately! Ha ha!

I will arrange for the director to deal with this matter immediately. At present, there are still many sources of goods in Guangdong. As long as Tieli wood is willing to spend money, it should be able to buy it. As for the hardwood in Nanyang, there should not be much problem.

At present, the most important thing is to be fast. If you have anything missing, please inform the director as soon as possible. I will explain to the director's office and send it to you as soon as possible after organizing the procurement!

However, if we keep so much wood but still have to spend a lot of money to collect a large number of them from outside, it's a little indescable!

I think the wood here can build a large drying room, specializing in drying wood. At present, I think this matter can be dry. Several brick kilns have been opened nearby. The bricks are not too short. You can find a way to build a large drying kiln specializing in drying wood.

Although some iron wood and lychee wood used for shipbuilding still need to be purchased from the outside for the time being, there are a lot of pine, cypress and fir wood here, and there are also many camphor trees, which are all materials. They can be taken locally and save a lot of transportation and financial resources from the outside!

I don't know if Manager Guo knows how this drying kiln was built?

After hearing this, Guo Fu nodded quickly and said, "I've seen this little one!" In the past, when the small one was on land, a boathouse built a drying room for drying wet materials!

It's just that the drying room they built is not too big. If we build it, I'm afraid we need to build a bigger one. The other one is not enough. We can build a few more drying houses. As long as there is a drying room here, it will be almost ready to be used after a month!"

Yu Xiaotian nodded as soon as he heard this and said, "This is the best. You should hurry up and strive to build the drying house and put it into use before the New Year, so that we don't need to import a large number of wood from the outside next year!"

Now the sea wolf is carrying out a lot of various projects on the side of Danshui City, and the demand for bricks and tiles is increasing. Therefore, at the beginning of the preparation of the freshwater village, the sea wolf began to build brick kilns on the spot and found some people who can burn bricks and began to burn bricks on the ground.

Nowadays, many brick kilns have been built around Tamsui City, and a large number of bricks are fired every day for use on various construction sites in Tamsui City.

In ancient times, bricks were burned in ancient brick kilns. Before Yu Xiaotian, when he was idle in time and space, he went to the suburbs to play. He once saw a kind of rotary kiln. Driven by curiosity, he drilled into it and looked at it, so he somewhat understood some of the structure of this kiln.

This kind of rotary kiln is actually not new in later generations. It is much more backward than tunnel kilns, but in this era, it is definitely an advanced thing. The biggest advantage is that this kind of rotary kiln can keep burning bricks, the structure is relatively simple, and the efficiency is far higher than the earth kiln used in ancient times, so Yu Xiaotian leaned back. I probably drew the structure of this turning kiln and gave it to my subordinates to try to explore it.

Now, after many experiments by some craftsmen, this kind of turning kiln has basically matured and has begun to be put into production.

In this way, the efficiency of burning bricks and tiles in Tamsui City has been greatly improved, and the bricks and tiles of a furnace have been continuously fired and used on various construction sites.

With this kind of turning kiln, the demand for bricks and tiles here has been greatly solved, greatly eased the demand for bricks and tiles, and greatly improved the progress of various projects here.

In addition, it must be mentioned that the issue of cement is related. Yu Xiaotian has been thinking about making cement, an epoch-making building material, since he occupied Nanri Island.

However, although silicate cement is not too difficult to produce and the raw materials are relatively easy to obtain, it requires coal, and the crushing of raw materials also requires machinery.

So this matter has been stranded, but after the construction of Tamshai Village, there has been a certain turnaround. Of course, there is no fresh water for coal, and it is not very cost-effective to ship from Fujian, so it is still unrealistic to burn silicate cement.

Yu Xiaotian inadvertently saw an immigrant village build a dam using a stream and a water mill at the dam.

So Yu Xiaotian had an idea and had an inspiration. He had previously considered that silicate cement could not be found now, but at least he could get some earth cement first.

Soil cement is actually very simple. This thing also has a name, called artificial volcanic ash cement. It can be directly crushed into powder with waste bricks and tiles, and can be used. It can also be directly calculated in the kiln with lime and clay. The temperature does not need to be too high. It is estimated that six or seven hundred is enough, and there is no need to burn it. Like silicate cement, it reaches a temperature of more than 1,000 degrees.

It is said that during China's Anti-Japanese War, this method was used to solve the problem of lack of cement. Later, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, various places adopted this method of earth cement.

When he was on Nanri Island, Yu Xiaotian tried this method. He asked people to grind some broken bricks and tiles with stone and sift them. After crushing them into powder, the water can indeed solidify. Of course, the strength does not reach the strength of silicate cement, but it can be used.

But the key is to use stone grinders to grind broken bricks and tiles into powder, which is really inefficient. In a day, a donkey and a stone grinder can't produce dozens of pounds of earth and cement. Later, Yu Xiaotian could only give up.

After seeing the water mill, Yu Xiaotian immediately decided to build more water mills in the streams around Danshui City, of course, not for rice milling or flour, but for making earth cement.

In this way, a water mill can produce hundreds of catties of earth cement and cement a day, or even more. After more than a dozen water mills are built, it can produce nearly one or two tons of earth cement in a day. As for raw materials, there are so many brick kilns in Danshui City now, and the bricks and tiles produced will inevitably be broken. These broken bricks Tile is a good raw material. In addition, two coarse porcelain kilns have been built here to produce some practical coarse porcelain for local life and reduce the transportation cost transported from the land. When reproducing, some waste products will also be produced. Therefore, these originally useless things have been transported and ground into powder and made into earth and cement. In this way, some problems have been solved more or less.

Originally, no one believed that this thing could be used, but after the experiment, the craftsmen found that this kind of earth cement can indeed solidify, play a good role as a binder, and it is also very simple to use. This method stunned many masons. They didn't expect that Yu Xiaotian could use it. These readily available broken bricks and tiles have been made so that they can bond bricks, so they are even more admired by Xiaotian, the great head. Many people think that this matter is a good thing for them. After remembering them, it will be of great use if they can't do it in the future.

Xiaotian is still very dissatisfied with this output, but at present, he is still using a water mill or stone grinding. If he wants to significantly increase the output, he can only wait for him to find a way to find a set of water conservancy crushing machinery. Otherwise, before that, even this kind of earth and cement can no longer continue to increase the output, even if After he has coal, he wants to produce silicate cement. If he doesn't have crushing machinery, he still can't do anything.

This matter was then written down by Yu Xiaotian and decided to take time to find a way to make a set of crushing machines that can greatly improve the quality and output of the crushing.

Yu Xiaotian has been around the boat house for a while and saw that the manpower here is relatively sufficient. The boatman of the Nanri Island boat house has been divided into a batch. In addition, a batch has been tied up from the land recently, and a group of apprentices have been recruited locally. The shipbuilding work here has been fully rolled out, and there is nothing for him to worry about. There is Guo Fu The stewor is here, and he can basically rest assured that he can wait for the next step, and the boats on both sides will start work together and blow up the number of ships for him.

(This year is coming to an end. I don't know how the Spring Festival has been. I wish you all success in the new year!