Chapter 135 Aftercare

Now the Spaniards have been taken down by the British, and the Dutch and the Portuguese are also powerful contenders of the sea. They are all trying to seize more resources and occupy more colonies to gain greater benefits.

This also promotes their shipbuilders to create better, larger, stronger, more powerful and more flexible warships to serve their country and let the navy fight for more benefits for their country, including merchants, who have also invested in new ships and ran to the distant sea to explore and discover new ones. The mainland, occupying new colonies, * people, trafficking slaves and goods, and obtaining huge benefits.

There are even some scum who simply buy ships and do pirate trading at sea, * enemy merchant ships, and capitalless trade, which have greatly promoted the development of their shipbuilding and military industry.

However, such an environment is seriously lacking in China. The Ming court officials do not pay attention to maritime trade, let alone the idea of expanding their territory. They only want to keep the ancestral business left to them by their ancestors, even if they are very satisfied, so the technological development of China's shipbuilding industry has completely stagnated, and sea trade is limited to If the personal behavior of marine merchants wants to promote the development of the shipbuilding industry, there is no such environment and demand at all. Naturally, it is impossible to promote the development of China's shipbuilding industry.

After listening to Yu Xiaotian's question, Gu Feng quickly bowed down and answered, "If you go back to the boss, the villain and these guys have just seen these two boats. Although they are not careful, they have also seen a general idea!

Most of the interior of the two ships are still very strong, and the damage to the outside seems not be light, but in fact the internal structure is not seriously damaged, so it is not very troublesome to repair. You only need to remove some damaged shipboards, replace them with the same new shipboards, and twist some cracks to block some of the ship. It has been repaired!

The biggest problem is that one of the masts of the ship has been broken. Now we don't have enough material here. I'm afraid we can't install a new mast. If it is spliced together, I'm afraid it's not strong enough. This is probably the most difficult thing to do!

Others are okay. The villains are not big. After entering the dock, it will be three months at the earliest to ensure that they can be repaired! By the way, we craftsmen can also learn how they built this boat!"

Yu Xiaotian was very satisfied with the ancient words, because he had personally checked these two boats in front of Keelung Fort more than a month ago. The internal main structure was basically not damaged, but the hull board was beaten miserably, and the loss of sails was relatively large. The most serious thing was the mast problem. As for some ship ribs Damage is also a minority, and it can be replaced when repairing the ship.

So on the surface, it looks like these two boats are dilapidated. In fact, it is much simpler to actually repair them than to transform the three-masted Dafu boat. It is not difficult for these ancient shipmakers.

As for the problem of masts, he knows more about it. Western countries, especially in Britain, had a long time in history. Their shipyards also lacked wood for masts, so they came up with a method of splicing masts instead of making masts with whole logs. This method has been used for a long time, although However, the structural strength is not as strong as the whole log, but it can still be used.

But he does not plan to use this method, because it will take a long time to explore the splicing mast that has just begun to make, and it is difficult to estimate the strength, so it is better to use the whole log to make the mast.

There is certainly no suitable wood on Nanri Island, but now after he has occupied fresh water and Keelung, Taiwan Island has rich wood resources. Taiwan Island itself has a lot of wood that is very suitable for shipbuilding, such as redwood, Taiwan pine, camphor and other tree species. There is still no mast material. As far as he knows, there are many such materials in the wood storage yard of the freshwater boat. After the main body of the two boats is repaired, drive the ship whose mast was broken to the freshwater side, choose a mast material over there and install it.

So it seems that there is no big problem in repairing these two ships, so he and Gu Feng and others discussed a repair plan in the boathouse, and decided to first remove some things on the ship, unload the ship to reduce the weight of the hull, and also remove the mast to reduce the weight of the ship, and then move the ship to the dock. , start repairing the ship.

After saying these things, Yu Xiaotian summoned Luo Xianbin, who brought the boat back. Some time ago, when he returned to Nanri Island to heal his wounds, he left Luo Xianbin at Keelung Fort to help Blackhead deal with the things after the war.

This time, Luo Xianbin returned to Nanri Island with these two large splint boats. When he saw Yu Xiaotian, Luo Xianbin immediately excitedly congratulated Yu Xiaotian. Seeing that Yu Xiaotian had basically recovered and there was no danger in their lives, they were happy from the bottom of their hearts.

Yu Xiaotian nodded and smiled, "Okay, thank you for always thinking about my injury. There is nothing serious now. It is estimated that the wound will be completely healed in a month or two. I will definitely not die this time!"

"The great head is the heavenly man who went down to the earth. It must be Hong Fu Qitian. We have long felt that this little injury will definitely be fine! Sure enough, even the Lord of Hell dares not accept the prestige of the great master. With the bones of the great master, there is no problem at least a long life!" Luo Xianbin grinned and flattered Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian frowned. Why do you think he is familiar with his words? Isn't this the words often used by the subordinates of Hong of the Shenlong Sect in Lu Dingji to flatter him? Thinking of this, he laughed hoarsely.

"Well, don't flatter me. If you flatter me again, I can't give you more silver! Ha ha! Tell me, what's the situation in Keelung Fort these days!" As Yu Xiaotian spoke, he took a bowl of soup and frowned and poured it down. After drinking this thing for so many days, he wanted to vomit when he smelled it. It was really not as convenient as Western medicine pills, but there was nothing he could do. He had to recover completely as soon as possible, otherwise his physical and spirit would not keep up.

Luo Xianbin immediately straightened his chest and replied, "I am the boss. There is a black brother over there and Deputy Commander Sun. They are doing very steadily. The prisoners are temporarily imprisoned in the temporary prison camp. They have to open stones every day, and now they have become much more obedient!

Most of the damaged ships have been repaired now, and they will return to Nanri Island one after another to continue to repair! The damaged turret, Black, is arranging manpower for renovation. Fishing and whaling have now resumed, and the escaped Spanish ship has never returned!"

Yu Xiaotian put down the soup bowl, took a mouthful of water, rinsed his mouth, nodded and nodded, "Nonsense, I know all these things. How is the brother who died in the war deal with it? How are the injured now?

Luo Xianbin quickly replied, "As long as the brothers who died in the war can find the bodies, they have been collected. According to the instructions of the big master, a cemetery was built on the other side of Keelung Fort, and all of them were buried in Keelung Castle Cemetery. The shape of the cemetery is repaired according to the Nanri Island Cemetery. It is very beautiful and windy. Water is also good!

There are also some brothers who can't find their bodies, and they have also prepared a tomb for them and buried them with other brothers.

All our brothers in Keelungburg attended their funeral except for the people on duty. It was very grand. Please rest assured!

In addition, there are more than 30 brothers among the injured, but they can't survive in the end! He was buried in the cemetery! The remaining 50 injured brothers have basically survived under the rescue of the local medical officer, but a few of them may not be able to return to the ship. They are disabled!

But they didn't worry about anything. Anyway, they couldn't be hungry with the big head, but they heard that the big head was seriously injured. They were very nervous. This time, they saw that the big head had recovered a lot. Later, they sent people to tell them so that they could rest assured!"

Yu Xiaotian sighed slightly. This time, their losses were not small. Two or three hundred people died in the battle and dozens were injured, mainly because some sailors were unable to survive after falling into the water. In addition, several boats sank so fast that people didn't have time to jump into the sea to escape. When the ship sank, they also sucked them. Go down.

Therefore, the number of people killed in the battle is very large, but the number of injured is not very large, but more than 80 people were injured, and only 50 people survived and more than 30 died. This mortality rate is still too high.

But if you think about it, it is very rare that the mortality rate of the wounded in this era can be controlled to this extent. Even in European countries, the mortality rate is now at least more than half.

You should know that the wounded are very valuable. The injured in the battle are like half of the baptism. As long as they survive, they will basically become the backbone of the absolute army.

So he turned his head and said to Li Gouzi, "Many brothers died in this trip to Jilong Bay. The pension must be distributed as soon as possible and must be effectively distributed to their families!" In addition, their afterthoughts must be arranged, and they must not be allowed to close their eyes under the brothers who died in the war! It's okay to spend more money. You can arrange a memorial activity for them here!

This weather is mainly too hot. In addition, many brothers' bodies can't be found, and it is not convenient for the brothers who find the bodies to be transported back for burial, so I asked Blackhead to arrange to be buried on the Keelung Fort!

If their families want to go to Keelung Fort to worship their tomb, they should also try their best to arrange this matter and don't push back. This is human's normal. Their family can't even see them for the last time. If they want to go, they should arrange it well and take good care of them!"

(I took my son and daughter out to play today. I came back a little late. The update is relatively late. Please forgive me! In addition, thank you for the maple forest in autumn and the reward of the two brothers who are not obvious!)