Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 240 Shipyard

The next day, Bai Guoshi slept very late and got up very late. He heard from the brother on duty at the gate of the group that a girl had come to him because he had given her back before he got up.Bai Guoshi thought it was probably Zhao Xue—it was needless to say that he wanted to go to the cafeteria for breakfast when he came to see him early in the morning. This was a great opportunity to increase emotional exchanges, but he actually missed it.He knocked his head angrily.

Another depressing thing is that after I came out of the committee yesterday, my mind was dizzy due to the long-term argument. As a result, Wei Aiwen asked me for cigarettes, and I confusedly gave all the box that I smoked yesterday. He, it's painful, that's a bag of hard China--the market price of a bag of hard China is ridiculously high now.Fortunately, I brought a whole pair of them.

"It's unlucky." Bai Guoshi was depressed while thinking, he didn't even bother to eat breakfast, and took out a piece of unpalatable Grassland No. [-] rice cake from his pocket. This is the standard ration for field work, but everyone doesn't like it. I love to eat and saved a lot.

Chewing the rice cakes that he seemed to never be able to swallow, Bai Guoshi came to the office of the exploration team, just sat down and poured a glass of water to swallow the rice cakes, when Liu Zheng came in and saw him laughing a few times.Bai Guoshi was puzzled.

"Xiaobai, MM Zhao Xue has been officially transferred to our department from today."

"Really?!" Bai Guoshi stood up in excitement, almost choking on the rice cake.

"Don't get excited, of course it's true." Liu Zheng comforted him with a smile, "Men and women are paired together, work isn't tiring. Xiaobai, you have to seize the opportunity—"

Just as Bai Guoshi was about to say something, Zhao Xue bumped in and said, "I heard that I'm being kept at the base, and I'm not allowed to go out to perform missions!"

"Well, hehe, yes," Liu Zheng nodded, "Your legs are not good, and you are not very suitable for such long-distance field activities. After the scale of our exploration team increases, we need someone to be on duty, so we can't play an empty city plan. This is also combined with your IT expertise, analysis and sorting of intelligence. Your job is very important. One is to provide them with mission briefings before each remote team departs, so that they can initially understand some overviews of the targets to be reconnaissance; The collected information is written into a report and submitted to the Intelligence Committee. There are still a lot of administrative affairs to be dealt with, and the burden is heavy, but don’t worry, my comrades and I will try our best to help you.” Zhao Xue said thoughtfully: “It’s so important ..."

Seeing that she had been fooled, Liu Zheng hurriedly said that I had to leave beforehand, and you are all busy.Create opportunities for Bai Guoshi.

Bai Guoshi suddenly felt that he was super lucky. Could it be because he gave away a pack of cigarettes for nothing?Wei Aiwen is not an old woman crossing the road.

Just thinking about how to speak, Zhao Xue had already spoken: "I went to find you in the morning, why are you still sleeping?"

"I was exhausted yesterday, you don't know how late the meeting of the executive committee was," Bai Guoshi couldn't help boasting to himself, talking about how extraordinary he was when he reported at the meeting, and added such words as he sternly pointed out that the executive committee The executive committee humbly accepted the issue of not paying enough attention to the long-distance exploration business, and repeatedly exclaimed that there are capable people in the exploration team. In the end, even large-scale exploration adventures became his proposal.

While talking about Bai Guoshi, he felt guilty, but seeing MM smiling like a flower, with a look of admiration in her eyes, she couldn't help continuing to brag.

When he had finished speaking, Bai Guoshi asked, "What do you want me to do this morning?"

"I received the transfer order this morning. I still have a lot of things in the IT department. I want you to help me move them."

"Okay, I'll go right away." Bai Guoshi hurriedly volunteered.

On the second day, including the newcomers, all the personnel redistributed the groups, trying to balance the strength of the two groups.Use the old with the new model for training.Since the recent task is to go on an expedition around the island with the brigade, the direct quality requirements for the team members are not so high, and the exploration team has gained valuable breathing time for training.The content formulated by Liu Zheng mainly includes:

[-]. Field survival training, basic field survival training, combined with experience and lessons learned from actual combat missions.

[-]. Basic individual tactics, including grappling, etc., are mainly taught by people from the Special Investigation Brigade.

[-]. Basic team coordination tactics, including cross-covering, etc., with special emphasis on the coordinated training of guns and crossbows.

[-]. Expertise in flora, fauna, minerals and meteorology.

[-]. Navigation adaptation training.Each group has to go to Bopu for rowing and swimming training.

After a few days of training, everyone's various levels have been greatly improved—thanks to the long-term labor after D-day, no matter how useless an otaku is now, he has good physical strength. With physical strength, the professor is nothing more than It's a matter of skill and synergy.

Liu Zheng took the team to Gaoshanling, Lingaojiao and other places to conduct a series of field survival training in the mountains and at sea, and also engaged in a confrontational battle between the A and B groups.In addition to honing the level of newcomers, it also has the effect of enhancing feelings and improving morale.

Wen Desi went to the shipyard every day these days to supervise the construction of their first two-masted schooner.The blueprint of this ship was built according to the line diagram of the famous "America" ​​in history: a displacement of 170 tons, a total length of 30 meters, a width of 7 meters, a draft of 3 meters, two masts, and a vertical sail.Even the captain only needs 9 people to operate.

Since this ship is the first large-scale ship built by the Crossing Group, it was called "No. [-] Ship" before it was officially launched and named to show its status from scratch.

The shipwrights in Baitulai are the main force in shipbuilding. Building a large western ship is a new challenge for the shipwrights. It is also a challenge for Wen Desi, and it is a test for the overall industrial level and cooperation ability of the travelers. .

Because no one has the experience of launching a 170-ton ship, the shipbuilders of New Space-Time adopted a more appropriate and safe dry dock for shipbuilding. Although the project is huge, it will be of great significance to the shipbuilding industry after completion.

The dock is dug manually and mechanically. It is not a hole completely formed on the shore. Strictly speaking, it is a semi-open structure. It was surrounded by stone works.The wall and bottom of the dock are reinforced by pouring bamboo-reinforced gravel concrete.

The water pump used in the dock is relatively easy to solve: Not only does the Transit Group have its own water pumps, water pumps and other equipment, but almost all modern ships such as Fengcheng Ship are equipped with several of these devices. After the successful trial production of the steam engine, it is no problem to use it to pump water. .

The ship lock is made of iron-framed wooden boards. A large amount of high-quality wood was consumed for the construction of the gate. The caulking technique used in shipbuilding was also used to increase the water density between the board walls.The gate is opened and closed by a rope drawn by a winch. In order to drive the winch and water pump, the mechanical department specially manufactured a boiler and a matching steam engine for the dock: a [-]-horsepower horizontal steam engine. In addition to opening and closing the gate, it can also drive a sawmill during the day Wood, pumping water for the dock at night-the locks of the dock are not very well sealed.

In order to build the No. [-] ship, the Transit Group has been gathering resources on a large scale since years ago. The Ministry of Machinery Industry has specially set up an iron workshop in the shipyard to manufacture various iron and copper parts for ships.Some large metal parts are manufactured by metallurgical plants.

The Wenlan River is responsible for the transportation of a large number of materials: bulky and heavy materials are transported downstream by floating rafts, and lighter materials are transported to the shipyard by two-wheeled vehicles, manpower or horses.

The timber used for shipbuilding was seized from Baitu Village and has been fully dried for several years.These timbers basically come from Fujian - Lingao cannot provide so many large timber locally.Because the No. [-] ship is a trial product, in addition to the iron wood used in key parts such as the mast and rudder, a large amount of cheap fir is used.In addition to wood, Baitu Village also provided tung oil, hemp silk, oyster shell ash, hemp rope, and a large number of iron pieces—including four-claw anchors.The off-the-shelf accessories greatly reduced the construction period of the ship, otherwise the traversers would have been busy for several months just collecting and manufacturing these things - Wen Desi often secretly rejoiced that he had occupied Baitu at that time.

The labor force in the shipyard is quite abundant, and the main force is the villagers who were forcibly relocated from Baitu Village. They have more or less participated in shipbuilding, and they can directly join the shipbuilding project with a little guidance.Wen Desi focused on training craftsmen with foreign surnames headed by shipbuilder Zhang Jiji, who took him to work in the shipyard every day.Zhang Jiji is now the chief shipbuilder of the shipyard, because he has learned a lot of Western shipbuilding crafts and skills from Wen Desi, and everyone is very motivated.

In contrast, the children of the Lin and Lu families were a little apprehensive and obviously absent-minded.These two families, especially the Lin family, because they are big and powerful clans, have controlled the village administration of Baitu for a long time, and have a strong reputation among the immigrants from Baitu Village.The executive committee is very afraid of clan power, and this phenomenon is absolutely not allowed to occur within their direct jurisdiction.So as soon as the housing in Xinbaitu Village was completed, Wu De immediately began to dismember the two families.

Lin Gonglao stands at the gate of the quarantine camp office.The young face was contorted and looked resentful.The faces of more than a dozen children of the same clan around them were also gloomy—they just knew the results of the assessment and where they were assigned.

In the past few days, all immigrants from Baitu Village, males over the age of 16, have undergone a skills assessment.Since the Lin family is a shipbuilder, the content of the evaluation is various skills related to shipbuilding: including woodwork, double-line work, iron work, pendulum tin work, rotary work, oyster shell work, decoration work, carving and luan work, scorpion work, Peng, cable, cable, paint, five ink, etc., basically cover all the contents of ancient ship skills.The content of the assessment and the specific scoring were done by Zhang Jiji, but Zhang Jiji didn't show up to avoid hindering his feelings.Wen Desi knew from his usual contacts that Zhang Jiji was quite critical of the Lin family's control of the village administration and embezzling most of the shipbuilding profits in the past. As long as he is relieved of his scruples, he will not show mercy to the Lin family.

(End of this chapter)