Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 241 A Two-masted Sailboat Combining Chinese and Western Ancient and Modern ([-])

As a result of the assessment, fifteen or six men with shipbuilding skills, including the patriarch, stayed in Bopu as shipyard employees and lived in the newly built Baitu Village with their families. These shipyard employees cannot live together in the name of a big family. Together, Wu De rejected their request to live together: all adult married men must register their own household registration.

Wu De also further improved the regulations. In each household, only three generations are allowed at most. The first two generations are allowed to have a couple each. If the third generation gets married, they will open a separate family.It is forbidden for married brothers to remain in one household.

The dismantled small households are then mixed into each standard residence, and each standard residence is only allowed to have at most two families from the same family.

The remaining members of the Lin family were all relocated to Bopu, scattered in the same way, and then lived separately in the residential area of ​​Bairen Commune as basic labor.In this way, the Lin family, one of the two ruling families in Baitu Village, was completely demolished, and the patriarch Lin Xianming also lost his original prestige, and now he can only go to work in the shipyard - each of their families owes a debt to the Crossing Group. 60 taels of silver to buy a house.In fact, many members of the Lin family could afford the money, but none of them dared to reveal their wealth, for fear that it would be robbed by these gangsters.

If the older members of the Lin family bowed to Lingao's power-traveling group because they had seen the brutality of the government, then the young children who grew up in Baitu Village, a no-nonsense area, would have some objections.Especially those close descendants, who grew up in the upper class of the village, are even more brooding about the lost prestige.The most unacceptable thing is: a low-ranking member of the clan who usually has a low status in the clan has become an employee of the shipyard because of his skilled work.

Naturally, Lin Gonglao also missed the ranks of employees, but he was not yet married, so he could continue to stay under his father's household registration, but his status became a "community member" who had to do odd jobs every day to earn work points.

The workers get a monthly salary and their income is high; the members only work as laborers every day, doing hard and tiring work.He couldn't take it alone.

A cousin who had been hanging out with him all the time said: "Brother, you should say something—what did uncle think? Our Lin family just broke up like this?!"

"What else can I do?" said a squatting guy on the ground, "He's very capable—"

Lin Gonglao's brother, Lin Gongxun, kicked him violently: "You are a scum of the Lin family! You are a scumbag! I wonder if you are a member of the Lin family! Can you say that?"

"But—" The guy who was beaten seemed to be a doormat, and he didn't dare to resist, he just muttered, "I can't beat them?"

"Damn it, don't they just have better weapons and blunderbusses? For hand-to-hand combat, this kind of bastard will beat him seven or eight times!" The sentry glanced furtively.Everyone seemed particularly dissatisfied, seeing the surrounding sentries and short-haired "cadres" not interfering, they cursed even more.

"That is, the kung fu in the hands of the eldest brother and the second brother is not Gaide."

"Whoever wins with firearms is not a hero!"

"No need for firearms, one-on-one fights, and they won't be beaten all over the place!"

"One hit one and I still feel like bullying them. There are so many that I dare not say, one hit three."

"Look at how shabby they are, the clothes they wear can't even cover their buttocks."

"The heroes of our Lin family are all bloody!"

"The Lin family doesn't have a coward like you! You must be a bastard!"

……

It was quiet at first, but then it got louder.It seemed that everyone's anger was vented on this unlucky guy. Foul words mixed with fists and feet fell on him, and this person hurriedly "get out"

At this time, a nephew of Lin Gonglao named Lin Guangding squeezed over and said in a low voice, "Uncle Gongluo, please stop scolding everyone, be careful that the walls have ears."

These words were originally out of good intentions, Lin Gonglao scolded: "You are also a bad boy! You have no eggs. Aaozi are all overseas barbarians, so I scolded them face to face, they don't understand." He spoke loudly in Hokkien dialect. Looking at a "Zhen Kun" in the distance and said seven or eight foul words, the other party looked at him without any response, and the surrounding Lin family children cheered.

"Okay! Brother Gonggong is really amazing!"

"A'ao boy is a bad boy! I don't dare to fart."

"A'aozai doesn't dare to offend our Lin family, he relies on his uncle to build the ship!"

Lin Guangding also wanted to advise: "Well, Uncle Gonggong, among the long-term workers working for them is our place—"

"Hmph, what are the traitors afraid of?" Lin Gonglao suddenly felt that he was very powerful and he was not afraid of anything. "If you stretch out your finger, you will crush them to death."

Just bragging, Lin Xianming rushed over and scolded in a low voice: "You guys are dying! What are you farting?" He carefully looked around, "What do you think our Lin family didn't kill?"

Lin Gonglao was obviously not convinced, and wanted to say something with a loud voice.

"Stop talking, they all dispersed and went back!" He said and dragged his son to a remote place.

"Don't say such wild big words in the future!" Lin Xianming whispered, "This gang of thieves is really great."

"Father, sooner or later they will be destroyed by the sea masters around them. Even if the sea masters can't destroy them, we send people to report to the officials, and the court will also destroy them. Once the soldiers arrive—"

As he spoke, he got a heavy slap on the head: "The imperial court? The imperial court does our shit! Without the imperial court, we can still live in Fujian guarding the graves of our ancestors!" Lin Xianming slowed down his tone, "Kun... The short-haired people are also passable, they are given houses to live in and wages, so we don’t want us to work for nothing. We little people, whoever becomes the emperor, has to pay taxes and pay taxes, just have food, clothing and shelter. Don’t give me Hire trouble!"

Seeing that his son had finally stopped talking, Lin Xianming said, "How old are you? I don't know how big the sky is! What kind of fun is the government? You just go to work for me honestly, and then I will naturally think of getting you to work in the shipyard. Worker. Short hair is still very important to your father and me."

Lin Gonglao muttered a few words, he and his father had different ideas.Lin Xianming only wanted to lead his clansmen to live peacefully in the troubled times.Lin Gonglao still has the desire for power of a young man, and he never forgets the good days when the Lin family was a toubob in Baitu for many years and he was the son of the village chief, Huyao Heliu.

In contrast, the Lu family's backlash was much smaller. For one thing, they had a smaller population, and Lu Youtian was a man who was very knowledgeable about current affairs. He had no doubts about the policy of the traversers. He immediately asked the tribe to disperse and register, even his son Lu Shouyong registered a separate household even though he was not married.His request was very simple, to keep his son, a blacksmith who was not full of teachers, by his side so that he could continue to teach his craft - he saw the fate of the Lin family, and all the children of the Lin family who were not skilled in craftsmanship were all counted as basic labor.It seems that if you don't have skills in Shorthair, you will definitely suffer.

Because the male members of the Lu family are all blacksmiths, after the assessment, they were divided into two groups according to their skill level. Most of them went to Bairen City and became employees of the machinery factory, while a few stayed in Bopu as ironworkers in the shipyard. .Because of Lu Youtian's acquaintance, there are relatively few people in the Lu family, so no children were sent into the basic labor force to earn work points, and those whose skills were too poor to be workers were all joined the apprentice team, assigned to shipyards and machinery factories, and learned to work as workers. Fitters and metallurgists of the new age.

Lu Youtian stayed in Bopu and became the foreman of the ironwork workshop of the shipyard.Shipbuilding requires a lot of iron parts, because Wen Desi still can't figure out all the specific techniques of European-style shipbuilding, and still continues many techniques and techniques of Chinese-style shipbuilding when building ships.

Years ago, Wen Desi led several mechanical professionals to draw a complete line diagram and structural drawings of various parts for this ship. Although it was very rough, at least it had a basis for shipbuilding.

Soon after the first day of the new year, the shipyard laid the keel under the guidance of Wen Desi.The keel was placed on the keel pier of the dock, and the stem and stern were inlaid at both ends of the keel. This was a very heavy work, which was completed with the help of the construction company’s steam crane. At this time, Wen Desi Only then did I realize that I had not installed hoisting equipment for the dock, and built a few earthen poles in a surprise move.

Then the bottom ribs are horizontally placed on the keel, and the inner keel is placed on the bottom rib along the keel, and the inner keel, the bottom ribs and the keel are connected with each other by bolts.The bottom ribs are straight except at the ends.The wood at both ends begins to bend, that is, to warp upwards.The compound ribs are closely connected with the bottom ribs.These are the curved or curved ribs that make up the curved sides of the sailboat.It took Wu Kuangming a lot of brain cells to bend the ship material according to the angle required by the design without damaging its strength. Thanks to the boiler, this process became fast and effective.

All the ribs are fitted very tightly and are double-layered in the middle part of the boat and near the mast - this is where huge strains are applied.Heavy planks line the inside of the ribs horizontally and support the ends of the deck beams.There are reinforcing plates in the mast holes, which are made of strong sandalwood, inserted vertically between the deck beams, and fastened with bolts to support the mast, while the root of the mast is erected on the inner keel.This frame is further clamped to the vertical ribs behind the girder, the through ribs and the horizontal ribs behind the beam.

During the construction process, scaffolding was set up around the hull to facilitate the construction of the shipbuilder. The shell plates were fixed to the ship ribs with bolts. In order to prevent water leakage, a large amount of kapok was used as padding—this natural fiber hardly enters water. Very buoyant.All joints are caulked in the Chinese style and sealed with a mixture of tung oil, hemp silk and oyster shell ash.The inner and outer hulls of the vessel were also coated with wood tar.

The internal structure of the ship is based on the structure of Chinese ships, and watertight cabin compartments are installed-since this ship is not manufactured as a battleship and does not plan to equip many artillery pieces, there is no need for a fully accessible lower deck.

(End of this chapter)