Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 614 Life is more than poems and distant places

When Zhao Huan walked to the drying workshop, he saw craftsmen coming in and out, carrying stacks of wood and putting them on the open space.

Planks, keels, masts, and decks were organized in a very clean and tidy manner.

"Is it because Fan Sheng's notification arrived and he cleaned up, so it's so clean and tidy?"

"I'm not an idiot. When I first came to the throne, I visited the Military Weapons Supervision and stayed in the Guangbei siege for a whole month. Don't you know what the workshop looks like to bully me?" Zhao Huan looked at the clean and tidy workshop. Fang, shook his head and said.

Zhao Ying nodded, looking at Fan Sheng and Shao Cheng who was accompanying Fan Sheng at the dock next to him, it was self-defeating.

Officials are not the kind of people who stay in the palace without going out and don't know the sufferings of the people. It's not beautiful to clean up like this.

"Chen Luoli sees the official family, and the official family is safe." Shao Cheng of the dock said helplessly.

The emperor patrolled, of course, he had to tidy it up before he could be inspected. Everywhere was dirty, how could he let the nobleman patrol?
Zhao Huan also had no intention of embarrassing Fan Sheng and Luo Li. He pointed to the wood and asked, "Why do we use steam to dry it? How does this steam dry it? Doesn't it get more humid as it dries?"

Luo Li pointed to the boards that had already been made, and said: "Wang Chongyang told the minister. Before that, the Song Dynasty used natural air-dried fir wood. The fir wood itself is tight, but when it is air-dried, it is easy to crack and deform. .”

"Especially long branches are easier to bend, so getting a board for a ship requires luck in addition to time and craftsmanship."

"Moreover, it takes several years to dry, which takes a long time. When the shipyards before the Song Dynasty destroyed the Tongji and Kangji, they burned all the timber that had been stored for a hundred years."

Zhao Huan glanced at Zhao Ying, and Zhao Ying nodded helplessly. When the government started to build the Jinkou Dock, Zhao Ying went to search the files left over from that year. , to Kangji, Tongji, to plates, to craftsmen, all of them are handled cleanly.”

"The artisan was also killed?" Zhao Huan asked dumbfounded.

Zhao Ying hurriedly said: "That's not true. I moved to Bianjing and went to build river boats."

Luo Li said helplessly: "It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice. We have craftsmen but no materials, so we can't build a boat."

"There is no wood, and the officials are eager to ask for Mulan boats. Even if we have the blueprints, we can't make them. Because of the board problem, we visited dozens of shipyards in the south of the Yangtze River, and they are not enough for the officials. Made Mulan boat."

"Wang Sanpin told the minister this method, saying that it can be dried with steam, and the minister stayed in Cizhou for three months before he was sure that this method can be used."

Zhao Huan followed Luo Li and took a good look at the wood processing workshop in the shipyard of the Song Dynasty.

The processed boards were put into the kiln and placed neatly. After the kiln door was sealed, the coal began to boil water, and the steam quickly spread throughout the kiln.

Luo Li looked at the fire in the kiln and said with emotion: "After the wet wood is cut, it needs to be smoked neatly in the kiln for at least three to five days. At the beginning, we directly opened the kiln, and the wood in the kiln is all different degrees. There was a burst."

"Now we wait for a whole day, wait for the inside to cool down naturally, then open the small door next to it, wait another six hours, open the kiln door to a height of half a foot, wait another six hours, and then start to leave the kiln. "

"After leaving the kiln, there will be curved boards and long branches, add clips, or counterweights or hang in the air, level the wood, and finally put it in the sunny warehouse and continue to return to the water."

Zhao Huan was dizzy from hearing this. He didn't understand the professional shipbuilding process very well, and Luo Li was also a little helpless. It's hard to explain this kind of technical matter clearly.

Regardless of these few words, it is the most important achievement of their wood processing workshop in the past two years.

"Although I don't quite understand why this is, of course I know that there is no possibility of laziness in this craft. It all comes from trial and error step by step. I understand your hard work." Zhao Huan said with a smile.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand, knowing that they are still striving for perfection, that's enough.

"This is the lacquering workshop, and that is the assembly workshop." Luo Li continued to take Zhao Huan to visit the lacquerware workshop and the small parts assembly workshop.

Combining long branches and boards that have been dried in the shade with this method that Zhao Huan can't understand, there is not a single nail in the whole process, and they fit together completely, as if these woods were originally long. like this.

"There are also rivets, but they are all riveted inside and cannot be seen from the outside. These are small tricks. Even if they are rusted, they can be used for decades and then replaced. But because iron will rust, we rarely Know how to use nails." Luo Li said with a hint of pride on his face.

Zhao Huan actually wanted to ask, would it loosen without the nail?If this thing hits...

[Reminder of historical events: When Zhu Di built Yanjing Palace City, because the golden nanmu had no rough materials to make pillars, he had to use mortise and tenon to splice the wood, brush a layer of hemp and ash, then smear red paint, drain There is no difference between powder paste gold and serious golden nanmu. 】

[It has been standing for hundreds of years without any deformation. Please don't underestimate the mortise and tenon structure. Nails are often used to save labor. 】

[In the current environment, the best solution is to build a ship with a mortise and tenon structure.After all, you don’t have stainless steel…]

Zhao Huan picked up a piece of wood with three joints, combined them together, and buckled them lightly, and they were combined together, and they could not be separated no matter how hard they tried.

"This is a double mortise and mortise tenon, which is specially used for corners. This is a high-waist shoulder-hugging tenon, which can be used to make patterns, and there are many others. The few here in the official house are all very simple things." Luo Li The key to it will not be explained.

After all, officials don't know much about these things.

Zhao Huan put together a few, thinking of the Lego blocks that he bought at home in the past.

In terms of complexity, Lego blocks are absolutely complex, but in terms of exquisiteness and strength, those Lego blocks are almost broken when touched.

One year during the Chinese New Year, those Lego building block cabinets that Zhao Huan bought were played by the bear children all over the place.

By the time Zhao Huan knew about it, many Lego blocks could no longer be put together.

At that time, what Zhao Huan hated the most was the sentence that his parents kept saying repeatedly: those are children, why should he be angry with them?

If this kind of mortise and tenon structure can be used to make building blocks, and ten catties of keel bones are given to bear children, they will not be disassembled.

Zhao Huan told Zhao Ying what he thought.

Zhao Ying asked hesitantly: "Can this be sold? Will someone buy it if a pile of wood is put together?"

Zhao Huan nodded affirmatively. Assembling is a man's romance. A box of building blocks can sit at the table and play for an entire afternoon.

"Try it first, make a batch, if you can sell it, sell it, if you can't sell it, just treat it to me." Zhao Huan confessed, watching the huge keel lying quietly in the dock.

This is the starting point of Song Dynasty's dream. Without giant ships, where would maritime trade come from?

More than 100 meters of keels made of mortise and tenon structures are quietly placed at the bottom of the workshop. Craftsmen ride hanging baskets up and down in the workshop to assemble this giant ocean-going ship of the Song Dynasty.

The fresh scent of grass and trees and the smell of the sea always told Zhao Huan that this was where Song Dynasty would go in the future.

The endless sea.

"Mulan Boat with [-] materials, Dingyuan, that ship with [-] materials, as well as dozens of ships with [-] materials such as Changyuan, are under construction, and three of the same level as Mulan Boat with [-] materials are also under planning. "

"It is expected that by the beginning of spring next year, there will be one big ship with ten thousand materials, four large ships with five thousand materials, and eighteen large ships with three thousand materials. It's probably like this, officials." Luo Li pointed at the endless dock, feeling emotional Said.

Zhao Huan did some calculations, and the tonnage of this 8.4-ton ship is as high as [-] tons.

Zhao Huan nodded, pointed to the dozens of workshops in front of him, and said, "Every year, a plan must be drawn up and reported to the imperial court. Also don't forget to build bigger and bigger ships, the bigger the better! When the wooden keel When you can't support it, try a giant ship with iron keel and steel keel!"

"Won't that rust off?" Luo Li asked in a daze.

"Then find a way to make it not rust." Zhao Huan said with a smile.There are so many anti-rust methods, and I have never heard of anyone using stainless steel to build a hull.

Encounter a problem, overcome a problem, and one day Da Song's ship will reach every corner of the world!
"Zhao Duzhi, write this into the routine, and the maritime policy must not be abolished." Zhao Huan asked Zhao Ying to write down this matter.

Song Dynasty needs sea trade, because sea trade has huge profits and tariffs, whether it is state money or domestic money, it needs this money.

When this money becomes more and more important and more and more, no matter who is in charge of the Central Plains Dynasty, this benefit cannot be underestimated.

Then sea trade will not be stopped.

However, Zhao Huan's emotion was quickly interrupted by a noise.

Life is like this, not only poetry and distance, but also all kinds of filth.

"I want to see the official, why do you stop me! Let me go, I want to see the official!" A man was stopped from the crowd by a strong official, he was held up in the air, dancing with hands and feet, but Still unwilling to let go of this opportunity.

"It's thanks to me, Da Song." Zhao Huan shook his head and said, "Let him come over."

If it was placed in the mite, it would not be the hands of the official, but a cold weapon, and the head would fall to the ground with a single stroke.

After all, Iron Teeth Bronze Teeth Ji Xiaolan and Kangxi Weifu Private Interview are just TV dramas, and the real Mite Qing is a dynasty that loses its head even if it speaks.

Zhao Huan looked at the man in front of him curiously, and asked, "What are you looking for?"

"Liu Chong! Don't make trouble here!" Luo Li scolded with a changed face when he saw the person coming.

"Officials, the grassroots are wronged. There are old and young, and if they are driven out of the dock, the grassroots will have to jump into the sea." The man named Liu Chong shouted loudly.

"Why were you kicked out of the dock?" Zhao Huan asked suspiciously.

Da Song was just at the time of employing people, so why was he kicked out of the dock so easily?

Liu Chong said with a bitter face, "Cao Min is sick."

　Thanks to "another novice" for the reward, thank you for your support.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)