The boat was stopped.

Leaving the women to watch the boat, they brought axes, knives and guns ashore with Li Zhi.

Entered the bamboo forest.

Li Zhi looked up at the bamboo branches in the sky that reached into the sky, and gestured with his hand: "This bamboo, it grows so tall, one must be more than 30 meters high, right? This is equivalent to more than a dozen floors!"

Yu Le smiled, his face was full of joy, and said, "Yes! There are more than ten stories high!"

As he spoke, he found a large caliber in front of him, put his fingers on the hoop, measured it, and said, "And the caliber is big enough, the big one can be about thirty centimeters!"

Li Zhidao: "But why is this still growing one by one? This appearance doesn't look like a big bamboo!"

Yu Le shook his head: "It's not a big bamboo! This is called a giant dragon bamboo! The largest bamboo in the world! I once saw this kind of big bamboo when I was training in the jungle of southern Yunnan, and I heard the local mountain people explain that this is called giant dragon bamboo." Of course, in their local language, it is called Bury Wave, which means the king of bamboo, the largest bamboo!"

"The bush I saw at the time was even taller than this, it had to be forty or fifty meters high. That's a real giant bamboo!"

Li Zhi looked at the joy on his face, and the joy on his face was almost overwhelmed, and he was about to leak out, so he also laughed: "You have always wanted to find big bamboo materials before, saying that you want to build a new ship and use it in China next summer." Now that you've seen this, you're satisfied, right?"

Yu Le couldn't help nodding his head: "Very satisfied! Extremely satisfied! This kind of giant dragon bamboo is actually called crooked-footed dragon bamboo." You see, its heel is naturally curved. This, if we want to build a ship, even the work of taming can be saved!"

Li Zhidao: "But our current boat, I see that the quality is quite good, can it really not be used again next year?"

Yu Le said: "That boat was built from this year's spring harvest, and when we set off for Hanyang next summer, it will be more than a year." These bamboo materials, not brushed with the tung oil layer to protect, is not very durable, generally used for a year, the bottom of the soaked parts, will rot. So it's better for us to rebuild one, and we don't owe that time, isn't it, Brother Li?"

After all, there are thousands of kilometers of waterways to go to Hanyang, and according to our sailing speed when we are going against the current, we have to walk for two to three months, and we need to have a stronger boat!"

Yu Le said: "I plan to build a bigger ship!"

Li Zhi looked at him with a slightly strange gaze: "Oh?"

Yu Le explained: "After this trip, I had a good idea. Even when we set sail next year, we should follow the example we have now, and eat and live on the ship. We didn't go ashore and set up camp overnight. ”

"It's safer to do it. There must be far more dinosaurs in this inland area than there are at seaside. We went ashore and slept at night, not at all steady. It also saves time and the need to re-camp every day. The inland waters are calm enough that we've tried it now, and it doesn't affect the rest on the water at all. You don't think so?"

Li Zhi nodded slowly, but asked again: "But in this way, the boat you need will be big." By then, we had been walking together in a dozen or so people. If we all eat and live on the ship, what about the three-month voyage, at least it can't be the same environment as we are now, the beds, the kitchen, the dining room, at least they have to look like they, right? And we have to take a lot of things with us, and we have to build a big storage compartment to take those things away!"

Yu Le smacked his lips and said, "I have been thinking about this question for a long time, and I thought it was indeed a big problem before, but now after seeing these big bamboos, I know that things are easy to do." ”

"Our boat, two meters seven wide and more than ten meters long, is indeed very crowded if it is for a dozen people to eat and live. You say, "What if we made one five meters wide and twenty meters long?"

Li Zhi's eyes widened, and he stammered when he spoke: "This ...... So big? (Imagine what it looks like.) ）”

Yu Le smiled: "What are you afraid of, anyway, we don't need to make the effort to row, then we will improve the sail again, make better use of the Bernoulli effect, and rely on the sail to push it, if there is wind, it will go, if there is no wind, it will stop, if it is slow, it will be slow, it doesn't matter." ”

"I have thought about the specific structural shape. The cabin is divided into two parts, the first half for food, shelter and rest. The second half is used as a storage room. The sails are hung three, one on the bow, one in the middle, and one at the stern. That's a lot of momentum, isn't it?"

"In the dormitory, we will set up a small cubicle, one for each person, one has two or three square meters, and it is enough to have a double bed of one meter and two widths, so that there are eight rooms in total. ”

"The five-meter-wide boat is separated by two aisles on both sides of the ship that are 80 centimeters by two. The storage compartment is three meters long and three .2 meters wide, with a total size of about ten square meters, which is enough to hold anything. ”

"Actually, it's just loading grain, and big items like coal. Like pots and pots, some dried vegetables, and clothes and cotton, etc., which can be stuffed under the bed in the dormitory. ”

"So you see, the dormitory is about eight meters of the length of the ship (three .5 meters by eight meters, a total of twenty-eight square meters of space, eight cubicles are built to sleep fifteen people, including two small babies), and the storage room occupies three meters of the ship's length, which adds up to only half of the length of the twenty meters. At that time, if our twenty meters is not enough, we will add it to twenty-two meters, and we are not afraid of two more meters, anyway, the length of this giant dragon bamboo is enough!"

"The remaining half of the hull is also eleven meters long. Three sails, one should occupy two meters. The sails are certainly not that thick, but you need to move the space, otherwise you won't be able to turn around. This takes up six meters. There is still a five-by-fifty-twenty-five square meter space left, and you can build an extra dining room kitchen for cooking and eating, as well as for people to rest and chat. ”

"By the way, on the stern, another three or four square meters will be set aside to set up two bathrooms for everyone's convenience. Anyway, the excretion is directly discharged to the bottom of the water, so just open a squatting mouth, and it doesn't take up much land. If you are a child and need to take a hot shower or something on the way, you can also boil hot water and mention it here!"

Yu Le said his idea in one breath, and then asked Li Zhi: "How is it, is my idea okay?"

Li Zhizhi was dumbfounded when he heard this, and at this time he could only give a thumbs up: "Amazing! Brother, you are so capable of making, when did you think about such a thing? Even the details are so clear!"

Yu Le said: "This trip, I started thinking about it in the first few days after I left, and I have been thinking about it for half a month!"

Li Zhidao: "Then now, are we going to stop here for two days?"

Yu Le shook his head: "Don't worry, it's only September now, it's early, the bamboo is cut too early, and there is nowhere to save it when you go home." Anyway, it's only a day's journey from the mouth of the Yangtze River. I saw that when the Chinese New Year was approaching, I would take another two or three days to come here to cut a boatload of bamboo and go back, and then after the New Year, I started to build ships. At that time, it was time for my cousin to give birth. When we're done, we'll set sail!"

(End of chapter)