Going upstream, it took a day of work, and the boat arrived at the giant dragon bamboo forest.

Then the intense work of cutting the bamboo began.

A giant dragon bamboo, four or five hundred catties, or even five or six hundred catties, is extremely bulky.

Naturally, the women were not very helpful, and let them carry it, for fear of spraining their small bodies.

So it's to let them help with the cooking, cutting the bamboo branches.

Therefore, there is no need for many women to follow, and if it is superfluous, it is better to let them make textiles at home.

Ke Xin, he used a gun to drive the dog to guard the nearby environment, and found some food by the way.

Yu Le made a ruler made of bamboo poles.

Measure the large bamboo material with a ruler, cut it again, saw it with a saw, and saw it flat at both ends.

He specially selected those large bamboo materials with a root diameter of 30 cm, and the big boats made in this way used less root materials, and they were strong and durable, and they were not afraid of breaking no matter how they hit.

In this big bamboo forest, I carefully selected the materials, and it took two and a half days to cut a total of 26 large bamboos.

Of course, you don't need so much root material for building bamboo rafts.

Thirty centimeters of bamboo, pick fifteen or six of them, enough to build a four or five meters of raft.

The extra cut root material is used for selection, because not every root material can be guaranteed not to be damaged during the production process.

The road is so far, and all the people have come, of course, you have to prepare some more to bring back.

Yu Le didn't want to come back here in the future.

In addition, after the root material is selected, this kind of large bamboo material is also needed to build the cabin and lay the deck.

So the rest, for better or worse, is never wasted.

When the material is cut enough, it is first cut into a length of 25 meters - two or three meters long, and when you go back to smoke, you have to carefully intercept it according to the situation.

Such a big and long piece of material is enough to weigh seven or eight hundred catties!

It took a lot of effort to get them all in the water.

Fortunately, it was near the water's edge, and the two men, even dragging and dragging, forced them into the water.

The bamboo material is put into the water, and it is simply tied into a raft and connected with bamboo strips so that it does not float away loosely.

The material was too long and heavy to get on the ship at all, so it could only rely on its own buoyancy and take it away with the water.

Twenty-six pieces of material, but they don't all need to be tied into a raft.

Otherwise, the raft will be too big to take away.

Only more than half of it was pierced, and the rest of the root material was rolled onto the raft and carried away.

That's right, it's rolled.

The material is too heavy, and the two men, Li Zhi's side, can't lift it.

The group worked for three or four days, dragging a large boatload of bamboo materials, and sailed home.

Fortunately, it is upstream, if you are looking for bamboo material downstream, and you want to pull the more than ten tons of material up?

That was a dream!

When I got home, I left the bamboo by the river.

Li Zhi held his glasses and frowned: "This material is too heavy, I think we might as well build it by the river, if we go to the river beach and build the boat, we will definitely not be able to move back to the river." At that time, more than a dozen pieces of material were connected together, brother, you said, it had to weigh four or five tons? We didn't have a machine to pull it, and we had to play people to death with more than ten of our manpower!"

Yu Le nodded: "When you assemble it, of course, you have to assemble it by the river." We'll be able to set up a small dock then—no matter what, I've already figured it out. It was on the side of this sloping river beach that three or four large horizontal logs were erected vertically. ”

"When assembling, of course, you need a horizontal plane, otherwise you can't assemble it, the ship's body will not be in order, and you have to build a cabin or something on land, right?"

Li Zhi was a little puzzled: "But if we get a horizontal assembly plane, assemble the ship, and add cabin materials, it will be even heavier, won't we be even more unable to lift it?"

Yu Le smiled and gestured to him: "Alas, Brother Li, you can think like this." We can make a pile at the waterfront end, which is the relatively low end, right? It's just 20 centimeters into the water, and build it with stones, otherwise we won't be able to erect a horizontal plane to load the ship, right?"

Li Zhi said thoughtfully: "And then?"

Yu Le said: "And then there is...... When our boat is assembled and ready to be launched, we will dig up the stone piles by the water's edge. Anyway, it's mud and sand underneath, so it's easy to dig. After the stone stakes are dug up, does the lower side of itself naturally become tilted?

Li Zhi finally reacted at this time: "Oh, I see! The tilted big boat was erected on the head of a few smooth cedar trees, and if you want to pry it into the water at that time, you don't have to lift it up at all, wouldn't it be very labor-saving! Using its own gravity, let alone four or five tons, forty or fifty tons can be pryed away." It seems that your physics knowledge is better than mine, brother!"

Yu Le smiled: "Practice, practice." If you are afraid of high friction, we can also apply a layer of oil on smooth wood, and it will never take any effort at that time. Moreover, our bamboo raft can be said to have almost no draft, that is, there is a twenty-centimeter deep water, which can float up, and we are not afraid of running aground. So getting into the water is never a problem!"

Li Zhidao: "Then what should we do now?"

Yu Le said: "When assembling, of course, go back to the river to assemble, but now there is a series of processes such as peeling, smoking, and a series of processes, let's first lift them one by one and lift them to the shore, the riverside place is not big enough, and the humidity is heavy, so it is not good to catch fire." Let's go a hundred or twenty meters into the shore. ”

Tian Xiaxia on the side said: "But this single material is also heavy enough." Seven or eight hundred catties, when you are in the bamboo forest, you two big men can't lift it, and you still drag one end to the water. Wouldn't it be more difficult to get a hundred or twenty meters up from the water to the shore now?"

Yu Le said: "It's still wet now, there are seven or eight hundred catties, which is a little heavier." After it is smoked and dried, it will only be three or four hundred catties at most. But it doesn't matter, isn't it at home now, there are many people, pick seven or eight people out, and distribute more than 100 catties each, can't you still lift it?"

So he mobilized a few women, used a few bamboo strips as ropes, and wrapped one from the head of a bamboo, one in the front middle, one in the back middle, and one in the tail, and then put on a flat pole.

A rope sleeve, one person on the left and one on the left, a total of eight people, together on the shoulders to exert force, lifted the bamboo ashore.

Twenty-six large bamboos were lifted in two days before they were finally lifted.

The women who helped with the work rubbed their shoulders and cried out in pain.

It's also difficult for them, when did they put a hundred pounds of weight on their shoulders when they were at home before!

Yu Le didn't have time to listen to their complaints, so after sharpening the planing knife, he peeled the bamboo.

He had to peel all the bamboo, preferably smoke some of it, before the Chinese New Year, and then after the New Year, he had to assemble and build the cabin.

So he's the busiest guy!

And not only is shipbuilding a major event, but my cousin Lu Lin's delivery date is also in the first month, and it will definitely have to be delayed for a month.

(End of chapter)