"Old leader, Wan Da Faucet, you have done so many things, I am really surprised and moved. Zi Anxin admired it very much. During this time, you have not been idle. Fang Zi'an sighed.

"Young Master Fang, since the beginning of the year, we have not been idle. We can't sit idle. Besides, even if you don't have a job, you still pay your wages, so how can we sleep here? Since Fang Gongzi has the heart to do things, how can we live up to it? It's all about us. There's still a lot of room to be renovated, and we'd love to dig a dry dock north of the bend, but it's too big to talk about later. At present, the site and the wharf can basically ensure that two large ships can be repaired or built at the same time. Liu Lao smiled and said.

Fang Zi'an nodded and said, "It's already good." The place is nice. Master Su, I have an idea, should I build a blast furnace and set up a workshop here? There are a lot of restrictions in the city. You look at it, it's open, and if you build walls and houses, you can make what we want to build on the spot. At that time, this area will be the base for our manufacturing. You can toss as much as you want, and you don't need to worry about the cramped venue and some inconveniences in the city. ”

Su Heng looked around and nodded slowly, "That's a good idea." It's a really big place, and a little leveling is a good place. And you don't have to be inhibited. I think so. I don't care about working there anyway. As long as I can concentrate on doing things, I can do it. ”

Liu Lao turned his head and said happily: "Okay, good, this is a good idea." This place is a riverbend wasteland. It's also borderlands. It is not suitable for growing crops, and no one wants it. It is a great place to fill in the grass and river grass near the left, level the ground, and build a large yard around it. The waterway is clear, and anything can be brought in. It's better to do it at that. If you think it's okay, I'll ask the people near me to help you do it. ”

Fang Zi'an nodded and said, "Okay, get ready first, originally there was to have a regular building site." I'll leave that to the boss. ”

Liu Lao nodded his head in agreement. Wan Da Longtou on the side frowned and said, "I said Fang Gongzi, don't think so far first?" Let's do what I'm doing first, I'm waiting to go to sea. It's been July, and you're still letting us go to sea? Is this machine you building really useful? It's been half a year of tossing. I knew this earlier, and I went to sea in an eight-masted ship in the first half of the year, and now I have returned. ”

Fang Zi'an laughed and said, "Wanda Faucet is already impatient. If you go to sea in the first half of the year, you will be gone. You haven't seen the hurricane more than ten days ago, and the eight-masted ship can't withstand such a hurricane at sea. ”

Liu Lao turned his head and said: "Yes, Brother Wan, it's a shame that you didn't go to sea, otherwise you would have gone to sea in March, and now is the time to come back, and you just hit this hurricane." That's absolutely untenable. Whether he can come back alive or not is a matter of words. ”

Wan Dahai said angrily: "How. Is the rich brother also coaxing? ”

Liu Lao shook his head and laughed: "Don't dare, don't dare." ”

Su Heng said on the side: "Without further ado, we have to get started." ”

With the arrival of Fang Zi'an, there is more backbone in the matter of researching the installed machine. Everyone immediately discussed the situation on the ground and formulated an installation plan. Things were much more difficult than imagined, and even Fang Zi'an hadn't really thought about some of the details of the steam engine installed on the ship. At this moment, once you delve into the substantive installation discussion, you will find that there are so many problems that it is simply difficult to continue.

First of all, how to install the steam engine on the ship is a huge problem. Previously, it was thought that it would be possible to move the parts to the cabin for on-site assembly, but after looking at the situation in the cabin, it was not possible. The cabin was so small and stuffy that it was simply impossible to assemble it precisely. It requires a large number of people to assemble together, and it is impossible to solve it in a cramped cabin. It was obviously impossible to assemble the steam engine on the shore for hoisting as a whole. Not to mention that the steam engine is not a whole, even if it is an iron lump whole, the wooden crane cannot bear the weight of thousands of catties. Even if the wooden crane could bear the weight, it would need to lift the entire deck of the ship, otherwise it would not be able to fit into place.

That's just a matter of how the steam engine got on board. As for the ships themselves, there are even more problems. The center of gravity of the ship, after the steam engine is on the ship, will the center of gravity of the ship be shifted, so that the center of gravity of the big ship is unstable. In order to install the steam engine, it was necessary to open two cabins in the stern of the large ship to be able to accommodate this huge fellow. However, in this way, after opening the cabin, the structure of the hull will be damaged, which will bring the problem that the hull is not strong enough and damage the overall hull structure.

In addition, there is a very critical technical problem, that is, how to solve the problem of the tightness of the main shaft and the cabin of the steam engine. Because the main shaft is to pass out of the stern of the large boat and install the propeller. The propeller spindle is submerged under the sea during sailing. If the tightness problem is not solved, it will become a colander and seawater will pour in directly through the main shaft and stern, and everything will be a disaster.

And so on, all of which are difficult problems that make people's scalps tingle. Everyone, even Fang Zi'an, had never actually come into contact with these things, and the more they discussed, the more uncertain they became, and the more frustrated they became. I always feel that this matter is becoming more and more unreliable. Everyone's faces became extremely solemn.

Fang Zi'an knew that it was not a way to go on like this. If you put a bunch of difficulties in front of you, it will completely destroy the confidence of everyone.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we can't be sad. Our Zi'an guarantees with his life, this matter is definitely not whimsical, and it will definitely succeed. It's just that we've got some problems. But it's impossible to stump us with such a little problem, isn't it more difficult than the dragon head of Wan Da Faucet being born and dying in the face of the raging waves in the sea? There are always more solutions than difficulties, so we must cheer up and come up with good solutions. Frowning and complaining here is not my Zi'an's style of acting, and I believe it is not the style of Master Su, the old leader and the big dragon head. Pull yourself together. Let's discuss it one by one. ”

Which of these people in front of me is not a person who has experienced hardships and hardships, and who is a weak-willed person who gives up easily. As soon as Fang Zi'an reminded him like this, everyone immediately woke up and realized that something was wrong with their mental attitude. So everyone regained their spirits and began to discuss the plans and steps to be taken one by one.

As time went by, things were resolved. The problem of hoisting the steam engine finally determined the plan of partially assembling the steam engine, lifting it onto the ship in sections, and then assembling it comprehensively. This not only overcomes the problem of the large size and weight of the assembled steam engine, which cannot be borne by the wooden crane, and does not lift in place, but also avoids the limitations caused by the full assembly in a narrow cabin. According to the structure of the steam engine, it can be divided into five fixed parts for assembly, and finally assembled as a whole.

Once this is done, there is no need to make too many cuts to the hatch of the deck. With the current hatch, it is completely possible to allow the separately assembled steam engine components to enter the bilge.

As for the deviation of the center of gravity of the hull, because it was impossible to measure the center of gravity of the steam engine, everyone unanimously decided to use the method of sandbag counterweight to fine-tune. When the steam engine is fully in place, measure the draft depth on both sides and the angle depth of the bow and stern, fine-tune the balance with the sandbag, and finally weigh the weight of the sandbag, and place the fixed counterweight in the corresponding position to complete the overall counterweight balance. And the renovation of the cabin has also determined the plan. After opening the two aft compartments and installing the machine, the structural damage that may be caused by the hull is strongly reinforced by encrypting the ribs and beams, so as to minimize the structural impact of the cabin modification on the hull as a whole. With the experience of the old man who came from a shipbuilding background all his life, he was sure that the impact would be minimized.

All the difficulties were overcome in the detailed discussion, and everyone's confidence was quickly restored. After all the problems and solutions were listed and solved one by one, the problems left in Fang Zi'an's operation manual were left with the last one that was not marked with a '√' number indicating that there was a solution. That's the solution for the watertightness of the tail propeller shaft and hull.

Around this issue, everyone discussed for nearly half an hour and proposed many solutions, but they were overturned one by one. The conundrum has become an insurmountable chasm that seems to be blocking all paths.

Seeing that everyone was about to fall into a dead end again, Fang Zi'an made a decisive decision.

"Guys, let's do it first. Let's put this problem on hold for now, and when everything is ready, let's solve it. To tell you the truth, I actually have a backup plan to solve it, but I don't want to use my plan until the last resort. Now we have to do it first. Half a day has passed since we discussed it. Time waits for no one. ”

Everyone completely agreed with Fang Zi'an's statement, and it was not a way to spend so much on this problem. So it was unanimously decided to start working first.

In the afternoon, the equipment work officially began. The crew was divided into two groups, one led by Fang Zi'an and Su Heng, to partially assemble the steam engine on the shore. The other group, led by the veteran leader and Wan Da Faucet, began to dismantle the tail silo partition, set up the log base, install the reinforcing ribs, and prepare the counterweight sandbags.

The weather in July was unbearable, but it didn't affect everyone's morale. Fang Zi'an also took measures, he asked Shen Ling'er to go back to the city, asked Qin Xiqing to give him some ice cubes stored in Wanchun Garden in winter, and asked Shen Ling'er to buy a large cart of melons and fruits at the market to transport them. When they rested in the evening, everyone ate chilled melons and fruits, which greatly relieved the heat.

That night, everyone worked until after the second watch, and then stopped to eat and rest at Fang Zi'an's strong request. They slept on mats, and the next morning they all got up to work. They were busy until noon, and Fang Zi'an and Su Heng had already divided the steam engine into five parts and assembled it. And the ship's renovation was not completed until early afternoon.

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