Meng Kang said: "How can my brother be a layman, my brother is an insider, a master craftsman in ship design."

There are only four people in Chao Gai's group, Chao Gai, Jiao Ting, Lu Fang, and Luo Yun. Meng Kang asked people to bring over the helmets and change them into for the four of them. Lu Fang said: "Director Meng, is your helmet stronger than our helmet?" ”

Meng Kang said: "The hard hat in the shipyard is the same as the helmet of ordinary soldiers, the outside is rattan and the inside is a steel helmet, and the safety is slightly worse than that of the general, but the overall is still very good." ”

"The rattan is made in Luhua Village, the steel helmet is produced by Liguo Iron and Steel Factory, the quality is assured, the shipyard has the rules of the shipyard, everyone wears it, and no exception can be made wherever you go." Chao Gai said.

Although everyone didn't speak, they deeply admired Chao Gai.

Everyone changed into safety helmets and entered the production plant, and what caught their eyes was five tall mountain-like keels of lucky boats, and hundreds of workers were busy.

"Well, how could the ship be so big?" Luo Yun said in surprise. After all, Luo Yun was going to sea for the first time and had never seen such a big ship.

Meng Kang said: "The size of this ship is indeed very large, and when I built a ship for the officials, I wanted to build a few big ships, but the officials did not attach much importance to navigation, so they mainly built small ships. These five are medium-sized Fu ships, so that the workers can be skilled and ready to build large Fu ships in the future. ”

Chao Gai saw that Lu Fang and Luo Yun were like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, and let the two of them go to visit freely. Jiao Ting followed Chao Gai inch by inch, although he was also very curious, but he never cared about those, he was only responsible for Chao Gai's safety.

Meng Kang took the drawings and showed them to Chao Gai, and after a closer look, the size of this medium-sized fortune ship was really very large. The five Fu ships under construction in front of us are 60 meters long, 28 meters wide, and 9 meters deep. It is equipped with 15 horizontal cabin partitions, which divide the ship into 16 ** cabins. Seven masts and nine sails are set, and there are huge paddle wheels on both sides, and according to the consideration of Chao Gai, the paddle wheels should be driven by steam engines. After completion, it will be driven by wind and steam. It is driven by wind when it is downwind, and steam when it is upwind or when there is no wind.

Chao Gai said: "The first cabin is for sealing and safety, but the design must be made of sufficient materials, which is sturdy and durable, and can load more goods." ”

Meng Kang said: "Brother rest assured, each process has strict technical requirements, there are first-class inspectors to check, a ship by a master craftsman is responsible for supervising all day long, I check from time to time, the most important thing is wood, iron nails, paint, glue, hemp and other shipbuilding objects are sufficient, so the boat built is absolutely durable." Sail lifting, all kinds of ropes, and paddle wheels and other places have adopted new bearing designs, which are more lubricating and labor-saving. ”

"Can the workers get busy building five ships at once? If the manpower is insufficient, it can be arranged to expand the recruitment appropriately. Chao Gai said.

Meng Kang said: "Thank you brother for your concern, at the beginning, the construction of the plant was incomplete, and there were too many miscellaneous things, and now it is normal." In fact, only 60 skilled craftsmen were needed for medium-sized ships, five ships were 300 people, and the other 200 were responsible for the processing of wood and some accessories. ”

Chao Gai was inspired and asked, "If every medium-sized ship is the same size, then the accessories can be universal, and the size and specifications of the wood in each part are also the same." Why don't you set aside a single door of people to specialize in processing these accessories, anyway, this medium-sized lucky ship is not only built these five. ”

Meng Kang was an expert, patted his head, and said: "Before the factory was built, I also went to Limin Wood Factory to inspect it, and Lu Tamming used this assembly line method for production." The shipyard has recently launched an assembly line to produce common accessories, so that as long as it is a carpenter, after all, the carpenter who produces a single accessories is skilled and fast. It's just that the lucky ship is a big object, and although the assembly line produces accessories, it is fast, but if you can't produce so many ships, wouldn't it be lang fee? Why don't you get to the bottom of it, how many of these medium-sized ships do you want to build? ”

Chao Gai asked: "At present, the scale of 500 people only specializes in the production of medium-sized Fu ships, how many ships can be produced in a year?" ”

"At full capacity, we can produce 30 ships a year." Meng Kang said.

"If the saw is improved, the new steam engine saw can save several times the manpower." Chao Gai said.

Meng Kang was a little stunned, he had never seen a steam engine saw, and said, "If we can solve the problem of sawing wood, then we can build forty or fifty ships." ”

Chao Gai said: "The machinery factory has deployed a batch of new saws and planers, you can see if they are suitable. It's all a little bit of MCA research. ”

"Oh? What it looks like. Meng Kang asked.

Chao Gai said that more than a dozen tools were brought in, and Meng Kang had never seen these things before. It's all foot-pedal circular saws, hand-cranked punches, and pedal planers. These machines convert the power of the foot pedal into the power of the machine through gears and connecting rods, which is more than twice as fast as that of traditional saws and planers.

In order to test, Meng Kang personally tested the punching machine, let other people use the previous punching tools, Meng Kang used the new punching machine, and the same time efficiency was more than twice as fast.

The circular saw was also tested, and the purpose of the pedal circular saw was mainly to cut small wooden boards, and the speed was also much faster.

Meng Kang said happily: "Such a good machine, this MCA is really powerful." ”

"This is MCA's research after work, they are in retreat to study the steam engine, these are all sent by the assistants, you test it, what is not suitable, it is uncomfortable to use and write it down, so that the people in the machinery factory can improve it." "These are small machines, but the one that can really improve the efficiency of work is the steam engine, which saws wood. ”

"This steam engine is amazing, it can drive a huge water wheel to drive a fortune ship, and it can also see wood, I really want to meet him more and more." Meng Kang said.

Chao Gai took out a sketch of a steam engine: "Look at it. ”

Meng Kang looked at it for a long time and didn't understand, this is a boiler for burning fire, and it is a water pipe.

"The reason is very simple, the fire boils the water and turns it into steam, the steam enters a sealed cylinder through the pipe, there is a piston in the cylinder, the steam pushes the piston up, and the top reaches a certain position, the piston moves back and forth, driving the connecting rod, and there is a flywheel behind the connecting rod, and the flywheel can drive other machinery through the connecting rod. Therefore, the steam engine can drive the water wheel of the fortune ship, and naturally the water wheel can also be replaced with a large circular saw, and if the experiment is successful, the work of sawing wood can be greatly reduced. Chao Gai said.

Meng Kang was full of reverie about the steam engine, and ordered people to experiment with these small equipment first, as long as the equipment was improved, the speed of shipbuilding would not increase gradually.

Chao Gai and Meng Kang took the boat diagram and continued to study it carefully.

Meng Kang said: "Does my brother want to use these five fortune ships as war ships or merchant ships first?" The design is very thick, and it only needs to be equipped with weapons and equipment when the time comes. ”

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