Bai Youwu stopped his hoe, turned to look at the land that had just been dug up behind him, and smiled at the land that had just been dug up and shrouded in a drizzle. The owner of the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info did not lie to himself, there is really land to be planted casually, and although this land is not as fertile as the owner blows, it can flow out of oil with a handful, but it is not bad, Bai Youwu knows, only a few years of planting, the raw waste becomes a mature wasteland, and then it can become a real fertile land. What's more, there's water!

Back then, Bai Youwu's family also had a house and a field, and those fields were also able to support his family, so that they could live a life that was tight but could still live. However, God always likes to make trouble, and always refuses to rain, and the result is ...... But it's different here, there's water! Bai Youwu has only been here for half a month, and it has already rained here for seven or eight days. So much so that Bai Youwu sometimes wonders that the reason why it doesn't rain in his hometown is that the Dragon King has brought all the rain here, right?

There is a lot of rain, so there are many rivers, in short, according to the village chief Zhao, this place is farming, and there is never a worry about not enough rain.

"It's so good, it's nice to have water!" Bai Youwu said this to himself, and then picked up his hoe again—the drizzle gave him infinite strength.

"Bell! Clang! The bell at the entrance of the village rang suddenly, and Bai Youwu jumped up suddenly, grabbed his hoe and ran towards the entrance of the village. Village Chief Zhao said that the village bell is generally not ring, and it will only ring when something big happens. And among the big things that need to ring the bell, headhunters are found, which is the most common.

"So far this year, we have struck the bell four times, and three times we have found headhunters. So when I heard the bell ringing, I didn't even think about it, I immediately picked up a hoe and ran to the village, and it was all right when I entered the village. At that time, Village Chief Zhao explained to Bai Youwu in this way, Bai Youwu's memory is not particularly good, but he remembers this incident very well.

As soon as Bai Youwu ran, several people who were also new immigrants who followed Bai Youwu also remembered the possible meaning of the bell, and immediately ran away with Bai Youwu.

"Zhang Wangcai, you pick up the hoe, you killer!" When a new immigrant was running, he actually ran to the front of Bai Youwu at once, Bai Youwu was taken aback, and took a closer look, but saw that he was empty-handed, and actually threw away the hoe, so Bai Youwu, who felt that he was the head of the new immigrants in the village, immediately yelled.

The hoe was made of iron, and it was a precious thing. Moreover, if this thing falls into the hands of Shengfan, it will be even more troublesome. A big reason why Village Chief Zhao dared not to take those students seriously was that they didn't have any iron guys in their hands. An iron hoe, in the hands of Bai Youwu, is used to dig the ground, but if it falls into the hands of those raw fans, it may become a weapon used to dig heads.

However, Zhang Wangcai did not look back, but just ran towards the entrance of the village. Although Bai Youwu scolded Zhang Wangcai, he himself would never turn around and go back to get a hoe for Zhang Wangcai.

The entrance to the village was not far away, but after a while, a group of people ran into the village. However, as soon as they entered the village, they knew that most of the bells had nothing to do with Shengfan, because in the empty field in the village, in addition to Village Chief Zhao, there was also a group of heavily armed soldiers.

Seeing that the people had almost arrived, Village Chief Zhao tore his throat and shouted: "Folks, the owner has sent people to go into the mountains to cut wood, and they need people who are willing to help." Whoever is willing to go, the owner will be rewarded. As long as they come back alive, not only will this year's rent be freed, but those who have delayed farming will also be allocated half a year's rations, and the next time the owner buys a woman to come back, it will be given priority to those who go. The owner said that as long as he went and came back alive, he would be given a mother-in-law within three years. How, does anyone want to go? ”

To be honest, the first few conditions are not attractive at all, but the last one is really attractive. You know,Women are really scarce materials here.,Generally speaking,If you want to find a woman who can pass on the ancestry.,In addition to waiting for the poor woman who doesn't know when the owner will send it.,And expect that you're lucky enough to be able to share it on your own head.,You can only rely on grabbing those raw fans.。

Shengfan is not so easy to rob, people still want to rob you? I don't know how many people were bitten to death by poisonous snakes in the woods, stepped on a trap and died, hacked to death by Shengfan, drowned by a flash flood, and ...... In short, all kinds of deaths. Then to be able to snatch back such a precious woman, it is not enough points at all.

Nowadays, just going into the mountains to cut wood—and while that's dangerous, it's no more dangerous than a woman who goes straight to grab a job—and that's a woman, and that's a very attractive condition. Moreover, the woman sent by the owner is a woman from the Han family, and I really don't know how strong it is compared to those raw women.

"Is there really a woman's hair? Village Chief, count me in! One of the people shouted first, and when Bai Youya looked at it, he recognized that this was an old immigrant named Yellow Dog.

"Village chief, and me, I'm going too!" More people shouted.

"The owner only has twenty people in our village, if you are willing to go, stand on this side first, and wait for the owner to choose, and whoever you pick is whoever you choose." Village Elder Zhao shouted, "If there are new arrivals, don't squeeze over, you haven't even entered the forest a few times, and it's a mess to go!" Seeing a few new immigrants hesitantly leaning towards this side, he shouted again.

A few new immigrants who followed suit stepped aside. For the rest, almost all the old immigrants who didn't have a woman were on that side. A guy in a big red robe looked left and right in the crowd, and from time to time he reached out and slapped and pinched the men twice, and then quickly picked out about twenty people from among them.

After the person was chosen, the man waved his hand, and a man came out with a stack of papers, and explained to them the contents of the papers, and taught them to draw on them. Bai Youwu recognized it immediately, but this person was Chen Guang.

Now Chen Guang has been left in the immigration site in Taiwan to do some copywriting, and this time he will also follow him into the mountains to help make some records. Although there are savage people in the mountains, this time the mountain is protected by the owner's family, and Chen Guang feels that his safety should still be guaranteed. And Chen Guang also needs a son who can help him connect the incense.

Chen Guang had already seen Bai Youwu, and as soon as the matter at hand was over, he went over and asked about Bai Youwu's recent situation, and Bai Youwu also knew through him that Sun Ergou was all right now.

"God has mercy, after so much suffering, I finally found a place where I can settle down. Do a good job, the owner is also very benevolent, and will not treat you badly. When they were about to break up, Chen Guang finally said to Bai Youwu.

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"Another important thing in shipbuilding is to have good wood! It's okay to build merchant ships and the like, fir and pine can be used, but it's different to build warships. The battleship had to withstand the enemy's shelling and possible ramming, as well as the recoil of its own guns, so the ribs had to be strong enough. In our Europe, the ribs of a good battleship should be made of the best oak, and even if such wood is used, the thickness of the ribs of the best battleship should be close to 3 cubits, that is, about three feet of your country, even if it is a heavy artillery, it must be at a very close distance to penetrate such a ship's plank, and as for the general 12-pounder gun, 18-pounder gun, even at zero distance, it will not be able to penetrate it. If you use ordinary pine and fir wood, you need to be thicker, and it is very troublesome to handle such thick wood. So, Your Excellency, if we want to build a good enough battleship, the first thing we need is that we need good enough wood. This is what Lawrence said to Zheng Zhilong. During the meal, Zheng Zhilong relayed this to Zheng Sen, and Zheng Sen gave this answer:

"Daddy, at first we could buy wood directly from the Europeans, because it is said that there is still a lot of fine wood in the South Seas. But in the end, we still have to have our own whole set of things, from logging to warships, so that we don't have to be controlled by others. Taiwan has such a large forest, and some of the trees in it may be thousands of years old, there must be wood in it that is very suitable for building warships. It's just that the timber used to make the ship has to be dried slowly, and it may take ten years for a tree to be cut down and put to use. So the search for good wood, and the logging of wood, should start now. ”

Zheng Sen knew that building a warship required many kinds of wood, the most critical and rare of which was the wood used to make the keel. Because of the strength, although the method of splicing can be used, the longer the main parts, the better. It is best to use teak with a century-old forest.

In Asia, the main source of teak is Myanmar. It's just that Burma is far away, and the Zheng family has no great influence in Burma, and it is not easy to obtain high-quality teak from Burma, which was regarded as a strategic material at that time. However, in Taiwan, there is a high-grade wood similar to teak in terms of performance, that is, cypress. In the central mountain range of Taiwan, there are many cypress trees that have grown for thousands of years. Such timber is enough not to say that it is used to build a cruiser, but also to build a battleship.

As for the main material used to build the hull, this is a widely distributed tree, which is distributed in Henan and Hubei, but these places are a bit chaotic now, but it belongs to the same genus, and the wood performance is very similar to the microphylla C. microphylla is distributed in Taiwan, Zheng Sen believes that these things can definitely be found in the forests of the central mountain range. There are also light and relatively tough and resilient timber used to build masts, and Taiwanese cedar can also be used. In later generations, these can grow up to 90 meters high, the tallest tree species in Asia was almost completely cut down during the Japanese colonial period, but at Zheng Sen's time, on the island of Taiwan, there should still be many Taiwanese cedars that are hundreds of years old and 80 or 90 meters high.

"Well, first send some people into the mountains to find wood, and when you find it, you will start chopping!" Zheng Zhilong said.