Chapter 53: The ship is completed, and the salt village is burned
"Banya, the construction of the river village is like this for the time being, and now it is all attached to the Tianlei tribe, so here you also need to change your totem to our flying dragon Tulei, I believe the pheasant god will also be happy." Yu Guang immediately returned to Hezhai after completing his ideological work in the main village.
The construction of the river village needed to continue, and his big ship plan had already begun, and some of the Pheasant tribe members worked together to cut down some decades-old cedar and pine trees, while the captives were basically journeymen, and the new captives got up early in the morning and saw the planks with saws poured in bronze.
Then put it in a large shed specially used for drying, because the time required is too long, only a few stoves can be built in the greenhouse, burning all day and night, and the water in the various boards inside will evaporate little by little.
It's good to say above the hull, but the hull can't be too simple, Yu Guang specially made a copper ruler, he dreamed back to prehistoric times when his height was one meter eight, and he used the same height of hemp rope to fold ninety centimeters, and then added about a piece of rope as one meter, so the first prehistoric standard ruler of one meter was made.
Other measuring tools can only be roughly made, as for the standard or not, Yu Guang made it according to the memory of later generations, and he decided to make a flat sailing boat that can fit thirty or forty people, and can paddle and sail as power.
But when he did it, Yu Guang was dumbfounded, it really couldn't be the same as the kind of thing in the handicraft class, it was difficult to make the ribs of a boat, so he had to use charcoal to draw the wooden board, and then use a small saw to see it, and if it was broken, it was still on the side, anyway, there are many trees now.
A group of primitive people did it for nearly three months, cutting hundreds of fir trees for forty or fifty years before the keel, upper deck and hull under the ship were done, and then it was fixed and glued, coated with pine resin on the outside to prevent corrosion of the river water for a long time, fish glue stained with some needed places, copper nails, rivets used a lot, Yu Guang doubted whether he could float on the water after entering the water, fortunately, the boat was big, and after getting it, let dozens of clansmen polish the bottom of the boat with stones.
The building of the upper hull was relatively easy to do, it didn't take long, the bow was narrow, the stern was wide, and a special rudder was added to the stern, which was controlled by the principle of leverage.
The cabin has a lot of space, and Yu Guang specially made two rows of positions that can make it more convenient for the oarsmen to sit and paddle, so that on both sides of the cabin, there can be ten people paddling, and there are special people shouting and rowing at that time.
Then the waterproof strip was put on the cabin, the hatch was covered, the mast was installed, the stern was completed, the captain's room and the shed behind it were completed, and finally a Chinese-style animal skin sail was put on the mast and tied to the rope that controlled the sail.
After doing this for nearly a month, Yu Guang's hair and beard have also grown very long, like a wild man in the deep mountains and old forests, and he was startled when he saw his appearance on the water.
When more than 100 people pulled the big ship from the dock into the water, they were all shocked, this young big clan leader actually built the house in the water, although the workmanship was rougher than that of later generations, but the principle was formulated according to the later generations, and the draft of the hull was very deep after launching, and it was estimated that thirty people were not good to carry, because they had to pull some goods.
Yu Guang personally took ten clansmen to test the voyage, the earlier pontoon bridge has long been dismantled, with the warming of the weather, except for the lack of crocodiles around the river, many crocodiles have been found in other places one after another, so Yu Guang has designed a lot of crossbows on the boat.
These big crossbows need two people to use a winch to pull apart, and they can shoot an arrow with a bronze arrow as thick as a child's arm for a hundred steps, and if they encounter a prehistoric giant crocodile seven or eight meters long, they are not afraid, and the strong crossbow has a metal arrow after the piercing power is stronger.
The prehistoric river was also measured by Yu Guang, which was tens of meters deep, 12 meters long after launching, 4 meters wide, and two meters deep, with 10 compartments in the boat, which divided the ship into three cabins.
When the big ship was launched, Yu Guang was dumbfounded, he had never driven such a large thing, and he would only ride a small electric motorcycle in the later generations, although in the past few months, a lot of flatbed canoes have been dispatched to measure the situation of the waterway, and the overall report is still passable within hundreds of miles, but it is not clear further away.
can only resign themselves to fate, all the personnel sit in the cabins on both sides of the middle, as for the seasickness, let them slowly adapt, row more canoes, and select some people from the middle who can adapt quickly to be sailors.
In order to float on the river for a long time, Yu Guangxia had enough money to eat and drink every day, and specially crossed the river to make a few delicious meals for the wooden boat and tiger fish, which trained twenty prehistoric professional sailors, but when it was time to sail, he had to figure out how to proceed.
Black Feather, the captive of the original Feathered Serpent tribe, has now completely surrendered to the light, and under his leadership, the captives of the Hezhai Feathered Serpent are also completely subdued to the light, especially from the moment the Hezhai witnessed the birth of this prehistoric giant ship, there are no more captives who will rebel. During this period, another incident occurred, that is, the leader of the Longgrass tribe escaped from prison with a group of captives one night, and was found by the night patrol Black Feather and Bone Knife, all of whom were ready to be killed.
Prehistoric people killed captives by using a large sunken stone to just stick their heads inside, and then people pressed on both sides, and a strong man with a face covered in black mud held a stone high and smashed his head stuck in it to pieces.
But Yu Guang stopped when he looked at the leader of the long grass who was about to be stoned to death, and the bone knife and the black feather asked why they didn't kill, he thought for a while and said: "There is a fierce beast in my heart, and I have always told me to kill these people, but when I saw the water in the big river, I decided not to kill it, because we are all human beings, and only like this big river can we accommodate the sky, mountains and trees." ”
Although these words are profound, Ji Ji, the leader of the Changhe tribe who went around in a circle before the ghost gate, was completely convinced, "Ji swears to the sky that he is willing to return to the Tianlei tribe and never rebel!" ”
This also caused all the clansmen and captives of Hezhai to kneel on the ground and face Yu Guang: "We are willing to swear to the heavens and never betray the Tianlei tribe." ”
Seeing this kind of scene, Yu Guang had an idea of being quite an emperor, but he had already made up his mind not to be the king.
Black Feather shouted the trumpet in a rough voice, and the ten bareback oarsmen in the cabin also followed the trumpet to row the oars, and the bone knife began to point with hundreds of tribesmen, and someone shouted: "Move, the big ship moves!" ”
Yu Guang stood at the stern of the boat and turned the rudder hard, the big boat slowly rowed to the middle of the river, there was not much wind in the plains, and now it can only be powered by manpower, this boat is actually the kind of duck boat in the park for people to play when there is no wind, the power is that people row the oars, and Yu Guang has a simple rudder in his hand.
The surface of the river was sparkling, and gradually drove to the middle of the big river, with the action of the rudder, the bow of the ship turned to the north, and began to move forward, Yu Guang deliberately let the black feather open the totem of the tribe, a mighty black dragon, and spit out a lightning bolt from his mouth.
When the big ship sailed near the Changhe tribe, they also had a lot of flatbed canoes netting fish near the east bank, staring blankly at the giant in the middle of the big river, which was no less than the launching of aircraft carriers in later generations.
Then the fishermen of the Long River tribe hurriedly rowed their boats to the shore and ran to the tribe, shouting, "Big boat, there is a big boat like a mountain in the river, and there is a beast totem hanging on it!" ”
Yu Guang stood at the stern of the boat and smiled slightly, "Hehe, the big river is ours!" Black Feather, let's catch some crocodiles, our people should make more boots and leather armor! ”
Driving further north, you will enter a new water, there are a lot of wasteland on both sides of the river, forests, and even half an hour when the oarsmen rested, they saw the territory of the Qicao tribe, and then a short distance to the north found a large sandy beach, crawling with crocodiles, Yu Guang asked the oarsmen to come out and put down the anchor that fixed the boat.
Black Feather pulled out a big crossbow with him, put the long arrow that had been wrapped with hemp rope on it, aim, and fire!
"Whoosh"!
The arrows with hemp rope flew out, and it was not until nearly evening that their big boat returned, dressed in dozens of crocodiles that had been shot, and dozens of two or three meters long, which were used for light, and said, "Let's catch only the big ones, and the small ones will grow up and catch them again!" ”
When the twelve people happily returned to the Hezhai wharf, the fat cloth came, and his face was not very good, and Yu Guang got off the boat and saw it.
"Hikari, something is wrong!" Fat Cloth stepped forward and whispered.
Yu Guang was shocked and said eagerly: "What's the matter? ”
"The salt village was burned, and the clansmen and captives inside died!" Fat Bu said in a very small voice because he did not dare to look up.
"What? My stone knife is great...""My eldest brother's soul has returned to the earth~" Before Yu Guang finished asking, the bone knife cried.
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(It's the weekend again, today's chapter is late, everyone knows, Blowing Snow has two children, today is still the winter solstice, just one chapter for the time being!) I'm sorry! Good night everyone! )