Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Cement Ship

The next day, a group of people on the river beach were busy building bamboo sheds.

Zhao Yun organized a team of people to repair the road along the river beach, and future planes will make this place into a runway. The requirements for the runway of the planes of World War I were generally not high, which also saved Zhao Yun a lot of things. In the future, it is necessary to build a better airport.

A group of people posted a notice in the city according to Zhao Yun's instructions, and the new county magistrate wanted to recruit workers.

Modeled after the Langxi farm, farmers built 20 mills and 400 plots of farmland along the riverbank.

His two town law enforcement teams have taken up their posts again and come here to do their old jobs and maintain order.

A large number of young men from the city were recruited, and all the people were divided into six groups, each for six hours. There are no breaks 24 hours a day, and 4 groups work in shifts. Another group was used as a substitute to take turns off, exchanging with people who often worked night shifts. There is also a group of people who are responsible for the torches in the evening, lighting the venue, and the food for the staff.

The basis of the riot army is to have enough food, and their own food resources are indispensable. Zhoucun in Langxi is still receiving the materials sent, and the previous firearms orders are still being fulfilled. This is a matter of credit, and if you promise it, you must do it.

Since part of Anhui was controlled by the Jiangsu Governor's Army, it was not harmful for Langxi to fulfill the contract, so there was no harm to them, so they did not stop it.

But Zhejiang's cannon, Zhao Yuntong's small island in Hangzhou Bay, is slowly still providing Lu Yunjun with it, so Lu Dujun just hated himself for going to Jiangsu for being one step slower, didn't keep people, and didn't blame Zhao Yun too much. After all, no one expected that the well-equipped commander-in-chief Deng would be overturned by his own people without firing a single shot to the outside world, and all the people under his jurisdiction would surrender within two or three days!

What a grievance this battle has been!

In just one morning, skilled workers set up a row of ten bamboo huts on the river beach, and Deputy County Magistrate Xu knew what the new county magistrate must be doing, so he also organized 400 people to come to the scene and prepare to listen to Hou's instructions.

"Deputy County Magistrate Xu, you can arrange for someone to build a trestle bridge, and then go to Qinglong Mountain in Dingshu Town to get some bluestones on the mountain, it will be more." This is close to the second camp, which is the fastest way for a spy to get here. On Zhao Yun's way here, a large number of spies arrived here after production. Zhao Yun arranged for spies to go to the city this morning to buy a large amount of plaster and go to the lake to buy the shells of river mussels.

I believe that some people already know what Zhao Yun is going to do.

Cement, yes. But it's not for building, it's for shipbuilding.

There is a lot of water in Yixing, and Zhao Yun's wharf has also been established, but the boats produced in the camp do not meet Zhao Yun's requirements.

So Zhao Yun planned to build some ships by himself to sell or refit them.

Wood is used for general shipbuilding, but cement can also be used for shipbuilding.

Coal had already been brought in to the bamboo huts on the shore, and furnaces had begun to be made, and the knives and iron swords produced in the arsenal were the best raw materials, and they were melted down and cast directly into what the post-secular strip steel was called.

The steel strips with the thickness of the little finger are connected into a strand, and then the master who ties the lantern is asked to weave it into the shape of a boat, and then mix the flour from the grinding of bluestone, gypsum and mussel shells, pour rice milk and stir it, and it becomes a substance similar to cement.

Of these four raw materials, bluestone is ready-made, and the mountain stone of Qinglong Mountain is cement for national defense in later generations, and the quality of raw materials is absolutely fine. It's just a small problem to have to be shipped and have to find someone to calcine; Some of the gypsum is sold; There are many rivers in the south of the river mussels, and it is really not possible to use the shell of the snail, and it is too easy to get it by exchanging one catty of rice for five catties of husk; Rice milk is easier, and the production in the farmland is directly cooked, but it has to be boiled until the chopsticks are inserted and not poured.

Of course, with these things, you can start manufacturing.

Fishermen and women by the lake were found and the fishing nets produced in the camp were woven into one to form a dense net. Attached to the erected steel frame, the next step is to have people apply a cement-like substance directly to it, and after drying, a boat is fine.

Compared with the same type of wooden ship, the cement ship is 5% lighter in weight, 40% lower in cost, and the performance meets the requirements of navigation. It has the characteristics of corrosion resistance and durability. The shape is varied, as long as there is a change when the frame is tied.

Three days later, I saw a cement boat floating on the shore, and Deputy County Magistrate Xu's mouth was about to fall into his stomach. The stone boat, it is said that there is one in the garden of the palace, but it can grow so big, it is the first time that Deputy County Magistrate Xu has really seen it.

The ship immediately caused a sensation, and all the people in the county came to see it, and this strange ship became a hot topic in the mouths of the people.

And Zhao Yun also won the title of "strange county magistrate", can the official make a strange thing without being criticized!

This is still Zhao Yun only built 20 tons for the test, the second one has reached 60 tons, and the next 60 tons will be the finalized ship type. It is said that if the quality of such cement ships is passed, the maximum can reach more than 10,000 tons.

The construction of cement ships is unique in China at this time, so Zhao Yun is ready to set up a shipyard and a steamship bureau.

In the early stage, we were going to build a transport fleet, and the tugboat was already optimistic in Europe, and it was the latest diesel, but Zhao Yun still asked the spy to prepare an old-fashioned coal-burning one. Diesel for its own use, coal for sale. Now he also knows that many people are eyeing the things in his hand, and he can't hide them, so it's better to take them out and sell them generously.

In Europe, Zhao Yun's spies had already secured a small shipyard in Neustadt, north of Lübel near the sea, which could only repair fishing boats.

However, after the farmers took care of it, and the camp dock was established in the small shipyard, and the ships that were obtained in Europe in the future were dismantled by the camp as soon as they entered this dock, and then through the guò reverse thrust technology, they were formed again and appeared in the production sequence of the dock.

That is to say, every time a new ship type appears, it is either obtained with the Spy's collection skills and spent a lot of money, or the prototype ship is sent to the dock, and the loss of a ship in exchange for a ship is a production sequence.

Two tugboats of different forms were towed into the docks and became the first absorbent vessels.

Soon, in ten days, a convoy of transport ships was ready, equipped with old-fashioned coal-fired tugboats. Not counting the tugboats, there are a total of twelve boats, Zhao Yun decided to try its performance, and directly let it go to Dingshu Town to pull the boat pottery, run to Suzhou, and cross the entire Taihu Lake, which can be regarded as a test of its resistance to wind and waves.

This trip will take about ten days to load and unload and wait, and Zhao Yun will go out to do some work while everyone is attracted by this new thing.

Last night, the eighty thousand cavalry needed for the first four pages of the parchment were ready.

The next day, when everyone was happily watching the first voyage of the cement fleet, Zhao Yun raised the issue of improving the cement formula, locked himself in a small courtyard, and began to bury himself in research.

Not long after he went into retreat, the area around the courtyard was surrounded by secret agents from various forces.

However, before going to Outer Mongolia, Zhao Yun still asked Deputy County Magistrate Xu to find some fireworks masters for himself, and asked them to make a sharp weapon for themselves, big fireworks!

This time, I went into a state of concealment in the name of research, and when it was over, I must take something out and fool around, otherwise it would be unreasonable and would arouse suspicion.

When a large number of craftsmen were gathered under the notice issued by the county government, no one could have imagined that the real Zhao Yun was already soaring in the sky and was flying to the camp in Outer Mongolia. The "Zhao Yun" in the small courtyard is a spy stand-in for Zhao Yun to let the camp produce according to his own conditions.

This is what Zhao Yun thought about when he was in Zhou Village, if he didn't fight when he was in the county seat, he also had a team under him at that time, and there was an internal response in the county seat, and it was not certain who would catch whom, but it was a tear with the overseers of Nanjing, and then he would be hunted down and killed by direct warlords throughout the country.

So I endured it at the time!

However, on the plane, there were more than ten hours of time, and Zhao Yun still had to find something to do for himself.

"Ahh Young master, this is really tight! With Shao Laoer's call, Zhao Yun also screamed.

This time Zhao Yun decided to get closer to the command, and by the way, learn about the most real battle, so Zhao Yun's own security is in the first place, and the biggest danger in this era in addition to artillery shells is stray bullets, and to prevent stray bullets, bulletproof vests are indispensable.

However, Zhao Yun's camp did not produce bulletproof vests, so he could only find a similar object to replace them.

In the camp, the military units are all covered with armor, the difference is cloth clothing, cotton armor, heart guards, leather armor, plate armor, etc., both Chinese and European, Zhao Yun finally chose a good-looking fish scale armor to wear on.

Armor is an antique, Zhao Yun has only seen it in film and television, and has worn it in tourist attractions and film and television bases and taken photos, but it is really the first time that he really wears armor that can fight, and he is completely dazzled by those bits and pieces, so he can only attract an identical warrior, and only then can he figure out the various parts of the armor according to what he is wearing, and know where to wear it, but he still can't wear it.

In fact, you need help from others to wear armor, and it is difficult to put it on by yourself. Finally, with the help of Shao Lao Er, Zhao Yun spent more than an hour and a lot of effort to put on the armor.

Seeing that he was almost out of breath by the belt, Zhao Yun thought, "It seems that I really have to find a housekeeper for myself, this old man is really tired of doing this job!" ”

This armor weighs about thirty or forty catties, it is a pair of three-layer armor, the outside is a black light armor that is stacked like scales, embedded in the middle of the cowhide base, lined with three layers of good silk, after the armor is put on, Zhao Yun tried to run a few times, and found that although he was wearing armor, there was no sense of restraint that prevented him from escaping at a critical moment.

Putting on a helmet of the same color again, Shao Lao Er couldn't help but shake his head secretly when he saw Zhao Yun wearing this full-body fish scale armor, like a big black fish.

"What's wrong? Lao Shao, is there a problem with this armor? Zhao Yun is not blind, he has long paid attention to Shao Lao Er, who shakes his head like a rattle.