The construction site of the shipyard is also very lively, with about three or four hundred laborers, and all kinds of things needed for the shipyard are being built here at this time.

Chuanliao is located in the place of about a few miles upstream of Tamsui Village, where the water surface is wide, the water depth is also more suitable, and the terrain on the shore is also undulating and relatively good.

Now Yu Xiaotian wants to drive the boat liao to Tamsui Village, which naturally becomes the location of the boat liao.

In the early stage of the Nanri Island shipyard, Guo Fu, who was the main manager of the shipyard, personally came to supervise the battle this time, and also brought a few craftsmen who were familiar with shipbuilding, who were responsible for directing and dispatching manpower here to build a new shipyard for Sea Wolf.

Although there are many advantages to shipyards, it is obviously not a good idea to build ships with a dock in the current rush situation, because it takes much more labor to excavate a large dock than to build a slipway, and it takes more time to build a dock than it does to build several slipways.

Therefore, after deliberation, Yu Xiaotian believes that before they have the ability to build a larger ship, the use of slipways to build ships will not affect too much.

Moreover, the slipway has a low cost, as long as the hull is built, it can be launched immediately, continue to carry out other perching in the water, and free up the slipway to continue to build new ships, so that the speed of shipbuilding can be greatly improved as long as there are enough manpower.

And so far, what he needs most is this kind of light sloop, although its hull is not large, and the armament is not very strong, but it is expensive that this kind of ship is fast and flexible, and its firepower is far more than that of a Chinese sailing ship of the same size, and it can also cope with the use of naval warfare.

What's more, the construction of this kind of ship is now basically mature, and the craftsmen of the shipyard are already familiar with its construction method, and if construction starts at the same time on Nanri Island and here, it is estimated that by the end of the year, they can get six or eight more sloops.

In this way, he would have a fast fleet capable of low- and medium-intensity naval engagements, as well as a fairly good fleet of patrol vessels, and even a sloop in each of several places to be used as a vessel to deliver messages or transfer important personnel and supplies.

In short, what he needs most at the moment is this kind of ship, and if he wants to have such a fleet before the Spaniards start to attack northern Taiwan next year, then it depends on the progress of the construction of the ship liao in Tamsui Village.

It was now May, and he demanded that at least three slipways be built here by the end of June, and that the keels of the three slipways should be laid on at the end of June, and the construction of new ships would begin immediately.

And this schedule is placed here, and if there is a slight delay, the construction period will be delayed, so when he comes here this time, the busiest place on this side of Tamsui Village may be regarded as this new shipyard.

Under Yu Xiaotian's personal intervention, the sea wolf gathered three or four hundred laborers of all kinds here, including craftsmen, bought house slaves, and many hard laborers.

These people are scattered throughout the shipyard construction site, busy like ants, because they are currently seriously lacking animal power here, and the limited ploughing cattle that were prepared before are mostly used for farming, so basically the heavy manual work here can be completed by manpower.

A perfect slipway must lay a solid foundation now, otherwise when building a ship, the foundation may sink because the foundation is not strong enough, and the hull tilt eventually leads to the ship being unable to continue construction, or the hull structure of the ship is distorted.

So as the most important slipway in the shipyard, many people here are busy laying the foundation, Yu Xiaotian has thought many times to get cement for their various rebuilding projects, but cement is easy to say, but if you want to build a cement factory, it is not easy.

The grinding of various materials alone, he has not been able to solve it so far, he can only use animal power or water power to grind various raw materials with stone mills, which requires a lot of work, at most he can only use some slag produced by the current Nanri Island workshop area, plus some tiles, broken porcelain pieces to crush and grind into powder, and make some soil cement for temporary emergency use, but if you want to make real Portland cement, he has to solve a lot of problems first.

So here he can only use the ancient production technology to build his shipyard, groups of people gathered on the construction site, the sound of the horn shook the sky, the piling with sledgehammers, and many more people were struggling to ram.

Piles of logs are piled up near the construction site, and immediately after the foundation is laid, they begin to be sawn by the carpenters and transported into the foundation of the construction site in sections to start building the slipway.

The foundation is equipped with a large wooden frame for shipbuilding, and there must be a slipway and a slipway to connect, in addition to a lot of related workshops, such as the slipway also has a special production of hemp rope workshop, a workshop for making sails, a workshop for building iron products for ships, materials for twisting and sewing, and as an indispensable thing for shipbuilding, such as bent wood cattle for drying bent wood, etc., these things can only be in place to really start shipbuilding, all of which are indispensable, otherwise the ship will not be able to build.

Therefore, in addition to the construction of the slipway, there are many places where the sheds needed for other workshops are being built, so in addition to the shipwrights, dozens of craftsmen have also been brought in to build houses on the shore.

In short, when Xiaotian came here to inspect, the project here was in full swing, and the people here had heard the news of Yu Xiaotian's arrival in Tamsui, and no one dared to slack off, and they all worked the construction site.

Yu Xiaotian met Guo Fu, who was supervising the work here, and asked about the progress here, Guo Fu said with a difficult face: "Qi Yu big boss, everything here is good, but the manpower is still not enough, the construction period required by the big boss is too short, our current manpower can only catch up with the end of June at most, and it is good to build two slipways, but three can't do it!"

And you see, there is one less silo here, and even if the timber is shipped this month, it will be piled up in the open air, and once it rains heavily, the timber will be wet again, and there will still be no way to cut the material!

Therefore, the most urgent thing at the moment is to build a timber warehouse first, and put the dry timber in the warehouse, so that the ship can start in July.

There are also a few blacksmiths who will come over, and there is a lack of big nails and other things in the building here, and at present, these two or three blacksmiths, even if they use their strength to eat, will not be able to drive out so many things.

……”

In short, Guo Fu said a lot of questions, and Yu Xiaotian wanted to understand his difficulties.

Yu Xiaotian and Fang An listened to Guo Fu's complaints, nodded and said: "I remember this, and I will find a way for you tomorrow, but before the end of June, if the three slipways are not built well, you must at least ensure that the two slipways can be started!" The third slipway will be built in July, and by the end of the year, six slipways will be completed here, and six boats can be built at the same time!

If you want someone, I will find a way for you, and I will help you solve it, in short, the construction period cannot be delayed too long, otherwise, I will definitely ask for you! ”

The expression on Guo Fu's face was about to flow, and he nodded with a sad face, he had worked with Yu Xiaotian for so long, he knew Yu Xiaotian's temper, Yu Xiaotian was very anxious to build more Feizi clippers at the moment, which he knew, if he dragged the construction period too long, then Yu Xiaotian might not be polite to him.

At present, the sea wolf's boat liao is not what it used to be, after Yu Xiaotian's repeated search on land, now there are many craftsmen in the ship, and the masters are not few, now Yu Xiaotian is no longer afraid of Guo Fu, if he can't do it well, this boat liao steward can let others do it at any time.

And he knew very well that Yu Xiaotian was quite generous to these craftsmen, and his salary as the manager of the shipyard was as much as ten taels of silver a month, which exceeded the income of many sea wolf tribes, and there were some other subsidies for the family's food and drink, if he was taken down, there would be no place to find such a good treatment, so Guo Fu could only grit his teeth and agree.

After seeing the Chuanliao, Yu Xiaotian and Fang An moved to a place not too far from the Chuanliao, this place has been cleared out, the terrain is higher, and it is relatively flat, it turns out that the plan here is to be reclaimed into a large piece of farmland, but with the change of Yu Xiaotian's plan, this place was selected as the location of the new camp of the sea wolf.

In the future, a camp will be built here, and the new battalion will be sent here for training, and the new camp will also become a barracks for the soldiers here after a large number of recruits have completed their training.

And here is near the river, also close to the boat liao, not far from the tamsui village, once there is something, the garrison here can quickly rush to the village and the boat liao garrison.

This time, Yu Xiaotian brought fifty selected soldiers with the ship, and also brought three hundred selected Xinding as the first batch of personnel stationed here.

However, at present, their task is not to drill, but to build a new battalion here as a pioneer, and after the construction of the new camp is completed, they will be transferred to training on the spot, and at the same time, the follow-up personnel will be transported in large numbers, filled in the new battalion, and start training.

If there is nothing to do, the new Ding here will extend the training time of the recruits, so that they are basically usable here, and then they will be sent to garrison everywhere, according to Yu Xiaotian's original plan, before the end of the year, he will have to train one or two thousand sailors and soldiers to meet his needs for the next year.

When they arrived at the location of the new camp, the new Ding and the old soldiers who came with Yu Xiaotian this time had already been brought here yesterday and set up tents in the camp.

Today they haven't started construction yet, and the veterans are grouping the newcomers in the cleared lot.

According to the habit of the sea wolf, the five-five system is still adopted here, a veteran leads ten new soldiers to form a squad, a squad of two teams, each chooses a captain to take the lead, five squads form a detachment, five detachments form a squadron, and five squadrons form a brigade......

(Thanks to stdx and the Purr brothers for the tip!) ）