However, in this way, the amount of engineering and engineering difficulty of such a deep modification far exceed the previous simple modification, and some ships still need to be docked or put on the slipway to be refitted, which will occupy the limited dock and slipway of the Seawolf Shipyard, so that the speed of such a modification is very slow.

This is also the reason why Yu Xiaotian plans to expand the production of freshwater shipyards and stop the construction of Feizi clippers on Nanri Island, and he plans to go hand in hand with two things, each performing its own duties, shipbuilding and refitting, to improve the renewal rate of the Seawolf fleet.

Although there was a serious accident when the ship was launched today, in addition to causing one death and one injury, the ship itself was not damaged, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.

In addition, there is one thing he is more happy about, that is, the problem of wood drying, which has been basically solved in the past few days, after the transformation of the craftsmen, the drying room has adjusted the way the wood is placed, and the ventilation rate between the wood has been improved, so that the wood dried in the drying room for the second time has a much better effect.

Two days ago, when the oven was opened, after Guo Fu's inspection, this time into the oven of a batch of wood, there are about sixty percent of the wood drying is better, can be used for shipbuilding, the rest of the two percent of the scrap, two percent of the drying is insufficient, need to continue drying, the overall yield than the first time to dry the wood, to improve a lot.

So Yu Xiaotian immediately instructed the shipyard to continue to build a large drying room nearby, and rowed the original drying room to which the shipyard belonged, and set up a separate wood drying plant, which was responsible for processing the wood cut back, in addition to providing the shipyard for use, it can also be supplied to the construction and carpentry workshops, so that the industry is specialized, and at the same time, the production efficiency is improved as much as possible, so that the craftsmen of the shipyard are also liberated and go all out to devote themselves to shipbuilding production.

In addition, the wood drying plant will also take over the work of unraveling, because this kind of thing belongs to the rough work of carpentry, and there is no need to occupy carpenters or other craftsmen, as long as they have the strength to pull the saw, even if it is hard labor, it can be done, and there is no need to waste talents.

At the same time, Yu Xiaotian also thought about it, and ordered that several small-scale charcoal kilns in this area should also be incorporated into the wood drying plant in the future, and they will be managed by special personnel to be responsible for making charcoal.

In fact, charcoal is a dry distillation process, in the past, charcoal was burned with a simple method, not to mention the waste and pollution, the quality of the charcoal burned is not good enough, and charcoal is still an important industrial fuel for the seawolf, in addition to the basic raw material of gunpowder, especially for the charcoal used to make gunpowder, the quality requirements for charcoal are quite high.

The firing method of the small charcoal kiln used in the past is obviously not enough to meet the needs of the sea wolf, so it is better to build several large wood dry distillation kilns, so that special personnel are responsible for the dry distillation of wood to obtain charcoal, so that the quality of the charcoal produced in batches is far better than the quality of charcoal produced by scattered small workshops in the past.

In addition, when the charcoal is distilled, wood tar can also be obtained, the composition of wood tar is very complex, it can be used as a simple pesticide, and it can be used as wood preservative, and it can be used in many places, as for other uses that need deep processing, he can't do it for the time being.

In general, Yu Xiaotian's plan is to refine the division of labor among the industries under his jurisdiction as much as possible in the future, no longer as before, to build a workshop, to all kinds of craftsmen, large and all small and complete, but as far as possible to hand over some of these general processes to a professional workshop for production, other workshops no longer produce these general parts or accessories by themselves, directly from the special workshop customization, and then use for production.

This may seem troublesome, but it can greatly improve production efficiency, form intensive production, and reduce waste.

Since the Feizi clipper that tested the Karon cannon at Chuanliao has been launched and is about to start sea trials, according to previous experience, this kind of ship will be relatively simple and short in time if the structure has not undergone major changes and the alignment has not been greatly modified again.

After launching, it is only necessary to check the leakage of the hull plate joints, test the stability of the ship's center of gravity and the flexibility and sturdiness of the rudder mechanism, and basically deliver.

However, the gun carriage that can rotate 360 degrees on the second ship is specially designed for the newly trial-produced large-caliber Caron gun, and now the gun carriage is in place, and only the Caron gun is in place to be tested, so Yu Xiaotian is eager to obtain this new type of cannon to test its effectiveness and power.

People who play Western ship models generally have a detailed understanding of the situation of the ship, so Yu Xiaotian is no exception, and has consulted quite a lot of guns equipped with Western sail warships and how they are installed.

Therefore, the Caron Cannon is one of his choices, and if it is very powerful, it will also become his main weapon in the future.

When Yu Xiaotian arrived at the gun, there was still a row of hot production scenes inside the gun, and a new cannon was being cast for various inspections.

Now there is no metal flaw detector to inspect the quality of the gun, one is to rely on visual inspection to check whether there are cracks in the gun body, but to rely on knocking, to judge whether there are large air holes in the gun body, and the third is to use the irrigation test method, the gun barrel is erected, block the fire door, and then pour water into the gun barrel, and oil can also be poured to observe whether there are subtle cracks in the gun barrel wall, after these tests, you can basically judge whether there is a quality problem in the gun.

However, this kind of inspection is not the end, the cannon is cast, before it is put into storage, it is necessary to pull it to the shooting range for test guns, use the maximum amount of gunpowder required in the specification to load, carry out more than two test shots, and then check the condition of the gun body, if no problem is found, the cannon can be regarded as a serious qualification, which can be regarded as a formal finished product storage waiting to be transferred to other places for use.

When Yu Xiaotian entered the cannonball, Qiu blacksmith heard the news and hurriedly greeted him, he knew what Yu Xiaotian came to see this time, so he quickly took Xiaotian to a large shed.

This shed is used to try out the new cannon shed, arranged are the elite soldiers in the gun, the shed is also in full swing, the temperature is very high, but because there is a certain danger of splash injury, so the craftsmen can not wear thin, one by one are wearing very thick clothes, but also in front of the cover of a thick canvas apron, wearing thick gloves.

It's a pity that I can't get asbestos cloth now, so I can only use thick canvas for the craftsmen to use, and the craftsmen have a high chance of being burned, but fortunately, here in the sea wolf, we pay more attention to the welfare of the craftsmen, once the craftsmen are injured, they can also get the treatment of the good ones, and in the blacksmith shops of gunsmithing and gunsmithing, some badger oil is usually prepared, and there are some burn ointments, and minor burns can be treated on the spot.

And the treatment of the craftsmen is very good, in order to cool them down, there is a special person to provide them with mung bean soup every day for them to drink, to prevent them from heat stroke, in addition to the special soup for them to boil down and prevent heatstroke health care, for them to drink, and even each craftsman can get two bowls of ice water with ice cubes every day to cool them down.

Therefore, in the workshop of the sea wolf, although the work is hard, these craftsmen are still very satisfied with the current treatment, there is a lot of pay here, and they are treated as human beings, even if the work is tiring and hard, they are willing to do it.

Yu Xiaotian was not in a hurry to enter the shed to watch the trial production of the new cannon, but first inspected the measures to prevent heatstroke and cool down here during the cannon, and when he saw that the arrangements here were still in place, he nodded his satisfaction and followed the blacksmith Qiu into the shed.

On a bench in the shed, Yu Xiaotian immediately saw a short and thick cannon, which was erected on the bench, and a craftsman was polishing the surface of the cannon body to remove a small number of burrs and rough places left during casting, so that users would not be scratched when maintaining and wiping in the future, and it would be easier to clean.

In addition to making an iron fan, if the caliber is no different from the previous artillery, it is simpler, but if a new caliber of artillery is opened, then in addition to making the iron fan, it is also necessary to make a new boring head and boring bar, so as to prepare for the boring operation of the inner chamber of the cannon after the casting of the cannon is completed.

Therefore, this process cannot be completed overnight, even after the iron fan casting is completed, the iron fan must be inspected, and a clay mold is made with the iron fan first, and the iron fan is deformed after it is made.

Only after the various inspections have been completed will the craftsmen of the cannon begin to officially close the iron model and start casting new cannons on the casting table.

Yu Xiaotian came to Tamsui Village this time, and it has been nearly half a month now, and Qiu Blacksmith knows that Yu Xiaotian is anxious to ask for this new cannon, so he does not dare to slack off at all, and the craftsmen with the cannon are also working day and night, and several molten iron furnaces have almost never been extinguished.

Finally, a few days ago, the first 32-pounder Caron cannon was successfully cast with the efforts of Blacksmith Qiu, and it has undergone a preliminary inspection in the ironwork, and no quality problems have been found, and the most refined surface is now being polished.

Yu Xiaotian rushed straight to this Caron gun, this Caron gun is no different from the Caron gun in his impression, the barrel is short and thick, the length is about the same as the twelve-pounder short gun, that is, the mountain howitzer, but it is much thicker than that guy, from the muzzle to the tail of the gun, it is a gradual cone, and the tail is thick, but the muzzle position is thickened in order to prevent the muzzle from being overpressed.