A month later, inadvertently at the Hantang Group, two Taiwanese-class all-wood sailing boats were completed. Except for the people involved, not too many people care about this - two broken wooden boats, except for the enthusiasts, who cares about their manufacturing process, who cuts the ribbon on them?

At the same time, in a large shed, the small clipper was like a dead fish that had been ashore for a long time, revealing huge skeletons, and from a distance, the ribs were neatly arranged.

The Akito technicians were very pleased with the treatment given to them by the master at first.

The Anjiang Shipyard gave them thirty horse tickets a day, or the equivalent of silver taels, and even directly paid rice, and the master craftsmen in charge of the bureau and the master craftsmen who lowered the keel gave them more, which was enough.

The owner of Anjiang Shipyard also treats people very well, does not speak kindly, talks little, and gives enough food

The two master craftsmen in charge of the bureau were gathered together by Director Wu Jie in advance, and Director Wu Jie directly showed them the dynamic demonstration diagram of the structure of the sailboat - at that time, no one was afraid of these Ming people, and they all watched it with relish, and the shipwright who came first had already seen it several times, and he could explain it to these later shipwrights at that time.

He is one of the great craftsmen in the shipbuilding industry. Its basic requirement is to know the structure of the whole ship well, to remember the number of some key places, and to adapt to other changes. The master craftsman who is engaged in this profession only needs to memorize several ship types in his life and memorize the corresponding proportional numbers, and he can eat shipbuilding for a lifetime. Therefore, the relevant numbers are also kept secret.

The two master craftsmen in charge of the bureau were also very interested at first, but when they looked at it, their psychology changed--if all the shipwrights in the world had such objects--the so-called big masters, it was of little use, and the shipbuilding drawings they had firmly remembered in their hearts might have become a piece of waste paper--the two people unconsciously glanced at each other, and this object was more clear than any secret map!

It was able to put the hull of the ship together one by one, and it could take it apart one by one for the boatwrights to see, and if it were to tell the boatwrights the numbers, it would not have to listen to their commands at all.

However, when they heard that the object was brought by the Han and Tang groups from the big city of Antarctica, and it was extremely precious, the two of them were happy again, so it was good, and it was impossible for ordinary people to see this object lightly.

After the director Wu Jie settled them, he sent them a full set of shipbuilding tools, the most important of which were various measuring tools.

This should be practiced repeatedly in advance - until they are fully familiar with the units of measurement and the method of measurement at the Anjiang shipyard.

Shipwrights love their new shipbuilding tools.

For example, the iron hammer is extremely light, touched with your hands, and licked with your tongue, it tastes sour, and it is indeed made of good iron—but why are there two places like sheep's horns behind it? If you think about it a little more, you can see the usefulness of this place. But what is used to pull out the nails?

Claw hammers actually appeared as early as the ancient Roman period, but this modern style, like other tools, is the proud production of the Red Star Machine.

Now the products of the Red Star Machining Factory are mainly hardware products and farm tool products, and Director Li Ziqiang is tired to death all day long, which is still the result of the newly established hand forging workshop of the Red Star Forging Factory.

For a while, the Red Star Machine Processing Factory was really squeaking, stamping rumbling, and hand forging - the key is that Director Li Ziqiang has no sense of accomplishment in the production, what are people doing in the Red Star Military Factory? What is he doing here?

Chairman Wu Dapeng said to him: "You have processed a human harvester, which is a machine gun; If you make an iron pipe plow, that's a rifle, and if you make a hand-crank grinder, that's a pistol; A hammer, a shovel, even a nail, a needle, it's all grenades, bullets—"

Director Li Ziqiang said: "I'm convinced, don't say it." ”

Director Li Ziqiang once said: "Now we are short of primary alloy products, as long as they come out, they can not only produce woodworking machine tools - the early industrial machine tools are processed, what is the machine tool?" That's the machining—"

Director Linghu Qinghou said privately: "No, the early industrial machine tools don't use special alloys, right?" ”

Director Li Ziqiang said: "You don't understand, I'm talking to the chairman, they liberal arts students don't understand very well -- what about me, just don't let them always look at agriculture -- you see, Director Sun Defa's request to build that alkaline battery factory has been beaten back -- what should we do when our batteries are used up?" ”

"Ah, good idea. Sun Dong: That's a carbon battery factory--but the battery can last a year or two-"

"It's a rainy day -- I have to go to the Philippines to find manganese ore."

Director Linghu Qinghou said: "It's a rainy day. Steel is a kind of alloy, and the chairman will not understand. ”

"Be quiet, liberal arts students really don't understand."

The Anjiang Shipyard is about to start, and the master craftsman in charge of the bureau thinks it is very strange, what about the ship materials of the Anjiang Shipyard? It's the dry season, why don't you take it out earlier, they can start working-

The shipwright who came here first smiled and said, "Don't worry--the Red Star Wood Processing Factory is processing components for us, and it will be delivered when it's almost time-"

"It's really possible to build a ship like this!"

The master craftsman in charge of the bureau made up for it in his mind, and was surprised to understand that this place was actually for them to assemble and build ships-like that strange picture.

The shipwright who came first sighed and said, "There are still some corners where we still need to wait—we wait more like labor." ”

Sure enough, a large number of components were then shipped, and even numbers were marked with white gray pens, and if you look at the drawings sent to them, you can find the location of the number.

With the model and the components, the people of the Sail Party and the Sail Party thought that this shipbuilding should be like playing, and everyone knew some carpentry skills.

They came to the Anjiang Shipyard more often, and often came to the Anjiang Shipyard during their breaks to observe the work of the Ming shipwrights, and were ready to show their skills and make a DIY clipper boat by themselves, and more than a dozen technicians of the Hantang Group could deal with a small boat of less than eight meters -- besides, all the numbers were ready-made.

They saw that these Ming boatwrights had a clear division of labor, and could skillfully use tools such as planing, adze, and chisel, and the small hammers were also flying up and down; They saw that the Ming boatmen skillfully used the technique of adding nails and curiums in some places where the tenons and tenons were riveted; They saw that the Ming boatwrights also stopped from time to time to look at the drawings, which were three views, and they discussed it by comparison, as if they could understand it, and of course they had to ask Director Wu Jie from time to time.

Wu Jie, the director of the factory, observed the work process of a Ming boatsmith and concluded that this is not much different from the production and processing of all-wood sailboats in modern society, and even if there are differences, they are also different in materials and tools.

However, the work attitude of these wise shipwrights is commendable, serious and dedicated, and they do not say a word.

Director Wu Jie just walked around casually, not as a supervisor, but it made the Ming boatwrights nervous.

The means of the Anjiang shipyard are really good. These tools alone are extremely useful, let alone the ship material – how can they cut the pieces so accurately? It's just one piece or two of that--it's basically the same, even the reserved space is a standard--I heard that they have a wheel saw more than one person high, cutting big wood like cutting tofu, is there really such a thing?!

Since the Taiwanese class was finalized, since the science popularization by Director Wu Jie and Fan Xiu technicians, the Zongheng Sailing Party has collectively become sailing enthusiasts and will build it with their own hands.

Two hours had passed since they had been in the shed for a while before the construction of the clipper ship began, and the on-site conductor was finally elected.

Then they did a little bit of a deduction about the construction process, and the scene started to get a little hot.

No way, none of us have ever had the experience of building clippers.

When I was collecting information, I couldn't find a video of the construction of the clipper, so everyone was groping for it.

But it was obviously discussing the process of building a ship, but I don't know why the topic ran to the sails of the clippers, and they were quickly divided into two factions, the Ming style sail school and the Western style sail school.

The Western-style sail faction wanted to laugh and said: "The clipper boat is a Western-style ship, and you use a Daming-style sail, which is nondescript, right?" ”

The Da Ming style fan school said very seriously: "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth!" ”

The two sides quarreled fiercely, and the on-site commander had the right to decide, but he also joined the argument, and the mouth-to-mouth cannon was generally inconclusive. In the end, they had to invite Director Wu Jie.

"On a clipper ship with a Ming style hard sail? Refers to what we have modified with modern technology? ”

Director Wu Jie frowned and thought, and said: "

The main difference between this Daming-style sail and the Western sail is reflected in the sail cable system, the Daming-style hard sail belongs to the longitudinal sail category, and the wind efficiency is high; It can be rotated around the mast, can be used against the wind, and can be used in both downwind and crosswind.

Because the hard sail has a supporting bone, the quality requirements of this sail are very low, even if it is broken with a lot of holes. The operation is relatively simple, and the crew does not need to climb up and down on the mast when lifting the sail, especially the sail is particularly convenient, and the mast can usually be put down, thus increasing the safety in bad sea conditions.

For a sail of the same weight and area, the hard sail has a big advantage and the cost is much lower, especially since we borrowed modern technology-"

Da Ming-style Fan Pai was happy and said: "Look at how great this benefit is - it is not in history, it does not mean that we cannot use it." ”

Director Wu Jie said:

"It is precisely because this Ming style sailing ship uses a hard sail, although the wind eating capacity per unit area exceeds that of the Western soft sail, but due to the problem of the hard sail material itself, the area of the guide sail cannot be compared with the Western sailing ship at all - even if we borrow modern technology - this can be calculated, and there are still too many slats on the hard sail.

The general sail area of the clipper ship is very large, and the mast is high, which offsets the advantage of hard sails, but their sail is high and this also brings the problem that the mast is easy to break, so the mast of Western-style sailing ships has a reinforcing cable to stabilize the mast, but this makes the sail unable to rotate around the mast, so in general, the efficiency of this Western sail is very low in crosswind, but they are very clever to solve this problem with a transverse sail, and at the same time use a strug sail or spinnaker on the bow mast, In addition, the winged sails developed by Western-style sailing ships further accelerated the speed.

Let's put it this way, the total area of sails used by Western sailing ships beats the unit area efficiency of Daming sailing ships, the total sail area of a Western sailing ship of about 850 tons can reach the size of 6 basketball courts, and the sail area of battleships can exceed 10 acres, remember that the average speed of the winner of the blue ribbon of the last sailing ship has reached about 16 knots, and in the First World War, the coal-burning warship was only this level. ”

The Western-style sail school said, "So, we must develop according to the course of history, right?" ”

Director Wu Jie said: "It's not a question of whether it is necessary or not, it is a question of what kind of materials our Hantang Group can provide, I said, as long as the materials can keep up, the future ocean will be our ocean - but at present, we can only do this, first build as much as possible what can be built, and then talk about it-"

Everyone nodded in agreement, this truth is right, build it first.

Director Wu Jie said at this time: "Forget it, it's time for dinner, you can start work again on the next rest day - the food in our shipyard is good, and I have a treat." ”