Chapter Seventy-Seven: A New Ship Is Launched
The three newly-built sloops have all the rest of the sloop in place, including the masts, which have been installed on the slipway, which shows that the craftsmen of the boats have mastered the center of gravity of this kind of boat, and can confidently launch it into the water without worrying about accidents when launching.
These three boats are on the slipway, the line shape is very beautiful, the hull is painted with black lacquer, and on both sides of the sharp bow also ask the painter to draw two wolf heads with fierce eyes with colored paint, instead of the two docile fish eyes often painted on coastal fishing boats, and this kind of sign will be determined as the standard mark of the sea wolf warship in the future, and will be popularized on the seawolf warship in the future, which is regarded as the enterprise CI of the seawolf.
Yu Xiaotian deliberately introduced this identification system of later generations into the sea wolves, so that the sea wolves formed a set of their own unique logos, so that people would immediately understand their identities as soon as they saw the sea wolves' warships.
And Yu Xiaotian doesn't like the messy flags of other peers in this era, especially those surname flags made with the surnames of their leaders, such signs are too personal, and hanging out this kind of flag is equivalent to putting these ships in the name of a certain person's private person, including some generals in the Ming army also use this kind of surname flag to show their identity, so that there is a trend of privatization in the army.
Therefore, since the beginning of its creation, the Seawolf has not used the surname flag, including the naval division and the combat system, all of which use the Seawolf flag, and several command flags have been designed to represent the status of each ship in the fleet, such as the handsome flag, the command flag of the sub-fleet, etc., to avoid making people have a certain ship or a certain fleet belonging to someone.
All ships fly the Seawolf flag to show that they only belong to the Seawolf Group, not to any private person, and all the leaders of the Seawolf are also appointed by Yu Xiaotian, they are only in charge of some ships on behalf of Yu Xiaotian, and these ships themselves still belong to the Seawolf Group, not to any private property other than Yu Xiaotian.
This can undoubtedly make them clearly understand who they are doing things for, who is responsible for paying them, managing their food and clothing, and can also make the sea wolf people have a sense of cohesion and honor.
And to make the sea wolf people have a sense of cohesion and honor, the easiest way is to take them to win victory after victory, now it seems that Yu Xiaotian is undoubtedly doing a very good job, in the past few years, no matter what opponent the sea wolf is against, it is rare to lose.
This also makes the current sea wolf tribes begin to have a feeling that their sea wolves do not need to be afraid of anyone on the sea, and their sea wolves are invincible, which is undoubtedly of great help to improve the self-confidence and morale of the sea wolf tribes.
It is not enough for the leader to be bold and belligerent, and it is not enough for everyone in a team, at least most of them, to have this warlike desire to make this team dare to fight and be good at fighting.
There is no doubt that Yu Xiaotian has initially built such a team and established a relatively complete system that can motivate the subordinates to do things bravely.
At present, he has selected more than 200 captains and chief officers in accordance with the methods of the British Navy, but only two-thirds of them can get ships, and the remaining one-third captains and first mates are idle on the shore and have nothing to do, so they can only take turns to go to sea once a month on the training ships for adaptation training, so as to maintain their ability to control and command ships, and at the same time cultivate their ability to command naval battles.
At this time, the captains and first mates of the sea wolf's sailors were under pressure, because if they did not work honestly, if they made a slight mistake, they might be dismissed from their posts, and they would be driven off the ship and stay on the shore, and if they made a big mistake, they would be expelled from the sea wolf tribe and sent to a hard labor camp to stay.
This method is undoubtedly a great spur for the captains of the sea wolves, if you can't do it, you can change people, anyway, there are many people waiting behind, and the sailors on the ship are not affiliated with any private individuals, whoever is the captain is the same.
People who want to live in the sea wolf sailor, under this system, there is no place at all, if they can't get to the top, it depends on their personal ability, nepotism has little influence among the sea wolves, unlike other pirate groups, the relatives of the big bosses, fox friends and dog friends, one by one, have ascended to heaven, and when they are in power, they will reach out if there is a benefit, and if there is a difficulty or danger, let others go.
After such a system was implemented, it was much fairer among the sea wolves, and the subordinates also had hope, especially some of the little self-motivated or ambitious pawns, who felt that they had a head and worked more energetically, anyway, as long as they worked hard, they would always have a bright future.
There is also a very important reason, that is, everyone knows that there may be "sand" watching their every move around them at any time, and as long as they slack off or other misdeeds, they may soon be known by the torture hall.
Yu Xiaotian knows that everyone has selfish desires in their hearts, and this selfish desire must be curbed, and if you want to curb the expansion of this selfish desire, you must put everyone under supervision, so he came up with this method of mixing sand downward, and used some professional whistleblowers to supervise the usual actions of these subordinates on his behalf.
Only by letting his subordinates know that they can't act arbitrarily at any time, there will always be some eyes staring at them openly or secretly, and they naturally don't dare to mess around.
In the past, some captains or some people on the ship, after going to sea, felt that no one could see what they were doing anymore when they went to sea anyway, so they were lazy at sea, avoided war, picked up soft persimmons and pinched them, and even hid the looted goods and secretly divided them.
This situation will soon be found out by the torture hall, for which there are already more than a dozen captains and first officers, because of collusion to make small moves on the ship, the torture hall took them to serve them severely, and then dismissed them from their posts, some of them were expelled and sent to hard labor camps, and some were even beheaded for public display, and their heads were hung on the dock for people to see.
Therefore, the discipline of the sea wolf tribe has been greatly improved later, not to mention that everyone is in danger, at least let them know that if they work here, they must do it well, and engaging in small actions is self-inflicted, and there is no future.
Of course, this method of mixing sand will have some drawbacks, such as making his subordinates feel less trusted, but on the whole, the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages, and these sands are usually hidden among sailors, and have no right to interfere with the actions of others, unless it is very necessary to reveal their identities to take over the ship or team.
Moreover, the rules of the sea wolf make it very clear that as long as they work hard and follow the rules, these sands will not pose any threat to them, and will become the main witness of their meritorious service when necessary, ensuring that when they do a good job, they will not be buried, so that no one knows about it, and they cannot be rewarded.
Therefore, for all the people in the Sea Wolf Division, the existence of people like Sand is a double-edged sword for them, and if they do a good job, the Sand can help them, and when they don't do a good job, then don't blame the torture hall for being unkind to them.
This has gradually become a culture of the sea wolf, which has made the sea wolf subordinates form a good and disciplined atmosphere, so that Yu Xiaotian can order and prohibit his subordinates, like an arm and a finger, without worrying about losing control of his subordinates.
Yu Xiaotian looked at the three new boats on the slipway, and sighed with emotion in his heart, at this time, Guo Fu came over to ask for instructions, all the preparations had been completed, and asked Yu Xiaotian if he could start to launch the boat.
Yu Xiaotian quickly retracted his distracted train of thought, and immediately nodded: "You can start!" ”
With the rapid sound of firecrackers, the people on the slipway evacuated the slipway, and only a few people were left on the slipway who were responsible for operating the boat to launch the water.
The slipway is directly connected to the launching slipway, and the boat has been built with the launching problem in mind, and when the ship is built, the bow points to the launching slipway, and there is a blocking wooden frame.
Once the boat is built, the wooden frame that prevents the boat from sliding is removed, and then the boat is pryed, and the boat moves to the slipway, and after entering the slipway, it can slide into the water by the ship's own weight.
And this launching process, is very risky, a little careless, the ship may overturn on the shore in the process of launching, the hull is damaged, but want to straighten the hull, in this era of technical conditions, is very difficult, and may even cause the ship to be scrapped.
Before launching, the ship should be inspected at the most rear, the center of gravity of the ship should be adjusted, and the ballast stone used for trimming should be placed in the center of gravity position, so that there can be no large deviation, and it must be fixed.
The slipway now has no rails, can only be made of hardwood, the slideway should be wider, and sleepers should be paved underneath to ensure that when the heavy hull is pressed on the slideway, the soil can not be soft and cause the slideway to sink on one side, so that the boat is likely to roll over.
Therefore, when building slipways and slipways, the foundation should be carefully tamped, and the chute of the slipway should be used to a certain depth to prevent the bottom of the ship from touching the sleepers below.
But these things have been solved by the craftsmen of the ship, and there is basically nothing to worry about, and the few remaining archers, after receiving the order, began to dismantle the wooden frame blocking the ship, and open the obstruction between the slipway and the slipway.
In the past, when a boat was launched, it was necessary to rely on many people to pry the boat off the slipway little by little with a crowbar to make it into the inclined chute and slide into the water, but now this clumsy method is not used.
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