When Bladetooth finished the task of making the refrigerator tree seeds, he came to the river beach to observe.

What appeared in front of him was a flat-bottomed boat more than 30 meters long, 8 meters wide at the top and 8 meters wide at the bottom, and nearly 5 meters high.

Although the ship as a whole has not been carved in any way, it has been quite finished, and it can be clearly seen from the river beach that its top deck has been fixed with rather exaggerated long oars.

Below deck, where it appears to be the second floor, there is also a row of portholes, from which also long oars protrude.

Bladetooth stepped forward with great interest, and under the guidance of the apprentice who had changed his name to Shipfang, he boarded the ship for a visit.

During the visit, he had a better understanding of the ship through the introduction of the ship's teeth.

The hull of this ship is divided into three levels, which are the bottom compartment, the second deck, and the upper deck.

Among them, the length of the bottom silo is about the length of the keel, which is five meters wide and 1.5 meters high, because this height is impossible for the troll to stretch at all, and the bottom bin is below the waterline for a long time, so there is no oar position.

When empty, the bottom bin will be used to place ballast weights; When it is loaded, it acts as a warehouse.

Above it is a two-story warehouse, and although the space is 3.3 meters high and 6 meters wide, it is also closed to the trolls, but it is barely enough to play.

Therefore, the apprentices opened the windows on both sides and arranged a total of 24 oars in 12 rows.

Each paddle frame is spaced 2.5 meters apart, and the paddlers who maintain a standing position need to swing their bodies back and forth to steer the giant oars to drive the boat.

The top deck is the open deck, where there are also 12 rows with a total of 24 paddles, but the working conditions here are obviously much better than those on the lower deck;

At least in the open air, the oarsmen can breathe fresh air at all times, and they don't have to swallow the exhaust fumes of the rest of the trolls all the time, as is the case in the lower decks.....

As long as the trolls don't evolve to the point where skin care needs to be considered, the upper deck is definitely more popular.

"The keel, ribs, bottom plate, shell and other structures of the hull are basically made of natural wood; Only on the wooden nails and vines used for fixing, we chose the stock steel wood and magic vines. ”

"In addition, in order to prevent the center of gravity you mentioned from being too high, we have also conducted many experiments on a miniature model with equal scale, and have found a relatively suitable hull structure and deck arrangement."

"In this regard, the earth tooth witch doctor has provided great help, otherwise it would not have been possible to complete the debugging in a short time."

'No wonder there are a few fewer refrigerator tree species handed in by Tuya, it turns out that the time has been used here.... Why don't you come to me for help? ’

The dizzy and dazzling blade teeth who had been tossed by the tree seed before 'complained' in his heart.

Of course, he just thought about it in his heart, and didn't say it.

Because Blade Fang understands that these apprentices don't really dare to come and disturb his work with several 'old' seniors such as Fangs and Rough Fangs.

On the contrary, when they 'summoned' Tuya and other witch doctors of the same generation, they didn't have so many scruples and could be more open.

"In addition, we boiled animal fat, mixed it with certain plant fibers, animal hair, and some stone powder, and then solidified it between the cracks of the board to solve the problem of water seepage."

"But it's only barely resolved.... We estimate that the waterproofing process should be repeated every once in a while; When not sailing, it is also best to pull the boat to the shore for preservation. ”

"You've done a good job, and if you make further improvements, let's leave it for later."

The affirmation of the blade tooth made the boat tooth obviously a lot happier.

After all, this is the culmination of nearly three months of labor by him and the other participants, and it is really a great incentive for them to be recognized by the witch doctor they respect.

"Yes, after the other witch doctors have come to see it, let's start the unified production first..... By the way, in terms of load and crew, do you have specific data? ”

"The safe load may be about 150 tons, but how exactly it will be tested and ..... In the case of passengers, it is more demanding. ”

"The bottom silo is completely unsuitable for us to stay for a long time, just the handling of goods or ballast stones, it is very torturous; And the upper deck and the second deck, with the exception of the paddle position .... If you squeeze it, you can sit about 60 fighters. ”

"It's still a little small.... But it's enough to deal with it in the early stage, so let's decide the case like this, and when the other witch doctors come to see it later, if you need to cooperate with the spell, just ask. ”

"If you can trick at least one witch doctor into helping, you'll be able to research much faster."

"I want to do that too, Your Excellency Speaker..... But the witch doctors all shirked that they had their own research to be carried out, and His Excellency Tuya was brought in with great difficulty. ”

Speaking of this, the ship's teeth thief looked left and right, and after seeing that no other troll noticed, the thief continued,

"I guess the reason why His Excellency Tuya is willing to come here is because he is already impatient with the preparation of tree seeds."

"Hahaha, that's understandable. Anyway, if you work harder, it's better to convince the witch doctor to get involved. ”

"Yes, understood, you ....." The ship's eyes rolled, and he immediately wanted to pull a wave of helpers.

But seeing what he wanted to say, he immediately changed the topic and didn't give him any chance at all.

"Also, arrange the rest time for the oarsmen.... For example, try to have half of the oarsmen row and half of the oarsmen rest, and then compare it with all the crew to calculate the optimal ratio of endurance and travel speed. ”

It's not that Blade Tooth doesn't want to help, it's that his meditation progress has been slowed down for too long..... He really didn't want to delay any longer.

'Presumably the other witch doctors thought the same way, right?' It's not that anyone is selfish, after all, witch doctors aren't just studying for themselves...'

He thought so, but his mouth didn't stop, still talking about things related to ships,

"In addition, the rotation of the upper and lower oarsmen should also be paid attention to, don't let the lower oarsmen stay in the closed space all the time, sooner or later there will be problems; Also, paddling should be quite strenuous, and the food supply should be well prepared. ”

"Got it, we'll explore that."

"How about the speed of shipbuilding? How long will it take for such a ship to be built? ”

After some exchange, Blade Tooth left the river beach first after arranging a follow-up visit.

Although the research progress and results of the ship are generally satisfactory, the speed of shipbuilding is still not optimistic.

The speed of construction of ships can be said to be quite slow, due to the skill of the 'workers', the speed of processing of materials, and so on.

The boat on the river beach, if you take out the time spent on harvesting timber and only calculate the time taken from laying the keel, it is nearly two months of time.

The labor required for it is also nearly a hundred trolls.

Even if the subsequent proficiency will slowly increase, this time seems to be only compressed to about forty days.

Such a speed will undoubtedly slow down many subsequent arrangements.

'If the witch doctor joins, it will definitely be much faster. It seems that it would be much more convenient if we could go one step further, such as developing a one-piece 'ship tree' and building ships in the same way that weapons are built from a weapon. ’

But isn't that a burden for the witch doctors? ’

And the witch doctors' respective studies are equally important to the tribe, and it would be worth the loss to stop any of them..... What's more, it is a bit inappropriate to continue to make this kind of request now that the refrigerator tree planting has just been completed. ’

And if everything is taken care of by the witch doctor, isn't it a little unhealthy for the development of the tribe as a whole? Bladetooth thought uncertainly.

But in the blink of an eye, he realized again..... It doesn't seem like there's any need to be in a hurry?

Since it is too demanding to complete tasks such as shipbuilding and building strongholds in a short period of time, let's take our time, no one will chase and bite him behind his ass anyway.

"Yes, it was because the captives had been eating white food, and it hurt me to waste so much food for nothing. But now the captives have no output, and the logging, rough processing of wood, etc., is not a loss of their food. ’

After figuring out these joints, Blade Tooth immediately relaxed a lot and felt better.

So he stopped his way to the council chamber, and walked through the tribes, which were much larger than before, and watched the neatly arranged wooden houses;

Turning a corner, he walked towards the place where Meiya worked.

Along the way, either the old man or the strong laborer stopped what they were doing and happily greeted the blade teeth.

The people's mental outlook is very good, they eat and sleep well, and even the clothes that were once only enough to cover the buttocks are much richer in style and material.

The tattered leather skirts that used to be occasionally seen have gradually disappeared and been replaced by more delicately processed fur products.

Even a handful of trolls with more dexterous hands wore delicate models woven from 'wool'.

Although the trolls' dressing style is still monotonous, mainly short skirts and shorts, and the upper body is almost naked, it is definitely much more pleasing to the eye than before.

In addition, it has to be said that the choice of shorts and short skirts for male and female trolls is diametrically opposed to the inherent impression of Blade Teeth, with female trolls wearing shorts more and male trolls wearing short skirts more.

Blade Tooth once asked Miya why this was, and the answer was unexpected but reasonable.

Meiya replied that there were two effects: psychological and physical.

Psychologically, although both male and female trolls are very irritable, females are still relatively more patient;

They were able to calm down and sew more complicated clothes for themselves.

Physiologically, the lower body of a female troll is more likely to be bothered by foreign objects, creating a need for cover.

Just as he was thinking about these things that he didn't have, Blade Fang finally saw where Meiya was from a distance.

He immediately walked over quietly, ready to surprise him.

Before he got closer, the female apprentice who was helping Meiya with her affairs clearly saw him and opened her mouth to speak.

The fingers of the blade teeth were erected in front of his mouth, and he made a "shhhh

Unfortunately, the surprise plan ultimately failed, and the troll's sensitive hearing soon made Miya notice the movement behind her.

She turned vigilantly at the near-predator approach, visibly relieved to see that the visitor was not a source of danger, but her own husband.

"Your Excellency! How did you get here? ”

The surprise seems to be successful again? His wife was already very happy just to see him appear.