Chapter 098: Making a Strong Ship

Looking at the enthusiastic eyes of everyone's expectation, Ye Xing felt a great responsibility, far from being so relaxed.

Ye Xing inspected some of the remaining tools, and all the woodworking tools such as saws, axes, hammers, and chisels were also complete.

And it was all made of the best alloy by Ye Xing before, all of them were in good condition, and because they let them build wooden houses, they were all preserved and not washed away by the water.

Some of the tools are generators, and a couple of small steam turbines, where there is no crude oil, and some alternative raw materials have to be found.

He said to the group of fellers, "You cut down the branches of the selected big trees, lay them horizontally on the ground as a passage, and then drag the trunks along the paved wooden paths like this, remember to make the trunks smoother, and remove the bark, so that it will be easy to pull here." ”

Everyone nodded, and Ye Xing said again, "When you cut down, find out if there are any trees with a lot of sap, take some sap back, and see if it can be used for paint." ”

Everyone said yes, and then divided into 8 teams of people to go, each in one direction.

Ye Xing asked the others to continue to do the arrangement, and then came to his room, where the three special combat team members and two women were discussing the design of the hull.

Seeing Ye Xing coming back, everyone hurriedly gave up a little position, Ye Xing motioned for them to continue, and he listened.

Ye Xing didn't say anything, but his head was spinning at high speed, looking for knowledge about the design of wooden boats.

After listening for an hour or two, Ye Xing finally figured out the hull design that was suitable for the current situation from his mind.

The last time it sank after a collision, Ye Xing knew that in addition to reinforcing the hull, there must be more watertight cabin designs, and the keel of the ship must also be made of steel, and it must be an extremely hard alloy keel, and there were many design problems last time, and this time it had to be solved at one time.

The six of them discussed in detail in the room for several more days before the hull design was finalized.

Next, the detailed design of each part was completed, and after full discussion, the drawing was made.

It took fifteen days of hard work to complete all the hull design work.

This is a relatively large ship, and Ye Xing has to use the best metal materials as the keel, and the hardest wood thick plates to process the hull.

Now that everything is designed, it's just a matter of finding a place to make steel and make tools and accessories.

Ye Xing thought for a while, it was the side of the Ice Spirit Mountain, it was only four days away from here, and the volcano was active there, which was the best place to refine tools.

Ye Xing took fifty people, a bunch of patterns and a lot of food, and set off.

This time, he didn't let the two girls come with him, but asked them to prepare dry food and collect enough medicinal herbs together, which is also very important for sea voyages.

Coming to the vicinity of Bingling Mountain, Ye Xing found several suitable lava vents, and then designed crucibles of various specifications, there were a large number of suitable materials, so it only took a few days to complete the preparations.

First, a part of the people were assigned to build simple wooden houses, and the rest of the people were first used to process various tool patterns from wood according to the patterns, and then made fine clay molds.

Finally, the meteorite was melted in chunks into a crucible, and under the extreme heat of the lava, the meteorite also melted into a liquid, and then poured into a clay mold.

After the rough embryo of the first tool was cast, Ye Xing tested it in detail for three days and improved the details of multiple castings before proceeding to the next large-scale production.

After the shipbuilding tools are made one by one, a part is divided to polish the processing details, and the rest of the people continue to make new tools, which are all hard and durable, so they are made of the best iron alloys.

Fifteen days later, hundreds of various tools to be used were made, Ye Xing asked everyone to polish the tools a little more finely, all by hand, the progress was very slow, it took another ten days, and then put them into the space ring.

Ye Xing took out all the ore and piled it aside, preparing to smelt various metals, the key to which is to have carbon for a chemical reaction to reduce the metal from the compound.

This is a volcanic place, Ye Xing had thought of using this place earlier, so he investigated the vicinity and learned that there were shallow coal deposits near Bingling Mountain.

Sure enough, Ye Xing led dozens of people to find a coal mine that had been exposed not far from the foot of Bingling Mountain, and Ye Xing asked everyone to use new tools to dig coal and pick out the best coal and stone to put aside.

Ye Xing himself entered the stone room again and put the tiger-shaped dragon into the ring space, and this time he did it easily.

Ye Xing used the old method to start digging tunnels, and sure enough, three days later, he found a jade box in a hole dozens of feet underground.

Ye Xing didn't want to open it, he just put it in the space ring and came out.

Now that the Phoenix Space Ring is complete and balanced, there must be new changes, but Ye Xing is too busy to pay attention to it, but in the process of constantly using the Space Ring, he finds that he is more and more freewheeling, and large objects can also be easily accessed.

When he came out of the stone mountain, he saw that everyone had dug out and selected a large pile of the best coal, Ye Xing asked everyone to fill the wooden barrels, and then touched them with his hands and put them into the space ring.

Coming to the vicinity of the lava crater, Ye Xing dug a lot of lava vents, made hundreds of large crucibles, and let the group of three start to make rough steel with coal and ore.

Ye Xing himself went back to the base, put down the tools and accessories that had been made, and let the people here start processing the wood.

Now that hundreds of large stripped pieces of wood have been shipped back here, Ye Xing asked everyone to process them into thick slabs for later use.

Because Ye Xing brought back a lot of large shipbuilding tools, the processing process will be very fast.

Let everyone roast the wooden board with fire, one is to kill the moth, the other is to let the board be shaped, and many processing details are discussed with everyone, and another ten days have passed.

When Ye Xing returned to Bingling Mountain, a lot of various metals had been refined here, Ye Xing estimated it, it might be far away, so he ran to the side of the Golden Spirit Mountain twice to mine ores, and brought back a lot of various ores.

After more than 20 days of busy work before and after, Ye Xing finally refined crude steel that might have tens of thousands of catties.

It took more than 30 days to refine thousands of catties of steel, which was used to make the keel.

Fifty people worked together to create a large model of the keel of the hull, which was then machined into a mold in sections, leaving connecting joints between the sections.

According to the newly searched knowledge in his brain, Ye Xing used the appropriate alloy ratio to re-smelt the marine alloy.

Fifty people worked together, and it only took more than 20 days to process the keel in sections.

Everyone worked together to carefully process each part, and a month later, a trial installation was carried out in an open space under Bingling Mountain.

Many problems were found during the trial assembly process, and many parts were re-cast.

In this way, it took more than 20 days of adjustment before and after all the adjustments were completed.

Ye Xing asked people to dig more coal, while the others continued to adjust the alloy ratio to make new various accessories, and then put the already split keel into the space ring.

Put a large pile of dozens of barrels of coal into the space ring, and Ye Xingyun returned to the base with light work.

When I returned to the base, the sea was just rising sharply, and although the waves did not reach the bottom of the mountain, they were not far behind.

Ye Xing asked everyone to use stones to finish the bracket, and then took out the keel segments and placed them on the bracket.

Ye Xing took out the coal, heated the joints of the keel sections, and added the alloy rivets of the connection, because it was a contract-shaped joint, so the rivets were fused at high temperature.

This time, Ye Xing also used the fire aura, so as to ensure that the dragon bone was truly a whole.

In this way, after five days, the twenty-zhang long keel was really processed and installed, and the small solid bow was also made of hard alloy, which Ye Xing asked to add, so that the boat would not be afraid of hitting big fish and reefs, and the speed of the ship would be relatively fast.

Ye Xing asked the others to start processing and installing the hull with thick plates, steaming and roasting, and the interface with the keel was made of alloy rivets and large pieces of alloy gaskets to ensure that everything was extremely strong.

Hundreds of people are working together in the division of labor, three designers and two as supervisors, and each part is strictly required to be produced and installed.

Ye Xing called Liu Haiyang, "You bring all kinds of tree sap to me to take a look." ”

In several buckets of sap, Ye Xing found gum, Ye Xing knew that this was a key thing, so he asked Liu Haiyang to fill as much as possible in wooden barrels, and the more the better, and taught him how to cut the bark to collect gum.

Ye Xing also selected a paint-like resin and asked Liu Haiyang to collect it together, ready to use it to brush the hull, and also to make the gaps between the wooden planks need to be watertight.

Now the core work has been prepared, as long as it is made according to the plan.