Looking at the eager and expectant eyes of everyone, Ye Xing felt deeply that the responsibility was heavy and far from easy.
Ye Xing looked at the remaining tools. Saws, axes, hammers, chisels and other woodworking tools were all available.
And they were all made of the best alloy by Ye Xing before. They were all in good condition. They were allowed to build wooden houses, so they were all preserved and were not washed away by the water.
Some of the tools are generators and several small steam turbines. There is no crude oil here, so we have to find some alternative raw materials.
He said to the logging teams, "Cut the branches of the selected big trees and lay them horizontally on the ground as a passage. Then drag the trunks along the wooden paths paved in this way. Remember to make the trunks smooth. Remove the bark too, so it can be easily pulled up here.”
Everyone nodded, and Ye Xing added, "When you are cutting down trees, look for trees with a lot of sap, and bring back some of the sap to see if it can be used as paint."
Everyone said yes, and then they divided into eight teams and went in one direction.
Ye Xing asked others to continue with their arrangements, and then came to his room, where three special forces members and two women were discussing the design of the hull.
Seeing Ye Xing coming back, everyone quickly made some room. Ye Xing motioned for them to continue while he listened.
Ye Xing didn't say a word, but his head was spinning at high speed, looking for relevant knowledge about wooden boat design.
After listening for an hour or two, Ye Xing finally found in his mind a hull design suitable for the current situation.
The last time it sank after a collision, Ye Xing learned that in addition to strengthening the hull, more watertight compartments must be designed, and the keel of the ship must also be made of steel, and it must be an extremely hard alloy keel. There were still many design problems last time, and they need to be solved at once this time.
The six people discussed in detail in the room for several days before finalizing the hull design.
Next is the detailed design of each part. After full discussion, the drawings are drawn.
After fifteen days of hard work, all the hull design work was completed.
This is a relatively large ship, and Ye Xing wants to use the best metal materials for 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 over the Bingling Hill, only four days away from here. The volcano there was active, which was the best place for refining tools.
Ye Xing took fifty people, a bunch of drawings and a lot of food and set off.
This time, the two women were not asked to follow, but were asked to prepare dry food and collect enough medicinal materials together, which was also very important for sea voyages.
Arriving near Bingling Mountain, Ye Xing found several suitable lava vents, and then designed crucibles of various specifications. There were a large number of suitable materials here, so it only took a few days to complete the preparations.
First, some people were divided to build simple wooden houses, and the remaining people were asked to use wood to process various tool shapes according to the drawings, and then make detailed clay molds.
Finally, the meteorite iron was divided into pieces and put into a crucible for smelting. Under the extremely high temperature of the lava, the meteorite iron also melted and turned into a liquid, which was then poured into a clay mold.
After the rough embryo of the first tool was cast, Ye Xing conducted detailed testing for three days and improved multiple casting details before proceeding to the next step of large-scale production.
After the shipbuilding tools are manufactured piece by piece, some are divided to polish and process the details, and the rest continue to make new tools. These tools are required to be hard and durable, so they are all made of the best iron alloy.
Fifteen days later, hundreds of various tools were made. Ye Xing asked everyone to polish the tools more finely. They were all polished by hand. The progress was very slow. It took another ten days, and then they were put into the space ring. .
Ye Xing took out all the ores and piled them aside, preparing to refine various metals. The key here was to have carbon to carry out chemical reactions and reduce the metals from the compounds.
This place is prone to volcanoes. Ye Xing had already thought of using this place, so he inspected the area and learned that there were shallow coal deposits near Bingling Mountain.
Sure enough, Ye Xing led dozens of people to find an exposed coal mine not far from the foot of Bingling Mountain. Ye Xing asked everyone to use new tools to dig coal, and picked out the best coal and put it aside.
Ye Xing himself entered the stone chamber again and put the tiger-shaped dragon into the ring space. This time he did it easily.
Ye Xing used the old method to dig a tunnel. 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 and just put it into the space ring and came out.
Now the Phoenix Space Ring, which has five elements and is balanced, must have undergone new changes, but Ye Xing is too busy and has no time to pay attention to it. But in the process of constantly using the Space Ring, he found that he became more and more arbitrary, and large objects could be easily removed. Ready for access.
When he came out of the stone mountain, he saw that everyone had dug out and selected a lot of the best coal. Ye Xing asked everyone to fill the barrels, then touched it with his hands and put it into the space ring.
Arriving near the lava mouth, Ye Xing excavated many more lava mouths, made hundreds of large crucibles, and asked a group of three to start crudely making steel with coal and ore.
Ye Xing himself went back to the base, put down the tools and accessories he had made, and asked the people here to start processing the wood.
Now hundreds of large peeled logs have been transported back here, and Ye Xing asked everyone to process them into thick boards for later use.
Because Ye Xing brought back many large shipbuilding tools, the processing process will be very fast.
He asked everyone to dry the boards over fire, firstly to kill the moths, and secondly to finalize the shape of the boards. After discussing many processing details with everyone, another ten days passed.
When Ye Xing returned to Bingling Mountain, a lot of various metals had been refined here. Ye Xing estimated that it might be far from the same, so he went to the Metal Spirit Mountain twice more to dig for ore and brought it back. Lots of various types of ores.
After more than twenty days of busy work, Ye Xing finally smelted perhaps tens of thousands of kilograms of crude steel.
It took more than thirty days to refine thousands of kilograms of fine steel, which was used to make the keel.
Fifty people worked together to make a large hull keel model, which was then processed into molds in sections, leaving connecting joints between each section.
Based on the newly searched knowledge in his brain, Ye Xing used the appropriate alloy ratio to resmelt the marine alloy.
Fifty people worked together and processed the keel in sections in just 20 days.
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 still discovered during this trial assembly process, and many parts were re-cast and processed.
It took more than 20 days of adjustments before everything was completed.
Ye Xing asked people to dig more coal, while others continued to adjust the alloy ratio to make new various accessories, and then put the separated keel into the space ring.
Putting dozens of barrels of coal into the space ring, Ye Xing used his Qinggong skills and returned to the base.
When we returned to the base, the sea water was just about to swell, and although the waves did not reach the foot of the mountain, they were not far behind.
Ye Xing asked everyone to cut the pallet with stones, then took out the keel segments one by one and placed them on the pallet.
Ye Xing took out the coal, heated the joints of the ground keel segments, and added the connecting alloy rivets. Since it was a wedge-shaped joint, the rivets were added and then fused at high temperature.
This time, Ye Xing also used fire spirit energy to ensure that the keel truly became a whole.
After five days of this, the 20-foot-long keel was actually processed and installed. The small solid bow was also made of hard alloy. Ye Xing requested that it be added so that the ship would not be afraid of hitting big fish and rocks. , and the ship speed will be faster.
Ye Xing asked others to start processing and installing the hull using thick plates, steaming and roasting them. The interface with the keel was made of alloy rivets and large alloy gaskets to ensure that everything was extremely strong.
Hundreds of people are working together in a division of labor, with three designers and two as supervisors. Every part is produced and installed under strict requirements.
Ye Xing called Liu Haiyang, "Bring me all kinds of sap and let me take a look."
In several barrels of sap, Ye Xing discovered gum. Ye Xing knew this was a key item, so he asked Liu Haiyang to fill as many barrels as possible, and the more the better, and taught him how to cut bark. Collect gum.
Ye Xing also selected a paint-like resin and asked Liu Haiyang to collect it together, preparing to use it to paint the hull of the ship, so that the gaps between the wooden boards needed to be reinforced with watertightness.
Now the core work is ready, all we have to do is make it as planned.
