Infrastructure: I survive in troubled times

Patriarch Yang looked at Hong Lianshuo in astonishment and said, "I thought you just built ships for convenience later, and it would be much easier to have a pattern."

"I hope they break through, create, and build new ships." Hong Lianshuo looked at him with shining eyes and said.

"Why are you so surprised? Don't you want me to be a hero?" Hong Lianshuo raised his eyebrows and looked at him and said, "I still hope I am a hero and a fool."

"Of course I hope that the younger generations will surpass us." Patriarch Yang said immediately after hearing the words.

"That's it! Draw a picture." Hong Lianshuo looked at him with eyes like beads and said.

"Okay!" Patriarch Yang agreed happily.

"Now let's talk about how this boat was built?" Hong Lianshuo clasped his fists together and crackled, "It must cost a lot of money to build a boat!"

"That's not necessary. We can cut down the trees ourselves, and the craftsmen from our village can do it. The most important thing is iron nails." Patriarch Yang frowned and looked at her and said, "Iron is controlled, so it's not easy to get it. Usually The owner who ordered the ship, he sent the needed nails."

"Understood, leave this to me, what kind of nails do you need, draw me, and I will do it." Hong Lianshuo responded readily.

"Painting?" Patriarch Yang looked at her in embarrassment and said, "I'm not very good at this. I have ready-made iron nails, and I'll bring them to you later."

"It would be better if there are real objects." Hong Lianshuo said happily, "Leave the felling to us, and we will cut as much as you need."

"Pine wood is the best way to build boats here." Patriarch Yang immediately said, "Fishing boats have been sailing on the sea for a long time. The sea is not as calm as it is now. The wind is high and the waves are rough, which is scary! This boat will be built in a special way." It is strong and can withstand wind and waves. Therefore, the materials used for ship boards are very particular. There is a saying that the performance of pine wood is "dry for a thousand years, wet for ten thousand years, and not dry or wet for 100 years", and pine is the first choice."

Referring to her old business, Patriarch Yang looked at her with bright eyes and said clearly, "The hull materials below the waterline, including bulkheads, are mostly made of solid, flexible, dense, decay-resistant, and not easy to warp. Pine; the front bend, rear bend, boat drive, keel, lock beam and other parts of the ship are easily damaged, so elm, locust wood or larch with strong hardness are often used; jujube wood with fine texture and stronger specific weight is often used for the rudder Or Bai Huai.” After a pause, he continued, “Take the keel as an example, as the bottommost component of a ship, it connects to the stem at the bow and the stern at the stern, and all other components must be arranged in sequence on the keel. Assembling is the most important component of the whole ship, and high-quality black locust or larch and red pine are usually selected.”

"Do we have all these trees here?" Hong Lianshuo asked worriedly.

"Yes, we have all here, there is no shortage of pine trees." Patriarch Yang said happily.

"Trees have been cut down, so they must be replanted in time!" Hong Lianshuo emphasized emphatically.

"Definitely, definitely." Patriarch Yang nodded emphatically when he heard the words, "I will make this a family rule and pass it down from generation to generation."

Hong Lianshuo smiled when he heard the words, took out a piece of paper from the basket and said, "I want to change the hull like this." Then he said, "This is the ship you are using now, and this is the improved ship."

"Your drawing is too similar!" Patriarch Yang looked at her in surprise and said, no wonder he said he wanted to draw a pattern!It does.

"It's not too difficult. You can draw more pictures from a gourd." Hong Lianshuo said, looking at him with crooked eyebrows.

Patriarch Yang took the two pieces of paper and compared them, "The hull of this ship has not been improved much, only the bottom of the ship has been slightly improved."

"Everything remains the same. The structure of the hull will not change greatly, and it is all fixed. Its shape is: the sides are bulging and the belly is cut down, the keel runs through the head and tail, and the whole body adopts sealed compartments." Hong Lianshuo pointed his index finger at his own drawing boat road.

Patriarch Yang put down the pattern in his hand, and his eyes fell on the model again, "If such a big boat can be built, I would like it smaller than this one. Our boat is too small, it doesn't matter if we feel wronged, but we can't make more It’s a pity to go fishing! Especially when I see so many fish, I can only watch dryly.”

"Now that I have a model, think about the layout of this ship?" Hong Lianshuo said while looking at him with crooked eyes.

"Layout?" Patriarch Yang said excitedly, "Wait a minute, let's draw a picture, which is more intuitive."

"I'll do it." Hong Lianshuo looked around, saw the branch picked up, looked at the beach and said, "How do you paint?"

"I come, the painting is a bit ugly, please bear with me." Patriarch Yang said shyly.

"It's just a shape, I can see it clearly." "The bottom of the boat is pointed as you said. The sides, sides, lock beams, front bends, rear bends, masts..."

"Compared with the model, our boat has no pole." Patriarch Yang pointed to the model and his boat path.

The pole of the boat is the deck, and Patriarch Yang's boats don't even have decks, let alone cabins.

Crowding in a small boat and staying at sea for ten days and a half months is really hard work.

"If the boat is big enough, we can cut open the cabin." Patriarch Yang said excitedly, "It's better to have a big boat."

"Look at this model." Hong Lianshuo pointed to the model of the big ship and said, "From the bow to the stern, the cabin is divided by wooden boards." He picked up another branch and said, "I'll draw." He began to draw on the beach.

"The bow, the head compartment, is used for loading cargo or storing equipment, etc." Hong Lianshuo drew a section of the ship and pointed to the bow.

"There is a waist cabin in the middle for people to live in." Hong Lianshuo said, lighting a branch in his hand, "You can build two or three for them to live in."

"It's so far apart, the cabin is very narrow." Patriarch Yang said while twisting his three strands of beard.

"It's enough to have a bed and a small wooden table." Hong Lianshuo raised his eyebrows lightly when he heard the words, "The request is not high."

"Lying on the ground is enough, what more do you need a couch and a wooden table! It takes up space." Patriarch Yang said carelessly to his younger brother, "There was no cabin in the past, so we all curled up! We are not delicate."

"The boat is big enough to travel far away, so it needs a kitchen." Hong Lianshuo said, looking directly at him.

"Cook, do you want to cook?" Patriarch Yang asked suspiciously. Seeing her nodding, he chuckled and said, "I have dry food! What are you cooking for? Besides, this boat is made of wood. If you are not careful It’s on fire, what should I do? This ship can’t help but burn.”

"Uh..." One sentence made Hong Lianshuo speechless. She wanted to use an iron stove or a brazier, but Han Qinhu and the others stopped her when she wanted to use iron, not to mention the folks in this fishing village. The iron is pitiful.

"There must be a room here. It can store dry food and water!" Hong Lianshuo thought for a while and said.