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"Wood?" Yu Xiaotian was stunned for a moment, then said: "Why is there a shortage of wood here? Isn't there so much wood piled over there? And according to Commander Fang, there are many camphor trees, pine trees and fir trees here in Tamsui.

There should be no shortage of wood!”

When Guo Fu heard this, he laughed and said: "I am afraid that the master has forgotten one thing. There is indeed a lot of wood that can be used for shipbuilding. The wood stored in the yard alone is enough to build many ships!"

But the boss forgot that most of these woods were recently cut down and had been soaked in water for a while. They had to wait for them to dry before they could be used to build a ship. Otherwise, the ship would be built using these wet materials.

, it will deform and crack within a few months after being launched into the water, and it will be flooded from all directions. It cannot be repaired and can only be scrapped. Therefore, these new materials cannot be used to build ships unless it is absolutely necessary!

Moreover, the big boss wants us to build these fast boats, which are all used as warships, and they need to be made of hard materials!

In the past, in Nanyue Island, we mostly used hardwoods from Nanyang and Guangdong. Ironwood was the best, and even if it was inferior, we still used lychee wood!

But there are currently very few hard materials that have been dried in the shade. Although a batch of wood has been delivered, it is still out of stock! If you want to wait for the wood here to dry in the shade, it will take a year at the fastest, and some aniseed materials will need to be dried.

It must be dried in the shade for at least two years before it can be used on a ship, so we now have to transport wood from outside before we can build a ship!"

When Yu Xiaotian heard this, he slapped his head. He just asked Guo Fu and the others to build the ship quickly. He thought that there were sufficient forest resources in Tamsui and there must be no shortage of wood, but he forgot that the wood used for shipbuilding must be shade-dried wood.

He actually forgot the simple truth, it was really embarrassing to say it.

So he quickly nodded and said with a smile: "Haha! So that's it, I actually forgot about this! I just thought that there is so much wood here that I can't use it up, but I forgot that all the wood here is new and cannot be used to build a ship immediately!

hehe!

I will arrange for the council to handle this matter immediately. There are still many sources of lychee wood in Guangdong, and ironwood should be available as long as you are willing to spend money. As for the hardwood from Nanyang, there should be no big problem.

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The most important thing right now is to be quick. If you are short of something here, please notify the council immediately. I will hand it over to the council and organize the purchase and shipment for you as soon as possible!

But it would be a bit unreasonable for us to keep so much wood but still spend a lot of money to buy it in bulk from outside!

I think the wood here can be used to build a large drying room, specifically for drying wood. Now I think it can be done. Several brick kilns have been opened nearby. There is not a shortage of bricks. You can find a way to get it.

A large drying kiln, specialized in drying wood.

Although some ironwood and lychee wood used in shipbuilding have to be purchased from outside for the time being, there are a lot of pine, cypress and fir here, as well as a lot of camphor wood. They are all large materials and can be obtained locally to save money.

Go to a lot of transportation and financial resources purchased from outside!

I wonder if Manager Guo knows how this drying kiln was built?"

After hearing this, Guo Fu nodded quickly and said, "I've seen this little one before! When I was on land, a drying room was built in a boat house specifically for drying wet materials!

It's just that the drying room they built is not too big. If we build it here, I'm afraid it will have to be bigger. The other one is not enough. We can build a few more drying rooms. In this way, as long as the wood here has drying

The room will be almost ready for use in a month at the latest!”

When Yu Xiaotian heard this, he immediately nodded and said: "It's best. You should hurry up and try to get the drying room built and put into use before the end of the year. In this way, next year we won't need to import large quantities of wood from outside!"

Now that Hailang is here in Tamsui City, there are a lot of various projects being carried out, and the demand for bricks and tiles is getting bigger and bigger. So in the early stage of the preparations for the construction of Tamsui Village, Hailang started to build a brick kiln on the spot.

Some people who knew how to make bricks began to make bricks and tiles on the spot.

Nowadays, many brick kilns have been built around Tamsui City, and large quantities of bricks and tiles are being fired every day for use at various construction sites in Tamsui City.

In ancient times, bricks were fired in ancient brick kilns. In the old time and space, Yu Xiaotian used to go to the suburbs to play when he had nothing to do. He once saw a kind of rotary kiln. Driven by curiosity, he got into

I looked inside, so I got to know a little bit about the structure of this rotary kiln.

This kind of rotary kiln is actually not a new thing in later generations. It is much behind the tunnel kiln, but in this era, it is definitely an advanced thing. The biggest advantage is that this kind of rotary kiln can burn bricks continuously, and the structure is also

It was relatively simple and far more efficient than the earthen kilns used in ancient times, so Yu Xiaotian relied on his memories to roughly draw the structure of this rotary kiln and gave it to his subordinates to try and explore.

Now, after many experiments by some craftsmen, this rotary kiln has basically matured and begun to be put into production.

As a result, the efficiency of firing bricks and tiles in Tamsui City has been greatly improved, and furnaces of bricks and tiles began to be fired continuously and used on various construction sites.

With this kind of rotary kiln, the demand for bricks and tiles here has been greatly solved, which has greatly alleviated the demand for bricks and tiles, and has greatly improved the progress of various projects here.

Another thing that must be mentioned is the issue of cement. Ever since he occupied Nanyue Island, Yu Xiaotian has been thinking about developing cement, an epoch-making building material.

However, although Portland cement is not too difficult to produce and the raw materials are relatively easy to obtain, it does require coal, and machinery is also required to crush the raw materials.

So this matter has been stranded, but after the construction of Danshui Village began, the matter turned around. Of course, there is no such thing as coal in Danshui, and it is not cost-effective to transport it from Fujian, so I want to burn it.

Making Portland cement is still unrealistic.

Yu Xiaotian accidentally saw in an immigrant village that the immigrant village built a dam using a creek and built a water mill at the dam.

So Yu Xiaotian had an idea and had an idea. He had previously considered that even though Portland cement couldn't be produced yet, he could at least get some soil cement first.

Soil cement is actually very simple. This thing also has a name, called artificial pozzolana cement. It can be used directly by crushing waste bricks and tiles into powder, or it can be directly put into the kiln for calcination with lime and clay, and the temperature does not change.

It needs to be too high. It is estimated that six to seven hundred degrees is enough. It does not need to reach a temperature of more than a thousand degrees like firing Portland cement.

It is said that during the Anti-Japanese War, China used this method to solve the problem of lack of cement. Later, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, local methods were launched, including large-scale steel smelting and agricultural development. This method of soil and cement was also adopted in various places.

When he was on Nanyue Island, Yu Xiaotian tried this method. He had people crush and sieve some broken bricks with a stone mill. After grinding them into powder, they could be solidified by adding water. Of course, the strength could not reach the silicon level.

The strength of acid salt cement is really usable.

But the key is to use a stone mill to grind the broken bricks and tiles into powder. This is really inefficient. At the end of the day, a donkey and a stone mill cannot produce a total of dozens of kilograms of soil and cement. Later, Yu Xiaotian could only

Give up.

After seeing the water mills, Yu Xiaotian immediately decided to build more water mills in the streams around Tamsui City. Of course, they would not be used for grinding rice or flour, but would be used to make soil and cement.

In this way, one water mill can produce 100 kilograms of soil cement a day, or even more. After more than a dozen water mills are built, nearly one or two tons of soil cement can be produced a day. As for the raw materials, they are now in Tamsui City.

With so many brick kilns, the bricks and tiles produced will inevitably be broken. These broken bricks and tiles are good raw materials. In addition, two coarse porcelain kilns have been built here to produce some coarse porcelain that is practical for local life, reducing the need to import raw materials from land.

The transportation cost of transshipment will also produce some waste products during reproduction, so these originally useless things are transported and ground into powder and made into soil and cement. This solves some problems more or less.

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No one believed that this thing could be used, but after testing, the craftsmen found that this kind of soil cement can indeed solidify and can act as a good adhesive. It is also very simple to use. This method

Many bricklayers were dumbfounded. They didn't expect that Yu Xiaotian could use these readily available broken bricks to create something that could bond bricks. Therefore, they were even more impressed by Xiaotian, the master of the family.

, many people think this is a good thing for them. After writing it down, it will be of great use in the future.

However, Yu Xiaotian is still extremely dissatisfied with this kind of output. But now he is using a water mill or a stone mill. If he wants to significantly increase the output, he can only wait until he takes the time to find a way to tinker with a set of water conservancy crushing machinery, otherwise he will be here.

Before, even with this kind of soil cement, he could no longer increase production. Even after he got coal, he still couldn't do it without crushing machinery if he wanted to produce Portland cement.

Yu Xiaotian then took note of this matter, and decided that when he had free time, he would find a way to tinker with a set of crushing machinery that could greatly improve crushing quality and output.

Yu Xiaotian walked around the boathouse for a while and saw that the manpower here was relatively sufficient. A group of boatwrights from the Nanyue Island Boathouse were assigned to him. In addition, a group of people were recently kidnapped from the land and they were recruited locally.

A group of apprentices, the shipbuilding work here has been fully launched, and he has nothing to worry about. With Guo Fu in charge here, he can basically rest assured. He is just waiting for the shipbuilding on both sides to start work together.

He blew up the number of ships.

(This year is coming to an end soon. I don’t know how my brothers are spending this Spring Festival. I wish you all the best in the new year, the spirit of dragon and horse, and immediate success!