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After testing, at normal temperatures, these glass cans can be stored for a maximum of three to five months if they do not run out of air, preventing the fruits in the bottles from rotting or deteriorating. In this way, it will be more or less

This solved the need for vitamin supplements for some crew members, but as for vitamin C, the vitamin C in canned food was basically destroyed. Regarding this, Yu Xiaotian had no better way.

As a nautical enthusiast, at least a pseudo-nautical enthusiast, he knows more about this matter, and vitamin C is the most abundant among citrus fruits, so he often purchases citrus fruits in large quantities from land.

Or add green vegetables to the ship, so that the crew must eat a little every day. Whenever there is an opportunity along the way, purchase as many of these citrus fruits and green vegetables as possible to add to the ship for the crew to eat.

In addition, he had occasionally heard in the previous time and space that pickled cabbage was also rich in vitamin C, so he ordered the pickle workshop to pickle more pickled cabbage and distribute it to the ship to adjust the crew's diet.

At first, the problem of scurvy caused by vitamin deficiency among the crew was solved in a half-hearted way.

Moreover, new things like glass cans have also aroused the interest of many people. Canned fruits taste sweet and taste quite good. Many people are very happy to be able to eat them when going to sea. For a while, glass cans became the name of the crew.

Of course, things like glass are currently

It is still a luxury product. After the crew has finished eating the can, the glass bottle must be kept carefully and properly. It cannot be thrown away casually. It must be brought back and returned to the council. The can must be refilled. Even if it is accidentally broken, it must be brought back.

Return it to the glass factory for re-melting and reproduction.

Later, a merchant had the chance to taste this kind of glass can on a boat. He also caught a cold and thought it tasted good. So he went to Nanyue Island to ask for help and bought some at a high price and gave them as gifts to some dignitaries to try them out. It actually caused a stir

After attracting the attention of more people, they began to buy this new thing everywhere, so Yu Xiaotian simply asked Tamsui to build another cannery to specialize in the production of canned food. In addition to meeting his own needs, he also started shipping to the mainland.

For sale on.

The value of the glass bottle itself far exceeds the fruit inside. After it was sold on land, the wealthy people bought and ate the canned food, and then used the glass bottle as a vase or something like that. Anyway, it would definitely not be the same as in later generations.

Like that, just throw it away as rubbish.

These trivial matters made Sea Wolf's subordinates feel that their boss valued them, and they naturally felt more at ease working here.

In fact, people are like this. Once they have never experienced such a good life, it doesn't matter. But once they experience such a high-quality life, if they want them to return to their original living conditions, most people will accept it.

Can't.

The quality of life provided by the Sea Wolf Group to these tribesmen far exceeds their previous quality of life. Although the rules here are strict, some of the rules can even be said to be a bit picky, which makes the lazy people a little unbearable at first, but

Once time goes by, habits can be changed, and most people begin to adapt to this kind of life. Especially the quality of life provided to them here makes them unwilling to give up such a life here.

In this way, if someone wants to kill the sea wolf now, it will be equivalent to destroying their jobs. Most of these people will not agree! Therefore, giving your subordinates good enough treatment will also invisibly improve their performance.

It is a very good way to show the loyalty and cohesion of his subordinates. At this point, Yu Xiaotian currently looks at his colleagues along the coast of China, and there really is no one who can do this. This is why he believes in his subordinates.

The reason why he will consciously safeguard the interests of Sea Wolf.

Of course, these things are only peripheral matters for Sea Wolf to deal with its opponents. Basically, if Yu Xiaotian wants to maintain his territory and his current position at sea, he still has to rely on force.

Years later, Yu Xiaotian went to Tamsui City again to inspect the factories under the jurisdiction of the newly put into production ordnance. At this time, the entire Tamsui City had formed a considerable new workshop area. After entering the Tamsui River estuary, it was far away.

You can see the chimneys erected in the workshop area, spewing billowing black smoke into the sky.

This is a standard scene of the development of industrial industries. Unfortunately, most of these industries are still in the manual stage, with only a small amount of machinery in use, and they still rely on human and animal power.

There are now a large number of ships in the rivers within the Tamsui River. As ships operating at sea, the ships of this era are all made of wood. After being soaked in seawater for a long time, sea maggots will gradually erode into the ship planks.

Gradually hollowing out the ship's planks will reduce the service life of the ship, and may even lead to serious accidents at sea.

But it is also very easy to deal with sea maggots. You only need to sail the ship into some rivers regularly and park in fresh water for a few days. The sea maggots will die completely because they cannot survive in fresh water. This is very important for

The wooden sea ships of the era were very important.

In the past, before Sea Wolf occupied Tamsui, they could only solve this problem by letting the ships find a way to anchor at the mouths of several rivers along the coast of Fujian. However, doing so was risky and would cause tension among local officials and people. But now

After occupying the Tamsui area, this problem was solved very well. Sea Wolf's ships no longer need to risk berthing in the rivers on land. They were ordered to come to the Tamsui River in batches to dock.

In this way, in addition to allowing the ship to solve the problem of sea maggots, the crew on the ship can also take a rest in Tamsui City and inspect their ship. This provides the Sea Wolf with a pretty good rear base.

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So now, in the rivers here in Tamsui, a large number of sea wolf ships often come and stay for a few days, making the place very lively.

Yu Xiaotian saw these scenes when the boat slowly sailed into the mouth of Tamsui River. He could see that a city was being built step by step through his efforts. It would not take long for this place to become more and more prosperous.

It's becoming more and more prosperous.

After entering the estuary, he could also see several new forts built on both sides of the river. On the shore outside the estuary, a new lighthouse several feet tall was built. This lighthouse provides navigation instructions for ships coming to Tamsui at night.

important facility. With its existence, ships coming here in the future can easily find the mouth of the Tamsui River even at night, safely sail into the mouth of the river under the guidance of the pilot boat, and anchor at the

Inside the river anchorage.

Yu Xiaotian also contributed a lot to the construction of this lighthouse. He helped design the lighthouse, especially the upper lighting part, and he personally participated in the design.

In order to increase the effective range of the lighthouse and allow ships to see the light emitted from the lighthouse farther away, this lighthouse uses whale oil as fuel. More importantly, Yu Xiaotian designed a spotlight for this lighthouse.

device.

That is to say, a fairly large concave body is made behind the light to reflect the light of the light in one direction, more like a spotlight, which can make it shine farther.

Although Seawolf now has a glass industry, it is still difficult to make such a large condenser, so Yu Xiaotian finally used copper as the material of the condenser and used copper to cast a rather large semi-curved concave mirror.

, after careful polishing, it can also play a role in concentrating light, projecting the light in the lighthouse to a very distant place, and can even be used as a searchlight at night, projecting a beam of light onto the sea, so that the watchmen in the lighthouse can

From a distance, I saw boats outside the river mouth at night.

In order to make the light moveable, Yu Xiaotian also designed a semicircular slide around the brazier. The concave mirror can rotate about 180 degrees around the light on the slide, casting the light onto the semicircular sea surface.

, this can be regarded as a quite advanced design. The personnel stationed at the lighthouse push the copper concave mirror at night to continuously scan the estuary area. They can observe in advance the ships on the sea without lights at night, effectively preventing the presence of enemy ships.

, sneaked into the river mouth at night and attacked Tamsui City.

In addition, there are more winds and rains at sea. The lighthouse is often affected by wind and rain, and the light may be blown out. Even if it is not blown out, it will be greatly affected. The people stationed on duty at the lighthouse will also have to endure the wind and rain.

The invasion was so miserable that Yu Xiaotian also installed a large curved window with glass to seal the lighthouse, so that the light of the lighthouse would no longer be affected by wind and rain, and also provide a better environment for the personnel on duty.

If the working environment is good, open the windows when the wind is calm, and close the windows when there is wind and rain. The lighthouse can continue to work.

Although he was unable to produce large pieces of flat glass at this time, he could only use molding to produce smaller-area glass plates. However, it would only be enough to install more panes and install the glass, which would affect some lighting, but

The overall impact is not too great and is basically acceptable.

However, if outsiders see it, they will definitely shout that they are too extravagant. Glass is still a luxury item so far. Even wealthy families do not dare to use a large number of glass panels in their homes.

On the windows, Seawolf used dozens of such glass plates on the lighthouse at once, which was really a bit too extravagant.

Moreover, as an important facility of the Sea Wolf, the lighthouse needs to be given adequate protection, so when the people here built the lighthouse, they built a gun fort directly under the lighthouse and dug trenches outside the gun fort.

A small group of soldiers were stationed inside the lighthouse.

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