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The medical officer checked Yu Xiaotian's pulse every day, constantly adjusted his diet, and used diet therapy and decoctions to recuperate his body.

Lan'er and Xiu'er also tried their best every day to provide Yu Xiaotian with delicious food to recuperate his body, and Yu Xiaotian gradually recovered.

As Yu Xiaotian gradually recovered, the Sea Wolf Group became stable again.

During this more than a month, there was actually an undercurrent surging within Sea Wolf. Many people were worried about Yu Xiaotian's life. Some people inevitably began to think about what they would do in the future if Yu Xiaotian died unexpectedly.

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In fact, when Yu Xiaotian was seriously injured, there were already a lot of thoughts within Sea Wolf. Some people believed that even if Yu Xiaotian were to let go by accident, they would support Xiaotian's son as the leader.

Keep going.

But Yu Xiaotian's son Yu Zhenhua is only half a year old now. It is not easy for people in this era to grow from children to adults. If Yu Zhenhua was a little older, this matter would be easier to talk about. Now this little boy

The guy is still in his infancy and nursing, and someone is naturally not happy about helping him out to be the helmsman of the big helm.

And if this little guy Yu Zhenhua is put in power, he will definitely be just a puppet, and the real person in power can only be someone else. The person who proposed this idea is naturally Liu Laoliu, who is Yu Xiaotian's father-in-law.

He is Yu Zhenhua's grandfather, and he is also the head of the execution hall. If something happens to Yu Xiaotian, the power will naturally fall into the hands of Liu Laoliu.

But some people are naturally not convinced about Liu Laoliu coming to power, because although Liu Laoliu is a good person, he does his best as the leader of the punishment hall, and he can hold a bowl of water evenly, so he is very popular, but Liu Laoliu is old after all.

He is a little older, and his vision is not broad enough, and he is too conservative. Under his leadership, God knows where Sea Wolf will go.

Some young men are more ambitious. When they followed Yu Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian was suppressing them and could bring them victory one after another and a brighter and brighter future, so they

It's actually very reassuring to do it in full swing.

But once Yu Xiaotian is gone, they will no longer be as at ease as before. This cannot be blamed on them for being disloyal, but that people are selfish animals. When a group has problems, everyone will

It is natural to have ambitions. These people no longer want to obey Liu Laoliu's arrangements and instructions.

Therefore, when Yu Xiaotian was seriously injured, various sounds and undercurrents appeared in the waves. This was inevitable. However, all these undercurrents suddenly disappeared as Yu Xiaotian gradually came out of the dangerous period and gradually began to recover.

disappeared, because as the soul of Sea Wolf, after he returned to the peak of power, everyone automatically returned to the original track.

When Yu Xiaotian was recovering, he also learned about these things from Liu Laoliu, but he laughed it off and did not pursue anyone for it, nor did he amplify the matter.

He, of course, hopes to pass on something to his children after his death, but currently Zhenhua and Yuxin (Xiuer’s daughter, named Yuxin by Yu Xiaotian) are both still young, and a plate as big as his’s,

Passing it to Zhenhua was obviously not what he wanted.

It is simply impossible for Zhenhua to take over such a big deal at such a young age. The power will naturally fall into the hands of Liu Laoliu. Although Zhenhua is Liu Laoliu's grandson, people have

Selfishly, with Liu Wang here, Liu Laoliu will transfer power to Liu Wang sooner or later, and Xiao Zhenhua is at best a puppet-like chess piece in Liu Laoliu's hands. Once Liu Laoliu wants to transfer power to Liu Laoliu in the future,

If it is prosperous, Xiao Zhenhua will become a dangerous person.

At that time, the family relationship may disappear because of this, and eventually there may even be a situation like the royal family where fathers and sons, brothers, uncles and nephews kill each other.

Therefore, in Yu Xiaotian's opinion, if something unexpected happened to him one day, he would rather Lan'er and Xiu'er take Zhenhua and Yuxin to move to a far away place and live anonymously without fighting against the world.

Acting as a puppet here, you have to be strong at any time of the day.

And he himself is the soul of this group. With him, Sea Wolf is the real Sea Wolf. If something happens to him unfortunately, then he will be too lazy to care about the things behind him. Everyone has his own ambitions, and these people can do whatever they want in the future.

Whatever he wants to do, what he wants is to have absolute control over this group while he is alive, so that this group can do things for him according to his ideals.

At present, he is quite satisfied with the current situation! At least it means that his position in Sea Wolf is unshakable. In this era, if you want to accomplish something without absolute control over your own power, it is the same as committing suicide.

Pretty much, if you talk to people about bullshit democracy now, you will have to be kicked in the head by a donkey!

After Yu Xiaotian gradually recovered, he began to deal with Sea Wolf's affairs again. While he was seriously injured, many matters of Sea Wolf came to a standstill, but many of the affairs he had arranged before were still proceeding normally.

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First of all, during the period when he was seriously injured, Chu Cai's Dafu boat, which was renovated in the Nanri Island boathouse, has now been completed. The ship has basically reached Yu Xiaotian's original idea of ​​renovating it, and a gun cabin has been opened on the lower floor.

, greatly improving the gun carrying capacity of this ship, making it the most powerful gunboat currently in the Sea Wolf.

Moreover, this ship has improved the rudder operating mechanism, changing the previous rudder rod operation method to the steering wheel operation method, which greatly improves the flexibility of the ship and makes the operation much simpler.

In addition, some changes have been made to the sail equipment. The previous cumbersome mechanism for raising and lowering the rudder has been replaced with a pulley block, making it much more labor-saving to raise and lower the sail. In the past, it took five or six people to raise and lower one sail, and at least three people were required to do it.

Pulling the wooden winch can complete the raising and lowering of the sail. Nowadays, only two people are needed. Even in an emergency, one person can raise the sail. The manual winch has also been improved and a king wheel structure has been installed.

When the sails had to be lowered urgently, I used to cut off the sail ropes with a knife and ax, and the sails suddenly fell from the mast. This was quick and easy, but it was troublesome when I wanted to raise the sails again.

If it is too big, people must be sent to climb the mast, pick up the sail rope, and rearrange the sail rope. However, after improving the winch, you only need to knock the engine wheel, and the sail can be lowered equally quickly without affecting the quality of the sail.

When you need to raise the sail, you only need to reset the engine wheel and pull the winch again to raise the sail easily.

Furthermore, this ship is still young and can still be used for a long time. However, long-term seawater immersion, shipworms corroding the hull, and marine organisms adhering to the bottom of the ship will seriously affect the service life of the ship, and may even

Causing the ship to break up at sea.

So after much consideration, Yu Xiaotian decided to cover the bottom waterline of the ship with a layer of copper. This problem is currently a headache for navies around the world, including merchant ships. For this reason, people also

I have thought of many ways to solve this problem.

In some places, they paint the bottom of the boat with wood tar or soak the boat planks with poison, but these are not effective solutions. The most effective way is to put the boat into a fresh water river and soak it for a few days at intervals, but this is very troublesome.

Moreover, sea-going ships sometimes have to move at sea for a long time and do not have the opportunity to sail into freshwater rivers, so these methods are not very useful.

Later, the British came up with a way to cover the bottoms of all their warships with a layer of copper. This solved the problem of shipworms corroding ship plates, but the cost was a bit too high. After all, copper

In this era, it was a precious metal, and it was not cheap even in later generations. It was a hard currency that could be directly used for circulation. Covering the bottom of a ship consumed a lot of copper, and ordinary people really couldn't afford it.

But for Sea Wolf, it is not a big problem to only wrap a few ships, because Sea Wolf now basically uses pig iron to cast cannons, so in the past few years, a large amount of it has been purchased and stored through robbery and seizure.

A lot of copper.

These copper materials were re-refined by Xiao Tianming Coppersmith, and the Japanese red copper purchased through various channels itself has a considerable silver content. After refining, the silver is extracted. In addition to obtaining copper, it also

A lot of silver was obtained, and copper was naturally stored in large quantities as a strategic reserve. Now it is enough to use part of it to cover the bottom of the ship, so when the ship was towed into the dock, the other side began to be made of copper skin.

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Copper skin is mainly used to prevent sea maggots and sea creatures. In fact, it does not need to be very thick, only a thin layer is needed, so the thinner the copper skin, the better.

If the copper plates are made by hand, it will obviously be a huge waste. After all, the thickness of the hand-made copper plates is too large. In addition to wasting a lot of raw materials, it also adds a lot of dead weight to the ship.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian did not plan to have all the copper plates made manually. Instead, he decided to get a simple rolling trigger to specifically roll copper sheets. In this way, the thickness of the rolled copper sheets would be uniform, and it could be made thinner and could be used in large quantities.

It saves copper materials and also reduces the dead weight of the ship.

But building a rolling mill now is still a bit too difficult for Seawolf's industry. The rolls must be hard. When high carbon steel is not available, pig iron can only be used for casting. The problem of casting is not too big.

Big, the key lies in the transmission mechanism, especially gear manufacturing.

Gears don't look simple. They are actually things with high technical content. With the current technology of Sea Wolf, if they want to produce gears that are strong enough, for the time being, they have no choice but to rely on their machining capabilities or the technical capabilities of workers, including materials.

, it’s easy to solve it.

Finally, we brainstormed many ways, and finally decided to make it out of extremely hard iron wood, but it couldn't be called a gear, but a transmission mechanism similar to a water mill.