Originally, Hong Tao also wanted to follow Chen Mingen into the city to see what the Great Song Dynasty was like in this era, but as soon as Chen Mingen said the rules for entering the city, Hong Tao immediately said that he still had a lot of work to do to stay at the beach, so let's go later. Walk with your head down, and you can't walk in the middle! This is the rule for the Tan family to go ashore and enter the city and village! Hong Tao felt that he couldn't bear this rule, and whoever dared to bully himself would beat him! Why should Nima bow his head and slip aside? Walking is discriminated against, and the treatment after entering the city can be imagined, and it is certainly not realistic to look around like tourists, so in order to avoid causing trouble in the city, it is better not to go. In fact, whether to look at the life of the Song Dynasty is of little use to Hong Tao, he didn't want to integrate into this dynasty at all, it's good to live his own life, and when he has a new ship, not to mention the Song Dynasty, people all over the world have to look up to him, and Nima bows his head and slips aside? Grandmother!

Huang Hai and the sons of the three families should not be idle, they are going to get bamboo, the longer, straighter, and thicker the better. These bamboos are the main raw materials for making ground cages, rolling hooks, crab pots, and the support that Hong Tao uses to make spinnakers.

As for Hong Tao himself, he is now the 38 Red Flag Bearer, with a group of women and children, squatting on the beach to weave fishing nets and make ground cages. There are a total of 6 fishing nets, and it is still a lot of work to make two ground cages more than 10 meters long. In fact, Hong Tao is the most idle, he can neither weave bamboo, nor weave fishing nets, the only thing he is working is the idle mouth, which plays the role of a propaganda team. For a while, he told a fairy story that no one had ever heard, and then he sang a song that was said to be his hometown, which made this group of big girls and daughters-in-law and half-grown children cry and laugh for a while, and they have long forgotten their fatigue, not only do not delay their work, but also improve their production efficiency.

The Tan family also has the same temperament as the sea, can sing and dance, and never twists, as long as the interest comes, they can sing and dance. With such a mouth seller as Hong Tao, the beach immediately became a bonfire party, you sing it, I will appear on the stage, and you have to dance around the bonfire twice when you sing beautifully. Hong Tao didn't have to avoid suspicion, the girls of the Tan family were not so particular, and they were not afraid of contact with men, so he also took Azhu to dance on the beach for a while with the accompaniment of Azhu's sisters-in-law beating bamboo tubes. Although the woman of the Tan family was arrogant, but let Hong Tao turn around like this, Bo Zhu was also stiff and her face was as red as blood. But she is really bold, as long as she likes it, she doesn't care about anything out of the ordinary, and she insists on it. And Huang Hai's little girl Huang Sha is much less courageous, even Da Hongtao doesn't dare to tease her, she is Chen Qihong's fiancée, the Tan family is straight, and there are often fists and feet when there are contradictions, and if you don't do it, you have to use a knife.

Of course, you can't just play with other girls, after all, it is in ancient times, you can't go too far, and in the rest of your spare time, Hong Tao set up a literacy class on the beach, not only Bozhu, Huangsha, Boyu, Po shrimp, Bojiao to learn, those sisters-in-law also have to learn. Hong Tao doesn't ask them to be able to write and calculate, but it is still necessary to know their names and know simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, so that they don't have to tell them one by one if they do complicated work in the future.

Simple life is fun, busy and busy. When they each returned to the beach with a thick bamboo in the Yellow Sea, half a day had passed, and Hong Tao finally broke away from the title of women's director and began to work on his own work, designing and making the bracket for the spinnaker.

oP boats are the most elementary sailing boats, generally only used for teenagers and beginners to practice, and are equivalent to go-karts in sailboats. It is generally two meters long and more than one meter wide, with a spinnaker more than two meters high and more than one meter wide on top. It is said that it is a spinnaker, in fact, it is a rectangle, the structure is very simple, the upper and lower edges of the sail are supported by a mast, at the tip of the mast above, and then install a cable-stayed rod, when the sail is raised, the other end of the cable-stayed rod is fixed on the mainmast, so that the sail is supported by this mast like a kite, as long as the wind is held, the canvas will not appear deformed and leaked. At this time, it is only necessary to operate the rope connecting the lower mast and control the direction of the sail, and the boat can be driven.

Now what Hong Tao has to do is to put the upper and lower masts and cable-stayed rods, the lower cross-mast can be thicker, but the upper cross-mast and cable-stayed rods cannot be too thick and heavy. With the experience of making ground cages, Hong Tao felt that the kind of bamboo braids made of bamboo strips was the most suitable, which was both tough and lightweight. In addition, this bamboo braid can also be used for other purposes, such as braiding it into a ring shape and sewing it to the edge of the canvas, like a curtain ring, one by one on the mainmast to hold it in place. The sail is fixed on the mainmast by a bamboo braid, and the friction is much smaller than that of hemp rope when lifting the sail, and there is no need to spend money to buy it.

However, freshly cut bamboo cannot be used, it contains too much water, and it will quickly dry out and deform when used directly, which is caused by the different degrees of dryness of the surface and internal moisture of the bamboo. How to process bamboo? There are many ways, but unfortunately Hong Tao can't do one, he grew up in the north and has not had much contact with the bamboo products processing industry.

It doesn't matter if Hong Tao doesn't, the Tan family will! Huang Hai led everyone to cut these bamboos into 3 or 4 meters in sections, and then used a red tassel gun-like thing to reach into the bamboo tube, and drilled all the bamboo joints out of a small hole, leaving only the bottom bamboo knot not drilled through. At this time, these bamboo tubes are transported to the row of boats, inserted directly into the water, and the bamboo tubes are filled with basins of seawater until they are full, and then the bamboo tubes filled with water are inserted on the beach to dry.

"If you don't use it urgently, you can just pour it into the sea water and dry it for more than a month, if you are in a hurry, add more sea salt, and you can use it in ten years." Huang Hai watched several children busy with their work while explaining to Hong Tao the process of handling bamboo. After Hong Tao heard that it was salt water, he probably understood the principle of treatment, which is to use the density of the liquid to forcibly precipitate the water in the cell wall of the bamboo, so that the bamboo can speed up the drying speed, which is very scientific! Although the working people cannot say any specific scientific principles, they have done so through generations of summaries.

Most of the bamboo is not usable yet, but this does not delay Hong Tao to conduct the experiment first, and there are a few processed large bamboo poles on the row of boats of the Tan family, which is enough for Hong Tao to toss. Since it was an experimental product, Hong Tao wanted to wait for Chen Mingen to come back and use the Chen family's ship to try it first. He is Chen Mingen's godson, and he can be regarded as a member of the Chen family, so it is more reasonable to toss things from his own family if he is not sure. Reform will lead to failures and successes, which is inevitable, but you can't let others bear all the failures and just enjoy the success yourself, that's not called reform, that's called hooliganism.