After a few months of construction, the Tamsui Village Shipyard has now begun to be put into use, and the scale of this Shipyard is much larger than that of the Nanri Island Shipyard, mainly due to the fact that there is a lot of idle land here, and Yu Xiaotian also plans to build a large number of ships here in the future, so the shelves were quite large when they were first built.

In terms of scale alone, the scale of this shipyard has surpassed many large shipyards along the coast of Fujian, and five slipways for shipbuilding alone have been built here.

However, only three can be put into use now, and the other two are still under construction.

Although the dry dock is a creation of the Chinese, during the Song Dynasty, it has been invented by the Chinese and put into use, but after that, it was used less and less, and the old shipyard on Nanri Island is a relatively special situation, I don't know why the people who built the shipyard there excavated two dry docks.

But in fact, in this era, in order to save costs, many shipyards are not very commonly used to build ships, and the Ming Dynasty has been closed to the sea, even if it is for the maritime merchants to secretly go to sea for trade, the local government adopts the method of turning a blind eye, but the Ming Dynasty still clearly stipulates that no one is allowed to build more than 400 ships without permission.

Even if the shipwrights of the Ming Dynasty are fully capable of building a large ship with more than 400 materials, few people dare to commit crimes against the wind, so it is not very cost-effective to use dry docks, so most of the shipwreaks use simple slipways to build ships, and even many shipwreaks are reluctant to build slipways for launching ships, so they simply spread some mud on the beachhead and slide the boats from the slipway into the water.

Yu Xiaotian is now in a hurry to put the Tamsui City shipyard into use, and the construction of the dock is too labor-intensive, so he simply uses the slipway to build ships.

But the shipyard here Yu Xiaotian is not like some land boats, cost-saving, even the slipway refuses to build, in the construction of the slipway here, Yu Xiaotian still let the craftsmen build these slipways as strong as possible, really use a lot of wood.

And he didn't save the labor and cost of the slipway, and built a fairly strong slipway for each slipway, which can ensure that the boat is safer when it is launched.

Fortunately, on the side of Tamsui, although a large number of immigrants have come here to pioneer the land, the surrounding forest area is still very large, there is enough timber for the sea wolves, and the construction of the slipway is basically made of local materials, plus some wood stored here in the past, there is no problem at all.

When Yu Xiaotian came to the shipyard, he didn't look at the situation on the slipway at first glance, but saw a large number of various logs piled up on the shore, these logs were basically newly cut down, and some of the wood was still wet, as if half of it had just been salvaged from the water.

Looking at the river, Yu Xiaotian saw that there was just a lot of wood, which was slowly floating along the Tamsui River, these timbers were tied into wooden rafts, and some people were active on the wooden rafts, manipulating the wooden rafts to go down the river to avoid the wooden rafts stuck on the shore along the way, until the wooden rafts reached the vicinity of the boat, someone intercepted these wooden rafts, pulled them to the shore, and then used manpower and animal power to disassemble the wooden rafts and drag them ashore.

In this way, the heavy transportation process of timber is omitted, and manpower and material resources are greatly saved, so that the shipyard can easily use a large amount of timber along the upstream coast.

Yu Xiaotian was a little surprised by this, so he asked Fang An, who came with him, how did he do it, because the last time he came, Fang An also said that there were a large number of natives along the upstream coast, preventing the sea wolf personnel from entering their territory to cut wood, and now why so much wood has been put down.

Fang An immediately replied with a smile: "Speaking of which, it should still be thanks to the big master!" The last time the big boss went to Jilong Bay, a group of soldiers and auxiliaries were transferred from Jilong Bay, and after these people came here, they immediately began to use troops against the surrounding natives who often attacked us.

These brothers from the chicken coop village are really capable, and with the help of those native auxiliaries, they immediately reversed the disadvantage of our people who are not good at moving in the forest.

They first dealt with the two more fierce natives in the vicinity, almost uprooted them, and captured more than 200 natives.

I saw that the brothers in Jilongzhai did quite well, so I asked the local garrison to learn from them to fight in the mountains and forests, and also selected a group of auxiliaries from some of the local immigrants who had come here in advance and the natives who had been captured before, so that the problems of the natives were basically solved.

The reason why the natives used to dare not listen to the attack on us was that they saw that we did not dare to easily enter the mountains and forests to chase and kill them, and now the surrounding natives saw that we suddenly pulled out their two tribes, so they knew that we were powerful, and they did not dare to attack our immigrant villages as unscrupulously as before.

And the subordinates also showed favor to these natives according to the earlier instructions of the big boss, and sent them some small east and small west, so that the natives no longer easily harassed our immigrants.

Some time ago, our people began to swim up the Tamsui River, and at the beginning they were hindered by two native tribes on both sides of the river, and they fought with them several times.

The two sides began to suffer their own damage, and then their subordinates and the Meng brothers simply mobilized hundreds of brothers to go up, wiped out the two natives, killed a group of natives, and arrested a lot, almost sweeping away the natives on both sides of the river about 30 miles upstream.

In this way, our people can enter the upstream area to cut trees, and no longer worry too much about the attack of the natives, so the recent upstream logging team can cut down a lot of trees every day, and then throw them directly into the river, tied into wooden rafts and down the river.

Boss, please see, the area above the shipyard is now a place where timber is piled up, and there is a lot of timber that has been stored, and it can be used to build ships after it dries! ”

Yu Xiaotian was quite happy after hearing this, and nodded again and again: "This is how you should treat the natives, one hand is soft and the other is hard, while showing them good, we must also let them understand that we are something they can't afford to provoke!" Only in this way can we be at peace with them.

Blindly using the strong and showing the weak is not a good way, if the strong is used excessively, it will arouse the serious hatred between the various tribes of the local people, with our current strength, we are not able to deal with them and join forces to deal with us!

Therefore, blindly using the strong can only backfire! If necessary, we will give small favors to some of their tribes, so that they can benefit from us, and they will naturally not be willing to be our enemies.

This is quite good on the chicken coop village, and you can learn more from them.

In addition, the brothers and native auxiliaries of the chicken coop village transferred here are to let your soldiers here learn some tactics of mountain and forest warfare with them, so that they can easily deal with the attacks of these surrounding natives in the future.

Now I don't know how much the garrison on your side has learned in this regard! ”

Fang An immediately replied: "Please rest assured, the soldiers and brothers here have seen the skills of the brothers over there in the chicken coop village, and they are not idle, as soon as the brothers in the chicken coop village come over, they immediately follow and learn, they have basically learned a lot in the past few months, plus there are also some captured natives in the local area, which are incorporated into the auxiliary army, these local natives are more familiar with the local mountain and forest conditions, so there is no problem to deal with the general natives now."

Even if it is a larger local tribe nearby, as long as we want to move them, there is basically no big problem, not to mention that there is a new battalion here, and if necessary, we can also get the assistance of the new battalion and new soldiers, plus we have more and more muskets, if I am bullied by the natives again, then the big boss can drive me home! ”

After Yu Xiaotian heard this, Ha Lu Ha Da Lu laughed.

While he was talking, Guo Fu, who was transferred here to supervise the work, heard the news that Yu Xiaotian had come to Chuanliao, and hurriedly rushed over in three steps and two steps, and as soon as he saw Yu Xiaotian, he hurriedly bowed his head and bowed.

"The small ones see the big masters! It's time to see the big boss! "Guo Fuxian is now quite good in the sea wolf, he is already the number one leader in the sea wolf group, and his two sons have now taken over his craft, one stayed on Nanri Island and became the steward of the Nanri Island shipyard, and the other gave up his father's shipbuilding career and switched to the sea wolf's sailors, becoming a formal sea wolf tribe, and he has embarked on the road of the army, and now he has become the captain of the ship, and he is doing quite well. The next step is very promising to become a first mate or even a captain.

And his two sons have also become relatives, and gave birth to a grandson to Guo Fu, Guo Fu's life is quite good now, which is also thanks to Yu Xiaotian, so Guo Fuxian is now even more desperate to give Yu Xiaotian to do things, but it looks much stronger and stronger than two or three years ago.

"You've come just in time! I was just going to ask you about the situation in the shipyard here! What do you think? Is there anything missing from the shipyard here? Yu Xiaotian was in a good mood, and smiled and asked Guo Fu to get up and speak.

Guo Fu said with a smile on his face: "If you go back to the big house, the layout of the shipyard here is much larger than that of the Nanri Island shipyard, and now there are three slipways that have started construction, and there are two slipways that can be put out to start shipbuilding before the latest year."

In front of me, all kinds of supporting things in the shipyard are basically in place, such as a blacksmith shop, a hemp rope workshop, and a twisting 、...... It's all moving!

The big boss also saw that these three slipways have been started, and they are all built flying clippers, especially the third slipway, which is relatively large, and can start construction of two sloops at a time, and at least 800 large ships can be built here in the future, but now we haven't started to do it yet!

Others are not lacking at present, canvas has just been sent to a boat, enough to build seven or eight flying fast boats, that is, the jute used to make hemp rope is now slightly lacking, but the problem is not big, it is enough to send two boats back, if you can plant some jute, we don't even have to go back to jute!

At the moment, I am afraid that the most scarce thing is wood! ……”