The carriage was finally built. Although what Zhao Hao built was only a prototype, and although there were still many areas for improvement in this prototype, it was still no problem to use it to pull wood.

The next step is to build the ship.

If he wanted to cross the river alone, then he wouldn't have to go to such trouble. He could just use the magic weapon to carve out a canoe. The problem was that he didn't want to carry the huge beast back and forth across the river alone, because that would be too troublesome.

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Therefore, he needed many people to cross the river with him, go to the other side, and build a fortress to garrison him.

Therefore, he must build a large ship that can carry dozens of people, and such a large ship must be more than ten meters long and five or six meters wide.

Now, the problem of wood has been solved. With the carriage, it only takes a day at most to transport the wood from the wild jungle and the big lake. Moreover, the wood in the wild jungle is simply inexhaustible. It doesn't matter how much he needs.

Shipbuilding is much more complicated than building a carriage, especially a large ship more than ten meters long.

The biggest problem in shipbuilding is to prevent leakage. If the built ship leaks, it would be a bit ridiculous.

As for how to prevent leakage, Zhao Hao has also considered it.

There are not many methods he can use now. There is no waterproof glue these days. He can only find a way to mix some glue with resin to make it less soluble in water, so that it can be used to fill the gaps in the boat.

He also found this glue, which is beef bone glue, which is a kind of glue made from cow bones and cowhide.

This kind of glue also existed in later generations. The most common one is brown cow bone glue used to stick book pages. However, this kind of glue cannot be soaked in water for a long time. Although it is insoluble in cold water, it is easy to swell and fall off when soaked in cold water. Therefore,

Zhao Hao found a lot of gum and mixed it together to make something that resembled rubber after solidification.

He actually wasn't very clear about what this kind of thing was. Anyway, as long as it was insoluble in water at room temperature, he didn't bother to delve into what it was.

After the wood and glue are ready, you can start building the boat.

This time, Zhao Hao decided to use his own strength and the sharpness of the magic weapon to perform an open-and-hanging operation, because he did not have time to wait for others to slowly build the ship.

If he used normal methods to build a large wooden boat more than ten meters long, it would probably take at least several months. In order to save time, he had to use abnormal means.

For example, if the wooden boards needed for shipbuilding are slowly cut out with an iron saw, two people can probably cut a few pieces in a long time.

The method used by Zhao Hao was to use the magic weapon to cut it, that is, to stand a wooden pillar more than ten meters long on the ground, then jump up, use the magic weapon as an axe, and chop it down with one knife!

With his current strength, chopping wood piles is easier than ordinary people chopping firewood. Moreover, the boards he cuts are flat and smooth, just like those machined.

In the next few days, he was like a tireless machine, chopping, chopping, nailing, and riveting. After a frantic operation, a large ship of more than ten years in length finally slowly took shape.

When the huge hull appeared at the lakeside, everyone was stunned again.

To be honest, before the boat was launched, no one knew what it was used for. They were just surprised by the huge size of the boat.

They never thought of making such a huge thing out of wood. Even the wooden houses that ordinary people live in don’t need to be so big!

So, what is such a huge wooden tool used for?

Zhao Hao still used the old method. He didn't explain anything to anyone at the beginning, and just let the carpenter he hired watch his operation carefully.

After the hull was completed, he began to boil glue and seal the seams.

He repeatedly smeared the special glue on the gaps between the wooden boards several times, filled a lot of water in a clay pot and tried again and again until he was sure that there was no leakage anywhere in the hull, and then he gave up.

Next, it seems that the hull is pushed into the water.

This is not difficult. Although the hull is huge, he has put many circles under the hull. He only needs to push the huge hull hard and it will slide into the lake.

However, he was not in a hurry to push the hull into the water, because the boat must be able to move after being launched into the water, and the hull alone would definitely not be able to move.

This has more power to propel the ship on the water, such as motors and propellers, sails, etc. The problem is that there are no motors and propellers at the moment, and sails are also very troublesome to make. Zhao Hao chose the most primitive method.

A paddle is the kind that is paddled by hand.

Making an oar is easy. With his ability, he can basically chop out an oar with a few cuts. Of course, if you want to row such a big boat, one or two oars are not enough. You must at least

A dozen oars.

Now, the problem comes again. The paddle is easy to make, but the question is who will paddle it?

He can row a boat, but the problem is that he can't row more than ten or twenty oars at the same time.

He had no choice but to ask Beishan's mother to recruit twenty strong young men, and cut an oar for each of them. Then, he asked them to line up neatly in two rows and start learning the rowing action.

There are actually only two movements in rowing. One is to lift the oar, and the other is to row the oar hard to the side and back.

The strong young men recruited by Beishan's mother were also quite clever. They quickly learned the two movements, and under Zhao Hao's command, their movements soon became uniform and looked very standard.

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However, most of them looked confused, because they didn't know what the big leader meant when he kept shouting "stroke".

Zhao Hao still didn't explain. After training these twenty strong young men, he directly let them get on the boat. Then he stood alone behind the hull and pushed the huge hull into the lake.

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At this time, the young men on the boat were a little panicked. They might know a little bit about swimming, but the problem was that no one dared to swim in such a bottomless lake!

The big leader actually pushed them into the lake. What should we do?

Fortunately, the boat did not sink after entering the lake. Moreover, Zhao Hao immediately jumped onto the boat and loudly commanded: "Now, we should divide into two rows, just like on the shore, everyone should stand

Go to both sides and put the oar into the water."

As soon as he got on the boat, these young men basically didn't panic, because they all had implicit trust in the big leader. With the big leader around, they would definitely not be in danger, and the action of putting the oar into the water was also

It's very simple, and soon, twenty young men were ready.

Zhao Hao saw this and shouted directly: "Now, listen to my command, lift, row, lift, row..."

Under his command, twenty young men started rowing in unison, while the huge hull left the shore and slowly floated towards the center of the lake.

At the beginning, the boat was not moving very fast. However, as Zhao Hao shouted the commands faster and faster, the boat started to speed up gradually. Later, the boat was moving as fast as a person running.

At this moment, everyone finally understood that this boat could float on the water with people on it!

However, Zhao Hao was a little dumbfounded because he forgot to use the steering rudder!

Fortunately, this is inside a lake. As long as you paddle hard, you can reach the other side.

He directed twenty young men to row the boat to the other side, then jumped ashore, found a horse, galloped back to the starting point, made a rudder, and rode a white dragon to carry the boat.

He steered back to the other side and jumped on board.

With the rudder, the big boat can freely move back and forth on the lake, and there is nothing sophisticated about rowing. After rowing a few times, the young man from Garuda Camp basically mastered the skill of rowing. Simply put, it is just following the command.
Chapter completed!