The fishing had already begun. The net rope was tied to the wooden shaft. Several soldiers stood by the ice cave and tried their best to turn the wooden shaft. The wooden shaft spun quickly, and the fishing net in the water under the ice was also shaken.

stand up.

On the river, I could only hear the wooden shaft creaking and turning.

"Will there be fish?" Li Mengxi asked.

As soon as he finished speaking, Guan Yu called to the ice and asked him to raise the net.

Then, several soldiers put down their wooden shafts and worked together to pull the net.

The net was under the water and was very heavy. Several people pulled the net out of the water with difficulty. When the net came out of the water, far away, Li Mengxi saw many fish jumping in the net.

One net brings a lot of harvest.

When Li Mengxi saw how efficient fishing under the ice was, he couldn't help but run towards the river to have a look.

Guan Yu failed to stop him, so Li Mengxi ran to the river.

The efficiency of winter fishing was so high that it surprised Li Mengxi. Li Mengxi had seen fishing many times. Whether it was during the march or when the Julu fishing team just came out, the fishing team went out to catch fish and the net was cast.

You will definitely see fish, and even if you do, you won't be able to catch more than twenty fish in a net.

But now when I put the net down, there were as many as thirty-four big and small fish jumping around.

Li Mengxi was extremely puzzled. He dug the ice cave for a while, but the fish gathered here so quickly.

In order to find out more, Li Mengxi stopped fishing. He went to the edge of the ice cave and squatted there, holding his hands and staring motionlessly at the dark, midwinter water under the ice cave.

On the side, Guan Yu did not disturb him and watched carefully.

After waiting at the ice cave for a while, Li Mengxi saw waves starting to ripple on the water's surface. In the blink of an eye, a gray fish's back appeared on the water's surface.

Another blink of an eye, and the fish head was revealed.

The fish was right in front of him and Li Mengxi couldn't help it. He went down hard to catch the fish.

As a result, he acted rashly and slipped, causing his body to lose balance and fall into the ice hole.

At this dangerous moment, Li Mengxi's eyes tightened and his heart tightened. A lot of information flashed through his mind. It is said that if you lose your footing and fall into an ice cave, you will be washed below the ice surface by the water. The ice is as thick as a pot lid.

I can't even push it open, and I can't even save him...

It is also said that after a person drowns, he will die of suffocation within two minutes...

Li Mengxi, who was almost dead, suddenly felt weightless in his body, and then he flew up.

It was Guan Yu who had quick hands and quick eyes. Guan Yu was guarding the side, and when he saw something was wrong, he caught Li Mengxi. Guan Yu lifted Li Mengxi up in the air with Li Mengxi's clothes, just like lifting a child, and he lifted him all the way to the shore before putting him down.

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Next to him, several soldiers looked on and laughed.

It wasn't until he landed on the shore that Li Mengxi suddenly came back to his senses. He was afraid for a while, oh my God, he almost fell into the ice hole and died!

After walking away from the gate of hell, Li Mengxi, who was frightened, quickly said to Guan Yu, "General Guan, the winter hunt is very dangerous. We need to issue a strict order to warn everyone and not delay it!"

Guan Yu looked at Li Mengxi who almost fell into the water and died but was still thinking about others. Guan Yu opened his mouth and said, "It's better to take care of yourself first, and then take care of others."

Guan Yu was reprimanding.

If I hadn't followed him just now and watched, Li Mengxi would have fallen into a hole in the ice. He couldn't be rescued and died. How should he explain to his elder brother when he went back?

Fearing that something would happen again, Guan Yu called two soldiers to guard Li Mengxi and prevent him from going up the river.

Guan Yu carried the basket to pick up fish, and Guan Yu picked up the fish. Li Mengxi was by the river, shivering in the cold wind that froze his hands, and finished recording the relevant winter fishing techniques.

The key points of fishing under the ice are: first, the wooden shaft for throwing the net; second, the ice cutting tool, use the male halberd if it is not needed, and if you have enough time, make a special ice hammer; third, safety matters, ice holes are easy to fall

When you go in, you have to pay attention to safety.

The fish were caught, more than 30 fish were put into most of the baskets. This was the first net, and only half of the basket was filled in one net. The efficiency of fishing under the ice is terrible.

It turned out that once the ice on the river was opened a little, it didn't take long for many fish to follow the wind and gather in the ice cave. Fish are so sensitive to the air.

By the river, Guan Yu found a big stone by the river, picked it up, and banged it with a bang until it made a hole in the ice.

Then, in the cold river water, Guan Yu was busy killing fish and scraping their scales.

At this time, Lu Li, the adjutant of the craftsman camp, arrived.

Li Mengxi casually handed the swim bladder from the fish to Lu Li and asked, "Lu Li, how many ships have been built these days?"

"More than one hundred and sixty." Lu Li replied, and then Lu Li said with lack of confidence, "Military advisor, there are still some shortcomings in shipbuilding..."

Li Mengxi was slightly confused, "What's missing? Wood?" He stared at Lu Li and asked in confusion.

"There is no shortage of wood, tung oil, and paint."

In Lu Li's narration, Li Mengxi understood clearly. He remembered that during the march, the first batch of osprey boats were made hastily while marching. At that time, the carpenters were in the army.

After reluctantly putting together some broken wooden boards to look like a small boat, I went into the water and found various leaks.

This is no longer something that can be solved by woodworking technology. Even if it is made with precision and even if it uses a tenon-and-mortise structure, the seams in the wood will still leak.

At that time, in order to solve the problem, I went to the shipbuilder to ask for the key. After learning that I needed to use glue paint to fill the seams, I also got the method of boiling isinglass from the bow builder. With the glue and the seams filled, the Osprey boat was built.

No more water leakage, then you can go fishing.

You can only use isinglass without filling it with paint or hemp silk. Soak the isinglass in water for a day or two and the glue will soak away.

I just used whatever I had at the time, it didn't matter, I applied the glue once a day, it was a trouble, and I could use it on the boat.

Things are different now. We are no longer marching, we are not settling for just one moment. We are now building a large number of ships. We are building thousands of boats to go fishing. We can no longer make do, and we can no longer make do with ships that leak in three or two days.

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Therefore, in addition to isinglass, twine, tung oil, and paint, especially tung oil and paint, you must have them. This is the key to shipbuilding.

Li Mengxi frowned. Tung oil and lacquer were not available in the army. Tung oil weighed dozens or hundreds of kilograms, but there was no lacquer at all.

Li Mengxi curiously asked Lu Li, "Since the tung oil and paint are all missing, can the boat you built be launched into the water?"

Lu Li replied, "After we filled the seams with the isinglass together, we baked the isinglass over a fire. This made it sticky and not easy to soak, but it could withstand water. However, without paint, it still wouldn't last long.

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Li Mengxi looked at Lu Li in surprise. Lu Li and his group of carpenters actually made a longer-lasting ship using only isinglass. In the current shortage of supplies, the method the carpenters came up with is worth thousands of dollars.

A fishing boat with complete craftsmanship uses isinglass, twine, tung oil, and paint. Such a boat with complete processes can be used for several years.

The boats made by Lu Li and others only used isinglass and only added a drying process. The durability is very short, and it can only be used for one or two months at most.

However, this month is enough.

Fishing is meant to meet the needs of the moment. If you catch fish for a month, it will be next spring. The food you bought will have arrived by then. Fishing is not so important. The fishing boat is durable for this month and is just enough.

Li Mengxi realized that the carpenters had solved an important technical problem. He asked Lu Li, did the craftsman who came up with the method of roasting feet take credit?

Lu Li said, "I remember it."

Li Mengxi couldn't help but nodded.

From here, the Carpenter Camp is actually the battalion with the most complete rules system in the entire army. Li Mengxi has been away from the Carpenter Camp for a long time, and the Carpenter Camp's own reward mechanism is still running in an orderly manner, reaching a level that can operate independently.

To the carpenter who figured out a way to extend the service life of isinglass, Lu Li said that he would be rewarded ten kilograms of grain, two kilograms immediately, and the remaining eight kilograms would be rewarded later. Li Mengxi felt that the reward was too little, so he changed it to one hundred kilograms of grain.

Jin, ten guan of money, wrote a military ticket, and ordered Lu Li to hand it over to the carpenter.

Li Mengxi realized that although Lu Li was the adjutant of the craftsman camp and was in charge of a lot of things, Lu Li was not very impressive at all. He happened to be here, so Li Mengxi stopped by to see Lu Li.

Various achievements and rewards recorded over a period of time.

Lu Li himself is illiterate, and the illiterate Lu Li relies entirely on his brain to remember things. It is difficult for him to remember everything.

During the time when he was camping by the river, Lu Li recorded many things.

Take isinglass for example. Due to large-scale shipbuilding, a large amount of isinglass needs to be boiled, and the isinglass needs to be hammered manually, which is very labor-intensive.

One person suggested that Shi Chun could be hired to smash the glue to save manpower, so everyone called for Shi Chun. Sure enough, he could smash the glue until it was so rotten and soft that one person could withstand thirty people.

Based on Lu Li's own judgment, Lu Li thought this suggestion was good, so he rewarded the man with ten catties of grain.

Also, building a boat requires baking glue. Although the boat is an osprey boat and its hull is light, an osprey boat also weighs dozens of kilograms. It would be very tiring to lift it for baking. So someone suggested that you can make a shelf to raise the boat.

, also very convenient.

Li Mengxi went to see the wooden shelf made by craftsmen specifically for baking glue. The shelf looked simple, but it looked very useful.

The craftsmen put the boat on the rack, and people held torches and grilled it back and forth. After grilling the inside of the cabin, they turned it over and grilled the outside again. It was simple but efficient.

Li Mengxi also noticed that this kind of simple shelf has become large-scale, and a large area of ​​​​the carpentry camp is full of this kind of shelf.

What does this mean? It means that technology is not only stimulated, but also spread efficiently and quickly.

From its inception to its rapid popularization, the technology already has a complete ecological chain.

Also, due to the ice and snow, the craftsman camp was stationed by the river, and some craftsmen asked Lu Li to get more firewood for the fire.

Lu Li had the responsibility to collect everyone's opinions. The craftsman said he wanted firewood, so Lu Li kept this in mind.

When speaking, Lu Li told Li Mengxi truthfully, and Lu Li still looked a little embarrassed.

According to Lu Li's point of view, it was okay to ask for wood because wood was used to make boats. To ask for firewood was to reach out and ask for something, which was somewhat rude.
To be continued...