Li Mengxi thought about it seriously, "That's fine. It's much colder by the river than in the city. I'll send you some firewood."

When Lu Li saw that Li Mengxi did not blame him and actually gave him firewood, Lu Li asked, "Then...will this man reward me with food?"

Lu Li asked the man who suggested asking for firewood whether his suggestion of asking for firewood was a good idea and whether he should be rewarded with food.

Of course this has to be calculated. Any good methods to improve production efficiency, improve technology, etc. are all achievements of wisdom and will be rewarded with food.

For example, during the march, a carpenter wanted door panels. The reason was that the ground was uneven and it was difficult to plan wood.

From the carpenter's point of view, of course this carpenter does it for himself and to make his work easier.

However, this suggestion can greatly improve production efficiency.

Even now, the processing platform of the carpenter camp is still just a door panel. There are propped up door panels everywhere in the carpenter camp. On the door panels, the carpenters have completed all the finishing work on the wood. It can be said that the door panels are the only thing the rebels have now.

It can provide a working platform. Although this working platform is simple, it is quite good.

During this period of time when Lu Li managed the craftsman's camp alone, he did not delay anything in the craftsman's camp. It was not much different from Li Mengxi's personal management.

Lu Li wrote down more than 20 production improvement matters, all of which were methods spontaneously and subjectively thought up by the craftsmen.

They are just making some crude osprey boats. The technology of the osprey boats is low and the management of the craftsmanship is rough. How much room for improvement is there? However, there are as many as twenty improvement methods.

Low technology and rough management are not problems. If the growth is sufficient, you can improve every day, check for omissions and fill in the gaps every day, and you will eventually reach the clouds.

There are more than 20 improvements related to the production of osprey boats, including the baking glue method, Shi Chun's method of pounding fish bladders, the wooden frame suspension method, the wooden strips inlaid boat seaming method, the bottom tipping method, and the oar replacement method.

Pole method, etc.

Among them, there are many methods that Li Mengxi cannot understand.

For example, Li Mengxi didn't understand what the method of tapering the bottom of a boat was.

After Lu Li explained it, Li Mengxi roughly understood it.

This method is an improvement on the structure of the osprey boat. In the old osprey boat, the cabin was a flat-bottomed rectangular parallelepiped with the same width from top to bottom.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This original hull was designed by Li Mengxi himself. Li Mengxi did not understand shipbuilding technology, and the design was clumsy and unscientific.

The hull of the Osprey boat is made of flat wooden boards, so naturally, the rectangular bottom of the boat has two wooden seams, and there are two leaking places.

The carpenters thought of modifying the boat, simplifying the bottom and making it directly into a triangular pointed bottom. In this way, there was only one seam for the water line.

In this way, not only the process is simplified, but there are also fewer places for water leakage.

The treatment of water leakage and waterproofing is the most troublesome and critical step in the shipbuilding process.

After this change, Li Mengxi was convinced that from mathematics alone, a boat with one seam was more waterproof than a ship with two seams.

However, when Li Mengxi saw the new osprey boat, he was stunned when he looked at the small osprey boat with its sharp and high bottom.

This...it seems that sea-going ships, like later generations of steel battleships, aircraft carriers and other sea-going ships, are pointed-bottomed ships, right? Most of the ships on rivers and lakes are flat-bottomed, right?

But why, in the hands of carpenters, did a small Osprey boat transform into a battleship-like hull shape? I don’t understand.

In addition to the major modification of the hull, the carpenters had no choice but to replace the boat pole with a boat pole.

The boats are made by carpenters, and naturally, the tools for punting the boats are also handled by carpenters.

However, supplies in the army were scarce, and there were not many long wooden poles long enough to make boat poles. At first, materials for making boat poles could be found, but within two days, the long sticks were gone. At this time, the hard-working carpenters worked hard

After a while, I chiseled and repaired the short wooden sticks to make a tenon structure, then extended the short sticks to make a long pole.

But you should know that although the tenon and tenon can join all kinds of wood together, and the connection is very strong, which is called miraculous, but the tenon and tenon is too troublesome.

Finally, a grumpy carpenter couldn't stand it anymore and said he could just use a boat to beat the wood.

As a result, an important improvement was born.

The boat pole and the boat pole are different things. The boat pole must be very long, while the short pole of the boat pole is tied to the stern of the boat. There is a big difference in the length of the two.

When using a boat puller, you can just find any short piece of wood, and there is no need to join the wood. This saves materials and man-hours. More importantly, the boat puller operation is more convenient and flexible, and rowing is more labor-saving.

In summary, the Rebel Craftsman Camp, which has a weak foundation, is improving day by day at an incredible speed.

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While Li Mengxi was still inspecting the craftsman camp, the logging team that was away from home returned to the city again.

This time Li Mengxi was not in the city, so Liu Bei went to receive the wood.

When Liu Bei saw dozens of people from the logging team carrying a tree trunk back with great difficulty, Liu Bei asked, why not put it on the cart and pull it back?

The people from the logging team said that the tree was too long to put on the car.

Liu Bei asked again, why not cut the tree short? The people in the logging team were surprised. The tree can be cut short, so how can it be cut?

This is actually a matter of concept. Most of the logging teams are refugees, mostly ordinary people. After the logging team cuts down the tree, the first thing they think about is how to transport the tree back properly instead of sawing the tree into short pieces.

The short part is because subconsciously, if the tree is sawn short, it will be useless, worthless, and a waste.

It's not that the logging team didn't know that the tree was sinking, but it was because they were reluctant to saw a good big tree into shape.

The people in the logging team must have misunderstood something. The trees were cut down not to make beams for houses or to make siege equipment. They were just used to be sent to the carpentry camp to make osprey boats.

All that is needed to make an osprey boat is short planks, as long as a door panel. The tree is too long and needs to be cut short before being transported to the carpenter's camp.

Seeing how hard it was for the logging team to transport wood, Liu Bei decided to ask the logging team to deliver wood next time. The sawing boards should be as short as possible, so as not to waste wood.

After this improvement, the transportation efficiency of the logging team was directly increased five times.

If the tree is not cut short, a complete tree trunk cannot be pulled by a small cart. It has to be lifted by people, but the efficiency of people's lifting has also been seen. It took a long time, and the logging team only made two trips back.

wood.

Before the logging team set off, Li Mengxi told the centurion in charge that if there were any good tips when logging, remember to write them down.

At this point, it seems that Li Mengxi has not done nothing in vain. There are indeed many points that can improve efficiency in logging, and transportation is one of the important improvements.

During the snowy winter, the rebel army dispatched four work teams, one was a carpenter team, one was a fishing team, one was a logging team, and the other was Zhang Fei's hunting team.

Of the four teams sent out, only the Carpenter Camp has a complete incentive system. Every time the carpenters in the Carpenter Camp build an osprey boat, the entire team will receive food. The price of each osprey boat has been set in advance.

Under the complete incentive system, even if the craftsman camp is far away, the production efficiency of the craftsman camp is still very high.

However, except for the craftsman camp, the other camps do not and cannot have a reward system at all.

Unlike the craftsman camp, which can produce standard woodworking products that are easy to quantify, as long as the raw materials are sufficient, the craftsman camp can continuously produce products. However, such as the logging team, the fishing team, and the hunting team, these three teams have very little harvest.

Stable, there is no way to provide fixed incentives, that is, these three teams cannot produce standard products, cannot formulate a reward system, and cannot be motivated, and work efficiency cannot be guaranteed.

Among these four teams, the Carpenter Camp is the only camp where "Hehe" is located. Hehe and Weiwei have already established a complete organizational structure and perfect management mechanism.

This person and the other three camps are not included.

As for geographical advantages, none of the camps have them.

The so-called geographical advantage is that the carpenter camp, the carpentry camp, the fishing camp, and the hunting team are all far away, and there is no way to patrol and supervise them all the time. Therefore, the two are far apart and cannot be monitored, which is a loss of geographical advantage.

Fortunately, hunting teams, logging teams, and other teams have no one to harmonize with them and no favorable geographical location, but with the help of good weather and time, the production efficiency is still somewhat guaranteed.

What is the weather? It is the season when the weather is cold and the ground is freezing.

It's freezing cold, and it's very cold in the wild. Even if you are huddled in a tent, it's still cold. There's no need to rush. In order to stay warm, the logging team will consciously work for a while. After doing the work, they will naturally warm up. They will definitely be cold if they stay still.

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This is the weather. There is no need to monitor or internal incentive system. If you don’t work, you will be cold. If you work, it will be warmer, so you have to work.
Chapter completed!