Chapter 735 Like a Bird's Wings

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Fan Zhi opened the wood-carved window of Zhengshitang study, and the wind became louder, snowflakes were flying outside piles of desks, and a plum blossom was in bud in the wind and snow.

A clerk behind was busy putting his things out, and several officials stood behind.

He turned around and sighed: I was actually humiliated by the eunuch named Cao.

Officials said: Just a eunuch, how can a gentleman be wise?Mr. Fan does not need to be as knowledgeable as him.

Fan Zhi said sadly: I owe the last emperor a life.

Several people were silent. When Guo Shao proclaimed himself emperor, he had already seized the throne. They did not sacrifice their country for the late emperor, but lived a life of silence. Now they are extremely reluctant to mention the old things.

After hearing this, Fan Zhi said: Now he has made great contributions to the world, and the general situation cannot be violated.Taizu (Guo Wei) The late emperor had the kindness of knowing and meeting his ministers, and he lived in the temple. He only hoped that today could treat his predecessors well.

The officials next to him said: There are many people in the court who have received favors from Taizu and the late emperor.All the lords have this heart.

...The emperor's tolerance encouraged Li Xin and allowed him to see hope.The emperor must have remembered his name and his career will not stop.

At the end of the third year of Xuanren, Li Xin rushed back to Tokyo from Jiangning Prefecture to present a chart.

Guo Shao personally summoned Li Xin in Yangde Palace.

Li Xin was taken to the place where Guo Shao was resting after working and saw that Guo Shao was the only one. He was summoned alone, and he was very excited.

Guo Shao did nothing, and there were only chessboards and chess pieces on the tables in front of him, and he did not bring in the memorial.He asked Li Xin to take the picture and look at it.Li Xin hurriedly took out a large stack of files from the cloth bag he brought in.

Sit, you can sit for a while.Guo Shao pointed to the soft couch opposite and said casually.

Guo Shao looked through the things on the paper with pictures and texts, with a lot of content.

After a long time, Li Xin said: Jiangning Shipbuilding House has been trying to build such sea ships, and the structure of the large-food ships and the Central Plains ships is completely different.Its shape is different from the wide and flat ships in our direction, and the hull is narrow and long, with a pointed bottom; the mast and sail are also very different.The sails of the big-food boat are longitudinal sails, and the sails are like triangles, like the wings of birds.

According to the officials of Jiangning Shipyard, this kind of ship is more suitable for sailing at sea, and the focus is on sails.

Guo Shao took a rough look and also casually expressed his temporary feelings and some opinions. There are many rivers in my direction, and ships are often used in inland rivers, so the flat bottom is not easy to get stranded, and the wide body reduces the draft depth.Moreover, the inland rivers are of different width and narrowness, and the wind direction is uncertain, so the ships cannot flexibly utilize wind power, so they mainly use horizontal sails, supplemented by oars, water wheels, and boaters.

Li Xindao: Your Majesty has a lot of knowledge.The officials of the boat shop had a very consistent opinion with Your Majesty. It was not good for big food to use in rivers and rivers, but it was beneficial to the sea.Its sails are flexible and adaptable to all wind directions. It is said that the sailing speed is also very fast against the wind with the word "zhi".

The Zhou army navy is also good at walking against the wind, but it is indeed a bit bulky and is only useful in wide areas with the water surface in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

While reading the file, Guo Shao thought about it... He had some insights: Whether some things are advanced depends on whether they are consistent with the situation of the times. Too much advancement is not conducive.

For example, the ship's power.

There is a kind of wheel boat in the Central Plains that uses water trucks to drive ships, and its development direction seems to be very advanced, because Guo Shao knew that there will be steamers in the future... But in the era where human and natural wind power are the main force, the development direction of ships seems to be biased; the direction of large-food ships that attach importance to the development of sails may be correct.

Li Xindao: The ships in Jiangning Port have some changes in the structure of the big food ship, and our shipbuilding technology has changed the structure of the big food ship.Our ships do not need to use sailors to climb the masts. This structure is fast and easy to avoid, so we still use the mast sail structure of our ships, which has changed the shape.

There is also a cabin structure, and the large food ship is connected in front and back, and no benefits are seen. Once the hull is damaged and the water inlet is easily sunk.

As we built the cabins in front and back, there was a leak in one place, and the cabin was closed in time, so it would not sink easily and facilitate repair.

Guo Shao took the paper and said: I will first read it for a while, and then send it to Han Tong for him to see it too.

Guo Shao was born as a martial artist, and he thought about how to use the military skills first. Once he got this ship, he thought about equiping the navy without exception.

At this time, he couldn't help but look at Li Xin's still bulging cloth bag. Because Li Xin came to meet the saint, it was impossible for him to bring in some irrelevant things. He asked again: What else do you have in your bag?

Li Xin hurriedly took out another stack of papers: Weichen seized the cannibal ship and got two books when he was collecting things.At first, I thought it was a record of the voyage of the Great Cannibal, so I asked Lu Yongzhen to translate some of them, but found that it was a classic written by the Great Cannibal, and I wonder if it was useful.

Guo Shao looked through it and saw that the author was called Yaristotle. He was stunned for a moment and thought to himself: Aristotle?

He looked at the chapter carefully and found that it was some Greek philosophical explanations at the beginning, but he was confused and his sentences were very strange... It must be a matter of translation into Chinese, so Lu Yongzhen might not be very expert in big food writing.

This is not a book written by the cannibal.Guo Shao concluded.

The Great Food and Greece are apart from one hundred and eight thousand miles apart, and are not on the same continent.

Li Xin bowed and said: The humble minister was dull. He found it on the boat of the Great Cannibal. He wrote the words of the Great Cannibal, thinking it was a book from the Great Cannibal.

Probably a translated book.Guo Shao guessed.

The great cannibals of this era were really enlightened and were also getting things from Greece.

In Guo Shao's impression, it seemed that they had learned the four great inventions of China and then spread out... The great cannibal not only learned Western philosophy, but also Eastern rules. It is said that during the Tang Dynasty, people were sent to Chang'an to learn the system of the Chinese emperor governing the country.

Guo Shao pondered for a moment and said casually: The land of China has been leading since ancient times.But all races have their own strengths and weaknesses, so we don’t need to be self-deprecating, arrogant and arrogant.If you have any strengths elsewhere, you can learn it.Learning their strengths and guarding against their weaknesses is the benefit of the country.

Li Xin listened carefully, because it was what the emperor said, he had to pay attention to whether it was right or not, and said: Your Majesty is wise.

Guo Shao glanced at him: These books may be written by countries further west.The Great Food Country lives far away from the west and the east, and there are very far away from each other.The benefits outweigh the disadvantages when we keep in touch with them.As a guest servant, Li Envoy must keep the cannibals and do not drive them away.

Li Xin hurriedly said: I will obey Your Majesty's will.However, I went to the Southern Han Kingdom to capture their people and detain their ships. The cannibal seemed very angry.

Guo Shao said: If you let it go, give it some benefits, and exempt them from all commercial taxes for three years, and give them comfort.It is profitable, and a big cannibal should pay attention to profits.He took a photo of the translation in his hand. This thing was useless. The guest province recruited some southern Han scholars who had had contact with the Great Cannibal to specialize in learning the Great Cannibal's text and re-translate the manuscript.If the imperial court has officials who are proficient in the language and writing of Dashi, it will be convenient for exchanges in the future.

Guo Shao was not very clear about what was going on with Dashi at this time, but he always felt that there might be something interesting on the side of Dashi.