Daming One Piece

Chapter 112 Going to Hoi An Again (Second update, please recommend, please collect)
"One two one, one two one"

Early in the morning, when the rooster just crowed, there were bursts of passwords from the other side, and the people in the village seemed to be used to it all.

Every morning, these people will train for a few hours. After breakfast, they start to get busy. They are not busy with training, but building houses, not only the houses they live in, but also the shipyard. In fact, this The shipyard will be built every year, as long as there is an open space.But factories such as material factories have to be built.

In order to speed up the construction of the house, Shi Yiwen specially introduced the triangular beam frame. Its structure is simpler and more durable than the traditional beam frame. Of course, the most important thing is that it is simple and easy to build.

But in just a few days, apart from a few collapsed wooden factory buildings, a dozen rows of dormitories were built on one side of the river. Although the wooden houses are not strong, they still have a place to live.

"If things go on like this, in a few more months, this place will almost turn into a small town,"

Looking at the construction site in full swing, Shi Yiwen really admired himself for making such a big commotion in an open space in just a few days.

Shipyards, factory buildings, and dormitories, and even built a hydraulic sawmill.

I have to say that as long as enough manpower is invested, the speed of construction must be far beyond your imagination. It only takes a few days, and even the prototype of the street has already appeared.

"Brother Shi, if things go on like this, I'm afraid this place will become more lively than the main village within a few months."

Yan Ruyu said.

"The more people there are, the more lively it will be. But right now we don't need that many people here. If we bring refugees over in the future, we still have to send them outside to open up wasteland and farm."

It is obviously unrealistic to rely on industry to absorb the population these days. In the final analysis, farming is still necessary, but Shi Yiwen is not idle. These days, he has sorted out high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes from the supermarket. Potatoes are still in that growing season It only takes 60 days to produce five to six thousand catties of Dutch potatoes per mu.

Whether it is sweet potatoes or potatoes, for Chinese people in this era, it is undoubtedly a life-saving food, but the premise is that there must be enough seeds. After all, there are only a few hundred catties in the supermarket.

Of course, the last step is to promote it. This requires the strong intervention of the government. After all, in another world, the promotion of sweet potatoes took hundreds of years.

In fact, as far as Shi Yiwen is concerned, he really doesn't want to promote sweet potatoes and potatoes. After all, hunger is the biggest driving force for people to emigrate overseas.

However, people, you can't blindly cause trouble for selfishness.You can't just watch the people starve to death, right?

"Brother Shi, when are you going to Liaodong?"

Yan Ruyu turned her head and asked,
"Well, before going to Liaodong, we still have to go to Hoi An first, and then buy a few shipments of grain. First, our side will definitely need food in the future, and second, what Liaodong needs now is grain."

food!

In the north of the Little Ice Age, food was the real hard currency!
"Brother Ke Shi, more than half of what you brought from Liaodong this time are ginseng, fur, and medicinal materials. It will take time to sell these things, and it will cost money to buy food in Hoi An."

Yan Ruzhu said with some worry.

"You don't have to give them money!"

Shi Yiwen said.

"I donated the food this time, and I must fill in the shortfall."

"Brother Shi? Are you going to pay for this money?"

Looking at Shi Yiwen in surprise, Yan Ruyu's eyes were full of puzzlement, that was tens of thousands of taels of silver!
"Don't worry, I have a solution. By the way, Ruyu, I'll give you a present."

While speaking, Shi Yiwen took out a palm-sized gift and stuffed it into her hand like a magic trick.

"This is... ah!"

In the next moment, Yan Ruyu said in surprise.

"Where did Brother Shi get it?"

Where did it come from?Of course it's a baby from the supermarket, but it's actually just a portable makeup mirror.

A few days later, Shi Yiwen led his fleet and set sail again. The difference from last time was that this time his fleet consisted of four ships. "A two-masted schooner of the same class.

The difference from last time is that there are more than [-] "apprentices" on the "Black Wind" this time. These "apprentices" were selected by Shi Yiwen among the [-] Liaodong refugees. Both have read books and know a little math, that's the most important thing.Navigation is inseparable from numbers. Whether it is measuring longitude with the clock method or measuring latitude with a sextant, mathematics is required.

As long as they can learn these two, they will be able to solve the biggest problem in the Age of Discovery—Where I am, where to go.

Not only longitude is required, but even the measurement of speed also requires mathematics.Navigation technology is definitely a science. It can even be said arbitrarily that it was the desire for overseas colonies and overseas wealth in the age of great navigation that promoted the development of navigation technology, and then comprehensively promoted the level of science and technology in Europe.

Engineering, astronomy, mathematics, metallurgy, chemistry, etc. are more or less connected with navigation.

"start!"

Following an order, the trainee held the pocket watch in his hand and started timing, while the other sailor held the hemp rope, one end of which was tied with a triangular plank, floating on the sea, and the other end was wound in the rope car, as As the sailboat moves forward, the rope is continuously released from the rope car, slipping through the palm of the sailor into the sea.

"stop!"

The seaman in charge of the pocket watch shouted, and the sailor in charge of the rope reported a number, which was the number of knots that passed his palm during this time.By calculating this amount and time, the speed at which you are sailing can be obtained.

After knowing this speed, the captains of European countries in this era will mark the current position of the ship on the chart according to the direction of navigation.

This is the standard way of measuring speed on European ships and is why seagoing speed is measured in "knots".The current "Black Wind" also adopts the same method. After all, Shi Yiwen is a layman at all in traditional navigation, and even these are what he learned by reading European navigation books translated from Japanese in his study in Beigang Of course, if he has the opportunity in the future, he will still have more European navigation technology books translated.

Soon, those trainees reported a number, and their calculation results were all the same—section 16.2.

"Okay, now let's measure the latitude with the sextant!"

Shi Yiwen said loudly.

"You have to remember that the measurement of latitude and longitude is related to the lives of the entire ship, and it is also the biggest problem in navigation. I am there, and the most effective way to get there is that every captain must learn to master knowledge."

(End of this chapter)