Chapter 144: Sailing to the East China Sea
The Tang and Song dynasties were the second peak period in the history of ancient shipbuilding in China. Pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info Tang Dynasty inland river boats, more than 20 zhang long, carrying six or seven hundred people has been common. Some ships can actually open gardens to grow flowers and vegetables, and there are hundreds of sailors alone, and the size of the boat can be imagined. The shipbuilding bases of the Tang Dynasty were mainly in Xuan (Xuancheng), Run (Zhenjiang), Chang (Changzhou), Su (Suzhou), Hu (Huzhou), Yang (Yangzhou), Hangzhou (Hangzhou), Yue (Shaoxing), Taiwan (Linhai), Wu (Jinhua), Jiang (Jiujiang), Hong (Nanchang), Dengzhou (Yantai) on the eastern coast, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou and other places on the southern coast. These shipbuilding bases have shipbuilding workshops that can build all kinds of large and small river boats, sea boats, and warships.
The building ships made by the Sea Dragon Gang are actually the warships that have been handed down from the Han Dynasty to this day, and they have built one castle after another on the sea. Therefore, no one would dare to rob the ships of the Sea Dragon Gang, and almost all of the best shipbuilders in the Tang Dynasty were in the Sea Dragon Gang.
The Dragon Scale is different from the usual building ship, and is more similar to the Zheng He treasure ship type that attracted much discussion later. The structure is as tall as a building, the bottom culet is wide, the head and tail are high, the head and tail are square, there are guard plates on both sides, and the cabin is a watertight compartment structure. The bottom tip is conducive to breaking waves, deep draft, good stability, safe and comfortable, able to sail long distances and smaller than the building ship, which can reduce the manpower of operation.
During the few days of the boat journey, Helan Qiyou spent half of his time directing the helm outside, dispatching more than 100 people on board, and accompanying Qingxuan for the other half of the time. But she didn't have a lot of time to be alone, she found the booklet that Zixuan put away for her again, and she continued to draw the route from home and the scenery she saw and heard in various places with her memory.
Although she wasn't sure if she needed to record it in such detail, after all, she didn't have the heart to go back to Sea Dragon Valley at this time. Recently, the relationship with Helan Qiyou is very harmonious, and even Qingxuan is surprised that her husband is not disgusted with her with such a strong and independent personality.
However, regardless of whether she has married or not, since her father Ao Guangdi talked about her desire to move to the valley, she has always wondered where she can find a good place suitable for the dragon clan. For her, helping and fulfilling her father's wishes is what she has always pursued. Before she knew it, she had drawn a lot of maps, landscapes, and written books.
casually looked at the poem that Helan Qiyou had mentioned in her painting before, and the content really made her smile.
If you look closely, you can see that the handwriting is not only beautiful, but it seems to have been seen elsewhere, but where is it?
"Still drawing?"
Helan Qiyou came in silently, looking at the high-grade rice paper on the table piled up a small mountain, he wisely just raised his eyebrows and did not object.
"Hmm... Have you eaten it?"
"I've eaten it. ”
Qingxuan recently finally thought of doing her duty as a wife, picking out clothes for him in the morning and putting them on, and caring if he had eaten when he had time. Then he's usually in a good mood, and that good mood lasts all night.
"You don't like embroidery except for painting and playing the piano?" he asked her, pretending to be inadvertent.
Of course, she didn't dislike it, and her embroidery skills were also famous in the Valley of the Sea Dragons. It's just that the old sachet found in the old house in Hangzhou is still too impressive in her heart. She also thought that he would not wear other embroidery products, so Zixuan was collecting embroidery threads in Hangzhou that day, and she didn't say anything.
That day, Duan Tan Master and Mrs. Long took a few of them to visit the market, Zixuan was attracted by the embroidery thread of a shop, and Qingxuan was still a little unhappy about Helan praying for Helan and going to worship Zheng Rou with Mrs. Qing in private.
She was naturally angry not because he remembered the old love and went to worship, but everything in Hangzhou reminded her of the importance of the old man to him, including the old things he had been collecting, and the lady Qing who would never let him forget the old things.
After Helan Qiyou took her home from Duan's mansion, she never asked him about this matter again.
She didn't ask, and he didn't say it, the two had an insurmountable distance.