Chapter 681: Lighthouse
Li An kicked the black bean's ass angrily, the fish tank is used to raise fish, if the crabs are put in together, the fish will definitely not escape the crab's big pincers, and they will lose their skin if they are not pincerated.
Black Bean smiled and threw the crab back into the bamboo basket, jumped and ran back, everyone was not very tired, and after a little rest, he followed Li An back to his residence.
Except for the lucky ones of the colorful fish and guppies, which are kept in a glass tank, the rest of the seafood is washed and cooked, and this is the seafood for dinner.
Along the way, every meal of Ang Lee is at least eight dishes, both lunch and dinner, and breakfast is relatively small, so there will not be so many eight plates, but it is also a lot.
If you only eat seafood, it is estimated that you will not be able to make up eight plates for dinner, so there are other meals to match, at least to ensure Ang Lee's nutrition, and the taste should also be very important.
In addition to inviting subordinates, Ang Lee eats alone most of the time, which makes him a little lonely and more comfortable at the same time.
After dinner, Ang Lee took a walk on the beach and took a look at the night view of the port.
The whole port is a little desolate, however, because of the arrival of the Tang fleet, many ships are moored in the port, and at night, because each ship has someone on duty, there are waiting for the fire to be lit, and it looks relatively warm.
In the backward times, ships enter and leave the port during the day, and at night because of the lack of light, it is easy to be dangerous, so as long as it is not a last resort, no one wants to take this risk.
However, Ang Lee's goal is to build this port into a large international port in the future, and it is also an all-weather port, no matter day or night, to meet the needs of ships entering and leaving the port, as well as unloading and loading, only in this way can we better improve efficiency, avoid the backlog of materials, improve the efficiency of port operation, generate greater profits, and promote the rapid development of commerce.
In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to build night lighting and guidance facilities, after enough lighting settings, the loading and unloading of goods at night can be seen clearly, not easy to appear dangerous, and as long as the construction of enough reliable guidance facilities, ships can smoothly enter and exit the port at night.
As long as there is the lighting of street lights, the port can achieve the effect of bright lights, making it very easy to load and load ships.
The guidance system is the lighthouse, as long as the lighthouse is built in several key locations, the ship will become very safe when entering and leaving the port at night, and the danger will be greatly reduced.
How important the lighthouse is, the seafarers are very clear, it is the cornerstone of ensuring the safety of the voyagers, in the port, there are many dangerous areas, the presence of the lighthouse is needed.
Of course, the important role of the lighthouse is not only to guide the safety, but also an important defense facility of the port, in order to allow the ship to discover the port as soon as possible, the lighthouse must be built very tall, and the inside can be inhabited, so that standing on the top of the lighthouse, you can monitor a large area around it, as long as there is an invasion from outside, you can quickly find and attack.
As long as there are a few soldiers guarding inside, the foreign enemy cannot capture the lighthouse, and the soldiers in the lighthouse can hit the enemy outside, and at the same time, it can also sound the alarm, so that the soldiers and horses in the port can be reinforced in time to defeat these invading pirates, known as the beacon tower on the sea.
In addition, the lighthouse also has the role of psychological warfare and declaration of sovereignty, and between the two stick countries in later generations, there is a matter of using the lighthouse to swear sovereignty.
Nanbangzi built a significant lighthouse near the border, and every important festival, they would put the lighthouse with dazzling lights, so that the people of Beibangzi could see it clearly, so that the Beibangzi court was very unhappy, thinking that this behavior was a military provocation, and strongly asked the other party to turn off the lighting system of the lighthouse, so as not to affect the morale of the people.
The role of declaring sovereignty is also very obvious, in this backward era, there is no concept of territorial sea sovereignty, but in the later marine era, there are maritime rights and interests, if you have an island in the sea, then a large area of sea around this island is your territorial water.
Therefore, when a country discovers an island, or if the island is far away from the mainland and other countries do not recognize it, it needs to build a lighthouse of its own national symbol on the island, so that ships coming and going will see the island and be able to see the flag of the country and the strong will to maintain sovereignty.
To talk about the origin of the lighthouse, the earliest time is about 200 years BC, a Greek architect, on an island, built the first lighthouse in human history, providing enough guarantee for ships to enter Alexandria safely.
At the same time, because of the large size of this first lighthouse, it also became the face of a kingdom, and later, it became one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Later, in the ancient Roman Empire in the Mediterranean, very dense lighthouses were built and a huge network system was formed to ensure the safety of navigation throughout the empire.
After all, the Roman Empire was an authentic maritime empire, and the center of the empire was the vast Mediterranean Sea, and the most elite soldiers and horses of the empire were also naval forces, as well as infantry legions that could easily take ships.
After the Roman Empire, the Arabs, Indians, and the Seafood Empire gradually learned to build and use lighthouses, which greatly ensured the safety of ships.
At the beginning, the lighthouses were very backward torch lighthouses, and a rainproof shed was set up at the top of the lighthouse, which stored a large number of firewood and various flammable materials that could be burned, and then, after the popularization of glass equipment, there was a reflector lighthouse, followed by a lens lighthouse, and finally, a very advanced electric lighthouse, and the brightness of the light was getting higher and higher, and the range of irradiation was getting wider and wider.
Sailing ships can find the lighthouse from a long distance, which not only means safety, but also means going home, and seeing the lighthouse will make the seafarer's heart feel very warm.
Ang Lee knew that it was necessary to build lighthouses to return to the port in front of him, and there were many of them, but since the lighthouses were to be built, they should be larger, more magnificent, taller enough, and strong enough, and the use of reinforced concrete was a must.
In addition, the lighthouse should not only have the lighting and guidance functions of the lighthouse, but also have the ability to monitor and defend.
By placing a few fixed high-powered binoculars next to the lighthouse, you can definitely monitor the entire harbor, and you can even see ships coming from far away, so you can easily understand the situation.
In the slightly lower position of the lighthouse, you can also fire a few gun ports and set up a few guns, so that a large area around it can be well safe, and the pirate ship will never enter the port.
At present, the port has just begun to build, the labor force is very insufficient, basically the Tang soldiers are responsible for the construction in turn, there are few professional and technical personnel, and only some of the most basic houses and a few roads can be built.
Datang's construction team is getting bigger and bigger, Li An has brought a lot this time, however, along the way, there are too many places that need to be built, near Malacca is under construction, Anshi Prefecture is also under construction, however, with the gradual southward construction of Datang's local construction personnel, the pressure is becoming smaller and smaller, some of the construction technical talents in Malacca have moved westward, and after converging some talents in Anshizhou, they will march to the northwest to enter Anzhu Port and carry out large-scale construction of this future port.
The shape and technical parameters of the lighthouse have been drawn on the drawings by Ang Lee, and as long as there is enough labor and materials, it can be built at any time.
In Ang Lee's view, the order of building lighthouses must be at the top to be reasonable, after all, there are too many functions of lighthouses that are too important.
Whether it is the guidance function, the monitoring function, or the defense function, it is urgently needed in this seaport, so the next step is to build the lighthouse as soon as possible at all costs.
"Ah Lang, it's windy on the beach, let's go back to the house!"
Yun'er saw that Li An had been walking for too long, so she opened her mouth and said with concern.
Li An nodded and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's go back to the house." ”
Ang Lee's room, usually only Yun'er and the beauty are there, and other people will not come easily, but when I went in today, there was a little black girl.
"Pearl, why did you get here?"
Li An asked with a frown.
"Ah Lang, Sister Yun'er wants to see Xiaoyu, let me bring it over."
Black Pearl spoke.
Li An looked sideways, and on the table next to him, there was really a fish tank, which contained two cute little fish, and in order to look better, there were also a few pebbles in the fish tank, as well as plastic aquatic plants.
"Ah Lang, what do you want to feed this little fish, will it starve to death?"
Yuna asked.
Li An thought for a moment and replied: "Fish are not people, just drink water, don't worry, you won't die." ”
"I don't know things, can I grow up just drinking water?"
Black Pearl asked.
Li An said helplessly: "Just play, you still expect them to grow up, if they really grow up, won't the fish tank look small." ”
In fact, Ang Lee's worries are really unnecessary, such ornamental small fish, no matter how much they are fed, it is unlikely to grow very large, such as guppies, which can only grow to seven or eight centimeters at most.
Of course, although these two small fish are very beautiful, if they look at it every day, they will definitely get tired of it, Yun'er and the others like the small fish in the fish tank very much, but Li Ang can also be sure that they will not like it so much in three or five days at most, and after a month, they may lose interest completely.
"What Ah Lang said is, then we won't feed it, let's see how long these two little guys can live."
The beautiful woman said with a smile.
Li An is not too interested in the small fish in the fish tank, he is interested in the beauties around him, forget it, Li An has not spoiled any woman for three days, he is a little panicked, looking at Yun'er's eyes are different, and even, looking at a black girl like Black Pearl, he feels a little clear-eyed.
There is an old saying that after a man has been single for a long time, he will feel clear and beautiful when he sees a sow, and he will have an impulse, and hens and female dogs are naturally no exception.
In the news of later generations, doesn't this often happen, a single man raped a sow in the pigsty, making the sow scream all night, and the news of the bitch being raped is also a frequent occurrence, because the hen is too small, as long as it is poisoned, it basically does not live the next day.
"It's been a long time since I've played, let's play tonight!"
Li An opened his mouth to propose.
"Good! However, it is better to play with four people, so let the pearls stay! ”
Yuna suggested.
Since learning to play cards, Yun'er and Beauty's card skills are getting better and better, when they are idle and bored, and Ang Lee is very busy, they will run to play with Black Pearl, and Black Bean, these servants, so, Black Pearl and Black Bean, and even, many slaves who follow Ang Lee, all play cards, and when they are free, they will get together to play cards to pass the boring time.
Of course, Li An would not object, but said in advance: "It's not interesting to just play cards, there must be punishment." ”
"How does Ah Lang want to punish him this time?"
Pretty asked.
Li An thought for a moment and said, "Let's spank!" Moreover, I have to take off my pants and beat. ”
"Uh, take off your pants and hit."
Black Pearl had never played with this before, and was a little surprised.
"What's wrong, do you have any comments?"
Ang Lee asked.
"Slaves don't dare."
Pearl naturally didn't dare to disagree, but she still felt that it was too difficult to accept in her heart, Ang Lee, who usually looked serious, actually played this with the maid.
What cards to play, the four of them all know the rules, so, it didn't take long to start.
Soon, the first round was over, Black Pearl lost, and as agreed, she had to take off her pants and accept the alternating blows of Ang Lee.
Although Li Ang has long known that all parts of the black man's body are black except for the white teeth, he is really curious about how black the butt is, he has really not seen the pearl's ass after buying it for so long?
"Haha! Pearl you lost, hurry up! ”
Yun'er is an old driver, and her shyness has long faded, and she seems a little indifferent.
"Uh, do you really want to take it off?"
Black Pearl was a little twisted, after all, it was the first time, and it was very unaccustomed.
Ang Lee winked, and Yuna and the beauty immediately stepped forward, pressed the pearl on the table, and skillfully removed the pearl's pants.
Good guy, it's as black as your face, but the black one is healthy, and the black one is smooth.
"Bang Bang ......"
Li An was very polite and hit hard twice.