The thing that came to mind was that when we were talking about how to make a sailboat sail against the wind, Miko once said that when the wind was light, the sails would be lowered and people would row the boat forward with oars or pennies.

When the wind is strong, simply drop anchor and park the boat in the water, or moor it on the shore and wait for the wind to lighten up.

For this reason, he and others also specially made a lot of oars that matched sailboats.

How did this get to the point where it is now?

Lame really wanted to ask the doubts in his heart.

However, after so many years of life, the lame is still the lame, but some places have become a little different, such as in the sophistication of human feelings.

"Miko, didn't you say ...... before?"

Limp thought of these things, and the rest of the people also thought of this thing.

But they're not like lame.

With the attitude of asking if you don't understand, someone soon asked such doubts in your heart.

Han Dashenzi, who was secretly rejoicing in his heart there, was stunned when he heard this.

The corners of his mouth tugged at him.

Can we not be so upright?

……

In the river in front of the Qingque tribe, the sailboat that was tied up was once again untied.

Four people who often row flat-bottomed boats and have good water skills, control them on the boat.

Because there had never been such a ship in the tribe before, and there were still many gaps between this crudely made sailboat and a mature sailboat, the sailing thing did not go very smoothly.

When a few people controlled the boat, they looked very rusty.

"Take control of the boat and go downstream, the water here is too narrow to control."

Han Cheng stood here and waited for a while before opening his mouth and said.

After hearing his words, the sailors, who were already a little sweaty, began to control the sailboat and turn its head towards the lower reaches of the river.

At this time, the east wind is blowing, and this section of the river is also from east to west.

When the head of the sailboat was not completely turned, the wind blew on the sail from the diagonal front, and the sailboat was still moving diagonally forward, but when the men on the boat had straightened the bow with penny, and after facing the wind, the sailboat did not go forward.

Not only did they not move forward, but they even went backwards.

This kind of thing made the rowers a little confused, and the rest of the people watching from the shore couldn't help but be a little confused.

Anyway, didn't Miko just say that if the bow of the ship was facing the wind, the wind would produce some force behind the sails?

Why isn't this working now?

Han Cheng, the god son of the Qingque tribe, was also a little stunned when he looked at the scene in front of him.

What's the going on?

How did it become the way it is now?

That's exactly what the memories come up in my head.

After being stunned for a while, Han Cheng had basically determined that he was pitted by his vague memories that were not reliable at all, like a burst of inspiration.

The wind blew from the front onto the sailboat and swept across the sides, and then formed something behind it with some kind of thrust, and nine times out of ten it was a mistake for me.

"Prop up the boat with the penny and tilt the bow diagonally in front of the opposite bank!"

Han Dashenzi's insight ability is still very good.

Although he was almost certain that what he had remembered before was wrong, he could see something else from the previous voyage of the sailboat.

Immediately he hurriedly shouted.

After hearing his voice, several people on the ship immediately began to operate as he said.

Make a U-turn with a penny so that the head of the sailboat is diagonally facing the opposite shore.

And then in this era, what seems like a miracle happens.

The sailboat, which was still blowing in the wind just now, couldn't stop retreating backwards, but at this time not only stopped the trend of retreating, but also began to sail diagonally forward!

It can be seen that several people on the boat did not use pennies to support the boat, and they sailed forward completely by the wind.

Because the river is not wide here, the boat has sailed diagonally towards the opposite side for some distance, and it is basically almost on the other side.

The men did not feel much panic at this, and stuck the penny in their hands into the water, and with a little more force in their hands, the sailboat had already changed direction.

The bow of the boat was quickly straightened and ran parallel to the river.

With their previous experience, this time there was no need for Han Cheng on the shore to say anything again, they had already turned the bow of the boat to the shore where Han Cheng and the others were located.

After adjusting the direction, they pulled the penny out of the water, dragged it on the water, and let the sailboat go diagonally under the wind.

When the sailboat approached the shore where Han Cheng and the others were again, they once again lit the bottom of the river with a penny to make the boat turn.

In this way, the sailboat takes on a zigzag shape all the way towards the lower reaches of the river.

Han Cheng and the others walked along the river bank and followed the sailboat all the way downstream.

In this process, the people on the sailboat are becoming more and more familiar with the sailboat, and the people who control it gradually become proficient.

After walking all the way down for about three or four miles, the water became much more open.

As if knowing that the Qingque tribesmen were going to experiment with a sailboat that they had managed to come up with, the wind was very face-saving and never stopped.

The water is wider, and it is easier to sail.

Several sailors also became quite skilled.

They used pennies to control the direction of the sailboat, trying to make it crosswind, downwind, and against the wind.

It is said to be against the wind, but it is not really against the wind.

When the boat is sailing in the wind, it is necessary to make some tilts to let the sails be oblique to the wind, and correspondingly, the sailboat needs to go 'zigzag'.

Moreover, except when the wind is particularly positive, most of the rest of the time, there will be some deviations in the navigation of the ship, which requires people to use a penny to adjust a course from time to time to prevent it from yawing.

After a short half a day, I watched the more and more skilled people who controlled the control of the sailboat, and the sailboat that was constantly sailing under the control of several people.

Han Cheng gradually frowned.

He frowned because she had suddenly remembered something.

It's a matter of how to control the ship's steering.

Nowadays, the people of the tribe use penny, which looks very convenient and easy to use.

But Han Cheng still found the problem from inside.

His purpose in letting the people of the tribe make sailboats was ultimately to let the sails of the tribe sail on the rivers and seas.

The water there is so deep that it can be described as bottomless.

At that time, it will be unrealistic to use penny to control the course of the ship.

Because there is no such long penny at all.

And even if there is such a long penny, no one can ignore the buoyancy of such a long thing in the water, and insert it into the bottom of the water to control the course of the ship.

So after thinking about it in his heart for a while, Han Chengcheng gave a new order to the people on the sailboat.

He told them to stop using penny pennies to control the direction of the boat and to use oars instead.

On the big river and the sea, the penny can't reach the end, and the oars that are originally fluctuating on the water surface can still be used.

Hearing Han Cheng's words, several people on the boat abandoned the penny as they said and began to use the oars placed on the sailboat to control the direction of the sailboat.

Compared to using a penny to control the direction of the boat, it is slow and stiff when controlled with an oar.

You need to keep paddling the water with the oars on one side, so that the sailboat will turn slowly and not fast.

Moreover, standing on top of the boat and holding a penny in his hand, he can control the direction of the ship at will, but he cannot use oars.

The exception, of course, is the narrow one, where one person can master two oars, and the oars are on either side of the boat.

When the time comes, Han Cheng wants to make the sailboat very big, and this kind of thing of one person mastering the sculls is obviously impossible to happen on the sailboat.

So each of the four men held an oar in his hand, in groups of two, on either side of the boat, and paddled to know the direction of the boat.

Trying to see which way the boat was turning, the two people on the other side began to paddle hard with the oars they held in their hands, while the other two remained still.

Because of the wind direction, it is necessary to adjust the course of the ship more frequently, which is much more troublesome than using penny.

It didn't take long for these people to sweat all over......

Han Cheng stood here, looking at the sailboat sailing under the control of a few people, and frowned slightly.

He still doesn't look down on the current approach to turning.

This approach seems too clumsy.

It takes a lot of manpower and material resources, and the steering effect is not very good.

Nowadays, the experiment is still carried out by small sailing boats, and if this is the case, when there are large galleons in the tribe, how many people should be used to distribute on both sides of the sailing ship to control the direction of the sailboat?

And the place where we are now can be called calm.

If you come to the rough river and the sea, or encounter some more urgent situations, then it is even more inadequate to use such means to control the steering of the ship.

What other way to control the ship than to use pennies and oars to steer?

Han Cheng frowned and fell into deep thought.

At noon, at Han Cheng's signal, several people on the boat began to steer the boat upstream, and some people who were visiting the shore such as Han Cheng and Lame walked back along the river bank.

Several sailboats were stopped on the edge of the pier.

In order to prevent the sailboat from running around, they not only tied it up with a cable, but also lowered the sail at Han Cheng's signal.

In this way, it can effectively prevent the sailboat from running around in the wind.

After these things were done, several people got off the sailboat, their legs were a little weak, and they all felt exhausted.

After such a half-day period, they will be tired......

"Tell me how you feel about this sailboat for the past half a day, and what you feel is not working well and needs to be changed."

Under the shade of the trees by the river, Han Cheng, who had washed his face and upper body with clear river water, sat down on a stone, and looked at the people who had basically washed their faces with river water, or who were washing their faces, and said aloud.

After hearing Han Cheng say this, he took the lead in opening his mouth after thinking about it.

"I don't think the steering of the sailboat is good, especially after you can't use penny, you can only use oars, which is very difficult."

After the lame words came out, they immediately attracted everyone's approval.

In particular, the four sailors who had been controlling the sailboat all morning pointed their heads like chickens pecking rice.

They definitely empathize with the problem that the cripple said.

Because now that their arms are slightly raised, they can feel the tiredness that comes from them.

I feel very uncomfortable washing my face.

It's all about controlling the direction of the ship.

"The sails seem to be a little weak, and it is not easy to ...... against the wind"

"Sometimes, it's not easy to find out where the wind is blowing from, and you can't adjust the boat quickly......

After the limp took the lead in speaking, the rest of the people also spoke one after another, saying some of the problems they felt in their experiences this morning.

Lame and the rest of the carpenters here write down all the problems that everyone has said, and the next thing they need to do is how to solve them.

After these problems are solved, the sailing ships in the tribe can be further improved, and the performance can be improved.

However, there are some things that don't need to be lame for them, because the first time they heard this question, Han Cheng, who had the memory of the afterlife, had already thought of a solution to the problem.

For example, it is difficult to find the direction of the wind.

"You can tie a little strip of cloth or other light things to the mast or the rest of the ship, and see the direction in which they are blown by the wind, and you will know where the wind is blowing."

Han Cheng said.

Regarding the weather vane, he really didn't think of it before.

Now that someone said this, I immediately realized this matter, and then remembered the weather vane.

Of course, in addition to this method, there are many ways to identify the direction of the wind.

For example, some mature sailors only need to wet their fingers with saliva and feel the wind to know exactly where the wind is blowing from.

Of course, such a mature sailor does not exist in the Blue Sparrow Tribe.

Therefore, they can only accumulate experience on the basis of simple basic methods, and slowly become experienced veteran sailors.

After hearing Han Cheng say this, everyone present couldn't help but light up in front of them.

Many people's minds have successively appeared in the minds of the tribe's green finch flags, under the blowing of the wind, rattling.

The matter of the weather vane was also solved with these reactions of everyone.