The blue sky is like washing, the sky is cloudless, the sea is calm, the jasper-like water pats the belly of the boat, the long wooden pole stirs up the snow-white waves, and the boat slowly sails towards the depths of the sea. There was no wind, but the sail rose to the top and was painted red, yellow and blue from top to bottom. Sun Quan climbed to the top of the mast, holding the rope in one hand and resting the other on his brow, staring at the fading shore.

There were two identical boats parked on the shore, and Yang Xiu, Ma Chao and other people who had a natural fear of the sea were on those two boats.

There are desks and seats on the flying house, and melons and fruits are placed on the table. Sun Ce and Guo Jia sat side by side, Guo Jia held a pineapple and feasted on it, eating it with juice, nodding while eating. "Delicious, delicious, so sweet. This south is good, and the melons and fruits that cannot be eaten all year round. When the world is calm, I will move to Jiaozhou. ”

Sun Ce stretched out his arms. It was midsummer noon, and although there was a cover and the sea was cooler than the land, he still felt so hot that he wanted to take off his coat and go shirtless, or simply jump into the sea and swim for a while. But there are too many people on the boat, so you can't be too presumptuous, even Guo Jia, who has always been free and easy, just pulled his clothes apart.

Yu Fu didn't sit down, he held on to the railing, staring into the distance. His palms were a little numb, and his heart was pounding. Although the results have not yet come out, looking at Sun Ce's appearance of winning the ticket, he has an ominous premonition.

It is common knowledge that the sky is round and the place is round, if even this is not true, the earth is really round as Sun Ce said, and he has studied for many years to prove that it is just behind closed doors, then what should I do?

"Wow." Tai Shi Ci on the side suddenly let out a soft snort, and then turned his head to look at Yu Fan, and a trace of sympathy flashed in his eyes.

Yu Turn's face turned pale. Although his eyesight was not as good as Tai Shici's, and although the huge building ship was only a little at this time, he could still see clearly that the ship closest to the shore was slowly disappearing as if it was sinking into the water. First the hull, then the flying house, then the three-colored sails.

The blue disappears first, then the yellow, and finally the red.

Everything is as Sun Ce said, not at all.

Yu turned silent, raised his arm, and wiped the juice beads on his forehead with his sleeve.

Sun Quan shouted loudly. "The hull of the Victor is gone, only the sails remain."

There was silence on the building for a moment, and then there was a burst of chatter, and the soldiers looked at each other, exchanged heads and ears, and even some people clung to the things around them, for fear that they would suddenly float into the air.

Sun Ce heard the discussion, looked around, showed a smug smile, and looked at Yu Chuan again. Yu Flip stood motionless, as if petrified. Huang Yueying was on tiptoe, and she also wanted to witness this sacred moment with her own eyes, but she had read too many books, and her eyesight was not as good as Tai Shici and Yu Turn, and she had long been unable to see the building boat in the distance, so she could only stomp her feet depressedly.

"How so?" Feng Wan leaned over Sun Ce and pushed Sun Ce's arm. "If the earth is round, then we keep going forward, won't we slide down?"

"I don't know about this, but I hope to test this inference with your own eyes one day." Sun Ce raised his eyebrows. "You have worked out a bigger and more stable ship sooner, and then we will be able to cross the seas. This building ship is not safe, if you really encounter wind and waves, one wave can be overturned. ”

Feng Wan was thoughtful, and her wonderful eyes showed a yearning look, a little natural.

"How big a boat does it take to get to the side of the ball?"

Sun Ce smiled but said nothing. As far as he knows, in fact, this is not a matter of large ships and small ships, Columbus found that the ships in the Americas are actually not big, at least much smaller than Zheng He's treasure ships in the Western Ocean, and may be similar to the current building ships. If he told them the characteristics of the sea ships, and then let them go to Jiaozhou to see the ships of Yi Shang, they would be able to build real sea ships in more than ten years at most.

But building a ship does not mean that you can start the voyage. He didn't want to do a face-saving project like Zheng He's trip to the West, he needed the people of the Han Dynasty to take the initiative to go to sea, either for profit or for knowledge, and it was best to have both. He can push, but he can't just throw money into it, like developing the South, there is no such motivation at the moment.

As far as the current economic and technological strength of the Great Han is concerned, there is no rival in the world with comparable strength. The reason why Huaxia finally rested on its laurels was not because it was weak, but because it was too strong, so strong that it had no opponents, so it had no motivation to look outward. It looks like it's all wild, and the devil is willing to take the risk to sail.

What he wants to do is not a day's work, not a moment's benefit, what he wants to do is to guide the elite of this era to be reborn.

For example, the Yu flip in front of you.

Yu Tuo is very smart and knowledgeable, he is one of the smartest people in this era, but the elephant number he is proud of has come to an end. This is not his responsibility alone, the development of Xiangshu Yixue to this level, doomed to have no future, the sudden rise of Yili Yixue, the decline of Confucianism, the rise of metaphysics, there are both political factors, and the inevitable stage of academic development. As a political theory, Confucianism has accumulated a lot of difficulties after 300 years of development, and it is time to reinvent itself.

It's a pity that this innovation didn't work well.

Academic history is the history of ideas, and the history of ideas is very delicate, which is inseparable from the general public and needs to be guided by the real elite. Sun Ce has thoughts, but he doesn't have enough academic literacy, and it's okay to scold each other, but it is impossible to establish a new ideological system.

He can only be a guide.

Sun Ce originally pinned his hopes on Yang Xiu, but Yang Xiu was a member of the imperial court, and Sun Ce did not want to make a wedding dress for the imperial court. Later, he counted on Gu Yong again, but Gu Yong's personality was too conservative, and this person had no problem being a moral gentleman, but he lacked the courage to reform the old and make the new. As for Shen You and others, their academics are not top-notch enough, and they are eager to make meritorious contributions, so they may not be in the mood to do academics. As for Zhang Hong, he has been famous for many years, and his thinking inertia is too great, and it is difficult to change it in a short period of time, so it was not his choice from the beginning.

Yu Flip can accomplish such a heavy task. When he was just established, he had the reputation of a madman, but he was limited to Huiji, he was smart enough, he had profound academic attainment, and his eloquence was very good, it would be a pity not to be a thinker. Sun Ce spent so much thought and specially arranged such an experiment, which was to reverse Yu Turn's thinking inertia. With his IQ, as long as he goes in the right direction, he will soon be able to make significant gains.

With the reborn, shrewd and pragmatic Yu Flip sitting in the southeast, he can rest assured that he can go north and compete for hegemony in the Central Plains.

Sun Ce looked at Yu Fang's back, just like a farmer looking at the heavy crops, and his heart was full of joy of harvest.

Yu Fu didn't speak until the two buildings disappeared below the sea level one after another, and he didn't speak. The experiment was successfully completed, Sun Ce returned to the sea, and when he returned to the port, Yang Xiu, Ma Chao and others came to greet him. Yang Xiu's face was not very good, but it was still a small thing compared to Yu Xuan. He didn't know much about the details of Sun Ce and Yu Flip, and for him, it was just Sun Ce winning another round of Yu Flip. He didn't deal with Yu Flip very well, and when he saw Yu Flip eating deflated, he was more happy than shocked, and even a little gloating.

On the shore, Yu turned away from the noisy crowd, found a place by himself, faced the sea, sat quietly, and let the evening breeze blow his clothes and face.