Chapter 261: The Phantom of the Turtle
Liu Chan also waved his hand to them and said to Sima Hui: "Mr. Shuijing, he is worthy of being a master in the world and a famous person in the world, and his words really count." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Before he finished speaking, Liu Chan was completely attracted by the turtle-shaped boat, and when he looked at it closely, the strange shape and momentum of the turtle-shaped ship were extremely shocking, and Liu Chan was stunned.
The bow of the boat is a high-spirited and hideous iron dragon head, and there is a tubular opening in the mouth of the dragon head. There is a protruding and huge iron anchor under the front dragon head, and on the anchor is a "skeletal grimace", which is supposed to be a combat tool for ramming enemy ships. It's chilling, chilling all over the body.
The upper part of the turtle ship is a closed deck, covered with hexagonal turtle plates, and the iron armor has dense knives and awl-shaped iron skewers. The enclosed deck protects oarsmen and sailors from bow and arrow fire. When fighting at sea, the sharp cones that cover the armor on the top deck of the ship can serve as a deterrent to the enemy's attempts to climb the ship, preventing the enemy from grabbing the ship with his hook and claw to climb the ship for face-to-face hand-to-hand combat.
The turtle boat has twelve oars on each side and more than seventy-two arrow muzzles, which can be used to poke spears or shoot arrows. Like a standard house boat, a turtle boat has two masts and a pair of sails. It can be propelled by both paddles and sails. The bottom of the boat is U-shaped, with smooth and graceful lines, and the stern is cocked, which is fast and light, and the steering and U-turn are convenient.
The whole design is ingenious, vivid, and breathtaking.
Liu Chan's face was full of admiration, and he secretly sighed at Sima Hui's generosity.
Suddenly, Liu Chan found that behind the two turtle boats, there were huge ships and several huge waterwheels, slowly turning on the impact of the surging and roaring dark river water, making a "chirping" sound, and the momentum was amazing.
After reading it, Liu Chan and Zhao Yun walked into the cabin of the turtle-shaped ship, where more than 30 people were already seated, including Sima Hui, the first ninja of the Skull Society, the leader of the Yamaguchi group, the ice-blooded Sima Zhi, the three generations of Sima Qi's ancestors and grandchildren, the left protector Du Xi, the leader of the Shuikou group, the deputy leader of the group Gu Yan and Shadow, and the deputy leader of the Yamaguchi group, Yanyu and Wushui.
Idle, Liu Chan and Zhao Yun walked up and down, visited the turtle boat cabin, and feasted their eyes. Sima Hui sent Bu Lianying to follow and supervise them.
Under the guidance and introduction of Bu Lianying, Liu Chan basically figured out the structure of the entire ship.
This turtle boat is a three-deck ship. There are three layers in the hull: upper, middle and lower. The upper floor is the organ operation room, the command cabin, the meeting room, the dining room, the cabin, etc., the two floors of the guest's turtle boat, and the middle floor is the fire compartment, which is used for the shooting of arrows and crossbows. The lower deck is the power compartment, which provides paddle power for the ship and loads combat materials. The cabin has 30 cabins, such as cabins and warehouses, which can accommodate more than 80 sailors and 60 oarsmen. There are a number of large buckets on board that are used to release stored water to extinguish fires on board.
In the mouth of the dragon's head, there is a pipe connected to the stove for generating smoke in the cabin, and in the event of war, it can produce poisonous gas by burning sulfur and flame salt, and spit out poisonous gas like a fog, causing the enemy to panic. As a form of psychological warfare, the dragon's head and the back of the turtle covered with iron cones, coupled with the clouds and mist, constitute a deterrent and intimidating image of a turtle descending from the sky, which can also frighten the enemy.
When I came to the operation room, it was full of huge gears, shafts, chains, and conveyor belts, which were like a maze. It has the same magic as the mechanism of later generations, and some parts of the mechanism are not far behind, and there are even more than that.
Liu Chan couldn't help but sigh at the advanced and advanced science and technology of ancient China, especially the Mohists were scientists and senior technicians from the giants to the ordinary disciples.
In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were hundreds of schools of thought such as Confucianism, Taoism, Mo, Law, Name, Miscellaneous, Soldiers, Vertical and Horizontal, Yin and Yang, novels, and Fang Techniques, and the grand occasion of "a hundred schools of thought contending and a hundred flowers blooming" was unprecedented. All schools have basically completed their own ideological systems, and sages such as Confucius, Laozi, Mozi, Mencius, Xunzi, Zhuangzi, Han Feizi, Shang Ying, and Sun Tzu have emerged one after another, which can be described as unprecedented, and China's philosophical, social, political, and humanistic thought has been developed to a peak state. "The vast nine factions flow China", the grandeur of a great country has been laid!
In the Qin period, Legalism was relied upon, and Taoism was advocated in the early Han Dynasty, and there was no distinction between respect and inferiority for each sect and the end. It was not until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty implemented the subjective dictatorship policy of "deposing a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" that Confucianism was able to enjoy exclusive honor, and the model of "rule by etiquette" and "rule by virtue", that is, "rule by man", lasted for more than 2,000 years.
Since then, Chinese civilization has suffered unprecedented self-castration, and there is no longer the grand occasion of "a hundred schools of thought contending", and a single mode of thought has created feudal autocracy. In particular, the spirit of science and technology represented by the Mohists and the rule of law of the Legalists has been blocked for a long time, almost stagnating, far behind the countries of Western Europe and North America.
Confucian culture also went to erosion due to excessive maturity, to extreme closedness, conservatism, rigidity and rigidity, and finally became a pool of stagnant water in the late Qing Dynasty. China began a tragic journey that lasted for a hundred years.
Thinking of this, Liu Chan secretly said: What would happen if the country was founded by the "rule of law" of Legalism, supplemented by the "science and technology" of Mohism and the "rule by virtue" of Confucianism? !
Looking at the huge and exquisite gears, Liu Chan touched the steering wheel of the general organ, and was determined to take the development direction of the giant ship of history, with the rule of law and democracy as the forerunner, and science and technology and the rule of virtue as the rear wheel, so that the giant ship of Chinese civilization could break through the waves and advance vigorously along the broad road of rule of law, democracy, civilization, and prosperity. There will be times when the wind and waves will be long, and the clouds will sail into the sea.
Bu Lianying said that the power of the ship can be provided by the starting mechanism, and if the power is insufficient, it can be powered by a human paddle.
Liu Chan was amazed, and suddenly thought that if he could have these two turtles, he would play a surprise role in dealing with Sun Quan or Cao Cao in the future. I was thinking about how I could get my hands on the turtle-shaped ship.
Suddenly, Liu Chan rolled his eyes, patted his head, calculated his heart, and had an idea in his heart, and couldn't help laughing.
When he came to the third floor of the turtle boat, seeing that there was no one around, Liu Chan curiously asked about the Dark River Giant Ship and the waterwheel, and Bu Lianying quietly told a shocking secret.
It turned out that ten years ago, Sima Hui, with the help of Pang Degong, Huang Chengyan, and Xu Shu, successfully persuaded Liu Biao, and received Liu Biao's strong support, spent a huge amount of money, consumed a lot of manpower and material resources, and built a large number of buildings, turning the Baishi Cave into a huge castle within a radius of 200 meters.
When Liu Chan and Zhao Yun heard this, they were so shocked that they opened their mouths, were dumbfounded, and stood on the spot.
Liu Chan sighed in his heart: Sima Hui's secrets are so many! Mr. Shuijing, how many treasures do you have that you haven't unearthed?
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