Chapter 328 The boat is a horse, and the giant sea is Yigeng

Before the Qin and Han dynasties, China was founded on virtue, especially for the king, the first thing is virtue.

In Lu Shang's "Six Taos", it is said that kings have six virtues, one is benevolence, two is righteousness, three is loyalty, four is faith, five is bravery, and six is conspiracy.

Both of these are benevolence and righteousness, which refer to the king's ability to listen to the advice of his courtiers.

But just because you can listen to it doesn't mean you can give random examples.

Gai Hua is a person who learns great etiquette, as if he is a 'virtuous minister', so when chatting with the king, it is inevitable to talk about some ancient history cases.

This is also the reason why Wang Xu kept him by his side, because from Gai Hua, he can always hear some historical stories that he doesn't understand.

But it may be that Gaihua has not been in contact with such a listening king for too long, so he is always prone to excitement when he speaks, so that he talks endlessly.

The so-called too many words must be lost.

It is also the place where the public loses the moment the most, so when he heard that Gai Hua actually began to criticize the emperor of the Shang Dynasty, the public loser was so frightened that his face turned blue.

"The emperor often discusses the country of Emperor Xin with me, and there are no taboos." Gai Hua raised his hand and patted away the salty and wet stinky hands of the public, "The gentleman is frank and sloppy, and the party is the basis of the great gift." ”

"Even so, it's useless for my brother to talk about the door, when he talks about scriptures, he is as stupid as a rotten Confucian, and the brothers finally have a place to stay." Gong Yu quietly breathed a sigh of relief and rolled his eyes.

I thought to myself, if I really angered the scales, it is estimated that they would have soaked in the water and gone down the river.

"Although it has only been a few days, Guzhu is indeed a mysterious place." Gaiva grinned as if he had thought of something.

"It doesn't matter if it's mysterious or not, as long as you can recuperate." Gong Yi shook his head, and then glanced at Wang Xu with palpitations, "This emperor seems to be friendly, but in fact it is strange and impermanent, and it is meticulous and cautious to the point of outrageous, the pioneer scouts along the way have already explored the river, and still did not give the order to set sail, but prepared a battalion of fifty miles, preparing to set up beacon towers along the way, you said that this eastern wilderness land, is he so cautious?"

"If you have this finesse, the public loser will not be so down." Gaihua snorted.

The corners of his mouth twitched, and he touched his nose with a sneer, "It's the trend of the times, it's not my sin." ”

"No matter how big or small, no big thing is going to be the big trend." Gai Hua shook his head, "Cang Yu is really okay?" ”

"You're questioning the ability of our public losers." The public was a little displeased.

"I'm just questioning your attitude." Gai Hua patted his head for fear of losing the moment, "Although the voyage is expected to take three days, we must be prepared to be in the river for half a month without sinking and seeping." ”

"Half a moon in the river? The man would have been shaken to death. Gong Jie rolled his eyes.

"Wu Yue people are horses, and the giant sea is Yi Geng. This is the standard that the emperor wants. Gai Hua frowned.

"Standard?" The public was stunned.

"The standard, but the straight standard, there is no curved shadow in the end, the accurate, so the flat and the correct also." Gai Hua said with his chin tilted slightly, looking proud.

Gong Yi's eyes lit up, and then he looked at Gai Hua's expression, "The emperor is really an extraordinary person, in a word, my public is weaker than the Mo family for a hundred years." ”

"Can't it be for my brother?" Gaihua rolled his eyes.

"If my brother has this talent, why did he return when he saw King Qi three times?" Gong Zheng also pouted.

"That's King Qi's mediocrity!" Gaihua snorted angrily and walked away.

Gong Yiju shrugged his shoulders, turned around and picked among the hundreds of boats docked on the riverbank, and finally found one and said to his subordinates, "Listen, check all the boats, use this as a standard, the score is exactly the same, and the rest will be reshaped!" ”

"You're such a clever little wit." Wang Xu couldn't laugh or cry when he looked at the ship that Yu Chun had 'invented' himself.

In ancient shipbuilding, the biggest problem was waterproofing, especially the filling of gaps in wooden boards.

Originally, Wang Xu built a boat with the help of local trees, using the oldest and most primitive method of making canoes, as long as the giant trees were hollowed out and then filled.

However, the boat made by this method is a bit heavy and difficult to control the speed, so it can only be used as a ship to transport materials, and it is safer to use a wooden board boat for people to sit on a boat.

So the waterproofing of the plank boat has become a problem, originally with cement and tung oil caulking waterproof, but by the sudden summer rain, the construction period is advanced, the supply of raw materials has become a big problem, the public moment first proposed to use the double bottom of the ship, fill the most primitive clay and animal blood in the seam of the ship, rattan branches to do waterproofing, this technology is a common waterproof technology in ancient buildings.

The Mawangdui Han Tomb uses this technique.

I may not know where Yu Chun was inspired, but he even thought of using molten iron to slip the seam for waterproofing, and pouring hot freshly melted iron on the wood, the effect can be imagined.

A good deck, burned pit bags.

Facing Yu Chun's sincere and simple smiling face, Wang Xu couldn't cry or laugh.

"What does the Emperor think?" Yu Chun bared his white teeth, "The iron juice is smelted quickly, and the material is easy to extract, much faster than the juice." ”

"The idea is right." Wang Xu smiled, "But the cost is too high, your ship burned a lot of wood." ”

Yu Chun patted his chest, "There is wood, this boat is more explained, even if it touches the reef, it is not afraid." ”

"But it's sinking fast." Wang Xu chuckled and said, "Originally, a boat that could carry ten people, after adding these iron juices, it could only sit six or seven, and in the voyage, the weight of the hull and the buoyancy are difficult to balance, and when the waves are encountered, it will be flooded. ”

Yu Chun was stunned when he heard this, and pointed to Yu Huangdao, "Yu Huang, they sailed into the water." ”

"You're in the lake, not the river." Wang Xu smiled and patted Yu Chun's shoulder, "Let's go down the river this time, with the help of not manpower but the river, and when we return to the city, you can mention this idea to the dumb er, maybe we can build a boat that can sail in the water." ”

Yu Chun looked at his masterpiece, then at Wang Xu, and bowed his head with some interest, "It's that the minister is too stupid, if he is dumb, maybe he can get along better." ”

The tone was annoyed like that of a child.

Wang Xu was slightly stunned, and his eyes fell on the burned wounds on Yuchun's instep and calf.

"General Yu saw that the emperor had been frowning all day long because of the shipbuilding, and wanted to worry about the king." Jin Idiot, who was on the side, suddenly explained.

Wang Xu's chest was inexplicably stuffy after hearing this, and he felt that the depression that had been squeezed recently was counterattacking in his blood, and his throat was a little choked.

"What are you doing with all this gossip." Yu Chun turned his head and glared at Jin Idiot, raised a smirk and said to Wang Xu, "General Mo Geng sent back a message in the morning, and more than 40 lighthouses have been set up along the way, which is convenient for night travel as a navigation mark, except for encountering several waves of barbarian tribes, and there are no people, and the most vanguard scouts seem to have reached the end of the coast that the emperor said, and there seem to be signs of artificial reclamation on both sides of the river. ”

Wang Xu rolled his eyes a little sour, sat on Yu Chun's half-iron boat, and asked with a smile, "Are there any casualties?" ”

"There were a few casualties, but they weren't heavy, and they were all Buyeong." Yu Chun frowned and said, "I suspect that it was injured when I was waiting for an opportunity to escape." ”

"It's hard work, the order is to let all the soldiers of the expeditionary force start to rest today, and hand over all the work to the Wuqing Army to launch and overhaul the aftermath." Wang Xu said.

Yu Chun was stunned, and his eyes widened in surprise, "Are you going to sail?" ”

"Well, by the way, I'm going to have dinner today." Wang Xu got up and patted Yu Chun's shoulder, "Thank you." ”

Then he turned and walked away.

Yu Chun didn't seem to hear what was said behind him, and his face was dazed.

Jin Zhi squinted at the back of Wang Xu leading people to leave on horseback, and then turned his head to look at a young man beside him who was of medium stature, not very strong, and looked like a farmer, and asked in a loud voice, "How?" ”

"It seems to be immortal and not human, and it seems to be benevolent and unique." The young man shook his head and grinned, "This kind of incomprehensible and uncertain king is really not a good wood. ”

Jin Idiot touched the stubble on his chin and said with a smile: "Xiao Ai admires him very much." ”

"The foolishness of a woman." The young man snorted.

When Wang Xu returned to the palace, it was already sunset, because of the large number of trees cut down in the past week, the area around the palace was much larger.

But in addition to the vastness, there is a little more barrenness.

"The emperor came back early." Lu Ai, dressed in a white robe, came out of the pavilion with a pottery vessel in his hand, shaped like a large tea pot in later generations.

"What? Can you even figure out when I'll come? Wang Xu took the teapot and drank all the unknown potions that were still warm in it.

"Thousands of boats, the emperor will always order for a while." Lu Ai looked up at Wang Xu and took the teapot, "The emperor's complexion seems to have improved." ”

"Probably your hot medicine is working." Wang Xu let out a sigh, sat in the gazebo, and pulled the collar of his outer robe, revealing the inner armor that reflected the afterglow inside.

"If it works, the emperor won't stay up all night." Lu Ai sighed softly, "The external evil is easy to get rid of, but the internal evil is a chronic disease, and ordinary medicine is difficult to treat." ”

"In Xianmen, my disease is called anxiety disorder." Wang Xu fiddled with the newly dried paper on the wooden table of the gazebo, "The quality of the new paper seems to have improved." ”

"The formula has changed, and the effect is not bad, but it is still far from the emperor's requirements." Lu Ai pursed her lips and squatted in the boiling hot furnace water as she threw the teapot again.

"The disinfection work does not need to be so cumbersome, and it is easy to stimulate other toxins after steaming for a long time." Wang Xu smiled.

"I thought the emperor had a clean disease." Lu Ai raised his eyebrows slightly.

"How do you feel?" Wang Xu looked at Lu Ai suspiciously, "My room is not tidy." ”

"The emperor has everything in detail, and he will bow down to everything, which will inevitably hinder people's hearts." Lu Ai is colored.

"Well, yes, you mean, I do a little too much?" Wang Xu asked with a smile.

"It's just recently." Lu Ai blinked, and his expression was a little unnatural to avoid Wang Xu's gaze, "Although the emperor didn't show anything, but between his gestures, he still made us feel urgent, if it weren't for the fact that you were a little relieved of the evil today, you wouldn't dare to speak arrogantly." ”

"yes, I've really been doing a lot lately? Why didn't I feel it? Wang Xu rolled up his sleeves and removed the arm guard from his arm.

Lu Ai looked at the arm guards that were thrown on the wooden table, and the beads of sweat on them flashed with the elite, "The Emperor's Palace is in the center of the camp, and the candle flame is not extinguished overnight, which is enough to make it difficult for us to sleep and eat, and it is a death crime for the minister." ”

Wang Xu narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked softly, "What kind of kings have you seen?" ”

"What is recorded in the book may be as virtuous as an emperor, but if it comes to the world, it may not be a blessing for the people." Lu Ai pondered for a moment, and said with some restraint, "It will appear that the courtiers are useless and the people are disloyal." ”