Without masts, there are no rigging, and the reason why a sailboat is a sailboat is because there are sails and boats. It can be arbitrarily said that the sail system above the main deck is no less complex than the hull system below the main deck. Ordinary people can't tell the difference between rope and rope when they see those rigging that are as dense as spider webs.

But those who really know the sail system know that all ropes revolve around two things: the mast and the sail. The mast is erected on the deck, and cannot be erected by its own strength alone, but must have a support cable, like a steel cable that is pulled diagonally to the ground by a telephone pole. The cables are divided into four directions: front, rear and side (on both sides), and these four directions are divided into three sections because the mast is generally divided into three sections (the mast usually hangs sails on three sides, and then develops to four sides, and in the nineteenth century the Victoria reached an astonishing five-sided), and each section has a front, rear and side four directions. Therefore, if a mast is hung with sails on three sides, then the whole mast will have twelve stalks.

Taking the mainmast as an example, the support cable of the bottom mast is bolted to the freeboard, and the main middle mast is tied to the mast and the front and rear masts, and the main upper mast is similar to the main middle mast, except that there is no mast at the upper end and only a short crossbar, but the front and rear support cables are still tied to the front and rear masts. The strut is extremely important, not only to prevent the storm from blowing the mast off, but also to prevent the mast from deforming. If you are downwind and upwind for too long, the mast will produce a certain bend. Although the sails are thin, they weigh between 0.5 kilograms and one kilogram per square meter, and the sheer weight of the sails can accelerate the deformation of the mast and cause it to finally break.

Beyond the mast slug is the sail rigging, which in turn involves the cross truss on the mast, and the sail is hung on the cross girder. There are three main sets of sail movements: reeling and releasing the sail, turning left and right, raising and lowering the truss. Rolling and unloading are just the sail itself, while turning left and right, raising and lowering trusses involve transverse beams. In order to achieve three sets of actions, there are ...... curling sail ropes, stretching sail ropes, sail foot ropes, turning sail ropes, cross truss halyards, and sail edge ropes. Similar to mast halyards, a mast with three sails will have three halyards and other control cables, and a ship with three masts will have nine halyards and other control cables.

The rigging of a sailboat is indeed complicated, and it is easy to understand if it is reduced to only one mast and one sail. Put up one side of the sail and one more mast, and it will be difficult to understand. Luckily, no amount of sails is just a superposition of one mast and one sail - although there are some variations in them, it is not difficult for a normal person to remember them with enough patience and memory.

The really hard part is the specific operation during the voyage. This is also where Xiong Jing is not very clear and relatively weak-minded. After all, most of his knowledge is learned from models and historical materials, he has not really been a sailor, there are some big dogs in the B forum who bought modern sailboats, not to mention that the big dogs are not in the same circle as him, even when they get on the boat, they are also sailed by electric motors, and there is no similarity at all with the hard sailors of the Age of Discovery.

- Naturally, standing on the stern deck of the Shao Si Ming, Xiong Jing echoed some things in the future. Away from his unwillingness, Ou Zhe and a few Yue generals looked at him, and after a while, Ou Zhe came over and said: "If the minister is reluctant, please ask the king for permission." ”

"What?" Xiong Jing looked at him and was not happy.

"The minister asks the king for permission to be sent by the Yue people to a sea boat." Ou Zhe put forward his own request, and they had such an idea since laying down the keel, and they finally put it forward today.

"The minister also asked the king to ...... "Two sea boats, exactly one for one person, and the red boat also has such an idea."

"No, no, no." Xiong Jing didn't wait for the red to finish speaking before he expressed his opinion. He asked rhetorically, "Why separate?" ”

"Your Majesty, we can't speak well, and I'm afraid we won't be able to fight together." Ou Zhe began to sweat on his back.

"And what are you saying now?" Xiong Jing's rhetorical question again left Ou Zhe speechless. In addition to the common people, in the past few decades under the rule of the Chu State, the Yue nobles have also learned the Chu language, and communication is barrier-free. "There is no distinction between Chu and Yue people in your heart, you and others are all courtiers and subjects, and the art of boat making and boat building will also be taught in the future. You are a nobleman, and if the nobleman has begun to distinguish between you and me, what about the soldiers? What about the common people? ”

"The ...... of the minister" Ou Zheyi is deeper, although Xiong Jing is young, but the power of the king is even greater than that of the previous king Xiong Yuan.

"Dare to ask the king," the initiator, the Yue people's doctor, Lu Zhuo, came over, "Did what the imperial court said last year do to restore the country?" ”

The counties of Chu were either assigned to Yushi or contracted to the princes, and the restoration of the country seemed to be unexpected, and Xiong Jing never explained whether and how to restore the country in the future. Only the Yue Kingdom has not been destroyed, so the Yue people have the most expectations for the restoration of the country. Now that Lu Zhuo asked, Xiong Jing did not evade, and said bluntly: "If the Yue land is sealed by the Yue people, and the Yue people are willing to take Yue Jun as the king, as long as they do not violate the agreement with the Yue people, they have no intention of stopping it." ”

Xiong Jing's words were extremely awkward, Lu Zhuo was stunned for a while before he understood what Xiong Jing meant, and he said: "Dare to ask the king, is the person who is awarded the title Chu Chen or Yue Chen?" ”

"Both." Xiong Jing smiled. Under the feudal system, a courtier could serve two kings, and in later generations, a supplier could supply two or more companies. The supplier is independent, and it is not affiliated with Company A or Company B, but it has supply contracts with both A and B, and both have to take care of each other and fulfill the contract.

It's a pity that with the patriarchal system before the decline of the pre-Qin period, or the absolute monarchy of the post-Qin period, 'the monarch and the minister have to die', it is a little difficult to understand this, so Lu Zhuo was very stunned, "The minister is incomprehensible, how can he be both a minister of Chu and a minister of Yue?" ”

"The fact that you are a Yue person is true, and I don't want to change it." Xiong Jing explained: "Taking General Qin of the Wuyuan Jun District as an example, if you give him a fief, he will fulfill the obligation of the lord: when Buyu is recruited, he must lead the army to fight for Buyu. As long as he submitted to Yue Jun, as long as he did not violate this agreement, he had no intention of taking back the fiefdom.

If Wuyuan's scholars, armorers, and commoners do not object, he can also fight for Yue Jun, and he has no intention of stopping it, because this is the freedom of General Qu Qin, and he has the power to conquer all states except Chu and Chu's allies. ”

"This ......" Lu Zhuo was speechless. Under the patriarchal system, blood is the most important, and property rights are not clear. Of course, if the Son of Heaven wanted to recover the enclosed cities, if he did not exchange the same benefits, he could only send troops to attack as coercion. Nominally, the feudal lord has nothing, but under the contract system, the feudal lord has been clearly owned by the feudal lord, which is his private property. Once it becomes private property, the nature is different, why did Ou Qin, who is the feudal lord of Wuyuanyi, fight for King Yue, and what benefits can King Yue give him?

Loyalty is no longer important, it's important to keep your promises and keep your promises. In the Warring States Period, when everyone was meritorious and everything was profitable, in the 'The king regards the minister as a sibling, and the minister regards the king as a heart; The monarch regards the minister as a dog and a horse, and the minister regards the monarch as a countryman; In the context of the king's regard of the ministers as mustard, and the ministers regard the monarch as an enemy', it is difficult to advocate the divine authority of the monarch and make the courtiers swear allegiance to the death again. Rather than this, it is better to use Cigna as the support and maintenance of the relationship between the monarch and the minister, which is the most realistic.

Lu Zhuo's speechlessness is also here. Even if Wuyuan did not belong to the Chu State but to the Yue State, once Ou Qin became the master of Wuyuan Yi, he would not be able to reach the level of loyalty to the King of Yue that the monarch had to die.

There is only one way to do this, and that is the county system, and the officials who are born in the examination will definitely be loyal to the king of Yue wholeheartedly, because they must obtain the military support of the king of Yue. And once the county system is implemented, why would Ou Qin sell himself? Ou Qin is willing to betray himself, why should the honorable soldiers and armor soldiers under him betray themselves?

When Lu Zhuo thought that the restoration of the country was just a deception, Xiong Jing said: "If General Qin can perform miraculous feats in the future, Buyu can reward him with the ownership of Wuyuan, and from then on, Buyu will no longer have an agreement with him; If Yue Jun can do miraculous deeds in the future, he can also reward Yue Jun with Yue Land, but yet," Xiong Jing emphasized, "Bu Yu has heard that the sale does not change the lease." The covenant made by the person who is not sealed has no right to change it, unless the person who has sealed it allows. Although the land is already a Yue land, they are already a Yue minister, if the Yue Jun violates the agreement when he gave it, he will send troops to fight. ”

"The minister knows." Lu Zhuo was shocked when he heard this, and understood that the essence of this kind of gift was to restore the country. It's just that it is no longer the Yue Kingdom of the past, but the Yue Kingdom that the king must keep his promises to the vassals, honorable scholars, armor soldiers, and common people.

"Alas!" Xiong Jing sighed. "If Yue Jun really wants to open up, he should open up the world with Bu Yu. Yuedi is only a corner of the Chu State, the Chu State is only a corner of the world, the world is only a corner of the Central Continent, and the Central Continent is only one of the six continents. ”

"Your Great King, Yue Jun said, this is the land of the ancestors, and I dare not lose it." Lu Zhuo and Yue Junkai often corresponded and contacted, and at this point, there was no need for him to cover it up.

"It's not a matter of calculation." Xiong Jing nodded. Those places south of Zhenze are indeed the old Yue land.

"Thank you to the king." In addition to Lu Zhuo, Ou Zhe and the others also thanked each other, and then stepped aside and stopped talking.

It was getting late, and Xiong Jing asked about other things when he went down the stairs. "If you rebuild a large-wing warship, how many can you build every month?"

"Yu Dawang, now there are more than ten shipyards such as Purple Mountain, Shaobi, Zhongli, Wudu, Haiyang, Guangling, Zhufang, Jinling, Chang'an, Jiuzi, Que'an, Tongwei, Caogang, Egang, etc., and more than 50 docks and slipways. The big wing is relatively simple, 4,000 man-days is enough, and you can go into the water in more than a month, but the wood is insufficient. ”

"Four thousand man-days?" Xiong Jing is familiar with the working hours, and the habit of building a house is to use working days. Thinking of the wood, he gritted his teeth and said: "If there is no wood, then the Zhengchao, Zhengyu, and Xiaoyu will be demolished, and the Taishe and Taimiao will be left." ”

"The King?!" Although there is a precedent for demolishing the palace, it is still a surprise to demolish the dynasty and the dormitory.

"If the kingdom does not exist, what good is the palace?" Xiong Jing sighed. "Also, the mansions of all counties and tribes will also be demolished."