Life at sea is very boring, in addition to being on duty, raising and lowering the sails, and observing the course, the only thing to do is to eat and sleep. It's not good to eat, it's all rice porridge, salted fish and sea vegetables, and it's not comfortable to sleep, two hammocks plus the deck in the cabin, everyone takes turns to sleep, and Bozhu is no exception. On the sea, the reason why I am reluctant to take women is because of superstition on the one hand, and it is indeed inconvenient on the other hand. If it's easy to handle all family members, but if it's a loose collective like merchant ships and warships, then the existence of a woman will cause friction and contradictions, and if you don't do it well, something big will happen.

However, Hong Tao didn't feel too uncomfortable, not only because he had Bo Zhu to accompany him and serve him, but mainly because he had something to do to pass the time, that is, to use all kinds of assessment questions to embarrass Bo Jiao, Huang Tao and Carl, and by the way, to provoke the relationship between the three of them. For a while, Bo Jiao and Carl quarreled, for a while Huang Tao and Bo Jiao were estranged, and for a while he himself joined in, and the four men became chaotic.

Every time he succeeded in provoking the anger of others, he began to be a referee again, not only not letting everyone really start fighting, but also adding fuel to the fire from time to time to make them not idle, and there were blushing-necked quarrels on the ship almost every day. Once a person is on the sea, his temper will become very irritable, and he will start a fire. Fortunately, Hong Tao is strong enough to play this game. He did this not only for his own bad taste, but more importantly, to hone the sailor character of the three of them.

None of these three men were qualified sailors, and the nature of offshore fishing and ocean voyages was very different, one in the sky and one underground. Navigation skills can be taught to them, and new galleons can also be built by themselves, but whether it is technology or sailboats, people need to use and drive, and without a qualified sailor's quality, it is not enough to have good ships and navigation knowledge. How to deal with the contradictions of daily life on the ship, how to get along with a shipload of old men day and night, neither too rigid nor too loose, these are all things they have to learn.

The first is to grind your temperament, whether you are a temper that catches fire, or a meat temper that can't kick a fart with three kicks, when you get on the ship, you can only be a stinky skin bag plus two skin face plus hob meat and hooligan scoundrel is not a human temper, without this kind of endurance, let alone being a captain, being a boatswain is not qualified. The tougher the sailor, the more difficult it is to control, and the tougher the sailor, the more likely it is to clash with each other. Whether it is a captain or a boatswain, the most important thing to do, apart from determining the course, is to reassure the crew. When they are bored and depressed, make them excited and happy; When they are too excited and excited, calm them down. Otherwise, you won't be the captain of the ship for long, and maybe one day you'll disappear. The crew will say that you fell into the water when you got up at night, you couldn't be rescued, you had a cold with a burp, you couldn't find a place to look for you, and you died in vain.

In addition, Hong Tao already regarded these Tan family members as his own people, and they still had a lot of burdens to bear in the future, but Hong Tao felt that the relationship between them and himself and them was not close enough. When you get on a boat, you're a brother, and whether you like it or not, you have to do it. It is said that after carrying a gun together, passing through the window together, and going to the countryside together, they are iron buddies, but in fact, going to sea together can create a sense of trust between men. What Hong Tao is currently doing is just to make this grinding process faster, and the contradictions will be generated, resolved, and forgiven...... There are contradictions, resolutions, and forgiveness......

After a few times, everyone has changed from ordinary acquaintances to ordinary friends, and after a few more times, everyone has changed from ordinary friends to buddies, and then they experience a test of life and death together. Hong Tao wanted this effect, he didn't want to have any estrangement between them in the future, especially because of a little. The most important thing is to have a stable team, so that you can keep an eye on the front and move forward with them.

"Whales! Whale! It took only one day for the explorer to reach Ganquan Island, and another day to survey the coordinates of several nearby islands, and then headed east again. As soon as he left the Xisha Islands for more than ten nautical miles, Huang Tao, who was in charge of acting as a lookout at the bow of the ship, shouted loudly.

Hong Tao is in the cabin to add data to the Paracel Islands on the chart, which is a version of the Paracel Islands, which is a version of the cut corners, detecting only four to six parameters per island, and then sketching it on the map with a rectangle, triangle, oval or polygon according to the results of visual inspection. At present, he does not have enough manpower to do the careful mapping work, and he cannot play this meticulous work with his drawing skills, so he can only have a mark.

"This is a longfin pilot whale, not the big whale we are looking for, it's useless to catch them, it's too small, and there is little oil!" Hearing Huang Tao's shout, Hong Tao thought that he had encountered a group of whales again, and ran to the bow of the boat in three steps and two steps to see that it was a group of pilot whales not much bigger than dolphins. This animal is very fond of swimming in front of a boat, as if it were piloting it. But don't follow them, they're playing with the boats, not to guide you at all, and if you're hungry, you won't care if your ship is yawed or not.

"Captain, how do you write fins?" Running to the bow of the boat with Bo Jiao and Bo Zhu, listening to Hong Tao's words, Bo Zhu and Huang Tao were disappointed, they were not interested in depicting the sea chart, and wanted to meet the whales as soon as possible. But Bo Jiao took a small wooden board to sketch on it, and he couldn't write and came to consult Hong Tao.

"Oh, this is what you painted? Yes, it's quite similar, this is the fin character, what are you going to do with this? Hong Tao took the wooden board of the poke and looked at it, on which was drawn a sample of a pilot whale, and the approximate size was also marked.

"The next time I see it, I'll know what it is, didn't you say I could be a captain in the future?" Bo Jiao is a child with a heart, he is accumulating information for him to be a captain, no matter what the purpose, it is worth encouraging.

"That's right, if you work hard like this, you will become the first captain, much better than your Uncle Tao, and he will work stupidly, stupidly! As a reward for you, go to the cabin and ask your aunt for a new whale skin, draw this on it, and keep it. In the future, you will save more and more, and then show it to me, and if there are enough, I will make you the captain of the ship and go to sea by yourself! But you'll have to cut me that long hair, and my captain will have to have the same short hair as I do! Hong Tao touched Bo Jiao's head and messed up the bun on the young man's head.

Hong Tao really wants the children of the Tan family to cut their hair short, so it is more hygienic, fresh water is precious on the sea, and it must not be used to wash hair, such a long hair is wet all day long, dry and wet, and it will soon have a taste, and it will not be possible to wash it with seawater, it will be very astringent, and it cannot be combed at all. It's a pity that his suggestion was not supported by any of the Tan family, and it was opposed by all, just like letting the woman go to the bow of the boat.

“…… When I become the captain, I'll cut it! Bo Jiao gritted his teeth and made a promise. For a 10-year-old child, being a captain is obviously much more attractive than the concept of a parent with a body and skin, which is why Hong Tao chose to train these children to become his main helpers. A young man in his early 20s like Huang Tao is already late, and his concept has been set, and even if he can influence it, it will be very slow. This was evident in the course of this voyage, for he was still embarrassed to call himself captain, always cousin, for which he preferred to be punished and wipe the deck.

"Cheng, what a man says will count, and when the time comes, your hair will be longer than mine, so don't think about getting on the boat." Hong Tao is very happy, he finally bewitched a child, this is a good start, as long as other children see that Bo Jiao succeeds, then they will also follow the learning, this trend can not be stopped by anyone, even their parents can't. Those children who chase stars in later generations will not listen to their parents' opinions no matter how unreliable they do, this is the reason. For teenagers and young people, the power of role models is endless, and what Hong Tao needs is to set up one example after another for them.

This group of pilot whales was quite able to toss, and followed the explorer for more than 20 nautical miles before it dispersed and disappeared into the vast sea, and then there was a small sailboat floating on the sea like a leaf, crawling hard to the east with the south wind, day and night!

"Cousin...... Will your solution work? Will we get lost? "For three days in a row, the scenery was the same all around, with no land, no ships, no pilot whales and no seabirds. The first time he followed Hong Tao out to the far sea, Huang Tao, who was not very confident in Hong Tao, finally couldn't help it, and when Hong Tao was measuring the angle with a sextant towards the sun, he asked what he had wanted to ask for a long time.

"If my solution doesn't work, what are you going to do? Do you have a better way? Hong Tao changed one eye and put it on the eyepiece, this sextant is good anywhere, but it lacks a filter, and every time you look at the sun, it stabs your eyes, but you also have to work hard to see clearly, a little deviation, the measured angle is not accurate, compared with Trek, the eyes are uncomfortable or bearable.

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