"Brother Luo! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I really can't leave for more than two months, as compensation, I invite Brother Luo to be the first guest on my ship, okay? "Luo Youde came on a slender car and boat, that is, there are two rows of wooden wheels on each side, and a kind of boat that relies on manpower to step on and rotate and paddle, a bit like the duck boat in the park in later generations, but the wheels are on both sides of the hull, and the number of people who step on the wheels is also a bit large, four on one side!

"Oh, I can't ask for it! The ships in Brother Hong's hometown are really unique, why is there nothing on the deck, only a disc? Luo Youde didn't care about the strong smell of paint on the new ship, and stepped on the simple dock in three steps and two steps, looking at the small boat curiously, his eyes were full of questions.

"This ship is not good at carrying cargo, but it is good at speed, and this disc is called the steering wheel, which is used to control the rudder." Hong Tao made a color to Carl, who immediately removed the gangplank, then picked up a long bamboo pole, propped the boat away from the dock, and let the bow of the boat face the direction of the sea, ready to sail.

"Good speed? I don't know how fast Brother Hong's ship has? Luo Youde still didn't understand how a big disc could control the tail rudder, but he was more curious about this good speed.

"I don't know much about this, I guess there should be a speed of more than 10 knots, and I run about 40 miles in half an hour." Hong Tao, the nautical unit, has not been able to understand that it is not a fixed value, but a ratio, and it has to be remeasured every time he goes to sea, so it is better to convert it into miles and tell Luo Youde that it is clearer.

"80 miles in one hour! Isn't it a bird? This time, Luo Youde didn't say anything, Luo Dacai next to him shouted first, and he also regarded Hong Tao as a cowhide dealer.

"If you try it, you'll know, what's so hard about it?" Hong Tao didn't want to argue with anyone, the ship had gone to sea, what was the use of talking so much nonsense.

"Wait! Brother Hong, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, we might as well advance the evening show, so we can have fun. This is 20 miles to Ximaozhou, I use that car and ship and your ship to do Bo, if the car and ship are fast, this ship will be classified as a brother, so the ship is fast, how about the car and ship belong to Brother Hong? Luo Youde stretched out his hand to stop Hong Tao, who was going to take the helm, and proposed a gamble.

"Hey! …… Bet! "It is said that the Song people are good at gambling, and they all start gambling games when they eat, this time it is considered to have opened Hong Tao's eyes, and it is really a gamble! One hundred is a bit much for the current self, but Hong Tao is still confident in the new ship.

He first looked up at the weather vane and simple anemometer at the top of the mast, which happened to be a southerly wind, and the wind force was about level 4. The Ximaozhou mentioned by Luo Youde is a small island, just west of Zhenzhou Port, if this new ship can't run ten knots in the case of a level 4 crosswind, it will really not be too hard. And the ship has been built, even if it is dismantled, it can't do anything else, and it can't carry too much cargo, and it's blind in your own hands, so it's better to use it to fight, it's not bad to win a car and ship, look at its fine workmanship, and it has to be worth a hundred and eighty yuan to sell.

"Ah Cai, go and tell the people on the boat that there will be a reward if you win, and there will be no punishment if you lose! Brother Hong, let's start then, you hoist the sails first! Luo Youde was quite righteous, knowing that the speed of the sailboat was slow, so he deliberately let Hong Tao set sail first.

"Carl! If you lose this time, your plan to return to China will have to drag on for five years, so you can do it yourself! Raise the mainsail! Hong Tao didn't talk nonsense with Luo Youde, stood behind the steering wheel, pulled up the sail line, and yelled in German.

Carl and Hong Tao have been in the hotel for more than two months, and they have become familiar with Hong Tao's modern German and are generally able to communicate with each other. Hong Tao also taught him some knowledge about sailing, and promised him that he would be able to send him back to China within five years. This Holy Roman Empire's royal family, nobleman, and knight lord in a foreign land immediately became Hong Tao's loyal servant, and he did whatever he wanted.

"Squeak...... Squeak ...... "As the mainsail is pulled higher and higher, there is a harsh friction sound on the hull and mast, which is a competition between the wood under the action of tension in different directions, which is not abnormal, after a few more uses, the wood will bite tightly, and only when it encounters greater tension, it will rub against each other again."......

The 20-foot-long sailboat, driven by the sails, seemed to be lighter than the small wooden boats with pointed heads of the Tan family, and suddenly shook for a moment, and in an instant began to speed up from a static state. As Hong Tao adjusted the sail direction little by little with the sail line, the feeling of speeding up became more and more obvious, and it could not be said that there was a feeling of pushing back, anyway, standing on the deck, he had to hold on to something, or he would not be shaken down.

"Huh...... It's weird! Although Luo Youde is not a boatman, the sailboat he has ridden is estimated to be more than Hong Tao's, such a quick reaction made him sigh, and then held on to the wooden handrail on the back deck of the sailboat to fix his body, and began to carefully observe Hong Tao and Carl's movements.

At this time, there was a sudden scream of Bozhu behind him, Hong Tao looked back, and it turned out that the car and boat were stirring the waves and catching up. If you were faster than the start, the sailboat would never be able to catch up with such a human-powered vehicle. Its explosive power is very good, but unfortunately its durability is poor, if these people are replaced by steam engines, Hong Tao will not dare to compete with it in speed, whether it is long distance or short distance, unless he gives himself a racing sailboat.

The two ships sailed out of the small harbor one after the other, and in just half a kilometer distance, the car and ship surpassed the sailing ship of the waves, like a centipede, stirring the sea water on both sides, rushing forward one by one, and the distance between the two ships became longer and longer, and soon exceeded 4 or 5 hulls.