"Dangdangdang......" A bell rang overhead. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Info The Ekdals, who had just shouted at the distant land, were immediately startled, they knew what the bell above them meant. Then they and Adlerkreitz heard the lookout on the mast shouting, "Ahead, ahead, two clippers are coming towards us." One big and one small,...... God, they're fast! ”

The lookouts were stunned. In his line of sight, the two ships coming on the opposite side were exactly like two big birds flying, yes, they were not swimming, they were 'flying'! That's at least one Gothenburg off the Gothenburg.

A 1,000-ton medium-sized shear-bow light cruiser and a 500-ton small shear-bow destroyer appeared on the sea far away from the Gothenburg. Their speed was no less than eight knots, and the Gothenburg at this time was definitely no more than five! They spotted the tall Gothenburg and swooped down.

Zhu Li stood on the deck of the Marlin No. 1, and the warship was lying down together in the waves, but his feet were as if he had taken root, standing steadily, and he did not move. From an outsider who joined the sailor halfway to the third pipe belt of the medium-sized flying shear bow warship that entered the sailor division today, he has made unimaginable efforts and struggles. But he was by no means proud. Because Zhu Biao knows very well that his efforts like this are not uncommon in the process of his efforts, Zhu Biao has seen more than one person who works as hard as him. But this world is so unfortunate, many things, many times, not that you can be rewarded for your efforts. Zhu Lian is a lucky man, God has given him the talent to sail on the sea, and he has an unimaginable sensitivity to the command of warships and the timing of battles. So, his efforts are now paying off abundantly.

The Marlin 1 was the second medium-sized flying shear bow warship to be officially built, and the first Zero was left forever at the Jiangnan Shipyard as a prototype. Zhu Li is the third pipe belt of this ship that has not been in the water for a long time, and the two predecessors before him, one has now become the commander of the detachment, and the other has become the deputy commander of the district fleet.

The officers of the new Western fleet are very easy to rise, and it is easy to rise.

Zhu Lian put away the binoculars in his hand, waved his hand, and didn't say a word, but the little soldier behind him already knew what he meant. With a slight change of direction from Swordfish 16, Marlin 1 quickly pounced on the Gothenburg.

"God, this speed ......" Adler Kreitz couldn't believe his eyes. The speed of the two warships in front of me, one large and one small, was too fast, "Flying shear bow!" This is the ...... of the flying scissors."

Just last year, a report was revealed in the British newspaper The Times that caused a stir throughout Europe. After learning from Western galleons, the Chinese introduced a new type of ship themselves, the specific performance of which they do not yet know, the only thing they can confirm is its extremely fast speed.

People are always convinced of what is deeply rooted in their heads, and they are suspicious of what they do not see with their own eyes, and Adler Kreitz is one such person, who is very suspicious of the British reports and lies. But now he had to believe it.

At the same time, on the Marlin No. 1, looking at the getting bigger and bigger Gothenburg, Zhu Li's eyes flashed with a scorching heat, how many times he had seen such a huge ship, but he could not let go of the excitement and eyes in his heart. This kind of huge ship, which is about 1,500 tons empty and can reach more than 2,000 tons when fully loaded, is much larger than the medium-sized flying shear bow ship under his feet.

Zhu Li knew that such merchant ships also belonged to big guys in the Western Ocean, and he had learned a lot of knowledge in the past few years in the Han Army, especially history. Before, he had only heard of Zheng He's seven voyages to the West, but he didn't know how huge Zheng He's fleet was, and he didn't know what it meant. I don't know when the foreigners who flaunted their might in Nanyang came to Nanyang, where their country is, and what it is like.

If you don't know the history of the enemy, how can you truly understand and understand the enemy?

Zhu Li has both hatred and contempt for foreigners in his heart, but that's all. Many sailors on the southeast coast thought that the capital of the foreigners was to the west of the South Seas, which was represented by nautical charts, in the Bay of Bengal or India. After Zhu Lian officially entered the training class of sailors, he practiced on Western sailing ships day and night, from the most ordinary sailor who wiped the floor to the chief comptroller, then the sail cable chief to the chief of Caotuo, and finally the chief navigator. In the midst of countless times of crawling and rolling, in the danger of being thrown into the sea, he learned the maneuvering skills of a Western-style sailing ship, became familiar with the various positions of a galleon, and also learned in detail about the great voyages that took place in Europe under the dim light of the sea, knew the power of Spain and Portugal, and knew the glory of the Dutch, the pride of the French and the ruthlessness of the British.

Got the idea of colonization! There's even a Papal State of whatever.

At the same time, a sense of urgency and anxiety also rose in his heart, the dignified and upright China has been wandering around in the same place for two thousand years, while the small barbarian countries in the West have made a lot of money in the New World one by one. The Americas of the East are many, much bigger than the whole Central Plains, the land is fertile, the climate is suitable, and the aborigines there are still tribal indigenous. They have been oppressed and enslaved by Westerners for hundreds of years, and they have been seized by Westerners for hundreds of years.

Countless gold, silver and jewelry were plundered by the Europeans.

Although in terms of current bilateral strength, whether it is the British, the French, or the Russians, they are far from China's opponents - Zhu believes that. But the foreigners have the support of the New World, which is just like the pioneering history of the early Huaxia people, didn't the ancestors of the year also seize the current Central Plains from the hands of Siyi little by little, so that hundreds of millions of people can thrive in this vast land?

The south of the Northern Song Dynasty was far less than the Central Plains, and it was opened up in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was still an indigenous race in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty. As long as the land is large and the land is fertile, one day the population will be able to fill the land. With the support of the New World, as long as the Western countries develop step by step, they will always be able to let their children and grandchildren spread throughout the Americas, just like China in the past. Will they still be weaker than Huaxia at that time? Even the population with the shortest board, they will not be less than Huaxia?

Every naval officer who walked out of the training class had a sense of urgency in their hearts, and they all looked forward to China dividing up the fertile land of the world. The wealth of the Europeans came too easily, and the expedition of 100 men allowed them to conquer the vast and rich Americas, bringing themselves untold riches, all of which came too easily and too simply.

Just like the silver in China, Zhu Mian never thought that China's silver was not Chinese, but was earned from foreigners, and the silver in the hands of foreigners was stolen from the Americas. This year-to-year trade surplus eventually led to the birth of the 'currency' of silver.

Zhu Mian had never had such a concept in his mind before, he had never thought about the trade deficit between China and foreign countries, and he had never thought about what would happen after the continuous flow of silver from the West into China. He thought it was Chinese, and it was just right.

Now Zhu Lian and countless classmates in the early, late, and contemporaneous periods know about it, and they all understand the meaning of trade. But what was the first thought that churned in their hearts? Not trade, but looting. So why wasn't China the first person to discover America?

The cultural lessons in the sailor training class are not only literacy and hyphenation, the history of Western countries, the history of the heavenly world, but also various calculation skills. In this day and age, computing plays an important role in nautical technology, because without computing there is no accurate positioning.

For example, latitude and longitude, as a difficult problem that has just been solved by Westerners, has not yet formed a unified opinion in the West, mainly Britain and France. But it is clear that the British, who have invested heavily in this area, are ahead of the curve.

Whether it is the "Catalogue of Britannia", or the lunar distance method, or the old Harrison who spent 42 years to make five more accurate sea timers in a row, or the "Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris" that have just been released for only nine years, these are all indelible contributions to the history of longitude and latitude.

Chen Ming didn't know anything about this, and if it weren't for Newton's story, he wouldn't have known who Harrison's [Clocking Law] was, let alone Muscalin [the author of the "Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris" - the representative of the lunar distance method]. In Western Great Britain, the battle between the two methods of latitude and longitude of navigation continues, and there is still no concrete conclusion. Three years ago, the famous British explorer Captain Cook embarked on his second expedition around the world, and in the preparation of this expedition, Captain Cook carried a large amount of German sauerkraut with his ship, and one of Captain Cook's more important moves was a sea timer named K1.

He had wanted to take the H4 one with him to test whether the old Harrison's sailing clock could withstand the test of long sea bumps. But the British Council of Longitude eventually decided to let him bring with him a replica marine clock that another watchmaker, Rackham Kendall, had spent two and a half years making. Now the competition between the clock method and the moon distance method is still continuing, but Chen Ming thinks that the clock method will be better, or it is more suitable for the current technology and more practical. If nothing else, but because Captain Cook's name was also known to many in later generations.

China's nautical science is now two ways to go hand in hand, the moon distance method and the clock method, Chen Ming also spent a lot of money to let the domestic clockmakers make sea timers, that is, marine clocks. Although he knew that it was a completely different concept from a normal clock.

As a new-style naval officer, Zhu Lian must first understand the significance of latitude and longitude, and that is also to understand the ongoing war about latitude and longitude in the Western world. And because of this point [longitude and latitude], all the students will be able to have a deeper understanding of the influence and promotion of the Great Voyage on a civilization.

As surface generals, there is no one who understands the grandeur of a giant ship better than them. Chopping waves, stepping on the sea and covering the ocean, spreading thousands of miles and seizing land, China's original warships and navigation technology have fallen far behind.

However, history told him that in the prosperous era of Yongle at that time, China's navigation technology and shipbuilding technology were still far ahead of the world. In the past 400 years, the Europeans have completed the transformation from backwardness to transcendence, and they not only came to the East in the late Ming Dynasty, but also seized such a vast land when countless Chinese people were still unaware of it. And Zhu Lian also knew that the Spaniards still had a grand plan back then, when the Spanish governor of Luzon planned to seize the whole of China with 20,000 people!

Isn't it ridiculous?

But this kind of joke is even more shameful for China, an absolute shame.

As a professional naval officer, Zhu Dian knows very well what the difference between the giant ship in front of him and the officer under his feet is the traditional Chinese sailing boat, and he does not need to be arrogant. Historically, the main battlefield of Chinese sailors was more in the Yangtze River, and looking at the vast Yangtze River compared to the sea, it was a small ditch. The technology tree that China lights up at sea is more inclined to civilian commerce and trade, rather than large warships that pay attention to the combat power of individual ships. Especially after the Ming Dynasty!

It is also the true understanding of the Western maritime history and the great voyage of the West, that Zhu Li's deep heart for Chen Han to learn the warships of foreigners and learn the navigation techniques of foreigners, and the depressed feeling brought about by that series of studies has completely disappeared.

"As a Chinese, no matter how proud you are, you can cast contemptuous eyes on other countries, because your motherland has this qualification. But as a solitary person, especially as a soldier, you can't turn a blind eye to the advantages that other countries clearly have. Remember that even the proudest person must respect the efforts of his opponents.

- Backwardness alone does not make people despair, but backwardness still does not want to make progress, or even self-deception and arrogance, that really makes people completely dead. That is the depravity of a nation, the degeneration of the whole.

Such a nation, no matter how glorious its previous history, will surely sink to the bottom of the abyss. Their past glory can only stay forever in the long river of history, stay in the history books, and it is impossible to stretch out a finger of assistance to them now.

For thousands of years, our Chinese clan has never 'deceived themselves' from weak to strong. The four words "Hufu riding and shooting" should always be remembered in the hearts of every Chinese people. When a nation 'deceives itself,' that nation is already decaying. A 'heart' that is too arrogant never allows itself to fail, never accepts setbacks, then in essence you have already failed and have fallen to the bottom.

No matter if you have achieved success a hundred times or a thousand times, as long as there are mountains to cross in front of you, then you can only be proud, not proud. ”

This is what Zhu Lian heard at the graduation ceremony, and it was the dictation of the current emperor himself.

The gap between China and the West in navigation is not only a problem of warships, but also a gap in navigation technology and navigational spirit. Chen Ming, who came from later generations, has a heart of the ocean that China did not have in this era, and he has been using his own efforts to realize his dream of the ocean step by step. Although the current warships of the Fu Han Army are still very small, as long as they continue to develop, Zhu Li believes that sooner or later he will be able to control the giant ships, which are comparable to the first-class battleships of the Western Ocean!

It's taller than the ship in front of you, so big!

Marlin 1 stayed seven or eight hundred meters away from the Gothenburg, and Swordfish 16 approached the Gothenburg at a distance of two or three hundred meters, and at the same time lowered the boat. At this time, both sides have recognized each other's identities, and China and Sweden are still very friendly.

"Pipe belt, this ship is of Swedish nationality, belongs to the Swedish East India Company, and is called the Gothenburg. It is equipped with a crew of 113 people, 28 cannons, and more than 150 muskets. "The young inspector also had in his hand an inspection slip covering the Jinghai Detachment of the Western Region of the Nanyang Naval Division, which he would hand in when he returned to the port." The ship contained 50,000 Spanish silver dollars, food, water, wood, iron, asphalt, and odds and ends of miscellaneous goods such as nails, axes, etc. In addition, there were 283 immigrants, all of whom were scholars, technicians, craftsmen, and their families recruited by the Swedes on behalf of the imperial court. ”

There was no contraband, the number of people and guns was all counted, and Zhu Mian nodded to indicate that he knew. Looking at the inspection book that has been issued in the inspector's hand, let people take out their own seals. Adler Kreitz accepted the test book with a smile on his face, and thanked Zhu Li with a wow.

Adlerkreitz speaks far less Mandarin than Lustig's authentic standards, but there are no problems with bilateral communication.

"Captain Adler Kreitz, on behalf of myself and all the officers and men of the Marlin I, I would like to welcome all the visitors on your ship, your company and all the crew of the Gothenburg. Some insignificant gifts, please accept. "The Chinese are very hospitable, the enemy comes with knives and guns, and when friends come, there is wine." All the passengers on the Gothenburg in front of you are China's warmly welcomed friends.

At this time, on the Gothenburg, after Adler Kreitz followed the inspectors off the ship, there were already many people on the Gothenburg. These Swedes had never seen an Oriental before, whether it was Europe, Africa, or the heavenly world, or the brown and black lower class natives of India, and there had never been such a race as Chinese.

Yellow skin, black eyes, black eyeballs.

Each of them already knew the image of the Chinese before coming to the East, and many of them had seen Chinese portraits, but this was far less vivid than the images they saw with real eyes.

"It's really black eyes, black hair......"

"It's a lot like the ancient Romans." Ekdal pinched his chin with his fingers, a smile on his face. Chinese was very friendly, and the Chinese inspectors who came on board gave him a humble smile...... (To be continued.) )