The ocean, when she was gentle, was like a maiden, and the waves gently undulated with the boat, as if she had returned to her childhood, and then to the cradle. www.biquge.info The ocean is also like a mother, providing us with too many resources, all kinds of aquatic products, just the initial use, we can also take a boat, cross the ocean, and reach the distance.

Of course, when the ocean is angry, it is more like a witch, stormy and terrifying, making you feel that you are so small, and making you realize how ridiculous it is for human beings to think that man will conquer the sky.

At this moment, the ocean is like a naughty girl, the rising sun, shining on the small waves, looks very peaceful, many fishing boats are working on the ocean, but more fishing boats have begun to return home. It is a hard job to beg the seamen, they have to take advantage of the darkness to go fishing, use the lights to attract fish, and then return home at dawn, drive the people to get up early, sell the fresh catch, and then they have to start the hard work of drying the nets, mending the nets, and not resting.

But the fisherman of Datang will be a little better. More and more fishermen are employed, although it takes many days to go to sea at a time, but their catches do not have to worry about sales, they can rest well when they are in the port, the catch is refrigerated, and after being processed on the shore, it will be salted immediately and made into salted fish.

Although they also have to bear the wind, sun and rain, and they also have to bear the risk of not returning at any time after going to sea, but the people who ask for the sea are very down-to-earth, and they have lived much better than before. There is no complaint about this, and serious people have the opportunity to be recruited as sailors on ocean-going merchant ships, although they can only go home once in a few months, but their income is higher, and they can compensate for a year's salary in a few months.

At this moment, a large ship slowly sailed into the harbor under the tug, and the small boats avoided it along the way, and then watched the shadow that covered its head pass. On the bow of the boat stood a lady, tall and tall, wearing a yellow silk skirt, but this group of shirts was very short, and she wore a pair of brocade trousers, and a pair of leather boots under her feet. Her hair was pulled up high, revealing a smooth face, and in her hand, there was no curtain that an ordinary woman should have, but she took a small, square leather bag.

The small leather bag has a long belt, which can be hung on the shoulder, which is the most popular decoration for Datang women today, and when it appears at the Datang Clothing Exhibition in the spring of the third year of the year, it has become a sought-after object for ladies, but for women, it is just boring to hold it in their hands and play with the belt.

The sea breeze gently brushed her face, and seemed to gently admire her beauty, but when the sea breeze wanted to play with the ends of her hair, he found that the girl had pulled her hair in a high bun, so she had no choice but to leave.

This person is Li Yining, she stood at the bow of the boat, looking at this fishing port, well, it was originally a fishing port. In the distance, in front of the pier, you can see a three-storey building that occupies a large area, and there are several small two-story wooden buildings next to it. The style is all Tang style, quite new, obviously a new cover not long ago.

In the distance, you can see several huge warehouses, like a swarm of coolie ants, moving goods out of the warehouses and moving them in.

As soon as the ship approached the dock, the rope was thrown far away, and immediately several short sailors stepped forward to take it and fastened it tightly to the stakes of the pier. Then there was a soft sound, a thud, and the ship docked.

Waiting for the pallet to be lowered, Li Yining got off the boat first, she looked around, several dock berths were parked with the ship of the same style as him, and now there are a lot of coolies, busy moving goods onto the ship. And when she came down, many coolies also surrounded her, waiting to get on the ship and unload the cargo.

'Lady, slow down. A little girl carefully walked across the trays that connected the big ship to the dock, and chased down from the boat, and the coolies around saw this, and hurried out of the way, and bowed very humbly and deeply, and then waited for the two to go away, and dared to raise their heads, and under the beckoning of the people on board, they got on the ship and unloaded.

"Ai, I said Xiaoyu, it's you who swallow slowly, don't forget that you are my maid, you should have to follow me, not me waiting for you." Xiaoyu only agreed, followed behind the woman, and secretly said in her heart, if the ladies of other families are like you, few maids will follow.

The master and servant, when they got off the boat, walked down the street, leaving the ship behind, and the ship had its own captain, who would call these short, thin coolies to unload. The master and servant walked all the way to a three-story building.

Approaching this building, you can see that behind these buildings, a little farther away, is a row of wooden houses, very low, with paper sliding doors at the door, and lanterns hanging in front of the door, showing what kind of place this is. There are places where some groceries are sold, there are liquor shops, and more often there are women who serve sailors and earn some hard-earned money.

'This Sasebo, it's still so messy, Uncle Liao doesn't care', Li Yining muttered, she couldn't get used to it here, but she also knew that the port was like this, how tidy did she expect? She just can't get used to those women, in her opinion, women don't have to rely on men, and they can live well.

She remembered that Brother Hu had shouted the slogan of the Shence Left Army, "There is nothing we can't do except give birth to a child." She wanted to say I could do anything.

Shaking her head, she didn't think much about it anymore, and the maid behind her didn't know what thoughts she had to turn around for a moment. hurriedly opened the door of this building for his own lady.

As soon as the door opened, the sound from inside came out, but it was not very loud. There is a lobby with about ten seats in it, all of which are full of people, these people have Tang people, but most of them don't look like they're not, each of them is short, and even if they speak Tang language, they all have strange accents. It's strange that this is not the Tang Dynasty, this is Sasebo, so it has to be all Japanese here.

Sasebo, many people know this place, a natural harbor, with a U.S. naval base, and in later generations it was famous for its shipbuilding industry. Japan's famous amusement park, Huis Ten Bosch, is also here. However, in this era, he was just a small fishing village, a very small fishing village. It could even be considered a base for pirates.

Basically, Japan doesn't have a navy, those daimyo will temporarily hire pirates to do things for them when they need it, some of the larger families, maybe a few of them will be pirate leaders and retainers, but most of them are part-time, what can Japan rob in this sea? These people are fishermen by profession, and piracy is just a part-time job.

However, after the Tang people came here and developed it into a commercial port, there was a great improvement. Their catch can be sold to the nearest shop, whether it is a high-end restaurant opened by the Tang people, or a low-end shop that specializes in sailors to consume, they can be sold for a price.

There are also many people who don't fish, and work as coolies, although they can only mix food and clothing every day, but they don't have to go to sea, so they don't have to worry about going out one day and not being able to save them. More women, whether they are wives or daughters, are accustomed to running the business that has been handed down from time immemorial.

Of course, it is not enough to have local fishermen, because of the need for manpower, more people are flocking here, either using this place as a base to fish, or switching to other occupations.

Pushing the door in, the people here seem to be a little more level, but they are also limited, they are all Japanese merchants, with the goods that the Tang people need, come here. The income is slightly higher, and some are even retainers of a certain domain, so they seem a little more elegant, and some people are even speaking in Tang language with turtle feet, showing that they are a standard person.

'Uncle Liao. The second floor is a private room, not many people use it, Li Yining went straight to the third floor, there are only a few rooms on the third floor, Li Yining pushed open one of the largest, and shouted as soon as he entered the door.

As soon as you enter the door, there is a screen, behind the screen is a small living room, all of which are sofas, coffee tables and other novel Datang furniture products, there are several doors, leading to several rooms, a middle-aged man sitting in front of the desk and working threw in, and said with a smile, "Little lady." Sit down for a moment and I'll take care of something. ’

Known as Uncle Liao, a middle-aged man, he got up and greeted Li Yining, and then stepped up to deal with his own affairs, Li Yining was not polite to him, he found a place to sit down, and the maid Xiaoyu hurriedly began to prepare tea, "Uncle Liao, you don't need a maid here." ’

"Oh, those maids, each with a big cake face, circle legs, I feel sad to see it, don't use it at all, I am annoyed by using a maid, why bother." After Uncle Liao finished dealing with his own affairs, he came over and said, and pointed out the window again, "That ship is a new ship?" ’

In this living room, there is a large glass window, you can see out of the window clearly, under the bright sun of Sasebo, there are many boats parked on the dock, and he points to a boat, which is the one that Li Yining boarded.

Then I saw that the ship was long and narrow, with a length of more than 30 zhang, and there were eight masts, and there were sails hanging on it. Even a thousand years from now, this is a big ship, but in this port, this ship is a little bigger, and the mast is a little higher. But it is this high point and long point that makes this ship look different from other ships. The ship's mast was noticeably taller than the others.

'Yes, this is the latest one. Li Yining smiled and said, "The speed of the ship can reach fourteen knots." ''So fast?'' Uncle Liao was taken aback.

Armstrong said, "It's a small step for me, but it's a big leap for humanity." Although this ship is only a small progress, it represents a great progress in Datang's shipbuilding industry.

At present, the Tang ships are still using hard sails. Compared with soft sails, hard sails have advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is that hard sails adapt well to the wind direction, and they can also run fast against the wind. A soft sail, even with a skull sail, is not as good as a hard sail.

However, hard sails did not become popular after all, for many reasons, one of which is that for the ocean, the wind direction generally does not change, and whether it can change direction is not very important.

However, this is not a big advantage, as hard sails are easier to handle than soft sails, requiring more than half the number of sailors. With so many fewer people, it means a better living environment, more economical materials, and more goods can be loaded. Moreover, the hard sail runs downwind, and the speed does not necessarily lose to the soft sail.

But there is a big problem with hard sails, and there is no way to make it bigger. Because it has to adapt to many wind directions, it is impossible to arrange the support cable, and the mast is not high, and it will break if it is too high. Soft sails can be arranged very large, even if they are not as strong as hard sails, and they can also rely on a taller mast and a larger area to achieve a speed advantage.

Therefore, how to improve this problem has become a big test. When Li Chen, he relied on the Jiaduo mast and a reasonable layout as the direction of improvement. After Li Chen didn't care about it, he took over Liang Kuai, and Li Chen taught a few students, trying to work the mast and sail.

First of all, you don't need to turn, don't turn well. They also tried to bolster the mast by supporting the mast with a spark to reduce the steering space of the hard sail. There is a lot less steering space than a traditional hard sail, but it's still better than a soft sail that doesn't move at all.

Secondly, with the advent of new textile technology, it is possible to weave larger sheets and higher quality canvases, instead of using traditional plant stems and leaves to weave. Again, they reduced the number of brackets on the stiff sail and reduced the weight.

Finally, work was also put into the mast. First of all, the surface of the mast was carbonized, and the surface of the wooden mast was heated with charcoal fire to make it hard, and secondly, and most importantly, they stuffed an iron stamen into the mast.

Originally, it was considered that in the middle of the fragile mast, it would be reinforced with an iron hoop, but this would cause the center of gravity to be unstable. If all iron is used from the middle section to the base, the cost increase is too high, and the ship is too heavy.

Finally, I finally came up with the idea of drilling the iron rod into the middle of the wooden mast to reinforce the structure from the inside. This is not too heavy, and the cost can not be so high. That's why we have this new ship,

After gossiping, Uncle Liao got to the point, "Little lady, there are a few Tang merchants who want to enter Sasebo Port, can you let them in?" ’

This Sasebo Port was developed by Li Chen alone. When they made their maiden voyage to Xuanjie Beach, Li Chen originally intended to develop this place as a base for Japanese trade.

Later, however, it occurred to him that Japan had several excellent ports, which had not yet been developed in these years. Hebi Xuanjie Beach, which is not well-known, is just a short stay to send Tang envoys to resupply the port, and it is not very famous in the future, so it can be seen that the potential is limited.

Thinking of the potential, he thought of the naval base of the US military in Japan in the future, and wanted to say that since Sasebo would be chosen as a naval base by Lao Mei, it must be a good harbor. Out of a bad mentality, Li Chen asked people to come forward and completely buy this place from the local national guard at a price that was not low.

Sasebo in this era was completely a fishing village, so it was easily sold by the national guard, and Li Chen began to build it. This Uncle Liao, he is Li Chen, when he was in Pengcheng, he bought a housekeeper, he has worked diligently for so many years, he has been affirmed, and he was sent to manage here. As for Uncle Liao's question, Li Yining tilted his head, rubbed his slender and beautiful chin, and considered.

At this time, the left army of Shence received a news that made people angry, and after a brief meeting, Xiaohu ordered the whole army to be mobilized. At the fastest speed, cross the Yellow River, travel thousands of miles, and have a decisive battle with Tibet. (To be continued.) )