Sima Nan has been a firefighter on the Fuchun for many years, and naturally has a few henchmen under him, and at his secret instigation, many crew members coveted the large amount of silver on the ship, and were ready to follow Sima Nan to make a windfall. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Sima Nan looked down on Fu Bin very much, thinking that Fu Bin was no match for himself in terms of ability or open-mindedness, which was why he wanted to replace him. But there are still two people on the Fuchun that make Sima Nan jealous. One is Mao Eighteen, and the other is Xiucai Ren Siqi.

Mao Eighteen is the most powerful one on the Fuchun, and he is loyal to the owner Fu Chun, but Mao Eighteen has no desire for power, and now he stays in Fu Chun's tent all day long to accompany the unconscious Fu Chun and doesn't care about anything. Sima Nan thinks that he has a good relationship with Mao Eighteen, and Mao Eighteen doesn't look down on Fu Bin's stinginess very much, so if he and Fu Bin have a conflict, Mao Eighteen is likely to not help each other.

But Xiucai Ren Siqi is different, although he got on the ship late, he did several big things in a short period of time, and his prestige on the Fuchun is rising. And now that Ren Siqi has the support of the Luzon Han people, his strength has increased greatly, and he already has the power to control the position of the owner.

Sima Nan did not dare to underestimate Ren Siqi, not only because of Ren Siqi's identity as a scholar, but also because of Ren Siqi's means and ability and the strength he has now. I have to discuss it with Xiucai, it is best to get his support, and if it is the worst, I will try to make him not help each other, Sima Nan said to himself.

Besides, Ren Siqi is taking everyone on the "Shark" to learn the art of boat management at this time.

In China's coastal monsoon is generally in the north-south direction, there are few sudden changes in the wind direction, China's Fuchuan Guangzhou and other ships are used in longitudinal sails, only need to pull up the sails through the pulley to land, the operation is very simple, a boat only needs a few sailmen.

Western sails are much more complicated, like this "Shark", the middle mast is a schooner, but it is not a huge shangsail like the Fuchun, but it is divided into three sundits up and down, and the sails are soft sails made of canvas. On the foremast is a diagonal jib, but on the rear mast is a pair of crosssails.

As far as the whole sail is concerned, the "Shark" is much more complex than the Fuchun, and it requires several times more sailors. In Fuchun, only five or six crew members are needed to raise and lower the sails, but this "Shark" requires the cooperation of at least twenty or thirty sail operators to successfully raise and lower the sails.

Of course, there are many benefits to this complex sail system, for example, the "Fuchun" can only travel near the coast of China, and cannot adapt to the complex and changeable wind direction of the ocean, while Western ships are different, they can adapt to the changing wind direction environment, and carry much more cargo than the Chinese Fuchuan. This is also one of the reasons why Western countries entered the Age of Discovery in the late Ming Dynasty and expanded their overseas territories everywhere, while Chinese maritime merchants could only operate in coastal waters.

"You go and hold on to that rope, and you, stupid, be careful on the mast, bastard, don't move!" Olier, the former first mate of the Shark, is directing the crew to practice sailing under the translation of Anthony. Now the crew of the "Shark" except for a few "Fuchun" sailors sent by Fu Bin, most of them are Han Chinese who came back from Luzon, although most of them are fishermen from the seaside, but they have basically never worked on a sea ship, and they often provoke Olier to be angry and scold, fortunately, Olier does not know Chinese, Anthony automatically filtered the swearing words when translating, and everyone couldn't understand what he was roaring.

"Anthony, what the hell is he yelling about? Is it swearing? Chen Sheng was short-tempered and asked, pointing at Olier.

"No, he just hates you for being clumsy." Anthony wiped the sweat from his forehead and glanced at Ren Siqi, who was also working.

"It's too troublesome to raise the sail, and you have to climb up to the mast, what if you fall off?" The original crew of the "Fuchun" complained about it, and the other sailors from the "Fuchun" also agreed, saying that the Dutch ship was not easy to handle and troublesome. Even the complicated sail handling on the original "Fuchun" said so, not to mention these "landlubbers" who came back from Luzon, in short, everyone's enthusiasm was not very great.

"Take a break!" Ren Siqi gave the order.

When everyone was sitting in chaos or lying on the deck to rest, Ren Siqi spoke.

"Everyone knows that this is a Dutch ship, and Oliel is a Dutchman, which is what everyone calls a red-haired ghost. But do you know where the Netherlands is? Ren Siqi asked.

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and they all shook their heads.

"Everyone knows India, the place where Tang Seng learns scriptures."

Many crew members had heard the story of Journey to the West, and they had an impression of the 108,000-mile India, and nodded their heads.

"This is the Ming Dynasty, this is India, from India to the west is Arabia, which is where we call the Persian cannibals, and further west is a continent called Europa, and the Dutch are on the westernmost side of the Europa continent by the sea." Ren Siqi dipped his finger in the water and drew a simple map of Eurasia on the deck.

"So far away from us? How did they get here? "Jin Yufei went to private school for a few years when he was young, and he had a little ink in his stomach, and he claimed to be a scholar and the most studious.

"To the west of the Netherlands is an ocean called the Atlantic Ocean, and they go south from the Atlantic, bypassing this continent called Africa, which is where Kunlun Nu stayed, and our eunuch Sanbao of the Ming Dynasty had led a fleet there. Having bypassed Africa, they entered the Indian Ocean, and from the Strait of Malacca they came to the South Ocean. The whole trip took about half a year. Ren Siqi once communicated with Olier and learned about the route taken by the "Shark" from Europe and the time it took.

"Oh my God, it's been so far, it's taken so long!" The crowd was amazed.

"Do you know why the Dutch were able to cross tens of thousands of miles of ocean to get here, while we Mingren could only go around at our doorstep? It is because we are not as good as others in navigation technology, although our Ming fortune ship is easy to operate, but it can't travel on the ocean, and it can't run that far. And the Dutch ship is different, it is a little troublesome to raise and lower the sail, but it is so fast, and it can adapt to all kinds of complex sea conditions, so people can come to our Daming gate and bully us. ”

"Let's learn from other people's things, one day we will be able to build a better ship than them, and we will also go to their doorstep to bully them!"

After listening to Ren Siqi's words, a sense of sacredness surged in everyone's hearts, yes, the red-haired ghosts of other people can come here thousands of miles away, why can't we even learn how to sail, how can we Ming people lose to them?

"Xiucai, there's a ship on the island." Just when Ren Siqi was still talking about it, a small boat rowed from the island.