What was waiting for him was still Ye Chang's refusal, and at this moment, someone suddenly galloped over, and when he saw Ye Chang from a distance, he bowed down and said: "Ye Langjun, a certain person was ordered to deliver the news that Li Yong has died in prison."

As soon as this news came out, Li Bai's expression froze, while Du Fu's eyes became cold, and he sighed and said, "Since that's the case......"

With that, he drew his sword and swung it over his sleeve, and a piece of his sleeve fell. Then Du Fu turned around and left, and said sadly: "In the universe of Changxiao, the high-level talent is replaced." The ancients were invisible, and the predecessors succeeded them. Recalling the past Li Gongcun, the word forest has roots. Shenghua is a strong pen, sprinkling the rich Qing system ......"

"Eleven Lang, I'll chase Zimei and try my best to help you persuade."

Li Bai can only be helpless at this time, Rao is chic and wise, but both sides are friends, and he can't favor one over the other. And Li Yong's death, Ye Chang was only happy, but Du Fu was heartbroken, after all, among today's celebrities, only Li Yong is the only one who really treats Du Fu with great courtesy.

It was the death of Shi for his confidant, Du Fu did not say anything to scold Ye Chang, but just cut off his sleeves, and he was already cultivated

Ye Chang nodded, and he was also quite sad in his heart.

In this life, he has a bad relationship with Wang Wei, and if he doesn't have a good relationship with Du Fu again, it will be a pity.

Turning his head and looking at those subordinates, Ye Chang let out a long breath, and then said loudly: "Pack up, leave tomorrow, and go to Dengzhou."

Dengzhou has been a good harbor since ancient times, at this time it is the sunny weather of the plum yellow time, the sea breeze is light, the sky is clear, people are open-minded, some depression, and it is dispersed. He only stayed in Dengzhou for three days, and after replenishing enough supplies, Ye Chang gave the order to set sail.

For Ye Chang's order, Su Thick Legs couldn't wait.

"This ship is not difficult to maneuver, it has been practiced for a month, although I don't dare to go full speed, but I can go to sea a long time ago. Good waterworkers are all made in the wind and waves, but they can't be made by struggling in calm water like this."

When Ye Chang asked him for his opinion, he said.

Because of the ocean currents, Ye Chang's fleet did not take the route outside the Bohai Sea, but chose the waterway inside the Bohai Sea, that is, west of the later Miaodao Islands. The Bohai Rim Current rotates in a counterclockwise direction, and here it is supported by the topography and begins to bend northward. With the help of the monsoon from the southeast, they can go faster.

"It would be nice to have a precise timer...... Zhang Xiu studied for two years, but after all, he could not completely solve this problem. Ye Chang had some regrets.

On the boat, someone throws a rope tied to driftwood into the sea, and there is a stone under the driftwood to hold it in place, and he also holds an hourglass in his hand, and judges the time according to the hourglass and the leakage of sand, and then judges the speed according to the distance between the driftwood and the ship. After tossing and turning repeatedly for a while, someone shouted: "Lang Jun, fourteen miles per hour."

Fourteen miles per hour, it is about three and a half kilometers per hour, this speed is actually very slow, but now there is no Zhang Fan, almost completely relying on the impetus of the ocean current, to have this speed, has made Ye Chang very satisfied.

He came out of the cabin with a wooden box in his hand, and Su Thick followed behind him.

"Lang Jun, can you really position yourself in the sea with this?" Su followed Ye Chang with thick legs, and his expression was like a dog who only wanted to please his master: "Lang Jun, what is the truth in this?" ”

"Positioned by the sun during the day and the stars at night, don't you always boast that you are in the sea as in the courtyard, why are you so interested in this compass?" Ye Chang said with a smile.

The compass was used to orient a sea vessel, which was a first at this time. Su Bush looked at the small device in Ye Chang's hand in awe, and only felt that only the heavenly immortals could come up with such a method.

In order to make a compass suitable for navigation, Ye Chang racked his brains, whether it was the floating water method or the hanging needle method, in the case of the boat being pushed and swayed by the wind and waves, it was actually not accurate enough, to solve this problem, Ye Chang also invited the best jewelers.

That's the delicate wooden box in his hand.

"You can see clearly, the north pointed by this needle point to the real due north has some deviations, in fact, it is easterly." Ye Chang showed the compass in his hand to Su Thick Legs: "Although it is only a little easterly, but above the vast sea, a slight deviation may be thousands of miles away from the target." ”

"Lang Jun is right"

"Fortunately, now it's just for you to bring the plumber to familiarize yourself with these appliances, mainly our own plumber." Ye Chang said in a low voice: "They have learned surveying and drawing with me at home, and the nautical charts they draw, you can remember to keep them, and you must keep three copies of each nautical chart, one copy on the ship, one copy in the captain's hand, and the other copy for me." ”

Su Rough Leg understood that this was to explain the future matters, Ye Chang trusted him very much, and after seeing his ability to sail on the sea, he was ready to hand over all this part of the ship to him.

Naturally, for the purpose of checks and balances, one or two people will be sent to share the power of Su Thick Legs, but that is after the power of the force is strengthened.

As they spoke, they climbed up to the top of the ship, and climbed up the lookout on the foremast of the ship along the rope ladder made of the rope knot.

"Now, it's time for my baby to appear......" Ye Chang muttered to himself, put away the compass, and then lifted another thing.

Monoculars.

Ever since he bought the crystal ball in Chang'an City that time, Ye Chang has not forgotten that the crystal can come in handy. Before he made glass, crystal was the best material for polishing telescopes, and even after burning glass, for a long time, crystal was probably no better than pure and transparent glass.

Raise the binoculars and look in the southeast direction, there is a clear land on that side, which should be Da Xie Island.

In fact, you don't need a telescope, and you can see the outline of Da Xie Island when the weather is good, but it is difficult to see it further away. Ye Chang shifted the angle of the telescope slightly to the north, and faintly saw a gray shadow, which was Turtle Island, which was further north than Da Xie Island.

"Did you really see Turtle Island?" Hearing Ye Chang's words, Su Thick Legs was a little unconvinced: "That's not Da Xie Island, it's a hundred miles."

He has not been idle these days, and inquired about the situation of the Bohai Sea from the mouth of the recruited waterman, and he is also very familiar with the sea route from Dengzhou to Liaodong.

At this time, the navigation industry was still extremely backward, from Dengzhou to Liaodong, the shortest distance in later generations was only more than 100 kilometers, and the ship could run a voyage in half a day, which was necessary for the sailors. Because, familiarity with waterways has become the first priority of the water workers, and it is related to everyone's lives.

"What am I lying to you about, you can see for yourself." Ye Chang said with a smile.

Of course, this place is not a hundred miles away from Turtle Island, and Ye Chang estimates that it is dozens of miles at most. Su took the monoculars with thick legs, looked to the northeast in the same way as Ye Chang, and then his hands trembled, and the telescope almost fell

"Be careful, this thing, but it cost me hundreds of dollars - money is a small thing, and if it breaks, there will be no second one"

Without waiting for him to say more, Su Thick Legs consciously held the telescope with both hands, first looked to the northeast, then to the southeast, and then to the south: "Oh my God, my God, my God, this must be the magic weapon of the immortals, I can even see Dengzhou...... How is this possible, oh my God"

The compass had already made Su Thick Legs so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth, and he followed behind Ye Chang, and now that he looked at the telescope, he was even more shocked. It took six or seven circles to turn around before he put down the binoculars and looked at Ye Chang, his saliva was almost dripping out.

He was born on the sea, so he knew how much effect such a device that can increase people's vision by several times or even ten times will be for navigation.

"Eleven Lang...... Ye Langjun ......"

"This one is for you." Ye Chang said quietly.

Su was in ecstasy, and immediately knelt down on the watchtower and bowed again: "Lang Jun...... Lord, Su is obedient, willing to be a servant, never double-hearted"

This guy spent a lot of effort on the beginning, but he didn't take refuge, only because Ye Chang showed respect for him in Luoyang last time, he was willing to work for Ye Chang. But now, a telescope made him happy and convinced, and he was even willing to serve as a servant for Ye Chang.

"Get up...... Is this telescope really so important to you? ”

"For the sailors on the ship, the telescope, the compass, and this sturdy ship are countless more lives" Su got up and said: "The lord has such immortal treasures, no wonder he dares to ask for overseas immortal mountains."

He was indeed shocked, when he first learned that Ye Chang was going to visit the overseas Immortal Mountain, he only thought that this was the whimsy of the young man. But with these three "treasures", he felt that it might not be impossible to visit the fairy mountain.

"Hehe, it's good to do, and there will be more good things." Ye Chang smiled: "Bigger and stronger boats, telescopes that can run faster and see farther, instruments that can accurately determine our position...... These will be there. ”

At this time, whatever he said, Su Thick Legs believed anything, so he nodded vigorously.

"My lord, such a treasure...... Ugh"

Su Thick Legs was about to speak, when he saw Ye Chang take out another monocular from the small wooden box he was carrying, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

With such a treasure, he thought that there was only one one, but he never thought that Ye Chang would take out another one casually

In fact, telescopes are just lenses that are difficult to polish, as long as there are lenses, there is no difficulty in manufacturing. Ye Chang started preparing for the city competition the year before last, and now it has been almost two years, so naturally he is not only preparing to produce a pair. The lenses in his hand were enough to make six pairs of telescopes, but for temporary technical protection purposes, he only took out two.

"There are still any?"

"How?"

"There is a second pair of such treasures?"

"Ah, that's natural, didn't I say it, you have to do it, and there will be better ones in the future."

Su Thick Legs felt that his head was buzzing, and he couldn't turn it around for a while. After a while, he calmed down, looked down cautiously, and then lowered his voice and said, "My lord, such treasures need to be treasured, and they should not be easily revealed...... The people we recruited in Laizhou may not all be loyal, if they steal our treasures......"

"You are too careful about this, on the ship, and in the vast sea, you are stealing treasures, can they escape?" Ye Chang smiled: "On the contrary, we want to show them this treasure and let them do things for us wholeheartedly."

"But ......"

"Su thick legs, if someone is really ill-intentioned, it is better to expose it earlier than later." Ye Chang is meaningful.

They muttered on the watchtower, and Wu Dahe, who was working hard to clean the deck below, whispered: "Big brother, this boat is really good, not only sturdy, but also more stable than our previous ship."

"And the speed of the boat is fast, you see that there is such a speed without hanging sails" Wu Dajiang also said: "Big brother, if we get this ship......"

"Shhhh

Wu Dahai glared at them, and Wu Dajiang and Wu Dahe were silent.

A little behind them, Bian Ping, who was cleaning the cable, moved his ears and continued to clean his own cable.

Ye Chang has very strict requirements for the maintenance of the boat, and these sailors have to clean the deck of the ship when they have nothing to do, and they have to wash it three or five times a day, which makes them have no time to gamble or chat.

Wu Dahai's eyes slipped to Bian Ping's side, and when he saw that there was nothing unusual, he said in a low voice: "Be careful, don't talk nonsense, let's be careful."

"A group of river turtles, it's useless to go to the sea, big brother, you're too careful."

"If I hadn't been careful, we'd have been done a long time ago." Wu Dahai glared angrily at Wu Dajiao, who interjected.

He was about to teach his brother a few more words, but at this time, he heard someone shouting: "Wu Dahai, Wu Dahai, you come up"

Wu Dahai's heart jumped, and when he looked up, he saw that Ye Chang had come down from the watchtower, and it was Su Thick Legs, who had been appointed as the captain, calling him.

"Here it is, here it is"

Ye Chang smiled and watched as the forty-year-old waterman ran neatly in front of him, and then climbed up the watchtower along the cable. Because of the sea breeze, I couldn't hear what Su Thick Legs was talking to him above, and only saw Su Thick Legs hand over the telescope in his hand to Wu Dahai.

Then Wu Dahai was like Su with thick legs, his hand was weak, and the telescope almost fell off.

"Damn, be careful, this is a treasure of the fairy family that is hard to buy, if it is broken, you can't exchange your brother's five lives for it......"

Vaguely hearing Su Thick Legs scolding, Ye Chang smiled dumbly, it was clear that he had just been taught a lesson by himself, so he taught the abduction person again. However, listening to Su Thick Legs, among the water workers recruited this time, the Wu brothers are considered to be flukes, not only good at boats, but also willing to work hard to learn, so Su Thick Legs is very fancy.

Of course, Su Thick Legs also said that the five Wu brothers must not be ordinary fishermen and sailors, but they are afraid that they have done some things that violate the laws of the Tang Dynasty at sea. Ye Chang didn't care about this, at this time, the people at sea, who were not also in charge of the sea, were those maritime merchants, if they saw other ships in the vast sea, the first thought was whether they could grab each other's votes.

On the sea, there are no rules yet, what Ye Chang has to do is to start from this Bohai Sea to determine the rules on the sea.

"Wu Dajiang, it's your turn" Su's thick legs' loud voice sounded again, Wu Dajiang looked up, and saw his brother descending down the cable in despair, and he couldn't help but be suspicious in his heart. Captain Su just showed his brother something, why did his brother become like this?

Could it be that the things in Captain Su's hands can capture people's souls?