Chapter 47: The Devil's Temptation from Hell
Duke Auston was attracted by the fat man's dinner, so he leaned on the fat man's boat, and then made a very promiseful appearance to teach the fat man French, and then his French teaching slowly carried private goods, openly and secretly asked the fat man how big his country was, how big Japan was, how many people were in China, how many people in Japan, India was still not ruled by the Mongols, and so on.
How smart the fat man is! I don't know what he thinks, doesn't he just want to see if China is still as strong as before, if it is really strong, then they will really do business honestly, if they find that it is no longer worthy of fear, then they will be like wild dogs in the wasteland, showing their hideous claws and teeth to pounce on and bite, and bite off a piece of meat that is a big profit.
In addition, he really didn't know the answers to these questions, so when Duke Auston asked, the fat man only said that Da Ming was as big as dozens of France, and the others always talked about him left and right, so that Duke Auston always couldn't get a satisfactory answer to himself, and he also understood that the fat man was not one of those incompetent fools, so he didn't have the heart to spy on Da Ming with words, and honestly taught the fat man to speak French.
"How much do you know about sailing?" Old man Auston asked in French.
"Sailing?" After a few days of study, the clever fat man was able to converse with the Duke of Auston simply in French.
"Yes, sailing!"
The fat man thought for a while and said: "I didn't understand it before, but after digging the treasure this time, I plan to go back to Daming to learn the navigation skills that I didn't pay attention to before!" ”
Duke Auston nodded, then handed him a notebook: "This is my half-life experience, give it to you!" ”
The fat man took it, opened it and saw a line in French: "Auston Voyage Notes." ”
But a systematic prompt suddenly appeared in the fat man's mind: "Discover the primary navigation, whether to learn or not, the elementary navigation is a general term for the navigation of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, referring to the primitive sailing and sailing techniques." ”
What are you waiting for? Choose yes directly! Then the fat man saw a white light flash in his nautical notes, and then he had a lot more in his head.
For example, how to find a reference at sea, how to hang a spinnaker when encountering a headwind, how to look at the star map, how to look at the ocean current to determine whether there is a reef under the seabed, how to walk along the coastline so as not to hit the reef, etc.
There are also how to use the hourglass on the ship to see the time, look at the shadow of the mast on the ship and the direction of the sun to determine where you are, and so on.
The fat man was slowly and unconsciously flipping through the book, Duke Auston had already entered the cabin, he didn't pay attention, he just felt the knowledge in his head tumbling, engraved in his mind.
At this moment, he seemed to see countless fragments, and he drove the sailboat through the stormy waves again and again, and then encountered problems again and again.
For example, he is now in the body of a captain, he can only see, can only feel the captain's anxiety, because now the captain is driving a brig towards the depths of the ocean, behind his ship, is a ** earth-shattering waves.
The captain had already taken over the helmsman's job and took control of the ship himself, when a sailor who was so anxious that he was about to cry rushed in and shouted: "Captain, the storm has caught up with us!" ”
The captain roared: "What are you crying at this time! Go and get an axe and cut the sail rope, and tell the sailors to tie themselves up! ”
Then the captain turned the boat in a different direction, aimed the bow at the rushing waves, and tied himself to the rudder, looked at the oncoming waves with a hideous face, let out a hysterical roar, watched the waves crash against his boat, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the boat had not broken.
When the storm passed, the captain who was shaken on the waves was excited to find that he was not dead, and the ship was not destroyed, but it was just a little leaky, and then he rescued several sailors who had not died at sea, and learned that the fastest boat had just been smashed by the waves after being chased by the waves.
And he survived because he rushed to the crest of the wave, so he wrote in his notebook that when he encountered a storm, if he couldn't escape, then he would aim the bow of the ship at the huge wave and rush to the top of the wave with a wide wavelength, so that he could survive.
Just as the fat man was feeling, he was interrupted by Duke Auston: "I said, Baron Xiao Leng, you can read the notes whenever you want, anyway, I have already given it to you, and I won't take it back, then it's my meal money, anyway, it's just a copy, but what I want to ask is, should we have dinner?" ”
The fat man looked at the sky, it was indeed quite late, living on a ship, it was common sense to eat before dark, so he put away the notes in his hand and walked into the restaurant, yes, there is a restaurant on the ship, okay! It wasn't called a dining room, just a dining room with two nailed tables, and the kitchen was inside the dining room, and the sailors usually went to eat after eating.
The sailors' meal was simple, bread, bacon, a glass of water and a beer, and vegetables that had dried up or were a little spoiled.
Vegetables will be gone tomorrow, fortunately I didn't buy more, and it's bad to buy more and put it on the boat, and the fat man's space is also full of things, and his lunch box has become two grids, anyway, I'm not afraid of being bad in it, so the fat man made almost two hundred food boxes of meals in reality and put them in the space until they were full of two grids.
There is a grid with dozens of sacks of beans, and another grid with a fat man's lucky wooden pillar, and he plans to find someone to help him carve it into a dragon king statue and put it on the bow of the boat! As a result, I have been forgotten.
The last two squares are two May Fourth, and after the killer crisis was resolved, Yasu returned the two guns to the fat man.
The last compartment was actually those python meat, and dozens of bags of python meat had been put in the fat man's backpack and forgot to clear it out.
So there is no spare space on the fat man's body, unless it is time to go out and clear some of the things on his body.
The sailors knew that fat people generally ate small stoves, but they were curious how this captain could have changed things from nothing to something.
But it's just curiosity, when they saw the fat man coming in, they took the food one by one and walked out, and the fat man didn't stop saying anything like that, this is class.
The captain has the life of a captain, the sailor has the life of a sailor, this is the composition of the world, a captain, a fleet commander, why should he be on an equal footing with the sailors, eat the same things, so why make money? So why are you still an official? Everyone is lazy to drink porridge together, what are you going to do at sea?
However, the fat man still stopped a sailor: "Call in the first and second mates and Nina." ”
The sailor hurriedly answered the call and ran out and called for someone to go.
The fat man walked to the table and took out the big food box from the backpack space, the current food box is bigger than before, and it can hold twenty dishes. So now this box of dishes is all taken out, and the whole table is filled.
Duke Oss smiled: "Other people's natural skills are beneficial to battle, and your talent is so strange, it is actually a pretending thing, I have never seen anyone have this kind of talent." ”
"Oh! So what kind of talent did Duke Auston have? The fat man asked curiously, he had not used the system to check the specific data of Duke Auston.
"Huh! My talent skill is the combat skill counterattack in the wood talent! Duke Auston said with a little pride.
The fat man was stunned, and countered that he knew, but he really hadn't heard of what wood was tied to what was it, so he asked, "What wood skill?" Is that how you guys divide it? Can you tell me more about that? ”
At this time, Caterina and Wafflin, who was pulling Nina, walked in, and Duke Auston pointed at Katerina: "She also has natural skills, you know this!" ”
The fat man nodded.
"She must have been a young lady in a noble family before, so let her speak! We'll be happier to listen to, and it's better than an old man like me! Duke Auston laughed.
The fat man said angrily: "In our hometown, there is a saying that the old man speaks ill, and it is you who says it for the old disrespect." ”
Caterina came over and served Nina a big bowl of rice, then sat down after serving another bowl of rice herself, and asked, "What do you want me to say?" ”
"It's a matter of natural skills, your captain doesn't know the situation of natural skills in Europe, he doesn't know how to divide them, you come and tell him."
When Caterina heard this, she gently put down the spoon in her hand and said, "So this is it!" This is very simple, first talk about the origin of our European natural skills, it is said that hundreds of years ago the powerful Mongols brought three things from the East, natural skills, gunpowder, and compass, and gunpowder and compass are now familiar to you, but natural skills are only circulated among the nobility, of course, there are also people who are occupied by others after their territory is stripped of their noble status and become commoners, but he himself will be gifted with skills, then he will become a person with natural skills other than the nobles. ”
"It is said that the innate skill is something that was concocted by a profession called a Taoist priest, and it was said to be a devilish temptation from hell after it came to Europe."
"Innate skills can be obtained in two ways: first, after being knowledgeable, comprehend the elements of heaven and earth, strive to be close to them, and then command them to form a variety of forms after gaining their approval;
Second, find a fruit called the talent fruit, eat it, this is a fruit that can improve the ability to sense for a period of time, after eating it, you will feel that you are around you and you are very close to an element, and because of the talent fruit, it is easy for the elements that are suitable for you to agree, so this fruit is the second kind of divine fruit that is relatively easy to obtain talent skills, and where does this fruit appear? There is no pattern, maybe someone went up the mountain to pick it, someone went down to the sea to catch it, anyway, its appearance is a strange way. ”
"It is precisely because there is no law in the appearance of talent fruits, so there are very few surviving in the world, and they can be auctioned for a sky-high price once they appear at auction once in a while."