Chapter 806: Treasure Fleet

"What's going wrong?" When Yue Guanchao saw her face, he probably found something again.

"We've been focused on finding a switch to the treasure ship, what if we can get the treasure ship to come by itself?" Song Siyuan's words were inexplicable, and even Yue Guanchao didn't know what he meant: "This is a whole fleet, how can it take the initiative to come here?" And no one is on the boat? ”

"I have a hunch that these boats are actually movable." After finishing speaking, Song Siyuan returned to the pillar, pointed to these lamps and said, "Since it is a lamp, let's continue to light it and see what these lamps are for?" With that, he picked up a match and lit the lamp, and as the lights around the steering wheel were lit, the steering wheel began to change.

"It's!" Seeing this scene, everyone gathered around with curiosity, the light of the lamp was very warm, and it completely illuminated the surroundings of the two pillars, and they were afraid that the corpse moth in the stone corridor would react, so they had to close the bronze door.

As the lamp was heated by the flames, the rudder seemed to loosen, as if something had been wound up, and with a click it protruded upwards, protruding at least half an inch from a complete depression into the stone groove.

"Look, I knew there wouldn't be a lamp for no reason." She twisted her hand for a moment, and immediately knew that it was counterclockwise, she looked at Yue Guanchao: "If these two things are really mechanisms, most of them have to be rotated together to be useful, let's turn them counterclockwise at the same time to see what effect it has." Yue Guanchao nodded, and Song Siyuan stood in front of the pillar at the same time, the two of them exerted force in the opposite direction at the same time, every time the steering wheel rotated, you could hear the click sound coming from the inside of the stone platform, and when it rotated to the bottom, the sound of water began to sound under the stone platform, and the dark iron chains that were originally still in the water tightened in their direction in the rumbling sound, and even the lake water became rippled, and the sound of water was endless.

"You see, the ships seem to be moving." The fleet of boats on the lake was hundreds of meters away from them, and it looked like a ship-shaped toy, but in this case, the treasure ship was indeed taxiing in their direction, and as the treasure ship got closer to them, the details of the fleet increased.

The reason why they were surprised was because the treasure ship led by them had exceeded their expectations, in their opinion, a shipping ship of the Republic of China was only about 100 meters at most, and the treasure ship of the Southern Song Dynasty in front of them was longer than a modern ship.

If you look closely, the hull is about 50 zhang long and 30 zhang wide, and the whole is in the form of a flat crescent, with the two ends slightly raised, and the arc under the deck is gentle, and finally falls into the water with a draft of half a waist, with uniform streamlines and dense cabins.

On the deck, four or five storey cabins are built in the middle of the hull, carved railings and painted buildings, and colorful decorations, which are extremely luxurious and magnificent, just like the royal family's building ship painting boat, just the full and wide belly deck is completely occupied, and there are symmetrical multi-layer cabins in the bow on both sides, which are shaped like ingots protruding from the middle of the two ends.

The hull is distributed from head to tail with twelve masts and fifteen sails, and each sail is completely unfolded at this moment, as if the hull has opened countless wings, and there are scale railings distributed at the middle hull railing, which is just a dragon body wrapped around it compared to the bow and stern.

The flotilla as a whole looked yellow-brown and earth-colored, with clear tung oil on the surface, and there were no cracks at all, and if it was coupled with the banner of the rebels hanging from the mast of the dragon's head, it added a sense of heroism, and if it were not for the dust and debris on the deck, they would have really thought that these ships had just stopped on the surface of the water.

Behind this ship, there are still twenty-meter boats closely behind, about ten, with fluttering flags and rippling sails, all connected by the black iron chains on the left and right, shaped like the tail of a giant dragon, looking majestic and domineering.

After drifting for hundreds of meters, this fleet finally stopped in front of them, and the blackiron chain also rolled to the end at this time.

"In the Southern Song Dynasty, was there already such a big ship?" Luo Shi Niang saw these ships, couldn't help but pick up her pocket, put on gold wire glasses to take a closer look, her family itself is a shipbuilding for a living, but the ships are mostly in fifty or sixty meters, this is already the length of the sky, if it is longer either no technology, or no materials, the length of the giant ship is nearly two hundred meters, it is indeed surprising.

Sun Daqiao stroked his beard and explained: "Sister, then you can be regarded as a lonely and unheard-of, the ancient shipbuilding technology is more developed than we imagined, the shipbuilding technology of the Song Dynasty has reached the peak, the longest ship has exceeded one hundred and fifty meters, about nine masts and twelve sails, its canopy, sails, anchors, rudders, non-two or three hundred people can not move, this is the most ordinary giant ship." ”

"If you want to be a real giant ship, you have to count the palace ship of Song Gaozong Zhao Gou." He paused, and explained in a mysterious tone: "Back then, the people of the Jin Kingdom saw that Zhao Gou went deep into the military camp, with a lofty spirit and extraordinary demeanor, thinking that the Song royal family would not have such a fearless prince, so they specially put Zhao Gou back, until he got the portrait of Zhao Gou after breaking through Bianjing, and then he understood that he had misplaced the dragon son and grandson...... "The Emperor of Jin understood that since Zhao Gou could not be in danger, there was already a real dragon elephant at that time, if he was allowed to wander outside, if he really pulled up the team, then his plan to exterminate the Song State would be completely frustrated.

After that, the Jin State began to send generals south, intending to search the mountains and seas to arrest Zhao Gou. At this time, Zhao Gou had just ascended the throne in the palace, and after experiencing the intimidation of the Jin military camp, Zhao Gou was already frightened, and his ass was not stable, so he heard that the emperor of the Jin State was going to send Jin soldiers to arrest him, of course, he did not dare to face the battle, and in order to avoid his edge, he could only flee to the sea by boat with his family members in the palace.

Zhao Gou had a headache at this time, the legal system of the Song Dynasty established by him was all here, if he abandoned the hundred officials and ministers at this moment, then what face would he have to be the emperor after that, in order to maintain the legal system and take care of the ministers, he took all the officials of the court and their families to the ship, and built a hundred zhang long ship.

The ship, which was 100 zhang long and half a hundred zhang wide, covered the cabins of the building from end to end, as if a Gaomen Mansion had been built on the deck, and all the imperial centers and bureaucracy were transported to the ship, and at the same time, all their families were placed on top of the other fleets, and they fled to the sea to avoid the Jin soldiers.

This ship is so big that it can't even shake the stormy waves, and when the Jin Bing's ship chased it to the open sea, it wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue and capture Zhao Gou, but when he saw that the wind and waves were about to tear the ship apart, he felt that few ships could only survive under this kind of wind and waves, so he went home.

It was this negligence of the Jin soldiers that Zhao Gou picked up a life, and after that, when the Southern Song Dynasty rebels established a defense line along the river, it was difficult for the Jin State to go down by boat, so Zhao Gou settled down and began to build the imperial palace in Lin'an.

After this incident, the people of the Southern Song Dynasty always felt that there was no end to the rampant violence of the Jin soldiers, and began to pay special attention to the innovation of shipbuilding technology, and many technologically advanced giant ships were created in the Southern Song Dynasty.

The prosperity of the shipbuilding industry also indirectly made the foreign trade of the Southern Song Dynasty extremely developed, and the commercial tax collected by the Southern Song Dynasty has far exceeded the agricultural tax by a lot.