The evening tide receded, the bright moon hung high, the night was like water, and after a day of tossing, the ingredients of Po Suji were finally rescued. There was no injury on the catfish boy, but he had been in the dark for a long time, and after coming out, he couldn't stop crying, and his eyes couldn't see for the time being, so Chongwen arranged him on the boat and slowly adjusted.

Among the rescued tributes, there were two Kang people, one was Xu Hai of Hangzhou Prefecture, and the other was Chai Demei of Ningbo Prefecture, the word Mingmei. Chai Demei was a maritime merchant, who was plundered by the eel in the waters near the five islands of Yanan, and was imprisoned in the cave of Evil Rock Island, and his shipmate was successively eaten by Po Suji, and he was the only one left, and when he was rescued, he was skinny as wood, and eight out of ten lives went to eight.

This Xu Hai is a strange person, he was originally an ordained monk in Hangzhou Hupao Temple, and his legal name is Pujing. Once, Wang Cuiqiao, a woman from the Qinglou, went to the Hupao Temple to offer incense, and was seen by Xu Hai and was shocked. From then on, Xu Hai made up his mind to break the vow and went to sea to join his uncle Xu Weixue, who was a Kang businessman in the port of Pinghu in the country. However, this Xu monk was more unlucky, he was plundered by the eel people in the East China Sea and suffered a lot.

They are all of the same Chinese lineage, and there is always a bit of incense, and the sailors also placed these two Kang people on the ship to take care of them. In addition to this, it is the master and servant of Nohime and Hanako, the little girl helps the sailors rescue their partners, and also discovers a treasure mountain, which deserves better care. What's more, Hanako is very well-behaved and very popular with sailors, and has long regarded her as their own.

A total of more than 200 people were rescued, all of whom were unfortunately captured at sea, and no one died on the ship, and fell into Shekou. There is a 7-foot-tall Patagonian giant, and a blonde and blue-eyed white skin, Benito Graham, an old pirate from the West. These guys are not so lucky, there are too many people, except for being too weak to arrange in the only building in the village, the others can only sleep on the beach, fortunately the climate here is warm, and they can deal with it for the time being.

The prisoners were miserable, they had been in the dark and damp for too long, they were all sick, almost all of them were temporarily blind, and for too long they were permanently blind, there were always a dozen. What's worse is that these people come from the ends of the earth, they don't understand the language, and no one knows where their home is or what they can do.

Fortunately, although these people have bad eyes, their noses are very smart. In the dark crevices of the rocks, as long as food is thrown in, these people can discern the direction by their noses and swarm to scramble. On land, these habits were still retained, and whenever the sailors brought food to them, they always caused a chaotic fight.

On a large reef on the beach, Chongwen and the chief soldier sat opposite each other, temporarily escaping from the noisy crowd. Chongwen said: "Save people to the end, they are too weak, I am afraid that someone will die if it rains." Doesn't there be a marching tent in Curry, and there is an awning, you ask Ah Qian to take it out and block them from the wind and rain. ”

Just made a shocking fortune, and the general soldier Shun was also surprisingly generous, he nodded and said, "It should be... It's just that we can't protect ourselves, and we can't care about them for the rest of our lives. ”

Chongwen looked at the crowd in the moonlight and said, "We can't hide here forever, guarding the treasure, rotting on a desert island like a wild man. After all, this island has to be planned and renovated, opening ports and roads, building cities and mines, and where there is no need for manpower, they can always be used. ”

The chief soldier smiled bitterly: "These guys can't walk, there are women, there are blind people, I'm afraid they won't need it." ”

Chongwen said with a smile: "People at sea are not so fragile, I will make a bet with you, it will not take half a month for these people to return to normal." ”

The chief soldier sighed and said, "I'm afraid our grain won't last long, and the grain depot in the village has also burned these bastards, and there is not much left." Straight thieves, these guys go out to sea like beasts, they can't eat without burning and killing. ”

Chongwen said: "I'm not worried about this, there are flocks of fish and turtles in the sea, and wild fruits in the mountains are continuous all year round, so I'm not afraid for the time being." I'm worried about the sea eye. ”

Chief Bingshun said: "I also feel that something is wrong, if it is not good, it is a lair of the Naga Snake God Clan." ”

Chongwen said: "Whoever enters the mother, no matter what kind of god or Buddha he is, anyway, no one wants to eat and drink for nothing on our island." ”

Boom, with a loud bang, the entire Nanshan trembled. The islanders were terrified, staring straight at the puffs of dust and smoke rising from the mountains, and the pirates laughed wildly and were overjoyed.

Chongwen ordered to move 200 catties of thick ** from the boat to the cave, dig holes in the four walls of the sea eye, and then fill the **blasting, the rock wall collapsed and collapsed, completely sealing the sea eye, and no god would want to climb up from here to harass human beings. The cave was so wicked that the pirates had used boulders to kill the hole in the belly of the mountain, and the last trace of the demon-infested Evil Stone Island had disappeared.

In that year, Chongwen's grandfather, Emperor Taizu Gao, led 34 heroes to escape from Haozhou, conquered Dingyuan City, and began the journey to conquer the world. Chongwen didn't have that much ambition, and even Nanjing City was a little distant and vague in his heart, and he didn't think that Longwang Island was his Dingyuan City. However, if you want to settle down here, you must always find out the mountains and rivers.

Huang Qian actually turned out a Western clock from Baoshan, but it was too old and some damaged, and the clockwork had already stopped. Fortunately, among the refugees was a Western pirate old Benito, who had been an apprentice in a Western shipyard for several years, and had a lot of mechanical ingenuity, so he actually groped for a good time to fix the clock, and the hands began to click again.

Where have the sailors seen this thing, they were amazed, but Chongwen knew that this was not a toy, it was a timekeeping tool, and the light could not walk, and the time had to be corrected. After raising it for a few days, the pain in his body was not so bad, and he took Catfish Boy, Benito, Xu Hai, Xu Yi, and Liu Huaide to embark on the road of surveying the whole island.

Xu Hai, the flower monk, is very talented in language, he has been messing around on the beach for a while, and he can communicate with most of the refugees, and he can come to a few words in Mandarin, Ryukyuan, Luzon and Siamese, Lusitan, and Persian, plus he is originally a monk who understands Sanskrit, and the sailors inadvertently get a universal general.

With the help of communication, the refugees can be arranged to do what they can. The strong go into the mountains to cut wood, set up rafts to go out to sea to fish, and the weak collect wild fruits and clean the floors. The two carpenters on the ship instructed the refugees to build wooden houses and set up fences for the village, and everyone was doing a prosperous job, but there were some signs of prosperity.

The reason why Chongwen took Xu Hai was because it was convenient to communicate with Benito.

Although this island was once rampant with demons, and it is unlikely that there were wild beasts in the mountains, a few people still brought blades and firearms, just in case. The island is not big, and a few people climbed the main peak of Nanshan in more than an hour, and Longwang Island has a panoramic view, and the mind is open-minded.

The catfish boy said excitedly: "Let's go out to sea and give this peak a name." ”

Chongwen groaned slightly and said, "Let's call it Longshou Peak."

Found a flat place, a few people cleaned up the rocks and shrubs, Xu Yi put a cedar penny more than one person high in the center, the weather was fine, and the sun cast the shadow of the straight pole on the flat ground.

Chongwen said to the catfish: "Look at this shadow, is it getting shorter and shorter? This is because the sun runs from east to west, and the day of the week is 12 hours, 80,000 li. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was directly above us, and the shadow of the pole was the shortest, and then the sun turned west, and the shadow began to lengthen again.

Therefore, the shortest time for shadows is noon, which is 12 o'clock according to Western parlance. As long as the hour hand is set to 12 o'clock when the rod shadow is at its shortest, the clock will be accurate. ”

The catfish boy said: "This bell is good, much more accurate than the hourglass on the ship." ”

Chongwen said: "It is too important to have the right time at sea, if I had this clock half a month ago, I would have been able to calculate the exact course, and we would not have been able to get to this hellish place." ”

Catfish Boy smiled: "This place is also very good, there are mountains and waters, if it weren't for the kraken, it would have been occupied by someone a long time ago, and it wouldn't be our turn." ”

Chongwen said: "What you said is reasonable, this island is a treasure island, if you don't want to be snatched away by others, we have to build the city cannon, but how to build the city, how to cast the cannon, that is the university to ask." We must first find out the geography of the mountains and rivers of Longwang Island. With this bell, I will be able to measure the scores of all parts of the island, and the mountains and rivers will be in my hands, and any kind of thief will make him come and go. ”

The catfish boy gasped and said, "This bell is so powerful." ”

Chongwen said: "Look at this clock dial, there are three needles, the hour hand, the minute hand and the second hand, the wonderful thing is that he divides the day into 24 hours, 1440 minutes, 86400 seconds, the minutes are exactly the same, you have learned that the sun, moon and stars run 80,000 miles a week, then you can calculate that one second runs 138 zhang."

If you want to side the east-west length of Longwang Island, you can stand the pole silhouette at the westernmost end, and the shortest time to see the rod shadow is a few hours, minutes and seconds, and then measure the shortest rod shadow at the easternmost end is a few hours, minutes and seconds, and the difference between the two places is a few seconds, you multiply it by 138 zhang, and you can get the distance between the east and west of Longwang Island. ”

The catfish boy pondered for a long time and said: "It's really amazing to go to sea, and I can think of it." I know how to measure the north and south, and our ship travels north and south, and as long as I measure how far it travels per minute, and how long it takes to sail north and south, I can measure the distance between north and south. ”

Chongwen laughed: "That's right! But it's not enough to measure these, but also to measure the height of the mountain and the depth of the water, which requires the use of the technique of hooking three strands, four mysteries and five techniques, take your time, these will be taught to you." ”

After calibrating the clock, Chongwen asked Benito through Xu Hai: "I heard that Western artillery is magical, is there a kind of cannon with an extremely long range, and it can blockade the entire harbor here?"

Benito said, "That's impossible, it's too far away, why put the battery here?" he said, pointing to the harbor below the hill, "Your Excellency, there are huge sea rocks on the north and south of the harbor, and this is a natural artillery position, and firing from the high ground on both sides to the fairway, which just constitutes crossfire, and it is impossible for any ship to pass through the blockade." Moreover, the high ground north and south of the harbor is very high, and it is simply impossible to capture it. ”

Chongwen observed for a long time and said: "No, of course it cannot be captured from the frontal sea, but it can be climbed up from the gentle slope of the side back, this is the weakness of shore defense, unless... ”

Benito said: "Unless the back of the fort is protected by walls." ”

Chongwen smiled and said, "Exactly." But where do the cannons come from? I heard that you worked as a shipwright in a Western shipyard, can you cast that kind of powerful cannon? ”

Benito shook his head and said, "I haven't cast it, I just watched the gunsmiths cast it." ”

Xu Yi shouted viciously: "What do you want to do if you don't know how to cast a cannon, do you want to feed Wang Ba in the sea." ”

Xu Hai's translation was fierce, and the old pirate was shocked and said, "I can try, but... However, high-powered artillery will be very expensive, very expensive, and the success rate of casting cannons is too low, which is not cost-effective. ”