Su You was Zhang San, Qian Kejiu, and Shi accompanied him to the bottom of the dock. Here, looking up at the three-story ship, you will be even more in awe of human beings' ability to conquer nature.

The bottom of the ship was covered with oysters and clams. The cables that had been soaked in the water for a long time were covered with mussels like heavy grapes.

The workers are holding steel drills and working hard to clean up these parasites on the bottom of the ship.

Su You picked up a big oyster from the basket, took out the folding knife from his bag and opened it, inserted the oyster to cut off the closing muscle, opened it and handed it to Zhang Qi: "Do you want to eat it?"

Zhang Qi shook his head: "I'm almost tired of eating it."

So Su You handed it to Qian Kejiu again: "Master Hou, give it to you."

Qian Kejiu took it: "Do you like eating raw food?"

Su You picked up another one: "Don't dare to eat freshwater fish or clams. Many kinds of parasites have been found in Tianshi Mansion, but this one is seafood, so it is much better."

Qian Kejiu was dumbfounded: "Fish... there are many kinds of... parasites..."

He loves to eat fish and meat to a great extent.

Su You nodded: "I'll just eat one, I don't even know what oysters taste like..."

Qian Kejiu quickly handed him the oyster in his hand: "Then this is for you!"

Shi Buwei: "Give it to me, this is extremely expensive in Bianjing City!"

Su You laughed and ate it: "It seems really good, so sweet..."

Zhang San looked at Qian Kejiu's look and smiled from the side: "How can the young master say such evil things? In Zhencao's hometown, eating fish and dumplings is a common thing..."

Qian Kejiu's expression had just improved when he heard Zhang San continue: "...uh...but it seems they are all sea fish."

Now his face turned blue again.

Su You looked at the bottom of the huge ship: "When will we go to sea next?"

Zhang San said: "I don't know how well Kuro and Alp are in contact. If we go south at the end of the year, in November or December, there will be no north wind; when we come back next year, it will be between May and June, but there will be no wind."

Just the south wind. Come to think of it, it's only been a few months."

Su You nodded: "Master Hou, for this voyage, the Municipal Shipping Department adopted a new method. The government provided ships, and the Liangzhe Road Maritime Chamber of Commerce and Sitong Company jointly organized the cargo; the Municipal Shipping Department and the Sitong Company Shipping Department jointly recruited Fanhan

Sailors, jointly carry out maritime transport.”

"The profit from shipping is 70% for the shipping department and 30% for the merchants of Tibetan and Han Dynasties. As the head of the line, the Marquis will have to do a lot of work."

Qian Kejiu was so happy that he couldn't see anything at all: "Don't worry, Mingrun, but you must keep it full! Besides silk and porcelain, the Tibetan people's favorite thing is coins. You have to prepare enough for me."

Su You smiled and said: "Don't worry, Liangzhe Road will mint three times more coins this year, and half of it is prepared for the Marquis. However, this part of the proceeds will all go to the Shipping Department. This period must not be missed."

Qian Kejiu handed over his hand: "That's natural. It's all His Majesty's money. Who dares to reach out randomly?"

Su You said to Zhang San: "When the ship arrived at Maliujia, it separated a Kuizhou type ship to recruit local men, turned to the southeast, and went as far south as possible along the islands in the sea..."

Qian Kejiu said: "There don't seem to be any vassal states over there, they are all in poor condition."

"What we are looking for is not in the sea or land..."

Su You shook his head and smiled, stretched out his hand and pointed upward: "What we are looking for is another sky!"

"Damn!" Qian Kejiu had been with Su You for a long time, and Su was so frightened that he even cursed: "Mingrun, please don't talk nonsense!"

Su You smiled and said: "Si Tianjian's observations and astronomical calculations have shown that the earth we are on is at least a sphere."

"If you expand this spherical surface along an arc, you will get a sphere."

"If this hypothesis is true, as long as we cross the zero-degree latitude of this sphere, that is, after the earth's equator, another night sky will appear above our heads! A night sky that we Chinese people have never carefully observed and measured!"

"If you really see such a night sky, it will strengthen the 'Earth Theory'. This is the biggest secret of our Emperor Song, and the Marquis cannot tell it to outsiders."

"Don't worry about this..." Qian Kejiu felt that his IQ had been cruelly crushed, and rolled his eyes and said: "I don't want to spread the news in Hangzhou, saying that the Qian family's Marquis has lost his mind and gone crazy.

That’s for you!”

Su You couldn't help but laugh, it was really like this, if you say this now, someone has to believe it!

Zhang Qi said: "In fact, the Southern Sky Star Catalog, Si Tianjian and Tianshi Mansion have already started observing the various constellations in the southern sky. The "Southern Sky Star Catalog" of Guangzhou Yuxu Palace is almost completed, which can be regarded as further evidence of the sphere theory. This measurement,

They also need to participate.”

Qian Kejiu was confused: "How can we prove it?"

Su You said: "Because of the Southern Cross, it can also be observed in Bianjing City, but it is quite difficult."

Zhang San explained: "It is much more convenient to be at sea, but off the coast of Shandong, the place is almost close to the sea level, with only two stars exposed."

"But when you arrive in Guangzhou, you can easily observe it. The four stars that make up it are some distance away from the sea level."

"Observe the Cross in different places on the same day. The farther south you go, the higher the sea level in that constellation will be. This phenomenon only exists on the sphere."

"So according to our speculation, after crossing the equator, you can see another piece of sky."

"If that's the case, this is the best proof that we live on a sphere."

Qian Kejiu opened his mouth, wanting to say what the use of studying this thing was, but when he thought that his fleet could only follow others, he closed it again.

Shanghai Wu's base is mainly responsible for the Song Dynasty's top industrial shipbuilding, mechanical processing and chemical industry.

The cutting-edge parts in mechanical processing are machine tools and guns.

The most cutting-edge part of the chemical industry is explosives and ammunition.

As the outlet of Taihu Lake, Songjiang has abundant water power. The numerous port gates upstream also facilitate the control of water volume.

Before the advent of steam power, the water power on the Songjiang artificial waterway was the best source of power for the base.

Su You is inspecting the pipe rubbing workshop and the charging workshop.

Paper shell bullets and flash caps are produced here.

The tube rubbing machine is made of wood. The paper tube is made of two layers of thin kraft paper and a layer of ordinary paper brushed with shellac. Place the flash cap chassis at the bottom of the paper strip and manually turn the handle of the tube rubbing machine four times to roll out a bullet.

shell.

It is loaded with a precisely proportioned powder of ammonium nitrate, sulfur and carbon powder, and attached with a warhead, which is the bullet used by the magic gun.

The workshop is extremely clean, there is no metal at all, and the surfaces of all tool panels are coated with a layer of shellac.

The workers are very agile, and one worker can make three hundred paper bullet casings a day.

In addition to bullets, there are also detonators, which are used for engineering blasting.

The bottom of the detonator is made of thunder silver or thunder mercury as the initiating explosive, and the sub-charges include nitrate and strong cotton. However, the cotton no longer needs the expensive kapok from Erlin, but is the first batch of experimental seeds grown on both sides of the Songjiang River.

Nitrocellulose obtained from long-staple cotton through nitrogenization and nitrification.

In addition, the artillery charges were also made of nitrate cotton wrapped in thin silk.

There is a hole at the bottom of the charge pack for loading the impact launcher detonator.

To launch a ship-borne thunder cannon, first load the warhead, then load the powder bag with the firing fuse inserted, then close the breech block and pull the pull cord to launch.

Of course, this is another issue with artillery drills.

A new batch of thunderbolt gun barrels has been shipped, and the discarded old ship gun barrels were used by Su You to assemble thunderbolt guns for the army. Wang Zhongzheng’s eldest son, Guo Huai, who was a Jinshi soldier, and a man from a polytechnic background.

The descendants of the clan are currently working on this and are preparing to establish the Imperial Song artillery.

There are also 500 New Army garrison troops here, commanded by Di Yong. The soldiers have not yet been issued with official magic guns, but they are fakes used for training. Only the bayonets underneath are real.

The Upper Fourth Army of the Song Dynasty was more like an honor guard force. The characteristic of this army was that it knew how to play queues, formations, and resolutely obey orders. Such an army used cold weapons to face the flexible nomadic cavalry.

It is a food delivery.

But what a hell, this set of fancy tricks surprisingly matches the modern hot weapon tactics!

After Cai Ting and Su You introduced Li Jing's military training method summarized by Zhou Yongqing, the commander of Weizhou, into the Fourth Army, Di Yong transformed it into a divine machine formation. During a live-fire drill, Zhao Xu applauded the density of firepower delivery.

, making Su You frightened.

Your Majesty, stop being too busy to be happy! Hurry up and make money!

These things are still secrets on the two Zhejiang Roads, and the soldiers are very resistant, but with the high salary, no one will tell anyone, they just treat it as happy with the nobles in Beijing!

Therefore, on the training ground, neat queues waved simple bayonets and performed simple and efficient movements, "Hey! Ha! Kill!"

In full swing.
Chapter completed!