After not seeing each other for more than a year, the little girl has not only grown a lot taller, but also has a few missing teeth. She looks cute and funny.
"Gongsun Hao!"
The little girl trotted into the hospital, waving to him as she ran, smiling happily, exposing her jagged teeth, and she was very enthusiastic.
Gongsun Hao had never seen any little girl smile like this at such a sensitive time. Watching her dressing up as a boy, he stepped forward to greet her and joked:
"If I change into men's clothes, do I really think of myself as a boy?"
Xu Yue laughed, knowing that he was making fun of her teeth, shrugged, and said generously: "I can't help it, this is the pain of growing up. I just hope that it will fall out soon and let me have good teeth again."
I was malnourished all year round and had no awareness of oral hygiene, so my teeth were actually quite unhealthy.
Now that they have been replaced, she will have healthy teeth after the replacement.
Seeing that she didn't feel embarrassed at all, Gongsun Hao couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "As expected of a woman from the Xu family, she is as shameless as your father."
"Why, how did my father offend you?" Xu Yue folded her arms and stared at the middle-aged man in front of her with dangerous eyes, as if she was protecting a calf.
Gongsun Hao was startled, then waved his hand, stopped joking, pointed to the bag in the pavilion and said:
"The time is too short. We can only collect so much rice seeds in the south for the time being. If you want more in the future, I will have someone bring them to you."
Xu Yue looked at the bulging sack, and hurriedly ran over. She glanced at Gongsun Hao first, saw him nodding, and immediately opened the bag.
The rice seeds collected by people from various places were divided into small bags and packed in linen bags. Xu Yue poured them out and counted them. There were eleven small bags.
Gongsun Hao explained: "I don't know if they are the same kind of rice, but they are harvested from different places, so there should be some differences."
"By the way." He pointed to the enclosed vegetable patch in the corner of the yard, "What is grown there?"
"I don't know either." Xu Yue opened her eyes and lied. "It's just a seed I bought. I just look at it. I won't know what it is until it grows up."
How could Gongsun Hao not see how perfunctory she was? He was sensible and didn't ask any more questions.
"Okay, rice farmers, put it aside and tell me, what do you want to do?"
Gongsun Hao lifted up his robe and knelt down on the cushion. Wang and Xu Yue came next and looked at each other. Mother and daughter also sat down opposite him.
Mr. Wang never liked wasting time talking nonsense, so he asked:
"Can your boat go to sea?"
Going to sea?
Gongsun Hao looked serious and said, "First of all, the First Emperor ordered the craftsmen to build a large ship that can go to sea, but it only went from the East China Sea to Liuli Island. After that, no one knows what happened to the big ship."
“Over the past several hundred years, the boats built by boatmen are faster and stronger than those of the previous dynasties. However, the furthest distance they traveled was only from Xuzhou into the Yangtze River to Jingzhou. During this period, they encountered
In rainy weather, you have to stop the boat and wait for the weather to clear before you can sail through."
Therefore, although their boat takes the sea route, it can only go from Yuyang to the Bohai Sea.
No matter how far the distance is, there is no navigation route. Secondly, if it encounters a storm at sea, the ship's hull cannot withstand it at all, and the risk of death is too high.
"I have thought about taking the sea route from Youzhou to Jiangdong, which can transport more goods at a faster speed. However, no one can guess the risks at sea. In addition, the ship built by the boatman cannot go against the wind, so
It has been put on hold." Gongsun Hao said regretfully.
Xu Yue asked: "What if there is such a ship?"
Gongsun Hao shook his head, as if you were still too young after all, and explained: "Just identifying the direction cannot be done."
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"The sea is not like land. There are guide inscriptions or markers to identify the direction. On the vast sea, looking around is full of sea water. You can't identify the direction at all. This is a dead end!"
Xu Yue and A Niang looked at each other, and Wang raised the corners of her mouth and smiled lightly. Suddenly she took out a palm-sized round object from her sleeve, with a pointer on it and some strange symbols on the dial.
"What is this?" Gongsun Hao asked curiously.
Wang placed the compass in front of Gongsun Hao, and instead of explaining in a hurry, asked Gongsun Hao to look at the red arrow on the compass, and then turned the dial.
But I saw that the red arrow, no matter which direction the dial was turned, would always point to the north.
Seeing Gongsun Hao's surprised expression, Xu Yue thought of how she had never seen the world before when her mother-in-law brought the compass in front of her.
That look was not exactly the same as Gongsun Hao's current look, but it was also very similar.
But the difference is that she was surprised that Aniang actually made a compass, while Gongsun Hao was surprised that there was such a thing in the world.
Originally, Xu Yue planned to use the energy fruit to exchange for a compass, but after A Niang found out, she said she could make this thing and asked her not to waste the energy fruit.
Thus, this compass appeared.
Magnets are quite difficult to find, but fortunately, Xu Da is here. With his current status, as long as he spreads the news, there will be many nobles who want to curry favor with him and help him deliver what he wants.
There are very few people who know about the wonderful uses of magnets. Most people get them by chance. They treat them as a rare ornament and show them off to their friends when they have the opportunity. They don't care at all what kind of functions it can play.
But because of this, the quantity was pitifully small. The whole Youzhou was so big, Xu Da only got two small pieces.
But for Wang, two small pieces are completely enough.
Thus, the compass was born.
After Wang and Gongsun Hao explained the use of the compass, Gongsun Hao fell silent. He had already guessed that the Xu family must have something unusual to say when they invited him over.
Or win over him and let him support Gongsun Zan.
Or they wanted him to abandon business and return to the military to be used by Gongsun Zan.
In short, Gongsun Hao thought about many possibilities, but in fact, he guessed them all wrong.
The mother and daughter in front of him were different from Xu Da. They did not want to assist Gongsun Zan.
Gongsun Hao was a little confused. Xu Da and mother and daughter were one family, right?
Why does it seem like the mother and daughter and Xu Da are not on the same side?
The mother and daughter were so well prepared that they even had the blueprints of the ship ready. What on earth were they going to do?
This man, who traveled extensively and spent half his life in the military, rarely fell into confusion.
Xu Yue and A Niang looked at each other and looked at the confused middle-aged man in front of them. They silently took out the drawing of the sailboat and pushed it together with the compass in front of Gongsun Hao.
"The first five-year plan, build ships, acquire ports, acquire prefectures, open up wasteland and grow grain! Gongsun Hao, do you want to get on the ship?"
Gongsun Hao flipped through the drawings of the sailboat, feeling shocked and filled with bitterness.
Does he still have the option to disembark now?
What does this family want, to assist Gongsun Zan and become a powerful minister?
