The next day, the Blackwater River was crowded with people watching.
Both the Yi people and the Han people were dumbfounded as they stared at the two huge, hill-like boats moored on the river.
This is the largest warship on the water in the world today, and it indeed has an unparalleled visual impact.
But what surprised countless people even more was the giant net that was slowly being opened on the river.
Not to mention Yiren, even immigrants from China have never seen such a huge, complex, and sophisticated network.
This net was pulled apart by two large boats on the left and right of the river, and slowly sank into the water.
Even though they were hundreds of steps apart, people could still clearly see how thick those net ropes were.
Zhang Weiyang took his hand and gestured.
Finally, he discovered that each of those net ropes was at least as thick as his thumb.
This discovery made Zhang Weiyang let out a sigh of relief: "Taiyi, how on earth are such thick hemp ropes woven?"
As farmers, especially farmers in the Western Han Dynasty, it is of course impossible not to have come into contact with ramie and woven ramie.
China mainly uses ramie as the raw material for linen and rope.
Ramie is widely cultivated in rural areas in the hinterland of China.
The mulberry wood industry is even the economic backbone of many regions.
Zhang Weiyang also personally participated in hemp weaving work.
That was a long and arduous process.
First, you need a large ramie field, then you have to cut down the ramie, tie it into bundles, and finally throw it into a pool specially used for cutting hemp to soak for half a month.
After half a month, the ramie is taken out of the pool and the outer skin is torn off before spinning can begin.
The spinning method used in Handan is purely manual spinning wheel.
Specifically, two small round wheels made of stone or pottery are used, one end is used to hang the ramie fibers taken out of the water, and the other end is used to continuously stretch these scattered fibers.
Through persistent and repeated work, he gradually obtained twine that could be used for weaving cloth and as rope.
But even the best yarn puller cannot guarantee the quality of the twine he or she twists.
In other words, no one can guarantee what the twisted twine can be used for before seeing the finished product.
As a farmer, Zhang Weiyang knew very well that each rope of this giant net might require an acre or even several acres of ramie as raw material.
In other words, every rope in this giant net is made of gold.
Even if we don't talk about these.
Even if this huge net is broken down on the spot and the hemp rope obtained is taken back to weave cloth, its value will be hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars!
"Is the imperial court crazy? It costs so much just to create a net?" Zhang Weiyang felt that he really couldn't keep up with the imperial court's pace.
"Can this trawl net really catch thousands or even tens of thousands of stones at a time?" Bo Shi stood on the deck of a large ship and was quite skeptical about this.
The most important thing is: Even if you catch so many fish, can you pull the fishing net?
You know, the weight of thousands of stone fish, plus water and net ropes, is simply beyond the power of human beings to pull it up.
But soon, the facts made Bo Shi's inner complaints disappear.
When the huge giant net completely sank underwater, the two huge building ships began to raise their sails and sail downstream with the help of wind power.
The huge building boat effortlessly pulled the huge fishing net. On the water, only countless schools of fish were seen jumping. A huge rope as thick as an arm was pulled to the building boat by several soldiers.
In front of the machinery on the top floor.
Bo Shi recognized the machine at a glance: it was a pulley!
As an elite member of the imperial aristocracy, Bo Shi was no stranger to pulleys.
As early as the distant Western Zhou Dynasty, Chinese craftsmen had already begun to use pulleys to build cities, mausoleums and military fortresses.
By the Qin Dynasty, pulley technology had experienced great development.
Pulleys specially loaded with pulley machinery appeared.
Legend has it that Qin Shihuang used pulleys to lift huge rocks, bricks and wood to build the Epang Palace.
In the Han Dynasty, there were also many similar pulley mechanical devices.
But the giant pulley machine in front of him was obviously not any pulley machine that Bo Shi had seen in the past.
It is more complex and more sophisticated.
The entire machine was fixed in a cabin on the deck of the ship. Apparently, the cabin had been modified by the Shaofu so that it could fix the huge thing.
Of course, this is not the point.
The key point is that the entire pulley machine is composed of several pulleys of different sizes. They are closely connected to each other, making the entire pulley machine full of an artistic beauty that makes Bo Shi fascinated.
And this kind of machinery with multiple pulleys working together and cooperating with each other has never appeared in China before.
In other words, this is the latest scientific research result of Shaofu.
The Mohist who was commanding the soldiers in front of the pulley group and controlling the movement of the pulley group turned back with a smile and said to Bo Shi and Xu Yan: "This machine is the result of Wu Moyuan adopting the name of the Western Qin Dynasty: Ya.
Based on the 'compound pulley' law in the "Principles of Mechanics" written by the great sage of the family, combined with my Mohist skills, I created a machine specially used to drag and lift objects that are beyond the reach of human beings!"
The Mohist stroked his beard and praised: "That great sage from the Qin Kingdom in the West named Ya Shi, if he were born in China, he would definitely be the choice of our Mohist family's great son!"
This evaluation, in the opinion of this poet, is already very, very high.
"Western Qin?" Bo Shi heard this and thought about it. It was said that a few months ago, the Huns sent a group of slaves to Chang'an to make gifts for the emperor.
Among them was a slave who called himself the envoy of the Qin Kingdom in the West.
Even though Bo Shiyuan was in Xinhua, he knew about this from some newspapers and letters.
But he didn't take it to heart.
For China, both Qin and Anxi are unknown countries far away in the horizon.
Many of the high-ranking scholar-bureaucrats and nobles did not even want to care about the affairs of the Xiongnu.
Therefore, everyone treats it as an anecdote.
But now, when Bo Shi learned that the manufacturing principle of the huge pulley in front of him came from the country called Da Qin, his attitude also changed.
"In this way, Da Qin can be considered a country of virtue!" Bo Shi commented: "If I have a chance, I can go back to Chang'an and summon the envoy of Da Qin to ask..."
Such an evaluation is already rare for China's scholar-bureaucrats and aristocrats.
After all, when it comes to the outside world, today's Chinese people basically regard the people of those countries as beasts walking on two legs. They need to be 'educated' and 'influenced' by the Chinese father in order to know how to be a truly beneficial person.
people of the world.
Being able to make a nobleman make such an evaluation of a foreign country as "righteous" is a huge leap in itself.
"Brother Ziren, I have met the envoy of the Qin Dynasty..." Xu Yan said with a smile: "His appearance is similar to that of China, and he is quite polite. It is said that your Majesty ordered him to study with the prince, a doctor of "Poetry", and the next day,
Maybe I can sit down with my brother and discuss Tao, maybe!"
Bo Shi nodded.
The Book of Songs is a holy book recognized by hundreds of schools of thought. Like the works of Shangshu and Hong Fan, it was studied and elaborated at this time by not only Huang, Lao Confucianism, and Mohism.
Of course, when it comes to understanding some details, the various factions are completely different.
Even within the same faction or different schools, there may still be disputes.
While he was talking, the large ship had already sailed thousands of steps downwind. A few soldiers dragged a huge anchor and sank it to the bottom of the river.
Both Bo Shi and Xu Yan shifted their focus to the giant net that was still submerged in the water.
The emperor mobilized Dongyuan Temple, which has the highest technical level in Shaofu, and hundreds of the world's top and most dexterous craftsmen. It took half a year, with the wisdom and help of countless professionals from Shaofu and Moyuan, and spent countless money.
In the end, three trawls were built.
Just for these three trawls, not counting labor and materials alone, the Shaofu spent a huge sum of at least six to seven million yuan.
On average, each trawl can be worth millions just by itself, even if it is broken down on the spot.
Moreover, the cost of maintaining and maintaining this kind of ramie trawl net is also very high.
Just to ensure that the trawl net can work normally, the Shaofu sent a repair team of up to 100 people!
In other words, if these trawl nets cannot achieve the fishing efficiency for which they were designed: catching thousands of stones in one net, then they are losing money.
Because if ramie is soaked in water for too long, it will easily erode and rot.
Judging from folk experience, the service life of fishing nets also woven with ramie is often no more than one year.
This is still the case when fishermen often dry and maintain them.
Once the trawl proves in practice that it cannot achieve its design goals, then the emperor will certainly be embarrassed, but what will happen to Bo Shi and Xu Yan, who are actually responsible for and directing the operation?
It is normal for the emperor to humiliate his ministers and die, for the emperor to lose face, and for ministers to lose their official positions and even their heads!
But on the other hand, suppose that the trawl succeeds in practice.
So it is obvious and easy to see that this is political achievement!
It doesn’t matter who designed, manufactured or promoted the trawl.
At least half of the points in the military medal are given to the ministers who are specifically responsible for the operation.
What's more, once this matter is successful, the names of Bo Shi and Xu Yan will immediately enter the sight of the Emperor Weiyang Palace.
Immediately, Jane is in the emperor’s heart!
From then on, his official career was of course smooth sailing.
What's more, this trawl practice is very likely to go down in history!
If it can really achieve its design goals, then, for China, this means that the Han Dynasty regime has found a new food source to exchange ramie for fish meat, even if it is a reciprocal exchange, one thousand catties of ramie for one thousand catties of fish,
For China, which mainly relies on farming, this is nothing more than an additional source of food, which is equivalent to expanding the cultivated land area out of thin air.
As a result, Bo Shi and Xu Yan's breathing began to become heavier.
Because they know that the turning point that determines their fate has arrived.
In the future, it depends on whether the carp leaps over the dragon's gate and the sea and sky will be brighter from now on, or whether it will disappear into the crowd and remain silent in the sea of more and more emerging talents.
"Bless Guankou Erlang, this catch will be a good harvest! If it is successful, I am willing to sacrifice the blood of three animals this year!" Bo Shi secretly prayed in his heart, even if he did not believe in the Shu people's Guankou Erlang God, he would not
It prevented him from improvising at this time, not to mention that a few days ago, he had just sacrificed to Guanguchi Erlang.
Anyway, within the scope of Guanguchi Jiro's duties, there is the business of ensuring a good harvest.
I believe that for the sake of the blood food offering a few days ago, Guankou Erlang should be able to fulfill his wish. (~^~)
