Chapter 1,425 Xinmei Mountain

Bian Guan smiled and said: "Brother Haisheng, our mission is to complete the global voyage! Isn't something as important as proving that the earth is a sphere not more important than money?"

Hai Sheng was stunned for a moment: "Master, you have to be reasonable. From our ancestors to today, who has done this? Aren't we all living well?"

"So, does it matter whether the earth is round or square?"

"Hi!" This time it was Bian Gu's turn to roll his eyes, imitating Long Haisheng's tone: "You, the eldest man on Changguo Island, can't talk to you!"

"That's right." Hai Sheng said with a flattering smile: "I don't care about anything else, just looking at the stars and the moon to know the direction is amazing."

After speaking, he stretched out his arm and raised a finger: "One index finger is one degree of the celestial sphere; three fingers are five degrees of the celestial sphere; one fist is ten degrees of the celestial sphere. From now on, we can calculate the approximate direction with our hands."

After saying that, he felt a little uneasy: "Stargazing seems to be a forbidden skill in the Song Dynasty. Master, will it be harmful if we learn it?"

Bian Guan was naughty: "I don't know if you're in the way. My mother is the fifth grade jade grid of Tianshi Dao. Anyway, I'm not in the way."

Haisheng wanted to cry: "Goodbye, young master, I'm serious..."

Only then did Bian Gu burst out laughing, so startled that the sea otters nearby rolled into the water: "Brother Haisheng, you are overthinking. Your crude stargazing technique may only be banned in Japan if you go to Korea."

"They dare!" Long Haisheng started to tremble again this time: "I, the Great Song Dynasty Navy, are still afraid of them?!"

Bian Guan smiled and said: "Brother Haisheng, study hard and learn these things. When you return to Liangzhe Road, I can recommend you to Sitong Shipping Department to be a Kuizhou-type captain."

"A captain who travels overseas can buy a yard in Bianjing City within a few years of his income!"

When replenishing fresh water on Sifeng Island, the crew discovered a large number of beautiful red fish swimming back into the freshwater streams.

The fish were so dense that a crew member tied a rope to a basket and lowered it into the water before lifting it up. The basket was filled with fish.

Long Haisheng was an old sailor: "This is a good thing. Salmon are abundant in Liao and Japan."

He grabbed one and cut it open: "Master! It's all fish roe! Let's take a break and smoke some fish!"

Bian Guan thought for a moment: "Okay, let everyone go to the island and have a happy day!"

Replenishing fresh water for large ships has been a troublesome matter in ancient times, but this problem does not exist on the Zuoheluo.

In more than a month, as an exercise subject in the fine engineering class, the science and engineering team has used a large amount of copper materials purchased in Japan to imitate a small pot camel machine for a horizontal boiler.

Equipped with a rubber tube with a buoy, the small pot camel machine is mounted on a small boat and towed to the stream. Equipped with a water pump, it can be transported remotely to the cabin.

Therefore, even if the Zuoheluo cannot be anchored in a freshwater estuary due to its limited draft, it can still replenish fresh water.

Everyone spent a day catching fish on the island. Ping Guan also placed iron cages in the deep water of the island and led the hunting team to catch a large number of sea crabs.

Everyone has a clear division of labor and operates on an assembly line, using baskets to catch fish, first pickling and then smoking to make smoked fish and caviar.

Dinner consisted of crab meat, rice, salmon meat, and salmon roe. Everyone had a round belly after eating it.

The chair was appointed as a clerk by the flat can, and he also had to sketch with pencil to describe the rare things and scenes along the way.

Finally having stable land, the science and engineering team also conducted an accurate survey. The final data obtained showed that the archipelago is located at 52 degrees 52 minutes north latitude and 66 degrees 48 minutes east longitude.

Of course, this longitude is expressed with Bianjing City as the zero-degree longitude, and the real location is the southernmost archipelago of the Aleutian Island Chain.

The crew found a rock and, in accordance with the currently agreed upon maritime regulations, carved out the words "Sifeng Island, Zuoluoluo, May 20th, the seventh year of Yuanfeng" to mark the discovery and naming rights.

After a day's rest, with full harvest, the Left-Helix Snail set sail again.

The appearance of snowy peaks convinced Bian Guan that he had sailed too far north, so he changed to the southeast this time and looked for warmer ocean currents again.

What they didn't know was that behind them, many whaling ships, under the reward of Tang Shiro, also cut from the Kuroshio Warm Current into the Kuroshima Cold Current from the east of the Kuril Islands, and followed them into this sea area, with the purpose of watching

See if you can hunt whales and get lucky enough to catch a big fish like the Snail.

The Left-Helix continued sailing in the southeast direction for seven days before it found the warm current, changed its direction to the east, and continued its wild run.

Sure enough, as predicted by the science and engineering team, after leaving the cold current, the waves became much smaller. The left-hand screw sailed very smoothly, and it was even possible to drive small machinery while sailing.

In order to save the few copper-cased bullets and thunderbolt shells, under the guidance of flat cans and chairs, the science and engineering team began to use the saltpeter and sulfur purchased in Japan to make black powder, and in the ship's laboratory,

Make nitroglycerine in small batches and use silver coins to make thunder silver and detonators.

However, after the things were made, they never had a chance to test them because this time, they never encountered an island again.

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Meishan, Kelongli, Laowengjing.

Today, Meishan has become a large city with a modern style.

The center of the city still retains its original appearance, but the urban area has extended along the Glass River towards both banks.

All the roads in Meizhou City have been turned into beautiful cement paved roads. The houses on both sides of the street, the old wooden ones, have been moved outside the city, and the city has become a two-story prefabricated concrete masonry structure with a platform.

Or a loft... townhouse.

This kind of platform-style house was influenced by the flat-roofed houses of Erlin style. Today's Meishan is a place that leads the trend of the Song Dynasty. The people here are more open-minded than Bianjing. They are well-informed and are never afraid to accept

Something new.

One advantage of such a house is that it enlarges the area of ​​the courtyard. Therefore, the architectural style of wealthy people in Meishan is a beautiful brick and stone structure on the street side, with convenient and comfortable "modern" bedrooms upstairs, and behind the house.

An exquisite garden for everyone to enjoy and enjoy.

In several places where the Jiangqing family gathered, the gardens were opened up, forming a large garden for everyone to use.

The old man of the Cheng family, Cheng Wenying, has also passed away. The brothers of the Cheng family are also observing the rules now, with mourning on their faces all day long.

Meishan people also use this as the difference between the Su family and the Cheng family, just like the different attitudes of the Su and Cheng families towards their children who won Jinshi, and as proof of the superiority of the Su and Cheng families.

It makes no sense, but no one thinks that Su You is unfilial if he is not sad. Instead, they think that he is not bound by the world, sees through life and death, is free and indifferent.

The famous Daqing Building in Meishan has been replaced with glazed tiles, which was the only one in the Song Dynasty.

Because of the great contribution that the Jiangqing family in Meishan made to the royal family and the important status of Meishan City today, the Queen Mother gave Meishan such grace.

This is the pride of Meishan people. The bell and drum towers in Meishan City are made of glazed tiles! Neither Hangzhou nor Chengdu has this honor!

Like many big cities in the Song Dynasty, the best buildings here are not the government offices, Shuyuan Building, or various business houses.

Rather, they are Confucian temples, academic palaces, and colleges.

Relying on donations of funds, materials, and books from the Jiangqing family, Meishan Academy can now almost be called a comprehensive university.

There are several schools around the academy, including the Polytechnic, the Technical College, and the Accounting College.

These colleges have been providing services to the Song Dynasty Si Tianjian, Ordnance Supervisor, Royal Institute of Technology, Zhengzhou Institute of Technology, Zhongshan Institute of Technology, Royal Song Bank, Songyang Arsenal, Hangzhou Maritime Institute, Shanghai Wu, Nanhai Mining and Metallurgy

, Sitong Firm, continuously transports grassroots and middle-level talents.

Of course, now there are also imperial examination talents. After all, the twenty years of literary fortune that I owed to God have finally been paid off!

From Meishan to Kelongli, what used to be a small stone road in the fields has now become a six-foot stone road.

This is a decree personally issued by His Majesty and it is part of the ritual system of the Su family temple.

Every five miles, there is an archway on the stone road, clearly showing the Su family's current lineage in the Song Dynasty.

Kelonli still retains its luxury products and exports borneol aroma, citrus essence, mint flavor, toffee, fruit candy, and penicillin, which are Kelonli's flagship products.
Chapter completed!