I am the king of the dead

Chapter 472 Very good, very exploratory

"The sea is full of water. How could there be a river? You must be crazy. It may be geothermal heat, yes, that's right." Ji Duo looked at the almost crazy first fire chief Peng Sui, and tentatively explained .

It is true that the temperature is a bit high, but it is not inexplicable.

The fire chief Peng Sui waved his hands again and again, and he said anxiously: "No, no, look at our compass (geng), before we entered this sea area, we had been walking 32 degrees north by west, and now it is north by west 33°, that's just the direction."

"Our boat used to be 41 miles per hour, but it changed to 45 miles as soon as it stepped into the warm current, and the wind speed didn't change much. There is only one reason for this phenomenon. There is a current pushing us under the boat."

"It's just astonishing."

"There are rivers under the sea. It sounds crazy, but it is true."

In the era of Emperor Hui of Jin, who didn't eat minced meat, Taifu Cui Bao once recorded a rangefinder called Jili Drum Cart, which would beat the drum every mile and every ten miles Ring the bell.

This kind of drum car is one of the vehicles of the guard of honor.

When the emperor went on a tour or personally conquered, the first car was a compass. According to legend, when the emperor fought against Chi You, Chi You created a thick fog, and Huang Di built a compass car to guide the soldiers.

The second car is the Jiligu car, with a total of 30 honor guards.

After Jiligu chariots are Bailu chariots, Luanqi chariots, Genggen chariots, Siwang chariots, etc., each of which has its own purpose, not only as a guard of honor, but also as a tool.

There are similar objects on the ships of Ming Dynasty, which can calculate the mileage traveled and then determine the speed.

The relationship between time, distance, and speed is not complicated.

It is also commonly used in military affairs. For example, when Hongwu conquered Dadu in the first year of Yuan Dynasty, Xu Da and others would report how many miles they traveled in a day in the daily military newspaper.

Compared with the road, the speed of the ship will be faster in this era.

Daming's ships can travel more than forty miles in an hour, but the ships do not travel in a straight line on the sea, but in a zigzag shape, especially when the northwest wind is blowing.

It was still the tail of the first month, and the cold wind from the northwest was still howling.

The ship is heading northwest, and the wind is blowing from the northwest. Isn't that sailing against the wind?
Sailboat sailing against the wind is not a complex technology.

One sail can make eight winds, which means that one sail can use eight winds, so it is completely possible to head against the wind, and generally adopt the zigzag walking method.

The boat is not slow, but the mileage is zigzag.

"Did the wind get stronger?" Ji Duo still said in disbelief.

Peng Sui pointed to the anemometer on his other side and said, "There is no obvious change."

The boat master's art of crossing the ocean and astrology is mainly to cross the ocean. As an excellent boat master and a fire chief, Peng Sui is very proficient in the star-leading board, latitude and longitude, and compass.

In the era when the wind was the main driving force, an anemometer was a must-have item when going to sea, which determined when to set sail.

This is an anemometer with three oval wooden wind cups and a wind vane. There is a counter under the anemometer. You only need to record how many times the wind cup rotates per unit time to record the wind force. .

Peng Sui was very sure that it wasn't that the wind had become stronger. He had already ruled out all possible answers, only the river under his feet could explain it.

Ji Duo finally agreed with Peng Sui's idea and said, "Okay, I'll give you a boat, but please be careful."

There are not many sailors in the hands of the imperial court, and each of them is very valuable. They are familiar with hydrology and geography, and they are one of the necessary crew members for sailing.

This is already the second request from the boat master. Since he is so sure, it is okay to let him go and have a look.

There are still three sailors in the fleet, which are enough. I am not afraid that I will not be able to reach Zhoushan Port and Ningbo Shipping Department, or that something will happen to the fire chief.

Peng Sui immediately nodded and said: "I know, my own fate. I will run away when I meet Japanese pirates. I am a boat master, and they can still run away? It's not that we are talking big, but the group of boat masters in the Japanese country can compare with us Ming dynasty?"

The Japanese pirates were robbing the ship, so they had to get close to the ship. It would be a strange thing for Peng Sui, as the boat master, to be overtaken by them.

Peng Sui changed to a battleship with great agility, left the fleet, and sailed towards the boundless sea.

"Don't do anything... Bah, bah, bah!" Ji Duo looked at the battleship, wondering if he would be in danger.

Peng Sui has been observing the sea surface and the weather.

At some point, palm-sized small fish appeared under the water surface, and they seemed to be avoiding something.

Then the first fish slapped the water surface three times vigorously, soaring into the air, its pectoral fins opened suddenly, like the wings of a bird, and its long pectoral fins stretched all the way to the tail. It was two feet high, and after sliding for about half a minute, it fell into the water.

Then came the second, and the third. Countless flying fish jumped out from under the water surface, their tails slapping the water surface vigorously, soaring in the air, accompanied by the solitary [-]-material warship.

The crew watched this scene blankly.

Bird wing fish body, white head and red beak, blue texture on the back, shining brightly in the sun, countless flying fish leaping, gliding, and falling into the water non-stop.

Several sailfish were chasing the school of flying fish under the surface of the water, and occasionally there would be a cloud of blood mist, the flying fish that did not have time to jump out of the water, and were buried in the belly of the sailfish.

Albatrosses hovered in the sky, they swooped down, grabbed the flying fish, and landed on the mast to feast on it.

A few flying fish panicked and flew to the deck of the battleship, bounced vigorously, and fell into the water again.

"This... boat master, have you ever seen such a scene?" Commander Du of the battleship said dully as he watched his battleship surrounded by flying fish.

Peng Sui shook his head vigorously and said, "No, it's the first time I've seen it too, it's so spectacular..."

Flying fish are fish in the warm Kuroshio current. Every spring, they will swim from the Pacific Ocean to the East China Sea to lay eggs.

Peng Sui's warship coincided with the time when the flying fish returned to spawn, and the sailfish came along with the Pacific equatorial warm current, chasing the flying fish.

The albatross is a common bird in Ryukyu, and they like to fish with the boat most.

Before a big storm, they will fly down from the mast to escape the wind and rain.

The sailors obviously knew this, and when they saw the albatross flying down from the mast, they would lower their sails and wait for the storm to pass.

Peng Sui's ship passed Jeju Island along with the Kuroshio, drifted with the current, and broke into Bohai Bay at the end of February.

His boat was very fast, because he came on the current.

When Peng Sui boarded the ship at Jinkou, he saw the fleet from North Korea.

But Peng Sui was not interested in paying attention to the North Korean envoy at all. He recorded what he saw and heard.

"The Cangming stream diverts to Beishanfu at the head of Ryukyu country, one goes east to the sea of ​​Waguo, the other goes west to Daming Sea, and then diverts to Jeju Island to Tsushima Island, and the Cangming stream goes south to Jinkou. It is missing. Cangming Liuliu can halve the number of days."

At 30° north latitude and 33° north latitude, he wrote down the bifurcation point of the Cangming Current. He didn’t come to remember to calculate the longitude. Cloudy, not sure about the local time.

Cang refers to dark water, Ming refers to the ocean.

The smaller the dimension, the higher the temperature of the sea water and the higher the air temperature.

Apparently the sea current under the sea comes from the south, and the temperature is extremely high.

Peng Sui thought about it seriously and wrote down a sentence: "Ryukyu, the land of ten thousand sea ridges, should not be abandoned."

When he was waiting for the shore at Jinkou, the memorial from the Bosi of Songjiang City was still on the way. Ji Duo went ashore fifteen days earlier than Peng Sui, but Peng Sui arrived in the capital first.

With the few words he recorded and a rough drawing he came to the top ten calendar bureaus of the Qin Tianjian, and handed over his results to Zheng Xu Dun, the Qin Tianjian.

Although Xu Dun didn't believe in the saying that there are rivers in the sea, there were more than 30 crew members on a battleship, so Xu Dun couldn't believe it. After thinking about it for a while, Xu Dun wrote a memorial to Wenyuan Pavilion.

In order to prevent courtiers from deceiving him, Zhu Yuanzhang specially set up a general administration department.

In order to prevent the courtiers' memorials from reaching the imperial court, Zhu Di could deliver memorials directly along the crack of the door at Zuoshunmen, which is the outer court middle road of the imperial palace, and in the middle of the verandah on the east side of Chengtianmen.

Zoushu is stuffed in along the crack of the door, except when the gate of the imperial city is closed, you can vote at any time, and Da Dang collects it every day.

If you just want to whisper to the emperor, or inform, you can submit memorials at Zuoshunmen.

There is also a place in Tai'an Palace. On East Chang'an Avenue outside Qingqingfang, there is an iron box called a bus box, which is specially reserved for courtiers to write letters to express their affairs.

The key to the bus box is usually held by Xing'an, and the memorials are collected every day.

Peng Sui also wrote the second memorial. If he was not approved, he planned to submit it again.

The bus box is like a gleaming hook without bait, but Wang Wen was rolled up from somewhere, and finally became a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, how can he bite this kind of hook?
So Peng Sui's memorabilia soon reached Zhu Qiyu's hands.

Because his experience is too bizarre, he is also a flying fish and a swordfish, which attracts Xing'an's attention.

There must have been people in the Ming Dynasty who dared to do something bad without telling His Majesty, but no one dared to lie to the Emperor. Since it was presented, there must be real evidence.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the three characters Cangmingliu, and Peng Sui named the Kuroshio, a warm current in the Pacific Ocean.

"Very good, very exploratory spirit." Zhu Qiyu emphasized this kind of person who has a strong desire to explore.

In another 40 years, that is, in 1492, Columbus will cross the Atlantic Ocean to America for the first time. When he went, he sailed against the warm current of the North Atlantic Ocean, which took 37 days.

In 1493, Columbus went to America for the second time, following the Canary cold current and the northern equatorial warm current, and he reached it in less than 20 days.

But Columbus was not curious why there was such a gap of so many days.

Whether there are ocean currents in the sea, it was not until the eighteenth century that Humboldt, a German nobleman, discovered the Peruvian cold current and determined that there were ocean currents in the sea.

In common cognition, the sea is lonely and stagnant.

But this is not the case. The sea also has ocean currents, which communicate with other oceans.

Peng Sui discovered that Ryukyu, located at 25° north latitude, has coconut trees that only grow at 22° north latitude, and they grow well, and the temperature in Ryukyu is much higher than that in Ningbo.

Out of curiosity, Peng Sui made repeated attempts and finally discovered this natural phenomenon.

In fact, it is not difficult to observe, because the temperature of the warm current is more than ten degrees higher than the temperature of the surrounding water.

Moreover, the navigation speed will also change greatly. Reasonable use of ocean currents can effectively save the time spent on navigation.

"Let's have one merit card for each person, and reward him for his pioneering spirit. I want to meet him." Zhu Qiyu said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, is it possible to classify the reward cards?" Xing'an asked tentatively.

Zhu Qiyu thought for a while, shook his head and said, "No, it's fine as it is."

Xing'an is the inventor of the Da Ming Gong reward card, and Zhu Qiyu has a Qi Gong card on his body, which has confirmed the honor of the Qi Gong card.

When Xing'an first proposed the Qigong card, Zhu Qiyu specifically thought of classifying the medals, similar to Su Taizu's approach, every time a major event occurs, a specially customized one will be issued.

However, the court's enthusiasm for pursuing merit cards exceeded Zhu Qiyu's expectations, so Zhu Qiyu stopped this idea.

The reason is simple, he doesn't want to expand.

It is unscientific to mix all the merits of Qigong, Tougong and Qili together, and it is impossible to fully and specifically explain their merits.

For example, the establishment of the Medal of Science and Technology Innovation, the Medal of Guarding the Capital, the Medal of Opening the Sea, the Medal of the Sun and the Moon, the Medal of the Seven Stars, etc., can better explain its achievements.

Zhu Qiyu specially made plans in different categories.

He has not expanded the scope of the medal, and it is still the third-class merit medal, which is still in use today.

The most important thing is that the speed of information circulation in Ming Dynasty is far lower than that of later generations. After classification, its recognition degree will be reduced, and the effect of the current meritorious service will be lost, and its honor nature will be reduced.

Zhu Qiyu's award is more like a first-class merit, second-class merit, and third-class merit, rather than a Soviet medal.

In fact, except for a few people who specialize in the study of Soviet medals, few know how many kinds of medals the Soviet Union has issued.

The best way to study the medals of the Soviet Union is to study how many medals were hung on Xunzong's body.

Zhu Qiyu would rather confuse it than reduce its popularity.

Honor is fame, it is Zhu Qiyu's affirmation of the individual, and it is also the affirmation of the individual by Daming.

Hu Wei presented a wonderful book, "Prescriptions for Prevention and Hygiene" is the way of prevention and hygiene summed up by him with his life experience.

Hu Wei is ridiculed every day for his lack of virtue and devotion, but no one has ever argued that his book should not receive a miracle card.

How many people are holding Hu Min's book and learning how to keep healthy, while scolding Hu Min for being immoral?

Peng Sui soon arrived at Juxian Pavilion, the most powerful center of the Ming Dynasty. He never expected that it would be so simple.

He always thought that this place would be resplendent and magnificent.

"My subject, Peng Sui, I pay my respects to Your Majesty. Long live, long live, long live, Your Majesty." Peng Sui knelt on the ground and said tremblingly.

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said, "Excuse me."

"I've given you a mission."

　Ask for a monthly pass, ┗|｀O′|┛哩~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)