The Three Kingdoms Voyage

Chapter 133 Set Sail on the Archimedes Line

The Daqin people's performance was very successful, causing a sensation after another. Half an hour passed in a flash, and the audience was still full of emotions, and they still surrounded them and refused to leave.The big man in the lead was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear, he could almost see the back molars, and he sent out an invitation in blunt Panyu dialect: "Your Majesty will come again tomorrow."

When he heard these words, Sun Shao, who was drinking tea again, sprayed Zhuge Ke's face with water.Zhuge Ke looked sullen, but he didn't dare to get angry, so he turned his head secretly and wiped off the water by himself.

Why is this sentence so familiar?Deja vu.Sun Shao didn't care about Zhuge Ke's opinion, and smiled at Sun Shangxiang and others who were fascinated by watching: "Isn't it pretty?"

"It looks good." Sun Shangxiang nodded again and again: "That Yi girl's waist is really flexible, like a snake."

"Ahem..." Sun Shao coughed again.

"Husband, will they still perform tomorrow?" Guan Feng looked at the exiting acrobatic troupe and asked excitedly.

"Yan, didn't you see that barbarian's eyeballs are shining?" Sun Shao took Guan Feng's hand and patted it lightly: "Who can't live with money? They don't have such a good business in Panyu."

Sun Shao didn't lie at all. Although there are many people in Panyu, who doesn't have a prostitute?This kind of barbarian stuff, it’s fine to watch it occasionally, and it’s the same thing if you watch it every day. It’s different here. In the vast sea, you can’t find a second kind of entertainment. What a wonderful thing for friends to communicate with each other.

"That's great, the music of these people is really nice, I like it." Guan Feng stroked his stomach, his eyes sparkled: "I think the baby seems to like it too, so when it rang, he kicked me .”

"If you say that, you can't let him act again tomorrow." Sun Shao frowned and his face sank, Guan Feng and Sun Shangxiang were a little surprised when they heard that, and then heard Sun Shao say worriedly: "Don't tire my son. "

"And—" Sun Shangxiang elongated her voice, and said disdainfully, "Will the son you two give birth to be tired?"

"Okay, auntie, go change your clothes, the banquet is about to start." Guan Feng suppressed a smile, and pulled Sun Shangxiang away.

Sun Shao walked down Feilu with a smile all over his face, just as he saw Shen Xuan looking depressedly at the gradually dispersing audience, when he heard the sound of the stairs, he looked up and stood up quickly: "General."

"Why, aren't you happy?"

Shen Xuan nodded: "These barbarians are open-chested and indecent. The general seems inappropriate to let them stay on the boat."

Sun Shao looked at him with a funny look: "In your opinion, should you teach them the Book of Songs or the Spring and Autumn Annals tomorrow? Or, will you play Shao Yue for them?"

Shen Xuan was taken aback for a moment, a little stunned.These people are either illiterate soldiers or businessmen who only know how to settle accounts. If you tell them the Book of Songs and the Spring and Autumn Annals, isn’t it an insult to the sage?I have never heard of it myself.He understood Sun Shao's meaning, smacked his lips, wanted to say but didn't know what to say, so he followed behind silently.

"These people are the most ordinary common people. What kind of elegant enjoyment can you expect from them? Isn't it just to have fun and have fun? How can it be so serious and indecent? Do you really don't know, or are you fake? Do you know what those nobles in Jianye are doing? Shi Xie, an old man, has a good age, he is over 80, and he is accompanied by three young girls who are so tender that they can pinch water. Can he still stand up? ?”

"But..." Shen Xuan wanted to defend himself unwillingly.

"But what?" Sun Shao interrupted him, staring at him: "You are allowed to have three wives and four concubines, and people are not allowed to look at women? Tell me honestly, did the housewife get on you?"

Shen Xuan was speechless, who doesn't have a few beautiful concubines around a child of an aristocratic family like him?On the contrary, people like Sun Shao are rare.He opened his mouth, feeling that there was no reason to talk to Sun Shao, so he could only swallow his anger: "General, let's go, the banquet is about to start, and the guests are waiting."

Sun Shao snorted, and said as he walked: "You haven't been floating on the sea for many years, and you don't know the kind of depression. How can ordinary people have the strength to take care of concubines? Look at women, it's all about relieving your eyes, at least you won't hold back Sickness. I think this is good. After you arrive in Jianye, remind me to ask the Supreme for some official servants, preferably women with official backgrounds, and those who are proficient in singing and dancing are the best, and raise a few batches."

"Here." Shen Xuan replied in a muffled voice.

The scale of the banquet was not large, except for Sun Shao's family and a few cronies, there were just a few guests invited, including officers from the navy and some powerful businessmen. The performance was so lively, but it was much more elegant, as if it were a classy person.Whether it is an officer or a businessman, they are all low-class people who are looked down upon by literati and refined scholars. Now that they can sit with Sun Shao to drink and eat, each of them has a lot of restraint, and their faces are somewhat shameful. In people's eyes, Sun Shao is not a high-class person at all, and the Sun family is also a poor family with no taste, but in the eyes of these people, they are after all a high-class person.

The style of the dishes is very good, the guests are very appetizing, and they are very puzzled. Whether it is the officers of the navy or the businessmen, most of them are familiar with the dishes of Wudi and Jiaozhou, but today's dishes are neither Wudi cuisine, not Jiaozhou cuisine, tastes very good, but it's a little confusing to eat.They are embarrassed to ask, so they can only pay attention to it secretly, and they are going to ask others when they go back.

Sun Shangxiang ate deliciously, her appetite was huge, her stomach was full, and she was still not satisfied. Before returning to the cabin, she pulled Sun Shao and asked, "What kind of dish is this? Why have I never seen it?"

"Of course you haven't seen the dishes in the palace." Sun Shao replied with a smile, a little smug.

"The palace? Which palace?" Sun Shangxiang rolled his eyes, suddenly worried: "I said, Aman, you and Cao Cao should stay away. Although Erlang didn't say anything, he was very suspicious. Don't be like Sun Fu and get into trouble. .”

A warm current surged in Sun Shao's heart. Although this aunt looked carefree, the strings were still very tight. She was always thinking of him and told him to beware of Sun Quan.The Sun Fu Sun Shangxiang mentioned was her elder brother. When Sun Ce passed away in the fifth year of Jian'an, he was General Pingnan, who led Jiaozhou governor in charge of Jiejie, and was a well-deserved important general.Because he had no confidence in Sun Quan, he wrote to Cao Cao while Sun Quan was on a tour of Dongye, and Sun Quan found out about it.Sun Quan hurried back to Dongye, pretended not to know, went to see Sun Fu with Zhang Zhao, and said only one sentence: "Are you impatient to live?" He was claustrophobic, and then divided up Sun Fu's strength .Two years later, Sun Fu died of depression.

"Don't worry, aunt, it doesn't belong to Wei Palace." Sun Shao smiled gratefully, "It belongs to Linyi Palace."

"Linyi Palace?" Sun Shangxiang calmed down, but was still a little surprised.

"Well, it's a small country in the south of Rinan County. In fact, it's not as big as our Wu County. The mother of one of my subordinates is a nobleman from Lin Yiguo. There is a cook from the palace by my side. I asked to come here. A few days ago, I prepared The ingredients have gone, so you didn’t see them.”

"So that's the case, that's good." Sun Shangxiang nodded, regained his ease, and wiped his mouth: "I'll go up and talk to Feng girl for a while, and then eat some fruit."

Sun Shao smiled wryly, but Sun Shangxiang refused to leave. It was not easy for him to go in and be with Guan Feng at this time, so he had to come out for a walk.Shuai Zeng and another personal guard Ma Hui followed behind, and the three of them walked slowly on the large deck.The sea breeze was blowing gently, and the waves were blooming, slapping the belly of the ship, making a rushing sound.The huge volume of the building boat effectively reduces the shaking. Under this kind of wind force, the shaking of the hull is basically not felt.

"Young master, I think you can ride a horse here." Shuai Zeng laughed softly.

"Riding a horse? I fell into the sea in one charge." Sun Shao curled his lips, looked at his ship, and suddenly said, "Do you think how many horses such a ship can hold?"

Ma Hui made a visual inspection: "If such a large ship is not a warship, but is mainly used for loading goods, it should be able to hold 150 horses. Because there are many soldiers on the warship, the space is limited, and a ship can only hold [-] horses. Young Master There are fewer people on this boat, and it should be able to hold about seventy or eighty horses."

"In other words, if we go to Liaodong to sell horses, we must prepare a big boat."

"That's for sure." Ma Hui said with a smile: "It's not easy to sell horses in Liaodong, and you must stop within the area controlled by Cao Cao. If they knew that the young master was transporting war horses, they would definitely not let the young master pass."

Sun Shao smiled, but did not speak.Ma Hui came from Xuzhou with Guan Yu back then, and he is familiar with the situation there. He is right. Although he has a pass from Cao Cao in his hand, Cao Cao will not let him transport horses. It belongs to Cao Cao. One of the winning weapons.If you want to sell horses, you have to open another channel.

He knew that there was a waterway in the sea from the mouth of the Yangtze River to the Liaodong Peninsula, but no one had done it in this era. If you want to sail from the sea, you must find a suitable foothold, and you must be able to accurately locate it in the vast sea. It needs someone who is proficient in astronomy and astrology. He only knows the general principle, but he has a blind eye to the stars, and he can barely know the position of the Big Dipper.

It's a pity that he sent Shen Xuan to ask Sun Quan to transfer Yu Fan or Lu Ji to Jiaozhou, but Sun Quan didn't respond at all. The two people haven't seen their shadows yet, so it's probably dead.

"Who?" Shuai Zeng shouted suddenly, drew out his knife with a click, and stopped in front of Sun Shao, his eyes fixed on a mast in front of him.Ma Hui also reacted, turned around, and protected Sun Shao's back.Immediately afterwards, the guards on duty not far away rushed over here.After a few clicks, the long knife was unsheathed, and within a few breaths of time, the deck was filled with murderous aura, as if facing an enemy.

"It's...it's me." A strange voice came from behind the mast, and immediately after, a trembling figure was pushed out by a strong bodyguard.Sun Shao took a closer look and found that she was actually the dancer from the Daqin Acrobatic Troupe, but now she had changed into a summer dress that is common in Jiaozhou. After a quick look, she was not much different from the Han people except that she was a little taller.

"What are you doing here?" Seeing that it was a woman, Shuai Zeng heaved a sigh of relief, retracted the knife, and his tone became much gentler.

"I... I can see something through the lamp." The dancer pointed to the lantern hanging from the mast, looked timidly at Sun Shao and the others, and lowered her head.

"It's getting late, go back to your cabin, is that where you came from?" Shuai Zeng warned sternly: "I told you at the beginning that you are not allowed to run around after dark, or you will be killed." Get off the boat. Go back quickly."

"Yes, General." The dancing girl turned around and left with a sigh of relief.Shuai Zeng then turned his head and smiled at Sun Shao: "Young master, it's that dancing barbarian girl."

Sun Shao didn't respond to him, he stared at the deck under the mast, Shuai Zeng followed his gaze, and suddenly became furious: "These barbarians really don't understand the rules, this brand-new ship is actually scribbling, young master, don't be angry!" , I will go find her and let her clean up."

"Go and find her, but have a better attitude and don't scare her." Sun Shao waved his hand, and squatted down beside the figure without raising his head.Shuai Zeng was a little surprised, but seeing that Sun Shao was engrossed in watching it, he had to hurry away.Sun Shao squatted on the deck, looking at the helix that seemed to be an involute, his eyes burning brightly.

Although he didn't know what it was, he believed that this figure was definitely not drawn casually, because it was too regular. The person who drew this line seemed to draw it often, and the line was smooth without any jerky.

After a short time, Shuai Zeng came back angrily with the sound of hurried footsteps. Behind the dancer was the big head of the acrobatic troupe. Sun Shao met him once, but his name was too long. He can't remember.

"General, general, the villain deserves to die, the villain deserves to die." The big man knelt on the ground as soon as he met him, begging bitterly, with extreme panic in his blunt words: "It's the villain who didn't manage well, the villain must Wipe the boat clean, definitely." Then, he stretched out his sleeve and wiped the picture on the boat board.

"Wait." Sun Shao had no time to react, and stepped on his arm.Ma Hui thought he was angry, so he swung the scabbard and hit him hard, causing the grown man to scream.The dancer screamed and rushed forward, tears pouring down, crying, but what they said was their own words, Sun Shao couldn't understand a word.She leaned on the big man's back, kowtowed to Sun Shao again and again, knocking on the boat plank with a bang, and blood flowed from her forehead within two strokes.

"You are too reckless." Sun Shao frowned, stopped Ma Hui, grabbed the dancer's arm, pointed to the picture, and asked word by word: "This...is...what?"

The dancing girl had blood on her face and panicked. Seeing Sun Shao holding her arm, she was so nervous that her teeth chattered.But the big man was calmer. Seeing that Sun Shao's face was not angry, he just pointed to the figure and asked, quickly shook the dancing girl, and said a few barbarian words, and the girl came back to it, babbling. After saying a few words, seeing Sun Shao's bewildered face, he quickly used Panyu words: "Ah... Aki... Mi... Mead... line."

"Akimi's line?" Shuai Zeng and Ma Hui stared at each other: "Who is Aakimi?" He was annoyed again immediately: "You barbarian is dishonest, you clearly drew it, so what's the matter?" Akimi."

"Go away." Sun Shao raised his hand to block Shuai Zeng's high-raised fist, rolled his eyes twice, and suddenly said in surprise, "You mean, Archimedes?"

"Ah? Ah, ah." The dancing girl froze for a moment, then nodded repeatedly.

"Damn." Sun Shao patted his forehead and smiled broadly. He bent down to support the two Great Qin people, arched his hands, stretched them out, and said with a very polite smile, "Please talk inside."

The two were quite surprised, they looked at each other, and followed Sun Shao carefully into his reception room.Sun Shao asked someone to serve tea and some snacks, and asked Shuai Zeng to call for a doctor to clean the wound on the dancer's forehead.After finishing all this work, he took out a piece of paper and spread it in front of the dancing girl, and handed over his charcoal pencil: "You, draw another Archimedes line."

The dancing girl took the charcoal pencil and touched the paper, feeling very sorry.She had seen this kind of paper when she was in Panyu, but it was too expensive for her to buy.The young man in front of him looks very rich, because he still has a thick stack of such papers in his hand.

She collected herself, and quickly re-drawn the curve on the paper, and added a straight line.Paint part of it black, and finally push it back in front of Sun Shao.Shuai Zeng and Ma Hui were at a loss when they looked at this strange picture, not knowing what it meant, and why the young master was so engrossed in seeing it.But based on their understanding of Sun Shao, they knew that this must be unusual, otherwise Sun Shao would not be so excited.

In fact, Sun Shao didn't know what it was, he only knew that Archimedes was a great scientist in Greece, and it is entirely possible that these two people came from Rome and knew about Archimedes.

"What does this mean?" Sun Shao looked at it for a long time, but still didn't understand, so he had to humbly ask for advice.

"This is Archimedes' line. Archimedes said that if you draw a circle with this line, it should be three times the size of this black." The dancer stammered, "But I don't know why."

Sun Shao blinked and understood what it meant.However, he only knew what the proposition of the Archimedes line is, and he still didn't know anything about how to prove it.What he knew was that no matter what the level of the dancer in front of him was, he had finally come into contact with the culture of another great empire in this era, although it was only a little bit.

"Who are you?" Sun Shao turned his head and said to the big man.

The big man raised his head: "Me? I'm her brother."

"You are his elder brother?" Sun Shao couldn't help laughing. Seeing the hair on this big man's face, which was dark and vicissitudes, he thought he was her father.He smiled, and said again: "Among you, who else knows this?" After thinking about it, he added: "Anything other than acting is fine."

"Besides her, there are... soldiers who fight, sailors who row boats, and one who can cook."

Sun Shao scratched his head and put on a smiling face: "Have you had dinner yet?"

"I just ate and was about to go to bed." The big man smiled humbly.

"Bring them up, I'll treat you to tea." Sun Shao said with a smile, "Is there no problem?"

The big man opened his eyes wide with joy, and nodded again and again: "No problem, no problem." Saying that, he ran away quickly.Sun Shao said to the dancing girl again: "Do you know any pictures like this?"

"I have a book with lots of these in it."

"Then...can you lend me a look?" Sun Shao showed Grandma Wolf's smile.

The dancing girl shuddered, nodded nervously, and ran away quickly with her long skirt in hand. After a short time, all those Daqin people ran over and stood in front of Sun Shao nervously and excitedly. Tea and snacks were served, and they were warmly greeted to take their seats. After a while, the dancing girl walked up to Sun Shao with a roll of sheepskin like an heirloom, and carefully spread out the sheepskin, which was full of characters and geometric figures. Sun Shao didn't have time to identify the graphics, anyway, he didn't know Roman or Greek, but when he saw those geometric figures, he knew that he had picked up a treasure.

(End of this chapter)