Chapter 42: This place of peace of mind is my hometown (Part 2)

Among the leading children, Su Dongpo only knew Cheng Xia and Cheng Shuang. They seemed to be the heads of children, holding a thick stack of paper in their hands, directing the strong men in the yard to be busy. Mrs. Wang and three other women stood far away at the door of the snow hall. Su Dongpo's children were very curious and surrounded the strong men.

Su Dongpo asked Cheng Xia: "Where is your teacher?"

Cheng Xia crossed his hands and replied: "Master, the teacher led two Japanese people away last night, saying that he planned to send Japanese people to Mingzhou and send them onto the ship."

Su Dongpo looked at the noisy yard and said dissatisfiedly: "What are you doing? Didn't you see that I have guests?"

Cheng Xia replied: "Master, this is the teacher's order. The teacher said: Winter is coming soon, and the husband's house is small, and he cannot accommodate guests or let his aunt wait for delivery, so he told us to build the house as soon as possible. If the master thinks it is noisy, my Cheng family compound has prepared food and drinks, so he will go there for two days to rest."

Two days off? Can a house be built in two days?

Su Shi's eyes swept over the busy men and found that there were some strange tools in their hands. He wanted to explore it carefully, but the guests were there and lunch time was up, so he had to lead the guests to the Cheng family compound in the city in annoyance.

As expected, it only took two days, Cheng Xia was not boasting.

The Cheng clan has rich experience in building houses, and even in modern times, most popular buildings are single brick houses. Such thin walls are built quickly under division of labor and cooperation. Four walls are built on the first day. By midnight, workers who work at night have completed the ceiling. By the second day, they start to enter the interior decoration work such as installing doors and windows.

The Yellow Sea, without wind or waves. A Song ship floated alone on the sea.

The bow of this Song ship is square, shaped like a reduced version of the Nanhai No. 1.

The bow of the Song ship was empty, and layers of wood plates were like stacks of building blocks to form an upturned windward surface, and the waves kept beating under the hanging bow of the ship.

There were five or six people standing on the bow deck, and they were divided into two factions. Among them was the tall Zhao Xing. Zhao Xing was two Japanese samurai with three knives each in his body, and two Japanese people running around Su Dongpo. In the distance, on the side of the ship, Cheng Shuang, who was holding the side of the ship and vomiting weakly.

Opposite them were several sailors, and one of the strong men with a captain looked like a strong man shouting: "No, I said, we should go to Nanyang in winter and to Japan in summer. You have been late for three months, but we have to go to that place. Look, we have been walking for three days, and the sea is vast and we have seen nothing."

Zhao Xing held his hands behind his back, looking very leisurely. The two Japanese men behind him looked fierce and asked fiercely: "Officer Zhao said he was going north. It's only three days now. What do you think you should do?"

While speaking, the two Japanese men pulled out half of the Japanese sword from their waists, as if they were about to start a fight with disagreement.

These two Japanese looked gentle and honest in the territory of Song Dynasty. Once they went out to sea, they restored their true colors. They not only did not use a knife, but also had more than one.

At this time, the Japanese sword still retained the appearance of the Tang Heng sword, with a straight body, similar to a single-edged sword. This single-edged sword is commonly known as the "Max Killing Sword" commonly known as the "Max Killing Sword". In Peking Opera, it is simply called "Shangfang Max Killing Sword". If written as a typo, it is "Shangfang Sword".

Now it only has one name, called "Tang Dao", which is the name given by the Japanese. Later it was called "Japanese Samurai Sword". If the blade is curled a little, it will be "Japanese Samurai Sword".

Don’t have more than two swords on the knife, this is the real warrior’s way of doing it, and don’t have one sword in the waist. That kind of sword is called “Yi Jian (Sword),” which is a weapon that looks like a look. Because according to current archaeological statistics, in a real battle, a warrior will damage an average of 1.3 weapons. Because at the critical moment of life and death, you must make a choice between cherishing weapons and cherishing life. If you want to save your life, you must bring more than two weapons.

The three swords each have their own names. The longest one is called "Taidao", which means a larger knife, and a larger one is "Tai". This knife is used to break the formation, and the blade body is about 70% of the height of a person. The second knife is called "Daodao", and the length of the blade is 1.2 to 1.4 of the arm. The shortest knife was called "Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-Hand-

In "Water Margin", Song Jiang killed Yan Poxi with a hand-removing knife. The Song people used this short knife to deal with the cover of official documents and letters, and it lost the meaning of fighting.

The Japanese shouting did not work as expected. The boss of the ship was also considered a person who was traveling around the world. The two sailors holding poles standing behind him also imitated Zhao Xing's posture and fisted naked. He grinned at the two Japanese, spit out a thick phlegm and said, "White ghost, I haven't talked to you, Dalang hasn't spoken yet, why are the short jumping?"

"Dalang" is a term for the Jianghu in the Song Dynasty, similar to the modern term "Boss". The owner or cargo owner of a sea ship is called "Gangshou". Song Dynasty "Jia Ling: there are hundreds of large sea ships and more than a hundred small ones, with giant merchants as the head of the guild, deputy head of the guild, and miscellaneous things." Therefore, Zhao Xing's official title at this time was the head of the guild, and "Dalang" was called the Jianghu.

Zhao Xing was calm and looked at the sun above his head and said, "I heard that you have a way to distinguish the direction. It was cloudy and rainy a few days ago, and we couldn't determine the direction. Now take out all your and my methods, let's confirm it again - I insist that at most tomorrow morning, we will see the land."

Zhao Xing and the others set out from Mingzhou. According to the Mingzhou ship records, there is only a five-day voyage from Mingzhou to Japan. The record describes the route as follows: sailing toward the east of the sun for one day, turning to the direction of the Beidou Star, and sailing for three days, and Danluo can be seen...

This technique is extremely rough. The ship owners who sailed also have their own nautical secrets. For example, the ship owners are now using their own methods to determine the north. There are also records in "Mengxi Bitan". Shen Kuo recorded three ways to determine the direction with magnets. The most commonly used method in the Song Dynasty was to throw magnetic needles into a basin, and the most accurate was the suspension method.

Now the boss of the ship uses the suspension method, and the Song people usually don't use this method. He took out a magnet, rubbed a special large iron needle with the magnet, then tied the middle of the iron needle with a rope, hanged the iron needle, and then called everyone to form a circle to block the sea breeze, and then pointed to the direction of the needle and said, "It's the north."

Zhao Xing smiled faintly with his hands behind his back: "It's not that troublesome. Look at me: face the sun, look at his shadow, take a step towards the shadow with his right foot, point one left and right apart, and the direction he faces is north, that's that simple."

This method is actually only practical in the northern hemisphere, and the direction of the southern hemisphere is confirmed, which is exactly the opposite, but Zhao Xing did not explain this.
Chapter completed!