Chapter 6: Take out the best treasures (Part 2) (This chapter is free)

The valley where Chengjiaao is located is located, facing Xishui to the east and Bahe to the west. In comparison, it is slightly closer to Xishui, so you only need to cross a mountain to the east. However, this mountain - five miles up the mountain and five miles down the mountain. It takes five hours to walk from the small paths in the mountains to the riverside.

In the past, the mountain people in the village had no awareness of water transportation, and they liked to cross mountains and ridges when they entered and left the village. The reason for developing this habit was mainly because there were few people in the village and the demand for external transportation was not strong. However, with the development of the village, external transportation capacity gradually became a bottleneck in the development.

Building roads in mountainous areas is a major project. With the productivity level and the financial level of the villagers at that time, it was almost impossible to build a mountainous road leading to a nearby county town.

Since it is impossible to build a road, then build a ship - build a simple mountain road to the riverside, and then build a simple wharf, which can be done. So Zhao Xing had the idea of ​​building a ship.

At this time, shipbuilding is a very complicated matter. The mortise and tenon structure between the ship boards is complex. Just calculating their inlays is enough to drive a skilled carpenter crazy. Zhao Xing, based on the strategy of being simple and as simple as possible, directly skipped the mortise and tenon structure and used long nails to connect the boards to minimize the project volume. Without intention, he took the path closest to modern times.

The wooden boat was built and had been tried three times before. This time, Zhao Xing planned to go further and sail to the nearby county town. If this move is successful, the villagers will be mobilized to build roads next, and the improvement of external transportation will surely change the appearance of the mountainous areas.

The wooden boat was lying on the shore, and the children began to push the boat into the water happily. They were excited by the beautiful scenery depicted by Zhao Xing and were very enthusiastic about working.

To be honest, this finished ship now looks more like an open large wooden box than a "ship".

Zhao Xing is not a shipbuilding engineer. He was the first time he built a ship. He tried his best to create such an ugly shape.

Fortunately, Zhao Xing came from the information age, and he still remembered several key points in shipbuilding.

He remembered that the keels needed to build ships first, so a big tree was sawed thinly by a whole tree to make a keel that was 15 meters long, and then the thick wooden strips were installed on the keel, making ribs, and then nailed wooden boards between the ribs... This is the ship built by Zhao Xing!

He knew that if the buckle joints of the boat boards were not tightly connected, it would lead to water seepage in the boat. Therefore, thick teeth were made between the wooden boards, similar to the grooves on the edges of modern "component wood floors"...

He knew that in order to prevent the ship from deforming, the wooden boards of the ship needed to dry out sufficiently, so he roasted the boards over the fire and hung them in the shed by the river for a whole year...

He knew that the stern of the boat must be like a fish tail to control the direction, and he also knew that there was a rudder to adjust the direction of the boat, so the boat became a large wooden box with a slightly pointed bow and a slightly narrow stern...

This ship has no mast because Zhao Xing will not make masts...

Fortunately, the water flow of Xishui is not turbulent, and sailing becomes optional, while sailing is a technical job, and it cannot be mastered after a few years of learning. So Zhao Xing gave up his efforts to make sailings.

The three trial voyages of this ship crossed Xishui to the opposite shore. On the calm Xishui, near-shore operation is not difficult, but its cargo capacity is far beyond expectations.

Zhao Xing roughly estimated that it could carry about five tons of stones. Thinking of modern flat-bottomed sand ships that were even made of cement, but could pile up goods high and carry fifty or sixty tons of goods, Zhao Xing believed that even such a simple wooden box could be transported to the village for one month at a time.

That's enough.

At three o'clock in the sun, Zhao Xing pushed the boat down the river bank. At this time, the spring snow melted, and Xishui was at the highest water level. More than a dozen students shouted and jumped onto the boat...

This was actually an extremely risky voyage: a teacher who didn't know how to drive the boat, a group of ignorant children, who drove a lonely boat into the spring stream without knowing the hydrological conditions at all.

The scenery is beautiful, but Zhao Xing has no time to appreciate it.

Near-shore sailing is completely different from long-distance sailing. The wooden boat drifted along the river, and the rushing river water made a noise, and the wooden boats rose and fell. The originally calm children immediately panicked, and they couldn't stand steadily.

After several people fell into the river in a row, they realized that the river was not deep and the teacher was fully capable of saving them so that they could stabilize their emotions... But don't count on them if you do it.

After struggling for a long time, the boat was back on the shore and drifted along the water. Only then did the children feel in a mood to enjoy the scenery on the shore. But at this time, Zhao Xing was already crying without tears.

Zhao Xing planned this first flight to integrate into the outside world. Chengjiaao is a mountain village suitable for seclusion, but not suitable for development. From modern society, he knows the importance of information exchange. Only by constantly communicating with the outside world can Chengjiaao be completely integrated into this era.

He has been in this world for three years. For three years, he has been hiding in Chengjiaao and carefully testing the outside world. Now that the wound has been licked, he is eager to see the outside world.

Although life in the mountain is very pastoral, this truth was revealed in "Party A and Party B". The noble man, who lived a superior life, missed the life of the educated youth when he was in the army. But when he really arrived in the village and stole all the chickens in the village, what he missed most was to return to his original life.

Zhao Xing is in this mood now.

For this era, Zhao Xing was an outsider; however, for the people of the Song Dynasty, Cheng Jiaao was also an outsider of this era. Therefore, Zhao Xing had to go out of Cheng Jiaao.

He seemed a little too anxious, hoping that the children in the mountains would get to know Caozhou immediately. Now it seems so ridiculous.

The boat struggled to bypass the valleys, and in the evening, Xishui County could already be seen ahead.

Xishui was originally named Xishui, but was changed to "Xishui" in the Southern Liang Dynasty. It was also called Lanxi in the Tang Dynasty, and Qishui in the Song Dynasty. Zhao Xing liked to continue to call it "Xishui" because the "Hubei Map" on his hand also marked Xishui.

Qishui is a county-level unit and is under the jurisdiction of Huangzhou. It goes down along Xishui, and the end of the river is Huangzhou Prefecture. By the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Huaixi was on the front line. Only then did the Southern Song Dynasty establish the Huaixi Xuanfu Office and build the Qizhou City in Qichun, so "Qizhou" appeared...

It is said that a famous doctor in Qishui County was living, named Pang Anshi. Although Zhao Xing has gradually got rid of the identity of a "famous doctor" and often appears as a "teacher", as the original "mountain ravine doctor", he felt a natural timid towards the "famous doctor in the county", for fear that someone would be caught and asked about medical theory, so that he would expose his original appearance. Therefore, he never entered Qishui County in the past.

But now he had to enter the county, and Xishui Wharf was right next to the city. The children's boating level disrupted his plan, so he had to direct the children to drive the boat into the wharf.

When the boat landed, the boatmen were observing the strange ship. The ship was very long and had a weird appearance. Its appearance subverted the boatmen's inherent concept. They could hardly imagine that such a large wooden box could travel, but it was driven by a few dolls who didn't know how to drive the boat at all. Seeing the children in a hurry, they couldn't help jumping into the water and waded onto the boat to help the children lean onto the dock.

"Hey, the kids, the hair is not growing, so I'm here to grab our job?" A young boatman teased. He was about to say a few more words, but when he saw Zhao Xing at the stern of the boat, he immediately stopped.

This person is very arrogant and looks like a scholar, so he dare not make fun of him easily. After waiting for a while, seeing that Zhao Xing was not displeased, they fixed the boat and asked the child in a low voice: "What kind of boat is this? It's so weird? Who made it?"

The children's answers were full of pride: "We made the drawings drawn by the teacher, we made ourselves!"

"Look at these children, you can get it!" The boatman exclaimed in unison.

Zhao Xing was very puzzled, is this ship very strange?

He didn't know that the length and width ratio of the ships at that time were very small. For example, the Song ship "Nanhai No. 1" that salvaged out of water was more than 26 meters long and more than 10 meters wide, with a length and width ratio of about 2.5:1. The length and width ratio of the ship he built was close to 7:1, with a shuttle shape and a flowing line throughout the body. This type of ship is beautiful in modern times, but it does not conform to the aesthetic view of this era.

"I need a few boatmen," Zhao Xing interrupted: "The children can't handle it when they go upstream, but we need to drive the boat back. Whoever you have time, I'll hire him."

A man dressed as a throne (captain) jumped onto the boat and shook his body left and right. After feeling the stability of the boat, he immediately became even more shocked: "This boat is stable... no wonder, a few ignorant children can drive it to Qishui."

Zhao Xing stood behind the boat and smiled. The boatman on the shore coughed dryly, and then chatted with the child: "Where are you from? You can't sail at night tonight, we will leave tomorrow, how about?"

"We are from Chengjiaao," the children said, turning their faces to Zhao Xing. Zhao Xing answered with the opportunity: "Then let's stay. Are there any rest near the pier?... Each person has 50 words, walk together, come back when the lights are in hand, and don't run around."

The children cheered, and the oarist (captain) in his forties on the boat stopped to check and asked in surprise: "Chengjiaao? Is that ten small village fiddling with the boat?"

Zhao Xing was filled with a sense of failure. He finally understood that no matter how simple a small boat was, it was a technical job. Without the help of the boatman, the ship might not be able to return to the starting point - sailing against the current, which required more technology. He sighed and walked out of the stern of the boat, and said helplessly: "Wrong, it seems that I was wrong... Well, you guys are optimistic about this boat, how much compensation do you need to pay?"

The boatmen looked at Zhao Xing in confusion. One of the young boatmen pulled the sleeve of the oarist and said softly: "Chengjiaao, I heard that Chengjiaao has a new teacher. My wife mentioned it earlier. Could it be this scholar?"

Zhao Xing did not answer. He looked at the boatman in confusion, but the children were already asking first: "How do you know the name of my teacher?"

Tsk! This sentence actually confirms the ship's guess.

Because Zhao Xing's origin was mysterious, Cheng Tong issued a ban on the Cheng clan early, forcing the tribe to talk about Zhao Xing in front of outsiders. Zhao Xing knew Cheng Tong's order, so he was puzzled - the information in ancient times should not have been spread so quickly!

The oarist immediately bowed respectfully to Zhao Xing, crossed his hands and answered respectfully: "The little old man's neighbor married his little mother to Chengjiaao last year. The little mother gave birth at the beginning of the year. The mother-in-law next door rushed to wait for birth. She heard that Chengjiaao hired a teacher. This teacher is very capable and is planning to help the baby for Cheng clan... It turns out that he is a gentleman. The little old man is polite."

The lord is "singing a promise", which is a kind of etiquette, that is, while bowing and saying words of blessings - similar to the Japanese who bow and shout "Hey Yi". "Crossing hands without leaving a square inch" is also a kind of etiquette in the Song Dynasty, which refers to the fact that the hands are naturally crossed and stacked on the chest. This etiquette often appears when listening, indicating that one is listening respectfully.

Zhao Xing shook his head: It turns out that the fire cannot be contained in the paper. As time goes by, he will inevitably be frequently mentioned by outsiders. It is useless to continue to "be careful of his words and actions". Now he needs a new identity.

What identity should be used?

Zhao Xing stepped ashore and walked along the street aimlessly. The oar master hurriedly guided him all the way and took him to the inn. People who were walking along the way rushed home in the twilight. However, there was a strange person: an old man seemed a little crazy. He had no intention of going home. He kept grabbing the sleeves of passers-by, no matter the noble or low-level, and nagging with the other party. Some people stopped talking to him, while others left.

The children noticed Zhao Xing's gaze. They were curious and did not learn to control it. Before Zhao Xing could speak, Cheng Laowu's son Cheng Shuang pointed at the crazy old man and asked the boatman: "Who? What's wrong with him?"

The oar master glanced at him and immediately led the child into the alley. While walking, he replied disapprovingly: "It's nothing. The old man is a guest of Doctor Pang. He often comes to Xishui. He goes to the streets in a crazy way, grabs passers-by and asks people to tell ghost stories.

After the passerby finished telling the story, there was no story to tell, and he even said, 'You make up one'... Later, everyone hid from him. Only some people who were unaware of it were caught by him... Oh, they must be telling him ghost stories again."

Zhao Xing paused for a moment, and wanted to look back, but immediately followed the children's pace.
Chapter completed!