Chapter 309 High-speed sailing
At this moment, a sharp-eyed sailor suddenly shouted: "That is not the ship of the Red-Farewell Yi, it is the ship of our Ming Navy. Boss, you see, the banner of the Zheng family is hung on the ship."
Before he finished speaking, the young man was hit by the boat boss in the back of his head: "You know what's wrong! The Zheng family and the Hongmaoyi are wearing pairs of pants? The Hongmaoyi's ship is going to Japan, and they are all from the Zheng family's territory. How much money has the Zheng family made from it!"
The flying scissors continued to sail to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In less than two hours, the flying scissors had already sailed across the Yangzhou River.
"It's so fast. Before, we had to take a boat from Nanjing to Yangzhou for a whole night. Now it's only two hours, and it's here." Zheng Sen sighed from the bottom of his heart.
Zhao Peng asked, "Damu, are there enough fresh water and food for us to bring on the boat?"
"It's enough for us to use it for seven days." Zheng Sen replied.
A smell of food came from the cabin, which was preparing lunch in the cabin.
Zhao Peng walked down from the upper deck, and the gun deck went down from the stairs and headed towards the stern. Behind it was the officer's compartment and the captain's compartment at the stern. Because this ship was much narrower than the ship with the same tonnage, the officer's compartment and captain's compartment were much narrower than the ship with the same tonnage.
The officer's cabin was a two-person room, which was the same size as the soft sleeper room of the train in later generations. There were two single beds inside, and the foot of the bed was fixed to the floor with iron nails.
The officer's cabin at the stern was much smaller than the ship with the same tonnage. The width of the ship was only 15 feet, the width of the room was 15 feet, and the length was two feet. However, the captain's room was just a small one, and the inner and outer room was divided by partitions. The outer room was a conference room and a dining room, and the inside was close to the stern of the ship.
Unlike other ships, the captain's room has its own bathroom. The captain's room of this ship has no bathroom. If you have to go to the toilet, you can only walk forward. After passing the stairs, there are two toilets between the stairs and the artillery cabin. The bottom of the toilet squat pit is diagonally opposite the ship, and the grains and reincarnation are directly discharged into the sea.
After passing the toilet, walking forward, there is the artillery cabin, with eighteen four-pound naval guns inside. In front of the artillery cabin is a miscellaneous cabin. On the empty space between the artillery and the artillery, there are hanging shops hanging, and the gunners usually live in the artillery cabin.
Walk back and reach the stairway, follow the stairway to the bottom, and there is a cabin at the bottom. This is the cabin at the lowest level of the ship. Most of it is below the waterline, so there are no windows. The ventilation relies entirely on the stairway to send fresh air outside into the cabin at the bottom level.
Follow the stairs to enter the ground floor cabin, and walk backwards to the kitchen. In order to prevent fire, the kitchen floor, walls and ceiling are covered with ceramic tiles. There are two coal stoves and a charcoal stove in the kitchen, as well as a vegetable sink, a material preparation desk, etc. Behind the kitchen is a storage room, which stores fresh water and food.
Come out of the kitchen, walk forward, and pass the staircase cabin. In front is the sailor cabin. The sailors live in it. The bunks in the sailor cabin are like gunners, and they sleep in the hanging shops.
When the volley is strong, it is more comfortable to be on the hanging pavilion. When the boat shakes violently in the wind and waves, the hanging pavilion is gently shaking back and forth, which can reduce discomfort.
But when the sailor cabin walked forward, I smelled a stinking smell, which was the smell of animal feces. In front of the sailor cabin was a storage room for various living things. When the boat was opened, there were live chickens and ducks, and even pigs and sheep on the boat, which could be killed and eaten immediately.
There were no refrigerators in this era. Like European ships, when the ship was about to sail, they would bring a large number of live chickens, ducks, geese, etc. Westerners would even bring pigs and cows onto the ship.
However, these living things will not take long to finish. Next, the sailors will open the bucket full of salt water, which contains pieces of beef. Europeans use salt water buckets to preserve fresh beef. Of course, the beef soaked in the salt water bucket is naturally very salty when eaten. This is nothing. The most hateful thing is that some porters secretly pour out the salt water in the salt water bucket in order to be lazy to reduce the weight when they carry the wooden bucket onto the boat.
In this way, once the sailor opened the salt water bucket, he found that there was no salt water inside, only maggots, and the smelly meat was stinky.
However, these situations do not exist on Zhao Peng's ship, because this ship cannot take several months and a year. The Princess Kunxing flying shears, which is in the trial period, will travel for seven to ten days at most, no more than one month at most.
It was time for lunch. After the sailors went to the kitchen to have a meal, they went up to the upper deck above and sat on the deck to eat. The gunners dined in their own artillery deck. The soldiers' meals were a stir-fried water spinach, a braised pork and a stir-fried cucumber sliced meat. Because green leafy vegetables and fresh pork were the most likely to break, they had to finish these things in the first few days.
When the fresh vegetables and meat are finished, the vegetables on the boat will become cabbage, and the vegetables such as cabbage that are not easy to break will also start to kill pigs.
When vegetables such as cabbage and cabbage are finished, the hothead soldiers will use soybeans to make bean sprouts by themselves. From now on, the vegetables will besides bean sprouts and bean sprouts every day. Westerners do not know how to make bean sprouts, so there were a lot of Western crew members who had sepsis in that era.
Therefore, Eastern people are actually smarter than Western people. It was only when the Qing rulers suppressed the development of the Han people, which led to Eastern civilization falling far behind the West.
Some people in later generations have done tests of average IQ. East Asians and Jews are the people with the highest IQ in the world, with an average IQ of 106, Germans are 105, Nordic and Southern Europeans are 102, Anglo-Saxons are 100, Slavs are 96, French and Spanish are 94, Turks are 90, Arabs and Indians are 87, while black Arabs and mixed races such as Ethiopia are 70, while some races are only 67.
Perhaps some Virgins would refute that O'Haishou was not very intelligent? Please, O'Haishou had a Jewish, yellow and Anglo-Saxon blood? He only had seven percent of the black blood, so O'Hai is actually a white man. But according to the principle of one drop of blood in Westerners, O'Hai cannot be considered a white man.
East Asians have high IQs, both China, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, and Jurchens are actually very smart. Of course, the Jurchens have not low intelligence. This can be seen through Huang Taiji. They are so smart. However, the Jurchens used all their intelligence and talents to suppress and prevent the Han people, so they finally dragged down the Eastern civilization.
The flying scissors continued to sail eastward. Before dark, they had already passed the Changzhou River. After nightfall, Zhao Peng went to the captain's room, drank a few glasses of wine with Zheng Sen, and fell asleep on the bed.
I don’t know how long it took, but Zhao Peng felt the speed of the ship slowing down in his sleep. He woke up and turned to look out towards the window at the stern of the boat. He saw that the ship had left the Yangtze River and entered a relatively narrow river to continue sailing. He knew that he had passed the Suzhou River. After arriving at the Suzhou River, the ship would enter the Suzhou River along a tributary, then enter the Wusong River along the Suzhou River, then return to the Yangtze River from the Wusong mouth, and finally exit from the Yangtze River estuary.
Zhao Peng continued to sleep, but he didn't know how long he had been sleeping. In a daze, he felt the boat shaking at the distance. He opened his eyes and looked out at the stern of the boat. It was dark outside, and behind him was an endless sea and sky.
Zhao Peng, who had long been accustomed to getting up early, got up from the bed, put on his clothes, and washed up simply. Because the fresh water on the boat was precious, he could only rinse his mouth and wipe his face casually.
Chapter completed!