Chapter 150 The Use of Agility Attributes (please vote for more updates)

Author: Fat Bird Goes First

Chapter 150 The Use of Agility Attributes (please vote for more updates)

Before going to Dong'ao Island, Su Ze was busy working in the family temple every day with mirror grinding tools.

Bronze mirrors were still used in the Ming Dynasty. In order for a bronze mirror to reflect a clear figure, it needed to be polished repeatedly.

Those who do this job are called mirror grinders, and there is also an old man in Changningwei who is responsible for grinding mirrors.

Su Ze borrowed mirror-grinding tools from the old man and was busy studying hygiene all day long.

Lin Liangjun watched Su Ze polishing two crystal stones with a mirror grinding tool and couldn't help but ask:

"Brother Aze, this is the finest colored glaze. How did you polish it to look like this?"

These two pieces of natural crystal are the collection of Eunuch Hu. Su Ze spent money to buy them from Eunuch Hu.

Lin Liangjun had never seen such transparent and flawless glass. It looked very expensive at first glance. However, Su Ze took the mirror grinding tool and polished it, turning the good glass into strange discs.

What Su Ze is making is naturally a telescope.

China has a long history of making glass, but flawless white glass did not appear until the mid-Qing Dynasty.

The glass fired in the Ming Dynasty was more inclined to colored glass such as colored glaze.

People in the Ming Dynasty were very enthusiastic about colored glaze, but Su Ze didn't have time to do it now. Since artificial glass was not transparent enough, he had to look for natural glass.

Fortunately, Su Ze found a piece of flawless white natural glass in Eunuch Hu's collection.

Su Ze carefully polished the glass lens. What he wanted to make was a copper tube monocular telescope. In the timeline before he traveled, such a telescope was made by Galileo decades later.

In fact, the principle of the telescope is not complicated. The formula for calculating the curvature of glass is also in Su Ze's mind. The only troublesome thing is the process of polishing the glass.

Su Ze had 10 points of strength and spent two days polishing this natural crystal into two lenses.

After polishing the surface of the lens until it was transparent again, Su Ze took out the prepared copper tube and carefully put the lens in it.

"Brother Aze, what is this?"

Su Ze installed the lens and oiled the telescopic copper tube, and then said with satisfaction: "Clairvoyance."

"Clairvoyance? Brother Aze, don't lie to me. Clairvoyance is in the story."

Su Ze walked out of the family temple, adjusted the distance of the telescope, and looked at the Baihusuo in the center of the guardhouse.

He handed the binoculars to Lin Liangjun and said, "Hold it carefully."

Lin Liangjun picked up the telescope and clearly saw the window sill of his home. He exclaimed: "It's really clairvoyance!"

Su Ze grabbed the telescope, fearing that it would be broken by Lin Liangjun. He put the telescope into a deerskin bag made by himself and asked Lin Liangjun: "Brother Aze, are you really an immortal?"

Su Ze glanced at him and said, "Let you study hard. This is not some magical skill, but the skill of studying things to gain knowledge."

Lin Liangjun asked doubtfully: "You haven't taught me before!"

Su Ze said: "Do you remember that I talked about the phenomenon of 'refraction'?"

Lin Liangjun nodded. Su Ze was writing new textbooks recently and would also try to give them some interesting physical and chemistry experimental classes.

Refraction was also a course that impressed Lin Liangjun. Su Ze used the refraction of light to explain why chopsticks look bent in water.

"This clairvoyance uses the refraction of light to magnify distant objects."

Su Ze briefly explained the principle of the telescope and said:

"I told you before that studying objects to gain knowledge can not only be used to turn rocks into gold, but can also be used to kill enemies in battle. This telescope is a powerful weapon on the battlefield, and the principle is just an easy-to-understand principle like refraction."

Naturally, the principle of the telescope is not that simple, but Su Ze just wanted to enlighten Lin Liangjun, so he said this deliberately.

"But just knowing the principles is not enough. After knowing the Tao, you also need to learn the techniques. These are the uses of arithmetic."

"Have you completed the math homework assigned last time?"

When it came to homework, Lin Liangjun immediately ran away with his head in his hands: "It's done, it's done! I will bring it tomorrow!"

Just when Lin Liangjun was pestering Su Ze to play with the telescope, Lin Mojun came to the family temple.

"I have made an agreement with the Crooked Hoof people to take their boat to Dong'ao Island today."

Su Ze put away the telescope and said to Lin Mojun: "Then when will we set off?"

"We will leave in the afternoon and we will arrive in two days. Mr. Su, I can do it alone."

Su Ze said: "No, I made the plan. I want to see Dong'ao Island in person."

Lin Mojun also knew that he could not persuade Su Ze, so he had to say: "Although I have rescued these crooked people and have a great debt to them, these people are people from outside the sea area. They have unruly temperaments and are often in contact with Japanese pirates. You must get on the ship."

Be careful and don't violate their taboos."

Su Ze nodded. Sailing at sea is inherently risky, and crew members have many taboos.

Not to mention that the Crooked Hoof, a race that lives on boats, is naturally very superstitious.

Lin Liangjun on the side said: "Brother, sir, you have created clairvoyance!"

Su Ze handed the telescope to Lin Mojun and said: "This is clairvoyance. I call it a telescope. It can see things in the distance clearly."

Lin Mojun picked up the telescope and quickly saw the windows of Baihusuo clearly under Su Ze's guidance.

Lin Mojun was even more shocked than Lin Liangjun showed.

Having been sailing at sea for many years, she knows the role of a lookout hand best.

A good lookout is the eyes of the ship. Whether it is to detect the enemy or search for land and islands, the lookout is required to have a pair of good eyes.

However, such talent is rare. Lin Mojun once heard an old helmsman say that the lookout on his father's boat could clearly see seagulls a hundred meters away and could always spot the enemy before other lookouts.

But Su Ze's telescope can turn any ordinary person into a super lookout, so that he can observe the enemy's situation from a long distance.

"This kind of artifact! It can be used not only in naval battles, but also in land battles!"

Lin Mojun became excited, thinking about how easy it would be to be able to observe every corner of the battlefield during the battle.

Su Ze shook his head and said: "Although this thing is wonderful, its principle is very simple. If it becomes popular among the people, someone will soon imitate it."

In fact, the difficulty of making a telescope is not high. Even if you don’t know the principle, you can still imitate it.

Su Ze didn't want the things he invented to become weapons in the hands of the enemy.

Lin Mojun thought about it, and it seemed that this was indeed the case.

Smuggling is serious in coastal areas, and some armors and weapons of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers may be sent to the Japanese pirates.

In the past, Yanpingwei even smuggled gunpowder to Japanese pirates.

A telescope, a strategic artifact, can cost thousands of dollars and there are people willing to buy it.

Money and silk attract people's hearts, let alone businessmen. Even if some guards get telescopes, there are still people who are willing to sell them to Japanese pirates for money.

Lin Mojun gave up the idea of ​​donating the telescope, and Su Ze was secretly happy. After his unremitting efforts to pry the Ming Dynasty into a corner, Lin Mojun, a general who was once very loyal to the Ming Dynasty, gradually began to become disloyal to the Ming Dynasty.

Putting away the telescope, Su Ze said: "With this thing, we can observe their coastal defenses without going to Dong'ao Island."

Lin Mojun was overjoyed again, now that he didn't have to risk landing on the island, he could clearly see the deer king's defenses on the Crooked Hoof Man's boat.

In the afternoon, the crooked ship arrived as promised.

Strictly speaking, this is not a ship, but a fleet of many ships connected by ropes.

The boats of these Crooked Hoof people were all flat-bottomed sea boats, and there were all kinds of boats. Su Ze saw ordinary fishing boats, some small Western merchant ships, and some were even flat-bottomed river boats.

This group of fleets does not have any sense of majesty, but instead looks like a pile of garbage floating on the sea.

These ships have not been properly maintained for a long time, and a lot of wood has become rotten and dilapidated. They have only been repaired randomly. Su Ze thinks that it is a miracle that they can sail on the sea.

When the "fleet" of the Quho people docked at the dock, Su Ze had the opportunity to look at this nation wandering on the sea.

Their skin is very dark, which is the result of long-term exposure to the sea.

On the whole, they are still yellow people, but they have some Mongolian facial features, such as their cheekbones are higher and their faces are wider.

They wear black or gray robes, and the style is indeed different from that of the Ming Dynasty. The most obvious thing is that their fronts are turned to the left, which is called Zuo Ren. According to the Han people, it is the way of dressing of the Yi and Di people.

Sure enough, there is some truth in saying that these people with crooked hoofs are descendants of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty.

In addition to sticking to the left lapel, they also wear a black headscarf.

The leader of this crooked hoof group was an old lady on crutches. After her cloudy eyes glanced at Lin Mojun, she looked at Su Ze again, stretched out a finger and said, "Only one person can board the ship."

"Repo, you owe me a favor."

The leader of the Crooked Hoof people named Repo was chattering to the people around him. Su Ze, who was standing aside, had already heard their words clearly.

The passive talent of [Language Genius] allowed Su Ze to recognize that this was a branch dialect of Mongolian.

No wonder these crooked-hoofed people would rather wander on the sea than live ashore.

The Ming Dynasty's attitude towards foreigners also changed many times. In the early Ming Dynasty, they basically recognized the status of the Yuan Dynasty.

After the Tumubao Incident, the topic of the Hua-Yi debate was brought up again and became the mainstream ideology of society.

Coupled with the years of Japanese rebellion, there has been a consensus on the issue of the debate between China and Yi, and the government generally discriminates and excludes Yi and Di.
To be continued...