Zhao Xin and others in the driver's cab of the Thor looked at the approaching ship as if they were antiques.
The tusk-like bow pillars were raised high on the bow. On the small bow deck, two samurai in kimono were standing on it.
Behind them is a cabin completely covered with rafters and up to two meters high. There are holes on all four sides of the cabin. On the top of the cabin, a sail with a family crest hangs from a thick mast. On the ship
Below him, dozens of oars stretched out from the cabin and were rowing vigorously.
Zhao Xin took a telescope and looked at it for a long time, and said in surprise: "The rafters are all made of bamboo?"
"That's the 'Soyakura'. Inside are sailors and soldiers rowing oars. During the battle, you can shoot arrows or shoot with iron cannons." Shibata Kakuzo explained to Zhao Xin while holding up the telescope.
He could no longer care about being surprised by the double-cylinder clairvoyance in his hand. These strange and weird things from Tang Yi appeared in an endless stream, which dazzled him, Katsuyama Densan and others.
"How can this thing be used in a boarding battle?" Zhao Xin translated the question raised by Liu Sheng.
"When fighting, Yagura must remove the sails, lower the mast, and then rely on the sailors' oars to move. Generally speaking, in long-distance battles, bows and arrows and iron cannons are used, while in close combat, fire bottles and iron cannons are used.
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When Shibata Kakuzo said this, he pointed to the rafters on the side of Soyagura and said: "The rafters on both sides can be folded down, and you can jump from above to the enemy ship when you are docking."
"Is this crap called the Navy?" Ding Guofeng curled his lips and said disdainfully.
After listening to Pingtai's translation, the three islanders rolled their eyes and secretly cursed: "It depends on who you compare with. If you are driving a Tang Dynasty ship, you will definitely prostrate yourself under the power of the general."
But then I thought about it, it is not easy to fight two Guan ships against a thousand-stone Tang ship; unless like the Changzhou feudal clan, hundreds of early ships and Guan ships attacked together.
"Hi~~! Let's talk about the days of the Choshu Domain." Thinking of the evil deeds committed by the Choshu Domain that Zhao Xin had mentioned before, Shibata Kakuzo felt chills all over his body.
"Everyone prepare!" Zhao Xin gave an order to everyone on the ship on the radio, and then turned to Shibata Kakuzo and the others and said: "Shibata-kun, two bosses, you should go to the cabin and wait for a while. This
If someone sees you, not only you three will be in trouble, but the Sendai clan will also be in big trouble."
After Shibata Kakuzo and the others left, Zhao Xin said to a sailor: "Just arrange it as I said before." The sailor bowed and took the order and left.
On the Kansai ship sent by the Nabeshima family, the two samurai looked at the hull of the Thor that was as high as a city wall in front of them. They were completely at a loss. How to get up there? Use a hook to climb up? What if it fell into the water?
What a shame!
A samurai cleared his throat, raised his head and shouted loudly: "People on the ship, listen! You broke into Nagasaki Port without permission! Exit the port immediately and wait for us to board the ship for inspection!"
After a while, the samurai on board the ship heard someone coughing twice on the ship, and a head emerged from the deck.
"Cough~~spit!" A mouthful of thick phlegm fell right at the feet of the warrior, and immediately there was a burst of laughter from the deck.
"You bastard! How dare you despise the majesty of the shogunate!" The samurai was furious. Just as he was about to order the soldiers in Yagura to board the boat with hooks, he was stopped by his companions.
"Don't be anxious yet, the people from the military base will be here soon." After his companion said this, he pointed to the east and saw a customs ship approaching from the pier of Tomachi Military Camp.
The Guan boat carrying several officials from the execution office and a dozen or so and twenty people with the same force stopped fifty meters away from the Thor. The officials on the bow raised their heads and shouted: "People on the boat listen to
Come on! Please tell me the name of the country and the meaning of crossing over!"
Lu Shoushan followed Zhao Xin's instructions, walked to the side of the ship, exposed half of his body and said to the people below: "We are from Beihai, and we are here to find the Dutch and Qing people."
When the Tang interpreter accompanying the Guan ship heard this, he immediately shouted in surprise: "Are you from the Qing Dynasty?"
"No, we are from Beihai."
The interpreter of the Tang Dynasty raised his hands and saluted: "Please come out from the bow of your boat and answer me!"
Lu Shoushan shook his head and said: "My master's status is very important, how can he show his face easily. If you want to see me, I can convey it on your behalf."
When several officials from the execution office heard this, they realized that their status was too valuable to be seen in public... Who were the people on this boat?
The interpreter from the Tang Dynasty asked again: "Since you can speak Tang dialect, can you tell me your last name?"
Lu Shoushan casually raised his hand to the Tang interpreter and replied: "My surname is Lu, which is just a cheap name and not worth mentioning. Let's wait until your envoy meets my master later."
The interpreter from Tang Dynasty almost got angry when he heard that the captain (captain) didn’t show up, but he actually sent a servant to send us away!
"Put down the rope ladder, we want to board the ship for inspection!" The other shogunate officials and samurai listened to the Tang interpreter's explanation and immediately became tough when they saw an oriental-faced man emerging from the big ship who could speak fluent Tang dialect.
This is when the person on the boat said loudly: "You can get on the boat. However, my master has a life and can only board three people. If you insist on boarding the boat by force, I might as well put my words first. The consequences are unpredictable.
No responsibility is assumed.”
When several officials heard that the other party was so tough, the Three Corpse Gods suddenly became angry. But after they were angry, they looked at each other and must complete the task assigned by the Lord.
The leading official gritted his teeth and said, "There are three of us. No matter what, we have to go to the deck to see the captain first. As for the humiliation that the other party has brought to us, we will settle the accounts later!"
After listening to the Shangguan's instructions, the interpreter from the Tang Dynasty quickly raised his hands and shouted to Lu Shoushan: "As you requested. Please also lower the rope ladder so that we can go up."
Lu Shoushan said: "The ship is too high and it may be too dangerous to put up the rope ladder. Please move the ship to the stern of our ship."
The officials at the enforcement office had no choice but to order the boat to row to the location pointed by the other party. When the boat arrived at the location, they heard bursts of roaring above their heads, like the roar of a monster, which was frightening.
Everyone looked up and saw a black and yellow object slowly protruding from the ship. There were many rings wrapped around the object in an orderly manner, and the top of the end sticking out of the ship seemed to be a pulley.
He carried several ropes with a large iron hook hanging below, and what was hung on the iron hook was actually a rope net!
As the pulley rotated, the rope slowly dropped with the iron hook. The "suspected Qing man" standing next to the ship's side looked at the position of the rope net and turned around and shouted "keep left", "backward" and so on.
If so, it is obvious that someone is operating this thing on the ship.
When the rope net fell on the bow deck of the Guan ship, the expressions on the faces of several officials gradually changed from stunned to ashen. Bastard! You dropped a broken net, are you going to use it to carry us up? This is not the same as fish and shrimp.
What a difference!
"Don't you even have a rope ladder?" the interpreter from the Tang Dynasty shouted angrily at Lu Shoushan.
Lu Shoushan suppressed a smile and responded: "The ladder on our ship is broken and has not been repaired yet. Your Majesty, please make do with it first."
Several officials saw that there was no way to sit on this rope net. If they were to be hoisted later, the three of them would have to squeeze together and mess up their clothes. When they were in trouble, a sailor on board the ship had an idea and searched from the cabin.
A wooden racket for storing things. This thing is usually placed in the cabin to stack supplies separated from the bottom.
Two sailors carried the wooden racket and placed it in the middle of the rope net, with three people standing on it barely holding on.
The two officials at the execution office and the Tang interpreter blushed, and stood on the wooden racket enduring the humiliation. Lu Shoushan looked at it, then turned around and gestured to Zhao Liang, who was operating the crane, and then said to the three people in the rope net:
"Please hold me firmly and sit tight."
The roar sounded again, the rope net was retracted upward, and the three island officials on the wooden racket slowly ascended.
On the third floor of the Tin Hau Temple in Tangren Yashiki, a group of businessmen were stunned.
"Who are these people on this boat! How can we let go of the Japanese officials after humiliating them like this?"
"Looking at the name of the ship, it seems to be me, a Chinese. Have any of you heard of this ship?"
All the merchants on the bow of the ship shook their heads. If such a large ship were built in China, it would have caused a sensation in the world. Moreover, let alone starting construction, the imperial court's system would not allow it. This ship is bigger than the emperor's royal boat.
, whoever dares to secretly build such a boat will have his house confiscated.
"Could this be the imperial ship?" Someone finally had the courage to ask.
"Definitely not." After hearing this, Shen Jingdan shook his head and said while holding a few beards on his chin. "The color of this ship's hull is blue at the bottom and white at the top. It is completely different from the black and white regulations for imperial warships."
During this era, the largest maritime warship of the Qing Dynasty was the Dachuzeng built in Guangdong. The longest one was only ninety-five feet (30.4 meters). As for the various sea trade sand ships that traveled between the Qing Dynasty and Nagasaki, the largest one was only seventy feet long.
long.
"Who has clairvoyance?" a businessman crowded in front of the window suddenly asked.
"I have it, I have it, I put it in my luggage, I'll go get it!"
When Shen Jingdan heard this, he suddenly remembered that there was one in his house. Although the third floor of the Tin Hau Temple was in a good location, the area inside the building was too small. A dozen people squeezed in at once, let alone the big ship. Everything was shaking in front of his eyes.
The back of the head.
He then turned around and went downstairs, intending to go back and get his clairvoyance to look again.
After a cup of tea, Shen Jingdan returned to his residence, opened the door and said: "Ah Quan, help daddy get the pair of clairvoyants from the cabinet. Ah Quan? Ah Quan?"
Seeing that no one in the room agreed, he felt strange and hurriedly shouted twice. He took off his shoes and walked to the inner room to take a look. The window in the inner room was open, and a copy of "Jin Yunqiao's Biography" was spread out on the mat, and the pages were messed up by the wind.
turn.
Shen Jingdan felt strange in his heart, but he was still thinking about the big ship at this time. He quickly walked to the cabinet and opened it to see that there was nothing in the box where he kept his clairvoyant.
"Ah Quan? Ah Quan?" Shen Jingdan was worried about Shen Xuan, so he shouted a few more times.
"Father, come and take a look. That big boat is really interesting."
Shen Jingdan was shocked when his daughter's voice came from above his head. He hurriedly asked loudly, and then followed the guidance of Shen Xuan's voice and walked outside the house. He saw a ladder leaning against the wall under the corridor, which was the top floor of the long house.
The entrance, so he hurriedly climbed up.
"Ah Quan, why did you come here? Go back quickly."
Shen Xuan didn't even look back at this time. She waved with her clairvoyant eyes and said, "Dad, come and see, the officials of the Japanese country have boarded that big ship."
Shen Jingdan couldn't laugh or cry at this time. This was the consequence of not having her feet bound. A fifteen-year-old girl was still jumping up and down like a boy. Who would dare to marry her in the future?
He ducked down to avoid the cobwebs and dust on the beams, and came close to his daughter. He saw that a few tiles on the roof had been lifted. When he looked around, he could just see the big ship.
At this time, Shen Xuan was sitting on a small stool, placing the front part of the clairvoyant eye on the tiles, and holding the tail part in front of her eyes with her right hand.
"let me see."
When Shen Xuan heard this, she quickly handed the clairvoyance in her hand to her father's hand, and then moved the small penis under her body to Shen Jingdan's body.
"Dad, please watch first, and then I'll go get a spoon." After saying that, like a kitten, he reached the ladder in a few steps and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Shen Jingdan turned to look at his daughter's strange figure, shook his head and smiled bitterly, then put his eyes to his clairvoyance and looked towards the ship.