After the Star started traveling at full speed, the interior of the ship became a little unstable.
Just at this time, Lin Yueru and Xiao Hong had finished eating, and quickly put away the tableware to avoid spilling the soup.
After all, the Star is not big. After entering the open sea, the current sea conditions are about three meters high, and the ship's hull has a certain pitch and roll. The shaking can make people's heads feel dizzy.
There is no way around this. After all, there is no fin stabilizer technology or bilge keel technology. There is no way to reduce the roll.
Lin Yueru felt like vomiting, so Xiaohong quickly brought a trash can. Lin Yueru was holding on to a pillar on the swaying hull of the ship. She wanted to vomit but couldn't, and felt very uncomfortable.
"Miss, let me help you go to the balcony to get some fresh air." Xiaohong felt very uncomfortable, but she still insisted.
Lin Yueru and others came to the balcony called the Admiral's Corridor and felt better after enjoying the sea breeze.
"I didn't expect the waves on the sea to be so strong."
"Yes, they say the waves are three feet high without wind, but I think the waves are ten feet high."
"I never get sick when riding a boat in the river, but I didn't expect that I would get seasick when I got to the sea."
Everyone was talking about it and marveled at the majesty of the sea. The high-speed sailing of the Star gave them a great shock.
This boat can actually go so fast.
Looking behind the stern of the ship, a white track extends into the distance.
Countless sharks follow the boat and eat the fish that are turned up by the track brought by the stern of the boat.
"Wow, that's a shark, it's so big." The girls exclaimed. "It looks so ferocious."
At this time, Chen Zuwang was on the bridge, looking at a group of sharks following behind and said: "Put the hook on, catch a few sharks, and make a shark fin soup for the second lady in the evening."
"Nuo" several old sailors immediately took the order and left.
He pierced several big fish with iron hooks and threw them into the sea with ropes.
The sharks smelled the smell of blood and immediately began to bite, and they were all caught on hooks in their upper jaws and caught.
The sailors immediately surrounded the shark with knives, cut off the dorsal fin with the knife, and then threw the shark into the sea again.
Shark meat is not delicious and no one wants to eat it.
Chen San was steering the helm and couldn't help but shudder when he saw this cruel behavior. These people who are trying to make a living at sea are all very cruel.
Seeing the bleeding sharks surrounded by sharks behind them, the smell of blood made them go crazy, and they immediately began to bite and devour their own kind.
"Ah! Miss, it's so scary!" Xiao Hong screamed. She was frightened when she saw the shark cannibalizing its own species.
"What are you shouting for? That's how sharks are. As long as they are injured, they will be eaten up and wiped clean by the surrounding accomplices. It's just like the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. When the wall falls, everyone pushes it, and when the drum breaks, thousands of people beat it." Lin Yueru said nonchalantly.
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In the afternoon of that day, the Star, which was moving at full speed, had arrived at the East China Sea.
The wind direction is very good today, always from the northeast, and Chen Zuwang has fully mastered the sextant and star navigation. Taking the straightest route, he estimates that he will be able to reach Nagasaki before noon tomorrow.
At this time, a rather strange sailing ship passed by from the southeast.
The weird thing about this boat is that it is a combination of a Western hull and a Chinese hard sail. Because the Chinese hard sail is more efficient, especially when going upwind, it has obvious advantages over the Western soft sail.
The lookout man spotted the ship immediately and immediately used a semaphore to notify the following.
"Old lock ship, the ship type in Macau," Chen Zuwang said with a frown while looking through the binoculars.
The old lock boat was invented by the Portuguese in Macao in the late Ming Dynasty and quickly became popular along the southeastern coast of China.
Chinese hard sails have their own unique characteristics. This kind of sail is an irregular shape. The sail has beams from top to bottom. Pull it up and down, just like a blind, you can increase or decrease the area of the sail at will.
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When sailing, the helmsman looks at the wind direction, which is called steering according to the wind.
If the wind is strong, you can unfurl a few fewer sails, or hoist the sail halfway up the mast. If you encounter a sudden wind, you can quickly unmoor and lower the sail. When the wind weakens, you can unfurl all the sails.
In addition, the bamboo strips can tighten the Chinese sail, which will have a better effect from an aerodynamic point of view.
If it is a soft Western sail, the sail will bulge too much and cause excessive wind turbulence, which will slow down the sailing speed.
The famous biologist Joseph Needham pointed out: "China's balanced quadrilateral sail is indeed the first-class achievement made by mankind in utilizing wind power."
In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, when Europeans finally sailed to China and saw the ships built by the Chinese with many masts and hard sails, they were deeply impressed.
Especially the Portuguese who had gained a place to settle.
After they came to China, they quickly realized the many benefits of Chinese hard sails, so they invented a new ship type, using a Western hull and Chinese sails. This ship type is called an old lock ship.
The Portuguese also improved the European hulls, making them more slender, which greatly accelerated the ship's speed. With a favorable wind, the ship could often reach a speed of six or seven knots.
It is almost twice the size of an ordinary fortune ship.
Of course, compared with the clipper ship, it is still not impressive enough.
"Master Jie, look there is a ship over there. It looks like a Dutch ship with a flat deck, but it doesn't look like it, and the speed is too fast." The captain, Old Heiyu, said loudly.
Zheng Jie also saw the boat. He was shocked to see the sailboat flying on the sea, with its slightly upward bow causing huge waves.
"What kind of ship is this? Why is it so fast?" Zheng Jie immediately realized the great value of this ship.
He stared at it greedily. He was an old pirate at sea and very knowledgeable.
He knew that at this speed, the ship would pass them by very quickly, and it would be impossible to find it in the vast sea.
"Quick, load that English cannon!" Zheng Jie shouted hurriedly.
"Master Jie, we don't know the background of this ship, so it wouldn't be good to just start a war." Old Heiyu said loudly.
"The big boss will definitely be interested in this ship. It is too fast. As long as we capture this ship, we can find out how it was made. With this ship, we will definitely be even more powerful. This is a great achievement."
"Zheng Jie shouted loudly. "I will be responsible for anything that happens. Hurry, if you hesitate, it will run away."
Hearing what Zheng Jie said, the sailors said nothing and immediately turned the cannon mounted on the millstone to face the Star, and then began to load gunpowder and solid spherical bullets.
This gun was salvaged from a British armed merchant ship that ran aground and sank.
This time Zheng Zhilong planned to recruit people, so he had contacted Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, several times and sent a lot of money. Xiong Wencan had no big problem there.
Now it is necessary to open up the joints of the court. After all, such a big matter as recruiting pirates requires the capital to make a decision. Now that the Donglin Party is in power, Zheng Zhilong contacted Mr. Qian Longxige through the Donglin Party members in Jiangnan, so that he could make a decision through the cabinet.
This is done.
So, he sent his confidant Zheng Jie to the capital with 300,000 taels of gold to open up the joints. Everyone knew that people in Donglin had a big appetite. Zheng Zhilong also had to spend money.
When Chen Zuwang saw the boat on the opposite side turning around, he immediately knew that the other side had evil intentions. He was an experienced seafarer, and he knew exactly what was on the sea.
These bastards, when they stick their butts out, he knows what color of shit they want to poop.
"Ring the bell, everyone enters level one alert, everyone distributes weapons and prepares to fight."
As the bells of winter and winter came to mind, everyone got busy. Some prepared artillery, and some moved ammunition onto the deck. The infantry began to load gunpowder into the flintlock rifles, and the sailors began to adjust the course.
Lin Yueru was taking a nap and planned to take a beauty sleep after lunch. Not long after she lay down, she was interrupted by the rapid ringing of the bell.
Immediately afterwards, there was a knock on the door of Dongdongdong outside.