A great man of the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 1335: Navigation Artifact, I’m done with it

How long is the history of human navigation?

This question is probably difficult to answer.

What can even be seen in the various archaeological discoveries of later generations... major discoveries across the ocean thousands of years ago.

The world is a sea, and the sea separates the continents. When development encounters bottlenecks and when the local area cannot survive, crossing the sea to find a new continent has become the choice of many people.

Navigation requires ships, ships that can withstand wind and waves.

Next is food.

Food preservation is a big problem, but humans can still figure it out slowly.

But as the voyage distance and time continue to extend, various accidents occur frequently.

And the most feared thing is disease.

"...Afraid of cold, and then will have fever...diarrhea..."

Shen An sat at the top, while Qin Zhen and Chang Jianren below were listening intently and nodding unconsciously.

"Mr. Shen... actually even knows this?"

Qin Zhen is an old navy soldier, but Shen An seems to have never been to the sea.

"Back then..." Shen An said with a sigh on his face: "Back then, the Mangshan people studied the principles of the world, but they found that the world is huge and there are too many principles... but Mangshan was too small, so they set off separately. People from the south and the north went to explore the world... There were a few people who went to sea, but in the end only one came back."

His tone was so sincere, and his eyes were filled with memories and reverence, and that kind of emotion made people want to cry.

Qin Zhen and Chang Jianren were moved.

Is there such a school of thought that is willing to sacrifice for the sake of truth?

"The senior left not long after he came back, but left one problem, that is, you must eat vegetables at sea, otherwise you will have the symptoms that a certain person mentioned before. Later, spots will appear on your body... more and more... ...right?"

he looked up and asked.

Qin Zhen and Chang Jianren stood up.

This time the fleet encountered a storm when it was approaching Qiongzhou and had to take shelter. The destruction of vegetable seeds caused many people in the fleet to become ill, and more than ten people died among them.

The symptoms of those people were exactly the same as what Shen An said.

Although I haven't been there in person, it's like seeing it with my own eyes.

Such knowledge...

"Mr. Shen is brilliant."

Qin Zhen bowed and expressed his admiration sincerely.

"Mr. Shen..." Chang Jianren said seriously: "Is there still a shortage of students in the Mang Mountain lineage? I am willing to resign and follow you to explore the world."

Well!

Shen An didn't expect that his performance would impress the Marine Corps. He quickly coughed and said, "You'd better work in the Marine Corps."

Without Chang Jianren in the Navy, Shen An felt as boring as the Three Kingdoms without Zhao Zilong.

"How should this be done?"

Qin Zhen took a look at the remaining bean sprouts and felt that there were many ways to prepare them and the taste was pretty good.

"These are made from beans." Shen An pointed to the bean sprouts, "Beans are easy to carry..."

Qin Zhen nodded, "There is plenty of space on the ship. The beans can be preserved easily and are not easy to spoil."

"It's such an easy thing to preserve...come with me."

Shen An got up and took the two of them to the kitchen.

There is a barrel in the corner of the kitchen.

After opening the wooden barrel, it was densely packed with bean sprouts.

"How's it going? Lush, right?"

Shen An chuckled and said, "This is made from beans."

"Can beans still grow like this?"

Chang Jianren couldn't help but reached out and pulled out a bean sprout and stuffed it into his mouth, "It tastes good, it's tender and juicy."

This guy's ability to eat raw food seems to be as good as Su Shi's!

Shen An smiled and said, "It doesn't take much water to achieve this. The fleet will collect rainwater at sea..."

"Yes." Qin Zhen was obviously more respectful to Shen An.

This is the crushing power of knowledge and vision, and a single bean made him bow his head.

"Just use the rainwater to make hair."

Shen An remembered watching a movie about septicemia, and growing bean sprouts and drinking tea were Eastern ways of dealing with it. Westerners brought lemons and oranges, and later also red wine.

But now they don't have this ability. In the past few hundred years, anyone who went to sea would probably have to endure the test of septicemia.

Deserve it!

Shen An said seriously: "Tell the brothers in the fleet that these things cannot be told to outsiders, otherwise..."

"Kill him."

Chang Jianren's simple and crude handling methods won Shen An's liking.

"But this bean... no, bean sprouts, how can it cure diseases?"

In a pragmatic spirit, Qin Zhen also ate a few raw bean sprouts and thought they were pretty good.

"Do you know why you are sick?"

In the corner of the kitchen, Shen An stood with his hands behind his back. Qin Zhen held a few bean sprouts in his hand and listened carefully. Chang Jianren looked at Shen An with reverence, as if he was talking about the truth in the world...

"As human beings, we can work, move, and think...but these require a price, which is the intake of various things. We usually eat and drink water to take in the nutrients our body needs. But after going to sea, vegetables are It’s not easy to preserve, so I can only take the barrel with me to plant it… But isn’t that troublesome?”

The two heads moved together.

The sunlight shone in slightly from outside and shone on Shen An's side.

He smiled, reached out and patted the shoulders of the two navy bosses, and said in a missionary manner: "There are many things necessary for the human body, but there is one thing that can only be obtained from vegetables and fruits, so we must eat vegetables and Eat fruits... but what to do if you don’t go to sea? Beans!”

He grabbed a handful of bean sprouts and bit into them, making them crunchy.

"It tastes good and has high vitamin content...what else would you want to take with you if you don't take it with you when you go to sea?"

"And it can also be made into tofu, right? Let's eat it in different flavors to make sure the brothers are in high spirits."

Qin Zhen asked: "What are vitamins?"

Well!

Shen An was speechless, so he could only bite the bullet and said: "It's what we lack after going to sea. In fact, it's what we can get from vegetables and fruits."

oh!

Qin Zhen and Chang Jianren nodded.

"The other thing is tea."

Shen An said calmly: "We have tea leaves when we go to sea. From now on, people will keep an eye on the tea trees. No outsiders are allowed to approach the tea trees."

Madan!

It turns out that tea is a specialty of China, but later it was stolen. What a big deal!

"yes."

Qin Zhen and Chang Jianren had been persuaded by Shen An, and they were thinking about how to make beans in the navy.

…

"Last time when the navy came back, someone came into the city to cause trouble. They beat up people in brothels, people in wine shops, and people who drank too much and cried and howled for loyalty to me outside the imperial city... Why were you so quiet this time? "

Zhao Shu felt very strange.

He was even prepared to put pressure on the Kaifeng Mansion, asking them not to be cruel to this group of meritorious soldiers.

But this time the navy was as honest as a child.

The children are not as honest as they are!

Zhao Shu felt a little scared when he thought of how naughty and mischievous his sons were when they were young.

Could this navy be brewing something?

Han Qi also muttered, "Your Majesty, they are very honest!"

Zeng Gongliang retorted: "Too honest."

yes!

Those soldiers always make trouble every time they come back from a war. Why are they so quiet this time?

Zhao Shu thought about it and still felt a little uneasy, "Who will go and see?"

Han Qi said: "I have a few people to meet later."

Zeng Gongliang said: "I still have to go out for business."

Bao Zheng shook his head, "I have so much to do."

What is Zaifu?

Assist the emperor.

There were so many things going on in the Song Dynasty in one day, and the prime ministers and ministers were so busy that they had no time to check on the navy's situation.

As for rebellion...

They don't worry about this at all.

As for the few people in the navy, the imperial guards in the city suppressed them casually and ensured that they were allowed to come and go wherever they wanted.

Zhao Shu looked at Ouyang Xiu.

Old Ouyang's eyesight is bad, so he has few things to do.

"Please let me go."

Zhao Shu nodded, feeling a little guilty.

In the past, he regarded Ouyang Xiu as a dawdle and thought the old minister was lazy and a bit slippery. But now it seems that old Ouyang is still very diligent, he just needs some guidance.

Ouyang Xiu said happily: "The sun is shining slightly today, which is very suitable for traveling..."

Zhao Shu had a dark face and immediately threw away the guilt.

Sure enough, he is still the same Ouyang Xiu!

It’s so dissolute when you first enter officialdom!

The same goes for gray hair!

——Shameless!

Ouyang Xiu left the imperial city, bought a bamboo hat on the street and took it with him, and said to his entourage: "There are water and fish over there in Jinming Pond. It would be better if I buy another set of raincoat to suit the occasion."

The follower nodded, but felt fucked up in his heart.

It's summer!

Wear a raincoat, are you trying to cover up prickly heat?

All the way to Jinmingchi, the disciple led him in attentively. As he walked, he said: "They are all on the boat. The military leader and the military prince are all here..."

"on board?"

Ouyang Xiu muttered: "Didn't you say that you would go crazy on the boat? Why can't you let go?"

No one likes to stay on a boat for a long time. After going to sea for half a year and a year at a time, most people are not willing to get on the boat again.

"Be careful..."

The warship is close to the shore, but it needs planks to get on.

When several sergeants saw Ouyang Xiu coming, they rushed to greet him.

Ouyang Xiu raised his head and stared blankly ahead, "It's such a big water."

Menzi smiled and said, "Yes! It's a lot of water."

Ouyang Xiu thought this person was interesting, so he looked at him and said, "How to get up?"

Menzi didn't know that he had bad eyesight, so he pointed to the ship board and said, "Just walk up."

"oh!"

Ouyang Xiu coughed dryly, and the disciple said, "Ms. sir, it's time for the military leader and military lord to pick you up."

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Ouyang Xiu is here to conduct an undercover investigation. How can he do this?

He stepped out and felt his body was empty.

I'm done with it...

"Ms. sir!"

Menzi's eyes widened and he flew towards him, only to grab Ouyang Xiu's back.

Ouyang Xiu fluttered his hands and actually grabbed the rope on the shore. Several sergeants jumped on him, pulled him up, and asked him about the situation repeatedly.

There was still no movement on the boat.

Ouyang Xiu was angry.

This is disrespectful to me!

He boarded the ship again, with a sergeant at the front to help him, and finally boarded the warship.

He waved his hand, signaling not to follow.

The sergeant looked confused and could only point to the opening below and said: "Military Master and the others are below."

"What are you doing down there?"

Ouyang Xiu said with a straight face: "What shameful things are you doing down there?"

He said as he went down.

There was a lantern hanging on the side below, and the light was very dim.

Ouyang Xiu groped his way over, muttering how to find those people.

At this moment, his vision was blurry...