Daming pirates

Wang Hong was stunned for a moment. After taking a closer look, he shook his head in frustration and said, "According to what you said, this boat is really a bit small! It would be great if it could be bigger!"

When he said this, he obviously felt a little regretful. He felt that although this boat was light enough, it was a bit small and not very impressive after all. It felt a bit disrespectful to be the handsome ship of his fleet.

At this time, a shipwright on their ship said: "Guan Wang, don't worry, the master has said that this ship is mainly used to test the water, and it may not be incorporated into your war fleet!"

And this ship is made of 150 materials. The boss said that if this new ship is available, we will expand it and build a larger new ship to replace the warships we use now. We will build it next.

A new boat that costs 400 yuan will be bigger than the lucky boat you are using now!"

When Wang Hong heard this, he became interested again and quickly asked: "Is this true? Does the boss really want to build a bigger one?"

"How dare you kid me to deceive you, Captain Wang? This is really what the boss said!" the boatman quickly replied.

Wang Hong was no longer anxious now, and nodded: "That's good, forget about this boat, I don't want it anymore! I'll wait for the boss to change it for us to a bigger one! But if we change it to a bigger boat, this boat can still be used

Running so fast?

But it doesn’t matter if it’s a little slower. I saw this boat just now. It’s much stronger than the boat we use now. It won’t matter even if the big ship is a little slower by then! This boat is a good thing! In the future, if we have this thing, even if it is

When the army, navy and navy come to cause trouble for us, we will still beat them until they are full of teeth! Hehe!"

Fang An suddenly took out a copper pipe from somewhere, held it in his hand, weighed it, then handed the thing to Wang Hong, and said to Wang Hong: "By the way, third brother, the boss recently returned the

We got a few of these things, and he said that when you come back, I’ll give this to you. When you came back yesterday, we were only busy cleaning things up for you, but we forgot to give you this thing!”

Wang Hong reached out and took the copper tube, playing with it curiously in his hand. He saw that the thing was thick at one end and thin at the other. It looked hollow, but the two ends seemed to be inlaid with transparent crystal pieces.

He had never seen this thing before, so Fang An, who was full of suspicion, asked: "Lao Wu, what kind of rare thing is this? If it can't be eaten or drunk, what's the use? It's not another firearm created by the boss.

Right! No, this thing is too light, and it doesn’t have a fire door. It doesn’t look like something that can produce fire!”

Fang An smiled at Wang Hong and said: "This is not a firearm. The boss calls this a telescope, also called clairvoyance. If you put it in front of your eyes, you can bring things that are very far away close to your eyes. You can see very clearly! It turns out that it is far away.

Things that cannot be seen elsewhere can be seen through this clairvoyance! Just put it in front of your eyes and look around!"

After Wang Hong heard this, he shook his head and said: "How is this possible? Lao Wu, you are making fun of me again! In the past year or so, you seem to be less honest than before! You always make fun of me when you see me

!How is it possible to bring things in the distance closer to you with this crappy thing?"

As soon as Fang An heard this, he stretched out his hand to grab the monocular telescope from Wang Hong's hand, and said: "Third brother, I didn't lie to you! Believe it or not, this is not a piece of junk. If you don't want it, you want it."

There are so many of them! Give it back to me, I haven’t gotten in yet!"

"No! Let me try first! Is it real or fake!... I looked at it, why can't I see anything? Huh? I saw it! I saw it! That's not right... Why is it getting farther and farther away?" Wang

When Hong saw that Fang An wanted to snatch this thing back, he quickly picked it up and poked one end in front of his eyes, and started to look through the tube as it swayed on the sea surface.

He made a fuss while watching, and at first the angle was wrong. He only saw a vast expanse of white in the lens. After a while, he finally saw the scene in the lens, but he found that the things he saw not only did not get closer, but actually changed.

It got even smaller, so he screamed immediately.

Fang An pulled out a few black lines on his forehead. He looked at Wang Hong and looked down upon him before telling him: "Third brother, you took it upside down! The little head is facing your eyes. Try again."

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After Wang Hong heard this, he felt a little embarrassed. He smiled and quickly turned the tube inside his hand, put the small end in front of his eyes again, and began to search the sea with the tube.

"Wow!...Wow! I see it! I see it! I'm zooming in! Wow! You can see it so clearly! Good stuff, really good stuff! Haha!" Wang Hongdang saw something very far away through the eyepiece.

When we arrived at Nanyue Island, we finally discovered a new continent and started to scream like crazy and dance with joy.

As a result, his behavior was immediately despised by the people around him.

It turns out that Yu Xiaotian, in addition to being busy with various other matters recently, has long secretly begun trial-production of new gadgets like telescopes.

In later generations, telescopes were a very common thing, almost becoming daily necessities in households, and they could be said to be readily available, but this thing was still a novelty in this era.

It is said that the invention of the telescope is related to the Dutch. After the glass industry began to develop in the West, a new industry emerged, that is, craftsmen specializing in making glasses began to appear. People discovered that convex lenses could magnify objects, so they made

Magnifying glasses were later made into reading glasses, so craftsmen who made glasses came into being.

Later, craftsmen discovered that concave lenses can shrink objects and correct the vision of some people with myopia. Moreover, they accidentally superimposed myopia glasses and reading glasses together, and found that they could see far away and places that could not be seen before.

The top of the cathedral in the distance is brought closer to your eyes, and you can see it more clearly.

So some craftsmen began to try to assemble concave lenses and convex lenses together to make a telescope. There was a lot of debate among later Western historians about who invented the telescope first.

But what is certain is that in this era, the telescope must have been invented by Westerners and put into practical use.

Because someone in the Ming Dynasty had such a record in history, saying: "The monk Matteo Ricci has a telescope, which can see thousands of miles away, as it is now. The stars in the sky are all huge; the moon is huge and immeasurable."

If you look at the Milky Way, you will see the stars clustering together, which is no longer what you usually see. You can also follow hundreds of steps and recite Chinese characters aloud. After the death of Matthew, a certain Taoist disciple took him with him to travel to Nanzhou, and all good people can see him.

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Therefore, it is certain that when the missionary Matteo Ricci came to China, he had already brought a practical telescope into the Ming Dynasty, and many people had seen this thing.

This means that the era when this thing was invented was much earlier than now. At least at this time in Western countries, many people were already using this kind of thing.

It's just that this thing is probably relatively rare, and Western countries have not yet imported it into the Ming Dynasty as a commodity in large quantities, so very few people in the Ming Dynasty have ever seen it.

When pirates hang out at sea every day, how can they not even have a telescope? Yu Xiaotian has been holding back for a long time to get some telescopes and equip them for his men. At least two or three should be distributed on each ship.

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Before the glass factory was established, he tried to use natural colorless crystal and asked craftsmen to grind the lenses to make telescopes. However, this method was not easy to find because highly transparent colorless crystal stones were not easy to find, and it was not easy for skilled jewelry craftsmen to find them.

, and in the end it was dragged on and never completed.

Although the glass factory later put into production glass, the decolorization process of the early glass failed to meet the requirements due to quality reasons. The resulting glass was somewhat tinted and did not meet the requirements for making telescope lenses.

However, recently, the technology of the glass produced in the glass factory has gradually stabilized, the quality is getting better and better, and the transparency is getting higher and higher, gradually meeting Yu Xiaotian's needs.

So Yu Xiaotian asked the craftsmen in the glass factory to start trial production of concave and convex lenses according to his requirements. After several months of repeated trial production, he finally got a usable lens, although the clarity and accuracy were better than those of later generations.

There's a long way to go, but at least this thing is usable.

So he quickly asked the craftsmen to wrap the copper tubes with copper sheets, embed the lenses into the copper tubes, and make them into a stretchable shape. The first batch of trial-produced lenses were distributed to

With several important leaders under his command, Wang Hong, as the leader of the second fleet, naturally became the first batch of candidates to use this new gadget.

However, Wang Hong did not come back from Shuangfeng Island, so Yu Xiaotian handed a telescope to Fang An and asked Fang An to return it to Wang Hong.

Now that Wang Hong got this thing, he didn't take it seriously at first and thought it was nothing strange. But after seeing the distant scene through the eyepiece of the telescope, the guy was shocked and shouted on the boat.

It screams little and calls it wonderful again and again.

As a result, with his performance like this, he will naturally be despised by his colleagues. After all, these people opened their eyes earlier than him. Now that they have outlived their freshness, they will inevitably laugh at this guy when he looks like a bumpkin.

A few words from him.

Wang Hong didn't take it seriously, just laugh. After all, once this thing is in his hands, no one can take it away from him. After all, the quantity of this thing is still very small, and those who can get it represent them.

His status was respected among the sea wolves, so after playing with the telescope in his hand for a long time, he carefully put it into a cowhide tube handed to him by Fang An, and hung the telescope around his neck very solemnly.

However, the way this guy hangs it is not very good-looking. The cowhide tube is placed across his chest, as if he has a cow bone hanging around his neck, which makes him look a bit ostentatious.

(Today, I would like to express my special thanks to my friends from the Dragon God of the Last Day for the reward! Today is the beginning of the month, and the monthly ticket has doubled this month. Please leave your monthly ticket to me! Hanfeng is here to kneel down and thank you! Haha! Please, please! I want the monthly ticket.

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