Chapter 37 The Priceless Picture
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At Chen Dexing's house, the pretty mother Guo Fuer had just returned from the benthic cottage and heard the cook at home talking about Wang Rong'er playing with Chen Erlang for geese this morning. She was shocked and wanted to go to Chen Dexing's study to find out. But when she walked outside the door, she felt uneasy again and wanted to leave quietly, but when she heard Chen Dexing's voice coming from the room.
"It's done, it's done finally."
What happened? The pretty mother's mother suddenly became curious and no longer hesitated. She pushed open the door and looked inside. There were Chen Dexing and Wang Ronger, who were both alone and widowed, but nothing happened. Chen Dexing was lying on the desk, and seemed to be pinching a piece of goose feather in her hand. What was written on a piece of paper covered with a table?
Wang Ronger was grinding ink with a sad face. The little girl was really unlucky today. She went out early in the morning to buy paper and goose for Chen Erlang, and after buying it, she was responsible for plucking the hair. This girl was also stupid. She didn't slaughter the goose first and scalded it with boiling water before pulling it out, but pulled it out alive. As a result, the big white goose rose up and chased the little girl and pecked it with her mouth. In the end, Chen Erlang took the opportunity to shoot the big white goose to death with one arrow, and saved the little girl Wang Ronger...uh, or it almost shot Wang Ronger to death with one arrow! At least in the little girl's opinion, that's the case.
"Mom, you are back!" Chen Dexing heard the movement and looked up and saw the pretty mother. His brows that had been frowning for a day immediately unfolded.
"Back... I'm back," Guo Fu'er looked at the adopted son who stood up like an iron tower, only seven years younger than her, and couldn't help but smile from the bottom of her heart. "Second brother, what are you busy with?"
"What about drawing a picture."
"draw!?"
Guo Fu'er seemed a little unbelievable, and a look of surprise appeared on her face. She only knew that her adopted son was good at martial arts and military skills, but she never knew that he could paint. Curiously, she walked a few steps to the desk and looked up. Where was the painting, all of which were straight lines, horizontal, vertical, long and short, put together.
"Is this... a boat?"
Guo Fuer tried hard to identify it for a while before she recognized that Chen Dexing had painted a boat. A rather slender boat with no sails, but with abnormal amounts of mattresses. Only half of the side of the boat was covered by wooden boards, while the other half was unobstructed, revealing the two decks inside and the vertical partitions...
"Why is this ship missing half of the board?" Guo Fuer asked curiously.
Chen Dexing smiled: "This is a shipbuilding map. When the warship is made, there will naturally be no missing shipboard." As he said that, he took another picture from a chair next to him and spread it out for Guo Fu'er to see, "Mom, this is how my child's ship will be built."
When Guo Fu'er saw it, she smiled again and said, "Second brother, why did this boat overturn?"
It turned out that this picture was painted with the bottom, bow, side and top view renderings of the ship. Chen Dexing had not even come out of the house all day today, so he lay on his desk and drew some drawings with a geese brush. In addition to drawing the structural diagram and renderings of a three-layer pulp warship, he also drew the structural diagram and renderings of the torsion stone generator. In addition, based on memory, he drew a world map, and also drew the latitude and longitude and trade wind belt...
"What are the uses of these pictures?" Guo Fuer asked again.
Chen Dexing glanced at the pretty mother and smiled and said, "These pictures are priceless treasures!"
"Priceless treasure? Isn't it more valuable than Wu Daozi's paintings?" Guo Fuer said half-jokingly.
Chen Dexing focused his head and smiled and said, "That's natural!"
The paintings of the painting saint Wu Daozi can be sold at a sky-high price at auction in later generations, and even the Song Dynasty was worth a lot at this time. However, Chen Dexing painted the world map, which has not been discovered by the civilized world so far. It is worthless after more than 700 years of being, but now it is indeed a priceless treasure! Chen Dexing knows the truth that a good memory is not as good as a bad pen, so he is ready to draw the maps, sea charts, ships and weapons design drawings he knows one by one so that he can use it in the future.
Guo Fu'er smiled and shook her head, saying, "Second brother, I must be tired after painting for a day, are you still injured?"
Chen Dexing smiled, "It's not a big deal. Today I will copy the previous picture of this three-layer pulp-mounted battleship and torque generator. By the way... Mother, do you know what kind of carpenters, blacksmiths and copper smiths are in Yangzhou City with outstanding skills?"
Guo Fuer said: "There are so many. Muxing Lane and Tongtie Street are full of craftsmen with outstanding craftsmen. In addition, Yangzhou is built in courtyards and shipyards have many craftsmen with good craftsmen. Second brother, what are you looking for to them?"
"Making a model... is to create a reduced-sized three-layer pulp warship and torsion generator based on the drawings." Chen Dexing pointed and drew the three-layer pulp warship drawing, "and then presented it to the Privy Councilor together with the drawings."
Chen Dexing was not talking big in front of Jia Sidao a few days ago, but it was really feasible and it was not difficult to implement it - at least it was not difficult for him, a soul traveler who had been a senior seaman in his previous life and was a fan of model aircraft production.
But Guo Fu'er frowned again and said, "This is all the work of a craftsman. You are a military officer, how can you do these insignificant things?"
"Not a good person?" Chen Dexing shook his head with a smile. In fact, the income and social status of craftsmen in the Song Dynasty may not be lower than that of the Ming and Qing dynasties, but they still cannot be compared with the scholars and officials. Only the thinking of studying is established in the Song Dynasty. Although Chen Dexing's military officer status is not as good as that of civil servants, he is not sure how much higher than that of craftsmen.
"Mom, why don't you go and invite a few carpenters to your home tomorrow and start working at home to make models." Chen Dexing didn't plan to ask the craftsman to bring his drawings back, not only because he was afraid of leaking the secrets, but also because he was worried that the craftsmen would not understand the drawings.
In addition, he also plans to ask the carpenter to make a batch of drawing and measurement tools, including rulers, triangle rulers, compass, calipers, parallel rulers, protractors, sextant, right angle meter, etc.
Guo Fu'er frowned, and was about to persuade her adopted son to devote her mind to being an official, but the voice of the housekeeper Wang Ji came from outside.
"Mr. Erlangjun, Senator Liao from the Pacification Department visited."
Liao Yingzhong is here!
Chen Dexing and Guo Fuer looked at each other, then stood up and tidied up their robes, "Mom, the child is going to welcome Uncle Liao."
Guo Fu'er said, "Wei Mom and you." Then she ordered Wang Ji, "Wang San (Isn't Ji San meant it), hurry up and go to Qionghua Building to call for wine and food."
After giving the order, Guo Fuer and Chen Dexing went out to greet him, but saw Liao Yingzhong wearing a double-breasted gown and a square barrel hat (named Dongpo Treasure) standing in the courtyard, smiling at Chen Dexing and Guo Fuer coming out of the room.
"My nephew has met Uncle Liao."
"I have met Mr. Liao."
Chen Dexing and Guo Fuer both greeted the guests and invited Liao Yingzhong to the hall. Wang Ronger brought the tea set up. The tea ceremony of the Song Dynasty looked a bit like the Japanese tea ceremony in later generations. He brewed the tea with boiling water, and stirred it quickly with a small broom while rinsing it, so that the tea with boiling water was fully mixed. This is called "tarting tea". Today, Guo Fuer was the one who ordered tea for Chen Dexing and Liao Yingzhong. Judging from her skillful gestures, she was obviously good at this. I don't know if it was a daily business need or to learn to pass the time?
After ordering the tea, Guo Fuer stepped back and did not participate in the conversation. Although she was a widowed mother who had been in charge of the family for many years, the head of the family was still Chen Dexing. She was a little unethical and unjust to order tea. It would definitely not be like this if she was in the family of scholars and officials, but the generals of Lianghuai did not pay so much attention to it.
"Rong'er, go to the study to pick up the paintings I made today, which are a few pictures on the desk." Chen Dexing and Liao Yingzhong exchanged a few greetings, and then instructed Wang Rong'er to pick up the drawings of the warship and stone machine he drew - the world map has been collected for a long time, and this is the biggest secret and cannot be easily shown to others.
“What? Draw?”
Chapter completed!