Even in winter, Singapore's latitude close to the equator makes the temperature still as high as more than 30 degrees. This small island with dense rainforests is nothing surprising. It is just at the mouth of the gorge at the southern end of the peninsula. From its south, ships can cross the broken Singapore Strait and sail into Malacca on the west side of the peninsula.

Because of the king's order, the fleet quickly put down the boat and sent people to the shore. When the cement was not dry, the stones were shaped on all sides of the island, and the Greek words they had obtained from Wuji were used on all sides of the stones. No one understood Greek, and the craftsmen just drew those Greek letters like paintings. Let's write together: The island of the King of Chu, the descendants will enjoy forever.

While squeezing the stone, Shangui and Taotie took turns to replenish fresh water on a river on the Malay Peninsula west of the island, mapping the fine islands of the Singapore Strait and the Malacca Strait. A concrete column more than four meters high was poured on a small island on Karimun Besar, opposite the southwest of the Malay Peninsula as a lighthouse.

The westernmost corner of the island and the Malay Peninsula is less than ten nautical miles. If a ship from the east enters the Strait of Malacca, it is necessary to turn north here, while the ships leaving the strait need to turn east here. It is very suitable to build the lighthouse here. Because this simple lighthouse cannot be on duty, there is a circle of mirrors embedded in the top of the lighthouse, and the pillars under the mirror are painted about one meter with yellow and red paint. After these things are done, the fleet sails into the tsunami along the increasingly fierce northeast.

The fleet completely disappeared into the strait that lasted more than 500 nautical miles, and only a few naked natives ran out of the rain forest. I had never seen a large ship coming from the east, and people I had never seen before walked off the ship in shining armor. In addition to hanging the canal water on the large ship, they also erected some things on the island.

All the natives who had done in the fleet were hiding in the jungle, but they didn't dare to come out. Only when the fleet went far away did they take a closer look at what strangers left behind. Compared to the lighthouse on the other side of the sea, four and a half-man-high stones were inconspicuous. The mirror that reflected the sunlight made people curious and fearful. Looking at the sunshine reflected in the mirror, the natives who screamed were avoiding the jungle again.

On the Taotie, Wu Gou Chang didn't know what he left behind, making the Malay natives scream. He was covered in fishy smell of the sea and kept reminding the lookout hand on the mast to pay attention to the reefs. When he was in the South China Sea, the Taotie once intersected with a reef. He was so scared that he didn't dare to vent. After passing through the sea, he called the lookout hand down and cursed.

Because of this experience, he became more careful, especially in places like the straits where islands and reefs are densely packed. The fleet only sails during the day and breaks down after sunset, but does not go ashore or rarely goes ashore.

The Strait of Malacca is about 900 kilometers long, narrow in the south and wide in the north, and runs southeast-northwest. The monsoon blows from the northeast, and the huge sails are fifty-four degrees with the bow of the ship, which is the largest angle for the rotation of the cross-truss.

The side-branch cable on the mast is like a character "Eight". The mast is erected in the middle of the character "Eight". The horizontal truss is horizontal in front of the mast, like a horizontal "claw" character at the upper end. There is a front-branch cable directly in front of the mast. If you look at it sideways, the front-branch cable and the mast form a "Bu" character. The horizontal truss must be below the front-branch cable, otherwise the canvas will be blocked by the front-branch cable and cannot be expanded downward.

If the horizontal truss turns left and turn to a certain angle, the front part of the right side of the horizontal truss will inevitably be blocked by the front line of the right side, and the rear part of the left side is blocked by the left side of the retreat line; if you turn right, it means that the front part of the left side is blocked by the front line of the right side is blocked by the rear line of the right side is blocked by the rear line of the right side. Fifty-four degrees are the limit of the corner, so there cannot be more.

As for why the shearing ships with both cross-sails can reach 38 degrees (the angle between the bow) and then achieve driving against the wind? In addition to improving rigging, another important reason is that the mast of the shearing ship is higher and the hull is narrower, which makes the side-screw cable form a steeper angle. If the side-screw cable does not have an angle between the mast and the mast and is completely parallel to the mast, the cross-truss can be turned to a position of zero or approximately zero. In other words, the smaller the angle between the side-screw cable and the mast, the larger the rotation angle of the cross-truss and the smaller the angle formed with the bow.

For cross-sail cargo ships, gunboat hull width is almost times that of fly-scissors, and the minimum angle formed by cross-truss and bow is also times that of fly-scissors. If the angle between cross-truss and bow cannot be less than forty degrees, it is impossible to use the Bernoulli principle to achieve real headwind navigation.

Fortunately, the fleet is now glad that the wind comes from the northeast and the bow goes to the northwest. According to the principle of sailing downwind, the sail must equally divide the angle formed by the wind and the bow, so that the sail can be the greatest efficiency. However, because the cross truss can only turn to fifty-four degrees, the sail cannot equally divide the angle, and the speed becomes extremely slow. When it is fast, four knots, and when it is small, only two knots.

Miu Zhi and others who were in charge of navigation did not know how long the entire strait was, but in his heart, heading northwest would always lead out of the strait. Compared with the navigators of the Age of Discovery, the biggest advantage of the captains and navigators of the Chu State ship was to sail in the known world, rather than exploring an unknown world. They only had to explore some details.

The sailors have a very stable mentality from the start. In addition, there are also many fun things during the sailing. The seabirds that keep spinning around the fleet are one of them, and the flying fish that are flying out of the sea are two of them. There are also unpleasant things. The Strait of Malacca in winter is very calm, with no storms and not much fog. There are only sunrise and there is some fog at the mouth of the Tamsui River at sunset. However, during the monsoon transition period, the Strait is often cloudy or rainy.

The rainy and continuous make people feel annoying, and the high temperature and humidity also cause vegetables and fruits to rot quickly. At the suggestion of Wushu, I started eating canned fruits on the boat. Although vitamin C is lost during the heating of canned fruits, the lost vitamin C is mostly retained in canned juice, especially canned fruits.

On the ninth day of the distribution of canned fruits, the mountain ghost watcher sailed in front of him found that the mountains on the port island suddenly turned westward, and the strait became wider and wider. After the third day, these mountains completely disappeared into the vast sea, and the sea water washed the reefs at the northernmost point and several islands far away from the reefs.

"Is this Aceh?" On the deck of the Taotie, the captain Wu Gou Chang and Miu Zhi looked at each other and asked.

"Of course." Miu Zhi nodded and replied. Aceh is opposite to Singapore, one guarding the north exit of the Strait of Malacca and the other guarding the south exit of the Strait of Malacca. But most people know Singapore, and few people know Aceh.

"Send the order, land." As the captain, the captain, ordered landing. Just like in Singapore, the fleet must also tie stones here and erect a simple lighthouse.

"The captain has a life, so get on the shore quickly." Wu Gou Chang's order was passed down. The Shangui turned first, heading towards Aceh, which was still in a wild place. The Taotie's document did not forget to carefully write the pigeon news. After reviewing Wu Gou Chang and Mio Zhi, the two pigeons took the fleet out of the strait and drove out of the iFlytek in the strait to the northeast, which was the direction of Chu.

When the carrier pigeon flew to Yingdu, more than 3,000 kilometers away, Xiong Jing had just arrived in Jiujiang. In October, rice was harvested. At this time, the millet and rice in the fields had been harvested. As soon as Xiong Jing arrived in Wuyang, he asked Sun Yu: "How much is the yield per mu?"

"Reporting to the king, the yield per mu is less than one stone." Yu Yin Sun Yu lived in Wenyang and guided immigrants to plant millet and rice. After harvesting, he personally measured the yield of millet and rice. Unfortunately, it was a newly reclaimed wasteland, and the yield per mu was worse than that of the land.

"Is it rice less than a stone?" Xiong Jing still held a little expectation and asked if it was rice.

"Report to the king, it's grain." Sun Yu himself shook his head, "This is the crime of this minister."

"What are you guilty?" Xiong Jing looked at the fields after harvest. The fields had been plowed and planted wheat. After harvesting wheat next year, plant beans again, which is equivalent to three species in two years.

"I am indeed guilty, please punish the king." The more tolerant Xiong Jing was, the more Sun Yu felt guilty.

"You are not guilty. The land you first cultivated is already barren, and with Chize contiguous areas, it will be better in a few years." Xiong Jing was roughly aware of the reason for the low yield. He also thought of Yuedi and Wudi, which are also Chize contiguous areas, and the newly reclaimed new fields are probably the same. "How about the common people's food and clothing? Can they maintain it?"

"It's okay." Sun Yu said. "Although it's small to harvest, it can be planted widely. Sumai can be eaten in April next year. People will not be hungry, but..."

"How about that?" Xiong Jing looked at him. "There is not enough land?"

"That's right." Sun Yu said. "From now on, the number of households that can be moved in Yue is not more than 80,000, and the number of households that can be moved in Jiang is not more than 200,000. In addition, farmers also need to plow oxen. If there is no cattle, it will be difficult to cultivate so many acres of land."

"Plowing ox?" Xiong Jing shook his head when he heard this word. Jiangnan has always been a fire and zombie, so what kind of ox is used to plow fire?

"Of course." Sun Yu said. "Each household has more than 100 acres of land, and each household has five people. If you do your best, you can't farm."

"How many oxen are there in Chu State?" Xiong Jing felt that he could not solve the problem of oxen, just as he could not solve the problem of war horses for a while.

"Not less than 100,000," Sun Yu also knew that the farmer of Chu State had fewer plowing oxen than other countries. "So, I asked the king to order people to buy plowing oxen from other countries, and no matter how strict the orders were given, the cattle would not be killed."

"How can I order people to buy oxen?" Xiong Jing said. "The farmers who moved here are poor, and the price of oxen varies from thousands of dollars..."

"Please ask the king to lend money to farmers to buy cattle, and pay it back every year." Sun Yu said.

"Can the country buy oxen?" Xiong Jing asked.

"Qi State is OK," Sun Yu replied. "I have ordered people to go to Qi State to buy cattle."

The big animals came from the north, and Qi was the main road. When Sun Yu was speaking, hundreds of plowing oxen were waiting to pass the pass by the Nei Pass of Muling Pass, mooing and mooing. A man dressed as a honorary scholar was blocking several Qi pass officials.

"Tariffs have always been around for a hundred yuan, why are they five today?" Yu Shi's face was angry. There were Chu and Qi merchants behind him. They only dared to look at each other but didn't dare to speak. They hoped that Yu Shi could denounce the customs officials and reduce the tariffs.

"According to the order of Linzi, the tariffs will start from 1500 today. What can I do?" The head of the guards looked at the honorary scholar in front of him, a little scared.

"Hmph! Chu Qi has an alliance first, how can the tariff be increased if it is added? Now, Japanese honorary scholars will be given a hundred one." The honorary scholars are not merchants and it is difficult to fool them. After he said that, he threw the tariffs he had calculated earlier to the customs officials, and then asked the cattle-driven shepherd boy to drive the cattle out of the customs. The merchants cheered when they saw this.
Chapter completed!