Capital Datang

On the bow of the America [-], Lu Wan, who is in his prime, stands against the wind, looking in the direction of Taiwan with a smile on his face.They are now located off the coast of northern Luzon, to be precise, on the North Equatorial Current, where the ocean currents flow from east to west, and turn northwest when they meet Luzon Island, just enough to allow them to return to Taiwan.

Speaking of their sea trial route this time, they first went from Taiwan to Manila, then went south around Luzon Island, and then turned to the southeast. After half a month, when the crew had almost run in with the new ship, they immediately turned the bow and headed north, entered the North Equatorial Current and returned, and completed the sea trial.

This sea trial not only allowed the crew to get acquainted with the characteristics of the new ship and get used to the life on board, but also made the crew familiar with sailing in the equatorial ocean current. The ocean current goes eastward until it reaches the Americas, and then it will return along the northern equatorial current after completing the tasks of collecting seeds and drawing charts.

Lu Wan's fleet has a total of eight specially-made sea-going ships. The hulls are not particularly large, but they are extremely strong and stable, and they have excellent performance in wind and waves.Lu Wan named the eight ships America No. 50 to No. 400 respectively. There are [-] people on each ship, and the entire fleet has a total of [-] people, which can be said to be very large.

Lu Wan looked back at the fleet behind him, with a smug expression on his face. He has already made America the most important goal in his life. He spent several years preparing before, and now he has finally completed the formation of the exploration fleet. , and the next step is the last step of these years of hard work.That is, the real journey of discovery begins.Capital Datang 560

When Lu Wan was full of ambition, suddenly a shirtless person came behind him.The man was scratching his body while holding a glass bottle in his hand.There is a kind of light lusè yèti in it, and it is sprinkled on the body non-stop.

"Captain, do me a favor. Sprinkle some potion on my back too. There are too many flirts on board, and you can lose half a catty of blood in just one sleep!" The person who came was Feng Shijie, but he After several years of getting used to the rich life at home, I am not used to the living environment on the ship, especially fleas and lice.It made him suffer even more.

After hearing this, Lu Wan smiled, took the insect repellent potion in the other party's hand, and then wiped some potion on the other party's back. Speaking of which, they had paid enough attention to hygiene on board, but fleas and lice These parasites cannot be avoided. After all, there is no such thing as a haircut in this era. Both men and women have long hair. Originally, this hairstyle was nothing when they were on land.It's just difficult to take care of, but it's not a small trouble when it comes to sea, because fresh water is scarce on board.So the crew don't even wash their hair and face, and sometimes they don't even have enough water to drink. Naturally, long hair is easy to breed various parasites.

Lu Wan, who was rubbing the potion on Feng Shijie, suddenly stretched out his hand.Grab a "show" on the opponent's head, and then use force with your fingers.He only heard a 'pa' sound, and the blood-drunk show was crushed by him.

"The fleas on the clothes are easy to deal with. At worst, just boil the sea water and soak them for a while, but there is nothing to do with the fleas in your hair, unless you are born with no hair growth like a monk." Lu Wan held his hands The dance "show" flicked off, and then said with a smile.The monk he was talking about was the nickname of a crew member on the ship. Because he had a high fever when he was a child, he never grew his hair again, so he was nicknamed the monk.

However, Lu Wan's words reminded Feng Shijie, his eyes lit up and he said: "This is a good idea. I might as well just shave my hair, so that even if there are lice on my body, I can get rid of them quickly."

"Huh?" Lu Wan was taken aback when he heard Feng Shijie's words. Although he was a pirate, he also knew that his parents had body, hair, body and skin. Except for those who became monks, he had never heard of anyone shaving their hair.

Lu Wan originally thought that Feng Shijie was just joking, so he didn't take it seriously, but what he didn't expect was that when he saw Feng Shijie again the next day, the other party had already shaved his head, and he still asked the chef on the ship to cut the knife. He was also a knife player, so his technique was naturally superb, at least there was not a single wound on Lu Wan's head.

"Shi Jie, you're really good at it!" Lu Wan looked at Feng Shi Jie's bald head and said speechlessly.In fact, he forgot that although Feng Shijie was a Han, he grew up in the Japanese country. Feng Shijie didn't care much about some Han people's deep-rooted habits and behaviors.

"Hey, it's so cool, and I'm not afraid of getting lice. Fortunately, you reminded me, the captain, otherwise I really couldn't think of such a good way!" Feng Shijie smiled while touching his light blue scalp.The crew members who passed by him were also stunned when they saw him. In their eyes, this officer Liu, who was second only to the captain on the ship, was also a well-educated person. It was cool for a while, and he shaved all his hair. Could it be that he wants to become a monk?

However, there are also people who are very much in favor of Feng Shijie's shaving his head, such as the crew member nicknamed Monk, who agrees with both hands.In the past, he was ridiculed by other crew members for not having long hair, but now someone finally has a bald head like him, and it is Feng Shijie who is second only to the captain on the ship, which makes him feel proud, even Spread the benefits of a bald head everywhere, such as being clean and free from lice.

However, I don't know whether it was Feng Shijie who took the lead, or whether the benefits of bald heads promoted by the monks had an effect. After a few days, there were really a few bold fools who shaved their heads. I don't know how long it will take. Everyone stays on the boat without seeing outsiders. It's okay to be bald for a while, and by the time they come back, their hair may have grown out.

The above statement really moved the hearts of many crew members. After all, they are all year-round sailors. They have met people from many foreign countries and know that many countries have the custom of cutting their hair. In addition, they are also rough. People, who have no education, don't pay much attention to etiquette, and Feng Shijie and others took the lead, so the crew on the ship were eager to move for a while, and even thought of shaving their heads. It's not a good thing to bite people.

However, when Lu Wan found out that the crew members were about to shave their heads, he was immediately taken aback. For this reason, he specially called a meeting with the crew members. Ichito, it won't be too late to shave my head after I return to Taiwan this time and make it official.After all, only Feng Shijie's bald heads are not conspicuous, but if the fleet returns to Taiwan with a group of bald heads, it will definitely cause a sensation in the news, and may even attract criticism from some people. He doesn't want the fleet to return to Taiwan. No, it caused a lot of scolding.

Lu Wan's fleet arrived in Taiwan soon, and was personally received by Li Yin, but he was taken aback when he saw Feng Shijie with a bare head. He used to think that long hair was difficult to manage, but he didn't. Dare to shave his hair short like later generations, after all, with his identity and in this era, if he dares to do so, it would be simply too deviant.After getting used to it slowly, Li Yin no longer felt that there was anything wrong with having long hair.

But what he didn't expect was that Feng Shijie took the initiative to shave his hair because he couldn't bear the annoyance of flirting and lice, and Lu Wan also reported to him that most of the crew on the ship had this intention, so I hope he doesn't blame him.

For this kind of thing, it's too late for Li Yin to be happy, how could he blame him?After all, after the crew members shaved their heads, there were fewer parasites on their bodies, which also greatly reduced the incidence of infectious diseases. You must know that in a relatively closed environment like a sea-going ship, if an outbreak of infectious disease occurs, it will be very dangerous. It may kill the entire ship, and this is how many unmanned ghost ships on the sea come.

Even Li Yin was still thinking about whether he should make a decree to encourage sailors to shave their hair, instead of shaving their heads bald, as long as they have short hair, which is convenient and clean.However, after thinking about it over and over again, he temporarily gave up on this idea. After all, shaving hair seems to be a trivial matter, but it marks the tradition of thousands of years in the Central Plains. This tradition can only make people change spontaneously and slowly. It is not suitable for official power to intervene, so let the matter of hair shaving be allowed to develop freely.

Lu Wan, who came back from the sea trial, reported the situation to Li Min. At the same time, some minor problems encountered by the ship and other aspects were also submitted to the relevant parties for resolution. It took another month and finally everything was ready. , the fleet is available at any time.Capital Datang 560

Originally, the fleet preparations were scheduled for September, but that was between summer and autumn, and it was also the season of high incidence of typhoons, so in the end Li Yin postponed the date for another month, and by then it had entered early winter, and rarely A typhoon will form during this period, which is a good time for Lu Wan and the others.

On October 20, Zhenguan 11th year, the exploration fleet consisting of eight Americas was at the port of Keelung. Li Min and Princess Xiao Wenxin saw the fleet off, and the people who had already heard the news spontaneously came to the port to see them off. Well, the whole pier was full of people, afterward it was estimated that there should be more than [-] people, and this was because of the limited space, there were still many people outside the pier who couldn't squeeze in, and the other ships in the port were also full of people who came to see them off common people.

Among the people seeing off were not only local residents of Keelung, but also businessmen and gentry from Dengzhou, Shanghai, Tainan and other places. Although they may not know the meaning of this trip, people feel that this exploration will It is a pioneering work in the history of navigation, such a meaningful event, they naturally want to witness it with their own eyes. (to be continued...)