The Three Kingdoms Voyage

Chapter 40
Ge Heng thought about it for a long time. Although he felt that what Sun Shao said made sense, he still couldn't figure out how to make it easier. He raised his head and looked at Sun Shao who was studying his ship models. He opened his mouth, but he didn't know. Saying something, I had no choice but to walk behind Sun Shao, bowed my hands politely and said: "Sun Jun, forgive Heng for being stupid, and I would like to ask you a question or two, how can this armillary sphere be simpler."

"Hehehe..." Sun Shao smiled convincingly: "Sizhen, it's not that I don't want to say it, but I'm just afraid that you won't be able to accept it. Don't be impatient. With your intelligence, you will figure out the reason behind it sooner or later. Come, come, let me introduce these ship models first."

Ge Heng frowned unwillingly, but was too embarrassed to force it.These days, academics are also wealth. People understand, but it doesn't mean they have to tell you that Sun Shao's doing so is not too much, but he is a bit presumptuous.He suppressed his exuberant curiosity and patiently introduced these ship models to Sun Shao, hoping to satisfy Sun Shao, and then reveal a little bit to him.

Sun Shao listened with gusto, touched his chin with one hand, and pointed to the four-story building boat with the other, and said longingly, "Then can this boat go into the sea?"

"No." Ge Heng flatly rejected it.

"Can't?" Sun Shao was very surprised, seeing how magnificent the boat was, why couldn't it enter the sea.

"Sun Jun doesn't know something." Ge Heng smiled confidently: "Although the building boat is tall and mighty, it can't help the wind and waves. Once the wind is too strong, the building boat is easy to capsize. Let alone entering the sea, even if it is driving in the river, it will not be able to withstand the wind and waves." You have to avoid the wind and waves, and once the wind and waves are too high, you have to enter the port for shelter. Speaking of which, besides being majestic, the building ship is actually not as useful as an ordinary fighting ship, and usually can only be used as a handsome ship."

"Is there such a thing?" Sun Shao gasped, rolled his eyes, and remembered what Dun Wu said yesterday when he was looking at Taihu Lake. Could it be that the Yangtze River in this era is really much more turbulent than later generations?How awesome that such a big ship can blow over.Curiously, he took the model of the Louchuan in his hands, fiddled with it a few times, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"I see."

"What does Sun Jun know?" Ge Heng asked puzzled.

"I know why the building is easy to capsize." Sun Shao said mysteriously.

"Why?" Ge Heng opened his eyes wide and asked.Sun Shao was amazing. Not only did he make new wine, but he said earlier that his armillary sphere was too complicated, and now he actually knew why buildings and boats capsize easily, which made him dizzy and held his breath unnaturally.

"Do you know the center of gravity?"

"Center of gravity?" Ge Heng stared at Sun Shao blankly, "What is the center of gravity?"

"Uh——" Sun Shao rolled his eyes, thought for a while, and then said, "Then do you know about tumblers?"

"Yes, children's toys."

"Well, why doesn't the tumbler fall?"

"Isn't that simple?" Ge Heng snorted: "The bottom of the tumbler will be filled with iron or lead, and its weight is the next..."

Ge Heng was halfway through his speech, and suddenly stopped talking. He stretched out his finger, pointed at Sun Shao, then pointed at the model of the building boat, and stammered: "Sun Jun said that the building boat is easy to capsize because... ...the bottom is too light, and the top...is too heavy?"

"Although it missed, it's not far away." Sun Shao held the bow of the boat with one hand, and lifted the boat up. The boat swayed twice in the air, and slowly came to a stillness. Because the upper part was relatively heavy, the bottom of the boat was a bit sideways. Turned to the sky.Sun Shao drew a vertical line from the bow of the boat and said: "The center of gravity is on this line. The center of gravity of your building boat is probably in the second room, which is an unstable structure. In addition, the building boat is large and windy. It’s serious, and of course it’s easy to overturn.”

He put down the building boat, picked up two rectangular pieces of wood of similar size from the case, laid one flat and the other upright, and said to Ge Heng, "Sizhen, look, these two pieces of wood are very similar in size and weight." , but if blown by the same size of wind, which one would you say is easier to fall?"

"Of course it's this one." Ge Heng pointed to the upright piece without thinking.

"That's right." Sun Shao picked up the pen next to him and drew a dot in the center of each of the two wooden blocks: "This is where the center of gravity is. If you place it horizontally, the center of gravity is low. If you place it vertically, the center of gravity is high, and the center of gravity is higher." , the more unstable and the lower the center of gravity, the less likely it is to overturn.”

"Oh, I understand." Ge Heng sighed suddenly: "Lao Tzu said, the humble is superior to the tall, the weak is superior to the strong, the best is like water, and the good of water tends to be inferior. Since it does not compete with itself, it cannot compete with it..."

Sun Shao rolled his eyes, your grandma, let's talk about the main point, do you need to get me involved?This is common sense and there is no need to make it so complicated.He was slandering here, but Ge Heng didn't care to look at him. Instead, he walked around the room in ecstasy, muttering, sometimes it was the classics of sages, and sometimes it was vaguely talking to himself. language.

Damn crazy.Sun Shao looked at Ge Heng helplessly, and while he wasn't paying attention, he quickly picked up a model of a small boat and stuffed it into his sleeve, and then went out solemnly. Sun Shao was very unaccustomed to it. He raised his sleeve to block the sun, and Dun Wu, who came up to meet him, happened to see the model boat hidden in his sleeve. He was taken aback, pointed at his sleeve and shouted: "Young Master..."

"Shut up." Sun Shao glanced at the back room with a guilty conscience, lowered his voice, and glared at Dun Wu fiercely.When Dun Wu saw it, he understood it and pointed at Sun Shao, who made him smile.

"Grandma, I told him so many reasons, why not play with a boat." Sun Shaoli said confidently.

"And—" Dun Wu and Shuai Zeng simultaneously elongated their voices and turned around.

"Zhuzi, dare to be disrespectful to Lao Tzu." Sun Shao couldn't hold back his face, raised his legs, and printed a big footprint on the backs of Dunwu and Shuaizeng, kicking them forward and almost falling over On Ge Xuan.Only then did Sun Shao think of the old fairy, and quickly shouted: "Why did you put him on the ground? It's cold today, what should I do if it's freezing?"

"Isn't he a god, still afraid of freezing?" Shuai Zeng curled his lips.

"Fart!" Sun Shao glared, I still want to keep him useful, if you froze to death, wouldn't that be a big loss. "Put him on the bed in the house quickly."

"Hey." Dun and Wu saw that he lost his temper, but they didn't dare to speak back, and honestly carried Ge Xuan, who had become a puddle of mud, into the house.Sun Shao was sitting in the hall, touching the model boat in his sleeve, and was secretly proud when Ge Heng rushed out from the back room, grabbed his sleeve, and shouted in surprise and joy: "Sun Jun, Sun Jun, I get it, I get it."

"What do you understand?" The guilty Sun Shao shook off Ge Heng's hand, turned his head to look at him, and pursed his lips pretending to be calm.

"I know how to keep the ship from capsizing." Ge Heng said loudly, dancing with hands and feet.

"Uh--"

Ge Heng didn't talk nonsense with Sun Shao, rushed into the back room and was busy for a while, then rushed out with the model of the building boat, dragged Sun Shao into the courtyard.There is a pool in the courtyard, and there is a well next to it. Ge Heng stuffed the model of the building boat into Sun Shao's hands, then excitedly shook the wheel, and poured more than a dozen buckets of water to fill the pool to the brim. The ship model was carefully placed into the water, then jumped into the pool, jumping and jumping in the pool, causing bursts of water splashes.

The model building boat dangled in the water, but it never turned over.

Looking at Ge Heng, who was out of breath and looking crazy, Sun Shao secretly sighed, his grandma, this guy is too smart, he can see through a little bit.The more this is the case, the more he cannot be let go, and he must be seduced no matter what.

(End of this chapter)