My life skills in Daming Liver

Chapter 152 The Flying Dutchman

Sure enough, as Su Ze expected, King Lu set up the gunpowder depot on the pier.

King Deer obviously never thought that someone would take the initiative to attack Dong'ao Island.

Su Ze quickly recorded the layout of the pier in the sailing diary, and Dongao Island was indeed a very good place to attack.

Because of the existence of the lagoon, King Deer's fleet is crowded in the port. Once an explosion occurs at the dock, almost all ships will be affected.

The exit of the lagoon is narrow, which is not only a safe port to protect the ships, but also a pocket array. Once an explosion occurs, all the ships will squeeze together when rushing out of the lagoon.

Su Ze has already made a plan in his heart, and the only problem now is how to drive the explosive ship to the edge of Dong'ao Island.

On Dongao Island, this desolate island has become a paradise for Japanese pirates.

King Deer even drove slaves to build a castle tower on the island to fulfill his dream of becoming a "Daimyo".

Dozens of people fell to their deaths just because of the construction of the castle tower on the cliff.

King Deer is wearing a full armor and a ghost mask. He is as frightening as a ghost in hell.

King Deer also enjoys the feeling of being feared by others. Daming's cowardice and incompetence have inflated his ambitions. This time when he comes to Fujian, King Lu is not satisfied with robbing a lot of property, and now he has other ambitions.

King Deer is interested in Penghu.

Kagoshima is only so big, and Penghu is so big. If it can occupy Penghu, it will not be an ordinary local name for Japanese pirates, but a "general" who can open in Luoyang.

However, there is still a blank space in Penghu, so King Lu wants to plunder more people and use these Ming slaves to develop Penghu.

King Lu came to Fujian this time, and he was fully prepared. The gunpowder depot alone was full, and he bought twelve cannons from the Nanmans (Westerners) with a lot of money. With four ship-mounted guns, the ship that defeated the Ming army last time relied on the Wuwan.

Speaking of this flagship, King Lu spent all his savings and hired Japanese shipbuilders and Xiyi shipbuilders to work together to build a super warship.

When sailing on the sea, you can sail with sails. When you need to sail at high speed, the sixteen pairs of oars can provide a speed exceeding that of ordinary sailboats, and quickly catch up with the enemy.

King Lu is most proud that as long as the enemy is found at sea, no one has been able to escape from the pursuit of the centipede.

After the trade between the Crooked Hoofed Man and the Japanese pirates was completed, Su Ze and Lin Mojun finally breathed a sigh of relief when they drove the fleet back.

Rapo was very satisfied with the result of this transaction. Su Ze heard all the conversations between her and the tribe, and Su Ze also knew what the crooked hooves were trading with the Japanese pirates.

drug.

This result is also reasonable. In troubled times, what is most valuable is medicine.

The Crookedhoof people must be short of medical care and medicine when they are drifting at sea.

An idea popped up in Su Ze's mind, he went directly to the bow of the boat, and said to Repo in the language of the Crooked Hoofed Man:

"Our Changning Guard can sell you medicine in the future."

The Crooked Hoofers behind Repo pulled out their sabers one after another, and Rapo looked at Su Ze with cloudy eyes. She was very puzzled, how could this Ming scholar know the language of the Crooked Hoofs?

Repo had never seen a foreigner speak the language of the Crooked Hoof, and Su Ze did not look like a descendant of the Crooked Hoof.

Su Ze continued to speak in his stammering Crooked Hoof language: "We have medicine in Changningwei, and we can sell it to you."

Repo waved her hand, and the people behind her put down their knives. Judging from Su Ze's stuttering words, he had just learned the Crooked Hoof language.

Did you learn it these days? Is there such a genius in this world?

Rapo no longer delved into this issue, but became interested in the deal proposed by Su Ze.

It is not a day or two that the Crooked Hoof people are short of medicines. There are not many forces willing to trade with them and sell them medicines, and the Japanese pirates are one of them.

Most Ming people regard them as beggars and second-hand traffickers at sea, that's why they collude with Japanese pirates.

As for medicinal materials, this thing is also rare in Daming itself, and ordinary coastal villages don't have it at all.

Repo looked at Su Ze and said, "What medicine do you have?"

Su Ze said: "We have common medicines for treating wind and cold in Changningwei, and I also have a magic medicine."

"Divine medicine?"

Su Ze nodded and said, "The magic medicine that can relieve pain and dispel cold, as long as you take this medicine for cold and fever, you can cure the disease."

The temperature difference at sea is large, and it is often necessary to go into the water. Chill and fever (cold) are the most common illnesses.

The magic medicine that Su Ze mentioned was exactly what Japo needed. She looked at Su Ze and said, "What do you want?"

Su Ze asked, "When is the next time you will trade with Japanese pirates?"

"Ten days later."

"I want you to tow two boats from Changningwei to Dong'ao Island."

The mother-in-law stared at Su Ze, and Su Ze also stared at her. After a long time, the leader of the Crooked Hoof said:

"I need to see the medicine first."

"No problem, you can test the medicine when you land on the shore."

During the following voyage, the Crooked Hoof people looked at Su Ze with strange eyes, but Su Ze looked back calmly, which made the Crooked Hoof people dare not look directly at Su Ze.

After a while, a crooked hoof woman came to Su Ze with her child in her arms and said in the crooked hoof language;

"The mother-in-law said that you are good at medicine, please save my child."

The crooked-hoofed woman sobbed and put down the crying child in her hands. Su Ze looked at her Lv3 medical skills, so she had to pick up the child for treatment.

After touching the child's hard stomach and hot forehead, Su Ze's Lv3 medical skills also diagnosed the child's illness, which was a gastrointestinal cold caused by intestinal obstruction.

Su Ze said to the child's mother, "Get some oil."

The crooked-hoofed woman quickly found some oil, and Su Ze pointed to the child's buttocks and said, "Pour the oil in here."

The woman was taken aback, but when she saw the crying child, she followed Su Ze's instructions.

After a while, the lubricated intestinal tract eliminated the dry stool. After a while, the baby stopped crying, the heat from his body disappeared, and he fell asleep in the mother's arms.

[Heal children, medical skill +10, Lv3, 15/300]

Mrs. Crooked Hoof thanked Su Ze a thousand times, and stuffed a handful of shells into Su Ze's hand.

Lin Mojun smiled and said, "This is the money from the Crooked Hoof Man, you can keep it."

Since Su Ze cured the first patient, the rest of the crooked hooves who were sick on board all found Su Ze.

During the second half of the return voyage, Su Ze was treating these crooked hooves, and Japo looked at Su Ze with more and more kind eyes.

Su Ze was surprised that the disability rate of these curved hoof people was so high, and there were so many curved hoof people missing arms and legs.

Lin Mojun thinks it's very normal: "It's easy to get nasty sores at sea, and these crooked hooves are disabled because of the nasty sores."

Nasty sores?

It quickly became clear to Suze that these were marine Vibrio vulnificus infections.

Bacteria at sea are completely different from those on land. Human beings have evolved for thousands of years, and there is no protection mechanism corresponding to bacteria at sea.

Vibrio vulnificus is a bacterium that is widely distributed in the sea, and people who have lived at sea for a long time may definitely be infected by this bacterium.

This kind of bacteria is very scary, and the onset of infection is very fast. Even if it survives the infection, it will cause limb necrosis and disability.

Naturally, this kind of disability, Su Ze, cannot be cured. He can only teach them some methods of debridement and prevention of secondary infection, and impart some basic hygiene knowledge.

By the time they landed, Su Ze, who had cured the Crooked Hoofed Man, had already been enshrined as a miracle doctor by the Crooked Hoofed Man.

His Lv3 level medical skill has also successfully brushed up to Lv4 level.

After landing at Changningwei, Su Ze asked Lin Liangjun to bring the commonly used medicines from the medicine house to the pier, and then ordered him to bring the bottle of salicin from his bedroom.

It happened that there was a feverish patient on the Crookedfoot Man's boat, so Su Ze dissolved salicin and asked him to take it.

In this era of lack of medicines, the human body's resistance to medicines is very low. After taking salicin, the patient immediately fell asleep peacefully. He was sweating all over, and his forehead was no longer hot.

Now all the crooked hooves on the ship knelt down to Su Ze. This can no longer be described as superb medical skills. Su Ze is simply a fairy!

The woman said to Su Ze: "Mr. Su, as long as it is what you tell us, we, the Crooked Hoofs, are willing to do it!"

"As long as you trade with Japanese pirates normally, you can tow our two ships to Dongao Island."

The Crooked Hoof people's fleet docked beside Changningwei, Lin Mojun arranged for people to carry the grain to the ship, and Su Ze was soaked in the shipyard.

Anyway, it is a gunpowder ship that explodes at one time. It doesn't want the comfort and durability of sailing. It only needs that the ship can rush to the port of Dongao Island with the wind and explode.

It doesn't even matter if it is intercepted, as long as the pirate ships gather, it will also be effective.

Under such low requirements, the craftsmen of Changningwei worked at full capacity, and Su Ze arranged the ship repairers on the New World to the dock, and finally built the two ships.

Su Ze looked at the two small boats moored at the port. These two boats were larger than ordinary fishing boats, and looked like small merchant ships transporting goods by the sea.

The cabin has been filled with sand equal to the weight of gunpowder, and stones are also pressed on it. Today is the day for the two ships to test sail, and it is also a competition between Su Ze and Lin Xianzong.

The shipbuilders were all gathered on the beach by the dock. Even the craftsmen who built Su Ze's clipper ship didn't think Su Ze's ship could do it.

At this time, the boat was crooked by the waves on the sea, and it was far less stable than the Yong boat made by Lin Zongyuan.

Captain Alfonso was also sitting on the reef. Even from the perspective of Western shipbuilding, Su Ze's ship was too strange.

Long and narrow, with too many sails, and unbalanced fore and aft, Captain Alfonso guessed that the ship would capsize if it sailed.

Su Ze stood on the boat, pulling the rope with his hand, watching the wind direction of the wind vane and preparing to adjust the sail.

Lin Xianzong was standing on the boat and was also making preparations for the voyage.

The craftsmen on the shore were calibrating the hourglass. This time it was not just a sailing test, but also a measurement of the speed. It was necessary to reserve an accurate detonation time according to the speed of the ship, so that the blasting ship could return to its maximum power.

There was a sound of blunderbuss, and both Su Ze and Lin Xianzong pulled up the sails.

The large horizontal sail was raised, and the jib of the mast was also opened. With the opening of the sail, the "flying shear ship" that was originally floating on the sea gradually began to accelerate.

The Yongchuan built by Lin Xianzong spread its sails like bamboo curtains in a smooth and steady manner, and the Yongchuan sailed to the open sea with the wind.

But at this time, the eyes of the people on the shore were all attracted by Su Ze's clipper boat.

After sailing, the ship showed surprisingly stability. The high bow just broke through the waves, and the sharp-bottomed cabin hidden in the shallow water had little draft and received little resistance from the sea.

Just like riding a bicycle, under the wind blowing with full sail, the clipper boat sailed smoothly on the sea, far surpassing Lin Xianzong's Yong boat.

Lin Mojun also stood up. The speed of the boat built by Su Ze was faster than Changningwei's Fuchuan, and it sailed very smoothly.

Captain Alfonso was even more shocked. He had never seen a ship with such a speed in Europe. He often traveled to and from the sea and knew the significance of such a speed.

Time is money at sea, and such fast ships can carry messages between ports and deliver urgent cargo.

Although Su Ze said that this kind of flying shear ship has a small load capacity, but it can't hold it fast!

Moreover, the precious tea, spices, and silk are not heavy in themselves. If you can build a larger clipper merchant ship, how much money can you make!

Compared with Captain Alfonso's optimism, Su Ze, who was sailing in a panic, knew that this ship was far from being a clipper ship.

The speed of a real clipper ship can reach ten knots, but the speed of my own ship is far from reaching it.

The ones made by myself can only be regarded as merchant ships similar to the principle of flying shear ships, and they are also disposable.

Because of the shallow draft, the ship will vacate when encountering wind and waves. This short vacation will put a huge pressure on the bottom of the ship. Su Ze has already heard the sound of the wooden boards at the bottom of the cabin being overwhelmed. After sailing like this for half an hour, the ship will It will fall apart.

A real clipper ship needs high-quality wood as the keel, and steel structure reinforcement.

Moreover, his own sails are not the sails of a clipper ship. A clipper ship requires a lot of complicated sails, and this one of his own can only be regarded as a poor imitation.

But it is enough, anyway, it is a one-time demolition ship, and it does not need long-term voyage.

As a wave rushed over, Su Ze's clipper boat soared into the air, flying through a perfect curve in the air.

The waves flew past Su Ze, the feeling of flying and stalling was really exciting.

When the clipper boat fell back to the sea, cheers came from the dock. Su Ze looked back and found that he had reached the end of the race.

Putting down the sail, Su Ze adjusted the bow and returned.

[Sea racing, sailing skill experience +20, Lv1, 20/100]

The shipwrights on the pier warmly congratulated Su Ze, and the stubborn Lin Xianzong also bowed his head.

Su Ze said to Lin Xianzong: "Uncle Xianzong, my ship can't sail long distances. In the future, it will depend on you to build a high-speed ship that can truly transport goods."

Lin Xianzong raised his head and said, "Ah Ze, don't worry! I will study it hard!"

Captain Alfonso also came over and said, "Su, your boat is really amazing! I've never seen a boat that can go so fast!"

"You must give it a good name, this ship will definitely be recorded in the history of shipbuilding!"

Su Ze looked at the clipper boat on the shore and said with a smile, "Then call it the Flying Dutchman."

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