Chapter 14: Against the Current

Qidu Jimo is on the bank of the Xixin River one hundred and forty miles north of Qingdao Bay. The water of the Xixin River is close to ink, so this city bordering the river in the west is named Jimo. The Qin army pressed the border, 300,000 elites were defeated in a battle, and the Qi State, which had no strong force, could only let the Qin State fish and meat, and it was inevitable that Qi and Qin would join the alliance and turn their backs on Chu and Qin.

However, the covenant that the Qin people had endured humiliation and groveling in exchange for began to tear it up before the Chu State was destroyed, which was really chilling. In the Jimo Dynasty, the royal seat was empty, and Xiangbang Tian was nowhere to be seen, and the doctors were surging and impassioned, everyone was insulting the Qin State and the King of Qin, and they were all cordially greeting the ancestors of the Qin people.

Morning food scolded, until the corner, when I felt hungry, the doctors finally found that something was wrong, the king who should have seen the dynasty was gone, and the Xiangbang Tianjian, who was leading the dynasty, was also nowhere to be seen. Xiang Bang is dead! Xiangbang is ......"

"Xiangbang...... Dead? "The doctors were shocked, Xiangbang, who was fine yesterday, actually died today.

They were still amazed, and there was a faint shout from a farther away, the sound was not real, faint, as if the wind was whistling, and it was like thunder passing low in the sky, and the aftermath was endless. It took a while for everyone to hear the shouts in the breeze, and everyone couldn't help but tremble.

"Turn your back on Chu and Qin, and kill the national thief! Turn your back on Chu and Qin, and kill the national thief! Turn your back on Chu and Qin, and kill the national thief ......"

Forty miles into the outer city of Jimo, the streets were filled with angry crowds. There were merchants, butchers, craftsmen, and common people, who either held up iron swords, or wielded butcher knives, or held wooden pestles, or carried pestles on their shoulders, and gathered to the royal city south of the city while shouting.

There is no Gaomen in Jimo Wangcheng, only Maomen. One by one, the flow of people converged to the courtyard in front of the thatched gate, the shouts turned into wailing, and the lungs were full of people. According to the weekly rites, those who have been wronged only need to stand on the lung stone for three days, and 'the priest listens to his words and sues him'. In fact, in less than three days, tens of thousands of people gathered outside to shout at the court, and the royal city had already known about it, but the palace gate had been closed, and the armor soldiers on the high gate on the side of the door did not move, allowing the crowd outside the door to cry and shout.

is good friends with the Chu State, and the livelihood of the common people is hard, but they still have food to eat; And with the Qin state, the Qin people asked for contributions, not to mention, most of the domestic workshops were closed, and the craftsmen were displaced. Now the Qin people have wasted their children's money and seized the land of the common people to give soldiers, and some people with surplus grain can't help it.

Among the nations, Qi is the most financially developed and has been a borrowing society for a long time. If you don't pay back your mother's money, you still have children's money, but the Qin people will waste your children's money, and countless propertied people will collapse. If they don't complain and kill the thieves, they will also have their families ruined. The propertied people were like this, and the peasants were afraid that the Qin people would seize the fields. In the Qi country of 'diyi and less grains', there is a piece of land that is the result of more than ten generations of bloody struggle, how can it be rudely seized by the Qin people? Without acres of land and the workshop is closed, where will the whole family get food and clothing?

"Turn your back on Chu and Qin, and kill the national thief! Betraying Chu and Qin, killing the national thief......" neither the doctor came out to listen to the speech, nor did the temple people come out to ask each other, and the crowd in the court became angry, and the shouting became more intense.

What they didn't know was that more than 100 Zhengchao doctors outside the gate of the palace were also shouting loudly. The riots of the common people outside obviously wanted the lives of these 'national thieves', and Tian Jiao, the one who carried the black pot, committed suicide again, and they could only ask Tian Jian, the king of Qi. Like the palace gate that cannot be opened, the road gate is also tightly closed. Tian Jian didn't want to see them at all, he was meeting Chu Envoy Refractive at this time.

"Did Queen Chu really go to Penglai with Zhouji?" Tian Jian has ignored government affairs for a long time, and since he has gained immortality, he has no regrets.

"Yes, yes." Qi Chu fought again, but Refractive knew why Qi Chu was at odds, and he believed that the two countries would eventually stand together. "The East China Sea is very windy and rough, and Ao Hou is worried about the boy on the boat, so he goes to Xinying together. In his words: 'I heard that Xinying is built on the platform, its west is the sea, its east is the lake, there are many peach blossoms on the platform, and the spring is very beautiful. Today with the boy to sail out to sea, to Xinying to watch the peach blossoms, and the spring is different? ’”

"Penglai is far away, the sea is vast, and the turmoil is uncertain, is it Shangsi welcoming spring?" Tian Jian shook his head again and again. The country of Qi is on the seaside, and the kings of Qi like to go out to sea in a boat, how can he not know the wind and waves on the sea.

"Although it is not the spring of Shangsi, it is not that there is no return." Refractive smiled. As Ao Hou said, the peach blossoms are in full bloom in the east and west seas of Xinying, and the people have been planning for a long time before they are established. Although the place is desolate, it is better to have no soldiers, between the lake and the sea, the water is clear and the forest is beautiful, the flowers are like a brocade, just like a fairyland on earth, and the people who live in it do not know the years of the world.

The widow is willing to move to Penglai with the king, and the king is willing to live in Xinying, but he can live in Xinying. If you don't want to live in Xinying, there is still a plain thousands of miles away from the northeast of Xinying, which is more than 400 miles long from north to south, more than 20 miles wide from east to west, and about 5 million acres of land. Coupled with the mountains, the place is 300 miles, and millions of people can be moved. Only in winter there is a lot of snow, and the plains are full of water. ”

Refractive is talking about the Echigo Plain to the northwest of Hojojijima, which is not on the Blue Ocean side, but on the Qiongkai side, which is further north than the Kanto Plain, which is crisscrossed by Mizusawa. The Chu people don't want this kind of plain, and it will be too cold if the location is too north, so this plain has not been considered since it was discovered.

"The widow is willing to lend this three hundred miles of land to the king to settle the people who have been evacuated." Refractive last word.

"Borrowed from the widow?" Tian Jian thought about it when he heard it, could it be that the island had all been returned to the Chu people?

"Yes, yes." As he expected, Refractive nodded. "The widow has ordered people to stand on the island to worship, and the three islands are all the land of Chu. If the king wishes to dwell in it, he can borrow it from the king. ”

"What is the radius of the three islands?" Tian Jian asked.

"The three islands are more than 1,000 miles away, which is greater than the Jiangdong of the disadvantages." Tian Jian's refractive answer surprised Tian Jian, the Yangma Island he knew was only a hundred miles, and there were only four Jimo cities. But the three islands are more than 1,000 miles away, and they are even larger than the Jiangdong of the Chu State, which is amazing.

"The King of Chu has opened up more than a thousand miles!" Tian Jian sighed after being surprised. He can't compare with the king of Chu, he didn't say anything, and he frequently lost his land, but fortunately he was immortal, otherwise he would go down to Huangquan, what face would he have to see the ancestors?

"The world is a hundred times bigger. The nations are fighting for this small place, like a frog at the bottom of a well. The king of Qin wanted to take the land of the nations as his own, so why didn't the countries move overseas to save the community? Refractive smiled and said what he wanted to say most about this trip. After that, until he retired, Tian Jian was sullen.

The Qin people now regard the book of the alliance as waste paper, and they will inevitably die after the death of Chu. According to the doctors, they didn't really want to surrender Qin, they just didn't want Qin to destroy Qi first. In fact, as soon as Qi and Qin talked about the alliance, the Qin army moved westward, and the state of Qi was immediately safe - Tian Jian didn't know that the doctors only said half of what they said, and after the alliance stabilized the situation and prompted the Qin state to attack Chu, the doctors invited Chun Yuyue to enter Qin to offer a plan, as long as the king of Qin agreed to make the prince of Qin the king of Qi, everything would be fine.

Change the prince of Qin to be the king of Qi, do the doctors care? The doctors estimated that it was too late to rejoice. As long as the Qi people do not object, the most suitable king is actually a pig. Pigs are good, they can eat, sleep, and mate, but they don't think cranky, and they don't work hard and work hard - is this something that the king can do alone? Nine times out of ten, this is a great joy in the style of the king - such a pig king is not only a blessing for the nobles of Qi State, but also a blessing for the common people of Qi State.

However, the doctors' strategy was only half successful, the king of Qin completely rejected Chun Yuyue's lobbying, and the state of Chu even went to sea in person, and it seemed that the state of Chu would be destroyed for two years at most. The next one in the fall of Chu must be the Qi State, but it can't beat the Qin people, and it hasn't deceived the King of Qin, what should the Qi State do? Who can you really only do to avoid Penglai with the Chu people?

The winter is about to pass away in Qidu Jimo, because of the Qin people's betrayal of the alliance, but also because of the uncertain road ahead, the reins of the carriage of the Qi country gradually broke away from the control of the doctors, and the whole city surged against the current. And in the rough Yellow Sea, led by a new Suzaku-class, twelve Chaos-class sea ships with high sails and closed gun doors lined up in a column, sailing in treacherous wind and waves with full sails.

Sail warships could never sail into six compass points in the direction of the wind (1 compass point = 11.25 degrees, six compass points are 67.5 degrees), and in formation combat, the Royal Navy sailing on the wind always kept the direction of travel and the wind direction seven compass points (78.75 degrees) so that ships that made mistakes downwind could have a chance to get to the correct position. The well-trained French fleet (before the Revolution) could unfold a headwind course with six compass points.

The battleship sails against the wind, and it needs to be constantly adjusted, and it can only move back and forth like a crab. But thanks to the topography of the Yellow Sea, a straight line is drawn between the easternmost point of Yangma Island and Chengshanjiao, 40 degrees west-north; The northeast monsoon is about 35 degrees east-north, and the two angles add up to 75 degrees. It is equivalent to saying that as long as the battleship leaves the port and advances to the easternmost point of Yangma Island, it does not need to be rampant like a crab, and can sail directly to the outside of Zhifu Port and complete the surprise attack approved by Da Sima.

More than 10 days before the trial voyage of the boat, the fleet had set sail. They did not constantly adjust the wind and sail to Yangma Island, they sailed directly downwind and downstream to the north of Yizhou according to Xiong Jing's wishes, and relied on the Kuroshio to push north. After arriving east of Yangma Island, the fleet maintained six and a half compass points and sailed to Chengshanjiao with full sails.

Shen Yinshang's three-legged golden crow set off later than the fleet, but the speed of the black tide was only two knots, the battleship sailed at a speed of no more than six knots against the wind, and the three-legged golden crow, which was sailing at a speed of more than ten knots against the wind, soon joined the fleet and led the twelve Chaos-class gunboats to the Zhifu Harbor where the Qin army's boat division was stationed.

The whole world knows that the sea boat travels according to the wind, and can only go with the wind and not against the wind, but they do not know that the battleship can meet (against the wind). The speed of the battleship was very slow against the wind, and the nailed copper bottom was only six knots, and the actual speed was 2.3 knots (sin(1-67.5)≈0.39), and in many cases there were only two knots. However, Shen Yinshang was fully confident that the Qin people would not have any defenses until he gave the order to open fire. Therefore, he put the shelling time in the daytime with a good line of sight.

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