Wang Hong was stunned for a moment, and after taking a closer look, he shook his head a little dejected: "According to what you say, this boat is really a little small!" If only it could be bigger! ”

When he said this, he obviously regretted it a little, feeling that although this boat was light enough, it was a little smaller and not too majestic after all, and it was a little bit of a shame to be a handsome ship in his fleet.

At this time, one of the shipwrights on their ship said: "Don't worry, the master of this ship said that it is mainly used to test the waters, and it may not be incorporated into your fleet!"

And this ship is a ship of one hundred and fifty materials, the big boss said, if this kind of new ship can be, then enlarge, build a bigger new ship, replace the war ship we use now, and then build a new ship of four hundred materials, which will be bigger than the lucky ship you use now! ”

Wang Hong was interested again when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Is this true?" Do the big bosses really want to build bigger? ”

"How dare the little one deceive the king's team! That's what the big boss said! The boatman replied quickly.

Wang Hong was not in a hurry now, nodded and said: "That's good, then forget about this boat, I don't want it!" I'll wait for the big boss to change us to a big one! But if it were a big ship, would the ship still be able to run so fast?

But it doesn't matter if it's slow, I just saw this boat, it's much stronger than the one we use now, and even if the big ship is slower, it doesn't matter! This boat is good stuff! In the future, with this thing, even if the official and military sailors come to us for trouble, we will still beat them all over the ground looking for teeth! Hey! ”

Fang An suddenly didn't know where Lu Dao took out a copper pipe, held it in his hand, weighed it, and then handed it to Wang Hong, and said to Wang Hong: "By the way, third brother, the big boss recently got us a few such things, he said that after you come back, give this to you, when you came back yesterday, we only cared about picking up the wind and washing the dust for you, but forgot to give this thing to you!" ”

Wang Hong stretched out his hand to take the copper pipe, held it in his hand and fiddled with it curiously, and saw that this thing was thick at one end and thin at the other, and it looked hollow, but the two ends seemed to be inlaid with transparent crystal pieces.

He hadn't seen this thing, so the suspicious Fang An asked, "Old Five, what kind of rare thing is this?" What is the use of what you can't eat or drink? It can't be another firearm made by the big bosses! No, it's too light, and it doesn't have a fire door, so it doesn't look like something that can get angry! ”

Fang An smiled at Wang Hong and said: "This is not a firearm, the big boss of this thing calls it a telescope, also called clairvoyance, and when you get in front of your eyes, you can pull things far away closer to your eyes, and you can see it very clearly!" What you can't see in the distance can be seen through this claireye! Look around with your eyes! ”

After Wang Hong heard this, he shook his head and said, "How is this possible?" Old Five, aren't you making fun of me again! For more than a year, you don't seem to be as honest as before! Always make fun of me when you see me! How could something in the distance be brought closer to the front with this thing? ”

As soon as Fang An heard this, he stretched out his hand to grab the monocular in Wang Hong's hand, and said, "Third brother, I didn't lie to you!" Believe it or not, it's not a thing, and if you don't want it, there are as many people as you want! You give it back to me, the eighth child hasn't mixed up yet! ”

"Don't! I'll try it first! It's really fake! …… I looked, and I couldn't see anything. Hey? See! See! That's not right...... Why is it getting farther and farther away? As soon as Wang Hong saw that Fang An wanted to snatch this thing back, he quickly picked it up and poked it in front of his eyes, and began to shake it on the sea through the tube to see.

He was arguing while watching, and at first the angle was wrong, and he only saw a white patch in the lens, and after a while, he finally saw the scene in the lens, but found that what he saw not only did not get closer, but became smaller, so he immediately screamed.

Fang An pulled out a few black lines on his head, looked at Wang Hong, and despised him for a moment before telling him, "Third brother, you took it upside down!" The little head is in the eyes here, you try again! ”

After Wang Hong heard this, he was a little embarrassed, laughed and quickly turned the pipe in his hand around, put the small head in front of him again, and began to use the pipe to search the sea.

"Wow! …… Wow! See! See! It's closer! Wow! You can see it so clearly! Good stuff, really good stuff! Ha Lu Ha! When Wang Hong saw Nanri Island far away from the eyepiece, he finally found a new continent and began to scream, dancing happily.

As a result, he behaved like this, and was suddenly greatly despised by the few people next to him.

It turned out that Yu Xiaotian had been busy with various other affairs recently, and he had already begun to secretly try out a new thing like a telescope.

In later generations, the telescope was a very ordinary thing, and it could almost become a daily household item, which could be said to be readily available, but this thing was still a new thing in this era.

It is said that the invention of the telescope is related to the Dutch, and after the glass industry began to develop in the West, a new industry appeared, that is, craftsmen specializing in making glasses began to appear, and people found that convex lenses could magnify objects, so they made magnifying glasses, and later made reading glasses, so the craftsmen who made glasses came into being.

Later, the craftsman found that the concave lens can shrink the object, which can correct the vision of some myopic people, and inadvertently superimposed the myopia mirror and reading glasses, and actually found that he can see far away, and the place that he could not see before, can also pull the top of the cathedral in the distance closer to the front of the eye, and see more clearly.

As a result, craftsmen began to try to assemble concave lenses and convex lenses together to make telescopes, and who invented the telescope first, there was a great debate among Western historians in later generations.

But it is certain that in this era, the telescope must have been invented by Westerners and has been put into practical use.

Because there is such a record in the Ming Dynasty in history, saying that "the monk Matteo Ricci has a clairvoyant mirror, and he can see thousands of miles away, such as at present." The stars in the sky are all very large; To see the moon, it is unlawful; If you look at the heavenly river, the stars will gather and no longer see as usual. It can also be recited according to hundreds of steps. Matthew died, and his disciple was coerced to travel to Nanzhou, and all good things could be seen. ”

So it is certain that when the missionary Matteo Ricci came to China, he had already entered the Ming Dynasty with a practical telescope, and many people had seen it.

So it shows that the era when this thing was invented was much earlier than now, at least at this time in Western countries, many people have used this kind of thing.

It's just that this thing is estimated to be relatively rare, and Western countries have not imported it into Daming in large quantities as a commodity, so people in Daming have seen very little about it.

When pirates are on the seas every day, how can they not even have a telescope? Yu Xiaotian had long been holding back his desire to get some telescopes and equip them to his subordinates, at least two or three on each boat.

Before the glass yard was built, he tried to use natural colorless crystal and ask craftsmen to polish the lenses to make telescopes, but this method was not easy to find because of the high transparency of colorless crystal, and it was not easy to find skilled jewelry craftsmen, so it was dragged and not completed.

Later, although the glass yard put into production glass, the decolorization process of the glass in the early stage could not meet the requirements due to quality reasons, and the glass produced was more or less colored, and it could not meet the requirements of making telescope lenses.

However, the glass produced in the glass field recently, the process has gradually stabilized, the quality is getting better and better, and the transparency is getting higher and higher, which gradually meets the needs of Yu Xiaotian.

So Yu Xiaotian asked the craftsmen of the glass field to start trial production of concave and convex lenses according to his requirements, and after several months of repeated trial production, they finally got a usable lens, although the clarity and accuracy are far worse than the lens lenses of later generations, but this thing can already be used.

So he hurriedly asked the craftsmen to wrap copper into copper tubes, inlaid this lens into the copper tube, and made it into a shape that can be stretched and stretched, and the first batch of trial production were sent to several important leaders under him, Wang Hong, as the leader of the second detachment, naturally became the first batch of people who could use this new thing.

However, Wang Hong did not come back because he was on Twin Peaks Island, so Yu Xiaotian handed over a telescope to Fang An and asked Fang An to turn around and hand it over to Wang Hong.

Now after Wang Hong got this thing, he didn't think it was obvious at first, thinking that this thing was nothing unusual, but after seeing the scene in the distance through the eyepiece of the telescope, this guy was shocked, and he shouted and shouted on the boat.

The result is that his performance is like this, and he will naturally be despised by his colleagues, after all, these people opened their eyes earlier than him, and now they have passed the freshness, and when they see this guy showing a dirty bun, they will inevitably laugh at him.

Wang Hong didn't care, just laugh, anyway, this thing is in his hands, no one wants to give it to him anymore, after all, the number of people who can get this thing is still very small, and the people who can get it represent their respect for their status among the sea wolves, so after playing with the telescope in his hand for a long time, he carefully put it into a cowhide cylinder handed to him by Fang An, and hung this telescope around his neck very solemnly.

But no matter how you look at the way this guy hangs, it's not very good-looking, the cowhide tube is across his chest, like a cow bone hanging on his neck, which is quite a bit ostentatious.

(Today, I would like to thank the friends of the Doomsday Dragon God for their tip!) Today is the beginning of the month, and this month's monthly pass has doubled, please leave me the monthly pass in your hand! The cold wind is here to kneel and thank you! Hehe! Please, please! I want a commuter pass! ）