Chapter 122 The Telescope

Wang Hong was stunned for a moment. After looking carefully, he shook his head a little discouraged and said, "As you said, this ship is really a little small!" If only it could be a little bigger!"

When he said this, he was obviously a little regretful. He felt that although the ship was light enough, after all, it was a little small and not very majestic. When his fleet of handsome ship was a little embarrassing.

At this time, a boatman on their ship said, "Squadron Wang, don't worry. The ship's master said that it is mainly used to test the water and may not be included in your fleet!

And this ship is a 150-material ship. The master said that if this new ship is possible, we will enlarge and build a bigger new ship to replace the warship we are using now. Next, we will build a 400-material new ship, which will be bigger than the lucky ship we use now!"

Wang Hong became interested again and quickly asked, "Is this true? Does the big man really want to build a bigger one?

"How dare the little one deceive you! This is really what the big head said!" The boatman answered quickly.

Wang Hong was not in a hurry and nodded, "That's good. Forget this boat. I don't want it!" I'll wait for the big head to change us later! But if the big boat is changed, can the boat run so fast?

But it doesn't matter if it's slower. I just saw this ship. It's much stronger than the ship we use now. At that time, even if the big ship is slower, it doesn't matter! This boat is a good thing! In the future, with this thing, even if the officers and sailors come to find us trouble, we will still beat them all over the ground looking for teeth! Hey hey!"

Fang An suddenly took out a copper pipe from somewhere, took it in his hand, weighed it, and then handed it to Wang Hong and said to Wang Hong, "Third brother, the big manager has recently made us a few such things. He said that after you come back, he will give this to you. When you came back yesterday , we only care about picking you up, but we forgot to give this thing to you!"

Wang Hong reached out and took the copper tube and played with it curiously. He saw that the thing was thick and thin, looking hollow, but the two ends seemed to be inlaid with transparent water chips.

He had never seen this thing, so the suspicious other party asked, "Lao Wu, what kind of rare thing is this? What's the use of not eating or drinking? It won't be another firearm made by the big head! No, this thing is too light and has no fire door. It doesn't look like something that can make you angry!"

Fang An smiled at Wang Hong and said, "This is not a firearm. This thing is called a telescope, also known as a thousand-mile eye. When you come close to your eyes, you can pull things far away to your eyes and see it very clearly! It turns out that what can't be seen in a faraway place can also be seen through this clairvoyant! Put it in front of you and look around!"

After hearing this, Wang Hong shook his head and said, "How is this possible? Fifth, you're not happy with me again! For more than a year, you don't seem to be as honest as before! Always make fun of me as soon as you see me! How can something in the distance get closer to your eyes with this gadget?

As soon as Fang An heard that he stretched out his hand, he went to Wang Hong's hand to grab the monocular and said, "Third brother, I didn't lie to you! Believe it or not, this is not a bad thing. If you don't want it, there are many people who want it! Give it back to me. Lao Ba hasn't mixed up yet!"

"Don't! I'll try it first! True or false! ...I look, why can't I see anything? Huh? I saw it! I saw it! No... Why is it getting farther and farther away?" Wang Hong saw that Fang An wanted to take this thing back, so he quickly picked it up and poked it in front of his eyes and began to look at it shaking on the sea through the pipe.

As he looked at it, he quarreled. At first, the angle was wrong. He only saw a vast expanse of whiteness in the lens. After a while, he finally saw the scenery in the lens, but found that what he saw was not closer, but became smaller, so he immediately shouted.

Fang An pulled out a few black lines on his forehead. He looked at Wang Hong and despised him before telling him, "Third brother, you took it back! The little head is facing the eyes, you can try again!"

After hearing this, Wang Hong was a little embarrassed. He smiled and quickly dropped the pipe in his hand, put the small head in front of him again, and began to search for the sea with this pipe.

"Wow! ...Wow! I saw it! I saw it! It's just getting closer! Wow! You can see it clearly! Good thing, what a good thing! Haha!" When Wang Hong saw Nanri Island far away from the eyepiece, he finally found that the new continent began to scream and dance happily.

As a result, his performance was greatly despised by several people next to him.

It turns out that in addition to being busy with various other things recently, Yu Xiaotian has already begun to secretly try out this new thing as a telescope.

The telescope in later generations is a very ordinary thing, which can almost become a daily necessity. It can be said that it is readily available, but this thing is still a new thing in this era.

It is said that the invention of telescopes has something to do with the Dutch. After the glass industry began to develop in the West, a new industry appeared, that is, craftsmen specializing in glasses began to appear. People found that convex lenses can enlarge objects, so they made magnifying glasses, and later made presbyopias, so Craftsmen who made glasses came into being.

Later, the craftsman found that the concave lens can reduce objects, correct the vision of some people with myopia, and inadvertently superimpose the myopia mirror and reading glasses together. Unexpectedly, he found that he could see far away. Where he could not see before, he could also pull the roof of the cathedral in the distance closer to his eyes and see more clearly.

So a craftsman began to try to assemble the concave lens and the convex lens together to make a telescope. There is a lot of debate among Western historians about who invented the telescope first.

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

Because there is such a record in the Ming Dynasty in history that "the monk Matus has a thousand-mile mirror and can see thousands of miles away, as at present. Looking at the stars in the sky, they are all extremely large; looking at the moon, they are undisciplinable; looking at the Tianhe River, the stars gather together and are no longer as seen as usual. It can also take hundreds of steps to recite the words of fly. When Madou died, a Taoist disciple was kidnapped to travel to Nanzhou, and all the good people could see it.

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

Then it means that this thing was invented much earlier than now. At least in Western countries, many people have used this kind of thing at this time.

It's just that this thing is estimated to be relatively rare, and Western countries have not imported it into the Ming Dynasty as a commodity, so people in the Ming Dynasty have rarely seen it.

When pirates are fooling around at sea every day, how can they not even have a telescope? Yu Xiaotian has long wanted to get some binoculars and equip their subordinates, at least two or three of them on each ship.

Before the glass field was built, he tried to use natural colorless crystals and ask craftsmen to grind lenses to make telescopes, but this method was not easy to find because of the high-transparency colorless crystal stone, and the smart jewelry craftsman was not easy to find, and finally it was dragged.

Later, although the glass field was put into production, the early glass could not meet the requirements due to quality reasons. The glass produced was more or less colored and could not meet the requirements of making telescope lenses.

However, the process of glass produced in glass places 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-making concavex lenses according to his requirements. After several months of repeated trial production, they finally got usable lenses. Although the clarity and accuracy are far worse than the lenses of later generations, at least this thing can be used.

So he quickly asked the craftsmen to wrap copper tubes with copper skin, insert this lens into the copper tubes, and make them into a pull-tractable shape. The first batch of trial productions were sent to several important leaders. Wang Hong, as the leader of the second fleet, naturally became the first batch of The choice to use this new thing.

However, because Wang Hong did not come back from Shuangfeng Island, Yu Xiaotian gave a telescope to Fang An and asked Fang An to turn back to Wang Hong.

Now after Wang Hong got this thing, he didn't agree at first and felt that it was nothing strange, but after seeing the scene far away through the eyeglass of the telescope, the guy was shocked and shouted on the boat.

As a result, his performance will naturally be despised by his colleagues. After all, these people opened their eyes earlier than him, and now they have been fresh. When they see this guy showing a look of local bun, they will no choice but laugh at him.

Wang Hong didn't care about it. Just smile. Anyway, this thing was in his hands, and no one would want to leave for him again. After all, the number of this thing is still very small at present. The people who can get it represents their dignity among sea wolves, so after playing with the telescope in his hand for a long time, he carefully released it. He entered a cowhide tube handed to him by Fang An and solemnly hung the telescope around his neck.

However, the way this guy hangs is not very good. The cowhide tube is across his chest, like a cow's bone hanging around his neck, which is quite swaggering.

(Today, I would like to thank you for the reward of the doomsday dragon god friend! Today is the beginning of the month, and this month's monthly ticket has doubled. Please leave the monthly ticket in hand to me! The cold wind knelt down here! Ha ha! Please! I want a monthly ticket!)