Chapter 1224: The Voyage Is a Good Idea

When Chang Sunxin came to the river, many people stood on the shore, all looking at the boat.

Compared with other boats, this boat is twenty feet long and about four feet wide.

There is a chimney on the top of the boat, bubbling black smoke.

There are no oars, no sails, and no big wheels on both sides. It should be a boat with propellers under the water.

But this boat is too big, how many people can pedal it?

And the boat seems to be made of iron, not wood.

"Fast, how fast can this be?" Li Longji stood on the deck of the bow, feeling happy.

"It's faster than pedaling. It can run more than twenty miles in half an hour. The fastest is thirty miles." Li Yi introduced.

Along the way, he introduced many contents, including boilers, pressure gauges, and how to weld iron boats.

The pressure gauge uses a spring tube, the simplest one, but it does not need to be filled with silicone oil.

How to measure the pressure value of the spring tube? Isn't there a medical oxygen cylinder he exchanged? That one has a pressure gauge.

Use that meter to detect and locate the current steam engine pressure gauge value. Once it is determined, more can be manufactured.

Welding technology belongs to fire welding, using acetylene, and making it yourself.

Anyone who has the technology to make calcium carbide acetylene can make steel, because the temperature required for the manufacture of calcium carbide is higher than the melting temperature of ordinary steel.

Then use calcium carbide to make acetylene, and use oxygen cylinders for fire welding, so that the iron ship appears.

He also specially made a watertight compartment. What others see is the ship, but in fact it reflects the technical background of Lijiazhuangzi.

For this ship, write a paper and send it to people from other countries and foreign countries to see, but they still can't build it after reading it.

The current maximum speed of the ship can reach 17 knots. In this case, the propeller has too much pressure on the shaft and is easy to break.

It is enough to maintain a speed of 12 or 13 knots, and run 22 kilometers in half an hour.

If this ship goes to America, it needs to go through the Strait of Magellan because there is no Panama Canal.

It's just like going to Africa without the Suez Canal to enter the Mediterranean, and you have to go around the Cape of Good Hope.

If you take the western route from Datang, you have to cross the Strait of Malacca before reaching Africa, because there was no Kra Canal when Li Yi came here, which is the one in Thailand.

In fact, if there are enough resources, you can go directly to South America from the Cape of Good Hope, crossing the ocean, the Atlantic Ocean.

Going east is the Pacific Ocean, and the places you arrive at belong to Peru, Ecuador, and Chile.

Going around the Strait of Magellan will lead you to Argentina, and continuing up to Brazil, there are many good things here.

Corn, peppers, tobacco and so on are all here, as well as silver and gold.

If you go a little off the track, the cactus in Mexico is also very good, it is big and can be roasted and eaten.

Of course, if you really go out to the sea and go east to America, you can't go directly there, you need to go a little south.

First go to the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Pitcairn Islands, Easter Island...

Anyway, you have to visit all the islands along the way to replenish fresh water.

If others want to go to sea, they have to risk their lives all the way, and they may end up in the Hawaiian Islands.

Li Yi has a map, and the longitude and latitude of all places where supplies can be made are marked and the locations are determined.

The fleet itself considers which island to go for supplies. If it still can't get through after making such an auxiliary, it's stupid.

Theodolite, sextant, simple seawater desalination equipment, and other things are all ready.

Including barrels of fresh rice wine, if there is really no water to drink, just drink.

You can even bring ice and saltpeter in the cabin.

Carrots, oranges, and Chinese medicine are equivalent to going there to take a look and bring back things found.

The people who go there don't need to look for the mines alone, and the places are marked.

"How long will it take to get to the place you said at this speed?" Li Longji discovered the advantage of steam engines, which can run all the time.

"According to mathematical calculations, half a month, according to the actual situation, God knows.

Theoretically, one month should be about the same, but it needs to go around.

If you don't go to the other side of the shore and cross by land, everyone will die."

Li Yi wants something, not to send people to take a look.

Get off the ship from the west coast and go through the Amazon rainforest? The Yulin Flying Cavalry can't stand it, even if they mark out the local harmful animals and insects.

Let alone the Amazon rainforest, why not organize a team to go to Shennongjia in Hubei to have a look?

"In that case, can it be returned in three months?" Li Longji was anxious about the potatoes that Li Yi mentioned. He had eaten potatoes and thought they were good.

"In the past, there may not have been corn seeds, potatoes, sweet potatoes, rubber trees and other things. We should bring back more each time we go. Gold and silver don't matter."

Li Yi was also anxious. He wanted to eat tomatoes and kidney beans. Kidney beans are beans and green beans.

Including some nuts, and big apples. As for marijuana, yes, marijuana can be used as medicine.

Forget about tobacco. Take it back and teach the people of the Tang Dynasty to smoke dry pipes?

"Yes, gold and other things are not as good as the people's food." Li Longji has also thought it through now.

The problem of money is not a problem. If you want money, find Brother Yi.

"When you come back for the first time, tell the big families and those who are willing to take risks about the situation there." Li Yi said casually.

"Give them benefits? Let them stay quiet in the Tang Dynasty?" Li Longji frowned. No one was willing to compromise.

"It's just an excuse. When they go out, we set the rules. If they break the rules, we can take action." Li Yi had a smile on his face.

"Haha!" Li Longji suddenly laughed, feeling very comfortable.

In the eyes of the people, the owner of Lijiazhuangzi in Bashui, Chang'an is a very kind person.

The big families felt that Li Yi was indecisive and not ruthless in some aspects.

What about the reality? Yidi acted for the overall situation of the Tang Dynasty, and there was no situation where he could not do it.

He could kill people personally and continue to live a normal life after killing.

He smashed the enemy's head one moment, and the next moment he returned to the manor, he could hug the baby and kiss him and hold him high.

Killing people, in Yidi's opinion, was not a big deal, just kill if you want to.

Would killing a chicken to eat be psychologically triggered?

Yidi killed people just like killing chickens. ＵUReading www.uｕkanshu.net

"Yidi, can you kill children and pregnant women?" Li Longji suddenly asked.

Li Yi shook his head directly: "No, some people kill people to practice courage, that is, they break the moral bottom line and code of conduct when killing their own kind.

My purpose of killing is clear, you deserve to die, your existence has seriously disturbed me, so I kill you, or you want to kill me.

Children and pregnant women are not a threat to me, what's the point of killing them? To prove to others that I am cruel and make others afraid of me?"

Li Yi always feels that the difference between humans and animals is that humans have their own judgment and bottom line.

The natives kill people for food, and humans can eat them too. Civilized people kill innocent people. The other party does not threaten you, why do you do that?

When innocent civilians are killed for courage, then such people are actually not human.

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