From Chief to Ball

When this person said it, Chen Jian's face turned a little red, and he said that evil does not suppress justice, and he is not completely dirty enough to rely on his father's status to hang his neck and be a dude.

Just as he was about to give in, he thought about it, and the person opposite him recognized the same thing as before, and he couldn't help being furious. The pigeon landed on the black pig and said the pig was black. What qualifications does a crow have?

Among the parents of the four, two are officials and the other are businessmen. Officials are not allowed to go into business.

Or those who are in charge of local stability and market stability, or those who have Daye iron workshops, are all families with more than a hundred years.Compared with them, Chen Jian was a child of a nouveau riche. The young people opposite him had organized some business organizations in the school, and they recruited the children of officials and businessmen.

What people play is reciting poetry, discussing state affairs, talking about the price market, talking about the news, reading new things in newly published pamphlets, playing with women in a more refined and refined way, exchanging or seducing women, etc.; People like Chen Jian and Henry Zhang are still stuck in low-level interests such as watching operas, molesting, reading manuscripts, horse racing, fighting, and fighting fiercely. There is still at least a generation to go before entering that circle.

If this is reprimanded by an honest gentleman, Chen Jian will give in, thinking that neither of us is a good bird, why are you pretending to be a big-tailed wolf here?

Take a step forward, knowing that the opponent is good at despising the weapons of ridicule and criticism, so take out the criticism of the weapon, and hit with a fist.

The people who were patrolling nearby came to disassemble it, reported the names of their fathers, paid the fine according to the law, and scolded each other and dispersed.

Chen Jian had experienced hundreds of battles in his last life. Compared with the group of people who just came out of the mountains and forests, this group of people now has a lot of fighting skills, and the consciousness is still there.

Henry Zhang was beaten twice, but the two did not suffer from the four, and they drank and had a good time, completely forgetting why they fought.

Chen Jian looked in the distance, the girl had long since disappeared, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, at least he left an impression on the other party, and he would never forget it easily.

"I said why did you learn to fight? I still want to go to the theater with you at night, so don't worry about it. My eyes are swollen. I have to go to the pharmacy to buy some fire nitrate for ice compresses."

"Hey, does your dad know the person in charge of the population in the city?"

"Why, are you looking for that girl?"

"Ah."

"Of course we know each other. What's the girl's name?"

"Lin Xi."

"Okay, I'll go back and ask for you."

After saying a few more words, we made an appointment to see you the day after tomorrow, and then we went our separate ways.

Back home, Chen Siwen was reading "Astrolabe Map" with half of his glasses on. Seeing that Chen Jian's clothes were torn, he asked calmly, "Did you fight?"

"Ah."

"Didn't move the gun?"

"No."

"That's good. Win?"

"The patrol has gone."

"The little money I gave you in the morning was fined again?"

"Yes. I still owe thirty copper coins, and I will pay it tomorrow."

"Who did you fight with?"

"Those from Shi Lei."

"Speaking of his father, do I know who he is?"

"His father is a business officer."

"Oh."

Chen Siwen waved at Chen Jian, and stopped asking about the fight, and said, "Come here, I got you a few books for you to read, don't go to the military academy and don't understand anything."

Chen Jian moved over, knelt down on the ground, and looked through the catalog. It was either geometry used by artillery, statistics and algebra used by quartermasters, or various formation transformations used by infantry.

The artillery and quartermasters are not bad, but the infantry behind them is basically going to be obsolete soon. Now that the fog has not been opened, it can last for three to fifty years by relying on spearmen and line musketeers.

Once the fog is opened, there will be no spearmen in the formation for at most decades, so it doesn't matter if you don't look at it.

In the current situation, the size of the army is too large, and it is too difficult to change. Coupled with the fact that the family is like a pile of shit such as impostors joining the army, it is impossible to get involved in politics. It cannot be changed, and too many interests are involved.

He flipped through it casually, threw the book aside, and asked, "Father, if I don't go to the military academy and admit to being an imposter, what punishment will I have?"

"Punishment? What kind of punishment can there be? For me, it's a penalty of drinking three glasses of wine. It can even be used as a model for returning from a lost path, and a fine of six hundred silver. For you, you will be forced to serve and start from scratch."

"So light?"

"Everyone is like this, too heavy doesn't look good."

"And I want to go to the Navy?"

Chen Siwen tilted his head, looked at his son, and smiled for a long time.

"You? Just you? Do you know the triangle? Can you recognize the stars? Do you know the relationship between waves and islands? Can you climb a mast? Can you use a starboard? Can you read a star map?"

After being ridiculed, Chen Siwen pointed at his eyes with unilateral glasses and asked with a smile: "Do you know why your father's eyes have glass mirrors?"

Chapter 6 Searching for the sea, heaven and earth do not lie

"I was admitted to a naval academy and served as a lieutenant on a ship. At that time, it was said that the earth was round, and someone discovered gold on an island, and Qi supported pirates. At that time, I often had to go to sea."

"Why didn't the people who said they want to ring the earth back then come back? The people in the arithmetic class earlier calculated it by relying on the shadow of the sun. One circle is only [-] miles. Triangle and arithmetic can't lie. Eighty thousand miles, That’s climbing, and I’ve come back after three to five years of climbing. Because of the strange waves here, I’m afraid they haven’t even sailed for [-] miles.”

"We are at sea. We have to look at the sun, the astrolabe, and the stars all year round. Otherwise, you don't know which way the ship is heading. If you look too much, you can't see clearly with one eye. Where is the navy? So easy to do?"

"You have to learn arithmetic trigonometry in the military academy, and you have to obey the crowd on the ship. The ship is not on land. There are not so many good rules. If you don't obey, you will be beaten, otherwise you will not be able to convince the crowd. In a small space, there is nowhere to run. Only obedience Obey! Obey again! If you don’t subdue them, they will tie you up and throw you into the sea to become pirates.”

"The boats drifted to unknown places by accident. 15 years ago, six ships hit the rocks and sank, and they caught up with strong winds. There were no more than 1000 people left. Sometimes they drifted far away, and the water they drank stinks. If it turns green, you have to drink it, if you don’t drink it, you will die of thirst..."

Speaking of this, Chen Siwen suddenly fell silent, as if recalling something unbearable, he sighed and said: "It's fine if we just fight along the coast, but there are so many pirates now, and there are orders to attack them every now and then. How can it be so easy?"

The sea is indeed romantic, but behind the romance lies countless sorrows.Things are always reversed, and it is precisely because of those countless sorrows that the romance of a great voyage that is not afraid of life and death is brewed.

Chen Jian sat up straight, and said solemnly: "Father, my son has read a lot of books these days, and understands a little about sailing. I always feel that the sea is the place where men should go, so the army is a bit boring and dull. Having been a dandy for a long time, it is inevitable that he will be a little boring and tired, so..."

Chen Siwen smiled and said: "You, you, you are like the person Ji Xia said in "Sleepwalking in the Ancestor's World", who failed in three years of studying books, failed in three years of learning swords, and learned the art of war of the enemy of ten thousand people. No way. But people are born with the strength to carry a tripod... Ordinarily, the tripod is what the ancestors called the cannon. Even the smallest three-jin cannon would cost a few hundred catties, right? Then you still need to learn a fart sword? Are you a What else can I not know?"

After a reprimand, the books were piled up and Chen Jian was the only one to learn.Chen Jian didn't say much, put away his books and left obediently.

After Chen Jian left, Chen Siwen couldn't help but sigh.

Back then, with the dreams and enthusiasm of young people, I was admitted to the Naval Academy from the few places reserved for ordinary people. I also hoped that I could plant the Chinese flag on those unknown islands, and I also hoped that There will be no more wars and chaos in the unified world, and he may even make great contributions and engrave his name on some places where people can admire him.

Those years were the most passionate years for the sea. People were looking forward to the return of the round-the-world voyage and to know the outside world. However, after a few years, no news came back.

So those passions turned into fear, thinking that there might be terrifying creatures ten thousand times bigger than whales in the sea.Since arithmetic, trigonometry, and sun shadows are not wrong, the earth is still round, but I am afraid that there will be no other continents except Huaxia.