Shang Jiuge sat on the mast of the ship, the sea breeze blowing around her.
The reason why she is standing here is because Fang Bu told her that if she sits as high as possible, she can see that the earth is actually round.
But Shang Jiuge looked at it for a long time and couldn't see how the earth was round.
I just saw a lot of birds and blew a lot of wind.
The sea girl has long been tired of seeing the sea. After all, no matter how beautiful the sea is, it will always be a bit unpleasant to see the same scene for days and nights.
At this time, a voice came from beside the girl: "So, did you see it?"
"How can you tell!" Shang Jiuge said angrily: "The sea is obviously so flat, why do you say that the earth is round."
"About this issue." Fang Bie smiled: "Have you seen the lighthouse in the distance?"
"Lighthouse?" Shang Jiuge turned his head and looked around: "Where?"
In Shang Jiuge's field of vision, there is indeed no lighthouse.
"There." Fang Bie pointed to Shang Jiuge.
The girl followed the direction Fang Bie pointed and saw a small dot in the distance.
That little dot doesn't look like a lighthouse.
"Is that a lighthouse?" Shang Jiuge asked.
"Of course it's a lighthouse." Fang Bie said seriously.
"Are you bullying me for not seeing a lighthouse?" Shang Jiuge asked.
"You have indeed never seen a lighthouse in the distance on such a large curved surface." Fang Bie smiled.
"What you see now is the head of the lighthouse."
"Next, if the ship continues to move forward, you will see the body of the lighthouse and the thick base."
"Is that so?" Shang Jiuge hesitated.
"Why do you see the head of the lighthouse first?"
If the earth were an absolute plane, then the entire body of the tower would definitely be visible at the same time.
"So the earth is actually a ball." Fang Bie said calmly: "We are moving slowly on a curved surface, so we can only see the most pointed things, just like looking at a ship in the distance. Just like the mast, when you look at a lighthouse in the distance, the first thing you see must be the spire.”
"So this is also the important value of the night lighthouse."
Shang Jiuge couldn't help but nod, she still understood such a simple truth.
However, the girl's eyes when she looked at Fang Bing changed obviously: "So you know so many things besides fighting."
"I know a lot more things than you think, but most of them are useless things." Fang Bie looked at Shang Jiuge and said calmly.
Before Fang Bu finished speaking, Shang Jiuge spoke with bright eyes: "So if you say that the earth is a curved surface, will the earth eventually be round like an apple?"
The girl made a bold guess.
Fang Bie nodded helplessly. He didn't expect that Shang Jiuge, at such an old age, would be so interested in the round earth: "Of course the earth is round."
"So if we take a boat and set off in one direction, will it eventually circle the earth and return to the starting point?" Shang Jiuge continued to ask.
"Better say goodbye. It's more expensive for the captain. I've heard of a curse." Fang Bie looked at Shang Jiuge and said.
"What curse?" the girl asked as expected.
"This curse is for anyone who wants to sail around the world. The captain will definitely die on the way." The young man said to Shang Jiuge seriously.
"That's right." Shang Jiuge nodded: "Then it's okay if we don't become captains?"
"It would be very interesting to be able to walk around this land."
"Then you must prepare a lot of food. I heard that if you take a boat to go around the world, it may take several years, and you want to prepare food that can be stored for several years in the harsh environment on the boat. Survival is a very difficult thing." Don't seriously object to the girl's whims based on what Shang Jiuge cares most about. After all, the girl came down from Huashan Mountain to see the sea. If you give her a chance, she will definitely be interested. A quick trip around the world.
Although in fact, according to the real historical process, Magellan has been out of action for decades at this time, this is not a story that can spread throughout the world quickly.
"Do we need to prepare a lot of food?" Shang Jiuge tilted his head: "Can't we just prepare water? Although the seawater is not drinkable, there are many edible fish in the seawater."
"Forget it, it's hard to reason with you." Fang Bie decisively decided to change the subject: "By the way, do you know what it means when we see the lighthouse now?"
Shang Jiuge shook his head: "I don't know."
"The lighthouse is built on land. Its most basic purpose is to prevent night-sailing ships from hitting islands or land and being stranded or directly broken in the dark." Fang Bie explained to Shang Jiuge seriously. Anyway, this Giving the girl a new topic every time can make her forget about the dangerous voyage around the world: "It is also obvious that a lighthouse requires a lot of construction materials and labor, and it also requires a lot of flammable grease to ensure that the lighthouse stays lit in the dark night. "
"So?" Shang Jiuge continued to ask.
Shang Jiuge has always been lacking in this kind of common sense.
Just like taking a boat was a very unfamiliar and interesting thing to Shang Jiuge before, how did Shang Jiuge know what the lighthouse was for?
"Then no one would be so philanthropic as to build lighthouses on every corner and island in the world, so that every lost ship can know its own direction." Fang Bie looked at Shang Jiuge and said, "Lighthouses are only located on Areas with more intensive human activity were built up and vigorously maintained.”
"And now that we see the lighthouse, it means that the land is not far away. We can see the mainland immediately and prepare to land."
"Isn't that a good thing?" Shang Jiuge looked at Fang Bie and asked.
The two men were sitting on the tall mast at this time, so they were the first to see the lighthouse in the distance, but others would soon see it.
"For us, it is of course a good thing. After such a long voyage, we finally arrived on land, and then we may not need to take a boat for a long time, and we will not need to put our lives on it. On the mercy of the sea.”
"But it's not a good thing for the people on the shore." Fang Bie said.
"Why?" Shang Jiuge looked at Fang Bi, the girl's eyes were dark and bright.
But this time she was not so ignorant, but just waiting for Fang Bu's final answer.
"Because we have too many people." The young man also slowly gave Shang Jiuge his answer.
Shang Jiuge looked back.
In front of her was the endless sea and the looming lighthouse on the sea, which meant that the landing was right in front of her.
Behind her are countless sails rising and falling. The sails of various colors stretch in the sea breeze, like countless ants crossing the river holding leaves, but now, they are crossing the ocean.
"So what will happen when we get to the shore?" Shang Jiuge asked.
"There are probably no other uses for so many people besides war." Fang Bie said quietly, "Is it possible that we are here to hold a sports meeting with them?"
"What is a sports meeting?" Shang Jiuge discovered the slippage.
"The sports meeting is a meeting where everyone comes together to play sports." The young man looked at Shang Jiuge and said, "Have you heard of the Olympics? Forget it, the Olympics have been suspended for thousands of years. You must have never heard of it. In short, the sports meeting is A very interesting thing, if there is a sports meeting in the future, I will sign you up for a fencing event."
"Ah?" Shang Jiuge felt that what Fang Bu said was full of half-understood things, and he probably understood that this boy was sick again.
"Anyway, since we are not here for a sports meeting, we must be here for a war." Fang Bie looked at Shang Jiuge and said his final conclusion slowly.
Shang Jiuge nodded quietly: "So if Oda Nobunaga becomes the boss, will he still continue to fight?"
In the past year, Oda Nobunaga, with the help of Yanyu and the emperor's acquiescence, has successively defeated most of the Japanese daimyo in Huairou, and was finally personally received by the emperor and made Japan's new general.
After the entire Japan was roughly unified, these large numbers of soldiers who had not been consumed became a new problem.
Because a serious problem faced by Oda Nobunaga is that not all of the surrendered daimyo were maimed before surrendering. It was only because Oda Nobunaga had mastered the great cause of justice and had the strongest army that he surrounded him several times. Net was quickly defeated, and what was even more frightening was that many of the hostile daimyo were assassinated inexplicably, while the assassination attempts against Oda Nobunaga came to nothing one after another. Oda Nobunaga had the greatest military advantage, and the Emperor Only under the triple premise of His Majesty's close public support and terrifying assassination ability, Japan will be unified at such an almost incredible speed.
But - without the consumption of war, it is impossible to expect these surrendered daimyo to disband their troops and carry out large-scale reduction of vassals, or to let the horses disarm and return to the fields to forge swords and plowshares to restore peace. .
So this led to the formation of this expedition.
On the one hand, the overall strength of the entire Japan has been greatly enhanced due to unification, but the inertia of the huge military accumulation brought about by the Warring States Period is still continuing. Therefore, under Yan Yu's proposal, the expedition to Goryeo became a matter of course. .
After all, war represents huge military achievements, and the plundered land can reward new heroes. What's more, the Japanese countries have gone through the baptism of the Warring States Period. Each of them has proclaimed themselves military gods and generals. Their hearts are extremely swollen, and they hope to break out. The island bared its fangs to the world.
Faced with Oda Nobunaga's proposal to conquer Goryeo, almost no one refused, and even said they would fight to be the first.
So this contributed to the achievement of this expedition.
The number of vanguard troops has reached 50,000, and the subsequent additional troops will reach 150,000. If Japan, which is traditionally considered a small country, takes out this total of 200,000 troops, it will really be almost The power that can shake the whole world.
"No matter who becomes the boss, he must always consider the interests of those under his command." Fang Bie said calmly: "And, in fact, whether the expedition is successful or not, Oda Nobunaga can accept it."
"What does this mean?" Shang Jiuge asked: "If he wins, Oda Nobunaga's prestige will definitely increase, but if he loses, this will also damage his strength."
Because Shang Jiuge at least maintained a simple dialectical thinking.
"The truth is this." Fang Bie looked at Shang Jiuge and said calmly: "But in actual operation, if Oda Nobunaga knew that this was a very dangerous war, he would also let his most elite troops and allies To be consumed so fearlessly?”
"No." Shang Jiuge thought about that man. That man seemed so lawless, but in fact he was an extremely shrewd man.
Just like that day in Okehama, with such an absolute advantage, he still chose a solution that could preserve the most strength.
"Then what can we gain?" Shang Jiuge looked at Fang Bie: "We have been in Japan for more than a year, and finally helped Oda Nobunaga become the boss of Japan, but now Oda Nobunaga is going to send With so many troops coming to attack Goryeo, is war our purpose?"
"War is never an end." Fang Bie looked at Shang Jiuge and smiled: "War is always a means."
"You have to know that Goryeo is a vassal state of China, a vassal among vassals."
"Although it is not said that China itself was attacked by Oda Nobunaga, under the premise that Goryeo is unable to resist this invasion, it will definitely make a request for help from China."
"There is no way for Shenzhou to refuse such a request. After all, as a sovereign state, how can it not be able to protect its own tributary state? Do you know that this will cost you your destiny?" Fang Bie looked at Shang Jiuge and said seriously.
"Lost destiny?" Shang Jiuge asked.
"Don't worry about it!" Fang Bie looked at Shang Jiuge: "Do you want to go back to China and meet Xue Ling and the others quickly?"
"Think!" Shang Jiuge said loudly.
It is indeed very similar. After all, I eat Japanese food every day. Even if it tastes good when I first eat it, I really feel a little uncomfortable after eating too much.
"That's right, what we have to do is to pull chestnuts from the fire, and ultimately obtain the benefits we deserve by inciting this national war."
"As for what the interests are, I can't mention them to you now, but as things develop further, the final answer should be revealed in front of you."
"You are doing something very troublesome again." Shang Jiuge sighed: "Is there anything that can't be solved by a fight?"
"Why go to all this trouble?"
"Because there are many things that can't be solved with a fight." Fang Bie looked at Shang Jiuge and said quietly.
At this moment, a huge shout came from beneath them.
"We saw it."
"land."
"There is land ahead."
"Get ready for battle!"
