Duan Yucai looked at the high and steep ladder falling from the side of the ship. He felt dizzy and his legs were weak.

Jiang Fan thought: How many troops and horses can such a big ship carry? If it lands in Tianjin, haha!

After a group of people got on the deck, they all became curious babies when they saw the large deck and the dazzling machinery and equipment everywhere. Regardless of the strong wind on the deck, everyone walked from the bow to the stern, and then walked back to the bow from the stern, pointing.

Equipment everywhere asked Wang Zhong this and that.

How could Wang Zhong understand this? He called a sailor over to explain to everyone what a windlass was, what a winch was, what a heavy machine gun was, what a cannon was...

When everyone got on the boat building, climbed up the stairs and arrived at the "famous" restaurant, they were even more dazzled by the four large glass windows.

Duan Yucao pointed to the glass window and sighed: "This is too extravagant! There is no more wonderful and obscene technique than this."

However, Jiang Fan disagreed with this and said with a smile: "What is useful is miraculous skills rather than cunning skills."

Ancient China valued moral education over skills, manpower over material resources, skills over tools. Even the Confucian school that advocates "managing the world for practical purposes" only recognizes those matters that are related to the stability of the country and the basic lives of the people.

Technology, that is, related to water conservancy, burning wasteland, smelting, and farming, and everything else was dismissed as "miracles and ingenuity."

The development of new technologies actually relies on two things, either the high development of the commercial economy or the urgent need for military technology due to war. There has never been a simple technological explosion. This was true in the late Ming Dynasty, and the same was true in Europe.

Why did Galileo throw two iron balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa? Do you really think he suddenly wanted to understand gravity and mass? In addition to throwing iron balls, he also studied the rolling speed of iron balls on different slopes.

No! He wanted to study ballistics and figure out the conditions under which artillery shells could hit the enemy accurately.

What Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Dürer were best at was not art at all, but making weapons. In the recommendation letters that Leonardo da Vinci received when he was looking for a job, 95% of the content was related to military engineering experience.

One day later, seven scholars from Yangzhou finally arrived at Whale Port. Just like the refugees who first arrived in Beihai Town, when they saw the even larger Thunderbolt and the densely packed cargo and facilities on the shore, they were stunned and completely ignored it.

Yu Deli and his party were greeting them on the pier.

In a room on the second floor of the customs, Zhao Xin held up a telescope and observed for a long time. He thought to himself that it was okay, there were only seven people here in total, and he would be scared if dozens of people came here who were "talking about it" all day long.
Chapter completed!