The next day, Yang Sichen was pulled out of bed by the maids to dress up. When the maids ran away with smiles, Yang Sichen realized that he was wearing a pink embroidered shirt, a half-exposed silver undergarment, and a red half-arm silk jacket. Under the red embroidered satin skirt, the tips of a pair of sharp green high and low shoes could be seen. She took a few light steps and felt as graceful as a woman, like a weak willow supporting the wind. Her hair was combed into a fashionable cloud bun, with a flower hairpin in her hand. Her eyebrows swept across the spring mountains, her beautiful eyes were like waves, and when she looked at the bronze mirror, her face was filled with shyness. Uh…no matter how she looked at it, she looked like a virgin prostitute in a brothel.
Could it be that he was tainted by the company of vermilion and ink? He had not had any male animals around him for more than a month, and he had actually been stained with that rouge? Yang Sichen smiled bitterly in his heart.
Yang Sichen shook his head and thought to himself,'Fine, I've done a pretty good job as a master. At least the four servant girls around me aren't submissive to me, like mice meeting a cat.' If he really trained the four servant girls to be like that and faced a few poker faces every day, wouldn't he be disgusted to death? There was no harm in joking around like this. It was not without benefits. Let them be, as long as they did not cause any trouble. Who cares! Besides, even the gods wouldn't be able to tell that he was a man with his current appearance. In the future, he would definitely have a bright future as a rapist…When Yang Sichen thought of this, his face was blank and his saliva was dripping.
"Young miss, do you need this servant to teach you the rules?”Zi Juan's sweet voice suddenly rang out from behind Yang Sichen, giving him a fright.
"Sister Zijuan, please be kind and spare sister. Sister's body is so weak that it can't stand the wind!”Yang Sichen said with a smile. Yang Sichen recalled the experience of being forced to learn the rules by a few servant girls after dinner last night. He shuddered in his heart. It was too torturous. He couldn't walk more than a foot, and only a little bit of the tip of his shoes could be seen outside his skirt. His hands were always placed on his lower abdomen, and he had to cover them with his sleeves. At most, only his fingertips could be seen. When he sat down, his legs had to be together in front of his body, and he had to hold on…
Hearing Yang Sichen's words, Zi Juan stopped teasing him and said,""This servant has told Sister Zi Xiao your words. Sister Zi Xiao wants to go to Quanzhou by herself, you see…"
Yang Sichen thought for a while before saying," Send a letter to Granny Wen and tell her about Zixiao's situation. If she agrees, go with her in the middle of March. You can also visit Granny Wen and make a copy of the Tendon Changing Classic. Bring the original copy that Priest Qingchen gave me to Granny Wen in Quanzhou." She gave me so many things, so I naturally have to return some things to her. Otherwise, it won't make sense."
Zi Juan nodded and said,"I will go and prepare."”
Yang Sichen continued,"Go and ask your Sister Yanhong for that note in the afternoon and get fifteen taels of silver." Go to the Wan Bao Zhai in the east of the city to find their third shopkeeper and get the mask back. The four masks and a set of jewelry for Yanhong and Flowing Mist cost nearly sixty taels of silver. My heart hurts so much! He couldn't spend money recklessly when he went out tomorrow. Otherwise, I'll have to lead you guys to the northwest for the rest of the month.”After saying that, she covered her mouth with her hand and laughed.
Zi Juan rolled his eyes and pouted.""Young miss, this isn't fair. The three elder sisters all have something, but this servant doesn't. No matter what, this servant is the youngest."
Yang Sichen tapped Zijuan's forehead and said,""Among the four maids, you are the richest. Why didn't you say how much Granny Wen gave you before she left? Yanhong and Liu Lan are children born from a family, while Zi Xiao is a servant girl from a peasant family. Her family is not as rich as Granny Wen. If I don't take care of them, won't they be trampled on by you sooner or later?”
When Zi Juan heard this, she playfully stuck out her tongue and ran away.
Yang Sichen smiled and shook his head. He got up and walked towards the dining room.
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After Yang Sichen and the four maids finished their breakfast, Yang Sichen returned to the study room and took out a pen and paper. After grinding the ink, he started writing. Seeing that Yang Sichen had something serious to do, the four maids stopped fooling around. Those who were supposed to practice were practicing, and those who were supposed to do needlework were doing needlework. The study was rarely quiet.
Yang Sichen stole a glance at the four maids from the corner of his eyes and heaved a sigh of relief. He then began to do his own thing-designing a three-masted flying scissors sailboat!
The three-masted flying scissors sailboat was much larger than the two-masted flying scissors sailboat that had just set sail a few days ago. Naturally, it was much more complicated. The weight alone could reach about 1,000 tons, about 2,700 tons. It also had 70% more sails than a two-masted ship, and its load capacity was comparable to a 2,500-material Fu ship. Its speed was 50% faster than a Fu ship, and when it was lightly loaded, its speed could reach an astonishing 17 knots! In this era, no other ship could run faster than it when everything was going smoothly. Due to the larger weight, the reinforcement of the bearing keels would not affect the loading capacity of the ship too much. With the reinforcement of the keels, it could be loaded with cannons that weighed less than 24 pounds!
The larger flying scissors sailing ships of later generations could have a displacement of more than 3,000 tons. For example, the "Great Republic" built by the United States in 1853 was 93 meters long, 16.2 meters wide, 9.1 meters of draft, and had a displacement of 3,400 tons. The main mast was 61 meters high, and the entire sail area reached an unprecedented 3760 square meters. The speed was 12 to 14 knots, and it only took 13 days to cross the Atlantic Ocean, marking the peak of the development of sailing ships. After the 1870s, sailing ships, which were the main means of maritime transportation at that time, were quickly replaced by the emerging steam engine ships and were no longer glorious.
Although ordinary sailing ships of about 1,000 tons would gradually withdraw from the main naval fleet in the next 20 to 40 years, in Yang Sichen's concept of naval warfare, the status of these flying scissors sailing ships was still irreplaceable. In order to increase the speed of the ship, the body of the flying shears was a little slender, and the height of the hull was low, which was not conducive to the configuration of artillery.(At that time, the sailing battleships in Western Europe were all tall hulls with two to three rows of cannons arranged on them. The flying scissors sailboat could only be equipped with two rows of cannons. The artillery deck was quite narrow, and the height was only less than 80% of the sailing battleship.) If the cannons were installed and fired, the hull would be unstable, which would be detrimental to the sailors 'performance. The loading capacity was 35% less than that of the sail battleship. However, due to the speed of the ship being three to four knots faster than that of the sail battleship popular in the West during this era, the flying scissors were the most suitable main force for reconnaissance before the battle or for hunting after the battle. There was no need to talk about pre-battle reconnaissance. As long as the fleet commander was not an idiot, whoever received the news first would have the upper hand. In this era, the navy competed to see who had the most veterans left to win the war. A ship could be built in just two months, and a skilled sailor could not do without ten years of experience. Therefore, destroying the enemy's effective strength in a naval battle was the best way to end the war! According to the statistics of the later generations, in this era, 60% of the defeated side's strength still existed after the end of the naval battle! Once they had the Clippers, hehe…these people would either be blown into the sea to feed the sharks or captured as captives to work. Anyway, there was no Vienna Convention in this era. These captives could be tortured as they liked. At most, they could just eat and drink for a few days before the exchange of captives. If the enemy didn't treat the prisoners as humans, then they could just play with them and torture the prisoners. Anyway, there was no "The Hague Convention" yet. They could use things like nailed wooden donkeys, ducks floating in water, red sleeve shoes, and inviting the enemy into the trap…What was the slogan of the later generations? Practice was the only standard to test the truth!!
Moreover, the power of the Western colonists in the East in this era was far less powerful than that of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At this moment, the eyes of the Westerners were still focused on Africa and America. Asia and Oceania were still too far away for them. The real threat was the East India Company, which was a coachman. The largest warship of the East India Company was a 1,500-ton battleship, and there were only three of them. In this era, the weapons used on ships were muzzle-loaded cannons, which fired round bullets to destroy the hull of the ship, as well as shotguns to kill people and chain bullets to destroy sails. Due to the fact that it was powered by the wind, and the range of a single ship's cannon was relatively limited, a salvo was not enough to cause devastating damage to an enemy ship, and the interval between two salvos was more than a minute. Taking advantage of this weakness, a few Clippers could use their speed advantage to approach the battleships together. It would be easy for them to destroy these battleships with their heartless cannons. As for the remaining ships, they were small in weight, had few cannons, and could not run as fast as the flying scissors. It did not seem to take much effort to kill them.
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Yang Sichen thought about it as he drew the drawing. He had learned sketching for half a month in his later life, so his three-dimensional geometry was not bad. It was no wonder that this drawing was a combination of these two. To Yang Sichen, it was not a difficult task.
It took Yang Sichen two hours to finish drawing the blueprint of the ship's bow. He rubbed his numb wrist and thought," Drawing with a brush was much more difficult than drawing with a pencil. Looking down at his current appearance, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. Dressed in women's clothing, with makeup and makeup, combing her hair and drawing her eyebrows, she looked like a delicate young lady, but doing these things…seemed a little…uh…nondescript. Suddenly, Yang Sichen's heart skipped a beat. It seemed that the eyebrow pencil that these girls used to draw my eyebrows was harder and more suitable for drawing. She looked around and found Zi Juan playing with her fingers, Zi Xiao reading a book attentively, and Yanhong and Liu Lan doing needlework. So he said," Zijuan, when you go to Wanbao Zhai to get the mask in the afternoon, please give me a few fine eyebrow pencil and some eyebrow cream."”
The four maidservants looked at each other with baffled expressions. Finally, Zi Juan asked,""Miss, what do you want these for? Could it be that Miss had changed her personality and liked the joy of drawing eyebrows?”
Yang Sichen rolled his eyes and said angrily,""Go! I just feel that it takes too much effort to draw with a brush. The eyebrow pencil is thinner and harder, so my hands feel more comfortable when drawing.”
"Miss, the tip of this eyebrow pencil is made of soft fur after all. It's not much harder than a brush." If the young lady thinks that drawing with a brush is too tiring, she might as well ask Sister Zijuan to buy some fine charcoal strips from the Westerners in the afternoon. After that thing is sharpened, it will be a hard pen after being rolled up with a cloth strip. It feels good to use it for drawing.”
Yang Sichen nodded and said,"Alright then, we'll buy it according to what Sister Liu Lan said."?If there are people who want to buy quill pens, buy a few. Although they are not as good as Chinese brushes, it is more convenient to remember things than brushes. At least they don't need to grind ink. By the way, take Zi Xiao to the Dade Inn in the afternoon and let Zi Xiao and her brother meet. Tell her clearly that Zi Xiao is going to Quanzhou to treat her illness. Don't let her brother think that our Yang Mansion sold Zi Xiao.”
"Yes, Miss." Zi Juan nodded.”
Zi Xiao glanced at Yang Sichen awkwardly before lowering her head to read again.
Yang Sichen nodded at Zi Juan and went back to drawing.
After lunch, Yang Sichen walked around the house a few times. Feeling bored, he instructed Liu Lan, who was standing at the side,""Flowing Mist, this young lady wants to take a walk around the Jade Wave Courtyard. You and Yanhong go first and clear out the miscellaneous people in the courtyard, okay?”
"Young Lady is still a man after all. It's only natural that she can't calm down." At first, we sisters guessed that Miss would put on the airs of a master and order us to change Miss into men's clothes after staying in this room for half a day. However, the fact that Miss had endured for so long was indeed beyond our expectations. This servant will make the arrangements."
Yang Sichen's face fell when he heard Liu Lan's words. He pointed at his face that was covered in makeup and said in an extremely resentful tone,"You girls have already made me look like this. How can I still dare to put on airs as a master? If that were to happen, I might one day be dressed up as a young lady from a brothel and dragged out to the streets!”
Flowing Mist smiled awkwardly and went out. Yanhong took the opportunity to come in and said with a smile,"Miss, this servant will always be your servant. It is okay to play with you like this usually, but if you really want to put on the airs of a master, then this servant will have no choice but to obey. After all, such a good and kind master like you can't be found even if you hold a lantern. If one day you really make us angry and sell us to the brothel, we won't be able to cry.”
Yang Sichen immediately pretended to be angry. He deliberately raised his voice and shouted,""Someone come! Find someone to sell this little hooligan who doesn't know her place to a brothel!”
Yanhong quickly covered Yang Sichen's mouth and looked around carefully. She lowered her voice and said,""Miss, this servant is begging you. Everyone knew that the master of the Green Wave Court was a young master! You're making such a big fuss. If someone sees it and word gets out, it won't be easy to end it. When the time comes, the one who will lose face will be you, Miss!”
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