Chapter 169: East China Sea

In the East China Sea, two huge ships sailed down the river to the Korean Peninsula.

For the first time, a human-made war giant has appeared in an ancient river.

The huge building ship lowered its huge sails, relying on human power to paddle and chop the waves.

A few bears waiting for a school of fish on the riverbank were so frightened by these two behemoths that they ran into the woods.

In the Bird Room (command cabin), a young officer sits in it.

He moved his muscles a little boredly.

"Captain, it's only a hundred miles away from Xinhua City!" An officer who was clearly a deputy reported the distance.

Hearing this, Wang Zhan nodded.

As the son of the Han Dynasty Lou ship general Gaihou Wang Chong'er.

Although Wang Zhan now only hangs the so-called 'Lou Boat Sima' in the Yamen of the Lou Boat General.

But in fact, the Han Korean fleet, which uses Qinhuangdao in Liaoxi County as its home port, is currently under his command and management.

Last year, the Han dynasty set up the Yamen, the general of the Lou Boat, to oversee all kinds of warships and warships in the world.

Then, according to the order of the Son of Heaven, the general of the building boat, Yamen, selected four deep-water ports among the coastal counties of the world, and set up four offshore fleets stationed in each of them, responsible for managing maritime affairs.

Because, up to now, the Han family has not found any enemies from the sea, and there are no maritime interests to maintain.

So, all four fleets are small in size.

Taking Wang Zhan's North Korean fleet as an example, there are only four ships under its command, plus more than a dozen auxiliary ships such as warships, and its main work in normal times is to patrol and patrol the coastline from Qinhuangdao to North Korea, and to go fishing.

It's very idle.

It was only two months ago, after the imperial court began to emigrate to North Korea, Liaodong, and Xinhua, that Qinhuangdao became lively.

For a time, dozens of building ships that had gone on the last expedition to North Korea were gathered. and more than 100 other large and small auxiliary ships.

These new ships were all dismantled from combat facilities and weapons and converted into transport ships.

Non-stop delivery of supplies and personnel from Qinhuangdao to North Korea.

And the volume of these ships, especially the building ships, is very staggering.

A building ship. They were able to travel back and forth to Korea three times a month, transporting hundreds of immigrants and all their belongings and all the food and supplies allocated to them by the state to the port of Siseon in North Korea, which was the port where the Han fleet landed.

Because the Han army landed from there, and then eliminated the brutal Wei regime, bringing love and justice to the land of Korea.

So. Named 'Shishan'.

Wang Zhan was sent to Qinhuangdao in a hurry by his father at the beginning of the immigration operation.

On the one hand, it was to supervise and supervise the fleet of Qinhuangdao on behalf of the general Yamen.

On the other hand, it is to brush up on political achievements and prestige, so that it is convenient for the son to inherit his father's business and inherit the position of General Lou Chuan in the future.

"How's our cargo going?" Wang Zhan turned his head and asked.

"Captain, all cargo is fine!" The adjutant replied respectfully.

Wang Zhan nodded when he heard this, and put his heart in his stomach.

The materials transported to Xinhua City this time are very important.

In the city of Chang'an. There is more than one pair of eyes on this transport mission at all times.

Otherwise, how could Wang Zhan risk going to sea with the fleet?

"I heard that Xinhua is very good...... Wang Zhan walked out of the finch room, stood on the top deck of the ship, looked at the scenery on both sides of the strait, and thought to himself: "I should be able to make a fortune......

As the imperial court began to promote the reclamation, a large number of people and materials were mobilized in the northeast direction.

This has created a large emerging market and a thriving trade route.

Ginseng, deer skin, deer antler, and fur from Korea, Xinhua, and Maban are in great demand in China.

A complete bear skin made in Chang'an

The price often exceeds tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.

And more expensive mink, fox and otter skins. It is even more priceless.

Cloth, spices, silk and pottery, bronze products, and ironware produced in China are also very popular in these regions.

A piece of iron produced by the salt and iron yamen is sold for no more than 1,000 yuan in Chang'an.

But in these places. But it is easy to exchange this for a perfect fur, and even, it often appears, a certain merchant took the shit luck, took the fast burlap, and exchanged it for a large piece of dog's head gold.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

Trade is so thriving. The profits are so high.

Naturally, it has attracted the covetousness of all forces in the world.

For example, the commander of the East China Sea, who was stationed in Korea by the general of Lou Chuan, Yamen, has recently been making a small report to Chang'an: Wang Xu of Korea has no royal law, and he only builds ships privately, and there seems to be something wrong.

And Liu Xu, the king of Joseon, did not grow up eating grass, so he immediately took a bite back: the governor of the East China Sea won the victory, privately brought and entrained goods, blackmailed the people, and competed with the people for profit.

This tearing war even hit the Son of Heaven directly.

Wang Zhan is very clear about these inside stories.

In the final analysis, it is still the wealth that touches people's hearts!

The port of Langya in Korea is the home port of the East China Sea Fleet selected by the general of Lou Chuan, Yamen.

The port is the best deep-water port in North Korea, with more than 100 ships berthed at a time.

With the development of the Northeast region and the reclamation of the Tun Tun, the merchants and immigrants in Qilu and other places basically passed through Langya Port and sailed directly to Korea along the course of the last Han fleet expedition to Korea.

In other words, whoever controls Langya Port may control a large commercial port with a daily transaction volume of more than 10 million.

Liu Xu was already poor and was about to go crazy.

Now, such a big pie has fallen from the sky, and if he doesn't want to catch it, I'm afraid he will be a fool.

And the general of Lou Chuan, of course, will not watch the hands of the local people reach into their own territory.

Therefore, this tearing is actually the North Korean king Liu Xu and Wang Zhan's father Wang Chong'er in front of the gang.

And Wang Zhan has no doubt about the result of his father's final victory!

The reason is very simple: the Son of Heaven is on the side of the general Yamen of Lou Chuan!

If it weren't for Liu Xu is clan, this would have been the general of Lou Chuan, Yamen, who would have been celebrating the victory.

Thinking about this, Wang Zhan walked to the side of the deck and looked at the plain in the distance.

In the distance, on the plain, there was a faint curling smoke.

Looking at this land, Wang Zhan is also full of expectations.

Because it is said that the Son of Heaven will give the princes and heroes in this new land, and divide them again.

In other words. In some corner of the land, there may be a piece that will later be surnamed Wang.

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After three hours of sailing, the ship successfully arrived at the port outside Xinhua City.

Because the port is so small, only one building ship can barely stop.

Therefore, Wang Zhan asked another boat to stop in the river first. His own ship docked first.

When they arrived at the dock, Lou put down a huge wooden plank, and then Wang Zhan walked off the boat with several officers.

On the dock, several officials wearing official uniforms were immediately welcomed.

Among them, there are Wang Zhan's acquaintances.

As soon as Wang Zhan saw the other party, he immediately bowed his hand and bowed, "Brother Ziren, I haven't seen you for a long time......"

And Bo Shi also smiled slightly and bowed his hand back: "Brother Xian has been absent for a long time!" ”

Bo Shi, the table word Ziren, the so-called 'must be the world and then Ren also', the table word of the Han Dynasty. It is to be able to echo with one's own name and be able to corroborate each other.

For example, everyone is familiar with Zhao Yun, the word Zilong. It is the clouds that extend from the dragon.

Zhang Fei expressed the word Yide, how can you fly without wings?

Random random table words, that is a manifestation of no culture, going out to be laughed at!

Two sons of a family

, chatted for a while, and chatted about some Chang'an.

And then. Wang Zhan said: "Brother Ziren, I was ordered to transport three trawl nets to my brother, and I also asked Brother Ziren to check and sign for receipt, in addition, on the orders of His Majesty, the two building boats led by Brother Yu will obey my brother's orders in the next three months, and catch a fish in the black water every two days!" ”

As he spoke, Wang Zhan handed an official letter written on a blank piece of paper to Bo Shi.

Bo Shi took it and said with a smile: "There is Brother Lao Xian!" ”

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A quarter of an hour later, when Bo Shi looked at it, dozens of Han soldiers and soldiers, carrying a huge net that was neatly folded together, was suddenly a little dumbfounded.

"It's so huge!" Bo Shi smashed his tongue, he finally understood why the Son of Heaven ordered the dispatch of two precious building ships to Xinhua City to cooperate.

Such a huge net is simply not something that can be pulled by manpower!

And those who disembarked with the giant net were also a few craftsmen from Shaofu and an official who was obviously dressed as an ink man - who would be barefoot except for the ink man in the world?

"These three trawls are woven by craftsmen in Shaofu East Garden, and just hemp costs tens of thousands of catties! Each trawl, 130 zhang long, 12 zhang wide, with coarse linen as a rope, reinforced by a wooden tube, weighs more than 1,000 catties! After the ink master got off the boat, he proudly introduced this unprecedented fishing weapon created by the wisdom of Mo Yuan and Shaofu.

The emergence of such large-scale nets indicates that human beings can now catch countless fish in rivers and oceans on a large scale.

After the trawl was successfully manufactured, an experiment was carried out in the Wei River.

Experiments have shown that the trawl nets pulled by two medium-sized building boats can catch all the large and small fish in the river, so that no grass is left.

Because it was so buggy, the Prime Minister's Office ordered that trawling nets should not be used in the Wei River - if they were to fish with trawling nets in the Wei River, the fishermen in Guanzhong would be cornered.

And even if he came to this Xinhua City, the Son of Heaven specially ordered that the trawl should not be used for more than two consecutive days.

This is also the spirit that China's rulers have implemented in their own ruling philosophy since ancient times: we cannot kill them all.

From the Western Zhou Dynasty onwards, pregnant and lactating beasts were not on the hunt list.

This is benevolence.

Of course, as one of the makers of this trawl, this ink artist is also very aware that in fact, this kind of trawl is limited by materials and technology, and it is impossible to work uninterruptedly.

Every two days, there is a trawl, which must be overhauled and inspected as well as dried.

Otherwise, in a few days, this trawl will rot.

Wang Zhan and Bo Shi were both shocked by the word 'East Garden'.

As we all know, there are six temples in Shaofu, each performing its own duties.

Among them, the Dongyuan Ling Yamen was the concentration of craftsmen and craftsmen of the highest level in the Han Dynasty.

This organization, in normal times, will only do one thing - to make spiritual artifacts for the emperors of the past dynasties.

The yellow intestine inscriptions and golden jade clothes in the tombs of all the princes and kings in the world are all from the East Garden.

Therefore, the East Garden is also known as the 'Garden of Hell'.

The craftsmen of the East Garden can even weave silk into a ** as thin as a cicada's wings, and can also cast lifelike bronze figures.

There is even a legend that there is a bronze mirror that can clearly see the portrait of a person in the Baling Tomb, which is the craftsman of the East Garden, who spent ten years grinding it out bit by bit.

In other words, this institution is a concentration camp of top craftsmen who can paint on eggs with their hands.

And this trawl actually has to be woven by craftsmen in the East Garden.

To a certain extent, this shows that the technical difficulty of this trawl has surpassed the ordinary and excellent, and reached the limit of what human hands can weave.

This made Bo Shi's heart immediately filled with infinite confidence.

Bo Shi looked at the Heishui River in front of him, and immediately laughed.