The more people have the considerations of the more people, and the Chu people also have the plans of the Chu people. After a few lengthy meetings, the corn was like a twisted rope around the neck of the bear. Seven years can accumulate four years of corn, but it can only support four to five years, what will happen after five years?

Migrating to Jiangdong is a matter of defense, because once you lose the girder, you can only retreat to Jianghuai. In today's world, the further south you go, the more barren it becomes, and the farther south you go, the more difficult it is to accumulate millet. It is necessary to find the three grains of the eastern continent and spread the seeds within seven years, and it is also necessary to build a trade network in the central and western continents within seven years, and to transport back the grain from the profits of the trade.

The former can rely on the efforts of the Blue Ocean Fleet, and according to the plan, they will set sail for the Dongzhou mainland next spring; The latter will sail west this year because of the monsoon. However, trade required not only sailors and merchant ships, but also money and supplies.

Lack of money is an extreme headache. The accumulation of millet will allow the money of the entire Chu State to flow to the two countries of Wei and Qi; Building a war boat, 600 pawn wing war boats plus about 200 supply ships of the same tonnage, will exhaust the existing and easy to cut down chapter of the Chu State. Trading merchant ships can only accumulate themselves through trade.

This is not an era of abundance of goods, and there are many situations where money cannot buy things. What Chu State can purchase, first, more than 30 million stone millet from Wei and Han, second, the cloth crown clothes and shoes produced by Qi that can make up for Chu, and third, the big chapter in the deep mountains of Zhao, Qi, and Han.

It should be pointed out that there is a contradictory relationship between Han Wei corn and the supply of cloth clothes in Qi State, if Chu State buys Han Wei's corn, then Qi State will not be able to sell cloth clothes in short of grain; If you want to buy the cloth clothes of the Qi country, you can only let the Qi country buy 20 million stone millet. In addition, although Zhao State is sitting on Taihang, the southern part of Zhao State in the war obviously cannot sell Dazhang. Even if it can be sold, once the corn of Zhao State is insufficient, the common people will not be able to enter the mountains to cut wood, and the same is true for Qi and South Korea. Therefore, money and goods must be two accounts.

A gluttonous sail cargo ship costs 800 gold, and in terms of money, a trade can pay back (in the case of fewer merchant ships and higher trade profits in the early stage); However, in terms of materials, a shipload ship transports only 30,000 stones, and a hundred dollars and a stone is only 312 gold, which is a year, and a shipwah can only run once a year.

Originally, this would have to subtract the sailors' salaries for a year, but considering that the money was sufficient, a shipload of seventy or eighty sailors did not consume much materials, so the salaries were basically negligible. What really needs to be deducted is the cost of repairing the ship, roughly a merchant ship can earn about two hundred and fifty gold in materials. Subtracting the loss of a wrecked ship, it would take four years for a gluttonous cargo ship to fully recoup its material costs.

The merchant fleet was built by self-accumulation, and the initial capital was of course the dowry of the princesses, 7,000 gold a year, and about ten sailing cargo ships could be launched in a year. These ships made a profit from trade, and the profits would buy the remaining 10 million stone millets of the Wei state. If you can buy those 10 million stone millet, at the current price, you can build sixty-five gluttonous ships.

Sixty-five ships a year (with a total displacement of 33,800 tons), and six hundred and fifty ships in ten years. It's a pity that the big chapter is not endless, and time is not endless, once the big chapter that can be cut is finished, or the three kingdoms of Zhao Qi and Han are destroyed, such a good thing will not be possible.

Zhibisi couldn't count the exact number of big chapters in the deep mountains of the Three Kingdoms of Zhao Qi and Han, and Gong Zhijian roughly estimated a number through the carpenters of the Lu State all over the world, that is, the big chapters that the Three Kingdoms of Zhao Qi and Han could cut down or about 100,000, plus the rest of the pawn wing warships built by the Chu State, a total of 150,000 pieces, these big chapters can build about 200 sail cargo ships.

This is, of course, an optimistic estimate, once the four kingdoms of Zhao, Qi, Wei and Han were destroyed by Qin, and then wanted to build cargo ships, they could only rely on material profits to drive the Yue people to cut down teak in Southeast Asia. At this time, the profit from trade was worthless, and the valuable thing was about 250 gold per ship per year. Although the size of the merchant fleet doubles every four years, if the base is too small at first, such as a hundred sailing ships, it will take eight years to expand the number to four hundred.

The four kingdoms of Zhao, Qi, Wei, and Han perished, and the Qin state will definitely attack the Chu state next. If there were only 100 sail cargo ships at this time, it was good to hold the girders, but if the girders could not be guarded, the main grain producing areas in Huaishang would be lost, and there would be no surplus grain in the high warehouses, then the more than 3 million people in the country - if all the people in Huaishang migrated, the Quartermaster Department thought that a quarter of the common people might starve to death that year.

At least 400 cargo ships were needed to save the common people from starvation in the year of migration; It is also necessary to have 500 sailing cargo ships and 15 million stone net tons of merchant ships (grain must be shelled) in order to barely feed the 200,000 troops and the logistics and military industrial system behind the army, and to continue to fight against the Qin army. Of course, if the cultivation of Dongzhou three grains can achieve an increase in production, the net tonnage of merchant ships can be reduced. How much it can be reduced depends on the yield per mu of cultivated land in Yuedi and Poyang Lake. According to the current farming, the situation is not optimistic.

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After changing ships, the Vermilion Bird sailed against the wind with full sails, and the speed of up to ten knots made the Suwu Zhu and others amazed, he couldn't help but want to ask Xiong Jing for this kind of sea boat several times, but unfortunately it was useless, he felt that he had not made any contributions, such a request was really embarrassed to speak, so he could only drill around on the Suzaku and feast his eyes.

At noon the next day, the lookout on the mainmast of the Suzaku that began to sail westward saw the lighthouse standing on the island outside Panyu Bay and the large-winged warship that went out of the port to greet him. I don't know if it was the towering sails of the clippers that frightened the Yue people on the Big-Wing Warship, or if they were stupid themselves, but the two Big-Winged Warships that greeted them collided with themselves when they were avoiding the channel.

The big wing warship did not have a watertight cabin, and the big wing that was hit tilted at a visible speed, and the Yue people on the boat jumped into the water one after another. These people were first-class in the water, and a hundred and ten people floated in the sea and watched the Suzaku turn its rudder into the bay at a speed of ten knots.

Immediately after entering the bay, the sailors climbed the mast and reeled the sails. From the mouth of the bay to the port of Panyu, the bay islands of more than 50 nautical miles are dense, and the speed does not slow down, so there is no way to enter the port with the pilot ship. For safety reasons, the captain of the ship also picked up a Vietnamese boat officer to the boat, and he stood by the rudder to make the helmsman choose the right course.

The boat traveled very slowly, and it was more than 50 nautical miles until the afternoon of the next day, when I saw the Gongshiyu and his courtiers and subjects who greeted him on the wharf outside Panyu City. At this time, Xiong Jing was freed from the boring number calculation and looked at the city of Guangzhou for two thousand years. Although he was mentally prepared, he couldn't help but be disappointed. Where is this city, this is a courtyard at all, and the people are busy again.