Fortunately, Li Zhiyu can still remember some of the general style, and combined with the impression of modern ship pictures, at least a few more ship types can be outlined.

However, the specific size and proportion need to be developed by these people, but this is also very convenient for these crews.

No matter how complex the structure of the unknown thing is, as long as the general shape and design concept are in shape, the development can be targeted, and it is much more convenient.

It is also to see that these people are loyal and honest, Li Zhicai is willing to help, and this move can achieve results as soon as possible, once the development is successful, he doesn't mind spending more silver.

Because of these, whether they are foreigners or Tang nationality, Li Zhi thinks very carefully for them, and once they are older, they will have work arrangements on the ground.

For example, a few people in front of them have entered the Beijia woodware field in Guangzhou City, and they are very willing to start their retirement there.

If they have mastered the art of shipbuilding, they will be more secure in their future livelihood.

After some sketching, Li Zhi specially told a few people not to leak the simple pattern, which is also considered intellectual property rights, and there is no specific size, but there is a prototype of the ship, which is already a semi-finished pattern.

We all know that once the development is successful, there will be a heavy reward, and at the beginning of the development, it is always unfavorable to make it known to everyone, and even the competition between the crew will threaten the safety of shipping.

When it comes to the actual construction stage, others can't make some small moves, and Li Zhi's order can be regarded as a kind reminder.

Since Li Zhi had already set aside the drawings of the new warship for Ma Jingshuo, the squire of the Ministry of Works, and Wang Xiuming, the Langzhong of the Ministry of Water, they were only given civilian speedboats mainly light boats.

However, it also adopts the advanced nailing and tenon connection technology, and the wooden impeller design is unreserved, and the earliest propeller drive principle is adopted, which is similar to the internal structure of military vehicles and ships.

This design has eliminated the original boat oars in favor of human pedals, which are the predecessors of modern steamships.

The transformation of various details in the evolution of ancient ships is closely related to specific ship types, and Li Zhi knows a limited number of ship types, so he can only put forward part of the concept.

In fact, he didn't have much hope for these people, the purpose was just to add another way to make money to the Bei family.

Even if they don't achieve anything in a short period of time, the military vehicles and ships developed by the Ministry of Industry are almost the same, and it is a big deal to come forward to ask the military for some orders for small ships of two or four cars.

For Li Zhi, the Bei family is a key target of support, after all, they are his spokesperson in Guangzhou and even in the entire southern region.

Only when the Pei family quickly has enough financial resources in a very short period of time can he arrange more space for them to develop.

That is to say, at present, he has regarded Guangzhou City as his base camp, and the stronger the Pei family, the more it can unite with Zhengqing Wenqitang to form an economic advantage that echoes the north and south.

With Li Zhi still in this world, he is confident that he has the ability to protect his family and business, maintain development, and the purpose of doing so is to think about the future.

When he leaves here and enters the cultivation realm, he will take most of the cultivators with him, and the Zhengqing Wenqi Hall alone will obviously not be enough to deal with the next change of imperial power and the change of dynasty.

After noon that day, Rahman and Sada came to the cabin where Li Zhi was and talked about the previous inquiry.

Bastion really revealed a lot, and Sada first asked for the parchment map that Li Zhi had shown him before, and combined it with the latest nautical charts in his hand, pointing out and analyzing them one by one.

As previously speculated, the Bahamas, which are 20,000 miles away from the port of Guangzhou, are the sea areas marked on the map in hand.

The island of Telline is also the same as previously judged, and is on the navigation route from the Caribbean Sea in the Western Hemisphere to Europe.

The surrounding islands are all black natives, with a radius of hundreds of nautical miles, all of which belong to the area under the de facto control of the Arawak language group of the Indian language family, and belong to a theocratic society, and the tribes are ruled by chiefs.

The local black indigenous chiefs mostly traded directly with Europeans by exchanging cotton, gold, furs, minerals, and slaves from the islands for daily necessities from Europe.

Bastião even visited one of the islands, Brolin, the largest of thousands of islands, where the Eastern Roman Empire had a diplomatic mission.

As far as he knew, that area had not yet been colonized by Europe, but it was one of the largest importers of European slaves.

The Europeans on the island said that they were diplomats, but in fact they were literate indigenous blacks hired by European businessmen, and in fact had little to do with the royal family of the Eastern Roman Empire.

In other words, the relationship is also very secretive, because he once saw a nautical diary, the description of Brolin is quite detailed, and even the distribution of forces on the island is mentioned.

At first glance it may sound normal, but it is important to know that Brolin Island is still in the uncivilized Stone Age, and the Arawak people are an agricultural civilization, whose main crops include cassava and oats, and they use stone tools, use the Caribbean language, and have no written language.

Apart from agriculture, the only artificiality that is considered advanced is the weaving of cotton hammocks.

Bastião also mentions that tobacco is grown in large areas, and he even pulls out a rudimentary pipe made from the roots of a tree, which is derived from the local natives.

He described how the islanders would dry their tobacco in the sun and hang around their necks a small bag made of calfskin, a hollow stone or wood, much like a pipe.

When he was happy, he crumpled the tobacco and placed it at one end of the tube, lit a fire, and breathed deeply through his mouth at the other end, so that his body was completely filled with smoke.

Until it comes out of their mouths and nostrils, like smoke coming out of a chimney.

The people there said it would keep them warm and healthy, and Bastião had tried the cigarette and put it in his mouth, and it had a hot and spicy taste, like pepper.

It was precisely because of this insight that when he was in Luoyang, he was overjoyed to see the snuff of Zhengqing Wenqitang, and dared to spend a huge price to introduce it to Europe.

Because tobacco has appeared in Europe, the common way to smoke it is to smoke pipes, but it is expensive and has not become popular, and only some people with status can afford it.

Tobacco smoking does have a significant psychoparalytic effect, and an overdose can even lead to unconscious anesthesia, which is as addictive as alcohol.

Among other evil habits of the local natives, another distinctive feature is the eating of human flesh, so the Arawak people are also called cannibals, or cannibals, by some European insiders.

Undoubtedly, this is an extremely horrific subject, and the horrific act of dismembering, cooking, and then dividing and eating people makes people shudder.

When a former pirate like Sada told the story, he himself felt chills.

It's just that these people only eat the male captives alive, and the tragedy of people eating the living will not be staged among the same tribe, even if the food is eaten and the wild beasts are hunted out, digging up the roots of the grass and eating the bark of the tree is still not enough to feed the stomach.

Among these prey are pirates, who have only appeared in recent decades, and although they do not eat human flesh, they are no less ferocious and tyrannical than the black natives on the islands.

They discovered that there were some small islands in that area, and there were gold mines, and some pirates changed their livelihood and made their main livelihood by raiding the islands.

According to Saada's estimates, the discovery of islands, which are usually extremely difficult to find, should have been stumbled upon by pirates while searching for looted goods, as in the case of Terring.

Because the reefs off most of the islands are in serious condition, fleets that are familiar with navigation are generally reluctant to pass through that area.

However, it was not easy for the pirates to smuggle ashore, because there were frequent battles between the Aravaks and the Caribs, and there were many traps on the islands of the hundreds of nautical miles, where there were people, on the beaches and in the coconut groves.

A branch of the Caribbean Latin American Indians, who were larger and closer to civilized areas, had been semi-detached from primitive societies.

Due to territorial disputes, some people often find excuses to move to the Bahamas by canoe, crowding out and assimilating the local Arawaks, and secretly selling the local people to Europe as black slaves.

Over time, the two sides have become incompatible, and have since become hostile parties.

But the Caribbeans are no simple group, among the Indians, they were the first to be plundered and slaughtered by European colonizers, and they have a long and proud tradition of resisting foreign invasions.

These are also fierce and belligerent cannibals, with the Caribbean language used only by men and the Arawak language spoken by women.

They raided other tribes, capturing women as slave wives, while male captives tortured and killed until they were boiled and eaten.

In recent years, the most recent civilized Europeans have begun to trade in black slaves as slaves or shipwrights, and the Caribbeans have tasted the sweetness between simple defense and business, and have increasingly invaded the Bahamas ruled by the Arawaks.

Bastião spoke of the complex mountainous terrain of the island he had visited, known as Brolin, which was less than a few dozen miles in circumference, and it was difficult for the locals to find it even for a year if they tried to hide.

At this time, there were already white-skinned Europeans on the island, most of whom were so-called clergy, but they did not belong to the Eastern Roman Empire, and it is estimated that most of them were selling dog meat on the head of a sheep for another purpose.

It was through these men that Bastião arrived on the island, and it was through them that he heard the names of several famous pirates in the vicinity.

Although Rahman and Sada did not get more useful information from his mouth, they also understood to some extent that most of the thousands of islands there had the end of the word Lin.

Green Island, where the pirate organization Poseidon Gang is located, should be in that sea area if nothing else.

"In that case, will our fleet pass through that section of the sea when it goes to Europe next?" Li Zhi asked.

Saada replied:

"I've been there a few times, because unlike most other seas, the sea is already sporadically visible on a clear day, so I don't need to sail close to the land. With those pirates as the coordinates, you can go around more than 100 nautical miles and avoid there, because it is also the most frequent haunt of European pirates. ”

"Do you need us to get as close as we can on this trip?" Rahman said.

Li Zhi shook his head violently, "You must not try to get closer, or even stay away from that place than other merchant ships. My crew doesn't need to take any chances, your job is to protect yourself from pirate attacks and business dealings, so ignore these and I'll take someone to find out later! ”

His words were calm, but the two of them sounded unsettled in their hearts, although they had also worked as pirates before, and it was because they were tired of looting at sea that they went ashore and became normal people, and no one wanted to wade into that kind of troubled water again.

At present, they belong to Li Zhi's mercenaries, and this master is a terrifying powerhouse, so it stands to reason that it is logical to push them out and do some exploration, after all, the price given by them is extremely high.

But knowing that he didn't do this, he was thinking about them from the bottom of his life, and it was really in line with what Li Zhi promised before, he really hoped that his own people would get rid of the stigma of pirates and gangsters and live a normal life.