Chapter 0459: Fear from the Deep Sea (First Update)
Iron Hoof Island, Oxhorn City.
Now taken over by the Sapphire family, the wounds of the war have not been erased, and the huge castle towering by the sea can be seen in the choles and cracks on the walls.
It was left behind when the Great Prince led the Knights and captured Oxhorn City.
At this moment, the port of Niujiaocheng is densely moored with all kinds of sailing ships and flying all kinds of flags. The red tulip banner of the tulip family looks very inconspicuous. While at anchor for supplies, Liszt found the Red Crab Island fleet, led by his uncle Messiro Long Taro.
"Uncle, I want to rent a fleet from Red Crab Island to transport a group of serfs for me. Liszt said directly.
Messiro likes Liszt, the nephew who has the good looks of the taro family: "No problem, as long as you pay the corresponding payment, the fleet of Red Crab Island can be rented at any time." How many serfs are you going to transport to your territory?"
"I am ready to ship at least 10,000, and if I can buy more serfs, I hope to get together 20,000. ”
"Black Horse Island is just an undeveloped desert island, are you sure that you can rely on the territory to feed so many serfs? once there is a shortage of food, it is likely to cause a commotion in the territory, and the starvation of serfs to death is also a huge loss. ”
"I'm already stockpiling enough food for 10,000 people to survive the winter, and adding another 10,000 people is just to tighten the food in the territory, and I believe that I can get food from other sources and support it until next year's grain harvest. Liszt replied confidently.
Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the sea to eat the sea.
The serfs didn't have anything to eat, so they let them go to the beach to catch seafood, and then buy seafood from various coastal towns on Coral Island, and it was absolutely no problem to be satisfied.
It's just a matter of how much gold it costs.
"You're prepared, that's fine. A hint of remembrance flashed in Messiro's eyes, and he said gently, "If Melissa were still alive and seeing how you are doing now, she must have a bright smile every day." ”
Melissa was just a symbol to Liszt.
She had passed away when she was very young, so she didn't even have a memory, and she didn't have anything to talk about, so she changed the topic and said: "Is grandpa's health okay, with the marriage of Mei Opal and Angela, the castle of long taro must be full of more warmth." ”
"Don't worry about mundane affairs, your grandfather's body is getting stronger and stronger, but his temper has not been good lately. If May Opal and Angela don't bring him the next generation of the taro family, he won't be satisfied for a day. Even if she is a princess, she has to work hard for the continuation of the bloodline of the long taro family. ”
"Yes, family succession is the most important issue. As Liszt spoke, he suddenly remembered that the original smoke mission - May Opal and Angela's sexual affairs were not harmonious.
At that time, he immediately thought of the unethical scenario of "borrowing seeds", so he directly changed the task.
But after going back, I thought about it carefully, and thought that maybe I was thinking too much, and I had been wearing colored glasses to look at Angela, who was - the smoke mission was about disharmony in sex, which led to the inability to continue the bloodline for the family, which contained several other possibilities.
It may be that Mei Opal has a problem with her libido, which makes it impossible for Angela to conceive.
It could also be that Angela had a problem with her fertility that prevented her from getting pregnant.
There is also a possibility that the sperm is inactive and cannot swim to the place where it should go, so it is naturally difficult to get pregnant.
The first two possibilities cannot be solved, and the latter possibility needs to be regulated. If it's just an ordinary level of inactivity, eating more zinc-rich foods, working and resting correctly, and relaxing your mood can increase your activity level - oysters, also known as oysters, are the most zinc-rich food.
Zinc is also abundant in animal livers.
"If May Opal and Angela are unable to have children, I should really help, at least provide them with oyster food. He thought to himself.
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After only one night at anchor in Oxhorn City, the fleet continued its journey.
On the blue sea, one by one sailing ships lined up, Liszt deliberately climbed to the watchtower at the top of the mainmast, took out his binoculars, and looked at the surrounding fleet.
The telescope in his hand is already a second-generation product, and its accuracy and clarity far exceed that of the first-generation telescope. This stems from Piaget's continuous investment, and Piaget is very fond of telescopes, and after Liszt explained the principles of telescopes, Piaget vigorously urged crystal craftsmen to develop and polish them.
Right now.
Through his telescope, Liszt captured the sea on the right side of the fleet, where a whale jumped high above the surface and fell back into the sea, splashing a large wave.
These behemoths are a sight to behold during the voyage, and they often accompany the fleet for a period of time.
As long as the ships don't attack them, they won't attack the ships, and they'll be fine. Liszt had even heard from a crew member that when a ship was attacked by a sea monster, these large whales would even come to the rescue to drive away the sea monster - their huge size made it impossible for ordinary low-level sea monsters to deal with it.
"This may be the whale's behavior to protect the young, the sea monster will hunt the calf, so the big whale will try to block any hunting behavior of the sea monster, so as not to let them develop steadily, so as to reduce the possibility of the calf being hunted by the sea monster. Liszt deduced it this way.
He has seen documentaries about humpback whales often targeting killer whales for predation, launching rescue operations of thousands of miles to rescue prey that is about to fall into the mouths of killer whales.
There's no evidence why they do it, but they love it, chivalrous.
On this voyage.
Except for a few whale escorts, there are no memorable scenes, not even a sea monster. There are many legends of sea monsters attacking in the sea, but the number of times they are actually encountered is probably rare for a crew member to see once in his life.
The sea is so big that the sea monsters have fixed targets to hunt, so there is no reason to attack wooden ships and eat enough humans to stuff their teeth.
What prevents human beings in this world from looking to the sea is the constraints of cognition, and the difficulty of obtaining resources in the sea is far greater than that on land.
In fact.
If Liszt had a large fiefdom on the mainland, he would not have thought of exploiting the sea and leading the Age of Discovery. The deep sea always reveals a mysterious and dark atmosphere. Sometimes he stood at the bow of the ship and looked at the bottomless sea, and he inevitably felt a trace of fear.
The merciless sea wants to engulf a human being, it is too simple.
Practice.
Practice.
Practice.
The boring six-and-a-half-day voyage was soon over, and the fleet had sailed to Cockscomb City, a large city in the Iron Ridge Kingdom, where it would meet, replenish, and collect information, and then launch an attack on the Sardine Bay area.
"The Pioneer War, and the Battle of Iron Hoof Island, are different styles. Liszt, here, it is our main task to crush our opponents and plunder resources. The Count looked at the port he was about to arrive at with high spirits, "The war on the continent is the real battlefield of knights. ”