Before going to sea to the Shandong Peninsula, Wang Defa said to Zhang Guoan, the lord of the island: "That victorious king Baibars is also using us to fight against the Tatars...... Otherwise, it wouldn't be so easy to help us. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, smiled and said: "That's pretty much it, he is anti-crusader, and even more anti-Tatar forces, but at least he sincerely promotes trade, protects trade routes, and knows how to make friends from afar and attack closely, so it is a force that we can communicate with or communicate with." ”

Indeed, his contradiction with the Crusaders was a conflict of interest in religion, and the contradiction with the Tatar forces was a conflict of interest in the right to exist, both of which were impossible to reconcile, let alone negotiate peace.

He would never be pragmatic like the old dog of the Great Song Dynasty...... So, the victorious king Baibars was somehow a more suitable collaborator.

After Wang Defa heard Zhang Guoan's answer, he left satisfied, knowing that his friend would deal with the current situation.

The situation on the Shandong Peninsula has become more variable because of the support sent by the Great Song Dynasty.

They welcome the support of the Great Song Dynasty, but whether they will mix sand and make small moves has to be worried.

So Wang Defa went there despite the hard work, and his friend had to agree.

Now, the sea routes between Qingdao Port, Dengzhou Port and Liuqiu Island are almost busier than those with Lin'an, Mingzhou, Quanzhou and Guangzhou in the Great Song Dynasty.

In fact, it's true that they are not far apart.

Liuqiu's related products have contributed to the development of the maritime industry.

Interests are the first driving force for the dissemination of science and technology.

Take Lui's Group as an example.

The cavalry team that Zhang Guoan Island Lord got simply made Lu Wenhuan, the deputy envoy of Jinghu Establishment, sleepless all night!

A million yuan of money can buy 500 heavily armed cavalry...... It's unthinkable.

It was all tall horses, and the Tatar horse was like a donkey compared to it.

He looked at the adaptive training of those cavalrymen, and his saliva flowed out, and those horses seemed to be obedient and able to charge!

The Xiangyang area is not suitable for long cavalry marches, but when charging for short distances, it will be unstoppable.

Why did they lean on the city? It's the cavalry that the Tatars have worked so hard to transport!

If you want to have such a war horse, you have to buy it, and if you want to buy it, you have to have a suitable sea boat.

He took Lu Xiong, the head of the house, to carefully observe their five-masted transport-type sea vessels.

He was first fascinated by the sails.

As mentioned earlier, all ships on this plane are mainly powered by sails, but the materials of sails are very strange.

In the Great Song Dynasty, some sea ships used multi-layer cotton cloth, soaked in tung oil, and even silk...... All this not only makes the sails expensive and not strong, but also increases their dead weight to outrageous proportions.

And the one with hay, that's a joke.

After the advent of cotton linen, some people directly called it canvas, which directly explained its greater usefulness.

Even Kublire, the leader of the Tatar bandit group, understood this, not to mention the people who often came into contact with the ship.

The sail ribs of the Great Song Dynasty are also exquisite, and they are completely used as a compressive force, which reduces the overall weight.

The colloid used for laminated wood is casein glue, which is a gel that has good adhesion and is waterproof.

This was personally concocted by the owner of Zhang Guoan.

He first divided the amount of water into three parts, one for soaking the casein to make it swell; One part is mixed with calcium hydroxide to make lime milk; The other part water is used to dissolve the sodium hydroxide.

Mix the above three ingredients to make a glue before use.

The temperature of the preparation water is 20~25C, and then it is filtered with a 40-mesh sieve before use.

The casein is also simple, and it is directly fermented with animal gum.

There are also various fixed pulley sets on the boom that lifts the sails and lifts the cargo...... The gear set that controls the rudder.

Unique modular cabin ...... Lu Wenhuan understood at a glance that this cabin could be changed to transport troops!

Lu Wenhuan immediately gave an order: "You send someone back, pick out 500 shipwrights, and learn how to build ships with them!" Learn to build this kind of ship first!! ”

In fact, if compared to the total output, Da Song's cotton cloth and cotton linen cloth easily fell to the lower Qiu Island to produce several positions, even if he used modern technology.

Don't say it's because someone learned the Jenny machine used to spin cotton yarn here, or his machine for hand-spinning cotton and linen...... There are more than 100 million people in the Great Song Dynasty, and there are countless handicraft workshops.

The sail change movement caused by Liuqiu Island, but the output of the Great Song Dynasty is the first in the world, which is also a helpless thing.

This demand is almost endless, because cotton and linen can also be used to make clothes, pants, shoes, hats, and tents......

Their last voyage to do business found an export route for their products

According to Wang Zheng and Xiao Er's report, of course, they had also encountered pirates in the Red Sea, and they fired a few shots almost jokingly, and those pirates ran faster than when they came.

Xiao Er said: "They are too dirty, I am afraid of infectious diseases...... Or catch some and come back. ”

Wang Zheng immediately said: "Don't, don't, I can't understand what I speak, and it's too smelly!" ”

The Great Song people are indeed the cleanest people in this time and space, and there is no other ethnic group that loves bathing like them.

Of course, this has laid a solid foundation for Zhang Guoan's island owner to promote the bathing culture.

The other maritime merchants were also happy with the passage of this sea route, of course, they could not rise to a higher level, and they could not see the benefits of transporting war horses, for them the profit of transporting such livestock was too low.

They are looking for gold in Egypt.

Egypt is not the oldest in history, but it was once the world's first golden power.

According to research, from 3900 BC to 2100 BC, Egypt mined 700 tons of gold.

At the same time, there are gains elsewhere, but in any way they cannot compare with it.

For example, Nubia and the Arab region alone produce about 20 tons, Cyprus and Asia Minor about 10 tons, Tianzhu about 70 tons, and Bactria about 30 tons.

It is said that the ancient Egyptians did not know about gold, but the Nubians taught them because Nubia produced gold, and the name Nubia means "El Dorado".

By the way, many place names in Africa are associated with gold. For example, the Zambezi River means "river of gold".

The beginning of the founding of Egypt. When the first pharaoh, Menes, reigned, gold bars weighing 14 grams appeared in Egypt.

It was around 3200 B.C.

From this, the gold coin has a history of more than 5,000 years.

These coins not only have the honorific name of the pharaoh, but also other characters.

As can be seen from these texts, at that time not only turquoise was mined from ore on the Sinai Peninsula, but also gold in the same way...... This is a big step away from finding natural nuggets and sifting gold sand.

Their invention in the 21st century BC of the method of separating gold and silver made it possible to purify gold, which was decisive for the later purification of metals and the manufacture of alloys.

The early Iron Age period between 1580 BC and 1090 BC was the heyday of ancient Egypt, and the gold industry was very prosperous.

At that time, the pharaoh opened the fortune and expanded the land, and wherever the army hit, the gold seekers followed.

When Pharaoh Ramges II marched into the Nubian wilderness, he feared that those who would flock there to pan for gold would die of thirst on the way, so he ordered the digging of wells in the desert as a pre-arrangement.

At a time when their country was strong and the people were rich, Egypt not only had a prosperous gold mining industry in its own country, but also became a gold gathering place for the whole of Africa.

At the same time, it is precisely the gold mining boom that prompts people to go far and wide, looking everywhere, and accumulating gold in a frenzy.

Up to now, it is estimated that there are about 1,000 tons of gold in Cairo alone!

The maritime merchants of the Great Song Dynasty were pleasantly surprised to find that it was the real land of gold, and they exchanged their porcelain and silk for gold ...... Otherwise, Wang Zheng and Xiao Er couldn't be a little jealous.

The Great Song maritime merchants who followed them made a fortune. (To be continued.) )