Chapter 76: Set sail

After passing through several sentry posts, Yunyi finally entered Wanghai Town.

Most of the cities in this era have a common problem, the layout of the houses is chaotic, but Wanghai Town and other newly built towns and cities in Yunhua County are different, their construction plans are from the hands of Yunyi, Yunyi has not learned this knowledge, but has far beyond the insight of this era.

In Wanghai Town, houses of roughly the same specifications are neatly arranged in different areas, and there are also buildings with various functions such as public latrines, sewage drains, and garbage dumping points, making the interior of Wanghai Town cleaner and tidier.

If the population of Wanghai Town increases in the future, it is also very simple, Yunyi thought of this at the beginning of the construction of Wanghai Town, with the increase in the population of Wanghai Town, Wanghai Town will be expanded in an orderly manner.

Most people just feel novel about the scene inside Qingshan City and Wanghai Town, but Zhang Xu, one of Yunyi's students, who was born in the Mo family, is quite interested in these, anyway, the technical talents in Yunyi's hands are enough for the time being, and he is not much more than him, since Zhang Xu likes this aspect, Yunyi will sort out some knowledge and hand it to Zhang Xu, if Zhang Xu can carry it forward, maybe there will be one more architect or planner among the hundreds of sons in the future.

The last Wanghai Town was established by Yunyi to provide the general design and planning drawings, and then Zhang Xu presided over the establishment of Wanghai Town.

Although the interior of Wanghai Town is relatively neat and clean, because Wanghai Town implements military control, people are not allowed to enter and leave Wanghai Town at will, so that the commercial environment of Wanghai Town is relatively poor, and the number of teahouses, taverns and other shops is only a handful.

Moreover, the residents of Wanghai Town have no extra land to grow other crops except for some vegetables in their front and back yards, and the food eaten by the residents is basically transported from the outside world.

However, Wanghai Town is close to the sea, and there is a shipyard in it, and a small number of adult men in Wanghai Town who have not entered the shipyard to work buy wooden boats to go out to sea to fish at a low price, of course, these wooden boats are not steam-powered.

Those legends in the past have been influencing people, people who go out to sea to fish do not dare to leave the coast too far, for fear of accidents, some conservative, but can avoid accidents, at most sometimes someone accidentally fell into the water, but also quickly rescued, in addition to the sea is rich in fish, basically every time the boat goes out to sea, it will be fully loaded, which also makes the sea fish become the most common food for the residents of Wanghai Town.

Every two days, several horse-drawn carriages from Wanghai Town will drive to Yunhua County, and the carriages are carrying frozen sea fish, and Yunyi has no shortage of fish to eat all year round.

This is the life of the powerful, the powerful move their mouths, and a large number of people will be busy.

Not many people know the news of Yun Yi's arrival in Wanghai Town, but the entire Wanghai Town is shrouded in a strange atmosphere, walking on the street, Yun Yi can even see the women who come and go in a hurry, their eyes are a little red, as if they have just cried.

Yes, the residents of Wanghai Town know that the fleet of three "Tan" class ships is going to set off to explore the ocean on the twentieth day of the first month, and the residents of Wanghai Town have more contact with the sea, but most people think that the sea is a forbidden area for humans, and the possibility of entering the sea and coming back alive is very low.

Whoever is on the list of going to sea, during the Chinese New Year, their family often has the sobbing of a woman, once they go to sea, it is very likely that they will be separated from life and death, how can they be indifferent.

A large part of the people who even went to sea thought that it was a death trip, and the possibility of coming back alive was very small, but they were determined to participate in this death trip, because Yun Yi took out money that they would never see for the rest of their lives.

Once dead on the sea, the relatives of the deceased will receive 50 gold, which can be withdrawn in a lump sum or in batches; Return to Wanghai Town safely, there is no gain, everyone will receive a gold reward; If there is a harvest, such as the discovery of an island or a continent, according to the amount of harvest, you can get a reward of up to 10 gold; In the event of an accidental injury, compensation will be paid according to the severity of the injury.

With such a generous remuneration, even if they die on the sea, their wives can live well with compensation, not to mention that Yunyi also guarantees to protect their wives from being disturbed by others.

There are many people who are willing to go to sea for money to "send them to death", but at most one adult man in each family can go to sea, and most of them are fathers, who choose to fight with their lives to make their wives live without worry in the future.

The twentieth day of the first lunar month is coming soon, Wanghai Town is also making final preparations, Wanghai Town Gongshi Yang is the busiest person, and Yunyi mainly walks in two places every day, one is the shipyard, the other is Wanghai Town, check and fill in the gaps, Yunyi is the person who hopes to gain from exploring the sea this time, which means that the great development of Yun's is coming.

The "Tan" class steamer is not a specialized warship, mainly for transportation, but it can also be equipped with various weapons, exploring the sea is a dangerous thing, and even unknown enemies will appear, it is always good to bring weapons.

Each "Tan" class steamship is equipped with three giant crossbows and five large-caliber guns, and before that, Yunyi of the Shenji Battalion mobilized a total of one hundred and two people from the Huoji Town and Artillery Town of the Shenji Battalion to come to Wanghai Town for training, and this time to explore the sea, these 100 people will also follow.

The three "Tan" class steamers have a total of 270 people, and the Shenji Battalion has a total of 102 people, plus nine low-level warriors, a total of 381 people, which is the total number of crew members of the fleet, and for this reason, the three "Tan" class ships need to carry enough fresh water and food.

Yunyi still remembers one thing, in the previous life, the Portuguese navigator Magellan led the ocean-going fleet from Europe to the Pacific Ocean, because of the lack of vitamins, the crew suffered from scurvy, three months later, some of the crew's gums were broken, some of the crew had nosebleeds, and some of the crew members were weak, and when the ship arrived on the shore, there were more than 200 people, and only 35 people survived.

According to the navigation capacity of the "Tan" class steamer, it is expected that the whole trip will not exceed half a month, and the time is not too long, but the fleet is also prepared, bring easy-to-store vegetables, and bring bean sprouts if it is really not possible.

On the twentieth day of the first month of the fifty-seventh year of Longxing, the weather was sunny, the temperature was low, and the wind and waves on the sea were not large.

As soon as dawn came, some families in Wanghai Town had already gotten up, and after eating what they thought was a sumptuous breakfast, people gathered at the dock, where three "Tan" class steamers docked safely.

Time passed slowly, and more and more people gathered at the pier, as if the residents of the entire Wanghai Town had come, some of them were to see off their relatives, and the rest of the people may have the mentality of watching the excitement, but no one laughed, facing a journey with a great risk of death, if you laugh at this scene, it will only anger others.

"Master, we're leaving." Yun Yong, the commander-in-chief of the fleet, who was seven years older than Yun Yi, said to Yun Yi quietly.

"Well, it's a safe journey." Yun Yi uttered a word of blessing.

Under Yun Yong's order, the crew parted to their families and began to board the ship, and the fleet was ready to set sail.