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In the blink of an eye, ten years have passed, and the three steamers that have experienced the wind and rain are still stubbornly sailing on the sea.

The fleet stayed at sea for ten days, but the actual travel time was not ten days, and the remaining fuel on the ship could keep the ship going for nearly seven days, which meant that the fleet had to explore for two more days before returning to the sea.

After staying on the sea for so many days, the crew's fear of the sea finally faded, it turned out that the sea was not terrible, this journey to explore the sea was not a death trip, they were able to return to Wanghai Town safely and receive a good reward.

For example, the first night of the fleet on the sea encountered a violent storm, which happened several times on the way after the fleet, and it was better to happen at night, and the fleet had to anchor and rest, but during the day, when such a thing happened, the fleet could only suspend its itinerary and wait for the storm to pass.

The "Tan" class steamer is a relatively large ship in this era, but it is still a small existence in the face of the storm, and it can still hear the storm if it breaks anchor in place, and if it sails in the storm, the ship has a very high possibility of being swallowed by the waves.

The storm was only one of the difficulties encountered by the fleet, in addition to the sudden storm, when the ship was sailing, each ship had to have some crossing to stand on the bow of the ship to observe the road conditions ahead, and maybe there would be a reef ahead.

The reef was a huge problem for the steamer, and during the voyage, the Visitation Steamer had touched the reef once, but fortunately the speed of the ship was not too fast, and steel plates were installed in important places, and if the steel plates were not installed, the Visitation Steamer would have to be silent.

After such an incident, the three captains sent more men to the bow of the ship to observe the road conditions, mainly to prevent the ship from hitting the reef.

Every time a reef is discovered, someone in the fleet will pick up a note to record the location of the reef, such a person can be called a cartographer, and their task is to draw a nautical chart, and when the nautical chart is successfully drawn, the complete voyage is formed, even at night, the ship can sail.

Ten days, the fleet has not set foot on the way home, which means that the fleet has not found a large enough island, the crew in the face of the sea yes fear is gone, the words and smiles gradually increased, they are talking about when they can find the island, when to return, if they can find the right island, after returning, they can get a large bounty.

Islands on the sea are not uncommon, and in ten days of exploration, the fleet found at least ten or more islands, but unfortunately, these islands can only be called reefs or reefs, which are basically made entirely of rocks and are too small to be of any use.

Every time the lookout discovers the so-called island, the crew will be excited, and when the whole view of the island is taken into their eyes, the excitement in their hearts will all disappear, and over time, each time the island is discovered, the crew's mood is more and more calm, and after several times, when the new island is discovered, the crew's mood has not fluctuated much, and it is about the same as usual.

Without determining the size of the island, it is almost impossible to change the mood of the crew, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, if you want to find a suitable island in such a vast sea, you need to keep a normal heart, exploring the sea is a very boring thing, and you must always be vigilant against all kinds of dangers.

At the time of departure, the entire fleet had a total of 381 crews, and now the total number is only 379 people, two people less, but these two crew members accidentally fell into the sea, and the others did not have time to rescue, and were drowned directly.

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In the early morning of the first day of February, the sky was bright, the crew members who had already gotten up were in place, the smoke rose, and the fleet set sail.

Now that the fleet has entered the second half of the exploration program, if nothing is discovered, the fleet will return to the sea.

If the crew knew that they could return safely, they would be happy to dance, and it was the best thing to be able to not die, but now, after ten days on the sea, the crew knows that the sea is not so terrible, and they will definitely be able to return to Wanghai Town safely.

As one of the lookouts of the Tanhai Voyage, Wang Ertao is the one who wants to discover the island the most, because the first person to discover the island will receive an additional bounty.

Before coming to Yunhua County, Wang Ertao's family was just a tenant family that lived by renting the landlord's land, and the Wang family had a total of four people, the royal father, the queen mother, Wang Datao and Wang Ertao, because the family was poor, the twenty-two-year-old Wang Datao and the twenty-year-old Wang Ertao did not marry a wife and have children, who would marry their daughter to a landless family?

After coming to Yunhua County, the Wang family, which has three laborers, finally has money, and after accumulating some money, Wang Datao married an ordinary woman, but also spent most of the family's savings, Wang Ertao wants to marry a wife I don't know how long.

The Yun fleet recruited people to go to sea with a lot of money, Wang Ertao gritted his teeth and signed up, Wang Ertao thought: If you can return safely, you can get a gold once, and you can marry a wife and have children a few times, if you find the island, maybe one or two times is enough, even if there is an accident at sea, you will never come back, and the compensation of fifty gold will make your relatives live better.

In this way, Wang Ertao said goodbye to his parents and became a lookout on the Tanhai.

Wang Ertao's eyesight is very good, on the first day of the fleet's voyage, Wang Ertao was the first to find a target that seems to be an island in the distance, but in the end it was just a reef, and in the following time, Wang Ertao found a suspected target several times, which is enough to prove that Wang Ertao is an excellent lookout.

"Huh! That seemed to be an island. Wang Ertao, who was standing on the lookout, seemed to have found a suspicious target at this time.

Since the target is found, he quickly says it, if it is really a large island, then Wang Ertao will make money, even if it is not for Wang Ertao, there is not much loss, but the fleet will waste some fuel to reduce the exploration range.

So Wang Ertao immediately shouted loudly: "I have found the island, in the southwest." ”