Chapter 516: Skillfully Capture the Sea Monster
Zhu Guojin is a world-famous person, and his appeal is extraordinary. The day after he arrived at the beach, all the fishermen knew that Zhu Guojin had come to the beach to catch sea Jiao. But although ordinary sea Jiao is powerful, it is not a rare thing, and it doesn't seem to attract people like Zhu Guojin. The fishermen all gave up their fishing livelihood and went to the post house where Zhu Guojin lived to watch the excitement. Zhu Guojin was very courageous, and he gave a generous remuneration on the spot, and hired all the fishermen who watched the excitement, but he didn't say what to do, but just asked the fishermen to obey his dispatch.
The fishermen received Zhu Guojin's high dowry, and they all agreed. A few days later, Zhu Guojin went to the beach and bought a shark that accidentally broke into the offshore sea and was caught alive. Zhu Guojin's doorman led craftsmen to lay a huge winch with a diameter of one foot on the cliff by the sea, and the winch was wrapped around a thin iron chain made by skilled craftsmen from Xuzhou. Zhu Guojin ordered the whaling fishermen to prepare their own boats and throw guns, while the rest were responsible for driving the bulls and dragging the winch. The giant flint hook was wrapped in a single piece of whale skin and wrapped around the shark's belly. Zhu Guojin's protégé collected all the fat fresh fish on the market, tied them up in a ball of dried seaweed, and placed them in the whale's skin. After all this was ready, Zhu Guojin asked the fishermen to release the shark back into the sea and let it swim away, and the thin iron chain, also made of burnt steel, was twenty miles long, wrapped around a huge wooden wheel, and as the shark swam, it became longer and longer.
Zhu Guojin finished all this, as if he had a bamboo in his chest, and he was not in a hurry to stay by the winch with the doormen to drink and sing. Some of the fishermen didn't understand Zhu Guojin's actions, so they had the courage to go up and ask, but Zhu Guojin didn't answer, just laughed and drunk him with wine. I waited like this for twenty-one days, and on the twenty-first day, Zhu Guojin was walking on the beach, and suddenly saw countless dead jellyfish in the high tide water. He froze for a moment, shouting and running to the winch, telling the fishermen and doormen to spur the cattle on the spur. At the same time, more than fifty whaling sampans broke the waves.
Under the pull of the twelve healthy oxen, the winch became tighter and tighter, and after the iron chain of the burnt steel was withdrawn for ten miles, the pulling force from the opposite side was incredible. The chain made by Xuzhou can be really unusual, and it does not break, but the foundation of the entire winch almost collapses. Zhu Guojin personally went into battle, leading the doormen who were good at building to fix the winch with a two-foot-long iron cone and a large stone, and then led the fishermen to push the winch together. It was really a once-in-a-century grand occasion, and almost all the people in the vicinity rushed to the beach to watch. As the winch continued to tighten, people were surprised to see a huge wave of water at the end of the sea in the distance, which was exactly the direction the chain was pointing. It was as if a behemoth was struggling frantically in the sea, and the huge mist completely obscured its body, and people could only faintly see the black shadows that jumped out of the sea from time to time.
The whaling fishermen followed Zhu Guojin's instructions and sailed the dinghy to a place 500 paces away from the mist. They could barely support themselves in the raging waves, so they could only use the small bed crossbow on the bow of the boat to project a one-foot long iron shuttle, and then leave immediately. Two hundred iron shuttles were thrown into the mist, and the iron shuttles were coated with anesthetic. But the behemoth in the mist struggled more and more, and finally Zhu Guojin ordered all the fishermen to retreat to the shore, and used a giant nail to lock the chain of burnt steel into the rock. He lit a bonfire and stayed on the beach all night to observe the movement of the thing. That thing traveled east and west with chains for a while, trying to break free, but it couldn't. The chains shattered like steel strings, but it was obvious that the longer it passed, the less strong the thing became.
The next morning, Zhu Guojin ordered the giant nail to be opened and continued to pull back the chain. This time, the number of healthy cattle dragging the winch increased to twenty, and the battle between the two sides was life-and-death. The sea near the shore was undulating and boiling, and no one dared to approach the beach. It lasted until the evening, when the chain was finally pulled back to the beach with the big thing, and people were horrified to see that it was an incredible giant snake, rolling and struggling on the beach in the distance, its huge body spasmed and whipped on the sand, and the fine sand was stirred up like dust, and the yellow sand seemed to be a dragon dancing angrily.
This is the sea Jiao that Zhu Guojin wants to hunt.
However, after all, the sea Jiao had reached the end of its strong crossbow, and after a night of struggle, its heavy body lay across the sand, and its strange red eyes had lost their vitality. At this time, Zhu Guojin led the doormen and fishermen to approach the beach carefully, and people clearly saw that the huge umbrella hook made of burnt steel was completely opened, stuck in the throat of the sea jiao, and only the dark gray snake scales of less than a foot between the hooks were exposed. That is to say, the body of the Jiao was almost twenty feet thick, and its body was five hundred feet long, and each scale was the size of a tabletop, stronger than steel, and half of the iron shuttles could not penetrate its scales. It finally struggled and smashed the rocks along the beach, but it didn't hurt much. Zhu Guojin made the mouth of the dead snake open open, countless thin snake teeth were like a white thorn, and the fish bones of the shark that was used as bait were still stuck in the teeth, probably because the injured sea Jiao could not swallow it.
Some people were so awed that they knelt down and thought it was the legendary dragon. Zhu Guojin said no, the so-called dragon in ancient history is a very intelligent beast, and this kind of sea Jiao is definitely not a dragon.
Sun Hui listened to Zhu Guojin's story and knew that the sea Jiao he captured was actually an ocean python.
Later generations of scholars said that the world's largest python is recognized as the largest Amazonian python, the larger python can reach 6 meters in length and weigh four or five hundred catties. But the marine python is bigger than the Amazon python, but they are the head and tail of the dragon, and they have been witnessed many times but have never shown their full picture
It is said that the first sighting of the sea python was in the 50s of the 19th century, when an American whaling ship spotted a sperm whale in an area of the Pacific Ocean and planned to hunt it. However, when the whaling ship sailed 50 meters away from the sperm whale, it found that the sperm whale was fighting another giant sea creature. The people on the whaling ship immediately used binoculars to check what was going on, and it turned out that it was a python-like creature wrapped around the sperm whale's body. The body length of the giant sea python is conservatively estimated to be more than 30 meters, and it is as thick as a thousand-year-old tree. Seeing that the sperm whale was about to be strangled by the sea python, the captain decisively ordered to attack the sea python. Eventually, under the combined siege of the whaling ship and the sperm whale, the sea python escaped with injuries.