Chapter 74: The Thoughts of the Sea
Rumble!
Colorful ceremonial flowers bloom in the sky above Yunfu.
It is not the first time that fireworks and firecrackers have been set off in Yunfu, and there are also fireworks in the first two years of the Chinese New Year, and every time fireworks are set off, the residents of Yunhua County will go out of their homes and look up at the sky to enjoy this strange beauty.
No one would know that these colorful fireworks were made of gunpowder, let alone that gunpowder could be turned into a murderous weapon.
There was also a large family watching the fireworks in the garden of Yunfu, and compared with before, there was one less girl in the crowd, but there were a few more figures to make up for her.
Yun Yi's cousin Yun Yueshan has been married, married to a young man in a small family loyal to Yun Hua Yun's family, most of the Yun family's women are like this, the family did not carry out too much persecution, but limited a range, as long as the two look at each other, they can worship and marry, even if the Yun family's women do not marry for the rest of their lives, no one else will say anything except her parents, and the Yun family does not need family women to marry with the outside world.
The cousin got married, the two cousins also married and had children, the number of people at the Yunfu dinner on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve did not decrease, but there were several more, there were adults and children, but Yun Ze, the son of Yun Yi's second uncle Yun Yuanzhong, would not have the idea of marrying a wife and having children in a short time, Yun Zezi inherited his father's business, and was also pursuing martial arts, his talent was better than Shangguan Yuling, and he was about to be fourteen years old, but he was about to open the second meridian and become a third-order martial artist the day after tomorrow.
It's another year, and Yunyi's age is one year longer, twenty years old, which means that Yunyi can be crowned an official adult.
In earlier times, when a man was twenty years old, he was crowned in the temple, indicating that the man had reached adulthood, and the crown ceremony was presided over by his father and crowned three times by the designated honored guests for the young people who performed the crown ceremony, respectively, representing the power to govern people, serve the country, and participate in sacrifices.
After so many years, although there have been a lot of changes in the crown ceremony, such as having a table character at birth, and being able to participate in sacrifices before the age of twenty, the crown ceremony is still an important day for a man, and when Yun Yi is crowned, the Yun family even has to invite some well-connected forces to come over.
The bustling New Year passed quickly, and on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, although the weather was still relatively cold compared to previous years, some people in Yunhua County began to pack their bags and prepare for a long trip, including Yunyi.
Under Shangguan Yuling's farewell, Yun Yi left Yunfu with his guards and left Yunhua County City and headed south, but the goal of the group was not Linhai City in the south, but another place.
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About 35 miles east of Linhai City, there is a new town near the sea, Wanghai Town, with a population of more than 2,500.
Wanghai Town is not an ordinary town, because it is blocked by the military, there is only one land route to enter and exit except the sea route, without a certificate, it is very difficult for outsiders to enter and exit Wanghai Town, unless the person who comes is a high-level warrior or above.
Although Wanghai Town was blocked by the military, in fact, the blockade of Wanghai Town was not too strict, and it was much worse than Yunyi's No. 1 Base and No. 2 Base, after all, the terrain of Wanghai Town was difficult to stop people with intentions, and Wanghai Town did not have many unsightly secrets.
Because Wanghai Town is the shipbuilding base of Yunyi, there is a shipyard in Wanghai Town, and the residents of Wanghai Town are all serving the shipyard.
Shipbuilding is not a matter that needs to be kept secret, in any country in the land of Shenzhou, ordinary businessmen can establish shipyards without anyone stopping them, let alone the first-class nobleman Yunhua Yun's clan wants to establish a shipyard.
The shipyards on the land of China are not developed, the main reason is that no one is willing to explore the sea outside the land of China, and the inland rivers and lakes are too small to accommodate too large ships, which limits the development of the shipbuilding industry.
From a long time ago, many people have been thinking about what is on the other side of the sea, fairy islands, the end of the world, or endless, no one knows the answer, but some people who want to know the answer have begun to put it into action, they build ships and go to sea, they want to see what is on the sea or at the end of the sea.
However, the temper of the sea is difficult to measure, in the era of underdeveloped shipbuilding, driving a ship to sea, this is simply a dead act, driving dozens of materials to a hundred materials of the ship to sea, maybe a wave will overturn the ship, the ship will be destroyed.
There is almost no chance of anyone who sails out to explore the sea and returns, but there are a few people who have been accidentally washed back to shore by the waves and survived, and they know that the sea is windy and rough, that the ships are difficult to resist, and that there are giant beasts on the sea, who like to eat people, and so on.
Some of the words may be false, but only one in a hundred people who went to sea come back alive, so the sea has become a forbidden place for humans, and few people think about exploring the sea by boat.
There are even rumors that there is an immortal island on the sea, and there are immortal immortals living on the immortal island, and the immortals have the elixir in their hands, and mortals will live forever after eating it.
No one believed in this anymore, but once the lord of a small country sent a large fleet to sea, but this fleet never returned, and after a long time some timber appeared on the shore, and it was recognized that these were small parts of the ships.
As a result, no one wanted to go to sea anymore, not even anyone who fished near the coast, and there was not a single shipyard built on the coast.
On the contrary, in some areas with wide rivers and lakes, there were many shipyards, merchants used boats to transport goods, fishermen drove small boats to fish, and even several countries had naval formations, and the Dali Empire was one of them.
It's just that no matter how wide rivers and lakes are, they can't compare to the vastness of the sea, which strictly restricts the development of shipbuilding.
The experience of the ancients made people stop at the sea, but Yunyi, who was a man in two lifetimes, was not limited by the experience of the ancients, and when it was difficult to continue to develop on land, it was the best choice to develop to the sea.
Some people say that the sea is windy and there are giant beasts, and driving a boat out to sea will destroy the ship and kill people, Yunyi is not afraid at all, can a boat like a hundred materials sail on the sea? If you want to explore the sea, you need at least a large ship.
The bigger the ship, the more it can be below the wind and waves, even if there is a giant beast, there is no need to be afraid, all kinds of artillery and giant crossbows can deal with the threat of giant beasts, and more importantly, the ships built by the shipyard in Wanghai Town are not powered by sails, steam engines have appeared, is it difficult to build steam-powered ships?
[There is a good recommendation next week, and two more per day will be resumed next week]