Standing on the wheel, watching the whole boat being dragged by the injured whale to the depths of the sea, Dai Yan did not panic in the slightest. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info He immediately instructed the sailors accompanying him to tighten the strings of the crossbow bolts and take control of the ship.

The sailors immediately complied with Dai Yan's request and retrieved the rope tied to the crossbow arrows, bringing the whale and the ship much closer. Then they began to maneuver the sails and wheels again, so that the boat swam in the opposite direction of the whale!

Although the wheel ship that Dai Yan was riding on was already a Taoqiu-level ship. However, it is an inland river vessel after all, and its size is naturally not very large, so the power it generates naturally cannot resist a dying and struggling whale, and the ship is still inevitably carried by this whale to the depths of the sea.

When Dai Yan saw such a scene, he couldn't help but be a little shocked, a dying whale had such a powerful power! Knowing that he could not continue to let the whale do so, he ordered the sailors of the ship to continue tightening the strings of the crossbow arrows, and then he ordered the sailors to put the sampan of the wheel into the sea, to which he himself led some of the sailors.

When all the sailors thought that Dai Yan was going to take the sampan back to the shore, Dai Yan was the sailor on the sampan who commanded the sailors on the sampan to slide the boat quickly towards the wounded whale!

At this time, the whale in this hand was injured due to being shot by the crossbow arrow, and the rope on the crossbow arrow was shortened and shortened by the wheel, and it was no longer able to dive into the water, and had to rise to the surface. Dai Yan saw the opportunity, took off a steel scimitar he was carrying, and slashed directly at the whale on the sea!

This whale was injured like this, and it began to become more and more crazy, constantly stirring on the surface of the sea, almost causing Dai Yan's sampan to overturn directly!

This scene surprised the sailors on the steamer and the sampan, and everyone persuaded Dai Yan to stop caring about the whale and return to shore as soon as possible!

However, Dai Yan was not affected by them in the slightest! He ordered the sailors on the sampan to control the boat, and let them choose the right time to keep approaching the injured whale again, and whenever the sampan approached the whale, Dai Yan would see the right time to go up and stab him severely!

This scene lasted for nearly half an hour, and Dai Yan also stabbed this whale dozens of times before the huge whale was exhausted and finally died!

At this time, the killed whale and the wheel boat had been pulled by the whale to a small island in the middle of the sea. Fortunately, the land can be clearly seen from the island, and Dai Yan and his party are not worried about returning at all.

Dai Yan then ordered everyone to drag the killed whale to the small island, and ordered the sailors to decompose the whale!

No one in this era had ever dissected a whale, and a sailor asked Dai Yan, "Lord, how should we dissect this kun?" ”

Kun is also another name for whales in this era.

Dai Yan replied: "Will you dissect the cow?" Dissect this kun just like you usually dissect a cow! ”

The sailor asked curiously, "My lord, but this kun is obviously a big fish?" ”

Dai Yan said disdainfully: "Who told you that Kun is a fish? It's the same animal as a cow! If you don't believe it, open its mouth and know it has no gills! ”

As the largest creature in the water, it is generally accepted that whales are fishes, and whales are often referred to as whales, but in reality, this is completely wrong. Whales are not fish, they are vertebrate mammals like cows, sheep, horses, and even people!

It doesn't have the gills that fish have, and its brain is fully evolved and its nervous system is extremely developed. Like dolphins in the cetacean order, they have extremely high IQs and can reach the level of human children between the ages of 6 and 10. And that's something no other fish can do!

Dai Yan asked these sailors to dissect whales like cows, in fact, not only because whales are mammals, but because they fancy the various resources on whales!

The whale is full of treasures. Its skin can be made into light armor like cowhide, its meat can be eaten, its teeth and whiskers can be made into ornaments, and its bones and blood can be made into fish bone meal to supplement the nutrition of Dai Yan's livestock.

And Dai Yan's most important resource for whales is the fat on the whale. Through it, Dai Yan can get whale oil!

Fat itself is the fat of the animal, through which animal fat can be extracted very simply. And these animal fats are so versatile that they can be used not only as lubricants in machinery, but also as raw materials for original industrial products such as soap and candles!

Even if Dai Yan does not consider the issue of whale oil as a raw material, as long as the production of whale oil is sufficient, just using whale oil to bring light to Taoqiu, the Song Kingdom and even the world, what a great contribution! And behind this huge contribution, what a huge profit can be obtained!

Thinking of the later Rockefeller's monopoly of kerosene in the whole of North America, Edison's invention of electric light and General Electric's status in the United States, Dai Yan couldn't help but be full of longing for products like whale oil!

In Dai Yan's view, there is no more profitable business than the business that provides basic human needs. For example, food and salt are the most basic needs of human beings, without which human beings cannot survive, and whoever can monopolize this business will inevitably make a lot of money. Another example is clothing, which can help people avoid the cold, which is also a basic need! And whale oil can dispel light and save people from darkness, which is also one of the basic needs!

In contrast, glass is a flashy product that may not be used in everyone's daily life, even if it is more profitable, but it is definitely not as profitable as a product like whale oil!

Thinking like this, Dai Yan personally instructed the sailors to begin dissecting the whale, he instructed the sailors to cut off the skin of the whale like a cowhide, and then separated the subcutaneous tissue of the whale, and took out the internal organs and bones of the whale respectively, and then Dai Yan instructed the sailors to take out the coal and iron pot from the wheel and ship, and boil whale oil on this small island himself!

The boiling of whale oil is very easy, and the whale killed by Dai Yan, although it is small in the cetacean, but it is also more than ten meters long, more than 20 tons, if you want to dissect this whale and even completely boil the whale oil on its body, it is definitely not something that can be done in a short time!

Watching the sailors busily boiling the whale, Dai Yan remembered its alias Kun in this era, and then remembered the article "Getaway" sent to Taoqiu by Zhuangzi, a philosopher of the Song Dynasty who lived in seclusion in Mengyi, and published in Taoqiu's newspaper. He couldn't help but hum and said, "There is a fish in the North Underworld, and its name is Kun. The kun is so big that it can't be stewed in one pot! ”

Just as Dai Yan was humming a song and aimlessly preparing to investigate this small island, a sailor suddenly came to him and asked, "Lord, what are you looking at?" ”

It was taken from the whale's intestines, and unlike the whale's feces, it was a black, soft, waxy object.

In the sailor's opinion, this thing should be an unknown object, swallowed by this kun, and something that has not yet been digested. He knew that his lord was a virtuous son, and he was so well-informed that he would be able to recognize what this thing was.

In fact, Dai Yan had seen this thing through photos in later generations, and he really knew what it was, and as soon as he saw this black and soft thing, he immediately shouted: "Ambergris! ”

Dai Yan then looked at the dead whale with fanatical eyes, and muttered, "I didn't expect this to be a sperm whale!" ”

Ambergris is a secretion from sperm whales. It is a solid formed by the undigested beak bones of squid and octopus in the sperm whale's intestines and secretions. In China, it is an extremely valuable traditional Chinese medicine, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that it can invigorate the blood, benefit the essence, help the yang way, and benefit the blood, and is a precious medicinal material for curing diseases and nourishing the yang!

In the West, it is used as a raw material for the best perfumes, and the price is higher than gold! Basically, the most popular perfume of the loser woman in later generations, what Givenchy, Chanel, Gucci, etc. contain this kind of thing!

It's the perfect luxury!

Seeing this ambergris, Dai Yan immediately thought of countless business schemes to exploit the nobles of those countries who had too much money to spend!