In Taoqiu South City, two lowest-level commoners are talking on the street. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Brother Hua, have you heard? Recently, many people have gone to the beach to hunt whales and made a fortune! A thin man said.

"Of course I know about such things! A friend of mine went whaling in Yancheng for only five days and caught a sperm whale and got not only a decent amount of whale oil, but also several stones of ambergris! After he sold these things to the Giant Whale Trading House founded by the Lord Monarch, he immediately made a fortune! He now owns a five-entry mansion in Taoqiu! At the end, Brother Hua's tone had a sour taste.

"Brother Hua, in fact, we don't have to envy them! If we gather a group of people, everyone invests together, buys a whaling ship together, and goes to Yancheng to hunt whales, I think we can also make a fortune like your friends! What does Brother Hua think? The thin man said.

When this Hua brother heard this, he immediately agreed: "You're right! What others can do, we can make a fortune from whaling, and we will be able to do it! And the lord also supported me and others to go whaling! I'm going to gather my friends and raise money to buy a whaling ship and go to Yancheng for whaling! ”

Such words were resounded throughout the Taoqiu. Countless Taoqiu people found their relatives and friends, and everyone united and began to go to the beach to hunt whales!

Although whaling is not complicated, if you want to hunt whales efficiently, you still need professional equipment. At this time, the Taoqiu Shipyard built by Dai Yan began to play a huge role!

The shipyard, based on the experience of the whalers, made great improvements to the entire whaling ship. First, they changed the bolts fired by the bed crossbow by adding a huge barb to the head of the bolt so that the whale that was hit by the bolt could not get rid of it!

Later, they added buoys to the rope to which the bolts were attached, which revealed the exact location of the whale hit by the bolts.

For close combat with whales, the arsenal in Taoqiu has produced a special javelin that can be projected from a distance or attack the whale from close range and deal great damage!

When the whaling ship hunts whales, it first shoots a whale with a crossbow arrow, and then after determining the location of the whale through the position of the buoy, it sends a fast rowing boat from the whaling ship to rush over, and the sailors on the rowing boat attack the whale with the javelin in their hands.

Although theoretically it is possible to kill a whale with a single sampan, the efficiency of a regular small sampan is simply too low compared to a professional whaling ship!

Basically encountered a whale from a professional whaling ship, and it was almost impossible to escape!

In order to be able to quickly process the killed whales, the whaling ship is also equipped with a cutting chamber, sufficient fuel and refining room, which can quickly decompose the killed whales into various raw materials, and quickly obtain whale skin, whale oil and ambergris.

In order to avoid too many dangers for whaling ships at sea, Dai Yan also promoted the scientific school to invent various navigation tools.

The first thing to bear the brunt of is the compass. In fact, the compass has already taken shape in this era, and Guiguzi, the originator of the military family and the vertical and horizontal family, invented this kind of "Sinan" that can point out the direction. This kind of sinan is actually to put the spoon-shaped magnet on a smooth disc, when you need to point out the direction, you can turn the magnetic spoon, when the spoon stops rotating, the direction of the spoon handle is due south.

For Dai Yan, Sinan did use the principle of magnet finger pole to identify the direction. However, due to the backwardness of the craftsmanship of this era, neither the magnetic spoon made nor the smooth disc where the magnetic spoon is placed can be done perfectly, and the friction resistance between the two is too great, which seriously affects Sinan's accuracy.

For this purpose, Dai Yan rubbed an extremely fine steel needle on a magnet to magnetize the steel needle, and then put the magnetized steel needle into a bowl filled with water to make it float. In this way, one end of the steel needle will always point south, and an accurate compass is made!

In order to determine the position on the sea surface, Dai Yan also asked people to make special astrolabes and quadrants. The astrolabe is actually a tool for determining the position of the sun, moon, Venus, Mars and other celestial bodies in the universe, since astronomers such as Zou Yan and others of this era can divide the celestial bodies in detail, delineate the seven politics, five latitudes, twelve times, etc., then it is not a big problem to make a astrolabe to determine the position of the celestial bodies.

Another kind of tool, the quadrant, is actually a tool for measuring sea level and the elevation angle of the North Star, which is not difficult to make, but its role is very huge, through which it can accurately know the latitude of the ship.

With these three tools, the whaling ship's ability to sail in offshore waters has been greatly increased, which has also greatly ensured the safety of the whaling ship!

The rapid rise of the whaling industry also made sailing and exploration extremely popular. In today's Warring States Period, the Chinese nation is not a conservative and self-contained nation like later generations, but is full of interest in the outside world, and they are eager to know the world and know everything about this world!

After Taoqiu Jun grabbed a large amount of struvite from the coastal islands as phosphate fertilizer, the Taoqiu people also began to realize that there were huge resources on each island, so those sailors who searched for whales on the sea for a long time but could not find it, began to set their sights on the resources on each island.

Stravo stone is naturally their choice, but sometimes the more cherished resources are also their goal!

When the whaling tide rose, a whaling ship that had searched for whales at sea and then lost contact returned to Yancheng a few months later, and what they got directly set off a climax in Taoqiu that was bigger than whale oil and ambergris!

This is a shipload of "stones", and it is this group of stones that the giant whale trading house offers a higher price than several whaling ships to buy!

Because all the stones on this ship are gold ore and silver ore! After obtaining this batch of ore, the ironworks of Taoqiu easily obtained large quantities of gold and silver, two metals that were even rarer than the currency copper of this era!

Especially silver, a magical metal, Dai Yan once invited celebrities to a banquet in a pottery mound. During the banquet, Dai Yan put arsenic, the most common poison of this era, into a vessel made of silver, and the silver jewelry that shimmered with a white metallic luster immediately turned black!

Such an obvious phenomenon immediately made the invited celebrities very excited, and they also realized the true value of silver jewelry: it can be tested for drugs!

The more noble the person, the more afraid of death! Therefore, the utensils made of silver were immediately sought after by the rich and noble people of Taoqiu, and after the princes and nobles of the world also heard about this characteristic of silver, they also joined the pursuit of silver!

Silver, thus becoming a more precious luxury than gold and ambergris! Because it provides a need for the truly noble: that is, the safety of eating!

Following this, all countries in the world began to look for silver ore, hoping to obtain this kind of simple refining but powerful artifact, and the Chu and Qin states gained a huge advantage in this regard!

There were silver mines in the Huainan region of the Chu State, and there were also silver mines in the Guanzhong and Xianyang areas of the Qin State. These two countries made a windfall because of the trend led by Tao Qiu!

The whaling ships that brought back gold and silver from the islands in the East China Sea also brought back several of the indigenous people of these islands, and Dai Yan knew where the source of the silver mines was as soon as he saw these aborigines!

The biggest difference between these aborigines and the people of Wu Yue is that these people are extremely short, and an adult man is almost less than two-thirds of the height of the people of Wu Yue!

Of course, Dai Yan knew who these short guys were, and he immediately named these short guys a new famous city: the Waren. And these Japanese people also have a new name in Taoqiu: Japanese slaves.

He then called the captain of the whaling ship who had brought back the gold and silver mines from the islands in the East China Sea, and learned that this person was originally a commoner of Taoqiu, named Kongtong Jia, and claimed to be a descendant of the Kongtong clan of the Song Kingdom. Dai Yan also believed his words, and then he named Kong Tongjia as the doctor of the Japanese slave country, and took a radius of 10 miles around the island where he found the silver ore as his fief, giving him the right to rule over these Japanese slaves, and the exclusive right to mine on the island where the Japanese slaves lived!

Of course, at the cost of this, Kutong Jia must dedicate the nautical chart of the discovery of the silver ore and sell the mined ore exclusively to the Giant Whale Firm!

Even with such a price, Kong Tongjia never felt that he had suffered a loss, but felt extremely honored! His success thus became a symbol of envy of the entire Taoqiu, and even the merchants were full of jealousy of him!

In this era, even though the merchants of Taoqiu were extremely wealthy, and they were respected by Taoqiujun, they never felt that their status was truly "noble"!

All this is because they don't have a fief of their own in their hands, and in the atmosphere of the world at this time, they can't be regarded as real nobles!

And Kongtongjia, a small commoner, because he found an island with silver mines, brought back two Japanese people, and he was able to get the canonization of Tao Qiujun! Many people seem to understand something at once!

As a result, merchants began to focus on creating various trading houses for whaling, and they began to pay attention to exploring overseas islands and plundering overseas resources. The era of national whaling, and even the national civil sea, which was started by the profits of whale oil, began!