"The knot must not be used with defective products, let alone without unity, messy, it is really unqualified. Remember to do as the old sailor told me, regardless of the size of the official position, only talk about experience. Listen to the master's words and act on everything! ”

"The miscellaneous items are not fixed, the buckets are placed everywhere, haven't you heard anyone say it? If there is wind and waves, it will move and squeeze people, which is also unqualified. Immediately re-swing it and fix it! ”

"There are also rats on board, so let the cats out in advance so that they can familiarize themselves with the situation inside the ship. Rats or something, will bring diseases, must be eliminated all the non-conformities. ”

"Well, how could there be something missing from the warehouse? When the voyage was made, citrus and bean sprouts were not prepared, which was really stupid and unqualified. If there is sepsis, buy it for me. What, I don't know what septicemia is? In short, if you don't eat it, you'll know it's dead. Do as I say! ”

"Also, look at you, all of you are angry in the crotch, unhygienic, unqualified, wash and come back. If you are not in a hurry, you will wash it directly with seawater, but if you do it according to the requirements, the bounty will be doubled. Otherwise, be punished! ”

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After a series of all-out inspections, Zhu Zilong is still in the learning stage of the expert's sailing direction, so he will not express any opinions. But for the later life, he has been on a ship and knows some important elements, and it is impossible for him not to prepare. At the same time, the sailors were scattered, mixed with the soldiers arranged by the capital, the old people brought the newcomers, weapons and various matters were taken care of. Don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case, it's always good to have multiple hearts!

After doing this, Zhu Zilong looked at all the sharp corners of the hull that had been sharpened into rounded corners before they were polished. The whole ship gives a sense of roundness, and the copper-coated ramming angle at the bow of the ship is particularly conspicuous, revealing from time to time that this ship can not only do business, but also transform into a killing weapon in hand-to-hand combat.

(During the Song Dynasty, artillery was not yet widespread, and its medicinal power was also primary.) There is no such high-end cargo as artillery on the sea, and it is useless to make temporary inventions. Because there are only a few people who can use it proficiently, it is better to transform it on the limited resources! ）

A day has passed!

Because the weather chosen to go to sea was good, the fleet sailed in the calm Liaohai, and the sailors adjusted the direction of the sails from time to time according to the direction and the guidance of the old sailors. The march was fast and smooth!

Sometimes, you will see some merchant convoys coming from other directions in the distance.

However, when I set off with the fleet that I met when I went to sea, there was a difference between laughter and talk. On the other hand, if you run into other fleets at sea, especially those you don't know and don't know well, even if it's the same country. The sailors on each ship suddenly became very nervous, as if they were ready for the enemy.

It turned out that because of the news that Jin, Liao, Song, and many countries were constantly fighting. In addition, there is also civil strife in Japan, and there are many pirates and ronins in the sea, and from time to time they will pretend to be members of other countries.

During this period, the people who did business and the fleets that passed by were basically businessmen and merchants.

If you do, it just so happens that your fleet is small in number and a little weak, but there is a lot of cargo. Maybe when they pass by, they will turn from serious merchants to pirates, first pretending to be enthusiastically approaching, and then suddenly attacking the ship and killing them all!

Afterwards, as long as it was done cleanly, all the dead bodies were thrown into the sea and turned into fish food. After the goods are moved and replaced, there is no proof of death, and who will know?

The profit of doing this kind of thing once is even dozens of times higher than that of normal maritime business. The entanglement between human nature and temptation makes people understand that never give people the opportunity to test their human nature.

You can't have the heart to hurt others, but you can't have the heart to defend people.

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As another day passed, after seeing more of the scenery on the sea, the freshness in Zhu Zilong's heart quickly faded.

His mind began to fall back to other aspects, such as thinking about the goods he brought first, whether it would be a smooth shot. The team of more than twenty or thirty large ships is naturally not one percent compared to the scale of Zheng He's voyage to the West in later generations.

But the cargo on the ship, Zhu Zilong's will not talk about it first. But there were many other people's mixtures, and among these goods were raw silk and silk fabrics, of which more than 6,000 quintals of white silk, more than 2,000 quintals of yellow raw silk, 300,000 horses of white silk, 111,200 horses of yarn, 151,000 horses of silk, 155,000 horses of red silk, and a small amount of velvet.

There are some porcelain bowls and plates used as ballast stones in the bilges of major ships, and the total carrying capacity is about hundreds of millions of catties. Others were food and some weapons and arrows, drinking water took their place, and of course, there were some empty seats, but not much!

It is said that basically as long as they arrive at the Japanese dock, even the Song people don't have to unload the goods, so they can make the little devils grab them and act as free porters.

It can be said that it is an absolute book of great profits, and Zhu Zilong thinks so and believes it deeply!

Think about the rapid rise of Shen Wansan, the richest man in the Ming Dynasty in the later generations, what did he rely on? Isn't it the ocean economy?

According to the Yuan scholar Yu Ji's "Ancient Records of Daoyuan Studies", the wealthy boat owners made the most profits, and they often carried commodity boats and small clippers, "to transport overseas, and to make a fortune by smuggling".

As the saying goes, the more forbidden the sea, the more the industry will explode.

The Song Dynasty did not prohibit the sea, so the profits of going to sea to do business every time were definitely not as good as those in the Ming Dynasty. However, it is possible to legally load a large number of goods at one time, which can be regarded as repairing this time difference.

In the original history, even if the Song Dynasty lost the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Southern Song Dynasty relied solely on shipping and trade to recreate an economic miracle, even when the territory was not as good as before. The tax revenue and national income have surpassed that of the Northern Song Dynasty, and I have to say that this aspect has made great contributions!

At the time when the Southern Song Dynasty became an economic power and a maritime power, the Americas were still sleeping in a semi-primitive state, and Europe was shrouded in the darkness of the Middle Ages. The Southern Song Dynasty, which had taken refuge in Hangzhou, lost the Central Plains and the north in the bloody suppression of the northern nomads, and could only set its sights on the southern half of the country and the vast ocean with its water network.

Perhaps, it was under this kind of "persecution" that the Southern Song Dynasty had to attach importance to the sea and embark on a sea road different from the traditional agricultural civilization in order to improve itself.

Obviously, the degree of attention paid to shipping in the Northern Song Dynasty at this time was far less than that of the Southern Song Dynasty in the later period. Zhu Zilongjue felt that it was necessary for him to experience this aspect more, and then combined with the national conditions, he began to increase his investment in this area from the Northern Song Dynasty.

Think about it, whether it is the Liao State or the Jin State, they are both powerful countries on horseback, but they don't pay much attention to the sailors.

Zhu Zilong felt that the potential in this area was really great, great, great!

If you want to destroy Liao and resist Jin, is there really only one way to fight on land? Apparently not!

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