Chapter Ninety-Eight Golden Mountain
After more than a month at sea, Li He has initially adapted to the life at sea, and his body has also adapted to it, he will no longer be seasick frequently, his figure is becoming more and more vigorous, and the skin on his face and body has also sunburned several times, and he has begun to look like the bronzed and healthy complexion of a long-term maritime merchant ship.
I couldn't stay idle on the ship all day, either I went to the sailor's room to talk to someone, or I went to the bow of the ship and followed the technicians to learn to measure and look at the sky together. is busy every day, where is it still like the little young master when he started to leave home more than a month ago.
Many of the old crew members on the ship had to praise repeatedly, and the little guy was definitely a natural seafarer. You must know that his uncle Qi Feng first came to the sea to sail, and it took half a year to finally adapt to this sea life.
Now I have been away from home for a long time, and I have seen many places that I have never set foot in before, from Tianzhu Continent to the inner belly of the empire - Nanyang, along the way, there are joys and admiration, I have seen countless sea scenes that have been praised and amazed by the world, and I have also seen such a big port in the world as Dinghai.
But Li He found out that what he missed most in his heart at this time was his hometown, or the haunting Mengzhou City. After all, he is still a teenager, and the freshness of when he first started to go to sea has passed, after all, he is still homesick.
Qi Feng's ship is a sea ship modeled after the style of the Western Galen ship, or maybe this ship is not a copy, but simply a Galen ship that the buyer does not know where to get it.
This is a second-hand ship, with four masts, and can hang a dozen sails at most, and once the wind is in the right direction, when the front and rear sails are all hung, it is really like a galloping horse at sea. According to Qi Feng's uncle, this kind of ship looks old, but its practical materials are far stronger than the local ships, and Westerners use the best oak wood for shipbuilding, which grows in the forests of the high mountains of northern Europa, and is the best marine wood in the world today.
Therefore, even if the ship in front of me is a second-hand ship, I am afraid that its life may be longer than that of a new ship built by the Mengzhou Port Shipyard.
And when it comes to running ships at sea, after all, it is the emerging Galen ship style in the West that is more seaworthy and operable, and is more suitable for long-distance voyages.
With a mere 45,000 yuan of money, he could buy this 1,500 big ship with an old appearance, but in fact, the internal quality was definitely not inferior to that of a new ship, and Qi Feng himself was very proud.
The ship, named Kaixiang by Qi Feng, was now sailing on the edge of the last island chain in the Empire's inland sea, and after turning the northernmost corner of Luzon Island in the Jingwang Domain, one of the three feudal domains of the Empire, it was about to officially enter the vast Pacific Ocean.
The ship's destination was the Golden Mountains of the New World.
Note that this gold mountain is the gold mountain of the New World, not the gold mountain of Borneo, nor the southernmost gold mountain of Great Australia, but the new world was discovered not long ago, I heard that its gold reserves are much larger than the previous gold mountains, and now it has attracted the attention of countless gold diggers in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is in urgent need of development.
Since the opening of the sea colonization in the Song Dynasty, the development of every overseas gold mining area will gather the attention of countless gold diggers, and the development of every overseas gold mountain is always accompanied by the legend of countless people getting rich overnight.
"Seeking a life at sea, you also need to judge the situation, the opportunity to seize the money is really a cup of tea and water, but if you can't seize the opportunity, it will also be lost, this time we don't want to go to the gold panning in person, just follow the flow of these gold diggers, you can make a lot of money."
Qi Feng said this to his nephew.
"Those gold diggers went to Jinshan in droves, and what they used to eat didn't need us sea ships to faint thousands of miles. However, the development of this newly developed port city is backward, and it cannot satisfy the gold diggers who flock to it. The various goods brought by us on the ship, when they arrive in Jinshan, they only need to be sold to exchange for half a shipload of gold sand."
Qi Feng stroked the beard under his chin and said proudly:
"I've seen many ship owners make a fortune like this before, we didn't have a ship in our hands before, so we could only watch others make money, this time, the New World Jinshan opened the port, this is a rare opportunity in a century, and it is finally our turn to make this kind of money."
Li He looked at his uncle's triumphant face, as if the golden mountain was close at hand, and he only needed to grab a handful of money.
"But uncle, is the Pacific Ocean also the same as the South Sea, and it is also an inland sea of the Celestial Empire, and there are also imperial court sailors who regularly patrol the route?"
"Haha, silly boy, how is that possible, compared to the Pacific Ocean, this South Sea is just a pond in my Celestial Empire's own backyard. The Pacific Ocean is vast, and it will take us months or even half a year just to get from the west to the east of the Pacific Ocean, how can the imperial court sailors manage such a far place. ”
"Oh, it's so far away!"
Li He couldn't help but let out a small exclamation, this time he ran away from home and followed his uncle to the sea, it has been a long time, from Tianzhu all the way east to this Luzon, all the way through so many places, Dingyuan Prefecture, Malaga, Borneo...... According to his uncle, he still walked in the back garden of the Great Song Dynasty.
The vastness of the territory of the Great Song Dynasty is really far more surprising than the feeling on the maps that I learned in the state school class.
Not to mention, this is far outside the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, to the Jinshan on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, which is said to be a new continent that is no worse than the entire Great Song Dynasty.
It's just that I heard that the New World is not the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, but just a newly opened colony overseas, it is said that the New World has already been occupied by Europa red-haired ghosts, there are England, Franco, and France, which is said to be the first power in Europe, and more than a dozen countries in Europa have colonies in the New World.
At this time, my uncle is going to Jinshan Port, isn't he worried that those red-haired ghosts will be bad for him? I heard that the Westerners even have non-stop fighting in their own homes, and even each other's countries have issued privateer licenses, and they have been conquest against each other.
When Li He told his uncle about this kind of careful worry.
Qi Feng laughed when he heard this.
"Yo! My nephew really deserves to be from a state school, and he knows so many stories about the people of La Francopa. Well, it's better than we were at that time, and it really deserves to be a show talent who doesn't go out and can know the world. ”
The old sailors on the boat beside Qi Feng also joked. made Li He extremely embarrassed.
"But He'er, you are still too careful, even if there are red-haired ghosts in the New World, how dare they make a move on the merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty, aren't they afraid of moving the people of the Great Song Dynasty and annoying the Great Song Dynasty.
Since my Great Song Dynasty is in a hurry to open a port in Jinshan, of course it is confident, you see that there are no gun positions in the bow and stern of our ship, once out of the inland sea, our guns will also be fired, uncle, my Kaixiang, that is not vegetarian.
Not to mention, have you heard that Shunfeng and Sihai Dart Bureau, even if there are Western Fan people on the side, there are big dart games such as Shunfeng and Sihai Dart Bureau to protect us, and we are not afraid to wait in the New World. ”