After a few days of walking along the river, the river gradually widened and the water flow gradually slowed down. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On this day, the fleet continued to move forward, and suddenly found that the river bank had disappeared into the vast water. Wang Chuan lowered his head to estimate the itinerary and found that this place should be hundreds of kilometers away from the coast of later generations. However, the water under his feet became tumbling, and he looked like a boat in the sea.

Slightly off the river path in deep water, the boat drove to the side for a while, and the apocalyptic scene of the flood flooding the earth was revealed.

The water here is not as blue as the ocean, but muddy. In the waves, dead branches and rotten trees rippled with the water waves, and between the waves, the corpses of wild beasts rose and fell. The distant mountains have become outlying islands, and the three-foot waves keep washing the dirt and grass on the hillside, like a giant beast that keeps baring its teeth to swallow these outlying islands.

This scenery is really not wonderful, and many people of the River tribe are concerned when they see it.

Wang Chuan commanded the fleet to return to the deeper waters of the river and continue eastward. After walking for nearly a day, this is basically the scene on both sides.

"The water is rising too fast." Wang Chuan said with emotion. The scene in front of you is not too different from that of a tsunami or flood. Although Wang Chuan didn't know if the coastline at this time was the same as that of later generations, the scene in front of him was a proper scene of the sea swelling.

In the evening of this day, Wang Chuan did not dare to go any further, so he found a remote island to stop the boat and rest for the night. It was not until dawn the next day that everyone realized that this outlying island should be a continuous mountain range, with a large range and many trees. Skirting the hillside, the sun jumps out of the sea from afar, and the vast waves are like pancakes, making baby elephants and other animal pets snort and jump. Everyone looked at the scene to the east, only to see the water and the sky, the sea and the sky, the white seagulls screaming happily and sweeping the heavens and the earth, the whales in the distance jumped out of the sea, and the herds of dolphins chased around.

It turned out that everyone had actually entered the ocean before they knew it. It's just that there is too much plant sediment floating along the coast, and I didn't find it yesterday evening. Looking at it now, not to mention the endless front, even the edge behind you is difficult to see. This scene did not make these prehistoric humans feel magnificent, but it made many people quite frightened.

Wang Chuan comforted everyone: "The sea also has a boundary, this is just a larger pond, I will teach you the way to conquer it, and this sea will also surrender to our feet!" ”

Wang Chuan's words inspired everyone, and many people shouted along.

Now that he has arrived at the beach, Wang Chuan does not plan to leave again. He didn't come out with a sextant, and the boats were also river boats, and now it was basically a dead end to go deep into the sea, and even if he wanted to go north or something, at most he could only drive along the coastline. The slogan can be shouted loudly, but the steps cannot be so big at once.

This time I went to sea to explore the way, test the boat and play. The road is explored, the black back takes people to test the boat, and the others can play casually. At this time, it is much wiser to familiarize everyone with the ocean than to rush into it. There are still too few people in the River Tribe, and now that the Age of Navigation has begun, they can't afford to lose it.

The people who were trying to test the boat got on board and roared around the vicinity of the outlying island, spreading the sails to the maximum. When traveling on inland rivers, even the Taijiang River cannot be too casual. But there is no problem here. As long as you don't run too far, just toss hard.

It is said that everyone has a different angle of view of the sea. Some people think the sea is beautiful, and some people think that the sea has drowned many people. When the winter bear arrived at the beach, he stuffed the seawater into his mouth, grinned saltily, and then said excitedly: "Salt, salt." It's all salt, my lord. ”

For the people who ransom the salt clan, salt is everything, and as long as you get a piece of this vast water, you can exchange it for meat that can never be eaten.

Wang Chuan said: "Drink less seawater, just drink two sips a day, but too much will kill people." If you get all the salt from the sea, you can cover all the places you go. The question is, how are we going to get it out, how are we going to get it back? ”

"Sunburning?" Winter Bear suddenly realized, and then drummed up to prepare for the salt.

Winter Bear's enthusiasm for salt is like the enthusiasm of later generations of merchants for gold, it is basically instinct in his bones, and Wang Chuan is also busy with him.

The water has swelled and the original beach has almost been flooded, which is quite disappointing. However, now the autumn breeze is bleak, and it is not the season to play in the water. There is a gentle slope on the outlying island, and some sand and gravel are piled up into a shallow by the sea, and the little elephant rushes into the water to swim, and the king of horses sees the eldest brother in the water, and follows closely, and the two beasts do not take long to run up. The water cooling is one factor, and the other is because the fish and shrimp are so fierce here.

Soon after the two beasts entered the water, Wang Chuan saw shark fins appear in the water. Just as they were about to call the two beasts up, they jumped up and ran up first. There are several prawns and crabs hanging on the bodies of the two beasts, the baby elephant is the worst, and there is a crab with a huge face hanging on its nose, which can't be shaken off, and the pain is almost like tears.

Ke was distressed and wanted to help pull it, Wang Chuan stopped her, grabbed the crab with one hand, and knocked it on the crab shell a few times, and the crab let go of its claws. On the other side, Ke grabbed a crab on the little elephant's body, and didn't let go no matter how he pulled it, so he learned from Wang Chuan to knock it a few times, and the crab also let go. When she looked at Wang Chuan again, a little star appeared in her eyes: "Husband is so powerful." This sentence made Wang Chuan's heart burn when he heard it.

Wang Chuan helped the two beasts untie the shrimp and crabs, and let them be put away and boiled for a while. It's just that the number is a little small, so he took Ke on a herring and turned into a fisherman. This is the estuary of the Taijiang River, and the river water carries a lot of nutrients, so it attracts countless fish and shrimp. Wang Chuan only worked hard for half a day, and caught hundreds of catties of fish and shrimp, and even caught a yellow-lipped fish weighing hundreds of catties that was extremely rare in later generations. Everyone's lunch was over.

The shrimp and crab boiled in white water, a handful of salt and perilla went down, and everyone couldn't stop eating.

Yellow-lipped fish is a great supplement, especially the swim bladder part. The swim bladder is extremely high in collagen and has a golden color. Wang Chuan deliberately got the fish maw down, and put a small piece of fish meat into a clay pot to stew, and the soup was stewed like milk, which made people's appetite move. This is the best for Ke to eat, nourishing and beautifying.

After tasting the delicious shrimp and crab, everyone started to catch fish when they got on the boat again in the afternoon. The big-hearted blackback and others even aimed at the whales in the sea, but after tossing for an afternoon, a lot of iron tools were lost, and even a herring was damaged, killing and wounding several people, but not a single one was caught. Whales are too big to be used, either with nets or with tails.

At night, Wang Chuan helped to treat his wounds, and when he learned of the situation, he skewered some gourds and spearguns with barbs to make pontoons. The next day, I rowed a small sailboat ahead and went to look for whales. After stabbing the whale with a speargun, he constantly follows the gourd to find the whale's breathing place out of the water, and then inflicts multiple injuries to bleed the whale. After such a busy day and slashing and killing a lot of sharks, a medium-sized whale was finally dragged back with the Dragon King in the evening.

Whales are full of treasures, meat can be eaten, bones can be made into ornaments, skins can be made into leather tents and even sails, and fat can be boiled into whale oil.

Whale oil was important for a long time in later generations in Europe, as a lighting fuel and as an industrial raw material. When used as fuel, it is extremely bright, has no odor, and has very little smoke. As an industrial feedstock, it can extract glycerin, which can be used to make soaps and refine high-grade lubricants. Wang Chuan may not be used for a wider range of purposes, but it should be possible to use it as fuel and make soap.

Wang Chuan saw that Dongxiong hadn't built a salt pan in two days, so he simply told him about it. It is too much to only make salt in the sea, and the river tribes are not short of salt, and if the sea has no other income, it is pointless to say that it is impossible to conquer the sea.

One whale is enough for everyone, skinning, cutting meat, and fat, and just making a beach look like a slaughterhouse. After it is finished, it will be dried skin, smoked meat, boiled oil, and made a miasma of smoke on a remote island. Fortunately, there is a stream on the outlying island. They stayed on the island for a few days, crammed all the boats, and estimated that heavy snow was coming, before setting off for the return voyage.