Fuzhou Port, in this era, there is actually a county seat, called Dongzhi County. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Dongzhi County is the last city south of Huiji County, and further south is basically a wild land, even if Sun Jian used to serve as the guard of Nanhai County, he did not dare to easily attack Dongzhi County from the north of Nanhai County, unless he didn't want to live.

Recently, due to the large number of mountain people in the four southern counties, Li Yu also migrated about 200,000 people to Dongzhi County, on the one hand, he plans to continue to develop southward, and on the other hand, he also intends to build Dongzhi County into a commercial port.

It was not easy to transport things from Dongzhi County to Yongning County in the north (later Wenzhou) by land. Considering that the construction of the military port of Zhoushan Port has begun, and at the same time several seaports will be put into construction, Dongzhi County and Yongning County have naturally begun to build two ports.

Considering that the southern part of Huiji County is basically a wild terrain, the difficulty and cost of building roads will increase, and the benefits will also decrease, Li Yu has given up the idea of building a national highway here. However, the road must be repaired, at least the original official road must be expanded or something, so as to facilitate the passage of the north and the south.

At the same time, the iron ore from Yazhou, as well as the gold and copper mines in Yizhou, are also coveted. Not to mention going south from Dongzhi County, it is impossible to directly land in Panyu County, the administrative office of Jiaozhou, from the sea, and let them know what the consequences of establishing the administrative office on the seaside are!

With these considerations in mind, as the shipbuilding industry began to heat up in the past few months, the terminal here in Dongzhi County has also undergone a second phase of expansion. In fact, an offshore fishing boat of this size is not even a small fishing boat in later generations, and it is much smaller than a cruise ship, but compared with the kind of building boat in Soochow, it is not much better.

It is this fishing vessel that has been able to achieve coastal transportation. After removing the freezers and bunkers, and taking into account factors such as maximum water holding capacity and storms, the shipyard finally transformed the ship into a transport ship that could transport a kilogram of cargo.

As a result, large quantities of furs, herbs and game could be transported directly to the northern part of Huiji for sale, and even to buy the necessary supplies there before returning to Dongzhi County.

Under the promotion of the Huaxia Republic, offshore transport technologies and navigation capabilities have already begun to appear. The more you know about the sea, the less you fear it. When it was discovered that sea freight was more cost-effective than land transportation, it became natural for coastal areas, even along rivers and rivers, to adopt shipping.

By December 192, Dongzhi County had built a larger transport ship. This type of ship is exactly at scale, doubling the size of the earlier transports. Preliminary calculations can transport about two tons of cargo, and the sea trials are about to begin, which are already loaded with two tons of cargo and have been placed on the surface of the sea for more than two days, but no problems have arisen.

The rest only needs to be sea trials once, no problem. According to the past custom, they will sail offshore, pass through Yongning County, go north to the county to sell goods, and finally purchase the goods they need and then return south.

The captain and crew are all familiar with it, and there should have been no problems with this voyage. But who emboldened these crew members and captains, they went directly to a farther place, where they looked at the shore, and there was only a hazy phantus.

The waves here are obviously bigger, but that's why it's a good test of how strong the boat is. No captain likes his car to be just a cargo, and there are lifeboats to walk away anyway.

Fortunately, not long after they left Dongzhi County that night, they ushered in a stormy weather.

The sea is so fickle, it was still sunny during the day, but who knew that suddenly there would be a storm. In the midst of the strong wind and waves, the ship was barely able to sway with the wind and waves, but it did not sink. Maybe it was a little leaky, but it was quickly replaced.

The captain even felt that he should talk to the shipbuilders when he returned, and that these places should be well reinforced.

When he returned to the captain's room, he was going to look at the direction, but then he suddenly despaired, and the compass placed in the captain's room actually broke!

At this moment, they don't know where they are going or where they should go. Many people think that a certain direction is west, but in fact they don't know that direction is east. At night, when the lights were dark and there were no stars as a guide, they could only passively travel eastward, and after walking for two hours, someone finally wondered if they had gone wrong.

Generally speaking, even if they sailed to the sea, they walked for two hours, and if they were in the right direction, they should have reached the shore. But the fact that they see all the water and nothing means that they may be going in the wrong direction. Maybe it's going straight north for a while, maybe it's going south or east, not west anyway.

"Captain, what are we going to do now?" Many of the crew members were very panicked, and the scenery above the sea was actually similar, and it was so desperate to tell where the land was.

"Keep going, find a way to find land no matter what!" The most taboo thing about sailing is constantly changing direction, and the captain doesn't know what the situation is in front of him, but he can only choose to move forward.

After another hour of walking, the lookout finally saw the horizon in the distance. It means land, real land, not some island or something.

Originally, they couldn't help but wonder if they had returned to the west coast, but as the sun rose in the east, they realized that they were not on the west coast, but on the east coast, but they had never heard that there was still such a land in the east of Dongzhi County.

Since I haven't heard of it, there will definitely not be any county seat here, but I am afraid that there may not be people living on it. However, the crew, who had been frightened for most of the day in the wind and rain, couldn't wait to land and rest.

So they began to land, but they didn't know that they had come to Yizhou Island, and even landed near Taoyuan City in the future. After resting for a long time, they probably calmed down, at least knowing that they had deviated from the course, and not only did not advance towards the north, but came to the east by mistake.

However, the land area of this island is not small, and they spent a few days circling around, and found that the area here is not small, comparable to the land of a county, and even larger than the area of Sizhou.

This is an important discovery, especially since the freshwater resources are so abundant that it could be used as a living island. However, this does not mean that they plan to settle here, in the eyes of the captain and crew, this is a wild place in the end, and Dongzhi County, which is already a wild land, cannot be said to be more comfortable than here.

As the so-called golden nest and silver nest are not as good as their own kennels, after exploring, they began to travel west again, returned to the west coast on the same day, and finally returned to Yongning County along the coast.

Back on the familiar shore, the crew cried at the sight of the familiar city and the crowds of people coming and going, even the ships.

Originally, the appearance of such a huge ship naturally attracted the attention of the port, but looking at the hanging iron-blooded dragon flag, they were relieved. didn't want to be the ship landing, but the crew on it jumped directly to the shore and kept kissing the ground, which made many people cry and laugh.

The officials involved naturally came forward to inquire about the cause of the incident, and only then did they learn that this army had discovered a huge overseas island. Since ancient times, there has been a legend of overseas fairy mountains in China, so it is natural to start reporting it as soon as possible, and it is also a little flattering.

In the end, this matter naturally fell on Li Yu's desk, and when he read the description of that overseas island, he almost immediately thought of Yizhou Island, which was later known as Wanwan Island.

Originally, he thought that it would be at least a while, with the advent of charts and theodolites, and the appearance of skilled boatmen, before he would consider exploring Yizhou Island. After all, he did covet the gold and copper mines above.

Who knew that there was no need for his guidance, and with the development of the navigation industry, the people spontaneously explored the existence of Yizhou. Even if this is an exploration that is completely accidental.

If you are not mistaken, then these lucky crew members may have landed in the area of Taoyuan City, and they even traveled around Yizhou Island, drew the general shape of the place, and sent it with the information that they had discovered overseas islands.

"What do you think?" Li Yu naturally found Gan Ning, Yuan Lian and Lin Ming, Gan Ning was in charge of the navy, Yuan Lian was in charge of finance, and Lin Ming was in charge of technology, and the plan to land in Yizhou and exploit local minerals had already been formulated at the beginning of this year.

"I have seen the transport ship they built, and I have also seen the design drawings, removing some unreasonable designs and carrying out some reinforcements, which may reduce a certain amount of transportation, but the degree of stability can be improved a lot, and it can fully adapt to the transportation needs to Yizhou.

In addition, it only needs to be smelted locally, and the pure ore is not transported back, so there is no problem. In other words, the plan is fully operational. "Lin Ming is in charge of the technical field, and he is also a professional in this area, since he said that, it is naturally feasible.

"Our navy has preliminarily mastered the operation of soft sails, and we can understand the theodolite, not to mention that the preliminary nautical charts have been made, we are fully able to escort the ship and safely transport the workers to Yizhou Island!" Gan Ning also patted his chest and said.

"Since it is a matter that is conducive to the country's finances, then Yuan has no intention of objecting." Yuan Lian also expressed his agreement that with the current market circulation, the problem of insufficient new currency has begun to emerge. Nowadays, in the black market, a single gold coin can even be exchanged for one hundred and three silver coins, which is said to be quite a lot.

In the long run, it is not good for the economy of the Chinese Republic!

"Since you've all said there's no problem, let's start the plan!" Li Yu nodded, and at the same time couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. (To be continued.) )