During the period of minting the currency style, the Eastern Roman Empire had sent all the skills and 3,000 skilled craftsmen that Qin Dong had asked for to build sea ships, and these 3,000 skilled craftsmen were almost half of all the craftsmen who could build ships in the Eastern Roman Empire.

Wang Liu reported to him: "Great King, the three thousand shipbuilders have been settled, what is the Great King going to let them do?" When does it start? ”

Qin Dong pondered: "Let them rest for three days first, give each of them a set of winter clothes to protect them from the cold, organize them in these days, divide them into several groups, appoint a team leader to manage the others, and after three days, divide them into two groups, one of which will be sent to the port of Burgas, and the other group will be sent to Constanta, and start building warships!" ”

"Yes!" Wang Liu agreed, and said: "King, the hundred merchant ships in the port of Burgas have begun to be loaded, and they will be able to go to sea for sea trials in another month. ”

Qin Dong shook his head and said, "No, the royal court can't directly engage in commercial trade activities, otherwise, what will the merchants eat?" How did the scattered merchants win the royal court? The royal court only ships ships and sells them to merchants and collects trade taxes, and activities such as fishing and commercial trade are organized by themselves, but the relevant government agencies of the royal court must formulate relevant regulations for the merchants at sea, and I put forward several opinions, first: all merchant ships going to sea, no matter where they go, are not allowed to carry any iron tools and other metal materials, including all kinds of weapons and armor and other strategic materials, and second. Every merchant ship sold must make relevant records so that it can be filed for future inquiries, third. All private shipyards can only build fishing boats, small sampans and offshore navigation vessels, and are not allowed to build large merchant ships and ships with ocean-going navigation capabilities. ”

Wang Liu was very puzzled: "King, there is nothing wrong with the first and second articles, but the third one. I don't think this restricts the space for private manufacturing and creation? Hasn't the king always advocated that the people should have the ability to innovate independently? This third one seems to be contrary to what you have advocated before! ”

Qin Dong glanced at Wang Liu and said: "This is just a restriction on this industry at this stage, not to limit the shipbuilding capacity of the people all the time, we don't even have a navy at this stage." What if someone builds a large merchant ship or sells it to a small country around the Black Sea, and those small countries come to us with their ships? ”

Wang Liu was in a cold sweat when he heard this, and hurriedly knelt down and said, "The king forgives the sin, the villain didn't expect to go up here." Please rest assured. When the villain goes back, he will promulgate relevant regulations, and no one is allowed to build large ships without permission! ”

After Wang Liu returned, he began to invite large merchants from all over the country, stating that the royal court had completed the construction of a hundred large seafaring merchant ships in the port of Burgas on the shore of the Black Sea, and according to the instructions of the regent, these ships could be sold to merchants to engage in ocean-going maritime trade activities, and merchants with strong financial resources could buy ten or twenty ships, or even thirty ships, but there was one point. It is not allowed to hoard merchant ships and sell them at a high price, otherwise the relevant government offices will have to intervene. Those with weak financial resources can also buy only one or two.

As soon as the news was sent, the big merchants from all over the country rushed to Saidika, and even many small merchants came in groups, ready to buy one or two merchant ships to engage in maritime trade activities, everyone knew that they could make a lot of money by engaging in maritime trade activities during this period, and no one wanted to give up this opportunity, they wanted to engage in maritime trade activities before, but they couldn't buy ships, and the Xiongnu Empire did not have relevant policies to allow and encourage merchants to engage in maritime trade activities, and now the royal court sells merchant ships, Allowing merchants to engage in seafaring trade was a boon to them.

There is an urgent shortage of many commodities and materials on the territory of Deng Zhi Xi Ke in the north, it is winter, and the road is not only long but also difficult to travel by land, and it takes too long for the caravan to reach the territory of Deng Zhi Xi Ke in the south, and the loss of goods is also very large, but if you take the sea route, it is much faster, and it is safer and time-consuming to go to the sea along the coast, and a large number of wine, fine cloths, pottery and other daily necessities are transported from the south. Selling these to the herdsmen in the territory of Deng Zhixik and then exchanging them for large quantities of cattle, sheep, horses, wool cheese, and the skins of many animals, it is quite possible to make a lot of money.

Because there is an Eastern Roman Empire in the middle, it is very difficult to go to the Sassanid Dynasty of the Persian Empire from the side of the Xiongnu Empire, and when the relationship between the two countries is good, merchants can also go to the Sassanid Dynasty of the Persian Empire by land, but they have to pass through many checkpoints along the way, and the taxes to be paid are very much.

But if you can take the sea route, you can directly take a boat from the eastern Black Sea coast of the Xiongnu Empire to the western coast of the Persian Empire in the Black Sea, but you must take the right route on the way to arrive safely and smoothly, otherwise it is easy to encounter storms, which Qin Dong has long thought about, and the Persian prince Belus has already found a safe navigation route when he came, and he will ask him in a few days, and then find someone to draw out the navigation drawings and sell them to the merchants.

The merchants who bought the merchant ships soon began to recruit sailors and crews on the one hand, and on the other hand, to raise goods to be transported to the port, now the ports of Burgas and Constanta are still very simple, there is nothing bare on the wharf, the merchants transport the goods here and there is no place to store them, sometimes heavy snow or heavy rain will damage a lot of goods, the merchants have suffered great losses, at this time Qin Dong learned about it, Qin Dong immediately ordered the port to build offices and commodity cargo storage warehouses around the wharf, After the construction of the warehouse for the storage of goods is completed, it is rented to the merchants.

The sailors and crews that can be recruited in the Xiongnu Empire are very limited, the free sailors and crews are almost all recruited by the royal court to train the navy, there are no idle sailors and crews at all, so they can only be found from other places, some merchants actually spend a lot of money to hire many sailors and crews from the chaotic Western Roman Empire, and now the Western Roman Empire is in chaos, many industries are withering, business is not good, and there are a large number of Vandal pirates robbing in the coastal area, sailors and crews dare not go to sea, they can only find another way, Merchants came to recruit sailors and sailors, and many of them ran to enlist.

Some merchants have recruited sailors and crews, and the goods are ready to go to sea after they are ready, but these merchants have no experience in sailing at sea before, so they dare not go too far for the first time, most of them just sail north from the port of Burgas to the port of Constanta, unload the goods and sell them to the locals, and then buy some local specialties from the hands of the locals and then go south back to the port of Burgas, it only takes a few days to go back and forth, it is very convenient, and it is safe to sail along the offshore sea, and there is almost no danger.

From the port of Burgas to the port of Constanta, this trip makes much more money than by land, it takes a long time to take by land, the road is difficult, and the fleet is easy to have problems, and the loss of various materials is also very large, but the sea route is different, as long as there is no danger in the big storm, there is little loss along the way, and all kinds of expenses are also less, compared with the two, it is found that it is better to take the sea route.

After a few visits, the merchants began to grow bolder, and some merchants began to be dissatisfied with just running back and forth between the port of Burgas and the port of Constanta, and some bold merchants set sail from the port of Burgas and traveled north along the coastline to the port of Constanta, where they replenished fresh water, food, and some daily necessities, and then continued northward, sailing for a few days, and then docked at the sea of Odessa in Dengzhixikkongzhì, and carried the goods to the shore to exchange goods with the Hun tribes here. The daring merchants of the herdsmen in the territory of Dengzhisik were desperately short of necessities, and some sailed to the Crimean peninsula to sell their goods to the local Celts, Scythians, Greeks, and Huns.

The most primitive inhabitants of the Crimean peninsula were the Celts, the ancestors of the present-day English and Irish, as the first people in Europe to use iron tools, skilled in business and warlike, the Celts were known for their blonde hair, white skin and long head, tall and burly, and violent temperament, which were once distributed in the vast space of the East and the Black Sea and the West to England. Later, the Scythians (also known as the Scythians, that is, the "Cypriots" or "Pointed Hats" in the Western Regions as they are called in the ancient history books of our country) replaced the Celts on the peninsula. The Scythians did not have a written language, so they did not leave a record of their own people, but the steppes of Crimea are still scattered with many Scythian graves as a testimony to this history. The Greeks then arrived in Crimea and established a number of city-states as colonial states. In 438 BC, the Hellenistic inhabitants established the Bosphorus Kingdom in the northern part of the Black Sea, which encompassed the Crimean peninsula. The kingdom was rich in wheat and therefore had close trade with Greece itself. In 15 BC, Rome conquered the Crimean peninsula and brought it under the protection of the empire. Crimea then followed the Roman Empire with the conversion to Christianity. In the 3rd century, the Roman Empire collapsed economically and socially, and the empire was unable to withstand the onslaught of waves of nomadic barbarians from the eastern steppes, and Crimea became a tug-of-war between agrarian and nomadic peoples.

Therefore, in this land there are the most primitive Celts, as well as the Xusians, as well as the Greeks, and there are many Huns, and this territory is still controlled by the Xiongnu Empire, that is, in the control of Deng Zhixike. (To be continued......)