VIP Author: New Oriental's Xiao Er

"Uncle, this ship under our feet is so big, it is as stable as land......"

"Kid, it's not a big ship. Have you ever seen the big ship of the Hantang Group security team? ”

Little Toms blushed.

"I missed ......"

Uncle patted him on the head: "It's okay, I'll see it sooner or later." The warships of the Hantang Group heard that they were going to cruise and escort in this area."

Little Thomas once had a chance to see the battleship of the Han Tang Group, but he slept too deeply and missed it.

When he woke up, he dragged his uncle and ran to the docks, but the big ship had long since disappeared on the horizon. Little Thomas regretted it, he looked at the sea level with bulging cheeks, and shouted in his heart: "Sooner or later, I will see you!" I'm going to get on the boat and see ......."

Little Thomas was now intently watching the direction the ship was heading, having been slowed down by the small typhoon a week ago.

Little Tom sat comfortably and reluctantly in his warm hotel room, the whale oil lamp illuminating the postcard of the city of Geransha in his hand, and the celluloid window separating him from the outside world.

His uncle always took special care of him and gave him warm living conditions. He's just a kid, and it would have been terrible if he had contracted rheumatism as a child.

Now my uncle is measuring the latitude and longitude on the side, and he has a marine clock produced by the Hantang Group in his hand, and with the exceptionally accurate sextant of the Hantang Group, he can know the position of the ship.

"Little Toms, you're going to operate the sextant!"

Little Thomas reluctantly walked over, he loved sailing, but he found it troublesome.

Looking at his hand as he fiddled with the sextant's dragger, little Toms's uncle smiled, his brow a little furrowed.

This is just for him to try to fiddle with the sextant, after all, he is a child, and it is normal not to like to learn this, but without sailing skills, even a maritime merchant can't do it.

Little Tom's uncle walked around the ship, greeted the other passengers, and checked the captain's general condition of the ship.

The hull is in good condition, with the occasional minor glitch that can be easily modified when we arrive in the port of Geranza.

He was only a merchant on a boat, but he had a good level of seamanship, he would take latitude and longitude every day, and he would help when there were not enough sailors on board.

At this time, he walked to the side of the captain's quarters.

“Hello,myrespectedcaptain.”

"Hello, honorable captain."

"Hello, dear Mr. Toms."

"It's been a good couple of days, but the mercury column on the barometer tells me that the pressure is dropping."

"Yes, Mr. Toms, thank you for the reminder, after all, at this time, the sea in this area is prone to storms, but due to time considerations, we must get to Taiwan quickly."

"After all, there are Indian cattle on board. Mr. Captain, do you know the living conditions of black slaves on ships? ”

"Yes, it's not much better than the livestock on our ship, and there are no such slaves in the places governed by the Hantang group."

"Indeed, they treat people equally, and compared to the people of the Hantang Group, we white people seem uncivilized."

“Hello,myrespectedmanager!”

"Hello, Dear Mr. Manager!"

The manager of the Panjia Goa branch in Guangzhou walked by.

"Hello, Mr. Captain, Mr. Thoms."

"Mr. Manager, have you seen my nephew Little Toms? He didn't run around, let him get into trouble. “

Sure enough, it's a Westerner, what if you disturb others and cause a small disaster? I'm not going to ask such questions, hehe, there's no one on the ship with a higher status than me. But if it gets into trouble and it happens to me, it's also a problem, this Westerner still knows each other.

Thinking so, the manager of the Pan family shook his head slightly, puffed his stomach and said, "I haven't seen your nephew, child, I don't know if I'm wandering around, it's okay, as long as you don't mess up my things." “

"Hey! Uncle! Ship! ”

Little Tom's voice came from above, and Little Tom's uncle and captain looked at each other and smiled, little child, probably greedy for fun to climb onto the mast.

The manager of the Pan family shook his head and walked away, this child is not very educated, fortunately it is not the child I am waiting for-

Little Thomas's uncle and captain walked to the upper deck together, and saw little Thomas swaying down like a monkey.

"Did you use a sextant to measure the latitude?"

"It's measured, how much...... Uncle, I forgot. More than that, look! ”

Little Toms excitedly pointed to a large new ship on the sea. The big ship looked fast, smoking, and white, with beautiful sails, apparently new.

Little Toms asked excitedly: "This is the warship of the Hantang Group?" ”

The captain replied, "No, myson. Theirwarshipsarebiggerthanthis,Ithinkthisshipisforcatchingwhales。 "

(No, my child.) Their ship is bigger than this, and I guess this one is for whaling. ）

Little Thomas excitedly begged, "Mr. Captain, can we get closer?"

Little Toms's uncle looked at the captain apologetically, but the captain readily agreed.

"Yes, my boy, lean in, for the sake of gaining a glimpse of your knowledge, and it won't waste much time just to get closer, and if you're lucky, you might even see them whaling.

What do you think, Mr. Toms? ”

Little Toms's uncle looked at his nephew's longing, glittering gaze.

"Excuse me, Mr. Captain, let this kid take a look."

Little Thomas raised his binoculars to take a closer look, and sure enough, it was not a warship, there was no cannon on the side of the ship, only a strange cannon on the bow. It also doesn't go straight like a regular merchant ship, but follows a curve.

The whaling ship was searching for whales, and watching its high-speed and agile figure at sea, little Thomas stomped on the deck with his feet excitedly, and his eyes became more focused.

Now there was only a light breeze on the sea, and that ship could still take advantage of it.

Little Toms's uncle laughed silently, this boy thinks that our ship is not good enough now, and in the future he will grow up to be the child of the sea, bigger ships, faster speeds, this is what merchants and sailors aspire to. He looked at his nephew with loving and expectant eyes and smiled silently.

Little Thomas put down his binoculars and looked back, the captain squinted slightly, looking up at the shape of the clouds.

"Uncle, Mr. Captain. That ship is so big, if it were a warship, it would be able to defeat a fleet of pirate ships! ”

"Yes, kid. Last time, two of their warships had outnumbered the strongest pirates in the Indian Ocean with little effort, and the reason why they wanted two of them was because they had to protect the merchant fleet that accompanied them while fighting. ”

The captain sighed from the bottom of his heart: "Thank you to the Hantang Group Maritime Security Brigade for bringing freedom and peace of navigation in the Indian Ocean. ”

"I heard that the Ming Empire once had the largest warships and the strongest fleet in the world, and their fleets had traveled to India and some places further afield."

"Somehow, the Ming Empire doesn't seem to have any desire for the sea, if they loved overseas expansion like the Dutch, the entire Indian Ocean would have been theirs long ago."

"Thank God for the peace-loving and docile nature of the Ming people."

"Uncle, captain, look! Whale! ”

Not far away is a humpback whale that is the spirit of the sea.

In this day and age, humpback whales are not uncommon and generally have little wariness of humans. It spewed out a tall column of water in pain, and wanted to play on the surface of the sea for a while, its body seemed to be lazy and motionless, gliding across the sea, and it was agile and powerful when it moved.

The whale had already been spotted by a whaling ship in the distance, smoking from it, nimbly adjusting its sails.

It was very hot at sea, and there seemed to be no wind, but the whaling ship could still take advantage of that little wind.

Little Toms had foreseen the whaling ship fighting the whales, and like every normal boy, he showed a yearning for battle between powerful forces.

However, there is still some time before the whaling ship arrives, so wait! It's the age of sails!

The manager of the Pan family walked out of his cabin door, but unfortunately the outside was as hot as the inside.

When the captain saw him come out, he went away to check the weather. The barometer and thermometer produced by Hantang Group are exceptionally accurate, obviously large-scale production, but the standards can be uniform, but you need to be familiar with the various units used by Hantang Group, such as Celsius, etc., which are very simple and easy to understand.

The manager of the Pan family walked up to little Toms and his uncle, looked up at the sky, and frowned.

Little Toms thought he looked down on the great whaling ship, and asked, "What a good ship it is, and do you think it has any shortcomings?" ”

The uncle next to him smiled, still a child, this is defending what he likes.

The manager of the Pan family straightened his stomach, smiled, and said slowly: "Westerners are rare and strange, and it is also a common thing. When we went to India, the warships of the Hantang Group had to escort us, and if we suffered losses, the Hantang Group still had to compensate us, hehe. Wouldn't the warship of the Hantang Group be bigger than this? ”

When little Thomas heard this, his face turned red again, and he muttered quietly: "Won't I just be a little lazy, I will see it sooner or later"

At this moment, the whaling ship pounced on the humpback whale, who was still swimming slowly, unsuspectingly, and even the faint sudden sound from the boat did not disturb her happy swimming.

It is really worthy of the latest ocean-going whaling ship specially built by Anjiang Shipyard for the newly established Taiwan Whaling Company, and Chairman Mingren specially instructed which accessories to install.

It is still powered by sails, but it is a specially designed ocean-going whaling ship by the technicians of the Anjiang Shipyard, and it is also equipped with steam engine auxiliary power.

It is specially enhanced for structural strength, so it can carry out primary and intermediate treatment of caught whales, and therefore has excellent resistance to wind and waves.

It is even equipped with a small spark transmitter that can call for help from the Hantang Group warships patrolling nearby in case of distress.

The whaling ship gradually approached the humpback whales, the cannon had already been charged, and the Ming sailors put on life jackets, got into the boat, and brought whaling forks

"Waste !!"

The muzzle of the whaling cannon spewed a cloud of fire mist, and little Toms's eyes were pressed against the telescope eyepiece, and his heart was about to jump out.

The sharp edge cut through the silky air, and the laws of science and common sense are still very normal.

The speed of sound was faster than the initial velocity of the whaling cannon, and the humpback whale was finally frightened, but before she could react, the sharp edge pierced through its skin like cutting through the air, and the medium-carbon steel of the Red Star Steelworks met closely with the muscles of the sea elves, and the blood in her aorta spurted out, staining the sea red!

The humpback whale howled in pain, she twisted her body to an almost impossible angle in agony, and the reflection of the scaly sea surface turned into pieces.

At this time, the sailors of the boat next to her threw their whaling forks at her, and her pain did not last long because of the ruptured aorta. Soon, the sea was calm again.

Akito Gunner smiled lightly, knowing that he would have another reward, or rather a bonus—the rules of the whaling company he belonged to.

The Akito sailors were working hard to care for the motionless whale, and their hearts were laughing, they all worked hard to earn money for themselves and their families, and how much surplus they could have.

The adventures of the people on the whaling ships at sea and the battles with whales will bring them and their families a happy life, will bring the courage of sea adventures to the young people on the Ming Continent, will bring food to the security guards who fight against evil on the Ming Continent and the Ming compatriots who have been enslaved by the bandit group, will bring high-quality protein to the children of their nation, and add lamp oil to the oil lamps for primary school students to study.

Little Thomas certainly didn't know that there was once such a people in the world who gave up and were even afraid of the treasure trove of the ocean.

The author is a high school student, and I hope you will give me encouragement. There is no charge for this.