When Duke heard Fasqi's battle report, he clenched his fist excitedly, because the ocean is the future direction of Storm Castle, but for more than two years, the road to the ocean of Storm Castle has basically been blocked by the Shark Tribe, and the safe range of the entire coastline is no more than three kilometers.

In this way, not to mention the development of the ocean that Duke thought about before, even after the Wave Tribe was annexed, his own food became a problem. Even if the Sea of Death outside of Stormcastle territory has ocean currents and schools of fish, not to mention that it is inexhaustible, even if it increases to a million people, there is no problem at all.

However, there was basically no living space in the three-kilometer safety range, and later, relying on the protection of the Storm Fortress, and the various fishing nets and pickling methods provided by the Storm Fortress, the Storm Sea Clan barely made ends meet, and still had to allocate food from the main base of the Storm Fortress.

You must know that the population of Storm Fort has increased dramatically before, and there is no cultivated land that has been reclaimed, and the food production is not very good, the problem of food has almost crushed Duke's finances, but fortunately, the people of Storm Fort were also used to it before, and the new residents of Storm Fort are basically some homeless people or refugees, and they do not have high requirements for the quality of life, so Duke can rely on a large number of purchases to persevere.

However, the harsh living environment before Stormcastle can be said to have basically completely changed, at least there is no starvation happening. At present, the Storm Fort shipyard is training with small fishing boats of several tens of tons, and the old shipwrights and the new workers recruited from Alpine City can basically achieve the efficiency of a small fishing boat in ten days.

Because Duke had already transformed some of the steps of shipbuilding, it was no longer a matter of assembly lines, and Duke even told the old Watt about the most advanced segmented construction concept of later generations. And it's much easier to build a small boat than a big one, so it's possible to maintain this amazing efficiency.

At the same time, Duke also recruited shipbuilders and some old fishermen in Alpine City, although the Sea of Death basically means death for humans, but relying on the sea to eat the sea, in the case of survival is a problem, there is no way to avoid the rich product of the ocean, unlike the previous Storm Castle was completely incapable, Alpine City, as a large territory with a population of nearly one million, it is impossible to watch the Sea of Death without using it.

Don't think about these things in the sea ship trade, let alone Alpine City, even the entire Fran Empire does not have this strength. It is estimated that even if the Holy See comes, it will be a headache to face the harassment of the three Sea Tribes in the Sea of Death. And this is only the end of the Sea of Death near the French Empire, what horrors will exist in the real distant ocean, no one in this world knows yet.

But according to what Fasqi said to Duke before, that is, the deeper you go, the stronger the strength of the Sea Clan, and at the same time, those real deep-sea beasts are also in the depths of the ocean. Therefore, even the most powerful sea giant tribe among the three tribes is just nesting in this kind of place that is considered a coastline in terms of ocean proportions, and neither the mad shark tribe nor the tide tribe dare to involve the depths of the ocean, so they can understand the horror of the truly unknown ocean in this world.

Therefore, the French Empire is close to the side of the Sea of Death, so there is no way to carry out any maritime trade. Officially, because of the lack of maritime trade, the development and financial income of the French Empire began to lag behind the Milan Empire, which can be seen how much benefit can be brought by being close to a safe sea like the Mediterranean.

However, there are still some fishing boats in Takayama City that go out to sea to fish, and the range of these fishing is generally one kilometer away from the coastline, or some relatively safe harbor. Being able to obtain this axiom of safety is also the agreement reached between Alpine City and the Shark Tribe and the Wave Tribe before, that is, to supply them with some iron tools and living utensils every year, and obtain the right to fish for one kilometer.

If Alpine City wants to use this security protocol to trade, then I'm sorry, the Shark Tribe and the Tide Tribe will become robbers at this time, and they will not hesitate to rob those merchant ships, because the value of a merchant ship will far exceed the general supply, and the fishing boat has no value to them.

It is precisely because of this that Alpine City, as a large territory, still has some fishermen and small workshops that make fishing boats, and what Duke wants to do now is to unify these fishermen and small workshops, and the shipbuilders will directly enter the shipyard of Storm Castle, because there is a shortage of skilled workers now, and the shipyard of Old Watt is actually placed on the mainland, and it is only a small-scale shipyard, and it is still a little far from satisfying Duke's ambition to conquer the sea.

As for these fishermen, although they only have experience in operating one-sided sails, and do not have the level of large multi-sail warships or merchant ships, they can be regarded as having some experience, and are much better than recruiting sailors directly from among the people. So Duke plans to use them as a base and then train out more sailors.

The 100-year-old navy is not really just talking, but requires long-term preparation. It's like Duke has been preparing for nearly three years to build a ship, but so far, that is, a small fishing boat has been launched, and there is no shadow of the Galen ship or clipper ship in his dream, let alone build a fleet. So it's this kind of thing that really makes Duke feel a kind of cruelty of reality, and there is really no way to achieve his goal.

So Duke has realized what it means to be skinny, and honestly started from the fishing boat, began to train a sailboat, and then began to cooperate with multiple sails. And the Sea of the Dead, in addition to its commercial transportation capabilities, is a treasure in its own right. There is no shortage of food production in Stormcastle now, but it is still extremely scarce when it comes to meat.

You must know that the Middle Ages was officially in a kind of ignorant era, which led to an astonishing backwardness in all aspects of social productivity. Moreover, the French Empire is now in a state of continuous conquest, and the pressure of various taxes is also increasing, and the recruitment of knights and young retinues in various territories has also affected the development of productivity, and even having enough to eat has become a problem in many places.

Duke's goal is naturally not as simple as having enough to eat, what he pursues is to eat well!