Chapter 107, the sea ban of Daqi
With the help of these hundreds of dolphins, the speed of the sea boat was immediately more than doubled, and they were also the best scouts, and they could notify Xu Hao in advance of any situation on the sea.
There are several waves of small krakens along the way, all of which are eliminated by them in advance, even if they encounter enemies that they can't deal with, they can also warn Xu Hao in advance, it can be said that the water is a model of a dolphin with two purposes, with the help of this group of dolphins, the navigation is more than twice as safe, and the price of hiring them is just some sea fish, which can be called good quality and low price.
Even the captain sighed: "If we can learn the methods of the captain to drive these dolphins, the risk of sailing will not be so great." ”
The sailors of this world are very pitiful, not only have to face rough seas, moody weather, but also encounter grumpy sea beasts and krakens, so until now the deep-sea route has not been opened, and everyone can only sail along the coastline, but even then the danger has not been reduced much!
Xu Hao said: "You can find a monk to create a magic weapon that can communicate with sea creatures, so that you can also hire a group of dolphins or sea fish, and have them as spies, so that even if you encounter a huge sea beast, you will avoid it in advance!" ”
The captain smiled bitterly: "The magic weapons are all used by the monks, how can civilians like us afford to use them!" ”
The captain said that he was a civilian, Xu Haoke knew that he had innate strength, and each of the sailors on the ship also had deep internal strength, obviously no martial arts on this dangerous sea could not be mixed.
Xu Hao encouraged: "It's man-made, how do you know if you can succeed if you haven't tried!" ”
Sailed for a few days!
Li Defeng and the others came to the fish-man sea city discovered by Xu Hao, where the sea ships stayed to buy supplies in this sea city and let the crew rest for a day.
And this captain is very familiar with these fishmen, and actually greets many fishmen, Xu Hao doesn't know how he distinguishes the fishmen with the same face, and the other sailors are also very familiar with this sea city, and they scatter in twos and threes.
The captain introduced to Xu Hao: "This fish-man city is also a trading city of the sea tribe and the human race, the coral pearls of the sea tribe, and the minerals under the sea are worth thousands of gold in Daqi, and all kinds of iron tools and swords of our Daqi are also needed by these fishmen, so a large number of maritime merchants will come here to trade goods, and the profits in it are very high, as long as you trade once, you can make a fortune." ”
Li Defeng said solemnly: "The imperial court strictly enforces the sea ban, so you are not afraid that the imperial court will arrest you." ”
The Great Qi of this world is very unlucky, not to mention the demons and monsters in the territory, there is still a circle of demon sect strength outside the country, and there are nomads in the north who often invade.
In the quiet East China Sea of Xu Hao's world, it is not peaceful in this world, and the sea tribe can be regarded as a nomad on the sea, and their habits are similar to those of the nomads on the grassland.
As long as they can't survive, they will make waves to go ashore to grab a wave, although the fishmen come ashore, their strength is greatly reduced, but they are like psoriasis, they can't prevent it, and when they encounter stormy weather, they can be anti-guest-oriented, and go deep into the territory of Daqi to rob.
Therefore, the Great Qi Imperial Court forbade the sea, just to prevent the sea tribe from obtaining iron tools to make weapons, and the combat effectiveness became stronger.
And the innate limitations of the sea tribe also make them worse than the nomadic people's combat effectiveness, the combat effectiveness of the ashore fishmen is not strong, and the iron tools decay very quickly in the ocean, so their equipment is basically in the Stone Age, either wooden sticks or stones, that is, there are many people, plus Daqi's army cannot enter the sea, so Daqi has to endure these neighbors.
The captain laughed and said, "Chief Darthead, do you think that the 9-foot high-blooded coral, pearl gem the size of a pigeon's egg can be used by us flat-headed people?" It's not the nobles in the capital who need these things. Not to mention that you can get hundreds of times the profit when you come to this city, how do you say this sea ban is forbidden? Hundreds of years have passed since the sea ban, and now even the sailors of the imperial court don't care about this, otherwise how did your ship of weapons go to sea, and the imperial court no longer cares about the sea ban. ”
Speaking of this, the captain said with interest: "If you shoot those weapons here, it will be easy to earn 100,000 taels of gold." ”
Li Defeng immediately said sternly: "This is a weapon of the imperial court, you want to raid the whole house, and the nine clans will be wiped out, and you dare to fight this idea." ”
The captain said: "It's just a joke, my belongings in Daqi are no less than the total dart, and 100,000 taels of gold is not enough for me to take risks." ”
Li Defeng began to increase his vigilance, and arranged for a few of his henchmen to stay on the ship, and even he himself followed the boat.
However, Li Defeng, these dart masters were very curious about such a fish-man city, and they were tired of staying on the boat, so they began to visit the city, and Xu Hao also followed.
However, there is nothing to see in this city, compared with Daqi, the city of the fish people seems to be in a primitive era, they are all some simple wooden houses, similar to shacks, but the fish people take water as the way, and when the time comes, the water town city, Suzhou is almost the same.
However, their market is extremely splendid, not much worse than the big cities in Daqi. Many of the maritime merchants of Daqi have set up guilds here, and Xu Hao estimates that the maritime merchants should have built it for them.
Xu Hao They just looked on the street, and they could see some sea fish, coral, pearls and other seafood here, these things are worth thousands of gold in Daqi, but in this market, they are placed at random like glass beads in Xu Hao's world, and the price is also exaggeratedly low, between dozens and hundreds of times lower than that of Daqi world.
The dart masters were all moved when they saw it, but there was no gold or silver here, and the dart masters had no way to spend their money, so they could only exchange some of their daggers or other bits and pieces, and everyone felt that they were fully loaded.
These fishermen were very fond of swords, and an ordinary iron sword could be exchanged for pearls the size of several pigeon's eggs, and if some old dart masters hadn't stopped them, they would have exchanged these swords for these treasures.
Everyone returned to the ship after shopping, and the sailors were obviously more familiar with the city than Xu Hao and them, and they did not come back even when it was dark, but sent a message that they would stay in the city at sea for the night.
The captain didn't bother to ask about it, because it was customary at sea.
But in the middle of the night, Xu Hao and the others were awakened by the shouting of killing.
"What's going on?" When he came to the deck, Xu Hao immediately asked the captain to arrive.
Li Defeng also looked at the captain!
The captain smiled bitterly: "I don't know, but it may be that there is a conflict due to the uneven distribution of spoils, the maritime merchants who come here are basically half-merchants and half-thieves, and the fish-man is arrogant, and sometimes he doesn't mind making a cameo appearance as a pirate, maybe they will fight." ”