On the sea with headwinds, centipede ships ride the wind and waves.

All of these were newly made in Lutai this year, but they were not very large, with a single masted and only twenty or thirty rows of oars on both sides, and they were not mainly military, they were used as trawlers for fishing.

Fisheries are very important.

In the case that new crops cannot be introduced for the time being, and traditional crops do not have chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and the yield is unlikely to achieve a real breakthrough, fisheries are the most important food supplements, even if the real canned food is too high-end, after all, spices are also very expensive at this time, but relying on cheap sea salt, it can still extend the transportation distance of marine fish to the inland to the maximum extent......

The fish head is processed on the boat to remove the internal organs, and salt is stuffed directly into the stomach, and then the concentrated salt is boiled and stuffed into a clay pot to seal on the shore.

This is enough for Yanshan City to eat sea fish.

It may taste almost.

Not to mention that there is still an ice age along the coast of the Bohai Sea, and even fishermen in the Dagukou area lack fresh water, so they have the habit of digging sea ice in winter and piling it up, and then drinking sea ice melt water after it melts in spring and summer. In this way, a large amount of ice can be stored in winter to increase the transportation distance of fresh fish, for those marine fish that are immediately gutted when caught, if there is sea ice to keep it fresh, it is completely possible for the rich people in Yanshan City to eat chilled sea fish directly.

If all the fishing villages along the Bohai Sea had such a system, then the entire Yanshan province would be able to benefit from the fish.

As for the fishery resources here......

In this era, consider the fishery resources of Mao!

The entire coast of Liaodong Bay is still full of seals, and there are even whales......

"Millions of pounds of meat!"

Wang Yue, who was sitting on the deck basking in the sun, looked at the whales jumping out of the sea next to him and sighed.

On both sides of the deck in front of him, the oarsmen continued to paddle rhythmically with long oars to the beat of drums, and although it was a headwind, the centipede ship under his feet was still moving forward at a speed of no less than five knots at sea, and it was such a long distance that it was a great test for the oarsmen. Fortunately, they all have heavy rewards, and they will get heavy rewards if they send the army to Liaodong, so the spirit is still sufficient, and they can still ensure continuous navigation ability in the case of shift rowing......

It's a pity that there were no slaves.

If there were enough slaves, it would be perfect to be chained to the oars.

Therefore, in the future, the slave trade is already imminent, and this is the perfect power plant.

And on the deck of these oarsmen, the soldiers who participated in the expedition sat honestly, and some of them could not stand the turbulence of the sea, and vomited wildly at the barrels that were distributed.

These are actually cavalry.

Of course, they don't have a single horse now.

This needs to be captured from the enemy after landing.

All of them were fully armed, all of them were the latest Wang Yue plate armor, cuirass, iron arm hands, similar leggings, basin collars, all of which were carburized wrought iron, which was actually considered mild steel.

Wrought iron forging extrudes impurities and then carburizing.

The result is definitely up to steel standards.

This new type of armor is all made by those profiteers in Kaifeng Commune, in order to make money, they can do anything, blast furnace iron smelting, pig iron frying, hydraulic forging hammer, this is Wang Yue provided some help, but wrought iron carburizing is all made by themselves.

The price is really high.

But it is precisely because of the high price that those profiteers flock to it.

According to their current competitive speed, it is estimated that in a few years, this kind of armor will not be considered a high-end product.

But now the price of high-quality iron ore is starting to skyrocket.

"You can eat this stuff too?"

Ma Kuo said in amazement.

"Back to the general, this thing is very difficult to eat, before the small one also felt fresh, so he took his brothers to stab a small one with a spear, but the meat was old and fishy, difficult to swallow, but the oil is big, the body is full of fat, the small one cut off the fat oil and boiled it, got several barrels of oil, fried vegetables can not be eaten, but can be used to light the lamp, it is said that there are occasionally dead people rushed to the shore before, and it is also boiled oil and lit in this way."

The captain who was waiting next to him said with a smile.

"It's meat if it's unpalatable, you dislike it and it's oily and fishy, but you know how much those poor people want to taste meat and can't get it!"

Wang Yue said.

"The handsome man is a lesson."

The captain hurriedly said.

"But this lamp oil is really good, you can get more in the future!"

Wang Yue said.

And just like that, his claws reached out to the lovely whale.

On both sides of the sea, those happy whales knew nothing, and they continued to jump between the waves, and even spew up the seawater, and many soldiers who were originally vomiting wildly were attracted by this spectacular sight, forgetting that they were vomiting. At this moment, the sailors on the top of the mast sounded the trumpet, and Wang Yue and Ma Kuo immediately stood up and looked into the distance, and the green of the land appeared between the sea and the sky......

"Suzhou, Iron Mountain."

Ma Kuo said.

"It's fast, it's not dark yet!"

Wang Yue said.

Indeed, they set sail from the Swordfish Village before dawn today, and they have sailed on the sea for less than twelve hours!

"This kind of boat is naturally fast, and it took more than ten days to just cross the sea last time."

Ma Kuo said.

"After walking on the sea for more than ten days, did you swim there?"

Wang Yue was stunned.

This time is still very exaggerated.

Although he rowed through the Bohai Strait in less than twelve hours, in the final analysis, it is a hundred kilometers, and the rowboat can usually maintain six or seven knots of cruise, after all, the engine of the slave burner is actually not weak, but even a sailboat will not sail for more than ten days! It's only a hundred kilometers, as long as there is no wind and waves to block it, you will definitely be able to row a small sampan for two days, and those who row a small sampan across the Pacific Ocean can maintain fifty nautical miles a day!

"Several envoys are early winter or early spring, are such headwinds, not directly from Dengzhou, headwinds can not come directly, need to go to Goryeo in Dengzhou first, and then turn into the current and then to the northwest, through Xiao Xie Tuoji, the end of the island, Phi Dao, to Suzhou Pass, plus along the way to wait for the wind to supply, ten days is not slow."

Ma Kuo said.

The name Phi Dao is still very sudden.

At this time, the Great Song Dynasty had a very good relationship with Goryeo, and the great painter also sent an envoy to Goryeo, but not here, but in the north of Mingzhou, and the Goryeo envoy once reminded the Great Song Dynasty to be wary of the Jurchens, not to believe too much in the alliance, the Jurchens will inevitably tear up the alliance and invade the south. Although this is something that can be thought of as long as you are not stupid, as a neighbor who has surrendered to the Jurchens, it is still interesting for Goryeo to risk being beaten by the Jurchens to remind the Great Song Dynasty.

"Suzhou, they will come up with a name."

Wang Yue looked at the coast that was getting closer and closer and said with interest,

Suzhou in Liaoguo is actually Jinzhou.

"This name is not given by the Liao people, the source is the South Su of Goguryeo, and later the Liao people placed the Bohai people in this area, borrowed this name, changed it to Laisu County, so it was called Suzhou, the vast majority of this area is the Bohai Sea, after the Liao destroyed the Bohai Sea, dispersed its people, moved to various places, but also used the Han people captured in the south to set up states and counties with their intervals, and the whole area is like this.

However, this move also cheapened the Jurchens, who originally lived in the icy and snowy land in the north, went south, almost occupying most of the Bohai homeland, and even the mountains and forests in Liaodong were already inhabited by the Jurchens.

Liao is also happy to see it.

In this way, the Jurchen, Bohai, and Han people were intertwined, and the three tribes restrained each other.

The Khitan and Xi people were nomadic or farming in western Liao, and some nobles moved into the prefectures and counties as officials, no matter which clan wanted to rebel, it was difficult for the other two clans to participate, and then the Khitan and Xi people could quickly rush to suppress it, but in general, the Liao State was more dependent on the Han people. ”

Ma Kuo said.

"So it's all the Bohai Sea on this shore?"

Wang Yue said.

In fact, Bohai and Jurchen are indeed of the same origin.

It's all the Eve, but one is the Sumo Tatar and the other is the Black Water Ediment, but the Liao State called the Heishui Edigo a separate Jurchen, and the Sumo Ein, because of the establishment of the Bohai State and the serious Sinicization, so they are all directly called the Bohai, so Ah Gu fought together and shouted out the Jurchen Bohai Brothers, although he killed his brother and killed him very hard, but the Jurchen did form an alliance with the Bohai Sea.

The initial system of Aguta was designed with the help of Yang Pu, a native of Bohai, and the latter was a Jinshi of the Liao State, and Tiezhou was a strong man in the Yingkou area.

As for the lower Bohai Sea......

In these days, the lower class is not considered a person, and for the ruling class, leeks are all the same, and neither broad-leaved leeks nor narrow-leaved leeks are all leeks?

"The last time I came, there were already Jurchens stationed, several states here were originally subordinate to the Southern Jurchen Tanghe Detailed Stable Division, and there were originally Jurchens in the mountains and forests next to it, and during the first sea alliance, Gao Yaoshi and others did not dare to return because they saw a lot of Jurchen soldiers and horses on the shore."

Ma Kuo said.

"The news is still very gratifying."

Wang Yue said with satisfaction.

However, the rest of the landing process was uneventful, although there were a small number of residents on the shore, after seeing the warships on this side of the sea, they immediately fled to the mountains and forests, and some local officials rode north to report the news, but Wang Yue led the landing of 5,000 expeditionary forces without any resistance. By nightfall, he had set up a bonfire on the beach on the shore, and the centipede boats that transported them had set up trawls and dragged countless fish out of the sea.

The rest were the soldiers who had been on the boat for a day, and even the bitter gall was about to vomit and barbecue.

"What is this place called?"

Wang Yue sat by the campfire and said as he nibbled on grilled fish.

"This place should be called Lion's Mouth, there are no people here, the Jurchens will not care if we land here, and then the Suzhou Pass to the north is the real pass, Suzhou Pass is full of sea water on the left and right, and a very narrow land in the middle, the Jurchens will wait for us there with cavalry."

Ma Kuo said.

"The name of the lion's mouth is not good, we can say that the journey was smooth, then we will change the name to Lushun, and this place will be renamed Lushunkou in the future."

Wang Yue looked at both sides and said.

Well, this is the Port of Arthur.