After getting along with these soldiers on the ship for so many days, Xia Yuan's tone became vulgar intentionally or unintentionally, but these soldiers just ate this set, and when they heard the words, they were busy one by one, and then began to check the damage on the ship.

Zhu Houzhao sat on the deck leaning against the railing, with the excitement of tiredness in his eyes, Wang Shouren took off his robe and silently twisted the stagnant water on it.

Xia Yuan shivered, the clothes on his body were already soaked, when he fought with the whale just now, his nerves were highly tense, and he couldn't feel it at all, but now that his spirit was relaxed, he felt uncomfortable, not only uncomfortable, but also felt cold all over his body.

Wang Shouren wrung out his clothes, put his hand on the railing, and asked, "Teacher, what should I do with this big fish?" ”

"Of course, it will be dragged behind the boat, and when the war is over, I will bring it back to my father and emperor."

At the mention of this, Zhu Houzhao's eyes flashed with inexplicable brilliance.

Xia Yuan can understand this guy's psychology very well, not only him, but many soldiers on the ship think so, it was not easy to kill such a big giant fish, and he had to take it back and pretend to be a force?

"When I bring it back, I'll have a skeleton left."

"It's the same with bones, such a big fish, the bones must be big."

"Of course, the bones have to be brought back, but we should find a way to cut the flesh off this fish and refine the oil."

"Oil refining? Can this big fish be used for oil refining? ”

"So what's not? Otherwise, what are we going to do with it? ”

The reason why Xia Yuan didn't stop Zhu Houzhao from hunting the whale at the beginning, and then shouted that he wouldn't let the whale go, was naturally to get the whale's corpse and use it for oil refining.

Not only for oil refining, this whale is full of treasures, and the oil on its body can be made into candles, and the quality of the candles made is better than any candle today, and there is not even a substitute for it.

And the meat can still be eaten, this behemoth is at least 200 tons, and there are at least hundreds of thousands of catties of meat on the body, which is enough for hundreds of thousands of people to eat a full meal.

Not only that, but the rest of the parts on the whale's body also have their own uses and can be used in all walks of life.

The reason why the whaling industry developed in later generations is because of the huge profits on this whale, and countless people can profit from this creature.

So much so that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, those foreign devils in the West began large-scale crazy whaling.

Both the cubs and the adult whales were spared, and eventually, the blue whale became an endangered protected animal.

The most disgusting thing is that they have fished enough, so they have developed their national strength and industrialization, so they can no longer develop industry by fishing whales, and they shed two tears in their eyes, saying that they want to protect the marine ecology, and they have united to make a convention banning whaling.

This kind of upright and upright style is really shameful.

According to Xia Yuan's assumption, now it is just a sample, and after success, Daming can develop a large number of whaling industries, replace wax oil with whale oil, and expand a large number of meat sources.

Not to mention that to some extent, whaling can also train soldiers.

Take the fierce battle with the whale just now, a big ship like them, in fact, as long as they are experienced and the soldiers above cooperate tacitly, they can completely catch this whale alone.

But because of the lack of tacit cooperation, we couldn't really unite and cooperate, so that we were in a hurry and made frequent mistakes, almost letting this big fish overturn the boat.

If it weren't for the rest of the ships rushing to the aid at the critical moment, the consequences would have been really unimaginable.

So this battle exposed a lot of problems, when encountering the enemy, he was not calm enough, he would only shout and shout, and the cooperation was not tacit enough.

In short, all these problems can be attributed to the lack of experience in naval warfare, and whaling is not a kind of exercise in naval warfare experience.

As for the protection of marine ecology, this Ming Dynasty has fished enough, developed national strength through the whaling industry, achieved a leap in industrialization, and then issued a decree to prohibit whaling in all countries in the world.

This kind of thing that should be done and established, done by foreign devils, can't Da Ming do it?

"When the weather is completely clear, let's disassemble this whale and put it on the ship to refine oil, in fact, it is not convenient to ship it, it is better to have an island."

"Teacher, there seems to be an island ahead."

Hearing this, Xia Yuan was stunned at first, and then suddenly stood up from the deck, leaning on the railing and looking forward, at this time, the sky was much clearer, the visibility had recovered a lot, and he could faintly see the silhouette of a mountain range in the distance.

If the voyage is okay, start from the mouth of the Shirae River and head east along the sea, and the place to arrive should be Nagasaki Port in Kori.

This is the destination set at the beginning.

The reason why it is set there is that there is a ready-made port here, and the second is that it is very close, less than 800 kilometers away from Songjiang Mansion in the Ming Dynasty.

It's even closer to the mouth of the White River.

The port of Nagasaki is located on the island of Kyushu, which is the westernmost part of Kyushu Island, but the island in the distance is not big, and it doesn't seem to be the island of Kyushu on a small day.

But this is supposed to be the island on the west side of the Wa Kingdom, could it be Sado Island?

The three words Sado Island came to mind, and immediately, Xia Yuan had an inexplicable feeling that it should be Sado Island.

According to his understanding, Sado Island is thousands of miles away from the port of Nagasaki, and this island faces Sakhalin Island in the west, and Hokkaido and Honshu Island in the east.

It is no wonder that after sailing at sea for more than ten days, there was no trace of the Wa Kingdom, it turned out that there was a problem with the course, it was to the east, but not straight to the east, but to the northeast.

Sado Island, Sado Island.

Feeling these three words in his heart, Xia Yuan's slightly frowning eyebrows gradually stretched, Sado Island is good, although it is too far away from Daming, but the strategic significance and even the geographical location are excellent, facing the sea on all sides, hanging alone on the sea, and close to the mainland of the Japanese country, only less than a hundred miles. Simply a perfect outpost.

As long as it can occupy it, it can be used as a strategic base for the Ming Dynasty, stationing troops on it, and then using it as a springboard to attack the mainland of the Wa Kingdom.

And not only that, if he remembers correctly, there is also a silver mine on Sado Island, although the mine reserves are not as good as the Iwami silver mine, but it is also a huge silver mine, and it is not a problem to mine dozens of tons a year.

Not only is it a silver mine, but there are also gold mines on this island, and it is one of the three gold mountains of Xiaori.

Okay, okay, it's Sado Island, it's Sado Island.

"Your Highness, have you seen that island, if the minister is not mistaken, this island should be the island of the Wa Kingdom, let's occupy this island first!"

Zhu Houzhao saw it, and when he heard that it was the island of the Wa Kingdom, he thought that there should be Wa people on it, and when he thought of this, he didn't feel a shock to the tiger's body, and finally there was a war?

Hurriedly shouted: "Quick! Fast! Raise the sails, raise the sails! Have you seen that island, listen to Ben Shuai's order, let's go occupy that island! ”

"Whew"

There was the melodious sound of horns and rumbling war drums all around, and on the tower of Zhang Mao's ship, there were people desperately waving the order flag, and it was obvious that they had also discovered the island ahead.

All the ships were heading for the island with the flag, and there were people waving the flag on the towers of the other ships, passing the order one by one in this way.

The horns of the rest of the ships also sounded, the war drums rumbled, and the horns went straight to the sky.

(End of chapter)