Chapter 108: The Flying Fish Lady's Boat
Jiannan Road is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the waterway from Jiazhou to Runzhou passes through the famous Three Gorges. During the Tang Dynasty, the geological environment in the upper reaches had not completely deteriorated due to excessive deforestation. So Jiazhou to Runzhou can come by sail.
Even the way from downstream to upstream is smooth. However, a landslide near Qutang Gorge caused a small landslide that narrowed the channel. Therefore, it was difficult for the big ships in Shuzhong, which were once navigable, to cross the Three Gorges.
Lei Changye knew that this difficulty would become more and more serious in the years to come, and that it would eventually have to be solved by building the Three Gorges Reservoir.
The narrowing of the Three Gorges Channel had a huge impact on a wealthy businessman of the Tang Dynasty 50 years ago. At that time, she made the world's largest ship - Yu Da Niang's boat. Two of these ships were built.
A larger Da Niang ship passed on the Jiangxi to Huainan waterway, while another smaller Da Niang boat was built in Bashu.
At that time, large groups of ebony trees of the Shenjiang River were found in the banks of the Mianyuan River, Shiting River and Yazi River.
Yu Damiang's caravan happened to be selling tea in Shuzhong, and after hearing the news, he hired tens of thousands of people to salvage ebony in Sanjiang, and salvaged tens of thousands of stones in a few months.
Ebony refers to the shade wood, known as the oriental sacred wood. In the past dynasties, it has been the main raw material for the production of the two magic weapons of Buddhism and Taoism, and it is the most common thing to ward off evil spirits against witches. Because of its hard texture, fine texture, and scarce production, it is extremely expensive. Once they were transported to Jiangnan, they were enough to make a price of 100,000 taels of gold.
The capacity of the fleet of the Tang Dynasty ship king Yu Damiang is insufficient. She immediately built another big lady ship in the Bashu shipyard, intending to continue to transport the ebony to Jiangnan.
It's a pity that after the boat was built, the Qutang Gorge landslide narrowed the channel, and the big lady ship was trapped in Bashu. This also caused problems with the funds of Yu Damiang's caravan, and eventually caused the demise of this caravan for some unknown reason.
Time has changed, and the former Yu Damiang's caravan is no longer beautiful. The shipyard that built the second big boat also went out of business. Only this big lady ship remains in the ruins of the old shipyard in Jiazhou, telling the vicissitudes of time.
Lei Changye has been in Bashu for 20 years, and the greatest pleasure is to have time to see this ship.
Decades of wind and rain have already tormented the ship. But the basic structure of the ship is still there. As long as the hull has been repaired, it can still be used.
The reason why this ship has not been dismantled into parts and diverted for other purposes is that successive generations of government and local tycoons will take turns to maintain the integrity of this ship.
Because this ship is still involved in a mystery for half a century, where did the caravan of Yu Da Niang hide tens of thousands of stone ebony? This is a great treasure worth 100,000 taels of gold. The secret is hidden in the big lady's boat, so the rich officials and gentlemen who have surplus money in the past generations want to have a thought.
Now, the ownership of this ship is in the hands of Cui Bi.
When Cui Pi was the new envoy of the Xichuan Festival, he had the dream of repairing the big lady boat and driving the boat down to the south of the Yangtze River. Tens of thousands of stone ebony are just the icing on the cake.
It's a pity that after more than ten years of hard work in office, it is difficult for the family to barely maintain the tooth camp, and the maintenance of the big lady ship has been interrupted for several years. Seeing that the big ship that he had spent tens of thousands of dollars was shattering day by day, Cui Pi was also very upset in his heart.
Lei Changye found him and offered to buy the big lady boat, and Cui Bi simply let go of a big stone in his heart.
Moreover, Lei Changye is very knowledgeable, and the price is 25,000 yuan, which just fills the gap of Cui Pi's salary of 15,000 yuan this year, and he also has an extra 10,000 yuan for him to completely return to his capital.
Cui Bi now feels that Lei Changye, an aspiring young man, is becoming more and more pleasing to the eye, and even wants to find a junior in the clan to marry him and win him over. After asking around, it turned out that Lei Changye's lack of hair was really a hurdle that he couldn't get over.
Lei Changye escaped death and quickly left, swearing in his heart that he would never grow his hair again in the future.
In fact, he had long wanted to buy this big lady boat. It's not that he is the same as Cui Pi, who has the dream of sailing down to the south of the Yangtze River. Rather, it was the ship, which was an important part of his plan.
The ship occupies a very large area, with a total deck area roughly equivalent to a football field, divided into three levels, and the cabin has enough space for two clubs. The large space on the upper deck allows for a series of big games.
Coupled with enough space to store fresh water cargo, this big lady boat is a luxury cruise ship that can be used as a mobile flash town and a water resort.
With this big lady ship, Lei Changye can "drive" Shanjin Town to Yangzhou.
It's just that Lei Changye knows that Yangzhou is the largest gold cave in Datang, and Yangzhou's entertainment industry is also the most developed in the world today, with the strongest capital flow and the most intertwined background. I don't know how many behind-the-scenes forces are entrenched in Yangzhou, silently sucking the nutrients contained in this prosperous place.
The money that was earned was either taken by the local tycoons and developed their families, or they were expanded by the ambitious warlords and won the Central Plains. And the eight major sects, except for Shushan and Shaolin, also have their own interests in Yangzhou.
During the internal beta period, in addition to following the Xuanjin sisters and brothers to Shushan, there must be big players who have been developing silently in Yangzhou for a long time, waiting for the Xuanjin sisters and brothers to come to Yangzhou, and then do things together.
A new foreign force, if he wants to show his face in Yangzhou, he also needs a piece of the pie, which requires not only a deep money bag, but also a strong knife handle.
In the past, Lei Changye did not dare to do such a flamboyant business, because he did not have enough strength to resist the various forces and big players in Yangzhou. Now, he has enough confidence.
Because he has famous generals like Kuang Zhang, Guan Hai, and Shi Wanbao who are functional at a glance, and strategists like Pang Hengyi, Mao Sui, and Dongfang Shuo, there are also reliable helpers like Huang Yan, Yu Xuanji and Yu Huairen in the duel of the rivers and lakes.
The troops and forces in the rivers and lakes under his control include at least 3,000 Baiyin Yizhi, as well as tens of thousands of Bashan gangs, which are enough to deal with the strange suppression and exploitation of various forces in Yangzhou, and even be able to take the lead in the competition of all parties.
The plan of the big lady ship is no longer a castle in the air.
Lei Changye knew that it was basically impossible to sail the Da Niang ship from Bashu to Yangzhou, according to the now narrowed channel. Because the big lady ship is a little too big, like an aircraft carrier sailing onto land.
However, this Da Niang ship contains countless of the most cutting-edge shipbuilding techniques of the Tang Dynasty, and since the disappearance of Yu Da Niang's merchant group, these unique shipbuilding skills have been lost. Technology is also out of generation.
Lei Changye's understanding of shipbuilding is not professional, and there is no Encyclopedia here to help him, so it is not realistic to build a ship from scratch. So this big lady ship is his best choice at the moment.
He was going to use the Flying Fish Boat technique on the Da Niang boat, relying on the strange talisman on the Flying Fish boat, so that the Da Niang boat turned into a Datang hovercraft, flying over the narrowed Yangtze River channel, passing through the Three Gorges, and reaching Runzhou.
This is not only to drive Shanjin Town to Yangzhou, but also to drive along the developed navigable waterways of the Tang Dynasty to Luoyang, Chang'an, and even Dongying and Goryeo, so as to maximize its mobility and functionality.
If he can link the various Jiedu envoys and powerful forces in the Tang Dynasty through a single ship, then his future ideas will have a better chance of success.
The starting point of the dream starts with the Flying Fish Lady's boat.
On the first day of buying back the Da Niang boat, Lei Changye took the disciples of the five sect craftsmen to live in the Jiazhou Scrap Shipyard. The first thing he had to do was to renovate the ship.
The disciples of the craftsman workshop he selected were all craftsmen who knew a little bit of boatwork, and it was no surprise that Wang Mang was also among them. He is indeed an all-round craftsman, who knows a little bit of everything, and is extremely ingenious. It's no wonder that vernier calipers were invented in the blue starfish plane.
Because the Heavenly Thunder Talisman and Shu Lai Bao were about to be upgraded, Lei Changye promised that the disciples of the craftsman workshop who participated in the repair of the Da Niang ship would each have twenty Heavenly Thunder Talismans, which could be regarded as a handful of old goods.
These days, the thunder talisman suddenly ignited the monstrous enthusiasm of the disciples of the craftsman's workshop. Even if the current disciples of the craftsman workshop don't have it, they share a Shu Lai Treasure with other senior brothers, and the demand for the Heavenly Thunder Talisman is even higher than the real money.
Lei Changye was unsuspicious and made Wang Mang the director of repairs to guide the disciples in doing things. Although Wang Mang's remuneration was no different from that of other disciples, Wang Mang worked extremely hard.
Lei Changye didn't have any psychological uneasiness, and he was completely at ease. Because he knew that Wang Mang was replacing krypton with liver. Big players like Zixin, Mi Zhu, and Sun Shangxiang all began to brush jade talismans at him at 98 and 98. If Wang Mang doesn't work hard, he will be distanced by everyone.
As a once dominant figure in the Blue Sea Star Plane, Wang Mang didn't want to be compared to Zixin in the Tang Fantasy World.
However, on the surface, Lei Changye expressed extreme appreciation for Wang Mang's efforts. This affirmation made Wang Mang even happier. Lei Changye's affirmation and love, this is the jade talisman!
After a month of intense and orderly busyness, coupled with Lei Changye's unhesitating provision of all kinds of excellent materials, the Da Niang ship was repaired and completely restored to the style of the world's first ship that dominated the waters of Datang in the past.
It took more than 5,000 yuan of supplies to repair the thunder night, but the result was perfect. The big lady ship was resurrected with full blood on the spot, which was enough to carry Lei Changye's next modification.
Next, Lei Changye needs to install two giant flying fish fin-shaped flying platforms in the middle and low floors of the ship, and four giant magic array disks will be installed on each flying platform.
These four giant magic array disks were connected to the steering wheel in the center of the ship through one hundred and twenty hooking runes. Under the steering wheel, a core control array will be installed.
On the control array, Lei Changye planned to install the core circle of the Exocet ship, the Void Room Wind Array.
On the four flying platform magic array arrays, there are four magic arrays that conduct the mana of the core magic array-the Baili Divine Array.
Mozi's Five Elements - In the last chapter of the formation chapter, there are seventy-two formations of status and thirty-six formations of heavenly position, a total of one hundred and eight Xuan arrays.
The formation is named the Xuan Array, which means in the Mozi Five Elements that this is a formation that is realized by chance.
All the formations used before Lei Changye were all formations other than this one hundred and eight Xuan Formation.
The Xuan Array is a giant magic array, and it is a formation that requires the mana of more than ten cultivators. Before, of course, he didn't dare to think of building such a formation.
But now, he has the confidence. That was the more than thirteen,000 jade talismans in his mind.
Real krypton, just now.
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