Chapter 116: The Flotilla (Part II)

"Poof!!" Guan Yang sat paralyzed on the ground, 'crying' heartbreaking: "My treasure...... It's gone......"

"There are still four quarters of an hour. The system didn't pay attention to it at all, and reminded Guan Yang after crying for nearly a quarter www.biquge.info of an hour.

"Hiccup......" Guan Yang remembered his situation at this time, and hurriedly stopped, and crawled out of the cave with his hands and feet.

Climbing out of the cave, Guan Yang let out a sigh: "It's so dangerous." ”

"Host, do you need me to report on how many points you've earned?"

"No need. Speaking of points, Guan Yang began to feel sorry for his treasure again: "I only feel sorry for my treasure now." ”

"Actually, you don't have to, host. Orange Orange comforted: "You can exchange it later." ”

"But what am I exchanging for, am I exchanging treasures for treasures?"

"You can use grain or ore. "You are going to look for the Americas and Australia, where there is a lot of ore and it is easy to grow food." ”

"Yes, yes, yes!!" Guan Yang immediately came to the spirit: "You are so right, system." ”

"The host that is there. ”

"I'm going to buy a boat, a big ship. ”

"Okay host, what ship does the host want to buy?"

"A fleet, a transport fleet of grain from Nanyang to Luoyang. ”

"It is recommended that the host buy two fleets, one for sea and one for river transport. Because sea ships can't enter inland rivers. ”

"Listen to you. ”

"Okay, the transport ship plus the frigate plus the crew plus the supply needs a total of 700,000 points. ”

"How can there be so many?"

"That's because the host doesn't know how large the fleet is. ”

"How old?"

"Let's talk about sea ships first, there are 230 large and small ships in the shipping fleet, the load of the main transport ship is 300 tons, there are 150 such transport ships in this fleet specially used to transport grain, so many transport ships are fully loaded with 45,000 tons of grain, if a person eats one pound of grain a day, these grains are enough for the entire Luoyang City to eat for nearly a month. There are also 30 supply ships dedicated to replenishment, which are intended for the crew, so as not to take up the food of the fleet. The rest were corvettes, each with twenty cannons and a hundred elite fighters. ”

"No, it's too much, not so much. Guan Yang hurriedly said: "Didn't you study economics, our main task is to stabilize grain prices, as long as we reveal that we have a lot of grain in our hands, other grain merchants will definitely reduce the price." It doesn't take that much at all. ”

The system said: "Yes, Luoyang will not need so much, but when the time comes, it will not only be Luoyang that will be affected, if you don't prepare a little more, what will you do with other places? ”

"What about the river fleet?"

"In the same way, the sea fleet is about 500,000 points, and the remaining 200,000 points are used to buy the river fleet. ”

"System, a question comes to mind. ”

"Host, excuse me. ”

"Well, with such a large fleet, will it cause panic?"

"No, 200 big ships, although it is a bit much, but it is not without precedent. For example, three years ago, Du Chen, a maritime businessman, organized a fleet of more than 300 large ships to do business in Europa, and has not yet returned. Last year, in pursuit of a huge school of fish, Qiu Zichao, a fish merchant, also organized a fleet of more than 200 fishing boats. Then there are many examples of the ......" system, just to dispel Guan Yang's concerns.

"But is my ship as big as theirs?"

"It's not the same in shape, our big boats are more reasonably designed, but in terms of load capacity, it's about the same. ”

"Understood. Bought. ”

"Okay host, please determine where to put it. ”

"Yes, and find a place that is not easy for others to find. Guan Yang recalled it in his mind and found that Luzon was a good place. Although Luzon had been discovered a long time ago, it was never occupied by the Central Dynasty, but existed as a vassal state. So although there are maritime merchants anchored here and merchants who specialize in doing business here, it is still quite primitive and there are many hidden places.

"Just Luzon, you help me find a hidden place to moor. ”

"For the sake of confidentiality, the system does not recommend that the host be anchored in port. ”

"Where do you stop at the port without stopping?"

"The host can find a random place to stay on the surface of the sea. Guan Yang was just about to open his mouth, and the system seemed to know what he was going to say: "Please rest assured that the supplies on the ship are full, enough for the fleet to travel hundreds of nautical miles." ”

"But how do you explain where the fleet came from?"

"The fleet was full of Westerners, so to speak, merchants from Europa. ”

"But what about your cargo?" a fleet of ships has traveled thousands of miles from Europa to the Central Plains, and how can it do without goods?

"There are Europa specialties on board that come with this system. ”

"Well, let's put it near Malacca. Guan Yang thought for a while, Malacca is the throat pass connecting the East and the West, and it is best to put it here.

"Okay host, the fleet has been launched, please determine where the river fleet will be launched. ”

"We'll have to wait until they're done buying food. ”

"Good host. ”

"System, I have a question for you. ”

"Host, excuse me. ”

"It can be said that it has been more than 1,000 years since Liu Chan attached great importance to agriculture and business. ”

"Yes. ”

"But more than 1,000 years have passed, how can it still be a feudal society? How many years did it take for the Western world to go from the Enlightenment to capitalism? Why can't we?"

"How big is Europe? It's so big and it's divided into dozens of countries, and of course it's easy to change, and you don't want to think about how big we are here and how many people we have?"

"That makes sense. But why hasn't technology developed much? For example, ships, why haven't there been steel warships, not even larger ocean-going ships? ”

"Steel is a state monopoly and is out of reach of ordinary people. As for ocean-going vessels, they have not changed much in hundreds of years because they have encountered technical bottlenecks. Moreover, although the state advocates equal emphasis on agriculture and industry, the most attractive thing to people is the official career, and only when the official career is cut off will some people choose the other three. As a result, there is a great waste of manpower and the development of science and technology is hindered. "The system is right. Even in later generations, civil servants were still the most popular profession, not to mention the ancients.

"What about cannons? After thousands of years of development, cannons and muskets should have appeared, right?"

"Host, you forget, this is a martial arts world, and the concept of thermal weapons will not appear in the minds of people in this world at all, and at most they can develop thunderbolts, earth-shaking thunder, and guns. ”

"What about me?" Guan Yang was a little nervous, he had spent a lot of money to train a gun designer, so he didn't want to waste it.

"The host is not from this world, and of course it will not be bound like this. ”

"Can the guns show up?"

"Of course you can, they just don't have this concept, it's not that this kind of thing can't appear. ”

"That would be great. Guan Yang breathed a sigh of relief.

"Host, do you need to hear how much money you've gotten?"

"No need. Guan Yang said: "You just need to use it, and then tell me when there is no mountain." "He's really not in the mood to know about this right now.

"Good host. ”