Datang Nongwang

Chapter 648
ready.

Great preparation.

The ship was heading for Jiangyin, and all kinds of funds were obtained from Jiangyin County on the ship.

However, Li Chongyuan did not go to Jiangyin. Li Chongyuan handed over everything to Chen Huan, but Li Chongyuan made a list.

Li Chongyuan still needs to explain everything, and there is no time to leave Xisha Island.

and.

This time Li Chongyuan didn't leave for a day or two, maybe a month or two.

Even, it may be more than two months, and it is not impossible to reach three or four months.

and so.

Li Chongyuan needs to explain the matter of Xisha Island clearly, otherwise, Li Chongyuan is not at ease.

and.

Xisha Island needs to build a Type B paddle steamer, which is much larger than a Type C paddle steamer, and the difficulty increases geometrically.

If something goes wrong, it will waste time and money.

Although money is not what Li Chongyuan is most worried about, but at this time, it is what Li Chongyuan is most concerned about.

Jiangyin County.

Chen Huan took the list listed by Li Chongyuan, looking unhappy, "Second Miss, look at the list listed by Chong Yuan. We are going to sea, not to sell beans, why do we have to buy so much? Beans. Beans are heavy, so you might as well buy more meat."

"Yuan'er told me to buy it, so there must be his idea. Let's buy it according to the list he made. Anyway, it's just some beans, so let's make it heavier." Chen Juan had no objection.

Regarding Li Chongyuan's purchase of soybeans, mung beans, and all kinds of beans.

Although Chen Juan was also puzzled, for Chen Juan, he would not think that Li Chongyuan's buying beans would be useless. Of course, she was more supportive of Li Chongyuan in her heart.

On the contrary, it was Chen Huan, who was careless, and even considered himself Li Zhanyuan's master, and had always called himself an elder to Li Chongyuan.

Fortunately, Li Chongyuan was also a little apprehensive towards Chen Huan, and Li Chongyuan would not object too much to what Chen Huan said.

Unless it is a matter of principle.

a few days later.

Chen Juan and the others returned to Xisha Island.

And Li Chongyuan is also ready.

On the island.

Li Chongyuan was accepting Xiang Ba's dissuasion, "Xiao Langjun, the sea is not a good place, and it doesn't matter whether it's windy, heavy rain or waves, it's not a joke. Xiao Langjun, just listen to me." Come on, really don’t go. If you make any mistakes, how should we explain to the old lady.”

"Don't worry, nothing will happen. Besides, why do we build ships, isn't it just to go to sea? Although there are strong winds and waves as you said, even if we encounter them, we will be able to resist them. Don't you Don’t you have confidence in the paddle steamer you built? Or do you have no confidence in Mr. Xiaolang?” Li Chongyuan knew that Xingba and the others were worried about themselves.

but.

Li Chongyuan must go to sea this time to have a look.

One is to adapt to the life on the sea first, and the other is to see if there will be some unexpected things when my paddle steamer sails on the sea for a long time and a long distance.

of course.

Li Chongyuan still had another idea in mind, that is, after his big ship was built, he would go to the other side of the ocean with the ship to have a look.

I heard that there is so much gold and silver there that it cannot be counted.

As for whether it is true or not, Li Chongyuan doesn't know, so he wants to go and check it himself, even if not, at least Li Chongyuan is the most familiar with the appearance of various crops.

Dissuade Xiang Ba, and dissuade Xiang Jiu and the others.

They discouraged even Xingba.

It was Tang Li and Liu Xiang who did not dissuade them.

Since the two of them heard that Li Chongyuan was going to go out to sea with the ship, the two of them were very calm. After hearing about this matter, they didn't react at all.

The two of them were Li Yuan's bodyguards assigned to Li Chongyuan by Jin Neishi.

It can be said that they are bodyguards, in order to protect Li Chongyuan's safety.

No matter where Li Chongyuan went, they only needed to do their duty as bodyguards. Even if Li Chongyuan was going to Daoshan, they would go there.

Come on.

The two of them have followed Li Chongyuan for a year or two, but they never stopped Li Chongyuan from doing anything. The situation of the two of them is probably inherited from their master Jin Neishi.

Jin's servant is Li Yuan's personal servant, but he never objects to anything Li Yuan says, he will do whatever Li Yuan asks him to do.

And these two probably chose this after listening to their master.

Persuasion, of course, cannot persuade Li Chongyuan.

A day later, Li Chongyuan boarded a C[-] paddle steamer.

Xingba and Eya followed with some guards, but as for Xiangba and the others, they stayed on Xisha Island and continued to finish what Li Chongyuan had told them.

As for Xingba's responsibility for stone materials, it was also handed over to other people.

Five large, two small and seven paddle steamers started.

Looking at the paddle steamer that was drifting away, Xiang Ba and others on the island were still worried, "Old Nine and Old Ten, do you think we should report this to the old lady?"

"Forget it, Mr. Xiao Lang, it's not that you don't know that even the old lady may not be able to change the things he decides. However, the old lady can not report it for now, but we can still get through with the fourth child. Suddenly." Xiang Jiu looked at the paddle steamer leaving in the distance.

Xiang Shi also echoed: "Lao Ba, I think what Lao Jiu said is correct. Let's not report to the old lady, just talk to Lao Si. Although the risks on the sea are unpredictable, But as far as the paddle steamer we built, I am still very confident. Even if there is a huge wind, I think Xiao Langjun will be fine. Besides, Chen Juan and the others went to sea for a few months last year. I brought back so much money for Xiao Langjun. And this time, Xiao Langjun probably went to sea with the idea of ​​those money in his heart. Although Xiao Langjun has some industries, he needs to build so many ships, and the more he builds The bigger it is, the cost must be an astronomical figure. If there is no other way to get some money back, the boat probably won't last."

Two to one win.

Xiang Ba only hoped that Li Chongyuan would go to sea this time without incident.

After Li Chongyuan and the others left Xisha Island, they went directly along the coastline to Wengzhou (Zhoushan Islands). Along the way, Li Chongyuan kept staring at the various parts of the paddle steamer.

Although the B-[-] paddle steamer has become more powerful after Murphy's improvement, the newly built ship will have some minor flaws no matter what.

Therefore, these small flaws can only be discovered under long-distance trial voyages, so that they can be corrected after they are discovered.

to this end.

Whether it is the two ships built before the end of the year or the two ships built before the end of the year, they are all ships that Li Chongyuan needs to pay attention to.

After passing Wengzhou.

Li Chongyuan ordered the flag bearers to bring all the ships to a small island and began to correct some minor flaws.

of course.

Li Chongyuan had another thing to do when he docked on the island, and that was to start transmitting to Chen Juan and the others about the cultivation of bean sprouts.

"Chongyuan, you mean to eat bean sprouts when there is no green vegetables on the sea? But aren't bean sprouts yellow? It's not the green vegetables you mentioned. And we know that if bean sprouts need to germinate, It needs land and a lot of water." After half a day on the boat, after Li Chongyuan conveyed this instruction to everyone, Chen Huan had many doubts.

Li Chongyuan looked at Chen Juan and other people who were learning to cultivate bean sprouts, smiled and explained: "Aunt Juan, Aunt Huan, and everyone. Maybe you don't know, people can't stop eating green vegetables for a long time. You will definitely get sick if you eat them. And we need to germinate these beans, and then put them in the sun to dry, and then they will naturally become green vegetables. I also talked about how to germinate bean sprouts, so you must be sure when the time comes Do it, even if you reduce drinking water, you can’t lack green vegetables. In addition, when you go to a place further south, you will have to prepare more oranges and the like.”

Li Chongyuan didn't know how to explain the necessary nutrients for the human body. He could only say that people must eat vegetables, otherwise they would get sick, and it was a disease that could not be cured.

Scurvy is a common disease nowadays.

Li Chongyuan knew that in this era, many infants and young children died of scurvy.

If the mother gets the corresponding nutrition, there will be no water, so after the child is born, he can only be fed some soup.

Therefore, naturally, there is no vitamin C necessary for the human body in the soup that those infants and young children eat, and there is also a lack of vitamin C.

At the same time, in the case of long-term lack of vitamin C, the baby is prone to this disease, and this disease is basically incurable at the moment.

In the north, this situation is even worse.

Because in the months-long cold season in the north, there are no vegetables to eat.

to this end.

At present, the infant mortality rate in Tang country is high, and this scurvy is one of them.

The reason for the low death rate of rich people, or children of officials' families, is that they have money and food, and they can find their mothers.

But ordinary peasants and common people can't keep up with their nutrition, and they are as thin as firewood. How can there be any water, let alone invite a mother.

And this time.

Li Chongyuan used all kinds of beans to germinate and convert them into green vegetables, in order to prevent the appearance of this kind of scurvy.

When Li Chongyuan explained these things, Li Chongyuan suddenly thought that he had to tell Li Shimin about this matter.

Even if Li Shimin didn't listen to him, Li Chongyuan had to do it no matter what.

This involves everyone in the entire Tang Kingdom.

and.

The age at which this kind of scurvy is prone to occur is the period from three months to eighteen months after birth.

If this matter is promoted to the people of the whole Tang Dynasty, at least the survival rate of infants and young children will definitely increase.

It's a pity that Li Chongyuan is not a genius doctor, and he doesn't know which diseases are fatal and which are chronic diseases.

Fortunately, Sun Simiao had already returned to Chang'an. Li Chongyuan believed that Sun Simiao was probably on his way to Xisha Island at this moment.

With this genius doctor around, as long as Li Chongyuan explained these things to Sun Simiao, Li Chongyuan believed that Sun Simiao would be able to understand.

After two days of trimming.

The ship continues to set off.

As far as Haichanshan (Pingtan) in Fuzhou, Li Chongyuan once again sent a signal for all ships to dock.

But this time, the ship didn't need to be corrected anymore, but Li Chongyuan sent people ashore to buy oranges.

There are oranges.

Whether it's the oranges from last year, or going ashore to buy green vegetables, these are all indispensable things in the sea for a long time.

Two days later.

Each ship has a lot of green vegetables.

Of course, I also bought a lot of oranges.

Just as Li Chongyuan was making people prepare to board the boat, Chen Juan and Chen Juan suddenly came to Li Chongyuan.

Li Chongyuan saw that the expressions of the two seemed a little mysterious, as if something good happened.

"Aunt Juan, Aunt Huan, it won't be a big deal if you drag me here?" Li Chongyuan asked curiously.

Chen Huan pointed to a Qingfeng villager not far away and said: "You should have seen him. He is the fourth head of Qingfeng village, and now he is the third captain of the fleet. When he went ashore to buy things, he heard that one thing."

"What is it?" Li Chongyuan asked with a little nervousness.

Chen Huan looked at Chen Juan, and after getting Chen Juan's nod, he said softly: "The third captain heard that on the big island opposite, there was a place where pirates robbed some westerners' ships at the end of last year. , I heard there are millions of giants. However, the number of pirates is quite large, exceeding a thousand. Chong Yuan, do you have any good way to grab them."

"What!!! so much property? Is this news reliable?" Li Chongyuan was also amazed when he heard Chen Huan's words.

Millions of property, that would be Li Chongyuan's ten-year income.

Moreover, this is only revenue, not his own profit.

Of course, if Li Chongyuan included the goldfish's money, it would naturally exceed this revenue.

Li Chongyuan's annual revenue of the Yingbin Building alone is close to 200 guan, plus the workshop and others, after ten years, it must exceed one million guan, and may reach [-] million guan.

But these money needs to be paid for labor, materials, etc., and even if half of it is in Li Chongyuan's hands, after ten years, Li Chongyuan will only have 40 to [-] yuan.

But if a pirate robs a fleet from the west, he can get millions of dollars in property, which is a big deal.

But for the pirates that Chen Huan said had more than a thousand people, this gave Li Chongyuan a headache.

but.

Headaches are headaches, he, Li Chongyuan, wants to rob these pirates, there is still a way.

Before boarding the boat, he, Li Chongyuan, was well prepared.

Although there were only eight iron guns, Tie Leizi Li Chongyuan got twenty of them on board.

Although there are fewer, at least they haven't set sail again now. As long as they buy some gunpowder materials and come back, it is not impossible to go directly to the opposite big island to grab one.

Li Chongyuan was moved.

Pirates have robbed millions of dollars in property, and there must be many more in the pirate den.

Maybe, after grabbing one, maybe you can get 200 million guan in property.

Seeing Li Chongyuan's question, Chen Huan nodded heavily, "The third captain's words are trustworthy, but this news is not reliable, but it cannot be confirmed. Chongyuan, why don't we go over there and have a look, anyway, our ship is fast. , They have no way to catch up with us.”

(End of this chapter)