The first rebel of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 2117 The island can be used
Another ten days passed.

Li Chengqian was at the coast of Nanzhou, and he had been waiting there early.

Right now in front of him was a gigantic wharf.There are people coming and going on it, and this pier can stop large-displacement ships.

At this time one of his men was standing beside him.

He was wearing the armor of Tang Dynasty.

These armors were purchased by Li Chengqian from Datang, and then improved. Compared with the armor of Datang, it is lighter.

As clothing, very suitable.

This person is Li Chengqian's personal guard, a general, and of course a Han.

He said, "Your Majesty, do you think that guy named Zi Li will lie to us?"

Because they waited for so long, but no ships appeared.

So he thought it might be Li Yin who was lying to them.

"Trick us into building such a pier." Li Chengqian said with a smile.

"Yes, he wants to consume us!"

"Cheat? How could it be possible to cheat? And it is also useful for us to build this pier. I have long wanted to build a pier of our own here."

Li Chengqian said again.

At this time, the general said nothing more.

But after a while, he still couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, they said they would come today, but it's getting late now, why didn't they come? Didn't they say they would arrive at our port today? Why are you still here?" Didn't come?"

Facing the General's question.

Li Chengqian said, "Wait a little longer. I believe in his character, there is no way he would lie to me."

Li Chengqian said this because of his trust in Li Yin.

Because he believes that there is no need for Li Yin, and it is even more impossible to lie to him!
Because you won't get any benefit from lying to him.So Li Chengqian always believed.Sheng Tang Group's ship will come, when will it come?

Or today and or a few days from now?
Not sure about that.

In fact, what Li Chengqian said, he was not very sure in his heart.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have stood at the pier watching and his performance.

But it also proved one thing, that is to say, his desire for food is very strong.

This involves the development of his country. If there is no food, the development may be quite slow.

Blame him for the rapid population growth.

The general could only stand on the sidelines and watch.

Li Chengqian was standing at the pier, and his army was standing behind him, there were about a thousand people.

And nearby, he also built a palace.

Many concubines are waiting for his return in the palace.

They waited for about ten minutes.

At this time, someone pointed to the distance and said, "Your Majesty, what do you think is that?"

So Li Chengqian looked to the northeast, where there were more than a dozen ships heading towards them.This is?
He heaved a sigh of relief.

In this way, Li Yin did not lie to him.

These ships arrived on schedule, and the timing was just right.

At the same time, Li Chengqian couldn't help but fell into deep thought as he looked at the ships in the northeast.

Then he asked: "Didn't that kid start from Datang? Shouldn't he come from the north? Why did he appear from the northeast?"

Someone said: "Your Majesty. This has something to do with the waterway. Sometimes ships need to avoid undercurrents and don't choose to go around! So the direction of the ship's appearance may be in the northeast. Or it may be in the east. This is all possible. "

When Li Chengqian heard it, he thought it made sense.

Didn't say anything.

He went to a guard tower, and sat down to wait for the arrival of ten ships.

Now there is no need to stand and watch.

Because he has been standing for too long.

About half an hour passed.

Ten ships appeared before him.

These are all ore carriers.

Because the space above them is really big.

Li Chengqian looked at these ore ships.

Involuntary laughter.

Because he found that these ships were all steam-driven.

He said: "I didn't expect that kid to have no special advancement in navigation technology! He uses steam to drive. We have known this technology a long time ago. I thought he had more advanced technology. It seems that I look up to him. of."

Sure enough, he was still paralyzed by Li Yin.

It turned out that Li Chengqian was standing here not only for the food of the people.

On the other hand, he wanted to witness what the ships from Tang Dynasty looked like?Is it fuel?Or other more advanced fuels.

When he found out that it was driven by steam, he relaxed his vigilance.

Obviously the steamship has exceeded his expectations.

And he has another plan. If it is a more advanced ship, he may detain one under another name, and then study it.

It's a pity that Li Yin thought about it long ago.

This made him completely unexpected, and he thought it was Li Yin's poor development.

Then he said: "I thought Sheng Tang Group would develop well, but it doesn't look like the legend. At best, this kid just slaps his face to make him fat. The person who was able to locate my position before was probably a guess Right. Or they have their spies in Nanzhou. This kid is really interesting."

At this time, the general said again: "Your Majesty, what about our minerals? Do you want to trade with them? Do you want them to transport them away first? Is it possible?"

"What's wrong? Now they urgently need iron ore. And the quantity is huge. We have a lot of iron ore, so what if we let them transport it away?"

"But what if they don't want to pay us for food?"

"You are really stupid. Their demand is so great. As long as we don't pay for food for a day, we won't give them the second batch of iron ore for a day. They don't have to make up for the food."

Li Chengqian said so, it seems that he knows how to deal.

"That's how it is."

"Yes, do business with this kid. You don't have to pay too much attention. Because he is honest. He won't pit you for the iron mine of your ship! Do you understand me?"

Li Chengqian said so.The general didn't say anything more.

Then, when the ten ships docked at the pier.

Li Chengqian ordered again.

"Come here, transport the iron ore to their ship! And ask them to leave a certificate."

"Yes!"

So a large number of Nanzhou soldiers used manpower to transport a large amount of iron ore to the ore transport ship docked on the shore!

The methods of these people are still a little backward. If it was Li Yin, they would have already realized mechanization.

However, at this time, the crew of the ore ship moved some grain from the ship.

And delivered to Li Chengqian.

There is also a lot of these foods.

But if you want more food, you have to increase the transaction volume.

Immediately afterwards, Li Chengqian called the captain and asked questions.

"Do you have these on your ships? There is only so much food, it's far from enough. Looking at a ship of your size, there must be at least 100 of them."

Obviously, these grains are not enough for Li Chengqian.

When the captain heard it, he seemed to have expected Li Chengqian to say that.

At the same time, he was also very shocked that Li Chengqian could speak Chinese.They thought they might meet barbarians in South Africa.

He didn't know that the person in front of him was the prince of Datang before.

Shocked, he replied: "Your Majesty! Mr. Said to transport ten ships first. Then as we will continue to increase, and then the trade will continue to deepen. More and more ships will be sent."

After hearing this, Li Chengqian smiled and said.

"It seems that this kid is still wary of me. It doesn't matter that our transaction will continue."

"Yes, Your Majesty, we understand."

"That's fine. You guys go and take the iron ore away. I hope that the next time I come here will be shorter. This month is too long."

At this time, the captain immediately said: "Your Majesty does not know something, because it is the first time, so I am very unfamiliar with this trade sea route. After this trade, we are familiar with it. The time will be controlled within ten days in the future." There are even boats coming over every day, one after another. But every time there are not too many boats!"

"Okay, I don't care what you do. Anyway, the more food I want, the better!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, then I will speak to my husband about it!" said the captain again.

"Okay, I don't have time to talk with you here, you can do it here, remember, keep the proof, don't talk about it when the time comes, I won't agree to that!"

Li Chengqian said again.

After he finished speaking, he left.

After he left, the people here started to get busy.

Some people transported food, while others transported iron ore to the ship.

The boats finally headed east.

After they left, someone went directly to Li Chengqian.

And said to Li Chengqian: "Your Majesty, the Shengtang Group's ship is heading east, isn't that right?"

"What's wrong? I thought there was no problem. Isn't it just an undercurrent? There's nothing to make a fuss about. Don't speculate so much. It's unnecessary. We only need food. As for where they go, what does it matter to us?"

Li Chengqian said that, but he didn't know that at this time, thousands of miles away, there were already more advanced ships waiting for the arrival of ten ships.

It was also because Li Yin defended against Li Chengqian, this guy had to be guarded.

However, Li Chengqian didn't know where his sense of superiority came from, he thought he was going to surpass Li Yin.

Even if Li Yin could locate him before, but now he wants to come and comfort himself, it's okay.

Even now that Li Chengqian picked up the phone, he was about to call Li Yin.

He really called Li Yin.

Li Yin picked up the phone.

"Li Chengqian, what's the matter with you?"

"Sixth brother, I really can't imagine that your ships are still so backward. I thought your ships were so advanced. It seems that I was wrong. They are still driven by steam!" Li Chengqian said this, he really didn't know, if it was In terms of steam, it is impossible to run that far.

Of course, there was a sailboat on it, so he didn't care too much about it.

"What? Does the ship I use have anything to do with our transaction?" Li Yin said so.

"Of course there is. Your boat is too slow. It only comes once a month. That's really too slow."

That's what I was talking about.

"What's the point? I can get more boats at a time, wouldn't that be good? What are you afraid of?"

Li Yin said again.

Li Chengqian went on to say: "I thought Shengtang Group was developing well, but it seems I was wrong, you are nothing more than that."

"Yes, as you think." Li Yin didn't want to talk to him too much, because it was meaningless.

Whether it is strong or not is not up to Li Chengqian.

But how strong you really are, only you know.

"It's just a boat, there's really no need for this."

"Hahaha, I just want to laugh, that's all." Li Chengqian said again.

"Okay, then you can laugh, I have something to do, hang up."

"Don't, don't do this, I have something else to do." Li Chengqian said again.

"What's the matter, you said."

"That's right. You have too few ships, can you have more? The more the better, I need a lot of food." Li Chengqian said.

And the food for those ships was transported from Datang.

Now, it will take another month for Dongzhou's grain to mature.

So, now, Li Yin can't give him too much food.

"As I said, there won't be a large amount of grain so soon. After two months, there will be a new grain harvest. Understand?"

"But I want a lot of food."

"We agreed. It can't be changed! And I can't give you the large amount you want now."

"That's fine, that's it." Li Chengqian saw that but Li Yin had no choice but to say so.

"Okay, it's okay, hang up."

Li Yin hung up the phone directly without being polite.

But Li Chengqian was a little uncomfortable.

However, at this time, Zhang Wei was already standing in front of Li Yin.

"Where is the ship now?"

"On the edge of an island [-] kilometers away from Nanzhou. We built a port there."

"Let me see."

Li Yin opened the map, and saw that [-] kilometers away from Nanzhou was indeed a long and narrow island. This island was nearly [-] kilometers long and [-] kilometers wide.

Such a huge island is also good as a base in the future, and it can be transshipped here in the future.

Even some simple purifications can be done here.

Then the iron ore shipped to Dongzhou will be lighter and can be transported in larger quantities. The large amount of iron ore exported from Nanzhou may not have enough transportation capacity, so it can be placed here for the first step of purification.

After arriving at Dongzhou, you can basically lose more than half of your weight.

"Here?" Li Yin asked, pointing to the map.

"Yes, sir."

"We can build a refinery here to refine the iron ore for the first time and then transport it to Dongzhou. In this way, we won't waste too much energy transporting unnecessary things." Li Yin said so.

Zhang Wei expressed his understanding.

"Sir, I understand. I will arrange for a ship to transport the equipment there."

"Okay, let's do it."

"Yes, sir!"

Zhang Wei then backed out, and he went to arrange the equipment to go to the small island.

It is said that it is a small island, compared to Nanzhou, the real situation is not small.

Li Yin looked at the islands, which were near Nanzhou. Perhaps these islands could be used as a springboard or something.

An airport or something can also be built here for planes to rest.

Maybe rest there if the plane hits a breakdown or something.

And replenish.

He thought, and then drew the planning area.

(End of this chapter)