I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 764, Izumo

Although Zhen Xing was envious of these steamships, the captain beside him shook his head and said: "This ship is too small to sail on the sea, and because it needs to burn coal, the journey of the steamship is extremely short, so a large amount of coal needs to be prepared at each wharf to operate. , This kind of ship is like a kite, it can't fly far at all, unlike our sailing warship, even if it is tens of thousands of miles away, you don't have to worry about it."

In Zhen Quan's view, this kind of boat is like a toy, a plaything for the rich, more impractical, and not suitable for the sea!

But Zhen Xing, who had studied with Xu Wei, said: "The efficiency of steam engines will become higher and higher. Sooner or later, such steam engines will completely replace sailing ships like ours!"

Then he photographed a brand new sailing ship, a 3 shi ship, which is a sea giant in this era, while those steam ships are only about [-] shi, because to increase the speed, the ship is also extremely slender, but such a structure in The captains of Zhen Quan seemed too unsafe, any wave would smash such a slender ship.

But Zhen Xing knew that it would not be long before such a behemoth would be replaced by a steam engine. Zhen Xing, who had just got this ship and was still a little excited, felt a little sad for this one.

There are too many new things in this era, and you may even be eliminated without saying hello. This is the case with sailing ships, but why is it not the case with the powerful and powerful families of the big man.If you want not to be pulled down in this era, you can only move forward.

"We're almost at Jingchuanhai!" Said the sailors excitedly.

Their sea boat continued to sail northeastward for 10 days, and finally came across a place with many sea boats. Now they can meet fishing boats here from time to time, and every time the sailors greeted each other excitedly.

Zhen Quan said with a smile: "This is the place with the most fishing boats in Dagan. It supplies half of Dagan's sea fish and 8% of whales. It can be said to be the fishing center of Dagan. With this treasure land, Liaodong has become the most important place in Dagan. It is one of the rich places, and it is said that Liaodong is about to establish a state when it is in power.”

Zhen Xing looked at the fishing boats not far away, and there were indeed an extremely large number of them, including many extremely large whaling ships, the size of which was even larger than Zhen Xing's own sea boats.

As the escaping ships went deep into the Jingchuan Sea, more and more sea ships were encountered, and many sea ships even formed a fleet to catch sea fish.They can also see whales spraying jets of water into the sky, leaving rainbows behind. Many people have seen such a spectacle for the first time!
Zhen Xing sighed: "There are so many fishing boats, and they are so big, how many sea fish will be caught every year?"

Zhen Quan laughed and said: "Fishing in the Jingchuan Sea, small fishing boats can't get through. After all, this place is far away from the mainland, and the fish caught can't be processed immediately, and they will soon be corrupted. Therefore, these fishing boats can not only Fishing for sea fish has not yet been processed in the cabin. It can be said that each sea boat here is a small sea fish processing factory. The annual catch of sea fish alone is hundreds of millions of catties. The ruling party said that the whale ship sea is the largest in our work. granary!"

Zhen Xing sighed: "No wonder the ruling party has always said that the sea is a place of wealth. I thought this wealth was gold, silver, spices, and various precious woods, but now it seems that these sea fish are the greatest treasures of the sea. No wonder the ruling party wanted to develop the shipbuilding industry even in Bingzhou, it turned out that he had already set his sights on this treasure land, and the big man didn't know that he had such a treasure land, so he was not the opponent of the ruling party."

Just kidding, you can collect millions of shi of sea fish a year, which is equivalent to tens of millions of shi of grain. The reason why Tyranny was able to rule the world back then was because of Zheng Guoqu, a warehouse with an annual output of tens of millions of shi, that was able to maintain a hundred million shi. The battle of the ten thousand armies.

After crossing the Jingchuan Sea, their sea boat continued for 10 days, and came to the Izumo country outside the Dagan country!
Zhen Quan said to Zhen Xing: "My lord, the fleet has been sailing for more than 20 days and needs to be replenished in the Izumo country, and the sailors also need to rest!"

Zhen Xing nodded and said, "I'll give everyone 2000 yuan to have fun in the Izumo country, but everyone will come back at night! I will continue to set off after three days of rest in the Izumo country!"

The sailors said happily when they heard that there was a bonus of 2000 coins: "No!"

Zhen Xing's sea-going ship soon arrived at the pier of Izumo Country. At this time, the pier of Izumo Country was full of sea-going ships, so that it was difficult for Zhen Xing's sea-going ship to get into the pier!

Zhen Quan smiled helplessly and said, "These are all our competitors!"

The advantage of Zhen Xing's sea-going ship is that it is strong and large, and the disadvantage is that it is relatively slow!
After half a day, Zhen Xing's ship docked and landed!

At this time, a staff member of the dock came forward and said, "For a big ship like yours, it costs 1000 yuan a day to dock. If you have any cargo to transport, we can contact the dock workers!"

At this moment, Zhen Quandao said, "We don't have any goods to sell. We don't dare to buy some grains, vegetables and other food. If there is fruit wine, we also want to order 100 pokes!"

In this era, it is difficult to preserve fresh water while sailing, so Zhen Xing and the sailors usually drink low-alcohol alcohol.

The staff member shook his head and said: "Another fatal one, let me say yes first, there are too many fleets like you recently, they ordered a lot of food and alcohol here, although we can still supply the food, but Alcohol is in short supply, and the price may be higher! It’s not that we want to kill you!”

Zhen Quan thought for a while and said: "My lord, I will leave the logistics and supplies to me. My hometown has a few relatives in Izumo country. Since you come to Izumo country, you must pay a visit!"

Zhen Xing nodded, he also wanted to visit Luojing, known as Little Luoyang.

At the same time, Luojing City Lord's Mansion!

On Cao Cao's desk was a reprimand letter sent from him, and he said unhappily: "Lei Gong is really getting better and better, and he has to work so hard on the matter of tens of thousands of silks."

Xun Yu and the others could only smile wryly. Their lord had a lot of crooked ideas. When the wool cloth couldn’t be sold, he tried to force it to be sold to the people in Izumo. Later, when he sold the silk, he also knew this. If the goods were of poor quality, he ordered those merchants to pretend to be Daqian silk.

Xun Yu is persuading now: "Ming Gong, Liu Bei is going to war in Tianzhu. Feng Xiao suggested that we make our silk into inner armor and sell it to Liu Bei. At the same time, we must find ways to improve the quality of silk. Soon we will promulgate the Trademark Law. The origin of the goods must be marked, and if we change the reputation of the goods in Izumo, it will be even more difficult to sell the goods to the rich people in the future.”

Cao Cao said indifferently: "You get what you pay for. Our silk is more than twice as cheap as Dagan's. As long as the price is low enough, they will buy it."

(End of this chapter)