Traveling through the Prosperous Pastoral of Peasant Girls

Chapter 29 Captain Venus
Chapter 30 Captain Venus
He asked the interpreter surnamed Wang: "Brother Wang, do you often encounter pirates when sailing in the sea?"

"Pirates have existed since ancient times, and there are a lot of open seas. In the past, they were rare in the coastal waters of the Dazhang Kingdom. Now, for some unknown reason, there are more pirates in the coastal waters. It is said that they also have territories, and their big lairs are all in the open sea. , the closest pirate lair to the Great Country, is said to be Shark Island, diagonally opposite Yajing Harbor. There is a big island and two small islands there. They, if it were them, could only stop the boat and surrender, because they are all vicious, they all wear face masks, don't say they can't reason with people, they don't even bother to talk to people, and they kill merchants when they see merchant ships Snatch the cargo..."

Captain Venus treats the three of them as honored guests, and gives them as much food and drink as possible. They escaped from Xiaoyan Country Salt Farm, but now they are getting farther and farther away from Daqian Country, feeling depressed, each with a sad face.

When Jin Hao heard about the Raksha Kingdom, he thought that calling someone else's country "Raksha Country" would be disrespectful, but he asked about the interpreter with the surname Wang, and he said, "Raksha is the phonetic symbol of the Raksha Country. The word Raksha means beautiful." Only then did Jin Yan realize that the meaning of the word Raksha is quite different from the Raksha Kingdom in Liaozhai, and there is a world of difference between them.

When Lao Huang was eating, he took a fancy to the pots they cooked food in, and found that the alcohol block under the pots was a good thing. Not only did they burn, there was no peculiar smell, and there was no trace of black smoke or soot.Jin Yan said that he could make it, and when he returned home, he would make a complete set for Lao Huanglian with alcohol and a small hot pot, so that he could eat hot pots and drink in the house by the river in winter while watching the ecstasy array in the river moat.

Lao Huang longed for that kind of comfortable and ordinary life, and couldn't help thinking about it in a daze.Now it seems that the first thing to do is to return to the Dazhang Country, and the rest is no longer extravagant.

Two days later, they arrived at Heishan Port in the Raksha Kingdom. The captain thanked them and gave the three of them a total of [-] gold coins. At the local price at that time, one gold coin could be exchanged for ten silver coins, and one gold coin was taken to Daqian Kingdom. It can be exchanged for one tael and a half silver.If the three of them save money, one gold coin can be spent for several days.Jin Yang gave him the share that belonged to Zhang Xiguo, and he and Lao Huang had the final say on the rest.

The captain told them to wait patiently at the port for the merchant ship going to Daqing Kingdom, because there are governors and troops sent by the king here, as long as they abide by the local laws, they don’t have to worry about the safety of the people, and finally wished them to return to their own country as soon as possible...

Looking at the distant Venus flag, the three began to ponder how to survive in a foreign country.There are also merchants from the Daqing Kingdom in Heishan Port. They contacted the merchants and settled down. However, after they settled down, the monsoon still couldn’t change its direction in a short period of time. The merchant ships going to the Daqing Kingdom would not go out to sea against the wind. .

They wandered around the port with Lao Huang and Zhang Xiguo every day, and inquired about the prices of various goods.The port of this Raksha Kingdom is bustling, no less than the prefectural capital of the Daqian Kingdom.From Jin Yang's point of view, Luocha Kingdom has just entered an industrial country. The output and quality of steel are good. In addition to steel and copper, aluminum, lead and tin are also widely used.The glass craftsmanship is also commendable, but the size of the glass is too small. The largest piece is less than half a meter square, which can barely be used as a glass window at home.

He also found that the Raksha people like all kinds of art, whether it is a large building or a home, it is beautiful, and the outdoor sculptures and interior decorations are also full of artistic atmosphere.People like to sing and dance, and there are many musical instruments.Jin Yang doesn't like their music, but thinks their instruments are not too different from modern ones.He made an interesting discovery, that is, the number of smokers in the Raksha country is huge, which is much more than that in the Daqian country.It was only later that I found out that this tobacco was passed from the Luocha Kingdom to the Dachen Kingdom. Because it has only been passed on for 40 to [-] years, the number of people who smoke is much smaller.

On this day, they brought a interpreter they had just met to a shipyard and went in to see their shipbuilding craft.A cargo ship under construction is 30 meters long and [-] meters wide. There are cargo warehouses below the deck, and three-story buildings above the deck to accommodate crew members of different levels.The interpreter said that this ship is called a brigantine, and it is the most advanced at present.What Huang and Huang valued was the size of the boat, while Jin Yang valued the copper and iron parts on the boat, among which hooks, anchors, bells, iron forks, etc. were all produced by machines.

This made him wonder, he has never seen any decent machinery in the Great Qing Country, it is impossible that the Raksha Country is so much ahead of the Great Qing Country.

He saw a big house next to the shipyard, and there was a sound of clanging and knocking inside. He opened the door curiously and entered. As expected, there was a large metal processing workshop inside.

There are several independent small workshops inside, and each small workshop occupies a separate room, and each room has a fireplace-like oven, which burns many half-processed semi-finished products.On the ground is a large pile of iron and quenching buckets.Most of them are the work of two people, one old and one young, sweating next to the iron rod, which should be the master and the apprentice.Looking at the things they process, each small workshop processes the same variety, and each small workshop processes different things. This is the primary model of the production line.

Because the workpieces processed by each small workshop are of a single variety, the same material can be placed together separately, and the processing process of this kind of workpiece can be quickly grasped, and this single variety can be processed very skillfully. Practice makes perfect, and the appearance of the same workpiece is consistent. The quality is also guaranteed to the greatest extent.

He saw two people processing an old style of scissors, which is the usual one. Although scissors are not precision instruments, they are a test of the blacksmith's skill.The model of the sewing machine emerged in Jin Yang's mind. If he learned blacksmithing here, he could make a hand-cranked sewing machine by himself when he returned to Daqing Country, so as not to leak the secret when he went to others to make it.

He doesn't know the language of the Raksha Kingdom, and he has no language talent. Without an interpreter, he can only communicate with sign language. The master waved him to sit and wait, and he went out and called the interpreter. Come in.When the master was resting, Jin Yang put forward the request to learn art through the interpreter. At first, the master did not agree. Later, Jin Yang asked the interpreter to work hard without any compensation. The master happily agreed this time. over him.

Since then, Jin Yang has come to study with him every day. After a long time, he knows that this master is fond of drinking and greedy for cheap. That's great, because he is down-to-earth and willing to work, and even the brother who borrowed money has a good impression of him.After a long time, Jin Yang also knew that these fine iron (steel) materials were produced by a large iron mine in another country, and there were more than ten specifications in size, which was much better than the wrought iron produced in Daqing country.Among them, there are three specifications of solid square steel and flat iron thin iron plates, which are necessary iron materials for making hand sewing machines.

It's a pity that this kind of refined iron is a product controlled by the Raksha Kingdom, and anyone is prohibited from exporting it. If it is seized by the port management department, it will be severely punished.

(End of this chapter)