Go Crazy! You Call Me the Ultimate?

This was something he never expected. He thought this village was the land of the extreme north, but it turned out that the land of the extreme north was in the depths of the sea!

As he had never been to sea, he was naturally a little scared, but Zhang Qiling told him that Zhang Jiazu had been there many times, so he was absolutely sure.

He said hastily.

"Even so, it will take at least three to five years to build a big ship!"

He didn't want to live in this stupid village for so long.

Zhang Qiling smiled lightly and said.

"We're going to be back before the end of the summer, of course it won't take that long."

"It only takes half a month to build a ship."

This is beyond his common sense again. Although he doesn't know how to build a ship, he knows that even half a month is not enough to build an ordinary boat, let alone a large ship crossing the sea!

Zhang Qiling's explanation for his question was even more shocking.

"The people in this village have been craftsmen for generations. The reason why they live here is to build boats for our Zhang family."

In order to wait for the arrival of the Zhang family, they practiced the same thing every day, so proficient that they couldn't make a mistake with their eyes closed.

Every process and every step of shipbuilding has already been deeply embedded in the genes of these craftsmen.

Even except for the keel, other parts have already been prepared.

This can save a lot of time and build a big ship in just half a month!

After hearing such an explanation, he was deeply shocked and couldn't believe it.

There are thousands of people in the whole village, and they have lived by the seaside for generations. From birth to death, each generation of them only does one thing in their whole life, which is to build boats for the Zhang family!

Not to mention the huge financial support needed to feed so many people, how terrible it is for these craftsmen to stick to the loyalty and belief of dozens of generations!

Only then did he suddenly realize one thing, all his previous judgments about the Zhang family were wrong.

The rich financial resources of the country, the absolute loyalty of his subordinates, and the sphere of influence radiate thousands of miles away.

It is impossible for ordinary local tyrants to achieve this level!

What kind of family is this mysterious Zhang family?

Chapter 459 The Land of the Extreme North

That was the first time Wang Zanghai realized the strength of the Zhang family, and what happened next refreshed his cognition one by one, which made him start to re-examine this mysterious family.

After the towering tree was felled, more than 100 skilled craftsmen started construction on the spot. The tools they used were very strange, but the efficiency was surprisingly high. One person could complete the workload of dozens of people.

At that time, he did not realize that the tools he saw did not belong to that era!

It was not until the early days of the Industrial Revolution more than 800 years later that he saw similar tools in university laboratories when he was traveling in Europe, but they were far less sophisticated and complex than Zhang's.

Zhang's technology surpasses the times by 1000 years!

Generally speaking, it takes at least a year to build the keel of a large ship.

But these people only spent three short days!

After the keel was completed, a mechanical device he had never seen before was used to transport the huge keel out of the forest.

After returning to the village, I saw a huge dock by the sea, as if conjured out of thin air!

When he saw this scene, he suddenly thought of a question.

Zhang Qiling said that the ancestors of the Zhang family have been to the extreme north many times, and they must have gone there by boat.

"Mr. Zhang, where is the boat you used before?"

Zhang Qiling's answer shocked him again.

"It was burned after use."

He looked at the huge keel with a look of surprise on his face.

Such a big boat is very rare in the world, and it was burned after only one use. Does the Zhang family have too much money and no place to use it?

"Why burn it?"

Only then did Zhang Qiling turn his head to look at him, a sharp look flashed in his eyes.

"Sir, that's not your place to ask."

He immediately felt a murderous aura rushing straight to his forehead, his eyes darkened, and he almost fainted.

At the same time, he also immediately understood one thing, the Zhang family might not be going to worship their ancestors!

The Zhang family probably hid some shady secrets in the extreme north, and the purpose of burning the boat was to prevent others from knowing these secrets!

In addition, ancestor worship is an important sacrificial activity that is carried out every year, but the Zhang family's ancestor worship is obviously not once a year.

More importantly, why did the ancestor worship go all the way to the desolate and uninhabited extreme north?

In fact, he is not a dull person, but he was dazzled by ten thousand taels of gold. He didn't think about these doubts before, and now the more he looked at it, the more suspicious he was.

However, because the era he lived in was different from modern times, there were no large-scale criminal groups or terrorist organizations, so even if he became suspicious, he just felt that the Zhang family's behavior was weird and mysterious, and he didn't think about it.

"It's a poor man talking too much, please forgive me Zhang Yuanwai."

He looked at the busy construction site in the distance, and couldn't help asking another question.

"Since these people have been living here, why don't they build the boat ahead of time, but temporarily build it?"

Zhang Qiling replied calmly.

"Because the boat will be corroded and damaged if it is soaked in seawater, it needs to be painted and repaired every once in a while. After a long time, it is very cumbersome and laborious."

"Temporary construction is more convenient and labor-saving."

He immediately got another piece of information from Zhang Qiling's answer, that Zhang's family worshiped the ancestors only once in a long time.

But how long?

Ten years or 20 years.

But this question involves the secrets of the Zhang family, and he didn't dare to ask it out.

The time to build the big ship was the same as what Zhang Qiling said, it only took half a month.

This is a large ship that has never been seen before. It is more than 30 feet long from the beginning to the end, and the hull is more than ten feet high. It can carry at least 800 people!

He didn't see a boat of the same size until hundreds of years later, when the eunuch Sanbao went to the West.

On the second day after the ship was built, more than 50 villagers joined the team as sailors, and more than 100 people set out for the deep sea on the big ship.

On the boundless sea, Zhang Qiling pointed to the iceberg in the sea and said.

"This sea freezes for more than half of the year, and there are icebergs everywhere in the sea, making it impossible to navigate."

"Only when the iceberg melts in summer can we sail there."

Only then did he suddenly understand why he had to wait until summer to come, and why he had to come back before the autumn freezes.

On the way to the extreme north, he saw many strange things, such as a giant bear with white fur, seals preyed on by the giant bear, and various huge whales.

The sailing process was very smooth, the Zhang family brought by Zhang Qiling, although they had lived in the snow-capped mountains for a long time, they were all good sailors.

The big ship deftly avoided the iceberg and headed straight to the north.

After sailing for half a month, there were more and more icebergs on the sea, and finally there were too many to pass through.

Only then did Zhang Qiling give the order to let the big ship drop anchor beside a huge glacier, leaving a small group of people to guard the ship, and the rest set foot on the glacier to continue moving forward.

Looking around, there are mostly white glaciers and snow-capped mountains, and some huge rocky mountains can be seen faintly in the distance.

They took a dozen pairs of sleds and dozens of huskies, and drove on the glacier in dog sleds.

Fortunately, it was summer when we came, the weather was fine, and there were no ice and snow storms.

After three days of galloping across the glacier, the team finally slowed down.

At the same time, he also noticed a strange phenomenon, this place is always daytime, and there is no night!

Zhang Qiling smiled lightly.

"Half of the year here is daytime and half is night."

"In half a month, we will enter the eternal night that lasts for half a year."

There are clear records in history that the first to explore the North Pole were two American expeditions in the early [-]th century.

But who would have thought that the Zhang family had already regarded this place as their home so many centuries ago!

On the fourth day on the glacier, they came to the foot of a huge rocky mountain, which was more than a thousand feet high, and half of it towered into the sky.

Zhang Qiling left a few people at the foot of the mountain to guard the dogs and sleds, and he led the rest up the mountain.

This stone mountain is very strange. In the extreme north of the ice and snow land, it is not covered by ice and snow. The whole mountain is black, which is very conspicuous on the white ice field.

After going up the mountain, he obviously felt that the temperature was getting higher and higher. When he climbed halfway, he had already taken off his thick fur coat, and he didn't feel cold in just a single jacket.

He has learned the old-fashioned alchemy technique and is very familiar with all kinds of gold and stones. After careful observation, he doesn't know what kind of mountain stones are.

This stone is dark in color, like black charcoal, it is not very hard to the touch, even a little soft, the surface is covered with some small holes, just like human pores.

After holding back for more than half a month, he couldn't help asking.

"Mr. Zhang, where exactly is this place?"

"Why do you come to this barren land to worship your ancestors?"

This time Zhang Qiling was not angry, but just answered something that he couldn't figure out.

"This is the place of beginning."

He blinked, and asked a question with a puzzled face.

"What does that mean?"

Zhang Qiling replied word by word.

"Where the world began."

Chapter 460 Where the World Begins