The crossing starts from the Datang Shuanglong

Chapter 30 Whale Hunting
Whale hunting!

Whale hunting is to shoot or throw spears or forks or darts tied with ropes into the whale body for hunting.

The ancient Eskimos and North American Indians were the best at this method to obtain a large amount of meat, fuel and materials for making tools. In the Central Plains, except for the Zhanjiang people in Guangzhou Bay, few people engaged in dedicated whaling activities.

Chu Tianxiu was not in a hurry to continue doing business and increase his private salt business. Instead, he took his own pirate army deep into the ocean to hunt whales. Naturally, he didn't want to make money, at least not just for making money .

The activity of killing whales is indeed very profitable. In addition to obtaining a large amount of valuable things such as oil, whale meat, and whale skin, if you can catch a sperm whale, you may even get ambergris that is worth gold , can make a fortune.

However, it is obvious that no matter how high the harvest of hunting whales is, it cannot be higher than the private salt business and ocean trade.

If it is possible to sell private salt to the Guanzhong area, then this business will really take a boatload of salt to Guanzhong, and a boatload of silver back to Jiangyin.

The high profits contained in this are really enviable to the extreme.

Things like money are indeed good things. No matter how much Chu Tianxiu pretends to be, she dare not say that she doesn't love money.

But the reason why he went out to sea to hunt whales was indeed not for money.

His real purpose is to get familiar with the environment of the sea, so that he and the sailors under him can truly become familiar with the ocean field and ocean navigation.

Sailing on the sea is no joke.

In this era, ocean shipping is not as safe as relying on river water. The seemingly calm and calm sea may change color in the next moment, setting off huge waves, so that the coastal waters advancing along the coastline Sailing is also full of risks and crises.

Even if the ship that Chu Tianxiu took when he went out to sea was an ocean-going ship bought from the Song Clan at a high price, it could not guarantee his own safety.

But Chu Tianxiu, who understands the context of the later generations, knows that a country that really wants to develop and has an enterprising heart cannot completely sink itself into the mainland, and must rely on the power of the ocean.

Especially in today's world, when shipping has not really risen, ocean trade is a real "blue ocean field", a "sunrise enterprise", which can not only obtain huge profits, but also gain strategic advantages in the world.

However, most of Chu Tianxiu's subordinates hang out in the Yangtze River and have never faced the real sea. If they start to engage in unknown ocean trade as soon as they come up, they will really use their lives to hone their navigation skills. .

Let them get acquainted with sailing in the offshore area by hunting whales in the offshore area, and let them get used to the "treasure ship" that they bought from the Song Clan after a lot of effort, and become familiar with it. The waterways in the surrounding sea area were drawn corresponding charts, and the original "Jiangjun" began to transform into a real navy.

What's more, the activity of hunting whales, in addition to obtaining meat through whaling, replenishing the bodies of those ineffective subordinates, and raising their bodies well, it is also possible to pass this most thrilling activity. Hunting activities, sharpen these water thieves under my command, sharpen their will and physique,
Hunting whaling in this era is definitely a life-and-death test. It is ten times more dangerous than hunting tigers. People who really have no guts can't do this kind of thing, and generally speaking, the scene of whaling will It is very bloody, and it is a great test of people's will and courage.

In a sense, the activity of Chu Tianxiu leading the water thieves to hunt and kill whales was not a normal business, but a paramilitary operation.

After going out to sea to hunt whales a few times and carrying out a few paramilitary operations, his navy is almost ready, and he can carry out naval operations in the true sense.

In Chu Tianxiu's mind, he already had a very suitable goal.

……

The sea breeze is blowing, the sky is clear, and the sun is scorching like fire.

Above the sky, the hot sun that seems to be able to melt metal pierces through the dissipating clouds in the distance, and shines on the rippling blue sea. A warship composed of eight ships is sailing on the sea. Looking for whales.

The sea environment in this era has not been too much damage, and the marine life is very abundant. In addition to countless sea fish, the number of whales is far more than that of later generations. There are whales in the waters near the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. haunted place.

When Chu Tianxiu hunted whales for the first time, he didn't run too far. He planned to go along the coast of the Yellow Sea and go deep into the ocean to a depth of seventy or eighty nautical miles.

It has to be admitted that marine biological resources are abundant in this era, and their group soon saw groups of dolphins in the sea, and also found a lot of sharks.If Chu Tianxiu's goal is simply to obtain meat, perhaps catching these marine creatures is the most suitable choice.

But Chu Tianxiu didn't ask people to do it after all, but patiently walked along the coastline, looking for the traces of the largest sea creatures.

There are about five or six whales in this group, and it is considered a small group of whales. Chu Tianxiu is not a biologist, and fishermen in this era are not familiar with the species of whales, so they just call him the Sea Dragon King, so they cannot identify the whales. kind of.

But roughly speaking, it looks a bit like a baleen whale, but they are not very big. The longest one is about eleven or twelve meters long, which is not much different from the baleen whale that was stranded in Hudouzhou.

As the distance gets closer, the people on the boat can feel the hugeness of the whales even more. Even though the size of the minke whales in front of them is not very big, it makes them all nervous. The overlord of the sea.

But for some reason, when Chu Tianxiu saw this group of whales, he felt a sense of urgency, a bloodthirsty desire.

As he moved his body and flexed his bones, he asked people to put down five or six small sampans, and then took sixty or seventy capable and courageous men on these sampans, paddling in the direction of the whale. Over the past, began their first whaling operation.

"It's really big! Only such a creature can be regarded as the real overlord of the sea!"

When Chu Tianxiu was still far away from those whales, he didn't realize it, he was just a little excited, but when he really got close to these whales, within a hundred meters of these giant sea beasts, he also gave birth to There was a feeling of muscle tension and rapid heartbeat.

This is a sense of fear, an instinctive sense of fear, a sense of fear that is involuntarily born because of the huge size of the whale, which makes his life instinctively threatened.

For a moment, Chu Tianxiu vaguely understood why after seeing the stranded whale, he came up with the idea of ​​hunting whales. It turned out that it was not only because he was thinking about the future, but also because he had always wanted to hunt whales. An instinctive sense of conquest.

(End of this chapter)