The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 169 Arriving at Donghai Kingdom

"Ugh..." At this moment, Ge Xin held onto the railing on the deck with both hands and vomited against the blue sea water.

There are not a few people who are as seasick as Ge Xin, and then they lie on the deck like a dead dog, not wanting to move.

Of course, people like Ge Xin had more serious seasickness, while Xijian had a relatively mild case of seasickness.

At this time, he only felt that his head was dizzy, and his whole body was lying in his room weakly, as if he was a salted fish that had been pickled, and he didn't even have the strength to turn over.

The [-] soldiers brought by Liu Tai came in boats with waves crashing, and for some reason they couldn't avoid seasickness. It was just that some were a little heavier and some were a little lighter.

"It seems that if people who have not received water training are allowed to directly take a boat to go on an ocean voyage, I'm afraid something big will happen!"

Tian Zhen couldn't help but sigh. Although when he first trained the navy, Tian Zhen also discovered that the soldiers were somewhat seasick.

But they gradually carried out sea training, so seasickness was not very obvious.

In addition, in order to prevent others from detecting the situation of the ships, the ships only practiced in the relatively calm Jiaozhou Bay.

Nowadays, it is really transported thousands of miles on the sea, and the intensity of shipping brought by this is completely different.

Not to mention, the dizziness caused by the waves is much stronger than when shipping in Jiaozhou Bay.

"When the soldiers arrive at Langya County, they may have to rest for a day!" Liu Tai looked at the scene in front of him and said,
"Those engineering battalion soldiers who are responsible for assembling siege weapons need to sit on the boat after they return and try out the wind and waves of the sea!"

"Indeed." Tian Tian nodded in agreement, and then said,

"When I was driving in Jiaozhou Bay, the farthest I could reach was the surrounding islands, and I didn't feel anything. Now that I'm actually sailing long distances in the sea, I realize that this journey is not easy."

At this moment, the ship Tian Tian and Liu Tai were traveling on suddenly experienced violent vibrations.

The two of them immediately grabbed the railing beside them to steady themselves, and the whole ship stopped at this moment.

Seeing this scene, Liu Tai frowned and couldn't help but look at Tian Tian.

Tian Zhen's expression changed and he didn't show any signs of panic. He immediately asked his men to investigate. Soon, soldiers came from the cabin to report.
"This is to inform the Duke that the ship has hit the rocks. General Su has sent damage control troops to the cabin where the accident occurred for emergency repairs. The ship will be able to operate normally within an hour at most!"

Liu Tai knew that Su Jun sent soldiers to comfort him, so as to avoid panic among the soldiers.

To be honest, although my ship uses technology from the third century, many of the ideas in it are beyond this era.

Needless to say, the first is the sealed cabin technology, which is one of the core technologies of this ship. It is precisely because of the sealed cabin technology that the space in the cabin is isolated in an orderly manner that the damage control force established by ourselves can exist. The meaning of emergency repair.

Otherwise, if water leaks in one place and everywhere, it will be impossible to save the entire ship no matter what.

But with the sealed cabin technology, even if the ship runs aground on the rocks, or is attacked by water ghosts, causing water leakage at the bottom, we can still determine where the problem is by sealing each sealed cabin, and then carry out emergency repairs at the corresponding location.

Therefore, the sealed cabin system is almost a necessary technology for offshore ships and ocean-going ships.

Because this thing cooperates with the damage control force, it can truly create enough fault tolerance for ships sailing in offshore waters.

Even if there are any unexplored rocks along the way, the ship will not sink directly.

Therefore, as long as the ship is not extremely unreasonably designed and will capsize directly when it reaches the sea, it will basically reach the destination without any bumps and bumps, but it can still be done by driving to the shore for repairs and continuing on.

China's shipping technology existed until 2000. Even in the Ming Dynasty, it was actually more about wooden structures and human wind power.

Even though many efficiency-improving technologies have emerged during this process, and ships have become larger and larger, in essence, they are not revolutionary, but more of just technical innovations.

This kind of innovation is an applied technology that can be achieved within one generation of effort, just like ancient crossbows can achieve the range and power of modern guns, but the gap in the industrial system behind the two is completely different. thing.

The so-called real leap-forward development is to replace manpower with steam, replace wood with steel, and completely eliminate the sublimation from kinetic energy to materials. This is definitely not an innovation that a time traveler can just say a few words to complete.

Rather, it requires the joint efforts of the entire country and even the entire society to achieve a leap forward.

As for now, although on the surface it seems that a lot of things happened, big and small, during this voyage.

For example, something hit the rocks, and suddenly a big wave rolled up the canoe soldiers who went to check the water channel.

Another group of killer whales appeared and suddenly brought back the man who was swept away by the big waves. Everything was normal.

"Did I read it right just now? Those Jiji Kun actually sent back the soldiers who were swept into the sea by the waves?!"

Tian Tian looked at the scene in front of him in a daze. If Liu Tai hadn't ordered not to shoot, Tian Tian would have thought that these reverse halberd Kun wanted to eat his soldiers.

Unexpectedly, they only dragged the soldiers back to a stern boat and did not intend to kill their own soldiers.

The so-called killer whales are actually killer whales. Liu Tai remembers that these guys seem to be one of the few creatures in the ocean that are friendly to humans.

Rumor has it that before humans evolved from the ocean to land in their previous lives, they were their good friends, whales.

And Liu Tai remembered that there was a craze about killer whales on the Internet, so he had some knowledge of this kind of dolphin.

Therefore, Liu Tai stopped the navy from attacking these little guys, believing that they would not attack the soldiers who fell into the water.

“These genus Kun were the first to save our soldiers, and we dumped the catch we caught these days to them to express our gratitude to their soldiers for saving the Han Dynasty.

From now on, the soldiers, officials, and people on the sea under my rule are not allowed to capture the reverse halberd Kun, otherwise they will be punished with imprisonment.

If a spur kun strands on the river bank and the people send it back to the ocean, the incident can be recorded in the county annals for encouragement.

These reverse halberd Kuns treat our Han soldiers with kindness, so we must also treat them with kindness.

In the future, soldiers or civilians will unfortunately fall into the sea after going to sea. With these halberds and Kun around, they may be able to save their lives. "

Liu Tai couldn't help but give orders to the entire army.

After hearing Liu Tai's order, everyone present could not help but stand in awe.

One by one, they took out the fish that they had caught with fishing nets at sea these days, and now they were dumping bucket after bucket into the sea.

And these killer whales did not expect that there would be delicious food from the sky. They all became good babies who were not picky about food. They ate like a wolf and devoured each and every one of them. The soldiers also watched with gusto.Liu Tai watched his fleet's seafood being devoured by these killer whales, but he didn't feel any distress at all.

This time, in addition to wanting to explore a navigable channel, I also wanted to try some fishing nets.

After all, I plan to use these boats as fishery administration ships after they are decommissioned in the future, so this time I will try to see if these nets can catch fish, and at the same time determine the development direction of the navy after decommissioning.

Liu Tai even intends to try to see if his current ship can become a whaling ship.

But for this kind of thing, as long as Liu Tai's subordinates have normal minds, Liu Tai will not be allowed to do such crazy things himself.

However, now Liu Tai looked at the group of killer whales below and felt that if he helped them more by building a team in the future, maybe these guys would really take their team to find trouble with the sperm whales.

But after thinking about it, I felt that although killer whales are relatively smart dolphins, they are not so smart after all, so I didn't take this matter to heart.

For Liu Tai, this was just an episode during the sea voyage, but for these soldiers who had actually experienced this incident, seeing their comrades being swept into the sea, and sea beasts actually coming out to rescue them, this was What does it mean if you and others are not blessed by God?

For a time, the morale was much higher. Those seasick soldiers only regretted that they were lying in the cabin and missed this scene. Is there anything that can prove Liu Tai's destiny more than this?
Like a unicorn, a green dragon, a white tiger, a red bird, these mythical things, how can they be compared to Liu Tai going out to sea, soldiers falling into the water, and there really are fairy beasts in the sea coming out to rescue them, this is not destiny!
Therefore, after Liu Tai slept on the ship for a few days, he always felt that the soldiers on the ship looked at him strangely, as if they were ready to sacrifice at any time, which made Liu Tai a little confused.

After all, in Liu Tai's opinion, killer whales like to live in temperate zones and polar regions, in waters close to the continental shelf. Because it is the Little Ice Age now, and it is already winter, killer whales are occasionally seen along the coast of Shandong. Not surprisingly.

Liu Tai didn't think about it from a spiritual aspect at all. At most, he felt that he could see killer whales saving people during his voyage, so he felt that the trip was somewhat worthwhile.

But the behavior that Liu Tai took for granted was completely different in this era when the mysterious way was prevalent.

After all, Liu Tai only asked his soldiers to read "Hanshu" instead of "Democracy and Science".

To these soldiers, Liu Tai is now backed by a god, and these orcas are the best proof.

These killer whales must be said to be really smart. After they realized that following the big ship seemed to be a fish to eat, they followed the ship decisively.

Along the way, he would even chase the fish into the ship's fishing net, and he would take advantage of the opportunity to get a piece of the pie.

Or if soldiers fall into the water, they will take the initiative to come over and support the soldiers who fall into the water.

As long as they did these tasks, Liu Tai directly asked the soldiers to give corresponding rewards to the sea to strengthen the impression that they were rescuing people at sea.

The soldiers were even more happy because after all, who didn't want to have one more life at sea.

Of course, these are just small episodes on Liu Tai's road, and Liu Tai's ships stop and go for repairs.

The journey that originally took one to two days actually only consisted of Chengyang County plus part of the coastline of Donghai County, but it took almost a week to travel. When you arrived at your destination, you could even see the Lianyungang in this era. Island.

The reason for walking such a long way is that no large ships passed by, only light boats and sterns occasionally passed by to explore.

Now that we have developed the fourth-generation ship and have gone through such a journey in person, this is how we know ourselves.

As for why it is a fourth-generation ship, that is because the previous three generations have become a thing of the past and have all sunk in different locations.

It wasn't until the sealed cabin technology and damage control teams were completely perfected that there were fourth-generation ships capable of sailing at sea.

The fourth-generation ships have never actually traveled through this waterway, so there is no accurate data on a series of things such as draft, shipping center of gravity, damage control repairs, etc. throughout the entire process.

In many waters where light boats and stern boats can easily travel, these fourth-generation ships have either run aground on rocks, gotten stuck, or even had vortexes and reverse currents.

In short, it is difficult to draw conclusions about many things without going there yourself.

As for this section of the waterway, at least Chengyang County is still in Liu Tai's hands and belongs to Qingzhou's sphere of influence.

Even so, this channel is still so bumpy, so thinking about how many things will happen if this fleet directly attacks Youzhou, Liu Tai is afraid that it will cause even more headaches.

Even so, Liu Tai still chose to vigorously develop the navy and shipping.

The reason is very simple, as Mr. Lu Xun said, "There is no road in this world. When more people walk on it, it becomes a road."

The same is true for maritime shipping.

If you don't go through these waterways, then this area will always be densely covered with rocks and it will be a fog to you.

But as the sea channel travels more and these rocks are touched more, the rocks will be smashed and the channel will be opened. As long as the channel is opened, the derived benefits will naturally be abundant.

It’s as if East Asia always envies Europe and the United States for taking the lead in starting the era of great navigation, but the era of great navigation did not happen overnight.

It also requires generations of adventurers and bandits to bet with their lives and open up channels.

Liu Tai knew very well that he was the only person in China who truly valued the ocean, and he hoped to leave some of the ocean's genes to China.

In order for China to not fall behind others in the Age of Discovery, the Bohai Sea area must become China's inland sea, and the area around the Bohai Sea must be truly developed.

It's not a question of how much it's worth, or whether it's worth it.

But if the entire Bohai Sea cannot become its basic base, then even if it unifies the world, the world will not be able to directly access the marine genes. This is the key issue.

Otherwise, China has a long history. One more person is not more, and one less person is not a lot. Is there a lack of people to unify the world? ,

At most, there will be another 300 years of chaos, and then Yang Jian, Li Shimin and others will naturally come forward to unify the world.

Therefore, he must take the entire Bohai Sea into his own hands, try his best to build a chain of interests for the entire Bohai Economic Circle, and then make it the basis for his conquest of the world.

This will allow the world to know that even if China is divided in the future, the foundation of the imperial industry here is no less than that of the Guanzhong Plain.

This ensures that the genes belonging to the ocean are deeply rooted in the blood of China.

Even if the West once again takes the lead in launching great navigation campaigns, China will not underestimate the interests of the ocean!

And now this fourth-generation ship that can sail offshore and take him all the way to the East China Sea is the beginning of his dreams and plans.

Liu Tai's feet stepped on the beach, and he was sure that the sailing would go smoothly this time!
Of course, looking at the seasick soldiers all the way here, they can't even organize themselves, so let's take a day off first!

(End of this chapter)