Chapter 434 Login

Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

Chapter 434 Login

After spending so many days with these soldiers on the ship, Xia Yuan's tone became vulgar intentionally or unintentionally, but these soldiers just fell in love with this. After hearing the words, they all rushed to respond, and then began to inspect the damage on the ship.

Zhu Houzhao sat on the deck leaning on the railing, with excitement after fatigue in his eyes. Wang Shouren took off his robe and silently squeezed the water on it.

Xia Yuan shivered, and the clothes on his body were already soaked through. During the fierce battle with the whale just now, his nerves were highly tense and he couldn't feel it at all. Now that his mind was relaxed, he felt uncomfortable. Not only was he uncomfortable, but he also felt all over his body.

Chills.

Wang Shouren wrung out his clothes, put them on the railing, and asked: "Teacher, what should I do with this big fish?"

"Of course I'll drag it behind the boat. After I finish conquering the Japanese country, I'll take it back to show my father."

Mentioning this, Zhu Houzhao's eyes sparkled with an inexplicable light.

Xia Yuan can understand this guy's psychology very well. Not only him, but also many soldiers on the boat think so. After finally killing such a big giant fish, why don't you take it back to show off?

"By the time I take it back, there will already be nothing but skeletons left."

"It's the same with bringing the bones back. For such a big fish, the bones must be very big."

"Of course we have to take the bones back, but we should find a way to cut the meat from the fish and refine it into oil."

"Oil refining? Can this big fish be used to refine oil?"

"What if that's not the case? Otherwise, why would we kill it?"

The reason why Xia Yuan did not stop Zhu Houzhao from hunting the whale at first, and later shouted that he would not let the whale be released, was naturally because he wanted to obtain the whale's carcass and use it to refine oil.

Not just for refining oil, this whale is full of treasures. The oil on its body can be made into candles, and the quality of the candles made is better than any candles today, and there is no substitute for it.

And the meat can still be eaten. Such a behemoth weighs at least 200 tons, so it has at least hundreds of thousands of kilograms of meat on it, enough to feed hundreds of thousands of people.

Not only these, the other parts of the whale also have their own purposes and can be used in all walks of life.

The reason why the whaling industry developed in later generations is because there are huge profits from whales, and countless people can profit from this creature.

So in the 18th and 19th centuries, the foreign devils in the West began to hunt whaling on a large scale.

Neither calves nor adult whales were spared, until finally, the blue whale became an endangered protected animal.

The most disgusting thing is that they have caught enough whales to develop their national strength and survive industrialization. They no longer need to catch whales to develop industry. Then they pretend to shed two tears and say that they want to protect the marine ecology and unite to do it.

Convention banning whaling.

This kind of upright and upright behavior is really shameful.

According to Xia Yuan's idea, now it is just a prototype. After success, the Ming Dynasty can develop a large number of whaling industries, use whale oil to replace wax oil, and expand a large number of meat sources.

Not to mention that to a certain extent, whaling can also be used to train troops.

Take the fierce battle with the whale just now as an example. In fact, as long as a large ship like theirs is experienced and the soldiers on board cooperate with each other tacitly, they can catch this whale on their own.

But because of the lack of tacit cooperation and the inability to truly unite and cooperate, we were in a hurry and made frequent mistakes, which almost caused the big fish to overturn the boat.

If the other ships had not rushed to assist at the critical moment, the consequences would have been truly disastrous.

Therefore, this battle exposed many problems. When encountering the enemy, he was not calm enough. He only yelled and screamed, and his cooperation was not tacit.

In short, all these problems can be attributed to the lack of experience in naval warfare, and whaling is not an exercise in naval warfare experience.

As for protecting the marine ecology, after the Ming Dynasty had fished enough and developed its national power through the whaling industry and achieved a leap in industrialization, a decree was issued to ban whaling in all countries around the world.

This kind of thing that is both necessary and practical can be done by foreign devils. Isn’t it possible that the Ming Dynasty can’t do it?

"When the weather clears up completely, we will dismantle the whale and put it on the ship for refining oil. In fact, it is not convenient on the ship. It would be better to have an island."

"Teacher, there seems to be an island in front of you."

Hearing this, Xia Yuan was startled at first, then suddenly stood up from the deck, holding on to the railing and looking forward. At this time, the sky became much clearer, the visibility recovered a lot, and he could faintly see the mountains in the distance.

contour.

If there is no problem with navigation, start from the Baijiang Estuary and follow the sea to the east. The place you should arrive at should be the Nagasaki Port in Xiaoli.

This is the destination set at the beginning.

Why is it set there? Firstly, there is a ready-made port here, and secondly, it is very close, less than 800 kilometers away from Songjiang Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty.

It's even closer to Baijiangkou.

The port of Nagasaki is located on the small island of Kyushu, which belongs to the westernmost side of Kyushu Island. However, the island in the distance is not big, and it does not seem to be the small island of Kyushu.

But this should be the island to the west of Japan. Could it be Sado Island?

The words Sado Island came to mind, and immediately, Xia Yuan had an inexplicable feeling that that place should be Sado Island.

This time he was completely off track. According to his understanding, Sado Island is thousands of miles away from Nagasaki Port. This island faces Sakhalin Island to the west across the sea, and to the east is the junction of Hokkaido and Honshu Island.

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No wonder I didn't see any trace of the Japanese nation after sailing for more than ten days at sea. It turned out that there was something wrong with the navigation. It was heading east, but not straight east, but in the northeast direction.

Sado Island, Sado Island.

Feeling these three words in his heart, Xia Yuan's slightly frowned eyebrows gradually relaxed. Sado Island is great. Although it is too far away from the Ming Dynasty, its strategic significance and even geographical location are excellent. It is surrounded by the sea on all sides.

Hanging on the sea and close to the mainland of Japan, only less than a hundred miles away. It is simply a perfect outpost.

As long as we occupy that place, we can completely use it as a strategic base for the Ming Dynasty, station troops on it, and then use it as a springboard to attack the Japanese mainland.

And more than that, if he remembered correctly, there was also a silver mine on Sado Island. Although the mine reserves were not as good as the Iwami Silver Mine, it was still a huge silver mine, and it would not be a problem to mine dozens of tons a year.

Not only is there a silver mine, there is also a gold mine on this island, and it is one of the three major gold mines in Xiaoli.

Okay, okay, it’s Sado Island, it’s Sado Island.

"Your Highness, have you seen that island? If I guess correctly, this island should be the island of Japan. Let's occupy this island first!"

Zhu Houzhao saw it. When he heard that it was a Japanese island, he thought that there should be Japanese people on it. When he thought of this, he felt his body tremble. Was there finally a war?

He quickly shouted: "Quick! Quick! Raise the sails, raise the sails! Have you seen the island? Listen to my command, let's go and occupy the island!"

"Woo"

There were melodious horn sounds and rumbling war drums all around. On the rooftop of Zhang Mao's ship, someone was waving the command flag desperately. Apparently, they had also discovered the island in front of them.

The order flag is being used to tell all the ships to head for the island, and there are people on the upper floors of the other ships waving the order flag, passing the order layer by layer in this way.

The horns on other ships also sounded, the war drums rumbled, and the horns soared into the sky.
Chapter completed!