Weihai Military Port.

At this time, a small fleet is anchoring in the harbor...

Of course, the small fleet is just because of the small number of warships, which consists of five warships in total, but the warships themselves are not small, especially the flagship as the core is one with a capacity of five thousand materials. This is already the largest new warship built so far, and the remaining four are all with a capacity of more than three thousand materials.

"You really want to go?"

Wang Yue looked at Tong Guan unexpectedly.

"I have been serving Changchun real person all my life. Now that I am old, this is the only thing I can do for Changchun real person."

The latter sighed.

He has been wandering outside for many years. At first, he was detained in Tianjin to Guanhai, and later served as an envoy for communication between the north and the south. Although he could stay in the capital, he still returned to the north, mainly living in Lutai, and occasionally staying in Yanshan City for a few days. After the great painter was arrested, he moved to Lushun and served him every day as a worker, showing his loyalty as an old slave. However, after the great painter moved to Changchun Palace as a real person in Changchun to cultivate immortals, in order to please his son, he drove him back. He immediately returned to Lutai to live, and this time he followed this fleet.

These warships were built by Wang Yue Dagu Shipyard, just like those sent to Nanyang before.

The main reason is that the wood is convenient. Whether it is logged from the Taihang Mountains to the west or Yan Mountains to the north, it can eventually be transported to Dagu.

The logging of Yanshan Mountain was put down along the Luan River.

Then there is a special Yin dry plate removal base in Luanzhou area, and the Yin dry is directly transported to Dagukou.

However, the shipbuilding bases in the south have also begun to build these warships, but because they used to use low-end wood, and although high-end wood also had reserves, they were unable to build these warships that had to be built with high-end wood on a large scale.

This thing certainly cannot be used with the most widely used pine and fir trees in the south.

That one is really not suitable for being a warship, especially the fir, which is high-quality but cannot provide real protection.

Of course, oak is also difficult.

And it doesn't need to be. After all, the enemy that Wang Yue's warships face cannot have cannons.

In addition, Chinese oak is actually different from European oak, but even so, you have to use relatively good ones to build these warships, camphor wood, ocad wood, jujube, elm wood, beech wood, and green hill. This is Chinese oak, in addition, ironwood, litchi wood, magpie wood, and the like. Especially camphor wood and ironwood, these are the two best quality woods for shipbuilding in the south. The reason why Mingzhou became a shipbuilding center is because camphor wood is convenient, while Guangdong shipbuilding is mainly ironwood.

The method of Guangdong navy in the Ming Dynasty to deal with Japanese pirates at sea was very simple. It was enough to rely on the iron-powered wooden ship to crash over and plow and sink.

In short, materials must be prepared in these places, so there are not many constructions at present.

In the past two years, it mainly relies on the Dagu Shipyard, which has used northern hardwoods such as Qinggang, oak, and elm from the beginning.

"Then you have to think clearly that you can set off in at least five years. At that time, you were over 70 years old. Although I can guarantee that as long as the port of Japan is solved, it will not take long to sail from here to there, and it is even closer than our merchant ships to the West. But there is different from going to the West. There are countless ports along the way to the West that can be docked for trade supplies, but after setting sail from Japan there, there is no land in the middle of 20,000 miles, and it is completely 20,000 miles of vast sea. All the food is carried on the ship.

There will be no real food.

I can only eat the kind of tin can I make now.

If it doesn’t rain, there is not even clean water. Even if the stored water is smelly, you have to drink it. As for taking a bath, it is even more impossible.

Unless it rains, there is no water to wash your face.”

Wang Yue said.

Tong Guan personally led the fleet to America to seek immortal medicine.

Wang Yue didn't care about his leadership, he led the team just a decoration, but at this age, taking this path was simply a suicide!

Wang Yue planned to go north to the warm current of the North Pacific, that is, he set sail from Sendai into the warm current of the North Pacific to drift to the Americas without passing through Hawaii, and chose the same date as Zhikang Chang, that is, he would go east with the west wind in winter. Zhikang Chang took three months from Sendai to Atapulka, so he would cross the Pacific Ocean to reach the North American coast. In other words, as long as Wang Yue's American fleet did not have any surprises, he would also complete this long voyage that can be recorded in history within two months.

It's okay if something unexpected happens.

There will be no typhoons in this season, that is, you will take a fork in the middle of the road, such as going south to Hawaii, or going north to Alaska warm current, but these accidents will not destroy the fleet.

The fleet carried enough food, that is, fresh water was lacking, just find fresh water to replenish it.

If nothing unexpected happens, they will enter the California cold current outside the Americas, and then successfully move south and lean on the coast of America to find freshwater supplies, even trade with the Indians, and go south along the coast to Mexico.

The rest is conquering by force.

This is a totally unworthy thing for this fleet.

The troops heading to America must be a match-rope version, plus cannons and plate armor. It would be a joke if they could not conquer a group of natives using stone weapons.

The key is the voyage in the middle of the two months.

Two months.

They couldn't see a piece of land for two months.

For two months, they need to be trapped on warships, eat and vomit, drink stinky fresh water, look at the endless sea water, and suffer in loneliness, panic, and even despair. It is not surprising that some people go crazy in this process, death is inevitable, and even a large number of deaths. Those young and strong soldiers are better. An old man in his seventies takes such a journey, especially if he has to travel back and forth, it can be said that he will die for a lifetime.

The same goes for them when they come back.

When they came back, they did not follow the northern line, but turned to the northern equatorial warm current in the west of Mexico, and then returned through Luzon.

I won't go to Hawaii either.

The North equatorial warm current, the Black Tide, the North Pacific warm current, and the California cold current form a closed loop in the North Pacific. Hawaii is in the middle of this closed loop, which is why it was discovered so late. You should know that when Cook discovered Hawaii, Magellan had been dead for almost three hundred years.

"I'm already dead. Where can I die if a person from Xing Yu dies? Young people are indeed strong, but the old people are tough and will not be afraid of voyages from the sea. If there are really elixirs there, they might be able to prolong my life!"

Tong Guan said.

"Since that's the case, it's up to you."

Wang Yue said with a smile.

Since Zheng He was voyage to the West in the Ming Dynasty, then the Song Dynasty will have a Tong Guan going to the East in the Song Dynasty!

"But you have to deal with Japan first. After the fleet sets sail, it goes south to Mingzhou, and sets sail in Mingzhou to Hakata. Then you go to meet the Japanese master as a regular institution. At this time, the place we planned to set sail is still in the hands of the Emira, so what you need to do is lobby them to start a war against the Emira."

Wang Yue said.

"What does this mean? Since the Hokkien and Japan are not the same, why not support the Hokkien to restrain the Japan?"

Tong Guan said unexpectedly.

This old guy is still very sinister and cunning.

"Indeed, it's good to support the Hokkien, but the Hokkien is behind. They are completely savages who eat raw meat and drink blood. We need to use it as the starting point and will always use it in the future. Therefore, we need some people who are more capable and able to provide us with continuous supply. The Hokkien cannot do it at all. The Japanese are stronger than them after all. So we need to support the Japanese and the Hokkien war, and then seize this belt for us as a concession, and provide us with supplies in the future.

As for restraining Japan.

That's not worth mentioning. It's easy for us to destroy Japan, but their value is too low and not worth it."

Wang Yue said.

Of course, he would never admit that he just wanted to see the shoguns appear.

The Japanese would definitely do it. The Song Dynasty supported them to conquer the Essays, and even gave them some weapons. The land of the Essays captured was used as a concession for the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty repaid rent every year. Why not do such a good thing?

But to fight against the Emirati, a general who conquers the Emirati needs to fight against the Emirati.

At this time, the Japanese military generals had already risen, and Genji and Hei clan had already appeared. It was only fifty years before the birth of the Kamakura Shogunate. At this time, I would like to push the game behind and the Japanese general, the general of the Japanese military and the public. It would be very fun at that time. The Japanese military families are really hard to start at this time. Compared with their civil strife, supporting the Xiayi is meaningless. This nation is really too primitive.

So primitive that it is not worth supporting at all.

Moreover, even if it is supported, the productivity level of Esai is not enough to undertake the supply task of maintaining this long-distance voyage base.

And the Japanese are more capable.

"In addition, as far as I know, the Jurchens have begun to harass Japan, and even Jurchen ships have arrived at the place of the Essenists. This should also make the Japanese wary, telling them that although they are unwilling to submit to the Emperor of the Song Dynasty and demoted to vassal states, the Song Dynasty will still treat them with friendly countries. The Song Dynasty is just to find immortal medicine for the Changchun Zhenren and has no intention of occupying the land of the Japanese. The Song Dynasty will continue to engage in friendly trade with them."

Wang Yue said.

There is really no need to rush to conquer Japan.

You must know that there is still the main source of talents in the Song Dynasty!

Talent trade can be carried out against friendly neighbors, but we cannot do it openly against vassal states. The previous attack on horse bandits in Xixia has also been stopped...

Of course, the main reason is that the harvest is getting smaller and smaller.

After all, over time, people will have effective response measures.

Now the main source of talents is Japan and Goryeo, but there are fewer and fewer people. In this way, we can support Japan in conquering the Hokkien, and we can also recruit another wave of Hokkien talents. By the way, Wang Yue has been working hard for the exchange of talents in the Song Dynasty. You should know that it is not just rowing, but also starting to use it on the northern wasteland. Of course, they are all undergoing surgery, which is mandatory. Wang Yue sends people to inspect them every year. As long as he finds that he has not done it, his owner will be severely punished.

This is also inevitable.

After all, after the Song Dynasty passed the Public Field Law, there was no motivation to immigrate to the outside world in a short period of time.

In fact, the militia inside the Song Dynasty have also begun to join the ranks of competition for talents.

The current land system of the Song Dynasty is to allocate land according to the population. After the original land is divided, every time a person is added, he will get a piece of wasteland, and then open up the land by himself and have no rent for ten years. Even if there is no local area, he will be divided into one piece at the nearest place, but he will become a person wherever he is divided.

This system is reasonable.

but……

Not suitable.

It’s okay to be assigned to the neighboring village, but it will take a few more steps to open up the land, but who will be assigned to Lin Township or even Lin County?

The newly added population has grown up and married, so of course it can move to his own land, but how can he move to open up land when he is not adult?

It would be a good deal to buy a serf like this.

The serfs were thrown over to open the land, and the remaining food they harvested was given to the master except for the serfs who ate themselves. When the master's son became an adult, he would move them in a separate family. As for the serfs, those who were not exhausted could of course be sold again, because the price of serfs was rising, so this was equivalent to long-term investment. But this led to the serfs becoming popular. In order to open up land, vassal states outside the border purchased serfs on a large scale, and the militias in the mainland were also snatching serfs, but industry and commerce were prohibited from being used.

Talent exchanges are becoming more and more prosperous.

Then it has become an urgent task to develop the source of talents. At present, all those who are traveling out, whether they are pioneering groups, maritime merchants, or even overseas garrisons, are working part-time.

At this time, some maritime merchants had already started transporting talents from East Africa to China.

The talent market in every port is crowded.

The vassal states such as the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, Liao Dynasty, Xihan, etc. were like a huge whirlpool, vassing the population of the surrounding messy countries, and Wang Yue's new way of dividing the land is also diluting the agricultural population to those undeveloped wastelands. Also, due to the support of industry and commerce, coupled with the pressure of grain prices under his strict control, more and more agricultural populations who wanted to make more money were also pouring into industry and commerce, and even overseas development.

The most profitable overseas development.

You can get enough food and clothing by growing grain in a year, and you can save up to ten or eight dozen jin of coins at most. After all, the price of grain is too low.

I can save twenty or thirty trump cards a year when I work in the factory, after all, the price of grain is too low.

The pioneering regiment recruits all the employees according to the military pay of the regular army, and they provide them from equipment to food, and they can even grab them by themselves, as well as bonuses. At least hundreds of trump cards a year, this is just nearby, mainly the pioneering regiment to go to Taiwan. Money is the best driving force. Farming is the least profitable, and it is to be able to make food and clothing. Working is much better than farming. The income of going out to be a pioneering regiment is far ahead, even better than being a soldier, which is just more dangerous than being a soldier.

After all, when you are in the army, you basically stop fighting.

Moreover, the army is fully guaranteed and well-equipped, and rarely really overcomes all obstacles. Even if the casualties in the war are actually very low.

But it is different when it comes to pioneering groups.
Chapter completed!