Chapter 2252 sea city
When a very few people in the Imperial City of the Ming Dynasty were experiencing the impact of various immortal masters and immortals, Hainan Island or Qiongzhou of the Ming Dynasty was ushering in a new number of guests.
If Zhang Shiliang's modern yacht that is more than 100 meters long is like a sea palace compared to the Dafu ship, then the cruise ship that more than a thousand passengers travelling on is really a sea castle. This cruise ship itself takes a Southeast Asian tourist route.
In the late 1910s, the cruise ships across the sea basically started with a displacement of 10,000 tons, and the top ones even had a displacement of more than 200,000 tons. The cruise ships where Captain Wu and others were not top-notch, but also had a displacement of 50,000 tons.
What is this concept? A Spanish Garen sailboat often has a displacement of only a few hundred tons.
Hundreds of tons vs. tens of thousands of tons??
Even if the cruise ship itself has no attack power, its terrifying and exaggerated body shape and the speed brought by modern equipment are invincible at sea.
A few days later, Captain Wu and many tourists also completely confirmed one thing. They really traveled through time and came to the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty.
Crossing the strait from the near Wanwan Island and reaching Hainan, everyone has seen too many people and things from the early 17th century.
After confirming the fact of crossing, the entire cruise ship was quickly divided into several factions, the largest of which was of course the ship staff led by Captain Wu. Modern cruise ships pursued commercial development, and basically equipped with standard is that one ship staff serves three guests.
Therefore, more than a thousand people on this ship were ship staff members in the cruise ship's physique, and the remaining three-quarters were tourists.
To be precise, there are more than 300 ship staff and more than 900 tourists within the cruise ship system.
More than 300 ship staff, including group of chefs, doctors and other logistics personnel, and security teams. Even if there are no powerful attack weapons on the ship and there are not even guns, the security members are basically composed of retired soldiers, and the explosion-proof shields, stabbing suits, batons, stun guns, etc. are still in a complete set.
These dozens of security guards are the largest armed forces on the cruise ships at present. They are still the kind of people who can fight on the battlefield of the Ming Dynasty and are not very nervous.
Standing on the deck, watching the coastline of Qiongzhou Road gradually approaching, Liang, a 35-year-old security supervisor, actually walked to the front of the deck and said, "Captain, is it really appropriate to go to Qiongzhou to contact the prefect here?"
"Why do I think it's good to contact Xiong Wencan. Xiong Wencan, the governor of a province, has much more say in the Ming court than the prefect of Qiongzhou, right?"
Captain Wu sighed helplessly. He brought more than 300 ship staff to form the largest force on the cruise ship, and hundreds of tourists were willing to rely on it, but that was the prestige of the past. Many ship staff were used to listening to him, but everyone traveled through time and really wore it!
It is hard to say when this inherited prestige will disperse.
After sighing in his heart, Captain Wu spoke, "What is our biggest advantage? It is this ship. With this cruise ship, even if we encounter Zheng Zhilong's fleet, we can rush out without any harm."
"But this ship is going to burn oil."
"Although we are a transnational cruise ship, the ship does not have much energy reserves. They all replenish fuel when they arrive at the destination. Once there is no oil, let alone start the ship, they can't even move the generator."
"In this case, if you want to replenish oil, you can only find a way from the mainland. It is not difficult to refine oil by local methods. As long as there is crude oil, the equipment and equipment on our ships can also be used as a matter of use. However, in China, many oil fields are too deep, and oil can be produced by several thousand meters."
"The shallowest oil field, the easiest thing to obtain in historical records, is the Yanchuan stone liquid written by Shen Kuo of the Northern Song Dynasty in Mengxi Bitan. In Shaanxi, the people of the Northern Song Dynasty could get Yanchuan stone liquid, and we can definitely do it."
"Shaanxi is too far away, and you can't ignore what era this is. In the second year of Chongzhen, there was a period of rebels everywhere. In addition, if you want to obtain crude oil, the most reliable thing is the Shengli Oilfield in later generations. An oil reservoir with a buried depth of less than 500 meters was found in Guangrao."
"Even if we do not use the modern equipment on the ship, as long as we have sufficient manpower and material resources and rely on manual excavation in this era, we still have the hope of digging out a tunnel. With crude oil, we will have sufficient capital."
"But if you want crude oil from Shaanxi or Shandong, you must do a lot of effort in the Ming court. We don't have much fuel, so it's a way to find Xiong Wencan, but once Lao Xiong has other plans, Zheng Zhilong's fleet will be by his side, so it's hard for us to deal with it."
"It's better to come from Hainan. You can attack and retreat here. You can exchange it for a large amount of money from the Ming court through Hainan. Then use this money to find merchants to help us purchase crude oil and other materials."
A multinational cruise ship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons travels on the sea surface. The bottom deck and the sea surface have a height difference of ten meters, which is equivalent to a city wall. The layers of buildings are like tall buildings in a metropolis, with all appearances of stainless steel or alloy metal. Of course, there are glass windows, but that is definitely not ordinary glass, otherwise the sea storm will be completely broken as soon as it comes.
It is true that the bronze cannons of this era can hardly hurt the fundamentals. It can only rely on this steel armor and speed to collide with sailing ships, which can fight a sea battle.
The only thing that bothers these more than a thousand people is energy and oil! Now they burn heavy oil, but it is OK to have heavy oil without heavy oil and diesel.
As long as you have the ability to enter Shandong's oil fields, the Chinese people can even build the Great Wall, but are they afraid that they will not be able to dig a tunnel less than 500 meters deep from the surface?
With crude oil, the local refining method is nothing more than temperature. After heating to more than 300 degrees, diesel can be extracted from crude oil.
There are also many casinos and equipment on cruise ships, including large theaters with hundreds of people, restaurants including Chinese and Western restaurants, gyms, basketball courts, sun pools, etc. Of course, there are also seawater desalination equipment, not to mention the guest rooms, this is really energy-saving, it is a perfect sea fortress and a sea city.
There is no shortage of various technicians on the cruise ship to repair equipment, clean up faults, etc.
With many modern equipment, you are not afraid of not being able to heat up oil refining for more than 300 degrees. The only difficulty here is how to trade with Daming for a more convenient transaction.
"When I arrived at Qiongzhou Prefecture, I would give the prefect some rare things. I could also trade with the Ming Dynasty and even the Folangji merchants through the channels here. I could buy enough gold and silver, spend money to buy it, and I could also buy crude oil from Chongzhen."
"At present, the Ming Dynasty is the most lacking in money. The Ming Dynasty was actually destroyed by financial collapse. There are many treasures worth a thousand gold on our ship in this era. Just say that a modern high-power telescope and infrared telescope are a powerful weapon for the military."
"Didn't a customer bring some sets of portable lighting equipment for solar generators? This thing is even more a magical tool."
The portable solar generator lighting equipment carried by a customer is a set of suitcases. The family goes out for travel, camping, and brings it with them easily, charge during the day and lighting at night, which is a complete power equipment.
The customer brought a few sets of goods on a cruise ship, intending to be considered a trip or a trip to the Nanyang area to see the market. His family opened this kind of factory and brought two technical workers.
How attractive is the power equipment or solar energy recycled to the Ming Dynasty in the early 17th century?
If this is taken out for auction, a set of silver that is more than tens of thousands of taels of gold will definitely be a loss.
Chapter completed!