"O Bodhisattva! God! Lord God!...A giant spruce tree forty steps long and two or three steps in diameter is used as the keel of a ship?...Is this...is this true? Master, are you wrong? Or is it?
Did you hear me wrong? Such a huge tree is unheard of, and it has been rare to see one for decades!…”
"Five years ago, the Great Emperor Chenghua of the Upper Kingdom passed away, and the Great Emperor Hongzhi ascended the throne... Two groups of gentlemen were transported to the Chaoyang Ship in South Gyeongsang Province, and the tribute gifts transported to the Upper Kingdom were only two pieces.
The cargo of the ship: 100 taels of gold, 1,000 taels of silver, 400 pieces each of cotton, silk and cotton, 600 mink, deer, otter, and leopard skins, 60 dragon-patterned mats, 20 boxes of old ginseng...and in addition
, the most expensive tribute is an 800-year-old oak tree (oak wood) thirty steps high and one or two steps wide, which serves as the roof beam of the emperor’s new palace!…”
"The Lord God has appeared! A big tree thirty steps high can already be used as a top-notch tribute to the Great Emperor! ... As for a sacred tree forty steps high and two or three steps wide, even if you search all over the Great Ming Dynasty, it will still be the same.
Thousands of gold are hard to find! Even when the great emperor of the Shang Dynasty built a palace, he couldn’t afford it at all!…”
Hearing the promise of the knowledgeable Mickey, the shipwright Jin Shanshu swallowed and trembled a little. He was familiar with the dimensions and could imagine what a giant tree over 50 meters high and 3 meters in diameter would look like. But.
, and he could not imagine at all what kind of sky-high price such a thousand-year-old sacred tree could be sold for in Korea, the Warring States, and the Ming Dynasty, which lacked giant trees! Perhaps, such a big tree can no longer be measured by price...
Even in the Ming Dynasty, which craftsman dared to think of using this sacred tree, which is as precious as heaven and earth, to build ships and houses? Which shipwright or carpenter could resist this temptation?…
"Ah! The great priest who is bigger than the sky... are you looking for happiness? Does such a sacred tree really exist? And... you still want to leave it to a small shipbuilder?..."
"Witness the Lord God! The Golden Shipwright, that is indeed a sacred tree. It is an inherited sacred tree that has been worshiped by the tribes of Southwest Tekos for hundreds of years. It has a tall and solid divinity! ... When you arrive at the southern shipyard of the kingdom, you will see it at a glance
You can see it!…”
"Ah? Ah this!... Sir?! Master! If such a sacred tree really exists... it is only used to build a large ocean boat with two thousand materials. Isn't it a bit of a waste?..."
Seeing the dimensions clearly written down by the priest, shipwright Jin Shanshu's knees felt weak and he felt a mountain of pressure on his shoulders. If such a sacred tree was casually ruined by him, wouldn't he be punished by God and be struck by lightning?
Chop it? And if the king of this cunning man pursues this matter, wouldn't he also behead him? They say that sacred trees have spirits, and they must have great luck to suppress them...
Shipwright Jin Shanshu was confused and thought wildly for a while before he quickly knelt down and kowtowed several times.
"Sir?! Your Majesty! The younger one...the younger one is afraid...that, otherwise...the younger one will first use ordinary big wood, and then start with a smaller, 800-material sea-going ship, to practice his skills...I don’t know what the shipwrights under my lord are.
What kind of boats are you good at building? If you are young, you can cooperate with the master craftsmen from Jiaoren Shangguo and try building a few boats first..."
"Eh?...Training to build a sea-going ship with 800 materials? What is the level of the kingdom's shipwrights?..."
Hearing this question that struck a chord with his soul, Mikey, the knowledgeable man, touched his nose and found it difficult to answer for a moment. He looked at the sea and sky in the east and thought of the thousands of busy people working in the southern shipbuilding industry and the rows of open-air buildings.
, a catamaran canoe made of twenty materials, and a long paddle boat made of more than one hundred materials, he answered with some embarrassment.
"Ahem! The southern shipbuilding department of the kingdom is directly under the royal capital Shenqisuo. It is very large and can mobilize the people and material resources of the two southern counties. In the shipbuilding department, there are only civilians who cut wood and burn charcoal, build kilns, and process wood.
, there are two thousand people! And there are hundreds of craftsmen and apprentices at all levels... As for the specific appearance, you will know at a glance when you go there!"
"Ah? A shipyard with 2,000 people! Isn't that bigger than the shipyard in Ganghwa Island, Gyeonggi Province?! It's like the legendary Yongjiang Shipyard in the country... So for a villain like this..."
Shipwright Jin Shanshu widened his eyes, imagining what a shipyard of that scale would look like. But it was obvious that the scene of the shipyard in his imagination was not completely different from what the knowledgeable Mickey recalled, but it was very different.
…
After a while, Jin Shanshu came back to his senses, kowtowed his head a few times again, and sent out another inquiry from his soul.
"Sir?! Your Majesty! We have been drifting in this desolate and cold Arctic Sea for more than a month, and we have traveled eastward for at least five or six thousand miles... This five or six thousand mile journey, this vast expanse of white
On the sea, except for a series of desert islands, hundreds or thousands of savages on the islands... there is not even a decent village to be seen!..."
"God bless you! Going further and further eastward... Not only the villain, but also the other sailors and craftsmen are afraid and confused... Where is the powerful Jiaoren Kingdom that you and other gentlemen say?
?And how far away is that huge shipyard in the south you mentioned?..."
"Huh? How far is it?..."
Hearing this, Mikey, the knowledgeable man, touched his chin and made some calculations in his mind for a while before he came up with a few exact and real, yet somewhat ethereal and distant figures. They were the voyages and distances he had carefully recorded along the way. And these few
The numbers were spoken lightly and written down on the deck, but almost everyone present in North Korea and the People's Republic of China changed their expressions and lost their souls...
"Witness the Lord God! One or two days east from here is the Kingdom's Shendadi Port! According to Shi Jian, this section of the Shenqi Island Chain starts from Shenshuangyan Port in the west to Shendadi Port in the east.
The port, which is the voyage you have almost made before, is about five or six thousand miles..."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Then, Shen Dadi Port is the starting point of the Shenqi Island Chain. From there to Whale Port, the starting point of the extreme northern coast, there are seven kingdom ports, six
Each section of the voyage is more than a thousand miles...The entire far north coast is about six to seven thousand miles long..."
"And from Whale Harbor in the north of the west coast to the Beitiaoshi Village in the south of the west coast, there are also seven ports and six voyages, but each section is only seven or eight hundred miles... The entire west coast has only about 5,000 miles of shipping routes...
"
"Finally, we go south from Beitiaoshi Village, pass through the estuary of the Leman River, and finally arrive at Trout Town at the estuary of the Talsas River... This is the West Bay coast of the entire plateau, and it is also shorter, with only four thousand
The route…”
"So, the Lord God bless you! Generally speaking, starting from the extreme northern peninsula of the Shenqi Continent, we will travel through the Shenqi Island Chain of five or six thousand miles, the extreme northern coast of six or seven thousand miles, and the west coast of five or six thousand miles.
, and then pass the 4,000-mile Saiwan coast...which is exactly over 20,000 miles of return journey! A new route of 21,000 miles!"
"And the Lord God has blessed us and given us the power of wind! This wind god's sea ship has unparalleled speed. In just over a month, it has completed a quarter of the journey... Right now, as long as we keep going all the way, we can go through it again."
Three times the distance, which is more than four months... you will reach the end of this voyage, the long river in the south of the kingdom!..."
Speaking of "Twenty Thousand Miles of Divine Exploration", Mikey, the knowledgeable man, showed excitement in his eyes, and even some enthusiasm from the depths of his soul. He looked around the entire ocean-covering ship, first smiled and looked at the captives who were as lost as if they were mourning their concubines,
Then he looked at the excited kingdom warriors accompanying the ship.
Along the way, I experienced such a divine exploration and witnessed His Majesty’s prophecies with my own eyes. The faces of the kingdom’s warriors showed pious enthusiasm and eager anticipation! Listening to Mickey’s story about the return journey, everyone
They were all so excited that they could not control themselves and prayed loudly to the Lord God.
"Praise the Lord God! Praise His Majesty the Divine Enlightenment!...May the Lord God bless you! May the divine sea breeze help!...May we return to the kingdom as soon as possible!..."
There is no doubt that as long as everyone returns to the Kingdom of the Lake with this new type of sea ship, the exact news of the New World, and these captured craftsmen and sailors...the generous rewards from the kingdom, and even the sacred canonization from the high priests,
There will definitely be no shortage of them!
"Haha! Praise the Lord God! If you think about it this way, a sailing ship like this is really very fast, very fast, very fast!..."
"It only takes about half a year, and it will be able to travel the two-year route we took before us! This is really the blessing of the Lord God! I can't wait for it!..."
"God bless you! Ahead is God Dadi Port! When we get there, I will hold a grand banquet for everyone to celebrate and boost their morale!..."
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