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Chapter 60 The giant crocodile enters the water

Now there are no hunters to bother to catch this family of three. After the Yun family has made their fortune four or five times, when the hunters come again, they will face the anger of the people in the Dousha Village. The bears are naturally innocent.

Yes, the unlucky ones have to be the hunters, who treat the people in Dousha Village as fools, even if they are beaten to death.

Ge Qiuyan waved, and the three bears ran over happily, their fur rippling up and down like water ripples under the action of fat.

Yun Zheng only took one bite of his lunch, and the female bear squatted beside her drooling and watched helplessly. She couldn't eat it like this, so she had to stuff the pancake and beef with sauce into the female bear's mouth. She ate it.

Very happy.

Yun San looked down on the female bear. He barked indifferently and occupied Yun Zheng's feet again. He had just been fed by Ge Qiuyan, so he couldn't bring up the slightest interest in going against the female bear.

It is getting more and more difficult to get along with people. Yun Zheng likes to be with the family dogs, house snakes and foreign bears. It doesn't bother him!

He put a bamboo hat on his face on the hay and took a nap. Ge Qiuyan sat next to him and did some needlework. There were also some beautiful little tiger heads beside him. Yun San continued to rest his chin on Yun Da's instep.

Rest, as for the Bear family of three, they have gone down to the pond to catch fish.

Yun Er left, taking with him some people whose names even Yun Da didn't know. Before leaving, Bacon and Qin Guo cried miserably, but Yun Er still left, very happy, because the doctor told him that Qin Guo

Already pregnant.

He grew up almost overnight. Although there was still only soft down on his lips, he was unwilling to shave it off and stubbornly kept it. He planned to grow his beard longer so that he would look more mature.

People in the Song Dynasty were no strangers to the ocean. Overseas trade in the Song Dynasty flourished, far exceeding that of previous generations. In order to increase fiscal revenue, the Song Dynasty attached great importance to overseas trade. In the fourth year of Kaibao's reign, Taizu established a shipping department in Guangzhou.

There is also a Municipal Shipping Department in Hangzhou. The Guangzhou and Hangzhou Municipal Shipping Departments are in charge of tax collection and other matters for foreign shipping trade in Lingnan and Liangzhe Road ports.

Later, a division was set up in Mingzhou. Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Mingzhou were collectively called the "Three Divisions". Later, two municipal shipping divisions were set up in Quanzhou and Michigan.

When a merchant ship goes to sea, it must first report to the Municipal Shipping Department to receive a certificate before sailing. When a foreign merchant ship arrives at a Chinese port, it must first report to the Municipal Shipping Department, which will send people on board to inspect the ship and collect 10% of the goods as import tax. The extracted goods are sent to the capital.

Turning it over to the treasury is called "drawing out", and "drawing out" is an important financial tax for the imperial court.

Ten kinds of goods are stipulated as prohibited items, namely tortoiseshell, ivory, rhinoceros horn, iron, leather, coral, agate, frankincense, purple ore, and brass. All are purchased by the city shipping agency, and some other goods are also bought, collectively called "Bo."

"Buy". Drawing points is a kind of tax, and gambling buying is a disguised shipping tax with mandatory price limit purchase. Goods purchased through drawing points and gambling purchases will be sent to the court.

Later, because of Yunzheng, all Hu merchants who wanted to enter Mizhou to participate in the Tokyo-Hebei trade had to use the spare cargo space of merchant ships to load rice produced in Lingnan, thus greatly reducing the pressure on canal transportation.

Most of the people-carrying ships in the Song Dynasty were passenger boats. These boats were more than ten feet long, three feet deep, and two feet five feet wide. They could carry two thousand grains of grain, and each boat could carry sixty people.

There is a unique watertight cabin structure inside.

The passenger boat is divided into three cabins: the front cabin is used as a stove and a water tank. The middle cabin is divided into four rooms. The back cabin is more than a foot high and has windows on the four walls. There are railings above and colorful paintings and curtains.

The curtains are decorated. If an envoy from the imperial court is on board, the envoy's officials will live separately in order of rank. There are bamboo awnings on the deck, which are piled up on weekdays and carefully covered when it rains.

The Song Dynasty also built many chariots and ships. Chariots and ships were also one of the important inventions of the ancient Chinese people. They were the first to be successfully designed and manufactured by Li Gao, the Jiedushi envoy of Jingnan during the reign of Emperor Dezong of the Tang Dynasty. It can be said to be the ancestor of modern ships.

In the early Song Dynasty, chariots and ships had been widely used in the navy. The chariots and ships were a kind of warship. It had two wooden paddles, one on each side.

Driving, moving forward at a very fast speed. It is known in history as flying in the wind and blowing waves, as fast as a sail mat.

By the time of the Song Dynasty, the number of paddles increased, and there were four, six, eight, twenty, twenty-four and even thirty-two paddles.

The most important task for Yun Er to go to Mizhou this time is to obtain enough loach boats. This is a variant of the car and boat. Because this kind of boat can operate flexibly at sea, it is light and fast and is the best tool for maritime warfare. It is a pity that this kind of boat

Until now, it is still not taken seriously by the Song Dynasty officials, but Yun Zheng clearly knows that decades later, the Southern Song Dynasty fierce general Yu Yunwen relied on the sea loach boat to kill the Jin Kingdom in Caishiji, which fully confirmed the power of this kind of boat.

Shi Zhongxin's cronies have already arrived in Mizhou, and the old housekeeper, following Yun Zheng's instructions, is already taking the lead in managing the local government, trying to get five to ten loach boats before Yun Er arrives in Mizhou.

At that time, the Shi family used the giant sea passenger ship to travel to the north. Although its performance was still excellent, in the eyes of the Yun family brothers, this kind of ship was still not qualified for maritime operations.

The warship has a small head and a V-shaped pointed bottom, which makes it easier to break through waves. The body is flat and wide, tall and has a deep draft. It must be very stable when attacked by horizontal winds. At the same time, the structure is strong and the hull has sealed compartments, which must enhance safety.

The bottom plate and side plates adopt double or triple heavy plate structures respectively. There are many rafts and sails on the ship, which facilitates the use of wind from all sides. Large ships must also be equipped with small boats, which can save lives and rescue in case of emergency.

As for equipment such as two anchors of different sizes on each ship, Song ships have long been equipped with them, and there are also water detection equipment in sailing ships. Coupled with the fixed compass, these things are very suitable for ocean voyages.

Yun Er's journey is of far-reaching significance to the Yun family. This is the most important change for the Yun family. The focus of the Yun family will gradually shift from land to sea.

Jiaziying and the Yun family are now closely linked by flesh and blood, and are an inseparable whole. After Yun Zheng made the decision to move to the sea, a great dispute arose in the internal meeting of Jiaziying. The older members of the Jiaziying tribe

They are unwilling to leave the current rich land life, but the younger generation is very ambitious. They have traveled all over the world with caravans and armies in recent years. The furthest they even took a boat from Guangzhou to Zhapo, Lanli Country, Dazhou

The food country, and the caravans that took the land route reached Bagan and Tianzhu. They all witnessed the prosperity of the ocean and the necessity of having a maritime caravan.

The strength of Jiaziying gave them endless confidence and the courage to defy the world. Even the waves of the sea could not make them flinch in the slightest.

Their desire was so strong that in the end, the older generation of Jiaziying elders had to obey the opinions of these younger generations who were more knowledgeable, courageous, and knowledgeable than them and reluctantly agreed to develop at sea. They were unwilling

All his children and grandchildren ran away, and in the end he was left squatting on the land with a lot of wealth.

The Chinese people's view of happiness has not changed much from ancient times to the present. As long as the family is together, even some bitterness is sweet. They have been kidnapped by their children and grandchildren in the name of happiness.

It was during Yun Er's trip that Yun Zheng gave all the power to mobilize the Astrolabe and Eagle's Nest to Yun Er. Except for the flower girl in Tokyo, he had the right to mobilize all the Yun family's economic strength and power along the coast of the Song Dynasty.

manpower.

Lu Qingqing had been organizing this for three days, and had been talking with Yun Er in the study for two full days before completely handing over all the strength distribution and personnel positions to Yun Er.

Even Yun Er had to be surprised that the Yun family had laid such a deep foundation in these years. He even thought that at the beginning of the arrangement of the Yun family's power, his eldest brother might have had the idea of ​​usurping the throne.

It's strange that Han Lin can always find Yun Zheng anytime and anywhere. This time he walked out of the highland barley field. If it weren't for the three bears and the Xiong family who were always vigilantly watching the place where he was hiding, the monkeys wouldn't have thought to see it in person.

Look at the place that worries the bear.

"Your brother left, taking away a large number of mountain spirits and water monsters, as well as a large amount of money. The Dasong Bank in Douchuan Pass issued a large amount of banknotes. Can you tell me what he went to do?"

Having been with Yun Zheng for a long time, he knew that rather than making Yun Zheng resentful by prying into someone's privacy, it would be better to ask him personally.

Yun Zheng took off the bamboo hat fastened to his face, looked at Ge Qiuyan first, and then smiled and said, "I don't want to play with you anymore, I'm going to go to the sea to make a living."

Han Lin smiled and said: "Then it has nothing to do with me. My responsibilities are limited to land. Things at sea have nothing to do with me. When do you plan to leave?"

Yun Zheng smiled and said: "Actually, I want to leave now, but I just can't let go of the great situation I have worked so hard for these years. I have to get some results before I can leave with peace of mind."

Han Lin was silent for a while and said: "It's really boring. If you hang out on land for a long time, there will always be endless moths. It's better to go to the sea to be quieter. If you need my help, just talk. There are some things we can do better than you.

It’s more convenient.”

Yun Zheng smiled and said: "That's right, I will leave you a position on the ship and help me figure out the islands in the Bohai Sea and the East China Sea. It would be better if I could get the nautical charts."

"This work is not difficult. We have people in the Shipping Department. As long as it is an existing navigation chart of the Song Dynasty, we can get it. But we have agreed in advance that one cabin is not enough."

Han Lin blushed a little when he said these words. He had been fighting for the secrets of the Song Dynasty all his life, but now he wanted to use the secrets of the Song Dynasty to pave his way out.

Yun Zheng sighed and said: "Look, what this shitty world has forced people to do, I don't doubt your loyalty to the emperor, even after you handed over these secrets, I still don't doubt it.

Come on, bring your subordinates who are destined to be abandoned, and let’s find a place to settle down together.” (To be continued)

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