Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 514 Why is the efficiency high

The Grand Canal to the Sea has finally been excavated.

30 soldiers from the Shenji Battalion and Shenwu Battalion went into battle, and the speed was astonishingly fast.

In less than a month, a huge trough with a width of nearly [-] meters appeared on the ground. Its depth was already nearly ten meters, and its length could not be seen with a telescope.

A neat row of piers has also been built along the coast, tens of thousands of sailors are not idle, they are not only building the piers, but also helping the infantry to build barracks.

The city wall of New Tongzhou City has not yet been built, but rows of barracks like warehouses have been erected in the city.

This barracks is also the result of everyone's discussion.

Ordinary barracks are not suitable for such hot places. If they are built too low, the heat will be unbearable for the soldiers.

Therefore, they simply ordered people to build this barracks into a large and tall room like a warehouse.

In the future, if most of the 30 soldiers are withdrawn, these barracks can be directly used as warehouses.

Of course, Taichang didn't just give orders to the flagship, he would disembark almost every day to inspect it.

This morning, Taichang took Lu Xiangsheng, Peng Bin and other civil servants and generals to patrol the huge barracks as usual.

What he inspected was mainly the food and drink of the soldiers.

At this moment, the guys have already started to make herbal tea in the morning. Next to the barracks, the rows of large iron pots are already raging, and the bags of herbs are being poured into them as if they don’t need money. When it boils, the strong herbal tea smell spreads over the surface.

Taichang looked at it for a while, then asked: "Jiandou, is there enough ingredients for this herbal tea?"

Lu Xiangsheng reckoned: "If the 24 flavors are prepared, it may last until the end of the month. However, the main ingredients such as honeysuckle and chrysanthemum are still enough, and the taste will be lighter after cooking. The effect of the medicine should not be much worse."

Taichang nodded slightly, and then asked again: "Yanru, is the well open enough, is the water enough for the soldiers?"

This water source problem has also troubled them for a while, because the nearest lake is tens of miles away, they can only dig wells around the barracks to get water, the water they usually drink is enough, and the water used for bathing is not enough up.

However, when the canal is dug, water will actually come out, because the climate here is humid, there is plenty of rain, and there is a lot of underground water.

Many places start to seep water when they are dug about ten feet deep. Therefore, many reservoirs deeper than the canal must be dug beside the river to channel all the water there.

The water in this reservoir must not be used directly, because the muddy water from digging the canal will continue to flow in, making it very dirty.

So, they thought of a way to open a well next to the reservoir for washing and so on.

The soldiers can take a shower directly by the canal after finishing their work, and then come back after taking a cool shower.

Of course, the water needed for 30 soldiers to wash their hands is not a little bit, so the number of wells that need to be opened is not ordinary.

Peng Bin thought for a while, and then estimated: "It has been driving for a while, and it will probably be enough to drive it for a few more days."

At this time, the herbal tea was already brewed, and the soldiers in charge of delivering the tea had already started to carry the tea in barrels to the carriage, and the cook had also started to prepare lunch.

Because this place is right by the sea, the dishes that the soldiers ate mainly consisted of fish and shrimp. There were forty large fishing boats around, so there was still enough fish and shrimp.

Taichang looked at the fish and shrimp, and couldn't help frowning: "The generals and soldiers are probably tired of eating these kinds of fish and shrimp all the time. I heard from the fishermen on the fishing boat that shad were found in the south, and there are more and more of them as we go south. Today, I took my fishing boat two or three hundred miles to the south to see if I could find shad shoals. Shad is a good food, and the soldiers will definitely not get tired of eating it."

Well, shad is indeed a good thing.

Shark is a well-known delicacies from mountains and seas, which ranks among the eight delicacies and is as famous as shark's fin.

Since ancient times in the south of the Yangtze River, there has been a saying, "It is better to eat a bite of shad than a basket of grass carp." You can imagine the delicacy of shad.

Taichang really figured it out, even thinking about finding delicacies from mountains and seas for 30 soldiers!
However, this is also a complementary thing. After the food is ready, the soldiers will have the strength to work when they are full. If they want to be like those capitalists who don’t even eat enough, no matter how many people come to the canal I can't dig it either.

As soon as Taichang boarded the dreadnought, Concubine Su Yi ran up cheeringly, grabbed his arm and said, "Your Majesty, shall we leave now?"

Now she is not speaking the Sioux dialect, but the standard Daming official dialect.

Since she became a concubine, she couldn't wander around outside, so she spent most of the day studying.

Her talent is quite good, not to mention being able to memorize the "Four Books and Five Classics" at the moment, but basic communication is still okay.

Of course, staying on the top floor of this flagship would inevitably be boring, so Taichang often took her to go fishing.

This is a rare leisure and entertainment, she likes it the most.

Soon, Taichang set off with ten Aegis ships, forty fishing boats and hundreds of Spike warships.

This time they ran farther, because he wanted to find shad schools.

Shad is already relatively precious in Daming now, but there are a lot of them here.

As for the reason, it's simple.

Because the south is the Peruvian fishing ground, one of the four largest fishing grounds in the world, and shad is one of the fish with the largest reserves in the Peruvian fishing ground.

At this moment, the shad reserves here are estimated to be several million tons or even tens of millions of tons!

Of course, there is still a certain difference between the shad here and the shad of Ming Dynasty. The back color of the shad of Ming Dynasty is gray with blue, while the back of the shad here is gray with green.

This may be due to the water quality, but the taste is still similar.

The fleet traveled south along the coast for nearly [-] miles, and it was almost noon when Taichang slowed down all the boats and started to fish.

At this time, Concubine Su Su Yi started shouting happily to get on the fishing boat again.

Because the fishing boat is fun, you can watch the fish, and you can choose the catch at will, and you can eat whatever you want.

Taichang has always been very fond of his family, so he took the royal chef and disembarked from the flagship, and boarded the large fishing boat they often went to.

The fishermen on this boat are also familiar with them, and everyone knows that the emperor usually has no airs.

As for the empress, she has no airs at all.

A few old fishermen greeted the emperor and the empress respectfully, and then began to reel in the line. Rows of hooks were drawn up quickly, but there were not many big fish.

Taichang couldn't help but stepped forward and asked, "How's it going, did you find the shad?"

The fisherman quickly shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, I haven't found shad yet, but tofu fish are everywhere here."

Tofu fish is actually sardines, which are small but abundant.

Taichang thought for a while and said decisively: "Then continue driving south."

The fleet went south all the way, and explored for nearly an hour. Finally, the fish pulled up by the fishing line became bigger, and they were not a little bit bigger. The biggest ones were more than one foot long and nearly two feet long.

This is shad.

Taichang had eaten shad before, so he naturally recognized it.

He has also eaten the shad here several times, so he recognized it at a glance.

Good guy, such a big shad, in Daming, such a big shad is rare.

However, not all shad are nearly two feet long.

Because there is a big difference between male and female shad, male fish may grow to less than one foot after four or five years, but female fish can grow to nearly two feet long after three years or more.

This time, the soldiers were really lucky.

There are so many shad here that it is frightening. After finding the fish, forty large fishing boats have been fishing for several hours without finishing it!

(End of this chapter)