The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 167 The background of the sea cliff system!

The Eastern Ocean to the east of Haiya City is full of blue waves.

Although Yang Lu has lived in Haiya City for more than half a year, he has never had the opportunity to swim in the sea.

On the second day after meeting with Su Yuanfeng, under Li Qingning's reluctant eyes, Yang Lu boarded the ocean-going merchant ship of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce and sailed towards the port of Yanbo Island, which was three thousand miles away.

Although Yang Lu always felt that Li Qingning's crescent hairpin was not suitable for him, he finally reluctantly accepted it.

After all, face is not as important as life!

Originally, Li Qingning wanted to give him his talisman "Xunfeng", but Yang Lu still declined it.

As the saying goes, if a man is innocent and he is guilty, the value of this saber knife is equivalent to half of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce. The monks in the early stage of Qi refining with this domineering magic weapon are almost equivalent to "I am a fat sheep" "The four words were written on his face, and he didn't have a background like Li Qingning's that would make people fearful!

As the fleet gradually receded, Yang Lu stood on the top of the watchtower of the flagship of the fleet, and could not see the sea cliff port behind him at all. Feeling the momentum of the fleet riding the wind and waves, he couldn't help secretly lamenting the power of civilian cultivation technology. magic.

The super-large-scale ocean-going fleet of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce has far exceeded the limit of the size of the ancient fleet. There are nearly 2 passengers alone. I am afraid that the legendary Zheng He's treasure fleet will be difficult to reach. on such a scale.

The regulations of these ocean-going sailing ships are quite similar to the classic Carrack-style ocean-going sailing ships of the 16th century on Earth, but the tonnage is comparable to the largest three-decked sailing battleship in the 19th century.

According to the information provided by Su Yuanfeng, this ocean-going fleet is considered the strongest reinforcement force of the Wuliang Sword Sect against outlying islands. It not only carries a large number of elite mortal troops, but also carries a large amount of food supplies and military supplies.

In order to organize this reinforcement fleet, the special allocation for the Duzhitang alone was as high as 3000 million Lingshi coins, which was even more than the compensation for the Tianshu City Rebellion.

This is because Zhongzhou is not far from the outlying islands. If such a large-scale mortal military force is sent from Huoyun State to the outlying islands, the cost will probably be more than three times higher than that of the Wuliangjian faction.

From the capital invested by the Wuliang Sword Sect, it can be seen how sensitive Lin Jianxing is to the invasion of outlying islands by the Huoyun State forces.

"Brother Yang, how powerful is our Sea Cliff Fleet?"

The speaker was Yang Lu's old friend, Han Fulai, the person in charge of the Ocean Trade Department of Haiya City.

As the head of the Ocean Trade Department, Han Fulai had been the flagship captain of the ocean-going fleet of the Haiya Chamber of Commerce for more than 10 years before taking up a clerical job.

As the actual executor of reinforcements to the outlying islands, Sea Cliff City must also send enough influential representatives to lead the fleet.

Since cultivators are not allowed to enter the outlying islands at will, even though this fleet is organized by the Xu family who is in charge of overseas affairs of the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce, Han Fulai, a mortal executive with both ability and connections, was selected as the supreme leader of the fleet.

Leaning on the railing and looking at the Haiya Fleet lying flat on the open ocean, Yang Rou sincerely praised: "With such an astonishing fleet, Haiya City deserves to be the leader of the ocean trade in the southeast of Zhongzhou."

"The total size of the Haiya Fleet currently sailing in the four oceans of Kyushu is more than [-] times that of this fleet, but the decree issued by the Wuliang Sword Sect is very sudden. We can only summon a fleet of this size in a hurry. Already!" Although Han Fulai said modest words, his expression could not hide the color of complacency.

In the realm of cultivation in Zhongzhou, the Haiya Department is Xiao Xiami in front of the Wuliang Sword Sect.But on the boundless seas of the four oceans of Kyushu, even if they are as strong as the Wuliang Sword Sect, they still need to rely on the sea power of the Sea Cliff School. This is where the Sea Cliff School has the confidence to survive!
"Brother Yang, don't underestimate these ocean-going merchant ships. The knowledge here is profound!" Seeing Yang Lu's interested expression, Han Fulai also opened up the conversation, "The main keels of these merchant ships need to be obtained from Tianshu. The thousand-year-old spirit wood from the mountain range is selected, otherwise it will not be able to support such a large-scale hull. And the 'star-leading array' used for positioning, otherwise it would be impossible to cross the vast Eastern Ocean, which is more than [-] miles from east to west."

"I didn't expect these merchant ships to be equipped with so many fairy formations!"

"In order to reduce costs, these are the lowest-end fairy formations." Han Fulai continued to introduce with a casual sentence, "Before each of our merchant ships leaves the factory, we need to complete tens of thousands of processes at Haiya Shipyard before launching. The link involved tens of thousands of shipbuilding workers. The food, drink, clothing, housing, and transportation of these people required the cooperation and coordination of the various departments of our Haiya Department. To put it bluntly, even if our four major families in Haiya City, All the assets of the Haiya faction have been handed over to the Wuliang Sword Sect, and it is impossible for the Wuliang Sword Sect to manage this huge organizational system well!"

Han Fulai's self-promotion made Yang Lu think so too.

From this huge sea cliff fleet, it can reflect the unique political structure of the entire Kyushu cultivation world.

Although the seven major sects of Kyushu are powerful, violence is not the only element to maintain the rule of the system. Just relying on tens of thousands of high-level cultivators alone cannot effectively penetrate the rule into the grassroots. The local local emperors performed affairs beyond their own capabilities on behalf of them, and transferred part of their ruling power to them.

Without the Haiya faction to come forward to coordinate the resources of all parties, it would be impossible for the Wuliangjian faction to quickly organize such a huge fleet. This is why the high-level officials of the Wuliangjian faction still choose to turn a blind eye when they know that these local schools of the Haiya faction are making small moves. Close one eye.

In fact, without Han Fu's introduction, Yang Lu could feel the magic of this merchant ship.

Ocean voyages are windy and rough, and even the [-]-ton giant ship on the earth will experience violent bumps. Captain Jack’s wobbly walking posture in "Pirates of the Caribbean" is actually imitating the daily walking posture of ordinary sailors at sea.

However, the merchant ships of the Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce have a tonnage of several thousand tons, but they don't feel the slightest sense of bumps. Yang Lu has never seen any passengers who have symptoms of seasickness. Presumably this should be the miraculous effect of the 'flat wave array'.

Not only that, but the speed of the entire fleet has reached an astonishing level. According to Yang Lu's visual inspection, it has already reached about 15 knots, basically reaching the level of a modern freighter, comparable to the fastest sailing ship Clipper in modern times on Earth.

This is a heavy sailing freighter that is almost fully loaded!

Although the productivity improvement brought about by the civilianization of comprehension technology is huge, there are still obvious drawbacks.

Take the Haiya Fleet as an example. Although the vast Eastern Ocean has a rich aura environment, unlike Haiya City, which often needs to pull the brakes to limit the air, the various fairy formations arranged by ocean-going merchant ships still need to consume expensive cultivation materials, such as Yang The blood of monsters that is often seen in Fang City, Tianshu City is the most common paint for depicting formation patterns.

Not only that, but the actual effect of the fairy array also depends on the quality of the array materials. Since the unit price of most of the goods transported by conventional means is not high, in order to reduce the transportation cost as much as possible, the array materials of the sea cliff merchant ships are all made of the best materials. Inferior formation materials are just enough, so the effect of the fairy formation can be said to be quite restrained.

If the logistics could be organized regardless of the cost, the cultivators would have already switched to the flying spirit boat to transport goods!

"After listening to Brother Han's explanation, I realized that this ocean-going fleet has so much knowledge!" Although Yang Lu is now a cultivator, he doesn't need to give Han Fulai this mortal clerk any face, but his words are still very polite.

His attitude naturally won the favor of the other party.

Just as Han Fulai was about to say something with a smile, he was interrupted by an untimely speech: "Guy surnamed Han, how long will it take for our fleet to arrive at the port of Yanbo Island!"

(End of this chapter)