I am Da Song

Chapter 377
Glancing at Han Sui, Zhao Huan asked, "What is the deep meaning of this bright pearl? What is dragon marrow? What is shark tears?"

Han Sui himself stood up and explained: "Please introduce Rong Chen to the officials. This treasure from the sea comes from "East China Sea Chronicle". It can be made into a hidden gem comparable to an elixir."

"The giant grouper is a deep-sea fish, and it requires very high-level fishing techniques to catch it in the deep sea. Especially the grouper, which weighs more than 50 kilograms, has lived in the sea for more than four to fifty years. It is extremely difficult to catch and very rare. "

"And the giant grouper prepared for the government is as high as 320 six catties, which can be called once in a thousand years. Its dragon spine is more than two inches wide. When the dragon spine is cut, its marrow is as clear as a white jade pearl."

Zhao Huan looked at the jade butterfly, which was as huge as a pearl in the night, and couldn't help feeling that he really underestimated the luxury enjoyment of these top rich people.

It is said that Empress Dowager Cixi spent 200 taels of silver for a meal, but it is not difficult to spend hundreds of guan for a dish according to the style of the Song Dynasty rich man.

Zhao Huan asked calmly, "Where are the shark's tears?"

Han Sui immediately explained: "It is the tears of the sharks in the East China Sea. When the sharks cry, the tears will form warm and transparent pearls. The world calls them shark pearls. They are extremely precious treasures and have magical effects such as fragrant copper nephrite."

Zhao Huan looked at Han Sui, saw Han Sui's serious face, and said, "Is there really a mermaid in the world?"

"That's natural. According to my dynasty's "Taiping Guangji", there are mermaids in the East China Sea. The big ones are five or six feet long and look like human beings. Their eyebrows, mouth, nose, hands, claws, and head are all beautiful women. Their skin and flesh are as white as jade. No scales. Hair like a ponytail, five or six feet long. Yin shape is no different from that of a husband and a woman. They are obtained by widows and widows near the sea, and raised in ponds. When they have sex, they are no different from others, and they do not hurt others."

Zhao Huan frowned, and the wheel of the cart hit his face!

Hu Quan immediately reprimanded: "An dare to talk nonsense in front of the Holy One."

Han Sui hurriedly confessed, saying: "I have insulted the sage, and I hope the officials will forgive me. This shark does exist, and it is good at weaving gauze, which is called dragon gauze. It does not get wet in the water, and its whiteness is like frost. The price is more than a hundred gold."

Regarding the Merman, this is indeed Zhao Huan's knowledge blind spot.

But this kind of thing not only existed in ancient times in the Central Plains, but also in later generations. Tianchao, Maoxiong, and Midi have all directly captured mermaids, and the fossils of mermaids everywhere are clearly visible.Even Yugoslavia directly exhibited the merman fossils from 1 years ago in the museum. The time and time are engraved there, but they cannot be faked.

Da Song was even more powerful, he directly put the mermaid to sleep, and recorded everything he felt.

Zhao Huan looked at Han Sui, examined his expression, and said, "Han Qing put a delicacy and jade banquet worth hundreds of dollars in front of me, and told me about this beautiful and gorgeous sea myth. Do you mean it deeply?"

Zhao Huan didn't believe that a person with tens of millions of wealth, even the richest man in a country, would be so disrespectful and talk about men and women in front of the emperor.

In particular, what he told was a mermaid story that was not accepted by the world.

This story is full of beauty, the seductive beauty of conquest and exploration.

Let everyone who listened to it have only one idea, sail out to sea, catch a merman and come back to try.

See if she wears a ponytail like in the story, has creamy skin, and experiences a strange sense of conquest.

Seeing the official's scrutiny, Han Sui quickly lowered his head and said, "I don't dare to have any deep meaning. It's just that I think there are so many rare treasures in the four seas, whether it's shark tears, gauze, pearls or deep-sea fish, they are all rare." inexhaustible wealth."

"I think the treasures of the Dragon Palace from all over the world should be moved back to the Central Plains."

Zhao Huan nodded approvingly, agreeing with what Han Sui said very much.

The purpose of the Suzhou merchants hosting the banquet today can be said to be a great success, and they even succeeded in tampering with Zhao Huan, a future traveler!
Let Zhao Huan's desire to open up the distant seas be like a raging fire.

Giant grouper fish is a deep-sea fishing technique that Han Sui showed to Zhao Huan. After the development of ocean-going fishery, the people of the Song Dynasty can straighten their backs, liberate themselves from the thousand-year tradition of facing the loess and turning their backs to the sky, and cast their eyes all over the world. .

The Song Dynasty has never been a land power empire. The long coastline and powerful navy ensure that the Song Dynasty has a strong sea power.

Hong Fan Bazheng, food is the head of politics.

In a strong sea power, the empire should first benefit from food.

The sea, which is more than ten times wider than the Central Plains, can provide the Song Dynasty with a grain harvest that is not weaker than the land

The key to all this lies in more advanced fishing technology, more powerful ships and weapons.

If a boat can catch deep-sea scorpionfish, it can also catch giant whales if it is equipped with a powerful enough harpoon.

Little Days Next Door captures more than 6 whales a year.

The largest whale in the world is the blue whale, with a head of about 40 tons, which is equivalent to [-] catties of meat.

The smallest whale also has more than 2000 catties of meat.

Today's most common warships also have a displacement of seven to eight hundred tons, and the largest warships are as high as more than 500 tons.

Five or six blue whales can be pulled back.

If all blue whales are hunted and 4000 are hunted a year, there will be more than [-] million catties of meat.

Even if the hunting speed is far inferior to that of later generations, if you remove the 4000 million, there will always be [-] million catties of meat.

This is 4000 million catties of meat!
And it's just a harvest of killing whales.

If you count all kinds of fish, shrimps, crabs, and crabs in the near sea and far sea, the figure will be more than ten times, even twenty times.

At least [-] million catties of fish can be provided to the Central Plains every year.

This is meat, Zhao Huan, an emperor who rewards the people, can only reward a few dozen catties.

With so many catches, the diet level of the people in the Central Plains will immediately improve significantly.

According to Zhao Huan's memory, going out to sea from Suzhou is one of the largest fishing grounds in the Central Plains.Not far to the north is the fishing ground of Xiaotian.

It can be said that as long as Da Song puts his focus on the fishing industry, he will immediately get extremely rich returns.

Zhao Huan will never allow Da Song to have a situation where a single board cannot go to sea!

So Zhao Huan looked at Han Sui and asked, "What advice do you have for me?"

Han Sui immediately said: "I don't dare to harass the officials with my superficial words. It's just that I think that today's ships can no longer meet the needs of fishing in the open sea, and are easy to be robbed by barbarians. The government..."

"Can the government... let go of the restrictions and let me refit the ships in the dock by myself."

After finishing speaking, Han Sui lowered his head nervously, and all the businessmen in the hall held their breaths, nervously waiting for the official's reply.

Zhao Huan looked at Han Sui meaningfully, and finally saw him.

That's right, the shipbuilding of the Song Dynasty has realized the use of dock technology, which is nearly 500 years earlier than the so-called Western navigation civilization.

There is a shipyard to build ships, and these craftsmen can make various magical changes to the ships.

If the government allows all merchants to modify their ships freely, then certain things will happen immediately!
(End of this chapter)