My name is Ren

Chapter 572 War will not start lightly between the empire and the empire, but if there is an opportunity, it will not let it go
Blue sky, white clouds, sea!

Lying on the fishing boat with the ups and downs of the waves, choosing a time when the sun is strongest in the afternoon to lie on the deck and rest for a while is the most pleasant part of every fisherman's day.Of course, all this has the premise that it is limited to spring and autumn.

This fishing boat is not big, the cabin can only accommodate about eight crew members, and there is a fish cabin of about [-] cubic meters.There is not much demand for the development of shipping in this world. The ocean is still dangerous in people's cognition, especially the storm that will appear at any time, as well as the hidden reefs on the bottom of the ocean, and all kinds of fierce and huge oceans in the ocean. beast.Many times when people conduct high-sea trade, ships do not cross the entire sea directly, but circle half a circle along the coastline and take a further road to the Byron Empire.

In fact, it can't be considered far. It is about [-] kilometers away from Alexandria Port to Winster Harbor in the Byron Empire.

But just under the sea at a distance of four thousand kilometers, countless ships are silent, and countless goods are piled up.

The bigger the ship, the more crew members there are, and the more fresh water and food that needs to be carried, not including the various fruit trees that occupy a larger area.In addition, it needs to be considered that if you encounter pirates or something, you can't sit still. A certain degree of armament and armor is also necessary, as well as a certain amount of crossbows.

Coupled with huge and unknown risks, the price of sea freight has remained high.Of course, there are also adventurous merchants who are loyal to trade across the ocean and the Byron Empire by sea. They will form their own personal or chamber of commerce fleets to travel across the Atlantic Ocean.

With the implementation of Ortrenburg's commodity monopoly plan, Alexandria has become more prosperous. After all, not everyone is willing to be slaughtered by Rennes.Some people think this way, instead of using a hundred gold coins to buy something that can be bought with only two gold coins, why not take a hundred gold coins and try to ship it by sea, maybe it will be successful, right?
Fifty to one is a good deal, even if nine out of ten ships sink, as long as one ship returns safely, they will make a lot of money.

However, this idea became unfeasible after Wren issued a marine privateering license.Pirates are galloping on the ocean in sailing fast boats. They don't need too much supplies, and they don't need to transport any supplies. The light ships don't need to consider the threat of hidden reefs and ocean giants. They return immediately after grabbing something. It doesn't take much time, and many fleets traveling along the coast have suffered heavy losses.

Fortunately, there are always some people who are not afraid of death and try to trade directly across the Atlantic Ocean.

In the past three years, more than 400 adventure teams have tried to cross the Atlantic Ocean—this means huge wealth, and the price of a complete nautical chart without too much risk has been fired from the earliest 400 gold coins to [-] gold coins. There is a price but no market.Among the more than [-] adventure teams, there were only seven teams that successfully traveled between Alexandria and Winsterport.

As for the others, they all became the food of sea monsters and fishes and shrimps, and eventually turned into feces and deposited on the bottom of the sea.

Among the seven different sea routes given by the seven teams, two have proved to be full of dangers. The reason why they successfully made the round trip once can only be said to be due to luck.Only one of the other five sea routes can guarantee a certain degree of safety. As for the others, there are various degrees of danger.

The five major chambers of commerce that have mastered these five waterways are rapidly expanding into a monster. They don't even need to trade anymore. They only need to draw 15.00% of the profits from each ship, which is enough to make them unable to survive.

Of course, compared to these big businessmen, the lives of the fishermen in the southern part of the empire were as peaceful as ever.

The net was towed once in the morning, and about one-third of the fish were filled in the fish tank, and the net was towed again in the afternoon before returning.This is offshore, there are no sea monsters, and light and small fishing boats do not need to consider the problem of hidden reefs.

Seeing that the crew on the deck were about to fall asleep, the crew in charge of the lookout suddenly yelled.There are no fixed observers on the fishing boat. Everyone takes turns to observe the changes in the ocean. This is also the experience accumulated by countless blood.The changeable climate of the ocean is often calm one moment, and the next moment will be rough, like a doomsday storm that suddenly descends on a certain sea area.

The crew members on the deck woke up one after another, ran to the side of the ship and looked towards the place pointed by the observer. A black mass of land-like things was slowly approaching.

The captain of the fishing boat is a dark-skinned, lean old man in his 50s, and he is also the elder of all the crew members on the boat.Fishermen tend to fish in extended families, mainly to avoid uncontrollable dangers.You must know that besides the well-known dangers on the sea, there is a more threatening danger, that is, people themselves.

Therefore, many crew members on fishing boats who go fishing are relatives to each other.

"What is it?", the old captain's eyes are not so good due to his age, he can only see a black line sticking to the sea level and gradually rising, but he can't see what it is.At this time, he frowned and asked: "Is it land? Our route is wrong?" There are some blame mixed in this tone. The responsibility of the navigator is to ensure that the route is correct. You must know that in this backward world, Once the route deviates, it is often the end of the ship crash.

The navigator is a nephew of the captain, and he stammered a bit. His face was flushed at this time, and the veins near his temples were bulging because of his impatience. He explained intermittently, "No..., no... ...it's land!"

"Isn't it land?" The old captain was puzzled. Since the mouth of the Salmy Mountains became the nest of privateers, it has been difficult to see large-scale caravans in the offshore for long-sea transportation.He seemed to have thought of something, his heart tightened, and he quickly asked, "Is it some giant beast?"

There are countless types of giant beasts in the ocean. The most common one is the "bigmouth fish" that often appears in the mouths of fishermen. Bigmouth fish can be called fish or giant beasts. This kind of fish is more than ten meters to twenty meters long. People say that they have seen large mouth fish more than 50 meters long.The mouth of the bigmouth fish is of course very big. The mouth of a bigmouth fish about 20 meters long is about four to five meters wide after opening its mouth. It is densely covered with sharp teeth, which can easily bite through the bottom of the boat.

Simply this kind of fish does not live in groups, and there is no need to panic after encountering a bigmouth fish. Just open a few holes in the wine barrel and throw it into the sea.Big Mouth Fish prefers to eat beef, but also loves alcohol. A barrel of wine is enough for him to leave satisfied.

In addition, there is a common sea monster, which is also the most dangerous and terrifying, and that is the Sea King Snake.

The smallest sea king snake is more than 20 meters long, and the longest is about [-] meters long. This kind of snake is also a herd animal, and they will attack all large-sized things that pass by.Whether it is other sea monsters or ships, they are all on their attack list.

Such a scene was like a scene where a large number of Sea King Snakes were attacking at once. The old captain's scalp suddenly went numb. His small boat could not resist those Sea King Snakes with bodies as thick as wine barrels.Once they roll up the fishing boat, they only need to squeeze the fishing boat lightly, and the fishing boat will be torn apart, and they will also become the sea king snake's lunch.

The eyes of the young boys were better than that of the old captain. Some of them were shocked and blurted out: "It's a boat, a big boat, a lot of boats!"

ferry?
The old captain breathed a sigh of relief, and comforted himself: "It may be a large caravan passing by, let's get out of the way, and don't follow their course." This is also the sadness of small boats and fishermen.Everyone lives at sea, but the captains of those big ships look down on these fishermen, thinking that fishermen are inferior and belong to the same class as untouchables.It would be better if you meet a big boat that is easy to talk, and everyone will live in peace.If you encounter those who are not talkative, they will run right over, and it doesn't matter whether there are people on your boat, or whether these fishermen will die in the sea because of such behavior.

The small fishing boat quickly hid aside, which is the advantage of the small boat, fast speed, easy to move.

The old captain and his sons and nephews stood on the side of the ship and watched the fleet slowly approaching and slowly passing them, all of them gasped.

"What type of ship is this? How could it be so big?" The huge ship in front of them was almost ten meters high. From their perspective, they couldn't even see the deck of the big ship, let alone see anything else on the ship. something.

Just when they were feeling the strength of this fleet, a window of one meter square suddenly opened on the side of the big ship directly opposite them, revealing a black hole.

The next moment, there was a buzzing sound, and a boat crossbow shot straight at it.The boat's crossbow was nearly [-] centimeters thick, and it was inserted fiercely into the deck of the fishing boat like a javelin.Under the horrified eyes of the old captain and his nephews, the fishing boat sank violently, and then broke into countless pieces!

The window on the big ship closed again with a bang, as if it was just a trivial matter, and no one who observed the results of the battle showed up.

The old captain slowly floated up from the water with a piece of wood in his arms. He looked around in horror, three children were missing!His eyes were about to bleed, and he stared closely at the fleet that was gradually going away, as if he wanted to engrave the appearance of this fleet in his heart forever.

A nephew beside him whose forehead was cut by a broken piece of wood said bitterly: "Are these people crazy? Why are they attacking us? Aren't they afraid of being held accountable by the empire?"

When he said this, his heart trembled suddenly, and he remembered the announcement issued by the lord recently.It is said that there is a group of warships from the Byron Empire wandering in the coastal waters. If anyone finds out, they should avoid it immediately and report it. Is this fleet the warships from Byron in the announcement?

They didn't notice at this time that the blood flowing out of the mouths of several people had already merged into the sea water. About three kilometers away, a group of offshore kings seemed to have received some signal, and instantly gave up the fish in front of them. Immediately turned around and swam towards them.

(End of this chapter)