Urban Sims

Chapter 113 Panhai Eastward Journey
The business of Deyun Club has become very popular, which has greatly increased Zhou Ming's confidence. On the one hand, it is because he has made a lot of money. On the other hand, through this platform, countless middle- and lower-level people have learned about his works and enjoyed all kinds of entertainment he provided. Content, over time, his reputation as Mr. Zihua has also spread among ordinary people.

Moreover, based on the statistics of the audience of the Deyun club in Yugang Village for nearly eight months, Zhou Ming concluded that a Deyun club in a region with a large population and a relatively developed economy can have 5 to 10 people. influence in the middle.

In economically underdeveloped areas, I believe that the influence that Deyun Society can produce will not be so large, and it would be very good if it can influence 3 to 5 people.

In the entire Great Zhou Kingdom, there are definitely 300 economically developed and densely populated areas. Therefore, according to the lowest estimate, 500 Deyun clubs will affect [-] million people and bring about [-] million achievement points. In terms of money, it is not a big problem to make up the other half, get an evaluation of A-level or above, and clear the dungeon.

As for Zihua Bookstore, which is taking the upper-level route, it is quite good to earn 100 million achievement points. Zhou Ming never pinned his hopes on the absolute few upper-level people.

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In the [-]rd year of Tiansheng, at the beginning of October.

Another piece of good news came from Tianjia Shipyard.

It took six months to complete the design, two months for model testing, and finally a year of construction. The "Sea Fishing Type II" fishing boat used for fishing operations by the Ocean Fishing Company was finally successfully launched and became the first ship of the Ocean Fishing Company. A big ship with two thousand materials is of great significance.

Zhou Ming's ocean strategy has taken another big step forward!

The development of "Sea Catch II" is so fast, even a few months ahead of Zhou Ming's expected two years. Of course, there are several reasons.

One, Zhou Ming personally participated in the design of the "Sea Fishing Type [-]". With his brain's calculation ability far exceeding that of ordinary people, only the design of the ship shape, the Sea Fishing Type [-] fishing boat, saved several months of time.

Two, Zhou Ming asked people to bring a lot of money to Jeju, Yangzhou and other cities with shipyards near the sea, and recruited a large number of skilled shipbuilders to speed up the construction speed.

Three, with the completion of the wood drying room supporting the shipyard, the wood that originally took two years to dry naturally can now be dried in only three months in the air drying room. With the help of machine tools], the efficiency of shipbuilding has also been greatly improved, and the ship construction cycle has been greatly shortened.

After completing a one-month sea trial, Zhou Ming took a group of more than 20 students who were not prone to seasickness to board the ship, which is more than 220 meters long and 500 meters wide. , On a fishing boat with an empty displacement of [-] tons and a full load of more than [-] tons, under the control of excellent sailors, the sails were raised and sailed eastward across the sea.

In November, the best fishing season has passed, Zhou Ming took these students out to sea, not for fishing, but to go out to relax, enjoy the sea breeze, and watch the endless waves of the sea.

The wind was smooth, and one day later, the sea was more than [-] miles east of Haiping County.

Standing on the bow of the ship, a sea area called "Whale Sea" by fishermen appeared in front of everyone.

The reason why this sea area is called "Whale Sea" is because Zhou Ming saw on the [World Map] that there are two nearly intersecting sea ridges and a bottomless volcanic trench on the bottom of this sea of ​​whales. Formation, due to the interception of the two sea ridges, the surface layer of the seawater has changed due to the wind and waves, the guidance of the land coastline, and the flow of the ocean current generated by the planet's autobiography. A large amount of nutrient-rich seawater in the middle layer has floated to the surface layer of the seawater.

The bottomless volcanic trench, because of the active eruption of active volcanoes all year round, sent countless nutrient-rich seawater from the deep layer to the surface of the ocean.

Under the simultaneous action of the three ocean currents, this sea area, the surface of the sea, grows countless microscopic seaweeds, microscopic seaweeds, which feed countless fish and shrimps, countless fish and shrimps, and feed tens of millions of big fish. In the sea area of ​​more than 30 square kilometers, there are nearly a hundred species and tens of thousands of whales active.

These whales stand at the top of the ecological chain in this sea area.

"Baby woo~"

There was a sound like a baby crying.

"Pfft~!"

On the surface of the sea not far away, a water column with a height of more than ten meters erupted like a fountain. Swinging its broom-like tail, it dived into the deep sea.

"As the old saying goes, there is a fish in the East, and its name is the whale. The whale is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles away it turns into a bird. The legendary whale, but it is also enough to scare people's nerves and make people horrified."

Holding on to the rail of the boat, Lu Wencai shook his head and couldn't help sighing.

"That's right, this whale is about the size of the boat we're on. If it suddenly goes crazy and attacks us, we'll definitely die." One person said in fear.

"Don't be afraid, young master. There are twelve whale-hunting crossbows on this boat. The seven-foot-thick iron crossbows used are thick as arms and coated with poison. As long as the giant whale is hit six times in a row, it will not kill the whale." In a moment, you will definitely die." The words of a big whaling man on the boat reassured everyone a little.

"Brother Qingxiao, tell me, are there any similarities between us and the whales in the sea?"

At this moment, standing in the center of the bow, Zhou Ming, who was motionless in the sea breeze, suddenly asked Yao Qing beside him with a smile.

Yao Qingxiao was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "Brother Zihua, what's your opinion?"

"If we compare the ship we are on to the imperial court, these big whales in the sea can be regarded as the great families of various families. These whales look huge and terrifying, but once they are targeted by the imperial court, they will be hunted and killed like this fishing boat. It takes a lot of effort to be like a whale, but the rewards are extremely rich... I must have heard of the income that my Tian family's whaling team earns from whaling every year..."

Zhou Ming's words made everyone around him prick up their ears and listen attentively.

"Brother Zihua is referring to the incident of 'Biao Zuo abolished' in the Imperial Capital of Zhongzhou in July this year?" Yao Qingxiao immediately understood what Zhou Ming meant.

The so-called 'Biao Zuo abolished Queen' incident started from August last year when His Majesty Li Zhi, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, fell ill and was often dizzy and unable to deal with government affairs. The empress, Wu Mei, began to sit behind the curtain to listen to the government, took sole control of the government, and continued to suppress dissidents and promote cronies. Although the overall government was relatively stable, many civil and military ministers in the court, as well as the prime minister Shangguan Yi, who was the head of hundreds of officials, treated Wu Mei All kinds of practices have long been extremely dissatisfied.

So, in July of this year, the prime minister, Shangguan Yi, contacted a group of civil and military officials in private, and came to the sickbed of Emperor Ming Li Zhi, and made some small reports about Empress Wu Mei. edict.

This edict was supposed to be promulgated at the next day's court meeting, but because of headache, the emperor did not attend the next day's court meeting. Wu Mei, who learned the news and acted preemptively, performed a crying performance in front of the emperor. , and gained the trust of the emperor... Soon, hundreds of civil and military officials and the prime minister Shangguan Yi who participated in the "Biao Zou abolition" were all sent to prison.

This incident has nothing to do with Qingzhou, which is thousands of miles away, but Yuwen family, one of the eight great families in Qingzhou, has a family member who is a third-rank official in the court, and has also participated in this incident and was implicated , the Yuwen family was surrounded by [-] Qingzhou troops for three days, and in the end more than [-] members of the Yuwen family, young and old, all died under the sword.

Yuwen's family suffered a catastrophe of extermination, and other families in Qingzhou, apart from being terrified and terrified, couldn't help feeling that things hurt their kind, rabbits died and foxes felt sad.

Even Zhou Ming felt that this kind of continuous system of ransacking the family and exterminating the family and killing the whole family was too cruel and inhumane, which made people extremely disturbed. He was afraid that if he was not careful, he would also invite this kind of disaster of extermination of the family.

Therefore, this seemingly tender and intoxicating prosperity on the surface, in its bones, is still a feudal dynasty era in which one person is superior and thousands of people bow their heads. The supreme ruler punishes all offenders without any room for negotiation or compromise. It's all about his family, and it's all up to him to decide.

This is very scary.

Zhou Ming sighed: "It's not easy for our great family to stand up for a thousand years, even the noble royal family, it can only last for three to five hundred years at most... Besides, no matter in prosperous times and troubled times, no matter what we do, our great family will always be able to stand upright." The worry of decline is just like the Yuwen family, isn't it also like this big whale in the sea, being cut and slaughtered? If we wait for the big family, if we don't want to step into the footsteps of the Yuwen family one day, we should make arrangements and find a safe and worry-free the way back."

back road?

"I don't know what brother Zihua refers to?"

Yao Qingxiao's expression became serious. Brother Zihua in front of him seemed to be saying something of great significance to the aristocratic family.

"Have you seen the sea?"

Zhou Ming raised his chin, pointed to a piece of sea to the east, and said:
"Brother Qingxiao, maybe you don't know that two thousand miles to the east of this sea, there are overseas islands. There are tens of thousands of these islands. The largest one is as big as the half-state of the Great Zhou Kingdom; Yes, there are thousands of islands as big as a county; there are also islands as big as small counties, which are too numerous to count... If I wait for an aristocratic family to occupy those islands, each family will have one island and one family. In a country where families are separated by oceans, they communicate with each other by sea boats, they don’t belong to each other, they don’t submit to each other, and we rule the island together, so we, the aristocratic family, will we still have the worry of death?”

"Brother Zihua said, but Penglai Xiandao?!"

Yao Qingxiao opened his eyes wide and looked at him in surprise.

(End of this chapter)