Great Tang Southern Emperor

So the Europeans slander the Chinese as barbarians, but they don’t know that they are the race that has truly come out of barbarism. They only know endless plundering, and they don’t know a little restraint at all. Protection - why did you go early?

Even the bluefin tuna was hunted and endangered by them in collaboration with the Japanese.

What's more, even if it is true that China's overfishing has caused the bluefin tuna to become endangered, Li Zhen still doesn't believe it.

With the fishing technology and the status of fishing boats in this era, if bluefin tuna is really caught, it is not sure whether it is a man fishing or a fish fishing a man. It is important to know that bluefin tuna can reach a maximum of four meters and weigh 555 kg, the fastest speed can reach [-] kilometers per hour, and the strength in the water is even more amazing, it can completely drag a boat to run...

So it's not that Li Zhen looked down on the ancient fishermen. If an ordinary fishing boat really catches bluefin tuna, the most likely end is that the boat will be destroyed...

But thinking of this, Li Zhen may also understand why it is impossible to catch bluefin tuna in this era. Without him, it is not that it cannot be caught, but even if it is caught, there is no way to catch it, and it may be brought down by the fish go to sea.

If you want to catch money fish, the best boat is actually a large fishing boat, but he has already stopped the business of fishing boats and inland river boats, so...

"It seems that the production of fishing boats still needs to be resumed." Li Zhen muttered to herself. The reason why the production of these small businesses was stopped was because Li Zhen was in urgent need of going to sea at that time, so what he needed most were large merchant ships and warships. Now the large merchant ships have been supplemented by more than 1000 merchant ships from the Vladivostok Shipyard, and there are more than 100 warships. The number is temporarily sufficient. Now that the business and military are satisfied, it is time to focus on people's livelihood.

Then the construction of large fishing boats must be put on the agenda - there are too many good things in the sea, but these treasures can only be obtained by large fishing boats or fishing boats, such as those oversized fish in the sea , tuna, sharks, swordfish, swordfish and even whales are all objects that can be caught, especially in this age when the ocean has not been polluted, the treasures in the sea are almost inexhaustible, coupled with reasonable Legitimate regulations can fully guarantee the inexhaustible fishing for thousands of years.

"Your Highness, what are you thinking?"

"It's okay." Li Zhen shook her head, and didn't say what she planned. These are all things for the future, and the most urgent thing now is to do a good job with the things in front of her.

"Your Highness, we are about to reach our destination." Just as the few people were chatting and farting after eating a perfect meal, the captain came to report.

"Oh my God, I'm finally getting there. I'm exhausted from being on a boat for the past few days." Cheng Chuliang jumped three feet high and said excitedly: "The first thing I do when I go ashore is definitely going to the biggest place in the city. Play with him in the brothel for three days and three nights, to get rid of fatigue—His Royal Highness, do you want to go? Treat your subordinates?"

"Okay, I'm fine." Li Zhen glanced at him.

Cheng Chuliang's back felt cold, and he shivered violently: "Uh... let's forget it, my father will kill me."

Li Zhen is the crown prince, the heir apparent of the Great Tang Empire, if people know that he went to brothels, it would be a shame to both himself and the Great Tang Empire.Not only will Li Zhen have to face the censure of the ruling and opposition parties, but as an instigator, Cheng Chuliang's fate will definitely be even worse. It is still light to be hanged and beaten by Cheng Yaojin. Maybe Li Shimin, who is angry, may have to convict him according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty , then his life is really over.

"By the way, Your Highness, where exactly are we?" Pei Xingjian looked at the sun outside, and said in a little confusion, "Why do I think the sun is so close to us? Only in summer can we have such a distance?"

"That's right, the weather is so warm, Your Highness, how long have we been on the boat?" Cheng Chuliang looked at the thin shirt on his body: "If this continues, I will have to change my clothes. Could it be that we are in summer? ?”

"Of course not, don't worry about it, I won't harm you, you'll know when you get there." Li Zhen didn't explain, they are already close to the equator, and it's winter again, the further south you go, the warmer it will be .

"Oh."

Chapter 829 Li Zhen's New Habit

Chapter 191 Li Zhen's New Habit

"Your Highness, according to the chart, we have half a day's journey ahead, which is our target sea area." The captain came to report with a chart and a sextant.

"Let me see……"

At this time, the night is approaching, and another star of Venus, Chang Gung, has appeared in the west.

Li Zhen took the sextant and pointed it at Venus, got the data, and lay down on the ground again. After a series of complicated calculations, she finally figured out her position.

After looking at the latitude and longitude of the target on the map, he nodded in satisfaction: "Yes, it's only about 50 nautical miles away. Please be careful. The closer you get to the island, the more hidden reefs will be there. This is an unfamiliar sea area. We Try to be careful. Besides, it's already night, so don't leave tonight, find a safe place to stay overnight."

"Yes, my subordinates understand."

The captain left, and with his hard work, he quickly found a small island. This small island is really very small, only about 30 feet long and wide. It is not so much a small island as a reef—but The strange thing is that this is indeed an island, because there is mud on it. This is an island made entirely of mud. At least Li Zhen didn't see any stones. There are even trees on it, and even the surrounding sea area has trees sticking out their heads. , It should be said that this is a small continent in the sea.

The situation is already obvious, this is a sinking island, the exposed part of the sea should be the last part of the island, Li Zhen does not know what caused the sinking of the island, it may be the change of the earth's crust, it may be the last part of the island. It could be rising sea levels, or it could be something else.

Li Zhen is not a geographer. He doesn't know the reason for the island's silence, and he doesn't want to know. He only knows that he can't go to the island, because the island is sinking. No one knows what danger is on it. Prince Wan Jin of Li Zhen Even if he wants to go up, others will stop him.

But there is what he needs in the things above, so there is only one way - let others go up to help him find it.

One of Li Zhen's hobbies is to collect specimens of all kinds of animals and plants.

This habit was not something he had from the beginning, but when Liu Rengui led the fleet back from Luzon and brought back a large number of local products, Li Zhen found that nearly half of them were things he didn't know. Obviously, these things he didn't know. Among the unknown animals and plants, in addition to some of them are particularly partial, most of them are on the list of future extinction.

It is also because of this that he came up with the idea of ​​harvesting the rare plant and animal specimens in the world. He plans to build a museum for these plants and animals to display the specimens and pass them on to future generations. What a sad thing that no one in the world even knows the existence of this kind of animals and plants?

Li Zhen is just a high-achieving student in mechanics who was lucky enough to travel to the Tang Dynasty and become the emperor's son. He has nothing but a forward-looking vision, let alone the ability to protect these animals and plants that are destined to become extinct.

It's just that although he can't protect it, he feels that he has the responsibility and obligation to build a specimen bank for these animals and plants, so that even if they become extinct, they can leave their own traces in history-whether it is for Li Zhen or for them. For these creatures that are about to become extinct, or for future generations, it is a matter of immeasurable merit.

What's more, with Li Zhen's current status and status, this kind of thing is just a matter of little effort. As long as people move their mouths, some people are willing to offer various precious specimens. Since the matter is so simple, so meaningful, and can leave a good reputation, such Things, why didn't Li Zhen do it?

And on this island that is about to sink, there must be plants that I don't know - on the deserted islands in the center of the ocean, especially those isolated islands, it may not be possible to welcome "guests" for decades or even hundreds of years or thousands of years Stop, in order to reproduce, these islands have long formed independent ecosystems (like the African prairie, in those almost dry water holes, the ecosystem in each water hole is almost independent, each water The species in the pits are all different).An island is an ecosystem, and each ecosystem has different flora and fauna from other islands, and this is Li Zhen's goal.

Soon, several lifeboats were lowered and began to row slowly towards the small island in the sea.

An hour later, the lifeboat returned, there was no one missing, but three more animals

One is a very tall tree, which is five feet long and as thick as several people can hug, but there are not many leaves on it-such a big tree has only a dozen leaves on it. A bit too shabby.The fruit on it is only the size of a fist, and it seems to be ripe, but no one dares to eat it, even if the doctor has assured that the fruit is not poisonous.

The second type is a kind of grass, the size of a palm, fiery red, but according to the argument of the doctor next to Li Zhen, it is actually a very poisonous grass.The doctor just took a drop of juice from the blade of grass, and it poisoned all the fish in the tank—the fish in the cabin of the Emperor, but these days, Li Zhen and the others carefully collected them, including the largest and the largest. It was a shark, but it was still overwhelmed by the poison. Even so, the medicinal properties were still not used up, which shows how severe the toxicity is.

The third is a kind of shrub, which has no characteristics. The only characteristic should be considered fragrant-at least it still smells very fragrant.

Preserving these three plants, the work of the fleet today is considered complete.

In fact, Li Zhen's actions are very dangerous, because no one knows what is on these islands. If there is any unknown deadly virus or bacteria, wouldn't the returnees be infected?

And then infected a whole ship of people, even Li Zhen?

However, Li Zhen also knew about this kind of thing, so when these specimens were collected, he would not go to see them immediately. Even the people who collected the specimens had to be isolated until a few days later, they found no symptoms. The reaction will be released-basically, except for a limited few such as rabies, the onset of severe viruses is very fast.

The sea area at night is very calm, there are not even waves, which is very rare in the sea known as the windless three-foot waves, and it is also very magical.The people on board said that it must be that the island that was about to sink knew what His Highness the Crown Prince had done, so they would like to thank His Highness the Crown Prince and repay His Highness for his kindness.

For this kind of rumor, Li Zhen just smiled and ignored it, no need to ask, it must have come from the undercurrent spies hidden in the sailors.

Chapter 830 Immortality?Mirage!

Chapter 192 Immortality?Mirage!

The next day, the fleet continued to sail and left the small island that was about to sink into the sea.

No one knows the name of this island, and no one knows when it will sink in the sky. This meeting may be a farewell, and we may never see this island again, but no one cares, they There are more important tasks to be done, and there is no time to grieve the autumn and hurt the spring here.

"Hey, when the island sinks, how about life? I didn't realize until today that the so-called immortality is just empty talk." Looking at the small island that is getting farther and farther away and gradually disappearing, Pei Xingjian sighed in a rare way stand up.

"Don't talk about these useless things, just speak directly in the future. Is this palace the kind of person who doesn't listen to others' persuasion? Besides, this palace has never expected to live forever. The meaning of human existence is not that he can How long you live depends on what you do, some people are just disasters even if they live for 1000 years, on the contrary, some people can leave their names in history even if they only have one year to live."

"As for immortality? That's just a beautiful myth, and it's just out of reach."

Li Zhen squinted at Pei Xingjian, why couldn't he hear it?Pei Xingjian seems to be mourning the autumn and the spring, but he is actually exhorting Li Zhen by the fate of the island - even the island will sink one day, how can a person be against the number of days?All those who try to change their fate against the sky are destined to become a joke of history.

However, the temptation of immortality is invincible. Counting the emperors of all dynasties, no matter whether they are enlightened emperors or ignorant emperors, they can't resist the temptation of immortality. They always try their best to refine the elixir of immortality.Wise as Emperor Qin Shihuang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of Tang, each of them is an eternal sage, but they all planted on this longevity. Qin Shihuang built a huge boat and went out to sea to find fairy islands in order to live longer. In order to live forever, he even threw his own life into it (Wang Xuance captured a monk named Naluoer Sapo during the Indian War and dedicated it to Li Shimin. After taking his medicine, his not-so-good health collapsed directly, and the reason why Wang Xuance could not be reused is also because of this, otherwise, based on his performance on the Indian battlefield, he would have to have a share in the position of prime minister in the future).

As a latecomer, Li Zhen certainly understands that the so-called longevity is a scam, and only the ancients would believe this, of course he would not.