The more people there are, the more people think, and the Chu people also have the Chu people's plan. After several lengthy meetings, corn was like a rope strangled on the neck of a bear jing. It took seven years to accumulate corn for four years, but it only lasted for four to five years. What should I do after five years?

Migration to Jiangdong is a problem of defense, because once you lose the beam, you can only retreat to the Jianghuai River. Today's world is becoming more barren and more difficult to accumulate grain as it goes south. You must find the three grains of East Continent within seven years and popularize the seeds. You must also build the trade network of Middle Continent and West Continent within seven years, and transport grain back through trade profits.

The former can rely on the efforts of the Blue Ocean Fleet, and as planned, they will set sail to the East Continent in spring next year; the latter will sail west this year due to the monsoon. However, in addition to commodities, trade also requires sailors and merchant ships, and more money and materials.

Shortage of money is an extremely troublesome thing. Accumulating grain will cause the entire Chu State to flow to the Wei and Qi states; building warships, six hundred winged warships plus about two hundred supply ships with the same tonnage, will consume the existing and easy-to-destruction seals of Chu State. Trading merchant ships can only accumulate themselves by trade.

This is not an era of abundant materials, and there are many situations where money cannot buy things. The Chu State can purchase more than 30 million stones of millet in Wei and Han, the second is the cloth crowns and clothes produced by Qi State that can make up for Chu State, and the third is the big seal in the mountains of Zhao, Qi and Han State.

It should be pointed out that there is a contradictory relationship between the supply of Han and Wei's corn and Qi's common people. If Chu buys Han and Wei's corn, then Qi, which lacks food, cannot sell civilians; if Qi wants to buy civilians, it will only allow Qi to buy 20 million stones of corn. In addition, although Zhao owns Taihang, the southern part of Zhao's southern part of the war obviously cannot sell big seals. Even if it can be sold, once Zhao's corn is insufficient, the common people will not be able to go into the mountains to log wood. Qi and South Korea are the same. Therefore, money and materials must be accounted for.

A Taotie Hengsail cargo ship requires 800 gold. In terms of money, one trade can be repaid (in the early stage when merchant ships have fewer trade and high profits); but in terms of materials, a Hengsail cargo ship transports only 30,000 stones of grain, and a hundred coins per stone is only 312 gold. This is a year, and a Hengsail cargo ship can only run once a year.

Originally, this would have to reduce the annual salary of the sailors, but considering that the money is sufficient, the materials consumed by seventy or eighty sailors are not much, so the salary can be basically negligible. What is really deducted is the cost of repairing ships, which roughly can earn about 250 gold. To reduce the losses of the wrecked ship, it will take four years for a Taotie cargo ship to completely recover the money on the materials.

The traders' fleet was built through self-accumulation. The initial capital was of course the princess' dowry, which was seven thousand gold a year, and about ten sailing cargo ships could be launched a year. These cargo ships earn profits through trade, and the profit would buy the remaining 10 million stones of millet in Wei. If they could buy that 10 million stones of millet, at the current price, they could build 65 Taotie.

There are sixty-five ships a year (total drainage of 33,800 tons), and sixty ships in ten years. Unfortunately, the big seals are not endless, and time is not endless. Once the big seals that can be cut down are cut down, or the three kingdoms of Zhao, Qi and Han are destroyed, such good things will never happen again.

Knowing that the Ministry of Education could not count the accurate number of large seals in the mountains of Zhao, Qi and Han. Gongshujian roughly estimated a number through the carpenters of Lu in the world. That is, the large seals that the three seals that Zhao, Qi and Han could cut down may be about 100,000, plus the remaining winged warships of Chu State, totaling 150,000. These seals could build about 200 horizontal sailing cargo ships.

This is of course an optimistic estimate. Once the four countries of Zhao, Qi, Wei and Han were destroyed by Qin and wanted to build cargo ships, they could only rely on material profits to drive the Yue people to cut down teaks in Southeast Asia. At this time, trade profits are worthless, and what is valuable is the material profit of about 250 gold per ship per year. Although the size of the merchant fleet can double every four years, if the base is too small at the beginning, for example, there were only 100 cross-sail cargo ships at the beginning, it would take eight years to expand the number to 400.

The four kingdoms of Zhao, Qi, Wei and Han were destroyed, and Qin would definitely attack Chu next. If there were only one hundred cargo ships across the country at this time, it would be fine if they could not defend Daliang, but the main production area of ​​Huai Shang grain was lost, and there was no surplus grain in the high warehouse, then the country's population was more than 3 million - if all the common people in Huai Shang migrated, the Military Control Bureau believed that one-quarter of the common people might starve to death that year.

At least 400 cargo ships are needed to avoid starvation when the common people migrate. There must also be 500 cargo ships across the sea and 15 million stone of merchant ship net ton (the grain must be shelled) to barely support 200,000 troops and the logistics and military system behind the army, and to continue fighting with the Qin army. Of course, if the production of Dongzhou Three Valleys can be increased, the net ton of merchant ship can be reduced. How much it can be reduced depends on the yield per mu of cultivated land in Yuedi and Poyang Lake. According to the current farming, the situation is not optimistic.

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After changing the boat, the Zhuque was sailing against the wind, and the speed of up to ten knots surprised Zuo Wuzhu and others. He couldn't help asking Xiong Jing for such a sea boat several times, but unfortunately he was unsuccessful and did not receive any rewards. He felt that he had not made any contributions. He was really embarrassed to speak out for such a request, so he could only drill around the Zhuque and feast his eyes.

The island where the ship was changing was not far from Panyu Bay. At noon the next day, the lookout hand on the main mast plate of the Zhuque, who was sailing westward, saw the lighthouse standing on the island outside Panyu Bay and the big-wing warship that was out of the port. I don’t know whether it was the towering sailing of the flying boat that scared the Yue people on the big-wing warship, or whether they were confused and stupid, the two big-wing warships that were welcoming actually collided with themselves while avoiding the waterway.

The big wing warship had no watertight cabin. The big wing that was hit was tilted at a visible speed, and the Yue people on the boat dived one after another. These people were first-class in water, and hundreds of people floated in the sea to watch the Suzaku turn into the bay at a speed of ten knots.

After entering the bay, the sailors immediately climbed the mast to collect sails. From the bay entrance to Panyu Port, the islands of more than 50 nautical miles were densely packed, and the speed did not decrease, so they could not enter the port with the water-guiding boat. For safety reasons, the captain, without hooks, also picked up a yueman boatman on the boat, and he stood beside the wheel rudder to make the helmsman choose the correct channel.

The boat was very slow. It was more than fifty nautical miles until the next afternoon that I saw Gong Shiyu and his ministers and subjects greeted on the pier outside Panyu City. At this time, Xiong Jing was freed from the boring number calculations and looked at Guangzhou City for two thousand years. Although he was mentally prepared, he still couldn't help but be disappointed. This was not a city, it was just a yard, and Feng Renjiu was busy again.
Chapter completed!