Xiong Jing has seen the Han envoy going west many times, but he is not sure where the rare national names represent. He has never seen the Persian garlic clove pattern silver bowl, but among the tributes from Luoyue and Nanyue, there are Lu Li, sea shells and other items, which are not what the South China Sea should have. If you ask in detail why these items come, the Yue people can't tell the reason except the word "Ge Ship".

The Ge boats are canoes, either single or double. This is also the reason why they have to transfer to Dunsun. These types of boats can only row along the coast, and it doesn't seem strange that it takes two years for the Han army to travel back and forth.

Unfortunately, the Han envoy stopped in the southern branch and did not continue to go west; even more regrettable, ninety years later, in order to maintain the smooth flow of the Silk Road on the land, the Eastern Han Dynasty used hundreds of thousands of troops and more than 80 billion yuan of salary for years, but still had to send envoys to go west.

At that time, Ban Chao was old (66 years old), so he sent his deputy envoy Gan Ying to go. Gan Ying finally arrived at Tiaozhi (the northern port of the Persian Gulf). The restboats only told him the truth about the sailing on the sea: "The sea water is vast, and those who come and go will be able to save it in three months. If they encounter a slow wind, there will be two years old. Therefore, everyone who enters the sea brings three-year-old food. The sea is good at making people fall in love with the land, and there are several deaths."

Waiting for the monsoon, the sailing time takes two years, and three years of food is ready, and many deaths are actually the truth of navigation. However, Gan Ying was afraid of hearing this, and thus turned back.

When everyone dispersed, Xiong Jing couldn't help but remember the regret of going west twice during the Han Dynasty, especially the time of Gan Ying. If Ban Chao were younger at that time, he would have been on an envoy himself and would have gone west with his personality, entering the Red Sea from the Persian Gulf and finally reaching the Mediterranean. However, there is nothing to regret. Wu Gou Chang, who was flowing with the same blood as Ban Chao, would have been able to reach the Bay of Suez.

The monsoon still turned, and Xiong Jing, who temporarily put down the voyage, began to work on several other things:

First, port construction. Panyu City, which is surrounded by three miles, cannot support the increasingly large ocean trade in the future, so Panyu City needs to be expanded and Panyu Wharf also needs to be expanded; there is also Panyu Bay, where a large lighthouse is suspected to be located in Tuen Mun Island, Hong Kong, and a ship dock, Panyu will be the main construction site for sea boats in the future, and more than twenty docks must be built.

The second is iron smelting. Whether it is trade or shipbuilding, huge iron is needed. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Foshan's iron smelting industry was developed, but there were no iron ore in Foshan. Foshan's iron ore came from Yunfu, Guangdong and other places. Fortunately, the Tiandu iron ore that Xiong Jing thought of has been discovered.

This time, it was not a bad luck. Based on the experience of smelting of Liuyi magnetite, I came to a conclusion that the ore that can be refined by the converter must be magnetic. His summary is completely correct. The Swedish iron ore that can be refined by the Besmai converter is also magnetite, and only magnetite can its thiophosphate content meets the requirements of converter blowing.

Tiandu Iron Mine is less than six kilometers away from Yulin Bay. Xiong Jing still remembers that the iron ore is called Huangniling. In fact, it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t remember Huangniling. Magnetite will inevitably have a strong impact on the earth’s magnetic field. As long as you find a bunch of people to search back and forth with compass within more than ten kilometers of Yulin Bay, you can naturally find Tiandu Iron Mine.

It is one thing to just look for iron ore, and where to set up a factory to smel is another thing. If a factory is set up in Panyu, it is of course the most convenient. However, iron ore needs to be transported from hundreds of kilometers, which is not only extremely troublesome, but also occupies the already tight transportation tonnage. However, Yutiandu set up a local factory, and the local forest deforestation is not easy, and charcoal and coke have to be transported from Guangzhou.

The last thing is the wood used for shipbuilding. Zhu Yue must start cutting down camphor wood that can be built now. If the quantity is insufficient or difficult to cut, then you have to go to Thailand to cut teak. This does not cost much transportation tonnage. After the spring monsoon is converted, teak can be nailed into a raft, then hang a sail, and dragged it directly from the sea.

All three things require labor, and the public teacher, as the landlord, naturally welcomed him. He did not want to build an iron smelting factory in Panyu, which would be the beginning of Nanyue’s growth. Zuo Fushan believed that since the sea boat was loaded with rice from India when it returned, but the boat left empty when it left, it would set up a smelting plant in Yulin Bay, and the transportation tonnage was negligible.

The converter needs to be mass-produced. It is impossible to directly pour iron from the blast furnace like Yingdu. Charcoal pig iron must be refined first, and then coke can be used to melt the pig iron in the iron-melting furnace. In order to maintain continuous production of the converter. Tiandu iron ore is easy to find, but Jiazi coal mine is not easy to find. Zaofu's current plan is to use Yingdu coking coal to melt iron. This naturally requires increasing transportation tonnage, but when other coking coals cannot be found, these tonnages were originally planned.

In the plan, the coking coal produced in Quyangyi will be transported to Hangying and accumulated to prevent coal from being cut off in the late war. Since there is coal in Hangzhou and Ying, the cargo ship transports grain to Hangying and loads coal and then transports it to Yulin Bay. In addition to the loading and unloading labor of coal and the loss of cargo ships, there is no additional cost. Even if loading and unloading costs are incurred, Luoyue, Minyue, and Ouyue can contribute to the loading and unloading of about 10,000 tons of coking coal a year.

Zhu Yue likes to fight, and the iron smelting factory is located in the future distribution of large iron, pig iron and profits, so Zuo Wu is unwilling to let the master get profits. Xiong Jing is not good at making a decision. Tiandu ore is only a few million tons, and after these ores are smelted, they can only purchase iron ore from outside. Moreover, during the war, they need to transport grain from India and time and space ships, and the situation will be the same after the war is over. If coking coal is not found, then you have to use a special ship to transport coal from Yingdu. The cost is so high that the iron smelting yard located in Hangying and the iron smelting yard located in Quyang will make Tiandu iron smelting yard fall into pieces.

"What do you think?" Zhu Yue's argument was not mediated, and the matter would be left to Zhengchao to decide. However, before Zhengchao decides, Xiong Jing wanted to ask Gong Yindao's opinion. He has learned a lot of the situation in the past few days and should have a clear idea.

"I don't know if the sea boats are sufficient." Gong Yindao was not used to the climate in the greater part of the land, but fortunately it was already autumn.

"Oh." Xiong Jing nodded. It was like a bucket, the amount of water it could hold depends on the shortest board. The shortest board in Chu State is probably a boat. "Is the sea boat sufficient?" Xiong Jing was puzzled.

"I don't know when I moved to Jiangdong, nor how many sea boats could be there when I moved to Jiangdong?" Gong Yin Dao said.

"How about ten years?" Xiong Jing roughly estimated a period of time. "Ten years later, there are two hundred sea boats."

"I dare to ask the king how far is the sea boat in five years?" Gong Yindao asked again.

"Five years?" Xiong Jing estimated for a moment and said, "Fifty or sixty ships."

"It's not enough." Gong Yindao shook his head when he heard this number. "The national boat tonnage of the Chu State is only more than 10,000 tons..."

"Ten thousand two thousand tons." Xiong Jing remembered this number very much. It was because of the insufficient tonnage of the boats that Zhao and Qi asked for support, which allowed them to take a big advantage, especially Qi.

"However, the boats and oars are 12,000 tons. Because they want to transport iron ore to Yingdu, there are almost no ones who transport iron ore. Coking coal is slated to Hangzhou and Ying." Gong Yin said. "Sixty sea boats are only 24,000 tons. I think this is insufficient."

"There is not much coking coal required for just smelting pig iron with charcoal." Xiong Jingdao mentioned the coal-iron storage plan previously formulated. After retreating to Jiangdong, Hangying would produce 5,000 tons of giant iron every year. This would require about 15,000 tons of iron ore and 10,000 tons of coking coal (not smelting pig iron with coke). If the war lasted for ten years, it would require 100,000 tons of iron ore and 100,000 tons of coking coal.

"Tiandu already has iron ore, and the one needed is coking coal from the iron furnace, which is 10,000 tons a year, and transporting 20,000 tons a year is enough." Xiong Jing said again.

"However, if the iron ore is not tested in the South China Sea, what can I do if it is not possible?" Gong Yindao asked. "The huge iron is made of charcoal and pig iron is made of charcoal, and pig iron is made of charcoal."

"How many times did the South China Sea iron ore trial?" Xiong Jing asked. Before he could wait for Gong Yindao's answer, he heard someone outside exclaiming loudly: "The wind direction has changed! The wind direction has changed!"

It has been nearly October, and it is indeed a day when the wind turns. When Xiong Jing came out of the hall, he saw that the three-headed phoenix flag hanging outside was no longer blown to the northeast by the wind, but to the southwest by the wind.

"Report to the king, the wind direction has changed. It is the northeast wind, the wind direction is fifty-three degrees." Miu Zhi is responsible for navigation. Others do not care about the wind direction. He and Sidai watched day and night, hoping for the monsoon. When the wind direction turns in the afternoon, they noticed it.

"Good! Great Good!" Xiong Jing clenched his fist and shouted "Good". The wind was 53 degrees, and the Malacca Strait that traveled southeast and northwest was not that difficult. Since he could pass through the Malacca Strait safely, the fleet could safely reach Sri Lanka or the east coast of India.

"Please choose the date." Wu Gou Chang also ran over. As soon as the northeast wind turned, he wanted to ride the wind as soon as possible.

"Why don't you choose the time? Mizhi choose the time." Xiong Jing looked at the young witch, his eyes filled with infinite hope.

"I am congratulating the king." The shouting loudly by Mi Zhi and others. Later, Lu Zhuo, the official teacher, Zuo Wuzhu, Zuo Fu Shan and others learned that the monsoon had arrived, and all congratulated Xiong Jing.

"He Buying should also congratulate him." Xiong Jing smiled and asked them to waive the gift. Unfortunately, before his smile stopped, Chang Jiang came over with a report and looked calm. After the departure was arranged, he told Xiong Jing lightly: "Report to the King: The people of Qi went to Yingdu to retreat, saying that they had already given Princess Kejia and the eldest son of Qin Fusu. Zhu Ao was furious and wanted to attack him."

"Ah?!" Xiong Jing was shocked. It was his decision to withdraw from Pingping. However, Chu and Qi's marriage was related to diplomatic relations. The court officials disagreed with each other, so the matter was temporarily put on hold. Who would have thought that before the retirement of Pingping, Qi people could not wait to grant the princess...

"Fusu?" Xiong Jing recited the name. This was the first time he heard it.

"This is the eldest son of Qin." Chang Jiang said. "Born last year, it is said that the King of Qin has always loved him."
Chapter completed!