The narrow and long sailboat sailed on the windless sea. With the sound of drums, the slaves rowed their hands hard to move the boats forward. Not far ahead was the harbor, and the trestle extended into the sea, becoming the target of the sailboat's berth.

Zhang Yu stood on the top of the city on the shore, watching the sailboat enter the port, then looked up at the flagpole, and saw that the flag was not moving at all.

When encountering quiet windy weather, even hard sailboats will be powerless, let alone soft sailboats.

Zhang Yu felt a little lucky. His ship was a five-masted soft sailboat, which was very flexible when there was wind, but he would catch it when there was breeze or even windless weather. If he didn't row by the sailor on the boat, it would be difficult to move at all.

This time, the pirate Sabazan encircled and suppressed, and the other party hid in the waters south of the Xiangyao Islands. That area was a weak wind zone. Hard sailing boats that only sailed by sailing were sometimes in trouble, let alone his five-masted soft sailboats.

Sabazan also knew this, so he set up a trap to lure Zhang Yu to chase him. After entering the ambush circle, the large and small galleys rushed up, trying to fight less.

As a result, although Zhang Yu, who was prepared, became a "cicada", brought the "yellow bird" and defeated the "mantis" of Sabazan by attacking inside and outside.

He also travels through the windless sea. If he rashly goes out to sea without knowing it, something big will happen.

Sailing boats depend on wind. Without wind and long oars, they can only spin on the sea. There are many thunderstorms in these seas, and ships floating on the sea are basically unable to survive thunderstorms.

The ships of Nanyang Trading Company set off from the bottom. When they crossed the sea for the first time, they suffered in this windless sea. Fortunately, before sailing, they learned from the local people that there was often no wind in this sea area, so they prepared long oars on the ship in advance.

When the wind was really windy, the sailors on the boat rowed for several days before the boat finally arrived at the south bank and landed here.

Several years have passed, and the landing site has become a trade stronghold. It is named "Kainan", which means "opening up southern Xinjiang". The large island where Kainan is located is named "Australia".

The ships traveling to and from the Diwuhe Kainan are specially made sailing boats. They sail on sailing when there is wind, and when there is no wind, they take the prize boat to row.

Zhang Yu, who had just arrived in Kainan yesterday, had already walked around the city for a few times. He traveled thousands of miles south. In addition to dealing with the white-eyed wolf Sabazan, his main purpose was to come to Australia in person as the emperor's eyes.

Australia is the name given to this new world by the emperor himself. Kainan is located at the northern end of the Great Island of Australia (the mainland), and is 1,500 miles from the bottom of the southern end of the Xiangyao Islands, and the scenery is very different.

First of all, this ghost place is located south of the equator, and is the real sunny south. It is inverted with the Central Plains all year round.

In other words, when the Central Plains is summer, it is winter.

Because Kainan is located south of the equator, the latitude is not "north latitude" but "south latitude", about twelve degrees and twenty-ninth minutes south latitude. As for longitude (measured by time), according to the results of the comparison between local time and navigation clock, it is probably similar to Hakado, Japan.

In other words, Kainan is probably in the south of Hakata, but the two places are at least tens of thousands of miles apart.

Zhang Yu, who has been active in Bodo Port in the Beiyang Sea for many years, is in Kainan, south of the South Ocean. Looking at the deserted outside the city, he feels that it is appropriate to use the word "normal and north" to describe the current situation.

This place is a barren land and has no country. Except for native tribes and some strange animals, it seems that there is no valuable output.

Not only Kainan, but also the entire Australian island, it seems that no countries are found in the coastal areas. The southeast end of the island has a pleasant climate, but there are only scattered native tribes and no countries.

This means that Nanyang Trading Company does not have a decent transaction partner in Australia.

This is different from Nanyang. There are many islands in Nanyang, and at least there are tribal alliances similar to those of the country on the large island. Nanyang Trading Company can trade with these tribal alliances and use Central Plains specialties and handicraft products to exchange for incense medicines or local specialties in the other party’s hands.

For example, the Poli Kingdom is located in the southeast of the Changhai Sea, with a land of thousands of miles and a large number of people. It has been connected with the Central Plains since the Liang Dynasty. Maritime merchants can trade with each other in exchange for local specialties.

There are fragrant medicines and "stone fat water".

Stone fat water, now also known as "oil", Zhang Yu knew that this thing could be used to refine "hard tincture oil" and made into tincture bombs. It is a powerful weapon for battle formations or used as lamp oil. Anyway, it has many uses.

The "Poli Island" in the "Poli Island" where Poli Country is located produces "stone fat water". It is said that when you dig a shovel on the ground, "stone fat water" will appear, and you will have as much as you want.

Now, by selling "stone fat water" as payment, the country of Poli can buy a large amount of Central Plains specialties and ice. Therefore, the kings and nobles mobilized domestic manpower and material resources to mine a large amount of "stone fat" as money.

However, in this deserted Australia, there is not even a decent country. Even if there are specialties in the fields, how can we mine them out with human resources and material resources?

It is probably not possible to rely on the imported population of the Central Plains to develop this ghost place for decades.

So from the perspective of doing business, Australia is big, but it is a waste of money.

Zhang Yu, who was thinking while walking, came to the location of the trade market, where the people were crowded. The local people coming from nearby came here to trade with various specialties on behalf of their respective tribes.

After several years of contact, Kainan's trade base has been recognized by local tribes nearby. Cloth, porcelain, glass products and various handmade products from the Central Plains are very popular among the natives, so small commodity trade is very popular.

But only because of this, the natives actually don’t have much valuable things to trade with the Central Plains sea merchants. The most valuable thing is scattered gold and silver.

Zhang Yu looked at the account book and knew that the profits brought by this transaction were simply insignificant for Kainan's annual expenses. In short, the company maintained Kainan City at a loss.

With such facts, it is impossible to explain to the company's shareholders because the company's board of directors cannot explain to shareholders of all sizes why they should invest money in this barren land to maintain a useless trade base.

In fact, the truth is very simple. The emperor needs it, so the company has to share the worries for you. However, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble and speculation, Kainan City's income cannot be too ugly, so it is necessary to explore.

Zhang Yu went south this time and passed through Luzon, Luzon, which was originally just a trading base of the Nanyang Trading Company. Because it produced gold and silver, it was worth doing business.

But because a large copper mine was discovered in a big mountain later, Luzon instantly turned from a useless rib to a golden rooster, and the court officials immediately agreed to establish a prefecture and county.

Similarly, if you can find any large mineral veins such as copper or iron ore near Kainan and then develop them, Nanyang Trading Company can give shareholders an explanation, but this kind of thing is easier said than done. As an outsider, you are not clear about the local situation and it is not easy to explore mineral deposits.

Zhang Yu looked at the strangely dressed natives in front of him, and felt extremely helpless. These natives were dressed without covering their bodies, dressed with thatch, and even wrapped the words with grass leaves. They were so poor that they looked like this, and they did not have high-value specialties similar to incense medicine, so they had no future in business.

But the land must be occupied!

Zhang Yu still remembers what the emperor said to him, and he always remembers those words in his heart.

"There is no need to be too much land. Although some places are now deserted and have no output, it seems like they are useless, but who knows what treasures are buried under the ground? We cannot develop it now, so we have to take it first and leave it as a family heirloom for future generations!"

What the emperor said, Zhang Yu thought it made sense, so he was not afraid of hardships and traveled across the ocean to see what the heirloom of this family treasure left for future generations would look like.

As he thought about it, his eyes fell on a native man who was carrying a ""-shaped wooden stick on his back, saying it was a stick but it was very flat, and it looked more like a wooden piece.

Zhang Yu looked at it, and the more he looked, the more strange he felt, he asked, "The wooden stick is a shoulder pole? Why is it so short?"

The man who accompanied Zhang Yu to visit looked at the object he pointed to, and then explained: "Back to the ship owner, this is the native weapon, it is a kind of dart."

"Dart, is this thing used to smash people?" Zhang Yu looked at it and became less convinced. The man smiled and said, "The owner of the ship doesn't know that if this kind of dart is thrown out, it will fly back if it fails to hit a single blow, so there is a name called "Flying Come", which we all call it Boomerang."

"It's true or false, will you fly back if you fly out?"
Chapter completed!