Chapter 755: One village raises one boat
. Two thousand people are sent to help the Han tribe fight? !
Jiao Shi and several members of the fishing tribe almost jumped up. What a joke? ! How many people are there in the fishing tribe? The Han tribe actually asked them to send two thousand people to fight against Commander Xin? !
This is a war, not a job. Helping the Han tribe is just a little bit tiring. If you can get four big boats as a reward, it is worth it. But fighting is life-threatening. Who can guarantee that they are so lucky that they can come back alive after going to the battlefield?
The conditions proposed by the Han tribe are equivalent to using four boats to buy the lives of their two thousand people!
Seeing that the people of the fishing tribe were emotional and about to have a fit, Luo Chong knocked on the table and said.
"Old patriarch, don't be angry. You should know that it is not easy to build a boat. Even it is not easy for Commander Xin to buy a boat. What I just told you is a gift. You should understand what I mean.
Also, you don't have to answer in a hurry. You can go back and think about it carefully. This is a great opportunity for the development of the fishing tribe. I hope you can seize this opportunity.
This ship model and the telescope are gifts from the Han tribe to you. Don't worry, you don't have to pay for this. Also, we will hold a military parade here in Takuhai County tomorrow. I hope everyone can participate. Maybe you can find the answers you want in the ceremony."
After Luo Chong finished speaking, he stood up and prepared to leave, but when he turned around, the reef suddenly called him.
"Chief Han, I have another question to ask."
"Oh? What's the question?"
"I wonder if the Han tribe has any goal in attacking the Xin tribe this time, is it to defeat them completely, or to force them to surrender? Will the Han tribe take over the management of Zhudao?"
Luo Chong couldn't help but smile when he heard his words, and just said vaguely, "If no one is willing to manage Zhudao after the leaders and elders of the Xin tribe are all destroyed, then our Han tribe doesn't mind incorporating Zhudao into its territory."
After saying this, he turned around and left in style. Others such as Shu Da and Xue Tu also followed Luo Chong's footsteps and left one after another. Only Shou Ya was left with the people from the fishing tribe. As soon as
Luo Chong and the others left, the atmosphere in the conference room became relaxed, and several people from the fishing tribe also started to discuss.
One person held a telescope close to his eyes and exclaimed repeatedly, and someone else held the model of the Yu-1 fishing boat and came to the three-masted sailboat to compare the size.
However, Jiao Shi frowned and sat there, still thinking. Although Luo Chong did not say an affirmative sentence just now, the meaning of his words was very clear. He had predicted the demise of Commander Xin and the elders. Although he did not know why he was so confident, he also said that if no one was willing to manage it, the Han tribe would not mind taking over Zhudao and making it a part of the Han tribe.
Isn't this nonsense? If the Han tribe can really kill all the commanders and elders, with such strength in hand, who dares to challenge the Han tribe?
This is equivalent to the fact that the Han tribe has decided to take over Zhudao, so if they want to send troops, they can really consider it.
However, the price given by the Han tribe does not seem to be high enough. Is it worth it to use four fishing boats to exchange for two thousand young men to work for the Han tribe?
But before he could think about it, the person who just asked whether the Han tribe would occupy Zhudao said what he was thinking.
"Han envoy, your tribe wants to exchange four ships for two thousand strong men. Isn't this price too low? Two thousand strong men is definitely not a small number even for our entire tribe. The population of the fishing tribe is not large to begin with."
Beast Fang smiled and explained to them.
"You are not entirely right. Our leader just mentioned more than four ships, but also this fertile land along the coast. This seems to be more valuable than four ships, right?"
A man playing with a telescope nearby was about to retort when he heard this, but Shouya raised his hand again to interrupt him.
"You want to say that it's not the land of the Han tribe? Whether we agree or not, you can move there by yourself? But is that really the case? If you can, then why are you still living in Yashan, a place full of rocks?"
This immediately blocked what the man was about to say. He opened his mouth, but in the end, he didn't say anything.
But Shouya didn't forget to add a knife to him, "In addition, you seem to have forgotten one thing. Since our leader decided to seek revenge on the Xin tribe, Zhudao has been the land of our Han tribe."
This was said very domineeringly, much more direct than Luo Chong's implicit statement just now, and it also thoroughly proved the true intention of the Han tribe.
Jiaoshi, the patriarch of the fishing tribe, was not a fool. The so-called revenge was nothing more than an excuse to start a war. The land and population of Zhudao were the real intention of the Han tribe. So in this way, if the Han tribe really had the ability to take Zhudao, now was the time to stand in line in advance.
If they can be the first to establish a relationship with the Han tribe, the fishing tribe will become the closest tribe to the power center for the future Zhudao ruled by the Han tribe. The tribe will also usher in a climax of development and growth, and perhaps they can use this opportunity to surpass the old clans in Zhudao, such as the clans of the great elders.
However, some people still felt unbalanced. The man holding the ship model was gesturing next to the model of another three-masted sailing ship. Although the fishing boat was not small in proportion, no matter how you look at it, the senses brought by the ship model are not as shocking as seeing the real ship with your own eyes.
"Since the Han tribe is so powerful, why are they so stingy to us? This boat is half the size of the sailing ship we took when we came here. If it is a large ship with three sails, it would be about the same to change to four."
When Shouya heard him say this, he couldn't help but laugh.
"Brother, do you know how many people are needed to operate a three-masted cargo ship? How much manpower and financial resources are needed to maintain such a ship? Even if our Han tribe gives you four three-masted ships, first of all, they are not suitable for fishing, but only for shipping. Secondly, I guess you can't afford to maintain four such large ships now?"
"Maintain ships? What do you mean? Didn't the Han envoy often say that the sailboats of the Han tribe can move freely without food or water, just relying on the sea breeze? What does it mean to maintain ships? Do we have to feed the ships with food?" When others heard what Beast Fang said, they also asked curiously.
"Not really." Beast Fang waved his hand, "Sailboats do not need food, but they still need people to operate them."
"I don't know how many people are needed to maintain this three-masted ship, so let me tell you about the two-masted fishing boat that the chief just brought out.
Although such a boat is only 22 meters long, it requires at least two captains and deputy captains, eight or nine sailors, a lookout, a helmsman, and one or two cooks. This is just the personnel configuration for the ship to sail normally.
In addition, there are fishermen. You can see that the capstan crane at the stern has two large cargo holds. Just to put the nets in and collect the nets, and to enter and exit the cabin, I'm afraid it will take more than ten people to participate. At that time, other sailors may be needed. Help.
There are also trawl nets. Trawl nets are very large fishing nets. A boat needs at least two, one for normal use and one for backup. The maintenance of these two trawl nets requires the women on the shore to repair and dry them. The fish caught also need to be handled by the people on the shore.
There is also the ice in the cabin, the sails and rigging on the mast, and all these messy things added together. I am afraid that without a village, you cannot maintain this boat to go out to sea for fishing. "
After Shouya finished speaking, several people from the fishing tribe couldn't help but widen their eyes. Just to ensure that a boat can go out to sea for fishing normally, it actually takes so many people? This is too exaggerated. What if the boat is twice as big? Maybe it is really like what Shouya said, the entire fishing tribe can't keep a few boats running.
Shouya once told Commander Xin and other elders that shipbuilding is a big project, involving almost all manufacturing industries of the Han tribe, from logging, carpentry, mining, metallurgy, forging, planting, and textiles. He makes nails and anchors, you make keels and hulls, and I make sails and ropes. Everyone brings things together and finally assembles them into a usable ship. Little
do people know that shipbuilding is not easy, and maintaining a ship is not simple either.
(End of this chapter)
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