Cheng Chumo and his group arrived at Lorraine City, and then from Lorraine City, they passed through the Grand Canal to Yangzhou. They planned to sail from Yangzhou and follow the coastline all the way to Guangzhou, which was Lingnan of the Tang Dynasty.
"With a hundred thousand strings tied around his waist, he rode a crane down to Yangzhou.”As expected of the prosperous Jiangnan area. When they arrived at Yangzhou, they saw a prosperous scene. From the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties to the Qin, Han, and Three Kingdoms, the Jin, the Sui, and then the Tang. This caused the northern Central Plains region and the northwestern Old Qin region to suffer serious soil erosion. The land became more and more barren year by year. The economic center of gravity had gradually moved southward. Although Yangzhou's population and scale were not comparable to Chang 'an, its prosperity had gradually caught up with Chang' an, Lorraine, and other large cities.
Cheng Chumo and the others rested in Yangzhou for a while, replenished their supplies, and hired a fleet to set off from Yangzhou. They circled the coastline and slowly headed south. Life on the sea was very boring. He looked at the endless sea every day. In the beginning, everyone was in high spirits, but later on, they got bored. He just slept in bed every day. Cheng Chumo wanted to go into the sea to take a look. The sea had a much better variety of organisms than the land. There were all kinds of magical creatures.
Cheng Chumo had always taken it as his life motto. Therefore, they jumped into the sea. However, because they were in the coastal waters, those creatures did not have very outstanding genes. Because the Great Tang would not be fighting for many years, he had to conserve the Blood Energy he had accumulated. The days passed slowly as Cheng Chumo searched for suitable biological genes. After drifting on the sea for more than a month, they finally reached Guangzhou, which was Lingnan.
At this time, Lingnan was a place that was not old. It was not like Guangzhou in the future, which was one of the most prosperous areas in the entire summer. When he arrived, he borrowed some people from the local Feng Ang to build a simple port. Then, he began to build ships. The ships of the Great Tang were basically all inland river boats with flat bottoms. This kind of boat was very advantageous in inland rivers because it had a flat bottom, so it could sail in shallow water. However, this kind of boat would not work on the sea. A wave could capsize it. He needed a boat with a sharp bottom that could cut through the waves.
Cheng Chumo was imitating the Galen sailboat of the medieval Urozhou. This kind of ship was quite advanced in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the fleet had built a few ships of various sizes. He also collected a lot of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal to make a batch of gunpowder. The main ship was a large Galen sailboat with a displacement of nearly 100 tons. There were also many crossbows on the deck. These crossbows could easily shoot through ordinary decks. For now, this fleet was invincible in the southern seas.
Due to the large number of people, the entire fleet was formed in less than two months. Then, Cheng Chumo brought the private soldiers from various countries to the fleet and began to train them. Controlling the Galen Sailboat was different from the previous flat-bottomed turreted ships. Sea battles were different from inland battles. However, it would take a lot of time to complete the training, so Cheng Chumo only spent a month in the coastal waters to familiarize everyone with the ship before setting off for Linyi.
It was another boring time on the boat. Chen Cheng Chumo had eaten so much seafood that he vomited. Fortunately, they had prepared a lot of dehydrated vegetables in advance, so no one on board had gotten scurvy so far. The guards slowly turned from private soldiers into qualified sailors.
Cheng Chumo didn't plan to use money to buy seeds in Lin Yi this time. He planned to plunder. With the strength of Lin Yi's Secret Service, their fleet of 2000 people was more than enough. With Cheng Chumo, who was not human, it would definitely be a crushing victory.
Along the way, they drew a sea map and stopped when they came across a small island to replenish their fresh water and various food. This time, they went to a small island and discovered that there was a large number of golden thread nanmu trees on the island. Therefore, they marked the key points and planned to bring all the Phoebe nanmu trees on the island back to Chang 'an when they came back to earn some money.
Cheng Chumo finally found an electric eel. This electric eel had two abilities. One was to discharge and store electricity, and the other was to breathe through the skin. He planned to have both of these abilities. That way, he could go to the deep sea to take a look. He did not have to come up to take a breath often, and he did not have to worry about the beasts in the deep sea.
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