The main route of the fleet under the name of SF was responsible for the transportation of raw materials in Hebei Province, and then the smuggling of the states of Liaodong, and of course, the sea trade was the normal trade of the two regional powers, Baekje and Silla.

In fact, after Zhang De processed a simple gyroscope, he added a horizontal compass to the sailing ships cruising in the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, but he didn't know what was going on, and the pointer was often demagnetized, which was annoying.

The use of the sextant can still be mastered smoothly only by receiving the education of Peking University or the helm trained by the old man Wang Xiaotong and his disciples.

As for the nautical chart depiction, it is even more rare, and the current navigator relies on experience. It is impossible to talk about surveying and mapping, and it is not easy to roughly judge one's position according to the coordinates of Denglai.

However, Zhang De still demanded that the "Dongfeng" fleet under the name of SF Express, after arriving in Tamna, should be divided into two to four sharp-bottomed ships to continue to explore the channel.

After returning from the briefing in the first quarter, Zhang De already knew that the "east wind" had blown into the southern waters of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Because judging from the briefing, the "east wind" once arrived on a large island, and the natives called themselves "Kamkapuyamu?". There are people from the three-star cave of Heishui, although they vomited and almost hung up on the seasickness, but they still said that those natives were from the cave department.

After judging from this, Zhang De concluded that the place where the "east wind" blew this time should be Sakhalin Island in the previous life.

It is also good to be able to determine the location of Sakhalin. The whole island is very suitable for extensive processing, especially the high-yielding fir and ichthyosis pine on the island, the fast-growing forests are very lush, and the population is sparse and abundant. In the case of Goguryeo's control of Liaodong. Zhang De wanted to get a lot of cheap wood, which he could extract in large quantities from Sakhalin.

And the main cost. It's transportation. Because if you mine, you can directly take the lives of the remaining people to fill it. The products on the island can directly solve the food problem, and there is no need to worry about the internal attacks of the Tang Dynasty, which can be said to kill multiple birds with one stone.

Again, it makes no sense for the fleet to eventually go to the ocean and sail close to the coastline by chance. The discovery of a situation like Sakhalin's self-correction and improvement of the fleet is not only a technical one, but also a psychological expansion.

"The east wind is good." Zhang De sighed in admiration. The "Dongfeng" rested in Tamna and made two voyages, once along the coastline east of Silla, and once on the northern coastline of Japan's main island of Honshu. On the latter occasion, a member of the Soga clan led the way, and it traveled about 600 miles east to the border of Japan.

According to the briefing, Japan is not even reunited with the island of Honshu. The northeastern part of the island of Honshu is still terra nullius.

"Hurry up with your warm clothes."

By the end of this year, Zhang De plans to give priority to the three fleets of cotton spinning products and worsted wool spinning. According to this year's progress, Zhang De probably estimates that cetacean hunting will also be on the agenda. At that time, the range of activities of the Northern Line fleet should have started from the East China Sea and stretched south of the Bering Strait.

Whale oil as a transitional product. There is no problem with consumption that lasts for twenty or thirty years. Moreover, in the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea in Zhenguan year, there are many minke whales and long-nosed whales. A four-meter-long minke whale has a direct income of more than 12 strokes. And that's without counting the profit of whale oil as a candle lubricant and other products. As for tanning, in this era, it is even more profitable.

It can be said that the whaling industry was able to survive in the Zhenguan year just by using lighting fuel as a circulating product. Zhang De's three fleets, the other "militia" fleet, were equipped with eight-bull crossbows, and the rear compartment of the hull was also modified, with several sets of pulleys, which could easily tow whales weighing several tons.

Steelmaking tempering will also use a lot of whale oil, which is the most important thing for Zhang De.

For an engineering dog who is not doing his job, the raw materials in this era are simply cool.

Fang Xuanling served as an interview envoy, and the music was issued once every three days and five days, and there was also a secret recital for ten years, as well as a certain number of "flying horses" to use.

After Lao Zhang gave him a copy of "The Examination of Grape Planting in Zhaozhou", another copy of "Hebei White Cloth Can Be Produced" was also laughed at by Shangshu's left servant.

As for how the prime minister will play with Emperor Taizong later, that is his business, but as long as Shangshu Zuo Servant shoots and other prime ministers communicate well, then Wang Qi will put forward a proposal, and Wen Yanbo will review and approve it, and finally, it is the showtime of Fang Moudu.

The rest of them didn't reach the level of Zaifu, so they could only look at it, and if they wanted to drink soup, they had to see if the thighs they were hugging were thick enough.

Zhang De needed organizational support, that is, an executive order. The chairman of the board of directors and the directors of various departments of the center need stable long-term income.

Alcoholic products are bulk goods, and cotton spinning products are also bulk goods, only these two kinds of income, even if small profits and quick turnover, there is no problem in calculating hundreds of thousands of yuan a year.

However, Zhang De knew some information from the old mad dog Li Simo, knowing that the Western Turks were now in a state of chaos, and when the rest of Longyou Dao was over, he should be able to open up the southern Silk Road west of Yangguan in one go. As long as the Tang army intervenes in the Western Regions, according to the state of Qibi He Li at this time, it should be his only choice to be a loyal dog for Wang Qianqian.

And Zhang De deduced from those Hu merchants in the west city of Chang'an that Tianzhu at this moment, to be exact, the North India region, should have a population of about 20 million.

As long as there is one-tenth of the market for cotton textiles, it is enough to feed the entire cotton planting area of Hebei Province, Henan Province, Henan Province, and Hedong Province, if there is such a large planting area at that time.

But all this is delusional before it is promoted. Starting from scratch is the real difficulty. It is too difficult to find a place like Yizhou, where the officialdom is as rotten as a dung pit, the market is chaotic as a cemetery, and the economy is withered, and the households have fled. And what is even more difficult is that the chief official of a state is a scumbag, and he likes to speculate at both ends, and at the same time has a large number of handles and black materials in his own hands, which is simply a reward from Haotian God......

But all this is only a hard condition, and beyond this boundary, there is the support of the center. Fortunately, this time the Hebei Provincial Interview Envoy is Fang Xuanling, and Fang Xuanling is Shangshu Zuo Servant, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, the brand is harder than anyone else, and the status of the Tang Empire Limited Liability Company is even more extraordinary.

The prime minister knows the actual conditions, recognizes Zhang De's ability to make money, and is willing to push the boat along the river, and has his own judgment on the prospects...... It's not easy.

After all this is satisfied, a white cotton tree can finally bloom in Hebei Province. As for what to do with the white cotton after it is picked, it is just a technical problem that engineering dogs need to solve.

In the beginning of summer, the replanted mulberry seedlings have been drawn two stubbles, and Sima Sulie, the governor of Xiangdu, was promoted to Yingzhou because of his duties. The main task is to deter the Fuyu people in Liaodong.

Su Lie made good use of cavalry, and his cavalry was skilled in arching and horses, and he consumed a lot of arrows. Just after the imperial court set up a buying workshop in Jizhou in the name of the Ministry of Industry, Yingzhou Bei drove Su Lie's order of 200,000 flying arrows to Jizhou Workshop.

As a Datang person, Zhang De was sincerely happy for the country's strength, and then gave a rebate of five cents for each arrow, a rebate of 100,000 yuan, which sounds like a lot, but it would be good if the Yingzhou military could probably get half of it.

For example, according to Su Lie's establishment, the Ministry of War will definitely eat a piece, and then the Ministry of Industry will also eat a piece because of equipment production. And the one who delivered the message in the center was the group of yin and yang people in the inner mansion who died eunuchs, so the inner mansion also had to eat a piece.

Think that's all there is to it? Therefore, it is located in the border area and has a complex ethnic composition, so as long as the ambassadors of all ethnic groups have done it within two years, they can share a little.

Seventy-seven-eighty-eight buckled, and if it fell into the hands of Su Lie, a don't drive, it would be very good to have three or four thousand.

Su Lie, who has played a big scene with the old mad dog Li Simo, is of course a little unaccustomed to three or four thousand guan, but Yingzhou is poorer than Yizhou and more chaotic than Cangzhou, these three or four thousand guan may not be anything to him as a foreigner, but for the governor of Yingzhou, it is a lot.

A relationship like Su Lie, who can stop driving at any time, is under the jurisdiction of the governor of Youzhou, and there are too few places where he can get his hands on it.

Therefore, when Su Lie went to Zhang De and got a kickback of 100,000 yuan, Yingzhou was bored from officials to the top and bottom, and suddenly ran into the well-off stage, and suddenly celebrated with joy.

Then Lao Zhang told Su Dingfang that a batch of brand-new cold equipment could be released at the end of the year, and if it could be successfully operated, the Yingzhou Army could do it first, and the rebate...... Well said.

Zhang Jian, the governor of Yingzhou, asked Su Lie privately several times if he was willing to come to be the governor, and he himself wanted to go back to Chang'an and do an errand in the military department...... (To be continued.) )

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