Chapter 204 Discussion on New Routes
After Qu Mao and Su Yan finished talking about exchanging gold coins, they quickly found Sunan.
When Sunan walked into the lord's hut, his body was still covered in stone powder, obviously he had just returned from the road construction site.
Walking into the lord's hut, seeing Qu Mao sitting on a chair in the living room, Sunan asked, "My lord, are you looking for me?"
Qu Mao nodded and said, "Su Nan, do you still remember the message that Jack Twain sent to both of us at Yancheng Port?"
Su Nan thought for a while and asked, "My lord, are you talking about Jack Twain asking us to sell some slaves in a port city of another kingdom 500 kilometers away from Yancheng Port?"
Qu Mao nodded and said: "Sunan, although we can't run 500 kilometers to sell the people we want to win, but I think there is a port city 500 kilometers away from Yancheng Port. This information is very important to us.
I had a conversation with Su Yan just now, and wanted to know the possibility of opening up that route. Su Yan suggested that I communicate with you. In the future, we must not tie all foreign transactions to the city of Yancheng, not only the port city 500 kilometers away from Yancheng Port, but also the opening of other new shipping routes. Will there be any problems? ? "
Su Nan smiled and said, "My lord, there are too many questions.
First of all, we don’t have enough products to ship out for sale. There may still be blank runestones and animal skins on the island, but what’s the specific situation there? Is there any shortage of animal skins, or blank rune stones? We are completely unaware.
Secondly, 500 kilometers is not the distance that our fleet can sail in one day. If we sail along the mainland coastline where Yancheng Port is located, then we will be considered as a hostile caravan or need to pay a lot of tolls in gold coins. If we sail directly In that port, night sailing or deep-sea mooring at night will be a great test for our sailors.
Isle of Yi hangs alone overseas, we cannot drive along the coastline of Isle of Yi to the inland port, we have to cross the deep sea.
Again, our sailors are not experienced enough in sailing. They can't deal with storms at sea, and they can't deal with night navigation and deep-sea mooring at night. "
Qu Mao thought for a while, and asked: "Can't these skills be trained? Are all sailors in this world born with these skills?
Su Nan, tell me the truth, can you do what you said? "
Su Nan quickly waved his hand and said, "My lord, this subordinate doesn't mean that.
Of course any technology can be mastered through acquired training, but now we have a limited number of citizens, a limited number of sailors, and a limited number of seagoing ships.
Under these three constraints, we train the sailors’ ability to sail at night and respond to comprehensive sea conditions. The error tolerance rate is too low, and there is a high probability of loss of ships and sailors.
The subordinate thinks that we cannot bear this kind of loss at this stage, so the subordinate has never thought of training sailors to fly at night. "
Qu Mao nodded and said, "I still quite agree with your views, but if we only rely on a trip to Yancheng once in four months, even if we can go to Yancheng twice now, it means that we can't realize the balance of materials and commodities in the territory. Realize and circulate.
Then our development must be a wave of movement-style development. According to this development, when can I help Su Yan realize her dream of restoring the country?
After more than half a year of development, we only have more than 5,000 citizens, which is not enough for the number of troops stationed in Yancheng..."
The subordinates are only talking about the problems existing in the territory. "
Su Yan said to Sunan: "Su Bo, my lord just wanted to talk about the opening of new routes today. I suggested to my lord that you have rich experience in this area. You are not afraid of problems and can always find a way to solve them."
Qu Mao said: "Su Nan, since there are so many problems, let's let this matter go.
Su Yan told me that you are very proficient in this area, so I hope you can lead a team to organize sailors to train night sailing under the premise of ensuring safety, and sail outside to draw a chart around Yi Island.
As for the different directions at sea, I think you should be able to teach them, right? When I came back from Yancheng for the first time, I saw that your night flight was very reliable. "
Su Nan pondered for a while, and said: "My lord, miss, this subordinate is willing to accept this task.
Now the construction project of the Yidao road that the subordinate is in charge of has been very clearly arranged, and it can be carried out by just finding a leader with excellent qualifications.
The subordinate is the owner of Yidao, but the small villages in Yidao are relatively mature, and the coordination of construction resources in various places may require a little more responsibility from the lady, so that the subordinates can spare energy to train sailors.
Spend a little more time, with the sailing experience of your subordinates, you can still train the sailors in our territory of Yi Village to be competent. The big deal is that we spend a year training. By then, we will drive 10 sea-going ships at a time, sell once and purchase once. At least we can manage the resources needed for the development of our Yi Village territory for half a year.
At that time, the Yancheng Port route and the newly developed route will alternately go back and forth, and the material circulation will basically be realized.
What's more, the subordinates also know that Yancheng Port is 800 kilometers away, and Nanhai Port, another port city that also belongs to the former Principality of Liusu. "
Qu Mao nodded and said: "Let's plan this way first, a year is still too long, speed up as soon as possible, but the premise is that safety comes first.
We now only have one refugee shelter that provides us with 3-5 recruits every day, and the population growth is still too slow, so after the opening of the new air route, we also have to consider part of the population.
For the new lingmin, even if it is a bit more expensive in the new shipping route, you have to buy it. Every time you go to Yancheng Port, purchasing lingmin is a top priority. "
Su Yan smiled and said: "Su Bo, one year may be too long. My lord hopes that you can shorten the training time of the sailors as soon as possible. I also think what your lord said makes sense. The leaders must increase their scale as soon as possible."
Su Nan cupped his hands and said: "Yes, the subordinates have remembered the lady's instructions, and the adults' requests have also been remembered. The subordinates will go all out to shorten the training time."
Qu Mao said: "Su Yan, when it comes to the people, we have to mention the ceiling of our command value. We only have eight heroes, and the death is more than 5,500 command points.
Now except for Su Qiaoer whose level is slightly lower, it takes longer and longer for everyone else to upgrade.
If we want to purchase leaders from the new route, it means we have to have a few more heroes, or we need to convert leaders to freemen.
Currently, the most likely thing is that Maffei Trani will become a hero soon. Unfortunately, there is no purple-gold treasure chest. The last time I opened so many treasure chests, there was no hero recruitment ticket. "
Su Yan said: "My lord, let's train the sailors first, it will be a long time before the new sea route is opened."
(end of this chapter)