When a few people in the imperial city of the capital of the Ming Dynasty experienced the impact of various immortals, Hainan Island, or Qiongzhou in the Ming Dynasty, is welcoming a new guest.
If Zhang Shiliang's modern yacht, which is more than 100 meters long, is like a sea palace compared with Dafu, then the cruise ship with more than 1000 passengers is really a sea castle. The cruise ship itself takes the tourist route of Southeast Asia.
In the late October of the 21st century, the cross sea cruise ships basically started with a displacement of 10000 tons, and the top even had a displacement of more than 200000 tons. The cruise ships where Captain Wu and others were located had a displacement of 50000 tons, not the top.
What is this concept? The displacement of a Spanish galleon is often only a few hundred tons.
Hundreds of tons vs tens of thousands of tons??
Even if the cruise ship itself has no attack power, its frightening and exaggerated body shape and the speed brought out by modern equipment are invincible at sea.
A few days later, Captain Wu and many tourists also completely determined one thing. They really crossed and came to the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty.
We have seen too many people and things in the early 17th century when we crossed the Strait near the curved island and reached Hainan all the way.
To determine the fact of crossing, the whole cruise ship was quickly divided into several factions, of which the largest was the shipping personnel headed by Captain Wu. Modern cruise ships pursue commercial development. Basically, one shipping personnel serves three guests.
Therefore, more than 1000 people on this ship, one quarter of them are shipping personnel in the cruise ship, and the remaining three quarters are tourists.
To be exact, there are more than 300 shipping personnel and more than 900 tourists in the cruise ship system.
There are more than 300 shipping personnel, including groups of chefs, doctors and other logistics personnel, as well as a security team. Even if there are no powerful attack weapons on board, not even guns, the security members are basically composed of veterans, and the explosion-proof shields, stab proof clothes, batons, electric shock guns, etc. are still complete.
These dozens of security guards are the largest armed force on the cruise ship at present. Or the kind that can be played on the battlefield of the Ming Dynasty without stage fright.
Standing on the deck and looking at the approaching coastline of Qiongzhou Road, Liang, the 35 year old security supervisor, went to the front of the deck and said, "Captain, is it really appropriate to go to Qiongzhou to contact the magistrate here this time?"
"Why do I think it's good to contact Xiong Wencan? Xiong Wencan, the governor of a province, has more say in the Ming court than the governor of Qiongzhou?"
Captain Wu sighed helplessly. With more than 300 shipping personnel, he formed the largest force on the cruise ship, and hundreds of tourists were willing to attach to him, but that was still the prestige in the past. Many shipping personnel were used to listening to him, but everyone passed through and really wore it!
It's hard to say when this inherited prestige will dissipate.
After sighing, Captain Wu said, "what's our biggest advantage? It's this ship. With this cruise ship, even if we meet Zheng Zhilong's fleet, we can rush out unharmed."
"But this ship needs oil."
"Although we are international cruise ships, we don't have much energy reserves on board. We replenish fuel when we arrive at the destination. Once there is no oil, let alone start the ship, even the generator can't move."
"In this case, if you want to replenish oil, you can only think of a way from the mainland. It is not difficult to refine oil by indigenous methods. As long as there is crude oil, we can make do with some diesel refined by indigenous methods with our ship's equipment and equipment, but many oil fields in Huaxia are too deep to produce oil thousands of meters deep."
"The shallowest oil field in historical records is the Yanchuan stone liquid written by Shen Kuo of the Northern Song Dynasty in Mengxi's pen talk. In Shaanxi, the people of the Northern Song Dynasty can get Yanchuan stone liquid, and we can certainly do it."
"Shaanxi is too far away. You can't ignore what era it is. The second year of Chongzhen was a period of anti thieves everywhere. In addition, the most reliable way to obtain crude oil is Shengli Oilfield in the future. An oil reservoir with a buried depth of less than 500 meters was found in Guangrao."
"At a depth of less than 500 meters, even if we don't use the modern equipment on board, as long as we have sufficient human and material resources and rely on manual excavation in this era, there is hope to dig a tunnel. With crude oil, we will have sufficient capital."
"But if you want crude oil from Shaanxi or Shandong, you must make great efforts from the Ming government. We don't have much fuel. It's a way to find Xiong Wencan, but once old Xiong has other plans, Zheng Zhilong's fleet is on his side, and we can't deal with it."
"It's better to come from Hainan. You can attack and retreat here. You can exchange a lot of money from the Ming court through Hainan, and then use the money to find businessmen to help us buy crude oil and other materials."
When a multinational cruise ship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons travels on the sea, there is a height difference of 10 meters between the bottom deck and the sea surface, which is equivalent to the city wall. Layers of buildings are like high-rise buildings in a metropolis. The appearance is all refined steel or alloy metal. Of course, there are also glass windows, but it is definitely not ordinary glass, otherwise it will be broken in a sea storm.
It's really hard for the bronze guns of this era to hurt the foundation. Just rely on the steel armor and speed to collide with the wind and sailboat, you can fight a big sea battle.
The only thing bothering these more than 1000 wearers is energy and oil! Now they burn heavy oil, but diesel can do without heavy oil.
As long as they have the ability to set foot in the oil fields in Shandong, the Chinese people can build the Great Wall. Are they afraid that they can't dig a tunnel less than 500 meters from the surface?
With crude oil, local refining is nothing more than temperature. When heated to more than 300 degrees, diesel can be refined from crude oil.
There are many kinds of amusement parks and equipment on the cruise ship. There are grand theaters with hundreds of people. There are restaurants in China and West, as well as gyms, basketball courts, solar swimming pools, etc. of course, there are seawater desalination equipment, not to mention guest rooms. This is really energy, which is a perfect marine fortress and marine city.
There is no shortage of technicians on the cruise ship to repair equipment, clean up faults, etc.
With many modern equipment, we are not afraid that it is impossible to heat more than 300 degrees of oil refining. The only difficulty here is how to make more convenient transactions with Daming.
"When you get to Qiongzhou Prefecture, you can give the magistrate some rare things. You can also trade with Daming and even Falangji merchants through the channels here. You have enough gold and silver to buy, and you can also buy crude oil from Chongzhen."
"At present, Daming is the most short of money. Daming actually died in the financial collapse. There are many precious treasures on our ship in this era. Let's say that a modern high-power telescope and infrared telescope are important military weapons."
"A guest also brought several sets of solar generators and portable lighting equipment. This thing is an anti heaven artifact."
The solar generator portable lighting equipment carried by a guest is a set of suitcase size, which can be easily carried by a family when traveling and camping. It can be charged during the day and illuminated at night.
The guest brought several sets of goods on the cruise ship. He planned to travel and visit the market in Nanyang. His family opened such a factory and brought two skilled workers.
Power equipment or solar energy recycling, how attractive is it to the great Ming Dynasty in the early 17th century?
If you take it out for auction, if you don't auction tens of thousands of liang of silver, you will definitely lose blood.