Chapter 291 Chicken Cage Bay

There seems to be endless rain in Jilong Village. When Yu Xiaotian's boat arrived in Jilong Bay, it happened to be a rainy day. The sky was covered with dark clouds, and the sea set off huge waves under the influence of strong winds. This was the first typhoon along the coast of China this year, but it happened to hit Yu Xiaotian.

Fortunately, it was not far from Danshui to the chicken cage. After they went to sea, they encountered the typhoon, so Yu Xiaotian did not let the fleet shelter the wind, but rushed to the chicken cage before the strongest wind came.

But when he arrived at Chickenlong wan, the wind here was much stronger. Many veteran sailors also began to seasick on the ship and vomited in a mess, not to mention the people on the ship who rarely went to sea.

This time, Yu Xiaotian brought a group of hard labor with him to Danshui and the chicken cage, as well as medical officers and others. Lin Yiyang also followed Yu Xiaotian. Although he has decided to stay in Danshui for the future, considering that he has not been to the chicken cage, Yu Xiaotian still asked him to follow this trip.

But I didn't think of it, but I encountered this typhoon. Several boats, like leaves, bumped up and down in the huge waves on the sea, sometimes thrown to the tip of the waves, and sometimes fell heavily to the bottom of the waves.

The hull made a squeaky sound in the huge waves, which made people feel thrilling. They were afraid that the ship would disintegrate the next moment and make them all fall into the water and become fish food.

In order to stabilize their bodies, many people had to tie themselves firmly to the boat gang with ropes, put on a posture of fate, and prayed loudly to the gods they believed in, praying that the gods would not be blown over by the strong wind and reach Jilong Bay safely.

And Lin Yiyang, a rookie on the sea, has already become a soft-footed shrimp, and his face is white. He lay on the cabin and continues to vomit, almost spit out all the bile.

But at this time, no one can help him. He can only tie him up and hang **. With the bumps of the hull, Lin Yiyang has a painful feeling, and even has a feeling of simply jumping out into the sea to drown and fall, saving him from suffering this life.

But the desire to survive still restrained him from this idea and moaned in the hammock.

Even Yu Xiaotian, who is used to seeing strong winds and waves, is not very good at this time. He can't help but feel dizzy and nauseous in his stomach.

Fortunately, the ships they came here this time were all selected to be strong enough. Although the waves on the sea were very large, the hull structure of these ships still withstood the test of the waves, and there was no accident of ship destruction.

In addition, freshwater and Jilong Bay are not far away, and the route they traveled is also close to Taiwan Island. Although they encountered a typhoon, Taiwan Island also covered some wind power to a certain extent, and they only encountered the limelight and had not yet encountered the main force of the typhoon, so this finally made them safely travel to the chicken cage. Bay.

When they saw the fort on the island outside Jilong Bay, all the people on the ship breathed a long sigh of relief, controlled their bodies with their own hands and eight feet, operated the boat, and sailed towards Jilong Bay.

The sea wolf in Chicken Cage Bay did not expect that their fleet would come on this windy day. As soon as they found their fleet, they immediately reported that Blackhead and Sun Baoqiang learned that the bay also immediately used a small boat, guided the fleet into Chicken Cage Bay, and let them lean on the dock in Chicken Cage Bay.

Now the wharf of Jilong Bay has been greatly expanded. In the past, there was only a simple trestle here, but now there are four strong trestles made of thick logs, so that ships can easily dock and unload goods, and can directly pass through the wharf. It is convenient to transport the goods to the chicken cage.

When Yu Xiaotian led his fleet into Jilong Bay, he also saw that more than a dozen boats had been moored in the bay at this time. Several of these boats were warships for the guarding of Jilong Bay, the other two merchant ships for transportation, and the rest were basically fishing boats.

Since the sea wolf occupied Chickenlong wan, the population here has been increasing for more than a year. In addition to the immigrants who came here to farm, a small number of fishermen have also moved here to settle down. Several boats in the bay are fishing boats belonging to fishermen. At this time, due to the wind on the sea, they have also sailed back to the bay.

After arriving here, these fishermen basically have to rely on the chicken cage village to survive. In addition to leave a small amount for their own food, the catch they have been sold to the chicken cage village in exchange for other living materials they need. Although the days are still miserable, they are less than when they lived on the land. The exploitation of the government is much more comfortable than before.

Among these ships, there is a relatively special existence, that is, the sea wolf's exclusive whaling ship.

Since Yu Xiaotian accidentally caught the first whale, whaling has become a common thing for sea wolves. At first, Yu Xiaotian's whaling was just to meet the needs of his people for meat. In addition, the main purpose is to let his newcomers temper their courage.

But after he began to toss out soap, whale oil became a necessary industrial raw material for sea wolves, so that Yu Xiaotian had to turn whaling to a normal.

And the whaling industry has begun to gradually develop around the world in this era. According to the previous history, China may not have officially joined this industry, but due to the emergence of Yu Xiaotian, there is now a full-time whaling fleet in the Sea Wolf Group.

Whales are really full of treasures. Whale skin itself is a kind of valuable leather that is quite difficult to obtain. For rich people, it is very popular. Although not many people use whale skin in Daming, Europeans like this kind of leather very much, so whale skin can be sold after tanned. The price.

Needless to say, whale meat tastes a little like mutton. It is undoubtedly a very good delicacy for human beings who lack meat food in this era. In addition, whales are huge in size, and a whale can easily get thousands or even tens of thousands of catties of whale meat.

The whale meat obtained by capturing this whale is on top of dozens of cattle and hundreds of sheep or pigs. For the sea wolves living in the sea, it is a very happy day to eat some such meat from time to time.

The most important thing is whale oil. Sea wolves are inseparable from this raw material, whether they eat or make soap. Now they have also begun to use whale oil to make candles, which are also sold on land, which is also very popular. In addition, they have not yet obtained better oil than whale oil. As a war material, it is commonly used in naval warfare. The fire attack tactics are also inseparable from whale oil.

So even if it is only for the production of whale oil soap on Nanri Island, Yu Xiaotian must normalize whaling activities and hunt whales continuously every year to obtain these materials from whales.

And sometimes if you are lucky enough, you happen to catch a sperm whale, and there is just a salamander in its stomach, it's really lucky. It's a good thing that you can't find, an extremely valuable spice, and the price is almost equivalent to gold. It's worth a lot.

In a word, whaling activities, for various reasons, have begun to develop as a pillar industry after Yu Xiaotian became a sea wolf. He will obtain a steady stream of funds from this cruel industry to meet his needs.

In addition, the sea wolf people, especially sailors, have completely formed a tradition in the past two years, that is, before new sailors are assigned to work on the ship, they must go to the whaling ship, follow the whaling ship, complete at least one successful whaling operation, and start from the beginning. The participation of the end is to dismember and divide the captured whale, and feel the baptism of blood.

Only a sailor who has experienced such a whaling activity can be officially assigned to the fleet to become a sea wolf trainee sailor after being recognized.

Therefore, while the whaling industry provides a steady stream of raw materials and food for sea wolves, it has also played a great role in tempering the sea wolves, so that now Yu Xiaotian is inseparable from this industry.

However, before Yu Xiaotian came to this era, he was definitely a hardcore whaler. Since the beginning of the development of the oil industry, human demand and dependence on whale oil have begun to decrease. Gradually, many marine countries have begun to realize that such killing will make this huge elf in the ocean the most Finally, it went extinct, so many countries finally chose to give up whaling.

However, there is such a well-dressed country in Northeast Asia, but it has to continue to hunt whales under the guise of scientific research, which has attracted the unanimous condemnation of many countries in the world, which was extremely disgusting to the little devils before Yu Xiaotian.

However, he did not expect that after coming to this era, he himself became the initiator to promote the first large number of whaling activities of the Chinese people. Although he felt guilty about the giant beasts of the sea, he still had to do this kind of thing for the future of him and many of his subordinates.

Fortunately, the world whaling industry has not developed rapidly, and the whaling industry is still in its infancy. So far, there are still a large number of whales in the ocean. Although he is engaged in this area of hunting, it does not have a great impact on this species, and with their current whaling ability and technical level, It will not cause great consequences, so Yu Xiaotian still decided to develop this industry.

Sometimes when looking at the killed whales, Yu Xiaotian even thought that if he became the hegemon of the sea one day, then he would simply formulate a system to limit the development of this industry to repay the evil he had done to whales before.

However, at present, Yu Xiaotian still pays special attention to the subordinates on the whaling ships. When they go to sea for whaling, they should pay attention not to hunt obviously pregnant female whales and baby whales as much as possible. In addition, young female whales should be caught or not to be killed as little as possible, and try to choose some elderly ones. Whales or male whales are killed, and female whales with small whales are not allowed to be killed. Otherwise, when they come back, they will not only be useless, but also have to be remembered.

This is also a self-restraint for Yu Xiaotian to promote this whaling industry. He just hopes that when doing this, it can cause less harm to whales, so as to talk about *.

Looking at the sea wolf whaling ships moored in the chicken cage bay, Yu Xiaotian even felt that he was a little hypocritical. On the one hand, he pushed his men to hold a whaling fork to kill whales, but on the other hand, he secretly felt pity for these whales. Thinking of this, Yu Xiaotian held the side of the boat and couldn't help smiling bitterly.

Not to mention that, in order to increase the harvest of the whaling industry, he has begun to include the construction of a new special whaling ship in the shipbuilding plan, and even the first whaling cannon specially used for whaling on the other side has begun to be molded, waiting to be cast in the next step and applied to the whaling industry.

Once a new whaler and whaling cannon are put into use one day, the efficiency of whaling will increase significantly, which is even more ironic, so that Yu Xiaotian himself does not know how to evaluate himself.

Sometimes this is what you don't want to do, but you have to do it for various reasons and reasons. While doing it, you are guilty and full of contradictions. Unfortunately, Xiaotian feels that he has fallen into this strange circle, when his ship sails from several whalers moored in the bay. At that time, he deliberately turned around and stopped looking at these whaling boats.

(Yesterday in a hurry, I typed the chapter serial number wrong, and I found it today, but due to system reasons, it can't be modified, so I can only apologize to the brothers who read the book! I will be careful in the future and say sorry again! My wife had a cold and a high fever, and I was so busy that I was on all fours! It's really a mistake that shouldn't be made!)