Otherworldly Castle Era

Chapter 33 Round trip dilemma

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At the end of the fourth year of Qiyuan, the news that the royal family of Xia had added a new son spread all over the world, which made Xia Guo excited and happy. This meant that Xia had a successor.

Not long after, the news that His Majesty the Emperor intended to establish the prince’s eldest son as the crown prince spread quickly. Although the news was not true or false, the people were still very happy to see it succeeded.

Regarding the arrangements for his descendants, Yang Song was very troublesome. In addition to Yang Xian as the prince, he also arranged for the remaining four sons and five daughters.

It is best for the five princesses to say that even after they are married, the Zongzheng Mansion of the palace, as the department that manages the emperor’s relatives, will regularly give them certain money and materials.

The remaining four princes are somewhat troublesome. If they follow the example of the previous world, they should be placed in a frontier territory when they reach adulthood.

But Yang Song didn’t want to implement the royal enfeoffment system, which was not good for the long-term stability of the whole country. After all, the world had been in a lot of turmoil because of this.

So Yang Song decided to designate these princes as idle princes, and they were all supported by Zongzheng Mansion. If these princes are not free, they can go to business, become officials, travel, serve as soldiers, and become teachers…

But one of them is still limited. If you are an officer or a soldier, your position is unlikely to be too high, and at most it is only at the middle level.

After these systems are set down, sometimes Yang Song will think about it. If he were these princes now, he would not be the emperor anyway. He was tired, bitter, and responsibilities heavy, and he would be a freelance prince. Cool.

So Yang Song decided to himself that when he was older, he would transfer the responsibility of this position to Yang Xian, and then he would go and enjoy life in this world.

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In the early summer of the fifth year of Qiyuan, the first large-scale fleet from Bingxue Island returned to Xia under the **** of warships.

The first place for the fleet to dock is Ninghai City, the most important port city in the north.

A large number of items from the northern region of the mainland have been unloaded: large items such as animal skins, sea treasures, wood, and various small folk objects from the northern region.

The most important material in the fleet, silver ingots, was also unloaded for development outside the customs. The remaining materials will continue to be shipped south.

The territory of Xia Kingdom is long from north to south and short from east to west. According to geographical features, it is naturally divided into three regions:

There are four states on this vast land of more than 1.5 million square kilometers north of Shanhaiguan and south of Jiehe River, namely Leizhou in the west, Anzhou in the northwest, Yunzhou in the northeast, and Lizhou in the south. .

The Linhai Basin formed to the south of Shanhaiguan Pass and the north of Tianhouguan Pass is now the central core area where the capital of Xia State is located. Although the area is small, only about 500,000 square kilometers, it is the most important area and state in Xia State. ——Zhongzhou.

And the entire peninsula south of Tianchuanguan is the origin and birthplace of Xia State. Counting the rainforest at the southern end and the forest in the west, which are currently undeveloped, it covers an area of ​​more than two million square kilometers.

Although this area south of Tianchuanguan is the birthplace of Xia State, there is not much developed land. It is still only a circle around Tianqi City and the wasteland in the south.

Forget it, the developed area on the peninsula is only about half, so it is temporarily divided into two states, Qizhou with Tianqi City as the center, and Yuezhou with agriculture and animal husbandry developed in the Southern Wasteland.

These three natural areas all have one or several important port cities. Because of the long coastline, there are three outside the customs. They are Ninghai City, the most important military port city in the north, Shouhai City in the middle, and Lizhou in the south. Lihai City.

There is an important seaport city in the middle Linhai Basin, which is Linhai City, which is located more than two hundred kilometers northeast of Zhongjing. And in the area south of Tianqi Pass, there is a naval city more than ten kilometers east of Tianqi City.

Because of the overall layout and overall coordinated development of Xia State, these three regions have their own industrial concentration areas, economic development areas, agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery and other resource production areas…

So this time the supplies from the north are also divided into three parts, one for each area, and the welfare from abroad will not let any area fall.

When the fleet unloaded the last supplies in Naval City, instead of restoring the ship and preparing to sail again, it stopped at the port. The crew all landed ashore, watching the ships in the port point their fingers, and there were people from time to time. It looked like “It’s a pity”.

“Hey, after this trip, this ship is completely abandoned.”

“Yeah, the keel is cracked and it’s useless. What a pity.”

“If you go back and forth a few more times, the rest of the good boats will become like this. What can you do if this continues?”…

The sailors were a little bit reluctant to these ships about to be scrapped and some people were worried that if this continued, Xia Guo couldn’t help being consumed like this no matter how many ships there were.

A worker moving goods in a port saw the expressions of the sailors and couldn’t help but stepped forward and asked: “What’s the matter? What are you talking about? Isn’t the ship good?”

“Hey, don’t you know, the sky in the north is too cold, and the ship was frozen to death after a winter there.” A sailor replied, as if recalling the ice and snow in the north, he couldn’t bear it. She shivered with her arms.

“No, no, what you said is wrong.” Another sailor said after hearing: “The gentlemen said that these ships will crack when they come to the south after a winter of freezing. Up.”

“Isn’t it the bad weather in the north?” The sailor couldn’t help being a little unconvinced.

Another sailor seemed to want to know more, and replied: “This is called thermal expansion and contraction. It is okay if the ship does not return to the south. If it does not go to the north, it will do. Anyway, as long as it runs between two places, the ship will be fine. It will become like this.”

“So it’s like this!” Everyone understood, they all looked at the ships in the harbor, and they couldn’t help shaking their heads and sighing.

It turned out that the ships made by Xia Guo had been sailing in the warm waters of the south. As long as they were regularly maintained, it would have taken decades. However, after several round trips to the north on a large scale, these ships could not stand it. The temperature difference between the cold and extreme heat caused a large area of ​​cracks in the hull.

If it weren’t for Xia Guo’s advanced shipbuilding technology, the quality of these ships was very good, and it is estimated that they would sink halfway before returning to the port.

The situation of the ship here was quickly passed back to Zhongjing City. When Yang Song learned that, he asked Shen Kuo and Li Jie to ask: “What is going on with this ship? Is there a way to solve it?”