Chapter 116 Monsters gather
What is modern society? Wang Ning'an believes that it is just two words: numbers!
Digitize everything, pursue the highest efficiency, and maximize output... For example, five kilograms of grain exchanged for one kilogram of meat, this is something that the ancients cannot calculate, or there is only a vague impression, but in modern aquaculture, it is basic common sense.
Wang Ning'an doesn't want to treat people as machines, but he has to do this!
How much protein is consumed every day, how much intensity of training is maintained, and how much level the soldiers can reach... There is a strict relationship between this. Wang Ning'an doesn't believe in any talent. Even if there is, it is just a special case. A powerful soldier is like an athlete. He relies on eating seven points and three points on practicing. If he doesn't spend money, he wants to create a strong soldier. It's just a dream!
It's just that it's really painful to spend money.
A fat pig costs ten stakes of money, two stakes of twenty stakes, and two fat pigs a day, a year costs 7,000 stakes. The remaining grain, salt, tea, sugar, vinegar, oil, vegetables, chicken, duck, fish... are all a considerable expense.
Now there are less than a thousand people in the Wang family. If there are more people in the future, the expenses will expand like balloons.
Moreover, there are more and more horses in the horse farm in Wild Wolf Valley. The cost of a war horse costs at least five soldiers. Each soldier is given two war horses, and the money spent on the horse is ten times that of a human!
Just thinking about these astronomical numbers made Wang Ning'an's head burst.
No wonder the emperor of Zhao Song was not afraid of someone rebelling on the basis of utility, and the cost was too high.
Wang Ning'an is very profitable, but he often feels powerless when facing the bottomless pit.
When the third uncle asked to get food from the ocean, Wang Ning'an suddenly realized.
It's so damn, why did you forget something close to you?
"Uncle San, is it dangerous to fish in the sea? How about the harvest?" Wang Ning'an asked curiously.
Wang Liangjin smiled and wiped a scar on his neck. It was left for him by a big fish several meters long... When they arrived at Changsheng Island, they were hungry and thirsty, so they could only pick up some wild fruits and make some small fish and shrimps to fill their stomachs. After a few days, many people were unable to eat enough, their physical strength decreased, and some even got sick.
Wang Liangjin had no choice but to put his hope on fishing. At noon that day, they found that there were many water columns on the sea, which sprayed very high.
If romantic literati like Ouyang Xiu saw it, they would definitely think that it was the dragon king in the sea. Playing in the water, maybe there would be countless romantic poems left behind...
But Wang Liangjin is different. In his eyes, it is an extremely huge piece of meat!
Their ship set out, and the huge black shadows looming under the sea were even bigger than the ship. Wang Liangjin felt strange. He was not afraid at all at that time.
Holding the longbow tightly, a wolf-toothed arrow shot into the whale's skin. The huge giant beast seemed to be bitten by a mosquito, and there was no reaction and continued to swim forward.
Wang Liangjin and several friends were anxious, grabbed the javelin they had made before, threw it out hard, and finally penetrated the whale's skin, bright red blood flowed out, and a thick smell of blood was emitted from the sea.
The whale became violent and swam faster. Wang Liangjin and the others also went crazy, tracking the blood on the sea, using bows and arrows and javelins to attack, creating more wounds for the whale.
They didn't know how long they had chased them. The whale was exhausted and covered in scars, floating on the sea. Wang Liangjin's ship arrived near the whale, and the giants had no strength to escape.
He grabbed the spear and tried hard to penetrate the whale's body. The others were like crazy and attacked desperately, and finally killed the whale. After more than two days of busy work, they dragged the trophy back to Changsheng Island.
It was the first whale they caught. After eating it for more than two months, whale oil was used to burn fire to keep warm, and the fish skin was made into simple armor.
With a whale, they stood firm and conquered the indigenous people of Changsheng Island. Wang Liangjin naturally became the island owner...
I really didn't expect that the third uncle actually had the legendary experience of whaling. Wang Ning was fascinated by the feeling of being so envious.
In the era of his previous life, the island countries went to hunt whales every year. The bloody scenes attracted worldwide criticism, and Wang Ning'an also despised the shamelessness of the descendants of the Japanese pirates.
But it has to be admitted that before the discovery of oil, for hundreds of years, Westerners had wild whaling more than Japanese pirates. Whales were full of treasures. The skin could be made into armor, bones and internal organs could be made into feed, meat could be eaten, and whale oil extracted from fat was an excellent material for lighting, not to mention that sperm whales could also produce precious ambergris...
A whale can almost solve the annual consumption of meat in a village and bring tens of thousands of commercial benefits. Wang Ning'an was completely moved, and his mind was left with whaling, whaling, and whaling!
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The ship brought back by Wang Liangjin was too small, and the structure was damaged, so it could not withstand the huge weight of the whales. Wang Ning'an had to buy a sea ship in Mizhou through his uncle Cao Qi.
After being sent to Cangzhou, it took another half a month to modify it and carry a bed crossbow onto a large ship.
The bed crossbow is the deadly killing weapon of the Song Dynasty. It can shoot at a distance of 500 meters. In the Chanyuan Alliance, the Liao general Xiao Talin was shot in the head by the bed crossbow. From then on, the bed crossbow became a magic weapon for protecting the country.
Logically speaking, the Weiying, commander of Wang Liangjing, was just an ordinary wing army and was not qualified to equip the bed crossbow. Fortunately, Jia Chang, the governor of Hebei, is a shameless person.
The Wang family helped him and reciprocate his favor. Jia Changchao approved two crossbows for Weiziying, and one of them was moved to the ship by Wang Ning'an.
As long as the arrow is more than one meter long, the whale will definitely die, so it is not necessary to be as troublesome as the third uncle and the others.
Everything was ready, and Wang Ning'an was about to go out to sea with his third uncle and experience the feeling of "the long tassel in his hand, binding the blue dragon". But he had just set off and Ouyang Xiu sent someone to deliver the letter.
As the chief of the Six Arts School, Wang Ning'an never went to the school after the Chinese New Year. If he continues to absent from work, he will be fired.
On one side is whaling and on the other side is school.
Wang Ning'an believed that whaling was very important and decided not to care about Ouyang Old Man. Wang Liangjing believed that school was more important than anything else, so he directly held his neck and threw his son to the school.
Ouyang Xiu warmly received Wang Ning'an, "It's logical that you are fine."
"Then you call me here?" Wang Ning'an's eyes were blew out of fire, and he really wanted to tear Ouyang Xiu's old face to pieces.
"That's right. Recently, a few children are going to study in the academy."
"Come on, come." Wang Ning'an said angrily.
Ouyang Xiu's face sank, "Wang Ning'an, don't be ignorant. If I weren't worried about the face of the school, I wouldn't have bothered to call you over."
Wang Ning'an was puzzled, "Drunk, just a few little babies, is it worth your big deal?"
"They are not ordinary little babies!" Ouyang Xiu said loudly: "I have an old friend named Zeng Yizhan. He passed away the previous year. I just received a letter, his two sons, Zeng Gong and Zeng Bu, were going to study at Liuyi Academy."
puff!
Wang Ning'an, who was drinking tea, almost sneered. These two people were so famous. Zeng Gong was one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties and was as famous as the Three Sus. As for Zeng Bu, he was one of the generals under Wang Anshi and would be a big shot in the future. Be good, why are they coming?
Ouyang Xiu was watching his expression and expression while seeing Wang Ning'an moved, the old master was secretly proud.
"Not only that, Su Laoquan told me a few days ago that his two sons were studying in Shu, and they were accused of Wuming's teacher, and they were also ready to leave for Six Arts to study."
Su Laoquan’s son?
That's Da Su and Xiao Su!
Wang Ning'an was completely speechless.
Ouyang Xiu didn't give up yet, "In addition, the young master of the Lu family in Fujian, Lu Huiqing, also wants to come over, and Wang Anguo also mentioned that his nephew Wang Rong intends to be my teacher and will come soon..."
After coming out of Ouyang Xiu's study, Wang Ning'an's head was blank.
Zeng Gong, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu, Wang Yun... Oh my god, these are all future monsters. They all have to come to the Six Arts Academy. If Zhang Dun also comes and gathers the four treacherous slanders of the new party, they might all be able to summon the dragon... How to deal with these livestock? Wang Ning'an is in a bad mood.
Chapter completed!