Chapter 67
In the first few days, Dany stood on the bow watching the scenery with great interest, and even learned Jack and Rose, shouting "I am the king of the world".
Well, she stood behind Big Black and shouted—very confident and in Chinese—not afraid that others would hear...
But it took a long time , the blue of the sea and the sky is so monotonous that it can no longer make her interested.
There are two small things worth mentioning. First, horse men are really solid, and they get used to it. Irri Jhiqui ran to the side of the boat when he was free, watching the dolphins swimming with the boat foolishly.
Second thing...
In the beginning, the crew was still very worried that the dragon would burn their ship, and Blackbeard Groleo saw the sky flying around the mainmast. When there are three dragons, he is even more nervous like a Maiden.
He shouted to the sailors, filled the sea with empty logs, and hung them on the gunwale to prevent fire.
Then they discovered that dragons only breathe fire in two situations: Dany orders them, and they encounter raw food.
The worries in their hearts dissipated, and the sailors were surprised to see where the three dragons had gone, and the mice ran away like crazy.
Then Dany took the dragon to the bottom of the cabin, and that night, the sailors added a dish: braised rat.
The mice seemed to have lost their minds, and ran directly to the deck and jumped into the sea...
Three boats, a total of 146 mice were found, the largest of which was More than half a pound.
Dany didn't go to eat rat meat, but horse men, especially love rats, second only to the love of horse meat.
Gradually, when the sailors see the dragon flying in the sky, they will spontaneously feel strange and strong pride, they often say "we are the Queen's subordinates, under the wings of the True Dragon, for her. fight, die for her, and glorify the dragon."
horse men like to lie on the side of the boat and watch dolphins, from the captain to the little brother to help the cook, they all like to watch the three Big Blacks flying.
Dany bored in the room practicing the "108-letter phonics table" that he learned from the House of the Undying, which was the basis of the Old Valyria incantation.
"a....hai...gele—mu..." She stumblingly said to the iron card.
"108-letter phonetic chart" is only the reading of Church Dany spells, and I don't understand what it means, and it is not at all to guide high-level goods such as magic power and meditation.
I didn't even have the complete incantation to read to Dany. Finally, I could only take out the status token I found from the Dragonlord's corpse, and read the glyph on it like a little child recites Pinyin.
On the back of the Silver Coin of the Tianchao one-yuan coin, there is a circle of letters "zhongguorenminyinhang" outside the chrysanthemum. It is finally a group of two characters separated by spaces.
Dany's iron card is a series of glyph letters. She doesn't even know how to add "punctuation marks".
If you show "zhongguorenminyinhang" to a Chinese person, he will have to be stunned for a while before he can react. What if you show it to a foreigner with a completely different Chinese?
Dany is facing this situation now, with that "108 alphabet", she can read "a, b, c, d..." together but don't know what it means, I don't know how to read.
"We're in trouble, Khaleesi." Doreah walked into the room with a milky clay pot.
Lys maid is not only used to seeing the sea, but also spent many days with the dragon, and did not mix with the sailors and horse men on the deck.
"What's the trouble?" Dany asked casually.
Doreah poured her a large bowl of fresh mare's milk before saying with a sad face: "The wind on the sea is weakening, and it won't be long before the boat will stop at the sea, unable to move even a little bit."
This world has five seas that are closely related to human civilization, the Jade Sea in the east, which crosses the Qarth Strait from the Jade Sea, and a large Sea Territory south of Essos is the Summer Sea; Essos The ocean in the north of the continent is called "Shivering Sea"; there is a narrow sea between Essos continent and Westeros, with an average width of 500 kilometers, its name is "Narrow Sea".
Westeros people have two common names in Essos, "Andals", "Visitors of Sunset Lands", Westeros is located in the world extreme western lands, but in the west of Westeros, there is also a vast ocean.
The fleet where Dany is located took a day to leave the Qarth Strait and only two days to enter the Summer Sea. It is still some distance away from New Ghis, the most eastern city in the Summer Sea, and farther west. Slaver's Bay is still in the shadows!
Dany leaves the room, finds Blackbeard Groleo and asks about it, he nonchalantly says, "We have two paddle boats!"
Dany didn't quite understand at first What are the ships doing with so much pulp? That Summer Sun has three hundred pulps.
After the wind had completely subsided in the afternoon, Blackbeard gave an order, the sailors on the mainmast lookout waved the flag, and the two narrow ships ahead dropped two dinghies.
There are bundles of thick hemp ropes that are taller than people, about as thick as Dany's wrist. On the ring at the protruding point of the dragon bone on the bow.
As the flags swayed, the two paddle boats suddenly rhythmically beat drums, and Dany saw a white waterline rising over the sides of the two boats, hundreds of sailors working hard paddle.
"Boom - crunch, crunch..."
The rope in front of it had been sinking all the time, but it bounced up suddenly, taut, and the water mist was in the water. The hemp rope spread around, and the fat-bellied sea boat trembled, and then moved slowly forward with a moan.
The rowing boat in front is 60 meters long and about 12 meters wide. It is narrow and long like a coulter, but the sea boat behind it is very wide, like a fatty with a big belly.
At this time, the three ships sailed slowly on the sea with the same drum beat, just like the three little ants walking in step on the blue canvas of boundless.
"It won't last long." Dany muttered.
"It won't take long, we're not too far from Ghiscari Strait, we can stop at New Ghis for a while and wait for the windless period to pass." Blackbeard said calmly.
Old seafarers are really experienced. At noon on the second day, the soaring Big Black brought them the smell of land, a charred leg of lamb.
In the evening, the lookout on the paddle boat ahead shouted: Ghaen is here!
Ghaen is about the same size as House Mormont's Bear Island. The longest straight-line distance on the island is no more than 100 kilometers, but the value is completely different. Bear Island is located in a remote location, and you won't encounter a foreign ship for a year or two. merchant ship.
Ghaen is located in the middle of the waterway between Slaver's Bay and Qarth, and at the southern end there is New Ghis harbour. Most of the ships going to and from the east and west continents will get supplies in New Ghis, which is called the pearl on the eastern end of the Summer Sea. .
Blackbeard Groleo also intends to wait there for the sea breeze.
If House Mormont's Fiefdom is Ghaen, his wife won't run away without saying anything.
"The Ghis do not welcome outsiders into Ghaen, but the New Ghis port at the southern end can be freely entered and exited. If it is not close to the harbour and only stays in the bay, the Ghis will not even charge us taxes.
>So, even though New Ghis is not far from Qarth, the ships will still go there for a while." Standing on the bridge, looking at the black dot ahead, Blackbeard Groleo explained to Dany.
“Are Free City taxes expensive?” Dany asked.
Blackbeard thought for a while and said, "If you don't sell goods locally, you will only be charged for the berthing fee of sea-going boats. The bigger the boat, the bigger the dock area it occupies, and the higher the price.
For three ships like us, if they enter the New Ghis pier, the daily berthing fee will be more than 10 Gold Honor...about three Golden Dragons."
"Wow, it's really Steal money!" Dany exclaimed.
"It's not too expensive, all major city-states have this price." Blackbeard Groleo shook his head and said, "You may not know how profitable the maritime merchants are.
So Let's just say, even if there is no brilliant business savvy seaman, he only needs to circle the 'Summer Sea -- Jade Sea', and he can get wealth that can't be spent in a lifetime.
20 times the profit Starting off, there is no upper limit. Brilliant merchants keep buying low and selling high in major ports, and the profit margin can generally reach 100 times after one trip.
Similar to the well-connected people like Your Excellency Xaro and Magister Illyrio, The average gross profit is 150 times."
Not only was Dany stunned, but Jorah and Whitebeard were also surprised.
"Is it really so profitable?" Jorah said in disbelief, "Isn't everyone going to be a maritime businessman?"
Having known such a high profit for a maritime business, he was . .....The voyage he took his wife to the party was enough to travel to and from Jade Sea several times, then...
"hehe..." Blackbeard exerted force Stomping, the wooden board made a muffled sound of "pēng pēng pēng", "Do you know the cost of my treasure?"
"I haven't built a boat before?" Jorah sneered, looked around, and estimated : "I used 2000 Golden Dragon to build a large sea ship, about a third of your size. It is said that King's Landing's largest battleship costs as much as 100,000 Golden Dragon. Although your ship is big, it is not a battleship... .At most 30,000 Golden Dragon."
Blackbeard gave a thumbs up and praised: "It turns out to be a veteran! It took 28,000 Golden Dragon to build my Saduleon."
Jorah smiled smugly.
"But do you know the loss rate of sea ships?" Blackbeard continued: "On average, 100 ships go out to sea, and if 80 ships can be returned, Chamber of Commerce cheering excitedly, and even go to the temple to donate money; When 70 ships come back, he will breathe a sigh of relief: he can finally make a lot of money; when he returns 50 ships, he sighed then said, and goes home to continue building ships; if not one comes back, he goes home to write his will, and a glass of poisoned wine will kill his life.
If an ordinary businessman loses a ship like me, who can bear it?"
Silence!
There was silence on the bridge, and everyone was stunned by the cruel living environment of the sea.
“There are as many big businessmen who commit suicide every year as there are overnight riches, like Magister Illyrio.” Blackbeard continued, “When he was young, he was just a man with his head on his belt. Street warrior, um, limit the dog and steal chicken, do a lot of work like robbery and assassination.
You think, if no one else gives up his position, how can a gangster rise step by step, and eventually To be a trade Magister? How did those people make way? Failed business!"