Whale hunting!

Whale hunting involves shooting or throwing a spear, harpoon, or dart attached to a rope into the whale's body for hunting.

The ancient Eskimos and North American Indians were the best at this, using it to obtain a large amount of meat, fuel and materials for making tools. However, in the Central Plains, except for the Zhanjiang people in Guangzhou Bay, few people engaged in specialized whaling activities.

Chu Tianxiu is not in a hurry to continue doing business and increase his private salt business. Instead, he takes his army of water thieves deep into the ocean to hunt whales. Naturally, he does not want to make money with this, at least not just to make money.

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The activity of hunting whales is indeed very profitable. In addition to obtaining valuable things such as large amounts of oil, whale meat, and whale skins, if you can catch a sperm whale, you may even get ambergris that is worth gold.

, can make a lot of money.

However, it is obvious that no matter how high the reward of hunting whales is, it cannot be higher than the private salt business and ocean trade.

If private salt can be sold to the Guanzhong area, then this transaction will bring a shipload of salt to Guanzhong and a shipload of silver back to Jiangyin.

The profits contained in this are so high that it really makes people jealous to the extreme.

Money is indeed a good thing. Even if Chu Tianxiu can pretend, he would not dare to say that he does not love money.

But the reason why he went out to sea to hunt whales was indeed not for money.

His real purpose is to familiarize himself with the environment of the sea, so that he and his sailors can become familiar with the ocean field and ocean navigation in a real sense.

Sailing on the ocean is no joke.

In this era, ocean shipping is not as safe as relying on river water. The sea that seems calm and calm may change in the next moment, setting off huge waves, and even the offshore waters moving along the coastline.

Sailing is also full of risks and crises.

Even if the ship Chu Tianxiu took when he went to sea was an ocean-going ship purchased from the Song Dynasty at a high price, it would still not be able to guarantee his own safety.

But Chu Tianxiu, who understands the context of later generations, knows that a country that truly wants to develop and has an enterprising spirit cannot completely immerse itself in the mainland, and must rely on the power of the ocean.

Especially in today's world, when shipping has not yet really emerged, ocean trade is a real "blue ocean field" and a "sunrise enterprise" that can not only make huge profits, but also gain strategic advantages in the world.

But most of Chu Tianxiu's men were hanging out in the Yangtze River and had never faced the real sea. If they were to engage in unknown ocean trade as soon as they came up, they would really be using their lives to hone their navigation skills.

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By hunting whales in offshore areas, let them become familiar with the navigation in offshore areas and practice it. Let them get used to the "treasure ship" they spent a lot of effort to purchase from Song Vale and become familiar with it.

The waterways in the surrounding sea areas were drawn and corresponding charts were drawn, and the original "Jiang Army" began to transform into a real navy.

What's more, in the activity of hunting whales, in addition to obtaining meat through hunting whales, replenishing the bodies of your ineffective men, and keeping their bodies well, you can also use this most thrilling activity.

During the hunting activities, he should hone his water thieves, hone their will and body,

In this era, whaling is definitely a test of life and death. It is ten times more dangerous than hunting a tiger. No one without courage can do such a thing, and generally speaking, the scene of whaling will be

It is very bloody and is a great test of one's will and courage.

In a sense, Chu Tianxiu led a group of water thieves to hunt whales, which was not a normal business, but a quasi-military operation.

After going out to sea several times to hunt whales and conduct several paramilitary operations, his navy was almost fully trained and ready for real naval operations.

In Chu Tianxiu's heart, he even had a very suitable goal.

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The sea breeze is blowing, the sky is clear, and the sun is like fire.

Above the sky, the scorching sunlight that seems to melt metal penetrates the slowly dissipating clouds in the distance and shines on the vast rippling blue sea. A fleet of eight ships plows through the waves.

Looking for traces of whales.

The sea environment of this era has not been too damaged, and marine life is very abundant. In addition to countless marine fish, the number of whales is also far greater than that of later generations. There are whales in the waters near the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea.

haunted place.

When Chu Tianxiu hunted whales for the first time, he did not go too far. He planned to go along the coast of the Yellow Sea and go as deep as seventy or eighty nautical miles into the ocean.

I have to admit that with the abundance of marine biological resources in this era, their group quickly saw pods of dolphins at sea, and also discovered a lot of sharks. If Chu Tianxiu's purpose was simply to obtain meat, maybe he could capture these

Marine life is the most suitable choice.

But Chu Tianxiu did not let anyone take action after all, but patiently walked along the coastline, looking for traces of the largest marine creatures.

There are about five or six whales in this group, which is considered a small group of whales. Chu Tianxiu is not a biologist, and the fishermen of this era are not familiar with the types of whales. They just call them Sea Dragon King, so they can't identify the whales.

kind of.

But roughly speaking, they look a bit like baleen whales, but they are not very big. The longest one is about eleven or twelve meters long, which is not much different from the baleen whale that stranded on Hu Douzhou.

As the distance got closer, the people on the boat could feel the hugeness of the whales. Even though the minke whales in front of them were not very big, they all felt nervous and feared these whales with the most primitive fear.

The overlord of the sea.

But for some reason, when Chu Tianxiu saw these whales, he felt a sense of eagerness and bloodthirsty desire in his heart.

While he was flexing his body and flexing his bones, he ordered five or six small sampans to be put down, and then he took sixty or seventy capable, strong and courageous men on these sampans and rowed in the direction of the whale.

They passed by and started their first whaling operation.

"It's so big! Only a creature like this can be considered the true overlord of the sea!"

When Chu Tianxiu was still far away from the whales, he was not aware of it and was just a little excited. But when he really got close to the whales and was only more than a hundred meters away from these giant beasts in the sea, he also had a feeling of excitement.

There is a feeling of tense muscles and rapid heartbeat.

This is a sense of fear, an instinctive sense of fear, a sense of fear that arises involuntarily because the whale's huge size threatens his life instinct.

For a moment, Chu Tianxiu vaguely understood why he had the idea of ​​​​hunting whales after seeing the stranded whale. It turned out that it was not only because he was thinking about the future, but also because he had always wanted to hunt whales.

An instinctive feeling of conquest.
Chapter completed!