Sweep the World

Although there is no big risk for the fleet all the way, it is still in constant condition. Almost all the way, the damaged ships are abandoned, and the personnel are also repeatedly damaged.

The slaves who died the most were the slaves. Many slaves had no experience of going to sea at all. Their bones were already weak, coupled with the discomfort caused by the turbulence, and the lack of nutrition to keep up. It was inevitable that they would die.

Although there are reasonable packages to go to sea, Han people actually died of illness, but the number is very small.

The so-called sea-going package is a necessary supplement for nutrition, especially some vitamin supplements. These things are a supporting package for the Han people, but they are only provided to the aristocratic class of Rome and Persian Sassanids.

When they were provided to Rome and Persian Sassanids, they would not directly take out the whole objects such as bean sprouts and oranges, but they were actually milled. They will also play tricks on the sense of taste, in short, they will not let them know what they are eating.

The most dead were the black slaves who were captured. They were a group of severely malnourished groups. The first time they went to sea in their lives was a long voyage, their position on the ship was a bit too poor.

The Romans also died a lot, shocked to the group of nobles, but behind them they wondered why they didn't have those problems.

"Food." Julian said with extreme certainty: "It must be the difference in food!"

There are smart people and fools in the world. Smart people are able to observe the unusual from unobvious details, and fools are clues that are plainly presented in front of them and still don't know.

"We can drink at will, those people can't." Julian just noticed some obvious clues, it is difficult to guess all of them: "There are many kinds of wine prepared by the Serris people, the traditional Ceris brewing from grains, and the fruit brewing. In addition. , We can eat meat from land! The meat is very fresh, and the Seris people have storage methods that we need to understand."

In general, I guessed it correctly, it was about the human body needs a variety of vitamin supplements to maintain health, but I didn't guess the core.

It is true that Yuanhang reserves a large amount of wine instead of clear water. It does not mean that there is no need to store clear water, because even if the clear water is properly stored, it will be in condition, and water and wine will not cause problems during storage. When voyages, drink too much water when drinking, so that people who frequently sail often become alcoholics.

"On top of the recipe..." Helena was a little lost and excited: "The Serris's recipes are much richer than ours."

After boarding the ship, although the conditions were not comparable to those on land, the Roman nobles were really surprised. They tasted the food from the Han people, the variety was beyond imagination, and the richness of flavors was shocking.

They don’t know one thing. If Liu Yan hadn’t "invented" the cooking method, unlocked the use of various condiments, and introduced the application of spices to ingredients. In fact, the Han people’s previous food processing was barbecue or water. Cooking, the more novelty is to eat raw (cooked), which is basically not much different from the cooking methods of most ethnic groups.

The same method is used for grilling. After adding spices, there are two different foods. At the same time, whether or not chili is added will become a different dividing line. For many people, eating barbecue with or without spicy is a war of heresy besides the battle between salty and sweet tofu.

What Romans and Persians love most is stir-fry and various stews. With the blessing of spices, even the grass can cook a full fragrance. Although the dish of fried lean meat with chili is simple, it is a time-tested dish. It has always existed on the dining table.

Regarding spices, the Romans and Persians already knew enough about them. They were able to buy spices from Asan before, but the variety was far less than the varieties provided by the Han.

The Chinese envoys to Persia, Sassanid and Rome gave some spices as gifts, and more spices were sold.

At present, it is not only the Han people who have mastered the spices. The three major origins of spices in the world are Southeast Asia, India and South America.

The Romans and Persians didn't even know where Nanyang was, and it was absolutely impossible to get spices from Nanyang.

No country or nation on the world island has set foot on the South American continent. It is still a virgin land "isolated".

Most countries can get spices from India. For example, the Gupta dynasty will be rich in oil, that is, they provide spices to many countries, including more than 20 kinds of fennel and cumin. There are other relatively few types.

Spices first appeared in Zhuxia during the Western Han Dynasty. After Zhang Qian returned to China as an envoy to the Western Regions, he not only took out various vegetable seeds he collected, including several kinds of spices. Those spices are not local specialties of the Western Regions. In fact, the reason why the people of the Western Regions have spices is obtained from Bactria-Hellenic Kingdom (the first generation of Great Xia), while the spices of Bactria-Greece come from Asan. Trade.

The Gupta dynasty set the price of spices extremely high. They were sold as luxury items in luxury goods. A pound of spices was at least the price of ten pounds of gold.

There are indigenous spice varieties in the Indian continent, such as turmeric, which is indispensable for making curry, and most of the spice is transplanted from the various islands in the South Ocean.

The Romans and Persians could buy spices from the Gupta dynasty. In terms of their status as envoys, it’s not that Julian and others had never eaten spices before. The key issue is the use of spices in the cooking techniques of the Han people. Properly, it can produce more delicious food.

Zhu Xia's "big food empire" was really established in the Song Dynasty, and the cooking technique was also derived from the Song Dynasty. There are quite a few reasons for this. In addition to the social divisions of the Song Dynasty, which tend to be drunk, it is also the development of smelting technology and production technology. Iron pans have begun to be widely used, especially the first appearance of pans.

With Julian to solve the mystery, the Romans thought they had mastered the secrets of ocean voyages. If they hadn't been on a Han ship, they really wanted to cheer and sing so many songs. They tried their best to endure and cover up, and at first they would look at the Persians on the same boat with eyes full of superiority, causing the Persians to be both confused and secretly angry.

"What we lack now is to spy on the manufacturing methods of ocean-going ships." Flavis has wanted to figure out the structure of the Han Chinese ships more than once. In the bottom warehouse, the Cyris isolation board is too tight to see anything."

The Valentiniannus family where Flavis belongs, the members up and down have yet to give birth to the idea of ​​"I can replace it" with the Constantine family, and they are all thinking about getting rich, getting rich, getting rich...

The shipbuilding industry of the Valentiniannus family occupies three to four ship sales (lease) shares in Rome (including spheres of influence), resulting in huge wealth.

However, the Valentiniannus family’s background is still a bit worse. Most of the money is used to open up relations and win over allies. Under the premise that they dare not to be too popular, it is clear that the Roman nobles can be armed as long as they have money. Private armies or buying regular Roman legions, they only established two private legions, Mingli bought two legion chiefs, and how many legion chiefs privately bought belonged to a secret that was not clear to the patriarch.

"I have tried again and again. The Serris did not refuse to sell ships." Flavis said with a wry smile: "It's just too expensive, and it's not sold in small quantities."

I bought it and disassembled it. Even if there is no relevant argument for "reverse inference", but I dismantled one thing to try to figure out the structure. Similar practices have been in existence since ancient times.

Shanzhai or something is a virtue, especially when there are no relevant supervision institutions and laws, it depends on whether you have the ability to go to Shanzhai.

Han Guo was willing to sell to the Roman voyage ships, he knew very well that today's technological creations could not achieve absolute technological blockade, and would never be naive to think that the creation of an object would reach the ultimate technology.

Furthermore, any creation actually needs to make a profit. Using those profits to conduct deeper research will cost a huge amount of money but it has no gain, or the gain has not met expectations. But anyone who understands business knows that sooner or later they will have to take one’s own hands. Wasted.

"The cheapest type also requires at least eight thousand gold coins. Every time you buy a ship, you can't have less than 20 of the same type." Flavis couldn't help twitching his cheeks as he spoke: "The last time I went to Seris. The most expensive fleet is only three thousand gold coins."

"But those ships departed from Egypt and stopped for maintenance on the way, and they only lasted as far as the Pingman Captain's Department when they arrived at Syris." Helena reads Chinese pronunciation when talking about the Pingman Captain's Department, even if it is a few. I have been working hard to learn Chinese in the past month, and I still read it with a heavy accent: "We have taken the Serris ship from Constantinople and are about to reach the credibility. We have seen the reliability of the Serris ship with our own eyes. ?"

Although unwilling to admit it, the rest of the Romans are irrefutable. What they felt depressed was that as Helena got closer and closer to Han, her ideological perspective and above also continued to change, and she had moved towards her husband's house before she got married.

A purchase at the lowest price requires 160,000 gold coins, which is equivalent to the assets of a middle-class Roman nobleman. There is no after-sales service yet, and there is no Han Chinese sending people to teach how to do it.

"No matter what..." Julian said sullenly, "I need to buy it."

In fact, before speaking, the Romans were already prepared to be rejected. The Chinese offered a higher price. It is better to be willing to sell ships that can go offshore than unwilling to sell them. Then think again, as long as there are ships, you can go to ocean trade, and if you work hard to buy goods from the Han people for reselling, you can pay back no matter how much you can, and even make a lot of money from reselling.

Look at the idea of ​​the Romans, that's why Liu Yan finally decided to sell ships that could sail across the ocean.

The shipbuilding technology that is destined to be cracked and imitated sooner or later, first make a wave on selling ships, not even just a wave. The funds from selling ships are invested in research to make more advanced and more useful ships and continue to earn. Long-term business.

The Han people now lead all nations in the world in their production technology and innovation ability, whether they are Romans or anyone. If their products want to be competitive, the first choice is to buy from the Han people. The more they buy, the more they are creating wealth for the Han people.

Flavis is now very fortunate that he has the foresight, that is, he has won enough partners, and he has a great advantage in funding. He would even think that if the price of the Han people was higher, some guys with insufficient funds would be eliminated first in this era of great voyage.

"Did the Serris have made plans from the beginning?" Julian thought deeply: "The faith people go directly to Constantinople without ships, and the quality of the boats of the faith people can't compare to Serris. People, credibility, man-made ships can sail long distances..."

It’s a very scary thing to think about. The countries and nations they know are not half-hearted Persians. The people who can build ocean-going ships are the Gupta Dynasty and the Han, and then under the premise that the Gupta Dynasty did not provoke the Han. , The Han people casually found a reason and went up there, even making it clear that they must be cruel.

Flavis said in a daze: "For the monopoly of technology?"

Julian nodded silently, thinking it must be so!

It seems that someone has said that no country can completely control the ocean, no matter how much maritime power it holds, or even what technological advancement it has achieved, once it wants to control the ocean completely, Will face a situation where the world is enemies.

Since we want to fully control the ocean, the first sea power we hold must be the total tonnage of ships of all countries. So just maintaining sea power is an unimaginable cost of funds, and we must ensure that there are new ships. Put into service, UU reading www.uukanshu. com's scientific research guarantees its leading position all the time.

Having a sufficiently large fleet does not mean that you can fully control the ocean. After all, more than one country has a coastline. Even if it can’t build any sharp warships, at least it can build ships that can sail deep into the ocean. One by one, the cost of maintaining patrols is astronomical.

Going to the sea for the purpose of smuggling is just to catch. There must be countries that repeatedly challenge, and even multiple countries join together to challenge. Being able to survive once does not mean that it can be sustained forever, and wars will not only occur on the sea. It must be a super battle combining land and sea.

The scholar’s ​​argument is based on the history that has happened. Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Britain...none of the countries have achieved complete control of the sea in the true sense. They all act as the founders of order, and their hegemony is maintained at least 18 times. Years, up to 163 years.

For these countries, the loss of their maritime supremacy is not because they have lost one or several naval battles. The dominance of the seas has triggered a combination of land and naval warfare. Even if they have repeatedly won victory, they have not sustained it.

Julian has no history to learn from, and after entering the A Sanyo named by the Chinese, he has no time to think about it.