Although there was no major risk to the fleet along the way, it was still in constant condition, abandoning damaged ships almost all the way, and repeatedly losing personnel.
The most dead are those slaves, many slaves have no experience of going to sea at all, their bodies and bones are already weak, coupled with the discomfort caused by the bumps, and the nutrition cannot keep up, and a life is inevitable.
Although there are reasonable facilities to go to sea, the Han people have actually died of illness, but the number is very small.
The so-called overseas package is a necessary supplement to nutrition, especially some vitamin supplements.
These things were a match for the Han Chinese, but they were only available to the Roman and Persian Sassanid nobility, and they were not even thought about.
When it was supplied to Rome and Persian Sasansanid, it was not directly taken out of whole objects such as bean sprouts and oranges, but actually milled.
They also manipulate their sense of taste, in short, they don't let them know what they're eating.
The most dead were the captured black slaves, a group of severely malnourished people who had sailed for the first time in their lives, and who were in a poor position on the ship.
The Romans also died a lot, which frightened the nobles, but then wondered why they didn't have those problems.
"Food."
Julian said with great 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 inconspicuous details, and fools are clues that are clearly placed in front of them and still do not know.
"We can drink as much as we want, but those people can't."
Julian only noticed some obvious clues, and it was difficult to guess them all: "There are many kinds of wine prepared by the Seris, the traditional grain brewing of Seris, and the fruit brewing.
In addition, we were able to eat meat from the land, and the meat was fresh, and the Seris had storage methods that we needed to understand. ” In general, I guessed correctly, that is, the human body needs multivitamin supplements to stay healthy, but I didn't guess the core.
It is true that Yuanhang will store a large amount of wine instead of water, not that there is no need to store water, because even if water is properly preserved, there will be problems, and water and wine will not have problems when stored.
When sailing, it is necessary to drink more water than when drinking, so that people who often sail often become drunkards.
"On top of the recipe," Helena was a little lost and excited, "The Cyris have a lot more recipes than we do. ” After boarding the ship, although the conditions were not comparable to those on land, the Roman nobles were truly amazed, and they tasted the food from the Han Chinese people, which was beyond imagination, and the variety of flavors was also jaw-dropping.
But they don't know that if Liu Yan hadn't "invented" the way of stir-frying, unlocked the use of a variety of condiments, and introduced the application of spices in ingredients, in fact, the Han people's previous treatment of food was barbecue or boiled in clear water, and the novelty was to eat it raw, which is basically not much different from the cooking techniques of most ethnic groups.
It is also treated with barbecue, and after adding spices, it is two different foods, and at the same time, whether or not to add chili peppers will become different dividing lines.
For many people, eating barbecue with or without spicy is a war of who is a heretic in addition to the battle of salty and sweet tofu brains.
The most popular dish of the Romans and Persians is stir-fried vegetables and various stews, with the blessing of spices, even the grass can be cooked with full aroma, and the dish of fried lean pork with chili peppers, although simple, is a tried-and-true dish that has always existed on the table.
The Romans and Persians already knew enough about spices, and they had been able to buy spices from Ah San, but the variety was far less than that provided by the Han Chinese.
Han envoys to Persian Sassanid and Rome gave some spices as gifts, and more spices were sold.
At present, it is not only the Han Chinese who have mastered spices, and the three major spices in the world are the South Seas, India and South America.
The Romans and Persians did not even know where the South Seas were, and it was impossible to obtain spices from them.
No country or nation on the island of the world has set foot on the South American continent, and it is still a virgin land that is "isolated from the world".
Most of the countries that were able to obtain spices came from India, such as the Gupta dynasty, which provided spice goods to many countries, including fennel and cumin, which together amounted to more than 20 species, and there were other relatively small varieties.
Spices first appeared in Zhuxia in the Western Han Dynasty, after Zhang Qian returned to China from the Western Regions, he not only took out a variety of vegetable seeds collected, including several 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 the first generation of the Greek Kingdom of Bactria, and the spices of Bactrian Greece come from the trade of Asan.
The Gupta dynasty set the price of spices at an extremely high price, selling them as a luxury item among luxury goods, and one pound of spices was at least the price of ten catties of gold.
Continental India has indigenous spice varieties, such as turmeric, which is indispensable for curry, and the vast majority of spices are transplanted from the islands of the South Seas.
The Romans and Persians were able to buy spices from the Gupta dynasty, and in terms of their status as envoys, it is not that Julian and others had not eaten spices before, but the key problem was that the Han Chinese used spices properly in their cooking techniques and could prepare more delicious food.
The real establishment of the "big foodie empire" in Zhuxia was in the Two Song Dynasty, and the technique of stir-frying was also from the Two Song Dynasty.
There are quite a lot of reasons for this, in addition to the social division of the two Song Dynasty into a tendency to like drunken life and dream death, it is also the development of smelting technology and production technology, and the iron pot began to be widely used, especially the first time that the pan appeared.
With Julian to solve the mystery, the Romans thought they had mastered the secrets of ocean voyages, and if they weren't still on the Han Chinese ship, they really wanted to cheer and sing so many songs.
They endured and disguised themselves with all their might, and began to look at the Persians in the same boat with a sense of superiority, to the confusion and anger of the Persians.
"What we're missing now is a glimpse into how ocean-going vessels are made."
Flavies had tried more than once to figure out the construction of the Han Chinese ships, and it was not that he had wandered around, but he had never been able to see any clues: "The only time I went down to the bottom warehouse, the Selis were too tightly fenced to see anything. ” The members of the Valentine family where Flavis belonged had not yet had the idea of "I can replace him" in the Constantine family, and they were full of thoughts about getting rich, getting rich, getting rich The Valentinianus family's shipbuilding industry accounted for three-four-tenths of Rome's share of ship sales and leases, including its sphere of influence, resulting in a monstrous fortune.
However, the background of the Valentinianus family is still a little worse, most of the money is used to open up relations and win allies, and under the premise of not daring to make too much of a big show, it is clear that the Roman nobles can arm private armies or buy regular Roman legions as long as they have money, and they have only established two private legions, and Akari has bought two legion commanders, and how many legion commanders he buys privately belongs to a secret that is not clear to the patriarch.
"I've tried again and again, but the Seris don't refuse to sell ships."
Flavis said with a wry smile: "It's just too expensive, and it's not sold in small quantities." ” Even if there is no such thing as a "reverse deduction method" now, it has been a similar practice since ancient times to dismantle a thing and try to figure out the structure.
Cottage or something is a virtue, especially when there is no relevant supervisory authority and law, it depends on whether you have the ability to go to the cottage.
The Han Kingdom was willing to sell ships to the Romans because they knew very well that it was impossible for today's technological creations to achieve absolute technological blockade, and they would never be naïve enough to think that creating an item would reach the ultimate technology.
In addition, any creation actually needs to obtain profits, and those profits are used to conduct deeper research, but there is no harvest after spending a huge amount of money, or the harvest does not meet expectations, but anyone who understands business science knows that sooner or later they will consume themselves.
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"The cheapest type also requires at least 8,000 gold coins, and each purchase of ships cannot be less than twenty ships of the same type."
Flavies couldn't help twitching his cheeks as he spoke: "The last time the fleet that sent Seris to the army, the most expensive was only three thousand gold coins. ” "But those ships departed from Egypt, and stopped for repairs on the way, and the furthest they reached the Barbarian Captain's Headquarters in Seris."
Helena read the Chinese pronunciation when she said the Pingban Captain's Department, and even though she had worked hard to learn Chinese for several months, she still read it awkwardly and with a strong accent: "We are almost arriving in Xindu on the ship of Seris from Constantinople, and we have seen the reliability of the ships of the Seris, haven't we?"
Although they did not want to admit it, the rest of the Romans were irrefutable.
What they feel depressed about is that as Helena gets closer and closer to the Han Kingdom, her ideological perspective and the above are constantly changing, and she is going to her husband's family before she gets married.
A purchase at the lowest price requires 160,000 gold coins, which is equivalent to the assets of a medium-sized Roman noble, and there is no after-sales service or anything, let alone the Han people sending people to teach them how to use it.
"Anyway," Julian said sullenly, "they all need to be bought." ” In fact, before opening their mouths, the Romans were mentally prepared to be rejected, and the Han Chinese offered a higher price, and it was better to be willing to sell ships that could go to sea than not to be willing to sell.
Thinking about it again, as long as there are ships, you can run ocean-going trade, and you can buy goods from the Han people for reselling, no matter how much you can return to your capital, and even make a lot of money by doing reselling business.
Look at what the Romans thought, and that's why Liu Yan finally decided to sell ships that could sail to the sea.
Shipbuilding technology, which is destined to be cracked and imitated sooner or later, will first make a wave on the sale of ships, or even just make a wave, and the funds from the sale of ships will be invested in research to create more advanced and better ships to continue to earn, which is a long-term business.
The Han people are now ahead of all the nations in the world in terms of production technology and innovation ability, whether it is the Romans or whatever, and if their goods want to be competitive, the first choice is to buy from the Han people.
The more they purchased, the more they were creating wealth for the Han people.
Flavies is now glad that he had the foresight to have recruited enough partners to have a great advantage in terms of capital.
He would even think that it would be better if the Han people's prices were higher, so that some underfunded guys would be eliminated first in this Age of Discovery.
"Did the Cyris people plan from the beginning" Julian pondered: "The Xindu people do not have ships to go directly to Constantinople, and the ships of the Xindu people are not as good as the Serisians in terms of quality, and the credibility of man-made ships can sail far."
It is very scary to think about one thing, the country and nation they know, not the Persians, who are not half-witted, can build ocean-going ships are the Gupta Dynasty and the Han Kingdom, and then on the premise that the Gupta Dynasty did not provoke the Han State, the Han people casually found a reason to go up, and even made it clear that they had to die with ferocity.
Flavies said in a daze: "For the sake of technology monopoly" Julian bowed his head wordlessly, thinking that this must be the case It seems that someone has said that no country can completely control the seas, no matter how much sea power it has, or even how far it has reached technological superiority, once it wants to completely control the seas, it will face a situation where the whole world is the enemy.
Since we want to completely control the seas, we must first hold more sea power than the combined tonnage of the ships of all countries, so it is an unimaginable expense to maintain the sea power alone, and we must ensure that new ships are put into service again and again, and that we will always be in the leading position in scientific research.
Having a large enough fleet does not mean that you can completely control the seas, after all, not only one country has a coastline, even if you can't build any sharp warships, but at least you can build ships that can run the ocean, even if you can meet one and catch one, the cost of maintaining patrols will be astronomical.
Going to sea for the purpose of smuggling is still only caught, there must be countries that have repeatedly challenged, and even multiple countries have joined forces to launch challenges, and being able to survive once does not mean that they can last forever, and the war will not only take place on the sea, it will inevitably be a super war combining land and sea.
The scholar's argument was based on the history that had taken place, and that none of the countries of Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, or Britain had ever achieved complete control over the seas in the true sense of the word, but were the builders of the order, and their hegemony lasted for a minimum of eighteen years and a maximum of one hundred and sixty-three years.
The loss of their maritime supremacy in these countries is not the loss of one or several naval battles, but the fact that they have supremacy in the sea has triggered a war that combines land and naval warfare, and even if they have won repeated victories, they have not survived.
Julian has no history to learn from, and after entering the Han named A Sanyang, he has no time to think about it
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