Chapter 854

Although there was no major risk, the fleet was still in constant condition. It abandoned damaged ships almost all the way, and its personnel were damaged again and again.

Most of the slaves died. Many slaves had no experience of going to sea at all. Their bones were weak. In addition, they did not adapt to the bumps and could not keep up with the nutrition. It was inevitable that they died.

Although there are reasonable supporting facilities for going to sea, Han people actually died of illness, but the number is very small.

The so-called sea support is a necessary supplement to nutrition, especially some vitamins. These things are complementary to the Han people, but they are only provided to the aristocracy of Rome and Persian Sassanian. Don't even think about it.

When it is provided to Rome and Persia sassanne, it will not directly take out complete physical objects such as bean sprouts and oranges. In fact, it is ground and processed. They also do tricks in taste. In short, they just don't let them know what they eat.

Most of the dead were captured black slaves. They were a group of people who were seriously malnourished. The first time they went to sea was a long voyage, and their position on the ship was too poor.

Many Romans also died, which made the nobles tremble, but later they 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 in inconspicuous details, while fools still don't know the clues clearly in front of them.

"We can drink at will, but those people can't." Julian only noticed some obvious clues, and it was difficult to guess all: "there are many kinds of wine prepared by the cyris people, including traditional grain brewing and fruit brewing. In addition, we can eat meat on land! The meat is very fresh, and the cyris people have storage means we need to understand."

In general, I guessed right, that is, the human body needs a variety of vitamins to maintain health, but I didn't guess the core.

Yuanhang will indeed store a large amount of wine instead of water, which does not mean that there is no need to store water, because even if the water is properly preserved, there will be problems, and water wine will not have problems during storage. When sailing, they drink more than water, so that people who often sail often become alcoholics.

"On the recipes..." Helena was a little lost and excited: "the recipes of the cyris are much richer than ours."

After boarding the ship, although the conditions were incomparable with those on land, the Roman nobles really felt extremely surprised. They tasted the food cooked by the Han people. They were amazed at the variety and rich taste.

But they don't know one thing. If Liu Yan hadn't "invented" the way of cooking, he unlocked the use of a variety of seasonings and introduced the application of spices in food materials. In fact, the Han people's previous treatment of food was barbecue or boiling with water. The novelty was eating raw (delicious), which is basically not much different from the cooking methods of most nationalities.

It is also handled by barbecue. After adding spices, there are two different foods. At the same time, whether pepper is added or not will become a different dividing line. For many people, eating barbecue with or without spicy is a war of heresy besides the dispute over salty and sweet tofu brain.

What the Romans and Persians like most are fried vegetables and various stews. With the blessing of spices, even grass can cook full flavor. Although the dish of fried lean meat with pepper is simple, it has been tested for a long time and has always existed on the table.

The Romans and Persians already knew enough about spices. They could buy Spices from ah San before, but the types were far less than those provided by the Han people.

Chinese envoys sent spices as gifts to Persia, Sasan and Rome, and more spices were sold.

At present, not only the Han people have mastered spices. The three major spice origins in the world are Nanyang, India and South America.

The Romans and Persians did not even know where Nanyang was, and it was impossible to get spices from Nanyang.

No country or nation in the world island has set foot on the South American continent, which is still an isolated place.

Most countries can obtain spices from India. For example, the Gupta Dynasty will be rich. That is, they provide spice commodities to many countries, including more than 20 kinds of fennel and cumin, and there are relatively few other kinds.

Spices first appeared in Zhuxia during the Western Han Dynasty. After Zhang Qian returned from his mission to the western regions, he not only took out all kinds of vegetable seeds collected, including several spices. Those spices are not the local specialties of the western regions. In fact, the reason why people in the western regions have spices is that they come from Bactria Greek Kingdom (the first generation of summer), and Bactria Greek spices come from the trade of ah San.

The Gupta Dynasty set the price of spices extremely high. It was sold as a luxury among luxury goods. One kilogram of spices was at least the price of ten kilograms of gold.

There are native spices in the Indian mainland, such as turmeric, which is indispensable for curry, and most of the spices are transplanted from the Nanyang islands.

The Romans and Persians can buy Spices from the Gupta Dynasty. In terms of their status as envoys, it does not mean that Julian and others have not eaten spices before. The key problem is that the Han people use spices properly in cooking and can make more delicious food.

Zhuxia's "big food Empire" was really established in the two Song Dynasties, and the technique of cooking was also derived from the two Song dynasties. There are quite a number of reasons for this. In addition to the social atmosphere of the two Song Dynasties, it is the development of smelting technology and manufacturing technology. Iron pot began to be widely used, especially the pan appeared for the first time.

When Julian came to solve the mystery, the Romans thought they had mastered the secret of ocean navigation, or they were still on the Han ship and really wanted to cheer and sing so many songs. They tried their best to endure and hide, and began to look at the Persians on board with eyes full of superiority, which made the Persians confused and secretly angry.

"What we lack now is to spy on the manufacturing methods of ocean going ships." Flavis has more than once wanted to find out the ship structure of the Han people. He didn't wander around, but he couldn't see any clue: "the only time he went down to the bottom warehouse, the Siris isolation board was too tight to see anything."

The members of the valentinianus family where flavis belongs have not yet had the idea of "I can replace" the Constantine family. They are full of money, money, money

Valentinian anus family's shipbuilding industry accounted for 34 / 10 of the ship sales (leasing) share in Rome (including the sphere of influence), resulting in enormous wealth.

However, the details of valentinianus family are still poor. Most of the money is used to open up relations and win over allies. On the premise that they dare not make too big a move, it is clear that Roman nobles can arm private armies or buy regular Roman legions as long as they have money. They have only established two private legions, and Mingli bought two military leaders, The number of military leaders bought privately belongs to a secret that is not clear beyond the patriarch.

"I have tried again and again that the cyris did not refuse to sell ships." Vlavis said with a wry smile: "it's just too expensive and doesn't sell in small quantities."

Buy it and split it. Even if there is no relevant argument of "reverse push method", it has been a similar practice since ancient times.

Shanzhai is a virtue, especially when there is no relevant supervision organization and law, it depends on whether you have the ability to go to Shanzhai.

The Han state was willing to sell Roman sailing ships. It was very clear that today's technological creation could not achieve an absolute technological blockade, nor would it naively think that creating an object would achieve the ultimate technology.

Moreover, any creation actually needs to obtain profits. Using those profits for deeper research costs a lot of money, but there is no harvest, or the harvest does not meet expectations. However, anyone who understands business knows that he will die sooner or later.

"The cheapest type also needs at least 8000 gold coins. For each purchase, there can be no less than 20 ships of the same type." Flavis could not help twitching his cheeks as he talked about it: "the most expensive fleet of sailis was only 3000 gold coins."

"But those ships started from Egypt and stopped for maintenance on the way. They only lasted as far as the pingman Colonel's headquarters in Siris." Helena read Chinese pronunciation when talking about the captain of pingman school. Even after working hard to learn Chinese for several months, she still had a bad mouth and a strong accent: "we are about to reach the reliability of the ship of cyris from Constantinople. We have seen the reliability of the ship of cyris with our own eyes, haven't we?"

Although unwilling to admit it, the rest of the Romans were irrefutable. What they feel depressed is that Helena is getting closer and closer to the Han country, and her ideological angle and above are constantly changing. She has turned to her husband's house before she gets married.

One purchase at the lowest price requires 160000 gold coins, which is equal to the assets of a medium-sized Roman aristocrat. There is no after-sales service, let alone the Han people sending people to teach how to use it.

"No matter what..." Julian said dully, "they all need to be bought."

In fact, before opening their mouth, the Romans were well prepared to be rejected. The price offered by the Han people was higher. It was better to be willing to sell ocean going ships than not. On second thought, as long as there are ships, you can run ocean trade and work hard to buy goods from the Han people for reselling. No matter how you can get back your money, you can even make a lot of money by reselling.

Look at the Romans' ideas. That's why Liu Yan finally decided to sell ships that can sail in the ocean.

Shipbuilding technology, which is destined to be cracked and imitated sooner or later, will first make a wave, or even just a wave, in selling ships. It is a long-term business to invest the funds for selling ships in research, create more advanced and better ships, and continue to make money.

Han people are now leading all nationalities in the world in terms of production technology and innovation ability. No matter who the Romans are, if their goods want to be competitive, their priority is to purchase from Han people. The more they buy, the more wealth they create for the Han people.

Flavis is very glad that he has foresight, that is, he has attracted enough partners and has great advantages in capital. He would even think that if the price of the Han people were higher, some guys with insufficient funds would be eliminated first in this era of great navigation.

"Did the cyris plan from the beginning?" Julian thought deeply on his face: "believers don't have ships to go directly to Constantinople. Believers' ships can't compare with cyris in quality. Trusty man-made ships can sail far..."

It's a terrible thing to think about carefully. The countries and nationalities they know, not half Persians, can build ocean going ships are the Gupta Dynasty and the Han country. Then, on the premise that the Gupta dynasty did not provoke the Han country, the Han people casually found a reason to fight against it, and even made it clear that they must fight to death.

Flavis said in a daze, "is it for technology monopoly?"

Julian nodded wordlessly, feeling that 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 has, or even how technologically advanced it is, once it wants to completely control the ocean, it will face the situation of being enemies all over the world.

Since you want to completely control the ocean, if you want to hold more naval forces in all countries, it is an unimaginable cost of money to maintain naval forces alone. You have to ensure that new ships are put into service again and again, and ensure a leading position in scientific research.

Having a large enough fleet does not mean that it can completely control the ocean. After all, more than one country has a coastline. Even if it can't build sharp warships, it can at least build ships that can run far into the ocean, that is, it can encounter one ship and catch one. The cost of maintaining patrols will be astronomical.

Going to sea for the purpose of smuggling is just catching. There must be countries that repeatedly challenge, or even multiple countries that unite to challenge. Just because they can survive once does not mean they can survive forever. The war will not only happen on the sea, but must be a super war combining land and sea.

The scholar's argument is based on the history that has taken place. Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and Britain... No country has really achieved complete control of the sea. They are all the founders of order. Hegemony can last for 18 years at least and 163 years at most.

The loss of their maritime hegemony does not mean that these countries have lost one or more naval battles. The combination of land war and sea war was triggered by sea control. Even if they won victory again and again, they didn't survive.

Julian had no history to learn from. After entering the a San Yang named by the Han people, he had no time to think more.