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Chapter 48: Ice Ocean Fishing Boats

Just as Elsa and Anna were discussing using homemade silver coins to exchange islanders for ice age supplies on the nearest continent, they didn't know what they were worried about was about to happen.

Because the Beiyang area has ice and snow islands, the sea-facing territories on the mainland have developed over time.

Since the development of Ice and Snow Island has reached the present, lords of all generations have also known that if this place full of ice and snow is to develop, people are indispensable.

If you want someone, you must have the conditions to attract everyone. Therefore, the lords of all dynasties in Ice and Snow Island pay great attention to people's livelihood. This is also the reason why Aisha doesn't want other lords on the mainland to take civilians seriously.

If the lord of the Ice and Snow Island did not pay attention to people's livelihood, who would go to the Ice and Snow Island in that cold place? This is not the world where Yang Song was before. If you have nothing to do, come to sightseeing and traveling. The natives in this world do not have so much leisure and leisure.

Because Ice and Snow Island is an island, it is natural to pay attention to the ocean, so sea ships were built accordingly.

Most of the sea ships on Ice and Snow Island are trade transport ships or built with hard-resistant wood that exists in Iceland. They can be regarded as the earliest force in the world to build sea ships.

Of course, warships are definitely indispensable, but the biggest difference between warships and sea ships in Ice and Snow Island or this world is that they carry different people.

Moreover, it is a sea boat, but rather a slightly larger river boat. Simple sails, human-powered oars, and no rudders. They can only rely on oars to control the direction, and the weight space for transportation materials is also very limited.

Such a simple sea ship consumes and relies on manpower. If it weren't for sailing near the sea, it was simply sailing with life. And even if it was near the sea, there were no fewer ships destroyed by sudden storms.

It is precisely because of this danger that the indigenous people of this world have come up with a way to sail together to reduce the harm in distress by the number of fleets.

In fact, whether it is the style of sea ships, navigation technology, or group of hedging methods, they are all based on the land, and the navigation technology in this world is just a level of just starting out.

Ice and Snow Island is invisible to Aisha, and there is a side job among the people, that is, pirates.

In the past, a few hundred kilometers south of the Ice and Snow Island had an archipelago composed of many small islands, which contained many pirates.

When the pirates reached their peak, they dared to gather together to plunder coastal towns and harass the castles, making the lords in the sea miserable. However, since the ocean was not controlled by these lords, they could only let them go.

But because of his arrogance, he finally got into trouble with the pirate ancestor Ice and Snow Island. He was led by a lord from the Ice and Snow Island to fight more than 100 military and civilian warships. The naval ships came to this archipelago to carry out a one-sided encirclement and suppression.

If it weren't for the fact that the archipelago was all small islands and had no value for utilization and development, the Ice and Snow Island Lord at that time would have reasonably occupied this place.

More than a hundred years have passed, and the archipelago is now full of pirates of all sizes, but these pirates no longer dare to be as arrogant as their predecessors and dare to plunder everywhere openly.

It can only be said that there are vultures that eat rotten in places with interests. The more orderly the place is, the more rampant the chaos is!

The existence of offshore trade and maritime disorder have given pirates a soil to survive. Even if this is a high-risk occupation, the benefits obtained after successful plundering have allowed many people who cannot survive to continue.

"Christoff, move faster. It won't take many days. The ice age is coming. We must take advantage of this time to catch more fish." A middle-aged man with a scar on his face shouted at the young man paddling with his hands at the stern of the boat.

"I understand, dad." Christopher responded loudly to the middle-aged man who was about to cast a net on the bow of the boat, and struggled to operate the two oars on both sides of the fishing boat with both hands, so that the shaking fishing boat could reach the sea where the middle-aged man wanted to cast a net.

Dad pointed to Christoph behind him, and Christoph immediately knew that it was the place where Dad wanted to cast a net, so he immediately used his last little effort to row the fishing boat forward.

With a "arrival", Christoph stopped his paddling hands and let the fishing boat slide forward with inertia on the sea. He collapsed at the stern, letting sweat drip into the fishing boat full of water stains, just greedily breathing the wet sea breeze.

Christopher watched his father dragging the fishing net and was ready. When the fishing boat slid to a certain position, he scattered the fishing net in front of the fishing boat.

Under the skillful movement of my father, the fishing net spread out into a large, perfectly round surface in the air. Driven by the counterweight of the fishing net, it fell into the sea with a "wow" sound, splashing less water.

My father held the net cable tightly and returned to the bow of the boat under the guidance of the fishing boat. My father stood firm and lifted it hard, quickly retracting the net cable with his hands. In just a few strokes, one end of the fishing net had been raised above the sea.

"Hey!" The father felt the movement of the fishing net in his hand, and laughed, knowing that the net must have gained a lot.

When the fishing net was completely lifted onto the fishing boat by my father, Christopher looked at the silver-white fat fish jumping and struggling in the fishing net and said excitedly: "There are so many cold fish, there are several of them in this net."

"Yes, I'm so lucky. Thank you for the gift of the sea god." Dad said as he bent down piously at the sea, and Christopher also stood up and bowed to the sea, but his heart was not as pious as it appeared.

"Wow." Christoph opened the fishing net and saw that there were some other fish and shrimps besides four or five cold fish. He said happily: "I can have a good meal tonight."

"Haha~!" The father looked at the happy Christopher and laughed very happily, which made the father explain the hard life of his family during this period.

"Dad, how much do you think these five cold fish are enough to buy? Isn't it so sad this year's ice age?" Christopher is not young anymore, in his early twenties, but such simple questions made Dad unable to help but touch the scar on his face.

My father didn't have a long time of excitement, and in just a moment, it was so short that if Christopher hadn't been staring at my father, he wouldn't even notice it.

"Dad?" Christopher shouted again. He still didn't know how the scar on his father's face came from. Even if he asked, his father just kept silent. Over time, Christopher became accustomed to it even though he knew that his father had something to do.

The father squatted down and opened the storage compartment in the middle of the fishing boat. While putting the fish in the fishing net into the storage compartment, he replied: "These are only a few cold fish, which is enough to buy two or three hundred kilograms of black beans. Including the taxes to be paid to the lord, there is not much left. It's just enough for us to eat during the ice sea period."

"This is good. Dad, there are also leather jackets for cold protection. This year is much better than last year. Last year, I only salvaged three cold fish before the ice sea period, and I sold them a lot because the price dropped and the price was cheaper." Christopher thought that the two father and son were terrified of the whole ice sea period.

"Yes, if the Lord hadn't been merciful and exempted from fishing tax, we both probably wouldn't have been able to get it." Dad said and sighed, and then said, "It's getting harder to get the cold fish."
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