Arnold is not a precocious child. At his age, the most important thing is eating and playing. But in Chi Li Ningta's mind, the only thing that is important is eating and nothing else needs to be considered. Since General Lei asked me to follow Arnold, I would follow him.

So the two of them wandered outwards one after another.

To the south of Lantian County, the Ba River surrounds the northwest like a silver belt.

The Ba River originated from Lantian Valley in Zhongnan Mountains, and was originally named Zishui. It is said that during the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Mu of Qin saw that the water was long and surging, and it was like a force that could scatter everything, so he took the meaning of Domineering and changed its name to Ba River, which later evolved into "Ba River".

Because the water comes from Zhongnan, the earth is very warm, and there are many strange trees along the river. In the early years, Emperor Wu of Han transplanted and destroyed Nanyue, such as longan, lychees, olives, etc., some of them were planted here. Unfortunately, the north and south are different, and they are often exhausted at the age of exhaustion. The most produced locally is persimmons.

It is almost winter now, and the persimmons in the season have been harvested. As Chi Li Ningta walked, he broke into a farmer's courtyard and gestured to exchange a few big money in his hand for persimmon cakes.

As Chi Li Ningta, he naturally doesn't have to worry about money. The money he took out from his body was the newly cast Wuzhu coins from the center. The money was thick, full of weight, and his handwriting was clear. Recently, Yizhou grain rice has been continuously input into Guanzhong, and the usual Wuzhu coins can be exchanged for one stone of rice for 150. Such refined coins are of higher value. Farmers are naturally willing to exchange them with persimmon cakes.

So soon he took a thick stack of persimmon cakes and held them with one hand carefully.

Before he could eat it, Arnold reached out to grab one without hesitation.

Chi Li Ningta stopped and thought for a while. If someone else did this, he would have smashed it down with a casserole-like fist, but Arnold was Chi Li Ningta's eyes and grew up from a little baby, and his treatment was different from that of ordinary people.

So he opened his mouth wide, speeded up, and blew one by one. When Arnold finished eating the one he had, he reached for the second one, but saw that Chi Li Ningta's hands were empty and he burped.

"Stingy!" Arnold hummed twice and speeded up.

"Where are we going?" Chi Li Ningta asked.

"Walk along the river and go to the dock to see the boat! The boat here should be different from that in Jiaozhou and Jingzhou!" Arnold said excitedly.

In recent times, various ships have been Arnold's best toys.

Arnold is very brave. He was born into a general. He has seen many wars since childhood. He has some skills in swords, horses, bows and arrows, and dares to fight in blood. But what he particularly likes is not the battles on land, but the warships that crisscross the world.

In recent years, as the military government gradually gained a foothold in Jiaozhou and the northbound cargo channel has been opened, maritime trade has ushered in an explosive prosperity after several years of sluggishness.

Merchants from Duyuan, Yilu, Chenli, Gandulu, Huangzhi and other places, Mingzhu, jade, glass, strange stones and foreign objects, and gold miscellaneous materials, often gathered in Xuwen County, Hepu County and Panyu County, Nanhai County. Merchants with strange appearances and carrying all kinds of strange objects and foreign products set up special markets in Cangwu County.

When Lei Yuan was not in Jiaozhou and Zhao Xiang was busy with clan affairs, Arnold especially liked to appear in this city. He heard strange people with high noses and curly hair or black bodies, saying that they met during their voyages, sea snakes, turtles as huge as islands, pirates who were extremely fierce and murderous without blinking, poisonous arrows that were killed immediately, and even the Qin Kingdom, which was about the size of the Great Han Dynasty, with the ocean as the inland sea.

Later, the scale of the Jiaozhou naval army gradually expanded. Lei Yuan set up a boat station in Panyu, appointed a boat station captain, and recruited shipbuilders among the Han family and the Minyue people. Chuotuan was newly built and used oars, rudders, and extremely strong five-plate ships. The Jiaozhou Military Office used this to organize the fleet to directly participate in the navigation trade.

This process was naturally accompanied by violent sea conflicts, and this sea fighting was particularly liked by Arnold. Although he could not participate, he often went to play with the navy soldiers, boarded the ship with them, and simulated naval battles in a decent manner.

In imagination, he directed his own ship, rammed the enemy ships with a solid bow, breaking them up; and sailed through huge waves like mountains toward the end of the bizarre ocean.

In his opinion, riding a giant boat around the world and opening up an unprecedented vast world is more enjoyable than riding a horse and running in the wilderness. And the value of a good boat is probably higher than that of a good horse.

A few days ago, Arnold saw the defeated soldiers of the Cao army on Wuguan Road. His miserable appearance immediately thought: With his father's heroic martial arts, how long can the Cao army do evil? This chaotic era will be pacified soon. At that time, where should I use my martial arts and courage?

You still have to go to the sea, the sea is endless, and some are wealth and some are enemies!

Of course, that's all for the future. Arnold is still a child now, so he's very happy to look at the boat.

In the past few months, the intensive construction and restoration of Chang'an City has naturally been indispensable for wood. In the Zhongnan Mountains upstream of the Ba River, giant trees are produced by huge trees. So when Arnold followed his parents through the Ba River, he noticed the boats that transported giant trees on the Ba River.

There were records of boats and ships transporting in the previous Han Dynasty around Chang'an. At its peak, thousands of large ships were transferred to the canal; the east was the sea and the west was the flowing yarn, which showed that Chang'an was not only the center of land transportation, but also an important node in water shipping.

Unfortunately, after all, after being destroyed in troubled times, the early canal transport system and ships had long disappeared. At this moment, the ships used to transport wood came closer to see that they were actually not much different from the boats used by the Jingzhou navy to transport grain and rice. It was just that the hull was covered with thick boat boards to allow the placement of wood.

"This is not possible! This is not possible!" Arnold stood on the dock and looked around, shook his head and sighed.

These woods are of great use, so soldiers were naturally guarding the wharf. Just as Lei Yuan and others entered Lantian County, a group of soldiers came to scattered guards around the wharf. However, looking at Chi Li Ningta's majestic appearance in military uniform, Arnold walked around for granted, without any discord... I didn't know where the kid came from for a while, so no one came to care.

So Arnold jumped onto a boat with a swagger, looked at the bottom of the boat, pulled out a short sword, and poked the board. This action was done by him when he saw the old soldiers of the Jiaozhou navy. Although he did not understand the meaning, it was not difficult to learn:

"Yeah, this wood is not good, it's not dry. Maybe it's going to fall apart at any time. These are all broken ships!"

Although he grew up in Jiaozhou, his accent was not deviated, and his mouth was still in the Central Plains accent. He spoke so loudly that everyone around him heard it. People didn't know where the half of the children came from, and where did they come from the courage to speak out, and they all laughed out loud.

"Isn't this ship good?" someone asked around Arnold.

"Not good, no good." Renault shook his head repeatedly.

"But this is already a big boat! It's only smaller than what I've seen in Yizhou."

"Yizhou? Where did the big ship come from Yizhou? You have a small vision!" Arnold sneered.

Speaking of this, Arnold was very interested and immediately pointed to the boat in front of him and said, "This boat has neither a keel nor a compartment. It is also the worst and most common type in Jiaozhou. Of course, the ships in Yizhou are better, but due to the risks of many reefs in the Xiajiang Road, it is not very large!"

Speaking of this, he turned around and looked at the person who asked the question. He saw that he was a pretty obese boy with a luxurious robe, looking about fourteen or fifteen years old.

Arnold was never afraid of life, so he immediately pulled the boy and stood beside the hull to measure it: "Let's go and take a look, count... twenty steps! Right, this ship is only twenty steps! Now the Jingzhou Navy has twenty tower ships carrying hundreds of soldiers, each with a head and tail exceeding a hundred steps and a width of twenty steps! That is a good ship in the inland river! As for Jiaozhou, hehe, have you ever seen a ship worth ten thousand hu?"

"Ten thousand hu?"
Chapter completed!