Chapter 60: Ming Treasure Ship

Da Wang lay on the bed, not yet asleep, when he suddenly heard the familiar chime again; Da Wang immediately sat up. The first main quest is completed!

The hunger index was still a bit short; when the Commercial Street was finished, there was no sign, but Da Wang still thought there weren't enough conscripts this round, who knew it was just delayed a while.

Actually, the influence of one thousand conscripts reaches more than one thousand families, also including their equally poor relatives; the thousand households received a huge sum of eighteen taels of silver, and their relatives could also borrow a little to buy some grain.

Opening the main panel indeed showed the familiar screen full of confetti.

【Congratulations on completing the main quest, my lord, raising Secluded Prefecture's populace happiness index by three points and eliminating the hunger index by three points. Now distributing quest rewards: A-level spin lottery; Myriad Worlds Steward

Is it to be claimed now: Yes/No】

Da Wang clicked yes without hesitation; first popped up was the A-level spin lottery, that familiar five-colored disk.

Da Wang got up and grabbed Bai Ze, rubbing his chubby hands all over Bai Ze's body, making the lazy Bai Ze all dazed.

"What are you doing?"

Da Wang said righteously, "You said you're an East Sea auspicious beast, right? Let me rub you for a good thing! Last time the Garden Foundation was fine; the potatoes and sweet potatoes you brought were top-notch good stuff from the Great Jin, this time I also want something just as good~"

Bai Ze: ……

Da Wang continued rubbing his chubby paws back and forth on its head, "Come on, let me borrow Bai Ze's fortune for a moment!"

After enough rubbing, Da Wang finally clicked the spin wheel; the needle spun so fast it was almost a blur, Da Wang pinched his chubby hands, nervous!

After a moment, the needle's speed slowed, slowing further until it stopped completely at an azure square.

"Huh? Azure!"

In the next instant a new bubble popped up: 【Congratulations! Congratulations, my lord, on winning the top-tier prize from the A-level spin lottery: Ming Treasure Ship (Fisheries Improved Version) x1, placed in the warehouse, please check.】

Da Wang skillfully went to the warehouse; there was a new ship icon, opening the note it read:

【Ming Treasure Ship (Fisheries Improved Version)

Producer: Azure Wave Realm

Appearance: the treasure ship is forty-five zhang long, eighteen zhang wide, with a load capacity of eight hundred tons.

Functions: deep-sea fishing, fresh transport.

Additional functions: the Azure Wave Realm improved-version hull adds fish attractant, fishing success buff +80%; Marine Edible Creatures Manual x1 【use】; spare fishing nets x5; spare fishing gear x10.

Supporting personnel: treasure ship captain NPC x1 (recovered after one year); treasure ship helmsman NPC x1 (recovered after one year); treasure ship chief mate NPC x1 (recovered after one year)

Supporting facilities: docking berth for 800-ton-class ships x1 (ferry), start construction now? Yes/No

Treasure ship usage rights: permanent】

Da Wang, after looking, had a gut feeling: good stuff! This even comes with a dock?! "I love Meng Meng!" He completely forgot his previous complaints about it.

"Bai Bai, you're so miraculous, hahaha~" Da Wang laughed arrogantly.

Bai Ze stretched his head over to take a look, then looked at Da Wang's gaze like looking at a Pokémon; this guy really is a Great Luck Bearer, he can even draw this.

Da Wang, already excited, caught it and started rubbing, "Bai Bai, you really are useful!"

After rubbing Bai Ze, Da Wang couldn't wait to propose building the dock; he thought of the old ferry he and Lao Er had inspected before. Though run-down, it lacked appearance, but it's close to him!

He built that dock, yet worried the old ferry wouldn't become lively?

Da Wang clicked construct, and a new construction task popped up:

【Already claimed supporting facility: docking berth for 800-ton ships;

Official subsidy: all raw materials; all tools and equipment;

On-site technical supervisor NPC x1 (recovered after task completion);

Specialized technical personnel x1000 (recovered after task completion);

Logic chain supplement: recruit local labor from Secluded Prefecture x1000 (one thousand people);

Estimated construction period: one month (thirty days)

Task items: waterproof work uniforms (winter) x1000 (sets); meals x1000x30 (thirty days); wages x1000x30;

Winter construction subsidy: cold‑proof tents x100 (tops)】

If given a ship, Da Wang would be excited to have found a treasure; now seeing he can also recruit workers to work, he has already risen and is pacing in the sleeping palace!

"Meng Meng, how can you be so good! Another thousand households can have a good year!"

Bai Ze: …… Yesterday you were still scolding Meng Meng as slippery, plucking feathers from a passing goose, getting you to pay extra for the weapon manual.

Da Wang poked the waterproof work uniform with his chubby paw, "Really nice, new clothes, perfect for seaside folk! This time we'll hire seaside people to work, and we also have these tents this time, right, those one hundred from last time?"

Da Wang thought of it and shouted outside; a moment later Zhao Bao came.

"Wasn't there a hundred cold‑proof tents after the Commercial Street was built? Where did they go?"

"Your Highness, those tents are light and easy for cold protection; they've been cleaned and stored in the Imperial Guard Battalion's logistics depot. Section Chief Zhang personally took them over, saying they're kept for Your Highness's future travels or military use."

Da Wang, hearing they were well stored, let it be; he now wants to snag another hundred tents, thinking after this construction task his tents could equip two thousand people, Da Wang smiled like a flower.

Zhao Bao urged Da Wang to retire to rest, then stepped back; unfortunately Da Wang simply couldn't sleep.

He had nowhere to put the big ship to see the actual object, so he kept popping up the annotation bubbles, the more he looked the more beautiful.

"It's just right that Secluded Prefecture has nothing to do in winter; once this dock is built, I'll take them all out to fish! Then… then I'll sell to Bai Ge, the worthless stuff I'll sell cheap to the common folk, at least it's edible. Can't give it for free—better to teach fishing than give fish; if they have no money they can work on the ship~ Bai Ge said the ocean can sustain countless people; we guard the ocean, so why would we starve?"

He also didn't expect Bai Ze to be his straight man; he could keep talking on his own.

"This producer is the same as last time's Garden Foundation; the Azure Wave Realm is really awesome! A forty‑five‑zhang ship—how big is that? From bow to stern I'd have to run a long time~"

Muttering to himself, he discovered something he could now take out: that 【Marine Edible Creatures Manual】.

Da Wang climbed up again to take that book out, but almost failed to catch it and it hit the ground!

A thick volume, like a dictionary.

Da Wang was astonished—there are so many edible things in the sea? The Great Jin only ever had a few kinds, sigh!

What sleep? With all this excitement, who could sleep?

Fortunately, this book not only looks like a dictionary, its layout is also like a dictionary.

According to the index, you can quickly find what you're looking for in this thick manual.

It divided marine life into two categories: marine animals and marine plants. That was more than enough for the Great Jin, with plenty to spare; if you mention microorganisms, it gets complicated—too far off to understand.

Marine animals were divided into vertebrates and invertebrates; among invertebrates were mollusks and shellfish; among vertebrates were fish and large marine creatures. Sea beasts, sharks, whales, and the like were all present.

The Great King wasn't stupid; after looking at the index for a while, he successfully found, in the shellfish section, those dense clusters of mussels he had seen at the seaside.

The Great King looked it up and found that the mussel was called the mussel, also known as sea rainbow, and indeed it was edible!

On top of that, it not only had pictures, but also descriptions of appearance and texture, and even explained how to eat it.

The Great King was overjoyed! With this, he could discover countless delicious sea foods that the Great Jin didn't know about!

The Great King crossed his arms and laughed wildly, 'There's no way to starve me to death!' Another village appeared amidst the willows and flowers.

White Marsh couldn't bear to look; fortunately, this creature still looks cute now. If it grew up still like that… it would be forcing it to attack its owner.

Thinking of that, it again sized up the Great King's features; thankfully, he should not grow up disfigured.

At night, the Great King slept with this book as his pillow, causing him in his dream to be unable to walk out of a great mountain piled with mussels; after trekking all night, exhausted to the point of exasperation, finally countless shells came flying at him, and the Great King woke up in shock.

Zhao Bao was already standing by his bed, 'Your Highness, it's time~'

The Great King sat up, angrily declaring, 'I will never eat mussels again!'

Zhao Bao: '……'