Chapter 512: A Great Penalty of Three Thousand

Gonggora walked over from the opposite side of the fence, came to Hua Bushi, and arched his hand and said: "Mr. Hua can teach fighting dogs to dodge jishu like 'Barre Dance', which makes me deeply admired! Although the result is a bit surprising, I still think that this is a great fighting dog competition, and the fighting dogs trained by both of us have played the most haode strength, so I am willing to accept this result, and I will also repeat my previous promise!"

Gongora was a Spanish royal and nobleman, as well as a shrewd businessman. Now that he knew that losing this gamble was irretrievable, he simply maintained an elegant demeanor and admitted defeat readily. After all, in the future, the Spanish fleet will still have to do business in Okura Castle, which is where his most fundamental interests lie.

Hua Bushi felt like he was in a dream, this victory was too incredible, and after a while, he woke up, hugged his fists and saluted: "Don't dare, Hua Bushi won this game is really a fluke, ashamed and ashamed!"

Hua Bushi was able to win this dog fight, and it can indeed only be said that he was too lucky. The god of decay that had been haunting and entangled with this eldest young master for a month was finally gone, and the person who brought him good luck was Hai Hongzhu.

Because the large piece of flesh and bone that made the princess Zuihou stand up was thrown into the fence by Hai Hongzhu.

When Sima Rulan went to Zixiao Platform to watch the game, she brought a large cloth bag with several pieces of meat and bones, which was originally intended to be used as a reward after the princess won. Hai Hongzhu sat side by side with her on the sidelines, since she had seen this big bag of things earlier, when the princess fell to the ground and Sima Rulan's shout was difficult to return to the sky, Hai Hongzhu simply grabbed a piece of meat and bone from the cloth bag and threw it directly into the field, which caused a jaw-dropping scene later.

There seems to be nothing in this world that Hai Hongzhu doesn't dare to do, this Hai Da Woman has always ignored her actions, and as for the rules of the dog fighting competition, she didn't take it into her eyes at all.

This is clearly against the rules, and of course it can't be left at that.

After the discussion and ruling of the dog boys of the "Zixiao Conference", Hai Hongzhu's audacity was seriously warned, and she was forbidden to watch any dog fighting competition on the "Zixiao Platform" in the future, and was fined 3,000 taels of silver.

It is not unimportant to be punished for throwing a piece of meat and bones, and three thousand taels of silver is indeed a lot, but compared with the victory or defeat of the battle for the dog king, it is completely a drop in the bucket.

There have been two "meat and bone incidents", which have achieved the title of the big white dog this year, and also made Song Er and Xue Cheng, two senior dog boys, laugh at their peers. What is quite interesting is that this year, the princess of the dog king, known as the "big foodie", has become the most famous one among the previous dog kings since the "Zixiao Conference" was held, and it is still talked about by the people in Okura Castle many years later.

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ sound of hooves, thirteen horses gallop through the mountains and follow the trail through dense broadleaf forests to a verdant meadow.

Most of the knights on the horses were samurai attire with swords on their backs, led by a young boy and a girl of eighteen or nineteen, but neither of them was armed.

The young man rode a black horse, with a thin figure and an ordinary appearance, wearing a royal blue silk robe, a square scarf on his head, a pigeon-egg-sized mutton fat jade inlaid on his forehead, and six or seven gold and jade rings on his hands.

The girl rode on a white horse, with picturesque eyebrows and skin better than snow, wearing a snow-white dress with a long dress, but she did not wear any gold or silver jewelry, giving people the feeling of a fairy in a beautiful and vulgar painting.

Behind these two people, there was a young man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a square face and big ears, sitting on a jujube red horse, like a half-cut iron tower.

The young man dressed as the young master is Hua Bushi, the girl in white is Sima Rulan, and the young man with a square face and big ears is Zhu Hong. The ten samurai who accompanied him were the guards of the "Wanjintang" City Lord's Mansion.

This is the southern tip of Okura Island, and today is August 18, and it has been ten days since the battle of the dog king in the "Zixiao Conference".

The big white dog princess took the dog king, and Hua Bushi successively bet 500,000 taels in various casinos, which became 1.5 million taels in an instant, and all the gamblers' families in the big city were all put into the pocket of the eldest young master in one day.

Gongora also agreed to renew the gambling contract, and hired top shipbuilders for the "Wanjintang" in the western countries, and 300 artillery pieces and smoothbore flintlock muskets were also delivered as soon as possible.

It seems that the conditions for building a dragon slayer ship have been met, and the next thing is to start building a ship.

The first thing to do in building the Dragon Slayer was to build a dock large enough, and Hua Bushi did not plan to build a new dock in the existing Okura Port.

Okura Port was originally a treaty port, and there were already more than 20 docks and many wharves in the harbor, and many merchant ships from all over the world came in and out every day to dock and load and unload goods. It is not appropriate to build a dockyard in a port where such a behemoth as the dragon slayer was built, which would inevitably affect the docking and trade of other merchant ships.

And the "Black Dragon Palace" is the rival of Okura Castle, and there must be a guest eyeliner in the city, once it is learned that the "Wanjintang" has begun to build a dragon slaying ship, it is likely that someone will be sent to destroy it. In a port where countless people and goods pass through every day, it is much more difficult to defend it.

There was another reason to keep the dockyard out of the harbor.

Okura Port is a bay that sinks into the land, and although the terrain is good for insulating from the wind, and the batteries on both sides of the gorge can be used to defend against attacks from the sea, the disadvantage is that once the enemy blocks the exit of the gorge, all ships are blocked in the bay and cannot sail out. This is also the reason why the pirates of the "Black Dragon Palace" were able to easily block all the external shipping lanes of Okura Castle in the first place.

It was Hua Bushi who discussed with Sima Rulan and the two elders of the "Wanjintang" to find another location on Okura Island to build another port and water village for mooring warships, and to build the dock for the construction of dragon slaying ships in the new port. If the situation of foreign enemies encircling the island and blocking the bay and gorge again occurs in the future, the warships of Xingang Shuizhai will be able to attack the ships in the bay inside and outside, and it will not be so easy for the enemy to block the channel out of the island.

To build a new port water village dedicated to warships, you must first find a suitable location, not only the terrain must be easy to defend and difficult to attack, but also to be able to moor giant warships such as the Dragon Slayer, and the coast must also have enough water depth.

In the past few days, Hua Bushi and Sima Rulan searched for many locations on the coast around Okura Island, but they did not find a single place that could meet the requirements for building a Xingang Water Village. And today they came to the southernmost tip of Okura Island, which is the location of Moli Village, where Hua Bushi was shipwrecked at sea more than half a year ago and was rescued by Xin Lika's fishing boat, and it was from here that they landed on Okura Island.

The trail passes through the woods and over a meadow to the village of Moli below the hillside.

The village of Moli in front of Hua Bushi now is very different from what he saw when he went ashore.

Although the original houses in Moli Village were crude, they were still a small village, but now those houses are gone, and in the original village, there are only more than a dozen shacks built of wood. The old small fishing port is gone, and only a few pieces of blackened wood remain on the empty seashore.

When the "Black Dragon Palace" besieged the island, it was destroyed by pirates once, and although the villagers of Moli Village have returned here, it is clear that the village has not yet been rebuilt.

In the past few days, Hua Bushi has explored the terrain along the coast of Okura Island, and he has seen several destroyed indigenous tribes, but when he sees the desolate appearance of Moli Village, he still feels a sense of grief and indignation in his heart. Zhu Hong, who was riding a horse and followed him, clenched his fists even more, and his angry expression was overflowing.

"Mr. Hua, is this the Moli Village you are talking about?"

Hearing Sima Rulan's inquiry, Hua Bushi calmed down and said, "Not bad." The water depth of the coast in this area should be more than two zhang, but the shore is not very smooth, and there seem to be a lot of reefs, so it may not be easy to find a suitable place to build a water village. ”

Sima Rulan looked at the coast in the distance and said, "Yes, and the current on the sea here is a little turbulent, but I don't know what the situation is behind the hill over there, let's go over and investigate." ”

Hua Bushi said: "Okay, let's go around from behind the mountain and take a look." ”

Everyone was about to pull out their horses and leave, when they suddenly heard someone shouting: "Mr. Hua, Brother Zhu, don't go!"

The crowd followed the voice, but saw a boy running up from the bottom of the hillside in the distance. This child is thirteen or fourteen years old, dark-skinned, wearing coarse cloth clothes, Hua Bushi knows it, it is Xin Lijia's son Xin Wang.

Xiao Xinwang was originally sent by his father Xin Lika to the Bark Tower as a buddy, and also took care of Zhu Hong's daily life and diet when he was injured, but after the siege of the city ended a few days ago, Xin Lika wanted to take the villagers of Moli Village to leave from Okura City, but Xiao Xin Wang asked Hua Bushi for leave, and wanted to go to the beach with his father to rebuild the village, saying that when the village was built, he would return to the Bark Tower.

He is the eldest son of Xin Lika, who is not very old, but he is also an important worker in the family. Hua Bushi agreed and let Xiao Xinwang go back with his father, and it has been more than a month.

Xiao Xinwang walked lightly, and soon ran to the front, and said: "Don't go! My father also mentioned Mr. Hua in the morning, and said that he would like to thank Mr. Hua for the food utensils he sent us, and now that Mr. Hua is here, let's go to the village and sit down, drink a few cups of fruit stacks, and then leave!"

Hua Bushi said: "Thank you! Today we are here just to explore the terrain on the shore, in order to find a suitable place to build a harbor, and after a few days I have leisure, and then make a special trip to Moli Village to visit Brother Xin!"