Chapter 18: Set sail
This group of silk merchants was in a hurry, and ran out of more than 100 miles in one breath, and after a short rest, the demon king urged again, and ran forward for more than 200 miles, and in the evening, they found a inn along the road to rest. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info the demon king saw that the big eagle did not show up, so he must have followed in secret, and his heart was much more relaxed. This night, as usual, arrange the night guards, and the group will rest in the inn and continue to hurry tomorrow morning.
The Flying Knife Man and Ling Li were in the same room as the couple. The flying knife man remembered the few elegant sword moves he had seen from afar during the day, tossed and turned, and couldn't sleep for a long time, and suddenly thought: "The person who made the sword is the young thief? Yes! It is indeed very similar, no wonder it is a little familiar, it is really a narrow road, and I didn't expect to bump into it on the road! Hey! It is a pity that I was not able to get rid of this little thief today! It is all to blame for the intervention of the big demon king, so that he does not show his edge! However, this little thief has an uneven road, and he will inevitably get into trouble if he exposes his edge and cuts off people's hands. The more I thought about it, the more I couldn't sleep, and I tossed and turned on the bed, waking up Ling Li next to the pillow. Ling Li hugged the Flying Knife Rider and muttered, "Why hasn't the Husband slept yet, and he has to hurry tomorrow?" The Flying Knife Rider fell into Ling Li's arms at this time before he fell asleep.
At dawn the next day, the group set off on the road again, galloping all the way, not two days later, according to the path that Master Liang told the demon king in advance, they arrived at the seaside shipyard, it turned out that this place was still a customs dock in and out of the port, and there were many officers and soldiers guarding. The demon king immediately sent his minions who looked like hard workers in the business to report, and after a while, I saw a fat official in an official uniform, trotting all the way, greeting him out, and said to the demon king's side: "Humble Hai, in the past few months, according to Master Liang's letter, I have been waiting for a long time!"
The Demon King said: "Your Excellency, you don't have to be polite, quickly lead us to inspect the goods!" said and handed over the new letter written by Master Liang.
Lord Hai quickly read the letter, and if it was true, he immediately led everyone into the forbidden place of the shipyard.
Haida introduced as he walked: This is a forbidden place for the factory directly under the Beijing Division and Military Department to specialize in manufacturing warships on the seaside, absorbing a group of skilled craftsmen in domestic shipbuilding, these craftsmen are extremely high, but for the sake of secrecy and fully closed management, although it is not as strict as the craftsmen who built the emperor's tomb, but the mechanism is also quite similar. It turns out that many of these craftsmen are top carpenters, and the wooden warships created by using the traditional tenon structure of our country are extremely strong and reliable. According to official records, Zheng He's voyage to the West was 87 years earlier than Columbus's discovery of the American continent! It can be seen that China's shipbuilding and navigation technology had reached the world's advanced level at that time! This is just like the fact that the Golden Dynasty of Egypt and the Yandi and the Yellow Emperor of China occurred in the same historical period, and this shipbuilding and navigation technology may be one of the many historical coincidences in which similar events occurred in the history of Eastern and Western civilizations.
Of course, the Great Thief Demon King didn't care about this, and immediately ordered his subordinates to open a cart of goods, uncover the fine silk covered on it, and show the contents of the cart to the chief ruler Hai Daren. I saw that the car was full of jewels and diamonds, dazzling, very dazzling, looking at this sea Lord eyes straight, drooling, wiping not wiping, hurriedly sneered: "The staff is too polite! A few months ago, Master Liang personally wrote a letter to send the deposit, there are so many, even if we don't charge half of the delivery now, we still have a lot of money!"
The Demon King said: "Where! If Lord Hai doesn't accept it, how can I rest assured that Lord Hai can keep this matter a secret!"
Hai Dadao: "Yo, look at what you said, you can rest assured that you can see that these skilled craftsmen are all closed management, with strict rules, and it is impossible to leak the news." The old man above me, I have already carefully used the deposit sent by the hero under Master Liang last time, so you can rest assured!"
The demon king listened and said: "Then these additional little meanings, thank you for the old men above!"
The sea lord secretly glanced at the half-cart of jewels again, and said with a smile: "That's it! I'll take the staff out to see how things are doing, this is the most advanced technology I have today, and I am satisfied with the inspection of the goods, and I won't be late to collect this money!"
Everyone looked in the direction of Hai Daren's finger, and sure enough, a huge windy merchant ship was docked in the distance. A few people followed the sea to the front of the people, only to see that the wooden ship was 100 meters long, 20~30 meters wide, the ship erected a few tall masts, the mast hung a huge sail, under the mast are a number of exquisite wooden houses. The appearance is introverted and simple, and it really looks like a merchant ship, which is obviously built according to Master Liang's previous orders.
I saw a person quickly get down from the boat, run along the dock to the demon king and others, and knelt down in front of the demon king, saying: "In addition to the subordinates, my subordinates have been taking their brothers to practice the skills of sailing and repairing ships for several months, and they have long been familiar with it. This month, when the ship was built, his subordinates led the brothers to run in, and they felt that the ship was stronger and more handy, so they waited for the order of the senior to set off to do the great business overseas. "It turns out that this person is the master of a hall who came a few months ago with Master Liang's shipbuilding letter and escorted the deposit, this person is good at astrological positioning, and he is also quite young, named astrologer, and his martial arts are also really good, so he has secretly led some brothers to learn the art of sailing in the past few months.
Master Hai smiled and said: "Xie Zhanxingzi praises! This is indeed a great ship that our factory has built so far, but we still have to take the adults on the boat to have a look, and personally send the adults out for a ride." Then he said to the man next to him, "Fetch the goods." I saw the door of the warehouse next to the wharf open, and the officers and soldiers pushed out a cartload of goods. Lord Hai said to the demon king thief again: "Outside, my subordinates send a little meaning, they are all smuggled goods that I have intercepted, in addition to a large amount of high-quality silk, but also exquisite ceramics, high-quality tea, spices, etc.! Those smuggling dealers deliberately plotted to evade taxes, and I took them, I haven't had time to digest these things, so it is better to send them to you in one go, I also carefully told Master Liang in his letter, and the outside is a multinational giant businessman!"
The Demon King thanked him: "Lord Hai is really thoughtful, take this car of jewelry!"
Lord Hai said: "No, you will push the two truckloads of goods on the ship first, and I will personally send the staff outside first! Everyone came to the wide deck, and the sea lord led everyone to the front of several tall wooden houses at the bow of the ship and said: "This is a first-class cabin specially built for large employees, there are three floors up and down, the first floor is for guests, the second floor is for office, and the third floor is for bedrooms.
He also led everyone to introduce the two-story exquisite wooden house behind, Hai Da said: "This is a gorgeous husband and wife room, Master Liang has already instructed in the letter, saying that there is a couple from a foreign family on this business trip, and he specially instructed to build this husband and wife cabin below, which is naturally warm inside." Seeing this, the flying knife man Ling Li said kindly: "It must be the two of you!" Seeing this, the flying knife man couldn't help but be angry, and thought to himself: "It turns out that this big demon king is striking east and west, deliberately upside down, and he really wants to arrange for me to go to sea a long time ago!" Ling Li saw that his face was angry, and he already understood his meaning, but he said happily: "Thank you for your thoughtfulness! The slave family has never gone to sea to play, and I am so grateful to be able to go to sea with my husband and brother Dao!"
In addition to those minions who live below the deck, astrologers and foreigners have their own luxurious cabins, and there is a restaurant at the stern that can accommodate everyone. When the foreigners saw this configuration, they couldn't help but admire the superb shipbuilding skills of our Great China, and sighed that the level of his vassal kingdom was inferior, and their hearts were full of confidence in this treasure exploration trip! This fat sea lord was even more inflated when he heard the foreigners' compliments, and said in a low voice: "This merchant ship is specially and secretly equipped with artillery bows and crossbows, but in fact, its combat effectiveness is beyond that of ordinary warships, and dozens of foreign soldiers have already been trained. ”
The Demon King thanked himself with satisfaction, and said, "Lord Hai might as well get off the boat here!" Lord Hai said: "No, send the staff out for a ride, so that the staff can see the performance of this ship!" With a command, the astrologer ordered to sail through the wind and waves.
While listening to the roaring seawater, they saw hundreds of seagulls at the stern chasing the waves at the stern, as if they were bidding farewell to the demon king and others, and they were very warm! Suddenly, they saw that the seagulls were in chaos, and a big black eagle rushed down, grabbed a seagull and landed beside Ling Li. This is exactly Ling Li's big eagle that secretly followed everyone, and in addition to scaring the seagulls, it also almost scared the triumphant sea lord next to him into a stumbling one! Everyone laughed loudly, and when the astrologer saw it, he said in his heart: The flying knife man really refined the divine beast? I saw Ling Li immediately whisper a few words to the big eagle, and the big eagle jumped up again, but landed firmly on the top of the highest mast, watching the advancing distance like a watchtower sentry, adding a domineering majesty to the whole ship! At this moment, the sea lord and even the foreigners were all shocked and amazed!
The ship had been in the offshore waters for some time, and when it looked back at the pier, it was faintly visible, but a customs ship followed it, ready to pick up the sea lord at any moment.
The Flying Knife Man and Ling Li were standing on the side of the boat, when they suddenly saw a shark jump out of the sea, bite a low-flying seagull and sink down. The knifeman was already depressed and bored when he was deceived into the boat, and he was shocked, so he shot the knife into the water, and the sharp blade was plunged straight into the head of the shark that had just jumped into the water, and the shark quickly floated on the surface of the sea with its belly facing the sky! The minions of the bandit tribe were already surprised by the knifeman's hand, but the sea lord was really shocked! Quickly ordered his customs attendant to fetch something, and said to the knifeman: "Good man! Why don't you try this?"
The knife man saw that it was a special sharp blade, with a sharp blade in the front and a blunt barb in the back, and the handle was also tied with a long line of soft but extremely tough beef tendons. The knifeman saw it at a glance, took it and thanked him, and lifted it to the bleaching shark, and hooked the great white shark up and fell on the deck. Immediately use this method, as long as you see an underwater shark, you can raise your hand casually, insert a sharp blade into the shark's body, and grab it with a barb, and instantly catch 5~6 sharks and seafood. Lord Hai even praised this as a big man, and this boat of 180 people has been eating for several days! This group of sharks is too frightened to show off their might around this big ship!
Then the eagle on the mast flew down again, and flew along the surface of the sea in search of it, and they thought that it was going to catch the low-flying seagull to eat, but the eagle was only hovering low above the sea. Suddenly, an even larger shark leaped up from the depths of the water, opened its fangs, and went straight to the great eagle's feet! At the moment when the shark had just gritted its teeth, the barb knife of the flying knife arrived again, and it was sharply inserted into the shark's head and neck, and the ligament line was straightened, and the big shark that attacked the big eagle was dragged onto the boat and fell the deck! At this time, everyone was shocked again, and they all understood, it turned out that the fierce beast big eagle was hovering at a low altitude, which was really to lure the enemy! In this way, the method of catching sharks with the flying knife man was really perfect! The demon king sighed secretly when he saw it: " If these two were left in the helm, I don't know what would happen, but fortunately, I would have dragged them to the sea to hunt for treasure!"
2016/09/23