"It's sinking!"

The water on Gao De's side only reached his ankles, and the plush that was flooded to his calves naturally became furious: "Why are you even using a leaky boat?

"Mao Xiaoqi shouldn't have been to sea," the fat man surnamed Niu said very calmly: "If the boat is a leak, this is a natural thing." And leakage does not mean that it will sink, the boat is equipped with professional drainage equipment, absolutely safe. ”

"What drainage?" Plush turned her head to look at it, her eyes widening again, "You mean just take a dung scoop and scoop water?"

The two soldiers at the stern of the boat were scooping water with a long-handled wooden spoon that really looked like a dung spoon, and they were extremely skilled in their numb mechanical movements.

"Anyway, it can't be sunk, it can't be sunk. Niu Qianhu smiled shyly: "Seeing how calm the adults are, they naturally know the doorway here." ”

"Yes, the doorway in this sea is very deep," Wang Kunlun hugged his arms and snorted coldly, "But I see that your Jinghaiwei doorway is deeper than the sea." ”

"Wang Baihu misunderstood," Niu Qianhu's greasy smile disappeared, revealing a bitter expression: "We Jinghaiwei...... Let's not talk about it, I will go to the Sailor Wharf immediately, and Wang Baihu can take a look. ”

There are several wharves in Huanggang, and Gaode they start from the civil wharf and then turn to the sailor wharf in the north. Crouching Tiger Island, where the Black Shark is located, is hundreds of kilometers away from the Imperial Port, and it is impossible to go directly by traffic boat. The newly built Admiral Yamen had the authority to dispatch any warship under Jinghaiwei's command, and Gao De chose a fast cruiser as his seat ship, which was also the command ship stationed at the Admiral's Yamen.

"You Jing Haiwei really set up a doorway?"

Wang Kunlun smiled even colder, "Our Admiral is a member of the third rank, and among the soldiers appointed by His Majesty, he is also a fellow of the Jinyi Guard...... Another position depends on whether you are qualified to listen to it. As a result, Jing Haiwei sent a thousand households like you to deal with the adults, what about those commanders and pacification envoys?"

Looking up and down Niu Qianhu's fat body, he shook his head with a beard: "They are working harder than you, do they feel that showing up is unsightly, and they dare not stain the eyes of Lord Admiral?"

Wang Kunlun endured it very hard, and only now did he get mad. The small dilapidated building that was stuffed before was not much worse than the ruins, and now Jing Haiwei is so rude, how can he bear it. Gao De, the squire of the military department, is equivalent to the squire of the military department, and the authority of the admiral to fall into the sea of stars includes Jing Haiwei, which is equal to half of the boss. Unexpectedly, Jing Haiwei dared to openly throw Gao De's face, and he didn't have a head to come to the dock to greet him.

"Baihu has misunderstood," Niu Qianhu's smile became even more bitter, "The contemptible people also forgot to elaborate, although the contemptible people are only in charge of thousands of ships, but they are also temporarily acting as the patrol department to calm down, and yesterday they were temporarily appointed as the temporary commander of the Jinghaiwei patrol." Nominally? The contemptible people are already ranked fifth in Jinghaiwei? The affairs related to Jing Haiwei and the Admiral's Yamen were all handled by the contemptible people. ”

Gaode couldn't help but look at Niu Qianhu again? This guy doesn't know how long he has been cultivating to become such a body? It turned out to be the commander of Jinghaiwei's practical affairs as the captain of a ship. Is this person really extraordinary, or is the Jinghaiwei fleet already strange to the point of extraordinary?

Can't see anything? It's just that some people are not good at socializing, and they don't even report their authority clearly when they meet? It is very in line with the standard of "you have to give that kid Gaode a dismissal, but this kind of offending thing must find a suitable unlucky guy to do".

The problem is a social fear fat house? How did you manage thousands of ships?

Gao De remained silent, just like the investigation of the Tonggushan mine, and could not rush to conclusions until he had obtained enough definite information.

Like the sound of the steam engine of the old cow pulling the broken car and the screaming of the fluffy fluffy in the mixture? A transport boat around an artificial fjord? Enter another harbor.

"Oh......"

The plush suddenly fell silent, and rows of slender and tall steel battleships spread out along the docks. With towering masts and cannon barrels, the creations of steam and steel are unstoppable and oppress the hearts of the people.

"So many such big warships!" Fluffy became excited again: "My Ming is really invincible in the world! What kind of people are Bato, what people are from the New World, what are the demons and demons, and what are you afraid of!"

"Plush fluffy you wipe your own saliva?" Wang Kunlun was also in a trance, and he laughed when he said this: "Jing Haiwei is only one of the eight guards of the Daming Water Division? Not the strongest yet. There are only a few old gunboats, and the others are just miscellaneous ships that can't be included in the battle? Who is qualified to fight against the Bato and the New World? As for the demons and demons? Does the cannon work? If all mortals are bombarded to death, there will be no demons, and there will be no way for demons to enter this world. ”

"I—I don't know!" plush mouth stiffened: "I mean, since you can build so many warships, you have the capital to be invincible in the world!"

"My Ming Dynasty is invincible in the world," Wang Kunlun continued to damage her: "Bato and the people of the New World are so far away, and the merchant ships are so hard, how can they have the ability to send a fleet over." For thousands of years, except for the few small countries in Fusang, which occasionally trespassed and rebelled, there were no enemies. The problem is that there is a world outside the sky, and my enemies have always been outside the sky. ”

"Wang Baihu knows my Daming Sailor very well," Niu Qianhu found an opportunity to interject, "It is because I am invincible in the Ming Dynasty that the adults in the court have a lot of criticism about supporting the Sailor Bawei, and they are cutting funds every year, and even our Jinghaiwei, the sailor of Gongwei and Jinggi, has been cut so that he does not dare to leave the port at will, let alone replace the old ship." ”

No matter which dynasty or time and space the soldiers are, they all regard the Senate or the court as enemies.

"It's pretty well maintained......

The transport boats passed by the battleships, and Gao De gave a fair admiration as he looked at the painted hull and the neat and shiny cannons without clothes.

"That's just the outside," Niu Qianhu shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands: "In addition to the salaries of the sailors and the expenses of the adults in the guards, the remaining funds are enough to paint in two or three months." The actual number of sailors on each ship is less than half of the full amount, which is only enough to do some paint and cleaning work. Every year, in response to the military department's exercise to go to sea, several ships gather together and one ship of sailors go to sea. ”

Even as expected, Gao De was slightly stunned. He also read Jing Haiwei's materials when he was looking through the archives of the military department, and the annual budget is quite a lot. Even if they floated away thirty percent, they didn't reach such an embarrassing situation, and the officials and masters in the guard dared to be so greedy?

"That's outrageous, isn't it?"

Plush said it for him: "If you do this, your boss is not afraid of being killed? Isn't Jing Haiwei the sailor of Gongwei in Gyeonggi?"

"To be honest," Niu Qianhu scratched his head, "I don't even know who the current Jing Haiwei is, and no one has really arrived after so many years." Not to mention that the commanders of the various divisions of the guard have also become false titles. The actual thing is that we, the thousands of households, take turns to manage the ship, but we are not given the corresponding job titles. ”

Gao De glanced at Wang Kunlun, and it happened that Wang Kunlun was also looking at him, and the two exchanged a tacit understanding of "the same as the original elephant training center".

The reason why Jing Haiwei became like this is also simple, the great tomorrow is invincible, and the huge fleet has no place to play, it is just a façade. The imperial court gave Jing Haiwei a corresponding budget, but even if it is not considered corruption, it is estimated that it was misappropriated at will. The embezzlement of the Ministry of War is justified, who let Jing Haiwei just decorate the façade, isn't it natural that he can squeeze out a little bit to deal with other important things?

Thinking about it this way, the thousands of households in charge of ships in Jinghaiwei can still do a good job in the face, and they are already very responsible.

"What about the other thousand households?"

Wang Kunlun still thinks that Jing Haiwei is deliberately slow, "Why do they think that they have nothing to do with the Admiral Yamen, so they can not come to visit?"

Niu Qianhu sighed deeply, "They are afraid that they will be ordered to the Admiral's Yamen by adults and lose the beauty of the three ports." ”

"Three ports?" Wang Kunlun was surprised: "The others are still working in the three ports?"

Gao De listened to Niu Qianhu with an expressionless face, it turned out that the other captains were all on duty in the three ports of maritime patrol, and some were even the leaders of the maritime patrol. Although there is no imperial court establishment and grade, and the salary is not high, it controls the final entrance to the commercial sea route. If he is caught by Gao Delian and the ship to the Admiral's Yamen, the loss of income is still secondary, and when the time comes, it will be difficult to be a man on both sides.

"Think you can escape if you don't come to see them?" Wang Kunlun was very angry, "Just follow the list and see how they run?"

"Then there must be any way to sue the sick and the old," Niu Qianhu smiled indifferently, and his neck squeezed into several layers showed the vicissitudes of life.

"What about Niu Qianhu?" Plush struggled to take his eyes off the thick and long barrel of the cannon, and asked, "Why don't you tell you to get sick and get old?"

"Me?" Niu Qianhu smiled even more bitterly, "I originally relied on Zuyin to get a hundred households of Jinghaiwei, and I liked to play with artillery, so I came to be an artillery officer, and then I was promoted to the management of ship Qianhu." Every year, I am on an errand for drills, and I have fired the guns of every battleship here. I won't do anything but shoot guns on a battleship, and ......"

Then it was the one who took a step back and was pushed to the front of the queue.

Gao De looked at the battleships in front of him, the most conspicuous were the eight large ships, three or four turrets arranged according to the central axis, each turret had two or three, at least 300 mm caliber cannons, roughly estimated to be more than 30,000 tons in size, compared to the previous life is already a super dreadnought-level giant ship.

The other dozens of battleships varied greatly, the large ones were close to the capital ships, the small ones were only half, and there were even old ships equipped with a number of side guns. It looks quite bright on the outside, but with the ebb and flow of the tide, the hull that occasionally exposes below the waterline is layers of oysters, which have not been cleaned for I don't know how many years. In addition, there were few people on the ship, and the docks were empty, and this rather large fleet actually gave Gao De a chilly feeling, like a ghost fleet.

"That's the lowly ship," Niu Qianhu said, pointing to a warship in front of him, "Yesterday, when the lowly official received the documents from the Ministry of War, he gathered the sailors to open the furnace and light a fire, so that the adults could go to sea as soon as they arrived early." I didn't expect the adults to come at this time, but I wasted a lot of coal. ”

"How do you speak?" Wang Kunlun scolded, "Can it be called a waste of preparing for the Admiral's departure?"

"What are you talking about advanced drainage equipment just now," Plush was happy, "I saw that it was human drainage, and I thought you were very good at talking, but now I see that you are actually serious." ”

"It's okay," Gao De comforted: "Since it is under my Admiral's Yamen, the expenses are all covered by the Yamen, so don't worry too much." ”

Looking at the battleship in front of me, I felt miserable. A large area of ship paint peeled off, and the rust was like the folds on Granny Yao's face, but the flag was clear, and the chimney was emitting faint white smoke, and the sailors could be seen coming and going, and finally gained some popularity.

This is a large cruiser, with only one or two main turrets in the front and rear, about 200 mm in twin, plus the slender ship type and the seaplane platform on the tail, it is a light cruiser by the standards of the previous life.

"Heavy ......"

When the traffic boat approached the battleship, he could already see the name of the ship on the bow, and Wang Kunlun muttered to the point: "Is this the name of a place?"

"It's the name of the bird," Niu Qianhu's tone implied pride, "Chongming Bird, the ancient legend is that it is a bird of prey with infinite power and can ward off evil spirits and exorcise demons." In order to win this name, the humble post sent thousands of gold dragons to the officials in charge of the ship's name in the Ministry of War. ”

"Is this something to be proud of?" Fluffy shook her head, "I see this Da Ming...... Ahem, this Jinghaiwei is a pill. ”

"It seems that I chose correctly," Gao De nodded slightly, he chose the ship according to the Jinghai Guardianship of the Ministry of War. The capital battleship ran too slowly, and he didn't need so many and so big guns. Not only was the ship fast, but there was enough space under the bridge to set up a command room for him to sit in, though he might not stay a few times.

The ship was chosen correctly, and the captain of this ship is also a talent, and he is really ...... What a coincidence.

"Can you stop the gyroplane?"

Gao De was concerned about another problem, he could actually take a gyroplane directly to Crouching Tiger Island, but that was just an arrangement for digging the Black Shark. Yesterday, there was such a big battle in the court, and he, the Admiral of the Falling Star Sea, didn't give an explanation on the scene to show everyone that he was indeed concerned about the smuggling of the Falling Star Sea, then it would be impossible to say. The establishment of the Admiral's Yamen in Huanggang, the selection of ships from Jinghaiwei, the inspection of the sea area by ship, and even the selection of corresponding warships and manpower later, the formulation of sea area inspection rules, and so on, all these things had to be done one by one.

Anyway, these things will be handed over to the people below at that time, such as Wang Kunlun, who is actually responsible.

"So you're spending all the golden dragons in it," Plush couldn't stop talking, she didn't like the small and poor-looking battleship, "so you don't have the money to paint and clean up the outside?"

"Mao Xiaoqi is right," Niu Qianhu actually admitted honestly, "including raising enough sailors." ”

"What's your name?" Gao De finally had the heart to ask the guy's full name.

"Niu Delu," Niu Qianhu arched his hand, and said with a shy smile: "The self-satisfied, the Lu." My father's hope for his humble position is to live in peace with his money. ”