Chapter 236: Despair

Guo Zhiyuan has not received the news from Zhang Cheng from the capital, so he naturally refused to go to Zhangzhou to take office, so he excused himself with physical discomfort, so it dragged on for another month, Xu Xueju also sent people one after another to urge Guo Zhiyuan to take office, and the words became more and more severe each time, and finally Guo Zhiyuan received Zhang Cheng's flying pigeon message, saying that the Wanli Emperor had agreed to allocate Penghu Island to the more than 500 surviving businessmen and people, and at the same time specially allowed them not to pay taxes for three years, the stone in Guo Zhiyuan's heart fell to the ground, and it was not easy to shirk again. Finally, he agreed to leave for Zhangzhou Mansion in three days to take office.

Guo Zhiyuan asked Shen Junrong and Xu Guangqi to stay on Penghu Island, and he only brought Fa Zheng, Zhang Cheng, Chu Wan'er and fifty regimental training township soldiers to Zhangzhou Mansion to take office.

It wasn't until Penghu Island was completely out of sight that Guo Zhiyuan put down his waving hand a little gloomily, although he behaved extremely freely in front of those surviving businessmen, but in fact, he knew very well that his plan had been completely disrupted, and he had lost the opportunity to be independent, and his development would inevitably be greatly hindered, especially with Shen Yizhong, the top boss who hated him to the core, staring at him, it would be difficult for him to establish his own maritime power in a short period of time.

Li Jin also saw that Guo Zhiyuan was not in a good mood, and cautiously comforted: "Your Excellency, why don't you go to the cabin to rest, this place is already very close to the inland, at most one day, we can go ashore, and then I will wake up the adults......"

Guo Zhiyuan was busy with the construction of Penghu Island during this time, and he rested for less than six hours a day, and he did feel a little overdrawn, so he nodded and went into the cabin to rest, but somehow he did it, Guo Zhiyuan always felt a little restless, and there was an ominous premonition in his heart, as if something bad was going to happen, he couldn't fall asleep while lying on the bed, so he got dressed again and got up, and walked to the deck to check.

Li Jin had been guarding outside the cabin, and when he saw Guo Zhiyuan getting up, he hurriedly greeted him, and said with a smile: "Why did the adults get up?" But hungry? Why don't the villains go and inform the room to make some food......"

Guo Zhiyuan waved his hand, walked quickly to the bow deck to check the situation, a few sailors at the bow of the ship were lying on the deck boringly and talking about jokes with meat, they were startled when they saw Guo Zhiyuan, and they got up a little afraid to salute Guo Zhiyuan, Guo Zhiyuan waved his hand at them kindly, signaling that they didn't have to worry about themselves, and he stood on the bow deck and looked around, but he didn't find anything abnormal, the sea wind was beautiful and very calm.

Guo Zhiyuan shook his head, and said that he was a little nervous, and was about to go back to the cabin to rest, when he suddenly felt that the light was a little darker, and the originally clear sky suddenly changed its face, and heavy dark clouds quickly drifted from the south sky to the north, and it didn't take long for the dark clouds to cover the sky and the sun, like a pot lid on the sea, which made the sea and sky suddenly change color. Immediately, the wind on the sea began to increase, and the previously calm sea began to become choppy, and the Daifuku boat under their feet suddenly became bumpy and began to rise and fall in the waves.

When the sailors, who had been very leisurely, saw this situation, their faces changed completely, and they shouted: "Oops, a typhoon is coming!" Tell the Boss! Although Guo Zhiyuan has no sailing experience, he also knows that typhoons are the things that seafarers are most afraid of encountering, especially at this time there is no weather forecast, I don't know how many typhoons there are, and whether they can survive in the typhoon can only rely on luck!

This is the first time Guo Zhiyuan has encountered a typhoon, so he is usually very calm, and he is a little flustered, but Li Jin has been begging for a life at sea all the year round, and he has a lot of experience, although his face has changed, but he still behaves more calmly, and he drank a few sailors who were like ants on a hot pot flustered on the deck, and shouted loudly: "What are you panicking!" Hurry up and lower the sails halfway, adjust the sails, and turn around and go back to Penghu Island to avoid the wind! ……”

The sailors were drunk by him, but they were not so flustered, they felt that they had the backbone, and hurriedly ran in the direction of the mast, and began to adjust the sails and turn around, Li Jin arranged it properly, and then turned his head and smiled at Guo Zhiyuan: "Your Excellency, it's better to go back to the cabin to avoid the wind, with a noble person like your adult in charge, this typhoon should be fine......"

Guo Zhiyuan also knew that staying on the deck at this time would not help much, but would get in the way, so he nodded, patted Li Jin's shoulder and said, "Then it's hard for you!" He was just about to turn around and leave, but the sea breeze suddenly became more violent, and the sea, which was calm before, suddenly became violent as if he had turned his face, and the huge waves slapped towards the fortune boat one after another, Guo Zhiyuan was also shaken, and almost fell, thanks to his quick eyes and hands, he grabbed a cable beside him to stabilize his figure!

The lucky boat that Guo Zhiyuan took was not small, but at this time on the raging sea, it was like a leaf, up and down in the waves, sometimes swept into the air by the waves, and sometimes fell heavily to the bottom of the waves, the sea was like an angry beast, wanting to tear this big fortune boat to pieces, and ravaged this big fortune boat crazily! The hull of the ship in the huge waves, from time to time squeak, as if it will be broken by the waves at any time, listening to everyone's ears, can not help but make people tremble, for fear that in the next moment, the boat will suddenly disintegrate!

The temperature on the sea surface also began to drop, and a large stream of seawater slapped on the boat, pouring the people on the boat into soup chickens, Guo Zhiyuan was also unavoidable, the whole body became wet, and he could only struggle to hold on to the cable, struggling to maintain the balance of his body, so as not to be thrown out of the boat by the huge waves to feed the sharks.

The people on the boat can no longer effectively control the ship at this time, except for holding on to the objects around them that can stabilize their bodies and prevent themselves from being blown away by the typhoon, they can only pray to Mazu Niangniang in their hearts, hoping that Mazu Niangniang will bless them and let them escape this catastrophe!

Guo Zhiyuan really understood the power of the typhoon this time, in the face of the power of the typhoon, the power of human beings is so small, so insignificant, for a moment, Guo Zhiyuan even a little desperate, what ambitions, changing the fate of the nation have been left behind, whether he can survive or not I don't know, maybe this is called the ambition to die before the reward!