The Lin brothers were first deceived to Tangzhuang that day, and then they were negotiated for a shipping business, and after the contract was signed, the brothers could only hurriedly go back to transfer. Xing'anping, which was already full of groceries and just waiting for the road, quickly unloaded some coarse and stupid goods, and then stuffed in 100 quintals of raw silk.

Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty did not have an overloaded department, and the Xing'an Ping rode the north wind and swayed all the way back to his hometown in Funing Prefecture.

After the Lunar New Year in their hometown, the Lin brothers did not dare to delay, ignored the ban of the imperial court, swaggered and collected 70,000 catties of fine pig iron on the spot, together with a small part of wrought iron and 100 quintals of raw silk, and stuffed the Xing'an Ping with words. Seeing that the time was already in March, the Lin brothers found a good day and an auspicious day, worshiped Mazu Niangniang with incense, pulled the sails and set sail, sailed to the sea, and went straight to the other side of the strait.

Crossing the sea from the north wind in northern Fujian, the Xing'an Ping is equivalent to drawing an uncontrollable oblique line.

If you are lucky, as long as the wind direction remains unchanged, you will be able to see the coastline of Taiwan after floating on the sea surface for about two or three days; Of course, at this time, the ship may be in Taipei, or it may be in Taichung, and this lucky ship cannot be controlled.

If you are unlucky, you will encounter all kinds of winds and evil winds...... Then you can only resign yourself to fate, and after five or six days, everyone found out that they had come to Putuo Mountain, which is also a very normal thing.

The luck of the Lin brothers was barely normal, the wind weakened on the first night of crossing the strait, and the speed of the ship plummeted, but fortunately, the brothers and the helmsman were old men who had been running the boat for many years, and they had rich experience and kept the course without danger. Due to the weakening of the wind, the Hung Yen Ping was delayed in the strait for a long time, and it was not until the evening of the third day that the men in Wangdou did not see land.

Lin Baoquan, who had been anxious to watch the sea from the stern tower for the past two days, finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the land, and hurriedly ordered to slow down and slow down - this trip was dangerous, if it was delayed until night, and the land could not be seen, the lucky boat crashed headlong into the big island, and it was easy to hit the reef.

In the early morning of the next day, the Xing'anping, which was blown to the mouth of the Hsinchu River by the north wind and anchored overnight, finally set sail again, went south along the coastline, and went straight to Dayuan.

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When the Xing'an Ping came to the sea off the coast of Dayuan, it was already the end of March 1628, and the crossing was already in the process of opening salt pans, making steel and planting soybeans.

A small boat greeted the ship from afar when it first arrived in the open sea.

Lin Baoquan knew that this was the red-haired man's patrol boat, so he ordered the sail to be lowered, and soon the dinghy leaned to the side of the lucky boat, and a patrolman quickly turned onto the boat with the help of a soft ladder. Looking at this patrolman up close, the people on the lucky boat couldn't help but be slightly stunned, this is a man! If you look closely at the dinghy, the people on it also have short hair.

...... The man was twenty years old, black and lean, with a short layer of black hair covering his scalp, no ring scars in sight, a tight indigo cardigan jacket on his upper body, a row of four black wooden buttons in the middle, calf pants with exposed calves on his lower body, and a pair of strange-looking straw sandals on his feet.

This person's appearance is a little bit better, but with a mouth, there is a Min accent, Lin Baoquan is cordial, but it is not surprising: he knows that the Dutch have Fujian and Guangdong boat people under them, but he didn't expect that these people even had their hair shaved, it seems that it is not easy for the brothers to be on errands under the red-haired people.

After learning of Lin's intention, he measured the draft of the Fu boat on the spot, and then the patrol Ding clearly told the bow of Lin: The draft of the Fu boat is too deep and cannot enter the port, so it needs to be transported by small boat first.

This is not surprising to Lin Baoquan: the Xing'an Ping itself is a sharp-bottomed fortune ship, and this trip is full of iron, and the draft is necessary. After informing the Xing'an Ping to move the ship to the fairway mouth again, the patrolman disembarked and returned to the port, and after the Xing'an Ping slowly started and moved the ship to the side of the Dayuan channel, a string of five or six small boats had already jumped out of the inner sea of the Taijiang River.

This time, after the patrolman turned over and got on the boat, what he took out was actually a copy of the contract signed by Lin Baoquan and Xiong Dao in Hangzhou. After Lin Baoquan saw the copy, he had no doubts, and ordered the hatch to be opened, and the sailors began to use a slow hoisting method to transfer iron materials to the small boat little by little.

Five or six small boats and oars were used at the same time, taking turns to barge the goods back to the big staff, and they were busy from morning to afternoon, barely unloading one-third of the stock in Xing'anping. But this was enough, and after measuring the draft in the afternoon, the patrol told Lin Baoquan that it was now possible to enter the waterway...... So the Xing'anping immediately raised its half-sail and, led by two small boats, slowly sailed into the Taijiang channel.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Lin Baoquan searched for the memories of his youth, and looked at the Dayuan Island on his right, which he had visited once when he was young.

At that time, Dayuan Island was a wild grass habitat, and like the northern line tail island on the left, there were some wild people's grass dwellings scattered in both places. Lin Baoquan clearly remembered that when their small fortune boat was moving in the channel under their feet, there were naked savages running and roaring along the sandy shores on both sides.

And today, Lin Baoquan can no longer see the bare-bottomed savages, and Dayuan Island is replaced by boiling human voices and noisy construction sites.

From the bow of the boat, the grass on the sand on both sides of the channel was long gone, but someone was planting some kind of sapling; The plants are neatly spaced in three rows, with people digging holes in front and carts pushing carts in the back to water them. Looking further afield, you can see a large number of people busy on the construction site, lifting shovels and carts, which seem to be leveling the sand dunes.

When the Xing'anping sailed through the middle of the channel, the merchant house in the upper right corner of Dayuan Island became clearer, and compared with the dilapidated merchant house, what attracted Lin Baoquan's attention more was a striking and red pier-style building near the merchant hall.

This is a rare red brick building, boxy, the bottom is large and the head is small, it has been built about two zhang high, at this moment from the perspective of Lin Baoquan, you can see that the craftsmen around the pier are busy on the bamboo and wood tripod.

"These red hairs are really rich!" Lin Baoquan thought: Red bricks are the material for rich people to build houses in Fujian, but they don't want Dutch people to build piers.

Just when Lin Baoquan was trying to observe the Dutch merchants' mansions, forts, and docks, the Xing'an Ping was standing on the bow full of sailors at the moment, but he let out a burst of exclamations, and before Lin Baoquan could understand the situation, his sleeves were suddenly pulled violently, and the exclamation of the clan brother came from his ears: "Fifth brother, look, Haidilao!" ”

After Lin Baoquan heard the sound, he subconsciously turned his gaze to the left front, at this moment the Xing'an Ping was gradually approaching the mouth of the channel and was about to enter the Taijiang River.