Under the gaze of a group of sailor officers, Zhou Jun was escorted to the sailor White Tiger Hall on Zhao Xingde's boat.

Clean and tidy, this is Zhou Jun's first impression of this warship. Whether it is a merchant ship, a bandit ship, or an official ship, it often has nothing to do with these two words. It's as clean as a painting boat. Most of the people who beg for a living at sea are informal, and the ship is full of dirt and all kinds of strange smells. Zhou Jun buried his head, and could only see soap boots with white backgrounds stepping on the shiny wooden board. As the leader of the pirates was brought in, the whispers of the officers fell silent. 、

"'Patrol Yaksha' Zhou Jun?" Zhao Xingde looked at the officers on the left and right, and said with a smile, "Where is the Dragon King of the East China Sea?" ”

"This?" Zhou Jun's face froze, and the officers laughed. Shicai Zhou He introduced to everyone that this "Patrol Yaksha" Zhou Jun is a native of Tongzhou, born in a broken gentry, and has only broken into the name of the last half a year. This time in front of the court, Zhao Xingde just wanted to see if this person was worth recruiting. That's why Zhao Xingde ordered him to go to the hall for questioning, otherwise he would be thrown directly into the bilge, and whether he was dead or alive, he would be handed over as soon as he landed. However, as long as Zhao Xingde passes the level, it is too "normal" to recruit a fugitive. In the military camp of the Great Song Dynasty, under the command of generals such as Han Shizhong and Liu Guangshi, they were full of bandits and rogues from Zhao'an.

"Report all the sins you have committed and the things you know about the seas."

"Yes, yes....." Zhou Jun broke out in a cold sweat, he knew that it was powerful, and stammered.

"Two months ago, more than 10,000 people were gathered to besiege Mingzhou, wasn't it you?"

"My lord, I am wronged, this name is mostly used by others." Zhou Jun shouted loudly: "If I have great power, Dongying, Goryeo, and the South China Sea, where can I go?" Even if you can be a maritime businessman, why do you want to do this robbery, is it really a natural cheap bone? He shook his head and said with a bitter face, "As the saying goes, if you can go up the mountain, you can't go down to the sea." The waves on the sea are unpredictable, if you are not forced to be helpless, who wants to go to the sea to beg for a living! The matter in Mingzhou started with me, but most of them were shore thieves who took advantage of the chaos to plunder, and they were worried about the retaliation of the officials and soldiers, so they all played the banner of 'Patrol Yaksha'. ”

"Then you have more than 100 henchmen, right? Where are the others? ”

"My lord, there are indeed only more than a hundred men around the criminals, and the sea ship is so big, no matter how much it can't fit in. I also have some colleagues on the shore, and before each transaction, I send someone to contact them, make an appointment, and then go out together. It's just that they're all under my banner, and the sinners can't restrain them, so they're not my buddies..... It's the same for doing business at sea, like Song Jiang, who is famous in the rivers and lakes and seas, 'Hu Baoyi', who is also one of the best heroes, and his real buddies are only thirty or forty, all of whom are brothers, strong in martial arts and not afraid of death. He is just famous, and when he wants to do any case, he will respond to it everywhere, and he will pull tens of thousands of horses......"

Except for the first question, Zhao Xing listened carefully. With his permission, Zhou He and Liu Zhijian and others continued to interrogate the bandits, one was to learn more about the situation, and the other was to identify whether he had lies. Zhou He bowed slightly towards Zhao Xingde, with his years of experience in interrogation, this person should not be lying.

Zhao Xingde looked at Zhou Jun, shook his head and said: "In the official document of the criminal department's sea capture, the 'Patrol Yaksha' is described as a sea giant with tens of thousands of people. It seems that hearing is false, and seeing is believing. "The gentry became more and more tightly controlled, and many bandits flowed to the sea. The staff officers had sorted out the information of the famous pirates in Huaibei and southeast in advance, including Song Jiang of "Hu Baoyi", Zheng Yi of "Rolling Sea Shrimp", and Zhou He, "Yaksha of Patrol the Sea". Zhao Xingde was preparing to build a South China Sea Naval Division, and he had also moved the idea of recruiting pirates, but he never had a suitable opportunity, and recently met this "patrol yaksha", which was just a boat, a pirate of more than 100 guys. He couldn't help but be a little disappointed, such a scale compared to the Great Food Navy, which determined that the former could only be used by the latter rather than compete with it.

The Great Song Dynasty even has a very weak tradition of pirates, like Song Jiang and Zhou Jun, who are not at all the same as Lulin Red Mei and Huangchao Li Chuang. "To prepare for the construction of the navy, we still have to start from scratch." Zhao Xingde watched Zhou Jun being taken out of the White Tiger Hall, sighed in his heart, waved his hand, got up and returned to his study. The cabins on the ship are limited, and the White Tiger Hall is a place for the officers of the Naval Division to rest and chat in normal times, and the officers no longer have straight faces, they talk and laugh easily, and their voices faintly enter the study.

"What a patrol nakshatra, hearing is false, seeing is believing!"

"It's just a bunch of rats on the sea." ", don't underestimate these guys at sea, they're everywhere."

"If the rat runs away, you'll be in trouble if you catch it." "Hit the Sea Dragon King and go crazy, the mouse and the tiger are the same."

"yes, this is the biggest headache." "The Great Eater Pirates are more powerful, and the more difficult it is to deal with, alas-"

Such a situation would be unthinkable on shore. When the coach was not promoted to the hall to gather generals, the White Tiger Hall was a forbidden place in the army, and it was a big crime to wait for idlers to trespass. And Zhao Xingde's study is often next to a quiet garden, in addition to the sound of wind and rain reading, it is the song of birds and insects. In such a cramped place as a sea ship, everything is different. The joke is that a fart in the bow of a ship can be smoked all the way to the stern, let alone in the cabin. In the past few days of going to sea, even though he is the commander in chief and has many more privileges than others, Zhao Xingde still feels the boredom and tedium of long-distance voyages, as well as the fear of facing death at any time in the wind and waves.

The sea ship with a length of more than 20 zhang, a width of more than 3 zhang, a height of more than 2 zhang, and three decks on the upper and lower decks accommodates the lives of all three or four hundred men. Eat and drink Lazar, work, drill, drill, live, Lazar eats and drinks. Although the sailors suppressed any possible commotion with strict military law, the long-term operation was worrying.

Every time a seagoing ship docked at the port, the officers and men of the naval division rushed off the ship as if they had been granted amnesty, and the casinos, restaurants, and green buildings were full, spending a lot of money and venting their anger on the ship. This situation is strikingly similar to the fact that the pirates go crazy as soon as they come ashore, burning, killing and looting. This is only the coastal navigation along the coastline of the Song Kingdom, and it is not uncommon for sailors to kill the proprietor on the South China Sea route.

"His grandmother's eats bean sprouts, cured meat, and salted fish every day, and her beak fades out of the birds."

"It's good to have meat to eat you, do you know what the marching cake tastes like? The kind of long bugs? ”

"Damn, Lao Zhou, bring me some wine."

Zhao Xingde frowned slightly, this was Du Blowing Horn's voice. The boring life makes people very sensitive to materials, but the things on the ship are far from being compared with those on the shore, and even the officers can only guarantee cured meat, but cannot eat fresh meat. The only fresh dishes are mung bean sprouts and soybean sprouts, as well as tofu, salted fish, bacon, pickled cabbage, and plum cakes. Zhao Xingde was able to work out a schedule for the sailors' daily routine of practicing and tidying up their internal affairs for seven and a half hours, but he could not restrain the officers so much, otherwise the officers would rebel against him with the sailors, so the White Tiger Hall became a place where the officers spent most of their time doing nothing to pass the time.

Officers on a boat often form two relatively extreme relationships, either brothers who share life and death, or they are bitter enemies. The commander, deputy commander, and protector make these three bigwigs either cooperate seamlessly or hinder each other. It was no longer possible for Zhao Xingde to see all the officers every day. If the sailor had a mountain, every ship would be a mountain rippling in the sea. The power and influence of Lord Zhao Dudu, who gave orders through the flag, was minimized by the unique environment of the sea ship. This is also the reason why famous Dahai Kou like Song Jiang and Zhou Jun have cronies who are only one or two sea boats.

"There has to be a way." Zhao Xingde groaned. He looked out the window at the sea and fell into thought.

The wooden window is in the style of Yangzhou, as if it is antique, but the undulating scenery outside the window, and the seabirds that sometimes pass by all indicate that this is a moody ocean. The floor, desk, and window sill are wiped twice a day, and the cabin smells of wood. In order to prevent mutiny, the regulations and military discipline were strict to the point of harshness, and by the way, the good maintenance and cleanliness of the naval warships were ensured, however, the cleanliness of the hearts of the people was not so easy to maintain. Especially the Song people. The basis of the law is ethics, and the basis for the existence of ethics is parents, wives and children, and relatives. When all this becomes distant, how to live and maintain people's hearts is one of the top priorities that Zhao Xingde has been thinking about during this time.

The same problem also plagued the reclamation land of the Song people in the South China Sea. At the beginning, they were forced to move to this wild land by the imperial court, and it was a hodgepodge of prisoners, prisoners, sons-in-law, thieves, prostitutes, and monks who had no degree, plus the Qingliu gentry who were the flow pipes. Later, after the invasion of the Liao State, a large number of Song gentry and displaced people began to come by boat, and the so-called "whole family" fled to the reclamation land in the South China Sea, and there were no more than a few dozen people in one clan, and under the displacement, there was no grand occasion of hundreds of people living in the Central Plains. If there is no effort to maintain the officials, with the chaos of various reclamation lands, I am afraid that the world will immediately become chaotic.