The lifeblood of the Great Qing Kingdom!

When Sukh Saha said this, he naturally didn't know that the more than 70 sea ships that sailed out of Lushun went down with the wind after leaving the port, and they were there to buy grain for the Qing Dynasty, but the so-called "Eight Great Imperial Merchants" wanted to take the opportunity to leave China and find another way to live. And this boat, which was supposed to be empty, was filled with rice, grain, and silver money, and of course, the side branches of the eight families and the minions of each family.

Even Baoyi has its own minions, and the Eight Families are no exception, and even because of the wealth, there are as many as two or three thousand servants in the Eight Families, and now, these people are all on the boat together, and continue to serve the master on the ship. Of course, on the ship, they lived in the lowest cabin, breathed the dirty air of the bilge, and ate the most ordinary food, but even so, they were grateful to their master, after all, the master did not abandon them.

Even according to the master, when they came to a new place, they were allowed to leave the house, and when the time came, they would be allowed to become tenant farmers in the master's grange, which was naturally good news for many slaves, and of course, the better news was that when they arrived in the place, everyone would get a reward of 100 taels of silver for them to settle down in the new place. Because of this, I don't know how many people even began to silently calculate there, thinking about what this hundred taels of silver would be enough for.

"Da Suo, you said that this hundred taels of silver, will it be enough to buy dozens of acres of land in that place at that time? If I can buy dozens of acres of land, when the time comes, I will use this money to buy some land, and then plant the land for a few years, and slowly build the house by myself while farming......"

Sitting in the bilge, Jin Shijiu was looking forward to the future, imagining the future when he would buy some family property in the future, even as a slave, he also had his own dreams, his dream was very simple, that is, to have dozens of acres of his own land, marry a daughter-in-law, and give birth to several sons. Of course, his dreams are even bigger.

"Da Suo, you say, when the time comes, if I change my surname back to Liu, the master won't be able to practice family law, right......?"

When he said these words, Jin Shijiu's voice was very low, and his tone was also very light, because he was a house slave of the Jin family, and since he was a house slave, he could no longer use his past surname, so his surname was Jin, but he never forgot his surname Liu in his own heart.

Perhaps, there are many people with the surname Liu in the world, not more than him, and no less of him, but he feels that if he can return to his original surname, if he dies in the future, his ancestors will be able to recognize him, and he will not become a lonely ghost.

"When the time comes, the master doesn't care about these things, who knows."

Jin Dasuo still looked honest, and he even said to Jin Shijiu.

"Nineteen, when the time comes, if you build a house, I will also help you, anyway, I have the strength."

"That relationship is good, when the time comes, you can also buy a piece of land, let's be neighbors, maybe we will have a child in the future, and we can get married to a baby......"

Domestic slaves also have dreams and imagine the future, and for Jin Dasuo, he also has his own dreams, but he has never told these dreams to others, after all, he knows that his dreams cannot be told to outsiders, which is related to his life.

"I hope ......"

Thinking in his heart, Jin Dasuo listened to the sound of the waves coming from outside the cabin, and occasionally a smile appeared on the corner of his lips, this boat is heading south, and it is getting closer and closer to home......

On the tenth day when the fleet sailed out of the Port of Arthur, the bright sun shone on the deck, and the ice floe that was all over the sea would have disappeared, and there was no trace of it.

The sky on the sea is refreshing, and even the sea breeze with a slight smell of the sea is also intoxicating, even if it is a starry night, there is a special atmosphere, what is this smell? Is it freedom? Is it hope? Or something else?

No one knows, but it seems that God blesses it, since the fleet left the port, the road has been calm, without imaginary winds and waves. Slowly, the mainlanders on the boat, who had never even seen the river, overcame their fear of the sea and began to enjoy the scenery of the sea.

It seems that everyone is in a good mood, perhaps because the sea is so wide that it makes people's hearts seem to be opened up all of a sudden, and they become more wide, like this sea.

However, for some of them, the sea has a different meaning, at least for Zheng Zhilong, the sea means freedom, and unlike others, the moment he stepped on the boat, it seemed that the spirit that had been absent for a long time returned to him again. His once submissive, cautious look disappeared, and a kind of inside-out temperament emanated from him, so that people would always involuntarily keep their distance from him and maintain respect.

When these subtle changes happened to Zheng Zhilong, he was not aware of them, but since he got on the ship, he said that he stayed more and more on the deck rather than in the cabin.

"I sailed on the sea when I was young, since the first year of Chongzhen by the Fujian governor Xiong Wencan recruited An, became the Ming Dynasty's "coastal defense guerrilla", since then more than ten years almost never went to sea, it can be said that more than ten years of comfort exhausted my blood, if not, how could it be so confused to surrender to the Manchus? ”

Zheng Zhilong occasionally said to himself like this, of course, he said this just to cover up his original selfishness, he was originally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty for the Zheng family, in order to be able to be the "King of Southern Fujian", but he didn't expect that the Manchu Qing would be treacherous like this, and he almost didn't behead him several times.

Oh, yes!

More than ten years of rich life has long grinded the One Piece of the year into a person who is rich and noble, although the reason for the break with Longwu back then was extremely complicated, but he was so easy to clear up, but he just started the dream of splitting the map and sealing the king.

If it weren't for the wealth and nobility, the Manchu governors of Fujian and Guangzhou, and the dream of the southeast king, how could he have surrendered to the Qing Dynasty easily. And now, after more than ten years of life as a prisoner, especially after escaping, standing on the ship again, sailing on the sea again, Zheng Zhilong seems to have once again found the One Piece who galloped across the sea back then, and once again regained his long-lost soul.

And now, he always likes to walk on the deck in the night, and then watch the sky in the night in order to determine the course, it seems that once again, he has once again become the Zheng Yiguan who was also a businessman and a thief, and no longer a rich and noble marquis.

Although the sailors in this fleet are probably sailors on inland river boats, but after a period of practice, they have adapted to sailing, and after nightfall, the sailors on duty will operate lightly, in order not to wake up the sleeping people, of course, as long as the wind direction does not change, they hardly need too much operation, so the sailors are often on the deck playing pai gow and the like, but their voices are very small, no one dares to speak loudly, They also habitually glanced at the authoritative position in the stern, with the second head at the helm, occasionally adjusting the rudder to the change in the direction of the wind, so that the ship could go all the way south.

Stepping out of the hatch, Zheng Zhilong walked onto the deck and held on to the railing. Then he walked to the stern, and then looked at the ship, these ships are different from the bird boats, fortune boats, sand boats and other boats he used in the past, but Western ships, but the sails are Chinese style sails, he is no stranger to this kind of boat, as early as the age of seventeen, because of the family's difficult livelihood, he went to Xiangshanao in Guangdong with his brother Zhihu and Zhibao, that is, Macao according to his uncle Huang Cheng. Huang Cheng was a maritime merchant who engaged in overseas trade in Macau. Zheng Yiguan is by his side as a helper and assists in business. Zheng Yiguan used his wisdom and talents in business competition and competition for interests, learned to do business, traveled to Manila, and learned Lusita and Portuguese. Even in his dealings with the Portuguese, under their influence, he was baptized by Catholicism, taking the Christian name Jasper and Nicholas, and foreigners called him Nicholas Iguan. It is precisely for this reason that when he was in Macao, he saw this kind of "old lock boat" with a Western hull and Chinese sails, which was far stronger than the bird boat and other ships.

"If you can use this ship as a warship, you will definitely get a good army......

Zheng Zhilong, who was pacing on the deck, like in the daytime, he came to a cannon, when he was in the green mud, he heard that these cannons were bought from Macao, because each cannon cost hundreds of taels of silver, so except for a few ships with twenty Hongyi cannons per ship, the other ships, but only four to six, although so, as a veteran of the sea, Zheng Zhilong also knew that if it was played properly, these more than 70 old lock ships could be compared to hundreds of bird ships in naval battles, if each ship could be equipped with Hongyi cannons, With these ships alone, I'm afraid they will be able to gallop across the sea!

Patting the side of the boat with one hand, feeling the hard wood on the side of the ship, Zheng Zhilong's heart couldn't help but move.

These families are really willing to pay for it, this wood is all good hardwood! Far from fir wood, pine, cypress and the like, this kind of marine combat ship could not be better.

It's a pity that they want to take these ships to the West......

"Master Hou can't sleep again?"

Suddenly, the words from behind him made Zheng Zhilong turn around, it was Fan Sanba.

"It turned out to be the eldest son, why, the eldest prince can't sleep?"

Zheng Zhilong said with a smile in a rather calm tone:

"Now that I have been away from Liaodong for more than ten days, I don't think the eldest prince needs to worry about Manchu retaliation anymore."

Worried about the Manchu revenge, when he first left Liaodong, Fan Sanba was really worried, even Zheng Zhilong, but when he got to the sea, he naturally didn't need to worry about it anymore.

"I don't have to worry about this, but ......"

Looking up at the night sky, Fan Sanba sighed.

"When I think of the future, how can the younger generation fall asleep!"

"Oh? Here's why. ”

Zheng Zhilong asked deliberately.

"Hou Ye, after you arrive in Fujian, you can return to the Zheng family, in the name of the King of Yanping, Hou Ye naturally does not need to worry about the future, but this world is so big, but there is no place for my Fan family, if it is not so, how can we flee overseas?"

Fan Sanba's long sigh made Zheng Zhilong ask tentatively.

"What if you don't go to the West?"

This sentence came into Fan Sanba's ears, making his heart beat wildly, why did his father let him save the Zheng family at any cost, that is, he wanted to take Zheng Zhilong and others to make a name for himself, compared to Jin Wenbo's mind of escaping to the West where "businessmen and kings sit on an equal footing", the Fan family's thoughts are very simple, they hope to stay in China, and Zheng Zhilong and the Zheng family are their votes for the Ming Dynasty.

Fan Sanba believes that his father's choice is correct, after all, the grace is nothing more than the grace of saving lives, for Zheng Chenggong, the Fan family is the benefactor of the Zheng family, because they saved his father!

It's just that Fan Sanba hasn't mentioned it, he is waiting for the opportunity, waiting for Zheng Zhilong to take the initiative to mention this matter, he knows that Zheng Zhilong will also not miss the current opportunity, after all, after leaving Liaodong, Zheng Zhilong also has no strengths, it can be said that in addition to the "name" of Zheng Chenggong's father, he has nothing else, but Fan Yongdou knows very well that Zheng Zhilong never wants to return to Fujian and Xiamen so gloomily. It is precisely because of this that Fan Yongdou will let his son be on the same boat with him.

"Where do you go if you don't go to the West? Hou Ye has forgotten that for Yu Daming, we are all traitors who must be killed! ”

The word "traitor" came into Zheng Zhilong's ears, making his brows furrow, and he immediately said in a deep voice.

"The eldest prince, Xiamen is not the world of his Huai King!"

Zheng Zhilong, who had regained the momentum of the One Piece back then, looked at the sea and said.

"If it is said that everyone should be punished for traitors, isn't Zheng someone also a traitor, and he Huai Wang has to kill Zheng someone?"

With a sneer, Zheng Zhilong looked at the sea and continued.

"The eldest prince and I have the grace to save my life, if the eldest prince is willing to stay in Xiamen, Zheng will definitely be able to protect the safety of the eldest prince and the whole family, and if the eldest prince is willing, he can also enter the court as an official!"

Even if he had just escaped, although he knew that he was defenseless, it did not prevent Zheng Zhilong from making such a promise to Fan Sanba, the reason why he was so confident was not because Zheng Chenggong was the king of Yanping of the Ming Dynasty, and after he went back, he could naturally enjoy all the glory and wealth, but because he knew that in such troubled times, what was the capital to gain a foothold in the troubled times, not others, it was the ship he stepped on and the sailors on board.

Zheng Zhilong, who was bent on getting all these ships in Fan Sanba's hands, was certainly not deceiving Fan Sanba, the reason why he said this was not only for these ships, but more importantly, he needed to use these ships and the eight families on board to show the world that his "true ship king" was back!

And no one returned to Xiamen in a gray way, and since then he has lived in the deep mansion of the palace, and he has lived for the rest of his life!

Staring at Fan Sanba, Zheng Zhilong continued to say in a demagogic tone.

"I don't know if the eldest prince is willing to help Zheng!"