"Pu Xingfeng is full of thorns, burning and looting everywhere." Chen Daojian said: "Yan Qi and Li Dan have 50,000 or 60,000 people, this is the claim, but it is estimated that the two of them also have 30,000 people, excluding ordinary sailors, the old and weak, and the like have more than 20,000 soldiers who can fight. ”

"Their recent activities are in the area from the sea off Luzon to the South China Sea of Great Wei, they are quite ferocious, occupying pirates, plundering the border areas of Luzon countries, burning, killing and looting all kinds of evil, when the ships of the sea meet them, all the sailors are killed, none of them are spared, and most of them are tortured and killed." Zheng Shaolai's face was full of anger and panic, which showed that as a sailor in Great Wei, even if he could reach the level of a captain, he was still full of horror when he mentioned these evil pirates.

Chen Daojian nodded silently and said to Zheng Shaolai: "After getting off the ship, I will go to inspect the trading house and visit the daimyo here. ”

Zheng Shaolai understood, nodded to Chen Daojian and said: "Chen Zhengzhi just goes, we have hired a general manager in advance, and we have also bought a commercial house here, and there are officials to stay behind." Once we have moored the ship, we will go ashore and ask the sailors for the latest news, so please reassure your lordship. ”

Chen Daojian nodded, at this time, the government soldiers walked out of the cabin one after another, compared to Chen Daojian, whose face was a little pale and a little embarrassed, these soldiers were already looking as usual, when they went on the ship for training three months ago, these officers and soldiers of the naval division were also embarrassed, vomiting, and it was normal for them to not be able to sleep and eat for a few days and nights.

After months of training, they can now eat on a rocking boat, even if they vomit, but as long as the hull doesn't shake too much, they can eat another meal in no time.

Eating, drinking, sleeping, and conserving physical strength as much as possible are common knowledge among sailors, and now the officers and men of the naval division are also implementing it very well.

At most, Fu No. 1 has led the officers and men of the two naval divisions for training, and now because it is full of goods, the officers and men accompanying it are one sentry, and the current military system is that each team of 12 people is a flag team, every three teams are one sentry, and every three sentry is one sentry.

This time, the cabin was narrow, so only one sentry soldier, together with the sentry commander and the military judge in the sentry, clerks, flag bearers, and drummers, a total of forty-one people came with the ship.

When at sea, there is a guard guard, which makes the sailors feel quite safe, which is the biggest reason why the sailors would rather be more crowded and go to sea with the sailors.

The cabins were not enough for everyone to sleep together, the sailors slept in shifts, and at sea there was a team of sailors on duty, one team to repair supplies or eat, and one team to sleep.

Maybe the future warship will be responsible for the war, and the cabin space will be much larger, because it only carries the supplies of the ship's soldiers, food, water, crossbow arrows, weapons, and armor, even if you have to bring a lot of weapons and food, the space of the battleship is still very large, and a large warship can completely carry half a battalion or even more, and at this time, some large coastal paddle ships can carry thousands of people, or even two or three thousand people.

"Messenger." Sentinel Qian Shude saluted Chen Daojian and said, "We will be responsible for your safety when you go ashore, and I will send a flag team to follow." ”

"Isn't it a little more public?" Chen Daojian said to Zheng Shaolai: "You won't get the big name here who is disgusted, right?" ”

"It doesn't matter." Zheng Shaolai said with a smile: "The personnel here are quite complicated, the Japanese daimyo is very weak, and there are only a few hundred samurai on the daily garrison, and with the power of the daimyo they can only raise so many." If there is really a war, they can mobilize tens of thousands of peasants, called Ashigaru, but they have no armor and inferior weapons, and even our Great Wei's regimental training is far inferior. If the garrison is insufficient, there is no way to maintain law and order, and there are more than a thousand merchants and guards coming in and out here every day, and in order to protect themselves, the big merchants must bring escorts ashore. ”

"I see." Chen Daojian nodded slightly, these specific details can only be understood by following the fleet to the Wa Kingdom.

Under the traction of the small boat, the hull of the Fu No. 1 gradually entered the harbor, and soon after the sail was lowered, the hull collided lightly, and finally succeeded in pulling aside.

Then Zheng Shaolai developed a reward for the small towing boat, and the Japanese people on the small boat were dressed quite strangely, with short robes on their upper bodies, similar to those on the side of the Great Wei, but their lower bodies were only covered with white cloth or blue cloth around their crotch, which looked quite barbaric.

The hairstyle is also barbaric, and the whole side of the head is shaved, and only the middle of the head is in a bun, which looks weird.

The people are also very short, the average height is about the same as that of the women on Fujian Road, which is already on the short side in Dawei, and the men among the Japanese are too short.

After receiving the copper coin, the leader of the Japanese people in the small boat bowed down and thanked him, and his head almost touched the side of the small boat.

Zheng Shaolai said: "They like our copper coins, there is a lack of copper mines on the Japanese island, and there is no coinage, so our copper coins circulate in their territory, and it is also the official currency, and they themselves do not mint coins." On the island, copper coins from the Tang Dynasty were common, and they were the same as new. ”

"It's really exotic." Chen Daojian replied with a smile, stepped on the springboard that had been built, and walked down very steadily.

In front of him, half a team of government soldiers, and the other half followed behind him.

The flag captain walks in the front with a spear-like spear.

Chen Daojian knew that it should be the elite of the government soldiers who were selected to work as escorts at Fu No. 1, and these sailors were recruited last year, and after three months of recruit training in Nan'an, and then three months of intensive training at sea, they were distributed to garrison in various places, and from time to time they went on ships to go on tasks.

The main force of the six battalions of the naval division is still stationed in Penghu and can set off at any time.

This time, there was a guard guard who was not only responsible for protecting Chen Daojian, but also to protect the safety of the ship and cargo of the Fu No. 1.

If you encounter one or two pirate ships at sea, it is common to encounter one or two hundred pirates, and many cargo ships in Fujian and Zhejiang will encounter this kind of thing.

Compared with the cargo ships departing from Guangzhou, they have to pass through the waters of Nansha and Xisha, but the pirates under Yan Qi and Li Dan are encountered, which is more dangerous and risky, so the rewards are higher.

Zhejiang and northern ships, as well as Fujian ships, go to the Japanese and Western countries, and there are risks, but not as serious as Guangzhou's going to sea.

If what Zheng Shaolai and others said was true, I am afraid that the trade in Guangzhou would shrink even more, after all, no matter how easy the money is, it is not as important as life.

Confronting nature and unknown risks is the fate of the navigators of this era, and they are not afraid.

But if you have to face pirates every time you go to sea, you may escape, and it is more likely that your goods and ships will be robbed and people killed, and in the face of such risks, there will be many fewer people who dare to go to sea.

Chen Daojian had a faint feeling in his heart that Pu Xingfeng and the other three thieves might not really want to rob ships and goods, they should also know that such killing and looting would only completely cut off the shipping routes, so that they would no longer have ships to rob, but their fundamental goal was to cut off the trade routes of the Great Wei's foreign trade, so as to completely cut off the Great Wei's foreign trade system.

From this point of view, Pu Xingfeng is by no means a simple bandit, and it is likely that behind him is a noble relative of the Heavenly Kingdom.

The political system of the Celestial Caliphate is generally to maintain the unity of politics and religion, but Chen Daojian knows that not only the position of the caliph has changed in many Celestial families, but even changed the race, so far, the position of the caliph has returned to the hands of the Abbasids, and the surname Pu is also a noble surname in the Abbasids.

It's just that Dawei has always been strong, and this family has never found an opportunity, so they can only secretly accumulate strength for the future.

After the defeat of Gao Xianzhi, the successor of the four towns of Anxi Jie Du Feng Changqing continued to march to Central Asia, and repeatedly defeated Tubo and large and small Bolu and other dissenting forces, at the peak of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty Jingshi Chang'an set off, to the western border of the Tang Dynasty to walk more than 12,000 miles, many Central Asian countries have learned to study the Buddha, and sent their children to Chang'an in turn, as if it was the foreign domain of the Tang Dynasty.

What made the Tang Dynasty lose the Western Regions was the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang army continued to retreat, and then the Tubo forces and the Uighurs supported by the black-clothed food got the rich land of the Western Regions and Longyou, and the internal war of the Tang Dynasty hurt the national strength more than a hundred Talas battles, and even Chang'an was destroyed by fire several times, and when the Tang Empire stumbled to recover from the civil strife, it was found that it had not only lost the Western Regions, but even the Ganliang Xinglingxia Prefectures were no longer owned by it.

That is the hometown of the Han family, including Wuyuan, Yunzhou, that is, the later generations of Baotou, Tumochuan, the fertile land in these Hetao areas, once the homeland of the Han family, and later was occupied by Rouran, the Turks, and the Tang Dynasty and all of them were snatched back, after the Middle Tang Dynasty, these places were lost one after another, and it was once a good place for the Liang family of the Han family to ride horses and practice riding and archery, and gradually became Huhua.

After hundreds of years of changes, Tianfang still exists today, and is still aggressive, planning an attack on Great Wei.

This is a battle of civilizations, a feud, more than 500 years of entanglements, conspiracies, wars, civilizations, religions, so to speak, all-round competition.

Fortunately, the rise of the Taixi Kingdoms, the countries are pressing forward step by step, making the heavens extremely embarrassing.

Trade, goods, many battles......

Chen Daojian felt in his heart that this was an era of rising up, an era of earth-shaking.

He faintly had a clear understanding of the words of Nan'an Hou Xu Zixian, the current era is the most critical period of change, and the changes will affect hundreds or even thousands of years, which is completely different from the previous period when everyone lived behind closed doors, who can take the initiative, who can control the world in the next thousand years.

Even if Great Wei can't control the world, he should at least rise up, defend his continental territory, defeat the barbarians, gain a foothold in the sea, and seize the opportunity.

If they are defeated by the barbarians in this era, after Taixi and Tianfang decide the victory, the future world is one of them, no matter which one succeeds, it may be a disaster for the future of China.

It doesn't have to be a massacre to genocide, but civilization is mastered, controlled, suppressed until it is integrated, wiped out, and disappears.

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After entering the port, there are people everywhere who bow and salute.

It is easy to distinguish between the bald-headed sailors and the wafflers in the crotch pants, the merchants who wear robes and have their hair in buns, the big merchants who sit in a small sedan chair carried by two people, and the officials of the Japanese state who wear officials.

However, the practice of the Japanese people is obviously to wear long robes, and the tiger's mouth has ink-dyed colors, but they also hang knives around their waists, and they are also tigers when they walk, and the weak body and spirit of the grammar officials of the Great Wei are completely two types.

There are also a lot of samurai, many samurai are wearing swords, of different lengths, and there are many samurai holding long knives that are longer than Changji, a bit similar to the Great Wei's eyebrow tattooing knife, but narrower and longer.

Long knives, long knives, too knives, wild knives, knives, all kinds, all kinds of things.

Chen Daojian's general feeling was that the Japanese people were heavy on martial arts, and when they saw the samurai coming, whether they were merchants, commoners, sailors, lifu, or those officials and monks, they all avoided the road, and the samurai passed by with their swords.

These little dwarfs are generally not as tall as the minimum standard of the former forbidden army of five feet two, even if the Nan'an Fu Army recruits soldiers on a large scale, the height of less than five feet two will basically not be recruited.

If you are too tall, your endurance may be poor, but your strength is generally not small, and you will be quite brave.

The height of five feet seven is more than one meter eight, this height standard is the standard of cavalry and crossbowmen, five feet four, more than one meter seventy-two, this is the standard of the general government army, to five feet two, that is, more than one meter sixty-five, this is the standard line of the lowest grade, below this height, that is, adult men are below one meter six five, which can only indicate that they are malnourished from childhood to adulthood, such a body can not bear iron armor, can not adhere to long-distance marches, experience hard battles, in fact, short people may also produce warriors, But the proportions are much smaller than those of the big ones.

The Japanese warriors were generally short, and it was evident that these people were lacking in nutrition when they were growing up.

Someone told Chen Daojian that many Japanese people believed in Buddhism, and it was not only the common people who did not eat meat, but also many vegetarians among the samurai and ministers, or only ate sea fish, meat, including pork and mutton, which were not very popular in the Japanese state.

Chen Daojian feels that this is a kind of brainwashing in public opinion, in fact, it is because of poverty.

After the discovery of the Great Silver Mountain, the wealth of the people and the warriors of the Gongqing Dynasty has increased greatly, before this they have always been a destitute island dweller, in the Tang Dynasty the Japanese sent Tang envoys to China, to learn Chinese etiquette and culture, from the literary code to the imperial court system, including clothing, Chen Daojian found that in addition to the hairstyle, their robe format, bowing appearance, are faintly Tang style.