Li Tai and the others got on the boat very smoothly, and Li Yuanjing's proposal was agreed by the captain, just to take a downwind boat, and one person will pay a good silk brocade robe worth more than ten times as the fare, as long as the boatman is not a fool, he will agree!

What's more, this boat was originally arranged by Sun Xiangfu for Zhang Ke, if you don't catch them, where can you sing.

Through the matter of paying the ship fare with brocade robes, it can also be seen how inconsistent the values of these princes are with the current society, if they are allowed to live in the society, they are a group of losers.

After confirming that they could get to Yangzhou in two days from the boatman's side, Li Tai and the others found a comfortable place to rest in the assigned cabin.

After a while, the sky was already white, and in the galley of the cabin, several boatmen were eating, and the fragrance suddenly attracted all the foodie little princes to come and take a peek.

There is no way, the half-sized children are when they grow their bodies, they eat a lot, they are hungry quickly, and the temptation of food is great for them.

However, this is also the time for the situation.

"Head, those boys who got on the boat before were either rich or expensive, and they all carried brocade robes worth more than a dozen yuan, these are all fat fish!"

"How? Do you have an idea? ”

The little thief who cut vegetables grinned and said, "Before we ran the boat, the business of killing people and selling goods was not less, they got on the boat in the middle of the night, the ghost knew that it was on our ship, we made them, their brocade robes, and those bulging burdens, but they are all ours, maybe they are all gold and silver, and after doing this time, we will only be left to enjoy Qingfu in the second half of our lives." ”

"That's what you said, when they get on the boat when the lights are dark, no one knows that they are on our boat, as long as they do them, chop them up and throw them into the river, and the big fish in the river will not have any residue left for them to eat, and no one will know that we did it. However, it won't work today, it's already dawn, and it's not good to be seen by the people running on the river, so we have to wait until tomorrow night to do it. ”

"yes, let's do it tomorrow night······"

Smelling the smell, Li Tai and Li Yuanchang, who wanted to come over to mix some food, almost listened to all their conversations in their ears across the door panel, and at this time, they were already pale with fright, trembling all over, it turned out that these people were actually on a thief ship.

"Let's go."

Li Tai booed a few people, and with light movements, he took the lead in retreating to the cabin they were assigned, and Li Yuanchang and the others also knew that with their own hairy boys, they were not the opponents of dozens of adult shipwrights on the ship, so they followed Li Tai back to the cabin lightly.

After a while, they told everyone about their current situation, and a panic began to spread.

"It's all to blame on the Sixth Emperor Brother, what kind of bad idea to sneak away, now it's okay, we're about to be chopped up and thrown into the river to feed the fish······"

"I, I don't want to be chopped up and feed the fish, you, you hurry up and find a way······"

All kinds of complaints and frightened voices came from the barnhouse, and the two boatmen dressed as boatmen who were hiding in the next cabin and eavesdropping on each other grinned, nodded to each other, and then continued to listen quietly.

"Everyone, calm down, it's imperative that we find a way to get out of trouble." Li Ke was the first to react and said.

"Yes, yes, yes, they just said, they don't dare to do it during the day, we have to find a way to get off the boat during the day."

Li Tai is not stupid, as soon as he was reminded by Li Ke, he immediately thought of this detail.

"We have to let them dock at the docks, we have to go ashore, and we can't make them suspicious." Li Ke groaned.

After all, these people are northerners, although they have learned to swim simply in the village in the past few months, they think that they have not yet jumped into the river to escape, if they really jump into the river, at least half of them will have to drown, first of all, Li Tai Xiaopang paper does not have the physical strength to swim to the shore, they are all the respect of the prince, and they can't take risks easily until they have to.

"Why don't we identify ourselves with them?" Li Yuanjing is the oldest, but unfortunately his IQ is not online, he just has some little cleverness, and he is usually the kind of cleverness that cares about the ingot.

Hearing his words, Li Ke shook his head and said, "It's okay not to show your identity, once you show your identity, I'm afraid that you are forcing them to die, because just the intention of killing people is enough to sentence them to a heavy sentence, if they know that they want to murder the prince, it is estimated that they will think that they will definitely die, but they have to take action against us." ”

"So what are we going to do? You can't just wait to die on the ship! Li Yuanchang, who had no choice, said urgently.

"Let's calm down and think about it."

Li Ke comforted the emotionally unstable people, but Li Tai was silent, running his brain quickly, after a while, he really came up with a way, signaling everyone to be quiet, "If we want to go ashore, we have to think of an excuse that they won't suspect, I think, it's okay to eat, if they want to invite us to eat the food on the ship for a while, we must resolutely not eat, maybe there will be sweat pills and the like, we have to pretend to be used to eating brocade clothes and jade food, and can't eat the simple food on their ship."

Then, aren't there many big wharves on the Yangtze River waterway? Let's just say that we want to go ashore to eat and drink in the restaurant, at most, press our remaining brocade robes on this boat, dispel their vigilance, as long as we go ashore, it's easy to say. ”

"Yes, this method may work."

Li Ke was the first to agree with Li Tai's plan, and after a while, sure enough, a boatman came and knocked on their cabin door and called them to eat.

"You have to pretend that nothing happened."

Li Tai whispered to everyone before opening the hatch and heading to the boatman.

"A few guest officers, we have made breakfast on board, if you are hungry, you can go to the rear cabin to eat."

"Hehe, no, I'm usually used to living a life of brocade clothes and jade food, and we are not used to eating the crude food on the ship, so when we get to the dock of the next town, you dock and stop the boat, and we eat in the restaurant by the dock, and then get on the boat and set off, you can rest assured, we will not let you wait in vain, there are Shu brocade robes to give you as a fare, and some of our parcels and belongings will be placed on the ship, please help take care of it."

Li Tai's strategy is quite harmonious, he feels that since these people are greedy for their own property, then their attention must be on their property, as long as they give up their money, they should be able to save their lives.

Sure enough, the boatman listened to Li Tai's words, showed hesitation, and finally agreed, saying, "It's okay, but the next prosperous wharf, but the wharf in Gangneung City, will take more than an hour to arrive······"

"It's okay, we're not hungry yet, so let's go eat and drink by yourself!"

Li Tai interrupted the boatman to continue to persuade them to eat and pad their stomachs, so he retreated into the cabin, closed the hatch, and wiped the sweat on his forehead.

"Everyone eat first, after an hour, we all go to the deck, close to Gangneung City, there will definitely be a lot of ships on the river, then they won't dare to do anything to us, as long as we don't carry our burdens, they will definitely let us go ashore."

Li Tai consciously succeeded in his strategy, and hurriedly opened the burden of his water chestnut, beckoned everyone, filled his stomach, and escaped ashore, but when he ate the water chestnut in his mouth, the taste seemed to be a little wrong.

In the hot summer, the water chestnut cooked the afternoon before, to the next morning, in fact, has begun to change the taste, if you wait for another hour or two to noon, it is basically completely inedible, feel the taste is not right Li Tai, now I found that these people have prepared so many water chestnuts to eat on the road, it is simply stupid, even in the summer, the problem that cooked things are easy to spoil, they did not consider it before, and expect these water chestnuts to be eaten for two or three days, until Yangzhou! It is estimated that you will have diarrhea and die halfway.

But I can't help it, I can't eat it! Last night, they were tired all night, and after a while, all these burdens had to be left on the boat, and they didn't eat more, and by the time they arrived at the docks of Gangneung City, they would be hungry.

Moreover, without baggage, even if they get off the boat at Gangneung Wharf, they won't be able to get food for a while, after all, they are now running away! The movement is too loud, and it will definitely be arrested by Sun Xiangfu.

"If the taste changes a little bit, it should be fine, but if we don't hurry up now, we won't be able to eat it even more after that."

Li Tai comforted the princes and himself in the cabin, and suddenly, there was a sound of water chestnuts in the cabin.

In the lower cabin, the captain and several management-level shipwrights had already gathered together, among them, the shipwright who was in charge of the lookout said, "Captain Zhang's ship has followed, their ship is fast, after we use the flag to pass the news over, slow down a little, and let him arrive at the Jiangling City dock half an hour early." ”

"Well, leave the burden of the nobles, let them go ashore, our task will be completed, we have done such a beautiful job this time, Lord Sun will definitely let us join Lord Zhao's overseas exploration fleet."

The person who spoke was the water bandit Lin Leopard who Sun Xiangfu went to Dongting Lake to recruit in person, he played the water bandit, and he played it in his true colors, so Li Tai couldn't help but be bluffed by him.

However, his real ideal is not to pull some goods on the Yangtze River and make hard money. It's about going overseas and seeing a wider world.

Now, Zhao Long is already the minister of the Ministry of Navigation and Exploration, since Wu Shitong served as the general manager of the Overseas Exploration and Investment Co., Ltd., and was added to the official title of Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce by Li Shimin, all the heads of state-owned enterprises in Datang have added corresponding levels of official positions according to the scale, but this kind of official position only has a level, no administrative power, and is similar to the leaders of enterprises and institutions in later generations.

The five ministers of the Overseas Investment Exploration Co., Ltd. are only one level lower than the general manager of the samurai Tong, so Zhao Long is now also a fourth-grade official in the ranks, in the future, he will have to manage thousands of large ships, hundreds of thousands of shipwrights and sailors, since driving the steel structure keel ship back from sailing on the sea, he has been the idol of all the boatmen and sailors who sail on the water.