Sailing at sea is completely different from inland rivers, when sailing at sea, the biggest test is not the wind and waves, reefs or shoals, but the inability to determine one's position at sea, once lost at sea, then for the sailors on board, what awaits them is likely to be death.

Because of this, most of the time, even the most experienced captains will give preference to the offshore routes, even the most experienced captains, even if they have no way to accurately locate their position on the sea, even if they may have reefs or shoals, although they may have reefs or shoals, but they can avoid the possibility of getting lost.

As for the captain, as a Frenchman, he was originally just a merchant who came to Asia from Europe, although he also owned his own merchant ship, but lost it due to the storm, and then he and his sailors were stranded in Macao, and then, all these years, he has been mixed in Macao, although he has worked on many merchant ships during this period, but returning home seems to be an unattainable dream.

"I owe a lot of money in France and there is simply no way to pay it back!"

Almost every time someone asked him why he didn't go home, he always replied that the debt he owed needed to be paid, and that if he didn't have money, he would have been imprisoned even if he returned to France, and at least for now, here, he still had hope - hope to earn money, and maybe one day, he would be able to return home.

There is always hope!

Sometimes, hope comes at an inadvertent time, and for me, hope comes at an inadvertent time, and a man promises him that if he can take them to Europe, then he can get thirty thousand taels of silver!

Thirty thousand taels of silver!

That's more than 40,000 Spanish silver dollars!

With this money, Chuangyou will not only be able to return to France to pay off all his debts, but he will also be able to leave a lot left, and from then on, he can become a rich man and a successful person who is the envy of everyone!

And their request is very simple - as long as the fleet can reach Europe safely, reach the Netherlands, and he can go home by the way, is there anything more fortunate than that?

This is God's compensation for me!

Whenever I think of all this, I always think that God is blessing him, after all, he has been unlucky for many years, and as a faithful believer, God will always help him, such as now.

However, the money did not seem to be as easy to get as he thought, from helping him to buy ships, to recruiting sailors, then to sailing the purchased ships to the north, and then helping them train sailors, and of course, after all the preparations were completed, the fleet of seventy-six ships left the ports of the north and headed south.

Now the fleet has been sailing at sea for a month and a half, in order to avoid hitting the reef, so their speed is not fast, it can even be said to be a little slow, but it ensures the safety of the ship to the greatest extent, but on the other hand, those who have never seen the sea on the ship, in a month and a half of sailing, not only have they already been exhausted, but also people's mood has become depressed, even a little restless, as the captain of course knows what these people need.

"Sir, they need to go ashore to rest, even if it's for a day, or in a few days, maybe someone will go crazy!"

As if worried that Jin Wenbo would not be able to understand this, he explained.

"Twenty years of experience at sea have taught me that even the most experienced sailors can go mad on long voyages without the opportunity to rest on land, and do not doubt that even on the Pacific routes of the Spaniards, even those sailors are the most experienced, they will often have people go crazy, and the voyage at sea of more than six months is enough to drive everyone crazy, and these people ......"

Pointing to the deck, the passengers with depressed expressions and faintly restless eyes, explained.

"They are just ordinary people, and they have been in this small ship for fifty days, and they can go mad at any moment, sir, and it is because of this that many riots have broken out at sea."

The captain's words made Jin Wenbo look at the people on the boat with some worry, not to mention these people, even he himself became more and more anxious because of the long voyage, it will definitely not work if it goes on like this, but where is the best place to rest?

"Rest is definitely needed, but what is the right place to rest?"

Jin Wenbo looked at the captain and asked.

"The mainland is definitely not good, we need to find an island, it is better to have fresh water on the island, and the area should not be too small, of course, there must be no risk......"

The reason why they can't go to the mainland is because going to the mainland is simply throwing themselves into the net, Jin Wenbo even believes that as long as they appear on the mainland, they will definitely be sent to the Ming army to invite merit, after all, for the Ming Dynasty in the south, they are all traitors, if they are not forced to do this, I am afraid that their heads will be kicked by a donkey, and they will not abandon their families and careers and want to flee abroad.

Of course, Jin Wenbo didn't know that his move even set a certain precedent - a precedent for large-scale immigration overseas, after all, compared to the exile in Taiwan, their behavior is the real immigration, although they are not based on voluntariness, but after all, it has created a precedent for immigration.

When Jin Wenbo made his request, he thought for a moment, then shook his head and said.

"Sir, we don't know much about the waters in this area, after all, the Netherlands have basically monopolized the shipping routes north of Macau, so we don't know much about what islands are suitable for everyone to go ashore and rest, and they are very safe."

Such a place must be an uninhabited island with a large area, and for those who have only been to Nagasaki, Japan twice with the Dutch ship, he naturally does not know what meets Jin Wenbo's requirements.

"Still,"

At the same time, another person came to mind, another person who had become a legend when he first arrived in Macau. Almost every sailor would have revered and even admired that man, because he had achieved something that would be difficult for all sailors to achieve, and it could even be said that many people had taken him as an example.

"I think there is a person who should know where we should go!"

The person he was referring to was Zheng Zhilong on another ship, indeed, no one knew more about the Min Sea than he used to be a "maritime merchant", in fact, he was a pirate, and when he was a pirate, he had led the fleet more than once to hide from the Ming army or other forces on the islands in this area, and he was naturally very clear about the islands here.

"Good for going ashore and having a mooring area...... Well, there's a place that's a good fit. ”

Almost immediately, Zheng Zhilong thought of the island where he had "lived" for a while, not to mention that the island was large enough, and there was a bay where hundreds of ships could dock, and he had avoided the Ming army on that island.

Two days later, the fleet came to the front of an island, although the bay in front of the island is not very large, and the opening is very large, but a small island nearby is just in front of the bay, blocking the waves and the sea breeze, so that the bay is basically unaffected by the waves, which is a very good anchorage area. What's even happier is that the size of the Big Island is quite large.

"This island is dozens of miles in circumference, and Zheng's fleet was once assembled here, and it was also used to train here!"

In front of Fan Sanba, Zheng Zhilong did not hide it in the slightest, and when the fleet entered the bay, he pointed to some faintly visible stone houses on the island and said.

"Those stone houses were built by Zheng's soldiers at the moment, and there were even forts......"

Just as his words fell, a cannon shot suddenly sounded from the shore, and a faint cloud of smoke erupted from a certain location on the island.

"There's someone on the island!"

Although the cannon did not hit the hull of the ship, the sudden shelling still startled everyone who was originally going to rest on the island, and Fan Sanba said with a pale face.

"Master Hou, you, didn't you say that there is no one on the island?"

Looking at Fan Sanba and the others, who were frightened and pale without the slightest blood, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but snort coldly.

Sure enough, it's just a group of businessmen, all of them are gutsless!

Although he despised these people because of their timidity, Zheng Zhilong, who had something to ask for them, did not express this thought, but stared at the shore and thought for a moment, and when he saw a brig in the bay, he picked up the binoculars and saw the word "Zheng" written on the big flag on the mast, his expression became excited, and Zheng Zhibao said excitedly.

"Big brother, yes, yes...... It's our Zheng family! ”

For Zheng Zhilong, who has left Fujian for more than ten years, when he saw this familiar flag, he was not as excited as he imagined, because he knew that the current Zheng family was no longer his Zheng Zhilong's Zheng family, but Da Mu, his son's Zheng family, as for him, he was just like a lost dog, returning here in a hurry, and the all-rounder was under the protection of his son.

Is this what he wants?

Of course not!

For Zheng Zhilong, who has regained the momentum of the One Piece King back then, he has never been a person who is willing to send people under the fence, and what happened after the surrender of the Manchu Qing Dynasty reminded him of what might happen under the fence.

The fate of his Zheng Zhilong will never be handed over to anyone else!

After thinking for a while, Zheng Zhilong said.

"If I'm not mistaken, it must be that Damu sent someone to guard here, and Damu knows this place. Second brother! ”

Zheng Zhilong turned his head to look at Zheng Zhibao beside him and instructed him.

"You go by in a small boat with a white flag, and ask who is stationed there,"

"White flags? Yes, can it work? They're not going to shoot, are they? ”

Seeing Zheng Zhibao taking a small boat and heading towards the island with a white flag, Fan Sanba asked with some concern.

"As long as it's me Zheng Jiajun, I know the meaning of the white flag."

In fact, other people really don't know, Zheng Jiajun knows the meaning of the white flag, because Zheng Zhilong, who has dealt with the Portuguese, passed on the view that the white flag is equal to surrender to Zheng Jiajun, and now Zheng Zhibao is holding the white flag, if the people on the island are Zheng Jiajun, they naturally know the meaning of the white flag, and Zheng Zhilong believes that Damu will definitely tell those people the meaning of the white flag.

"General, someone is coming with a white flag."

Without the report of his subordinates, Lin Nengchuan can also see the white flag, he originally just led the ship here to fight the front peak for the general, after all, the general is ready to gather a large army here, so he will come here in advance to fight the front station and renovate the houses on the island, when he learned that a fleet was coming, he even thought that it was the general's fleet, but he never thought that it was not the general's ship that came.

Seeing the flotilla of the brigade appearing in the bay, he realized that he had no way to escape, and ordered someone to fire a cannon on the one hand, and ordered someone to raise the Zheng family's banner on the other, just hoping that the other party would have some scruples, and now the other party sent someone to come over with a white flag, which made him even more relieved.

"This person must know the rules of Minhai."

Lin Nengchuan, who breathed a sigh of relief, thought about it, and said to his subordinates.

"Let's go, let's go and see if it's the people of that family who have eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall, and dare to come to fight the Zheng family's idea!"

Despite saying this, he still kept a heart, left a few henchmen to hide, and even told them that if there was anything unusual, he would immediately flee and hide, and wait for the arrival of the great general on the island, as long as the general came, there would naturally be a great general to avenge them.

Lin Nengchuan, who has been in the Zheng family's fleet since he was thirteen years old, knows very well what kind of risks there are in begging for a living at sea. Once the people who come want to attack them, they have no room to escape, and the only way is to leave a few alive, so as not to die in vain.

Came to the shore, Lin Nengchuan did not have armor, but only wore the official robe of the six-rank military attaché, he was the six-rank military attache of the Ming Dynasty, although it was only from the six-rank, but after all, he was an official, and these people were very likely to be thieves!

"The brothers are all cheering up, let these people see the momentum of our Ming official army, and we must not let them underestimate it!"

When Lin Nengchuan reminded his soldiers like this, the small sampan on the sea was getting closer and closer, for some reason, as the ship got closer and closer, when he looked at the person standing at the bow of the boat, Lin Nengchuan's heart beat faster and faster, although he couldn't see the person's appearance clearly, but for him who joined the Zheng family's fleet at the age of twelve, this person's figure has always been imprinted in his head.

No, no...... Second, the second master is not, no......

Just when Lin Nengchuan was muttering on his lips, the boat approached the shore, and Zheng Zhibao on the boat jumped off the boat directly, regardless of the sea, and walked directly towards the shore.

Almost instinctively, he immediately stepped forward and went to see the Tao on one knee.

"The general's command will see the second master of Lin Nengchuan!"