Mao Wenlong still had little confidence in the warship, although he believed that the three brothers of the Lijia family would not lie to him, but he did not want to act lightly before he personally inspected it.

After all, the ship was already loaded with artillery, and the muskets sent had been equipped with the newly established army of 3,000 sailors.

These things are Mao Wenlong's current belongings, and he doesn't want to fall into the sea before they come in handy.

"When will the sea trial begin?" After some hesitation, Mao Wenlong asked Lihui beside him.

"Chief soldier, after sacrificing to the god of the sea, you can go to sea at any time for a trial." Lihui's face was full of red light at the moment, and he was very satisfied with the three ships in front of him.

Mao Wenlong hesitated slightly, then waved his hand and said, "Okay, you go down and get busy first, and then come and inform me when you are ready." ”

Lihui immediately agreed, and then left with excitement.

Mao Wenlong himself wandered around the warship, except for the main structure of the three warships, which was refurbished from the old ship, those decorations or scattered parts have actually been rebuilt.

Therefore, if you do not look closely at the hull, you will not find that these three warships are old ships refurbished. After wandering around aimlessly, Mao Wenlong was generally very satisfied, and besides, these three warships were urgently needed.

When new ships are built in the future, these ships can be phased out.

The sacrificial procedure ended soon after, and the three brothers of the Lijia family came to report to Mao Wenlong happily.

Mao Wenlong chuckled and nodded, "Very good, then start the sea trials immediately." ”

Lihui's face was smiling at the moment, but he listened to Mao Wenlong's order, but he didn't mean to move off the boat. Lihui was in a hurry to go to sea, so he had to say with a haha: "Chief soldier, we are ready to go to sea, you see, are you ......?"

Mao Wenlong obviously had already seen the meaning of Lihui's words, and he didn't wait for Lihui to finish speaking, and immediately interrupted: "I will also go to sea together, you are all busy with you, I will just take a look on the boat." ”

Lihui's swarthy face was immediately stunned, and he said excitedly: "Don't do it, chief soldier!" ”

Mao Wenlong's eyes widened, glared at Lihui and said fiercely: "Why not? ”

Lihui didn't dare to slack off, and immediately replied: "Chief soldier, there are too many unknown dangers in this sea trial, and we can't guarantee the safety of this sea trial." Therefore, please be considerate of the commander-in-chief, and when there is no problem with our sea trial, if the commander-in-chief is interested in going to sea with us, we should welcome it at that time. ”

Mao Wenlong frowned, very unhappy in his heart, and was about to open his mouth to refuse Lihui's kindness, but unexpectedly, Haoda pulled his sleeve beside him, leaned on his ear and whispered to persuade: "Chief soldier, we don't need to rush this time and a half, or according to what Brother Lihui said, we should wait for the trial voyage and come up again." ”

Being said by Haoda, Mao Wenlong suddenly calmed down, and after some hesitation, he snorted coldly and reluctantly got off the boat and left.

Seeing Mao Wenlong leave angrily, the three Lihui brothers all showed wry smiles on their faces. But at the same time, they were also relieved in their hearts, Mao Wenlong is now their food and clothing parents, once there is any mistake, how will the three brothers realize their dream of dominating the sea in the future.

Therefore, no matter what, they don't want Mao Wenlong to come to take risks at this time, things are always afraid of ten thousand, and the situation at sea is even more unpredictable. Therefore, the three brothers didn't want Mao Wenlong to join in the fun at this time.

Mao Wenlong failed to go to sea together as he wished, and he was a little unhappy, and when he was in a bad mood, he simply returned to Anton Wei's residence.

As soon as he returned to Andongwei, he learned that a messenger sent by Youye County was waiting.

Ye County should not have any urgent matter, but the messenger came at this time, indicating that something must have happened.

Mao Wenlong didn't dare to slack off, and immediately summoned the messenger from Ye County.

The messenger was a middle-aged man, and when he saw Mao Wenlong, he directly bowed down in front of Mao Wenlong with one leg, and said: "Qiqi General Soldier, a caravan of several hundred people suddenly came to Yexian, saying that it was to buy enough food from us. General Chen could not make the decision, so he specially sent his subordinates to ask the general army for instructions. ”

"There's a caravan that wants to buy us enough food?" Mao Wenlong was slightly stunned.

If it was only a small amount of food, there was no need to go through Mao Wenlong's reply, and Chen Qiyu could naturally make an idea. And now he has sent someone to ask for instructions from him, explaining that this caravan should need a lot of money, right?

"Do you ever know who the other party is?" Mao Wenlong was puzzled and hungry and asked.

"Chief soldier, I don't know yet, but the other party's shopkeeper spoke with a Beijing film accent. So General Chen guessed that it should be a caravan from Beijing. The messenger said truthfully.

At this time, Mao Wenlong was even more puzzled, but after he thought about it, he suddenly smiled and said, "Could it be that this caravan was sent by the imperial court?" ”

Combined with the previous situation of the imperial court cutting off grain and grass, it is not difficult for Mao Wenlong to contact Chongzhen. After all, the tense situation in Jiayuguan cannot be delayed, and if the imperial court has no more food to send over, the mutiny will definitely not be able to escape.

After thinking about it for a while, Mao Wenlong asked with a smile: "How many taels of silver have they prepared to buy grain and grass from us?" ”

The messenger recalled for a moment before he said, "General Chen said that it was 500,000 taels of silver. ”

After hearing this, Mao Wenlong nodded and said, "500,000 taels is indeed a lot." ”

After a pause, Mao Wenlong instructed the messenger: "You go back and tell Chen Qiyu now, let him raise the price of grain by one-third, and then collect all the silver and sell it to them according to the price." ”

The messenger immediately said yes and then withdrew on his own.

Mao Wenlong thought in his heart: "If it weren't for the fact that the imperial court is still needed to defend against foreign enemies, he wouldn't have to pay attention to this transaction of the imperial court at all." You can even blackmail the imperial court and make it pay huge benefits. ”

And Mao Wenlong is only raising the price by one-third at present, which is a great gift to the imperial court.

After Chen Qiyu received Mao Wenlong's instructions, he was very surprised, but he did not go to the shopkeeper who came to buy grain without permission. He completely followed Mao Wenlong's instructions, which surprised the shopkeeper who came to buy grain, and after confirming it again and again, he happily made a transaction.

The shopkeeper had already made sufficient mental preparations before he came, and he also pulled his bottom line to a very low point, but things were unexpectedly successful, making him feel like he was in a dream for a while.

500,000 taels of silver, and finally replaced with a full cart of nearly 100 truckloads of grain and grass, the shopkeeper returned with a full load, and after thanking Chen Qiyu repeatedly, they immediately left Ye County that day, and they didn't dare to delay for a moment, and they could see that they were very anxious.