As the Hooghly River swims upstream, the vast sea gradually shrinks into a wide river with a wide expanse that can be seen. This is the rainy season in the area, and the boats entering the estuary are met with a heavy rain, and the continuous rain obscures the scenery on both sides of the river in a hazy layer of rain and fog, making people look down on the scene behind the rain and fog.

In the evening, however, the rain gradually stopped. However, for the crew on board, they thought it would be better to let the rain continue to fall. As soon as the rain stops outside, the cabin gradually starts to get stuffy, and the mosquitoes that emerge from nowhere start to become active, making it difficult to sleep.

For those children of the clan who suffered unjustified disasters and were forced to leave their homes and come to the Indian mainland to suffer, such a night was simply a time for the collective routine criticism of Zhu Xianxuan, the king of Jin, and Zhu Mindu, the king of Yangqu.

Ever since they were forced to get on a ship and go to sea, these clan disciples realized that the life they had not cherished in the past was actually living in heaven. What power, wealth, and land, Nima is a commoner in Beijing, and it is much better than going to sea by boat.

Not to mention that the dried fish and dried meat, fresh meat and vegetables that are eaten every day have to be supplied to the vassal kings, the county kings, and the captains and first mates on the ship, and they are not the turn of the clan disciples at all. is this accommodation problem, in addition to the captain living alone, even the king of Shu Zhu Zhishu and the king of Jin Zhu Xianxuan can only share one cabin, the king of the county has a room for four people, and the children of other clans can only sleep in the cabin.

These clan disciples did not want to resist, at least they had to let the captain and first mate give up their accommodation and food. But the clans who rose up to resist were quickly suppressed by the army and navy midshipmen under Li You's order, these bastards really dared to turn sticks on the clan, and after a certain clan who tried to snatch the musket was directly thrown into the sea by a young officer named Li Dingguo, the rebellion set off by the clans came to an end.

It was only after the hapless clan who had drunk enough to drink the sea water was rescued on the ship, and immediately exiled by Li You to the next port of call with the power granted by the emperor, that these clans realized one thing. No matter what happens overseas, they don't get any news at home. Therefore, for the emperor, there is no pressure from public opinion.

So as long as the emperor no longer cared about their relatives, these young officers who watched over them did not have to worry about what would happen to them. After losing the protection of the emperor, then they practically have no privileges to speak of like ordinary people.

And the storm in the Andaman Sea taught these clans one thing, human life is really fragile, if the emperor throws them out of the country and ignores them, maybe they will never see the scenery of their hometown again.

After the emperor's ruthless attitude and confirmation that his own life was threatened, these clans immediately put away their arrogant and domineering attitude at home and accepted the education of reality in the sense of current affairs. In another time and space, these lawless clans in the Ming Dynasty were very well-behaved in the hands of the Manchus, and the well-behaved ones didn't even dare to escape, and were finally killed by the Manchus.

However, although they accepted the reality and abided by the rules set by Li You for them, this resentment in everyone's hearts was not eliminated. Chongzhen and Li You dare not scold, in their minds, these two people are real villains. They only complained a few words in the capital, and the emperor kicked them directly overseas, and let him hear any rumors, God knows what means are waiting for them. And the latter are even more cronies of the emperor, otherwise they would not dare to treat them like this, and everyone still understands the reason that the county officials are not as good as the current management.

In this way, the resentment of the clans was concentrated on Zhu Xianxuan, the king of Jin, and Zhu Mindu, the king of Yangqu, the latter being the main culprits for their being sent overseas, while the former was the clan that failed to discipline the Yangqu king. As for the previous idea of uniting the clan to put pressure on the emperor and improve the treatment of the lower clan, it had long disappeared in the minds of these clans.

For this change in the mood of the clans, Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, and Zhu Xianxuan, the king of Jin, are still clear in their hearts, but they have nothing to do about this situation. It was clear that the emperor asked Li You to teach and temper the children of the lower clan, but in fact, whether these actions were a warning to the two of them, they really didn't have much confidence in their hearts.

As a result, the two of them could only pretend to be turtles with shrunken heads, and they didn't say a word about Li You's actions to teach the clans. They didn't want to set themselves on fire and have the Emperor move them overseas. Chongzhen's style is almost the same as that of Jianwenshu people in their hearts.

However, the most embarrassing of these clans is Zhu Mindu, the king of Yangqu, and now he is not welcomed by all the clans, and Zhu Yanhan, the king of Songzi, Zhu Hongyu, the king of Yicheng, and Zhu Changlian, the king of Fengxin, who are in the same cabin with him, directly ignore him and isolate him from a small group.

Unable to sleep due to mosquito nuisance, and unwilling to continue to listen to the cynicism of the other three people in the cabin, Zhu Mindu simply ran to the deck. After walking out of the cramped and stuffy cabin, Zhu Mindu, who had just poked his head out of the deck, suddenly felt a breath of fresh air rushing towards him, making his groggy mind sober up at once.

"Who's there?" Before Zhu Mindu could fully walk onto the deck, he heard a question. He replied: "I am the King of Yangqu, come out to breathe." While looking for the source of the voice that asked him.

Soon he saw a dark shadow on the left side of the lantern shining on him, by inserting a U-shaped tinned copper sheet on the side of the lantern, he could reflect the light into the distance, which was an indispensable and important tool on the ship at night. Zhu Mindu, who had slightly passed the light and adapted to the light, finally saw clearly the person carrying the lantern, who turned out to be Zheng Sen, a midshipman officer in the navy.

For this person, his impression is still good, at least this person doesn't seem to have done anything to the clan, and he has much more rules than the army officer named Li Dingguo.

Zheng Sen saw Zhu Mindu's appearance clearly in the light, but hesitated slightly, then nodded and said, "It turned out to be His Highness, then you'd better not walk around, go down after breathing." ”

After Zheng Sen finished speaking, he continued to patrol ahead, obviously he had no intention of having any friendship with Zhu Mindu. After watching Zheng Sen walk away, Zhu Mindu breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the surrounding environment, although there were no stars tonight, he still vaguely recognized the location of the ship in the dark.

Then Zhu Mindu walked to the left rear side of the boat familiarly, found a familiar position in the row of small boats tied to the side of the boat, and then lifted the canvas covering it, and then carefully got in, lay on the canvas bag in the dinghy, and then re-covered the entrance.

The dinghy instantly became an independent space, and although the height was a little lacking, it was much more comfortable for Zhu Mindu than the stuffy and hostile cabin. This hidden space was discovered by him when he accidentally saw a sailor lazy here one afternoon.

Zhu Mindu then used a ten-yuan bill to buy the right to use this hidden space from the other party. The sailor was responsible for cleaning the space daily and preparing him with some drinks. On board, everyone has a quota of alcohol, fresh water, and food per day, but some sailors are always able to get more than the quota. And for the current Yangqu King, if he can't drink a sip or two before going to bed, it will be really difficult for him to fall asleep.

However, some sailors always like to drink their share of wine together for a few days, so that they get drunk and miss their business. Therefore, it has been stipulated on the Ming warship that no one is allowed to secretly possess alcoholic beverages, nor can they accumulate their own share of alcohol. Even the clansmen in the mission could not violate this rule.

Zhu Mindu habitually reached under the canvas bag behind him, and a hard and cold metal bottle fell into his hand. It is an elaborate flask made of copper sheets, slightly larger than a palm, with a flattened and curved body that fits in the large back pocket of the suspender trousers worn by sailors.

After unscrewing the lid of the kettle, he first took a small sip, then frowned, picked up the flask and shook it in his ear, and cursed in annoyance: "This lame man is getting more and more excessive, even the king's wine dares to be deducted, next time I pay to see if I can deduct you." ”

Although he was scolding in his mouth, Zhu Mindu still drank it one after another, these spicy elixirs that could make him forget his troubles. In just a few months, Zhu Mindu, who has been promoted to a senior drunkard, can already tell in the dark that the wine obtained by the lame man this time may be lacking in quantity, but the quality is quite good. At least it's no longer the odd-tasting coconut liquor, nor the cheap low-quality rum made from sugar cane juice.

In this mouthful of tasting, Zhu Mindu finally fell asleep in a drowsy state. By the time he was awakened by the noise outside, it was already early the next morning. Zhu Mindu, who sat up, couldn't help but uncover the canvas hanging on the side and looked out, and was immediately frightened by the large rice fields, sugarcane forests, hemp fields and mulberry gardens by the river. At this moment, he almost thought that he had returned to Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty.

However, looking at the clothes of the peasants working in the fields, he finally came to his senses, and this place is still overseas. But even so, being able to see such a countryside similar to the scenery of his homeland overseas finally made him feel more comfortable. He couldn't help but comfort himself, it seemed that the Indian continent was not a place inhabited by wild people.

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