Chapter 225: The Past of the Dead

There was still a long way to go before the ship transitioned from wooden to iron, and the most feared thing for the wooden ship at this time was fire, and pouring fire oil on the deck into the cabin and then igniting it was basically an unsolvable slaughter.

The crew and sailors in the cabin were either burned to death, or they climbed onto the deck in a panic and were killed in another way.

When a strong bow shot at close range, as long as it was in the right position, it would not even let out a scream, and the surrounding ships only heard the sound of falling into the water.

The sailors above the sampan, who had been cursing below, exclaimed, and shouted there:

"Third child, why did you fall into the water, I'll go down!"

The sound was very loud, and the guards on the surrounding ships couldn't see what was going on here, but they heard this conversation, which happened to be checked with the sound of falling into the water, and after a while, they heard that there was silence, obviously the drunken sailors who were scolding and quarreling were bored themselves, and they had already returned to their own ships.

They laughed in their hearts and ignored it, but they didn't know that everything they thought was shouted out of the crew's own mouths, and as for the real thing, they couldn't see anything until they came to it.

Ajaya looked at the queue of short guns in front of him, and the people who kept climbing up behind him, and finally knew in his heart that the Rooster was afraid that there was no chance, and he was really unwilling in his heart, this brig had two three-pounder guns, six Franco-one-pounder guns, and a six-pounder gun. With such firepower, he was confident that in a one-on-one ship competition, he would sink the Fu ship, which was twice as large as him, and any type of Japanese ship.

Even if they were fighting in a gang, their sailors and crew were fierce warriors, and they were not afraid of white-bladed combat, not to mention that there were more than forty heavy arquebuses on board.

But in such a situation, basically not a single shot was fired, and he was about to be disarmed by others. How about not disarming, the other party's fire hammer is holding there, and the big sword and short axe are staring at it. Wipe out the dozen or so people who went up to the deck.

There are at most more than twenty chaotic sailors below, and there is even a cook and helper here, and these fierce bandits on the deck, even if they go down in hand-to-hand combat, they are sure to win.

He didn't hesitate for too long, he threw the short gun in his hand on the deck, and the first mate and the second officer next to him did the same after seeing it, and then walked to the front deck and threw themselves on the ground, and the iron ding with a big knife and axe came up behind and brought them to the side one by one.

The captain of the Rooster, Ajaya, reluctantly gave the order to surrender, and the sailors below naturally would not be stupid to stand on a completely inferior position to resist, and they threw out their weapons and slowly walked up.

Jiang Feng stood in the middle of the boat with a short knife in his hand, looked at the dejected Spanish crew below, and said there:

"Tomorrow afternoon, this ship will depart for Yantai Mountain in Dengzhou, and there will be forty people with you, don't play any tricks, there will be people around each of you."

The frightened Li Guangtou followed behind Jiang Feng, and Jiang Feng brought a translation to the Spanish word by word, and the captain Ajaya looked up and asked:

"The ship is already full of cargo, and if there are forty more people, I am afraid that it will be dangerous, and there is a big shortage of fresh water and food."

After Jiang Feng listened carefully to the words of the interpreter, he laughed there and said:

"You don't have to worry about this, tomorrow your goods will be sold directly in Shuangyu Port, and there will be ships to pick you up."

When he turned around and was about to get off the boat, he suddenly turned around and patted the interpreter on the shoulder, and said:

"Translate my words to these people."

The interpreter hurriedly agreed respectfully, and Jiang Feng said coldly in a deep voice:

"You have no weapons, you are lambs to the slaughter in front of my guards, don't try to make any small moves in your native language, I will leave two interpreters on the ship, no one will understand what you say, and don't change the course yourself, there are three old shipwrights on your ship who are familiar with the sea, if there is a change in course, they will find out before you!"

After listening to these words, Li Guangtou finally understood the intention of many of Jiang Feng's arrangements, and many of them thought that they were superfluous things before, but now they seem to be wonderful measures, and they have done this thing without leakage, almost foolproof.

Of course, compared to Li Guangtou's admiration, the captain of the Rooster Agaya, who was sitting on the ground, turned pale, lowered his head very dejectedly, and the last bit of caution in his heart disappeared.

Several floating corpses in the sea were tied to stones with iron chains and sank directly, and the forty iron men stayed on the ship, and the surrounding ships and pirates patrolling the docks only knew that there was a quarrel here, and no one knew the rest of the matter.

The next day, the two-breasted "Rooster" of the Franc machine handled the goods at a low price, and several ships of the Hangzhou maritime merchants took the goods, and the Franc ship was replenished with a large amount of fresh water and food, and some estimates that the ship was likely to go to the Americas or India.

But it's also a normal thing, Jiang Feng settled the room payment with the inn in the afternoon, and prepared to return to Hangzhou with a dozen entourages around him, Liu Shisan basically had no experience in water life, so he followed him, and Yang Shishi, who was vigilant, stayed on the boat.

When waiting for the boat on the dock on the return trip, Jiang Feng drank tea leisurely, while watching the flow of people on the dock, and was not in a hurry to get on the boat, and after a while, the hunchbacked white-bearded old man came to the teahouse, it was Monk Li, and as soon as he sat down, he whispered to Jiang Feng and said:

"My lord, my subordinates have already gone to the shipwreckage to inquire, if there is a good shipyard, boatman, or digging, or buying, it must be the fastest to get the best manpower for the lord."

Jiang Feng nodded and said in a low voice:

"I have left you the money at the palace of the political envoy, and if you do not have enough money for the shipyard and the boatmen, you will go there to withdraw it, and you will arrange all the work in your hands with the people below, and you will return to the north with me in a few days."

Hearing these words, he naturally stood up and nodded in agreement, but he smiled bitterly in his heart, he was just going to rely on Jiang Feng's private port to make a new fortune, and he also thought in his heart that since the Xia family could do something, he, the former maritime tycoon, had already done something more authentic.

Unexpectedly, the young man in front of him was not only brave in doing things, but also very shrewd in calculation, Jiang Feng and he planned very well, that is, the Spanish brig and his own ships converged at sea, and then went to Dengzhou together, which was originally an ordinary thing.

And as the leader of the fleet, it is necessary for him to be with his own ship, but Jiang Feng in front of him does not have the slightest intention of letting him leave, and the meaning of this is also very clear, that is, he has a hostage in his hand, and it is very convenient to control.

is so brave, strong, and shrewd, but he is not stingy with spending money at all Ming officers, Li Guangtou has really met a few, and he suddenly has a thought in his heart, why don't he just step forward and take refuge, maybe he will prosper. After a lot of thoughts, Monk Li suddenly spoke:

"My lord, the villain wants to take his family in Fujian to live in Dengzhou, I don't know if the adult is willing to take him in."

Hearing this, Jiang Feng was stunned for a moment, then the smile on his face expanded, he covered the tea bowl, nodded, and said:

"There is still a vacant house next to my house in Dengzhou, so let's go there."

A month after Jiang Feng and his entourage left Shuangyu Island, when a certain ship lifted anchor, they found that there was a corpse hanging on the anchor, and the corpse was already a bubble deformation, but this kind of deformation naturally would not be the experienced men at sea, but the information on the corpse could only make them judge that this was a Caucasians, and there was no useful information other than that.

After all, there are many Western ships that come in and out of Liuheng Island every year, and these ships are not law-abiding goods.

These are all later words, after the inside line of Monk Li on Shuangyu Island passed on this matter to Dengzhou, it was already September of the eighth year of Jiajing.

The corpses of dozens of would-be pirates hung there for nearly two months, ten miles outside Hangzhou, but could not continue to hang there in the heat of August, and had to be burned on the spot, despite being dealt with by the best masters. However, since this time, no one has dared to swagger past the city of Hangzhou - or their route is to choose the farther away from Hangzhou as possible.

Jiang Feng and his family were still along the canal, but this time they went north. This time I left the canal halfway and went to Nanjing, which was the capital of the Ming Dynasty when it was founded, although it was Chengzu Zhu Di who moved the capital to the north, but the southern center of the Ming Dynasty was still here. There is also a complete system of six officials, and there is also a metropolitan governor's yamen.

Jiang Feng's purpose this time was to visit Xu Tianbiao and Xu Quan's uncle and nephew, who had not been seen for a long time, and the two sides had not met for more than two years after the death of Zhang Yong, the master of Beijing, but exchanged letters, and they were quite embarrassed after meeting each other. A lot of emotion, the current Xu Tianbiao is a thousand households in Nanjing Jinyiwei, which is much worse than the hundred households in Dongchang, but fortunately, he is much more idle and rich, which can be regarded as a gain and loss.

Neither side mentioned the issue of Xu Tianbiao and Jiang Feng's turnover of those silver taels, but only made some promises, that is, about Huang Ping and Jiang Feng's salt business, he could provide some convenience here, but Jiang Feng was most impressed by the banquet, and in the end, Xu Tianbiao and Jiang Feng said privately:

"The Governor always said back then, there is wealth on the two iron rings......"