The next morning, after Zhang Qianfang got up, he went directly to Zhang Liangcai's son Zhang Lijie, and asked his wife yesterday, not long ago, Zhang Lijie had resigned because of a conflict with the shopkeeper, and he was sulking at home these days.

When Zhang Lijie saw Zhang Qianfang, he immediately jumped up and shouted, "The little master is back." “

Zhang Qianfang slapped him lightly on the head and said, "Why, it's only been two years, wasn't it called little brother before?" Tell me, what's going on in the store? “

Zhang Lijie saw that Zhang Qianfang was still the same as before, so he was not so restrained, so he briefly explained the process. It turned out that he was a buddy in the Zhang family's shop, and followed the shopkeeper Wang to learn accounting or something, he was quick with his hands and feet, his heart and eyes were alive and he was good-looking, so he actually made the daughter of the shopkeeper of the king take a fancy to him, and the shopkeeper Wang knew that he had a close relationship with the Zhang family, and he should take over his class in the end, and he was also very optimistic about this matter, and he didn't want Zhang Lijie to have a big heart, and he didn't look down on the daughter of the shopkeeper Wang, so he had to withdraw from the store.

Zhang Qianfang patted him on the shoulder and said, "I thought something was wrong, it turned out to be like this, okay, are you interested in following the little brother to run the sea?" “

Zhang Lijie was overjoyed, he didn't want to be just a shopkeeper, but now that he can go to sea, he naturally can't ask for it. Zhang Qianfang asked him to talk to his father first, and then talk to his uncle in detail when he came back.

He came to his uncle Yang Tiansheng's house, and after putting down the gift, Yang Tiansheng took him to the guest room. After asking him why he went home, he said cheerfully: "Since you only have one ship now, let's move with my fleet first, and everyone can take care of it together." “

Yang Tiansheng is a maritime merchant in Jinjiang, who has been running to Nagasaki, Japan for a long time, and with his fleet with him, Zhang Qianfang can naturally become familiar with shipping faster. So after thanking his uncle, he expressed his willingness to join the Yang family's fleet and made an appointment to go to sea.

Two days later, Yang Qianfang took Zhang Lijie to the station in Quanzhou and met with everyone. It just so happens that there is no account room in their fleet, so Zhang Lijie can be regarded as a professional counterpart.

Zhang Qianfang introduced his subordinates to Zhang Lijie one by one, and then said: "Xiaojie, we are not ordinary runners, we are the army, so you also have to treat yourself as a soldier, understand, you first follow Brother Shen to learn the use of firearms, and you will have to take care of the bookkeeping in the future." “

Everyone went to sea for the first time to run a boat, and they were all a little nervous, there were a total of six boats, and the leader was Yang Dali, who was under Yang Tiansheng. Yang Dali first came to greet the young master of the table, and then told Zhang Qianfang what to pay attention to when sailing on the sea, and exchanged a simple flag issue with Shen Congjing and the two of them, and everyone set off.

The fleet is in the shape of a long serpentine, and Zhang Qianfang's boat is in third place, which shows that Yang Dali still takes good care of this young master. Zhang Qianfang asked his subordinates to familiarize themselves with the ocean voyage first, everyone felt that they had run so far when they came, and they didn't think much of it, but after they officially went to sea, they found that it was very different, because they came to Quanzhou to sail close to the shore, and they could see the land all the time, but now they are surrounded by the vast sea, and people always feel that there is no root in the sea, and their hearts are very empty.

Zhang Qianfang explained that Shen Congjing and Zhang Lijie studied the issue of flags for maritime contact, and Yang Dali's contact method was relatively simple and could only express simple meanings, while Zhu Youxiao once told him about precautions at sea, and one of the important points was the issue of flag contact, requiring him to formulate a complete set of flag language, which could clearly express the meaning at sea.

After a few days of sailing, everyone finally got used to the daily life at sea, and their pale faces finally turned bloody. Zhang Qianfang began to train at sea, as in the Beijing camp, everyone ran on the boat, jumped, aimed, assassinated, especially aiming, each person had to practice a hundred times a day, although no gunpowder was used now, but the basic operations had to be in place.

Yang Dali called the flag, saying that there were still two days to arrive in Nagasaki, and asked all ships to pay attention to safety issues. After Shen Congjing reported to Zhang Qianfang, Zhang Qianfang said in surprise: "What do you mean by security issues?" Shen Congjing shook his head and said he didn't know.

But soon they knew that when a big ship appeared in their field of vision, Yang vigorously raised the flag and asked the other ships to pay attention to vigilance, and the first, second, and third ships attacked the incoming ship, and Zhang Qianfang They knew that the original security problem refers to the safety of others, because now we are pirates.

They are the third ship, belonging to the series of direct attacks on the incoming ship, everyone is very excited, one by one screaming to cheer for their ship, and Yang Dali's first ship is already very close to the enemy ship, and the sound of fire can already be heard. The ship seemed to resign itself to its fate and slowed down.

At this time, the second ship had also approached the enemy ship, and the people on Zhang Qianfang's boat were very disappointed, so what else to do, it would have been over long ago when he arrived. At this time, I heard the sound of bursting beans.

Shen Congjing shouted: "There is a problem, take the firecracker, strengthen your vigilance, and approach the enemy ship carefully." ”

Zhang Qianfang also knew that there was a problem, because Yang Dali only had a few firecrackers on board, and this sound should be that the enemy ship was firing. Sure enough, the flag was raised on the second boat, and Shen Congjing said: "The enemy's fire is too fierce, ask for support." ”

At this time, it was not far from the enemy ship, and I saw that Yang Dali's ship had been boarded by the enemy ship, and it seemed that there were heavy casualties, and the enemy was ready to board the ship to grab the goods. The second ship approached the enemy ship, and there was another sound of firecrackers, fooled, this was the first sentence that came to everyone's minds.

When about a hundred steps away from the enemy ship, you can already clearly see the situation on each ship, most of the people on the first and second ships fell on the deck, and the deck of the enemy ship was full of a large number of sailors with arquebuses in their hands, Shen Congjing said: "Damn, the one who cut the path met the robbers. "It's obvious that this ship is a disguised cargo ship, but in fact it is specially here to grab cargo.

Zhang Qianfang waved his hand, everyone put up the fire guns on the side close to the enemy ship, and after a "fire", the enemy ship fell down, and then began to charge urgently, and after a while, the second round of bullets swept out, and it was almost close to the enemy ship at this time. Zhang Qianfang shouted: "Javelin." “

A few people in the back row threw the javelins in their hands, these people were specially selected by Zhang Qianfang, and it can be said that the guns were not missing, and several pirates were nailed to the deck.

Zhang Qianfang shouted again: "The first team changes weapons, and the second team is on alert." The man in front handed the gun to the person behind him, picked up the long knife, and the person behind held the gun, and when he found an opportunity, he pulled the trigger and knocked the enemy on the opposite side to the ground.