At noon the next day, Lao Qian found more than 20 large and small fishing boats, hired more than 50 people, and called more than 30 brothers from the guard station, and drove Xu Baolu, Wen Xun, Qian Jin and others towards the place where the Dutch battleship sank. accompanied by Zhang Dusi and veteran Niu Er.

Niu Er is responsible for indicating the location of the wreck. Qian Jin does not have a fixed task, and when he encounters something, he will help come up with an idea.

Although Xu Baolu didn't like Zhang Jiang, he still informed him. As a local magistrate, he did not have arbitrary power, but whenever there was anything, the three divisions had to write a memo and submit it to the emperor.

This is also the trick of Emperor Chen's decentralization. When local officials encounter major events, they can only be tried by three divisions, and no one can make a decision. Therefore, the so-called "three-division trial" is a war of words in the end, and no one can win anyone, and the final decision falls to the emperor.

According to the direction indicated by Niu Er, the fleet anchored and stopped.

A fisherman took out a very long rope with many knots tied to it, and tied an iron top at the end. I saw that the fisherman threw Tietuo off the boat, and kept releasing the rope in his hand.

After a few breaths, the line in the fisherman's hand stopped sinking. So he lifted the rope again, and when he was sure that the iron had sunk to the bottom, he took all the ropes back to the ship, and counted the knots in his hand. In this way, the depth of the sea can be determined.

Old Qian asked, "How is it?" How deep? ”

"About ten feet deep."

"Can you eat if you dive down at this depth?"

"It should be okay to take turns. Today the people from the village are all good hands. ”

"Okay. Then go down first and the two of them will investigate the location of the wreck. ”

"Okay......"

Two strong men each picked up a rock and jumped into the sea. About two minutes later, two heads appeared on the surface of the sea and waved excitedly at the boat. The crowd hurriedly pulled the two of them onto the boat.

Xu Baolu hurriedly said: "Have you found the shipwreck?" ”

"Master Qiyu, I have seen the mast of the sunken ship. It's just that it has to go more than 20 zhang to the south. One of the lads replied.

Qian Jin thought for a while and said, "It should be caused by the tide." ”

So the fleet lifted anchor and headed for the new location pointed out by the fishermen. The ship's men began to prepare the pulleys, rocks, and other objects.

An hour later, the first cannon was salvaged.

The entire gun body is made of iron, and the whole body is jet black. The gun is about three meters long, with a caliber of about ten centimeters, and a tail bead at the back. Roughly estimated, there must be more than 4,000 catties.

When Qian Jin looked at it, he was overjoyed, and said that this big guy should be the most powerful weapon of destruction in this era. He bowed his hand to Xu Baolu and said, "Congratulations to Xu Buzheng, this should be a smoothbore cannon." ”

"Oh? What is a smoothbore gun? Xu Baolu asked puzzled.

"Well, that's ...... This is the name that the students just gave to this cannon. ”

"Smoothbore gun...... The name is not too loud. I heard that the Dutch people have red hair and red faces, so it is better to call them Hongyi cannons. ”

"That's a good ......." Qian Jin wiped his sweat embarrassedly, and said in his heart that if he wanted to explain clearly, the smoothbore cannon would probably not be finished in a day.

After the cannon surfaced, fishermen went to the sea to fix several large pieces of dry wood on both sides of the cannon, and then dragged it to Moon Harbor between two small fishing boats.

The salvage took a total of two days, and a total of eighteen cannons were obtained, excluding those that had been damaged. Xu Baolu prepared to transport these cannons to the capital by water. Lao Qian then sent people to load these cannons into the ship.

After the salvage was completed, Li Demao invited Xu Baolu, Wen Xun and Zhang Jiang to a banquet in Guanhailou, which was a celebration banquet and a send-off banquet. After this incident, Xu Baolu is also ready to go to the capital by sea.

During the banquet, Zhang Dusi whispered to Xu and Wen: "Xu Buzheng, Wen Tisi, Your Majesty is very loving, and we will govern Guangdong." Although this official has offended many times on weekdays, he is all right about things and not about people. Now that the victory of Guanhaiwei has been fully verified, this officer is ready to immediately draft a recital and submit it to the Ministry of War, I wonder what can the two of you teach me? ”

Xu Baolu remained silent and said: "Your Majesty has his own clear judgment, Zhang Dusi can say whatever he wants." ”

Zhang Jiang saw that Xu Baolu didn't say anything, and he wasn't in a hurry, so he smiled and said: "Two colleagues, Zhang Mou is not talented, I have a small request. As long as the two of them mention the words "Guanhaiwei Victory" in the recital, it will help me a lot, how about it? ”

Xu Baolu said with a smile: "This matter is not difficult, it depends on you." ”

"Hahaha, in this way, Zhang remembers the kindness of the two, and he will thank him in the future." Zhang Dusi was in a good mood.

After the banquet dispersed, Wen Xun asked Xu Baolu privately: "Brother Xu, why did you rely on that Zhang Jiang today?" ”

"I can't touch him yet. If you move him today, even if Your Majesty dismisses him, there will be another Li Jiang tomorrow. By then, the two of us will be exhausted again. ”

"Then according to Brother Xu's wishes, how should this matter be reported?"

"Since Zhang Jiang said that he wanted the words 'Guanhaiwei Victory', let's give him this face. In addition, the common people have made great efforts to salvage the artillery this time, and the words should be leaning on the side of the people as much as possible, otherwise the rewards of the imperial court will go directly to the side of the military department. I'll explain the situation of the health center to Shoufu face to face, and ask him to decide. ”

"That's very good."

"You can also explain where Qian Jin is, he can't be promoted to an official for the time being...... Sometimes there are benefits to being a small official. ”

"Jin'er will definitely understand your hard work."

"What's your plan on your side?"

"I am going to choose an auspicious day to move my mother's tomb to my hometown, so that I can worship it in the future."

"It's fine. If there is anything you need help with, you need Li County to do more. ”

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In the early morning of the next day, Xu Baolu's fleet went out to sea, preparing to divert to Zhenjiang Mansion and go north to the Grand Canal. Wen Xun remained in Lao Qian's house.

Qian Jin went out early, and he didn't say what he was going to do.

A few days ago, he had planned to fish for artillery on his own. As a result, Xu Baolu's movements were a little fast, he didn't catch a single artillery, and he was a little depressed. Today, he was going to try his luck at the shipwreck site again, and he had already contacted the salvage needs before anyway.

When the fishing boat arrived at the wreck site, Qian Jin instructed everyone to put safety first, and if they found anything unusual, they hurried up to talk to him. After giving the order, several village boys jumped into the sea with a large rock in their arms.

Diving is a professional job, the underwater pressure is too great, and ordinary people will be in danger if they dive to a depth of more than ten meters. Some fishermen in the village have practiced diving since they were young to dig pearls and corals on the bottom of the sea, and their ability to resist pressure is higher than ordinary people.

More than two minutes later, several young men who had dived into the water surfaced one after another. They pulled them onto the boat.

Qian Jin asked, "How is it?" What to find? ”

One of the young men replied: "The hull of the ship has been blown into two, and when the artillery was dismantled a few days ago, the hull was partially damaged, and it is a little inconvenient to search." ”

"Don't worry, you guys rest first. Let's change to another wave of brothers to go down and search for it. ”

At this time, the other three guys were ready. Qian Jin also instructed them to focus on searching the command room and deck. In less than two minutes, the three guys surfaced one after another, shouting excitedly, while waving several muskets in their hands.

Qian Jin is overjoyed, and finally has a harvest.

When they got on the boat, Qian Jin took a musket and examined it carefully. The barrel is iron, slightly corroded by seawater. The body of the gun is about four feet long, and there is a small hole for inserting a fire rope at the back end. This is the arquebus.

There was a guy who was on the boat empty-handed. He leaned into Qian Jin and whispered in his ear: "Qian Xianggong, I found a box in the command room. ”

"Oh? Why don't you catch it? ”

"Too heavy...... I can't swim up with it. ”

Qian Jin pondered for a while, and then ordered: "You wait and go down again, I will find someone to prepare an iron cable, you just need to trap the box on the iron cable." ”

"Okay."

The box was not too heavy, and after a few people pulled it up with a while, it was a wooden box. A young man smashed a hammer on the iron lock and knocked the lock off.

Qian Jin stepped forward and opened the box, and found that it contained two money bags, as well as a lookout scope and two short muskets. The purse was full of gold coins, with the head of the Dutch Emperor engraved on it, and when you count them, there were eighty-two in all.

The guys around had never seen so much gold before, and their eyes lit up.

Qian Jin knew the truth that everyone has money, so he said: "Those who see have a share." Today's fellow workers were each given a gold coin, and their wages were paid as they were. The rest will be kept by this Xiucai and will be used again in the future when there is something in the village. ”

Everyone agreed. Qian Jinxin said that the identity of this talent is still useful. There is no way, the common people are born afraid of officials, although they are still just a showman, but they also represent the imperial power.

By the afternoon, the money came in and was ready to call it a day. In addition to the gold coins, a total of more than 20 arquebuses were salvaged this time, as well as three guns.

The son-mother gun is much lighter than the Hongyi cannon, one weighs about 300 catties, the upper is the mother's gun, and the lower is the child's gun. One female gun with five sub-guns, the child guns can be loaded first*, and the shells can be fired one after the other during the engagement.

Although he didn't get the Hongyi cannons, Qian Jin was quite satisfied this time, so he ordered the guys to pull these guns back to the village, polish them carefully, and then put them on good oil and hide them in a cave.

After Qian Jin gave each guy a gold coin, there were 60 pieces left. The two short muskets and binoculars, Qian Jin kept them for his own use.

Everyone was busy all day, so they went home.