"What you say is just some legends and speculations, and it's not very true," says a middle-aged man with a goatee.

"Have you ever seen a black skeleton?"

"Of course I've seen it, I've also been on the strange battleship of the Black Skull, and I've talked to the Black Skull, and it's not as brutal and ferocious as you say, but it gives people a gentle and elegant feeling......."

"You've been captured by Black Skulls ......, how did you escape from Black Skull? Tell us about the Black Skull you know? ”

Immediately, someone came to the middle-aged man's side, enthusiastically poured a glass of wine, and looked at the middle-aged man with a longing face, as if he was expecting something?

Fujiwara shook his head with a wry smile, and said in a low voice: "Zhen Lang, these people are all false, the black skeleton story we heard in Qizhou is not the same as what they say!" ”

Zhen Qian glanced at a few seamen who were foaming at the mouth and said: "It's all some after-dinner conversations, and some of their own imagination is added between word of mouth, disgusted people say that Black Skull is a pirate who does all kinds of evil, and disgruntled people regard Black Skull as a thief rampant on the Bohai Sea, these things cannot be avoided, it is not surprising."

"Zhen Lang is really in one sentence, and the analysis is reasonable! Seems to know the Black Skull very well? ”

Fujiwara Shuxiong's praise of himself had already made Zhen Qian numb, and he sneered: "You listen to them, at least you haven't heard the black skeleton kill people indiscriminately, Huang Mazi and the sea snake are not good men and women, not only robbing the merchant ships along the road, but also often sneaking into the villages along the Bohai Sea, even when we passed by Dezhou, Qizhou and other places, all we saw were the documents for the arrest of the yellow skull and the sea snake, but we didn't see the documents for the government to arrest the black skeleton, can't it explain the problem?" ”

"Hmmm! You're right, I don't seem to have heard about the black skeleton harassing the coast of the Bohai Sea, and this black skeleton is really different from the jute and sea snakes! ”

Zhen Qian smiled and stopped talking, and continued to listen to the middle-aged man in the distance say: "On my sea route to Pingzhou, I happened to encounter a strong wind, and the ship was blown off the course, and when I found that the direction was wrong, I saw a huge ship sailing towards the wind and waves, as fast as if it was flying on the water, and in a blink of an eye, it was close to the merchant ship, and it was too late for us to run......

"It's the Black Skull, I heard that his flagship can fly on the water, is it true?"

"How can any ship fly on the water, and there are no wings on the boat, don't talk nonsense if you don't see it", the middle-aged man glanced at the interjecting maritime merchant fiercely, and said with mockery in his tone: "The flagship of the Black Skull is equipped with two wheels like a waterwheel, which can travel on the sea even when there is no wind, and when there is wind, the speed is twice as fast as that of ordinary merchant ships, so it looks like flying on the water!" ”

"I see!" The surrounding maritime merchants suddenly realized.

"Wheels installed on the ship?"

The maritime merchant who interjected said: "I remember, when I was buying goods in Yangzhou a few years ago, I saw a kind of ship that was also equipped with paddle wheels, called ...... What the...... Cars and boats, yes! It's cars and boats. It seems to be the hand of Li Gao, the king of Cao, and I heard that this kind of car and ship can travel without wind, 600 miles in the day and 300 miles in the night, which is faster than ordinary war horses! ”

A few maritime merchants argued with each other, "How is that possible? I've seen cars and ships, but those boats are so small that they can't move at all when they are in strong winds and waves, so don't talk nonsense! ”

"That's it! This kind of ship can only be seen in Yangzhou, and the production process is quite complicated, you say this, do you mean that the black skeleton and the official army have secretly colluded! ”

Several maritime merchants immediately didn't dare to say more, these words can't be said nonsense, especially if they are still led to a clan prince inside, and if they are heard, they will not raid the family and exterminate the clan.

In history, the car and ship appeared in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Tang Dynasty royal family Li Gao had a wonderful idea to improve the manufacturing process of the car and ship, and the car and ship made by manpower to move forward quickly, but these cars and ships still have a lot of defects, can not travel in very shallow water, can not drive in the sea, to the Song Dynasty, with the vigorous development of the shipbuilding industry, the manufacturing process of the car and ship is becoming more and more mature, there are all kinds of large and small vehicles and ships, and applied to the military.

Someone changed the subject interestingly: "What about later?" You saw the black skeleton, what did the black skeleton look like, why did the black skeleton release you later, did it extort a sum of money from you? ”

The middle-aged man's face darkened and said, "Have you ever heard that tigers don't eat people?" If the pirates don't rob the maritime merchants, won't the pirates go to drink the northwest wind! ”

Everyone nodded yes, farmers farm, merchants sell, of course pirates robbed, and they haven't heard of pirates seeing merchant ships and not robbing them, which is as strange as cats not catching mice.

The merchant gloated and looked at the middle-aged man and said, "Since you have been robbed, you don't seem to be angry when you look at it!" ”

"Business has business, thieves have thief rules, at the beginning I was also very scared when I was blocked by pirates, thinking that this time it was a catastrophe, it would be good if I could save my life, who knew that these pirates would be ......."

"What is it, don't sell it, say it quickly!"

"Don't be in a hurry? Listen and speak slowly! The middle-aged man leisurely ate a bite of food, and whetted everyone's appetite before saying: "These pirates are very polite to the merchant ship, knowing that we were blown away from the channel by the strong wind, first asked if anyone was injured on the ship, and also helped the wounded on the merchant ship to treat, helped the merchant ship repair the damaged hull, and took out their own food for us ......to eat."

"Are you drinking too much, how can I hear you talking about alcohol, is this still a pirate?"

Naturally, everyone didn't believe the words of the middle-aged man, as if they were listening to a fairy tale, when did the pirates become so kind, treating the wounded and helping to repair the ship, there are pirates, and they are clearly a group of saints!

The middle-aged man grinned and said: "Listen to me slowly, of course pirates are not good people, but they said that pirates are also people, as long as they are people, they can't do beast things, of course, the premise is that the merchant ship can't resist, otherwise it will be ten times more retaliated!" ”

"Listening to it like this, there seems to be a bit of a story in it, and it won't be for no reason that pirates do this!"

"It's worthy of an old maritime merchant, the words that come out are different, I didn't say that these pirates are good people, they are just doing what they think is right", the middle-aged man said lightly: "Thieves also have a way, to be a man must have morality, to be a thief should also have morality, the black skeleton helps us treat the wounded, help us repair the ship, these are not free, after they have done these things, they counted the goods on the merchant ship, took away two percent of the goods, and asked us for treatment and maintenance fees, if we don't give it, And they took it themselves! ”

Everyone suddenly burst into laughter, tears of laughter flowed, and a guy with a low laugh point lay directly on the ground and pumped it with laughter!

(End of chapter)