The two stood up full of guilt, and their tanned faces were red to their necks, Lin Chong also sighed when he saw this, patted the arms of the two and said: "You don't have to be burdened, who can not make mistakes, besides, you are all novices, and it is the first time to go to sea......

As long as you can learn a lesson, you won't make mistakes again! Okay, tell me about the situation of this trip, how is the business doing? ”

After a pause, seeing Ruan Xiaoqi's eyes looking straight at Hu Yanqing, Lin Chong said again: "Let me introduce you, this is Hu Yanqing, the commander of the Yuanping Navy, I told you before, now that he has joined our Liangshan Army, we will be brothers who will do things together in the future, you should be closer and closer, don't mention the previous things." ”

Ruan Xiaoqi reacted slower in the end, and Li Jun immediately gave up his hand and said: "Brother Huyan, I have long heard from the military lord brother that you can be literate and martial, not only are you very good at naval warfare, but you are also able to speak several foreign languages all night, and now that Brother Huyan can join the Liangshan Army, our naval army can be regarded as a tiger with wings!" ”

Seeing this, Ruan Xiaoqi hurriedly bowed his hand, and said that the water battle in Huyanqing was very strong, and he would have to give more advice in the future, and when everyone was familiar with each other, Lin Chong asked Li Jun and Ruan Xiaoqi to briefly report on the situation of going to sea this time.

"Brother, this time we went to sea, we first followed Zhang Shilang to Liao, and successfully connected with Zhao Lancheng's big housekeeper, and Zhao Lancheng also sent a steward back with us, and now it is estimated that we have arrived at the mountain, and that guy also said that there is confidential information to report to my brother.

We handed over more than half of the goods to Zhao Lancheng's housekeeper in Liao...... After our ship sailed to the Jin country, those Jurchen barbarians were really savage, and they were also very wary of the defense of people coming from the sea, and they didn't wait for us to dock before they started to shoot arrows, and we tried several places, but we couldn't communicate.

In the end, the Hu Cheng brothers thought of a way, secretly chose a place to land, and then left two stones of goods and a letter and left by boat, I believe that this should not be the case next time. ”

Lin Chong was slightly stunned, then laughed, and said in his heart, yes, my eldest brother, I can think of this way.

At this time, I heard Hu Yanqing ask: "Brother, do I Liang Shanjun still plan to do business with the Jurchens?" ”

Lin Chong nodded and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Hu Yanqing said: "Brother doesn't know, in fact, now the imperial court is also hurrying to get in touch with the Jurchens.

Last year, Gao Yaoshi, Cao Xiaocai, Seng Jirong and other Han people from the Jin Kingdom crossed the sea with more than 200 of their relatives to go to Goryeo to avoid chaos, but the boat they were on was blown by the wind to Huoji Island, where our Ping Navy was stationed.

They introduced to Wang Shizhong the information that the Jurchens had occupied the entire Liao Province of Tokyo, and Wang Shizhong made a report to the imperial court, and in October last year, the imperial court ordered Wang Shizhong to select seven generals to sit on the ships of our Ping Navy and naval forces, carry the edict of the city horse, and together with Gao Yaoshi and others, float to Liaodong, hoping to find out the reality of the Jurchens in the name of buying horses, whether the soldiers are really unstoppable, whether it is really 20,000 and 700,000 Liao troops, etc., and communicate with each other.

It's just that like the Li Jun brothers, after they arrived at the territory of the Jurchens in Liaodong, they also didn't dare to dock because the patrolling soldiers were too fierce, so they returned by boat.

Not long ago, there was an envoy from the imperial court, Wang Shizhong recommended the younger brother to the imperial court, and wanted the younger brother to lead the team to Liaodong with the Wuyi doctor Ma Zheng, if it wasn't for the elder brother to bring the troops, I was afraid that the younger brother would be ordered to go to the Jurchens soon. ”

Lin Chong couldn't help but shake his head, although he had the information he gave to Zhao Song for free, and he also made peace with the Liao State through Huan Yi's dedication to Tong Guan's faction - the Liao State did not interfere with the Great Song Dynasty to destroy the Western Xia, and the Great Song Dynasty was willing to join the Liao to resist the Jin after destroying the Western Xia, so as to avoid the grand strategy of the Liao State being attacked by the enemy.

But the inertia of history is still unstoppable, Zhao Ji, Cai Jing, Tong Guan, these self-made smart people still want to step on two boats. On the one hand, he made peace with the Liao State and promised to join the Liao to resist Jin; On the other hand, he wanted to secretly contact the Jurchens, and wanted to fight with the Jurchens to destroy the Liao State in the north and south, and then the Great Song Dynasty could take the opportunity to recover Yanyun.

In fact, Lin Chong's strategy to let Huan Yi offer was also planned to be so, but Lin Chong's intention was to destroy the Western Xia first, and after going to the Northwest Horse Ranch, he would form a cavalry with it, and then make secret contact with the Jurchens, and suddenly turn his face and attack the Liao State in the north and south, and the Northern Expedition to recover Yanyun.

But Zhao Ji and the others now secretly contacted the Jurchens without waiting for the Western Xia to be destroyed, stepping on two boats, and both sides said that they wanted to form an alliance, which is too good to think! Aren't you afraid of offending both ends?

Isn't this playing with fire?

However, Huan Yi's matter, as well as the strategy he offered to Zhao Ji, are the real top secrets of the Liangshan Army, and Lin Chong has no way to tell Hu Yanqing and them, so he can only wish the Great Song Dynasty in his heart not to mess up, especially if the Western Army attacks Western Xia, it is good not to go wrong.

After all, the Liangshan army and the Zhao Song Dynasty are only internal contradictions of the nation, and it is the national righteousness to destroy the bandit country of Western Xia and recover Yanyun, Lin Chong still hopes that in the foreign war, the Song army can die fewer people and lose some national strength.

"Oh, there's such a thing. Xu is the imperial court wants to find out whether the Jurchen is true or not, and wants to join Jin to attack Liao and recover Yanyun, right? But don't worry about him, Brother Li Jun, you go on. ”

Lee Jun continued, "After that, we went to Goryeo, where our goods were warmly welcomed...... This time, we brought back more than 190,000 pieces of gold and silver, 800 northern pearls of Liaoguo, and all kinds of furs...... Four hundred and twenty horses from the Northland, two hundred and eight died on the way......"

Lin Chong nodded, although he came back to sea this time and encountered this kind of thing, and he failed to achieve the set goal, he had a business relationship with the Jurchens, and he couldn't use the good things on his side to corrupt them for the time being, and he was a little sorry to make money from this group of barbarians who had just come from the deep mountains and old forests.

However, on the whole, it is still good, at least it has accumulated a lot of sailing experience, trained the team, and he also wiped out more than sixty percent of the Dengzhou Navy Division in one fell swoop in this thousand-mile attack, and captured 12 large and small warships, in general, it is still worth rejoicing.

"Good! You have worked hard this time! When you get back, everyone will be rewarded! It's just that this time you have also made a big mistake, and you will be punished for your mistakes, and everything will be talked about when you go back. ”

The two hurriedly nodded yes, and said that this time ordinary sailors must have been rewarded, and they estimated that their merits would be offset or if they were to be punished, but the two also admitted it.

At this time, I saw Teng Jian running over with a happy face, and said: "Brother, the seizures here have been counted, it's really scary to say it, this gang of thieves is really rich!"

There are more than 180,000 yuan of gold, silver and copper coins alone, and there are two warehouse goods, all of which are the goods they robbed and smuggled on merchant ships, and the total price is more than 500,000 yuan! It is estimated that they haven't had time to change hands in disguise, so they have been hoarding in the warehouse, and now they are all cheap to us! ”

said that Hu Yanqing's eyes widened when he heard this, his face was incredulous, and at the same time he felt quite ashamed; while Li Jun, Ruan Xiaoqi and others were happy and angry; Lin Chong laughed: "Okay, this time I sent troops to Dengzhou, and the king of the division was close to 500,000 pieces of gold and silver, and I harvested nearly 700,000 pieces of wealth and goods here, plus twelve large and small warships, it can be regarded as a full load."

Go to the herald and ask the Luan brothers to bring all the prisoners of the Cheng Navy over, and the brothers of the Ping Navy will also come over, and now they will start to move all the valuable ones that can be carried onto the ship, and we will rest here for another day, and tomorrow the soldiers will return to Liangshan in two ways.

I don't know how the battle is going over there......"