The ship has indeed arrived in Macau. The boat was rented from the fishing village, and it was no different from robbery, because the fishermen refused to rent it, and finally they rented it by force, promising to give the owner 300 silver dollars and compensation for the damage. This is the largest fishing boat in the fishing village, belonging to the head of the fishing village leader, Zhou Lang heard that fishermen often call this boat to go out to the sea to fish.

The price is already very fair, how much money can be made from fishing. After renting it, I realized that this ship may not be so simple, because there is a hidden mezzanine compartment inside, this design obviously cannot be purely used for fishing, and it is more likely to be used for smuggling, so this is a smuggling ship, perhaps for this reason, so that the head of the ship refuses to be rented, worried that his secret will be discovered.

Piloting the smuggling ship was John Karui, the original first mate of the Oriental Dawn, as well as thirteen sailors, and the messenger Lin Pu sent by Zhou Lang.

Of course, no one knew that Lin Pu was going to deliver the letter, and his public purpose was to take a fishing boat back to the mainland and go back to get married.

When he arrived in Macau, he easily found Xie Qinggao's boat docked at the dock, and according to the agreement, Xie Qinggao would meet Zhou Lang here.

But when Xie Qinggao arrived in Macao, he didn't see Zhou Lang who sailed earlier than him, and Zhou Lang's ship didn't enter Macao after many inquiries, which made him a little worried, he was used to running by sea, and he knew that anything could happen on the sea, and he was even more worried about the strong wind in the surrounding waters a few days ago.

This kind of worry is definitely not false, but anxious. Because for Xie Qinggao, without Zhou Lang, he was just an ordinary miscellaneous sailor. He was not a person who had a strong desire for fame, he was born to like to travel everywhere, and he was full of obsession with the customs and customs of overseas countries. But on the ship of the British, he was not free to go around, and freedom was very important to a character like him. The feeling of being bound by someone is like being in prison. So at that time, Zhou Lang told him that he could have a boat and go anywhere, and when he had the final say, he was immediately moved.

Now that the ship is there, Zhou Lang is missing. Xie Qinggao can't keep this ship forever, he may be beaten back to his original form, he has now fallen in love with the captaincy of the ship, let him return to the former status of the handyman who let everyone shout at him, he can't accept it in his heart. So after arriving in Macau, on the one hand, he purchased goods in Macao according to Zhou Lang's previous explanation, and on the other hand, he inquired about Zhou Lang's whereabouts in many ways, but there was no news.

At this time, the person sent by Zhou Lang came to the door, how could Xie Qinggao not be excited, and immediately invited Lin Pu to the boat, and after meeting, Xie Qinggao knew that this person was here to deliver a letter to him, and it was a secret letter.

Xie Qinggao didn't even bother to greet Lin Pu, and couldn't wait to open the letter.

"Brother Xie! Now the foolish brother is in a difficult situation, first encountering wind and waves at sea, and then being attacked by bandits in the left camp of Taiwan, and the ship is seriously damaged. When my brother saw the letter, he set off immediately...... Burn it after reading! ”

Xie Qinggao finished reading Zhou Lang's letter, and he didn't understand many of the requirements, but after reading it, he still burned the letter directly without moving.

Only then did he think of Lin Pu in front of him, and he immediately asked Lin Pu about the specific situation, but what was written in the letter was not detailed enough after all.

Sure enough, he was shocked by what he learned from Lin Pu, because Zhou Lang's letter did not say who attacked the Oriental Dawn under repair, but Lin Pu clearly told Xie Qinggao that it was the Qing army of the left battalion that attacked them, and they also counterattacked in the past, and now they occupy the left battalion.

No matter how similar Xie Qinggao is to Xu Xiake, no matter how curious he is about the outside world, he is still a Chinese, and he has a deep taboo about rebellion, and now Zhou Lang has actually captured the city of the imperial court, which makes him extremely shocked and panicked.

Xie Qinggao was worried about this, and he couldn't sleep all night, worried that it was not only Zhou Lang's attack on the left camp, but also the things that Zhou Lang asked him to do in his letter, combined with the situation of the other party's capture of the left camp, it also had a different taste.

But the next day, he immediately ordered to set sail.

Lin Pu didn't accompany him, he came back to get married, so he couldn't wait to leave after sending the letter.

It is a very strange thing that the Norwegian first mate Karui, who brought Lin Pu here, did not take this boat, because after bringing Lin Pu to Macao yesterday, after contacting Xie Qinggao, Karui actually took a British ship to Guangzhou without explaining the purpose.

The matter was urgent, and Xie Qinggao couldn't wait for Kalu, so he immediately led the team to set sail.

He didn't know that Karui was actually there to deliver the letter.

Karui was on a merchant ship of the East India Company, and he went to Canton to meet the Taipan of the East India Company, and he also had a superstition.

Zhou Lang could send Lin Pu to deliver a letter to Xie Qinggao, and of course Colin could also send someone to deliver a letter to the East India Company.

However, this letter was not intended for Taipan, but was entrusted to Taipan to be forwarded to Governor Cornwall.

When Karui returned to Macao from Guangzhou, he was sadly surprised to find that Xie Qinggao's boat had left, leaving him alone here, and there were more boats from Macao to India than from Macao to Taiwan, and Karui didn't know how to go back for a while.

Xie Qinggao, who abandoned Kalu, had been sailing at sea for a week, and gunfire could be heard every day on the ship, but they were not in danger, like the Oriental Dawn, this was also an armed merchant ship, and such a ship was generally not robbed, unless the pirates had other purposes, such as taking a fancy to the ship itself, and the situation was indeed very favorable, they would launch an attack on Western merchant ships.

Xie Qinggao watched the sailors on the ship happily playing with muskets every day, and he had mixed feelings in his heart.

Training sailors is what Zhou Lang asks in his heart. And there was a special request to train the Chinese crew.

These Chinese sailors, also recruited in Nanyang according to Zhou Lang's previous explanation, are all very good and strong young men, people with poor health will not go to sea, will not survive the difficult sea route to Nanyang alive, let alone survive the harsh climate conditions of Nanyang.

There were a total of 80 people on this young Chinese ship, all recruited from Borneo, and many of them had previously been gold diggers from the Lanfang Company. Zhou Lang told Xie Qinggao before that he let go of recruiting Chinese workers in Nanyang, and he could recruit as many as he could. Xie Qinggao thought that this was Zhou Lang's plan to prepare for the expansion of the fleet in the future, but now it seems that Zhou Lang's purpose Xie Qinggao didn't guess it at all.

He recruited 80 people, most of whom were Hakka people in Chaoshan area, because Luo Fangbo himself was a Hakka in Meixian County, and the Hakka people themselves lived a more difficult life than ordinary people in Guangdong, so there were many Hakka people who went to Nanyang to make a living, and many of them in Lanfang Company were Hakka, especially in Meixian County and Jiaying Prefecture.

But although they are all Hakka people, they are all Hakka people in Chaoshan area, but they are still close and different, under the Lanfang company, only Meixian people have a good life, followed by Jiaying people, and then Chaozhou Dapu County people. The main reason is that the leaders of the Lanfang Company are all from these regions, and they have always monopolized the power of the Lanfang Company, and even after Luo Fangbo's death, he also made a will, stipulating that the eldest brother of the Lanfang Company's headquarters can only be served by people from Jiaying Prefecture, and the deputy leader is from Dapu County, Chaozhou.

However, there are a lot of Hakka people in the whole Chaoshan area who go to Nanyang, so there are Hakka people from other places who go to Borneo to pan for gold, and these people will naturally be suppressed, especially the number of Hakka people in Huizhou is also quite large, and they are close to the sea, and the Hakka people in Haifeng and Lufeng areas have a tradition of going to sea more than Meixian.

These people have the idea of going to Nanyang to fight, eager to pan for gold and make a fortune, and then return to their hometown. But after I went, I realized that gold can be found, but it may not be able to fall into my hands. They not only have to pay imitation gold to Lanfang Company, but also have to meet the squeezing of large and small leaders, and also accept the high-priced exploitation of those buyers who have a close relationship with the leaders and monopolize the supply of gold miners, so gold can be found, but it is really difficult to fall into pockets, and there are not many people who really rely on gold panning to make a fortune.

Because of so much oppression, there must be people who are very dissatisfied, and when Xie Qinggao went to recruit workers, the salary offered was high, so naturally a lot of people were moved. But it was not so easy to dig into the corner of Lan Fang's company, and when he recruited eighty people, Lan Fang company found out and almost detained their ship. If it weren't for the fact that there was a certain amount of armed force on board, it would be impossible to say whether Xie Qinggao would have left Borneo intact.

Because he had always regarded these people as sailors before, Xie Qinggao had been training them according to the model of sailors, and arranged for them to be apprentices and miscellaneous servants in various positions on the ship every day. They have never been trained in military skills, and now they can only cram.

These people are Hakka people who go to sea, but they are not natural sailors, because the Hakka people are actually mainly mountain people, and they are also mainly farming. Fishermen along the coast, mainly locals and Tan people. As a result, when these people first got on the boat, many of them even got seasick.

Although they have adapted to life on the ship, they are not yet able to walk on the rocking deck, so it is impossible for them to learn the queue, only to familiarize them with the musket.

The officers were ready-made, and like the Oriental Dawn, there were also some mercenaries on this ship. Due to the small size of the ship, there were not as many mercenaries as the Oriental Dawn, only twenty people. If the two ships were together, these mercenaries would actually be under the command of Colin, but now that the two ships are separated, the leader of the mercenaries is one of their own officers, a Hessian officer, Captain Fischer.

Captain Fischer, like his soldiers, was on loan to the British as a result of an agreement between the Archduke of Hesse and the British government, and came to India to serve the East India Company. When they were in Hesse, they were regular troops. Because of the agreement, he was subordinate to the officers of the East India Company during his service in India. But now that Colin is not around, he has enough autonomy.

After Xie Qinggao promised an additional subsidy, Fischer was more than happy to train sailors for Xie Qinggao.

There were ready-made muskets on the ship, because the rifles of this era were consumables, affected by the material, the use of the barrel was authorized, and there was no shortage of money, Zhou Lang bought as many weapons as possible from the East India Company, and stockpiled two hundred Hebes rifles on the Oriental Dawn, and Xie Qinggao also had one hundred on board.

The gunpowder reserves were also very sufficient, and after receiving Zhou Lang's letter, Xie Qinggao urgently purchased a batch of gunpowder and lead at a high price in Macao, which was enough for these sailors to train.

Where do young people don't like weapons, everyone's enthusiasm for training is very high, there is no need to urge, after a few days, most of them have mastered the loading and shooting skills of smoothbore guns, as for the level of how much it is not good. Fischer thought that they were completely wasting ammunition, and he said that when they went to the battlefield, these people couldn't even hold their guns steadily, but Xie Qinggao was willing to pay, and he didn't bother to care.

Going to Taiwan is not a tailwind, this sailboat can run four knots, which will take about ten days to reach Taiwan, and now half of the time has passed, Xie Qinggao doesn't know what the situation will be when he arrives, whether he will go to war with the government army, which makes him very conflicted.

Fighting with the government means rebellion, and in his heart, he is unwilling, he is keen to travel overseas, but he is still a Chinese, he has relatives and friends, and rebellion will affect them.

But Zhou Lang was kind to him, not mentioning those future promises, so that Xie Qinggao decided to help Zhou Lang after thinking hard all night, there was actually another reason, that is, he got courtesy (respect) from Zhou Lang, Xie Qinggao thought that this was the grace of knowing the encounter, and the grace of knowing the encounter should be repaid with death, so he couldn't ignore Zhou Lang's safety and only seek self-preservation.

But saving Zhou Lang and saving Zhou Lang, unwilling to rebel is unwilling to rebel, Xie Qinggao even made up his mind that after arriving in Taiwan, if Zhou Lang really rebelled, he would also persuade Zhou Lang to rein in the precipice.