Chapter 86: Straight to the clouds and sails down to the sea

Hey...... Hey......

The eight slave soldiers carried a big log and sang a trumpet and carried it onto the boat, and the big wood only had to fill one layer and cover the bottom warehouse.

Including Yang Renyu, a total of 448 flag soldiers, with hundreds of people loaded on the ship, the speed was very fast, and it only took an hour to load.

When his captain reported to him that the ship had been loaded, he turned back to look for the old shipowner, only to find several of the shipowners arguing loudly from afar, as if the other shipowners were scolding the old shipowner.

Yang Renyu pretended not to see it, walked over and shouted loudly: "Several shipowners, the goods are loaded, when can the ship be shipped?" ”

"Hey...... I'll come. The old shipowner took the opportunity to walk away without answering the question.

Several other shipowners were indeed scolding him, saying that he had met some of the people. At first glance, they are not good men and women, and there are money and lifeless flowers, anyway, the words are as ugly as they are.

"Don't worry, you can't leave at night, there are too many of you, you can't fit in the cabin, you sail during the day, and it will be troublesome for others to see the official." Walking up to Yang Renyu, the old shipowner explained.

"I don't have a problem, in fact, we don't have a time limit, as long as we can reach Liaodong safely." Yang Renyu nodded and agreed.

As mentioned earlier, Maoshan is an abandoned old Yangtze River, the river is narrow and the water is rapid, and there have been no boats here for a long time, so at this time, hundreds of people stay on the river beach and are not afraid of others seeing.

So Yang Renyu commanded the troops to rest on the spot and recuperate mentally and physically. A curious slave soldier asked his master, "Master, where are we going?" We don't have much power on the water, we're all a bunch of landlubbers. ”

"Don't ask me, I don't know, we just have to carry out the order, have you forgotten what I told you? The orders of the superiors must be carried out if they are understood, and they must be carried out if they are not understood, and a unit can only have one brain, otherwise there will be a mess of many orders.

Specific to our small banner, the Lord of the Hundred Households is our brain, and we just need to follow his orders. "This soldier is a former slave soldier, who has been trained as a soldier for more than a year, and has long since become a war machine that only knows how to carry out orders, and he reprimanded his slave soldiers.

These slave soldiers are also bandits captured in the last attack on Tiantang Village, and they have also received several months of military training, and they understand the principle that subordinates must be absolutely obedient to their superiors, so the slave soldiers immediately shut up.

Of course, these great truths are understood through whip education, and there is no word democracy in the army, and the consequences of disobedience are at least whip education, and at worst physical extermination.

"Sit tighter, squeeze harder," said the officers in the evening, as the men began to board the ship, and the officers shouted orders the men to squeeze in. Because of the small size of the ship, the cabin was crowded with people, and only a small number of officers were allowed to stay outside.

When the boatman pushes the boat towards the center of the river with a long bamboo pole, the boat sails slowly under the action of the current.

Before the "sail hoisting" was over, the owners of each boat shouted to the men to hoist the sails.

Sea ships have sails, unlike river boats that rely on rocking oars, which can save a lot of effort and speed a lot. The speed of the boat down the river is very fast, and the great poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty has a poem as evidence: "The white emperor of the court is among the clouds, thousands of miles of Jiangling are returned in one day, the apes on both sides of the strait can't stop crying, and the light boat has passed the ten thousand mountains." ”

Because the ship was heavily loaded, but it was very smooth, these landlubbers who had just taken the boat were happy, and no one was seasick, but the smell in the cabin was not good, and the body odor, sweat odor, bad breath, and foot odor were mixed together, which made people almost want to vomit, so even the most talkative person consciously closed his mouth and did not speak.

It's not easy to talk inside, but there are a few people around the small charcoal stove at the stern of the boat to make tea and taste tea, so it's not embarrassing. It is the old shipowner, Yang Renyu and Lu Chuanzong, the old shipowner is very talkative, and he is telling Yang Renyu and Lu Chuanzong about the big and small things in the Ming Dynasty.

"Hey! It's better for us in the south! I heard that Shaanxi is suffering from drought and locust plague this year, and the villagers are eating in different places and begging for a living, which is simply miserable and makes those who hear it cry. ”

"Won't the court provide relief?" Yang Renyu didn't understand the hot and cold state of the world, so he asked a stupid question. He is a lucky one, since he was a child, he has been a big fish and a big meat to eat, he can't imagine the miserable image of having no food to eat, and he has never been in the rivers and lakes.

"How can there be such a good thing, if you don't send troops to destroy taxes, you will be the master of the blue sky. Even where there is relief, it is also the work of some benevolent and righteous squires, and the government just shirks the treasury and has no money. "Don't want the old shipowner to answer, Lu Chuanzong has already answered first. He has personal experience, from Shandong to Dabie Mountain, along the way he has not seen a few government relief refugees, on the contrary, the card is set up more than one, and he can't wait to collect taxes even for refugees.

"Virtuous nephew! Some words were very uncomfortable in my heart, and the old man had to say them. It is an admirable feat for you to go to Liaodong to fight Jiannu, but Jiannu is not a soft persimmon! Known as invincible, the elite border soldiers of the court are difficult to beat, and they have repeatedly suffered defeats. Besides, your number is too small, hundreds of people will not even bubble up when they go to the battlefield in Liaodong, so your trip is really unpredictable! The old shipowner tilted his head and drank a cup of hot tea, and spit it out as a fast way.

"The old shipowner was kind, and the boy got it. But there are some things that you know you can't do, and you have to do them. I want to be dignified in China, the territory is vast, the people of Li are billions of trillions, but I have been repeatedly violated by the border tribes, I am a Miao descendant of Huaxia, I don't know how many innocent Li Shu are slaughtered and enslaved by it every year, and those who commit me are strong, although they are far away, they will be punished, and all hot-blooded men should hold a three-foot Qingfeng, and revenge blood hatred ......"

Yang Renyu spoke loudly, as if he was the savior, but he also kept an eye on it, and did not reveal the strength of his troops, only saying that it was done by righteousness.

Lu Chuanzong, who was listening silently on the side, only then did he know that the original destination of this trip was Liaodong, which was thousands of miles away, and he was secretly complaining in his heart, his thoughts were similar to the old shipowner, and he only said that his gang was going to Liaodong to die.

But he can only complain in his heart, this must be the decision of the big boss, and it must not be changed, because even Yang Renyu has no right to change his mind, he can only implement it unconditionally. He is a weak scholar, and he is soft-spoken, so he can only beg God for his blessing.

The old shipowner just vomited, knowing that these people were acting on orders, so he then changed the topic and talked about the strange things in the Ming Dynasty.

Now it is the end of May, the weather is relatively hot, but it is not cold, only the annoying mosquitoes buzz, noisy people can hardly sleep.

…… To be continued