"Yi Teng, this time you have a great responsibility, you must ensure that the materials can be bought back smoothly, this is a strategic task, and there must be no room for loss." After the shipowners left, Yang Wenli solemnly told Yang Yiteng.

"Please rest assured, the commander is in the goods, and the goods are lost and people are dead!" Yang Yiteng put his feet together, made a firm and powerful chest beating salute, and swore loudly.

Yang Yiteng's performance satisfied Yang Wenli, so he turned to a kind tone and continued: "You go to Director Wang Rucheng to mention the goods, and you must effectively control the use of the goods and money, but how to sell them is up to the shipowners, you are all some big bosses, don't get involved if you don't understand this."

If you go to the side of North Korea, you may meet the officials and soldiers, and you will suffer some money, I can agree, but if they want to levy ships, don't get used to them, the king of heaven wants our ships and goods, and they don't agree, do you understand? ”

"Understood," Yang Yiteng replied with a firm nod.

……

Early the next morning, the fleet set off, and Yang Wenli did not show up, but in fact, he hid aside and saw him off from afar.

This business trip is very risky, and it can even be said that the chances of success are very slim, they have too many risks along the way, but they only have a full army, and they have to be divided into two teams, each going to one side, of course, the sailors on the ship are also qualified battlefields, at sea, their combat effectiveness may be stronger than the regular soldiers, the advantage of the regular soldiers is that they can shoot arrows from a distance, and manipulate the use of ballistas.

The combat effectiveness of sailors is proportional to whether they are willing to work hard, and the men on the water grew up eating seafood and fish, and their physical fitness is better than that of ordinary farmers, but because they have not received professional training, their combat effectiveness depends on whether they are willing to work hard.

Only less than half of the ships were used, because most of the warships were inconvenient to use, especially the fleet going to Korea, because they were afraid of encountering the Dongjiang Naval Division on the way, and there was not even a single warship. In addition, due to the nature of the goods, there are many ships going to Korea and few ships going to Japan, only a few, because there are not so many sulfur, lead, and copper to buy.

The fleet began to sail along the west coast of the Liaodong Peninsula together, and when they arrived at Ocean Island, they were met with officers and men who came forward to inquire about it.

"Excuse me, but the Black Armor Army fleet on Immortal Island? Where are they going? ”

Of course, the officers and soldiers knew that it was the fleet of the Black Armor Army, but his main purpose was to ask them what they wanted to do.

Yang Yiteng's personal slave stepped forward and said: "We are the Black Armor Army, and we want to go to North Korea to trade on this trip, and I hope to inform your superiors that there will be no misunderstanding between our two armies." ”

The Lushun Naval Division is the only officer and soldier who knows the details of the Black Armor Army, so they naturally don't look for trouble and come to inquire, it's just a routine matter.

The flotilla continued to sail southward, and from time to time there were patrol boats of the Lushun Naval Division, because the officers and military sailors had informed them that the convoy had not been intercepted again, and they went all the way south, and when they reached the Port of Arthur, they turned to the direction of Korea.

After four days and four nights of sailing, they reached the waters off Pyongyang, North Korea, where the fleet was about to separate, and continued all the way to Korea, all the way south along the Korean coastline, to Japan.

The Korean sailors are also relatively strong, so the pirates along the Korean coast are not prosperous, and sending too many troops to escort the ship will make the North Korean sailors suspicious, so the fleet to Korea is almost all the sailors and shipwrights of the shipowners, and Yang Yiteng only sent five of his cronies to be responsible for guarding the bone china glass mirrors he carried.

Yang Yiteng personally led the main force of a soldier to Japan on five 400 warships, several shipowners have experience in sailing to Japan, knowing that at this time in Japanese waters, the Korean Strait and other places, is the most rampant time for piracy, so Yang Yiteng had to use his troops to protect the merchant fleet to trade with Japan.

It must be explained that the sailors of the fleet were all officers and soldiers of the Dangshui Division who had been captured before, because they had special water skills, and Yang Wenli did not demote them to slaves, but served as civilian sailors, who were paid and paid, and the treatment was better than when they were officers and soldiers before.

In addition, staying on the sea island of Changsheng Island, they have nowhere to escape, and after a long time, seeing that this gang of thieves will not harm them, the food is good, they eat seafood every day, and they have a generous salary, they also settled down and are willing to be sailors.

So in fact, Yang Yiteng's five warships on this trip are not just a single army, but more than 100 soldiers, which is almost a dozen troops, which is just in line with his identity as a commander.

The long voyage at sea was very boring, so Yang Yiteng sat down with several shipowners to drink tea and Pinming, and several people mainly talked about Japan.

"Now from China to Dongying, it has been controlled by the Fujian pirate Zheng Zhilong, and it needs his approval to buy a protective flag before it can go to Japan to trade, so our maritime merchants in Songjiang basically no longer run the sea trade, but are occupied by the Fujian Yankees."

The shipowner, surnamed Wu, one of several shipowners, said indignantly.

"Zheng Zhilong? Is he strong? Yang Yiteng was attracted by the topic of Wu shipowner, and he asked a very white question, these days, who doesn't know Zheng Zhilong's famous name for running maritime trade!

"My eldest man, he is not very strong, but very, very powerful, in the vast sea area from the South China Sea in the south to the east Yingying, he is the only one, with more than 700 warships, tens of thousands of troops, even the court sailors have been repeatedly defeated by his hands, do you say he is strong?."

In fact, the rise of Zheng Zhilong was only in the past few years, three years ago, he was just a general manager of the smuggling fleet under the Taiwan Governor's Office of the Dutch East India Company, that is, a small translator who assisted the Dutch in robbing the Ming maritime merchants and the Spanish merchant fleet.

His rise has a great chance of success, he at first felt that he was only a generalist, and there was no future for development, so he returned to his hometown, pulled up a vote of people and started pirates, at first the strength was not strong, and then because the pirate alliance leader Yan Siqi suddenly died, the people in the connection class were not specified, and the pirates elected him as the leader of the alliance.

Of course, it is undeniable that his ability and ambition are stronger than Yan Siqi, after he became the leader of the alliance, he immediately went to the coast of Fujian, recruited a large number of destitute fishermen, and recruited tens of thousands of fishermen in one move, and it was also his luck that happened to occur in the south of Fujian in the history of drought and locust plague (1625-1627), even grass roots and bark were difficult to find, so he easily recruited tens of thousands of fishermen.

Later, Li Dan, a maritime merchant living in Japan, died suddenly, and his power was also absorbed by him, this is because he worked under Li Dan in his early years, and he was a colleague with those people for many years, so he easily absorbed Li Dan's power, which is why Zheng Zhilong suddenly had such a powerful force in a few years, can't it be said that he was unlucky?

Compared with him, Yang Wenli has devoted himself to farming for seven or eight years, and he is not even half of his strength, which can be regarded as a model of failure.

…… To be continued