Chapter 107: I'm a Pirate

In these three days, a large number of suspicious elements were sent to prison, most of these people were indeed Xiling's spies and spies, but there were also many slippery elements who usually acted as traitors but had no clear evidence. And during these three days, the construction of the bell tower began again. After being tossed like this once, the originally semi-open construction site finally began to be strictly managed. Although it was not easy to build a simple wall outside the construction site to separate the crowd in this day and age, because lightweight construction materials were basically not available. However, a ring of rammed earth walls was erected.

After the resumption of work at the construction site, Ye Tao was finally able to take leave of absence and leave Danyang and go to Yicheng. This time, in addition to Dai Qiuyan and Sophie, Tan Weiran and Tan Weiying brothers and sisters were unexpectedly added to him. The prince and princess disguised themselves as ordinary rich children and mingled in the convoy. Naturally, to leave Danyang in this situation, a large number of guards are indispensable. Ye Tao, who was originally going to follow lightly, followed a string of tails, and there was almost a team of more than 300 people heading towards Yicheng.

Ye Tao never thought that the bell tower would bring such a big change to Yicheng. After a steady and slow operation of the bell tower for a period of time, the Seven Seas Tower has become the standard of life for the people of Yicheng.

Every morning, the city is woken up by the sound of bells, and many people start their day with the ringing of the morning bells. The wharves began to be loaded and unloaded, many people began to buy on the streets, began to work in the merchants and workshops where they worked, and the military camps of the branches in various parts of Yicheng began to exercise.

At noon, when the bell is heard, they will put down their work, have lunch, and take a break during the sleepiest time of the day.

When an hour passes, the bell will naturally remind everyone. There are still a few hours of work to be done on this day.

At dusk, the ringing of the bell was a signal for the subordinates working in the yamen everywhere to leave work. At the same time, as the subordinates finished their day's work, the loading and unloading and counting on the dock also stopped, except for those particularly urgent goods still being loaded and unloaded, and the overtime officials yawned while recording in the notebook in their hands.

In the evening, the bell will sound to remind those who will go to work tomorrow that it is time to rest. Each one is the backbone of a family landlord. And everyone's rest will bring a whole family into silence......

On the day they arrived in Yicheng, Ye Tao and his party realized this. Living in a comfortable and pleasant house in Chun Nuanju, Tan Weiying and Tan Weiran both understood why Tan Weixin actually missed this not gorgeous place.

But they didn't stay in Yicheng for long. Qi Zhentao's subordinates came to inform them that the old man Qi was not in Yicheng, but on Crescent Island, which was a one-day flight away from Yicheng.

Crescent Island was once used as a lair when Old Man Qi was a pirate before he became a maritime merchant, although he was surprised that this place was reactivated. But Ye Tao can also understand to some extent, determined to fight to the end with those sea merchants in Chunnandi, he must organize a fleet with combat effectiveness, and this kind of fleet is placed in Yicheng Port? Apparently impossible.

For Ye Tao, this is just an extra two-day round trip, but for Tan Weiying and Tan Weiran, who have traveled thousands of miles to Yicheng to play. The two of them are not as good as Ye Tao to be supported by the old man of the Qi family.

After getting the news, when Ye Tao was busy packing up, because there were too many things with him, Tan Weiran and Tan Weiying didn't even have time to unpack their packages.

"I'm really sorry, I promised Old Man Qi to help him do things. If you find it inconvenient. Just visit Yicheng, right? Governor Peng, Lord Peng, will be happy to entertain you......" Ye Tao said to Tan Weiying and Tan Weiran embarrassedly.

Tan Weiying glanced at him and said, "Just kidding, if you don't go with you, then what are we going to do in Yicheng?" ”

Tan Weiran smiled, patted Ye Taodi on the shoulder, and said with interest: "Brother-in-law, I haven't done a sea boat yet." Is it fun? ”

Ye Tao smiled and said, "I don't know if you are seasick." It's fun if you don't get seasick, and if you get seasick...... Then I don't know. However, when you go to Crescent Island, you can't bring so many things, and you can't bring so many people. ”

Tan Weiran nodded knowingly and said, "No problem, I'll let someone arrange it." ”

Although Tan Weiran is usually very arrogant, he can deal with these daily things. It's really a bit of a trick. Less than two hours. And he chose twenty-four men from out of their two guards, and six men who served in their daily lives. Thirty people were streamlined from the huge team, and the two of them followed closely to board the ship arranged by Old Man Qi early tomorrow morning, together with Ye Tao and the others. As for the others, with Tan Weiran's identity, it was easy to borrow two warships from Min Yue, the governor of the Yicheng Naval Division. As soon as Min Yue heard that the prince and the princess were going to sail with Ye Tao to Crescent Island, he himself was very interested in seeing what Qi Zhentao had run his original nest into. Sending two warships to escort the escort couldn't have been easier.

As for the things that Tan Weiying and Tan Weiran carried, except for daily use, all the useless things were left in Chun Nuanju. On the day they stayed in Yicheng, the two of them, like Tan Weixin at the beginning, also fell in love with the Spring Warm Residence, especially the suite built on the boulder and the self-contained unit on the top of the mountain to watch various views.

For first-time sailors to Haiti, excitement doesn't protect them from seasickness. Ye Tao had followed Old Man Qi's boat many times, and he got used to spitting and spitting. The closest the prince and princess can do to the water is to take a boat on a lake near Danyang and blow the wind. When the ship was still sailing near the port of Yicheng and could still see the ground, the prince and princess could still excitedly point out the flying seagulls, comment on the endless sea view, and eat breakfast with the sparkling eyes of the jumping. When the land had already run out of sight, and the ocean currents and sea breeze still made the ships that were already giant ships in this era rise and fall, Tan Weiran was okay, and he generously lay on the side of the ship and vomited clean, and then continued to blow the sea breeze with a little dizziness, trying to familiarize himself with this feeling. Tan Weiying is different, the little girl is thin-skinned. refused to spit it out in front of others, hiding in the cabin holding the barrel and spitting and spitting, the smell of vomit made her unable to recover for a while. Later, she lay on the bed almost with tears in her eyes, cursing softly for Ye Tao, who "tricked" them into getting on the boat. Ye Tao took a damp cloth to help wipe the corners of Tan Wei's mouth, smiled awkwardly and didn't speak.

Since they had already set sail when the sun had just climbed above the sea level, it was just after dusk. They had already arrived at Crescent Island. Although Old Man Qi has been a "serious" maritime merchant for decades, Crescent Island has not been abandoned. The port facilities are rudimentary, but they have been well maintained. For a period of time, during the difficult years when the Yicheng Port was renovated and did not have the capacity to accommodate a large number of large merchant ships, but it had to share the same wharf with the sailors, it was also used to moor the fleet of Qi families to cushion the pressure of a large number of ships entering the Yicheng Port. In those years. Even Qi Zhentao can only determine two berths in Yicheng Port.

Crescent Island survived in this way. And now, a large number of people have come to Crescent Island, and they have begun to build a port on Crescent Island, and renovate houses and other facilities. It seems that Old Man Qi has a strong desire to develop Crescent Island into a permanent base. Naturally, one reason for being able to do this is that Crescent Island is not small, and. There is plenty of fresh water on Crescent Island.

Surprisingly, there were four warships in the harbor of Crescent Island, in addition to some large cargo ships carrying construction materials and supplies to Crescent Island...... And it looks like a "Lanshui ship".

"Old man, how did you get those big guys?" As soon as he jumped off the boat and saw Qi Zhentao waiting for him on the dock with a smile, Ye Tao hurriedly stepped up and asked in a low voice.

"Don't worry." Qi Zhentao smiled and pulled Ye Tao towards the lighted house on the island.

Ye Tao hurriedly stopped and reminded, "Old man, there are still people on the boat." It's the son and the young lady of the Tan family......"

Qi Zhentao was not frightened, but looked at Ye Tao with interest, and said, "I wonder how you can let Min Yue send two Cangshui ships to escort my ship, it turns out that there is a big man." Why don't you come down? Seasickness? ”

Ye Tao nodded awkwardly. Qi Zhentao said suddenly: "Then don't worry about it, look at them like that, it's even more embarrassing to see now." Come back to that. Qi Zhentao turned his head and shouted at an old man on the dock, "Old Zhao." On board there are sons and ladies who talk about the family. The good students waited and led them to the north courtyard. ”

As an old family member who has followed Qi Zhentao for many years. Lao Zhao immediately understood that the two people on the boat were not simple, even if he looked at the attendants and guards who followed the two Tan family people on the boat. Although most of the people vomited, the guards still kept their spirits in their spirits, looking around cautiously, and they were also very careful about the sailors on the docks, who were obviously very heavy. Ordinary people would never afford to use such guards. Moreover, on Crescent Island, the north courtyard is the most thoughtful courtyard in the island's architectural complex, and Qi Zhentao usually lives by himself, and now it is given to these two "talkers", which obviously shows how important these two people are.

"Old man, ...... the boat," Ye Tao asked reluctantly.

"It's okay," Qi Zhentao said open-mindedly, "I've talked to Min Yue." Now I have the blueprints of the Lanshui ship and the Cangshui ship, but I don't have time to wait for the ship to be built. Min Yue lent me these four ships, without sailors, without a god arm bow and catapult, and in three months I will return to him four Lanshui ships, brand new. and give the sailor another 100,000 taels of silver. He doesn't lose anything. ”

Ye Tao was stunned, Qi Zhentao actually wanted to use a large amount of money and such an iron relationship to fight the time difference, so to what extent has the struggle between Seven Seas Trading Company and Chunnan's maritime business group developed now?

"Old man, what's going on now?" Ye Tao asked anxiously.

Qi Zhentao smiled and said, "Pirates, Chunnan's gang of sea merchants really have a way, and they can say that they can move pirates to move the Seven Seas Trading Company." However, they can only talk about pirates. But what about me? I'm a pirate. ”