The Haibo moved quickly, Hong Tao finished talking here, and it also stopped a three-masted sand ship on its side, and the two ships sailed back together. Wei Langzhong also went back in a small boat with the results of the negotiation with Hong Tao, he was just a negotiator, he couldn't make up his mind, and he had to go back to report. Wen Nan ignored Hong Tao's dissuasion, and went back with him to resume his life, he said that the official family was benevolent to him, and he couldn't live with the heart of a villain, and there must be a beginning and an end. These words made Hong Tao's cheekiness go straight to the fever, if you want to go back, go back, the standards of life are different, and you can't keep it.

Hong Tao had the first official contact with the high-level of the Southern Song Dynasty. When Zheng Qingzhi boarded the sand boat, Hong Tao's thief's eyes were still turning, he wondered if this old man had practiced iron sand palm or something, and planned to come over and give himself a palm, and then captured himself alive. So he just got up and sat down again behind the makeshift table on the deck, full of energy, ready to jump up and run away.

"Don't come here to be harmful...... It's been more than three years since Lin'an said goodbye, but I didn't expect you to have achieved hegemony on the sea, it's really terrifying! "Zheng Qingzhi is dressed very casually today, with a round neck, a jade belt, a hard head, and black linen boots. His expression was as casual as his clothes, even if Hong Tao was not very polite, he didn't care, and still opened his mouth with a smile.

"Master Zheng Xiang has a lot, I am an outsider who eats at sea, and there are thousands of old and young people around me, and they all have to go hungry if I have an accident, so I have to be cautious. At this point, I am not as good as Zheng Xianglei, I apologize here first, and I hope that Prime Minister Zheng Xiang can support the boat in his belly. Let's turn this one. Lang Cliff. Bring things up...... This is a little gift from me. It's not a precious object, it's all handmade products that I have there. However, there is one thing that Zheng Xiang also asked to send back to the official family to use, this is called a telescope, and the official family can see you and me clearly when he holds it in his hand, so as not to worry him after a long time. What Hong Tao said was indeed in his heart, letting a prime minister go to a boat to talk to him about things, and guard against others like a thief. Narrow-minded people are certainly not happy. At this point, Hong Tao is really ashamed of himself, he doesn't have this mind, anyway, no matter who the other party is, even if it is a seraphim, he has to guard against it like a thief.

"Telescopes? What is it for? Zheng Qingzhi watched Langya put gifts on the table from a big box, there were a lot of them, and he was a little confused. Da Song doesn't have this etiquette, and before he finished a sentence, he went to dry goods. However, he has enough self-cultivation to watch Hong Tao do all the work. Not angry, mainly because most of the things he really hadn't seen. Take this telescope, for example.

"Pull it away like this and put it to your eyes to look into the distance...... If you don't know, you can turn it left and right until you see it clearly! Let Hong Tao stir up like this, and the originally tense deck suddenly relaxed. Holding a telescope to help Zheng Qingzhi adjust the focus, let the Southern Song Dynasty Prime Minister Zuo look at the scene on the boat in the distance, while Lang Ya and Zheng Qingzhi's entourage stared at each other with big eyes, staring at each other without any surprises.

"Shhh...... It's a fetish! Qiao Xiang's beard can be seen...... No, such a peeping at my emperor is extremely rude, so let's give it to the official family. Under the teaching of Hong Tao, Zheng Qingzhi quickly mastered the use of the telescope, and it was quite addictive to watch, and it took him a long time to realize his identity and task, and he hurriedly put away the telescope, handed it to an entourage, and asked him to row a small boat to send it to the official family.

"This is my home-brewed rum, Zheng Xiang will try it, and some snacks, how about we talk while drinking?" Hong Tao is not used to talking face-to-face, and with wine as an intermediary, he can be much more comfortable. After getting Zheng Qingzhi's consent, Langya began to serve food boxes out of the box again, and one box after another set half a table, nothing more than fruit shops, dried meat, seafood and dried fish from Nanyang. The most striking thing is the light rum in a green glass bottle, the amber color is very attractive to look at, but unfortunately this bottle and wine glass are not produced by Jinhewan itself, but from the hands of the Arabs, it is quite expensive, a gift from a maritime merchant to Hong Tao.

“…… It's so strong! Wine! The entrance is sweet, the throat is rich, and the abdomen is strong! Zheng Qingzhi really let it go, and when he saw that Hong Tao filled him with a glass cup of wine, he drank it with his neck tilted, and then stared at it for a while, and then put the cup down, his face was red.

"Hey, hey, this is made from sugarcane residue, which is stronger than the wine of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is also my specialty there. Our Great Song Dynasty's wine can't be sold indiscriminately, it can only be sold to the Nanyang countries, and there are still a few bottles in the box, Zheng Xiang will take it away for a while, and give it to the official family to taste, which can be regarded as a little bit of my heart. Hong Tao also drained the wine in his wine cup, and while filling Zheng Qingzhi with it, he was talking nonsense.

"The virtuous nephew is not perverse, he is very pleasing, why don't you want to go to Lin'an to see the old man, you have to be so careful?" Zheng Qingzhi is not as idle as Hong Tao, he can talk nonsense for a day without worry, and has to take the lead in turning the topic to the topic.

"Without it, be careful! I won't talk about those things before, now that Zheng Xiang is here, I have nothing to complain about. You came to see me in the midst of your busy schedule, I received this love, and the official family was exposed to the wind and sun on the ship, and it was not appropriate for a long time. If Zheng Xiang doesn't blame me for speaking too straight, then I'll talk about my thoughts first, do you think it's okay? Got the initiative, Hong Tao immediately turned defense into offense, he didn't want to drink and chat with Zheng Qingzhi here, if he wanted to talk about the opportunity in the future, he would talk about serious things first, and it would be easier to chat.

"But it doesn't hurt to say, I'll listen to you!" Zheng Qingzhi was generous, he didn't fight for the initiative, and completely handed it over to Hong Tao.

"Before I say it, I let Zheng Xiang look at one thing first, and then I say it, it's easier to understand. It's just that this thing is a little scary, I don't know if it will scare the official family? Can you say hello to the official family in advance and invite the official family to watch it together? Hong Tao wanted to show the Southern Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers the power of artillery, which was one of his negotiating costs. Although it is said that you have the initiative, you still have to have good goods and good goods, otherwise it is useless to just talk about it.

"Virtuous nephew, but it doesn't hurt to try, the official can see the old man with your telescope, there will be no misunderstanding, but I don't know what kind of thing can be so scary?" Zheng Qingzhi was more calm than Hong Tao, and he didn't even move his buttocks.

"Send a signal!" Since Zheng Qingzhi said that it was okay, then Hong Tao should be fine, if there is something, it is also your problem, and it has nothing to do with me. At that moment, Chong Langya nodded, and Langya immediately took out two small flags from his arms, stood on the side of the ship, and waved at the Jinhe in the distance.

When the Jinhe got the flag, she immediately lowered the two lifeboats, rowed north, and intercepted a sand sloop coming out of the Qiantang River on the fairway, and after a while, the sand boat lowered its sails, and the crew on it got into the dinghy and rowed back to the Jinhe. The ship was lonely and dead at anchor in the distance, almost a mile away from the Golden River.

"Boom...... Rumble...... Rumble...... Boom ......" Before the dinghy rowed back, the port side of the Jinhe suddenly opened two small windows, and soon two rows of large thick pipes drilled out of the windows. Before Wen Nan and Zheng Qingzhi could explain what these pipes were, a loud thunderous noise came, and then looked at the Jinhe, the port side and most of the hull were already shrouded in smoke, and at the same time, there was a ball of fire flickering, which was the naval guns that had not yet been fired were firing in turn.

In the first few seconds of the bombardment, Zheng Qingzhi only watched curiously as the Jinhe performed like fireworks, but he soon realized that it was not a performance, because a cloud of smoke also erupted from the sloop ship in the distance, but it was not so thick. Soon a cannonball hit the bottom of the mast of the sand ship, and the whole mast, like a toothpick, spun around in mid-air before falling into the water. When the roar stopped, the sand ship had begun to sink, and the entire canopy was shattered. Since it was a stop to shoot at anchor and a fixed target in a bay with a small surge, the hit rate was at least 50 percent or more. This kind of small wooden ship with a displacement of dozens of tons, as long as the hull is hit by two shells, it is basically hopeless.

"What does the virtuous nephew mean by this? Could it be that there is something wrong with someone Zheng, or that the court is slow! At this time, the expression on Zheng Qingzhi's face was not so light, and his words also revealed a strong sense of anxiety and dissatisfaction. He understood that if the things that sank the sand ship were coming for this ship, he would definitely not be able to escape.

"Zheng Xiangmo, didn't I say it just now, it's a little scary, this is a demonstration, and there is no malicious intent. I want to let Zheng Xiang understand my abilities completely, so that it will be very beneficial for our future conversations, and there will be many things that we don't have to worry about anymore. This thing is called a cannon, and it can hit five miles away, and such a thick plank can be pierced with one shot. I have sixty doors on this ship, and more than thirty on those small boats, and if I have any malice, all the ships on the west side will not be able to escape, and in two hours at most they will all be reduced to broken planks. "Hong Tao really doesn't want to use cannons to scare people, and then take advantage of negotiations. Helping the Southern Song Dynasty court to fight, no matter how it is calculated, in terms of this war alone, Jinhewan is a loss, and there is nothing to take advantage of, so there is no need to use this method. Hong Tao just wants the Southern Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers to know their strength, and then don't treat themselves as a dispensable thing, pay attention to this thing, sometimes it is better to say it ten thousand times than to show a piece of strength to work. (To be continued.) )