"I heard that the new governor is coming. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"No wonder the soldiers of the city garrison put on such a look."

"These grandsons only have the energy when they open the city gate in the morning to be good, and they usually have the kung fu to stand here with a gun and endure this hardship."

"It's a pity that the Southern Military Gate has been almost deployed, and it is about to drive the red hair away, but the court can't wait, fortunately, it is just a dismissal, if it is arrested by the captain, it will be too wronged."

The people at the city gate kept talking and discussing, although they were all Fuzhou dialects, fortunately, Li Pingzhi could understand them...... Along the way, the Zheng brothers and He Bin and others have been teaching them the dialect of Fuzhou, Fuzhou dialect belongs to the eastern Fujian dialect, affecting more than ten prefectures and dozens of counties, belonging to the mainstream dialect of Fujian, and then there are various dialects such as Hokkien, the dialect system is very complex, in comparison, the dialect of Shanxi is almost the same as the whole province, even if there are some differences, it is not big, and it does not affect communication.

The military personnel are also very troubled by the dialects of the southerners, and only a small number of military intelligence personnel are required to be able to speak, and most of the requirements are to be able to understand the general meaning even if they are qualified...... Even that was a struggle.

In the area of Fujian and Zhejiang, there may be a dialect in a county, and it is really difficult to fully understand everyone's speech.

Of course, this situation will bring inconvenience to communication, and those who can speak official language and can write will become the local elite, generally the official gentry and officials class, and if a foreign official wants to gain a successful foothold, not only can he not offend these people, but on the contrary, he must rely on them very much, and this is also the best reason and opportunity for the official and the official to collude and set up their hands to control the locality.

Li Pingzhi listened very carefully, and only then did he understand the meaning of people's words.

The original governor of Fujian, Nan Juyi, had been ordered to go to office, but fortunately, half of the imperial court was angry Nan Juyi sat back and watched the Dutch invade Penghu for half a year, and built a city on Penghu Island.

The other half of the reason is that the imperial court is anxious to find a place to settle Zheng Guochang, and the farther away the better, since Datong is in the north, it is obvious that the imperial court needs to find a place to settle Lao Zheng in the south, and Nan Juyi, the governor of Fujian, is also unlucky.

However, maybe a big man like the imperial court also knows that he is excessive, and the punishment that Nan Juyi got is to stay idle with the crown, which means to retain the rank treatment, go home and stay first, and the rumors will naturally consider reinstating him after the rumors pass.

On the contrary, Li Pingzhi knows some of the inside story of these things, and most of the people who talk about it at the city gate are in the upper echelons of society, and their discussions are itching through their boots and not being able to speak righteously.

However, since there was a lively scene, Li Pingzhi put on a posture of waiting to see the excitement, found a snack stall casually, asked for a fish ball, and while waiting, he also stretched his neck to look in the direction of the official road.

At this time, no one paid attention, Li Pingzhi's eyes first glanced at a slightly dilapidated two-story restaurant on the left-hand side, and a blue towel was placed under the guise of the restaurant.

A dark, thin, short, middle-aged man sat next to Li Pingzhi.

"Don't look back, and don't speak." The thin black man whispered softly, and near the noisy city gates, no one could hear what he was saying.

At this time, Li Pingzhi's fish balls were brought up by the stall owner, the not very white fish balls emitted an attractive aroma, and a handful of finely chopped green onions were sprinkled on the hot soup, and the salt must not be used much, Li Pingzhi took a sip and felt that the taste was a little light.

"There is now an operational group, an intelligence group in the city. My name is Lin Dehou, I am only responsible for one-line contact with you, if you want to change the contact person, I will notify you in advance, you don't have to care about what we do, and don't ask, every month on the fifth day of the first month, you go to this stall to listen to the latest intelligence summary...... Well, that's it. ”

"Any information now?"

The other party paused, probably surprised by Li Pingzhi's unprofessionalism.

However, this military intelligence officer named Lin Houde still replied: "Yu Zhigao, deputy commander-in-chief, and Wang Mengxiong, the garrison of Penghu, have already arrived in the city, and this is the person summoned by Zheng Junmen on the road, and there are also fifteen large sea ships and warships, more than 150 small and medium-sized ships, and more than 3,000 soldiers gathered in the center and left. ”

"We have sent someone across the sea to report this information to Area 1." The other party added.

Area No. 1 is the pronoun of the political officer of the marching department, in fact, there are many professional words, such as intelligence reporting, the military intelligence department here uses the vocabulary of pirates, called "reporting water", but considering Li Pingzhi's level, this military intelligence officer obviously has no intention of using professional words.

Li Pingzhi nodded and began to eat fish balls with his head down.

The person who spoke seemed to want a bowl too, but it was eaten quickly, and the other party had disappeared when Li Pingzhi ate half of it.

After eating, there seemed to be some commotion in the distance, Li Pingzhi calculated the time, and said, "Shopkeeper, another bowl of fish balls." ”

……

On that day, Zhang Xuwen, Li Pingzhi and others did not enter the city, and they continued to march towards the center and left.

Zhongzuo is also known as Xiamen, named during the Hongwu period, but people are still accustomed to using Zhongzuo to call this city closest to the sea as a frontier guard city.

In addition to the Zhongzuo Institute, there is also a place near Anping in Quanzhou that is also a common port for coastal fishermen and seafarers to go to sea, but from the Zhongzuo Institute, it is closer to Taiwan.

Everyone is on a merchant ship with Yusheng, and Yusheng pure warships have five, used to protect their merchant ships on the route to Japan, the sea in this year is a hundred times more dangerous than the Somali waters of later generations, there is not much danger in the navigation of the route to Japan, the danger is from the pirates at sea, even if it seems that people and animals are harmless ordinary merchant ships, once they find that the other party has no power to protect themselves, it is common to become pirates in an instant.

A merchant ship carries at least about 100,000 taels of goods, and it is the full profit if it is snatched down, plus the cost of a ship is as little as 20,000 or 30,000 taels of silver, and the more is 50,000 or 60,000 taels.

The warships are all Chinese-style warships, the artillery loading is very small, mainly rely on the infantry and a small number of artillery to fight, the tonnage of each ship is only about 100 tons, the small Xinpingbao displacement is less than 60 tons, has been eliminated into a merchant ship, in fact, it is already a big ship on the route to Japan, and the infantry of Yusheng is strictly trained and well-armed, at least in these two years, no eyeless pirates dare to rob and Yusheng's merchant ships.

Of course, there is also Li Dan's prestige, who doesn't know Li Dan who begs for food at sea? And the alliance with Yusheng and Li Dan is cooperative, which is equivalent to adding a layer of insurance.

The warship is based on the place name level, the Xinpingbao is less than 100 tons, the Tianchengwei is more than 100 tons, and the merchant ship is named after A, B, C, D, and Zhang Xuwen and others is a T-class boat, with a displacement of about 40 tons, and a standard Chinese-style sailing ship.

"Did we build this boat ourselves, or did we buy it?"

The captain is a middle-aged man in his forties, a typical southerner, with small eyes, a flat nose, a darker complexion, and a shorter stature.

But on the sea boat, Zhang Xuwen and other tall northerners were obviously not adaptable, standing on the side of the ship, staggering, and feeling cramped everywhere they walked.

The captain and a dozen sailors were nimble, they loaded the wharf with large bags of porcelain and tea in boxes and baskets, and soon filled the ship, the sailors and coolies on the wharf kept moving the goods, their clothes soaked with sweat, and the captain and a few deputies climbed up and down to inspect the cables, urging people to replenish fresh water and food.

The captain's name is Chen Qigui, and he looks like a shrewd and outgoing character, and after hearing Zhang Xuwen's question, he replied in official dialect with a thick southern accent: "I built it myself, it was built in the second year of the Apocalypse, and it was launched at the end of last year." ”

"This ship isn't big, and it's taken so long?"

"The wood needs to be dried." The captain looked at the layman's smiling face, of course, his attitude was still very good: "Build it yourself, although you invite all veterans who are used to building ships, but the wood should be dried, and then slowly built according to the drawings, from the keel to the cabin to the deck mast cable, shipbuilding, it's not an easy thing." ”

Zhang Xuwen was indeed a little surprised, and only then did he realize that he had broken into a completely new field.

Not to mention anything else, just when Zheng Zhilong and others were helping, the knots tied by the sailor and Zheng Zhilong and others, he couldn't even understand it, those tricks, the speed of the hand, the blink of an eyelid, dozens of knots were tied.

Zheng Zhilong saw Zhang Xuwen's face and said with a smile: "What's the matter, it's novel, right?" This knotting alone is not good in a few years. The sailor had to not only tie the knot, but also climb the mast to raise and lower the sail, and the captain had to know more, the sailline, the steer, the weather and wind according to the hydrology, the passage of the water, beware of pirates, and the ship's plagues, fresh water, sailors who cut each other with knives...... Dozens of people of all shapes and sizes on a ship are crammed into such a small boat for dozens of days, eating spoiled food, drinking water that has been stored for dozens of days, and shaking dizziness every day...... Don't think that sailors don't get dizzy, they will vomit when the waves are big. It's just that we're used to it, I don't feel the wind and waves, but when I get off the boat, I step on the solid ground, but I feel dizzy for a while, and I have to adapt to it for a while. ”

"It's not easy!" Zhang Xuwen did not raise his tone, but everyone could hear his solemnity.

Chen Qigui's impression of Zhang Xuwen improved, and he said at the moment: "It is good to teach Mr. Zhang to know that a large amount of big wood has been stored on our island, all of which are wood from Liaodong, and I am afraid that there are tens of thousands, enough to build a whole fleet." Our Fujian, even the mountains are bald, there is no way, we have been building ships for hundreds of years......"