From the silk village to the rouge gouache shop, from the jade (lacquerware) shop to the glass shop. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThis wharf in the south of Qingdao is full of beautiful pictures of several women. The energetic figures of several girls form a beautiful landscape on the street, attracting the attention of most people on almost the entire street.

In an era of strict etiquette and relative conservativeness in the Ming Dynasty, it is rare for several girls to go shopping together, and generally only major festivals may occur.

It is said that it has been several years since he came to Daming, and Liu Fan often sees some women on the street, but they are all married women, or servants of wealthy families, and it is still rare to see richly dressed women like Zhang Yao. But anyone with a bit of status will not let their daughter show up on the street. So being watched by the crowd like this, Liu Fan didn't feel too surprised.

Looking at the strange eyes of the crowd that were either admiring, or despising, or admiring, Liu Fan couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, although he didn't want to give his women too much restraint in his heart, but he didn't want them to be treated as jokes by others. So he hurriedly stepped forward to stop the "crazy behavior" of several women!

"Yao'er, Ying'er, it's really dazzling that so many of you are gathered together. Do you see how many people are secretly following you? If you don't want the monkeys to come and watch, I'd suggest we get out of here! ”

When Zhang Yao and the other women heard this, they couldn't help but secretly look around, only to find that as Liu Fan said, unconsciously, several of them had become the focus of everyone's eyes. Looking at the strange eyes around her, Xiuying, who was born in a beautiful girl, couldn't stand such a strange atmosphere at first, and hurriedly whispered, "Sister Yao'er, Sister Bing'er, we have almost bought everything, otherwise let's get out of here first!" ”

Zhang Yaomei glanced around, nodded and said, "Well, this place is mixed, it is not a place to stay for a long time, in case it causes trouble for my husband, the prestige of my General Military Mansion will inevitably be affected, so let's stop here today." Didn't the husband say that he wanted to go to the fleet to have a look? Then let's go to the boat to play, it's all our own people, so we're not afraid of others gossiping! ”

Zhang Yao is still very dignified among the women, she has spoken, and the women naturally have no choice. Under the protection of the guards, Liu Fan and the others reluctantly left this bustling street and walked towards the wharf.

The moment they arrived at the wharf, several people were stunned by the scene in front of them, and everywhere they saw were workers coming and going to load and unload. From a distance, the seaside is full of moored ships. The fortune ships of the Ming Dynasty, the large and small yellow ships, and the Spanish galleons that are popular in Europe, these commercial cargo ships can be seen everywhere, and almost the seaside is full. Among them, the most famous is undoubtedly the "San Martin" from Portugal and Macao, which is four or five feet high and more than ten feet long, and is almost a flock on the sea. In particular, the muzzles of the guns sticking out of the sides of the ship, as many as forty or fifty cannons emitted an icy glow in the sun, which made people feel cold. It's hard to imagine that such a bustling port was a small fishing village that no one cared about two years ago.

Liu Bing'er, who had never seen such a scene in the future, couldn't help but cover her mouth and exclaimed, "Lord Overseer, that big ship is the war ship you are talking about?" That's too big, right? Bing'er has never seen such a large warship in her life! ”

Liu Fanwan said, "Didn't you see it this time, hehe." To be honest, this ship is not too big if it is placed in Europe, and it may not be considered a mainstream warship, but it is clearly one of the few big ships in our country. Alas, it's a pity that the treasure ship that my Ming Dynasty has been leading the world has been lost, otherwise how can these Western barbarians be so arrogant? ”

Liu Bing'er looked at Liu Fan with glittering eyes and said with a smile: "Don't be discouraged by the Overseers, don't we have such a big ship now, the concubine believes that as long as the Overseers are there, we can catch up with or surpass those Western barbarians sooner or later!" ”

Liu Fan smiled bitterly and said, "I hope so!" Saying this, Liu Fan knew that no matter how hard he tried, it would be impossible for the Ming Dynasty to compete with Westerners at sea in the next half century, the Ming Dynasty was already lagging behind, and the Ming Empire had no strength and time to develop navigation. All Liu Fan can do now is to try his best to shorten the gap between the two, as for how much he can shorten, then he can only do his best to obey the destiny of heaven.

For a while, Liu Fan also lost the interest of continuing to speak, and walked towards the direction of the battleship with his head bored and the women. Perhaps Fan Liang had already notified him, so Liu Fan and the others did not encounter the slightest obstacle and came to the sea area where the fleet was anchored.

"Humble Zhang Kun, see the Overseer, and see all the ladies!"

As soon as Liu Fan approached the fleet, a group of soldiers came up to him, led by a young man of about twenty-five or sixteen years old, who immediately saluted Liu Fan and the others as soon as they met. Seeing this, the accompanying guards immediately stepped forward and whispered, "Overseer, this Zhang Kun is the general under Fan Liang, the head of our Jiaozhou fleet!" ”

Liu Fan smiled dumbly and said, "Zhang Kun, yes, you don't have to be formal." This time, I mainly want to take a look at the battleship, so don't move the army, and lead the way! ”

"Yes, Overseer!" Zhang Kun saluted dignifiedly, hurriedly got out of the way, and led Liu Fan and the others to the "St. Martin".

Looking at the heavily guarded fleet in front of him, Liu Fanqi said, "Why didn't our fleet stop at Fushan Bay and come to Qingdao Port instead?" ”

Zhang Kun immediately explained, "Overseer Mingjian, our fleet has just returned from escorting, and we will not be able to return to Fushan Military Port until the merchant ships have unloaded their goods. ”

Liu Fan's brows furrowed even deeper, "I have to return to the military port after the escort, why are you still staying in the commercial port?" There are a lot of people here, what if something goes wrong? "Liu Fan knows a little about the fleet, since the purchase of this small fleet, this fleet has been responsible for protecting merchant ships between Jiaozhou Bay and Hangzhou Bay, mainly responsible for transporting refined salt and selling some large quantities of goods, the profits obtained are not huge, and they can barely maintain the consumption of the fleet!

Hearing Liu Fan's question, Zhang Kun couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "Overseer, Fan Tou is really helpless to do this!" You may not know that although Jiaozhou Bay and Hangzhou Bay are very close, they are not very peaceful along the way. Those caravans seem to be peaceful, but in fact, most of them will do some black and black deeds, our caravans in Jiaozhou are newly built, and they do not have much reputation around the coast, and the fleet is also to show off their strength and spread the prestige of our broken army. In this way, we will reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles in the future on the ******! ”

Liu Fan couldn't help but have a dark face when he heard this: "Show off your strength? What is there to show off about these wrecked ships? We're not ashamed enough, are we? (To be continued.) )