After leaving Fukuyama, the warship was full of sails and galloped in a tailwind that came easily.

At this time, the river became open, and it was almost at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Yang Chao continued to draw with an eyebrow pen along the way, recording the iconic terrain along the way, as the basis for the future boat, but unfortunately although Yang Chao studied the architecture, knew how to draw architectural drawings, and drew three views, he did not know how to draw a map, but only roughly drew a possible route map, the distance of which was estimated according to the speed of the ship.

In the evening, a huge sandbar came into view.

The guide told Yang Chao that this sandbar is where Chongming Shasu and Chongming County are located, and that Shasuo is a thousand-household house.

After passing the sand station, there are two sandbanks parallel in the river, one south and one north, the north is called Sansha, and the south is called Changsha.

At this time, the sun has set on the river behind him, drawing pieces of golden scales, like dragon scales, and the river like a long dragon.

However, Yang Chao did not stop, but continued to move forward under the guidance of the guide until there was a sandbar in the southeast of the two sandbars of Sansha and Changsha.

This sandbar is called Nansha, it is the last big sandbar at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and there is a small sandbar that is unmanned in the south of Nanshazhou.

Nansha also has several sandbars in the northwest and upstream, which is probably the Chongming Island of the later generations, but the Chongming Island of the later generations has been connected together, and they are all independent sandbanks at this time.

There is a small village on Nanshazhou, there are not many people, they are all fishermen, and there are no garrisons.

However, on the southwest bank of the river, there are three garrison cities of Baosan, Wusong and Liuhebao.

The guide climbed the sandbar, and the fishermen greeted him warmly, it seemed that it was not the first time he had come.

The fishermen helped park Yang Chao's warship on the edge of their humble dock, but the warship ran aground on the beach.

Yang Chao rejected the fishermen's invitation to come ashore, and everyone stayed on board. Only the guide ran to the village to drink.

That night, the guide brought back a stranger.

At this time, it is short and concise, and the sea breeze is still very cool in May. But he opened his arms.

He got on board the ship in the evening, ordered the goods, and left in a hurry.

By the next day. before it reappeared.

Seeing this person during the day, Yang Chao found that this person was not tall, compared with later generations, that is, more than 1.5 meters, with extremely dark skin, a bit of the characteristics of Fujian and Cantonese people, but he was vigorous and flexible like a cat. Yang Chao secretly compared, if he was put in his own army, he would definitely be an elite soldier.

This person took a few more glances at the iron armor worn by Yang Chao and others, his eyes were a little weird, I don't know whether he despised wearing iron armor for making too much of a fuss, or lamented that Yang Chao's group of people was not easy to mess with.

But this man got into Yang Chao's boat with a big smile, and commanded a group of fishermen to drag Yang Chao's big boat into the river with a small fishing boat.

Then, with the guide, let the boat head south.

Two miles away, there is an uninhabited sandbar. A tall mast can be seen in the distance.

When I got closer, I saw that it was a three-masted galleon, which looked far superior to Yang Chao's warship in terms of appearance and draft.

Yang Chao's warship was in front of this big ship, just like a child in front of an adult.

And the big boat sat on the river. It was like a wall, Yang Chao's boat was close to it, and it couldn't reach half of the boat at all.

Yang Chao estimated that this ship might be able to pull at least 8,000 loads of cargo, and the tonnage of later generations would be more than 1,000 tons, more than five times larger than his own warship.

"This is the sea ship!"

Yang Chao thought in his heart that it was really big in the river, but when it was placed in the sea, it was as small as a sesame seed.

In later generations, tens of thousands of tons of super ships were placed at sea and were also very inconspicuous. Facing this sea ship inexplicably, Yang Chao actually had a kind of awe for the sea. There is also a pride that wants to conquer, and suddenly wants to build a big ship to fight the wind and waves at sea.

"Hey. Boss, unload. ”

The short man on the boat said to Yang Chao at this time, what he said was official, but it was not the official language of Nanjing, let alone the official language of Beijing, and he couldn't hear where it was.

Guanhua is actually a written language, the language of the Chinese changed in successive dynasties a few years ago, but after the unification of the script by Qin Shihuang, there was almost no major change, so there was a language developed with a unified script as the core, which is Guanhua.

However, because the languages of various places are different, and it is impossible to popularize a certain local dialect as an official dialect like the later generations with a wide range of information circulation, a variety of official dialects have been formed, such as Suzhou official dialect, Nanjing official dialect and so on.

Although the accents are different, they are all generally understandable because they are based on the same characters.

Yang Chao naturally understood the short man's words, and knew that this person's tone was a little lazy, and he didn't take Yang Chao seriously.

Guide He showed an apologetic smile to Yang Chao at this time.

Yang Chao didn't care, he knew that these people who ate water and rice had no king's law, and they didn't take anyone seriously at all.

Yang Chao felt that the other party seemed to know each other very well, and did not rashly let their people get on the ship to pick up the goods.

"Zhao Kang, take someone to unload!"

Yang Chao asked Zhao Kang to take ten people to unload the goods, but he quietly told Li Wuliu to be on guard.

The condescending sea ship of the other party made Yang Chao have a sense of crisis, if the other party condescended to attack, his own disadvantage was obvious.

But when Zhao Kang led people to carry the goods up one by one, and the people on the boat hoisted them up with rigging, it was very stable during the period and there were no accidents.

And the short man on the ship counted the goods.

100 quintals of raw silk.

One hundred quintals of tea.

Three hundred quintals of porcelain.

In addition, there are yarn, silk brocade and other fabrics.

300 quintals of books.

100 quintals of rice paper.

In addition, there are inkstones, ink, pens and other stationery utensils.

Among them, raw silk is the most valuable, fifty taels of silver in Huzhou, sold to Japan can have five or six hundred taels of silver, Wang Xiao is in a hurry this time, each load paid a high price of sixty taels, and sold to the next family is one hundred taels, net profit of forty taels.

And he only received 100 taels of raw silk, worth 10,000 taels.

Tea, porcelain and other things, in fact, Japan also has, but before the Japanese entered the modern era, they were very advocating Chinese customs, and the rich were keen to consume Chinese products, so Chinese tea, porcelain, and even the four treasures of the study are very marketable in Japan.

As for books, they are large and take up a lot of space, but the value is not high, but the Japanese import Chinese books all year round, and this is a kind of task, if you wear them without some books, the Chinese merchant ships may be troubled by the Japanese.

This is the Japanese are very yearning for Chinese culture, but the ancient transportation is inconvenient, so the Japanese have formed a tradition, that is, to try their best to get books from China, at the beginning did not dare to offend Chinese merchants, so they only borrowed the books that occasionally accompanied the ship, copied them, and then returned them, and slowly began to confiscate, and later even forced merchants to bring books.

These books were not necessarily trade goods, but may have been given to Japanese officials who managed trade, or were gifts to a certain daimyō.

Nanjing is also a famous printing center, so the next family asked Wang Xiao to prepare a large number of books.

Soon all the goods were sent to the big ship, and the man who counted the goods stamped his seal on a ticket and handed it to the He family guide, which was considered to be the settlement, and the maritime merchants were the old friends of the He family, and they used the He family to turn over funds.

A shipload of tens of thousands of taels of silver, cash silver delivery is really inconvenient, if there is no middleman like He Broker, it is indeed very inconvenient.

At last the sturdy man grabbed the rope of the ship, and climbed into the boat with a roar, like a monkey.

The guide of the He family shook his head and said to Yang Chao: "Lord Yang, let's anchor!" ”

Yang Chao nodded to Lao Zhang.

Lao Zhang asked people to anchor, and took people to hold the pole to support the big ship to prevent collision, and the big ship was propped up several zhang away, and then half a sail was raised, and after the ship drifted away from the sea ship for dozens of zhang, the main sail was raised, and Yang Fan returned.

Finally the delivery was completed, and a stone fell to the ground in Yang Chao's heart.

I didn't expect this delivery to be so smooth, all the preparations were useless, although it was not a good thing to encounter an accident, but now it is too calm, and it also makes Yang Chao have a small regret, as if he is faintly looking forward to some accidents.

But the harvest is also there, this road has been opened, connecting Nanjing, one of the largest industrial and commercial cities in the Ming Dynasty, and connecting the maritime merchants to the east and west oceans, and Yang Chao can open up the golden waterway of the Yangtze River in the future. (To be continued)