Of course, maritime commerce in Daming is not a legal profession, which is why Mao Shibai was imprisoned as a pirate by the Yinxian government. Because since the Ming Dynasty, there is an ancestral training of "a piece of sail must not go to the sea", although Zhu Di, the ancestor of the later Chengcheng, sent the eunuch Zheng He to the West seven times, but that was also an official activity, the purpose was to soothe the four Yi and raise the prestige of the Ming Dynasty overseas.

Therefore, the sea ban is the national policy of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the profits of sea trade are too great, and a trip back and forth to the Japanese country can obtain several times the profits, and the huge profits make countless coastal people ignore the great risks of the sea and rush to the vast ocean to earn wealth.

But after all, it was not legal to go to sea, and the imperial court had set up countless guards and inspection departments all over the coast, and if they were caught by officers and soldiers, they would be killed as pirates and their property confiscated.

In order to fight against the imperial army and the countless pirates in the sea, the maritime merchants were well armed. Of course, if they encounter a weak, they don't mind turning into pirates to grab a hand.

So many times the maritime pirates can't tell the difference.

Mao Eighteen's owner Fu Chun is such an identity, but in Mao Eighteen's mouth, Fu Chun's identity is much more complicated, and there is a deep official background behind him.

Knowing that although Ren Siqi was a scholar, it was the first time to go to sea, Mao Shibai specially told Ren Siqi a lot of things on the ship, and he was very grateful to Ren Siqi, after all, without Ren Siqi, he was still in prison.

I didn't see that Mao Shibai was still a person who talked a lot, and he pulled Ren Siqi "Balabala" along the way and talked non-stop, from his previous feats at sea, to the heroism of the owner Fu Chun, and then to the loss of wind in Yinxian County, talking endlessly.

Everyone has a desire to talk in their hearts. Hopefully, it depends on whether you can find the right person to confide in.

Ren Siqi is peaceful, gentle and elegant, and he was used to dealing with people when he was a company executive in his previous life, so he naturally knows the skills of talking to people. A few words of praise without a trace tickled Mao Eighteen's heart, which increased his interest in talking.

"When I was a pirate on Lantau Island, it was a happy day, eating meat in a big bowl and sharing the money. Who knew that after the boss died, the second boss and the third boss got dirty, and they all had to compete to be the boss, at that time I was the fourth boss, thinking about the friendship of the brothers and trying to bridge it. I didn't expect the second child to be really fucking black-hearted, and he actually attacked Lao Tzu first! In one night, more than 100 of my brothers were attacked and more than 20 died, and I desperately grabbed a boat to escape from the stockade. I was seriously injured at the time, and if I hadn't met my boss and saved my life, I would have died at sea. Talking about the past, Mao 18 sighed.

"Were you oscillating between the second and third masters? Is the strength of the second master and the third master about the same? Ren Siqi asked.

"Well, their ship brothers are pretty much the same. I mainly care about the friendship of my brothers, and I don't want everyone to fight in the nest. "Mao Eighteen Dao.

"Then was your relationship with the three masters better at that time?" Ren Siqi asked.

"yes. How do you know? Mao 18 was surprised.

"Originally, the second master and the third master were evenly matched, if you threw yourself into either one, the other family would definitely not be able to hold on, but you and the third master were closer. If it were me, I would have hit you first. Ren Siqi sighed and said: "After annexing your ships, the second master will definitely increase his strength, and the third master can no longer resist it, and the final outcome will either be annexed or driven away." ”

Mao Shiba's eyes widened and widened, and he looked at Ren Siqi incredulously: "Damn, a scholar is amazing!" Quanzhong, and later the third child could no longer stand on the island and left with his men. ”

The sea boat is driving in the vast sea, the blue sea and blue sky, the slight sea breeze, the seabirds fly freely in the sky, and the fish jump from the sea from time to time.

The beautiful scenery in front of him made Ren Siqi feel open-minded, and the gloomy mood caused by the disaster of imprisonment and the humiliation of divorce suddenly improved, and he wanted to shout loudly at the sea.

He thought so, and did so.

"Ahh

Until he shouted exhausted and hoarse.

After shouting, I felt relaxed, and I felt that I had suddenly integrated into the sea ship and the sea.

The sailors on the ship looked at Ren Siqi with a smile, the identity of the scholar and the fame of Xiucai made them a little respectful of Ren Siqi, and now seeing Ren Siqi's true feelings, they suddenly felt that Xiucai was also a flesh-and-blood person like them, and unconsciously the relationship was suddenly much closer.

At noon, the sea boats marched to the sea near Hangzhou, and the sea ships suddenly increased, and the sea boats went up against the Qiantang River, and you could see the green and verdant on both sides of the river, and the sails on the river were sailing back and forth.

"It's here!" Following Mao Eighteen's words, he saw a three-masted galleon appear on the sea in front of him.

Three tall masts point to the sky, and no sails are raised on the masts. The head and tail of the sailboat are high, tall as a building, and the ships passing by the side are one or two sizes smaller than them, which is the "Fuchun" three-masted sailing ship that Fu Chun, the owner of Mao 18, relied on to cross the sea of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The ship was nine feet eight feet long, two feet one foot wide, one foot two feet deep, and had three masts at the front and rear, the highest one seven feet high.

Ren Siqi has the memories of later generations in his mind, and he has seen 100,000 tons and 100,000 tons of giant ships in later generations, and this Fuchun with a displacement of at most three or four hundred tons cannot cause him to be shocked. And Xiong Er's eyes next to him were already straight, as a northern outcast, how could he have ever seen such a big ship?

As the ship approached, the line of sight changed from eye level to upward gaze. When the two ships meet, looking up from below, the tall ship's side is as straight as a city wall.

A rope ladder was lowered from the side of the Fuchun ship, and Mao 181 horses climbed up first.

boarded the deck of the Fuchun, and the owner Fu Chun was already waiting there with a smile.

"I thought I'd never see you again!" Fu Chun patted Mao Shiba's shoulder, and his joy overflowed: "I heard that you lost the wind in Yin County, and I was about to try to rescue you, but I didn't expect you to escape by yourself, it's really good!" ”

"The prison of the Yinxian county government is too unfortunate, and I escaped accidentally." Mao XVIII. Boasting cowhides, he waved his hand to greet the few crew members standing behind Fu Chun.

"Brother Eighteen, it's great that you can come back!"

Fire Chief Sima Nan walked up happily and hugged Mao Eighteen.

"Oh, it's not a, what is there to hold!" Mao Eighteen's words made the surrounding crew laugh.

Mao Shibai patted Sima Nan's back vigorously: "Good brother! ”

Sima Nan was a man in his thirties, who was thin and fair-skinned, and looked unusual in a group of swarthy crew. When he was young, he read books, could read charts, calculated the course of the ship with astrology, and was responsible for the direction of the ship in the sea as the fire chief.