Dengzhou Mansion.

Chen Shangren held the latest issue of Di Bao in his hand, and his brows were furrowed tightly.

The key is a piece of impeachment of Chen Qingshi by Qian Yuanyu, the head of the Ministry of War, which is aimed at the powerful 9,000-year-old, "Wei Zhongxian, the minister of the factory, in the posture of a deer, for the battle of the clothes, the first emperor read his service left and right, if the power of the matter, the group of small ants attached, it is gradually difficult to return, praise the merits and virtues, and spread all over the world", and finally asked "that is, the emperor recites his labor, the loan does not die, it is appropriate to return to the private, scatter the dead, and lose and store." So that the inner courtyard has no worries about fire, and the outer courtyard has no worries. ”

Although Chen Shangren has never really joined the eunuchs, his years of staff career have given him enough political vision, and he knows that the fact that this piece can be published in the newspaper itself illustrates a problem.

Today, it's time to do something to Wei Zhongxian!

It's normal to think about it, although Wei Zhongxian is said to be powerful, after all, he can't unify the court and isolate the inside and outside, so Chen Shangren can be sure that this nine-thousand-year-old who doesn't know how to restrain will die this time, and the Donglin Party, which has been suppressed by Wei Zhongxian all these years, will inevitably turn over.

Wei Zhongxian fell, according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, and the virtue of the Donglin Party that must be repaid, the eunuch party will definitely have no good fruit to eat.

Chen Shangren's brows furrowed even tighter, and he got up and paced in the account room.

His proprietor Wang Tingxian, although he is not the core of the eunuch party, but over the years, he has also made a black hand to the Donglin Party in the officialdom, Wei Zhongxian fell, Wang Tingqian not only had a worrying career, but even worried about his life! There are no eggs under the nest, and I don't think I can leave anything good.

No way! We have to find a way back.

Pacing and pacing, Chen Shangren stopped suddenly, and he suddenly remembered what Chu Fan said to himself on the day he handed over the silver ticket, Wei Zhongxian would fall.

Is it possible that this little show will be an unpredictable prophet? How could he have concluded in no uncertain terms that Wei Zhongxian would inevitably fall? You must know that the situation in the court was still chaotic at that time, and even a few ministers could not judge Wei Zhongxian's fate.

Thinking of Chu Fan running to Zhangjiawan again, he became a closed disciple of Xu Guangqi and Xu Shilang, Chen Shangren nodded secretly - this little talent is not simple!

It seems that Chu Fan can become a back road here - he follows Chu Fan to float on the sea, transcendent from the officialdom, if there is any unfavorable change, let Chu Fan report a misstep or something, his family can escape the liquidation of the Donglin Party.

Thinking of Chu Fan, Chen Shangren couldn't help but show a smile, this kid can always get out of a very dangerous situation, it seems that he is a blessed person, he follows him closely, I hope I can also get a little blessing.

patted his forehead, Chen Shangren suddenly thought that the Chu family's ship was still detained by Wang Tingli in the water city, and it was time to help Chu Fan come back.

Lifting his feet out of the account room, Chen Shangren heard that Wang Tingqian was still in the second hall, so he wanted to go to him, thought about it, and went back to the account room to bring the newspaper.

In the second hall, Wang Tingqian glanced at Di Bao, and his fat face, which had always been moody, turned pale in an instant, and he trembled and muttered with his lips, "It's started?" ”

Chen Shangren shook his head lightly and replied, "It's launched!" ”

Without too many words, in just two sentences, Wang Tingqian understood the general trend of the future court, frowned and quickly thought about his countermeasures, so that when Chen Shangren said that he wanted to return the ship to Chu Fan, he nodded absentmindedly and said yes, and casually signed the warrant that Chen Shangren had prepared earlier.

When he walked out of the second hall, Chen Shangren glanced at the depressed Wang Zhifu out of the corner of his eye, and he was both sad and a little happy in his heart.

Dong Weng, don't blame me Lao Chen for dodging, you are really too ruthless, and if you follow you again, I am afraid that I don't know when you will be sold.

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Chu Fan was overjoyed, and immediately Chu Fan took Ge Bi and the newly recruited twenty-four men to Dengzhou Shuicheng in a hurry, and boarded the Chujiasha boat with Chen Shangren, who was waiting there.

When he was in Xiaozhu Island, Chu Fan was busy negotiating with Chen Shangren, and he didn't have time to take a good look at his ship, but now he finally had the opportunity to take a closer look.

This is a 400-material sand boat, with a square head and a square tail, the head and tail are all raised high, and the tail is particularly high, and there is a lookout pavilion, which is where the captain is the commander of Ge Bi at the helm; The freeboard in the center of the ship is not high, and a one-story cabin is built in the stern; In the center of the ship was a mainmast a few feet long, and a little further on the roof of the cabin was a slightly shorter auxiliary mast, and in the bow of the ship, there was a headmast more than a foot high.

What made Chu Fan curious was that the two slightly triangular planks on both sides of the hull were fixed to the hull with a thick wooden shaft, which seemed to be able to rotate.

In addition, the main rudder at the stern of the boat also made Chu Fan very interested, the huge rudder board was like a huge broken fan, and the black wooden planks were full of gaps, which was said to be deliberately made like this in order to turn the rudder more effortlessly; Moreover, this rudder can be raised and lowered through a winch in the cabin below the lookout pavilion, as long as the rudder is raised slightly, the sand boat can be driven in the shallows, which makes Chu Fan can't help but admire the wisdom of the ancestors.

The things behind the sides of the sand boat surprised Chu Fan, it was actually a Franc machine gun!

The jet-black round cannon was surrounded by circles of iron bars, and the rectangular tail was hollow, and Zi Gong didn't know where to go. Seeing Chu Fan looking around for Zi Gong, Zhang Xiaoyi, who was busy checking the main sail next to him, laughed "poof", and solved Chu Fan's doubts in one sentence, "Boss, don't look for it, that's what it looks like...... We used wood to cut out the shape of the Franc machine, which was used to scare pirates! This Zhang Xiaoyi is the guy on the original Wang family's boat, and he is the leader in charge of the deputy sail "deputy sail leader", and now when he arrives on the Chu family's ship, he has been upgraded to the "main sail leader".

Chu Fan couldn't help but laugh dumbly after hearing this, stretched out his foot and kicked it, and the "Franc machine gun" really rolled away, "I'll just say, if civilian merchant ships can be equipped with cannons, then it's not messed up?" ”

Just when Chu Fan was wandering around like a curious baby, Ge Bi had already beckoned the guys to pull up the stone anchor, raise the mainsail, and the sand boat slowly sailed out of the berth and entered the waterway leading to the sea.

Due to the lack of manpower, Ge Bi only raised a third of the mainsail, and the boat traveled very slowly, and it took more than half an hour for the turtle to climb to the sea, and Ge Bi dared to let the men open the mainsail completely.

When he arrived at sea, at Chu Fan's request, Ge Bi demonstrated to Chu Fan how to use the sail and waist rudder to go against the wind - at that time, the sea was blowing northwest wind, Ge Bi turned the bow of the ship to the north-northeast direction, and let all the sails turn to the north-south direction to fix it, and then put down the waist rudder on the right side, and the boat could move slowly under the combined action of the wind and the waist rudder; After walking for a while, it is completely reversed, the bow is south-west, and the sail is turned to the east-west direction, and the right side of the rudder is retracted, and the left side rudder is lowered, and the boat can also move slowly so that the boat can go against the wind along the zigzag.

After watching Ge Bi's operation, Chu Fan suddenly became enlightened and figured out the principle of the mutual cooperation of the hard sail waist rudder, and at the same time, a question came to mind.