"Wow, that's ...... Great! ”

At Haizhou Wharf, there are more and more sailboats, which can be said to be full of sails, but all the ships together are less than five newly built large ships, and when they appear on the sea, they immediately cause a large number of exclamations.

In fact, for most people on the seaside, they have not never seen a ship bigger than these five big ships, for example, there are four-story building ships in the Yangtze River, and they can also run horses on them, but the shock to everyone is far less than these five new sailing ships.

This is the ship that can really tame the sea and fight specifically for naval battles. The whole ship was narrow and streamlined, the bow protruding upwards like an arrow, and the ramming angles below glittered with cold light, easily crushing and tearing all the ships that stood in their way.

The whole ship is about 18 zhang long and nearly 4 zhang wide, and the main mast in the middle is 17 zhang high, and each mast has soft sails that can be adjusted on four sides, and even a side sail can be installed on each side of the main sail. When the sea breeze blew, these five ships cleaved the waves on the sea, coming and going like flying.

The full sail was nearly twice as fast as the old sailboats that had only undergone simple modifications, and the ride was extremely smooth!

"Brother Xiao Shi, fortunately, the five large ships and seventeen medium ships have all been built, and the sea trials have been carried out for a few days, and all the indicators are very good!"

"Master, this is the masterpiece of God, I have never seen such a perfect warship, they are on the sea, they will be invincible!" Xiao Tianming and Ali Yi said with a smile on their faces.

"Let's go, Ziliang, Aliyi, Xiaoqi, let's go up and try it too."

Xiao Quzhi and the others excitedly stepped onto a small boat and were about to start. **** Qingming, who had been following him in Haizhou, was also ready to continue to follow, but Xiao Quai's illness suddenly said: "I'm sorry, new warships, foreigners are not allowed to get on the ship!" ”

"But, didn't Sarutobi Shinzo and Fujiwara Shizuka also get on board? Accompanied Mr. Taibai, the ambassador sent by King Lanling to Japan, to Japan. **** Qingming made a big red face and said stupidly.

"That's different. That is a battleship converted from an old warship, naturally there is no problem, but the new warship is not. Xiao Quzhi said in a flat tone.

Qingming had no choice but to retreat very depressed, and watched the group happily board a large ship, and the Persian boy named Xerxes turned back and grimaced at himself.

It was the first time Li Qi and the others saw the sea, the first time they took a sea boat, and after they got on the ship, they immediately swayed a little, and they were a little nauseous and seasick. But it didn't take long to adjust.

Looking at the endless, choppy sea, the whole was in a state of excitement and even excitement, especially after sailing for half an hour, when I really saw a dolphin leading the way in front, it was a big and a small two children immediately screamed.

"Brother Ziliang, when will Mr. Taibai come back?"

I have to say that Du Fu is really Li Bai's brainless fan, since Xiao Qu's illness was determined to go to Luoyang for development. He hurriedly wrote to the trustee to bring it to Li Bai and asked him to vote.

Although Xiao Qu is sick and thinks that Li Bai is not a good employee. But Du Fu, the "Minister of Education" under his command, had to give face, so after thinking about it, he arranged an errand for Li Bai as a "Minister of Foreign Affairs/Communications".

Let him lead the mission to Japan, persuade the Japanese minister and emperor to agree to Xiao Quai's resort plan, and buy a batch of sulfur from Japan in disguise.

"I think it's just a few days. According to the caravan returning from Japan, Mr. Taibai's trip to Japan was very popular, and the Japanese emperor wanted to keep him in Heijokyo for a few more days, or he would return early. Xiao Fan said.

Xiao Quzhi frowned. He had read books on the study of Japanese character before, and among them was a special introduction by Emperor Xiaoqian, whose specific evaluation was that the peerless Cleopatra was romantic. Li Bai is so amazingly talented, poetry and wine are unparalleled, this filial piety emperor will not play a beauty trick on Li Bai, right?

If this Li Bai was really fascinated by her and delayed the business, he would not be important to him in the future, what about Shixian, idols are idols, work is work, Xiao Quzhi thought about it, and at this moment he heard someone screaming on the bow of the boat.

"Ahh Yes! Look ......"

"Master, Master, come and see!"

Xiao Qubing hurriedly ran over, and saw that on the sea about three or four miles away from the bow of the boat, a water mist suddenly rose into the sky, about ten meters high, and after the water mist dispersed, a rainbow appeared.

"Ah...... Oh my God, such a big fish! ”

"Haha, Master, there really are giant whales bigger than ships! Look at them and squirt! ”

"Sperm whales?" Xiao Quzhi looked at it, there were no fins on his back, and his head was still so big, almost seventeen or eighteen meters long, what was it if it wasn't a sperm whale?

"What sperm whales? Brother Xiao Shi, this is called Da Kun, it is said that it can be turned into Dapeng, and it is our blessing that we met it! Xiao Fan said happily.

"Huh." Xiao Quzhi sneered: "You also believe in Zhuangzi's nonsense, and you also say on the getaway, 'Kun is so big, I don't know how many thousands of miles it is', you can see it now, but about six zhang, you can know that what Zhuangzi said is not credible." ”

After a pause, Xiao Qu smiled and said: "This is the sperm whale, watch me shoot him to death and drag him back to Haizhou!" ”

As soon as Xiao Fan heard that Xiao Qu was going to kill this big kun, he immediately panicked, and said anxiously: "No, no!" Even if this big kun can't be turned into a big peng, it can't be killed. If you kill the unlucky, don't you hear that there is a cloud in the Han book, 'the giant fish is dead, the prince is dead', and if you kill the giant fish, there will be a prince who wants it. ”

Then I talked about Xiao Quai, and the Hanshu recorded that one year there was a big fish stranded in Donglai, and then the prime minister Sun Hong died the next year. Xiao Fan is also a Confucian, with a family history, and it is naturally clear about these classics, after Confucianism in the Han Dynasty Dong Zhongshu, he especially likes to play the set of heaven and man induction.

For example, if there are locusts, it is the emperor or a local official who is not giving up morality, so the locusts are sent down from heaven to warn them; Another example is how a star in the sky predicts what will happen to the emperors and ministers on earth.

Li Longji became the emperor because of this, when Li Longji was the crown prince, one day a comet appeared, the stars were different, the Taiping Duke wanted to harm Li Longji, so he called a warlock to tell Tang Ruizong, according to the celestial phenomena, the prince is going to be the son of heaven, if he can't be the son of heaven, according to the instructions of the celestial phenomena, he can't continue to be the prince (you can depose his prince)!

As a result, I didn't expect Tang Ruizong to say that the celestial phenomena are all said like this, so I will pass on the throne to him and pray for blessings and disasters.

Xiao Quzhi looked at the sailors on the ship with wide eyes, and saw that they all seemed to have the same attitude as they were emulating, so he immediately became angry and said angrily: "Turn the rudder and let me catch up!" Everyone returned to their respective posts, and the eight bull crossbows were ready, this is the military order! ”

Seeing that everyone was still a little hesitant, he said loudly: "Now there are two princes on the boat, me and King Jianning, we are not afraid, what are you worried about if you are not princes?" ”

"That is, our two county kings are not afraid, what are you afraid of?" Seeing this, Li Qi also hurriedly expressed his position, he was actually a little hesitant in front of him, but now he is extremely firm. Master can't be wrong, Master is a disciple of the gods, what are you afraid of?

Everyone thought to themselves, if they want to die, they will also die princes, and if they have to bear the responsibility, they will also be the kings of Lanling and Jianning, so if they have anything to fear, they will immediately return to their respective jobs.

The new-style eight-bull crossbow brought exactly ten of them with Xiao Qu's illness this time, and two of the five large ships were mounted on the bow of each of them. So Xiao Quzhi and Li Qi, with the help of two personal guards, operated an eight-bull crossbow with one person, and after winding it with a winch, they loaded a crossbow gun with the thickness of a barb's arm.

The speed of the big ship was very fast, and it didn't take two minutes to catch up with the sperm whale, and when he surfaced again, the mallets in the hands of Xiao Quzhi and Li Qi struck on the bracket of the Eight Bull crossbows, and the two crossbow guns with thick cables were nailed to the whale's body at once.

Xiao Quzhi aimed more accurately, the crossbow gun was shooting near the air hole of the sperm whale's head, and Li Qi was shooting in the middle of the back. The sperm whale suffered pain and dived like madness, its tail fin slapping the surface of the sea hard, rolling up waves six or seven meters high. At the same time, the bow of the battleship plunged into the sea, tilted at an angle of twenty degrees, and after a second, it suddenly raised its head again, and the whole crew shouted in horror.

"Don't be afraid, we're big ships, it's okay, this whale is going to die soon!" Xiao Qu was sick and had never hunted whales, but he watched the movie "Angry Sea Battle", where the two battleships were only about twelve zhang, which was much smaller than his own, and the other man's ship was disguised as a whaling ship, which means that there was no problem at all.

Sure enough, after the sperm whale struggled violently for about four or five seconds, its strength became smaller and smaller, and it no longer took the boat into the sea, but wanted to drag it forward. At this time, the two eight-bull crossbows were rewound, and the two of them aimed again and smashed down the bracket, and the two crossbow guns were pressed against the sperm whale again.

Blood stained the sea, and it didn't take long for it to swim slower and slower, and after almost an hour it finally stopped moving at all, and was dragged away by the battleship.

"Return!" Although it was a little bloody, Xiao Qubing was still very happy, a sperm whale, weighing dozens of tons, was enough for all the sailors and employees of the Four Seas Trading Company in Haizhou to eat for ten days, and the important thing was that Lao Tzu and Li Qi, the two county kings, killed a giant fish, and it was not nothing.

It's very important to get rid of superstitions, and if you don't want to listen to commands because of superstition, it's over! (To be continued.) )