"Sister Yu, can you really let your husband out like this?" On the way to the dock, Li Nian asked Chai Yu, who was also sitting in the carriage.

"It's not that you don't know, husband, even if I really stop him from going, do you think it will work? Outsiders are both of us have a good life, married a good husband, the husband is not only good to us, but also quite afraid of the inside, whatever we say he will generally agree. I admit this, the two of us are married to a good husband, but whether our husband is so afraid of the outside world, I think you and I know it in our hearts. ”

After listening to Chai Yu's words, Li Nian seriously recalled Chai Yu's words, and found that it was indeed like what Chai Yu said, Zhao Weiji was quite afraid of guilt, and basically he would not object to anything the ladies said in family matters.

But that's just a small thing at home, and he always has his own set of ideas when he encounters big things. These are not objections that can be effective.

So Chai Yu grasped this point very well, that is, getting angry was just to increase Zhao Weiji's guilt, but he would not really stop him from doing what he was willing to do, but use this guilt to restrain Zhao Weiji not to go out for too long to a certain extent.

This is also the reason why the two have been married for more than ten years, even if Zhao Weiji marries the second room, his love for Chai Yu has always changed.

As he spoke, the carriage had already arrived at the dock, and Zhao Weiji, in order to express his gratitude to his wife, personally came over and lifted the curtain of the carriage, and then helped the two wives out of the carriage one by one.

After Chai Yu and Li Nian got out of the carriage, they immediately saw a completely different new ship, and this ship was the Black Pearl, the vehicle of Zhao Weiji's pirate career.

"Husband, this is the ship you are going to sail out to be a pirate?" Because this ship was so peculiar, Li Nian couldn't help but believe that this was the sea ship that Zhao Weiji was going to sail out.

The reason why this ship is peculiar is because although the Black Pearl is a rebuilt old ship, it is completely different from the Poseidon after it is formed.

The Black Pearl is the second steamship owned by Xinhua City, and the first one is naturally the Poseidon, but unlike the Poseidon, because the Black Pearl is a ship that Zhao Weiji intends to use as a pirate ship, it is designed with more consideration for combat role.

The first is that the hull is covered with cannons on both sides, and there are two layers of artillery windows on each side, each with about ten windows, and in each window is a gun. Just like the warships of the 17th century.

The reason for this design is that Zhao Weiji does not yet have the ability to build battleships as a whole, so the cannons of those later ironclad ships cannot be completed. Only the design of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with artillery on both sides could be followed.

However, in order to make up for the lack of artillery on both sides, Zhao Weiji placed two mortars at each end of the hull to use as an offensive weapon when the ship could not use the side guns to attack the enemy.

And because the production technology is not yet up to the level of large-scale industrial construction, the Black Pearl, like the Poseidon, is still mainly made of wood, steel is only used to wrap around the lower part of the hull, and there is a chimney used to smoke the steam engine.

However, in addition to the full range of weapons, the Black Pearl is also very different from the Poseidon in that the Black Pearl has canceled the design of huge rollers on both sides of the hull due to the need to arrange guns on both sides, and has replaced it with a huge propeller at the stern of the hull.

Although due to steam power, the propeller may not be able to generate more power than the huge rollers, but Zhao Weiji did not expect the thrust of the propeller to become the main power of the ship, because the main power of the ship is still the wind, and the Black Pearl still retains the sails and mast like the Poseidon.

It's not that Zhao Weiji doesn't want to build a fully steam-powered ship, but that steam power can't make such a huge impetus, and there is not enough energy.

In order to keep the steam engines of ships running, it is naturally not enough to use firewood as fuel, and only coal can do it at this stage.

However, Xinhua City does not have so many coal resources, and more often it needs to import coal mines from the Central Plains, and the reason why Wang Bin sponsored two steam engines in vain before was also for this purpose.

However, even if there are coal mines imported from the Central Plains, they have to be used in other places in Xinhua City, such as steel mills, so there are not many that can be used on ships.

This also results in the fact that the real power source of the two steamships, whether it is the Poseidon or the Black Pearl, is still wind power, and steam power can only be used as an auxiliary role more often.

But even so, the Black Pearl is still able to beat the ships of this era a few streets in terms of speed, after all, the sailing skills of the Black Pearl are also hundreds of years later.

"yes, let's go up and have a look." After speaking, Zhao Weiji took his two wives and boarded the Black Pearl.

After getting on the boat, Chai Yu and Li Nian realized that the ship was even more exaggerated and huge than looking at it below. Zhao Weiji made full use of all the available space, so that although the ship was full of cannons, it still had enough space for two hundred passengers to ride, and there was no sense of space oppression.

"How?" Zhao Weiji asked the two wives complacently.

At this time, Li Nian was speechless, because it was too shocking, and this ship could be said to be the most advanced and practical sea ship in this era.

And Chai Yu held back for a long time, and held back a sentence: "Husband, are you sure that you are going to be a pirate, not to destroy any small maritime country?" ”

Indeed, with this ship, Zhao Weiji only needs to think about it, and it is completely effortless to destroy several maritime island countries. And Chai Yu's previous worries about whether Zhao Weiji's act of piracy would be dangerous have all disappeared at this moment. This kind of ship, with those cannons, with the muskets that will definitely be brought on board. Any other pirate who encounters such a monster can only beg for mercy.

Therefore, Chai Yu completely stopped opposing Zhao Weiji's going to sea, and since his wife agreed, the agenda for going to sea was quickly put forward.

A month later, Zhao Weiji, who had made all the preparations, brought Wang Dayuan, as well as the former "pirate" Yang Hua, who was unwilling to be lonely, plus more than 100 sailors. Enough guns and ammunition, and all the utensils and food available at sea. Swaggering, he sailed to Baghdad at sea.

However, only five hours after going to sea, Zhao Weiji found two uninvited guests on the ship.

And at the same time, in the palace of Xinhua City.

"Xiao Nian, have you seen Ling'er and Teng'er?" His two children suddenly disappeared, and Chai Yu was a little anxious.

"Nope."

At this moment, Zhao Xue'er suddenly appeared in front of Chai Yu, handed over a piece of paper with words written on it to Chai Yu, and then said, "Big mother, at this time, the eldest sister and the second brother asked me to hand it over to you." ”

When Chai Yu opened the letter, he immediately fainted.

Li Nian was startled when she saw Chai Yu fainting, so she immediately took the letter that Chai Yu was still holding in her hand and looked at it, and after reading it, she almost fainted.

Because the letter was written by Zhao Ling'er, the letter said that she and Zhao Teng sneaked to the Black Pearl and went to Baghdad with her father Zhao Weiji.

How could Chai Yu, who had never left him since the child was born and was so old, accept such a thing, not to mention that the two of them still ran to the ship to go to sea and go to such a distant place as Baghdad.

At this time, Chai Yu could only hope that Zhao Weiji could find out that the two bear children had slipped onto the boat as soon as possible.

At this time, Zhao Weiji had already discovered these two bear children, and they were hiding under the ** between Zhao Weiji's captains.

However, when Zhao Weiji found the two bear children, the ship had already sailed out of the harbor for five hours, and it was too late to turn around at this moment, so he could only take the two bear children with him. But fortunately, there were a lot of carrier pigeons on the ship, so Zhao Weiji immediately wrote a letter for the carrier pigeon to take back to Xinhua City, telling Chai Yuxiong the news of the children so that she could rest assured.

After receiving Zhao Weiji's letter, Chai Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief, but she also secretly swore that when these two bear children came back, they must be good-looking.

Just after Zhao Weiji sent the letter, he immediately began to interrogate the bear child.

"Tell me, how did you two sneak up?"

"We both swaggered on board two hours before we set off, and no one stopped us."

Zhao Teng's statement almost didn't make Zhao Weiji angry, it was so easy. But it's no wonder that the two of them are the daughter and son of the prince's family. And this boat is the ship that the prince is about to go to sea, so no one is surprised that the two of them are on the boat to visit.

And at that time, there were still a lot of supplies being transported on the ship, so when the two of them came up, no one paid attention to them, so they didn't get off the ship, and naturally no one noticed.

"Then why did you two slip up? Do you know how worried your mother will be when you do this? ”

"We've left a note for Mom, and we know you'll write to Mom if you find out."

Zhao Weiji was not too angry about the attitude of the two children, because he knew what these two children were afraid of, so he continued: "I think no matter how much I scold you now, I guess you don't want to admit your mistake, but it doesn't matter that our ship will meet Xinhua City sooner or later, and then see how your mother cleans you up." ”

As soon as Zhao Weiji's words fell, the faces of the two bear children suddenly turned pale, because they just wanted to go out, forgetting that the ship was going to return after all, and when that time came, it would be strange that their mother didn't pull their tendons.

Seeing the reaction of the two bear children, Zhao Weiji nodded with satisfaction, and then he patted Zhao Teng's shoulder and said, "Anyway, you can't go back now, so you can follow what the sailors do from tomorrow, and it will be regarded as a punishment for you." ”

After speaking, Zhao Weiji left the captain's room and went to get food for the two bear children.

The two bear children who remained in the cabin could only look at each other, they didn't expect that the hard days would start from now on.