With Zhu Chong's order, the archers on the battleship immediately stepped forward, leaned down on the female wall, and then opened their bows to shoot downward, as a result, the pirates in the water were frightened one by one and begged for mercy, but unfortunately their words The soldiers couldn't understand at all, and even if they did, no one would dare to disobey the military order, so as the long arrows were shot, the pirates' screams were connected, and soon, the entire sea calmed down.

Zhao Qiu and the others were all stunned, just now they were chased by these pirates and had no way to go to the sky, but in the blink of an eye, the pirates were all wiped out by this navy that suddenly appeared, and they didn't even leave a single living mouth, so decisive in killing, it really deserved to be the navy of His Royal Highness King Qi!

In fact, this is not Zhu Chong's thirst for killing, mainly because Li Zhen and Li Yun's trip is secret, plus this group of pirates didn't open their eyes and actually bumped into them, so they simply killed the matter, anyway, keeping these pirates is also causing trouble for the merchants who come and go.

"Thank you, General, for saving your life!" Zhao Qiu asked the ship to be brought under Zhu Chong's battleship, and then raised his head and said in a loud voice.

And Zhu Chong was also very polite, leaned out and looked at Zhao Qiu and the others, and said with a smile on his face: "Is there anyone on your ship who is injured, do you need our help?" ”

Seeing this general so polite, Zhao Qiu was even more moved, and immediately said: "Thank you for the general's concern, two crew members on our ship were injured by arrows, but they are not too serious, and the doctor on the ship can deal with it!" ”

Hearing that the other party didn't need help, Zhu Chong nodded, and was about to say goodbye to the other party, when suddenly the Yue Wang in the rear came up, and Li Zhen stood at the bow of the boat and asked Zhao Qiu in a loud voice: "I don't know where this brother Taizun's surname is and where he lives." Did you just come back from Tianzhu? ”

Although Zhao Qiu didn't know Li Zhen, he saw that the other party was dressed luxuriously. Even that General Zhu had a respectful look on his face, which made him understand immediately. The identity of the young man in front of him must be extraordinary. So I saw that Zhao Qiu also replied very respectfully: "Qiyu Gongzi, the villain's surname is Zhao Mingqiu, a businessman from Guangzhou, this time he was originally going to Ceylon Island in the south of Tianzhu, but as soon as he got out of the strait, he encountered pirates, so he fled back, and fortunately met Gongzi's fleet!" ”

Hearing that Zhao Qiu turned out to be the same destination as them, Li Zhen's eyes also lit up. He was very interested at the moment: "Is Brother Zhao familiar with the situation on Ceylon?" ”

"Hehe, Gongzi doesn't know, every time I go to sea, most of them go to Ceylon to ship, there are a few fixed cooperative businessmen there, and I have lived on Ceylon Island for a while, so I am very familiar with the situation there, and I have also been to Tianzhu a few times, although I am not as familiar with the situation there as Ceylon. But there is also an understanding. Zhao Qiu replied honestly.

"Hahahaha~, God help me!" Li Zhen laughed when she heard this, and Zhu Chong was also secretly happy for Li Zhen and Li Yun, thinking that the luck of these two highnesses was really good. Unexpectedly, I met a merchant who was familiar with the situation on the island of Ceylon, and the other party was also Han. Zhao Qiu didn't know why this brocade-clothed boy was laughing, but his instinct told him. It shouldn't be a bad thing.

Li Zhen immediately invited Zhao Qiu onto his boat, and then called Li Yun over. And when Zhao Qiu learned the identities of Li Zhen and Li Yun, he was also taken aback. But then Li Zhen and Li Yun told Zhao Qiu the purpose of their trip and asked him to be their geographical consultant!

"It is an honor for the villain to serve the two highnesses, and the villain is willing to send his two ships of goods to His Highness, although it is not a valuable thing, but it is also a little bit of the villain's contribution to His Highness!" Zhao Qiu agreed without even thinking about it, and also dedicated his two ships of goods to Li Zhen and Li Yun.

And after Li Zhen and Li Yun heard Zhao Qiu's words, they were also a little surprised, and they also looked at Zhao Qiu a little differently. It doesn't matter if they are willing to help themselves, after all, as long as they are businessmen of Datang, after learning their identities, they will help them overseas, this is because they know that no matter whether Li Zhen and Li Yun can succeed in this trip, they can get a generous reward from Datang or Li Yu. But Zhao Qiu was very charming to give the two ships of goods to Li Zhen and Li Yun, so that he simply put the bet on them, as if he must believe that they could succeed, which invisibly brought their relationship closer and made Li Zhen and Li Yun trust Zhao Qiu even more.

"Okay, yes, your kindness is accepted by the king and the eighth brother, if you can conquer the island of Ceylon in the future, whether it is the sixth brother or us, we will definitely not treat you badly!" Li Yun saw that since this Zhao Qiu had such courage, he naturally would not refuse.

Seeing that Li Zhen and Li Yun agreed, Zhao Qiu was also very excited, and immediately began to introduce the people and customs on Ceylon Island, as well as the terrain and environment of various places. Although Li Zhen and Li Yun had seen a lot of information about Ceylon, these pieces of information were collected in a hurry by Li Su, and it was inevitable that there would be some omissions, and Zhao Qiu's explanation made Li Zhen and Li Yun understand Ceylon to a higher level.

After talking about business, Li Zhen and Li Yun casually asked about the trade between Tianzhu and Datang, and finally talked about what goods Zhao Qiu usually transports to Tianzhu?

For these problems, Zhao Qiu naturally opened his mouth, speaking of the trade between Datang and Tianzhu is very large, Datang's specialty silk and porcelain are naturally extremely popular goods, in addition to glass products, cotton, canned food and other emerging industrial goods in recent years have also been dumped in India. In recent years, there are people who transport some seeded cotton from Tianzhu back to Datang, but cotton occupies a large space, although Datang is in short supply of cotton, but no one will pay too high a price, so the profit margin is very small, generally only when the goods can not be found, someone will go to transport.

Zhao Qiu mainly took the route from Guangzhou to Ceylon, and the goods he purchased from Datang were very miscellaneous, as long as it was the materials that Datang allowed to export, he almost all of them had been transported, such as this time, one of his ships transported all five-spice powder, Sichuan pepper, and various sauces, such as soybean paste, noodle sauce, etc., as for the other ship, it was a whole shipload of sugar, which also belonged to the scope of condiments.

Speaking of Tianzhu was originally the origin of sucrose, in the past, all the sucrose eaten by Datang was transported from Tianzhu, but in recent years, Li Su has engaged in sugarcane planting and invested heavily in the sugar industry, and now Datang has been able to produce white sugar as white as snow, but the output is not large, mainly bought by some rich people, and it is also used for export, and even Tianzhu in the production of cane sugar is also very popular, and Zhao Qiu can get such a boat of sugar, it is not easy.

"Hahaha~, Zhiye, the goods you transport are indeed miscellaneous enough, and even condiments can be sold, but according to you, why don't you specialize in selling a kind of goods, such as silk or porcelain, these are best-selling goods, and you don't have to worry about selling them if you ship them out, and if you monopolize one kind of goods, it is much easier to import and export goods?" Li Zhen laughed and asked after hearing this, Zhiye is Zhao Qiu's character, and now he has temporarily joined Li Zhen and Li Yun's subordinates, and Zhao Qiu's age is not too old, so Li Zhen will be commensurate with the other party's words.

He really didn't know that the goods exported by Datang were so rich that even very ordinary condiments could be sold overseas as goods, but at the same time, he also had doubts about Zhao Qiu's way of shipping in different ways.

However, Zhao Qiu said with a wry smile after hearing this: "Your Highness doesn't know, it's not that your subordinates don't want to monopolize a kind of goods, but that there are unspeakable hardships in it, such as silk and porcelain, for example, because the supply of goods is limited, these goods are in the hands of some maritime merchants, and small maritime merchants like us can only occasionally get a batch of goods, and they usually can't get the goods at all, as for other goods, it is because the prices of these goods overseas fluctuate from time to time, in order to make more money, so we generally choose the most profitable goods at that time to ship out." ”

"I see!" Li Zhen and Li Yun both nodded at the same time, it seems that they have the knowledge of whatever they do, if they hadn't heard Zhao Qiu's explanation today, they might not have understood these dirty things in the sea trade for the rest of their lives.

With Zhao Qiu as a guide, Li Zhen and Li Yun and their fleets advanced more smoothly, and even Zhao Qiu helped Zhu Chong and them choose a safer channel and mark it on the military charts to facilitate the exchange of warships in the future.

After half a month of sailing, Li Zhen and Li Yun's fleet finally arrived at Ceylon Island in the south of Tianzhu. From the map, Ceylon is a teardrop-shaped island, sharp in the north and round in the south, separated from Tianzhu only by a not wide Strait of Ceylon, and there are several small islands in the strait, on which live Tamils who migrated from the Tianzhu mainland.

The first stop for Li Zhen and Li Yun when they arrived in Ceylon was to enter the Strait of Ceylon and occupy several small islands in the Strait, cutting off the connection between the mainland of Tianzhu and Ceylon. Of course, this requires the cooperation of Zhu Chong and his navy, in fact, in addition to protecting the safety of troop carriers, the most important thing for the fleet brought by Zhu Chong is to cooperate with Li Zhen and Li Yun to control the entire island of Ceylon.

Speaking of Tianzhu's shipbuilding industry is also very developed, they are the same as the Tang Dynasty, they can build a large ship that can accommodate hundreds of people, but the Tianzhu people's ship hull is long and narrow, although this can make the ship faster, but it is not resistant to wind and waves, and the weapons equipped on the Tianzhu people's warships can not be compared with the battleships in the hands of Li Su, especially after being equipped with artillery, the battleships in the hands of Li Su have become the most powerful warships in the world, and there are almost no opponents on the sea.

In addition, there is another point, that is, whether it is ancient or modern, the navy is an extremely expensive type of troops, Nantianzhu is now divided, although the small countries with the coastline also have some warships, but with their financial and material resources, they are also equipped with some small warships, like the kind of large warships that can carry hundreds of people, and only in the Jieri Dynasty of Beitianzhu can be seen.

It is precisely based on the above two points that although Zhu Chong and his team only have a dozen main warships, they have enough confidence in blocking the Ceylon Strait. (To be continued......)