Xu Wenmao doesn't understand boats, like this kind of big ship with more than 500 materials, not everyone can sail away, it always takes more than a dozen sailors to get up, and dozens of ordinary people come, so he may not be able to sail the boat away for a long time. For example, the sailors on his ship are all good hands at making boats for many years, and they are enough to boast, but if they have not seen a sailor in blue water, they are not considered a good sailor, and the Ming coastal guard, Wanli five years when there is nothing to go to the Philippines to suppress bandits, although compared with the era of Ma Sanbao's father-in-law, the Ming Dynasty at that time had the most powerful navy on the earth, at this time, although the Ming Navy has been extremely weak, but it is still the country with the most powerful navy on the earth, of course, two words should be added after the most powerful, one.

However, even so, the coastal guards are not comparable to the Cao Gang, the strength of the coastal guards of the Ming Dynasty at this time can completely occupy the Nanyang Islands, but China has always been a landlocked country, and has a natural disdain for the ocean.

Later, the so-called three major expeditions of Wanli, a war like water made silver, and the treasury was emptied, not to mention anything else, only to say that the expedition to Korea and the war against Ping Hideyoshi, North Korea was destroyed, and my Heavenly Dynasty helped him fight, you should pay the silver! As a result, the military expenditure is paid by the big brother of the Celestial Empire out of his own pocket, as for deciding who will do it, the cabinet, the princes think that I am a dignified Celestial Empire, a state of etiquette, and it is natural for the vassal state to restore the country, how can I ask for silver!

After the war, Wanli saw that the treasury was about to run out of mice, so he issued an order to allow civilians to open mines, hoping to collect mining taxes to enrich the treasury, and the cabinet officials thought that the court could not compete with the people for profit, and the officials desperately wrote to Wanli and scolded Wanli, saying that [Your Majesty is sick, and the illness is in good goods], which is equivalent to the folk scolding [lying in the groove mud Malegobi, you miser will recognize money].

At this time, Wanli was really poor and crazy, I heard that there was a mountain of gold in Luzon, and sent someone over, but Spain thought that the Ming Dynasty coveted the Philippines, and did not do two endlessly, first took the local Chinese to open the knife, and killed more than 20,000 households, but Wanli really had no money at this time, otherwise why bother to go to the Philippines to find Jinshan, and could only issue an order to reprimand [嶷 and others deceived the imperial court, provoked overseas, caused 20,000 merchants and people to do their best, damaged the prestige and humiliated the country, and died innocent] to spread rumors that Luzon has a mountain of gold to show the public, but there is really no money to go out to fight.

Later generations put this basin on Wanli's head, how wronged, as for the cabinet elders, it is written in the history books! They are all people who have great skills and ask questions! All are good people, only the emperor is a bad guy.

Therefore, Dong Qichang thinks that the princes of the imperial court are in the water, and their vision is not worth the big head, they are all hypocrites who are willing to suffer losses but are not willing to take advantage, and governing the country is a sage business, can it be cured just by shouting twice [not competing with the people]! The princes may not understand, but they are all willing to be a turtle with a shrunken head, and engage in the rule of inaction, [Ping said that he talked about his surname with his hands in his hands, and reported to the king when he died], and his personal moral cultivation may be good, but it is the biggest scourge for the country, which can be called a parasite.

In short, at this time, it was the eleventh year of Wanli, and the ironclad ships and sailors on board were the top on the whole earth, as for the Cao Gang, it can be regarded as dogs, and a gang that survives by running canals will be compared with a country's navy, isn't it a joke!

The boss of the ship shouted at his subordinates to raise the sails and turn the rudder as he ran, but this ship was also a big ship of five hundred materials, how could it be said that it could move, and the ironclad ship had already broken the waves.

Xu Wenmao watched the ironclad ship press over like this, led by the obedient official's ship, two thousand materials, looking at it from a distance, he didn't realize it, he really felt huge when he got closer, this flat-bottomed sand ship had already given up half of the ship's body, and after all, it couldn't hide, and the black shadow of the ironclad ship shrouded half of the hull.

There were a few loyal Qing guests who were so anxious that they pulled Xu Wenmao to run, but the ship was on the river, where could they run, more than a dozen people ran to the stern in a panic, and suddenly felt a shock to the hull, and suddenly couldn't stand and fell on the deck, and heard the gurgling sound of the keel of the hull, which was like a bull head and horse face urging life.

"Little Guogong, jump here." Xu Wenmao's eyes were dull, and suddenly he heard someone shouting, and he reluctantly turned his head to look, but it was the boat boss and a few sailors driving a small boat, standing on the boat and waving at him desperately.

Moaned, he still had the energy to scold, "You bastard, you actually ran away before the ancestors...... was scolding, only to hear a loud click, and the hull of the ship shook again, so frightened that he quickly put his body completely prostrate on the deck again, this posture can be called a five-body throw.

The boss of the boat was anxious at the head of the small boat, "Xiao Guogong, you are jumping!" Master Ma jumped down, Lord Niu jumped down, Lord Zhu also jumped down, Xiao Guogong, you are my father, you jump! It's too late to jump. ”

In order to fight horizontally on the river, their 500-material boat is horizontal, and if it is a ride, it is likely to be blown overturned, so the ship is equipped with stone ballast, and this stone is the stone pulled out of Nanjing City, not those broken stones, that is to say, once the ship disintegrates, it will sink directly to the bottom of the river, and when the time comes, it will form a whirlpool, and the people will be swept in, and they will go to the Dragon Lord to report.

The sweepers who jumped to the top of the boat also shouted, Xu Wenmao's legs trembled, shook his teeth, pressed his hand on the deck, and the turtle jumped out of the water, the boss of the head of the boat hurriedly reached out with another sailor to pick it up, and was crushed by Xu Wenmao's body and fell into the boat, and the whole boat also shook violently, shaking those sweepers to the point that their faces turned pale, and they quickly squatted down, and grabbed the side of the boat with both hands.

"Hurry, hurry, row." The boss of the boat ignored that he was pressed under Xu Wenmao, and hurriedly shouted at those sailors, and those Cao Gang sailors immediately gritted their teeth, and rowed desperately the long pulp in their hands, and went to the boats that first began to give way to the channel, and when Xu Wenmao was shocked and was dragged onto a big ship with 400 materials, before he could stand firmly, he heard the crowd exclaim, turned around and looked, the stern of the boat he was originally on was high, and the entire bow of the boat did not enter the water.

At this time, Chongming Island has not yet been formed, and the sediment accumulation of the Yangtze River is much better than that of five hundred years later, so the good official's 2,000-material ship can sail into the mouth of the Yangtze River, but if it is the kind of 4,000-material ship recorded in history, it is a bit suspenseful whether it can come in.

His ironclad boat directly sank the flat-bottomed sand boat of the Cao Gang, in fact, he also equipped his own ship with sailors when he hit, if Xu Wenmao fell into the river, he would definitely send someone to save him, it was one thing to sink someone's boat, but if he drowned someone, the matter would be a big deal, so he was relieved to see Xu Wenmao climb from the small boat onto a big ship on the boat.

Ten ironclad ships rampaged over, sinking about three Cao Gang ships, because the Cao Gang's ships were loaded with stones, these ships without exception were washed down by the bow of the boat, revealing half of the boat's butt on the water, how to look at how to disobey, Dong Qichang couldn't help laughing, "Feng Zhang, you slapped someone in the face hard, I estimate, after entering the city, Xu Guogong may not be so angry that he will pretend to be sick." ”

The obedient official stood on the tower and looked at the ships on both sides of the strait, and smiled when he heard the words, he went to Nanjing, this Xu Guogong Mansion must be visited, no matter how the family is the head of the southern nobles, as for this matter today, we can pretend to be stupid and cute, pretend not to know, and then say [Ah! That's Xu Guogong's younger brother, I don't know it at all! ]

He told Dong Qichang this, Dong Qichang couldn't help but shake his head and laugh, didn't he deliberately come to the door to slap someone's face! However, he thought about it, it's not bad to pretend not to know, as soon as he enters the officialdom, it's better not to be cheeky, otherwise many things will not be easy to do, so although pretending to be stupid is a little shameless, it is also a way.

As for the shipwreck blocking the channel, let Ying Tianfu Yin worry about this matter!

"Who is Ying Tianfu Yin now?" The obedient official asked casually, and there was a brocade guard next to him who rushed to pat himself, it was Wang Qinian, "Uncle Guo, you forgot, Taicang Wang Shizhen!" A few days ago in Taicang, we scolded him for selling his reputation and reputation, and Wang Heng and Wang Bangyan were ......"

The obedient official immediately remembered, Wang Shizhen, nicknamed the leader of the literary world in later generations, Wang Xijue's family claimed to be a lineage of Taiyuan Wang, and Wang Shizhen claimed that his family was a lineage of Langya Wang, his father Wang Chen was held accountable for the Luanhe River crash and died in prison, which will be in the future generations, in fact, it is normal, such a major safety accident, the main officials must be responsible, but at that time, it happened to be a famous corrupt official in history, Yan Song, a great annihilator, so his father became a hero.

According to the theory of [Lao Tzu is a hero, Lao Tzu is a bear bastard], Wang Shizhen is a hero and a bear character, although he is the leader of the seven sons of the Ming Dynasty, he has been in charge of the literary world for 20 years, and he also wrote the famous opera "The Legend of the Ming Phoenix", which is said to expose Yan Song's autocratic power and disaster to the country, and praise the protagonist's fearless spirit of not being afraid of the powerful and not afraid of sacrifice, but this statement is too main theme, in fact, Yan Song and he have a grudge against killing his father, the reason is just so simple.

"Wang Yuanmei is brilliantly written, but the means of governance are very ordinary." Dong Qichang's evaluation is very pertinent, he has been demoted several times, all because he offended Zhang Juzheng, just looking at this reason, it seems to be very high, not afraid of the powerful, and his spirit is very commendable!

But why did he offend Zhang Juzheng! [Playing Chen Tuntian, garrison, military food matters, salty plan], a civil official, or a civil official who is famous for his literary talents, several generations of poetry and books in the family, prefer to play military affairs, and at that time, Zhang Juzheng's subordinates, Tan Lun and Qi Jiguang were called [Tan Qi], both of them are famous generals, if you are Zhang Juzheng, will you take care of this person? It must have been a rotten sentence, and then he threw it aside with disdain.

These things are published in the imperial palace newspaper, although the palace newspaper will not break the words and tell you like the newspapers of later generations, but what kind of person Dong Qichang is, he is naturally able to read the real reason for the matter from the palace newspaper, so the evaluation of Wang Shizhen is average, to be honest, this evaluation is already very high, according to his father's road, he belongs to the kind of way that says the head is the way, and the writing is sharp and subtle, but if you really do practical things, you will probably have to do it, which is a typical literati for officials.

But since he has entered Nanjing City, this person must have to deal with it in the future, so the obedient official smiled, put aside the back of his mind, waved his fan and pointed to the stone city not far away, and said in high spirits: "Enter the city." "As for that little countryman, it was completely the feeling of popping off a bed bug, and he didn't take it to heart at all.

(To be continued)