Section 103 Zhuangzai, Daming Water Master [66 votes plus change]
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"Uncle Fu......" Bai Minghe wanted to ask what was in this box. But Yang Yi kowtowed heavily to Bai Fu before Bai Minghe: "Disciple Master Xie!" β
Bai Fu sighed softly: "You call me a master, I don't know if your father will be angry." Maybe what you've learned in your life will be passed on to you. What is in this box is an arrow, which your Yang family must know. Your Yang family's arrows are one inch longer than ordinary arrows and weigh seven points, and you want to take them out after you shoot them, unless you dig up a piece of meat. β
How could Yang Yi not know his own arrows, but this kind of arrow could not open the four-stone bow and was not qualified to use it.
"Go all the way." Bai Fu clenched his fists again, turned around and left the mourning hall.
"Uncle Fu......" Bai Minghe shouted again.
Bai Fu didn't look back, put his right hand on his left shoulder, and patted it: "Back then, he shot an arrow from here, and the arrow pierced through his body. Otherwise, it would be really hard to take out the arrow. An inch down the lute bone on his left shoulder, and an arrow from me. My arrows are no worse than his. β
...... year
This time will be that year, and the white crane didn't want to ask again, and everyone had a past that they didn't want to mention.
Yang Yi seemed to think of it, and knelt down and took a few steps forward: "Master, my Yang family is standing up to the sky." β
"I know!" Bai Fu had already walked away when he spoke, and Yang Yi held the wooden box and said to Bai Minghe: "This wooden box must be secretly handed over to my eldest brother." No one can take it over, let alone let the superfluous people know. β
"Troublesome?" The white crane really doesn't know, what does the arrow in this wooden box represent?
Yang Yi didn't explain, but said, "If my eldest brother is willing to speak." That's it. If he doesn't talk about it, don't ask, Brother Bai! β
Shira-namo nodded. He stood up and wrapped the wooden box in a white cloth and stuffed it into his arms.
That night, the top ten merchant gangs also returned. Everyone made a list.
"Lord White. 300,000 taels of goods, we divided. The cowhide was prepared by the three gangs of Qin, Jin, and Lu ......"
Shirana Crane listened as he drew on paper. Not to calculate the value, but to calculate whether these quantities are enough for the other side. Since you have to be generous once, you can't let people think that you are stingy.
At the end of the year, the Ningbo Chamber of Commerce said: "Lord Bai, if the rice you give can be equivalent to what we have eaten in the past few days, and it is new rice." We received the goods from Hepu according to two taels of silver and five stones. If it is sent to Hangzhou or Ningbo again, we will receive the goods according to three taels of silver and seven stones. β
"As for the silver money of the other companies, their difference can be made up by our Ningbo Chamber of Commerce. This time, we want 2 million stones. β
Bai Minghe thought for a while: "What if I transport it to the capital for you and pay you taxes?" β
"One tael of silver and two stones of rice." The Ningbo Chamber of Commerce is happy.
"Let's talk about the details later, the official is going out these days. You go back and arrange to prepare the goods that the official wants. Jin Shang prepared a convoy here and picked up the goods in Tianjin Wei. After Bai Minghe finished speaking, he said to Lu Qiyuan: "You are responsible for the settlement with the merchants." What do you think about this settlement cycle? β
Lu Qiyuan gave a salute: "The little dare interjected, thinking that this time it should be given to Xuanfu Seven and Datong Three!" β
"Reason!"
"Xuanfu was three years ago. The extreme of destruction is strict zhΓ²ng, and more is needed. The icing on the cake is far less than sending charcoal in the snow. β
"What Master Lu said is not all right, in fact, it is all charcoal in the snow." Jin Shang actually has more say: "But. Xuanfu seven, Datong three. But it's a good building, and the amount of these materials is just right for Lord Bai over there. Nine times out of ten! β
Again, Dou Mien. Bear the rice revenge.
This businessman said very realistically, the needs of the two places are ten, and they solved five or six, and the white crane gave them the nine, this Cheng dù is really just right, plus Lu Qiyuan's construction yì, seven and three, it makes this design perfect.
"That's it, let's act." Bai Minghe hugged his fists and saluted: "Bai Mou is here, thank you very much." β
Ten people returned the salute at the same time, but said nothing. It's not really appropriate to say anything, and when it comes to this point, what words can be used to praise it, and they are not qualified to comment on it.
Two days later, on the night, Bai Minghe took the Yang family brothers on the boat, and twenty good hands were selected among the Jinyi guards to follow Bai Minghe.
Chen Adada greeted him: "Lord Bai, you still need to change ships when you arrive in Qiongzhouwei." This is Deng Shuai's arrangement! "In Daming, those who can be qualified to be called handsome are at least the general generals of the general army.
Qiongzhou Mansion is located in the current location of Haikou.
Qionghaiwei is in the current location of Sanya and then Xihaitang Bay.
By the time the large fleet of white-named cranes arrived at Qionghaiwei, the sky was already dark. The white crane that had just woken up stood on the bow of the boat, blowing the early summer sea breeze.
There seemed to be a ship in the mist in front of me.
The sun rose slowly, and the fog gradually faded, but the qiΔ in front of me became clearer and clearer.
It's a ship, and it's a ship that I can't count.
The 2,000-material warship that the white crane rode on was already a rare large ship, and the length of the ship was 62 meters long and about 14 meters wide according to modern methods. It was definitely a very good ship in ancient times, and the load and displacement of this ship were predicted by Shiramei Crane according to the loading situation.
With a displacement of 1,100 tons and a load of more than 700 tons, it is definitely a giant ship.
In sight there was a large boat, twice as tall, twice as long, and twice as wide as the white crane. Stopping in the midst of these countless ships really feels like standing out from the crowd.
"Please board the flagship ......," Chen Ada's voice came from behind.
Bai Minghe turned around and saw that Chen Adaa had already changed into armor, and stood there with his hands clenched into fists and slightly bowed: "Lord Bai, this boat is not the biggest, but it is the largest one we can keep." The forty-zhang fortune boat, compared to the forty-four-zhang ship of the Sanbao eunuch back then, can only be second! β
With the help of Chen Ada, Bai Minghe sat down on the hanging basket and was pulled to the fortune boat.
Standing on the top of the topmost shipbuilding, Shira-naka Crane really saw the scale of this fleet. Twenty ships of his own, Sansong of the southern palm has to praise the Grand Fleet, what is this now?
Bai Minghe knelt down with weak legs, and at this time Bai Minghe just wanted to shout: "He meows, it's on this scale." Daming has no sea power, and at this scale, my Daming can't even be famous all over the world. The sky has no eyes. β
"Strong, I'm a great water master!" Bai Minghe shouted at the top of his voice.
Deng Hailong stood beside Bai Minghe quietly, and his tone was extremely flat: "Lord Bai, under the command of the Guangdong Metropolitan of the Ming Dynasty." 136 ships of 3,500 materials, 160 warships of 2,000 materials, 300 ships of 1,500 materials, 300 ships of Haicang, 30 ships of Cangshan, 50 ships of children and mothers, 100 eagle boats, and 20 Feiyan! β
"Lord Deng, I don't understand it. Why did the Japanese dare to demonstrate in the South China Sea! β
Bai Minghe's two lines of tears couldn't help but flow.
Deng Hailong didn't answer, but he took out his waist knife and slashed it on his arm, and the one that stuck the knife was inserted in front of Bai Minghe.
Silent rebuttal!
"I don't know, how many sea ships do I have?" Bai Minghe understood that Deng Hailong was also bitter in his heart, and he couldn't say that he was bitter. What can he do, it is not easy for these sailors to keep more than a hundred lucky boats.
"I, the Great Ming Sailor, now have 3,800 ships on the books. There are about 300 ships that are not registered, and all of them are lucky ships left behind in that year. There are almost 4,000 fast boats such as the other sub-mother ships and Cangshan boats, which are only three or five zhang long. My Guangdong capital division accounts for sixty and a half percent of the entire Daming Water Division! Because Guangdong is far away from the capital! β
Bai Minghe understood, the sea ban has destroyed many ships, and even if they are not destroyed and put there in disrepair, the ship will be finished.
"Lord Deng, I've heard before, go on the expedition to get paid?" Shira-naka Crane This is purely from the book.
Deng Hailong nodded: "There is this saying, before the war, the salary will be increased to boost morale. Especially now in the nine towns, if there is a big war, there must be a salary, and we don't have this rule here in Guangdong. We, the sailors, have almost twenty years to fight. Deng Hailong pointed to the surrounding boats: "But Lord Bai, don't worry, every boat has drills!" β
"Can you pass the order, this time when you go to sea, each sergeant will be given five stones of rice, so that according to each military school, the general will add it up. I don't know if 500,000 stone is enough, if it's not enough, 700,000 stone! Bai Minghe's tone was cold, and he could feel the sadness in Deng Hailong's heart.
I also have sadness for the Daming Navy, with such a powerful sailor, there is no sea power.
Jokes!
Deng Hailong's hand was still dripping blood, and he didn't ask the adjutant to bandage himself, but just asked Bai Minghe. This time, he didn't call Lord Bai, but called him by his name: "Bai Ming Crane, there are several nests of pirates over there in Xisha." β
"They have talent?" Bai Minghe asked rhetorically.
"Hah!" Deng Hailong laughed dryly: "There are dozens of small boats with hundreds of materials, even if they are talented, they can only operate some small boats of the lake army!" β
"Then ......" Bai Minghe pulled a long voice: "Kill, don't be captured!" Bai Minghe said, and took out the token that Yang Neng gave him. Deng Hailong pressed one hand on the token: "Pass the order." The sergeants of each team were given five stones of polished rice, and the right guard went to Da Nang to load grain first, and the left guard went first to Ching Hai Road. The bandits entrenched in the West Sea will not be captured! The whole team set sail ......"
Combined, the size of the fleet is close to more than seven hundred ships on the sea, the width of the fleet to the left and right is more than four kilometers, and the total length of the fleet is more than seven kilometers. This is the fleet, this time Yang Neng took out all his family resources, except for the most necessary coastal defense ships, all of them were sent.
And the lucky boat, all of them were sent out.
The deck on which the white crane sits is about the size of a football field has eight floors, a displacement of more than 15,000 tons, and a draft of one and three feet. There is hardly a trace of wind and waves in the offshore sea, and the eighteen masts are full of sails, and the speed can reach about twelve knots.
On the sea, a huge fleet covering an area of almost 30 square kilometers set sail slowly.
The Ming Invincible Armada, after an interval of eighteen years, once again reigns in the Pacific Ocean! (To be continued......)