Outside the Shuixi Gate, on the bank of the Qinhuai River, the spring breeze is blowing, the grass is in the sky, and a group of military generals of the Beijing army came up to Liu Ziguang under the leadership of Grandpa Guo. Before leaving, Liu Ziguang drank a few more drinks with them, everyone drank into friendship, Peng Jingrong was not idle, a lot of gifts were scattered, and the ladies and ladies of the high-ranking officials and nobles in Beijing also came to a small group to say goodbye, a bunch of men, a bunch of women, the men set up a table full of wine and food, and took turns to toast the little brother General Liu, and the women held the hands of the Peng sisters, holding hands and looking at each other with teary eyes, "Sister (sister) should often come to the capital to see me." ”

After the whistle of the paddle steamer was played three times, the farewell finally ended in a reluctant atmosphere, and Liu Ziguang and the two young ladies boarded the ship with a large bag of gifts from friends in Beijing.

Recently, the queen mother was furious, a group of officials in the capital were removed from their posts and investigated a lot, the common people were also very unlucky, entering and leaving the city gate to be strictly inspected, every day in and out of the capital of people, horses, carriages and goods are as many as cattle hair, can not be checked at all, the people's grievances are boiling, complaints are full of complaints, Liu Ziguang They went out of the city was sent out by the grandfather of the country with a group of generals, which officers and soldiers who guarded the door and the Jinyi guards who were responsible for the search did not dare to check at all. This is how ancient paintings were brought out.

The paddle steamer entered the Yangtze River along the Qinhuai River and went downstream. All the way through thousands of sails, return to the heart like an arrow.

The waterway from Nanjing to Yangzhou is very busy, and there are as many cargo ships, passenger ships, and fishing boats on the Yangtze River as many fish in the river.

At noon, the boat stopped at a small wharf by the river, everyone was eating in the cabin, suddenly heard a loud noise outside, came out to see, it turned out to be a fishing boat next to it from the middle disconnected, the white stubble fracture showed that the boat was hit by something hard, there is no reef in this section of the waterway, and these people on the water are very clear about the waterway, how can the boat be broken.

The fishermen who fell into the water were frightened like ghosts, and swam desperately to the shore, letting out a miserable cry as they swam, "The water monster has appeared~~~ Run away." The ships around the fire hurriedly pulled their anchors and lifted their sails, and fled in a hurry, and in a short time all the ships escaped cleanly, except for the paddle steamer of the ironworks, which was parked by the dock. Ships passing by in the distance didn't know what was happening here, and continued to drive as usual.

The captain was also puzzled, and after stopping in Nanjing for a few days, there was a water monster here, which was really a novelty. The people on the wharf also dispersed in a hurry, and finally found a little old man who did not run away with inconvenient legs and feet to inquire, the old man said, recently the river is not very peaceful, there is a black dragon under the water, often turning over the river and the sea, last time several fishing boats of Ma Liuye in the capital were sunk and injured. And this black dragon has no head but no end, and no one has seen his face clearly.

Liu Ziguang took out a clairvoyant mirror to observe the water surface of the accident, there seemed to be a black shadow standing still below, could it be a prehistoric creature like the "Loch Ness Monster"? He became interested at once, and asked the captain to prepare a set of water supports, and put down the dinghy to see the face of the water monster for himself.

Soon the things were ready, Liu Ziguang put on a tight-fitting shark skin water back, brought a sharp knife, dived under the water alone, looked at it, and first denied the black dragon and the water monster, it was definitely not a living organism but a human shipbuilder.

A black submarine sank to the bottom of the river, looking like a cartoon dragon, with a dragon head and fangs painted in front of it, and dragon scales painted on its body, this dragon was obviously fat, its body was close to a cylinder, the iron sheet of the hull was torn open a large hole, and there was a half-man-high conning tower on its back, with air intakes and periscopes on the tower, knocking on the hull, which was riveted with metal plates, and a layer of waterproof paint was applied to it. On the back of the dragon's butt is a propeller, made of pure copper, and the workmanship and shape are more exquisite and scientific than those made by Zhu Youxiao. The propeller was entangled in the fishing net, and it seems that it was suddenly encountered by the fishing boat just now, showing that it was entangled in the fishing net, and then lost control and crashed into the fishing boat, and the submarine's water tank was injured, and the power was also lost, and now it is sitting at the bottom of the river.

When did the sailors of the Ming Dynasty be equipped with such advanced plays? No, the little emperor doesn't even know the propeller, how can there be a submarine, it seems that there is only one answer, and that is to travel to the Song Kingdom!

No matter whose boat it is, it always has to be rescued in case of shipwreck, Liu Ziguang pulled out a sharp blade, cut the fishing net, turned around and was about to leave, and was stunned to find that a person in a black rubber diving suit was holding a strange-looking gun aimed at him, the person had a glass mask on his face, and a tube in his mouth, the tube was connected to the air bag on his back, and a string of bubbles came out of his nostrils from time to time. I don't know what the gun in my hand is powered by, and it feels like a harpoon that can shoot.

Unable to speak underwater, Liu Ziguang pointed to the short knife in his hand, and then pointed to the cut fishing net, the diver understood, put away the harpoon gun, and floated upward, Liu Ziguang held his breath for a long time, and then surfaced.

As soon as the two of them showed their heads on the river, the man lifted his mask, a pale and handsome face appeared, and he clasped his hands into fists and saluted: "It's General Liu, right?" Below is Naval Commander Zhao Jing of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

First climbed into the boat, and then boarded the paddle steamer along the suspension ladder, the two took off their watery diving suits on the deck, the man's black rubber diving suit was obviously lighter and softer than Liu Ziguang's fish skin water backrest, and the duck paw-shaped fins on his feet were also very peculiar.

Liu Ziguang hurriedly drove the sailors away and invited Zhao Jing into the cabin, Zhao Jing wore a navy blue navy suit and a golden dragon epaulette under his diving suit, but he still did not take off his traditional Chinese costumes, and the hem of the clothes was embroidered with the pattern of sea water cliffs.

"Major Zhao, right, what kind of dragon king is you pretending to be in the river in broad daylight, isn't it sinking to the bottom? Say, what's the purpose of stalking me? Liu Ziguang finally understood why he felt that there were eyes staring at the back, which turned out to be the periscope of the submarine.

"Didn't you just want to float up to give the general a salute? I don't know that the fishing boat suddenly drove over, and I couldn't dodge it, I'm ashamed, the handling performance of the Mixed River Dragon still needs to be improved. "Zhao Jing is a little embarrassed, a fishing boat let his submarine hang up, it's a bit embarrassing to spread it." There are also envoys from the country in the boat, as well as a crew member, and General Liu is also invited to come to the rescue! ”

"How to rescue? How did you get out, and how did they come out? Liu Ziguang said strangely. It turned out that the mission was here to talk to me about buying paintings, and even the submarine was used, so it seemed that it took a lot of thought.

"This ..... came out to check the damage, the water storage tank was broken, the ballast water could not be discharged and floated up by itself, the propeller was entangled in the fishing net, causing the motor to burn out, the whole boat is now like a dead fish, the envoy must be angry, let him float up from the bottom of the river in embarrassment, he must hold a grudge, then my life in the navy will be sad, and also, the captain abandoned the ship and left, in the Great Song Navy is a decisive decision...."Major Zhao said with a sad face.

"Okay, how can I help you" If you don't get these people out of the water, the transaction won't be able to go through properly. So this favor must be helped.

Such and such...... Zhao Jing was a technical officer in the end, and immediately said a set of plans.

According to Zhao Jing's plan, Liu Ziguang asked the captain to put the paddle steamer across the channel and stopped two grain ships, which were standard flat trough ships, with a bottom seven feet long and two feet long, one foot and five inches wide, and could hold 3,000 stone of grain.

The cable is made of green bamboo, which is cut and chopped, and the bamboo slices are twisted after being cooked in a pot, which can withstand the force of 10,000 catties. Several divers climbed out of the submarine, tied the cable to a special hook on the hull, and the other end was firmly tied to the mast of the boat, and the rope was very tight.

The principle of this scheme is to use the buoyancy of the ship to pull the submarine up, and the conventional way to salvage the wreck is to find a few ships full of ballast (preferably stones) first, and after fixing the wreck, throw away the ballast, and use buoyancy to pull the wreck up.

Time is pressing, where to find some ballast, and after a while, I am afraid that someone will suffocate to death. Only the most time-saving thing to throw away the grain in the tank ship as ballast is the most time-saving, Liu Ziguang glanced over, followed the guards out of the sheath with the steel knife, threatening the boatmen to throw bags of grain into the river, the hull gradually floated, and the taut cable slowly pulled the sinking submarine up, but the floating distance was limited, and the submarine could not be completely pulled out of the water. The submarine also threw heavy objects through watertight doors in order to reduce its own weight. But it still hangs in the middle of the river and can't come up.

At the critical moment, Addison offered a plan, and then found a long cable, one end on the steam-driven axle of the paddle steamer, and the other end on the cable of the submarine pulled by the boat, plus a few labor-saving pulleys in the middle, there are many such parts in his belongings, and now it comes in handy.

The paddle steamer drove forward at full speed, thick black smoke came out of the chimney, the sailors shook off the big shovel and desperately shoveled the charcoal stove, the ship moved forward with great difficulty, the cable gradually pulled the submarine out of the river through the force of a number of pulleys, and the huge dragon head rushed out of the water, which startled the sailors, and they knew that it was a strange dragon boat after a look.

The first person to come out of the command tower was the deputy history of the Song Dynasty envoy who looked beautiful and looked like a woman, this person was dressed in plain white, with a handsome demeanor, and looked at Liu Ziguang from a distance and saluted: "Don't come to the general, Wen Jun is polite." ”

Liu Ziguang's eyes were as big as eggs, is this person a man or a woman, he is virtuous in men's and women's clothes, his appearance is so delicate, and his name is a bit feminine?

The submarine drained the water in the water tank, and the motor was broken and had to be dragged behind the paddle steamer, and in order to cover up, a layer of fishing nets was covered with some aquatic weeds. The two bitter boat owners got the silver tickets given by Liu Ziguang enough to buy more food, and then went happily.

The captain's room of the paddle steamer temporarily served as a place for negotiations, a guard of the death battalion and a brigade of Song Navy soldiers stood guard at the door, and in the room, Liu Ziguang and Peng Jingrong were on one side, and Wen Jun and Zhao Jing sat on the other side of the table and began to negotiate.

"I am the hereditary Zhongguo Gong of the Great Song Dynasty, the Upper House of the Imperial Forest Army, the lieutenant colonel of the Imperial Forest Army, the former duty of the palace to inspect the Honglu Temple Shaoqing, the deputy Shi Wenjun of the Ming Dynasty, and I have been ordered to invite the relics of the emperor."

"I am the Grand Song Dynasty Taipingqun, Wang Shizi, Naval Lieutenant Zhao Jing, Captain of the Mixed River Dragon." This person's name is not as long as Wen Jun's, and he has also lost a chip in momentum, it seems that the princes of the princes are not as good as the princes of Zhongguo.

Liu Ziguang was confused, and didn't understand the meaning of this long list of names, Peng Jingrong explained in a low voice: "The beautiful little white face is very big, she is the hereditary duke of the Song Dynasty, or a member of the House of Lords, and she also has an official rank in the emperor's army, and she is also the number two person in charge of foreign affairs. The little white face that is not very beautiful is the prince of the group, you can understand this, these two people are superiors and subordinates, don't get confused. ”

Liu Ziguang nodded, stretched his foot and said, "I am ...... Liu Ziguang, painted on my hand. "His title of deputy general of the iron factory and prime minister of the account office is really unattainable, and the name of the general who protects the country and rebels has not yet been fulfilled, so he has to omit the lengthy introduction and directly say the name, anyway, his details are public. There is also a nonsense "draw on my hand" later, like the kidnapper's line "the hostage is in my hand".

Wen Jun smiled, and two wine vortices appeared on his white cheeks, "I know this, I have already identified those two paginations, and they are the handwriting of Emperor Wen Rende, Xianci, and Filial Piety." Make an offer, and I will be able to answer your request at once on behalf of the Imperial Court. ”

"Then I'll just say it," Liu Ziguang took out a small note, which he had prepared a long time ago, and glanced at Wen Jun sinisterly, and was about to open his mouth.