The fillings in the gaps in the square covers on both sides of the deck were pulled out, and without the support of these things, the square covers came loose and were easily picked up and removed by a crowbar. The cube blocks are brought in and stuffed into the space under the cover through the square holes.

In the seventh month of the Song calendar, the sun is scorching. Just commanded, and Xie Wuhuan, who didn't have to do it himself, was sweating profusely. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, and admired Zhao Jiaren's methods in his heart. These square holes have been prepared for a long time, not only on the deck, but also on the wooden frame below the deck that has been supported. If there is only one square hole in the deck, the wooden block will only continue to fall down.

Looking up, Zhao Jiaren's six ships were all ready. After installing these wooden blocks, whose purpose is not yet known, the fleet will set sail, and Xie Wuhuan feels relaxed and melancholy. You can take a few days off and not have to work like before, which is naturally enjoyable. However, Xie Wuhuan always had an inexplicable feeling that Zhao Jiaren's desire to cooperate now was getting weaker and weaker. The difference between the identity of the pioneer or the identity of being hired later is too far, Xie Wuhuan has seen the conditions put forward by Zhao Jiaren, and he feels that there are not many opportunities in his life.

When designing, there is a complete consideration, the wooden block is put into the space, and the cushion plug is placed around it, and it is smashed. The ships set sail under the command of the captains of the ships. The head of the school is the captain, and the deputy head of the class and the study committee are the first and second officers. The sports committee leads the combat units, and the other members related to logistics are responsible for the work on board.

As for the crew, they implement a shift system according to the squad they are in. The voyage also brought a large number of trainee sailors, and after the last capture of four ships, the crews of Zhao Jiaren's two ships were almost not enough to drive back the four ships captured. It was really a hard voyage, and the sleepless crew couldn't withstand it at all when they arrived at the mouth of the Min River. Many people waited for the anchor to get off the anchor and simply fell asleep against the side of the ship.

In order to avoid the problems of the last time, the fleet brought all the trainee sailors on board. The fleet did not expect any outstanding performance from the trainees, and the only thing expected of them was obedience.

The flotilla sailed out of the Minjiang River, and when it reached a position invisible to the other ships, a pound of cannon was removed from the cabin, and the cones below were inserted into the holes in the wooden blocks, and fixed. In the past, each ship was flanked by three one-pound guns. One at the bow and one at the stern. Now it is in wartime, with five guns on each side of the ship.

After the gun emplacements were completed, the disciplinary committee members began to move through the ship, checking the preparations for each post according to the first-level state of readiness, especially whether the equipment for each post was in place. Gunpowder, shells, weapons and so on need to be carefully inspected.

People on the boat came and went, looking noisy, but they didn't interfere with each other. The minimum attendance allowance is 120 per person per day. However, this does not make everyone lazy at sea, and laziness is not worth it compared to the rewards after each completed mission.

The fleet finally saw the northernmost lighthouse in Putian from a distance at night, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, because the sailing time was late, and everyone was worried that they would not have to stay at sea at night.

Walking in the direction of the lighthouse, when I approached the harbor, I saw that there were already many hazy shadows of ships in the harbor. The pilot ship leaned over with torches held high to lead the ship into port. When paying the water diversion money and lighthouse money, Li Hongjun, the captain of the fleet, was very happy. Resting inside the safe harbor is a great thing for any boat. As Zhao Jiaren said, if you don't pay money, who will give you to maintain the lighthouse every day. For those lighthouse watchmen, a day's negligence is only one thousandth, and for us, it is one hundred percent.

There was no word all night, and before dawn the next day, the fleet sailed out of the harbor under the guidance of the lighthouse. The study committee members on board took out small devices and triangulated the direction according to the positions of the two lighthouses, as well as the position of the lighthouses themselves in the record. The flotilla then headed east.

Although there is no satellite positioning system in this era, Chinese ships have always shown a trend of development. A large number of hydrographic data are available, there are many experienced veteran sailors, and there is a high concentration of ships on the best routes. The pirates don't need the best route, they need to rush into it and plunder. Zhao Jiaren's fleet sailed along the outside of the best route, and if it saw pirates rushing in and looting, the fleet could just go up and kill the pirates.

The lighthouse lights are getting farther and farther away, and the originally dark sky is slowly brightening. After sailing for a while, the morning glow lit up in the sky like a fire. The study committee members got busy again and put a piece of paper on the backs of the sailors, on which were written the words 'fight pirates'. The sailor school is all in simplified Chinese. Zhao Jiaren's explanation for this is that this kind of character can be regarded as internal general, and you can know if it is written by your own people when you look at the text.

The advantage of simplified Chinese characters is that they are easy to learn, easy to recognize and easy to write, and such characters are the enemy of popular culture. Zhao Jiaren did not mention this practical issue, but explained it from the perspective of secrecy, completely to avoid trouble. It is a grave sin to create a dictionary and a history of self-government. Even in the Great Song Dynasty, a very civilized country, scholars and doctors could only write notes in their own homes. At most, some notes are circulated privately. It's not right to ask for trouble.

The sailors didn't know this, they studied to be able to pass the exam as soon as possible and process the money as soon as possible. Fortunately, the school does not particularly emphasize rote memorization, and the goal of each voyage is to learn the content of words. It's like the whole literacy lesson this time is, 'The purpose of this voyage is to fight pirates, and we will win.'" For effective learning, the entire text is taken apart.

The flotilla continued southward, and the sailors had eaten breakfast on board, and were just about to gather for class, when the bow bell rang. The propaganda committee member shouted at the top of his voice, "There is a boat fighting ahead!" "There's a boat up ahead!"

The study was interrupted, some of the crew members showed regret, and many more rushed to the deck with happy faces. As soon as I arrived at the bow of the ship, I immediately saw that there were four ships on the southeast side that were very tightly entangled, and it did not look like a normal situation.

The flagship raised the flag with the slogan 'Sail southeast, ready for battle'. The colorful flag language seems dazzling to outsiders, but for this group of crew members who have been tempered for two years, it can be understood at a glance. The six ships turned together and headed towards the target.

When I got closer, I saw that it was a pirate robbing. However, Liu Meng, the sports commissioner on the flagship, frowned. "Squad leader, I seem to have seen the robbed boat."

Squad leader Li Hongjun nodded, "We also fired at that ship." ”

At this time, looking at Zhao Jiaren's fleet, the pirate ship that had robbed the Pu family had been tightly sandwiched by the two ships on the left and right, and the people on the ships on both sides probably jumped up. The other ship was on guard, as if it didn't want the cooked duck to fly again.

With such a big performance, Liu Meng was not even sure that the three ships surrounding the pirate ship were pirates. He couldn't help but ask again, "Squad leader, should we take another look?" ”

Li Hongjun didn't answer Liu Meng's question, he shouted loudly: "The whole ship should pay attention!" Wipe out three pirate ships and rescue the besieged ship! ”

Naturally, Zhao Jiaren's henchmen were the foremen who could be the squad leader, and he had already told these people that the Pu family was the general backstage of the Fujian pirates, especially the Champa pirates. There are not many people who have something to do with pirates in these years, and many of the left wing troops of the palace division are captured pirates. Therefore, the squad leaders did not feel particularly incomprehensible, and they all expressed their obedience to Zhao Jiaren's order to clean up the pirates, and said in the internal meeting that they would implement it to the end.

In Li Hongjun's view, the enemy of the enemy is the friend, at least there is no need to watch them die.

There was an order from the captain, and the individual squad leaders began to act under the command of the squadron leader. The teams were in place, all the guns were unarmed, and the team leaders were in charge of the guns. The squad leaders on each ship handed over the work of steering to the deputy squad leader or study committee, and stood on the rudder platform at the stern of the ship, watching the crew carry out the orders from a high position.

The battle itself was not unexpected, after the ship came up, Liu Meng found that the sailors on the three ships were dressed and did not look like Great Song people. The sailors shouted in the Champa dialect that Liu Meng didn't understand very well. The Great Song Dynasty's sea ships would not employ so many Cham people, and the only possibility is that the ships were all Cham pirates. Without the psychological burden of accidentally injuring a good person, Liu Meng immediately commanded the combat troops into battle.

Three days later, the five ships returned to Fuzhou. One is Zhao Jiaren's ship, three are pirate ships, and one is a ship attacked by pirates. The trainee sailors looked high spirits one by one, and the great victory was naturally their pride, and the high bounty made the trainee sailors even more excited. On weekdays, I study, train, eat, live and dress at school, and I have ten salaries a day. In all fairness, the midshipman didn't find this to be harsh. However, once you go to sea to fight, the income is the salary that can only be received after a year of study, and this joy is of course self-evident.

The old sailors have been through a lot and have remained normal. The trainee sailors held their chests high and their faces tilted. Standing neatly by the side of the boat, for fear that others would not see them. When escorting the pirates off the ship, their voices were loud and their pushing movements were full of the passion of the righteous.

Zhao Jiaren, who got the report, looked flat, such a 'small victory' could no longer make him feel happy, but this time he rescued the pirates who were hated by the Pu family, Zhao Jiaren felt that he had found a treasure. As before, Zhao Jiaren handed over the pirates to Xu Yuanzhi, the governor of Fuzhou.

Gently looking at the table with one hand, Zhao Jiaren admired his mother very much. Under the reminder of his mother, Zhao Jiaren thought that the Pu family wanted to kill the Cham pirate who was caught last time as soon as possible. In this case, it is likely that the Pu family will send pirates to Fuzhou to cause trouble. Now that it turns out that the pirates are likely to target Fuzhou, Zhao Jiaren feels that he should follow this line of thought.

A few days later, Pu Shiwen, who was in Quanzhou, also received news that the three Champa pirate ships had been dealt with by Zhao Jiaren's fleet. Tearing up the letter paper, Pu Shiwen jumped up and pointed to the sky and cursed. I saw that he spoke very fast, and a large number of saliva particles flew in the air, almost scattering the sunlight into a tiny rainbow.

Scolding until he was almost exhausted, Pu Shiwen sat back in his chair. Pu Shiwen's eyes are exactly the same as those of huskies, although they are extremely angry, the gaze in husky-like eyes is still firm and sharp. The pirates ran to the area of Fuzhou because the southeast wind was still dominant at this time. They wanted to take advantage of the southeast wind as far north as possible.

It is already the seventh month of the Song calendar, and in another month, the north wind will begin to blow. At that time, the pirates rode the north wind south and harassed south of Fuzhou. Like wolves, they followed the Great Song fleet south.

Straightening out his thoughts, the excitement in Pu Shiwen's husky-like eyes disappeared, and he regained his composure. Sitting up straight, Pu Shiwen said in Cham dialect to the high-nosed and deep-eyed attendants beside him: "Send someone to contact those Champa ships and tell them that there is a hard stubble on the sea." Now they all go south, and when the north wind rises, make this business again! ”

Watching the attendants leave, Pu Shiwen stood up. This time, instead of pointing at the sky and scolding the earth, he quietly looked at the sky with his hands behind his back. The Pu family was born in Champa, so those who ate at sea in the Champa area often contacted the Pu family. He originally didn't plan to save the captured Champa pirates, but he was hit by Zhao Jiaren so many times. Pu Shiwen felt that perhaps he should not turn a blind eye to the people who occupied the city. Perhaps some of the arrested people can endanger the Pu family.