Wu Yingying heard it in his ears, but it was like lightning and stone fire, and finally remembered where he had seen this person, his eyes couldn't help but float a trace of fierceness, and he said in a deep voice: "Commander Cao, you will repeat what you just said again!" No wonder when he came in, he felt that this person was familiar, it turned out that this person was the Song State officer who led a group of Song soldiers to ransack the village where Cai Laohan was located, and raped and killed the pregnant Zhang family's lady.

Cao Zumeng didn't know what he meant, and shouted: "What are you talking about, go and call Wu Yingying to see me!"

Wu Yingying said sharply: "No, the previous sentence!" After speaking, he slapped the table, pulled out half of the treasure knife on his waist, and the snow bright knife light was so bright that Cao Zumeng on the opposite side couldn't open his eyes.

Cao Zumeng was frightened by him, and immediately lost his seven souls, and remembered what he had just said, and then said: "Only, as long as you serve me happily, it is a hundred times stronger than following that general." ”

"Okay!" Wu Yingying snorted violently and asked, "Commander Cao, last autumn, you led the army to plunder a village in Lishi County, Shizhou?"

Cao Zumeng didn't know why he asked this, and said ignorantly: "Last autumn, the villain was ordered to relocate the untouchables of the Han State to Hebei. When he saw that Wu Yingying's attitude suddenly turned evil, his momentum became depressed.

Wu Yingying laughed, he saw that the soldiers beside him, and the jailer who had just come in with wine and food didn't know why, so he smiled and said: "Cao Zumeng, God told you to fall into my hands today, or teach you to be a ghost." After speaking, he told how he witnessed how Cao Zumeng led the army to slaughter Cai Laohan's village, and how he raped and killed a pregnant woman. The jailer who was accustomed to seeing the shady scene was just fine, and the four soldiers from good families behind him were all filled with righteous indignation, eager to bite off a piece of meat from Cao Zumeng.

Cao Zumeng knew that he had fallen into the hands of the enemy, and he was so frightened that he softened, and he only said in a trembling voice: "I am Cao Jieshuai's nephew, if you dare to touch me, the day the army captures Jinling, you will be told that the chickens and dogs of your family will not stay." ”

Wu Yingying shouted angrily, and put the knife on his shoulder at once, this fright made Cao Zumeng's feces and urine flow on the spot, crying and begging: "This uncle, the villain is also acting on orders, which one of the grass valleys doesn't do this, you can do it, let the villain go, the villain is the only son in the family, and the mother has worked hard to keep widows for decades to raise the villain, please, let the villain die as a dog." ”

Wu Yingying withdrew the iron sword, looked at this person with disgust, and shouted: "Kill you without soiling my knife." He turned around and instructed his own soldiers: "The two countries will exchange troops, and if they don't cut off the envoys, cut off this man's crotch and send him back to the Song camp." After the soldiers agreed loudly, Wu Yingying remembered that he hadn't asked Cao Bin what Wang Mo had brought to him, and asked Cao Zumeng sharply: "Cao Bin asked you to bring me something, say it quickly, if you don't say it, you won't be a messenger, I will kill it, and it won't be a beheading!"

Cao Zumeng was already frightened stupidly, listening to him ask, where did he realize whether the person in front of him was Wu Yingying, he didn't dare to be strong, and hurriedly said: "Cao Jieshuai asked me to bring a message to General Wu, Jinling is just around the corner, and General Wu should make a decision as soon as possible whether to surrender or not, otherwise I am afraid that the jade will be burned." ”

Wu Yingying snorted after hearing this, and said in a rough voice: "You tell Cao Bin and let him try to fight Jinling City." Then he said to the soldiers and the jailer: "Still not doing anything?" After speaking, he walked out of the interrogation room quickly, only to hear the sound of killing pigs inside, Wu Yingying closed his eyes, as if he saw the gentle woman's face in the small village again, gradually dissipating in the dark.

When he saw the soldiers and jailers dragging Cao Zumeng, who had fainted in pain, out of the cell, and the tide of anger gradually receded, Wu Yingying couldn't help but feel a trace of remorse in his heart, and he didn't know what the relationship between this Cao Zumeng and Cao Bin was. However, the eldest husband is happy to take revenge, if he takes into account the power of the other party, he does not avenge himself, he does not avenge his grievances, and he does not stretch his grievances, so Wu Yingying comforted himself like this, walked out of the prison cell of the Beacon Fire Envoy, and returned to the mansion with his own soldiers.

As soon as he sat down in the hall, Chase, who had heard the news, stepped forward and replied that the soldiers in the palace had already asked, and there was no one who was familiar with the sea route.

Wu Yingying said with some disappointment: "If there is no reliable person who understands the sea route, it is always difficult to rest assured." ”

Yu Xi, the newly recruited pro-soldier behind him, said, "Report to your lord." ”，

Wu Yingying looked at him, this person is rare to be literate, since joining the Ya military camp, he quickly adapted to the life here, not only in the use of spears and swords and shields are very good, even when teaching some basic knowledge of politics and military to the Ya Army, he is also the fastest to understand, which makes Wu Yingying very appreciative, and has the intention to put him around him for a while and then put him in the left army to be a centurion, so Wen Yan said: "What do you have to say, say it." ”

Yu Xi bowed down to Wu Yingying and said: "My family has been begging for a living at sea for generations, and before joining the army, I also went abroad with my uncle several times, not whether I can serve the adults." ”

Wu Yingying was overjoyed when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Very good, let me ask you, if you want to lead a fleet of about 1,000 people to sail for more than 100,000 miles, do you dare?"

Yu Xi said in a deep voice: "The festival makes the flag go to the flag, and the villain also does not hesitate to go to the soup." After a pause, he said: "It's just that the villain's experience in going to sea is not very rich, and he may need to recruit some old fur seals to join the fleet." ”

Wu Yingying nodded with satisfaction and said: "You only need to be the commander, naturally you have to find more powerful arms, so let's do it, I give you full authority to choose sailors and ships, whether it is the sailor's people or the merchant navy, which ship or person you like, tell me directly, I will come." In the next few days I will teach you a chart that you have never seen before, according to which you will sail to the shores of the East China Sea in search of a land larger than the Central Plains, and then come back to meet me. But," he looked at Yu Xi, and said in his heart, there is no doubt that this person is a bloody man, but the sea is vast, don't make a mistake in the wrong place, turn a big island into a new continent, or wander on the sea for a long time, and it will be troublesome to report that you can find your destination.

"To make sure you've done your job, you're going to bring me a few things as tokens. Wu Yingying said with a smile. He asked Chase to take a blank piece of paper, the Americas are so big, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to find too strange things after landing, so he drew several kinds of plants that should be more common and easy to preserve: sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, Wu Yingying thought about it, and drew a pattern of cotton, and said to Yu Xi: "The first three should be planted by the locals as crops, and the latter one is called grass cotton, if you see it, you can transplant it and bring it back to me." ”

Yu Xi saw that Wu Yingying painted everything he had never heard of and never seen, but he said as if Wu Yingying had seen it himself, since he joined the Ya Barracks, he gradually developed a blind confidence in the Jiedu Envoy, as if what Wu Yingying said would never be wrong, and immediately nodded and said: "The villain is looking for the ends of the earth, and he must bring these tokens back to the commander to see clearly." ”

Wu Yingying smiled and nodded: "Okay, come, follow me to the study, and I will explain to you some knowledge of ocean navigation in detail." ”

In the next few days, Wu Yingying told Yu Xi all the knowledge he knew about ocean voyages, some of which were common knowledge of later generations, such as the shape of the earth, the distribution of sea and land, monsoons, ocean currents, species, ship construction, etc., and others were hearsay, such as legend that ancient ocean-going sailors planted vegetables on ships, sent bean sprouts to supplement vitamins, raised chickens and ducks, fished at sea to solve fresh meat, astrology, compass, The flags used to command the fleet, and even the rules of conduct of the ancient pirates, etc., were told to Yu Xi, and then based on Yu Xi's questions, they deduced with him how they could turn a voyage of more than 100,000 miles into reality with the technology and manpower they had acquired so far.

Yu Xi is extremely smart, and he is convinced of what Wu Yingying said, and from time to time he combines some of his previous insights to supplement, such as the problem of vitamins, when Wu Yingying introduced him to the horror of sepsis caused by lack of vitamins, he proposed to carry more lemons that are easy to store and rich in vitamins on the boat, in case the sprouts can't come out of the emergency, and also told Wu Yingying that the current sea ship does have a more mature method of surveying the direction, and also has a general understanding of the wind direction along the coast, but no one is as clear as Wu Yingying about the wind direction of the entire ocean。

Seven days passed quickly, and after teaching everything to him, Wu Yingying was relieved to let Yu Xi choose his own men and ships. He felt that due to the introduction of too much insight beyond the times, Yu Xi had already regarded himself as a first-class figure of immortals, in order to prevent this situation from spreading, he was locked up by Cai Yu or Zhao Kuangyin to dance the gods, he strictly forbade Yu Xi to disclose this knowledge to others at will in the name of not divulging the heavenly machine, only after fulfilling the strict apprenticeship ceremony, can it be taught, and in the case of last resort, at most one apprentice can be accepted.

Looking at Yu Xi walking out of the Jiedu Embassy in high spirits, Wu Yingying secretly wondered in his heart whether he had opened the Age of Exploration in advance by doing this, but then he laughed at himself, even if it was, it was Yu Xi who opened, and the world would only remember that it was Columbus who discovered the Americas, and it was Magellan who sailed around the world. However, ocean voyages in this era are definitely a dangerous thing, and Wu Yingying asked himself if he didn't plan to entrust his life to the unpredictable sea god before he let go of everything.

In the past few days, he has been working hard to teach Yu Xi, and his head also has a little headache, while rubbing his temples, he picked up the soup and tea sent by the maidservant and poured it.